Bonus episode! Will F1's bold new era fly or fall flat?
The Intercooler
Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel
4.8 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel preview the 2026 Formula 1 season, which gets underway this weekend at the Australian Grand Prix. They discuss the controversial new power unit regulations and the apparent shortcomings of this new era of hybrid powertrains, which teams and drivers appear to be in a strong position, and which teams are in trouble.
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| 0:32.9 | Welcome back to the Intercooler podcast, everybody, and welcome to a bonus episode of the Intercooler podcast with me, Dan Proser, and Andrew Frankel. |
| 0:42.3 | Andrew, we don't do bonus episodes very often, hardly at all, actually. |
| 0:47.3 | We felt it was necessary this time. |
| 0:51.3 | Yeah, given what's happening this weekend. |
| 0:53.3 | So we wanted to preview the Australian Grand Prix, but also the 2026 Formula One season. |
| 1:01.1 | Because it feels like a big deal, doesn't it? |
| 1:03.1 | It's a big change for F1, new regulations, new cars, new teams. |
| 1:10.1 | And we thought it was appropriate and necessary to spend 30 minutes or so, just sort of looking |
| 1:17.5 | forward to what's coming. |
| 1:19.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:19.5 | So what's going to happen is you and I are going to go through this podcast. |
| 1:22.2 | We're going to spend this about half an hour chatting about the season, making all sorts of |
| 1:26.1 | predictions about the season in general and the race |
| 1:30.1 | on Sunday in particular. And then on Monday, on our regular podcast, we're going to see just how |
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