Formula Curious

In which I discuss some of the latest driver ranking CONTROVERSY and naturally add some thoughts of my own.

Hello! This podcast was prompted by the ongoing murmurs that Renault is about to sell Alpine. It's based on an article from formulacurious.substack.com that was previously behind a paywall --but now isn't!I discuss the history between Red Bull Racing, by which I mostly mean Christian Horner, and Renault. With snark and facts.

Fresh from my self imposed mode slow, recharge on time, I present to you my thoughts from the 2025 Zandvoort Grand Prix weekend, or Zand-thoughts, with some other bits I've missed talking about lately.Other things include: Valtteri Bottas' moustache, Valtteri's arse, and a wild prediction on McLaren next year.

I've been having a bit of a time lately, so this is both a Belgian GP review and Hungarian GP prediction type chat. I say "review" but I mostly talk about the stuff I think others have missed.I'm around on the socials, if you're interested in that type of thing;Bluesky: @formulacurious.bsky.social‬Mastodon: @formulacurious@me.dmAnd, intermittently, Instagram: @FormulaCuriousThe sound quality isn't the best in this episode, I know, I was just impatient to get this out because it was already way later than I wanted.

A belated set of predictions! This episode is a bit late because I was having a bit of day, and needed some help with the editing. Check out how wrong I can be? Who did I curse already?That writing I keep referring to can be found at: medium.com/@FormulaCuriousFormulaCurious.substack.comButtondown.com/FormulaCuriousWant to tell me something? Email me: podcast@formulacurious.com

This is an annotated reading from an article I wrote in 2024 shortly after the Horner allegations broke. (Article via Substack and via Medium)I mention a video in response to the "this is a baseless dig" crowd, it's here.If you're the reviewing type, please rate and review this podcast where you can. You can get in touch with me about the podcast: podcast@formulacurious.com

Going for the fashionable question, where's Max gonna go now that Christian Horner isn't around? Or, just maybe, is it time to set him free?This episode is based on a post I wrote recently via Substack, via Medium, and Buttondown.If you're enjoying Formula Curious, please rate and review the podcast wherever you can. You can email me your comments via podcast@formulacurious.com :)

Some collated post-race thoughts, in which I discuss the lack of accuracy in my predictions for the British GP.

Some quick predictions for the British GP 2025, produced in a single afternoon as a challenge to myself, because I tend to record episodes and never do anything with them.I refer to some predictions for the year at some point, this a post I wrote on Substack back in March. You can get in touch with me/tell me how much you adored this: podcast@formulacurious.com

Hello!This is a reading from an older article from 2024; https://formulacurious.substack.com/p/austria-is-not-australia?r=2kp71p

There's been some chat around the F1 world lately, so I want to gather some of it up, and then dissect it for your listening pleasure. There's driver chat, team principal politics, FIA presidency chat, and Lego cars. Oh, and the McLaren tyre water!Suggested viewing: https://youtu.be/pdxiNBwxYxU (it's the Lego car race from their GoPros)

This was originally published as a paywalled article in September 2024. I’m unpaywalling it now because a lot of what I’m talking about here is still valid.At the time the team was going through a performance slump. The team kind of still is going through a performance slump, except now they’ve figured out the PR spin.You can view the article, i.e transcript, here Background image from Jiawei Zhao via Unsplash. Get full access to Formula Curious at formulacurious.substack.com/subscribe

Hi, I discovered a poem and wanted to share it. It isn’t a Formula 1 poem, but there’s an overlap.Disclaimer: in the recording I imply the FIA were being racist; I don’t know whether they were or not. A better way of phrasing this is to say they were “potentially being racist.”With that being said, there’s no prizes for guessing Lewis Hamilton is discussed in this episode. Get full access to Formula Curious at formulacurious.substack.com/subscribe

Hello! Here's a podcast because I'm cool.I recorded this on the Monday after the Singapore Grand Prix, before we knew that Danny Ric had lost his seat.I asked Chat GPT a question about Daniel Ricciardo and discussed the answers with myself, like a totally normal person.Articles I talk about:The Checo situation: https://formulacurious.substack.com/p/checo-oh-checoDaniel Ricciardo and the promotion that wasn’t: https://formulacurious.substack.com/p/daniel-ricciardo-and-the-promotionThe Red Bull merry-go-round: https://medium.com/@formulacurious/the-red-bull-racing-merry-go-round-494851497583Semi related: Do you need help unburdening yourself from someone else's baggage? Here's somewhere you can start looking for a therapist.https://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/ (UK site)https://www.psychologytoday.com (US link, but has local sites for different countries)Thanks for listening!If you like this kind of content, please tell me so I can feel smug for a moment, and tell a friend. I would like to dance for more eyeballs, please.Take care of yourselves! Get full access to Formula Curious at formulacurious.substack.com/subscribe