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This week marks 30 years since Brabham made its last world championship F1 start. If you haven't heard it yet, listen to David Brabham talking about how he has brought the famous name back to the track on our previous podcast. Plus in this week's Autosport magazine, Damien Smith delves under the skin of the BT19 in which Jack Brabham scored his third F1 crown.

Damien is our special guest on today's podcast as our chief editor 
Kevin Turner picks his top ten Brabham drivers of all time, with Alex Kalinauckas your host. 

It's 30 years since one of motorsports most famous names made its last Formula 1 world championship start. During its three decades in F1, Brabham won 35 world championship races (still good enough for eighth on the all time constructors list), scored 39 pole positions, took 4 drivers championships and 2 constructors titles as well. Today Kevin Turner is joined by by David Brabham to talk all things Brabham past, present and future.

Autosport's 'Top 10...' podcasts are back for a second series. This time around, our Chief Editor Kevin Turner is gamekeeper-turned poacher! After writing the Top 10 lists for our first series, now the Autosport editors have their say with Kevin coming on to question their reasoning. To kick off the series, Jake Boxall-Legge presents the top ten Arrows/Footwork grand prix drivers. They're joined by Alex Kalinauckas.

Last weekend witnessed a truly incredible Rally Finland with WRC's best battling it out for the win. Today on Gravel Notes with Tom Howard he talks to all three podium teams - Tanak, Rovanpera and Lappi. We also hear how Hyundai ended Toyota's winning streak in Finland, and how the land of 1000 lakes was able to keep Lappi's car topped up with water after a massive shunt.

Stick around to the end of the podcast because Tom talks about an experience no mere mortal has any business doing - co-driving a top tier rally car alongside one of the worlds best drivers, as he calls the pace notes over 6 kilometres for Takamoto Katsuta in the Toyota GR Yaris Rally1 car.

Since Sebastian Vettel announced his retirement the driver market has moved at breakneck pace. Fernando Alonso was confirmed for a place at Aston Martin in 2023, which should have opened the door for an Alpine race seat for Formula 2 champ Oscar Piastri. However a bizarre set of public announcements saw the team confirm Piastri for '23, only for the driver to respond on social media saying he will not race at Alpine.

Joining Martyn Lee to discuss all news and possible implications are Matt Kew, Alex Kalinauckas and Luke Smith.

Formula 1 heads into the Summer break with it’s reigning champ and title favourite eighty points ahead of his main rival. Max Verstappen started tenth, carved his way through the field, Red Bull strategists made bold calls and the RFB18 was the class of the pack.

Once again we saw both Mercedes on the podium, in a boost to the team before the summer break. And once again, we saw the Ferrari pit wall make questionable calls which put their drivers on the back foot.

Joining Martyn Lee to discuss today’s grand prix are Luke Smith, Jess McFadyen and Kevin Turner.