Another Sprint Race Weekend in the books - and while this Sprint was a bit better than previous ones, it was still a Sprint Race that we think was totally unnecessary and un-needed.Alpine has new investors - and we wonder what the play is here…

The Bloke and A Bird Show Episode 283

Jun 19th, 2023

We’re back as F1 comes back for a fairly eventful race weekend in Montreal.There was a helmet controversy (that probably shouldn’t have been a controversy), CCTV issues that rearranged Friday running, strategy concerns, questionable penalti

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May 29th, 2023

F1 returned to Monaco this past weekend, and while it brought us one of the best Qualifying sessions we’ve seen in years, it ultimately played out like an F1 race in Monaco.Helmet Marco has decided - Alpha Tauri will not be sold, and isn’t movi

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May 22nd, 2023

We were looking forward to watching a race in Imola this past weekend, and while we’re disappointed that the race was cancelled we agree with the decision to do so.We’ve identified a new F1 job that at least one of us wants.Martin Brundle was a

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May 8th, 2023

Due to some unplanned circumstances we’ve been gone for the past few weeks. We’re back this week but there won’t be a show next week.It’s Miami Race Weekend - and we’ve pulled some Will Smith out of the archives to commemorate the weekend.In F

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Apr 4th, 2023

This week’s race was exhausting, but we think that the Stewards handled a challenging weekend well.Despite what his defenders said, what Nelson Piquet said about Lewis Hamilton last year was wrong - and now he has a court judgement affirming th

The Bloke and A Bird Show Episode 278

Mar 20th, 2023

Penalties. We’ve seen races where there were more penalties handed out than we had this weekend, but we had a lot to talk about this week when it came to penalties and the impacts they had on the weekend.Haas categorically denies allegations m

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Mar 13th, 2023

Race 1 is in the books and so is the first week of the Fantasy GP League. You can still sign up by going to www.fantasygp.com and entering the league code of 14831491.Race 1 was the first time that we’ve really gotten an idea of how the field

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Feb 28th, 2023

Before we start, a reminder that the Bloke a Bird Show Fantasy GP League is setup and ready for the 2023 season. Head over to www.fantasygp.com and use the league code 14831491The F1 paddock appears to be pushing for any potential new team to

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Feb 20th, 2023

The 2023 F1 season starts really soon - and we’ve activated the Bloke and A Bird Show Fantasy GP League for 2023. To sign up just head over to www.fantasygp.com and when you join the league you’ll need the league code 14831491.The FIA has relea

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Feb 14th, 2023

We’re back and we have less than 1 month before the start of the 2023 Formula 1 season!We will be launching the Bloke & The Bird Show Fantasy GP League again - and if you act now by going over to FantasyGP.com they’re currently offering 30% off

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Jan 16th, 2023

We’re back and there was some big news in F1 - but if you follow F1 you might not realize it…Andretti Autosport has partnered with Cadillac on an entry for F1 - and the F1 world mostly shrugged at the announcement - and we have to ask why?Moham

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Jan 2nd, 2023

Our first show of the New Year and we’ve got a bit of catching up to do.While we were going there was a surprisingly coordinated Team Principal shift. Frederick Vasseur goes from Alfa Romeo to Ferrari, Andreas Seidl goes from McLaren to Alfa Ro

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Dec 13th, 2022

We’re back to wrap up the 2022 season, we’ll have a show this week, but it’s up in the air if we’ll have a show next week before our end of year break.Congratulations to Patricia for her victory in the 2022 Bloke and Bird Show Fantasy GP League

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Nov 21st, 2022

[tap] [tap] [tap] - Is this thing on?So we still do this podcasting thing… We know it’s been a while, but races in the America’s can be challenging for us from a timing perspective…This week - Sprint Races… There’ll be 6 of them next year and

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Oct 10th, 2022

Thanks to a wet weekend in Suzuka we’re able to continue our planned rant from last weekend - after we get past the latest news on the cost cap.Three teams (not two like everybody is reporting) had cost cap violations, but only 1 appears to hav

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Oct 4th, 2022

It’s been a few weeks, but WE’RE BACK!!! (try to contain your excitement). We were on vacation for a few weeks but after a few adventures we’re back.We had a full lineup to talk about, and we didn’t even managed to get through all of it, so if

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Aug 29th, 2022

We know, scheduling our break to start just as F1 is coming out of their summer break but that’s just how the schedule’s aligned.It the week since our last show a lot happened -Audi announced that they will be F1’s newest engine constructor deb

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Aug 15th, 2022

Between the time that we recorded last week’s show and the time we published last week’s show we were already out of date… But, Formula has gifted us with one of, if not the silliest silly season that we’ve seen in a very, very long time.Ferna

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Aug 2nd, 2022

We’re back for a show to close out the first half of the F1 season with news that’s surprising and not surprising - Sebastian Vettel has announced his retirement at the end of the season… And we recorded this before news broke this morning abou

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Jul 19th, 2022

This week for the third week and a row we find ourselves opening with a story about horrible behavior in F1, and at least one of us is questioning if the intended lesson behind “We Race as One” was actually learned by the sport.Lawrence Stroll

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Jul 13th, 2022

We’re not sure what’s more incredible - that we managed to two shows on back to back weeks or that Bernie Ecclestone issued an apology.Bernie Ecclestone has apologized for his remarks on Good Morning Britain two weeks ago.The roll hoop on Zhou

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Jul 4th, 2022

Once again the Silverstone gave us an absolutely mega race. It’s not often that a race makes us sit up on the edge of our seats - but this year’s British Grand Prix did exactly that.But before we can get to the race, we have to catch up on the

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Jun 21st, 2022

We’re back after spending a fairly eventful weekend at Road America for the Sonsio Grand Prix. Multiple Full Course Yellows and even a Red Flag or two but everybody involved walked away… And it wouldn’t be a race weekend for us if somebody al

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May 30th, 2022

Did you miss us? We’re sneaking in a show before things get busy again…Marcus Ericsson has joined the exclusive list of former F1 drivers who have won the Indy 500 - a list that Fernando Alonso hasn’t been able to join.Stefano Domenicali isn’t