Paddock 43: An F1 Podcast

George Russell deserves his flowers for Baku. Max made him work for the win, Isack Hadjar returned with a podium, and Oscar Piastri’s race unravelled at Turn 1. But I don’t think you need another lap-by-lap recap from me.
This week, I’m getting into Franco Colapinto’s crash with Pierre Gasly and Lando Norris. Was a five-place grid drop really enough, and why were there no penalty points for that collision? Then there’s what happened online afterwards: the abuse, the threats, and how invested some F1 fans have become in drivers they don’t actually know.
I’m also talking Esteban Ocon’s future at Haas, Hadjar’s 2027 Red Bull deal, and my take on the Australian Grand Prix ticket backlash. Yes, the Brabham membership is expensive. No, you do not need a membership to go to the race.
And for my green flag: Jamie Chadwick finally driving a Williams F1 car, why I initially questioned the choice, and why I changed my mind.
Tell me what you think Franco’s penalty should have been — and whether the F1 fandom is getting a little too intense.

🏁 Welcome to Paddock 43 – The Formula 1 Podcast That Keeps It Real!



🏎️💨If you love F1 drama, race breakdowns, driver gossip, and unfiltered opinions, you’re in the right place! Paddock 43 is your go-to podcast for everything happening on and off the track



.🚥 What You’ll Get Every Week:

✅ Race Recaps & Analysis – Who dominated, who bottled it, and what it means for the championship.

✅ Breaking F1 News & Rumours – Driver transfers, team drama, FIA chaos—nothing’s off-limits.

✅ F1 Lifestyle & Behind-the-Scenes – From team principals to race engineers, we break it all down.

✅ Hot Takes & Debate Segments – lets get controversial



Unlike other F1 podcasts, we bring the energy, the humour, and the unfiltered takes—just like chatting F1 with your best mates.



Subscribe & Never Miss an Episode!



🔔💬 Join the Paddock 43 Community:

📲 Follow us on Instagram (@paddock43podcast) & TikTok (@Paddock43Podcast) for BTS, F1 Memes, Live Q&As, and Breaking News Updates.🎤 Got a question or F1 hot take? Drop it in the comments—we might feature it in the next episode!🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & YouTube – Hit that follow button so you never miss a race-week recap!🏁 Welcome to Paddock 43—where F1 meets the fans. Let’s race!



🏎️💨@ellebaillieu

Andy Harriss has run track safety on the F1 movie, Top Gear, Mission Impossible, No Time To Die, Napoleon and more, and worked directly with Max Verstappen, Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton along the way.
In this episode we go deep on what it actually takes to keep an F1 set, a live street show, or a Top Gear stunt safe when everything is moving at 200mph. Andy tells the story of Vettel covering for an absent Hamilton on live TV, being overtaken by Lando Norris on an ice lake in Norway, briefing Verstappen one on one before a stunt, and the moment Michael Schumacher was unmasked as The Stig.
We also get into his honest take on the 2025 F1 season, the McLaren title fight, and his next project: the Isle of Man TT movie, produced by Brad Pitt and starring Channing Tatum.
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#F1 #FormulaOne #TopGear #AndyHarriss #F1Movie #Verstappen #BradPitt #Motorsport

🏁 Welcome to Paddock 43 – The Formula 1 Podcast That Keeps It Real!



🏎️💨If you love F1 drama, race breakdowns, driver gossip, and unfiltered opinions, you’re in the right place! Paddock 43 is your go-to podcast for everything happening on and off the track



.🚥 What You’ll Get Every Week:

✅ Race Recaps & Analysis – Who dominated, who bottled it, and what it means for the championship.

✅ Breaking F1 News & Rumours – Driver transfers, team drama, FIA chaos—nothing’s off-limits.

✅ F1 Lifestyle & Behind-the-Scenes – From team principals to race engineers, we break it all down.

✅ Hot Takes & Debate Segments – lets get controversial



Unlike other F1 podcasts, we bring the energy, the humour, and the unfiltered takes—just like chatting F1 with your best mates.



Subscribe & Never Miss an Episode!



🔔💬 Join the Paddock 43 Community:

📲 Follow us on Instagram (@paddock43podcast) & TikTok (@Paddock43Podcast) for BTS, F1 Memes, Live Q&As, and Breaking News Updates.🎤 Got a question or F1 hot take? Drop it in the comments—we might feature it in the next episode!🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & YouTube – Hit that follow button so you never miss a race-week recap!🏁 Welcome to Paddock 43—where F1 meets the fans. Let’s race!



🏎️💨@ellebaillieu

Kimi Antonelli has won Formula One’s first race at the Madring—but should it have been Lando Norris’s victory?
Kimi now has an incredible eight wins from his first 38 F1 starts, surpassing George Russell’s seven wins. But after producing one of the best qualifying laps of his career, Lando controlled the Spanish Grand Prix until a badly timed Virtual Safety Car and a seven-second pit stop changed everything.
In this episode of Paddock 43, Elle breaks down:
• Why Lando’s Madrid pole lap was so impressive
• How the Virtual Safety Car handed Kimi the advantage
• Why overtaking was almost impossible at the Madring
• The 46 deleted lap times during FP2
• Lance Stroll’s disastrous 2026 season
• Whether the circuit was genuinely ready
• The reported theft of 300 metres of electrical cable
• Fernando Alonso’s uncertain Aston Martin future
• The latest information surrounding the 2027 F1 calendar
• Wimbledon, influencers and who deserves access to major sporting events
Plus, Elle shares a personal update about working with GM, off-roading in Tasmania and booking a trip to the Singapore Grand Prix.
Do you think Lando deserved to win? And does the Madring need major changes before Formula One returns?
Subscribe to Paddock 43 and join the conversation below.
#F1 #MadridGP #Paddock43

🏁 Welcome to Paddock 43 – The Formula 1 Podcast That Keeps It Real!



🏎️💨If you love F1 drama, race breakdowns, driver gossip, and unfiltered opinions, you’re in the right place! Paddock 43 is your go-to podcast for everything happening on and off the track



.🚥 What You’ll Get Every Week:

✅ Race Recaps & Analysis – Who dominated, who bottled it, and what it means for the championship.

✅ Breaking F1 News & Rumours – Driver transfers, team drama, FIA chaos—nothing’s off-limits.

✅ F1 Lifestyle & Behind-the-Scenes – From team principals to race engineers, we break it all down.

✅ Hot Takes & Debate Segments – lets get controversial



Unlike other F1 podcasts, we bring the energy, the humour, and the unfiltered takes—just like chatting F1 with your best mates.



Subscribe & Never Miss an Episode!



🔔💬 Join the Paddock 43 Community:

📲 Follow us on Instagram (@paddock43podcast) & TikTok (@Paddock43Podcast) for BTS, F1 Memes, Live Q&As, and Breaking News Updates.🎤 Got a question or F1 hot take? Drop it in the comments—we might feature it in the next episode!🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & YouTube – Hit that follow button so you never miss a race-week recap!🏁 Welcome to Paddock 43—where F1 meets the fans. Let’s race!



🏎️💨@ellebaillieu

Eat your pasta, you will drive fasta. 🇮🇹
The 2026 Italian Grand Prix gave us one of the wildest weekends of the F1 season, with Kimi Antonelli charging from P19 to win his home Grand Prix at Monza and becoming the first Italian driver to win the Italian GP in 60 years.
Elle is solo this week to unpack everything that happened at the Temple of Speed: Pierre Gasly's incredible maiden pole for Alpine, how the Monza tow actually works, Charles Leclerc's huge Parabolica crash and the eerie similarities to 2020, Mercedes' strategy and the battle between Kimi and George Russell, Max Verstappen's return to the podium and McLaren's difficult weekend.
Plus, Sebastian Vettel gets behind the wheel of Michael Schumacher's Ferrari, Lando Norris becomes a team boss with LN4 Fusion, Aston Martin has a weekend to forget, and we look at what Monza means for the 2026 F1 World Championship.
Eat pasta. Drive fasta. Welcome to Monza.

🏁 Welcome to Paddock 43 – The Formula 1 Podcast That Keeps It Real!



🏎️💨If you love F1 drama, race breakdowns, driver gossip, and unfiltered opinions, you’re in the right place! Paddock 43 is your go-to podcast for everything happening on and off the track



.🚥 What You’ll Get Every Week:

✅ Race Recaps & Analysis – Who dominated, who bottled it, and what it means for the championship.

✅ Breaking F1 News & Rumours – Driver transfers, team drama, FIA chaos—nothing’s off-limits.

✅ F1 Lifestyle & Behind-the-Scenes – From team principals to race engineers, we break it all down.

✅ Hot Takes & Debate Segments – lets get controversial



Unlike other F1 podcasts, we bring the energy, the humour, and the unfiltered takes—just like chatting F1 with your best mates.



Subscribe & Never Miss an Episode!



🔔💬 Join the Paddock 43 Community:

📲 Follow us on Instagram (@paddock43podcast) & TikTok (@Paddock43Podcast) for BTS, F1 Memes, Live Q&As, and Breaking News Updates.🎤 Got a question or F1 hot take? Drop it in the comments—we might feature it in the next episode!🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & YouTube – Hit that follow button so you never miss a race-week recap!🏁 Welcome to Paddock 43—where F1 meets the fans. Let’s race!



🏎️💨@ellebaillieu

This week, Elle is joined by two legends from very different corners of Formula 1: F1 commentator Cameron Van Den Dungen and FIA Formula 1 Medical Car driver and former Supercars driver Karl Reindler.

Cam and Karl are also long-time friends, former neighbours and former radio co-hosts, so this episode quickly turns into story time. We hear how Cam went from racing to calling Formula 1 and working on the pilot of Drive to Survive, while Karl shares stories from his career and life inside the F1 paddock.

We get their honest opinions on the season, sprint races, Oscar Piastri’s future, Daniel Ricciardo’s decision to leave Red Bull, Liam Lawson, Max Verstappen, George Russell, Lance Stroll and whether Formula 1 is losing the integrity of the racing while trying to entertain a new audience.

We also have an important conversation about women in motorsport, why so many talented girls leave during the transition from karting to cars and why it has been far too long since Formula 1 had a female driver.

Then it’s game time: Cam and Karl go head-to-head to discover who really knows their F1 drivers better.

🏁 Welcome to Paddock 43 – The Formula 1 Podcast That Keeps It Real!



🏎️💨If you love F1 drama, race breakdowns, driver gossip, and unfiltered opinions, you’re in the right place! Paddock 43 is your go-to podcast for everything happening on and off the track



.🚥 What You’ll Get Every Week:

✅ Race Recaps & Analysis – Who dominated, who bottled it, and what it means for the championship.

✅ Breaking F1 News & Rumours – Driver transfers, team drama, FIA chaos—nothing’s off-limits.

✅ F1 Lifestyle & Behind-the-Scenes – From team principals to race engineers, we break it all down.

✅ Hot Takes & Debate Segments – lets get controversial



Unlike other F1 podcasts, we bring the energy, the humour, and the unfiltered takes—just like chatting F1 with your best mates.



Subscribe & Never Miss an Episode!



🔔💬 Join the Paddock 43 Community:

📲 Follow us on Instagram (@paddock43podcast) & TikTok (@Paddock43Podcast) for BTS, F1 Memes, Live Q&As, and Breaking News Updates.🎤 Got a question or F1 hot take? Drop it in the comments—we might feature it in the next episode!🎧 Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & YouTube – Hit that follow button so you never miss a race-week recap!🏁 Welcome to Paddock 43—where F1 meets the fans. Let’s race!



🏎️💨@ellebaillieu