The Pad-Hoc

After the spicy reactions from George Russell and Valtteri Bottas at Imola, Lawrence was in the TV pen stirring the pot, while Chris remembers a smug Jos Verstappen before his son got promoted to Red Bull and Nate explains how he almost stopped Max shaking hands with Esteban Ocon in Brazil.

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Racing is finally back, so Lawrence gets to talk about being trackside in a deckchair drinking beer, Nate remembers the wrong season-opener from 2010 and Chris tries to slow down the Yuki Tsunoda hype train, but they're all on it really.

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What else could we talk about this week? Murray Walker was an absolute legend in the world of Formula 1 and beyond. So Lawrence, Chris and Nate share their memories and stories of times they met Murray and the impact he had, after he passed away at the weekend at the age of 97. Thanks for being our soundtrack to F1, Murray.

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Someone rated us two stars, and this episode doesn't go any way towards rectifying that. Nate turns into Lawrence Stroll, Chris wants you to feel sorry for him because a hypothetical chance to drive some sports cars was missed, and Lawrence says his favourite car launch was the only one that wasn't a car launch.

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After the McLaren launch, Lawrence remembers the time an F1 team's unveiling meant he got too hot in a greenhouse, Nate got scarred by a massive beard when seeing a new livery, and Chris laughed at Franz Tost. With money no object, there are also some pretty impressive launch plans put in place if we had our own teams.

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One of those three is actually happening, but the other two we'd love to see. Grosjean's move to IndyCar gets everyone thinking what we'd like to see other F1 drivers have a go in, and there's also stories of Juan Pablo Montoya sitting on a plastic table in Texas and Esteban Ocon being a gatecrasher. Plus, Nate definitely says 'Bat-hurst'.

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Lawrence reminisces about his planned F1 team with a very dodgy name, Nate recalls the time he pretty much missed everything at Indy, and Chris goes through all your driver line-up choices. Plus there is some original, free marketing advice for Nick Cassidy.

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Nate tries to reinvent the podcast with some music chat but fails, so eventually there's talk about Lewis Hamilton's knighthood, when and where the F1 season will start and who on the current grid would make for a good driver pundit after they stop driving.

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Nate has an inappropriate joke, Chris sort of sings a Christmas song sent in from a listener, and Lawrence actually gets this back on track with F1-related stories and content. The final episode of 2020 even goes as far as throwing in some bold predictions for 2021.

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It happened, so Lawrence gets used to life without any hair on his head, and Nate and Chris both admit things could have been much worse. There's a bit of reminiscing about life in F1 in 2020, plans for a Christmas special and confirmation of an extra bit of pain for all three thanks to the awesome generosity from everyone raising £5,000.

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