And finally, to wrap up out ultra-block of episodes: IndyCar at Gateway for the Bommarito 500, and in shocking news - Josef Newgarden, even on one good leg, is still fast enough to keep his status as the best Oval Racer in the world.

It was a race of unpredictability and adaptability. We had multiple cautions for crashes, such as Alex Palou and Nolan Siegel combining, with Siegel coming off the worst of it, Graham Rahal off at Turn 4 too. We had multiple rain showers across the race that led to red flags, and a mighty strategic screw up for Chip Ganassi Racing that led to Scott Dixon taking emergency service and Alex Palou losing 2 laps due to running out of fuel on pit road. Disasater for the reigning Champion.

At the front, a fight between three men in IndyCar crossroads - Josef Newgarden, still waiting for a new contract for 2027, and hanging around 6th in points, below his usual high standards. Christian Rasmussen, getting a new contract design on paper, an awful season where he's barely in the leader's circle. And Marcus Ericsson, who faces a fight to keep his job at Andretti Global. What will happen in the future for a talented podium that needs results?

And Dre has to poor some cold water on Myles Rowe's Indy NXT comeback of the Gods as he went from 24th to the win. All that on another Motorsport101!

Episode 3 of the big ol' block of Podcasts, as RJ swaps out for Cameron Buckley and Dre sits down to review the 2026 Hungarian Grand Prix for MotoGP and uh-oh... Marc Marquez might be back here. 

It was a dominant second weekend back from injury for the Ant Man, who had a perfect weekend of 37 points to take not only his 100th Grand Prix win, but also the 100th victory for the Factory Ducati squad. The gang discuss how Pedro Acosta became Marquez's main threat for victory, and despite a hard fight, how Marquez survived Acosta's assault. 

But the weekend will also be just as well known for Jorge Martin's horrifying crash at Turn 1, where he lost control into the corner and wiped out himself, Marco Bezzecchi, Raul Fernandez, Fabio di Giannantonio and Fermin Aldeguer. It leaves Marquez 72 points back with 13 races to go in the season. Just like that, is Aprilia vulnerable again? 

Also discussed, how this is seemingly the end of Balaton Park as a MotoGP venue as the sport moves back to Aragon for 2027, and some of the new rules coming in for the season, such as the Concorde agreement and only having one bike on the grid for Friday sessions. Keep it locked in, on Motorsport101!

Part 2 of our mega catch-up omnibus edition of the M101 Podcast, and in it, RJ sticks around with Dre and reviews F1's Monaco Grand Prix. 

And with it, yet more history as Kimi Antonelli would take his fifth win in a row, a Grand Slam victory on the streets of Monaco, the youngest driver ever to score a race win, from pole, scoring the fastest lap of the race, and leading every single lap in the process. A dominant, crushing win that extended his Championship lead to 66 points. Is this title fight already over?

Behind him? Chaos. The Ferrari's fighting amongst themselves for supremacy as Charles Leclerc suffers what seemed to be a brake failure as he clattered into the wall at Anthony Nogues. We had 6 different speeding in the pitlane penalties as well as a right to review for Alpine due to drivers cutting the pitlane exit? Why? Because Pierre Gasly had a podium finish slip through his hands, We had George Russell take a Drive Through Penalty for Mercedes' total incompetence in the pitlane themselves, and the small matter of Max Verstappen's race ending via an engine failure on the first lap.

All that and more into the FIA's new ADUO programme, on another Motorsport101!

It's one of the most wide open Le Mans in recent years, and we don't know how the ACO has sized everyone up, welcome to our Le Mans 24 Hours Preview for 2026 with Dre Harrison hosting alongside Daily Sportscar's own RJ O'Connell.

It's a comprehensive nearly 100 minute preview featuring chat about the LMGT3 class, and who could take glory there, as well as a lengthy reaction to the ACO now banning public discourse about the Balance of Performance rules that dictate manufacteurs in the series. Will BMW and Corvette fight again? Can Ferrari give Dre a rare class win in the prediction stakes as Lilou Wadoux attempts to make history?

How about the stacked LMP2 class, with Doriane Pin heading back to Le Mans after F1 Academy success? Where will Porsche factory drivers Kevin Estre and Julien Andlauer end up? And will Inter Europol and Panis Racing collide again?

And finally, a comprehensive look at every factory runner in the field's Hypercar class as 18 cars battle for win, as Alpine says goodbye, we say hello to Genesis and ponder whether this is the last attempt of the era for Toyota Racing's core. Is Ferrari playing the sandbag game again?

IndyCar's morning after the night before as Dre Harrison and RJ O'Connell review their Streets of Detroit round, with a bonus bit of chat about IMSA's Detroit Sprint Race the day before.

Given Detroit is their home ground, it was a rough day for Chevy as Alex Palou took his third pole position in a row, and despite some swings and roundabouts for strategy, held off Kyle Kirkwood at the end of the race to take his fourth win of 2026, and extending his Championship lead to 62 points. But how we got there involved another tough set of crashes for ECR, Santino Ferrucci in the wars again, and more clumsy driving around a really unforgiving layout.

Also included, a deep dive on IndyCar's new caution rules being put to the test, how a more in jured Josef Newgarden than we thought was actively claiming to be benched for the race, and some industrial sized beef between former teammates Scott McLaughlin and Will Power, that somehow wasn't penalised. Where did Dre put that beehive?

It's the moment we'd all been waiting for in the 2026 title battle - BEEF between the leading men at Mercedes as F1 headed to Montreal for the Canadian Grand Prix. 

And what a moment it was, Kimi tries to hang it around the outside of Russell in the Sprint Race, and Russell runs Kimi over the Turn 2 grass to keep his place for the win. And this begins the awkward conversations about racecraft, rules of engagement and how Mercedes drivers want to race each other. 

Antonelli won the battle mind you, with Russell's battery failure in the GP meaning he now sits 43 points behind Antonelli in the Championship. Is Russell already in severe trouble?

Also discussed in an ice cold GP - Lewis Hamilton's best weekend in red as he finished P2 ahead of Max Verstappen's Red Bull, Hadjar picking up 40 seconds of penalties and still finishing 5th, and Franco Colapinto's best result for Alpine too. All that and more on another M101!

A tough week for us all in Motorsport. Sadly, the same night we completed our Indy 500 Preview Podcast, we got the devastating news that NASCAR's winningest driver Kyle Busch had suddenly passed away due to complications from Sepsis at the age of just 41. It was a sombre weekend with heartbreaking tributes to him across Motorsport. The boys too pay tribute to an incredible legacy and a driver who understood that racing was about telling a story.

Then they review the 110th Indy 500 as Felix Rosenqvist took advantage of a changing weather schedule, a bold startegy, some monster fuel saving, and a brilliant final showdown with teammate Marcus Armstrong and David Malukas to take ultimate glory in what was the closest and maybe greatest Indy 500 of them all. 

And back-to-back days with a Podcast, huzzah! Dre, Cam and RJ are joined by Frontstretch.com's Christopher DeHarde to talk about the 110th Running of the Indy 500 tomorrow, the story so far, and preview the grid before the world's biggest race.

It was a dramatic week of prep for quali in a different way - With Bump Day not on the table due to exactly 33 entrants, we had a change of format, with an extra elimination round for Sunday as only Positions 1-9 being locked into the Fast 12, and an extra elimination round for positons 10-15. But with rain destroying Saturday's running, we went to single-run eliminations and a standard Fast 12 and 6 round.

It looked like Felixz Rosenqvist had Qualifying in the bag, but a poor final run opened the door for a trimmed-out Alex Palou to take his second Indy 500 pole position and a $100,000 bonus. 

And on top of that - Alex Rossi, Pato O'Ward and Romain Grosjean had a huge crash on Monday practice, with Rossi breaking his ankle, but still racing on Sunday. The gang break it all down here!

A chilling edition of the Motorsport101 podcast as Dre, RJ and Cam review a MotoGP weekend in Barcelona that had two enormous red flag crashes. During the race, Alex Marquez crashed into the back of Pedro Acosta's KTM as it was cutting out. His bike veers violently towards the wall and Marquez falls out, breaking his clavicle and M7 vertebrae, he'll be out for at least the next two races.

After the race restarted, Johann Zarco locks a brake going into Turn 1, but gets his leg trapped in the frame of Pecco Bagnaia's Ducati, tearing several ligaments in his knee, his meniscus and breaking the bottom of his fibula. He'll be back in France for at least a fortnight before surgery on his leg to repair the damage. Eventually, Fabio di Giannantonio won, but at what cost?

The trio ask the difficult questions. We ponder if KTM should have been allowed back onto the grid after several mechanical problems with their bikes. Should the race have restarted at all with the mood so sour and riders clearly conflicted about wanting to race again. And does Barcelona need more Safety Changes after another horrible accident there? Time for a reprofile of Turn 1? Does Turn 12 need more runoff after Jorge Martin suffered a potential concussion, only to then crash five more times across the weekend? And finally, does the sport need a riders union? 

All that and more on an emotionally loaded Motorsport101.

Warning: Racial topics are discussed in this episode that you may find upsetting. Look after yourselves.

IndyCar had their Sonsio Grand Prix at the Indy Road Course this time last week, and all hell broke loose over a controversial incident early on in the race, when Alex Rossi's car dies on the home straight with cars coming through at 170mph, while the series delayed a caution while the leaders chose whether or not to pit, and confusion when even the broadcast wasn't sure if it was a Full Course Yellow. Rossi put the series on blast over a hybrid unit failing to work, and the danger of the situation.

It led to a grieving of issues that Dre, RJ and Cam have had with the series for sometime - Including the admittance that IndyCar have been making decisions based on flawed logic, and some of the marketing within the series after the Freedom 250 merchandise faux-pas and a rather touchy Meyer Shank livery, alongside elements of the FOX partnership.

It's not for the faint of heart, don't say we didn't warn you. Oh, and Christian Lundgaard won.