Red Mist Podcast

Welcome to our motorsports podcast where we discuss F1, IndyCar, IMSA, NASCAR, our own racing adventures, and some other adventures!

This past weekend didn't have much running but we recapped the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge, Moto GP, and NASCAR. IMSA IMPC had a really enjoyable 4 hour race from Mid Ohio. Plenty of support races as well that are all available on IMSA's Youtube channel if you'd like to go back and watch any of them. Moto GP was at Aragon which put on another show and Denny Hamlin eeked out a victory at Michigan in NASCAR.

It's a full plate of racing this weekend with F1 in Canada, IndyCar at Gateway, and the feature event of the weekend the 24 Hours du Le Mans for WEC. We give our picks and previews for the upcoming races as well as some news and notes surrounding each series.

Coming up this weekend: NASCAR is in Mexico, F1 in Canada, Indycar at Gateway, and WEC at Le Mans.

Welcome to our motorsports podcast where we discuss F1, IndyCar, IMSA, NASCAR, our own racing adventures, and some other adventures!

Maximum chaos happened this week and no it was not from NASCAR...well IMSA has a NASCAR tie now so I guess it still is. Anyways, a return to the streets of the very tight Detroit street circuit for IndyCar and IMSA where cautions certainly bred cautions. One incident took out the untouchable IndyCar and Indy 500 Champion, Alex Palou. The Indy 500 win curse continues at Detroit as another winner fails to go back to back the following race weekend. However, another repeat winner for the season as Kyle Kirkwood had the dominant pace this weekend.

Over in IMSA, a new BOP has been applied and even though the favored manufacturer won it was not easy. Last minute overtaking in the closing moments had to be done which gave an entertaining finish as Acura took the win in GTP. Ford won in GTD Pro.

Formula 1 went to Spain for their final race for now at Barcelona and it was spicy mainly due to the late Safety Car. We discuss the race in two parts and discuss the incident!

aaaaannnnndddd Blaney wins at Nashville for NASCAR.

Coming up this weekend: NASCAR is at Michigan, Supercars is at Perth, some of IMSA is at Mid Ohio, and MotoGP is at Aragon.

Welcome to our motorsports podcast where we discuss F1, IndyCar, IMSA, NASCAR, our own racing adventures, and some other adventures!

Lando wins Monaco after LeClerc and Ferrari give McLaren a good fight in qualifying. A mandatory two pit stop race didn't seem to change much except for the mid field a little bit. Otherwise, your fairly standard Monaco race and outcome. Onto Barcelona!

The Month of May has come to an end (almost) after the greatest spectacle in racing ended with none other than Alex Palou winning the Indy 500! This is not only Alex's first Indy 500 win but his first IndyCar win on any oval. This year is truly Palou's year and everyone is just along for the ride. Palou has won now 5 of 6 races with a 2nd place finish as his worst finish. A truly dominating performance so far this year and winning the Indy 500 is just a chef's kiss/cherry on top to what is coming to be Alex's 4th IndyCar Championship and 3rd in a row.

Chastain won in Charlotte for the Coke 600 and smashed another watermelon as he does after a win.

Coming up this weekend: NASCAR is at Nashville, IndyCar and IMSA head to Detroit, F1 is at Barcelona.

Welcome to our motorsports podcast where we discuss F1, IndyCar, IMSA, NASCAR, our own racing adventures, and some other adventures!

Franz Hermann, aka Max Verstappen, takes the win in Imola with a fantastic move around the outside of Oscar Piastri into T2 on lap 1 of the race! Max closes the gap to both McLaren drivers after Piastri had gone on a 3 race win streak. Although it was very controlled from the front, it was a good race with a few key moments for strategy to go good or bad for some. Two yellows (one VSC and the other a full SC) shook the field up and provided Ferrari an ample opportunity to make up some ground after a poor qualifying effort the day before.

IndyCar had it's qualifying days for the greatest spectacle in motorsports this past weekend where none other than Robert Schwartzman driving for Prema took the pole! This is the first time since 1983 that a rookie is starting on pole for the Indy 500. Congrats to Robert and Prema on a fantastic effort! Drama unfolded on the second day of qualifying where Penske was found to be in violation of the rules. They've subsequently had two of their three cars moved to the rear of the field and at the time of our recording of this episode we had not yet received the news that Penske has fired three top employees within the team to make a statement that this is being taken seriously after not just this incident but also from the Push to Pass incident last year as well. Too many mistakes costing the team valuable points in the championship and also leaving a poor stain on the organization.

Coming up this weekend: NASCAR is at Charlotte, IndyCar has the Indy 500, F1 is at Monaco.

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Palou does it again! RLL puts up a great qualifying performance for the Sonsio Grand Prix but Palou and Chip Ganassi put together another masterclass to get the win. That's 4 wins out of the 5 races so far this season and Palou's worst finish on the year is a 2nd place....WOW! Amazing season for him so far. Looking ahead to this upcoming weekend, Indycar has its qualifying session for the Indy 500. One entry will be BUMPED from the field on Sunday. Who will be the 33 competing for this year's Borg-Warner trophy?

IMSA and WEC raced this weekend as well at Laguna Seca and Spa respectively. Porsche and Ferrari may have won their respective races in convincing fashion but it was action packed, in a good way, with plenty of on track battles! Really worth a watch if you haven't seen the races. Some great stuff up and down the field. IMSA's next race is on the streets of Detroit and then after that it's Le Mans for WEC and some IMSA teams that were invited.

Larson dominates in NASCAR at Kansas.

Coming up this weekend: NASCAR is at North Wilkesboro, IndyCar has the Indy 500 Qualifying, F1 is at Imola, and Super Formula is at Autopolis.

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Piastri and Palou just keep winning in F1 and IndyCar. Dominant performances from the two of them in their respective races. Verstappen was able to put on a defensive show until the clock struck midnight as he was out of tires and then to make matters worse a Virtual Safety Car is deployed which put him back to 4th. Although Palou ran away at Barber, the rest of the field had an exciting race that was interesting to watch from a strategic point of view. When to pit, how quick could guys get their tires warmed up, who could defend with cold tires the best? It had some great lunges and passes that played into high risk, high reward scenarios.

Logano takes the win in NASCAR at Texas.

Coming up this weekend: NASCAR is at Kansas, IndyCar is racing at Barber, WEC at Spa, IMSA at Laguna Seca, MotoGP at Le Mans, and Supercars at Tasmania.

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In a shocking race, NASCAR goes with zero cautions in the final stage at Talladega of all places. Austin Cindric takes the win!

Not much else went on this past weekend other than some BTCC and MotoGP which we recap shortly. Kind of a quiet weekend.

Coming up this weekend: NASCAR is at Texas, F1 is in Miami, and IndyCar is racing at Barber.

Welcome to our motorsports podcast where we discuss F1, IndyCar, IMSA, NASCAR, our own racing adventures, and some other adventures!

Piastri goes back to back with a win in Jeddah to take the lead of the driver's championship in F1. The race essentially boiled down to a 5 second penalty given to Verstappen after a Turn 1 Lap 1 incident where Piastri runs Verstappen off the road in a situation where both drivers were going faster than they normally would be entering the corner.

WEC had a fantastic race in Imola where although Ferrari took the pole and won the race, in Hypercar, it wasn't with ease. Strategy after some ill-timed full course yellows mid-race led to a great race that tested driver's patience as Imola is a fast and tight track that can be very high risk with high reward if successfully pulled off. In GT3, Manthey Porsche won the race narrowly ahead of the WRT BMW. A great battle that came down to the last lap and almost the final two corners between Richard Lietz and Kelvin Van der Linde

Coming up this weekend: NASCAR is at Talladega

Welcome to our motorsports podcast where we discuss F1, IndyCar, IMSA, NASCAR, our own racing adventures, and some other adventures!

Piastri dominates Bahrain while Lando falls up short in qualifying where he makes a decent recovery but can't quite go for the win on Sunday. Great race from Haas as they score double points finishes. Gasly and Alpine have a great run as well.

Kyle Larson dominates at Bristol with Hamlin being the closest to him all day.

Porsche sweeps at Long Beach as they finish 1-2 in GTP and win in GTD as well. Penske Porsche has been unstoppable in these first three races. Which manufacture do you think will beat them?

Kyle Kirkwood takes the win at Long Beach for the IndyCar race where he is able to out pace Alex Palou. This was no easy task but Kyle put in a superb qualifying lap to take pole and had great pace during a caution-free race on the streets of Long Beach.

Coming up this weekend: F1 is in Saudi Arabia on the streets of Jeddah and WEC is at Imola.

Welcome to our motorsports podcast where we discuss F1, IndyCar, IMSA, NASCAR, our own racing adventures, and some other adventures!

Denny Hamlin goes back to back with race victories. Two weekends ago he did it at Martinsville and this past weekend he did it again at Darlington! Plenty of throwback liveries to look at as well this weekend as NASCAR has done well with promoting this weekend to remember the history of the sport and the teams.

F1 kicked of its first race of back to back to back race weeks in Japan where Max Verstappen reminded everyone just how good he is as he took his Red Bull and put it on pole and followed up with a race victory as well. After qualifying he noted that he almost lost the car about five times during the pole lap! We also have a discussion regarding comments about how processional F1's races have become of late and what we think would need to change.

We recap the European Le Mans race at Barcelona which was a great race to watch!

Coming up this weekend: NASCAR goes to Bristol, F1 is in Bahrain, IndyCar and IMSA are at Long Beach, and MotoGP is at Qatar. Packed weekend of racing!