This Week in F1: Red Bull Snitching, Lewis & Kim K, and James Vowles' Future | The Red Flags Podcast

The Red Flags Podcast

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4.6 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Is James Vowles the real deal or just the best salesman in the paddock? Brian and Matt break down Williams’ 2026 gamble, Red Bull allegedly snitching on Mercedes’ engine loophole, and Toto Wolff telling everyone else to “get their shit together.” They talk Christian Horner plotting a quiet comeback and what a Mercedes rocket ship season could mean for George Russell Plus: Lewis Hamilton reportedly dating Kim Kardashian, the Ferrari curse vs. the Kardashian curse, and why Kim K in the paddock might be exactly what Formula 1 needs right now. Chapters 00:00 - Intro 01:21 - Red Bull Narc 06:32 - Toto Gets Sassy 11:41 - Williams 2026? 24:04 - Lewis and Kim K 36:34 - Ferrari Heated Rivalry 55:30 - Christian's back? WE HAVE 2 HEATED RIVALVRY REVIEW EPS COMING OUT THIS WEEK!! WANT TO LISTEN? JOIN THE PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/c/TRFPod You can also buy Patreon episodes a la carte for the Max Verstappen special of $3.33. Get yours now at https://www.patreon.com/c/TRFPod Go to https://www.liquid-iv.com/ and get 20% off your first order with code REDFLAGS at checkout! 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, Venkers.
0:06.0	How is everybody doing?
0:10.0	How are you doing?
0:12.0	Are you ready for this 20-26 season 2 begins?
0:17.0	This is the Red Flags.
0:19.0	Baby, sign up for our Patreon. We got amazing, We got a two-part heated rivalry episode coming out for Valentine's Day. And you know what? We've got a lot of people on the Patreon who are kind of like, kind of like, they're free subscribers, and they're not sure if they want to jump in. So now we're going to be offering every episode. You can buy Bespoke a la carte carte it's the max restappen special for three
0:39.9	dollars and thirty three cents you can get a patreon episode so if you're not sure if you want to join
0:44.6	you just want to get one at a time now you can have that option available to you so get on it
0:49.0	we got so much to discuss today there's so much going on in the Formula One world. We've got
0:57.8	Lewis Hamilton dating Kim Kardashian, maybe. Is he going to be able to break the curse? We've got
1:04.6	James Vowles. What's up with him? We need to decide whether that guy is a savant or a snake oil salesman because more reports are coming out.
1:14.7	Or just an idiot.
1:15.6	More reports are coming out of what's actually going over at Williams.
1:18.9	It's getting chaotic over there.
1:20.6	But the biggest story in Formula One is all about this Mercedes engine and whether it's going to be allowed to run, baby, because the knives are out.
1:30.5	Red Bull is trying to screw over Mercedes.
1:34.7	I feel like it's back to 2018 and it's feeling good.
1:38.6	So let's start there.
1:40.8	Reports are coming out that Red Bull snitched. That Red Bull was snitching that there was a leak from the Mercedes camp. Obviously, we've heard tales of this, you know, compression ratio. It's got to be 16 to 1. But, you know, previously it was 18 to 1, and Mercedes have found this trick that under heat and under pressure, they can actually make the metals move in a way where they can get greater compression ratios into the engine, get that extra power, be that much faster on the straits.
2:14.8	The early reports, the reports that are coming out now are that
2:17.8	Red Bull was found out about this, tried to do it themselves, and then have not been that successful
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