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The lux atmosphere awaits in Monaco as F1 goes to one of its most storied tracks and the drama of the 2024 season heats up. With a more competitive front of the field, can McLaren and Ferrari challenge Max Verstappen and Red Bull? Dan Jimenez and Alex Kirry breakdown how Lando Norris was able to cut the Red Bull advantage in Italy and which teams are overperforming while sopme teams are massively dissapointing in their challenging the rest of the field. Will anyone lose their race seat before the end of the season? How will Mercedes pull themselves out of such a competitive hole? Dive into the Mode Push podcast.
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Hosts Dan Jimenez and Alex Kirry react to Lando Norris' monumental first win in Formula One in Miami. In a weekend filled with tons of on-track and off-track drama, the Miami GP delivered a great race as Lando Norris was able to take advantage of a safety car and notch his first win. Max Verstappen even seemed happy with the result for the British driver as the ret of the field seems to have made strides to running down Red Bull. Plus, will Logan Sargent be in an F1 seat when the grid goes to Imola in two weeks? All signs point to Kimi Antonelli getting the nod as the Mercedes racing phenom. Get the full download from the guys during an exciting time to be an F1 fan.
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F1 returns to the U.S. this weekend for the first time in 2024 for the Miami Grand Prix. Max Verstappen won the first two races in Miami the last two seasons and all signs point to the three-time World Champion repeating hostory as no one can touch the fastest driver on earth. Alex Kirry and Dan Jimenez make their podium finish predictions for the weekend but they alo discuss the insane rumors for the driver's market in 2025. This will be the biggest shift of driver's leaving teams and swapping teammates in more than a decade. The biggest asset on the market is car design geniius Adrian Newey who will leave Red Bull in 2025. Join the guys as they get you ready for one of the most anticipated races of the year so far.
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The Australian GP brought excitement via Max Verstappen's rare DNF that made everyone else on the grid feel like they may have a fighting chance to win a race this season. Carlos Sainz got the win and with that win a whole host of questions for Ferrari not the leat of which might be "Is Lewis Hamilton the best option for us?" Dan Jimenez and Alex Kirry dive into the rumors swirling around the Aston Martin attempt to woo Adrian Newey from Red Bull. How will Japan workout for Red Bull after a disaster finish in Melbourne? Join us to break it all down.
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Max Verstappen and Red Bull's dominance continue with another one-two finish and Verstappen looking impossible to catch. That could make for a boring race but the emergency surgery for Carlos Sainz the day before the race for Ferrari, F2 rising star Ollie Bearman got into the seat in Jeddah with no notice and turned a boring race weekend into a fun storyline for a possible future champion to show his stuff to the bosses for Ferrari. Dan JImenez and Alex Kirry breakdown what the complicated F1 seats are looking like for the rest of the season and who will lose thier drive in F1. The guys breakdown the full race and the weekend while we await another race weekend in Australia in a week.
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The drama off the track continues as Dan Jimenez and Alex Kirry try to make sense of the rumors swirling around the Red Bull Racing team since innappropriate allegations by Christian Horner of an RB staffer were dismissed. Now Max Verstappen's Dad, Jos, is actively tring to get Horner out of Red Bull and has threatened that Max would go to another team. Sounds like a reality TV show but its the real world of F1 at the moment. Dan and Alex also breakdown the actual race in Bahrain where Red Bull, or actually, Max Verstappen's dominance has continued with another win to start the season. No one was anywhere close. Can this weekend's race in Jeddah at the Saudi GP be more competitive? Tune in as the guys make their predictions.
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The first race of the intriguing 2024 F1 race calendar is finally here and Dan Jimenez and Alex Kirry are here ready to breakdown winter testing, 2024 season hypotheticals and, of course, the reaction to Red Bull's clearing Christian Horner of wrongdoing after their investigation into misconduct with a female staffer at Red Bull Racing. Dan also breaks down what was to be learned at this year's winter testing. Can Red Bull and Max Verstappen continue its dominance of the sport? Who can emerge as a legitimate contender in the longest racing season ever in Formula One? Check it out.
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Alex Kirry and Dan Jimenez host Mode Push as the 2024 season is now less than a month away. One big story after another have rolled out of the garages on the F1 grid without even a test lap being logged by the teams. The news of the Andretti-Cadillac F1 team being denied possible entry into F1, at least for now is where the guys start. The biggest driver news and seat swapping drama surrounded 7-time champion Lewis Hamilton and his announced move to the Ferrari F1 team after this season. This of course will start a domino chain of drivers losing seats, changing teams and some even leaving F1 all because Hamilton will leave Mercedes AMG at the end of the 2024 season. This biggest news of the offseason is that of Red Bull boss Christian Horner who is being accused of an inappropriate relationship by someone inside the Red Bull F1 team and is going to face an independant special attorney investigation starting Friday and many rumors of Horner losing his job at Red Bull have been swirling. Too many storylines to miss as the guys are back for a third year of the Mode Push Podcast.
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This week is a special episode of Mode Push with a breakdown of Alex Kirry and Carlos the producer's trip to the Strip of flashy Las Vegas and the very first (modern) Formula 1 race in Las Vegas. Dan Jimenez and Alex sit down and go through the full experience at the track, in the VIP areas, the grandstands and the whole set up of one of the most labor intensive purpose built tracks to ever be put together on planet earth. Alex describes for Dan how he and Carlos managed to hang out with VIPs and rub shoulders with racing legends while taking the whole weekend in. If you've ever thought about making it to a race in person, Alex will walk you through the good, bad and ugly of what was an epic weekend that wasn't without its own share of controversey and drama. THe race itself was one of the better races on the calendar but is this race in Vegas a long term move that will stick for F1? Join us!
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This week, Mode Push has made the big time with a special preview episode of the podcast. Alex Kirry is joined by co-host Dan Jimenez and Producer Carlos Fortun to preview the much anticipated Las Vegas Grand Prix. Alex and Carlos will be headed to Sin City with press passes in hand to cover the race for KSL Sports. The guys talk about the positive and negative press the $500M gamble that F1 is taking on the race in glitzy Vegas. Despite all the surrounding story lines of maybe the most hyped race in Formula 1 history, the race itelf is a massive mystery with cold weather anticipated to cause issues for teams in the tire department and an unknown track that has never been raced except for in a simulator. Dan talks about the track specific engineering and the graining that cold weather causes for these Pirelli Tires and the guys all take their guess at the first podium of the Las Vegas Grand Prix. Now with falling prices of hotel rooms they are also trying to convince Dan to join them on the strip for the race of a lifetime!
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This week on the podcast, Dan Jimenez and Alex Kirry run through the wild Mexico GP that saw a bad crash in the first turn that took Checo Perez out of his home race in less than a minute. Where does Red Bull go with Checo now? They discuss. Red Bull rumors are flying around the paddock but when should we take them seriously? With another dominant win for Max Verstappen, the rest of the field had an amazing race to try to catch up in their own races that they have for the rest of the season. Dan breaks down the circuit at Interlagos and how the race will work out for some of these teams who have millions at stake in the constructors race. Plus, more drama in the rumors of drivers being fired or changing teams for 2024.
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The Race in Austin proved to be one of the more exciting and controversal races of the calendar in F1 this season. Max Verstappen is still unstoppable but with Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc being disqualified from the race, the podium changed and suddenly the race results were tunred on their head. Dan Jimenez explains to Alex what rule was broken, why only 4 cars were tested to see who was cheating and why teams were quick to recognize that they had broken the rules by the thinnest of margins. Alex and Dan also discuss the race in Mexico as Checo Perex will be feeling immense pressure to perfom at his home grand prix, maybe even to keep his seat at Red Bull.
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Alex Kirry and Dan Jimenez get together for another breakdown of the weekend at the Qatar Grand Prix where Max Verstappen is crowned champion for the third year in a rown and joins rarified air when it comes to historical champions in F1 history. Where does Max Rank among the sports' best? Plus, the race itself at the Losail Circuit was a bit of a disaster and PR nightmare for Formula 1 as drivers were retiring because of heat exaustion, nausea and dehydration while track limits became the biggest joke of the weekend.
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Dan Jimenez and Alex Kirry are back in the lab working on ways to help America love the F1 world as much as they do. This week Alex and Dan explore the amazing race that ended up in Japan with another Max Verstappen easy win, but also some surprise great racing from McLaren who finished with a 2nd and 3rd spot on the podium as the race to 2nd and 3rd in the constructors title race heats up with still 8 more races on the calendar. Plus, the guys dive into the cost of a crash in F1. Who are the drivers that are costing their teams the most when they hit the wall at 130MPH? Take a wild guess, its not the best drivers on the grid! Join us for another edition of Mode Push!
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There is so much going on in the world of F1 as Singapore brought us the most exciting race of the entire Formula One calendar, not just because Carlos Sainz and Ferrari put together a giant slayer race and finally defeated Red Bull, Max Verstappen wasn't even on the podium. There is hope that the rest of the field is catching up at least some to the World Champion-Elect but Alex Kirry and Dan Jimenez discuss the reality of the last race and How Japan could be another race that Red Bull reminds the world that they are still the best. Alex and Dan discuss their favorite Japanese-made sports cars and we are right back into another race week in Formula 1.
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Alex Kirry and Dan Jimenez jump into the week with a late breakdown of Max Verstappen's record breaking 10th GP win in a row as well as how great of race it was in Monza. Can Red Bull racing have some patience with Checo Perez as Max's teammate...can Ferrari maintain some momentum in Singapore? Predictions of a wild podium could come true as thunderstorms are always in season and are in the forecast this weekend.
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Max Verstappen wins his 9th GP in a row in a really exciting Dutch Grand Prix that featured tons of rain, good and bad strategies and a podium that gives hope to possibly a really competitive second half of the season. Hosts Alex Kirry and Dan Jimenez talk about the mixed up grid, the winners and losers at Zandvoort and who has a shot to make a splash in Monza at the temple of Speed. Mercedes, Ferrari and McLaren all hope to bring a competitive car to Italy. Can Alex Albon make moves for Williams to make a shock move up the grid? There are too many storylines to get you through the final nine races of the season.
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Welcome back to the Formula One 2023 season! The summer break is over and Dan Jimenez and Alex Kirry are back in the saddle (cockpit) with a preview of the Dutch Grand Prix at Zanvoort as Dan lets you know that Red Bull has no chance of being challenged this weekend but the threat of rain is something to look forward to, at least. The guys breakdown rumors on varying levels of the truth or lie scale that have popped up during the month hiatus and also talk about how much the driver market has really gone up (or down for some) when it comes to driver salaries. Who is overpaid and who is underpaid? Lets face it, they're all overpaid, but its still a fun guessing game. Also, which driver is the Aaron Rodgers on the grid this season? The close comparisons are wild.
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Hosts Dan Jimenez and Alex Kirry begin this week's episode recapping the final race before the summer break that saw, you guessed it, another dominant Max Verstappen win. Red Bull finish 1-2 in the race but the mid-field really seems to be getting more and more competitive and even if Red Bull can't be beat in the foreseeable future, Alex and Dan relish the other sides to SPA that made it worth watching. Even with the teams taking a few weeks of mandatory time off for the summer break, Alex and Dan are still hard at work breaking down the ups and downs of the F1 season in 2023 with mid-season awards from the best of the best to the worst of the worst and every sketchy moment in between. An episode you don't want to miss!
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What did we learn at the Hungarian Grand Prix last weekend? A lot. Red Bull still has no equal at least when it comes to Max Verstappen's car. We found out that McLaren's speed isn't a one-off streak of luck, that Alpine officially stinks and Danny Ric is back and still pretty talented. Alex Kirry and Dan Jimenez also discuss the drama surrounding the Las Vegas Grand Prix and the fight between local casinos and Liberty media when it comes to making sure you can't see the race from your hotel room for free. Plus, can the possibility of rain make for an interesting finish possibly at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps?
Dan and Alex review some of the best drivers in the rain currently on the grid to get you ready for a possible weekend of mixed results on the grid.
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