Best of the rest: Untangling F1's confusing midfield battle
The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Media Ltd
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
The latest edition of The Race F1 Podcast sets aside the battle at the front and puts the focus firmly on unravelling the confusing midfield fight.
Williams, Sauber, Racing Bulls, Aston Martin, Haas and Alpine are embroiled in a battle for fifth through to 10th in the constructors’ championship with tens of millions of dollars at stake.
Mark Hughes and Scott Mitchell-Malm join Edd Straw to examine the competitive situation for all six teams, and discuss what we can expect for the rest of the season.
Why has Williams’s form slumped, where did Sauber come from, should Haas be doing more, is Aston Martin on the right track and is Racing Bulls the midfielder’s midfield team are all discussed - as well as whether the Alpine team can set aside its penchant for nonsense and lift itself off the bottom of the table.
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| 1:22.5 | The race is on, and while the fight at the front grabs all the headlines, |
| 1:29.7 | the midfield battle in F1 has been even more hard fought than usual in 2025. |
| 1:34.2 | So at the halfway point of the season, how does it really stack up? |
| 1:37.8 | I'm Ed's draw, and joining me to untangle the six-team scrap as Scott Mitchell Malm and Mark Hughes. |
| 1:44.0 | Well, Scott, we'll come to you first. Unusual to have this little mini break, isn't it, before the double header that leads into the proper August break? Yeah, it's nice not to wait until August to have a little bit of a breather. And it comes at a nice time because, as you said in that intro, it is the halfway point, 12 rounds down, 12 rounds to go, whereas we tend to think of the summer |
| 2:03.1 | break as sort of roughly around the halfway mark and it tends to be where we take stock of battles like |
| 2:08.5 | the midfield. But it's a good thing that we do this now because the midfield battle is so close |
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