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The Ringer F1 Show

The 2026 F1 Driver Points Draft

The Ringer F1 Show

The Ringer

Sports

4.3673 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Meg and Spanners are joined by F1 journalists Nate Saunders and Chris Medland to have their very own driver points draft, as they pick which drivers will come out with the most points this season and who will give us the biggest surprises! (00:00) Intro (03:09) Let the Drafting Begin! Hosts: Megan Schuster and Spanners Ready Guest: Nate Saunders and Chris Medland Senior Producer: Steve Ahlman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:36.9

I am your host, Megan Schuster, and I'm joined as always by Spaners. I don't know what a draft is. I'm just constantly being drip-fed American-ness, and I assume that this is another American-Nus. That's the entire goal of this podcast. We're just going to pick the drivers that we like based on vibes and then we're going to have this competition

0:54.5

throughout the whole season I assume. So despite not knowing what a draft is, I'm determined to win

1:00.2

it. It's confident. And I'm determined to undermine the confidence of my co-competitors. I have

1:05.7

compromising AI generated images of producer Steve and I have cash to trade and barter with as well. There you go. We are joined also in studio today by Nate Saunders of ESPN and F1 journalist and broadcaster Chris Medland. So I thought this was a draft beer. That would have been more fun. Yeah, I thought the same thing. We just got a good draft. Maybe a little half time. And it's on Meg. Yeah, it's the boss. 100%. So Spanner said we are gathered here today to do something a little fun and also hopefully a little bit competitive. We are doing an F1 driver points draft. So how this is going to work is producer Steve has sent us a random draft order. So you all heard it come through the microphones earlier.

1:44.7

So know that I did not set it personally. I would like that on the record. And from there,

1:49.1

we'll do a snake draft. The goal is to create a team. We'll each have five drivers in the end with

1:54.3

two left over. So apologies to whoever's left over. But we want a team that will have the most

1:59.3

driver points by the end of the season.

2:01.5

So this will give us an opportunity, I think, to talk a little bit about the drivers, but also

2:05.7

about where cars are going to stack up for this season, which I think is the big question

2:10.9

going into this regulation set. And yeah, we'll be able to track our teams throughout the

2:15.5

season and see whose pre-season assumptions were correct.

2:18.3

Obviously, like, we're up against proper journalists. Yeah, I'm a little terrified, to be honest. I've actually prepped a draft order as well. Nate came in hot. So I was like, heard fantasy and I was like, I'm in. Don't care what it is, where it is. I see why you say that about Nate now. Yeah, exactly. He messaged me before coming in here.

2:34.1

He's like, have you done your draft prep?

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