Race verdicts, archive arguments, and lists worth fighting over.
Kevin Turner leads an Autosport Formula 1 discussion that alternates between reviewing the latest Grand Prix and digging back through the sport's archives. Colleagues and guests argue over rankings, regulations and reputations, testing each list and verdict against what they remember of the racing itself.
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There are two Autosports in this feed, and they share a host. Kevin Turner introduces both the race reviews and the retro episodes, and the register barely shifts between them. It is the sound of motorsport journalists thinking out loud rather than reading finished copy. Sentences run long. Positions get revised mid-argument. The race reviews follow the championship as it happens. After the Japanese Grand Prix, the conversation opens on Kimi Antonelli's second win and his move into the points lead, then widens into what Suzuka revealed about the current cars. Stuart Codling, watching from home after attending the first two rounds, compares the view from a sofa to the view from the track, and notes that commentating on a race is not the same as absorbing it. The Chinese Grand Prix review is franker still: some liked the second race of F1's new era, some did not, and the rules argument is treated as genuinely unresolved. Technical detail arrives without ceremony. Downforce levels, spring stiffness, how much mental bandwidth a car demands from its driver. One exchange traces Lewis Hamilton's form back to the support structure he brought from Ferrari and to a chassis that no longer bounces. Standings and surprises get their moment too, including one driver's early points haul. The retro strand is built around lists. Turner picks ten, then hands them over to be attacked. Damien Smith and Stuart Codling take on the greatest title-winning campaigns; Karun Chandhok and Codling take on the greatest campaigns that never produced a championship, which one guest argues is the more interesting subject. The criteria matter as much as the entries. For great lost wins, Turner explains that he ranked by the quality of the drive, how late the failure came, and whether the driver was denied through no fault of his own, which is why results overturned after the flag are excluded. Even the show's own format gets debated. A 'worst of' list is floated and rejected as unkind to drivers, with least impressive offered as the fairer framing. Maurice Hamilton anchors the 2007 episode, drawing on having been there through Spygate, the arrival of Lewis Hamilton, the McLaren friction with Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen's championship. Humour is dry and brief. Disagreement is expected and welcome. Listeners who want slogans and hype will not find them; listeners who want reasoning, comparison and long memory will.
Made for: Formula 1 followers who want a considered verdict on the weekend rather than headlines, and who enjoy historical argument about seasons, drivers and near-misses. It suits listeners comfortable with regulations, chassis behaviour and championship context, though the show explains why a detail matters when it needs to.
What sets it apart: Few F1 shows run current race review and archive ranking side by side with the same host and the same measured register. The lists are not filler: Turner states his criteria, and his guests are explicitly there to argue with him.
The Autosport F1 Podcast is one of the world’s leading authorities on Formula 1. There’s the latest news, race reviews, as well as classic retro podcasts, giving you content every week from our studios and the F1 world.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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