Hello there, you’ve tuned in to the final episode of Post-F1 Paths, a mini series of seven short shows from Sidepodcast that looks at career options for drivers hanging up their F1 helmets. We’ve covered plenty of on and off track options so far, but today we’re looking at the drivers who decide they want a little bit more responsibility over a race weekend. Formula One stewarding has often been considered something of a black art. It’s not a role that has much love attached to it, given that an...
Dec 16, 2017•5 min
Hello and welcome to the latest mini series from Sidepodcast – Post-F1 Paths. Here we are assessing the options available to Formula One drivers when they are finally ready to hang up their helmets, or if they have been politely requested to do so by their teams. This is the penultimate show and today we are looking at a gig for a driver who wants to remain close to the sport on race weekends, but perhaps wants a more relaxing time of it. Many of the official F1 broadcasters have a template when...
Dec 15, 2017•5 min
Hello one and all, welcome to Post-F1 Paths, a mini series brought to you by Sidepodcast. This is the fifth episode of seven short shows in which we are travelling through the opportunities available to drivers once they have decided to give up Formula One in favour of something else. We’ve covered a handful of sporting achievements that drivers can aim for after F1, but this time we’re talking about using their fitness for other athletic purposes. Drivers opting to try their hand at athletics a...
Dec 14, 2017•5 min
Hello and welcome to episode four of Post-F1 Paths, the latest mini series from Sidepodcast that investigates what options are available to F1 drivers once they have decided to step out of the car. So far we’ve covered a few options for those wanting a clean break from F1 but now it’s time to go back to the paddock with a new challenge – being the boss. We haven’t seen it so much recently, but one of the options awaiting a driver when they decide it’s time to hang up those racing gloves is to be...
Dec 13, 2017•5 min
Hello there, welcome to Post-F1 Paths from Sidepodcast, a mini series of seven short shows looking at what options are available to drivers who hang up their F1 helmets and look for a career outside of the paddock. This is the third episode and today we’re talking about drivers who still need that thrill of the race, and so look to other motorsport series’. Formula One is considered the pinnacle of motorsport, just about, and particularly in recent years, drivers have to be at the peak of physic...
Dec 12, 2017•5 min
Hello friends and welcome to Post-F1 Paths, a mini series brought to you by Sidepodcast that tracks some of the options available to drivers once their career in Formula One is over – either by choice or not. Yesterday we talked about drivers who find it hard to cut ties with the sport, but today it’s a group that have turned their attentions to other endeavours – this is the entrepreneur. F1 drivers live life somewhat in a bubble. They work hard, train hard, drive hard, but spend almost all of ...
Dec 11, 2017•5 min
Hello, welcome to Sidepodcast, this is a brand new mini series called Post-F1 Paths, I bet you can’t guess what it’s about! I’m your host, Christine, and I’ll be guiding you through seven short shows taking a look at what drivers choose to do once they’ve decided, or it is decided for them, that their time in F1 is over. This first episode is based on something we’ve seen happen a lot in 2017. What to do when you retire from F1? Come straight back, of course! Retiring from Formula One isn’t an e...
Dec 10, 2017•5 min
Welcome to It Only Takes E Minute, where Formula E welcomes back a familiar track to the season lineup. There's been a hole in the Formula E calendar since Brazil unfortunately had to withdraw from hosting duties in March next year, and now the barely kept secret of Uruguay stepping up to fill that gap has been confirmed. The Punta del Este track will take up hosting duties of the sixth round of the 2017/18 season on 17th March, as agreed by the FIA's World Motor Sport Council today. It's still ...
Dec 06, 2017•1 min
This is It Only Takes E-Minute, where Audi have gone back and read the rule book properly. Daniel Abt crossed the finish line first for the second race of the Hong Kong double header, but his victory was snatched away from him when the FIA disqualified the driver. The reason for the DQ was an issue with the barcodes on the car not matching with the FIA's technical passport. Audi originally stated their intention to appeal this decision, hoping to re-instate Abt's victory and keep the trophy that...
Dec 06, 2017•1 min
On this show, we discuss our thoughts from a frantic first weekend of Formula E this season, what the sport can do better against what we absolutely loved, and the surprising findings of a contact sport. We start off pondering how we managed to skip a couple of seasons of the fast-growing motorsport, placing the blame firmly at one particular door, and then talk about how it's easy to learn something when you're telling other people about it. Talk moves on to the packed weekend of action, the am...
Dec 03, 2017•29 min
Welcome to It Only Takes E Minute, where the racing is dominated by spins in the opening and closing laps. Felix Rosenqvist earned himself pole position for the second race in Hong Kong, but the Mahindra driver spun on the first lap and dropped himself down to 11th place. That was after a safety car start, where the cars trawled around for one lap due to a failure of the starting lights. The action got going, but wasn't as frantic as yesterday's race thanks to the extra laps and fuel saving requ...
Dec 03, 2017•1 min
Welcome to It Only Takes E Minute, where a red flag delay isn't enough to dampen a great race. Jean-Éric Vergne had pole position for the first round of the 2017/18 Formula E season, but he lost out to Sam Bird after an early red flag period halted the race. The front runners got through the first few corners cleanly but at the back, Lotterer hit the barriers and caused a four-car traffic jam as the others couldn't get past. A lengthy red flag period followed as the FIA cleared the track and the...
Dec 02, 2017•1 min
You're listening to It Only Takes E Minute, where we celebrate the brilliant mascot that is Bibendum. Much of the focus of Formula E tyre supplier Michelin is on season five of the sport, as they are set to introduce tyres for the brand new next-generation cars. In the meantime, though, they have agreed to extend their partnership with the sport until the end of the 2021 season, bringing their total tenure up to six years. The challenge Formula E presents to Michelin isn't to be underestimated -...
Dec 01, 2017•1 min
This is It Only Takes E Minute, in which Formula E signs a partnership to keep the coolest safety car in motorsport. Formula E and BMW have agreed an extension to their partnership which has been in existence since the sport began, with the German manufacturer supplying the official vehicles. That's the safety and medical car to you and me, and it's a good looking one. The BMW i is a fully electric car, naturally, and the i8 provides safety car duties whilst the i3 is the smaller medical car. Th...
Dec 01, 2017•1 min
Welcome to It Only Takes E Minute, where I'll introduce you to the members of a brand new supergroup. In an effort to continually assess the impact on the planet, Formula E founder Alejandro Agag has put together a new global advisory board to consider and provide advice on various subjects including business and media, plus emissions, electric vehicles and sustainability. The group will be led by Christiana Figueres, who created the Paris climate agreement, and Alain Prost, long time racer and ...
Nov 27, 2017•1 min
Welcome to It Only Takes E Minute, where Kamui Kobayashi has been signed up to race the season opener in Hong Kong. Former F1 racer Kamui Kobayashi will join the Andretti team for the first round of this year’s Formula E championship, lining up alongside Antonio Felix da Costa. He’s not expected to run the full season, but a one off appearance should be great for the driver, the team and of course, the fans. Kobayashi has driven for Toyota and Sauber in Formula One, but has more recently been ba...
Nov 16, 2017•1 min
You're listening to It Only Takes E Minute, and we briefly have to touch upon politics amid Brexit concerns. CEO of Formula E, Alejandro Agag, has warned that he may be forced to take the sport out of the UK overnight if the Brexit deal isn't satisfactory in terms of tax and employment clauses. He said: "We have a lot of expats that work in the company, and a lot of our contracts come from the European Union in terms of sponsorship, so if there is not a deal in terms of tax and employment, we wi...
Nov 16, 2017•1 min
This is It Only Takes E Minute – keeping you up to date with the FIA’s electric racing series, Formula E. Today, Formula E organisers launched their new partnership with global fashion designer HUGO BOSS, ahead of the upcoming season that kicks off in Hong Kong in December. HUGO BOSS are sponsoring the sport with trackside banners, and will stick their logo on Formula E staff uniforms, as well as the demo car itself. CEO of Formula E, Alejandro Agag, who posed in a natty suit to celebrate the la...
Nov 13, 2017•1 min
Coming up on this show, we discuss three part rage, another change of attitude and several surprising top threes. It was a packed race so naturally we have a packed podcast full of discussion about the top three on the podium in Baku, and many of the events that allowed them to get there. We talk about Vettel and Hamilton's incident, the merits of Lance Stroll being near the top and Jolyon Palmer being at the bottom, as well as the woes of Sauber and Force India. There's also time for a discussi...
Jun 25, 2017•31 min
Following the feedback we received after our last show, we have attempted to rectify the situation by getting the experts in to talk all about the Indy 500. If you've never seen any IndyCar racing before, like at least one half of the Sidepodcast pair, then pay attention as Pat and Lukeh guide us all through what to expect over the next couple of days. From Fernando Alonso's motivation to his performance so far, we cover the triple crown of motorsport, the accident suffered by Sébastien Bourdais...
May 26, 2017•40 min
Hello and welcome to a new mini series from Sidepodcast, The Great Debates. Formula One is surrounded by endless discussion, speculation, rumour and opinions, but there are some subjects that are more deep rooted than others, some that go right to the heart of what makes F1 the spectacle that it is today – for good, or for bad. This series, we aim to investigate some of those debates and whilst not definitively answering the questions, at least making sure they are asked. These shows were origin...
May 01, 2017•29 min
Hello there, F1 friends, and welcome to The Great Debates, the latest mini series from Sidepodcast. The intention here is to shine a light on topics that cause conversation amongst everyone involved in F1, always have done and likely always will do. We have covered six topics in our journey so far and now we’re on to our seventh and final debate, and it’s a big one. There are two specific things about Formula One that, when combined, make it both wonderful and unique – the jam-packed history of ...
Apr 27, 2017•4 min
This is The Great Debates, a mini series by Sidepodcast, and you’re listening to the sixth of seven episodes. In this series we’re looking at some of the topics that are endlessly debated, usually with no definitive answer and that’s good because I’m not looking to provide answers, just shed light on the conversation. Yesterday was all about circuits and today we’re continuing that theme but moving to a different aspect of the F1 calendar. The length of an F1 season has changed drastically over ...
Apr 26, 2017•5 min
Hello and welcome to the fifth episode of The Great Debates, a mini series brought to you by Sidepodcast in search of the reasons behind some of the endlessly discussed topics. In this series, we’re not looking for answers – these are debates that almost have no answer – but instead highlighting the subjects that most F1 fans have some kind of opinion on. We’ve covered races, drivers and teams and now it’s time to look at another aspect of the F1 circus. The powers that govern Formula One and de...
Apr 25, 2017•6 min
Hello there, you’ve tuned in to an episode of The Great Debates, a mini series from Sidepodcast discussing some of those Formula One topics that just never seem to disappear. We’ve talked about specific format arguments, as well as fundamental sporting discussions and now it’s time to move on to a new conversation, the ongoing debate about safety. Formula One’s impressive improvements in safety are on display almost every race weekend, as drivers walk away from crashes that would have been disas...
Apr 24, 2017•5 min
Welcome to The Great Debates, a mini series brought to you by Sidepodcast, focusing on some of the hot topics that surround Formula One that may or may not ever be solved. This is the third episode of our series and we’re moving on to another debate that gets the fans talking. We’ve covered already the specifics of qualifying, and a more fundamental area of the sport, and this is another of the latter category. Let’s get going! Formula One has a championship that features trophies for the team a...
Apr 23, 2017•5 min
Hello there, welcome to The Great Debates, a mini series brought to you by Sidepodcast. This is the second episode where we will delve into one of the great mysteries of Formula One – not to find answers, but simply to ponder all sides of an ongoing argument. Yesterday, we looked at a fundamental building block of the sport itself, today, we’re focusing in on a specific part of the race weekend. The age old saying in Formula One is that there are no points for qualifying on a Saturday. And yet, ...
Apr 22, 2017•5 min
Hello and welcome to a new mini series from Sidepodcast, The Great Debates. Formula One is surrounded by endless discussion, speculation, rumour and opinions, but there are some subjects that are more deep rooted than others, some that go right to the heart of what makes F1 the spectacle that it is today – for good, or for bad. This series, we aim to investigate some of those debates and whilst not definitively answering the questions, at least making sure they are asked. This first episode star...
Apr 21, 2017•5 min
On this show, we talk about Alonso's big news regarding a stint in the Indy 500, and the reaction from fellow drivers and team bosses about this decision. We ponder how McLaren will get on in Monaco without him, even with the return of the super fit but slightly rusty Jenson Button. We discuss Zak Brown's influence on the team, coming at life as he does from a commercial background, and ask whether you would sponsor McLaren, given their current circumstances. We discuss Mr C's about turn in whet...
Apr 15, 2017•22 min
