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Tawana stopped backing Lando Norris, so Norris took pole in the rain and won the Sao Paulo Grand Prix. Ben called the pole a week ago and will not let it go.Also this week: Piastri and Mark Webber split, Lawson starts third and still has no contract, Bottas never makes the start, and Cadillac is up for sale. Mercedes wrap up the constructors' title on a day both cars were pulling to one side, George Russell spins in the pit lane, and Max goes from 21st to second.Then Ferrari, who get the usual treatment, Piastri's stay on Fraud Watch, and the bet. Ben wins Brazil and needs Vegas to level the season.New episodes every race week. Everything else at maggottsbecketts.org

Kimi Antonelli is Formula 1 world champion at 20 years and 68 days, the youngest ever, with four races still to run. He needed P9 in Mexico and took a podium, in a car that was leaking oil for the last three laps. Max and Lewis carried him on their shoulders. Tawana wants to frame the photo.Then there’s Ferrari. Lewis on pole, Leclerc lunging at Turn 4 on lap one, both off the road, and the lead handed to Max without him passing a car all day. Ben calls it fifty fifty. Tawana calls it Ferrari’s fault for having no rules of engagement. Both agree Fred Vasseur has no backbone and that La Gazzetta’s front page, in Ferrari’s own country, was the dig of the year. Also: Max vs Lawson in practice, Bottas’s suspension snapping under load, Haas cutting Ocon mid weekend, Hirakawa scoring on a 6am call, George’s worst day, and the FIA’s three second clip.Then Interlagos. Ninety percent rain, no sprint, a four way fight for P2, Mercedes able to clinch the constructors’, and two Brazilians on the grid. Quali picks, race picks, wildcards, Fraud Watch gains a McLaren, and who cooks and who fumbles. New episodes every race week. Everything else at maggottsbecketts.org

Kimi Antonelli needs ninth place in Mexico City to become the youngest Formula 1 world champion ever, and he can finish lower than that and still take it unless George or Lewis wins the race. Ben's response is to pick Lewis for pole, Lewis for the win and Kimi to DNF, and to call it the most diabolical hopium you've ever witnessed before anyone else could. Tawana has bought the tequila.Before the picks: a TikTok creator asked whether Kimi's title deserves an asterisk because nobody fought him for it, and we answer that properly. Then the real argument of the week, whether George Russell wanted it badly enough or simply got outbested by the kid in the other car. Also Vesti standing in for Russell in FP1, Lambiase back on Max's radio, Liberty Media's CEO telling fans they don't need to watch every race, three seats still unsigned at Racing Bulls and Haas, Albon's very polite reply to Alonso, and the Austria forfeit cap that is getting burnt on camera at the end of the season.Then the game: quali picks, race picks, wildcards, Fraud Watch (Sainz stays, Albon is back under observation), who cooks and who fumbles, with the season ledger at seven weekends to four. New episodes every race week. Everything else at maggottsbecketts.org

Tawana said it last week: Kimi would not win the title in Austin because George would finish above ninth and Lewis above fifth. George finished eighth, Lewis fourth, one position off each. Kimi won from pole on a one-stop while everyone around him stopped twice. Tawana scored 14, Ben scored 10, and Ben's ten-point wildcard is now, in Tawana's words, a minus ten.The rest of the Austin debrief: Bearman reportedly asking Haas for six million and whether it's too soon, Alonso calling the back of the grid rubbish from sixteenth, Ferrari's free practice dominance that vanishes in Q3, Hadjar refusing to let Max past on the wrong engine map, Sainz holding up the leader and staying on Fraud Watch, Max's new race engineer debuting in the one race where nothing worked, and a virtual safety car that both hosts think was there to extend the storyline.Mexico is next. P9 seals it, and Tawana has promised a tequila shot on camera the moment it happens. New episodes every race week. Everything else at maggottsbecketts.org

Ben has put 10 points on Kimi Antonelli winning the world championship in Austin. Tawana opened the episode begging Formula One to stop pushing that exact narrative. One of them is going to be insufferable on Sunday night.Before the picks: F1 is finally coming to Africa and the boys have thoughts on why it's called the African Grand Prix and not the Rwanda Grand Prix. Rafael Camara is heading to Ferrari and someone in the comments thinks Bearman should be nervous. The Mercedes upgrade was meant to be worth three tenths and isn't. Christian Horner has admitted he pressured Michael Masi in 2021 and Ben is doing his best not to crash out about it. Then a COTA track walk, the wind, the track limits trap from turn 12 to 20, and the first real disagreement the show has had: should the small teams get more than the cost cap gives them?Quali and race picks, the wildcards, Fraud Watch, who cooks and who fumbles, and a nomination for Afro Broadcast of the Year that neither host applied for.New episodes every race week. Everything else at maggottsbecketts.org

Someone said Lando Norris is a better driver than George Russell and Charles Leclerc, and we lost an hour to it before we even pressed record. So we did the thing properly: all three stat lines side by side, average finishing position, average grid, pole-to-win conversion, the Williams years, the Sauber year, and the one number that ends most of the arguments.Then we tried to make it fair. Ben's five categories: raw speed, consistency, racecraft, adaptability and mental resilience. Tawana has a hot take on racecraft that Ben answers with Bahrain 2022. We relive Mexico 2024, Baku 2024 and the races that made each of them, and we get into the hate: why Lando gets it, why George gets it, and why Charles somehow never does.We don't tell you who's best. You tell us. New episodes every race week. Everything else at maggottsbecketts.org

Max Verstappen swept Singapore: sprint win, pole and his first ever Marina Bay victory. Meanwhile Ferrari sent Lewis out on the wrong plan, left a simple lap-time question unanswered, and Ben lost his mind before we even said hello.We go from sprint quali to the chequered flag: the FIA's 27-second straight-line mode mess, George spinning out of the sprint lead, Norris taking out Piastri on the last lap, Kimi sneaking to P3, and whether he should clinch the title in Austin. Then the scorecard from our three-way bet with Tyrone, and somebody owes the boys a glaze.New episodes every race week. Everything else at maggottsbecketts.org

We had someone who was actually there. Tyrone from F1essntls joins us after watching the Sepang chaos from the stands, and he did not come quietly: Lewis is "a cheat code", Leclerc should leave Ferrari, and Hadjar is winning Singapore.We get into George starting from the back again, Max tying Schumacher on 72 wins with one team, Ocon's Formula E pitch, and F1 finally coming back to Africa. Then it's a three-way predictions battle for a Singapore sprint weekend, where Ben goes full delulu and the loser has to glaze the other two on their story.New episodes every race week. Everything else at maggottsbecketts.org

Tawana wished a DNF on George Russell live on this podcast, and one safety car later George's Mercedes stopped on the start/finish straight. We are not saying it's connected. We are saying be careful what you pray for. Max Verstappen won his first race of 2026 at Sepang, exactly as Ben predicted, and Ben would like everyone to know he was one George away from a perfect scorecard.The Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia gave us a forty minute rain delay, a formation lap where five cars lost power and the FIA called it a bug, Ferrari starting both cars on slicks on a wet track, and Lewis Hamilton dropping from P2 to P17 and coming back to P3 anyway. George's car died again, Mercedes apparently wanted to change the power unit in Baku and didn't, and the gap to Kimi is now 84 points with seven rounds left. Aston Martin scored their best result of the season the one week Tawana bet against them, which he would like to discuss. Loudly.Then the scorecard (Ben 13, Tawana 4, the Ben curse is officially broken), Fraud Watch week two (Albon stays on, get a pillow), a proper argument about whether Kimi is lucky or whether car go fast, car wins trophies is just the sport, and the FIA president telling Malaysia it needs a five year plan to come back. Singapore is a sprint weekend and it starts Friday. New episodes every race week. Everything else at maggottsbecketts.org

Max Verstappen has not won a race in 2026. Ben thinks Sepang is where that changes. Tawana thinks Lewis wins it, and since he called Lewis for Barcelona and got it, nobody is laughing this time. Neither of them picks the championship leader, which tells you everything about how weird this season has become.The Bahrain Grand Prix is being held in Malaysia, the race starts at 9AM Warsaw time, and F1 hasn't been to Sepang since 2017, when the Mercedes was silver and Stroll hit Vettel on the cooldown lap. Only ten drivers on the current grid have raced here. Add a 90 percent chance of rain and 2026 cars that have never done a proper wet race, and the predictions get harder every week. We also get into Ocon officially leaving Haas and who takes the seat, Christian Horner saying Ferrari is the only team he'd join without an ownership stake, Ferrari's "full confidence in Fred" statement, and the FIA leaving Bottas in the wall on the last lap in Baku with no safety car.Then the picks: quali and race top threes, the five point wildcards (Ben takes rain, Tawana takes an Aston Martin double DNF, because he's a sadistic prick), who cooks, who fumbles, and a brand new segment. Fraud Watch. Albon is the first name on it. New episodes every race week. Everything else at maggottsbecketts.org