HILL & HERBERT: Who will be 2026 F1 champion? Damon and Johnny's verdict
The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Media Ltd
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Damon Hill and Johnny Herbert are back for the first 2026 episode of their F1 podcast, Stay On Track! They discuss the impact winning the F1 world title will have on Lando Norris (and his McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri), and share their view on the mindset Isack Hadjar needs to have going into Red Bull Racing alongside Max Verstappen.
They also weigh up which team will get the new regulations right, and who might get them wrong, and what impact multiple exits will have on Red Bull. There's also talk of Lewis Hamilton's pivotal second Ferrari season, plus Hill and Herbert make their champion predictions for 2026...
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:04.7 | Coming up on this episode of Stay on Track. |
| 0:07.6 | So there will be a strong pairing, but there will be more determination within the team from Oscar to stop Lando beating him again. |
| 0:16.6 | Well, the apple cart is an interesting one. |
| 0:18.4 | When I was with Michael at Benetton, I remember I did an article somewhere and I said, |
| 0:21.5 | I want to be world champion this year. |
| 0:23.5 | And I think within about two hours, there was another article that came out in Germany |
| 0:27.2 | that Michael responded to sort of say, if he thinks he's going to win the world championship |
| 0:30.4 | this year, he's got another thing coming. |
| 0:32.2 | You know, we always hear about the kind of Zen master, Kung Fu master, you know, |
| 0:36.4 | who's 75 years old. |
| 0:38.0 | Yes. |
| 0:39.8 | You know, |
| 0:40.5 | you can still lay everyone out. |
| 0:42.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:43.2 | Is that possible? |
| 0:44.2 | Or is that just a load of rubbish? |
| 0:45.4 | Yeah, |
| 0:45.5 | yeah. |
| 0:45.9 | That I don't know. |
| 0:52.7 | Hello. |
| 0:53.7 | We are. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Yeah. Another. Hello. We're here? |
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