Lovecars On the Grid. Global Motorsport Podcast

Welcome to Episode 20 of the Lovecars On the Grid Podcast, the global motorsport roundup, where we have a jam packed week of motorsport!  Sadly, we start with a tragedy at Brands Hatch. 

A member of the Orange Army, the marshall team at Brands Hatch sadly lost their life this weekend. Our thoughts go out to their family and friends. We couldn't go racing without the Orange Army, many of whom are volunteers and the loss of one of them is real loss.   

Onto Formula 1, we had an action packed Grand Prix in Hungary, with a crash from Valtteri Bottas, with a win for young driver Estaban Ocon with Alpine, a second place disqualification for Sebastian Vettel, and Lewis Hamilton making a recovery from last place! What did you think of Fernando Alonso's defending of Lewis Hamilton?  

Supporting the F1 in Hungary was both Formula 3 and W Series, with some spectacular supporting races! Following the sprint races in Formula 3, Norwegian driver, Dennis Hauger took the win. In W Series, it was another great show for British drivers, with Jamie Chadwick and Alice Powell taking 1st and 2nd place at the Hungaroring.   

We also had the 24 hour race at Spa with the GT racing! With a real mix of weather and some horrendous crashes, and fantastic speeds over Eau Rouge! An exciting end to the race with the Ferrari overtaking the Audi and winning!  

The BTCC was back in the UK! This weekend was at Oulton Park, with lots of crashes from the Minis, touring cars and Ginetta Juniors and some great wheel to wheel racing! Elsewhere at Thruxton, we had the Superbikes with a very close race!  

Tiff was also racing at the Silverstone Classic this weekend, with five races but no wins! 5th overall and a very good results considering the weather and still managed to do some presenting too!  

Coming up next week, we have a 3 week gap for the Formula 1, but still lots going on, with the Styrian Moto GP and World Superbikes, along with Indycar and NASCAR over the pond!

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Welcome to Episode 19 of the Lovecars On the Grid Podcast, the global motorsport roundup, where this week seems to have been somewhat a quieter week of motorsport!   

Speaking of quiet, we start off with Formula E, with a strange weekend, but two British driver's Winning at the Excel centre and plenty of car coming together! Towards the end of the final race, we even got a pace car and some controversy from Audi! Next race will be the final race of the year in Berlin on August 14th.  

Elsewhere, the GT cars were racing at the Lausitzring in Germany and another win for a British driver, this time being Philip Ellis and Mercedes' first win since 2018!  The British GT Championship was at Spa, where there were a few start line shunts, but Machitski / Lind and Brown / Marshall still managed to take the Wins. Of course, it's the big weekend for GT cars coming up, with the Spa 24 hour race approaching!  

Coming up this week, the Hungarian Formula 1 is back, which is usually an exciting race and the Max and Lewis battle continues, we look forward to the first corner. Which driver is your favourite? 

There's also Formula 3 and W Series to look forward to in Hungary.   

In the Superbikes, we had a sad weekend. 14-year old Spanish rider, Hugo Millán was tragically killed following coming off his bike and being struck by another rider. Our thoughts go out to his family and friends. British Rider, Brad Jones was also sadly taken to hospital following an accident at Brands Hatch.   

Coming up next weekend, we of course have the already mentioned Formula 1, Formula 3, W Series and Spa 24 hours, but Tiff is also racing at the Silverstone Classic in some fantastic car. Tiff will also be doing some of the commentary alongside Nicki Shields. 

Can Tiff get podiums on all six of his races? Tune in next week to find out! or DTM and Spa for British.

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Think you know what we'll be discussing after an action packed Grand Prix at Silverstone. Tiff and Paul also cover World Sportscar and World Rally rounds last weekend, plus some WRC with year old Kalle Rovenpera in Estonia, WEC in Monza, where Toyota win again but not without worries.

But first up it’s F1 at Silverstone and who was to blame for the huge crash between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen. Do yopu think the stewards got it right, giving Lewis a 10 second penalty? Or was Max let off? Let us know in the comments below!

Also, what do you think of the new format? Friday qualifying, Saturday Sprint race and then of course the main event.

Not forgetting the F2 supporting, W Series and the GT race.


Next week, not a lot coming up. Formula E at London Exel, British GT at Spa and

British Superbikes at Brands.

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Welcome to Episode 17 of the Lovecars On the Grid Podcast, the global motorsport roundup, after a weekend when worldwide action was a bit thin on the ground!

Sadly the Toronto Indycar we fancied got called off due to Covid, so the only single seater action was Formula E from New York, with a brilliant performance by Britains Sam Bird.

The only other international racing the WTC in Spain, but back home in Blighty there was plenty of action with the British GT at Donington, Historic Legends at Brands Hatch and British Superbikes from Knockhill but the place to be was surely the Goodwood Festival of Speed

Good to see the WTC was supported by Pure ETCR with our very own Oli Webb driving.

WTC was a bit of a front wheel drive anti-climax for Tiff, with wins for Audi and Hyundai – but 10 laps for a World series - surly it needs to be more!

NASCAR boys did 260 laps at Atlanta with the Bush brothers putting on a great show.

This weekend of course the British Grand Prix at Silverstone which includes the first ever Sprint race, and perhaps some news from Mercedes-AMG that a certain George Russel may be joining the team for 2022?

Lots of brilliant support with W Series and F2, plus WEC at Monza, WRC in Estonia and NASCAR in New Hampshire.

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Welcome to Episode 16 of Lovecars On The Grid podcast, the global motorsport roundup, where this week we cover the Caterham Academy round at Silverstone, World Superbikes, Indycar and much more!  

This weekend, the Caterham Academy was at the home of British Formula 1, Silverstone! Another controversy with our own Paul Woodman, following using dry tyres for the qualifying, the Lovecars car qualified 19th, then having got up to 4th place, was he innocently taken out in the race? Full video to come soon!  

At the Austrian Grand Prix, Max Verstappen is starting to run away from Lewis Hamilton in the points, but it's still Red Bull vs. Mercedes! Who will walk away with the Championship this year? Lando Norris and Sergio Perez receive penalties, but were they right to be given? 

Did you know a Formula car is as long and as wide as a Rolls Royce Phantom?!  

In the W Series, British racing driver Jamie Chadwick took the podium having dominated the race, with British drivers taking all three podium places. 

In Formula 3, Tiff seems to prefer the feature race as opposed to the sprint race!  

No MotoGP this week, but the Superbikes were at Donington Park! The usual British domination of Superbikes that we're used to over the years is now under attack from Turkish rider, Toprak Razgatlioglu, who beat Jonathan Rea and Alex Lowes to 1st place.  

This week, Indycar was at mid-Ohio, one of the few tracks with very few overtakes. 

Unfortunately no joy for the two British drivers during this race, but Josef Newgarden finally got a well deserved win!  

NASCAR were at road America, for the first time in many years. Overtakes were few, but plenty of action nonetheless, with team mates colliding and an interesting reversing manoeuvre from Kyle Bush.  

Next week, we have no Formula 1 or MotoGP sadly. The only European race we can see is the British GT at Donington Park. Most of the action is in America, with NASCAR in Atlanta. Indycar is heading to the streets of Toronto and Formula E is in New York!  

Chapters: 

00:19 - Intro  
00:32 - Caterham Academy
05:21 - Austrian Grand Prix
10:04 - W Series
10:56 - Formula 3
13:41 - Superbikes
14:52 - Indycar  
16:15 - NASCAR
22:12 - Next weekend

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Welcome to Episode 15 of Lovecars On The Grid, the global motorsport roundup, where this week we cover the Styrian Grand Prix, NASCAR, British GT and BTCC!  

Tiff was at the London Classic Car Show, hosting the talk stage and commentating on the classic cars on parade!   

The Styrian Grand Prix, where Red Bull and Mercedes roles have been reversed this week, with the battle between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen continuing. A very interesting pit stop from Valtteri Bottas too!  

The W Series had its first race in Austria, with 5 British ladies racing and 4 of which finished in the top 5 and even a safety car. Of course, we are #TeamVicky!  

Elsewhere, the WRC has returned to Kenya for the first time in 14 years with some safari style action, and rough and tough terrain to rip suspension!  

The Moto GP was entertaining as always, with the shock news that Vinales will quit for the 2022 season and Yamaha have accepted his resignation. Valentino Rossi had a crash in such a high speed corner!  

In NASCAR, number 5, Larson was one corner from breaking the record and winning 5 NASCAR races in a row! Sadly the tyre blew and put him in the wall, however he was still able to finish 9th, what a race!  

The BTCC was at Brands Hatch Indy track, a really hard track to overtake, meaning that Tom Oliphant who qualified on pole ended up finishing the first race in 1st place too, with plenty of action happening in the other races.  

Next week, there's a very exciting race for the Caterham Academy, as the drivers go to Silverstone! There's also the Formula 1 Austrian Grand Prix, another W Series race and Indycar is at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course and NASCAR is at Road America!  

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Welcome to Episode 14 of Lovecars On the Grid, the global motorsport roundup, where this week is a very special one, as we announce the Winner of our Caterham caption competition from Facebook!  

Also in this week's roundup, we cover the French Grand Prix and the continued battles between Red Bull's Max Verstappen and Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton after another exciting race!  

We have more frantic action from the MotoGP at the Sachsenring in Germany, with a dominant win from Mark Marques, making it 11 wins in a row at this track, which is unbelievable!  

In GT3 cars, Lamborghini and Mercedes took some wins in Zandvoort, whilst the GT3 DTM made it's debut at Monza. Alexander Albon didn't have the best of weekends in his new career either!   

Oli Webb also took part in the new, all electric Pure ETC championship, which was at Vallelunga this weekend in Italy. Then we have Indycar at Road America and NASCAR in Nashville!  

Next weekend, we have the Styrian Grand Prix to look forward to, the season opener for the WSeries, the MotoGP goes to Holland, plus we have the BTCC at the Brands Hatch Indy Circuit! Plenty to talk about next week, make sure you tune in, and of course, if there's anything else you'd like to see, be sure to let us know in the comments!

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Welcome to Episode 13 of Lovecars On the Grid the global motorsport roundup, where this week we kick off with the Caterham Academy Championship as it heads to Knockhill, Scotland - that saw our man Paul Woodman have a huge crash in race number 2.

Also in this weeks roundup, Tiff Needell makes it look easy with 5 podiums from 5 races from a weekend at his home track of Thruxton, though he did have the most unlucky second place of his 50 year racing career!

The BTCC guys head to Snetterton for some wheel to wheel action, plus WEC, that ended up being a bit of a Toyota procession, and a disappointing debut for team Glickenhaus.

Over the pond awesome Indycar racing, which seems to be an extremely popular debate on Twitter! And guess who won the million dollar NASCAR all-star race in Texas?

Next week French we have F1 back at Paul Ricard, with F3 supporting. MotoGP from Sachsunring in Germany, Indycar from Road America, NASCAR in Nashville, and Formula E from Puebla in middle of Mexico.

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Welcome to Episode 12 of Lovecars On the Grid the global motorsport roundup, where this week we kick off with the Formula 1 in Baku for a Grand Prix full of drama, that had Ferrari on pole and went on to see huge crashes for both Lance Armstrong and Max Verstappen, with a rare mistake from Lewis Hamilton, leading to the most unlikely of podiums you’ll probably ever see!

In F2 we discuss what to do with Dan Ticktum, was his ranting and raving really necessary? Was he hard done by from the stewards, or should he take his medicine and just get on with it? Plus a far more lighthearted and fun Alice Powell doing a couple of ‘Murrays’!

WRC was in Italy and it probably wasn’t the most exciting racing you’ll ever see! But what car they do to spice things up?

But in terms of excitement, MotoGP was as dramatic as ever – and a surprise winner!

Over at Nurburgring World Touring, but with only 3 lap races?? Plus the highly coveted 24 Hour race that was blighted by terrible weather!

And over the pond NASCAR was once again dominated by that man in Number 5.

Next weekend there’s a break from F1, but we have Indycar on Belle Isle, Detroit, where Tiff has raced before, WEC in Portugal with Glickenhaus debut, plus the return of the BTCC, oh, and of course our very own Tiff Needell at Thruxton and Paul Woodman in the Caterham Academy at Knockhill!

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Welcome to Episode 11 of Lovecars On the Grid the global motorsport roundup, where this week we start with the awful news that 19 year old Moto3 rider Jason Dupasquier succumbed to his injuries after an accident in qualifying. We pay our respects to this young man who's life was tragically taken too soon. 

In terms of the race itself, the Grand Prix being at Mugello was a slipstream dream! The early season sensation Pedro Acosta only managed 8th one spot behind Britain’s John McPhee.

Moto2 didn't go well for Sam Lowes, with a big crash. Brit Jake Dixon went from 22nd to 14th.

MotoGP dominated by Fabio Quartararo – again starting a year winning but will form last?

It was sad to see Valentino Rossi at his home track struggling from 19th to 10th. Do you think the Doctor should hand up his helmet and racing boots?

the Brits keep winning in Superbikes, with some Turkish pressure in Estoril.

A huge event with Indy 500 over Memorial Weekend with Helio’s 4th win at the grand old age of 46!

NASCAR – was a fairly dull 600 mile race, but won by the Needell favorite, Kyle Larson!!

Extreme E – beach buggies kicking up the sand with the Ocean Prix. Did this get your pulse revving? Or cold soup? 

And Tiff Needell had 3 races at the Brands Historic which we discuss and see how he got on!

Next weekend – F1 and F2 in Baku, WRC ion Italy, MotoGP Barcelona, NASCAR back on road course.

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