That’s right! Long time listener and awesome dude @darthcookied a.k.a. Adam joined Marvin, Valentin, and myself in going through our predictions for the 2013 season. We go team by team, we fight, we love, we get offers of woman’s chest promotion, and more! Adam will be going to the Australian GP, taking loads of photos, video, and buying us all tons of souvenirs and stuff.

I hope y’all enjoy the first 2013 episode of BackmarkersF1. We’re back baby!

Oh, and if anyone out there wants to join me in an awesome gaming group, check out gbuclan.com. We’ve undergone a bit of a renovation and have big things planned for the future. Check us out, play games with me, and yell at me for bashing your favorite team.

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Time References:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:01:07 - Proper Intro
0:02:17 - Best Race Ever
0:09:00 - Vettel Magic (Red Bull)
    0:10:40 - Webber's Moments
    0:14:00 - Praise for Red Bull's Strategists
    0:15:40 - It Wasn't Yellow
    0:16:50 - Classification Confirmed
0:17:30 - Oh Dear, It's Happened Again (McLaren)
    0:19:20 - Where Lewis Drops Out, Jenson Picks Up
    0:21:00 - Could Lewis Have Won It?
    0:21:40 - McLaren Season Summary
0:23:00 - "Felipe Massa Is Back" (Ferrari)
    0:25:10 - Kimi Gets Funnier - Intermission
    0:25:50 - Stellar Fernando Not Enough
0:26:10 - Grosjean Crashed, Nobody Noticed (Lotus)
    0:27:50 - "They're Gonna Get Rid of Him" - "They Won't"
    0:28:00 - Kobayashi in for Grosjean - Matt's Dreams
    0:29:10 - Kimi's Different Race
0:31:00 - "Das Wonderboy of the British Isles?" (Force India)
    0:33:50 - Force India Season Summary - A Fitting End
0:34:50 - "A Team We Ignored" (Mercedes)
    0:35:20 - "P15 for Rosberg" - "Ooooh"
    0:37:30 - "We Kinda Forgot About Something Here" - Schumacher's Last Race
0:38:20 - Sarcasm for Kobayashi (Sauber)
    0:38:50 - First Lap Accidents
    0:39:30 - "A Strong Feeling FOM is Run by One Guy in a Room"
    0:40:50 - Kobayashi's Great Race?
    0:42:30 - "Those Japanese People on Twitter"
0:43:00 - First Lap Accident - Senna's Fault? (Williams)
    0:43:50 - "And Then Maldonado Dropped Out... At Some Point"
0:44:40 - Esteban Gutierrez "From Mexico" - Back to Sauber
0:47:30 - Jean-Eric Vergne, "P8, Good Job" (Scuderia Toro Rosso)
    0:48:10 - Toro Rosso Season Summary
0:49:30 - "Speaking of Caterham" (The Backmarkers)
    0:50:00 - Did Marussia Deserve P10?
    0:50:40 - "A Nice Battle at the Back"
    0:51:20 - Kudos to HRT
    0:54:30 - Heikki, Vitaly or Giedo?
0:55:50 - Season Review: The Races
0:59:00 - Season Review: The Teams
1:02:50 - Season Review: Awards Ceremony
    1:03:10 - The Gurke of the Year ("Worst" Driver of the Year?)
    1:07:30 - The Most Dissapointing Team of the Year
    1:14:20 - Rookie of the Year
    1:15:20 - Driver Who Improved Most During the Year
    1:16:50 - Team That Improved Most During the Year
    1:19:10 - Best Race Apart From Brazil
    1:21:00 - The Drive of the Year
    1:23:25 - Funniest Moment of the Year (and Second Funniest Moment of the Year)
    1:24:35 - Driver of the Year
    1:33:00 - Best Driver on Social Media
1:34:30 - Expectations for 2013
    1:37:40 - What's in Store for Lewis?
    1:41:40 - Who Are Going to Take the Remaining Seats?
    1:51:40 - New Teams to Join F1?
1:53:00 - Outro

And fans of the podcast proper don’t worry, we aren’t abandoning the podcast proper. These YouTube casts are just for things that don’t warrant a full podcast like driver announcements and random off-track stuff. Race recaps and stuff will all still get full casts.
So enough yammering. Sit back, relax, and enjoy watching Valentin kick my ass in Episode 16!

So yeah! It’s a 2.5 hour long labor of love, but I think this is probably one of our better casts. Valentin constantly trolls us, I try to be technical, and Marvin has a German accent. What more could you ask for? Go grab yourselves a drink and sit back for another round of F1 Madness
And now, thanks to Valentin, we have a time sheet for you. Now you can find your favorite part and listen over, and over, and over again!

0:00 – Intro
3:20 – Grosjean Incident
12:30 – Maldonado Incident
26:40 – Grosjean Replacement Speculation

40:10 – The Field Rundown
– 40:10 Red Bull
– 44:20 Live Reaction to a Rubens Barrichello Tweet
– 48:30 McLaren
– 58:10 Ferrari
– 1:03:30 Mercedes
– 1:07:30 Schumacher Retirement Rumors and the Future of Mercedes F1
– 1:13:30 Lotus
– 1:16:10 Matt’s Aero Mode
– 1:20:50 Sauber
– 1:23:10 Manufacturer Potential for Sauber
– 1:30:10 Force India (A Hulkenberg Love Letter)
– 1:33:10 Force India Finance and Future
– 1:37:00 Williams
– 1:41:40 On Finns in Racing
– 1:43:30 Scuderia Toro Rosso
– 1:46:50 More Mercedes Bashing
– 1:47:30 Caterham
– 1:49:40 Marussia
– 1:51:00 HRT (despite Best Efforts to Ignore)
– 1:54:40 Future Prospects for HRT and the Failure of the F1 Points System
– 1:56:30 The State of the Backmarkers

1:58:50 Monza Predictions
– 2:09:10 Qualifying
– 2:15:20 Race

2:25:50 Ramblings on Maldonado’s Penalty
2:30:30 What’s the US Grand Prix Called?
2:32:30 Outro

Steve has been incommunicado for a bit, so I decided to take the lead and get a cast out to you awesome people ahead of the Belgian GP at Spa. The silly season has also come early this year, and with rumors linking everyone and their mothers to Ferrari, we felt like it was a topic worth devoting a small amount of time to.
By small amount, I mean two hours, and by we, I mean myself and @JourneyTH. Me talking to myself for that length of time could get boring, so I brought the BackmarkersF1 resident half-troll along for the ride. I was scared, prepared to hit that “hang up” button at any moment. My fears were (mostly) unfounded though, and it was a hell of a ride. Hopefully Steve returns to us in short order, but for now, sit back and enjoy the insanity.

Quick note, I do not have access to the iTunes account, so you’ll have to download directly from the blog for now. Sorry for any inconvenience.

As special features we have Japanese F1 legend  Taki Inoue LIVE on the show (well, sort of)  and alot of random Le Mans interjections…after all we both had the classic 24 hr race in the background while recording this.

Enjoy!

Join us now for another episode filled with F1 madness!

We take you along for the ride as we go over the Chinese Grand Prix in detail, I reach new heights in terms of political in-correctness while Matt tries his best to steer the podcast along and keep it mildy PG13 instead of R. We also discuss the Bahrain GP, sadly not only from a sporting aspect and give our predictions for the race!

Check out the podcast, and feel free to leave us some feedback on twitter @TheVillainF1 and @AgentMulder5 or in the comments below, always much appreciated!

We go over the highs and the lows in Oz and Malaysia, we look at the winners and losers, we bash whoever deserves some good bashing (and those who don’t really deserve it) and we put our reps on the line with lots of innuendo and our predictions for the Chinese Grand Prix, all of this drowning in the signature backmarkersf1 awesomesauce!

tweet us @TheVillainF1 and @AgentMulder5 or leave a comment below if you liked the podcast. Always much appreciated!

We’re back with a first look at the new cars by our in house aerodynamicist Matt and a peak behind the curtain with Pete aka @Paddockscout back on the show to give us the lowdown on the youngsters who made it in F1 this year and those looking to set the world of the junior series alight with his ’12 drivers to watch for 2012′. All this expertly and seamlesssly segwayed in between by the drunken ramblings of yours truly.

Forget the Platypus, all hail ‘The Alain’!

Listen to the podcast by clicking any of the linkies below for itunes, straight mp3 download or streaming (seriously who does that?) and make sure to check out Pete Allen’s awesome site www.paddockscout.com

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