Max Gets DQ'd, New Liveries, and Looking to Japan

The Ringer F1 Show

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🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Meg and Spanners take on the week's F1 news and headlines and break everything down before the Japanese GP this coming weekend! (00:00) Intro(03:11) Wheatley is “Outie” at Audi(11:36) Max wins (then loses) the ring(18:39) Lewis has actually won: A story of cope(25:51) The Japan GP is on the way!(41:41) Loads of new liveries! Shop thousands of cars and the largest online selection of vehicle parts on eBay motors. Hosts: Megan Schuster, Spanners ReadySenior Producer: Steve Ahlman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:43.3	Hello, welcome to The Ringer F1 show, part of the Ringer podcast network.
0:47.4	I am your host, Megan Schuster, and we are here to preview the Japanese Grand Prix.
0:51.6	Before we get into all things, Japan, though, we have some news and notes to run through,
0:53.8	and joining me to get into all of it is Spanners.
0:59.7	Spanors, happy Wednesday, happy Japan week, happy excitement all around.
1:02.8	This is one of the most thrilling races on the calendar.
1:07.6	Kenichiwa, Meg, as Christine Horner taught us. And I was going to say, in the immortal words of Christian Horner three times in a row. Thank goodness he taught us that on Drive to Survive. But yeah, no, this is, this is exciting. It's special livery week in a way. You know, this is much like Miami as well. The Japanese crowd really get on board. You always get a guy with like a racing car hat or a DRS. Did you see the guy with a fully functioning DRS?
1:28.3	No.
1:29.3	Yeah.
1:30.3	Who is he and how do I get one? I don't know. So now he's got to have a straight mode, difficult conversation with your dad mode hat, hasn't he? Active arrow? Like how do you finagle that? You're going to have one of the rotisserie wings going on up there, just toss the chicken and we're ready to go, snacks for the whole crew?
1:47.9	There's a huge... naggle that is. You're going to have like one of the rotisserie wings going on up there, just toss
1:44.6	the chicken and we're ready to go, snacks for the whole crew? There's a huge fandom there. I think
1:49.2	Japan is a lot like the UK in that the fandom is spread around. Lots of different teams, lots of
1:55.1	different drivers, massive long heritage of supporting Formula One, but also I hope that I can turn at least a portion of this episode
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