What if starting karting in college wasn't too late, it was actually an advantage? Can engineering thinking make you a faster driver? And what should racing families really invest in if they want their young driver to succeed?

Dick and Sabrina sit down with Jordon Musser, a 4-time Rotax National Champion, 5-time SKUSA Shifter Kart Champion, and the engineering mind behind Musser Technical's innovative karting products. Featured in Dick's recent karting documentary, Power Drive Vegas, Jordon shares the surprising advantages of his late start in the sport, how he turned frustration with equipment into a thriving product line, and why 25 years of hard-won experience has made him passionate about helping others skip the steps he had to learn the hard way.

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What makes 2 Guys, A Girl, and F1 special? The community. You.

Dick and Sabrina recently received thoughtful questions from listener Heath and his son Drew about driver psychology, track design, and the business of Formula 1. It reminded them: your questions are often more interesting than anything they'd come up with on their own. Whether it's a quick curiosity, a deep dive topic, or a wild hypothetical, listener input shapes what the podcast explores—and heading into the 2026 regulation reset, there's never been a better time to get your voice into the conversation.

What F1 topics are you thinking about? What questions do you wish someone would answer? What would you ask our expert guests if you were sitting in on the interview? Send them to sabrina@2guysagirlandf1.com. Some questions the hosts will tackle themselves, others they'll bring to guests like Joe Saward, Dr. James Hewitt, and the incredible lineup coming in 2026. Either way, you're shaping the show.

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A 19-year-old Italian just won the Chinese Grand Prix. The reigning constructors' champions didn't make it to the starting grid. And two races into the most significant regulation change in a decade, the sport is still figuring out what it's actually built.

Shanghai gave us a lot to hold at once. The kind of victory that makes you feel something -- Kimi Antonelli on the top step, the tears, Italy's first Formula 1 winner in twenty years. And in the same afternoon, the reigning world champion's team watching from the garage while everyone else raced. Both things happened. Both matter. And they point in completely different directions about where this sport is going.

Dick and Sabrina don't agree on everything they saw in China. Dick thinks Antonelli's win is a signal -- that the next chapter of Formula 1 isn't coming, it's already here. Sabrina is asking a different question: not just what Kimi did, but what had to be true about how he was developed for this moment to be possible. The contrast with how other young drivers have been handled in this sport is not subtle.

On McLaren: the questions don't have clean answers yet. Two cars. Same component. Different failures. Minutes apart. Neither Dick nor Sabrina can tell you definitively what went wrong or why -- and they're honest about that. But Sabrina has one question that's hard to dismiss, and it has to do with what a sprint weekend actually demands of a power unit before the race even starts.

There's more. Red Bull and Max Verstappen in the midfield. Lewis Hamilton's first Ferrari podium and what to make of it this early. The Bahrain and Saudi races officially gone -- and the knock-on effects most fans haven't thought about, including a regulatory mechanism that could directly shape whether Honda gets the development lifeline it needs. Dick and Sabrina are not going to skip the parts that are complicated.

Two races in, nothing is settled. But the 2026 era is already asking hard questions. This is where Dick and Sabrina start answering them.

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The 2026 Formula 1 season has begun. George Russell won. Oscar Piastri never made it to the starting grid. And in the opening twelve laps, the lead changed hands more times than most races produce in an entire afternoon.

Whether that was a sign of things to come — or a consequence of cars that nobody has fully figured out yet — is exactly what Dick, Joe Saward, and Sabrina work through in this race review. Joe joined from Melbourne just hours after the race ended, with a flight waiting, which is about as close to a live debrief as this podcast gets.

In this episode, they go team by team through the 2026 Australian Grand Prix, covering Mercedes’ dominant one-two and what George’s post-race comments suggest they may still have in reserve, Ferrari’s familiar strategy problem resurfacing under new regulations, Max Verstappen’s recovery from twentieth, Isack Hadjar’s quietly impressive debut weekend before the car let him down, and why the reigning world champions had one of the most painful Sundays of anyone on the grid.

You’ll also hear why Albert Park may have been the worst possible circuit to debut these regulations on, whether the near-miss between Franco Colapinto and Liam Lawson on the starting grid before the race is a story the sport needs to take seriously, and what Joe says about the chances of the Bahrain and Saudi races actually happening this season.

This is one race, and everyone — teams, drivers, and observers — went into it without a reliable roadmap. What it reveals, and what it leaves open, is the conversation.

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The 2026 Formula 1 season is officially underway -- and the opening race in Melbourne left more questions open than it answered.

In this episode, Dick and Sabrina bring two distinct perspectives on the same race. Dick’s notes, drawn from 30-plus years in motorsport, offer a composed assessment of Mercedes’ race management, skepticism about the artificial nature of early overtakes under the new energy rules, and a pointed question about what really caused two of the weekend’s most alarming moments.

Sabrina frames the weekend as a global science experiment -- one where teams spent months theorizing and Melbourne was when theory finally met reality. She walks through what the results suggest about Mercedes holding something in reserve, why Ferrari's familiar strategic weakness looks even more costly under regulations that reward precision, and what Red Bull and Ford's opening performance tells us about a team still finding its footing under new leadership.

You'll also hear why Albert Park may have been the worst possible circuit to debut these regulations on, what Isack Hadjar's weekend -- before the car let him down -- actually said about a driver who came into this season under serious scrutiny, why Ollie Bearman's P7 in just his second F1 season deserves more attention than it got, and why the near-incident between Franco Colapinto and Liam Lawson on the starting grid -- before the race had even begun -- is a safety story the sport needs to take seriously.

And then there is Oscar Piastri, who never made it to the grid in front of his home crowd. There is not much to analyze. That is what makes it so hard.

One race in, and the 2026 era has already produced a dominant Mercedes, a heartbroken home hero, a rookie who announced himself, and at least one moment that should be making people uncomfortable. Dick and Sabrina are here to help you make sense of it -- and to tell you what they think it actually means.

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This show is better when it's a conversation, not just us talking at you.

In this quick PSA, Dick shares why listener questions—like those from Heath and his son Drew about racing Monaco in reverse and F1's Americanization—create the best podcast moments. Whether you're debating with friends after a race, wondering about driver psychology, or curious about the business side of Formula 1, your questions shape what 2 Guys, A Girl, and F1 explores next.

As we head into the 2026 season with major regulation changes and incredible guests lined up, now's the perfect time to get your voice into the conversation. Send your questions—wild hypotheticals, serious technical analysis, business curiosities, whatever keeps you thinking about F1—to sabrina@2guysagirlandf1.com.

Your question might end up being answered by one of our expert guests. Don't hold back—we read every single one.

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War broke out in the Middle East on Saturday, when the US and Israel launched joint strikes on Iran. Iran retaliated with missiles and drones targeting Bahrain, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Jordan, countries that together host four races on the 2026 Formula 1 calendar. The Pirelli wet-weather test in Bahrain was cancelled, Gulf carriers were grounded, and F1 personnel were scrambling to reroute to Australia by any path available. By Monday afternoon, Joe Saward, one of Formula 1's most independent journalists was in a Dallas airport lounge, rerouted from France around closed Gulf airspace, after filing his JSBM newsletter analysis.

In this episode, Joe walks us through what the sport is actually facing:

• Why Formula 1 improvises brilliantly in a crisis
• The real decision-making hierarchy: who actually makes the call to cancel a Grand Prix
• Why the FIA is largely irrelevant in a commercial crisis
• The Russia parallel: when F1 cancelled its Russian GP contract overnight after the Ukraine invasion, it established a standard. Joe asks the uncomfortable question about what that standard means now
• His own 40-year read on covering this sport through the Gulf War, 9/11, COVID, and the 2022 Houthi strike near Jeddah

Sabrina brings the policy lens: arguing that sport's governance framework was never designed to handle a situation where a geopolitical actor and a commercial partner are the same country, a structural problem regardless of who started what. She also drives the business and legal elements: geopolitical cancellation insurance, force majeure in hosting contracts, whether the legal framework is any clearer after Covid, and what the soft power narrative of Gulf sport hosting looks like when the countries doing the hosting are being struck by missiles.

Dick, joining late from just across “the Texas border”, adds the grounding note the conversation needs: at the end of the day, this is still just the game, and Liberty Media has enough business sense not to put people in danger for a race.

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Two official 2 Guys, A Girl and F1 leagues — one in F1 Predict and one in F1 Fantasy — have launched and Dick wants to see if listeners can back up what they say. Both games are free through the official F1 app or Formula1.com. He'll break down what each game involves, why thirty years in racing gives him a reasonable edge, and why Sabrina is already wrong about who's going to win. Links and codes are in the show notes. Let's find out.

F1 Predict: Link | Code: P2IA2D1FO10

F1 Fantasy: Link | Code: P4VDGBBYT08

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2025 Sound Engineers: Paul Douglas and Elena Richey