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- [F1 Silly Season 2026: Max, Oscar and Horner Rumours](https://awaywegopodcast.com/f1-silly-season-2026/): The 2026 Formula 1 calendar has a rare open weekend, and the rumour mill has taken full advantage. Max Verstappen’s exit clause. Oscar Piastri’s future at McLaren. Christian Horner’s next chapter. A possible Yuki Tsunoda move to Haas. Bahrain quietly slotting itself onto the calendar, then possibly slipping off it again. Episode 80 of Away We Go Podcast runs through F1 silly season 2026, the rumours worth watching and the ones already looking shaky. Host Dianne Bortoletto, calling in from Margaret River, is joined by regular co-host Ciara Gillan of Formula Life Pulse from Berlin for a between-races catch-up on where […]
- [Ep79: British Grand Prix 2026 Recap: Safety Car Steals the Show](https://awaywegopodcast.com/british-gp-race-recap/): Charles Leclerc crossed the line first at Silverstone on Sunday, but you’d be forgiven for struggling to feel the joy. The 2026 British Grand Prix, 52 laps around one of Formula 1’s most beloved circuits, ended under a safety car. Ferrari had its win. Lewis Hamilton got pushed back to third by a pit stop that cost him second. And Max Verstappen, who had been putting on a masterclass all afternoon, was already in the gravel. It was, to use the most honest word for it, an anticlimax. Dianne Bortoletto and Ciara Gillan of Formula Live Pulse break it all down […]
- [Ep78: Ferrari disappoints in Austria](https://awaywegopodcast.com/austria-grand-prix-2026-recap/): George Russell did not win the Austrian Grand Prix so much as inherit it. A split-second yellow flag call in qualifying, a crashed Max Verstappen, and a millisecond of timing luck handed him pole position at the Red Bull Ring, and from there he never looked back. For Ferrari fans, it was a weekend that started with genuine championship hope and ended in familiar disappointment. Dianne Bortoletto and Ciara Gillan, co-host and motorsport journalist at Formula Live Pulse (f1livepulse.com), break down everything that happened in Spielberg in this week’s Away We Go Podcast. The qualifying controversy set the tone. Verstappen went […]
- [Ep77: Classic F1 at Monaco from €150: inside the Monaco Grand Prix Historique](https://awaywegopodcast.com/monaco-grand-prix-historique-guide/): Everyone knows the Monaco Grand Prix. Far fewer know that the same streets host a second race, every two years, that arguably gets closer to the romance of Monaco. The Monaco Grand Prix Historique runs the full Monaco circuit. The same harbour, the same climb to Sainte-Dévote, with the barriers a few feet from the cars. The difference is the machinery. The cars some older fans grew up watching. The race cars you read about in history books. And the paddock is fully open to walk through. Best of all, a three-day ticket can cost less than a single grandstand seat […]
- [Ep76: Hamilton's first Ferrari win, 30 years after Schumacher](https://awaywegopodcast.com/hamilton-first-ferrari-win-barcelona/): Ferrari is back Ferrari had not won a Formula 1 race in 595 days. That drought ended in Barcelona, and it ended in the most cinematic way the sport could have written. Lewis Hamilton’s first Ferrari win arrived on the same circuit where Michael Schumacher took his own first victory in red, almost 30 years earlier and very nearly to the day. If that pairing does not give you goosebumps, check your pulse. The win did not come from luck or attrition, though there was plenty of both around him. It came from a strategy call the rest of the grid […]
- [Ep75: Monaco Grand Prix 2026: Antonelli makes history](https://awaywegopodcast.com/monaco-grand-prix-2026-antonelli/): Monaco has spent years living down a reputation. Too tight, too processional, a pole position lap followed by 78 laps of cars that cannot pass each other. The 2026 Monaco Grand Prix took that reputation and set fire to it. Seven cars retired, the stewards lost count of their own penalties, and a 19-year-old led every single lap to turn the most predictable race on the calendar into the most chaotic one of the season. Kimi Antonelli wins a wild 2026 Monaco Grand Prix Kimi Antonelli took pole, led from lights to flag, and won, becoming the youngest race winner in […]
- [Ep74: From the fashion closet to the F1 paddock: Emily Selleck](https://awaywegopodcast.com/ep74-emily-selleck-f1-journalist-brand-strategist/): Emily Selleck’s first day working in a Formula 1 paddock could have gone many ways. What actually happened was an interview with Max Verstappen within five minutes of arriving. That story, told in the latest episode of Away We Go Podcast, reveals something about how the F1 media landscape works and about the kind of person who thrives in it. Who is Emily Selleck? Selleck is an Australian journalist who spent a decade in New York covering everything from red carpets to the political beat before landing in motorsport, and she has built a career at the intersection of Formula 1, […]
- [Ep73: Antonelli makes it four and McLaren makes it painful](https://awaywegopodcast.com/canadian-grand-prix-2026-recap/): Kimi Antonelli arrived in Montreal already the most talked-about driver in Formula 1, and he left with a statistic no one in the sport’s history can match. Four races. Four wins. Four pole-to-victory conversions. The 2026 Canadian Grand Prix was supposed to be George Russell’s weekend, and for most of it, it looked exactly like that. Then his Mercedes stopped on lap 29. What followed was the kind of race that reminds you why Montreal has been on the Formula 1 calendar longer than almost anywhere else. Lewis Hamilton put Ferrari on the second step of the podium with his mother […]
- [Ep72: The brutal truth about Formula 1, with Stewart Bell](https://awaywegopodcast.com/ep72-brutal-truth-ab-out-formula1-stewart-bell/): What does it actually take to get a Formula 1 drive? Not the talent part, the money part. According to Australian journalist Stewart Bell, somewhere between eight and sixteen million US dollars, depending on whether you have academy backing. That figure alone tells you something about the sport his new book sets out to expose. Bell has been covering Formula 1 since 2007, when he turned up at the Australian Grand Prix with no contacts, no racing background and, by his own admission, ambition well in excess of his talent. Two decades later he has edited the official Australian Grand Prix […]
- [Ep71 How to use points for F1 hospitality and flights](https://awaywegopodcast.com/how-to-use-points-f1-hospitality-flights/): Ten, 15, 20 people deep, the crowds lining the Melbourne walk wait hours to catch a glimpse of a F1 driver. Chris Chamberlin arrived by chauffeured car, cruising past the throngs of people who stopped to make way, the crowd parted and held their phones up to film who was coming through. It was nobody famous. It was a travel journalist who knew how to use his Hilton Honours points. Chris Chamberlin is a freelance travel journalist and frequent flyer points expert whose work appears in the Australian Financial Review, Business Traveller and Traveller. On Ep71 of Away We Go Podcast, […]
- [Ep70: Kimi Antonelli wins Miami: history made in F1](https://awaywegopodcast.com/kimi-antonelli-miami-grand-prix-2026/): Kimi Antonelli climbed out of his Mercedes at the Hard Rock Stadium, stood on the nose of the car and his legs were shaking. He had just become the first driver in Formula 1 history to convert three consecutive pole positions into three consecutive race wins, and his body had very nearly given out in the process. With 20 laps remaining and Lando Norris less than two seconds behind him, Antonelli later admitted he was screaming internally for it to be over. He kept going. Toto Wolff called it his best win. Looking at what he had to manage across 57 […]
- [Ep69: Miami F1 Preview: Rumours, Regs and Ready to Race](https://awaywegopodcast.com/ep69-miami-f1-preview-2026/): Five weeks is a long time in Formula 1. When the sport went dark after Japan, the championship looked settled on Mercedes dominance. By the time Miami rolls around, there are new regulations on the grid, team upgrades in transit, a race engineer who has just handed in his notice, and a world champion who looks increasingly like he has one foot out the door. The 2026 Formula 1 season is barely three rounds in and it is already moving faster than the calendar. Dianne Bortoletto and Ciara Gillan of Formula Live Pulse are back for for Episode 69 of the […]
- [Ep68 Rachel Brookes, Sky Sports Formula 1 broadcaster and author](https://awaywegopodcast.com/ep68-rachel-brookes-sky-sports-f1-broadcaster-author/): On her first day covering Formula 1 for Sky Sports, Rachel Brookes accidentally forced Bernie Ecclestone to miss his wife’s London Marathon. A few races later she kept going live on air for 11 minutes straight, champagne running down her back in the stinking Indian heat, as Sebastian Vettel celebrated a world championship behind her. In 14 years covering the sport from the paddock and pit lane, Rachel has built a reputation as one of Formula 1’s most trusted broadcasters. She knows how to read every driver on the grid, when to push and when to let them walk, and what […]
- [Ep67: Fashion, Culture and the Untold Stories of Formula 1, with Esme Buxton of The Paddock Journal](https://awaywegopodcast.com/the-paddock-journal-formula-1-esme-buxton/): What do you do when you photograph one of Formula 1’s most compelling personalities, pitch the story to every major magazine, and get knocked back by all of them? If you’re Esme Buxton, you build your own magazine. Esme is the founder and editor of The Paddock Journal, a Formula 1 fashion and lifestyle publication that launched just over a year ago and has quickly become one of the most distinctive new voices in the sport. Based in Cheltenham, England, she joined Di this week to talk about how a single photoshoot with F1 TV presenter Laura Winter became the catalyst […]
- [EP66: Visiting Japan for the Japanese Grand Prix: Where to Stay, Eat & Explore with Tess Moone](https://awaywegopodcast.com/ep66-visit-japanese-grand-prix-travel/): Japan Grand Prix trip planning starts here, this is a Suzuka special for those thinking of going to the Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix.  In this episode, Di chats with Japan travel expert Tess Moone from Tessomewhere.com to help you plan a proper Japan trip, not just fly in, see the race, and fly out. We cover where to base yourself (Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, or Nagoya), how to get around Japan using IC cards like Suica, how the Shinkansen works, what to eat and day trips and lesser-known spots like the Nakasendō trail hike in the Kiso Valley (Magome-juku to Tsumago-juku). […]
- [Ep 65: Kimi Antonelli makes history at Suzuka as Oscar Piastri returns to the podium](https://awaywegopodcast.com/ep65-japanese-grand-prix-2026-antonelli-history-piastri-suzuka/): Suzuka delivered a Japanese Grand Prix that will be hard to forget. Kimi Antonelli won for the second race in a row to become the youngest championship leader in Formula 1 history — and because Japan’s legal drinking age is 20, he celebrated on the podium with sparkling rose water in a champagne-shaped bottle while everyone else doused him. He is 19. He qualified on pole, dropped to sixth on the opening lap after a terrible start, and still won by 16 seconds. The last time an Italian driver won back-to-back Formula 1 races was 1953. Oscar Piastri made his first […]
- [Ep 64: Shanghai Grand Prix and China travel guide; F1 journalist living in Beijing, Reilly Sullivan](https://awaywegopodcast.com/ep-64-shanghai-grand-prix-reilly-sullivan-china-travel/): F1 journalist Reilly Sullivan moved from Sydney to Beijing and covered the Chinese Grand Prix from inside the Shanghai media centre. He talks about life in China, what the paddock looks like from a freelance journalist's perspective, and why Shanghai should be on your Formula 1 travel list.
- [Ep 63: Chinese Grand Prix: Kimi Antonelli's first win and Lewis Hamilton's first Ferrari podium](https://awaywegopodcast.com/ep-63-chinese-grand-prix-kimi-antonelli-first-win-lewis-hamilton-ferrari/): Kimi Antonelli wins his first Formula 1 race, Lewis Hamilton stands on the podium in Ferrari red for the first time, and both McLarens fail to make the start. Di and Ciara review a chaotic and emotional Chinese Grand Prix from Shanghai.
- [Ep 62: Formula 1 2026 Australian Grand Prix review with Simone Scanu](https://awaywegopodcast.com/ep-62-australian-grand-prix-review-simone-scanu/): Simone Scanu joins Di hours after the 2026 Australian Grand Prix to break down George Russell's win, Oscar Piastri's heartbreaking installation lap crash, Ferrari's pace, and what the new era cars are teaching everyone.
- [Ep 61: F1 2026 pre-season preview with Simone Scanu of Formula Live Pulse](https://awaywegopodcast.com/ep-61-f1-2026-pre-season-preview-simone-scanu/): Simone Scanu of Formula Live Pulse joins Di and Ciara to break down Bahrain testing, Ferrari's exhaust wing genius, Honda and Aston Martin's troubles, and what the 2026 rules overhaul means for Melbourne and beyond.
- [Ep 60: Getting to know Ciara Gillan, co-host of Away We Go Podcast](https://awaywegopodcast.com/ep-60-ciara-gillan-co-host-away-we-go-podcast/): Ciara Gillan joins as co-host for the 2026 season. In this episode we get to know her properly — her path into Formula 1, her Ferrari anxiety, her admiration for Oscar Piastri, and the story of how her questions during races inspired the Formula Live Pulse app.
- [Ep 59: Pole Position, Australia's new F1 magazine with editor Luke West](https://awaywegopodcast.com/ep-59-pole-position-magazine-luke-west/): Luke West has launched Pole Position, Australia's first dedicated Formula 1 magazine. We talk about the new wave of F1 fans, Oscar Piastri's story, and why 2026 is shaping up to be the sport's biggest year in decades.
- [Ep58: Inside the F1 Exhibition Melbourne -  Opening night interviews](https://awaywegopodcast.com/ep58-f1-exhibition-melbourne-opening-night/): We were at the F1 Exhibition Melbourne on opening night with microphone in hand. Interviews with exhibition producer Jonathan Linden, F1 Academy drivers Aiva Anagnostiadis and Joanne Cicconte, Oscar Piastri's former fitness coach Kim Keedle, and Nicole Piastri talking about her son the way only a mum can.
- [Ep 53: Three years inside Formula 1 broadcasting with producer Chris Holding](https://awaywegopodcast.com/ep-53-chris-holding-formula-1-broadcaster-itv-lewis-hamilton/): Chris Holding grew up fifteen miles from Brands Hatch in the UK. On summer days when the wind blew in the right direction, he could hear the engines from his house. That is where it started. He went on to spend three years as a full-time producer on Formula 1 with ITV, work with the BBC, Channel 4, ESPN, IMG, News Corp and Discovery, and cover the World Rally Championship, Grand Slam tennis, the English Premier League and the Olympics. His production company Palm 7 Films still produces content for brands and broadcasters across multiple codes. The Formula 1 story is […]
- [Ep 51: Car reviews, Formula 1 and Jeremy Clarkson's influence with motoring journalist Stephen Corby](https://awaywegopodcast.com/ep-51-stephen-corby-motoring-journalist-formula-1/): Stephen Corby has been writing about cars for over 30 years, edited Top Gear Magazine Australia, and has a weekly column in the Weekend Australian Magazine. He talks about covering his first Formula 1 race in Adelaide in 1994, Jeremy Clarkson's influence on his writing, and driving the Ferrari F80.
- [Ep 44: Breaking into Formula 1 journalism with lifestyle journalist Reilly Sullivan](https://awaywegopodcast.com/ep-44-reilly-sullivan-formula-1-journalist/): Reilly Sullivan is a Sydney-based lifestyle and Formula 1 journalist who broke into the paddock by cold-emailing Haas. She talks about interviewing Nico Hulkenberg, covering her first race weekend in Singapore, and how Drive to Survive opened Formula 1 to a whole new wave of media.
- [Ep 41: 30 years in Australian motorsport broadcasting with Greg Rust](https://awaywegopodcast.com/ep-41-greg-rust-australian-motorsport-broadcaster/): Greg Rust has been the voice of Australian motorsport for 30 years, from Network Ten to the Australian Grand Prix PA system. He shares stories from three decades in the sport, including Mark Webber's quiet farewell dinner and George Russell stopping at 2am in Singapore to redo a photo for a teenage fan.
- [Ep 39: Formula Live Pulse, the app that changed how we watch Formula 1, with Simone Scanu](https://awaywegopodcast.com/ep-39-simone-scanu-formula-live-pulse-app/): Simone Scanu is a Sardinian developer living in Berlin who built a real-time Formula 1 data and telemetry app because his girlfriend kept asking questions during races. Formula Live Pulse now has over 40,000 downloads and has been updated to cover not only Formula 1, but Formula 2, Formula 3 and F1 Academy.
- [Ep 36 25 years in Formula 1 PR and the FIA media delegate role with Alexandra Schieren](https://awaywegopodcast.com/ep-36-alexandra-schieren-formula-1-pr-fia-media-delegate/): Alexandra Schieren has spent 25 years working in motorsport PR, from Toyota's World Rally Championship team to roles with Formula 1 teams and the FIA as a media delegate. She talks about what it really takes to manage media at a grand prix weekend and what nobody tells you about working at the top level of the sport.
- [Ep 14: What commentators really think, with motorsport broadcaster Paul Marinelli](https://awaywegopodcast.com/ep-14-paul-marinelli-f1-commentator-murray-walker/): Paul Marinelli has been working in motorsport commentary and PR for 30 years. He has called races from Las Vegas at night, commentated Supercars at the Adelaide 500, and spent years travelling between Europe and America running out of money and coming back, doing whatever events he could to stay close to the sport he loved. In 2008 he got the call to commentate alongside Murray Walker. Walker was well into his 80s by then and still sharp, still entertaining, still capable of the magnificent mistakes that had made him one of the most beloved voices in sport. Paul describes it […]
- [Ep11: Behind the lens at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix with photographer Sabine Albers](https://awaywegopodcast.com/p-11-sabine-albers-abu-dhabi-grand-prix-photographer/): Sabine Albers was commissioned to photograph the VIP hospitality venues at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix for Etihad Airways. She talks about what it takes to shoot inside one of the most lavish sporting events in the world, from kitchen chaos to unlimited champagne.
- [Ep 9: Over 50 years in Formula 1 PR with Annie Bradshaw](https://awaywegopodcast.com/ep-9-annie-bradshaw-formula-1-pr-fifty-years/): Annie Bradshaw has worked in Formula 1 PR for over 50 years, with Williams, BMW Sauber, Lance Stroll and many more. She tells the story of George Harrison lighting incense in the Williams garage, Dame Edna getting stuck in Damon Hill's car, and what it was like managing the media on the day Ayrton Senna died.
- [Ep 8: Growing up at the Tyrrell F1 factory, interviewing a teenage Lewis Hamilton, with journalist Jeremy Hart](https://awaywegopodcast.com/ep-8-jeremy-hart-f1-journalist-lewis-hamilton/): Jeremy Hart has been covering Formula 1 since the days when teams built cars in wooden sheds. He grew up visiting the Tyrrell factory as a teenager, got his first broadcast break when Bernie Ecclestone rang him on a rally stage, and once interviewed a 13-year-old Lewis Hamilton.
- [Ep 7 Inside the Mercedes F1 kitchen with former team chef Jason Beste](https://awaywegopodcast.com/ep-7-jason-beste-mercedes-f1-chef/): Jason Beste was the chef for the Mercedes Formula 1 team during their dominant era, cooking for Lewis Hamilton, Nico Rosberg and up to 300 people a day. He shares what it was really like inside the hospitality unit when a team is winning world championships.

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