The Wheel Spin F1 Podcast

This weekend had Salt Lake City Housewives energy: drama, shade, and chaos everywhere. McLaren’s team order saga stole headlines, the FIA was busy handing out penalties like party favors, and Max delivered a flawless, record-breaking masterclass. We dive into the highs, the heartbreaks, and how every team fared in Monza’s theatre of speed.

The 2025 Dutch Grand Prix delivered drama from start to finish. In this episode, we unpack the shock of Lando Norris’ retirement and what it means for the title fight, especially as the season heads into its decisive phase. We dive into the ever-present debate on whether Formula 1 is more about the driver or the car, with Zandvoort offering plenty of evidence for both sides.Ferrari’s nightmare weekend saw both carsretire, reshaping the Constructors’ battle.While the spotlight shone on rookie Isack Hadjar. After heartbreak in Melbourne with a retirement in his first race, Hadjar’s journey came full circle with a sensational podium at his home race, a true redemption arc and one of the standout stories of the season so far.

The Red Bull Ring delivered high drama once again! In this episode, we break down all the action from the 2025 Austrian Grand Prix — from first-lap chaos to surprise podiums. With strategy shake-ups, bold overtakes, and the championship fight tightening, this race had it all. Tune in as we dive into the biggest talking points, standout performances, and what this means heading into Silverstone!And let's talk the F1 Movie a little, was the story line really necessary??

The 2025 Spanish Grand Prix delivered high drama, top-tier strategy, and a dominant performance from McLaren. In this episode, we break down all the action from Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, where Oscar Piastri claimed a flawless victory from pole, leading every lap to secure his fifth win of the F1 2025 season. Teammate Lando Norris crossed the line in second, locking out a sensational McLaren 1-2 finish.We also discuss Charles Leclerc’s solid third-place finish for Ferrari, extending his streak of strong performances, and dive into the weekend's biggest controversy — the dramatic late-race collision between Max Verstappen and George Russell. Verstappen’s 10-second time penalty and three license points have put him just one point away from a Formula 1 race ban, shifting the balance in the 2025 F1 championship battle.Other standout performances include Nico Hülkenberg’s impressive P5 for Kick Sauber and a strong showing from rookie Isack Hadjar, who brought home valuable points for Racing Bulls.

The 2025 Monaco Grand Prix delivered a historic and emotionally charged race as Lando Norris claimed hismaiden victory in the streets of Monte Carlo. Starting from pole, Norrisexecuted a near-perfect race, holding off local hero Charles Leclerc to take thechequered flag. It was a commanding performance that not only gave McLaren acelebrated win at one of Formula 1’s most iconic venues, but also tightened thebattle at the top of the Drivers' Championship.Leclerc, ever the hometownfavorite, pushed hard in front of an adoring crowd but ultimately had to settlefor second, while Norris’ teammate Oscar Piastri rounded out the podium inthird. The McLaren duo now sit just a few points apart in the standings,setting the stage for an intense intra-team rivalry as the season progresses.The race itself saw minimalovertaking, despite a newly implemented two-stop rule designed to spice thingsup. Monaco, as always, proved unforgiving for passing attempts, though GeorgeRussell did make headlines with a bold move on Alex Albon that later earned hima penalty, costing him a points finish.Norris capped off hisweekend by setting the fastest lap on the final tour of the circuit,underlining just how dominant he was throughout the Grand Prix.All eyes now turn to Spain,where the momentum from Monaco could play a decisive role in shaping the titlefight. For Norris and McLaren, this was not just a victory—it was a statement!!

Max Verstappen ends McLaren's winning streak with a dominant drive at the 2025 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, marking Red Bull’s 400th race in style. We break down how Verstappen snatched the lead from Piastri at Turn 1 and never looked back. Lando Norris surged late to take P2, with Piastri rounding out the podium. Plus, Hamilton impresses with a P4 finish for Ferrari after starting 12th. Tune in for all the key moments and what this means for the championship fight.

So much to dissect bookies!! What a race weekend , so many questions to ask, what's happening with the Ferrari pitwall?? Is Max racing Lando and Piastri differently?? Also the HR situation at Alpine is wantingggggg!!Remember to have a tea while at it bookie!!

Are we all aboard the Oscar Piastri hype train!!?? The Australian driver now takes lead of the 2025 championship with his Mclaren teammate Lando Norris 10 points behind him. Can Oscar keep this moment and win his first F1 championship??What is happening with Sir Lewis Hamilton at Ferrari?? Let's talk the 2025 rookies!!!!!And how Gabriel Bortoleto for sure lost some money and potentially his ride home on track!!This and more in this Saudi GP 2025 debrief!!

Is Oscar Piastri the 2025 world champion?

The biggest News this week has been the promotion of Yuki Tsunoda to Red Bull Racing and subsequent firing of Liam Lawson.Is this a good move for Yuki who seems to be very settled in the Racing Bulls car and team? Could he be the answer to what Red Bull have been looking for to fill that second seat against Max Verstappen?Dive in to get insights into the whole shebang!!

Mclaren is top of the Constructors' Championship and Ferrari ties Williams at P5 after 2 rounds of the 2025 season.Ferrari drivers, Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc, Alpine driver, Pierre Gasly disqualified from the race.Liam Lawsom struggles at Red Bull persist...Williams and Haas scoring points with all their drivers. The 2025 season is the gift that keeps on giving.Let's get into the Chinese GP weekend, and a bit about the iconic 2025 Safari Rally.

F1 is really Back!! The first race of the year is done, and boy did it deliver. Let's breakdown the weekend, who impressed us the most, what hurt, and let's talk the 2025 rookies!!!

Formula One is back!! 2025 F1 Season Testing Recap;Lap times? Lies. Fuel loads? A guessing game. Welcome to F1 2025 preseasontesting, where everyone’s either sandbagging,overhyping, or secretly panicking. Is Mclaren the team to beat? Ferrari’s pace- is it real or just foreplay? AndMercedes—back in the fight with their silver and blackRB20? Red Bull look less scary- but you can never write them off.We break down the 3 days of testing, make bold predictions, and get to know who alreadywants it to 2026!! Buckle up—the mind games havebegun!!!Follow us for more updates https://www.instagram.com/

Max Verstappen is the 2024 Champion of the world!! Mercedes takes their 60th 1-2 finish, Ferrari drama ensues, find it all in our Las Vegas GP review!!!

Singapore GP review, as we talk everything Mercedes, and why I think Daniel Ricciardo should have been given a better goodbye, if truly this was his last race. From the monitor lizards on track, to dominant drives, here is the F1 2024 Singapore GP review!!!

The Baku city circuit always promises chaos, and oh my did it deliver!! A masterclass drive from Oscar saw him take his second win around the streets of Baku in a classic show of talent , prowess and race craft. He kept the charging Charles Leclerc at bay for over the race distance that the Ferrari driver was running in DRS!! Some late race drama saw Carlos Sainz and Checo Perez take each other out, in an incident that has been ruled a racing incident by the race stewards, but I do have a different take on it(lol)!! The Azerbaijan Grand Prix was everything we imagined it would be!!

In this episode we discuss the confirmed driver line ups for 2025, and speculate on the seats yet to be filled. We also talk about the major hirings and firings in F1, Is Adrian Newey set to join Aston Martin?? And find out which team principal had initially declined the job!! Also, Rwanda is placing a serious bid to host a Formula One event in the future, let's talk about it!! 00:00 - 04:00 Intro 04:00 - 10:30 Hamilton vs Leclerc 10:30 - 15:47 The Mclaren story 15:47 - 22:00 Is Red Bull crumbling??!! 22:00 - 26:35 Are they signing Daniel Ricciardo?? 26:35 - 32:55 Aston Martin + Adrian Newey 32:55 - 34:40 Ocon and Bearman 34:40 - 36:15 The Appendix-less team 36:15 - 39:45 The mess at Alpine 39:45 - 44:21 Audi in F1 44:21 - 48:20 Kimi Antonelli to Mercedes 48:20 - 50:00 Rwanda's bid to host F1 50:00 - 52:40 Fan Predictions

It's no longer business as usual in F1, Mercedes have now won 3 races in 2024, and Spa 2024 was a treat!! Let's get into why George was disqualified and why Mercedes seem to be making some sketchy errors.

Oscar Jack Piastri is now a Grand Prix winner, but at what cost? It was a flurry of tense team radios across the board, ranging from a quite an agitated Max Verstappen, to a borderline unprofessional exchange of words between Lando Norris and his race engineer. The Hungarian GP was not short of headlines!!

This has to be the best race this season!! We are joined in by a former Kenyan F3 driver, Jeremiah Wahome, who has driven around Silverstone a couple of times, to debrief this thrilling grand prix!! Mixed conditions of both a wet and dry track at the Silverstone circuit meant we were in for a treat!! And, after 945 days without a win, Lewis Hamilton finally took the chequered flag as a grand prix winner for the 104th time.

Round 11 of the 2024 F1 season gave us a treat!! George Russell is now a two-time Grand Prix winning driver, George had the gift of being at the right place at the right time!! Max Verstappen seemed to have this weekend sorted out, he cruised to a sprint win on Saturday, and completely obliterated everybody in the Sunday's Qualifying session later in the afternoon. The race was coming to an anticlimactic end, Max seemingly looking very much in control, bar a lousy rare pit stop by the usually very swift Red Bull crew saw Lando Norris slip right to his side mirrors, and it was mayhem from then on.

The Spanish Grand Prix was a treat, just as this season is promising to be!! Red Bull with Max Verstappen might have won this race but they do not have the fastest machinery on the grid. McLaren are winning the development war, but do they have the dawggg in them to take the fight to Red Bull.

Welcome to the Canadian Grand Prix debrief. After an eventful weekend, for sure the Formula One 2024 season is coming alive!!! We are joined by a friend of the podcast, Heather who joins us to debrief her home race!! George Russell put his Mercedes on pole but was not able to convert it into a win. Lando Norris almost took his second win of the season(and of his career , really). But Max Verstappen triumphed in the wet, dry, and the in between weather and drove to his 60th career win. Sergio Perez after signing his contract extension with Red Bull, for the second race running retired from the race, and this time collecting a grid penalty for Spain(the next race) for driving a very damaged car back to the garage. This and so many more of the floating Merc sabotage rumours in the episode!!

Charles Leclerc finally , after a series of unfortunate attempts, drove his Ferrari to take the chequered flag at his home race, in front of an adoring crowd!! The Monaco GP saw yet a new race winner for the 2024 season!! The Red Bulls seem to be out of their dominant run of winning races, could that be opening up the season for a new champion?? A nasty crash involving Kevin Magnussen, Nico Hulkenberg, and Checo Perez, saw an early red flag to the race, that effectively meant a straight forward race strategy wise for most drivers!!

Let's catch up on what was the Imola GP weekend!!

Lando Norris is now after 110 race starts a race winner!!!

The Chinese GP makes a return to the F1 calendar, a Chinese F1 driver is on the grid, and the fans love him!! Let's review that!!

Nǐ hǎo ; F1 is back, after a 5-year absence, to Shanghai for the Chinese GP!! A track so many of the drivers haven't driven on, and the stakes are even higher because we just had the first Sprint race of the season!! Let's recap that!!

Recap the Japanese GP Qualifying with us!!!

It's Race Weekend down under in Melbourne, Australia. Have you set your alarms for the race yet? Quali is now done, as per ush Max is on pole, and Lewis Hamilton is out in Q2, let's get into that in our new Post Quali Show.

The Saudi Arabian GP weekend was rocked by very big headlines including; the 18-year-old Ollie Bearman taking the wheel behind the SF-24 after Carlos Sainz get surgery for his appendicitis, Helmut Marko claiming that he is on the way out of Red Bull, and apparently Max will go wherever he goes. It was also F1 Academy's first round, and a what a show they put up!! **Just a correction the Monza GP referenced in the video is the 2022 edition not the 2019.

The F1 2024 season is on!! We sat down with our first guest, Mukami wambora, a sports journalist, to talk everything F1, from disagreeing about AD '21 to Liam Lawson needing to replace Yuki Tsunoda, to debating what is better F1 or rally!!!

F1 is back and here is the first debrief of the season. There were so many talking points coming from this weekend; Carlos Sainz driving for a 2025 seat, Yuki Tsunoda and Daniel Ricciardo get spicy, Jos Verstappen going for Christian Horner's job, and what's the progress of the Mercedes team. By now we all are familiar with the Dutch anthem, right??

The one where we tell you why we do what we do. And that time we witnessed robbery with violence on live tv.

Welcome to the Abu Dhabi GP debrief; the last hoorah of the season. Ferrari came into this race trailing Mercedes by 4 points. The Brackley based team with the charging W14 of Russell in a confident P3 and a P9 for Lewis saw them clinch the P2 in the constructors’ championship!!!

Here is the debrief to the best race of the season;

Welcome to our Brazilian Grand Prix 2023 Debrief and our favorite moments at the Interlagos Circuit.

Ola amiga(o)s. The Mexican GP gave us quite an eventful race Sunday compared to the rest of the season. With Ferrari locking out the front row in qualifying, Hamilton taking the charge to Leclerc with a brave move that saw him finish P2 and early exit for Checo Perez, the home favorite.

We preview the Mexican Grand Prix; tyre talk and the flurry of rookies that drove for F1 teams at the Mexican Gp. We talk Checo Perez and his future at Red Bull; and we continue to react to Hamilton's and Leclerc's Austin disqualification.

This past weekend was a cowboy themed affair under the hot sun in Austin. A weekend with quite the talking points; let's dig into that.

In this episode we delve into a conversation that has recently been a hot talking point, are we going to get an African round in the F1 calendar.Stefano Domenicali, the F1 CEO, flew down to SA mid last year, but we only got a no show for the SA GP. Zanzibar, an archipelago off the coast of East Africa, has placed an audacious bid to host a Formula One event!! We look into the past, the entanglement of F1and Africa and how the future looks like.We'd love to hear your thoughts on it. Source material for the episode; https://www.howwemadeitinafrica.com/tanzania-zanzibar-seeks-to-host-formula-1-race/154496/ https://www.bbc.com/sport/africa/64684013 https://books.google.co.ke/books?id=D23EEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA293&lpg=PA293&dq=10.1007/978-3-031-22825-4_13/cover&source=bl&ots=9zypERdRYb&sig=ACfU3U0ILItlZKiwsUSibErHgfJxLznejQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi31ZjD9PeBAxUUQvEDHRSdByEQ6AF6BAgJEAM#v=onepage&q=10.1007%2F978-3-031-22825-4_13%2Fcover&f=false

F1 made a return to Qatar to race under the floodlit Losail International Circuit. A weekend that doubled up as a Sprint weekend, the sprint race saw the rookie, Oscar Piastri, take his first win. The outing in Qatar proved a challenge for all entities, from a newly resurfaced track, to drivers getting caught up in track limits and FIA having to impose a mandatory three-stopper race and Verstappen taking his third title on a Saturday. The Sunday's race saw drivers pushed to the extreme with the sole Ferrari driver, Charles Leclerc , to make the race start exclaiming that that was the hardest race of his career!! And of course the Turn 1 lap 1incident that saw the retirement of Sir Lewis Hamilton after a tangle with his teammate, George Russel.

Welcome to The Round Up by The Wheel Spin Podcast. Our new F1 news segment. Keep up with the latest developments in the fast paced motorsport world.

Welcome to the land of the rising sun, The Red Bull Racing Team have been crowned world champions for 2023 after Max Verstappen taking the win at the Japenese GP. The Bulls had quite the comeback after a dismal weekend at Singapore. The Mclarens of Lando Norris and the super rookie Oscar Piastri rounded up the podium places; with an impressive outing from the rookie!!

It was the best race of the season!! With fights for positions everywhere!! Brave strategy calls were made; and finally we have the first non-red bull win of the season and the first of the last 15 races!!! Forza Ferrari!! Vamos Carlos!!

The Ferraris put on quite the show at Monza in front of their faithful fans; the Tifosi!! They almost stopped the reggae that is the Red Bull of Max Verstappen!!! ***In regards to the length of the Singapore GP; we were alluding to the length in time of the grand pix, it has historically run to the two hour race limit.

F1 is back!! We had an action packed Dutch Grand Prix with a mixed race condition and quite a good podium including the first podium of Pierre Gasly wit the Alpine team. Alonso in the closing stages of the race almost gave Verstappen, the home favorite, a run for his money.The Dutch man prevailed though equaling Sebastian's and Ascari's record of 9 consecutive wins!! Lewis Hamilton had a quite resilient recovery drive from p13 to P6!!

We are back with an end week episode; a quick run through of what's happening in the F1 world and a run up to Monza!!

It's Friday theeeen...c'mon sing a long... Dive in into our 'Guess the Team radio'' game..

One last time out before the summer break, F1 was out in Belgium for the last round before the break. It was a mixed conditions sprint shoot out and a rolling start for the sprint race that saw Max's dominance asserted even further, he had a clean swoop of points across Saturday and Sunday, having taken a new gear box, he started P6 and still outdrove his teammate Checo Perez who started on pole on Sunday, extending his lead in the championship and his continuous race wins streak. A superb well put lap by Piastri that saw him miss pole by 0.011s on Saturday. We head out on the break with red bull firmly on top of both championships!!