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1. F1's Youngest Ever Champion: Lucky or Legend? | Mexico GP Review

   4 november 2026 · 49 min

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   20 years and 68 days. Kimi Antonelli is Formula One's youngest ever world champion. Lucky, or the start of a new era? Lees meer

   Robert Doornbos and Chris McHardy break down how he did it: 16 podiums in 19 races, a $15m Mercedes development programme, and a talent Robert says was built on "faith, not luck."

   Mexico had plenty more:

   🏎️ Max Verstappen wins from P5 for the first time in his career, and calls it "the toughest race ever to win"

   🔴 Charles Leclerc's Turn 4 move costs Ferrari a 1-2 and leaves Lewis Hamilton fuming. Immaturity or insecurity?

   💀 Aston Martin's start was so bad Chris thought it was AI

   🏆 Peter "Bono" Bonnington wins his 8th title as an engineer

   👋 Esteban Ocon is pulled from the weekend. Is this how his F1 career ends?

   💥 Robert remembers being Red Bull's crash test dummy: "valet parking, Turn 1"

   Who's the real GOAT? Drop it in the comments 👇 We're also giving away Abu Dhabi Grand Prix tickets to our commenters.

2. Kimi's Masterclass in Texas, Max Out of the Fight & Horner's Explosive Book | The Pit Talk

   27 oktober 2026 · 37 min

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   Kimi Antonelli is two points away from becoming Formula One's youngest-ever world champion, and Austin showed why. Lees meer

   Robert Doornbos and Chris McCarthy break down a dominant United States Grand Prix weekend for Kimi. He took his 8th pole, won for the 9th time this season and, as Toto Wolff put it, "outperformed the car." The Mercedes star now heads to Mexico needing just two points to seal the title.

   We also get into:

   🔥 Hadjar's radio meltdown. He asked what tyres were on his car, had an engine mapping glitch, and refused to move over for Max.

   🏎️ Max out of the title fight for the first time since 2020, plus his bromance with Kimi. Will he be partying with him in Mexico?

   ⚡ Leclerc's brave move past Verstappen, and who is really Ferrari's number one?

   💰 Toto's $2.7bn fortune and why he says only the Dallas Cowboys are a more profitable sports outfit than Mercedes.

   📖 Christian Horner's new book. He says Mercedes wouldn't have had it their own way this year with him still in charge, and there are new details from Abu Dhabi 2021.

   🧠 Youngest world champions quiz. Can Chris name the top five?

   Plus: Max's painkillers for COTA's bumps, Red Bull Powertrains coming full circle, and the road to Abu Dhabi.

3. MAX’S MASTERCLASS, LANDO’S FAULT & FERRARI CHAOS | Singapore GP Review |

   15 oktober 2026 · 44 min

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   MAX FINALLY CONQUERS SINGAPORE. 🏆 Pole, sprint win, pole AND the Grand Prix. Robert Doornbos calls it a masterclass, and it’s scary news for 2027. Lees meer

   Kimi Antonelli could be crowned in Austin and he didn’t even know it! 🤯 Lando cops the blame for the McLaren sprint crash and that journalist row. Ferrari throw it away again, and Robert names who’s at fault.

   Alonso is raging, Aston Martin are nowhere and we’re asking: where is Adrian Newey?

   Plus the radio that died on Max and GP, the FIA’s “human error” scandal and Robert’s 110 flights in one year.

   Chris McHardy and Robert Doornbos break down a wild Singapore weekend. 🎙️

4. THE WRONG FORMULA FOR F1 | Bahrain GP Review ft. Robert Doornbos | The Pit Talk Podcast

   6 oktober 2026 · 44 min

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   F1 hit CTRL+ALT+DELETE in Malaysia. 🚨 Lees meer

   The Bahrain Grand Prix, hosted at Sepang, served up a parade lap like nothing we've seen before. Cars ground to a halt one after another, a software glitch was blamed, the grid formed up in the pit lane and the start was delayed by two hours. Chris McHardy and former F1 driver Robert Doornbos ask the big question: has F1 got the wrong formula?

   Max finally wins. Red Bull's homemade engine beats Ferrari, Mercedes and Honda in its first year. And Max STILL wants the V8s back. 😳

   Also in the episode: Why are 2026 cars five seconds slower than 2017? Has George Russell given up? Who at Ferrari thought slicks were a good idea? Add Liam Lawson's rocket start, Lando's karma moment and a WRC champion who crashed two corners from glory, and it's one of our wildest weekends yet. 🔥

   Plus: Robert's homework to design the ultimate 20-corner F1 track, and a blindfolded hot lap challenge at Yas Marina. 👀

5. Azerbaijan GP: Ferrari's Communication Breakdown, Lando vs Argentina and Red Bull's Scoop

   29 september 2026 · 44 min

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   Ferrari are falling apart and Christian Horner is waiting. 🚨 Lees meer

   Chris McHardy and former F1 driver Robert Doornbos dissect a chaotic Azerbaijan Grand Prix. Lewis ignored on the safety car call, Charles letting slip the new engine, and Fred fighting for his job with Horner's shadow looming large.

   Lando upsets an entire nation after his Colapinto rant, George bounces back with a Grand Slam and a jaw-dropping 8/10ths pole, and Isack Hadjar returns with a podium that has Robert calling him the Alain Prost of this era.

   Plus an exclusive: Red Bull have stopped developing their 2026 car. What that means for the title fight, a tour of Milton Keynes, Max's 100-kart challenge, 2027's 10 sprints, and predictions for Malaysia.

   Recorded at Mille Miglia, Dubai.

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6. Madrid Was A Flop, Lando Was Too Fast, Kimi's Got The Title & Stroll's 9 DNFs | The Pit Talk

   17 september 2026 · 54 min

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   Monaco gave us ten overtakes this year. Madrid, a brand new circuit with a ten year deal and a World Champion as its ambassador, gave us four. Lees meer

   Robert Doornbos was there, and he is not sugarcoating it. An industrial estate 50 minutes outside the city, a build-up that promised Macau, Monaco and Jeddah rolled into one, and then a Sunday where nothing happened in F3, nothing happened in F2 and nothing happened in F1.

   Plus: Robert's five takeaways, why he is calling the title for Kimi Antonelli right now, how Lando Norris lost the race by going too fast, Carlos Sainz driving like a rookie in his own back yard, Lance Stroll's record laid out race by race, and the six foot four American F3 champion who steers with one hand.

   And Ollie Millroy joins us from his hospital bed in Shanghai for his first interview since the crash. Six broken ribs, a fractured vertebra and a rib through his lung, and he cannot remember a second of it. He talks about the Dutch driver who pulled him out of a burning car, the marshals who did not, and whether he wants to get back in.

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7. ANTONELLI WAS SCHUMACHER-ESQUE AT MONZA | Ferrari's Civil War & Russell's Uppercut | The Pit Talk Pod

   9 september 2026 · 56 min

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   Nineteenth on the grid. First at the flag. At the Temple of Speed, in front of a Ferrari crowd, in a Mercedes. Lees meer

   Chris McHardy and former F1 driver Robert Doornbos break down the Italian Grand Prix, and Robert spotted something on the onboards that the broadcast never showed you. One driver used more of the circuit than anybody else all weekend.

   Plus: Charles Leclerc puts it in the wall at Parabolica again. George Russell gets beaten by a teammate who started 19th. Ferrari have no rules of engagement and it's tearing them apart. Robert reveals the real cost of reaching Formula 1 — and it's eight million dollars. The Jacques Villeneuve story. And the GT crash in China that should have killed a driver, and the rival who drove towards the fireball to pull him out.

   Madrid is next. Both of them have made the same prediction.

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8. WHAT'S REALLY IN AN F1 CONTRACT | Money, Small Print & Half a Billion | The Pit Talk Podcast

   27 augustus 2026 · 49 min

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   What does it cost to crash a Formula 1 car? Seventeen million dollars, if you do it properly. Fourteen of that is the engine alone. Lees meer

   Robert Doornbos takes the lid off the money in this one. What's really written into a driver contract — including the clause that said he had to stay within two tenths of David Coulthard, and the bonus he tried to renegotiate before his boss told him to name any number he liked, because he'd never collect it. He didn't.

   He also takes us back to the F1 that made the budget cap necessary: one power steering unit, two Minardis, and a coin flip to decide who went without.

   Plus Max signed to 2030 and what half a billion actually buys, whether Mercedes have simply run out of money, Ferrari's ego problem, and the argument the sport can't settle — Alonso is only the second man over 45 to score a point, and a 20-year-old is leading the championship. Which one is the better story?

   Robert Doornbos and Chris McHardy. The Pit Talk Podcast.

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9. Lift off for Lando, Ferrari’s ‘favourite’ & Max out of options

   28 juli 2026 · 54 min

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   Robert Doornbos drops the biggest call of the season so far — Max Verstappen’s options are gone, and Red Bull is the only door left open. Lees meer

   Lando Norris and McLaren are BACK, the new floor works, and the number one on the car suddenly looks earned again. Max produces the overtake of the year on Lewis Hamilton. Kimi Antonelli somehow finds the podium from nowhere and inches closer to a title he no longer needs to win races for. And Carlos Sainz? Nine blue flags. NINE.

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10. IS THIS EVEN FORMULA 1 ANYMORE? | Belgian GP

    21 juli 2026 · 49 min

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    The morning after the night before in Spa, and Kimi Antonelli’s made it SIX wins in ten races. But the real story? George Russell might be talking himself out of Mercedes. Lees meer

    Chris McHardy and ex-F1 driver Robert Doornbos break down the Belgian Grand Prix fallout: Toto Wolff’s brutal “half of it is on the driving” verdict, why Robert says George is “hanging on like a cat on the mirror,” and whether Kimi is genuinely the next Max Verstappen.

    Plus: the pole time that dropped 3.8 SECONDS on last year (“that’s F2, not F1”), Alonso and Aston’s absolute mess, the truth behind Max’s Red Bull future, Isack Hadjar’s P21-to-P6 masterclass, and Carlos Sainz’s radical plan to blow up the F1 format.

    Chris also revisits his own plan to supercharge F1, and it involves revolutionising qualifying. Robert’s onboard. Are you?

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