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Chequered Past is a Formula 1 history podcast that dives deep into iconic races, legendary drivers, and forgotten moments from motorsport’s rich and dramatic past. Each episode revisits Grand Prix events that took place on the same date in history, uncovering fascinating stories, on-track controversies, and the evolution of F1 through the decades. Whether you're a lifelong fan or new to the sport, Chequered Past offers compelling insights and nostalgia-fuelled storytelling from the world’s fastest sport.
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Average audio length:
18 minutes
English
United Kingdom
380 episodes
since May 30, 2025
episodic
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He won his first world championship by pushing a dead car four hundred yards in the Florida heat. He won his third in a car bearing his own name — the only driver in Formula One history to do so. And in between, he built an engine in secret, in the middle of the night, in a flat in south London, wh…
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We open Season 2 of Chequered Past — The F1 A-Z — with the only driver who could start the alphabet. Fernando Alonso. Two world championships. Thirty-two race wins. More than four hundred Grands Prix across a career that has taken in Formula One, Le Mans, the World Endurance Championship, and three…
The second part of BTCC: From the Pitwall picks up the 2026 British Touring Car Championship story from Round 2 at Brands Hatch, where Árón Taylor-Smith ended a decade without a win with an emotional lights-to-flag victory in wet conditions — hearing the Irish national anthem ring around the Brands…
The 2026 British Touring Car Championship season opened at Donington Park in April — and it wasted no time making its presence felt. A brand new team arrived carrying one of the sport's most recognisable names. The new Race to Pole format produced its first headline immediately.
Sunday brought…
The eighteenth of June spans nearly ninety years of Le Mans history, and four races that couldn't be more different from each other.
In 1927, a Bentley crippled in a multi-car crash raced through the night on one headlamp, chasing a lead it had no right to close. In 1966, Ford arrived with the…
The 17th of June has seen some of the most improbable results in the history of Le Mans.
In 1933, Tazio Nuvolari and Raymond Sommer led the race in an Alfa Romeo — until the fuel tank started leaking. What followed involved makeshift repairs, borrowed chewing gum from a rival pit, and one of the mo…
16th June is a date that has delivered some of motorsport's most extraordinary stories.
In 1984, Porsche made the remarkable decision to boycott their own sport's most prestigious race — and the privateers they left behind produced one of the great Le Mans comebacks.
In 2007, a technolo…
Five races. Ninety years. One date.The fifteenth of June has a habit of producing the unexpected at Le Mans. In 1929, Bentley arrived to collect what they’d already won twice before — and they did, but not without being made to work for it. In 1935, Alfa Romeo’s pursuit of a fifth consecutive win e…
Four races. Four dates. All June the fourteenth.
In 1924, a privately entered Bentley fought three works Lorraine-Dietrichs through brutal heat to give the British marque its first Le Mans victory. In 1952, a Frenchman named Pierre Levegh drove alone for nearly twenty-three hours — and came within …
Three races share the 13th of June. Three times, the result confounded expectations.
In 1953, Tony Rolt and Duncan Hamilton spent the night in a French bar after being disqualified before the race had started. By Sunday afternoon they had won — at the first average speed of over 100 miles per hour …
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