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The Race F1 Podcast

BONUS: In-Car Insights - looking ahead to F1's three-way title fight decider!

The Race F1 Podcast

The Race Media Ltd

Sports

4.51K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

As a special bonus ahead of this weekend's title finale, we're making the Thursday edition of our In-Car Insights podcast - usually only available to The Race Members' Club - free for everyone to listen to.


Get the lowdown from Edd, Scott (and Samarth off-mic in the back) from inside Edd's Geely hire car as they make their way from the Abu Dhabi F1 paddock to a Cadillac press dinner at an Indian restaurant.


Find out what the guys made of the special title showdown press conference, convened so Max Verstappen and the McLaren drivers could field the inevitable questions collectively before they get down to business this weekend, and how the protagonists will each be approaching this critical race weekend.


Plus other lessons learned on 'media day' in the Yas Marina paddock.


If you like what you hear - and we're confident you will - head to Patreon.com/therace to sign up to The Race Members' Club and enjoy these bonus episodes (and much more besides) on every grand prix weekend.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Incar Insight. Usually this is exclusively for the race members club, but today we're making it free to all.

0:08.9

It's Incar Insights because we're in a car, my geely higher car, to be precise.

0:13.1

We're going to hopefully offer Insight while we drive home from the circuit, or actually, onto a little Cadillac dinner, aren't we Scott?

0:20.7

Yes, we are just leaving the track now.

0:23.6

It's just gone at 8 o'clock.

0:25.5

We're off to an event that Cadillac are hosting, which is very generous of them.

0:29.7

It's a little bit of a head start on interacting with the team a little bit more

0:34.2

before their debut in F1 next year.

0:37.2

And very conveniently, it is happening at a place about seven minutes drive from our hotel. So that's the kind of event we like to see if Calilac's F1 team is anywhere near as good on track as it is in planning events convenient for us. I suspect they'll probably be more competitive than they're really going to be in 2026. I hope the service at the Cadillac dinner is quicker than I fear the car will be next year.

0:56.9

Scott, do you want to tell people what cargo we've got in the back?

0:59.8

Yes, we've got Samath with us.

1:04.0

We don't have a third microphone, but he has been instructed to just tap me on the shoulder

1:10.1

if he has any burning insights to

1:12.3

provide my mic's clicked on at the moment otherwise i would have just very quickly

1:16.1

thrown back to samath to say hello probably smile shout in the back if you're there hello

1:20.4

there we go there's there's samarth so yeah the uh the um car insights is uh i think uh it's a members

1:26.3

club staple and it's definitely one of the most popular things we do.

1:30.7

So if you are interested in this and want to experience more of it

1:35.4

over the rest of the title showdown weekend,

1:37.9

we will do one on Friday evening and Saturday evening as well,

1:41.0

and then you have the post race podcast proper on Sunday.

1:44.0

These are always good for a bit of a natter and we've got according to the map 28 minutes before we get to the Indian restaurant that we're going to. So this is priming our Insights territory isn't it? So much talking to be done. So should we start off with the title fight shenanigans because you were in the, what was it, a title fight way in or whatever they did with the three of them? I wasn't now because I got summoned to, I got summoned to, I got summoned to Salba, the best place to be summoned to. So I had no idea what they were talking about and what was going on. So you had what, Piastri, Nois and Vestappen in one of the two FIA press conferences. Yes, but before that, we had the first of the two press conferences,

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