For F1's Sake

By Cheeka, Terry & Phill

Comedy

What's For F1's Sake about?

Three people discuss F1, the ailing motorsport they hate to love in a desperate attempt to save it from itself. #FF1S

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Drinky Boots

09.15.2021

The Italian Grand Prix provided a deathly dull sprint race and then a much more exciting main event. Cheeka, Phill and Terry discuss this unexpected winners, completely expected crashes and whether they deserved penalties, and then talk about sex toys ...

For F1's Sake episodes:

09.15.2021 Drinky Boots The Italian Grand Prix provided a deathly dull sprint race and then a much more exciting main event. Cheeka, Phill and Terry discuss this unexpected winners, completely expected crashes and whether they deserved penalties, and then talk about sex toys ...
09.09.2021 Ice Ice Bye-Bye Zandvoort promised much, and delivered pretty pictures, orange fog and racing boredom. But Verstappen won, so yay the Dutch GP? Cheeka, Phill and Terry ask where it all went wrong, reminisce about Cheeka’s wedding, and talk about the new driver ...
09.02.2021 We've Only Just Begun The Belgian Grand Prix… wasn’t. Phill and Terry get together to lambast the F1 idiocy that left thousands of people getting wet on a Belgian hill with no chance of a refund. They also wait for Cheeka to turn up ...
08.05.2021 Can't Stop This Finn We Started Where to start with the Hungarian Grand Prix? With inappropriate humour and big gaps in our analysis of course. Cheeka, Phill and Terry look back at the chaos on the Hungaroring and try to make sense of it all, through ...
07.19.2021 The Whinger Takes It All Silverstone saw two races for the British Grand Prix, except one wasn’t a race, except it was. Then Hamilton and Verstappen crashed and it was definitely someone’s fault, except it wasn’t. And everyone got Covid, probably. Cheeka, Phill and Terry ...
07.06.2021 Blurred Pit Lane Lines It's the second Austrian Grand Prix - and the fourth in a year - and it was nowhere near as bad as last week’s, even if Max Verstappen waltzed off to victory with no challengers. It was all action behind ...
06.30.2021 (Red Bull) Ring of Dire The Styrian Grand Prix promised much and delivered mostly boredom and a silly name. However, it was punctuated by Bottas spinning in the pitlane, so that was fun. Cheeka, Phill and Terry talk about Max Verstappen’s Hamilton-like win, worry that ...
06.22.2021 Don't Double Stop Me Now Everyone expected the French GP to be boring, and for all Terry knows, it was, because he didn’t watch it. But Cheeka and Phill did, and so they all conspire to blather on about how strategy trumps pace, how stripes ...
06.10.2021 Every Silly Thing He Does Is Magic Azerbaijan was a slow burner. After marshals ran out of red flags in qualifying, the race saw Charles Leclerc go backwards but then not much happened. Luckily, Pirelli intervened, and then all hell broke loose. And in the end, nothing ...
05.26.2021 Wake Me Up, After Monaco-co Monaco! Big pile of shite, but at least the cars look nice, especially the McLarens. Cheeka, Phill and Terry reflect on the usual Monte Carlo snoozefest but concede that the results were interesting. They also talk about Leclerc crashing deliberately, ...
05.12.2021 Reprofiled Corners Of My Mind The Spanish Grand Prix was deathly dull but also quite interesting, in classic Formula 1 style. Cheeka, Phill and Terry look back at the Catalunya catatonia and get regularly distracted by vaccines, weddings and all sorts of other nonsense, before ...
05.05.2021 Qualifying Race, Now I’m A Believer F1 returned to Portugal, scene of a cracking race last year. This year’s wasn’t as good. Still, Hamilton and Verstappen had a bit of a tussle at Bottas’s expense, so that was something. Cheeka, Phill and Terry talk about all ...
04.22.2021 George Of The Bungle? It's the Definitely Not The San Marino Grand Prix roundup, where Cheeka, Phill and Terry wonder why everyone had forgotten how to drive properly. Still, Max Verstappen messed up the least to win and all the Mercedeses piled into a ...
04.15.2021 Introducing... The Apres Seems like ages since the last race, doesn't it? While Terry and Phill await this weekend's action, we're shared Cheeka stand-in Ollie Peart's new podcast, The Apres. It's very good, even if you've never been skiing in your life. Like ...
03.30.2021 Here Comes Bahrain Again Max and the Ham are having close battles, Mazepin looks like he's rubbish, and all is right with the world. Other than human rights, obviously. Cheeka, Phill and Terry look back on the opening race of the 2021 season at ...
03.25.2021 Hit Me With Your Test Shot F1 is back! Cheeka, Phill and Terry reflect on the off-season, say farewell to the great Murray Walker and look ahead to whether Mercedes are genuinely shit now or if it’s all just a big bag of sand. Plus: Terry ...
12.23.2020 FF1S.20.18 Voyage to the Bottom of the Season And so we reach the end of 2020, the year that was shit but gave us some amazing races. Or did it? We can’t remember most of them, so we invited friend-with-benefits of the podcast Jack Nicholls on to remind ...
12.18.2020 FF1S.20.17 Sex Education - Abu Dhabi Grand Prix The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix finished off the season with a tedious whimper, and nobody even cared that Max Verstappen finally won on merit. Cheeka, Phill and Terry start discussing the boredom at Yas Marina, but then degenerate into writing ...
12.11.2020 FF1S.20.16 Unbreakable Sergio Perez - Sakhir Grand Prix George Russell came, he saw, he conquered but then he got a puncture and saw his puny dreams smashed. Meanwhile, Sergio Perez won his first race in 190 attempts and now everything thinks he’s great. Cheeka, Phill and Terry forensically ...
12.04.2020 FF1S.20.15 I’m Romain Grosjean, Get Me Out Of Here - Bahrain Grand Prix Romain Grosjean exploded and gave Hamilton coronavirus, which means that all the drivers stand up and dance and whoever sits down first gets a Mercedes drive. Cheeka, Phill and Terry talk about the Bahrain Grand Prix, or rather all the ...
11.17.2020 FF1S.20.14 - Better Call Stroll - Turkish Grand Prix Formula 1 is finished, except there are three more races left in the desert, but no one cares because Turkey was the best race of the season and Lewis Hamilton is the champ-champ-champ-champ-champ-champ-champ. Cheeka, Phill and Terry talk about his ...
11.06.2020 FF1S.20.13 - Wall and Grace - Gran Premio Dell'emilia Romagna 2020 It’s the Not San Marino Grand Prix and don’t mention that time when that thing happened. Instead, Cheeka, Phill and Terry talk about Mercedes winning everything, Bottas having not luck and George Russell spannering it into the wall under the ...
10.30.2020 FF1S.20.12 Schu's Line Is It Anyway? - Grande Prémio De Portugal F1 headed to Portugal for the first time in ages, and everything went crazy for a few laps until Hamilton won, Bottas was second and Verstappen was third, as per usual. As he crushed Bottas by a country mile, Lewis ...
10.16.2020 FF1S.20.11 Friday Night Shites - The Eifel Grand Prix It was a race afflicted by fog, unreliability and Lance Stroll's case of the squits, but Lewis Hamilton crushed the memory of Michael Schumacher by waiting until Valtteri Bottas inevitably threw his pole position away, and is now the Greatest ...
10.10.2020 VIDEO: Can TV Make Formula 1 Look Fast Again? For those with the right apps, here's our own Terry Saunders on Carfection talking about what went wrong with Formula One (spoiler: it's telly's fault). Discover all of Terry's State of F1 videos when you subscribe to Carfection on YouTube: ...
10.01.2020 FF1S.20.10 - Battlestart Galactica - Russian Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton found himself Russian to see the stewards after dropping a massive clanger in the wrong place. And that meant Valtteri Bottas and a massive bee found glory in Sochi and Carlos Sainz crashed like an idiot. Cheeka, Phill ...
09.18.2020 FF1S.20.09 - Start Wreck: The Next Generation - Tuscan Grand Prix The Tuscan Grand Prix was expected to be a dull, overtaking-free procession, but we didn’t factor in the fact that everyone wanted to crash repeatedly, which made it much more interesting. Cheeka, Phill and Terry discuss the magic at Mugello, ...
09.08.2020 FF1S.20.08 - Pierre Eye For The Egalité Guy - Italian Grand Prix Party mode has been banned, but not at AlphaTauri, where the booze is free flowing following Pierre Gasly’s emotional and frankly spawny victory at the Italian Grand Prix. Cheeka, Phill and Terry reflect on a crazy race at Monza, talk ...
09.05.2020 BONUS: Everything you need to know about Jochen Rindt (featuring David Tremayne) This year's Italian Grand Prix marks 50 years since the death of Jochen Rindt. It happened at Monza, during practice for the 1970 race and the German driver would go on to become the only posthumous Formula 1 world champion. ...
09.03.2020 FF1S.20.07 - Party Mode of Five - Belgian Grand Prix Ah, Spa. One of the finest race tracks in the world. Trust F1 to be able to make it boring as sin. The Belgian Grand Prix result was exactly what you’d expect it to be, except Ferrari were worse. Cheeka, ...
08.20.2020 FF1S.20.06 - My So-Called Race - Spanish Grand Prix F1 finally hits its stride and goes Full Boring, as Hamilton is tediously brilliant, Bottas is predictably average and Verstappen is excellent in a second-rate car. Cheeka, Phill and Terry talk about the Spanish Grand Prix and also touch on ...
08.13.2020 FF1S.20.05 - Tyrefly - 70th Anniversary Grand Prix It’s the British Grand Prix 2, a sequel actually better than the original as Mercedes had some unfortunate blistering, Max romped to victory and Hulkenberg obviously didn’t get a podium. Cheeka, Phill and Terry discuss the 70th Anniversary GP, Racing ...
08.04.2020 FF1S.20.04 - Three Wheels of Fortune - British Grand Prix The British Grand Prix was devoid of fans and devoid of much action at all, until all hell broke loose on the final few laps, thanks to Pirelli. With Cheeka sidelined due to a positive holiday test, last-minute reserve presenter ...
07.24.2020 FF1S.20.03 - Through the Knee Hole - Hungarian Grand Prix The Hungarian Grand Prix proved decisively that only races at Austria are good now, as Lewis Hamilton romped to victory and we all saw the inevitable Bottas 3.0 failure that we knew was coming. Cheeka, Phill and Terry ponder Budapest, ...
07.15.2020 FF1S.20.02 - Only Fools and Prancing Horses - Styrian Grand Prix The sequel to the Austrian Grand Prix was a bit disappointing, but at least qualifying for Austria 2: Styriana was entertaining, and there's always Last Lap Lando to keep things interesting. Cheeka, Phill and Terry reflect on the second weekend ...
07.09.2020 FF1S.20.01 - Kerb Your Enthusiasm - Austrian Grand Prix F1 is back! And in a move nobody expected, it was actually rather good despite the world slowly falling apart. There was intrigue. There was drama. There was pretty terrible reliability. And a Mercedes won. Cheeka, Phill and Terry convene ...
06.11.2020 98.13 The Great Belgian Crash Off - LVI Foster's Belgian Grand Prix It’s 1998, Cheeka is a child, Terry and Phill have terrible hair and David Coulthard just can’t stop crashing. The team discusses the carnage that was the 1998 Belgian Grand Prix and looks ahead to some actual 2020 racing, which ...
05.20.2020 99.16 - Grander Sainz - Warsteiner Grand Prix of Europe With lockdown still in effect, Cheeka, Phill and Terry look back on the 1999 European Grand Prix where everyone crashed or broke down and a Stewart won. A Stewart! There's also plenty of chat about the premature silly season, which ...
04.14.2020 86.16 - Old Races Are The New Black - LI Foster's Australian Grand Prix It's the Australian Grand Prix! The first chance to see what all the teams have been doing over the winter break and... wait, what? Oh. Shit. OK, well in that case Cheeka, Phill and Terry talk about the 1986 Australian ...
03.15.2020 20.00 - Race Or Survive - Preseason Special Way, way back, before the dawn of time, the Australian Grand Prix was due to take place and coronavirus was just a glint in a Wuhan bat’s eye. Well, actually it was earlier this week but before everything went to ...
12.19.2019 FF1S.19.22a - Happy Xmas (The Season is Over) - Season Review 2019 It's time to drink what's left of your beer money as Cheeka, Terry and Phill are joined by special guest Jack Nicholls to review the year in F1. What does the BBC commentator really think of the 2019 season? How ...
12.19.2019 FF1S.19.22b - I Wish It Could Be The Off-Season Every Day - Season Review 2019 It's part two of our season review - where things get drunker and there's much discussion of Jack's Airbnb experience in Toronto, Terry reveals our MOTMOTFF1SSPOTYOTMOD2019OTY2019 and Phill shares some more lovely news. If you've loved listening to us this ...
12.06.2019 FF1S.19.21 - Sainz, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Sixth - Abu Dhabi Grand Prix This is how the season ends. Not with a bang, but with a deathly boring procession around Yas Marina, livened only by a DRS failure and Lando Norris crying. Still, it eases us into the off season, eh? Cheeka, Phill ...
11.21.2019 FF1S.19.20 - I’m Screaming In The Pit Lane - Brazilian Grand Prix The Brazilian Grand Prix was all set to be a relatively unremarkable end-of-season snoozefest, until all hell broke loose towards the end of the race. Cheeka, Phill and Terry talk through Ferrari’s farce, Bottas’ smokey bum and a very weird ...
11.06.2019 FF1S.19.19 - I’m gonna six you up - US Grand Prix The battle is over. Valtteri Bottas won the US Grand Prix, but no one cared because Lewis Hamilton won his sixth world title and the rest of F1 2019 doesn’t matter anymore. Cheeka, Phill and Terry forensically dissect the goings ...
11.01.2019 FF1S.19.18 - House of the rising Hamilton - Mexican Grand Prix There was a party down Mexico way, but despite having the fastest car (again), Ferrari conspired to throw away a guaranteed win (again). Hamilton won the race but isn’t champion yet. Can Bottas bring it back? No, don’t be silly. ...
10.18.2019 FF1S.19.17 - False Start My Heart - Japanese Grand Prix Not even a typhoon could stop Ferrari ballsing up yet another certain win and Mercedes won all of the championships at Suzuka. Cheeka, Phill and Terry look back on LeClerc's Verstappen-like attack on Verstappen, Vettel's false start that wasn't and ...
10.04.2019 FF1S.19.16 - Virtual Safety Car Insanity - Russian Grand Prix The Russian Grand Prix was notable mostly for Ferrari returning to their time-honoured tradition of shooting themselves in the foot, this time with the added bonus of an internal wrangle between Charles Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel. Cheeka, Phill and Terry ...
09.27.2019 FF1S.19.15 - The First Undercut is the Deepest - Singapore Grand Prix Singapore was a dull race, or WAS IT? Yes. But also a bit interesting thanks to internal Ferrari wrangling, Vettel being good again (maybe), Leclerc being a whiner and Mercedes not being on the podium. Phill and Terry are joined ...
09.12.2019 FF1S.19.14 - Sainz of the Times - Italian Grand Prix Monza had it all: hilarious qualifying snafus, an epic battle between the old master and the new young padawan, and some comically poor driving by Sebastian Vettel. Cheeka, Phill and Terry discuss the Italian Grand Prix, drink only water and ...

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For F1's Sake episodes:

Drinky Boots

Ice Ice Bye-Bye

We've Only Just Begun

Can't Stop This Finn We Started

The Whinger Takes It All

Blurred Pit Lane Lines

(Red Bull) Ring of Dire

Don't Double Stop Me Now

Every Silly Thing He Does Is Magic

Wake Me Up, After Monaco-co

Reprofiled Corners Of My Mind

Qualifying Race, Now I’m A Believer

George Of The Bungle?

Introducing... The Apres

Here Comes Bahrain Again

Hit Me With Your Test Shot

FF1S.20.18 Voyage to the Bottom of the Season

FF1S.20.17 Sex Education - Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

FF1S.20.16 Unbreakable Sergio Perez - Sakhir Grand Prix

FF1S.20.15 I’m Romain Grosjean, Get Me Out Of Here - Bahrain Grand Prix

FF1S.20.14 - Better Call Stroll - Turkish Grand Prix

FF1S.20.13 - Wall and Grace - Gran Premio Dell'emilia Romagna 2020

FF1S.20.12 Schu's Line Is It Anyway? - Grande Prémio De Portugal

FF1S.20.11 Friday Night Shites - The Eifel Grand Prix

VIDEO: Can TV Make Formula 1 Look Fast Again?

FF1S.20.10 - Battlestart Galactica - Russian Grand Prix

FF1S.20.09 - Start Wreck: The Next Generation - Tuscan Grand Prix

FF1S.20.08 - Pierre Eye For The Egalité Guy - Italian Grand Prix

BONUS: Everything you need to know about Jochen Rindt (featuring David Tremayne)

FF1S.20.07 - Party Mode of Five - Belgian Grand Prix

FF1S.20.06 - My So-Called Race - Spanish Grand Prix

FF1S.20.05 - Tyrefly - 70th Anniversary Grand Prix

FF1S.20.04 - Three Wheels of Fortune - British Grand Prix

FF1S.20.03 - Through the Knee Hole - Hungarian Grand Prix

FF1S.20.02 - Only Fools and Prancing Horses - Styrian Grand Prix

FF1S.20.01 - Kerb Your Enthusiasm - Austrian Grand Prix

98.13 The Great Belgian Crash Off - LVI Foster's Belgian Grand Prix

99.16 - Grander Sainz - Warsteiner Grand Prix of Europe

86.16 - Old Races Are The New Black - LI Foster's Australian Grand Prix

20.00 - Race Or Survive - Preseason Special

FF1S.19.22a - Happy Xmas (The Season is Over) - Season Review 2019

FF1S.19.22b - I Wish It Could Be The Off-Season Every Day - Season Review 2019

FF1S.19.21 - Sainz, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Sixth - Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

FF1S.19.20 - I’m Screaming In The Pit Lane - Brazilian Grand Prix

FF1S.19.19 - I’m gonna six you up - US Grand Prix

FF1S.19.18 - House of the rising Hamilton - Mexican Grand Prix

FF1S.19.17 - False Start My Heart - Japanese Grand Prix

FF1S.19.16 - Virtual Safety Car Insanity - Russian Grand Prix

FF1S.19.15 - The First Undercut is the Deepest - Singapore Grand Prix

FF1S.19.14 - Sainz of the Times - Italian Grand Prix

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