Weekend Edition: Is Formula One in for a hollywood ending? - The Sports Agents
The News Agents
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🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Formula One might be about to witness a comeback worthy of a Drive to Survive Hollywood film. With five races to go, the McLaren driver win that seemed as certain as death and taxes, has suddenly been put in jeopardy by Max Verstappen and Red Bull. Could they pull off the impossible?
Gabby and Mark are joined by 13-time Grand Prix winner David Coulthard, who has history with both teams as a world championship runner-up with McLaren, who became the highest scoring British driver of all time while at Red Bull.
Plus, we look back at this week on The Sports Agents. Andy Cole, the Premier League's fifth top goalscorer of all time, revealed what it was like being one of four top strikers at Man United, and his reaction to the managerial merry-go-round at Nottingham Forest.
And as basketball finds itself in big trouble with the GB men's team banned from international competition, we spoke to the first Brit to play in the NBA, Professor John Amaechi, as well as the leaders of the two warring sides, Sanjay Bhandari, Chair of Super League Basketball, and Chris Grant, who recently stepped down as Chair of the British Basketball Federation.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, it's chucking it down out there again. |
| 0:02.5 | Want some Mauam Pimbles? |
| 0:04.2 | Mmm, so zingly. |
| 0:05.7 | Like a lightning storm in your cheeks. |
| 0:07.4 | Tingling like thunderbolts on your tongue. |
| 0:09.2 | And a 200% chance of mouth-watering tastequakes. |
| 0:12.9 | Chew-Nado incoming! |
| 0:15.1 | With the zingly-tingly taste of Mauam Pimbles, |
| 0:17.4 | it's easy to choose fun, chew Mauam. |
| 0:22.3 | This is a Global player original podcast. |
| 0:25.9 | All year long, McLaren drivers, Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri have been fighting between |
| 0:30.0 | themselves for the World Championship. |
| 0:31.7 | It's so close, there's only 14 points in it. |
| 0:34.1 | And then Max Verstappen sneaks up behind them and wins three of the last four Grand Prix. |
| 0:38.6 | And just like that, Red Bull could be about to pull off a comeback which is worthy of a drive to |
| 0:44.5 | survive Hollywood film. Our guest today, 13-time Grand Prix winner David Coulthard has history |
| 0:50.4 | with both teams. He was World Championship runner-up with McLaren and became the highest |
| 0:54.0 | scoring British driver of all time while at Red Bull. So with only five Grand Prix's to go, |
| 0:59.4 | could Vestappen actually win his fifth world title? Do McLaren have a favourite driver, should they? |
| 1:04.7 | And what's the latest with Christian Horner? Welcome to the Sports Agents. |
| 1:16.6 | Yeah. Welcome to the Sports Agents. The Sports Agents. |
| 1:18.1 | With Gabby Logan and Mark Chapman. |
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