Podcast appearances and mentions of brendan hartley

Earlier this month Palmy boy Brendan Hartley zoomed to a record fourth World Endurance Championship title. It came down to the wire but he sealed the deal with victory in the final race of the season - "8 Hours Of Bahrain" He is without doubt one of the best sports car drivers on the planet. He joins us on the phone...

John Hindhaugh is in the Sebring paddock as testing begins ahead of the 2022 World Endurance Championship season for the first of our preview shows. In this show he talks to one of last year's runners-up Toyota's Brendan Hartley; He drops in on United Autosport's LMP2 effort for coffee with Paul di Resta and Joel Pierson; Plus GTE drivers Michael Christensen and David Pittard, and much more.

John Hindhaugh is in the Sebring paddock as testing begins ahead of the 2022 World Endurance Championship season for the first of our preview shows. In this show he talks to one of last year's runners-up Toyota's Brendan Hartley; He drops in on United Autosport's LMP2 effort for coffee with Paul di Resta and Joel Pierson; Plus GTE drivers Michael Christensen and David Pittard, and much more.

Just like last nights race we lost a driver, yes J is a DNF this week as he treks off on assignment to eat Fush and Cups, chase sheep and search for the birthplace of Brendan Hartley. SPOILER ALERT, he hasn't found it! But hey who knows, the fush and chups might be worth it! This week we take a full race review of one of the strangest races of the year. Roger takes the blow torch off Max and begins to burn a hole into Kimi, but will he melt the Iceman that easily? We also discuss what went wrong with the Merc upgrade, what went wrong with Dan, what went wrong with Hulkenberg, what went wrong with the strategy at Merc and what the hell is wrong with the way Williams people dress? So join us for this surprisingly upbeat and positive podcast episode!

After two dull races, the Canadian Grand Prix spectacularly failed to liven up the season with yet another snoozer, despite the best efforts of Lance Stroll and Brendan Hartley. Cheeka, Phill and Terry despair, but make the best of the situation by analysing the boredom, before Terry heads off to watch Le Mans instead.

You know what's embarrassing? Representing your company who is the title sponsor for a race by driving the pace car to start the race - and crashing the pace car coming out of Turn 1 and delaying the race start by 27 minutes...Is Force India about to be sold - depends on who you talk to...Electric Karting is becoming an Olympic sport - a Junior Olympic sport.FOM is looking at significant changes for 2021, from calendar, to aerodynamics, to maybe even tires?In the mean time it looks like the 2019 season will end in December.Two big changes coming to the Montreal Grand Prix this year - a third DRS zone and more significantly a change to the DRS rules from this race forward.Toro Rosso is actively looking to replace Brendan Hartley.Daniel Riccardo appears to have avoided a grid penalty in Montreal.Max Verstappen snaps at reporters.McLaren is struggling in Montreal because it has to go fast and slow.Mercedes is regretting its tire choices for the weekend.It's shaping up to be a bad weekend for Haas.

This week, we'll find out if once again the teams decide to do what's best for the sport or to shot themselves in the foot - again.Teams now have permission to mount mirror to the halo - within limitsCould Mission Control rooms be going away?Andy Palmer at Aston Martin thinks that they could be leverage against Ferrari's threats to leave F1 - we think Andy's forgetting a key fact.Could Williams become the Mercedes jr team? Not if Claire Williams has anything to say about it.Daniel Riccardo had to get surgery last week - and he's not talking to Ferrari about 2019 - yet.Bernie Ecclestone is criticizing Lewis Hamilton.Brendan Hartley apologizes for almost causing a major crash with his team mate during qualifying.And Nico Rosberg has created a driver development program...

This week - Nico Rosberg is no longer part of Robert Kubica's management team.Mauritzio Arrivabene's description of the ill fated pit stop in Bahrain - Ferrari says that's not really what happened.Max Verstappen says that he doesn't need to calm down - and his father says he needs to think about his actions.Just because he had an amazing weekend, Daniel Ricciardo isn't convinced that his future is with Red Bull - yet.Pierre Gasly and Brendan Hartley say that there was a miscommunication that led to their crash in the Chinese Grand Prix.Charlie Whiting says that no, they didn't call out the safety car when they did in order to mess with Sebastian Vettel's race.Once again we're questioning Mercedes' race strategy.There might be an agreement for engines in 2021 at the end of May.Fuel loads will be increased next year, and there's some changes to car weights coming.Williams is in financial trouble - or are they... Actually they really are..Gunther Steiner doesn't want F1 to be like IndyCar.You might thing you've seen this year's McLaren - and you'd be wrong...

n F1 broadcasting news - ESPN will show the remainder of the races this season commercial free, and F1 says that F1 TV Pro is coming in time for the Spanish Grand Prix.Max Verstappen's crash in qualifying in Bahrain - turns out it was due to a "right foot oscillation"Sergio Perez and Brendan Hartley got penalties for the same confusing formation lap incident.Lewis Hamilton was upset by Max Verstappen's bungled pass - but they're better now.The FIA isn't bothered by smoking Ferrari's.Mercedes didn't react quickly enough to Ferrari responding to Mercedes' strategy.Yes, Kimi's mechanic got hurt, but he's doing well and in good spirits. Kimi got beat up over his horrible pit stop - and we don't agree with the criticism.Red Bull wants the Renault engines to be better, Renault has told their teams that they can push the engines harder, but post qualifying in China Daniel Riccardo said he's loosing faith in the manufacturer...Zak Brown has a new title at McLaren, and the team admits that the season isn't going as well as they expected.Force India has a fundamental problem with their car.And there will be historic cars on track at Silverstone this year....

Ryan Dalziel joins me to talk about how he’s developed into one of the best race car drivers in the world – what techniques he thinks are most important (hint: it has to do with corner speed and what you do with the throttle), and how to take your driving to that level. He shares his thoughts about his Tequila Patron-ESM co-drivers, Brendan Hartley and Johannes van Overbeek, and how their driving styles compare, as well as confidence. Then we talk about race driver coaches, and specifically how to find the best one for you. Ryan has won in practically every form of racing he’s competed in, and is currently driving for Tequila Patron-ESM in IMSA. He’s also one of those drivers who can not only do, but can also explain how he does it – and that’s not a common trait. Recently, Ryan started RaceCarCoaches.com, a website where you can find a coach that is geographically ideal for you. Web: http://www.ryandalziel.com Twitter: @ryan_dalziel Facebook: ryandalzielofficialpage Instagram: @ryan_dalziel

This week saw plenty of news in the F1 and motorsport world. New engine regulations were proposed for 2021, Ferrari threatened to leave the sport like they do any time anything changes, Felipe Massa announced his retirement (again) & F1 new boy Brendan Hartley sealed the World Endurance title with his teammates. Follow us on Twitter or Facebook for the latest news http://twitter.com/BackOfTheGridF1 | http://facebook.com/backofthegridf1 F1 | Formula 1 | F12017 | mercedes | Lewis Hamilton | Valtteri Bottas | mclaren | Fernando Alonso | Sebastian Vettel | Kimi Raikkonen | ferrari | red bull | Max Verstappen | Daniel Ricciardo | motorsport | Brazil | Brasil | Sao Paulo | 2021 | Sergio Marchionne | Felipe Massa | Williams | Lando Norris | World Endurance | World Champion | Brendon Hartley

Buckle your seatbelts folks, this show is going everywhere this week.  We tried to put stuff in something that resembles order but even still we jump around quite a bit. To start with, Circuit of the Americas wants an IndyCar race - and probably won't get one.  Josef Newgarden wants to drive in F1, but the American Team doesn't seem to want to give him a chance... F1 went to Reddit to ask fans what we want from the sport - and the fans told F1 that we want to have streaming video, access to more of F1's video, access to more data, and that we'd be willing to pay for that.  Sean Bratches was listening because in the US at least we'll probably be seeing a new streaming service next year. F1 has heard the complaints about the halo, and they're acting...  If they change the name it will make it all better right? Oh, and expect to see F1 Live type of events coming to more cities in 2018 - our hope is that they remember that there's more to the host country of a race than just the city that the race is hosted in... Could four wheel drive cars be coming? Maybe Friday practice will go away? Pierre Gasley didn't win the Superformula series - but it wasn't his fault. Brendan Hartley revealed how he got the job at Toro Rosso. His welcome to the team was a 50 page operations manual, and he had some helmet difficulties in his first sessions. Daniel Kyviat is officially "terminated" by Toro Rosso. Fernando Alonso will stay at McLaren for another year, and will drive in the Rolex 24 Hour race in Daytona next year. Renault says that they're months ahead in their reliability efforts for 2018, which was of no comfort to Toro Rosso. Sebastian Vettel had a difficult set of practice sessions for Mexico. Williams almost got a pretty large fine for being late, and it's not the first time either. Max Verstappen is still angry about how the USGP ended. Daniel Riccardo didn't know that Max had a better engine. McLaren is open to keeping Jenson Button around as an ambassador. And Bernie Ecclestone is taking his toys and going to Switzerland...