Missed Apex Formula 1 Podcast

Spanners, Matt Trumpets and Vincenzo Landino review the United States Grand Prix at COTA. We get into the huge contrast between the Mercedes teammates, McLaren finally using team orders and some questionable strategy messaging, Red Bull forcing rivals to react with aggressive tactics, Alonso stretching the soft tyres, and why so much of the field spent the race dropping out of the aero wash to manage tyres.
Plus late-race Safety Car frustration, an extended-laps idea, Cadillac reliability questions and listener reckons.

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Spanners reacts to qualifying at COTA as Kimi Antonelli takes pole and George Russell ends up P7, four tenths away from his Mercedes teammate at a crucial point in the title fight. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Spanners, Trumpets and Stuffeyy preview the United States Grand Prix at COTA.
We do the increasingly ridiculous championship maths and discover that six drivers can still technically become World Champion, including a Lando Norris scenario requiring five wins and a third place.
Plus:
• Has Aston Martin already built a pole-position chassis?
• Is Honda power hiding just how good the car is?
• New cost-cap rules and James Vowles’ spending proposal
• Christian Horner’s biggest book revelations
• How much of Antonelli’s championship lead was built during Mercedes’ early-season dominance?
• Listener reckons
• Qualifying, race and wildcard predictions
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In a very special Behind the Barriers, Trumpets sits down with co-host and friend of the show Dr Campbell Waddell, CEO at TrackWalk and MD at R3Ltd, for a gripping conversation about how his PhD on motorsport surfaces wound up taking him to F1 circuits across the globe the past 20 years. From tyres and asphalt to what happens when an F1 driver hits you in the face with a door, no stone is left unturned as once again we sneak behind the barriers in this, the latest episode of Missed Apex Podcast! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The panel digs into Rwanda’s proposed Formula 1 project, what stage the plans are actually at and whether the race is likely to happen at all. Plus Christian Horner’s latest media tour, Haas, Colapinto, Red Bull and McLaren, power-unit politics, and plenty of listener reckons. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.