Full 2026 Season Preview and Predictions

The Ringer F1 Show

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4.3 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Meg and Spanners sit down to take a big look at this year's upcoming F1 season as it prepares to kick off. They take a look at the best drivers to watch, their personal predictions and hot takes for the season, as well as previewing the Australian GP. (00:00) Intro(02:36) Who are the drivers to watch?(07:14) Personal top-five drivers this season(33:50) The Constructors' Championship(52:03) Australia GP preview Hosts: Megan Schuster, Spanners ReadySenior Producer: Steve Ahlman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:44.0	Hello, welcome to the Ringer F1 show, part of the Ringer podcast network.
0:49.1	I am your host, Megan Schuster, and we are here today to make some pre-season predictions.
0:53.2	Joining me as always as Spanors, I have one question for you.
0:55.3	Just how wrong are we going to be today?
0:56.7	I don't care.
0:58.4	I'm going for wild speculation. And I think it's not fair to hold people to their specific predictions.
1:04.4	It is.
1:05.0	And we can.
1:05.7	And we can definitely, you can claim, oh, I won.
1:08.7	I got this one right.
1:09.6	I was brilliant.
1:10.5	Or harassed someone all season
1:12.8	for saying that Williams quite reasonably might be near the bottom.
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