Graham and Luke return to review and discuss all 11 F1 teams' pre-season testing across Bahrain!

This week we talk:

• Aston Martin’s nightmare 2026 continues (6:18)
• McLaren consolidating their place among the front teams (29:30)
• Mercedes still sandbagging, Toto Wolff gets angry about fuel, compression ratio end in sight (36:34)
• Ferrari set pace at Bahrain, rotating rear wings, and optimism around Lewis Hamilton in 2026 (48:03)
• Red Bull’s conservative test; Hadjar’s less than ideal preparation amid early pressure…but more than ideal situation that he’s found himself in to begin with (58:35)
• Alpine and Haas still look like midfield leaders (79:20)
• Audi’s solid Bahrain outings (90:00)
• Racing Bulls’ big mileage (94:10)
• Williams’ good mileage, but concerns linger ahead of opening race (100:21)
• Cadillac’s preparations rumble on (105:41)
• F1 2026 general issues; super clipping, running engines at lower outputs, and starting procedures (110:15)
• Barcelona announced as rotation race with Spa; Turkey return imminent (125:09)

Graham and Luke return to review the first official test of 2026!

This week we talk:

• Unpacking the big storylines from the first Bahrain test, including Aston Martin’s disaster test (8:27)
• The latest on compression ratios…yawn; shifting perception towards Red Bull’s engine (29:08)
• The embarrassing F1 grid starting issues with the new 2026 regulations (41:17)
• Learning more about how these cars drive and senior driver’s perceptions of it: ‘Formula E on steroids’(53:42)
• How each team fared during the Bahrain test (75:00)
• Ranking the 2026 F1 liveries (95:09)

Graham and Luke return to talk all things F1 ahead of the first week of, official, preseason testing!

This week, we talk:

• Mercedes announce Joshua Durksen as development driver (5:05)
• Toto Wolff speaks out on other engine manufacturers’ complaints about, sigh, compression ratios; forgets his own bitching from 2022 (11:00)
• Red Bull reportedly allying with Honda, Audi, and Ferrari against Mercedes in compression ratio-feud; what happens now? (28:10)
• Williams launch aggressive new car (45:44)
• Newey reveals Aston are four months behind rivals; driver ambassador war (55:19)
• Ayao Komatsu’s intriguing Ocon comments as Haas sign Jack Doohan as reserve driver (64:34)
• A lookahead to a busy week: Cadillac, Aston Martin, and McLaren launches ahead of preseason testing at Bahrain, and who we’re watching with interest this week (82:44)

Firstly, apologies for the difference in sound this week! Graham is a little louder, but will be fixed for next week!

This week, we talk:

• The farce of F1 trying to hide its test (6:13)
• Mercedes’ near faultless test (10:50)
• Ferrari optimism (20:28)
• A somewhat underwhelming test for McLaren (27:32)
• A clean running, mostly, for new RBPT powertrains and Red Bull…aside from a Hadjar crash (36:03)
• Alluring Aston Martin (47:27)
• Pretty satisfactory tests for Haas, Alpine, and Racing Bulls (56:15)
• Cadillac finding their footing and contrasting Cadillac’s struggles compared to Audi’s (64:48)
• James Vowles faces the music for Williams not being able to make Barcelona test (80:48)
• Wrapping up thoughts from the Spain test (89:44)
• Audi officially announce Freddie Slater as a junior driver (92:33)
• More compression ratio meetings upcoming (97:30)
• Some Moto GP and Formula E thoughts (100:37)

Graham and Luke return to review the launches of five teams this week!

We talk about:

• Swirling rumours of the Bahrain test potentially not being televised (5:47)
• Launch Week 2 begins with a rebranded Haas, expectations for 2026 and the difficulty of life as a small, customer team (9:09)
• The Honda engine launch provides an interesting insight to the differences of these engines versus the previous era (28:27)
• Audi’s launch undercut by leaked car; lofty ambitions for 2030 (39:04)
• Mercedes lay down the gauntlet (53:44)
• Ferrari reveal their 2026 challenger (62:29)
• Alpine’s 2026 car livery and fortunes with Mercedes power; rumours of a Christian Horner buy-in (72:12)
• The latest on the compression ratio row, and Honda’s and Audi’s position on it (89:40)
• Dan Fallows joins Racing Bulls as new technical director (98:02)
• No more Aston Martin safety cars in 2026 (100:12)
• McLaren vs Palou verdict rendered (102:22)
• Some McLaren chatter including a different upgrade strategy (105:49)
• Looking ahead to the behind-closed-doors preseason test at Barcelona: Williams missing all of Barcelona test (110:50)

Graham and Luke return as F1 2026 launch season begins!

This week, we talk:

• Red Bull unveil new era, new livery, new partnership with Ford, Isack Hadjar’s expectations, and more from the launch (2:48)
• Lewis Hamilton to have a new race engineer in 2026 (31:54)
• Cadillac’s 2026 shakedown at Silverstone (35:05)
• A chat about Formula E at Meixico: Cassidy’s great win, Dan Ticktum’s amazing quotes (42:43) , and Nissan and Porsche’s future plans
• Other driver news including Jack Doohan and Alpine ending their association, Victor Martins’ new Williams role and Hypercar drive, McLaren make first 2027 Hypercar signing, and the American GOAT will drive for Ford in Hypercar 2027 (55:14)
• A sad situation unfolding at PREMA (62:37)
• Previewing a big week in F1 2026’s launch season (73:02)

If you fancy a laugh at Ticktum's comments:

https://www.racefans.net/2026/01/13/ticktum-describes-rivals-as-a-lickers-in-social-media-rant-over-deleted-comment/

Graham and Luke return to lookahead to a huge year in the world of F1!

This week we talk:

• Holiday catch-up (0:58)
• Taking stock of 2026 so far and what’s new in F1 in 2026 (8:05)
• F1 2026’s big talking point so fare: Engine compression ratios — what is it, who has pioneered it, what advantage does it provide, who is against it, and what F1 and the FIA are doing about it (21:34)
• Audi’s shakedown at Barcelona (51:47)
• Looking ahead to launch season for all 11 teams (58:13)
• News round-up, including Cadillac signing Zhou as reserve driver, the winter rumours surrounding GP’s future at Red Bull, and more (85:07)

Graham and Luke return to rank all 12 championship campaigns of the turbo-hybrid era from what we believe to be worst, to the best!

Graham and Luke return, and this time we're casting an eye back to the ground effect era, from 2022-2025. We rank all 10 F1 teams and what they achieved during the ground effect era!

Graham and Luke return to revisit our 2025 preseason predictions!

Before that, we talk:

• Potential engine loopholes already for 2026 (4:54)
• More changes ahead of 2026, including terminology, new driver numbers, and stewards decisioning (9:17)
• Portugal returns to the F1 calendar (19:06)
• Then, we revisit our 2025 preseason predictions: everything we got right and wrong, mostly wrong (24:01)
• Autosport top 50 of 2025, and our favourite motorsport moments of 2025 (113:26)