Mode Push - the American View of F1

After a few weeks of a midseason break, F1 is back and this time its taking a tour of the America's starting in Austin and the Circuit of the Americas for the US Grand Prix. We're down to only six races left in the F1 calendar and hosts Alex Kirry and Dan Jimenez breakdown not just this weekend's race in Texas but how the rest of the season could shake out in what has become a very interesting constructors title race but also what we hope will be a close Driver's Championship.  Dan also gets into the nitty gritty on Red Bull's use of a "device" that allowed right height to be changed secretly between qualifying and the race.  With only a slap on the wrist, is it enough punishment? Finally, the guys chop it up on the rumors of the new driver's on the grid and give out their dream and real podium predictions.   

Hosts Alex Kirry and Dan Jimenez jam during this F1 mini vacation talking ab out the Singapore GP, guess how the WDC and Constructors titles will end up.  Daniel Ricciardo is unceremoniously stripped of his seat at RB/VCARD and it looks as though the Honey Badger might be totally done in the sport.  McLaren and Lando Norris have found something extra that could put him over the top vs. Max in the driver's championship but will there be enough time to catch the reigning 3X champion? Ferrari had a disasterous Singapore and Mercedes doesn't appear to have what it takes to take the next step to keep contending this season.  McLaren is currently the team to beat.  Plus, the race in Austin looms at COTA this month.  This could be an exciting final stretch of the season.  

Hosts Dan Jimenez and Alex Kirry review how Monza and the Italian GP went as Red Bull is being rundown by other teams on the grid.  Charles Leclerc got a career win at the temple of speed but it was McLaren who is getting closer and closer in the constructors title race to Red Bull as both Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris battled one another for a race win but ended up leaving Norris further from Max Verstappen than he could have been.  Can Baku deliver another unpredictable race?  Plus, the guys discuss the move of F1's most famed technical director, Adrian Newey from Red Bull to Aston Martin.  Lawrence Stroll won the sweepstakes for the winningest car desgner of all-time. Will it change the fortunes for Aston?  

George Russell pulled off one of the most impressive wins of the 2024 F1 season but it only lasted a short time as the FIA ruled that his car was underweight by a mere 1.5KG and Lewis Hamilton, who finished 2nd, was suddenly thrust into his second win of the season.  Dan and Alex discuss the wild ride that Spa was, and a lok forward to the driver market and silly season as the summer break starts up and only 10 more races await after the teams get a quick vacation in.  The guys also discuss the move for Carlos Sainz to Williams and who will fill the other empty seats in F1 come the 2025 season.  

Alex Kirry and Dan Jimenez get you ready for the final race before the Formula 1 summer break.  Last week's race in Hungary gave F1 fans a McLaren 1-2 finish for the first time since 1999 and Oscar Piastri got his first GP win in F1 in his career but it didn't come without any drama.  The McLaren garage had to plead with Lando Norris to give the 1st place position to Piastri after the team had swapped the drivers to avoid a potential undercut by another team.  This was met with some stubborn, awkward conversations over the team radio and eventually Piastri was able to win.  McLaren has a good problem which is being the fastest team on the grid but still have some kinks to work out from the team strategy standpoint.  The guys talk the Red Bull drama, Mercedes new-found success and preview the Belgian GP at Spa.  Take a listen!

Dan Jimenez and Alex Kirry get together for their weekly episode to preview the Hungarian GP.  Will Lewis Hamilton capture lightning in a bottle like he did at Silverstone?  Can McLaren cash in on their recent pace and finally get another win?  The guys talk about the news breaking today that Kevin Magnassen won't rejoin Haas next season on the F1 grid and we likely won't see K-Mag won't ever make it back to the grid.  Plus, is there a way that Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes can keep Red Bull in the rearview or will Max comeback to remind the rest of the paddock who the current 3-time world champion is.  

Mercedes had a little bit of luck and a massive amount of improvement over a short span that has now equaled wins in both the Austrian GP and the British Grand Prix.  With Max Verstappen and Lando Norris crashing one another out of the Austrian GP, George Russell took advantage and notched Mercedes first win of the season.  In an even more historic British GP, Sir Lewis Hamilton was able to outlast both Red Bull and McLaren (with a little help from some poor McLaren strategy) for his 9th win at his home GP and his first win in almost 1000 days.  An emotional win for Hamilton, to be sure.  Plus, what on earth is happeneing to Checo Perez?  Can Lando get within striking distance of Max in the WDC race?  Take a listen!!  

The F1 grid moves to on to round two of the European triple header this week the drivers find themselves in Austria at the Red Bull Ring where Max Verstappen will be racing in front of a Red Bull-heavy crowd and looking for yet another win on the calendar.  Dan JImenez and Alex Kirry talk about the driver lineups that are working and the drivers who are fighting to stay somewhere close to the Dutch master incase he has engine reliability.  The reality is, the rest of the field is a lot closer to the top b ut does that mean that can make a close race out of it and shave down on the driver's championship.  The guys make their predictions for podium finishes with real podiums and dream podiums given how wild the racing has become.  

Hosts Dan Jimenez and Alex Kirry recap one of the more exciting races of the season after a wet, crash-filled Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal.  Max wins again but Lando Norris was right on his heels and Mercedes ends up with one of their best races of the season.  Ferrari would prefer to forget their weekend with a double DNF.  

Dan then gives us the download of the new car regulations and specs for the 2026 season.  The changes to the car will be significant and with the driver market always changing, teams and drivers are trying their best to see who will get the new regs right and who will fall behind in development.  

Hosts Dan Jimenez and Alex Kirry are back to review the Monaco GP that gave us a Charles LeClerc first-ever win in his home GP and has made the F1 Championship standings more competitive than we've seen since 2021.  Have Ferrari and McLaren made enough improvements to challenge Max Verstappen and Red Bull Racing the rest of the season?  Plus, Ocon is out at Alpine, Checo is back at Red Bull (2 more years!) and the rest of the 2025 seats that are up for grabs are both exciting and chaotic.  Dan and Alex both give their podium predictions for a wet Canadian GP weekend as we are in the middle of one of the most wild times in recent F1 history.  

The lux atmosphere awaits in Monaco as F1 goes to one of its most storied tracks and the drama of the 2024 season heats up.  With a more competitive front of the field, can McLaren and Ferrari challenge Max Verstappen and Red Bull? Dan Jimenez and Alex Kirry breakdown how Lando Norris was able to cut the Red Bull advantage in Italy and which teams are overperforming while sopme teams are massively dissapointing in their challenging the rest of the field.  Will anyone lose their race seat before the end of the season?  How will Mercedes pull themselves out of such a competitive hole?  Dive into the Mode Push podcast.  

Hosts Dan Jimenez and Alex Kirry react to Lando Norris' monumental first win in Formula One in Miami.  In a weekend filled with tons of on-track and off-track drama, the Miami GP delivered a great race as Lando Norris was able to take advantage of a safety car and notch his first win.  Max Verstappen even seemed happy with the result for the British driver as the ret of the field seems to have made strides to running down Red Bull.  Plus, will Logan Sargent be in an F1 seat when the grid goes to Imola in two weeks?  All signs point to Kimi Antonelli getting the nod as the Mercedes racing phenom.  Get the full download from the guys during an exciting time to be an F1 fan.  

F1 returns to the U.S. this weekend for the first time in 2024 for the Miami Grand Prix.  Max Verstappen won the first two races in Miami the last two seasons and all signs point to the three-time World Champion repeating hostory as no one can touch the fastest driver on earth.  Alex Kirry and Dan Jimenez make their podium finish predictions for the weekend but they alo discuss the insane rumors for the driver's market in 2025.  This will be the biggest shift of driver's leaving teams and swapping teammates in more than a decade.  The biggest asset on the market is car design geniius Adrian Newey  who will leave Red Bull in 2025.   Join the guys as they get you ready for one of the most anticipated races of the year so far.  

The Australian GP brought excitement via Max Verstappen's rare DNF that made everyone else on the grid feel like they may have a fighting chance to win a race this season.  Carlos Sainz got the win and with that win a whole host of questions for Ferrari not the leat of which might be "Is Lewis Hamilton the best option for us?"  Dan Jimenez and Alex Kirry dive into the rumors swirling around the Aston Martin attempt to woo Adrian Newey from Red Bull.  How will Japan workout for Red Bull after a disaster finish in Melbourne?  Join us to break it all down.  

Max Verstappen and Red Bull's dominance continue with another one-two finish and Verstappen looking impossible to catch.  That could make for a boring race but the emergency surgery for Carlos Sainz the day before the race for Ferrari, F2 rising star Ollie Bearman got into the seat in Jeddah with no notice and turned a boring race weekend into a fun storyline for a possible future champion to show his stuff to the bosses for Ferrari.  Dan JImenez and Alex Kirry breakdown what the complicated F1 seats are looking like for the rest of the season and who will lose thier drive in F1.  The guys breakdown the full race and the weekend while we await another race weekend in Australia in a week.  

The drama off the track continues as Dan Jimenez and Alex Kirry try to make sense of the rumors swirling around the Red Bull Racing team since innappropriate allegations by Christian Horner of an RB staffer were dismissed.  Now Max Verstappen's Dad, Jos, is actively tring to get Horner out of Red Bull and has threatened that Max would go to another team.  Sounds like a reality TV show but its the real world of F1 at the moment.  Dan and Alex also breakdown the actual race in Bahrain where Red Bull, or actually, Max Verstappen's dominance has continued with another win to start the season.  No one was anywhere close.  Can this weekend's race in Jeddah at the Saudi GP be more competitive?  Tune in as the guys make their predictions.  

The first race of the intriguing 2024 F1 race calendar is finally here and Dan Jimenez and Alex Kirry are here ready to breakdown winter testing, 2024 season hypotheticals and, of course, the reaction to Red Bull's clearing Christian Horner of wrongdoing after their investigation into misconduct with a female staffer at Red Bull Racing.  Dan also breaks down what was to be learned at this year's winter testing.  Can Red Bull and Max Verstappen continue its dominance of the sport?  Who can emerge as a legitimate contender in the longest racing season ever in Formula One?  Check it out. 

Alex Kirry and Dan Jimenez host Mode Push as the 2024 season is now less than a month away.  One big story after another have rolled out of the garages on the F1 grid without even a test lap being logged by the teams.  The news of the Andretti-Cadillac F1 team being denied possible entry into F1, at least for now is where the guys start.  The biggest driver news and seat swapping drama surrounded 7-time champion Lewis Hamilton and his announced move to the Ferrari F1 team after this season.  This of course will start a domino chain of drivers losing seats, changing teams and some even leaving F1 all because Hamilton will leave Mercedes AMG at the end of the 2024 season.  This biggest news of the offseason is that of Red Bull boss Christian Horner who is being accused of an inappropriate relationship by someone inside the Red Bull F1 team and is going to face an independant special attorney investigation starting Friday and many rumors of Horner losing his job at Red Bull have been swirling.  Too many storylines to miss as the guys are back for a third year of the Mode Push Podcast.

This week is a special episode of Mode Push with a breakdown of Alex Kirry and Carlos the producer's trip to the Strip of flashy Las Vegas and the very first (modern) Formula 1 race in Las Vegas.  Dan Jimenez and Alex sit down and go through the full experience at the track, in the VIP areas, the grandstands and the whole set up of one of the most labor intensive purpose built tracks to ever be put together on planet earth.  Alex describes for Dan how he and Carlos managed to hang out with VIPs and rub shoulders with racing legends while taking the whole weekend in.  If you've ever thought about making it to a race in person, Alex will walk you through the good, bad and ugly of what was an epic weekend that wasn't without its own share of controversey and drama.  THe race itself was one of the better races on the calendar but is this race in Vegas a long term move that will stick for F1?  Join us!  

This week, Mode Push has made the big time with a special preview episode of the podcast.  Alex Kirry is joined by co-host Dan Jimenez and Producer Carlos Fortun to preview the much anticipated Las Vegas Grand Prix.  Alex and Carlos will be headed to Sin City with press passes in hand to cover the race for KSL Sports.  The guys talk about the positive and negative press the $500M gamble that F1 is taking on the race in glitzy Vegas.  Despite all the surrounding story lines of maybe the most hyped race in Formula 1 history, the race itelf is a massive mystery with cold weather anticipated to cause issues for teams in the tire department and an unknown track that has never been raced except for in a simulator.  Dan talks about the track specific engineering and the graining that cold weather causes for these Pirelli Tires and the guys all take their guess at the first podium of the Las Vegas Grand Prix.  Now with falling prices of hotel rooms they are also trying to convince Dan to join them on the strip for the race of a lifetime! 

This week on the podcast, Dan Jimenez and Alex Kirry run through the wild Mexico GP that saw a bad crash in the first turn that took Checo Perez out of his home race in less than a minute.  Where does Red Bull go with Checo now?  They discuss.  Red Bull rumors are flying around the paddock but when should we take them seriously?  With another dominant win for Max Verstappen, the rest of the field had an amazing race to try to catch up in their own races that they have for the rest of the season.  Dan breaks down the circuit at Interlagos and how the race will work out for some of these teams who have millions at stake in the constructors race.  Plus, more drama in the rumors of drivers being fired or changing teams for 2024.  

The Race in Austin proved to be one of the more exciting and controversal races of the calendar in F1 this season.  Max Verstappen is still unstoppable but with Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc being disqualified from the race, the podium changed and suddenly the race results were tunred on their head.  Dan Jimenez explains to Alex what rule was broken, why only 4 cars were tested to see who was cheating and why teams were quick to recognize that they had broken the rules by the thinnest of margins.   Alex and Dan also discuss the race in Mexico as Checo Perex will be feeling immense pressure to perfom at his home grand prix, maybe even to keep his seat at Red Bull.  

Alex Kirry and Dan Jimenez get together for another breakdown of the weekend at the Qatar Grand Prix where Max Verstappen is crowned champion for the third year in a rown and joins rarified air when it comes to historical champions in F1 history.  Where does Max Rank among the sports' best?  Plus, the race itself at the Losail Circuit was a bit of a disaster and PR nightmare for Formula 1 as drivers were retiring because of heat exaustion, nausea and dehydration while track limits became the biggest joke of the weekend.  

Dan Jimenez and Alex Kirry are back in the lab working on ways to help America love the F1 world as much as they do.  This week Alex and Dan explore the amazing race that ended up in Japan with another Max Verstappen easy win, but also some surprise great racing from McLaren who finished with a 2nd and 3rd spot on the podium as the race to 2nd and 3rd in the constructors title race heats up with still 8 more races on the calendar.  Plus, the guys dive into the cost of a crash in F1.  Who are the drivers that are costing their teams the most when they hit the wall at 130MPH?  Take a wild guess, its not the best drivers on the grid! Join us for another edition of Mode Push!