F1 Journalist Chris Medland Breaks Down Pre-Season Testing, Gives 2025 Predictions

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🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Chris Medland joins us to breakdown what he saw at Pre-Season Testing. We discuss who looks the best, Red Bull's new driver dynamic between Max Verstappen and Liam Lawson, McLaren going for the repeat, how Sir Lewis Hamilton looks at Ferrari, is Mercedes being slept on, drivers at new teams, any teams with major concerns, which teams don't have a clear #1 driver, and championship predictions for the F1 2025 season. Thank you to our sponsors BetMGM, Southern Comfort, Every Man Jack and Zbiotics for making this episode possible! Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 3:30 - First Impressions 12:31 - Early Favorites? 22:31 - Red Bull Still Contenders? 31:38 - Are Mercedes Slept On? 39:32 - Drivers at New Teams 49:30 - Teams Choosing #1 Driver 53:32 - 2025 Predictions Use bonus code DADDY when you sign up for BetMGM. Try Every Man Jack today: https://www.everymanjack.com No matter the moment, Southern Comfort is ready-for-anything: packed with flavor, mixes with anything, and easy to drink! Pick up some Southern Comfort today! Get some inspiration: https://www.southerncomfort.com/recipes.html Go to https://zbiotics.com/pages/am-redflags to learn more and get 15% off your first order when you use REDFLAGS at checkout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.6	On your mark. Yes, sir. Bye. We're back in the nation's favorite tent. Let's do this. And it's
0:37.3	packed with a fresh batch of famous faces.
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0:49.6	Stream now.
0:51.0	Bus up, Bankers!
0:57.0	Hello, Vengas! How is everybody doing?
1:01.0	How are you doing?
1:04.0	Three days up, three days down.
1:08.0	Testing, baby. Testing's it's done it's done these cars have been on track dude
1:18.2	yeah they've they've they've they've definitely done laps at speeds that might may or may not
1:24.3	mean something that's right and you know but we're here today because obviously
1:28.1	we don't understand what any of this shit means i saw on a youtube video that land on norris when
1:34.7	doing a full race run was 31 seconds ahead of everyone else so i am convinced that landor
1:39.6	norris going to win the championship but we have someone on the show today who is hopefully going to tell
1:45.3	me that I'm right, but probably tell me that I'm wrong. We're going to be covering all things
1:50.0	testing today, which is why we have a journalist, broadcaster, podcaster, and Strava enthusiast,
1:58.1	the one and only Chris Medlin on the pod.
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