This Week in F1: Max to Ferrari? Kimi to Williams? Stefano Changing Up F1?

The Red Flags Podcast

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🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Matt and Brian discuss this week’s biggest motorsport headlines including Colton Herta’s role at Cadillac F1 and his move to F2, Toto Wolff getting candid about Kimi Antonelli’s Monza performance, Stefano Domenicali’s new race weekend plans, what Max Verstappen’s future in and out of F1 could look like, Pierre Gasly’s new Alpine deal, and talks of a future race in Thailand. All that, plus the latest paddock chatter, in this week’s roundup of everything you need to know in F1! Thank you to our sponsors BetMGM, Shopify, MUG, and Omaha Steaks for making this episode possible! Use bonus code DADDY when you sign up for BetMGM.Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial and start selling today at https://SHOPIFY.com/redflags 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. Go to https://OmahaSteaks.com to get 50% off sitewide during their Red-Hot Sale Event. And use Promo Code FLAGS at checkout for an extra $35 off. Minimum purchase may apply. See site for details. A big thanks to our advertiser, Omaha Steaks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up, bankers?
0:01.5	Hello, bankers.
0:04.4	How's everybody doing?
0:06.7	How are you doing? A week off. A week off to chill for everyone to just calm down.
0:14.0	We all just need to calm down. We needed this week off, Matt.
0:18.4	Yeah, just let everything just kind of simmer down.
0:22.1	Yeah, just let it simmed down.
0:25.2	You know what?
0:25.6	We're going to do our best in this episode to not talk about McLaren.
0:30.6	We'll talk about them a little bit, but there's been so much focus on the McLaren boys,
0:34.9	the papaya rules.
0:35.9	We all know where things kind of stand. There's no new information. McLaren's this fucking papaya box, and all we get out of it is kind of just coded language, and we don't know what any of it really means. We're just going to have to see what happens on track. But there has been other things happening in Formula One. So we're going to try to get to that today.
0:55.7	I mean, Toto Wolf talking about Kimi Antinelli.
0:58.6	Pierre Gasly resigned.
1:00.2	I mean, no one was talking about, the only person talking about Pierre Gasley resigning
1:04.0	was Pierre Gasly on his Instagram dump.
1:06.0	That's the only person that even mentioned it, I think.
1:08.5	We got, you know, John Elkan trying to, you know, avoid taxes on his inheritance.
1:14.9	You know, we've got, uh, oh, we haven't even really talked about the Cadillac of it all on this thing.
1:20.7	Colton Hurda going to Formula 2.
1:22.0	So we're going to be covering all of that on this episode of this week in F1.
1:29.9	This, of course, is the red flags brought to you by Bette MGM. Hey, if you haven't bought tickets to our live show in Austin, link will be in the
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