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]]> false Motor Sport info+69f0a5a27beb81286952d837@mg-eu.acast.com 69f0a5a27beb81286952d837 matt-bishop-f1-flashbacks episodic https://assets.pippa.io/shows/cover/1777378506125-099ba6b9-9cc3-4deb-b278-8ce3fa32c3de.jpeg https://shows.acast.com/matt-bishop-f1-flashbacks Matt Bishop: F1 Flashbacks ba45ea80-6325-11f1-801c-bf5d65cc55c4 <![CDATA[A Spanish nobleman, an ace pilot & a champagne-swigging Indy 500 winner in the most boring grand prix in history]]> Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:49:13 GMT 18:00 6a4391196c42755eb6e984f7 false https://go.motorsportmagazine.com/4oWcuZr 6a4391196c42755eb6e984f7 69f0a5a27beb81286952d837 a-spanish-nobleman-an-ace-pilot-a-champagne-swigging-indy-50 As the British Grand Prix celebrates its centenary, Matt Bishop recounts another GP held 100 years ago, which failed to deliver much excitement, but featured an extraordinary array of characters full 1 9

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]]> Is it still worth racing in F1? More misery for Alonso and Verstappen Is it still worth racing in F1? More misery for Alonso and Verstappen Tue, 16 Jun 2026 11:54:54 GMT 21:26 6a31398ed1bbabaab351b681 false https://go.motorsportmagazine.com/4vIThww 6a31398ed1bbabaab351b681 69f0a5a27beb81286952d837 is-it-still-worth-racing-in-f1-more-misery-for-alonso-and-ve full 1 8

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]]> <![CDATA[What happened to F1's other six-wheeled cars? 50 years after famous win for Tyrrell P34]]> Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:19:54 GMT 20:07 6a28210a427484b4a43e45ba false https://go.motorsportmagazine.com/4g9Etma 6a28210a427484b4a43e45ba 69f0a5a27beb81286952d837 what-happened-to-f1s-other-six-wheeled-cars50-years-after-fa full 1 7 On June 13, 2026, it will be exactly 50 years since Formula 1 staged one of its most eccentric and therefore most memorable races. Eccentric? Memorable? Yes and yes, unquestionably so, for the 1976 Swedish Grand Prix was, is, and always will be the only F1 grand prix won in a six-wheeled car, and that alone guarantees its place in motor sport folklore.


But F1’s six-wheeled odyssey does not end there because, although the Tyrrell P34 was the only six-wheeled car ever to race at F1 world championship level, it was not necessarily the most interesting six-wheeled F1 concept.


Hear the full story in this podcast, and read more from Matt Bishop at Motor Sport: https://go.motorsportmagazine.com/4g9Etma

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]]> On June 13, 2026, it will be exactly 50 years since Formula 1 staged one of its most eccentric and therefore most memorable races. Eccentric? Memorable? Yes and yes, unquestionably so, for the 1976 Swedish Grand Prix was, is, and always will be the only F1 grand prix won in a six-wheeled car, and that alone guarantees its place in motor sport folklore.


But F1’s six-wheeled odyssey does not end there because, although the Tyrrell P34 was the only six-wheeled car ever to race at F1 world championship level, it was not necessarily the most interesting six-wheeled F1 concept.


Hear the full story in this podcast, and read more from Matt Bishop at Motor Sport: https://go.motorsportmagazine.com/4g9Etma

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]]> <![CDATA["Brilliant!" Michael Schumacher's greatest ever Formula 1 drive]]> Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:30:04 GMT 19:37 6a1eb0acd610a7740372bb22 false https://go.motorsportmagazine.com/49zZ7ba 6a1eb0acd610a7740372bb22 69f0a5a27beb81286952d837 brilliant-michael-schumachers-greatest-ever-formula-1-drive full 1 6 Let us flash back to Sunday, June 2, 1996; exactly 30 years ago today; a time travel of three decades during which an entire generation of Formula 1 fans has been born, grown up, studied, discovered love, bought cars, paid rent, arranged mortgages, gained weight, dieted, joined gyms, even acquired reading glasses, and learned to mutter darkly about tyre degradation, track limits, and now power unit algorithms.


What happened on this day 30 years ago? Michael Schumacher delivered the single greatest grand prix victory of his astonishingly accomplished F1 career, that’s what.


Hear the full story in this podcast, and read more from Matt Bishop at Motor Sport: https://go.motorsportmagazine.com/49zZ7ba

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]]> Let us flash back to Sunday, June 2, 1996; exactly 30 years ago today; a time travel of three decades during which an entire generation of Formula 1 fans has been born, grown up, studied, discovered love, bought cars, paid rent, arranged mortgages, gained weight, dieted, joined gyms, even acquired reading glasses, and learned to mutter darkly about tyre degradation, track limits, and now power unit algorithms.


What happened on this day 30 years ago? Michael Schumacher delivered the single greatest grand prix victory of his astonishingly accomplished F1 career, that’s what.


Hear the full story in this podcast, and read more from Matt Bishop at Motor Sport: https://go.motorsportmagazine.com/49zZ7ba

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]]> <![CDATA[Johnny Servoz-Gavin: F1's hippie racer whose career was ended by a twig]]> Tue, 26 May 2026 11:18:50 GMT 18:45 6a15819acb11d38a8bb9ca09 false https://go.motorsportmagazine.com/4dyvlGg 6a15819acb11d38a8bb9ca09 69f0a5a27beb81286952d837 johnny-servoz-gavin-f1s-hippie-racer-whose-career-was-ended full 1 5 Motor sport has always attracted romantics, rogues, and rebels, and Johnny Servoz-Gavin managed to embody all three archetypes simultaneously. He looked less like a racing driver than the bassist of a psychedelic rock band. 


He was a French F3 champion, a European F2 champion, a multiple Le Mans entrant, and a Matra works driver. Already, before his F1 story had properly begun, his CV was formidable. Servoz-Gavin had climbed the racing ladder correctly, and a glorious destiny appeared to be beckoning him.


Hear the full story in this podcast, and read more from Matt Bishop at Motor Sport: https://go.motorsportmagazine.com/4dyvlGg

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]]> Motor sport has always attracted romantics, rogues, and rebels, and Johnny Servoz-Gavin managed to embody all three archetypes simultaneously. He looked less like a racing driver than the bassist of a psychedelic rock band. 


He was a French F3 champion, a European F2 champion, a multiple Le Mans entrant, and a Matra works driver. Already, before his F1 story had properly begun, his CV was formidable. Servoz-Gavin had climbed the racing ladder correctly, and a glorious destiny appeared to be beckoning him.


Hear the full story in this podcast, and read more from Matt Bishop at Motor Sport: https://go.motorsportmagazine.com/4dyvlGg

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]]> <![CDATA[Intoxicating screams, howls and thunder of F1's greatest age]]> Tue, 19 May 2026 09:18:59 GMT 22:39 6a0c2b03ca804e58ca1e4c29 false https://go.motorsportmagazine.com/4wJhdS6 6a0c2b03ca804e58ca1e4c29 69f0a5a27beb81286952d837 the-intoxicating-screams-howls-and-thunder-of-f1s-greatest-a full 1 4 Sixty years ago, Formula 1 entered the finest era in the history of the world championship: that of the naturally aspirated 3.0-litre engine formula.


No other F1 engine formula has endured remotely as long, and there was good reason for its longevity, says Matt Bishop. Engines could be V8s, V12s, or flat-12s, or occasionally even stranger configurations. They could be narrow or wide, or torquey or peaky; they could scream, howl, bark, shriek, or thunder according to their cylinder count and design architecture; above all, they all sounded utterly magnificent.


Hear the full story in this podcast, and read more from Matt Bishop at Motor Sport: https://go.motorsportmagazine.com/4dBJAsA

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]]> Sixty years ago, Formula 1 entered the finest era in the history of the world championship: that of the naturally aspirated 3.0-litre engine formula.


No other F1 engine formula has endured remotely as long, and there was good reason for its longevity, says Matt Bishop. Engines could be V8s, V12s, or flat-12s, or occasionally even stranger configurations. They could be narrow or wide, or torquey or peaky; they could scream, howl, bark, shriek, or thunder according to their cylinder count and design architecture; above all, they all sounded utterly magnificent.


Hear the full story in this podcast, and read more from Matt Bishop at Motor Sport: https://go.motorsportmagazine.com/4dBJAsA

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]]> Cruel tragedy of Elio de Angelis: an F1 gentleman with the talent to take on Senna Cruel tragedy of Elio de Angelis: an F1 gentleman with the talent to take on Senna Tue, 12 May 2026 11:32:25 GMT 20:25 6a030fc95c981a35734b359f false https://go.motorsportmagazine.com/4noZjPZ 6a030fc95c981a35734b359f 69f0a5a27beb81286952d837 cruel-tragedy-of-elio-de-angelis-an-f1-gentleman-with-the-ta full 1 3 Forty years ago, Italian F1 driver, Elio de Angelis, died in a Marseille hospital following a testing accident at Paul Ricard the previous day.


Matt Bishop looks back on one of F1's great might-have-beens: a man of serious ability, extraordinary charm, and uncommon grace, born in Rome to wealthy parents but the very opposite of arrogant.


He won only two F1 grands prix, but there are some drivers whose win stats tell only the smallest fraction of their story. De Angelis is one of them.


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]]> Forty years ago, Italian F1 driver, Elio de Angelis, died in a Marseille hospital following a testing accident at Paul Ricard the previous day.


Matt Bishop looks back on one of F1's great might-have-beens: a man of serious ability, extraordinary charm, and uncommon grace, born in Rome to wealthy parents but the very opposite of arrogant.


He won only two F1 grands prix, but there are some drivers whose win stats tell only the smallest fraction of their story. De Angelis is one of them.


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]]> <![CDATA[Graham Hill's last hurrah at gloriously mad Silverstone]]> Tue, 05 May 2026 11:02:59 GMT 19:22 69f9ce631353c87e11bd5b87 false https://go.motorsportmagazine.com/4wbLubC 69f9ce631353c87e11bd5b87 69f0a5a27beb81286952d837 graham-hills-last-hurrah-at-gloriously-mad-silverstone full 1 2 Matt Bishop's F1 flashback: 1971 International Trophy


Graham Hill's final Formula 1 victory came in the 1971 International Trophy at Silverstone when the veteran driver, almost two decades older than the young and thrusting Emerson Fittipaldi, won at the wheel of a Brabham nicknamed 'lobster claw' for its challenging looks.


It was a vignette of an era when our sport was more anarchic, more inventive, and more down-to-earth than it is today.


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]]> Matt Bishop's F1 flashback: 1971 International Trophy


Graham Hill's final Formula 1 victory came in the 1971 International Trophy at Silverstone when the veteran driver, almost two decades older than the young and thrusting Emerson Fittipaldi, won at the wheel of a Brabham nicknamed 'lobster claw' for its challenging looks.


It was a vignette of an era when our sport was more anarchic, more inventive, and more down-to-earth than it is today.


Read more from Matt Bishop at: https://go.motorsportmagazine.com/4wbLubC

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]]> Why James Hunt should never have been F1 champion! Why James Hunt should never have been F1 champion! Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:25:32 GMT 21:51 69f0b54c526757e10b434206 false https://go.motorsportmagazine.com/3QNwuk4 69f0b54c526757e10b434206 69f0a5a27beb81286952d837 why-james-hunt-should-never-have-been-f1-champion The FIA error that wrongly put James Hunt on course to become Formula 1 world champion: Matt Bishop on the controversial decision that changed the course of the 1976 title race full 1 1 Matt Bishop's F1 flashback: 1976 Spanish Grand Prix

The controversial FIA decision that changed the course of the Formula 1 world championship.


2021's Abu Dhabi season finale wasn't the first time that the title race was decided by an official error. In 1976, James Hunt was disqualified from the Spanish Grand Prix after winning it when his McLaren was found to be too wide.


It was a decision that would have ended his title hopes - but it was then controversially overturned on appeal. Hunt then drove to a popular world championship — cheered on by Matt Bishop who now accepts that Niki Lauda should have been crowned in that remarkable year.


Read more from Matt Bishop at: https://go.motorsportmagazine.com/3QNwuk4

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]]> Matt Bishop's F1 flashback: 1976 Spanish Grand Prix

The controversial FIA decision that changed the course of the Formula 1 world championship.


2021's Abu Dhabi season finale wasn't the first time that the title race was decided by an official error. In 1976, James Hunt was disqualified from the Spanish Grand Prix after winning it when his McLaren was found to be too wide.


It was a decision that would have ended his title hopes - but it was then controversially overturned on appeal. Hunt then drove to a popular world championship — cheered on by Matt Bishop who now accepts that Niki Lauda should have been crowned in that remarkable year.


Read more from Matt Bishop at: https://go.motorsportmagazine.com/3QNwuk4

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