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

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!

On the Grid this week we try to work out who’s going where in the F1 seat lottery, with the big questions being around Carlos and Max (and even Adrian!).

Alpine - seems likely the French pair will stay together
Pierre Gasly
Esteban Ocon

Aston Martin - could be big changes
Fernando Alonso
Lance Stroll

Ferrari - we know Lewis and Charles are in the il Cavallino hot seats
Charles Leclerc
Carlos Sainz

Haas - surly it's time to say goodbye to Hulk and Mag?
Nico Hulkenberg
Kevin Magnussen

McLaren - the brightest pair on the grid?
Lando Norris
Oscar Piastri

Mercedes - who will take Lewis' seat?
Lewis Hamilton
George Russell

Red Bull - Is Perzez out? Max too? Who knows!
Sergio Perez
Max Verstappen

Sauber - Bottas gets the boot?
Valtteri Bottas
Zhou Guanyu

VCARB - Must be time for Ricciardo to hang up his shoeys?
Daniel Ricciardo
Yuki Tsunoda

Williams - Albon maybe deserves a bigger shot. Will he end up at Mercedes?
Alex Albon
Logan Sargeant

We head to Japan where Formula E finally made its debut. Maserati MSG Racing's Maximilian Guenther overcame polesitter Oliver Rowland (Nissan) to take a the chequered flag first in the inaugural Tokyo E-Prix on Formula E's first visit to Japan - making it five different winners from the opening five races in Season 10

To Kenya and the always tough test of the WRC Safari Rally where Rovanperä and Jonne Halttunen clinched their second victory at the event, repeating their 2022 triumph. This win was solidified through an outstanding display on the rally's first full day, Friday, where they dominated by being the quickest in each of the six stages, securing a lead of nearly one minute.

To America where’s there’s always a NASCAR race to keep you happy.

And back home where the Easter holiday brought out half a dozen race meetings all over the country with the highlight being the British GTs at Oulton Park where the GB4 support race saw a 17 British girl win on her single seater debut.

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Welcome to the Lovecars On The Grid Podcast, where our hosts, Tiff Needell and Paul Woodman bring us a roundup of motorsport events from the past week!

This week, we have had lots of racing, from Formula 1 in Austrailia, to Formula 2 and Formula 3, followed by MotoGP at the Algarve

Melbourne saw an amazing weekend for Formula 1, where World Champion Max Verstappen was forced to retire following an issue with his car. Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton also suffered a retirement as a result of engine failure. His team mate, George Russell had an accident in the closing moments of the race. In the end, it was Carlos Sainz, who was back from his appendix surgery, who took the win in his Ferrari, followed closely by his team mate Charles LeClerc.

Spanish racers cleaned up in MotoGP taking place in the Algarve, with a Spanish 1,2,3 on the podium for the Sprint race. In the Grand Prix, Jorge Martin took the win on his Ducati.

In Barcelona, we had Superbikes with a sensational race, with Toprak Razgatlıoğlu taking the win.

Then we had NASCAR at the Circuit of Americas, where William Byron managed to take the win in his Chevrolet.

Next weekend, we have WRC back, NASCAR at Richmond oval and British GT is back at Oulton Park over the Easter weekend.

Enjoy your Easter everyone!

Welcome to the Lovecars On The Grid podcast! Our global motorsport roundup is back, and Tiff and Paul are on their travels, so sorry we are late this week!

Paul and Tiff discuss the great Ollie Bearman story at the Formula 1 Grand Prix. Indycar, Superformula in Japan, NASCAR and more!

Welcome to the Lovecars On The Grid podcast, with our hosts, Tiff Needell and Paul Woodman, who bring us a roundup of motorsport events from around the World.

This week, we have news on Formula 1 and Christian Horner, In Formula 1, the rumours surrounding Christian Horner at Red Bull continue, will he leave Red Bull? Who could replace him? We have Gunther Steiner who left Haas under shares within the company, Helmut Marko says he still could give something to the Formula 1 Constructors Championship, who do you think could replace Horner?

In NASCAR, we had the most exciting race in Atlanta. With lots of crashes, with just 6 cars not being involved in an accident, with cars up to 4 wide in some of the turns. Reigning Champion Ryan Blaney took second place as Daniel Suárez came through in his Chevrolet to take his second win in 254 starts in NASCAR. The series is off to Las Vegas next!

The Bathurst saw Aussie Supercars, where reigning Champion, Brodie Kostecki wasn't racing, as he'd fallen out with is team for unknown reasons in the supercars opening race of the season.

World Superbikes also kicked off at Philip Island. Normally, we're used to seeing Alvaro Bautista win in the Superbikes, however his team mate, Andrea Locatelli took his first win in the World Superbikes series.

Should we get Tiff Needell to do a series race this year? What race series should Tiff enter?

We've seen this season's Formula 1 drivers testing. Will Red Bull continue to dominate the season? Ferrari's drivers of LeClerc and Sainz were fastest, but which team will lead the season this year?

Elsewhere in Formula 1 news, there's rumours that Audi are pulling out! Since we've had the news of a new team joining the sport, it looks like there's been a few staff changing, resulting in the team looking for pull out.

We have lots of motorsport to look forward to, as Formula 2, Formula 3 and World Endurance Championship all return to racing in the coming weeks. What are you most looking forward to?

Plenty of racing and rallying from around the world to talk about with Tiff Needell and Paul Woodman on this week's On the Grid motorsport podcast including...

Some F1 news to catch up on - with Red Bull's Christian Horner in hot water.

But first news of our very On the Road Prime Video launch!!

Should be starting with Daytona 500 but it hasn’t started yet - it was rained off and back on Monday.

WRC went snow ploughing in Sweden, not Finland!

Bathurst 12 hours that started in the dark and gave us a stunning spectacle

Young driver single seaters winter championships are decided

And Extreme-E were having fun in Saudi Arabia

Next week
F1 tests in Bahrain, MotoGP test in Qatar
WSB race in Australia and NASCAR go to Atlanta if the rain has stopped!

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