Lovecars On the Grid. Global Motorsport Podcast With Tiff Needell and Paul Woodman

On the Gird podcast bringing you the latest and greatest motorsport news from around the world. With no F1 last weekend so where was the most exciting motorsport to be found?

There was World Championship rallying, World Sportscars, Formula E and MotoGP plus Indycars at Indianapolis, BTCC at Brands Hatch, and there’s always NASCAR – but which was he most entertaining?

In the news Steiner is suing Haas and Haas is suing Steiner.

Adrian Newey was racing a Lotus 49 at Monaco

Max not happy with Super Licence system

Liberty wants more ‘special’ venues, but they’ll have to put the hosting fees up – which could say bye bye to Spa, Barcelona, Hungary, Brazil

And Abbie Pulling becomes the first female to win in F4, but was it justified?

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This week with Tiff Needell and Paul Woodman on, On The Grid, the global motorsport podcast, the big headlines all come from the USA.

And from one high octane motorsport to another, as Lando Norris finally gets his first Grand Prix win in Miami …
… we look at the the closest ever NASCAR finish in Kansas.

While, back in the UK, the ‘Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe’ visited Brands Hatch - and the British Superbikes headed to Oulton Park.

And in the news, Adrian Newey finally confirmed all the rumours and announced his departure from Red Bull and Fernando Alonso pretty much accused the FIA stewards of being racist!

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On The Grid today we look back on a weekend packed with motorsport entertainment and excitement from around the world, plus all of the news and gossip from the various paddocks!

The prospect of a Max move to Mercedes grows and it seems like Adrian Newey will be moving to Ferrari.

From a drama filled Indycar race at Barber Motorsport Park – where the Penske scandal was still hot news and Georgina was one of the stars of the show!

To Spain where the MotoGP stars were at their brilliant best!

Monaco and more Formula E front wing smashing as the Peloton pack jostled for position.

Back home where British GT at Silverstone and BTCC at Donnington Park put on great shows in a rain affected weekend.

And back to the States for a NASCAR Dover duel between Dirty Den and cuddly Kyle.

Oh, and not forgetting the world’s first Autonomous Racing League race at Yas Marina Abu Dhabi – which was actually very forgettable!!

And Paul was either sitting on a boat in Monaco or beside World Rally stars in Italy!

Welcome to the Lovecars On The Grid Podcast, where our hosts Tiff Needell and Paul Woodman give us a look back on a packed week of Motorsport! From the Formula 1 in China, to World Sports cars in Italy, WRC in Croatia, Indycar and IMSA in Long Beach, British Superbikes in Spain and World Superbikes in Holland, plus Talladega with NASCAR!

This week, in our Formula 1 gossip, Christian Horner denies the claims from Mercedes boss, Toto Wolff about the possibility of Max Verstappen moving to Mercedes.

Meanwhile, the Red Bull scandal continues! Is it being brushed under the carpet?

Formula 1 were racing in China, where McLaren's Lando Norris and Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton locked out the front row for the Sprint Race. Red Bull's Max Verstappen came through to win both the sprint and the grand prix race.


The second round of the World Endurance Championship took place at Imola, where 19 hypercars were racing. With multiple weather changes, the rain created yellow flags and safety cars, bunching the pack of cars together.

In Croatia, 8 of the WRC cars were sending their cars across the terrain.

Cadillac took 1st and 2nd at IMSA in California, where we also had Indycar on the Sunday in Long Beach.

World Superbikes were racing in Holland, where Toprak Razgatlioglu stole the show again with an excellent story towards the end of the race.

British Superbikes were racing in Navarro in Spain, where the Ducati bikes have a new sponsor. It was the Yamaha bikes that pulled through, finishing in the top 3, with Vickers finishing in 1st place.

Finally, we had NASCAR in Talladega, where Tyler Reddick brought home the win in his Toyota.

Next weekend, we have MotoGP in Spain. Indycar is back for another race, plus NASCAR at Dover Bowl. Formula E are racing in Monaco, plus the British Touring Cars are back racing at Donington! The British GT are also racing at Silverstone.

On Lovecars On the Grid global motorsport podcast this week we look back at a weekend when once again the MotoGP boys were the greatest entertainers!

The Formula Es were the most confusing.

The NASCARs had the most crashes.

The British Rally Championship was the wettest.

The Caterham's kicked off at Snetterton.

And Goodwood was of course the most glorious!

But, before all that, the F1 talk is all about Alonso signing for Aston Martin and the 2026 rules getting ever more confusing …

Welcome to the Lovecars On The Grid Motorsport podcast! Our presenters, Tiff Needell and Paul Woodman are back to bring us another motorsport roundup!

This week, it was another Max Verstappen masterclass at Formula 1 in Japan. There's World GT at Paul Ricard and NASCAR at Martinsville!

In Formula 1, we had lots of overtakes at the Japan Grand Prix, where most of the talk is around where driver's are heading next season! We had a Redbull top two lockout, followed by the two Ferrari drivers in 3rd and 4th place. What was your highlight of the race?

Tiff talks about his favourite race track corners! After all of his laps at Thruxton, should there be a corner named after Tiff Needell?

Paul Ricard saw the Fanatec World GT for a 3 hour race. Dan Harper led the BMW Winning team, with 8 different manufacturers in the top 10.

Elsewhere, Liberty Media have bought MotoGP! Will we see a change in the MotoGP format going forwards?

NASCAR had an average race at Martinsville, where it was the 40th Anniversary of the Hendrick Motorsport team, who ended up finishing in all podium places, for a fantastic weekend for the team!

The Caterham Academy kicked off for the Sprint in Curborough, with their new Media driver, Sam Parker.

Next weekend, the first full race for Caterham takes place at Snetterton, whilst Formula E is racing at Misano in Italy. MotoGP is back is at COTA in America, British Rally Championship begins in Wales, but there's also Goodwood Members Meeting too!