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"The Mountain Climbers" | F1 2026 Season Preview

Christian Horner doesn't hold back. In this candid, wide-ranging season preview, the Red Bull Racing team principal breaks down every championship contender heading into 2026 — and he's refreshingly honest, even when the truth stings.

Mercedes looked untouchable in Melbourne. Ferrari has Hamilton and Leclerc and two decades of heartbreak to erase. McLaren are defending back-to-back titles heading into a clean-slate regulation reset. And Red Bull? Their own man admits they're currently the fourth-fastest car on the grid.

From the silver arrows' return to form, to Ferrari's eternal question of finally or famously not quite, to the midfield stories that quietly decide championships — Horner covers it all with the authority of someone who's been winning in this paddock since 2005.

This is one of the sharpest, most entertaining takes on the 2026 season you'll hear. Pull up a seat.

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Is This Finally Fernando Alonso's Last Season? | The Retirement Question, Revisited

After twenty years of watching Fernando Alonso up close — on pit walls, in press conferences, and in the quiet corners of the paddock where Formula One's real conversations happen — our host thought he knew exactly what to expect from the two-time world champion. Now, for the first time, he isn't so sure.

In this episode, he makes the case that the Alonso retirement question is more complicated than it has ever been. He takes us back to the 2005 and 2006 title wins, the near-miss of 2012, the four gruelling years of mid-grid humiliation that should have broken any normal competitor, and the remarkable return that silenced every sceptic in the paddock. And he asks: what does it actually take to walk away when you still believe you can win?

From the physical reality of racing at 43, to the tension between a driver who thrives on ambiguity and a team that desperately needs certainty, to the third championship dream that has never quite died — this is an honest, clear-eyed portrait of one of motorsport's greatest and most stubborn competitors.

Running time: approx. 35 min

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🎙️ THE SAND AND THE CIRCUITFormula 1, the Middle East, and the Race Nobody Planned For

Episode Description

When missiles started falling across the Gulf, Formula 1 had more than race weekends to worry about.

In this episode, we step inside the mind of one of motorsport's most outspoken and commercially razor-sharp figures — Red Bull Racing's Christian Horner — to dissect the most serious geopolitical crisis the sport has ever faced. Because this isn't just about whether the Bahrain Grand Prix goes ahead in April. This is about the financial architecture that the modern Formula 1 empire was built on, and what happens when the ground beneath it starts to shake.

Four Middle Eastern countries. Four grands prix. Saudi Aramco's name on the barriers. Gulf sovereign wealth funds owning pieces of McLaren, Aston Martin, and the incoming Audi team. Hundreds of millions of dollars in hosting fees flowing through the sport every single year. It took twenty years to build this relationship between Formula 1 and the Gulf — and it took one week of conflict to throw all of it into question.

We ask the uncomfortable questions the paddock is asking quietly in Melbourne right now: Can the Bahrain and Saudi Arabian races be saved? Where does F1 go if they can't? What does the future look like for a sport that bet big — and bet smart, for a long time — on Middle Eastern money and ambition? And is this the crisis that finally forces Formula 1 to confront its own vulnerability?

Pull up a chair. The race briefing is about to begin.