BONUS: Kubica's Ferrari redemption - and the controversy that hangs over Le Mans win
The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Media Ltd
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🗓️ 17 June 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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We're delighted to bring you an extra episode in the feed this week, as an example of the kind of bonus content regularly available to The Race Members' Club. Our F1 Extra episodes dig deeper in F1 and F1-related storylines, and on the latest instalment we take a closer look at former F1 favourite Robert Kubica's first Le Mans 24 Hours victory with Ferrari.
Host Edd Straw welcomes The Race's endurance correspondent Thibault Villemant and editor Valentin Khorounzhiy, who were both on-site at the Circuit de la Sarthe covering the 2025 edition of the iconic marathon.
Kubica, of course, looked set to drive for Ferrari in F1 before he was badly injured in a rally crash in 2011, so his victory has been widely celebrated. But just how good was his performance in the 24 hours, and how did Ferrari's third squad, which also featured Ye Yifei and Phil Hanson, beat its more acclaimed two factory cars?
Also, did this year's Balance of Performance in the top class make Ferrari's route to a third successive victory too simple - and how much of a concern is one of its cars being disqualified post-race for a technical irregularity? Villemant and Khorounzhiy discuss this, and praise the other standout crew of the event.
They also take their time to assess how each of the Hypercar manufacturers fared, and talk about the performances of recent F1 drivers Mick Schumacher and Kevin Magnussen - as well as discuss a Magnussen team-mate you need to know about.
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| 1:15.9 | The race is on, and Robert Cabitzer is a LeMont 24-Hours winner with Yewfe and Phil Hanson |
| 1:21.7 | in Ferrari's controversial third winner in the event in a row. |
| 1:24.9 | I'm Ed Straw and with me are Val Hourngi and Thibaut Villemont. |
| 1:29.5 | Right, well it's great to have a slightly unusual podcast where instead of really talking about |
| 1:34.7 | F1 matters, we get to talk about the LeMont 24 hours, of course, particularly for me. Great to see |
| 1:41.7 | Robert Cabitzer winning it, but you, Val, and you, Tiber, you've, |
| 1:45.8 | you've lived through Laman and obviously with some of the controversy that's emerged after it, |
| 1:50.8 | with the exclusion of one of the cars, it's still going on. So Tibo, how are you doing after |
| 1:55.8 | Lamont? Exhausted, for sure, as everyone. But yeah, it was such a great news to see robert kubitsa won such |
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