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

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!

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!