No racing of note this weekend, so instead we take a deep dive into the defunct A1 GP series, the so-called World Cup of Motorsport. Running for just 4 seasons from 2005-2009, we look at its foundation, format, competition, and eventual collapse. Along the way we run into a few familiar names at the start of their motorsport careers, and a few at the end. Finally we ask if something like it could happen today and if so who we’d like to see race.

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In the week before Halloween, we cover the Mexican GP in F1, where two marshals got a scare on track, race-control panicked with a late VSC, and Lando got some boos. An eventful race saw several drivers taking a wide radius by cutting the opening corners, Max getting his elbows out as usual, Lando being shoulders above the rest, Oscar not finding it humorous, and Ollie’s dad exercising his right to bear(man) arms. We also stop by the final race of the FRECA season, where future teammates inF3, Slater and de Palo, fight for the championship.

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F1 returns with a sprint weekend in Austin, Texas, where we again microdose the Papaya rules, as both McLarens crash out of the sprint. In the main race, we attempt to break the record for repeating the phrase “Lando can’t pass Charles” as Norris gets bogged down in red tape, allowing Max to escape into the distance. Luckily there are no Rosso or Rosé rules as Ferrari and Alpine gave us some feisty intra-team battles.

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After covering the actual Le Mans race earlier in the year, it’s only fair that we cover the 10hrs of racing at Road Atlanta that is the Petit Le Mans. It also helps that there wasn’t much else on this weekend. The race was enlivened by various ancient creatures, namely a Valkyrie and two dinosaurs, the #77 Rexy in GTD and Scott Dixon in GTP. The #99 Spike the Dragon is a dragon, and not a dinosaur obviously. It was also the final race of the IMSA season, so we got to see the championships decided, including in the GTD class, which was over after 1 lap. We also stop by the Saudi F4 championship, just in case one of the drivers makes it to F1 and we can say that we saw them first.

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This week's episode is dominated by two incidents of clipping, Lando clipping both Max and Oscar, and Peter’s microphone audio clipping (he apologizes). Yes, in an incident deficit race (partly due to the TV coverage deciding to skip the majority of overtakes) in Singapore, we are forced to once again discuss whether the Papaya Rules actually mean something. We also cover the penultimate race in F1 Academy and discuss whether competing this weekend has cost substitute driver Megan Bruce 50,000 euro. Finally we round up the action in GB4, GB3, and FRECA.

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In the week that Max enlightened everyone as to the joys of endurance racing, we cover the 6hrs of racing at the Fuji Speedway in WEC. After effectively ignoring most of WEC this season, we attempt to make up for this by giving the race in Japan our full attention. Sadly, this wasn’t enough to keep track of both Hypercar and LMGT3 for the whole race, but that might say more about us than WEC. We also cover Verstappen’s debut in GT3 racing at the Nürburgring Nordschleife and ask how impressed we should be by it all.

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This week we cover the record breaking F1 weekend in Azerbaijan. Sadly, the record breaking is for the sheer number of red flags in qualifying and not for better reasons. However it did make for an interesting starting grid and gave us the potential for a Carlodium or a Lawsodium. McLaren and their drivers seemingly crack under their own pressure, but thankfully papaya rules remain intact, as nobody at the team had a good weekend. In F2, Crawford moves into contention in the championship, Fornaroli attempts to get spicy, Dunne gets taken out again, and new boy Stenshorne tries to get in the mix but gets mechachromed. Finally we briefly discuss IMSA in Indianapolis where Logan Sargeant returned to motorsport.

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In a week without our favorite motorsport series, we cover the European Le Mans Series (ELMS) race at Silverstone, where it was difficult enough to keep track of all the LMP2, LMP3, and LMGT3 cars, even before 2 red flags completely changed things. Max brings 60k viewers to the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie youtube to watch him race the Nordschleife. However, it appeared that none of the 60k understood he’s in a detuned car and was just driving to get a permit. Lastly, we end with a quick quiz on F1 quotes, so listen to the end to find out who did Damon Hill call “a number two driver, with a number one mouth”?

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