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The Red Flags Podcast

James Hinchcliffe on Oscar & Lando's Championship Battle, Palou in F1, and 2025 Season Predictions

The Red Flags Podcast

Vox Media Podcast Network

Sports

4.6796 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

James Hinchcliffe joins the pod to talk Oscar and Lando's championship battle, is Oscar at his peak yet, how would Alex Palou fair against the McLaren boys in F1, which rookies are showing out this season, and what the future for IndyCar looks like, and more!!! Thank you to our sponsors BetMGM and MUG for making this episode possible! Use bonus code DADDY when you sign up for BetMGM. Next time you’re craving something cold, frothy, and packed with unapologetic flavor — crack open a MUG Root Beer. Find MUG Root Beer at your local store or head to https://www.mugrootbeer.com/find-mug to find out how you can get your paws on some MUG and be sure to throw them a follow online, @MUGRootBeer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up, bankers?

0:03.0

Hello, bankers.

0:06.0

How's everybody doing?

0:08.0

How are you doing?

0:10.0

Are you okay on this break?

0:13.0

We've got three weeks without Formula One.

0:17.0

Week one is done. We're in week two.

0:20.0

And guess what? You might be starved. But today you're going to be fed.

0:25.1

And you're going to be fed more than something you haven't had in a couple weeks. We're about to give you a full American, well, Canadian, honorary American, just a full North American hearty meal of our favorite F1 commentator who's been, you know,

0:45.8

taking a nice little paycheck over at the IndyCar Fox at IndyCar and having a good time over there with Will Buxton,

0:52.1

The Trader. We've got the one and only

0:56.0

james hitchcliff on the pie hey boys just just for clarity who am i who am i who am i

1:02.4

trading on which one which one am i no no will buxton is a traitor oh he's the trader yes no big

1:10.0

time big time huge just incredible what he pulled there. Just so rude. It was a big Casa Moore switch. Yeah. It does feel like Will Buxton's in Casa more over at IndyCar. But he's bringing that British Fleury. He's bringing that Buxton excitement to the Indycar Street. So We're going to be, listen, we want to talk about a lot with you today. We want to talk about F1 because you haven't, we haven't seen you. We were just on the most recent broadcast, and we were, we were thrilled to see you there. But we, we, we, we, the people have been starved of the James Hinchcliffe commentary.

1:45.8

So we want to chat with you about F1.

1:47.2

We want to talk about IndyCar.

1:48.3

We want to talk about Alex Palo and this historic run that he's on.

1:53.2

But just how has it been?

1:55.7

Do you feel caught up or do you feel like you're catching up with F1 because your attention's been elsewhere? Dude, it's literally my week're catching up with F1 because you've been, your attention's been elsewhere.

2:01.4

Dude, it's literally my week is catching up with F1. You know, if we have an IndyCar race, which the schedule the way it is, we've had a lot of them in a short period of time. You know, Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays are just like binging everything F1, trying to make sure that I am up to speed.

2:16.9

So that way when they just like drop me in Hungary midseason, I kind of feel like I know

2:21.4

it's going to speed. So that way when they just

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