Chequered Flag Extra: Verstappen’s Future, Bearman’s Crash & Jack Black

About this episode

Izzy Hammond and Harry Benjamin discuss the latest F1 trends and key topics following the Japanese GP.

Izzy Hammond and Harry Benjamin look back at the Japanese GP, digesting the latest F1 trends and biggest discussion points. Could Max Verstappen be on his way out of F1? How hard is it to change F1’s new regs? And do we currently have too many overtakes going on? Plus, Izzy presents her favourite memes of the week, we discuss your hot takes, and call for Jack Black to be at every F1 race!

People in this episode

Hosts: Izzy Hammond, Harry Benjamin

Topics covered

• F1 trends
• Max Verstappen
• F1 regulations
• overtakes
• memes
• hot takes

Keywords

• F1
• Verstappen
• Japanese GP
• overtakes
• memes
• Jack Black

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