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And on Day 366 of March 2020, or as much as it feels that way, the final M101 of 2020 is here, as we celebrate the end of one of, if not, the greatest season of Motorsport, we've ever covered on this show, with MotoGP's Season Finale at Portimao, Portgual. And on this one, Miguel Oliveira had the homecoming of dreams as he took a Grand Slam on home turf in complete dominance, as the new Champions struggled, and *checks notes*... Ducati won a title?! Also, we had the Suzuki drunken afterparty, and two other World Titles settled in dramatic fashion as Albert Arenas held on to win the Moto3 title, and Remy Gardner took his first career win as Luca Marini and Sam Lowes would have desperate last attempts to win the Moto2 off Enea Bastianini. Thank you for all your support in 2020, and we'll be back on New Year's Day for another brand new (sort of) episode!

Next up on the weekend of Champions, Joan Mir and the penultimate race in MotoGP's season, as while Franky Morbidelli and Jack Miller beat the crap out of each other, Joan Mir played it safe and made history as the sport's first-ever, ONE-win Champion. We spoke at length about the history made as Suzuki won the riders and teams championships, their first major honours in 20 years, in the 100th anniversary of their existence. We also talk about Yamaha's struggles, and a shocking finale to a Moto2 race as Fabio Diggia throws away his first Moto2 win on the final lap, and Champion-Elect Sam Lowes had a title-defining crash.

The furious rewind flashback saga continues with a look back at the Turkish Grand Prix, where Lewis Hamilton recovered from a very slippery Istanbul, rain affected GP, to smash the field, and more importantly, capture his 7th straight World Title, and matching Sebastian Vettel for his 4th title in a row. We also had a dramatic race behind as Sergio Perez got back on the podium, Lance Stroll had his first pole position, and Sebastian Vettel had his drive of the season for 3rd! An epic race, remembered, on Motorsport101!

Hey, remember when Joan Mir won his first MotoGP race? Feels like ages ago, and it was! But here's us talking about the European Grand Prix, with Joan Mir winning his 1st GP, Iannone's drug appeal failing spectacularly, and Sam Lowes hitting the deck as his season started to collapse. Enjoy!

Okay, first and foremost, sincere apologies for the delays here. Been a busy time IRL and we're still playing catchup. We've taken a week off from recording, so we'll get back up to speed soon, promise. Here's Episode 277 from Imola, featuring Hamilton's comeback win, Verstappen's title chances going pop, and Daniel Ricciardo sneaking another podium finish. Oh and Valentino catching COVID. Whoops. Full setlist below: HOT TALKING POINTS This race was almost a dud, save for the meltdown at the end. Let’s just discuss Mercedes’ run of SEVEN IN A ROW instead GEOOOOOOOOORGE! AAAAAALLLLLLEXXXX! Kvyat puts in his best drive of the season and it doesn’t matter for 2021 Also, Kevin Magnussen had a gearbox that was so rough that he described every upshift as “like being kicked in the head repeatedly” IN CASE YOU MISSED IT EARLIER MOTOGP: The Valencia Double is this weekend, but Valentino Rossi ain’t in it because he still tested positive for COVID-19. Instead of Jorge Lorenzo, WSBK’s Garrett Gerloff gets the call!

And as a palette cleanser, a shorter episode on a relatively tame MotoGP second race at Aragon, as Franky Morbidelli dominated from start to finish - Alex Marquez was due for a big comeback again before dropping it, and Sam Lowes absolutely destroyed the field in Moto2!

History made - Despite there being less fanfare for this than Lewis tying the record last week, but Hamilton now stands alone with his 92nd race win at the unique track of Portimao. He turned around a chaotic start where CARLOS SAINZ LED (No really), beat Valtteri Bottas, and then the field by miles. We also had a Lando Norris heated moment, and Max Verstappen pissed everyone off with ableist slurs being used in FP2. We break down Verstappen's rant, Lewis making history and a lot more for the Portguese GP!

You can only surpress it, you cannot stop it. And that thing is Scott Dixon, and Championships. Despite a late charge from Josef Newgarden and an excellent win in the final round in St Pete, it was Dixon that took his 6th IndyCar title. We break down St Pete itself alongside Josef's win, James Hinchcliffe's return and wreck, Takuma Sato bringing back his old catchphrase, and a final look at the season. Oh and we invited Chris DeHarde back. We're really sorry.

*glass breaks* THAT'S ALEX MARQUEZ'S MUSIC MotoGP headed back to Spain for the first of two weekends there, and in a fascinating Aragon GP, it was Alex Rins who came out of nowhere to take a tight win, but Alex Marquez proved that Le Mans was no fluke! We also had a trio of high title implicating crashes in Moto2, and a controversial track limits no-call in Moto3 as Jaume Masia denied Raul Fernandez's 1st win!

Lewis Hamilton ties history with his 91st career win! He didn't have it all his own way as Bottas took the early lead, but Lewis soon took full advantage of a Bottas error, and a battery failure from his teammate. We also break down Nico Hulkenberg making another shock reappearance for Racing Point,rumours of a new Brazilian GP in Rio's backyard, and a crazy twist in IndyCar silly season as Oliver Askew gets chopped at Arrow McLaren for King Felix!

Just when you thought this MotoGP Season couldn't get any weirder, Danilo Petrucci goes and wins a race in the middle of his horrible season. AND ALEX MARQUEZ WAS 2ND, GOOD LORD. Nothing let a wet race for us to go mad over, and we got another classic at Le Mans! We also got a heartbreaker of a Moto2 race for Jake Dixon as a late crash gift wrapped Sam Lowes a Dub, and a chaotic Moto3 with McPhee collected and a KTM teammate crash for the 2nd time this year! All that and more on Episode 271 of Motorsport101.

A loaded 75 minutes of show on this one, as we review both of IndyCar's awesome Harvest GP's in Indianapolis. We had Herta and Veekay going at it hard in Race 1 only for Newgarden to steal the win, and Herta trying to break the great wall of Power in Race 2! We also review Honda's shock departure from F1 in 2021, and an unfortunate return of FIGHT CLUB as the World Karting Championship goes haywire. You know it's bad when TMZ picks up your story! Also, RJ is upset over NASCAR. Drink!

Can you tell we struggled for a name on this one? MotoGP returns to Catalunya as Fabio Quartararo took a dub at one of his favourite tracks, but not without a scare from Joan Mir, but a shock from Valentino Rossi falling easily towards the end. We also talk Moto2 as Luca Marini and Sam Lowes had a big scrap for a win that the Italian prevailed in, and Moto3 where the title favourite Albert Arenas was taken out by John McPhee in another big ol' shocker. We also talk the new Ducati squads for 2021 and Valentino Rossi moving to SRT, in Motorsport's worst kept secret! Enjoy!

Happy 6th Anniversary to Motorsport101, our very first episode was Sochi 2014. What an omen. In this episode, we break down F1 in Russia as Lewis Hamilton cost himself a W before the race even started, via two illegal practise starts of all things. It cleared the way for Valtteri Bottas to take his first win since opening day, and put Verstappen between the Mercs again. We also had some fun in the midfield was the "Twitch Gang" of Lando Norris, Alex Albon and George Russell finally got to race each other on track! We also break down F2, where Mick Schumacher pulled off a spectacular race-winning overtake to win the feature race, before a horror crash ended the Sprint race early!

Welcome to the good ol' catchup show! In this edition, Cam talks about a relatively tame "End of an Era" Le Mans with no fans. We mention World Superbikes as Jonathan Rea took control of the Championship and Garrett Garloff surprised all the Americans in the room, and talk NASCAR as Bubba Wallace's big Free Agency signing was revealed... A seat at Michael Jordan's new race team, ran by Denny Hamlin. As you do!

So we go back to Misano for Round 2 of MotoGP's doubleheader in San Marino. Francisco Bagnaia leads pretty comfortably until 7 laps left, and then falls in shocking fashion, enabling Maverick Vinales to sweep up the crumbs and take his 1st win of the season, and the 5th different winner in the last 5 rounds. We break down a dramatic 2nd coming in Misano, as well as a heated fight between Pol Espargaro, the white hot Joan Mir and Fabio Quartararo, with the latter taking a time penalty that dropped him off the podium. We also talk Moto2 as rain played havoc with a couple of restarts needed before Enea Bastianini took another win there, as well as Moto3 as Romano Fenati made good on his previous career woes at Misano by winning!

IndyCar headed to a doubleheader in Ohio sd RJ takes the reigns with King and Chris DeHarde! Talking Points from Mid-Ohio - Josef Newgarden reduces Scott Dixon's points lead from 96 to 72 - Race 1: Will Power wins from pole position in a Penske 1-2 http://www.imscdn.com/indycar_media/documents/2020-09-12/indycar-race-results.pdf - Race 2: How big was Colton Herta's win, Andretti Autosport sweeping the podium towards the end of a woeful 2020? http://www.imscdn.com/indycar_media/documents/2020-09-13/indycar-officialrace2results.pdf News - IndyCar makes it official, Music City Grand Prix at the streets of Nashville - AJ Foyt makes it official, Sebastien Bourdais is back for 2021 (and the end of 2020) - Penske makes it official, Scott McLaughlin is coming to IndyCar for the St. Petersburg GP - IMS makes it official, the Harvest GP will be open to 10k spectators News that isn't IndyCar [time permitting] - Alpine buys out Rebellion Racing's P1 programme, Peugeot commit to Hypercar for 2022, and LMDh specs revea

So, a brand new race at Mugello and an interesting one it was. Hamilton had to work hard for win #90 and we had not one, but two red flags as Ferrari limped through their 1000th GP! We also got a chaotic F3 season finale, and F2 too! Formula One Grande Premio della Toscana 1000 (at Mugello!) Lewis Hamilton wins #90, and if his shirt makes you uncomfortable, good - I hope he continues to beat all of your favourites for many years to come and suck all of your enjoyment of F1 away from your cold, shitty body Sebastian Vettel is free now! The Aston Martin deal is official! Not one, but TWO multi-car accidents before completing a single racing lap! This sport wants you to pay nine figures to enter! It’s time for another round of Valtteri Bottas discourse™ Alexander Albon finally, FINALLY gets his first podium for Red Bull Is the Renault...good? Yeah, Ocon’s brakes failed, but RIC almost shithoused a podium (4th) Stroll crashes out of the podium fight, Perez salvages 5th on the weekend that he gets shown the door

Just when you thought MotoGP couldn’t get any wilder, Frankie Morbidelli gives us our 4th new winner in 2020! We also shine on the VR46 Academy as Bagnaia while still on crutches takes 2nd, with the man himself just missing out on a podium thanks to Joan Mir stealing one at the death. All while Rossi was on viagra. Trust me on this one. We also have an important discussion on equality within the sport as MotoGP's gone napping in that department.

In the 2nd part of the Doubleheader, we say goodbye to Williams, say hello to Jimmie Johnson in an IndyCar, and Sergio Perez saying goodbye to Racing Point. Full setlist is down below: The end of Williams as we know as the Williams family (Sir Frank and Claire, plus CEO Mike O’Driscoll) leaves the sport after Monza as new managers at Dorliton Capital group take over; Simon Roberts assumes control as new deputy team principal - new board includes Dorilton co-founder Matthew Savage and Darren Fultz, as well as former racing driver James Matthews - and Graeme Lowdon is involved somehow? Renault announces a new rebranding as “Alpine” for 2021. Fernando orders 14 new cap designs. RJ needs to come up with a blueberry-centric bet for 2021 if they cash in. Sergio "Checo" Perez is leaving at the end of 2020, your bosses are not your friends, and Aston Martin are probably gonna sign Vettel, unless of course they don’t. Ahem. BOOM! Confetti! Jimmie Johnson makes two-year Indycar deal with Ganassi official! IndyCar is