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Well... this one's a whopper. After just one full weekend in the black of Aprilia, as well as two dangerous crashes and a training injury, Jorge Martin shocked the MotoGP world by having the story drop that he intended to use his release clause to leave the time a year early and blow up the rider market. Dre, Cam and RJ break down just how Martin came to this conclusion, the impact and the negative vibes that could affect both Martin and Aprilia going forward as their relationship becomes severely strained as a result of their disagreement, and where Jorge Martin could go if he does leave... Honda anyone? There's also a full review of the 2025 French GP as Johann Zarco made history in an epic wet-to-dry-to-wet race, and became France's first home winner in the permier class since 1954, as well as Marc Marquez salvaging second place with his two major rivals crahsing to leave the Spaniard with another 22-point lead in the standings. A whole hour dedicated to one of the wildest MotoGP race weekends, ever! 

And when it was all said and done, Oscar Piastri hit a Griddy for Miami.  Dre Harrison and Cameron Buckley sit down to review not only the Miami GP weekend and all the drama that came with it, but the latest news out of Team Enstone, with the breaking news that Oliver Oakes is gone at Alpine, and Jack Doohan has been replaced with Franco Colapinto for the next five races.  In Miami, Oscar Piastri came back from a raw VSC in the Sprint to take his third straight GP win, the first McLaren driver to have a hat-trick since Mika Hakkinen before he was born in 1998. The gang discuss the strength of McLaren's pace, where Max Verstappen fits into the picture after having to defend for his life against Team Papaya, and what was a humilitating weekend of honsing for Ferrari, with a radio meltdown for new signing Lewis Hamilton as a simple switchback strategy move led to drama, upset, drivers and sass!

Sorry for the delay on this one, been a busy weekend behind the curtain for your boy, forgive me! Welcome to the latest Motorsport101 and it's a review of MotoGP's Spanish Grand Prix, and with it, a little nugget of history. Because after 93 attempts in the top flight (I mean, come on now), Alex Marquez finally becomes a MotoGP Grand Prix winner, and becomes half of the first pair of brothers to ever win MotoGP races together. A special one. We'll talk about how Alex Marquez did it, mostly via the help of another Marc Marquez crash in the early stages, and Pecco Bagnaia being stuck behind the pole sitting... wait, Fabio Quartararo?! Yeah, Yamaha's first GP podium in 560 days, and first pole position in nearly three years. Are they actually back?!  Oh and we chat KTM as well. Good news - Maverick Vinales is kicking ass, and all your bikes are in the Top 10. Bad news - The parent company probably can't afford to pay off its debt as it stands. Oh and Pedro Acosta lied about having arm pump for a year. GOOD!

Never has such a familiar sim racing phrase made so much sense: "They say you cut the course, you'll have to give up the time gained!" The 2025 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix was a race that was ultimately decided by a Turn 1 flashpoint, a rule change that came into play last year, and the subsequent penalty. Max Verstappen gets hit with a dose of game theory as he cut the chicane, and the 5-second time penalty he got as a result demoted him from challenging for a win, to finishing second behind Oscar Piastri's third win of 2025. Dre, Cam and super-sub guest Ryan Erik King of Jalopnik try to make sense of it all, from the nature of the rules itself, to the political nature of how it came to pass. Also in the episode, a chat about Lando Norris making another huge mistake, crashing into the wall during Q3, more on the growing difference between Ferrari's as Charles Leclerc picked up their first GP podium of the season, 30 seconds ahead of teammate Lewis Hamilton, and whether F1 might lose its TV foothold in the Uni

If a Palou falls in the Long Beach, and no-one got to see it, did it make a sound? That's the question Dre, RJ and Cam have to answer in the latest edition of Motorsport101, as IndyCar took to the famous streets of Long Beach for Round 3 of the 2025 Championship. And for the second time in three years, it would be Kyle Kirkwood that would conquer all, defeat Alex Palou for the first time this season, and bring himself into Championship contention. We break down how Kirkwood did it, as well as talk about the races lack of strategy due to Firestone green tyres that lasted about as long as this Podcast's bio, the startlingly poor TV ratings and the cursed Golf clashing with the race itself, and what can be done with the calendar to combat the series fading momentum despite its new home on FOX. 

Oh man, I think we may just need to retire the #1 plate forever. Just give it to Mick Doohan or something. Welcome to our review of MotoGP's 2025 GP of Qatar, and for many, what they thought was going to be the Pecco Bagnaia renaissance era. Until Marc Marquez kicked his flowers out of the garden. Another double victory for the Spaniard, and with Bagnaia's poor sprint and Alex Marquez ramming Fabio DiGiannantonio off the road, it's the first real sign that it could be Marquez's titles to lose. Dre, RJ and Cam break down Marc's third win of the year and what it means for the fight. But the weekend was tinged with sadness, as Jorge Martin suffered another horrific injury in his first weekend back on a bike after early 2025 crashes. This time he was struck after falling off his Aprilia by Diggia and he faces three months out on the sidelines after breaking 11 ribs and a collapsed lung.  And out of nowhere, Maverick Vinales with the shock of the year, leading lap and eventually finishing second in Qatar... unt

It was a tale of two McLaren's at the Bahrain Grand Prix. On the one hand, Oscar Piastri checked off another huge box in his title winning aspirations as he took a dominant pole and win combo to reduce his Championship arrears to just three points. On the other, a clumsy race for Lando Norris that had him blow qualifying, start on the front row, miss his pit box, and get beaten by George Russell, whos car was having somewhat of a short circuit. As you do. Dre and RJ review a hectic Bahrain GP, that also included a crisis meeting for the Red Bulls as Max Verstappen could only manage sixth in a car that was almost a second a lap off the pace. The shock of Pierre Gasly finishijng seventh in an Alpine that's been nowhere all season, why Dre thinks George Russell is the best driver in the sport right now, and a chat about why the V10's are seemingly dead in the water now Honda, Audi and Mercedes put their foot down over a potential abandoning of the new hybrids.  All that and more in a new Motorsport101!

We're not too impressed with McLaren in this one, so much so that Dre has adopted a new phrase to describe their Japanese Grand Prix weekend - Scared money don't make none.  Max Verstappen had a flawless weekend at Suzuka, taking a surprise pole position ahead of the McLarens of Norris and Piastri, and then led almost every single lap with the dirty air of the track holding McLaren back from a direct attack. But was it a case of Team Papaya playing conversation in terms of strategy, with Norris coming in for his only stop on the same lap as Verstappen? It leads to a greater conversation about Suzuka's status on the track and whether the dirty air it generates makes it worthwhile. Look out for RJ systemically picking apart just why it really isn't that simple.  There's also talk about Yuki Tsunoda's first weekend at Red Bull, Liam Lawson's return to Racing Bulls and being outshone by Isack Hadjar, and Jack Doohan's shocking FP1 crash. Enjoy!

You know how they say that Austin likes to keep it weird? Well, MotoGP's return to Texas certainly qualified.  It was a weekend that went viral due to the changing conditions and another Marc Marquez highlight reel moment, with the man bolting off the track just seconds before the warm-up lap was set to start, causing chaos as he chased down his dry bike, and the majority of the roster following him in. A Red Flag and an aborted start later, we finally got a race. Oh and Pecco Bagnaia won that by the way, because Marc decided to have a bozo moment and tuck the front early on with a comfortable lead. Welp. With it, Bagnaia's back in the game, only 11 points off the top, with Alex Marquez now leading the Championship by a single point with his sixth runner-up finish of the year. Dre, Cam and RJ break it all down. On top of that, they talk about Jack Miller cracking the Top 5 in Yamaha's best finish so far, KTM's continued mid-ness, and Cam's finally ran out of patience on Honda's Joan Mir. Enjoy!

Whoops, forgot the description!  For the first time on Motorsport101, we review the IndyCar Grand Prix at the Thermal Club and well... it was certainly different. An actual Championship round on its return, and a familiar face at the top as Alex Palou dominated the back end of proceedings to maintain his 100% record to start the season.  But he got there through a conservative strategy from McLaren and pole sitter Pato O'Ward, who led 51 laps of the running... not that we saw all of them, because due to an issue with the production truck, the entire broadcast went down for 10 laps. We talk about another disastrous weekend from the FOX team and why they're already burning up their goodwill with Dre, Cam and Ryan Erik King as longtime fans. Also, is the series coming back here? Some raised eyebrows with the new Grand Prix of Arlington set to debut next year in the March slot, but is there a future for Thermal too, with talks of a new layout. And finally, FIGHT CLUB IS BACK. All that and more on another, Moto

Well... that escalated quickly.  In one of the most shocking driver moves of recent memory, after just two Grand Prix, Liam Lawson has been sent back to Racing Balls in a swap deal, with former teammate Yuki Tsunoda heading the other way and making his debut for Red Bull at next weekend's Japanese Grand Prix. In an emergency podcast, Dre, Cam, and returning guest Ryan Erik King break down just how ridiculous this move is, what happens next for Lawson and Tsunoda, what roles Max plays in this is, and just how screwed Red Bull might be in the immediate future with their RB21. We also talk all things Chinese Grand Prix, as Lewis Hamilton won the Sprint before promptly taking a double DQ in the Grand Prix, Oscar Piastri led lights to flag in what was McLaren's 50th 1-2 finish in the sport, George Russell very quietly ran shop in third, and how we ended up with three DQs in a race for the first time since Canada 2004.  There's also some chat about FIA Mohammed Ben Sulayem pressing the sport for a return to V10

A whopper of a weekend for news, but on the front page, a familiar tale - Marc Marquez beats his brother in a dogfight to take his fourth win in Argentina, ahead of Franco Morbidelli scoring his first podium in the series since the Spanish GP in 2021.  Dre, Cam and RJ breakdown how Marc had to work a little harder this time to ensure victory, whether Alex Marquez really could be the main threat to the title for brother Marc, and just how much trouble Pecco Bagnaia might be in after he falls to fourth and 31 points off the Championship lead.  There's also an indepth chat about Pirelli taking over the series' tyre supplying duties in 2027 when the regulations change, Ai Ogura's disqualification, and Honda now sitting second in the Constructors Championship after a heroic weekend by Johann Zarco. All that and more in another Motorsport101!

Note: This episode was recorded before Thursday's news of the passing of Eddie Jordan, Dre adds some extra words in the intro of this episode, but there'll be a full conversation about Eddie on next week's show. Dre, Cam and RJ look back at what was a chaotic opening round of the 2025 Formula 1 Season, the first wet race in Australia since 2003, and with it, Lando Norris pipping Max Verstappen to the post by less than a second. We discuss how Lando kept cool under pressure, as well as Verstappen's Red Bull struggles, and why it's still cursed to pick an Aussie to win in his backyard - This time, via Piastri reversing out of wet grass. Very Clarkson's farm. There's also a mixed bag of rookies to report on - Kimi Antonelli shined en route to fourth and the best debut performance by a driver since Kevin Magnussen in 2014, everyone else... not so much. From Gabriel Bortoleto's suspension collapsing to Isack Hadjar getting the rare DNS from a Formation Lap spin, and an important and comforting Anthony Hamilton g

That damn Spaniard. He's just that good. Dre, Cam and RJ make sense of the first IndyCar race of 2025 - The Grand Prix of St Pete in Florida, at one point, it felt like any one of four men could have won it, but it was an early caution between Will Power, Nolan Siegel and Louis Foster had dramatic strategic ramifications in this race one. Scott McLaughlin was forced onto a sub-optimal strategy, Colton Herta was in the driver's seat but was shafted by yet another horrible Andretti pit-stop, and Scott Dixon's radio stopped working after the first round of stops. ...Enter Alex Palou, who pulled off a silly 32-lap stint on scrubbed tyres, undercut Dixon, and then held off Josef Newgarden to take his twelfth career win, and his first in Florida. It's a lot. But this was also the first IndyCar race broadcast on FOX and we had... thoughts. Will Buxton's debut was soothing, but not in a bad way as he finds his feet with Townsend Bell and James Hinchcliffe, but despite excellent first race TV numbers, there are iss

Well, the bikes are back and okay... Marc Marquez is back. Like, really back, and it's going to be a problem for everyone else involved. Dre, RJ and Cam dissect a dream weekend for MM93 in red, dominating all aspects of the Thailand Grand Prix, and finishing ahead of his brother Alex Marquez for Gresini in second, and Pecco Bagnaia in third. Are we already talking about a Marquez title campaign already? There's also a whole breakdown on Ai Ogura's incredible debut weekend, treating 5th place like the floor enroute to Trackhouse's best ever result, the general sense of convergence in the field, and is there some genuine hope for Honda after Johann Zarco finished 7th? And finally, we cover the mid-week news that Pirelli are taking over the sports tyre supplying from Michelin in 2027. Good move for the series, or further emphasis on the potential Monopoly the sport's creating for itself? Welcome back, to Motorsport101...

Safe to say, this is a pretty big one! The season finale of Season Preview Season and it's time for us to preview the 2025 Formula 1 season. One of the biggest ever with 24 races, four genuinely competitive teams and a hot mess behind the scenes politically! And we brought on a special name on this one - ESPN's Countdown to F1 and Shutdown Fullcast host, Spencer Hall! The college football legends talked to us about his surprise love of Motorsport, why Dale Earnhardt and Ayrton Senna were his heroes, and lays out some bold predictions about the season! Of course, all of our predictions are laid out too. Is Sauber going to be the wooden spoon team? Is Williams back with Carlos Sainz? Can anyone penetrate the Top 4 power block? And is McLaren finally going to have a Drivers Title contender, or is Lewis Hamilton back in the winner's circle?

Welcome to the second episode of what we call "Season Preview Season", as the trio of Dre, Cam and RJ Preview the 2025 MotoGP Season! We talk about the new, larger-than-ever calendar, the incoming engine freeze, and Simon Crafar's new role as Chief Steward before getting into the state of all five factories within the sport. First up - the Japanese brands of Honda and Yamaha and their separate approaches to getting back up the grid. There's genuine optimism in their respective camps after upgrades appear to make them look closer to the top, but what's a realistic expectation for Quartararo, Zarco, Mir and company? There's a deep dive into KTM's continued struggles. They're seemingly in the clear as the Austrian courts agreed to their bailout terms, but what does mean for a gagged MotoGP team? And is Pedro Acosta secure in his future given his "phenom" status? Can Aprilia be a better second after years of spinning its wheels, and with its new World Champion Jorge Martin starting the year in a hospital bed?

New team, new station, same old nonsense. It's time for the return of Season Preview on Motorsport101! To start us off for the previews, it's the 2025 IndyCar Season, with Dre, Cam and RJ joined by special guest and old friend - Frontstretch.com writer and Colton Herta's best paddock friend, Christopher DeHarde. This is a huge, old-school edition of M101, nearly three hours long as catch up on William Byron's controversial second-straight Daytona 500 victory, as well as the F175 Live Show from the O2 in London before getting into the meat and potatoes of the season.  Between the four of us, we then preview the season - First with the calendar and race length adjustments, and the new broadcast move to FOX for the series and what it entails, as well as the future of the series power units as Honda are still on the verge of quitting.  Then, we go team by team and break down all their changes, from Prema's problems with no charter and no Michael Cannon to RLL and their rebooted lineup to McLaren's new life wi

We got this bad boy out as soon as possible because Ford is coming back to Le Mans as a breaking news story and we wanted to strike while the iron is hot! On this episode of M101, Dre, RJ, and Cam are back to talk about what Ford coming back means, the natural rivalry with Ferrari rising to the surface, and what a triumph the regulation set has become as Ford becomes the 15th manufacturer to join the Hypercar class since its inception. We also talk about the Rolex 24, as Porsche goes back-to-back via the Number 7 crew to win its second straight Daytona and their 20th as a marque. We'll mention Acura nearly stealing it all at the end via another Tom Blomqvist late rampage, and BMW's all-out attempts to win it all and just fall short at the end. Also, Lamborghini... man. All the stories in the other classes are covered too, like LMP2's Tower Motorsports being stripped of their win due to skid block wear, the ridiculous scrap between BMW and Corvette in GTD Pro as Ford take their first class win with the Must

It's that time again! To kick off our Motorsport101 coverage for 2025, we're previewing the IMSA Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona! Cam, RJ O'Connell live from Daytona, and Dre break down all four classes as this year's Rolex, including GTD and GTD Pro, the fleet of Ferrari 296s on Deck, as well as Iron Dames change to Porsche, Pfaff Motorsports heading to Lamborghini, and more as Porsche gets 20kg of BoP to contend with! Then the GTP battle at the front. Will the Porsche 963 continue it's incredible dominance after winning almost everything in 2024? Is BMW legitimate after taking pole position with Dries Vanthoor on Thursday? Where does Lamborghini stand? That and so much more across 75 minutes of preview action on Motorsport101!