2 Guys, A Girl, and F1 Podcast

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  Race Review | 2026 Azerbaijan Grand Prix | 201 | Not a Seat, Not a Date, Not Even Baku: Who Gets to Stay in Formula 1? 01.10.2026 1t 9min

  George Russell held off Max Verstappen all the way to the flag at the 2026 Azerbaijan Grand Prix. One mistake took out both Alpines and reigning world champion Lando Norris, and left a question hanging over the driver who made it. With Dick out for this one, Sabrina and Joe Saward spend this race review on the question underneath it all: in Formula 1, who actually gets to keep their place? Racing Bulls has three drivers and two seats. Haas is reshaping its lineup. And Christian Horner's name ...
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  Interview | Dick and Sabrina by Joe Saward | 200 | What Actually Makes Someone Worth Trusting About Formula 1? 29.09.2026 48min

  For nearly a year, Joe Saward has been the one answering the questions on this show. In this episode, the format flips. Joe has covered close to seven hundred Formula 1 races over almost four decades, independent of any team or media company. Dick and Sabrina have a fraction of that experience between them. So Joe used this conversation to ask them directly why that gap matters less than people assume. In this episode, Joe turns his credibility around and spends the whole conversation asking ...
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  F1 General | 2026 Rebroadcast | How to Convince Your Friends to Become F1 Fans | 199 | Can You Actually Argue Someone Into Becoming an F1 Fan? 24.09.2026 10min

  This is a rebroadcast from the earliest days of 2 Guys, A Girl, and F1. We've cleaned up the audio as best we could, but as independent creators, we were still learning as we went, and it shows a little. What doesn't show its age: the argument. Sabrina goes solo for this one, building a genuine legal-style case for why Formula 1 is worth watching, aimed squarely at the skeptics in your life. She works through the sport as chess rather than checkers, its geopolitical weight, the business-schoo...
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  F1 General | 2026 Rebroadcast | F1 101 | 198 | These Cars Generate So Much Downforce, They Could Theoretically Drive Upside Down 22.09.2026 55min

  This is a rebroadcast from the earliest days of 2 Guys, A Girl, and F1. We've cleaned up the audio as best we could, but as independent creators, we were still learning as we went, and it shows a little. What doesn't show its age: the fundamentals, even if a few of the driver names have moved on since. Consider this the syllabus. John and Dick take Sabrina, question by question, through everything a new fan actually needs to know: why it's called a "formula" at all, how a driver climbs from k...
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  Race Review | 2026 Spanish Grand Prix | 197 | Formula 1 Tried to Build a New Monaco in Madrid. Was Anyone Actually Convinced? 17.09.2026 1t 1min

  A brand-new Formula One circuit opened in Madrid this year, engineered, by more than one account, to evoke Monaco. Kimi Antonelli won the inaugural Spanish Grand Prix and called the result a little lucky himself. Lando Norris led much of the race before a virtual safety car, thrown four seconds after he had already committed past the pit entry, erased his advantage. The FIA later issued an explanation for the call. Joe Saward has a read on why that explanation existed at all. Dick, Joe, and S...
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  Interview | 2026 Rebroadcast | Sabrina's F1 Origin Story | 196 | She's Never Been to a Race, Never Driven a Track Day, and Somehow Ended Up Co-Hosting an F1 Podcast. How? 15.09.2026 1t 7min

  This is a rebroadcast from the earliest days of 2 Guys, A Girl, and F1. We've cleaned up the audio as best we could, but as independent creators, we were still learning as we went, and it shows a little. What doesn't show its age: the friendship, or the questions. Sabrina's best friend Rachel, and John's daughter, hosts this one, asking the questions Sabrina usually asks everyone else. They trace how a decade of friendship slowly turned into genuine obsession: what actually pulled her in (hin...
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  Race Review | 2026 Italian Grand Prix | 195 | The First Italian to Win at Monza in Sixty Years, and He Wasn't Driving a Ferrari 13.09.2026 49min

  Kimi Antonelli started nineteenth. He finished first. At Monza, in front of a crowd that has waited sixty years to see an Italian win their home Grand Prix, he did it in Mercedes silver. Dick, Joe Saward, and Sabrina spend nearly as much time on that moment as they do on the race itself, and on a detail buried underneath it: the person most responsible for developing Kimi into this driver just left Mercedes for Red Bull. Behind Kimi, Ferrari fell apart. A collision between teammates. A crash ...
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  Interview | 2026 Rebroadcast | Dick's F1 Origin Story | 194 | He Ran Out of Talent and Money at the Same Time. Thirty Years Later, He Went Back Anyway. 08.09.2026 47min

  This is a rebroadcast from the earliest days of 2 Guys, A Girl, and F1. We've cleaned up the audio as best we could, but as independent creators, we were still learning as we went, and it shows a little. What doesn't show its age: the story itself, or the shifter kart Dick's still racing today. Dick's Formula 1 obsession started the same way John's did: reading Rob Walker's race reports in Road & Track as a kid, with almost no way to actually watch the sport live. In this conversation, he...
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  F1 General | Joe Unplugged | 193 | What Do Parents Most Misjudge About Supporting a Young Racer? 04.09.2026 38min

  Listener Maria, a parent of a young racer, asked a question that resonates with anyone who's watched a young driver try to navigate this sport: how do you support your child, not just financially, but at every stage as they move up the ladder? Joe Saward draws on decades of watching young drivers come through the system, from parents who couldn't let go to a driver who quietly walked away from Formula 1 because he never wanted it in the first place. Dick brings his own experience coachi...
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  Interview | 2026 Rebroadcast | John's F1 Origin Story | 192 | He Was the Fastest Driver at a School That Built F1 Drivers. Why Didn't He Make It? 01.09.2026 52min

  This is a rebroadcast from the earliest days of 2 Guys, A Girl, and F1. We've cleaned up the audio as best we could, but as independent creators, we were still learning as we went, and it shows a little. What doesn't show its age: the story itself. You'll hear a familiar name today: John, who helped start this podcast from the very beginning. He had to step away from the show unexpectedly, for personal reasons outside his control, and we miss him. If you're new here, this conversation is one ...
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  Race Review | 2026 Dutch Grand Prix | 191 | Zandvoort Is Gone. Was Anyone Actually Ready to Say Goodbye? 27.08.2026 40min

  Formula 1 just left Zandvoort for the foreseeable future, and Dick and Joe Saward can't quite agree on how to feel about it. What starts as a normal breakdown of Lando Norris's tire gamble and Max Verstappen's home-race crash, and how Nico Hulkenberg avoided a spinning Gabriel Bortoleto in a cloud of smoke and dust, turns into something else entirely: a conversation that wanders through Zandvoort's atmosphere unlike anywhere else on the calendar, decades of paddock history, a few stories abou...
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  Race Review | 2026 Hungarian Grand Prix | 190 | Bahrain Can't Host Its Own Grand Prix This Year. So It's Paying Malaysia To. 30.07.2026 51min

  Lando Norris won in Hungary. The tarmac failed again. And Oscar Piastri lost his race, and nearly his cool, in a blue flag battle with Carlos Sainz. Dick also breaks down just how narrow a Formula 1 setup window really is, and why temperature, air density, and even a passing cloud can swing lap time more than most fans realize. But the conversation that mattered most wasn't about any of that. Bahrain can't hold its own Grand Prix this year, so it's paying Malaysia to host it instead. Sabrina ...
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  Race Notes | 2026 Belgian Grand Prix | 189 | What Dick Didn't Get to Say About Spa 24.07.2026 9min

  Dick didn't get everything out during the Belgian Grand Prix Race Review, so he's back with the thoughts he kept turning over afterward. Kimi Antonelli's win, he says plainly, was never really in question. George Russell's race ended in the gravel after an electrical glitch caught out Lewis Hamilton too, and the championship gap is back to where it was weeks ago. Dick also breaks down Isack Hadjar's pit-lane-to-points drive and previews what Aston Martin and Williams's weight problems mean fo...
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  Race Review | 2026 Belgian Grand Prix | 188 | Was Spa 2026 a Classic or a Manufactured Race? We Couldn't Agree. 23.07.2026 54min

  Kimi Antonelli won at Spa like it was never in doubt. Charles Leclerc briefly led after a caution that made at least one voice in the booth uneasy about how it came about. And by the closing minutes, Dick, Joe, and Sabrina couldn't even agree on whether this was a great race or a manufactured one, or whether that question even makes sense from a TV screen versus trackside. There's also a paddock story making the rounds about a coming change to a rival team's driver program that nobody's confi...
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  Race Notes | 2026 British Grand Prix | 187 | Max's Repeat Failure, an FIA Glitch & the Win Kimi Never Got 09.07.2026 10min

  Max Verstappen's rear wing failed again, this time in the race, triggering a late safety car the FIA blamed on a software glitch. Neither Dick nor Joe is convinced by that explanation. What followed was a chaotic last lap sprint. Charles Leclerc inherited the win. George Russell gambled on worn tires and got lucky into second. Kimi Antonelli, who'd done everything right, got nothing. Sabrina wasn't able to record this week, so it's Dick's notes and Joe's notes covering Silverstone’s record br...
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  Race Review | 2026 Austrian Grand Prix | 186 | George Russell Took Pole and Won the Race. Joe Saward Says He Was Fortunate All Weekend. 02.07.2026 42min

  George Russell won the 2026 Austrian Grand Prix from a controversial pole position. But the race told a more complicated story than the trophy suggests. Joe Saward says he was fortunate all weekend. Max Verstappen arrived at the Red Bull Ring with what Dick called a new weapon and by the closing laps both he and Kimi Antonelli were closing on the leader fast. Then there is the qualifying incident itself. Joe unpacks the controversy in detail. Whether the outcome was technically valid or simpl...
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  F1 General | Joe Unplugged | 185 | The Biggest Business Transformation in F1: What Changed Everything? 24.06.2026 49min

  Listener Heath asks: what's the biggest business change in Formula 1 over the last 20 years? There's no shortage of candidates — Liberty Media's acquisition, Drive to Survive, the end of tobacco money, the Concorde Agreement restructure. But Joe Saward lands on one, and makes the case that everything else followed from it. In this episode, Dick and Sabrina dig into the business transformation of F1 with Joe, who watched the Bernie Ecclestone era up close and has covered every twist since Libe...
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  Race Review | 2026 Barcelona Grand Prix | 184 | Hamilton Wins in Red, and Why Joe Won’t Call It a Turning Point 19.06.2026 1t 8min

  Lewis Hamilton won the Spanish Grand Prix. His first win for Ferrari, at the circuit that rewards the car above almost everything else, after a year of being told that whatever he achieved before was the machinery and not the man. Sabrina saw a driver answering his doubters. Joe kept pulling the conversation back to the things the celebration was skating over: a Mercedes that was quicker in qualifying, the heat, the virtual safety car, and a long history of Barcelona results that flattered to...
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  Race Notes | 2026 Barcelona Grand Prix | 183 | Hamilton Ends the Streak in Red, Russell Answers & Mercedes' Achilles Heel 18.06.2026 22min

  For five straight races, the story of the 2026 season was Kimi Antonelli. In Barcelona, the story changed. Kimi did not finish. Lewis Hamilton won his first Grand Prix in Ferrari red. And a result that had looked settled for weeks finally broke open. In this Race Notes episode, Sabrina works through a Spanish Grand Prix decided by strategy and nerve as much as speed. Hamilton started on softs, committed early to a three-stop, and was closing on the lead when a late virtual safety car reshaped...
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  Race Review | 2026 Monaco Grand Prix | 182 | The Race Winner Was Never in Doubt. Everything Else Was a Disaster. 10.06.2026 59min

  Kimi Antonelli won his fifth consecutive Formula 1 grand prix in Monaco. Behind him, nearly everything fell apart. And the most consequential thing that happened all weekend had nothing to do with the race. But the conversation was not really about the race. It became about something else. A one-page document that arrived in the paddock motorhomes on Sunday, circulating through teams while the celebration in the harbor was still going. The ADUO verdict named Red Bull's engine the benchm...