Formula Scout Podcast

Ellen Lohr is the only woman to have won a race in DTM, and before becoming a touring car star was a Formula Ford champion and a rival to the likes of Michael Schumacher and Heinz-Harald Frentzen in Formula 3.

She joins the Formula Scout Podcast to discuss her racing career, the challenges of being a woman rising up the ladder in the 1980s and '90s, and her thoughts about female-led racing initiatives such as F1 Academy today.

Andrea Kimi Antonelli has won four titles and a gold medal in junior single-seaters over the last two years, and now the Mercedes-AMG Formula 1 junior is jumping up the ladder from Formula Regional to Formula 2.

He joined the Formula Scout Podcast to discuss the move, the challenges he faces and his ultra-successful relationship with the Prema team who he will race for once again.

USF Juniors champion, USF2000 race-winner and USF Pro 2000 podium-finisher Mac Clark joins the podcast to discuss his career, the importance of oval racing and the North American single-seater scene.

Argentinian fans are attempting to propel Franco Colapinto into a Formula 2 seat for 2024 after he won races in FIA Formula 3 this year by convincing companies and politicans to sponsor him. He explains how his search for funding has gone, and the help he has had from the Williams Formula 1 team.

The Formula Scout team look back on the latest two Formula 2 and Formula 3 rounds, and all the gossip from being in the paddock, as well as reviewing Indy Nxt's trip to downtown Detroit, and more!

On the week of the Monaco Grand Prix and Indianapolis 500, the Formula Scout analyse what a motorsport Triple Crown would look like if it was based around junior single-seater events.

Formula Scout journalists Alejandro Alonso Lopez and Ida Wood were busy last week at Formula 2 in-season testing and the Pau Grand Prix. They share their paddock findings and look forward to the now-cancelled F2 round at Imola.

Formula 2 had a new winner in Baku, and then he won again in a brilliant weekend. The Formula Scout analyse the action from those races, the winner of them, as well as assessing how Euroformula's depleted season opener and F1 Academy's inaugural race weekend went.

The Formula Scout team preview three major junior single-seater series that begin this weekend, as well as a little look into the BRSCC National FF1600 championship.

The Formula Scout team discuss the on-track action from the second round of the F2 season in Jeddah.

Bethonie Waring and Ida Wood look ahead to this weekend's Formula 2 round in Jeddah, and the political picture of hosting a grand prix in Saudi Arabia.

The Formula Scout team discuss the action from the start of the Formula 2 and Formula 3 seasons at Bahrain and the first round of the rebranded Indy Nxt series in St. Petersburg.

2023 Formula Regional Oceania champion Charlie Wurz joins this week's podcast to talk about his time in New Zealand and how it has helped prepare him for his European season.

In this week's episode we look back on a busy week that featured the season finales for Formula Regional Middle East and Formula 4 UAE, as well as Formula 2 pre-season testing in Bahrain.

Former Red Bull and Ferrari junior Callum Ilott, who now races for Juncos Hollinger Racing in IndyCar, joins this week's podcast to talk about the highs and lows of his career, what it's like to be involved with F1 teams as a young driver and how close he came to racing in the world championship.

In our first episode of 2023, Bethonie Waring and Ida Wood look at the chaotic start to single-seater racing in Kuwait that occurred over the weekend, the quality of the Formula Regional Oceania grid ahead of the New Zealand GP, and more.

This year's Indy Pro 2000 champion Louis Foster joins the podcast to talk about his first season racing in America, and the step up to Indy Nxt.

Michael d'Orlando joins the podcast to discuss his time in USF2000, and the key points in his 2022 title win.

Roger Gascoigne speaks to ADAC and Italian Formula 4 champion and Motorsport Games F4 Cup winner Andrea Kimi Antonelli about his incredible 2022, life as a Mercedes-AMG Formula 1 junior, his recent injury scare and what comes next.

The Formula Scout team get together to discuss the final round of the Formula 2 season in Abu Dhabi, the F4 support races and the Macau Grand Prix

Team Dolan boss Bernard Dolan talks about how he and his team suffered from a fire this summer that destroyed almost everything it owned, and how the squad has been rebuild and remotivated since to return to the front in Formula Ford racing in a matter of months.

Fresh from a holiday and a sportscar racing cameo in Trinidad & Tobago, FIA Formula 3 runner-up Zane Maloney joins Formula Scout's Alejandro Alonso Lopez to discuss how his 2022 has gone and what he plans next

Team Canada has tweaked how it awards its scholarship this year, Team Brazil has chosen its first scholar and the Driver to Europe programme from Down Under is still going strong. At testing for the Formula Ford Festival, we spoke to the recipients of the prize drives to find out more.

The Formula Scout writers go team-by-team through the 2022 FIA Formula 3 Championship grid to review the stars of the season, and provide paddock insight on the title fight

The Formula 2 champion was crowned and the FIA Formula 3 Championship was decided in dramatic style at Monza just over a week ago, and there were several FIA decisions that made for an even more tense weekend with red flags and penalties. The Formula Scout team discuss what went down on track, and how it was handled by the event and race organisers.

Just days after claiming the FIA Formula 3 title in dramatic style, ART Grand Prix's Alpine junior Victor Martins joined the Formula Scout Podcast to discuss his championship success, the importance of the team around him, the uncertainty that went down in the Monza pitlane last Sunday and more

Formula 2 and FIA Formula 3 were in action at Zandvoort last weekend as the middle part of an intense triple-header of race weekends. But eyes are on IndyCar's stars joining the F1 grid next year.

Formula 2 and FIA Formula 3 were back together on the Belgian Grand Prix support bill last weekend, and after a lengthy summer break from their usually intense schedules there was a lot to talk about as the two series returned to track, and with Formula Scout in the paddock to report from the heart of the action

British Formula 4 rookie Ugo Ugochukwu is McLaren's only junior driver right now, and he's already racking up car racing wins. He spoke to Formula Scout's Bethonie Waring about his career so far.

Formula 2 rookie and Alpine junior Jack Doohan joins the podcast to chat 2022, Formula 1 opportunities and more

Indy Lights' runaway championship leader and 2023 IndyCar hopeful Linus Lundqvist discusses his move to America, the help he had in his rookie Indy Lights season, that scary Gateway crash and his performances this year in a detailed discussion with Ida Wood.

The Hungarian Grand Prix had three support series last weekend, while two championships were in action at Spa-Francorchamps and lots was going on at Silverstone and in the Americas. The Formula Scout catch up on it all, bringing our on-the-ground insight from the weekend and also the impact of Monday and Tuesday's surprise silly season news.

Fernando Alonso will leave Alpine for Aston Martin in 2023, and Oscar Piastri has been placed into his old seat for next year. Wait, no he hasn't. The Formula Scout team discuss a crazy day in F1 silly season and run down everything we know so far

There could be big changes in Formula E's driver line-ups next season, or very little at all. Either way, there's still opportunities there for young drivers and teams who want to know which junior series talents are interested. Electric motorsport journalist Hazel Southwell and Ida Wood combine paddock knowledge with some fantasy thoughts to create a create a hypothetical FE rookie test line-up and pitch why certain F2 and F3 drivers deserve FE seats now.

The team discuss the future of F2's top talents, and the chances of them breaking into Formula 1 in the coming years

Track limits was the big topic in F2 and F3 at the Red Bull Ring, and also this week's Formula Scout Podcast. Our journalists bring their on-the-ground insight to a discussion that raged between drivers and stewards

Roy Nissany's crash dominated the headlines in the British GP support paddock, while domination was what Andrea Kimi Antonelli did in Italian F4 and the Road to Indy title battles contined their twists and turns.

Touring car star Tom Coronel joins the podcast in the Spa-Francorchamps paddock to discuss his career, the drivers he's helped on the way and his thoughts about the current cost of single-seater racing and the approach it needs.

Ida Wood and Roger Gascoigne bring updates from their paddock trips to Spa-Francorchamps and Zandvoort on what's happening in Euroformula and Formula Regional European Championship right now.

After a part-time rookie campaign in single-seaters in 2021, Alex Dunne has gone on a three-fold Formula 4 attack in 2022 with the United Arab Emirates, British and Italian championships. He's already won in all three, so we spoke to him and the people around him about the key to this year's success.

Formula Scout was at three different circuits last weekend and was super busy in the paddock. In the latest podcast we review what we learned, the F2 title battle and what's coming up on the website soon.
(Apologies for Ida's audio, as always!)

This week, Craig Woollard and Roger Gascoigne sit down and discuss the new changes and highly-placed returning drivers coming to Formula Regional European this year, as well as asking fundamental questions about W Series among other things. In addition, the series running the Dallara 320 chassis are also previewed, and we bring you up to date on these championships already underway, as well as FIA F3 goings-on from Jerez.

On this week's show, we have a special interview with Ralph Firman Sr, the former boss and co-founder of the Van Diemen outfit. The marque is perhaps best-known for its longstanding history in Formula Ford racing but also has raced in Formula Renault, Formula 3 and in the United States. Motorsport greats to have raced in Van Diemens include Ayrton Senna, Dan Wheldon, Mark Webber, Jason Plato and Eddie Irvine to name but a few, some in the famous Duckhams Racing colours. Ida Wood caught up with Firman during last year's Formula Ford Festival, where he was watching his old friend Roberto Moreno in action in a Van Diemen of the same specification he ran way back in 1980.

Formula 2 took to Jeddah this weekend as its first middle-eastern stint comes to a close, but concerns about the security of the Formula 1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix and a sprint race penalty for reigning FIA Formula 3 champion Dennis Hauger were the big topics of discussion. The team also talks about Felipe Drugovich's "perfect weekend", and a bizarre moment in qualifying...