The Pad-Hoc

Nate finds a new favourite sport that he's never seen, Lawrence tries desperately to explain his outrageous footwear in Russia, and Chris risks the wrath of residents of both Colchester and Sochi (and gets interrupted by his intercom AGAIN). Plus there's the time Elvis met Elvis at a Rugby World Cup game ahead of the Japanese Grand Prix.

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Nate explains a joke, Chris makes a joke and Lawrence is a joke. But that's not all. After coming up with the concept for a future award-winning documentary series, all three recall their first races going to cover F1, cool moments they wish they had a personal photographer and discover Nate once thought his big break was having a tweet published by Lawrence on the BBC live text page.

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You'd think the recent run of F1 races would make life really tough for those on the road, but instead Lawrence lets slip that the F1 TV crew spent most of their time coming up with stupid nicknames and identifying the world's best crisp. Nate reveals what ESPN really stands for, and Chris is also there.

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Spa to Monza is usually a chance for a road trip, but it took a little while to get on topic... Chris recalls some interesting background television while recording a different podcast a few years ago, Nate reveals his Italian nan can't make a good F1 engine and Lawrence just totally loses the plot. But there is an insider scoop about a potential controversy brewing regarding Cyril Abiteboul's tattoo.

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It turns out Spa-Francorchamps has been the scene of LOTS of hangovers, with Claire Williams usually the catalyst. But people in F1 have been hungover in other places too, including Russia, where a Renault press officer was late to work ahead of a race for the only time in ten years because they didn't heed Alexander Rossi's words of wisdom...

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Nico Hulkenberg doesn't seem to like Nate and once gave Lawrence a 15-second answer that included no words, while Kimi Raikkonen successfully scared Chris into thinking that he might have a son. All of that, some talk about Aeros and the origins of one of F1 Twitter's finest GIFs.

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It's a completely normal thing to wonder when you've left the keys on the floor next to the car in a car park in Barcelona, or somehow gone one better and LEFT THE CAR RUNNING for an entire day at Spa-Francorchamps. Plus there's an unexpected revelation from Lawrence that he goes to the same car wash as a former F1 team principal...

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In the middle of back-to-back F1 races at Silverstone, the guys recall times they laughed at Crofty spinning, blocked in Bernie's motorhome and stayed with an "interesting" AirBNB couple...

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Lawrence Barretto, Chris Medland and a much better-sounding Nate Saunders talk about what it was like getting back to covering F1 races when the 2020 season finally started in Austria in July, with three very different vantage points...

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Lawrence Barretto, Chris Medland and Nate Saunders start talking about F1-related travel woes ahead of the 2020 season restart, before Nate invested in a decent microphone...

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