It's the rise of the machines, depending on who you ask. Kimi Antonelli wins another race at the Belgian Grand Prix, and with a battery-short George Russell put in the gravel trap thanks to Lewis Hamilton, we're back to a 45-point lead for the Italian teenager with just one race to go before the Summer Break. Is the Italian starting to run away with it?

We also discuss both that and the controversial Charles Leclerc/Oscar Piastri block and whether that crossed the line for a penalty. Does George Russell have a more significant issue with his driving after falling back to a 50-point deficit to his teammate? And is the AI software controlling the cars battery too much of an influence on the sport?

We also review Charles Leclerc's P2, Max Verstappen's return to the podium as well as a strong performance from teammate Isack Hadjar, where the Racing Bulls are at post-upgrade, and whether Spa will be missed as it prepares for its future as a rotational race. 

Let's get the formalities out of the way - Marc Marquez was a fastest lap in the Sprint away from a perfect weekend. Pole, both wins, 37 points in the bag and with it, his deficit to the Championship is now just 18 points. But around him, it's yet more chaos for the title contenders.

Fabio di Giannantonio switched aero packages heading into Sunday's action and he tucks the front and crashes. Alex Marquez ruins a perfectly good Movistar tribute livery and crashes at the last corner. Jorge Martin has lost all confidence in his front end at Aprilia. And Marco Bezzecchi? Well he has a huge highside at Turn 6 down the waterfall and breaks his collarbone. He was out of the weekend meaning just 13 points from the Italian in the last 4 weekends. Is it now Marquez's to lose?

We also talk the potential end of Maverick Vinales' career? Gresini unveil their 2027 lineup of Joan Mir and Dani Holgado, and whether the "One Bike" rule may be dead in the water!

In maybe the biggest silly season move in IndyCar history (At least according to William "Billy" Buxton and to be fair, he's probably right), that in startling news, Scott Dixon is leaving Chip Ganassi after 25 years with the team, to move to McLaren on a multi-year contract for 2027 and beyond.

Dre, Cam and RJ talk about all the potential ramifications, because not only is Dixon heading to McLaren, Indy 500 Winner Felix Rosenqvist is heading back to the Papaya in replacement of Nolan Siegel. Yes, Christian Lundgaard is done with McLaren while sitting third in the Championship. What happens next? Who takes the #66 car at MSR? Does Chip bringing in Lundgaard as his new #9 project? Who else could be in play?

There was also a race this weekend, as McLaren followed up the rumours with their best ever IndyCar result, a 1-2 finish in Mid-Ohio and Pato O'Ward's first win of the season, with Lundgaard close behind in second. Are both men still actually in the title race? What about Rinus Veekay putting himself in the shop window with a 4th place finish?

All that and more on a new Motorsport101 Podcast!

The biggest F1 race of all-time, by attendance alone - 175,000 in the house at Silverstone for the 2026 British Grand Prix, and for the first time in over 600 days, Charles Leclerc is back in the win column. But it was a rocky road to get there.

The weekend looked like it was going to be a fight between Kimi Antonelli and Lewis Hamilton after the latter took Sprint Pole, and Kimi won said Sprint late on while draining Lewis' battery. But Leclerc was stronger on Sunday with a strong defensive drive. But Kimi Antonelli showed outrageous pace while going long on his medium tyres, gaining a 10-lap tyre delta and a 1.5 second pace advantage... until a broken wheel shield while driving over the kerb at Copse ruined his day.

To compound his misery, we had a late Safety Car drop him out of the points due to a track limits penalty, and a SC that took a rather long time to be cleared after Max Verstappen's rear wing failed to close properly, putting the Dutchman into the wall at Stowe. It's led to a mass debate about Safety Car procedures and the classic battle between sports and entertainment. Should we be red flagging races late? Is there something wrong with the process?

All that and more in another Motorsport101!

Ai Ogura is no longer a surprise. After 22 years of waiting, we have a Japanese winner in MotoGP again, and he did it in stunning style. 

We've joked for a while that Ogura has a knack for having brilliant late-race pace, and the Dutch Grand Prix at Assen was no exception. In a weekend dominated by Aprilia, Ogura surged past Jorge Martin and Raul Fernandez at the half-way mark and was completely untouchable after that. 

But it also a weekend that was yet more trouble for now ex-Championship leader Marco Bezzecchi. A crash at 125mph going through Ramshoek now drops him behind Jorge Martin in the points, Diggia's now only -16, Ogura -25 , and Marc Marquez loses no ground at -40. In fact, the Top 8 in the standings are covered by 63 points. Do we have one of the great Championship battles brewing?

Also on this episode, more talk on the silly season as Pecco Bagnaia moves to Aprilia, and Ai Ogura and Jorge Martin's moves to Yamaha are confirmed. All that and even more on another Motorsport101!

Welcome back to the winner's circle, George Russell. Can you believe it's his first victory since opening day? 

Dre Harrison and Cam Buckley are back to review the Austrian Grand Prix, despite it's arguably most controversial moment being before the race even started. Saturday's qualifying comes under scrutiny after Max Verstappen crashes late on with a defective rear wing, and only a single-yellow flag dropping over the incident, not a double-waved yellow until after Russell had set his lap time. Genius driving from Russell, more incompetence from Race Control, or both?

And with the race itself, a surprise return to form for Max Verstappen, who turned a great fight with a tyre-struggling Lewis Hamilton to be in the fight for the winning, finishing less than two seconds behind Russell's winning car. Is Red Bull back in play for winning contention? There's also rumblings over Kimi Antonelli, who blew a good chance to win with early braking issues. 

And what of Ferrari? Both drivers had to work three-stop strategies, but this time it was over bad tyre wear, rather than excessive pace. Is the honeymoon over for the prancing horse? All that and more on another Motorsport101!

So of course, Christian Lundgaard losing his front wing on the opening lap wouldn't lead to ANYTHING, right?

Dre and Cam review what was an absolutely berserk Road America GP with cheese curds, brats, and Christian Lundgaard going to the back of the field, then coming back to win the race via a 4-stop strategy and some really fortunate cautions. 

But it was a race of heartbreak due to Alex Palou making a rare mistake via speeding in the pitlane and being bailed out by Christian Rasmussen suffering an electrical failure in his car, and Marcus Armstrong having his strongest IndyCar race to date. He was just 4 laps from glory until his engine packed up and ended his day. We also talk Felix Rosenqvist being in the mix on and off the track as rumours swirl he may be heading back to McLaren for 2027.

There's a deep dive on silly season in general, IndyCar's hybrids taking a step back and David Malukas finishing second AGAIN on another Motorsport101!

The biggest flashpoint of the 2026 MotoGP season so far and Dre Harrison and Cam Buckley review it all on the latest episode of Motorsport101, as Marco Bezzecchi got himself banned from the Czech Grand Prix at Brno for double slapping a marshal.

Dre and Cam recollect the incident as well as talk about why even a race ban might not have been harsh enough, why we need to be careful in making sweeping statements about Bezzecchi's character and why it shouldn't be applied to the incident itself, and the ramifications in terms of a title race where Marc Marquez has taken 62 points out of Bez since Mugello.

Speaking of which, he dug deep to win a race he wasn't supposed to win. He sat back and let teammate Pecco Bagnaia take the early lead, only for Marc to pass him with 5 laps to go, then hold off the incredibly fast Ai Ogura on used rubber to get the win, and with it, Marquez is in sight of the Championship lead, just 40 points behind Bezzecchi. Is this back on? 

That and more talk about MotoGP's new commercial deal and upcoming holeshot device ban, in the latest M101 episode!

Welcome back, Toyota, it's good to see you again. I'll let RJ's excellent guide to the show guide this description for our Le Mans 24 Hours Review, sorry it was slightly later than planned - Dre

For over three decades, Toyota at Le Mans was a tale of persistent sorrow, with its lowest moment coming ten years ago when its leading car, with Kazuki Nakajima behind the wheel, retired from the lead as it took the white flag. Toyota had since gotten the win at Le Mans after 33 years of trying, but only after LMP1 rivals Audi and Porsche left the sport, leaving Toyota to pick off five straight wins against several privateer efforts (and RebAlpine, for a bit). Since the proper start of the OEM Hypercar era, however, Toyota had gotten reacquainted with disappointment at Le Mans, narrowly finishing second twice to Ferrari in the last three years and falling further away last year.

But now, at last, Toyota has a Le Mans win with no qualifiers, no “yeah but”s, no cubic zirconia, no purported asterisks – going through strong competition to get there in the form of BMW M Team WRT and Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA, who put forth two very strong efforts all race week. The #20 BMW (Frijns/Rast/Sheldon van der Linde) surged to the lead on the first lap, the #8 (Buemi/Hartley/Hirakawa) Toyota TR010 Hybrid led the most laps after going to an alternate pit strategy early, and Cadillac then gained the advantage by being the first to switch to soft tyres at night.

Yet it was the #7 Toyota of Mike Conway, Nyck de Vries, and Kamui Kobayashi that came back from a mediocre first quarter of the race, impeded by an untimely puncture and a driveshaft sensor problem, which took home the victory. A Safety Car for Porsche driver Ayhancan Güven’s big crash, and a Full Course Yellow for a broken down Aston Martin LMGT3 car, and some crafty overtaking (Golden Melon, anyone?) helped the #7 Toyota take the lead and never give it up.

It’s Conway and Kobayashi’s second overall wins at Le Mans for Toyota, and the first for de Vries. The #20 BMW came a close second, finishing 10.9 seconds off the win in the second-closest competitive finish at Le Mans in event history, while the #8 Toyota and #12 Cadillac (Stevens/Nato/Deletraz) finished third and fourth.

Apologies if you were expecting a more in-depth episode title.

Dre, Cam and RJ are finally back together and with it, a ludicrous victory at the Barcelona GP (Catalunya to its friends), for Lewis Hamilton, his first victory for Ferrari and his first himself since the 2024 Belgium Grand Prix he inherited. 

It makes for an interesting dynamic as we enter the one third stage in the title race. Is Ferrari back in the game now Mercedes has finally been defeated? Is Charles Leclerc now cooked and resigned to being Ferrari's #2 driver? And is Lewis a genuine title threat now he's only 41 points behind Kimi Antonelli? 

Beyond that, more on George Russell after another rough day from the lead of a race, Antonelli's battery failing just as he was taking another head-to-head, the latest on Podiumgate from Monaco as Pierre Gasly gets a podium finish reinstated, and now Nico Hulkenberg suffered a genuine one in a million car failure. 

And finally, to wrap up out ultra-block of episodes: IndyCar at Gateway for the Bommarito 500, and in shocking news - Josef Newgarden, even on one good leg, is still fast enough to keep his status as the best Oval Racer in the world.

It was a race of unpredictability and adaptability. We had multiple cautions for crashes, such as Alex Palou and Nolan Siegel combining, with Siegel coming off the worst of it, Graham Rahal off at Turn 4 too. We had multiple rain showers across the race that led to red flags, and a mighty strategic screw up for Chip Ganassi Racing that led to Scott Dixon taking emergency service and Alex Palou losing 2 laps due to running out of fuel on pit road. Disasater for the reigning Champion.

At the front, a fight between three men in IndyCar crossroads - Josef Newgarden, still waiting for a new contract for 2027, and hanging around 6th in points, below his usual high standards. Christian Rasmussen, getting a new contract design on paper, an awful season where he's barely in the leader's circle. And Marcus Ericsson, who faces a fight to keep his job at Andretti Global. What will happen in the future for a talented podium that needs results?

And Dre has to poor some cold water on Myles Rowe's Indy NXT comeback of the Gods as he went from 24th to the win. All that on another Motorsport101!