Lovecars On the Grid. Global Motorsport Podcast

Welcome to Episode 32 of the Lovecars On The Grid Podcast! Tiff Needell and Paul Woodman are back with their global motorsport roundup after a very exciting week!  

Kicking off with the Formula 1, which was this time taking place at Austin in Texas, the race was a fantastic one! The Lewis and Max Championship battle continued, with cars bouncing over the curbs both from Mercedes and Red Bull. In the midfield, there were also tense battles with McLaren's Daniel Ricciardo against Ferrari's Carlos Sainz. Track limits were a bit questionable, especially in qualifying!  

Continuing in the US, the W Series final race took place at the Circuit of the Americas, where British driver, Jamie Chadwick taking the championship win. Congratulations to her!  This weekend marked the end of the British Touring Car Championship too, where Ash Sutton took the championship win, with a win at Brands Hatch, and Championship rival, Josh Cook taking wins in the other two races. Colin Turkington came 2nd in the Championship, with Tom Chilton in 3rd place.  

Caterham racing also concluded the Seven Championship at Cadwell Park, with some spectacular racing at a difficult circuit!  

Kyle Larson took another win at NASCAR, with just two rounds to go after racing at the Kansas Speedway, Hollywood Casino 400. Chase Elliot tried chasing Larson down, but couldn't quite catch him after scraping the wall. One race before the shootout race, coming up at Martinsville! Is anyone following NASCAR?  

In Moto GP,  Spanish Rider, Marc Marquez won the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, and it was also Valentino Rossi's last Italian Grand Prix, with who stands of spectators wearing the yellow 48, with Rossi himself throwing his helmet into the crowd in celebration! But the 2021 World Title went to French rider, Fabio Quartararo on his Yamaha.   

Extreme E was back in Sardinia, with their Island X-Prix. Rosberg X Racing closes in on the title after taking the victory, despite lots of cars breaking their suspension with the bumps on the terrain!  

Coming up in the next week, what should we be watching? The WEC commences on it's last 2 rounds, both being held in Bahrain for 2 weekends. NASCAR is taking place at Martinsville, with seven drivers being cut to three for the final round. Then, the British Rally Championship is in Llandudno for the Conwy Cambrian Rally.   

Finally, it's Tiff Needell's birthday on Friday, so make sure you wish him well in the comments!

Tiff Needell and Paul Woodman take a look at motorsport events around the world with the Lovecars On the Grid podcast.  

This week we kick off with World Rally Championships where the title race is going down to the wire. There's a family connect at the British GP and Tiff's favourite, Kyle Larson takes another win in NASCAR - where Paul shows his Google skills with some high level NASCAR trivia.   

On two wheels there's British Super Bikes and also World Super Bikes, plus a certain Tiff Needell races BBC Top Gear's Chris Harris where our man Tiff, leaves him for dust! (nothing to do with the cars of course!!)  

Next week F1 is back, the conclusion of BTCC, W Series, Extreme-E and much more!   

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Welcome to Episode 30 of the Lovecars On The Grid Podcast! Paul Woodman and Tiff Needell are back to give you a motorsport roundup from the past week!   

We kick things off with Formula 1, that took place in Turkey this weekend, and we were in for an eventful race at Istanbul Park! Another wet Turkish Grand Prix led to Lewis Hamilton coming into the pits earlier to change his tyres. Mercedes driver, Valtteri Bottas achieved a Win, with Red Bull driver Max Verstappen coming 2nd, putting him back at the top for the Championship for 2021. Hamilton unfortunately finished in 5th place. Who do you think will win the Championship, Lewis or Max?  

Paul has now concluded his fantastic season with the Caterham Academy. With two different grids and 25 cars on each grid, teaching drivers how to race. As Paul says, the best driving experience he's had in his life! The final race took part in Snetterton this weekend, with the championship coming down to just 2 car lengths after all of these races!  

In the Green Group, Freddie Chiddicks reached second in the Championship, but Geoff Newman took the fastest lap on the last lap and took the Championship win! Over in the White Group, our friend Charlie Lower won the Championship in his group, with Harry George in 2nd place. Well done to all the podium finishers in both groups.   

It was the last round in DTM this weekend too, taking place at the Norisring in Germany. Maximilian Gotz won the Championship, following Mercedes implementing a team order, denying the race winner and championship favourite Liam Lawson of his title. What a controversial end to the season!  

The Fanatec GT World Challenge final round took place in Barcelona this weekend too, with Tiff's friends at Barwell Motorsport taking the win in the Pro-Am category in their Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo.  

The BTCC was at Donington, with two wins for Gordon Sheddon in his Honda Civic Type R. Race 3 was won by Colin Turkington in his BMW 330i M Sport, winning his 60th BTCC race!  

Across the pond, NASCAR was great entertainment at Charlotte, with another win for Kyle Larson in his Chevrolet, despite an alternator failure. There were also some spectacular crashes!  

Next week, WRC is in Spain, British GT are in Donington for their final round, fingers crossed for Barwell Motorsport. NASCAR go to Texas and the World Superbikes are at a new track in Argentina! British Superbikes on the other hand are finishing their season at Brands Hatch, so some great motorbike action to come!

Welcome to episode 29 of the Lovecars On The Grid podcast! Tiff Needell and Paul Woodman are back, with the latest updates from motorsport around the World!  

Paul was marshalling at Castle Coombe this weekend, as a result of getting 9 points on his racing license after going through 2 black and white flags during the race in the Caterham Academy!   

Starting with World Rally Championship, the British driver Elfyn Evans and his co-driver, Scott Martin led the way in Finland in their Toyota Gazoo Racing WRC Yaris. Just 24 points separate Evans and Championship leader, Sébastien Ogier in his Toyota. Just 2 rounds left of the WRC, with the next round in Spain in a few weeks!  

Hear about Tiff Needell's racing career and the famous drivers he raced alongside, along with the teams and cars in Formula 1, at Le Mans and his 230MPH crash on the Mulsanne Straight!  

Moto GP was the Red Bull Grand Prix of the Americas, in Austin, Texas. Spanish rider, Marc Marquez took the win on his Honda, with Australian rider, Jack Miller just 0.1 seconds behind on his Ducati. In Moto3, there was a terrible accident, involving Deniz Oncu, Jeremy Alcoba, Andrea Migno and title leader, Pedro Acosta. Miraculously, all four escaped serious injury, despite sliding on the tarmac at 140MPH! It's led to a 2 race ban for Oncu.  

In Superbikes, the race this weekend was in Portugal and championship leader,  Toprak Razgatlioglu unfortunately crashed out due to a technical issue, but still managed to win race 1. Rival British rider, Jonathan Rea won race 2. Just 26 points seperate the two riders, with one round left. Will Toprak win it?  

British Superbikes were at Donington Park in the pouring rain! Gino Rea won Bennetts race 1 and Tarran Mackenzie race 2 with one round left at Brands Hatch.  DTM has just one round to go too, with Liam Lawson and Kelvin Van Der Linde battling for the championship win at Hockenheim. Van Der Linde took the win, with AlphaTauri AF Corsa driver, Alex Albon in 2nd place.  

Next week, it's a weekend of final rounds! DTM goes to Norisring for the final round, whilst it's the last chance for Paul Woodman to get a podium in the green group for the Caterham Academy Championship at Snetterton! Good luck Paul! Elsewhere Tiff is testing the new Corvette for our other channel! Formula 1 goes to turkey, whilst BTCC is at Donington!

Welcome to episode 28 of the Lovecars On The Grid Podcast. This week, Tiff Needell and Paul Woodman discuss the Formula 1, F2 and F3 at Sochi in Russia, the BTCC at Silverstone, Indycar and NASCAR in America, and of course the motorbikes!  

Formula 1 was a terrific Grand Prix out in Sochi! The Russian Grand Prix was far from boring this year, with British-Belgian racing driver, Lando Norris led the pack from pole position in his McLaren and George Russell not far behind, all because of Lewis Hamilton's crash into the pit wall in his Mercedes, and Max Verstappen's engine change at Red Bull!  

Then moving onto the Grand Prix, the tables turned! With the rain coming in with 10 minutes left of the race, Hamilton and Mercedes made the right decision to change their tyres, whereas Norris stayed out. Max also went in early to avoid the change in weather, which benefitted him and Red Bull, resulting in a second place. Hamilton took the win, gaining his 100th ever victory, setting a new record in Formula 1.  It will be interesting in the 2022 season, with three British drivers contesting for the top spot. But who be on top in the Mercedes team, George Russell or Lewis Hamilton?  

In F2, Dan Ticktum won the first sprint race from pole position and then started in 5th place in the feature race, finishing in the same place. Australian driver, Oscar Piastri took first place for Prema Racing, extending his Championship lead.  

In Formula 3, the Sprint Race was won by American driver, Logan Sergeant, whilst Australian driver, Jack Doohan led from pole position to win the feature race with his team, Trident.  

Onto Touring Cars, the BTCC was at Silverstone with 30 cars on the 1.5 mile national circuit. Rory Butcher dominated the weekend, finishing in 1st place in the first two races, but then 13th in race 3.   

Indycar was at Long Beach, with 85 laps of the drivers hitting track limits and smudging the walls! Colton Herta was the fastest all weekend, but qualified in 14th thanks to a crash. The driver fought back through and ended up winning the race. Josef Newgarden finished behind Herta, having started on pole.  

NASCAR was in Las Vegas this weekend, with Toyota driver Denny Hamlin becoming victorious, with teammate Kyle Busch in 3rd place, and Chevrolet driver, Chase Elliot in 2nd.  

Over in the world of motorbikes, the Superbikes brought tragic news, with the sad death of 15 year old, Dean Berta Viñales in the Supersport 300 support race in Spain. Our thoughts are with his friends and family. This led to just two races being undertaken at the Motul Spanish round, with Turkish rider Toprak Razgatlıoğlu extending his championship lead, winning both races. Close behind him is British rider Jonathan Rea, finishing 2nd in the first race.  

In British Superbikes, the Championship was at Oulton Park, with a win for Tarran Mackenzie on his Yamaha in the first race, and two wins for Oxford Products Racing Ducati rider, Tommy Bridewell.  

Our Lovecars resident presenters were racing too! Nick Ponting was racing at Donington Park, and Ben Collins, Mr. Stig was racing at the 24 hour race at Circuit Zolder in Belgium!  

Next weekend, the WRC is back in Finland, Moto GP goes over to the USA, whilst World Superbikes are in the Algarve in Portugal and British Superbikes are back at Donington Park. Lots of bikes next week!

We kick off Episode 27, where else, but Goodwood for the incredible Goodwood Revival, where Tiff Needell was not only racing in some big old Jags... but also playing in the annual cricket match (where his team went on to lose!).  

After some cricket trivia, together with some general Goodwood trivia, the boys stay in the UK and move to BTCC with two more new winners at Croft - but was it all overshadowed by Tim Harvey's claims that the circuit is unsafe? Should they allow bollards and tyres on apexes at Croft Circuit, or any race track in the world? What's your take?  

On the continent Robert Kubica wraps up ELMS title with win at Spa and Liam Lawson extends his DTM lead at Assen. On two wheels it's another win in Moto GP for Franceso Bagnia at Misano and WSB are simply ever tighter after Barcelona.  

Plenty of drama at Laguna Seca with Indycar and the entertaining Bristol oval with NASCAR.  

Next week … F1 and F2 AND F3 in Russia. There's the Indycar finale in Long Beach, California, NASCAR at Las Vegas, over in Spain the WSB battle goes on, while back home BTCC goes to Silverstone and BSB at Oulton Park!   

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This is episode 26 of our Lovecars On The Grid Podcast with Paul Woodman and Tiff Needell!  

It's been an exciting week, but we kick off with the controversy in Formula 1 at Monza, where Red Bull driver, Max Verstappen ended up with his car on top of of Mercedes driver, Lewis Hamilton!   

Following Max's poor pit stop, that took 11 seconds, the two drivers came together. Who was to blame? Nonetheless, McLaren ended up doing very well at Monza, with Daniel Ricciardo taking 1st place, and Lando Norris coming in 2nd. A brilliant Grand Prix.  

In Formula 2,  the first Sprint race was won by French driver, Théo Pourchaire. The second Sprint was won by Carlin Racing's Jehan Daruvala and the feature race in Monza for the F2 was won by Australian driver, Oscar Piastri. Elsewhere, British racing driver, Dan Ticktum admits he may have blown his chances in Formula 1, after being dropped by both Red Bull and now Williams. The driver admitted he probably opened his mouth too many times, when he probably shouldn't have! Is he suitable to be a Formula 1 driver? What do you think?  

We had an exciting race in Moto GP, at Ciudad del Motor de Aragón. Home rider, Marc Márquez had a great battle with Francesco Bagnaia on his Ducati, but Bagnaia was able to hold out, beating the Spanish rider by 0.6 seconds. The closes British rider, Cal Crutchlow finished in 16th position.  The World Rally Championship was over in Greece, with the Acropolis fixture returning to WRC for the first time since 2013! French rally driver, Sébastien Ogier was first out in his Toyota Yaris WRC and edges towards his next Championship win, finishing in 3rd place. 

The British Superbikes were racing at the Silverstone National this weekend, with a big clash between Yamaha team mates, Taz Mackenzie and Jason O'Halloran. Thankfully, both drivers were ok and were back in race 2 and 3 with both taking a win! Just 3 rounds left of British Superbikes! 

Over the pond in the USA, Indycar was the Grand Prix of Portland, which has very limited of overtaking. This lead to tactical moves in the pits! Ex-Formula 1 Romain Grosjean caused mayhem at turn 1, with Alex Palou taking the win, followed by Alexander Rossi in second place.   

NASCAR was at the Richmond Raceway in Virginia, for a fairly uneventful race!  

Next week, Indycar goes to Laguna Seca for what will hopefully be an exciting race with the Corkscrew and just 2 rounds left. Moto GP is at Imola, and the battle continues between Toprak Razgatlıoğlu and  Jonathan Rea in the World Superbikes at Barcelona and there's BTCC at Croft! Tiff's also driving at Goodwood in a Jaguar!  Unrelated to motoring, a massive congratulations to British teenager, Emma Raducanu who won the US Open.  Thank you for watching!

Welcome to the Lovecars On The Grid Podcast, where we have our 25th Episode!  

Paul Woodman and Tiff Needell kick off this episode with the hot off the press news of Finnish Formula 1 driver, Valtteri Bottas making the move to Alfa Romeo! Just waiting for Mercedes to announce the signing of George Russell now! Who will join Bottas at Alfa Romeo, will it be Mick Schumacher, Antonio Giovinazzi or even Alex Albon! What are your thoughts?   

This weekend featured the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort, where home champion, Max Verstappen dominated the weekend with a win for the Dutch fans! The win was almost shadowed by the announcement of Kimi Räikkönen. Unfortunately, Kimi also had Covid this weekend, so Robert Kubica took his Alfa Romeo seat for the weekend!  

Supporting the Formula 1, we had the Formula 3 and the W Series. In F3, the first sprint race was won by Arthur LeClerc (Not Charles - Sorry Tiff!) and Victor Martins in the second. Norwegian driver, Dennis Hauger extends his leads with another victory as he closes in on a F3 Championship win.  

Whilst we've not had successful British drivers so far on this podcast, the British dominated in the W Series! All 6 British drivers finished in the top 10, with Alice Powell and Jamie Chadwick finishing first and seconds, now being on the same number of points in the Championship!  

In two wheel racing, the World Superbikes were at Magny-Cours, France, where championship leader,  Toprak Rzgatlioglu took three wins! The Turkish rider continues to lead the pack, although British rider Jonathan Rea is very much contesting him! Rea actually took one of the wins from Toprak due to track limits! Elsewhere with bikes, the British Superbikes were at Snetterton, with an excellent weekend for Yamaha. Two wins for Tarran Mackenzie, and a win for Jason O'Halloran both of which were on Yamaha bikes.   

Over in America, the NASCAR drivers were in South Carolina, at the Darlington Raceway. We had a fantastic last few laps, with Chevrolet driver, Kyle Larson dominating most of the race, but got caught out with a yellow flag, leaving Toyota driver Denny Hamlin to win the race after some contact with the wall! A fantastic finish!  

Much closer to home, we hear about Paul's adventures with the Caterham Academy this weekend! The Academy was at Croft, and our Lovecars Academy driver had cancelled his entry into the race due to personal plans. His plans changed, and heroic Paul drove to Croft, did the race (having never driven the circuit before) and managed to finish in 7th place! Onto Snetterton on the 10th October for the final race, fingers crossed for that podium, Paul!  

We have a motorsport packed weekend coming up next, with the Formula 1 at Monza, Indycar is back at Portland, whilst we have WRC and Moto GP in Spain. At home here in the UK, British GT is at Oulton Park, and the British Superbikes are at Silverstone! We're looking forward to it all!

Welcome to Episode 24 of Lovecars On the Grid, the global motorsport roundup podcast!

This week Tiff Needell and Paul Woodman discuss the F1 at Spa farce. Is a race behind a pace car actually a race???

Great to see Lando Norris setting such great qualifying pace, until a huge crash at the very controversial Eau Rouge. Does something need to happen to Eau Rouge to make things safer?

More action in a very damp qualifying which saw George Russell in the Williams stick it on an incredible P2 on the grid, punching massively above the weight of the car and team and showing his phenomenal driving talent.

The out lap of the race will be one for Sergio Perez will want to forget, sticking into the tyre wall before they even started.

What should the officials have done for the race? There was lots of advice from keyboard warriors, with suggestions of mudflaps / fenders / smaller tyres / less horsepower and our very own Vicky Piria suggested going behind safety car until it either dried, or the race had to end.

Perhaps the most crazy idiotic thing you’ll ever see is issuing a Fastest lap, behind a pace car, where clearly you’re not allowed to race! Which went to none other than Mazepin. What a complete and utter farce!

Did they do the race so they didn’t have to refund ticket holders? What are your thoughts?

There was some racing though at Spa first up in W Series which saw a huge 6 car pile up, again at Eau Rouge, in qualifying. With Emma Kimilian coming home in the race with an impressive wet weather win.

The F3 guys also got wet, two wins for Jack Doohan, but did he cheat the reverse grid system? A bad time for the Brits, and possibly the craziest overtake by Caio Collet…. Guess where? Of course, at Eau Rouge!

Tiff was at Silverstone to watch the Moto GP, which sadly ended up being a bit of a disappointment!!

BTCC as always was great, this week was at the UKs fastest circuit, Thruxton, with plenty of drama and a bit of controversy with some chicane cutting!

Brands Hatch hosted the World GTs, that saw a huge crash and a McLaren in the trees!! But in the Needell vs Chris Harris bragging rights, team Barwell Tiff beat Garage 59 Harris.

Electric buggies in Greenland were highly entertaining, even with plenty of punctures and suspension damage, caused by the extremely challenging terrain. And delighted that again Cattie Munnings was our star of the show.

Over in America, NASCAR was complete mayhem at Daytona! The last 16 places are at stake and it’s all to play for!

Next weekend F1 goes to Max’s backyard at Zandvoort, WSB, BSB and plenty of Caterham’s at Croft!

Welcome to Episode 23 of the Lovecars On the Grid Podcast where Tiff Needell and Paul Woodman kick off this podcast with what is possibly the most well-known race in the World!

It is of course Le Mans, which was incredibly exciting! We all wanted number 7 to win, with British drive Mike Conway behind the wheel of the Toyota, alongside ex Formula 1 driver Kamui Kobayashi and Argentinian driver José María López. What did you think of the look of the Toyota?  

The LMP2 battle went right down to the last lap, with just 2.8 seconds between Team WRT and Team Jota for 1st place and nearly running over the chequered flag bearer!  

We were excited for the Glickenhaus cars out there for the first time with the 007 LMH, finishing in 4th and 5th place. It was a decorated race for British drivers too, with LMP2 3rd place for Will Stevens and 4th place for the all British LMP2 team, consisting of Paul Di Resta, Alex Lynn and Wayne Boyd.   

In the GTE Pro category, British driver, James Calado achieved first place in the Ferrari 488 GTE Evo with his fellow drivers, Alessandro Pier Guidi and Côme Ledogar. We had friends that came out of the race too sadly, with retirements from Ryan Cullen and Oli Webb, both have featured on our channel.  

The winning car had no less than 33 pit stops, covered a staggering 5,000KM over 1,440 minutes (24 hours)! Fingers crossed Paul and Tiff can attend next year! Who wants to join us?  

The DTM was at the Nurburgring this weekend and finally we have a win from ex Formula 1 driver, Alex Albon!  

In the two-wheeled World, the Superbikes were in Navarra, Spain this weekend, with Turkish rider, Toprak Razgatlioglu winning the race on his Yamaha, now equalling championship points with British rider, Jonathan Rea on his Kawasaki. The British Superbikes were at Cadwell Park, with a win for Peter Hickman on the BMW and Jason O'Halloran on the Yamaha.   

Over the pond in America, Indycar was won by American driver Josef Newgarden, closely followed by Mexican driver, Pato O'Ward in second. Just three races to go in this series, who will win?  

NASCAR was in Michigan, at the FireKeepers Casino 400 race and a brilliantly quick last few laps! Kyle Larson and William Byron were challenging for the lead, but Ryan Blaney managed to take it in the Ford #12. The next race is the last round of the 'play-offs', with the top 16 drivers going through.   

Coming up, we have the Formula 1 in Spa to look forward to, supported by Formula 3 and W Series, where anything could happen! The Lewis Hamilton vs. Max Verstappen battle will continue! Who will win the Formula 1 championship?  BTCC will be at Thruxton, whilst Tiff will be at Silverstone to watch Valentino Rossi's last race, at the British Moto GP! The electric beach buggies, otherwise known at Extreme E, are in Greenland this weekend!