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Join Greg James, sports presenter Betty Glover, F1 broadcaster – and lifelong fanatic – Christian Hewgill and a rolling cast of drivers and characters from across the grid to take you inside the fascinating world of Formula 1.
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Christian and Betty preview the 2024 Chinese Grand Prix with a look at how the F1 has changed since the last race there in 2019, and what Zhou Guanyu will be looking to take away from his home race.
They also discuss what Fernando Alosno's new contract at Aston Martin means for the 2025 driver line-up and get into some listener questions and feedback including a message from the mum of an F1 driver!
Plus, listener Lydia steps up to take a guess at who the 'Dinky Driver' is sat behind Christian.
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One of our favourite co-hosts Oscar Piastri returns for a catch-up about his season so far, McLaren's chances at the Chinese Grand prix and why he thinks turning 23 feels "old".
We also hear from Olivia - a listener with an INCREDIBLE Michael Schumacher story - and Christian launches a new feature by doing an interview with himself. Yes, himself. Good luck everyone.
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Betty and Christian look through all the big talking points of the Japanese Grand Prix as Ferrari continue to assert themselves as the second fastest team on the grid with Carlos Sainz continuing his incredible run of form.
But where will this streak leave him at the end of the season and how much pressure does it put on an incoming Lewis Hamilton to hit the ground running in 2025?
They also discuss what Yuki Tsunoda's impressive start to the season could mean for RB's line-up and look at a "brutal" listener question about Logan Sargeant's place at Williams.
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This one doesn't need much of a description; four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel is this week's guest.
He joins Betty, Christian and Greg to discuss his career, potential future in the sport and how he still uses F1 tactics in the supermarket.
There's also time for a preview of the Japanese Grand Prix and a very exciting Chloe Grant update.
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Greg and Christian are joined by former Aston Martin strategist and current Sky F1 pundit Bernie Collins to hear about her fascinating career in the paddock.
Along the way they discuss her work with some of the best drivers in history, winning a grand prix with Sergio Perez and if anyone should believe rumours about Sebastian Vettel's return to F1.
They also talk about the inspiration behind Bernie's book, How to Win a Grand Prix: From Pit Lane to Podium - the Inside Track, and what fans could learn from it.
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Greg, Betty and Christian go through all the action from the Australian Grand Prix including Max's DNF, Ferrari's dream race and insight from our resident F1 psychologist Mica on how Daniel Ricciardo and Logan Sergeant can bounce back from tricky weekends.
Greg also goes on a pretty hefty rant about stewards and Betty gets a time penalty from the podcast after spoiler-gate rips through the team WhatsApp group.
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Betty and Christian chat to the executive producer of Drive To Survive to find out how the wildly successful Netflix show got started, and what the team capture the biggest moments in the sport.
Along the way they ask some of your questions about how much access the film crew has and if the teams have any say in what ends up on the show.
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Betty and Christian take stock of the 2024 Formula One season so far with the help of F1 TV's Laura Winter.
From Ollie Bearman's incredible F1 debut in Saudi Arabia, to the ongoing situation off-track at Red Bull they're also joined on the sofa by listener Ellie Kime cover every aspect of the sport.
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PLEASE NOTE: This episode was recorded before the woman who accused team principal Christian Horner of inappropriate and controlling behaviour was suspended by Red Bull.
As the 2024 F1 Academy season gets started, we're joined by Chloe Grant for a preview of the second year of the series and a big announcement about her future! Christian and Betty also chat to Red Bull development drivers Hamda Al Qubaisi and Emely de Heus to get a sense of how things are shaping up ahead of their first race in Jeddah.
With F1 Academy's opening race week coinciding with International Women's Day, we also discuss female representation in motorsport with Chloe and Sophie Ogg, F1 Communications Director at McLaren, to hear how things have changed in the paddock during her career.
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Christian and Greg go through the talking points on and off the track as Max Verstappen cruises to victory in the first race of the 2024 Formula One season in Bahrain.
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You ask and we deliver... After a long and virtually news-free winter break, Formula One is back! Join us in our brand new studio to look ahead to race week one in Bahrain, skim through some of feedback we've had during pre-season, answer some listener questions AND chat to one of the most requested guests we've ever had.
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Christian gives us an update direct from the desert as we get a first glimpse of how the teams are shaping up ahead of the first race of 2024 in Bahrain.
Are Red Bull still the ones to beat? Has anyone closed the gap? And will Fernando Alonso ever look older than 30? All that and so much more in our penultimate episode before the season gets underway.
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In our third and final behind-the-scenes tour of 2024 season launches, we head to see McLaren as they give their new car a run-out at Silverstone.
Betty, Christian and Greg are joined by team boss Zak Brown, Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri as they start to find out if the momentum from 2023 will carry on this year.
As always, we want you to be part of the show, too. You can also find us on TikTok and Instagram (@fastcuriouspod). Keep an eye out for live Q&As, race watch-a-longs and general behind-the-scenes action.
The Fast And The Curious theme was written, performed and produced by Connor Jones at Humm Studios The Fast And The Curious is produced by 3040 Productions.
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Betty and Christian head to Silverstone to take you behind-the-scenes as Mercedes roll their car out of the garage for the first time in 2024.
Featuring chats with team principal Toto Wolff, technical director James Allison and reserve drivers Mick Schumacher and Frederik Vesti, they get a unique insight into how things are shaping up ahead of Lewis Hamilton's final season at the team.
Along the way they bump into friend of the show communications director Bradley Lord before seeing Lewis take his final Mercedes challenger on its first laps of the season.
As always, we want you to be part of the show, too. You can also find us on TikTok and Instagram (@fastcuriouspod). Keep an eye out for live Q&As, race watch-a-longs and general behind-the-scenes action.
The Fast And The Curious theme was written, performed and produced by Connor Jones at Humm Studios The Fast And The Curious is produced by 3040 Productions.
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Betty and Christian head to Red Bull's HQ as they launch their car for the 2024 F1 season.
While it's an exciting day for the current world champions, it comes at a time when their team boss Christian Horner is the subject of an internal investigation after allegations of inappropriate behaviour from a female colleague. So when we were offered time to speak to him, we had to address the claims before moving on to how he thinks they can follow up a historically dominant 2023.
Sergio Perez also makes his Fast and Curious debut to discuss how he's feeling about the upcoming season and the questionable nickname given to him by his Mexican fans.
We want you to be part of the show, too. Send any questions for the drivers or the team on TikTok and Instagram (@fastcuriouspod). Keep an eye out for live Q&As, race watch-a-longs and general behind-the-scenes action.
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We're still at Karun Chandock's house, we're still eating curry and we're talking all things F1 2024.
In the second part of our preview of the upcoming season discussion turns to how the upcoming season will shape up, with a focus on all-black livery, impending driver movement and predictions for the drivers and constructors titles.
Along the way Karun gives us more insight into the best emerging talent and why he thinks Mercedes are leading the charge to close the gap behind Red Bull.
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After our live show back in December 2023, friend of the show Karun Chandhok said he's have us over for curry to look ahead to the 2024 season.
We're not sure if he thought we'd actually take him up on it but here we are, it's happened: Welcome to The Fast & The Curry-ous.
In this first half of the special Greg, Betty and Christian dive into Karun's career with fascinating insight of how challenging it is to make it into F1, and look at how major news headlines over the winter break will start to dictate the course of the upcoming season.
There are also some great gossip about Sergio Perez's cooking skills and far too many mentions of Aston Martin's technical director Dan Fallows, sorry Dan!
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Betty is in New York for exclusive behind-the-scenes access of the Williams 2024 season launch!
Our first driver co-hosts of the year Alex Albon and Logan Sargeant fill us in on their pre-season build up and reactions to some of the off-season updates, before Betty checks in with team principal James Vowles and Christian to get a debrief of the day and find out what Williams are looking to archive this year.
There's also time for the drivers to put some burning questions to their boss, they didn't disappoint.
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Formula One news doesn't come much bigger than this. Ever. Lewis Hamilton leaving Mercedes for Ferrari has put the F1 world in a spin.
To go through all the questions, thoughts, feelings and more Betty and Christian are joined by voice of Drive To Survive and friend of the show Will Buxton.
We want you to be part of the show, too. Send any questions for the drivers or the team on TikTok and Instagram (@fastcuriouspod). Keep an eye out for live Q&As, race watch-a-longs and general behind-the-scenes action.
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As the 2024 season creeps closer Christian, Betty and Greg look at some of the bigger F1 news starting to emerge as teams and drivers come out of hibernation.
From Lando Norris and Charles Leclerc's contracts to even more ridiculous team names, things are starting to get exciting. So exciting that we might have also announced our first F1 co-hosts of the year...
We want you to be part of the show, too. Send any questions for the drivers or the team on TikTok and Instagram (@fastcuriouspod). Keep an eye out for live Q&As, race watch-a-longs and general behind-the-scenes action.
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congratulations guys, amazing achievement, love the podcast, you guys are sooo good together.