Does F1 need Ozempic? | Podcast Ep 973
The Parc Fermé F1 Podcast
The Parc Fermé
4.5 • 722 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Chapters:
00:00 Welcome to the Offseason
02:56 Audi's 2026 Car Debut
05:44 Building Expectations for Audi
08:43 The Reality of F1 Integration
11:14 Audi's Shakedown Success
14:06 The Launch Season Begins
16:44 The Evolution of Car Launches
19:37 Anticipating the 2026 Season
23:18 The Evolution of F1 Team Launches
28:21 Weight Limit Controversies in F1
33:33 Driver Development and Team Dynamics
39:02 Driver Numbers and Branding in F1
40:22 The Significance of Racing Numbers
45:13 Merchandising and Branding in Racing
49:48 Idris Elba and Formula E
54:37 The Future of Formula 1 and Team Dynamics
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| 0:00.0 | Steering wheel. |
| 0:01.1 | Claps a steering wheel here. |
| 0:02.8 | Kim, steering wheel. |
| 0:22.5 | Hey, hey, steering wheel. Somebody's called to give it to a... Come on! Whoa! Do you like that, say, please? Do you like it? How the f*** this is possible? I'm driving like a grandma. Get that Ralph, did you hear me? No, but ready. The rest of the rates. Ralph, acknowledge. Come on, close him down and kill him. We've got lunatic on the track down the Hagerstake. I'm so annoyed. Boys and girls, your attention, please. Hello, and welcome back inside the park for May for podcast number 9753. This is Todd. No, Todd, not now. A.k.a. Negative camber. You know why I'm asking here. |
| 0:39.2 | You was convinced to villagers that I'm harmless. |
| 0:42.2 | That's what I need you to do tonight. For your kind |
| 0:45.4 | consideration, oh man, it's the off-season, folks. |
| 0:49.4 | We've got, you know, 2026 regulation reset, weight issues, some shakedown, some launches and new error messaging everywhere, oddly numbers. |
| 1:03.0 | And, you know, Audi's first run, right? |
| 1:05.8 | Launch calendar, why not? |
| 1:07.3 | We're going to talk about all that. |
| 1:08.9 | Seems like something we ought to do, really. But before doing that, I've got to go get my co-host all the way on the right coast of our nation. Nessel in our nation's capital where she applies her skills as a master statistician. She does. That's what she does. You know her. You love her. The love love. Grace. Grace, how are you doing? I'm doing all right, Todd. How are you doing? I'm doing fine. So, keen-eyed viewers of this podcast will notice we've got a little bit of a change here. It's a change camera angle for me and a change camera angle and backdrop for you. And hey, it's the |
| 1:46.5 | offseason folks. What are we going to do? I got a different monitor instead of having the |
| 1:53.1 | camera in the middle. And now I'm looking up and right and left and all that. So apologies. |
| 1:58.3 | If I look disoriented, it's because I am. It's disorienting. Yeah. |
| 2:03.7 | It is disorienting. It is. It's the little things, Grace. It is. And I'm here because our |
| 2:10.3 | oldest cat is currently recuperating. And so my office, where I usually record, is part of her base camp. So I am in the |
| 2:19.4 | basement with the other three knuckleheads that I live with. And Pime and Flip were hanging out |
| 2:24.2 | in sequestered in my office in the guest room. So here we are in the basement. |
| 2:29.6 | In the basement. Why not? That's right. Seems it seems apropos really for you and I to have, you know, different setting. |
| 2:39.7 | That's great. |
| 2:40.8 | On the offseason. |
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