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Three-time BAFTA award-winning F1 commentator James Allen returns to the broadcast mic with a thoughtful and engaging new podcast, looking at the human side of the sport.
Every episode will feature an insightful interview with a prominent figure from inside and around the sport focusing on themes beyond the everyday news cycle. Joining James in the studio for analysis and discussion will be a rotating cast of key figures from Autosport and Motorsport’s global editorial team and guests from the broader F1 media world.
Thoughtful, accessible and insightful, the James Allen on F1 podcast takes the helmet off the sport. It is a must for any fans looking for a glimpse behind the scenes at the human beings who make the fascinating world of F1.
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Recent Episodes
66: Red Bull F1 team boss Laurent Mekies on why 2026 is a new dawn
This week we have a special episode with two conversations from the Autosport Business Exchange in London.ABX is a gathering of leaders from across motorsport, exploring relevant themes. It takes…
65: Meet the woman who makes sense of F1’s most complex puzzles
This week we meet a woman who has worked in F1 for Ferrari, Haas and Sauber. She has been at the heart of decision making on the pit wall as head of race strategy and has now turned that into a new…
64: Superforecasting the 2026 F1 season
It’s the first week of January, the slate has been wiped clean, a whole new year of F1 lies ahead. Before a car is launched and a wheel has turned everything is possible and at all the teams and…
63: How the F1 calendar works and why promoters are signing long term
F1 Grands Prix have become much than sporting events. They now stretch over four days of fan engagement with star name music acts, cultural events, top chefs and diverse activities for fans. Promoter…
62: Freezing speed - F1 life through a lens
F1’s surge in popularity in the last five years is not because the sport itself has notably changed or improved. It is because people have discovered it, a sleeping giant. The sport lends itself so…
61: Lando Norris World Champion – Proves nice guys can finish first!
We have a new F1 World Champion, Lando Norris. He held his nerve in Abu Dhabi to finish on the podium, which is all he needed to do to become one of only 35 drivers in history to win the F1 World…
60: What the pressure feels inside an F1 team at a title showdown
It’s crunch time in Abu Dhabi, with a three-way fight for the F1 World Drivers Championship.From McLaren’s point of view it didn’t have to be this way. If they had avoided the disqualifications in…
59: Inside the mental battle as F1 2025 reaches crunch point
This week we go inside the minds of the competitors for the F1 World Championship. We explain some of the things that happened during an intense Las Vegas GP weekend – including the dramatic double…
58: Meet the leader making F1’s smallest team punch above its weight!
This week, we have the latest in our series of F1 team principalinterviews as we meet Ayao Komatsu at the HQ of Haas, F1’ssmallest team.What Haas may lack in headcount, they more than make up for…
57: How influencers are growing F1 audiences in the US
This week we discuss some of the significant developments that took place during the Brazil GP weekend, which saw Lando Norris take command of the F1 Drivers Championship and look ahead to the Las…
56: When the World Champion got kidnapped and other F1 tales
This week we meet one of the small group of broadcasters who can call themselves an F1 TV commentator.Alex Jacques is the voice of Channel 4’s F1 coverage in the UK and his commentary is carried on…
55: Inside the mind of the greatest F1 car designer in history
In this special edition of the James Allen on F1 podcast we hear from Aston Martin Chief Technical officer Adrian Newey, who shares some insights into his process and defines what has made him so…
54: The Rise of Racing in America, according to Toto Wolff and Apple
This week we have a special edition featuring interviews with Toto Wolff and Eddy Cue from the Autosport Business Exchange event we hosted recently in New York.It was a gathering of leaders from…
53: Meet the man set to lead a top manufacturer’s F1 challenge: Jonathan Wheatley
This week we have the latest in our series of F1 team principal interviews as we sit down with Sauber boss Jonathan Wheatley. He has been in F1 since 1991 and contributed to eight Constructors’ World…
52: The F1 Season in Numbers at the three-quarter stage
In F1 the numbers never lie – whether it’s the number of zeros on your pay cheque, the thousandths of a second on the stopwatch or the points of downforce on your new front wing.By looking at the…
51: Keeping Up Appearances F1 style
This week James Allen delves into a topic that has always fascinated him - the way F1 teams and drivers present themselves – in other words their identity. The F1 season launch at the O2, London in…
50: Immortalising the man who made Ferrari great again
This week James Allen welcomes Manish Pandey, the film maker and master storyteller who shot to prominence with the award-winning 2010 documentary Senna, which he made with Asif Kapadia and James Gay…
49: Confessions of an F1 TV Pit Reporter
This week we welcome Ted Kravitz, a bona fide sports broadcasting legend, who has carved his own niche since 2001, patrolling the F1 pit lane for Sky Sports F1, BBC and ITV Sport. His Ted’s Notebook…
48: Who will be the first F1 team post-McLaren to win the World Championship?
McLaren are poised to win the F1 Constructors World Championship with a record seven races to spare. Given that this is the final year of these regulations, where the margins are supposed to be…
47: Who’s fast and who’s furious after intense Dutch GP
F1 is back in racing mode after the Summer Break and this week we are in between two fast, intense races; the Dutch GP at Zandvoort and the Italian GP at Monza, the race with the highest average…
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