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4 and a half years ago, as a final year University project, Motorsport101: The Podcast was born. It was better than a 10,000-word dissertation, that's for sure. It was only ever meant to be a 10 episode run. Welcome to Episode 200. And I'm proud to say, we've become so much more. This was originally live-streamed on YouTube, and here is the more cleaned up, polished version. On it, we talk about the Austrian GP, as Charles Leclerc was 3 miles from his first victory when Max Verstappen hung him out to dry for the win. We also check out MotoGP in Assen as Maverick Vinales took his first win of the season over a more restrained Marc Marquez. And in our main event, we take a trip back to an episode from our demo reel where we tried to rank our 10 greatest F1 drivers. We do it again and trust me, a lot's changed in the last 4 years. But beyond all of that, I just want to say, thank you all so much for the support. It's been a wonderful journey these last 4 years. 200 I never thought was possible, and I'd like

Please help long-time friend and guest of the show Sarah Connors raise funds for their gender affirming surgery here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/top-surgery-fund-for-connors Also, Episode 200 is LIVE on YouTube this Tuesday at or around 8:30 PM BST / 3:30 PM EDT! youtube.com/motorsport101/ On this exciting episode of Motorsport 101, with Dre, King, and RJ: - The French Grand Prix sure did happen alright - How Mahaveer Raghunathan did the impossible and earned a weekend ban and nine penalty points in a single Formula 2 race, THEY SAID WE COULDN'T DO IT - Alexander Rossi breaks out the belt in Road America - Big Race Jon(athan) excels as Bautista bombs in Misano WSBK Round - Vergne burns the field in a highly-spirited Bern ePrix - Give us 5 minutes, maybe 32 seconds, to talk about the Nürburgring 24 Hours (and Super Formula at Sugo) - Holy hell we're approaching 200 episodes this is still wild

This episode came out a little late, due to some technical gremlins that RJ explains at the top of the show, but Dre, RJ, King and Cam are back for a Le Mans Review special of M101, as well as MotoGP's Grand Prix of Catalunya thrown in too! Here's the full list: 87TH 24 HOURS OF LE MANS http://fiawec.alkamelsystems.com/Results/08_2018-2019/08_LE%20MANS/276_FIA%20WEC/201906151500_Race/Hour%2024/05_Classification_Race_Hour%2024.PDF - Triumph AND Heartbreak for Toyota; Buemi/Nakajima/Alonso repeat as overall winners as Conway/Kobayashi/Lopez lose lead in the last hour - GTE Pro: AF Corse (Ferrari) end five-year winless drought, but did revised Safety Car procedures still not do enough to spoil the lead fight in the last quarter? - LMP2: Signatech Alpine wins it on the road this time; third Le Mans victory in four years - GTE Am: Keating Motorsport (Ford) outlasts Team Project 1 (Porsche) in last-hours slugfest for class win https://twitter.com/thebpillar/status/1140501627134238720 MOTOGP GRAND PRIX DE CATALUÑ

Hey folks, Dre couldn't make THE BIGGEST F1 MOMENT OF THE YEAR, but we got a new co-host as Cam Buckley joins the show! Oh and Canada happened. Anything go down? F1 CANADIAN GRAND PRIX - Let’s talk about Lap 48, Vettel’s save and near collision with Hamilton, and the 5 second penalty (and post-race shenanigans) that followed - Somehow this overshadowed LEC being on the overcut and finishing 3rd - BOT off the boil in 4th, VES 5th - RIC 6th, HUL 7th for Renault's best day of the year! Ahead of GAS in 8th - In the greatest day for Canadian sport until the Raptors win Game 5, STR 9th - Do you ever have brakes so hot they break your damn suspension? Lando Norris tells you how INDYCAR TEXAS 600KM http://www.imscdn.com/indycar_media/documents/2019-06-09/indycar-officialraceresults-Texas.pdf - Newgarden takes 2nd win in 3 races, 3rd win of 2019, and extends championship lead - THAT. SAVE. BY ROSSI. who still finishes 2nd - All-American American T5: Rahal 3rd, Santucci 4th, RHR 5th - More RLL pit crew pain as Chris

Hey folks, to make it three episodes in a week, here's us catching up with MotoGP in Mugello where Danilo Petrucci took an all-time classic over Marquez and Dovi, and IndyCar's "Dual In Detroit" as Josef Newgarden and Scott Dixon traded wins with rain, a bumped Hinch in the wall and a whole lot more got in the way! MOTOGP ITALIAN GRAND PRIX http://resources.motogp.com/files/results/2019/ITA/MotoGP/RAC/Session.pdf?v3_021e81f8 - Danilo Petrucci takes first GP victory in thrilling shootout - Marquez’ late lunge almost nets him the win - splits the Ducatis with Dovizioso 3rd - VR46 DOWN! GOOD HEAVENS NO - Rins charges from 13th to 4th - Nakagami scores best premier class finish in 5th - MV12 6th, FQ20 10th to salvage a bit of dignity for Yamaha - The Only Good Cop 7th, Crutchlow 8th - King breaks out the lotion for Pol in 9th - Miller sets fastest lap, lowsides it out of a potential podium http://resources.motogp.com/files/results/2019/ITA/Moto2/RAC/Session.pdf?v1_4512ce05 MOTO2: Back-to-back jacks for Alex Ma

We lay tribute to Niki Lauda and do what we do best, shitpost Motorsport. We review a dramatic F1 race at Monaco, an even more dramatic race at Berlin for Formula E, and RJ breaks down everything else we missed from a hectic weekend! REMEMBERING NIKI LAUDA - His early career with March and BRM, the bank loans that put him on the grid - Breakthrough, two titles and near tragedy at Ferrari - The greatest comeback in F1 history - End of first career with Brabham - Second career, and title #3 with McLaren - Architect of Mercedes dynasty after struggles with Jaguar F1 MONACO GRAND PRIX - In honour of his mentor Lauda, Hamilton wins from pole position - Verstappen's late-race efforts for naught after time penalty for unsafe release - Vettel salvages P2 from another frustrating weekend for Ferrari, ending the Mercedes 1-2 stream with BOT third - Leclerc's race compromised by qualifying debacle, and early charge through field thwarted by collision with Hulkenberg - SAI the winner of "F1.5" with 6th-place result, a

Hey folks, took us a little while, but a double header episode is coming on Monday and Wedn3esday with King, RJ and Chris, and this first part is all on the Indianapolis 500! Look back out on Wednesday for the F1 edition! Setlist: - Simon Pagenaud completes an incredible month of May with his first Indy 500 win - Shootout with "angry" Rossi is the 7th-closest Indy 500 MoV in history - Rossi overcomes issues with lapped cars, fuel filler issue on pit stops to rally and finish a close 2nd - Rahal, Bourdais come to blows after triggering multi-car pileup with 22 to go that takes out Rosenqvist, Kimball, and injures Veach - Sato takes advantage of late SC/Red Flag to finish 3rd ahead of Newgarden in 4th - Power recovers from pit road penalty to finish 5th with late pass on Carpenter in 6th - Ferrucci drives from 23rd to 7th, finishes as ROTY as other rookies hit trouble - RHR 8th, TK 9th, Daly with best-ever 500 finish in 10th - Hinchcliffe goes from 32nd to 11th after avoiding late-race pileup - Davison recover

Of course Fernando Alonso got bumped, of course. In a mega 2-hour long show, with Dre, Chris, Ryan and RJ, we break down all the drama of bump day for the 103rd running of the Indy 500! We also review MotoGP at Le Mans! Here's the full setlist! Indianapolis 500 Time Trials / The Starting Field https://www.indianapolismotorspeedway.com/events/indy500/event-info/live-grid - The Last Row Shootout: Chilton, O’Ward, and yes, Fernando Alonso all go home; Kaiser pulls off a Bump Day Miracle, Hinchcliffe gets in, Karam gets in - How bad did it get at McLaren Indy? The Associated Press has the scoop! - First Day Qualifiers, Rows 4-10 - The Fast Nine: Pagenaud denies Carpenter a fourth Indy 500 pole, continuing momentum from Indy GP MotoGP French Grand Prix - Marc Marquez wins back-to-back races comfortably over Dovi and Petrux - Jack Miller records new series of Jackass - Quartararo wins hearts after another compromised race, Yamaha rumours - Pol Espargaro scores KTM's greatest ever dry finish, P6 (Oh dear Zarco) Mo

Let's play catch-up! With RJ on vacation, this took a little longer than usual, but here's Episode #192 from Dre and King as Dre tries not to have a "crisis" over Ferrari's incompetence in Spain, and we celebrate Simon Pagenaud's magical comeback in the rain at Indianapolis! Here's the full setlist! IndyCar: Grand Prix of Indianapolis - Simon Pagenaud takes restart, rests nuts on rest of field to win - Jack Harvey has ridiculously strong weekend, finishes 3rd - Matt Leist actually profits off of AJ Foyt hipster strategy, 4th! - Alex Rossi has raced ruined, about 3 seconds in - Marcus Ericsson spins on his own, Colton Herta gets tagged on restart from 4th Formula 1: Spanish Grand Prix - Lewis Hamilton wins it at Turn 1. That was it. - Ferrari make monumental balls-up of EVERYTHING, finish 4th and 5th after two swaps - Max Verstappen slowly doing lords work - Haas civil war, K-Mag harder - Stroll and Norris collide in silly Turn 1 crash - F2 Round-Up: Nicolas Latifi wins feature race, NdV wins sprint race Fo

Dre and King get homely and snug as RJ takes up a vacation for the week! This time around we review a madcap MotoGP round in Jerez as Fabio Quartararo made history as the sport's youngest ever pole sitter, before his Yamaha died halfway through, with Marc Marquez taking a relatively comfortable victory! We also take a look at the W Series opener in Hockenheim and the... conflicting nature of the series. Here's the full list: MotoGP: Spanish Grand Prix: http://resources.motogp.com/files/results/2019/SPA/MotoGP/RAC/Session.pdf?v1_9ae1f28f - Marc Marquez dominates Jerez, reclaims Championship lead - Fabio Quartararo makes history as youngest ever pole sitter, so of course his bike dies in the race - No seriously, Alex Rins might be a title threat - Stop the presses, Maverick Vinales had a good start and had a podium! - Miller vs Aleix crash, Johann Zarco already down at KTM - Jorge Lorenzo "sad, disappointed and worried" at P12 finish Moto2: http://resources.motogp.com/files/results/2019/SPA/Moto2/RAC/Session.

Dre, RJ and King are back with a deep dive on Valtteri Bottas' Baku victory, a chaotic wet race in Formula E, the first of its kind, and we break into hysterics over NASCAR and what gets left at a race track. We also start solemnly over the 25th anniversary of the tragic weekend of Imola 94'. Here's the full list: SAN MARINO 1994, 25 YEARS LATER FORMULA 1: AZERBAIJAN GRAND PRIX - https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/2019/races/1003/azerbaijan/race-result.html - FP1 is #CANCELLED! Weld done Baku! - BOT takes pole in qualifying, but LEC, KUB crashes highlight the session - Surprise! Baku isn’t a shitshow! Nor is it terribly remarkable! BOT wins from HAM & VET - LEC wins DOTD - leads early on alternate strategy, but ultimately compromised by starting 8th, finishes 5th behind VER - GAS drives from the pit lane up to 6th, then retires with a driveshaft failure - RIC backs into KVY - PER wins F1.5 as both Racing Points finish in the points - SAI, NOR lead McLaren to first double-points finish in a year; R

A quiet week in Motorsport, but Dre, King and RJ are back for another M101, as we talk Super Formula's season opener, and crack open the mailbag for for your questions! SUPER FORMULA, INDY 500 QUALY DEBATES KEEPIN IT 101 SPECIAL WITH MAILBAG - Aaron: If you could put one old layout of a modern F1 track back on the calendar what would it be and why - Kelly Bone: Will Brendon Leigh inspire more eSports athletes to go racing for real - Josh Wilcock: Which driver in any series has impressed you the most? - Kevin Lee: Who will finish 2nd in the F1 WDC? - Joe Ellis: A Series you wish you liked but can’t get into? - Geof_F1: Favorite historic tracks that no longer exist? - Henry Chapman: What’s one moment in motorsport history that wasn’t significant at all at the time but now looking back is really significant? - Bryan Shadowolf: Which concept should have gotten a longer run - A1GP or GP Masters? - James Kalantzis: Davis Cup of Motorsport THE WEEK AHEAD

And here's the second part of that double header recording,as we look at MotoGP's Grand Prix of the Americas, and World Superbikes snow-filled weekend at Assen, and IndyCar's Grand Prix of Long Beach! MOTOGP GRAND PRIX OF THE AMERICAS: YOU MEAN MARC DIDN'T WIN!? http://resources.motogp.com/files/results/2019/AME/MotoGP/RAC/Session.pdf?v1_56bcf805 - Yes, Alex Rins takes first premier class victory! - Rossi 2nd, Miller gets first podium since winning Assen TT in ‘16 - Dovi goes from Midgrid to 4th - Marquez crash highlights nightmare race for Honda - Moto2: Baldassarri crashes! Old man Luthi wins! http://resources.motogp.com/files/results/2019/AME/Moto2/RAC/Session.pdf?v1_5a0017b2 - Moto3: Aron Canet wins http://resources.motogp.com/files/results/2019/AME/Moto3/RAC/Session.pdf?v1_e376d315 INDYCAR GRAND PRIX OF LONG BEACH: EXTRA SAUCY http://www.imscdn.com/indycar_media/documents/2019-04-14/indycar-race-results-official.pdf - Rossi takes back-to-back LBC victories from pole and a 20s margin of victory - Newga

Welcome to the first part of an M101 double header recording! Dre, King and RJ taking on Formula 1's 1000th pile of mediocrity in China, Formula E's return to Rome, and in the next episode, Marquez losing the streak at COTA in MotoGP and IndyCar's GP of Long Beach as Alex Rossi took another dominant victory! FORMULA 1 CHINESE GRAND PRIX: IT SURE WAS A #RACE1000 * HAM leads Mercedes 1-2, 3rd straight to open 2019 (first time since 92) * Ferrari’s strategy debacle- VET 3rd LEC 5th * VES 4th, GAS 6th+FL for Red Bull * RIC finally gets his first “F1.5” win * PER mystifies off the line to finish 8th * ALB goes from pit lane to P10, wins DOTD * McLaren’s race trashed on opening lap, was KVY penalty too harsh? * Results and Standings https://www.formula1.com/en/results.html/2019/races/1002/china/race-result.html FORMULA E ROME EPRIX: FREE TO PLAY WINNER https://www.fiaformulae.com/en/results/race-results/?championship=2022018&race=20180207&session=RaceResult * That pileup tho * As 2014-15 Champion Piquet

Hey folks, consider this episode the calm before the real storm hitting later this week! This was a catch-up episode on MotoGP in Argentina, World Superbikes in Aragon and IndyCar's GP of Alabama at Barber Motorsports Park! Dre, King and RJ break it all down here: INTROS, HOUSEKEEPING, AND OTHER SHAMELESS PLUGS WEEK BEFORE LAST WEEK TONIGHT: MOTOGP ARGENTINA - MotoGP Results - http://resources.motogp.com/files/results/2019/ARG/MotoGP/RAC/Session.pdf?v6_f4b218ea - Moto2 Results - http://resources.motogp.com/files/results/2019/ARG/Moto2/RAC/Session.pdf?v5_78970e8a - Moto3 Results - http://resources.motogp.com/files/results/2019/ARG/Moto3/RAC/Session.pdf?v1_77055a53 HONDA INDY GRAND PRIX OF ALABAMA http://www.imscdn.com/indycar_media/documents/2019-04-07/indycar-race-results-%20OFFICIAL.pdf - YES NOW, SATO! A dominant 4th career victory - Dixon finishes 2nd, 8th Barber podium without a win - Bourdais runs 2-stop strategy to 3rd - Newgarden holds onto points lead after going from 16th to 4th - Mechanical trou

The heartbreak heard around the world, with Charles Leclerc just 10 laps from victory in Bahrain, when a cylinder failing on the ICE caused him to limp home and gift wrap a win to Lewis Hamilton. RJ and King break it all down in what was a wild weekend in Sakhir: FORMULA 1 - BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX https://www.fia.com/file/78953/download - The ballad of Charles Leclerc: From pole position and a victory in the bag, to a misfired cylinder with 10 to go and a third-place finish - Mercedes pick up a 1-2 from Ferrari's misfortune, HAM wins, BOT retains 1-point lead - VET spins out during battle with HAM, suffers collapsed front wing, finishes 5th - Renault suffers double DNF with 4 to go - HUL retires from 6th, RIC from 10th - VER just misses out on a podium - and lucky to escape punishment for driving into SAI - NOR finishes "best of the rest" in 6th for McLaren - RAI 7th, GAS 8th - but questions rising about his standing against VER - ALB scores first points in 9th, PER 10th, just holding off GIO - GRO only other

RJ, King, Chris, an 18-year-old win an IndyCar race, and Fight Club is back from IndyCar's Classic at COTA, and Formula E in Sanya! INDYCAR CLASSIC AT AUSTIN http://www.imscdn.com/indycar_media/documents/2019-03-24/indycar-race-results%20Official.pdf - Colton Herta, 18 years, 11 months, 24 days old is an IndyCar race winner - Will Power’s driveline failure and the caution that changed the race - Newgarden 2nd, RHR 3rd to complete All-American podium - Patricio O’Ward dunks on Graham Rahal like Vince Carter on Frederic Weis -Bourdais 17th >5th, Marco 20th > 6th, Harvey 23rd>10th - Indy Lights: Oliver Askew sweeps the weekend, goes to points lead FORMULA E SANYA EPRIX http://fiaformulae.alkamelsystems.com/Results/04_2018-19/09_R06%20Sanya/93_ABB%20FIA%20Formula%20E%20Championship/201903231504_Race/03_Classification_Race.PDF - JEV becomes 6th different winner in 2018-19, wins inaugural Sanya ePrix - BEEF TIME: Di Grassi vs Frijns - Rowland a career-best 2nd, Da Costa goes back to points lead in 3rd -

Formula 1 is back in style, and Bottas 2.0.exe took over in the Australian GP, and Bautista has left World Superbikes feeling very awkward indeed! Here's a fast-paced episode with Dre, KIng and RJ! EPISODE 183: TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN... INTROS AND HOUSEKEEPING FORMULA 1 AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX - Before anything: A farewell to Race Director Charlie Whiting - Valtteri Bottas wins in dominant fashion, takes maximum points in Australia - HAM runs to a pedestrian 2nd - VER scores Honda’s first podium in 11 years - THE CHURCH OF DRE IS IN SESSION - Haas have simultaneously a good and a terrible day (MAG 6th, GRO DNF - guess how!) - HUL 7th, RAI 8th, STR +7 to 9th - KVY resists race long pressure from GAS, finishes 10th - RIC’s race goes to shit in 400 meters, SAI has MGU-K failure - GET ON BOARD THE GIO TRAIN - Williams :( WSBK THAILAND - Holy shit Alvaro Bautista swept a weekend AGAIN - Rea 3x 2nd, Lowes 3x 3rd SUPER SEBRING WEEKEND - 1000M Sebring: Y’all they launched a rocket during a car race - And Toyota

Call this the "catch-up episode", as Dre, RJ, King and Chris take on IndyCar's season opener in St. Pete, Formula E's race in Hong Kong, and MotoGP's season opener in Qatar! And Fight Club's back! Oh and the thumbnail... Oh boy, that needs explaining. INDYCAR: FIRESTONE GP OF ST PETE - Josef Newgarden opens the season with a win from the front row - Dixon closes late to finish 2nd, Power 3rd - Super Rookies: Rosenqvist leads in his first outing and finishes 4th, Herta 8th, Santino 9th - BASSINGHAM REPRESENT Jack Harvey finishes 10th - Bourdais loses three-peat bid with engine failure, RHR grenades, Sato breaks down - Jones and Leist crash, Jones breaks his hand - The TV feed breaks for a few laps - Indy Lights: ZC Without the D and Rinus VK split the weekend - Indy Pro 2000: Kirkwood does NOT win - USF2000: Alex Baron wins the aerobatics contest, Reece & Rasmussen imitate Habsburg & Camara THE NEWS INTERMISSION - Robert Wickens returns to the paddock at St Pete, sets sights on a return to racing -

Special credit to arqmariodonde on the F1 subreddit for the amazing JoJo reference in the thumbnail) Also, this was recorded before the tragic passing of Charlie Whiting, that'll be addressed in Episode 183. In the first part of this doubleheader of tapings, we preview the 2019 F1 Season, team by team, from first to Williams. Where's Racing Point ending up? Is McLaren real? Has Mercedes sandbagged? Is Leclerc the next coming of christ? All that, and the new rule changes that are entering the sport too. See you back for Episode 182, where we catchup on all the other forms of Motorsport we missed this past week.. and a porn stache was involved!