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How are we all?
Hello everyone! Hope you had a nice winter holiday break, however you do it. As you can see I've been slower on content lately as I've been using the end of season to take a bit of a health break from f1 things and rejuvenate. Starting to work on the new things now. I appreciate your support...
Predictions Challenge 2022: The Results
Hello! I'm back with the end of year Predictions results video. This is your early access edition, but I'll be sticking out a Premiere at 7pm UTC on Friday 16th if you want to tune in for that instead.Hope you're having a good winter. Sorry for relative lack of content, but building up t...
New video: Pit Stop Deltas
Hello! A classic explainatron video for you this week. I just found myself really wanting to talk about pit stop deltas. So I did.
New video: Japanese Talking Points
Japan was interesting wasn't it? A long wait but lots of fun. Nonetheless, gonna have a classic complainy video, lol. That errant truck and the confusion over the points are definitely things that needs sorting out pretty soon. So let's look into it...
New video: Singapore Talking Points
Helllo! This week we're mostly talking about things taking a long time, be they the length of the race, the start of the race, the stewards decisions or the switch to dry tyres. Much waiting!
New video: Rating the 2023 Calendar
Hello! This is a light hearted look at the monstrous 2023 Calendar so bridge the 3 week gap between races. It was meant to come out on Monday but I ended up quite a bit behind for various reasons so this will come out publically shortly, but you'll still be without all those annoying adverts!Are...
New video: Italy Talking Points
Hello everyone. I had a whole bunch of things I was thinking about discussion but I thought I'd hone it down to mainly: the penalties, and the safety car.I'm trying to think about using the race to focus in on one main area and maybe a couple of secondary ones. Depending on what comes up!
New Video: Belgian GP Talking Points
Hello! Did you watch Belgium? Did you have OPINIONS? Me too. Well, more of a deconstruction of certain things. Let's go through it.Also: I'm streaming a little sometimes while playing F1 Manager 22. In theory it would be fun to play through the whole game on stream but I'm not sure yet, ...
New video: Strategy basics and how Hungary went t-ts up for some
Oh hello! I have a video for you. It's late, but it's here now.Hope you're enjoying the first week of the F1 summer break where nothing happens, nothing at all. Just no news. Simple, news free week.
New video: Ferrari's French GP Debrief
Hello Patrons. What is up? Exciting news: I've obtained footage from Ferrari's post race team meeting led by strategy team coordinator Stuardo Sarto. I think you'll find it insightful
New video: Austrian GP Talking Points
Hello! I'm back and I've got things to saaaay. Post-covid coughing is getting a bit better, hopefully will be clear by the next video. Let's hope.If you're interested I was also on Sky's Any Driven Monday for a little bit. The episode is online here, but I think you need to be in...
Mini update
Hello lovely Patrons! Hope you've been having a good couple of races.Just thought I'd update you as I've been away a few weeks in North America so missed a couple of races. Thank you for your patience. I actually ended up catching covid in the middle of my trip so spent a week of it isol...
New video: Baku Talking Points
Hello all! Here's my video with my points of interest from Baku. Championship wise, we may well have seen the end of Ferrari's real title challenge. Though, I still have a little hope left they'll put up a fight!I'm taking the rest of June off and will be in Canada for the Grand Prix...
New Video: Monaco Talking Points
Oh hello, it's you! And it's me. What are the chances? Did you watch Monaco? I did. It was interesting. Nice to have a little something to spice it up. Anyway, here's a video about it!
New video: Spanish GP Talking Points
Hello patrons. This video is a little late due to external issues. And some internal issues. Issues everywhere, issues abound. But it's here, and I have thoughts.Hope you're all doing well. Brace yourselves for Monaco, it could get funky with the weather.
New Video - Miami Talking Points
Hello, it's me - your friendly neighbourhod videoman.This video is a little bit rambley - I was at the Pau Grand Prix this weekend and didn't really stop, while trying to be mentally present for multiple motorsporty things so I was wiiiiiped making this. But these are my thoughts, as I had t...
New video: Fantasy GP Takeover Miami with Tommo
Hello! Please enjoy this discussion I had with F1 content creator Tommo who predicted Miami for me and chatted about McLaren, Miami and his fantasy racetracks.
New video: Imola Talking Points
Hello! Here's a new video for you after a very interesting weekend in Emilia-Romagna. Hooray!
Fantasy GP Takeover: Imola with Elizabeth Blackstock
Hello all! I've got your early and ad-free Takeover video for Imola here. It's a bit lower quality than usual as I'm making it remotely but hopefully still lots of fun. Enjoy!
New video: Energy Use in F1
Hello! This week we've got a little model of the way energy is used in F1. I like to think of it as discrete little blocks being moved around, so I thought I'd visualise that up and share it!
New video: Fantasy GP Takeover Australia
Hello! New Fantasy GP Takeover video for you, with Peter Leung. As always, early and ad free for you.I really enjoyed this conversation. Peter was great to talk to: insightful and witty and interesting. Hope you like it too.
New video: Saudi GP Talking Points
Hello, new video again about Saudi. I won't be doing Talking Points every weekend but it's a good way to summarise some of the goings on, especially in the early season.
Fantasy GP Takeover: Saudi GP with Deanna
Hellooooo lovely Patrons. Here's your early look at the Saudi Arabia GP Fantasy Takeover thing (what a mouthful that is). I was lucky enough to get Deanna from Relapped on to sort out my fantasy picks. Shorter episode this one - going to try and get them nice and punchy like this but it just dep...
New video: Bahrain GP talking points
Hello it's your ol' pal Chain Bear here with another moving picture show all the about the big prize in Bahrain. More of a quickfire round this time just to cover a bunch of things we learned.
Questions for the Saudi GP Takeover
Hi all,We'll be doing some more viewer correspondence for the Saudi GP Takeover video. Would love to hear from you, comments or questions.My guest will be Deanna from Relapped. Deanna watches and reacts to current F1 races but is also gradually watching all the races from 1979 forward so if you&...
New video: FantasyGP Takeover - Bahrain with Dre Harrison
Hello! Here's an early preview of episode one of the Fantasy GP Takeover series. In this episode Dre Harrison from Motorsport101 joins me to make my Bahrain picks and also chats over some of the pre-race talking points.I really enjoyed recording this, and I hope you do too. I intended to make it...
New show coming next week
Hello all, I'm trying out a new series on the channel before every race where I'm getting someone on (different guest every week) to chat with about the upcoming race weekend. This week I've got the excellent Dre Harrison on from Motorsport101.What we're going to do is get the guest ...
New video: The challenge of being Pirelli with Mario Isola
Hello patrons! I wanted to know more about what it was like being Pirelli, having to deliver the seeming impossible for the last decade and having to bear the brunt of some ... undeserved criticism (??) for all their efforts.So I chatted with Mario Isola, the head of Pirelli motorsport about what th...
F1 Testing and Launch talking points
We're gonna talk about the porpoise, don't you worry.Though I'd just summarise all the main jargon and talking points going into 2022 right here!
New Video: 2022 Tyres and Wheels
Hey! We haven't talked about tyres in a while, but everyone loves tyres.How are you guys enjoying the looks of the new cars?

























