The Outside Line Podcast

This week we cover the F1 race in Mexico where Kimi Antonelli was crowned World Champion. It was a weekend for contradictions, dramatic AND predictable, old guys AND young guys thriving, distraught AND accepting, yet some things remained constant: Ferrari found a way to lose, Perez came last. Also Ocon was fired. Music provided by Sascha Ende under the CC BY 4.0 license: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

This week we cover the F1 US Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. Kimi Antonelli shows us that it’s not his first rodeo (it’s his second) as he luckily avoids winning the championship in a country where he’s too young to drink champagne. George Russell shows he’s all hat and no cattle and bless their heart, Ferrari really looked like they might compete here. F1 Academy returned after a long break, but Alisha Palmowski continued to dominate as she wins the championship with 3 races to spare. Music provided by Sascha Ende under the CC BY 4.0 license: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

This week we dip back into supercars and discuss the 6 hours of Barcelona in WEC and the GT World Challenge Europe race at Portimao. As per usual, we couldn’t follow all the strategy, but still enjoyed the racing nevertheless. Max Verstappen increased the viewership of GTWC by a factor of 30, leading to idiot ignorant F1 fans arguing with idiot gatekeeping GT fans. In WEC, despite Genesis getting their first ever hyperpole, it was Toyota that dominated, despite having to plead with de Vries over the radio to not do anything crazy.Music provided by Sascha Ende under the CC BY 4.0 license: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

This week we cover the F1 races in Singapore. That’s races plural, as for some reason it’s a sprint race weekend, despite the notorious lack of overtaking at the Marina Bay Circuit. Still we got to see plenty of classic Singapore moments: Russell hitting the wall, Ferrari strategic blunders, and Lando crashing into Piastri. Music provided by Sascha Ende under the CC BY 4.0 license: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

This week we cover the Formula 1 Bahrain GP race in Sepang, Malaysia, where we got to see how much damage some rain could do to a billion dollar sport. Firstly, the FIA engine software stop the cars from accelerating on the formation lap and then half the grid gambles incorrectly on slick tyres. Still it leads to a fun race featuring many patches: software (from the FIA to the cars), purple (for Max’s recent form), bald (Gasly), and rocky (for George’s title hopes). Music provided by Sascha Ende under the CC BY 4.0 license: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

This week we cover the Formula 1 race in Baku, where the wheels literally and figuratively came off for Antonelli, but could Russell actually capitalize this time? Kimi wasn’t the only one to mess up as Pirelli apparently replaced the soft tyres with hards and Colapinto decided to create a diplomatic incident. In F2, Rodin finally got their car setup right as Dunne and Stenshorne shut out the front row in both feature races. While, in the championship battle, Dunne and Tsolov fought their toughest opponent; not Câmara, but the pit entry line. Music provided by Sascha Ende under the CC BY 4.0 license: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license