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F1 Race Director Leaves, Alpine Becomes Mercedes Customer - Autosport Q+A

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🗓️ 13 November 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Bryn Lucas hosts the latest edition of the Autosport Q+A Podcast, this time joined by Alex Kalinauckas and Kevin Turner. On this week's episode, a large amount of recent news to dissect, such as the departure of the FIA's F1 Race Director Niels Wittich, and whether his questionable management of the Brazilian Grand Prix may have led to his reported firing. There's also the recent shock statement from the Grand Prix Drivers Association released on Instagram in response to recent decisions made by both Race Control such as Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc's fines for swearing. How much pressure is FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem under? There are also discussions on Alpine as they become a customer of Mercedes power units and gearboxes for 2026, Dan Fallows stepping down as Aston Martin's technical director, and F1 having a huge live show to launch the 2025 season, and why it's seen as a "travesty" by the panel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Bryn Lucas and you're listening to the Autosport podcast.

0:09.0

Welcome to the Autosport Q&A videos and podcast. This is a weekly edition where we feature your questions and put your questions to the experts. And if you want to get involved, you can put your questions in the comments section below here on YouTube or give us a

0:24.4

follow on Instagram at Autosport and wait for the inbox at the start of each week. Get your questions

0:30.4

in and then we'll start grilling the journales about it. And this week, I'm delighted to be joined by

0:34.9

Alex Callan Orcas and Kevin Turner. Jens, how are you doing? First of all, Kevin, it's been a week since I've seen you. Good week?

0:40.9

Yeah, I bought a new shirt, you see?

0:42.2

Lovely, and you ironed it?

0:43.9

Well, it's so new, it didn't it? It didn't even need nine. That'll have to this by the way Kevin is wearing a beautifully pressed shirt as is

0:54.2

Alex Kalanorkis and last time is it? That's a lie. What's you've got the comments say.

0:59.0

Last time I saw you, you're about to get on a plane to Mexico doing some weird exercises every

1:03.7

hour or so. How did that go? Yeah, that was fine. Austin first, then Mexico, delayed getting

1:08.2

out of Mexico by a volcano, which is a new experience. I feel like it was F1 2010 all over again.

1:12.8

But no, yeah, back held up fine.

1:14.8

This chair's not too good for it, but maybe that's just, maybe I'm just...

1:17.5

Not all heroes wear capes, we'll get through it.

1:20.7

Now, we have got a fair bit of news to come along with to start.

1:24.0

So let's have a look at some of the questions and some of the news. And the first bit of breaking news meant we had to rewrite the script yesterday.

1:30.4

I'll say we, the producer, I had nothing to do with it.

1:32.6

This is all about the FIA race director, Niels Vittich, who has stepped down with a media

1:37.4

effect.

1:38.7

This is after the Brazil Grand Prix.

1:41.8

And sort of the question is, what made this happen? What forced this decision and why so

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