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Okay, forgive the numbering being a bit out here, but as you can probably have guessed, this came up rather suddenly. Don't worry, Episode #496 on Andretti's rejection and the Rolex 24 Hours is coming out Monday, forgive us for the hold-up. In this special episode, all FOUR hosts (Yes, we got King in for this one too), break down all the angles from the biggest transfer of the social media era of F1, as Lewis Hamilton will be joining Ferrari in 2025. The shock of the move itself and how we got to this point. How did Lewis go from signing a 2-year extension in August to activing a release clause just 5 months later? Can he bring in some of his own favourite staff? And can he co-exist with Charles Leclerc, another elite driver? Can Fred Vasseur (Who's worked with them both), control that relationship? Then there's the greater ramifications. Carlos Sainz is now confirmed to be out of Ferrari at the end of the year, where does he end up if he stays on the grid for 2025? And then how do you define the morale a

Holy shit. Last night, Formula Uno dropped the story that Lewis Hamilton would be leaving Mercedes to Ferrari in 2025. I didn't believe them... but it looks like this actually happening. Dre tries to make sense of why Hamilton would leave Mercedes just five months after a contract extension, what happens with him and Charles Leclerc in red, what happens next to Carlos Sainz and who do you give the nearly impossible job of replacing Lewis Hamilton with? All that and more from Dre originally in written form on Motorsport101.com!

It's the true start of the 2024 Motorsport Season, and it's time for us to take our own crack at previewing the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona! It's Rolex time again, and we got a full GTP preview of the main runners and riders. Cadillac take the pole with the #31 car and Pipo Derani breaking the all-time lap record, but there's a four-driver superteam alongside in the #01 car with Scott Dixon and IndyCar Champion Alex Palou joining forces! We have a fleet of Porsche's, as well as customers behind them, but can they execute when it matters most? How about BMW? Where's their ceiling as they collab with IndyCar's RLL? And what about Acura in a new partnership with Andretti? And don't forget, Jenson Button joins the #40 car as the Taylor brothers come back together! We also break down all the LMP2 class (Featuring Big Ben Keating!), and the GTD's too! Welcome to the Appreciator's Guide to the 2024 Rolex 24!

Another Newswipe from Dre on the Motorsport101.com converted into audio! In this episode Dre talks about Madrid joining the F1 calendar in 2026 and what it could mean for Catalunya. He also ponders whether 9 Street Tracks on the calendar is too much for the fans. And also, there's some chat about AlphaTauri renaming themselves the VISA CashApp RB Team. It rolls right off the tongue...

Welcome back to electric avenue to a Mexico City ePrix that... happened. Seriously, this wasn't a classic but we surprised ourselves by going 50 minutes on an ePrix that had (count em'), THREE on-track overtakes! Pascal Wehrlein would dominate the running, winning comfortably almost lights-to-flag from pole position, ahead of Buemi at Envision and Nick Cassidy's Jaguar debut getting him on the podium in third. But is Mexico responsible for the lack of action, or the cars themselves? We also try to make sense of the pecking order, has enough changed? Is Jaguar and Porsche still on top? Where does ERT fit in alongside DS and Nissan? And finally, we review the first offering of Whisper's production and whether it was a good idea to have Jermaine Jenas anchor a Formula E broadcast (No, god bless him he tried), and whether the show has missed a trick not having one of their other shows featured... All that and more on another Motorsport101!

Another written article from the Motorsport101.com website and in this narration, Dre brings back the Formula E Race Review from 2022, as Season 10 for the series got underway in Mexico City. But first, Dre talks about the British based changes as TNT Sports becomes the new home for the series in an expensive paywall, and Whisper Films takes over the production, and why both will be disappointing for the home crowd. Then chat over a tame race itself with barely any action to speak of, with Pascal Wehrlein winning a processional affair with Buemi and Cassidy close behind. Dre tries to rank the powertrains and point some other little niggles in the Lightning Round too!

This is another audio track for a written article at Motorsport101.com, and the return of Dre's Newswipe, where Dre talks about the recent news within the World of Motorsport. In this edition, Dre talks about the controversial firing of Gunther Steiner after 10 years as Haas Team Principal and whayt the future of the team could look like. There's talk on Mahindra introducing and quickly dropping an influencer for the brand based on AI., and AJ Foyt Racing quietly shuffing out Benjamin Petersen for the return of Santino Ferrucci. Enjoy! Jalopnik article by Elizabeth Blackstock on Mahindra: https://jalopnik.com/motorsport-team-would-rather-just-hire-an-ai-woman-than-1851155004

So much for a break in January eh? Welcome back to Formula E on the Motorsport101 Channel, and for our 2024 Season Preview, we brought in Motion Podcast host Sascha Garlick back to chinwag over the Season 10 that starts this Saturday in Mexico City! In this 2-hour preview, we talk about the big issues for the series off the track - Such as their pre-season testing fire in Valencia and the knock-on effect it'll have on Mahindra. We talk about the upcoming Attack Charge pitstops being added that have been pushed back to Misano in April. There's also a big culture clash incoming as more conventional road courses in Misano and Shanghai are being added to the calendar, with Hyderabad pushed out due to a change of governance. Does the series know what it wants to be? Even more so now it's off free-to-air television in the UK? Then we break down all the runners and riders for 2024. Can the Mahindra teams get off the bottom? Can McLaren find some form with Sam Bird now in the ranks? What about Nissan and the retu

It's one of your favourite moments on the Motorsport101 Content Cycle, a little later but better than never, it's the Autosport Top 50 Podcast for 2024, and Dre Harrison and RJ O'Connell deeply analyse it... ...But first some catching up in the intro section! First up, Sauber have renamed themselves (Again), to the Stake F1 Team as the gambling company becomes a full title sponsor ans chassis name holder for the team. Good luck team! There's also some chat about IndyCar's engine manufacteur crisis, with Honda openly admitting they could be three years away from quitting the series unless major costs are cut. Is the series in serious trouble if they can't find a third supplier? We talk about the ramifications of Honda potentially quitting. And finally, a full breakdown of all 50 drivers on the list, as well as someone the names who didn't. Who did we think was too low? Was Japan better represented in 2023? And which IndyCar ranking made Dre pull his hair out? All that on another 2-hour edition of Motors

From now on here at Motorsport101, all written articles will have an audio track to accompany them to help improve accessibility in general. And this is an Ask Dre post on the website for January 2024! In it, Dre gets asked if IndyCar's in crisis after Honda threatens to leave, silly season talk for F1 and MotoGP for 2025 already, is IndyCar making more strides with Diversity than F1 is, and what should we expect from Manchester United now Sir Jim Ratcliffe's in control? Link to written version here:

It's time for the 8th annual Motorsport101 Award Show with your hosts, Dre Harrison, RJ O'Connell and Cam Buckley! (In tribute to the late passing Cale Yarborough and Gil De Ferran. RIP.) In one of the longest M101 Episodes we've ever recorded, we decided to hand out awards for the best, the worst and everything in between in Motorsport in 2023! From our race of the year, to our Breakout Star of the Year, as well as the best Internet jokes and quotes, overtakes and more! And of course, the big ones, who wins the Golden Cock for the very worst of Motorsport in 2023, and who wins our bike rider, driver and Athlete of the Year awards! Was it Jake Dennis, Alex Palou, Ritomo Miyata or Max Verstappen? Listen in to this super-special 165 minute edition of the show, right now!

It's about time we put a bow on Season Review Season, as Dre and Cam go wild and review the good, the bad and the ugly of MotoGP in 2023, as the season eventually went back, to Bagnaia! We go factory by factory across the grid. The end of an era as Honda loses their Shohei Ohtani with Marc Marquez leaving for Gresini, and what happens to the genuinely talented team left behind. What about Yamaha? Are they about to walk into their own Marquez situation, but with Fabio Quartararo instead? And does Yamaha now have the best lineup in the sport with Alex RIns joining over? Aprilia kinda spun their wheels this season, beating Yamaha but losing out to KTM. But their riders are still strong, is that enough? And what do we make of the Trackhouse move now its official that the NASCAR outfit are joining the grid in 2024? KTM themselves are in an interesting place, after moving up to second, but a distant second. Is Brad Binder alone enough to close the gap for an inconsistent factory effort? Has Jack Miller become co

If you're the sort of person who likes an old school Motorsport101, this is the episode for you, a 2 hour-long deep dive into the 2023 Formula 1 Season, and a bonus segment into what happened the previous week in what we called Wolffghazi - As the FIA opened and very quickly closed a conflict of interest investigation against Susie and Toto Wolff as all 10 F1 teams distanced themselves from a governing body who took a story from a baseless sourced. Ugly. Then we get into the season review itself, as we go in reverse and break down team by team. The battle for seventh comes first between a struggling Haas team, Alfa Romeo and the participation trophy role they became infamous for, Williams massive improvement and their fight with the mess that was AlphaTauri. Then the midfield as Alpine was in no mans land and a mess of a management structure fell on its head again, then the heated battle for second between Ferrari and their poor start, McLaren with one of the greatest comebacks of all-time, Aston Martin's

And just like that, MotoGP's 2023 season is over. And just when we got a Jorge Martin reeling Francesco Bagania in moment by taking the Sprint, the Spaniard has a meltdown at the final Grand Prix to let Bagnaia go back-to-back, the first Champion to do so since 2019! We break down Pecco's brilliance, as well as where it all fell apart for Martin! We also talk about the shocking news coming off the test, with the CryptoData RNF Team being booted off the 2024 MotoGP grid, with the heavy rumour that... *checks notes*... NASCAR's Trackhouse?! No, really, we breakdown in detail just how we got to this point! MotoGP also unveiled the new concession system as well, we break down how it pumps up Japan, with Honda and Yamaha set to make big gains with more wildcards, tyres, free testing choices and more! And finally, some thoughts on Marc Marquez's first test on a Ducati, as the Valencia test made shocking headlines of their own kind, as Honda may have had their best day of 2024? One of the busiest MotoGP podcast

And just like that, the 2023 F1 Season is over, and Max Verstappen put the cherry on top of a dominant season with his 19th win of 2023, cementing quite possibly the most dominant season in the history of Formula 1. We break down all his records, as well as soak in just how ridiculous it has all been. We talk about the fight for second in the Constructors as Charles Leclerc went full galaxy brain and tried to use Sergio Perez as a pick in the fight for the silver medal, with George Russell saving his best season for last! And we talk about the F1 talent bottleneck situation as Theo Pourchaire finally won the F2 title, but seemingly has nowhere to go as Alfa Romeo have kept Zhou Guanyu on, and only Logan Sargeant's seat is open. With it being the third year running that the F2 Champ doesn't make the grid immediately, just how big an issue is it? Let's close out F1 in 2023 on Motorsport101!

It was a weekend of emotion during MotoGP's penultimate race of the season in Qatar, and none showed that more than Fabio Di Giannantonio, who after finishing 2nd in the Sprint, would beat Francesco Bagnaia straight up in an intense fight for his first Grand Prix victory in the top flight, even after Pecco nearly wrecked himself in retaliation! We also talk about Jorge Martin getting a dud rear tyre at the worst possible time after a 10th-place mark could very well be the end of his title campaign. Is Michelin to blame, Martin, or somewhere in the middle? We also talk about the Aleix Espargaro vs Frankie Morbidelli fight as Aleix laid some hands on Franky after a dispute over dawdling on the racing line. Finally, the Moto3 title decider got ugly as Jaume Masia and teammate Adrian Fernandez staged a coup on the title as Ayumu Sasaki was borderline intentionally taken off the racing line in the middle of the race. Legal? Unsportsmanlike? Or worse? All that with Ryan King sticking around in a loaded Motorspo

What Verstappens In Vegas, Stays In Vegas. And that includes winning apparently! Yes, it's time for the most anticipated rounds in F1 history, its return after a 40-year hiatus to Las Vegas, and its GP down the strip! And we even brought back new Vegas visitor Ryan Erik King to come down and give us his take on the event! And we got off to a rocky start after the weekend had to be held due to Carlos Sainz hitting 1 of 30 loose water valve covers across the track, with the track not checked properly because of the Wednesday night opening ceremony. Fans were sent home as a result of the late running of an FP2 that finished at 4am. Wild. But the race was generally really good, with Charles Leclerc on a one-man mission to try and beat not one but two competitive Red Bulls as Max Verstappen eventually overwhelmed him for the Dutchman to take his eighteen win of 2023, but how we got there was fun! And let's not forget the brilliant efforts of Esteban Ocon and Lance Stroll too, coming from Q1 eliminations to fini

Oh boy. We'd be lying to you if we called this one a classic. It wasn't. Sepang brought out the worst of the current era of MotoGP. While we were delighted for Enea Bastianini to take his first win for the factory Ducati team, the distance between the Top 4 was exacerbated by a heavy amount of dirty air. The tyre pressure issue reared its ugly head again as well as five riders break the rule on the limits and Bagnaia loses his practical "joker" after Martin's "illegal" win in Thailand. Is there anything that can be done to fix the problem? And we also talk more about the incoming mess at Repsol Honda. Red Bull will be walking away from the team as a key sponsor at the end of the year, and Luca Marini has now become the favourite for the Marquez replacement seat in 2024. But with Valencia's test now just 13 days away, is it a good look for the most decorated team in the business to have no confirmed lineup and 50 crashes on the season? It's a headache inducing M101 and it starts now!

Apologies for those who have waited patiently, the bikes are back on Motorsport101. Sincerely, sorry for having to wait so long, Cam's not been in the best of knick health-wise lately and we wanted to wait and do it justice by waiting until he was well enough to come back. So here we are! In this episode, we catch up by reviewing both the Philip Island and Buriram MotoGP rounds. In Philip Island, we had weather-related chaos as the threat of heavy winds led to a Saturday Grand Prix for the first time in eight years, and a cancelled Sprint as the sport tried to beat an oncoming storm. We break down Johann Zarco finally getting his first premier-class win in his 120th attempt. 20 podiums, 91 laps led in his career and finally, he led the one that mattered most, just before his window for it likely will slam shut. And Cam asks an important question on the strategy call of Jorge Martin: "Why are you the way that you are?" We break down the thin line between genius and crazy. We also talk about an ongoing hea

How does a boring GP weekend produce so much news? The boys are back together as a threesome to talk about a hectic Brazilian GP weekend, as Max Verstappen took his 17th victory of 2023, but Lando Norris clearly established himself as the leader of the chasing pack with a valiant second place. We talk about Max's dominance, as well as McLaren's incredible turnaround. We also talk about the awful days from Mercedes and Ferrari, as Charles Leclerc couldn't even take the grid after an electronics failure in his car left him in the wall. On the formation lap. As you. A golden opportunity missed given Lewis Hamilton could only manage eighth after a combination of tyres being butchered, a car draggy as hell due to the rear wing being so big, and still lacking downforce. Besides that, it was great! And of course, we have to talk about the epic Fernando Alonso and Sergio Perez battle for the podium, with Spain winning the fight with an incredible final lap, one of the season highlights of 2023! All that and more