"Missed Apex" with @spannersready.bsky.social and friends isn't the only F1 podcast but it's the only one I queue up for automatic download and out at the front of the queue

Strong Chart positions for Missed Apex. Best of the rest in the UK and USA Sports Episode charts. #52 in the states and #57 in the UK. Pretty sure we're the top non-works F1 podcast at the moment. Pretty sure the ones above all have company support . Thanks for telling your friends about Missed Apex

HARD AGREE!!!!

Amazing response from Listeners supporting on us on Patreon this week. It's definitely going to make up a portion of what we'll lose from ad revenue over this unexpected break.

Not suggesting that at all. I just think the ones that came into the sport to support Max will leave when he's gone

Honestly any hostility you're picking up on is against the literally thousands of Verstappen fans that have send me abuse over the years. In that context, me having the odd cheeky pop back is nothing to get emotional about

Absolutely not saying all the Dutch will stop watching F1. I just think the Max fanbase has the highest percentage of people that will stop watching once their driver goes

@megschuster.bsky.social @spannersready.bsky.social Is Gasly securing his spot as the best of the rest this season and do you think he’ll ever get a shot at a seat in a better team?

@spannersready.bsky.social you were right Spanners. George is getting prickly. Didn’t hear the radio messages but against Kimi it’s semi-heel stuff. Looking forward to your episode with @megschuster.bsky.social After the race Im buying the new regs.

Only a little

If I was F1, I'd also 100% be cutting away from the onboards at those derate points. It's the only play they have that makes sense

Well done to Lindblad and Hadjar. Amazing effort to get those tractors into Q3

I don't know how Mercedes have got away with that one

PSA for all UK people. Remember that the clock changes between qually and the race . So in real terms the actual race is at 5am 6am or 7am

@spannersready.bsky.social @megschuster.bsky.social Fan of Williams and Albon (Mika Hakkinen is my all time fave) and I am a buy on these regs, except for the AI reliance. I think the drivers/teams should be controlling power. #F1

Have a good show lads www.youtube.com/live/NAP10b-...

@spannersready.bsky.social @megschuster.bsky.social I’m holding on the new regs. Hamilton fan. What I really want is more graphics that teach us about regs. I’m not sure if a pass is real not to yo-yo. Wheatley will join the Dark Lord.

@spannersready.bsky.social I’m buying on the new regs. It still takes strategy to manage the battery for a pass. And I’m a Hamilton fan.

@megschuster.bsky.social @spannersready.bsky.social def a buy on the regs. teams that nailed it have shown that once all the tools can be used the racing is good (possibly even pure 🙄). signed, a lewis, piastri, and gasly fan

@spannersready.bsky.social @megschuster.bsky.social Holding on the new regs. Hamilton fan here.

@spannersready.bsky.social I’m buying these regs, if only because the ground effect era was just dull. Sainz, Kimi, Bearman fan.

@spannersready.bsky.social @megschuster.bsky.social New F1 Regs are a buy for me, not perfect but the side by side racing has been great coming from a Verstappen/Bottas fan.

I’m buying the 2026 F1 regulations. I admit i couldn’t see the end of ground effect racing soon enough. Lewis fan since 2008 @spannersready.bsky.social @megschuster.bsky.social

@spannersready.bsky.social - “SELL” on new regs, Max fan, but I also love Kimi (also have a cat named Yuki!). Don’t mind the new regs, but I feel unmoored, I haven’t calibrated enough to really understand the nuances of the new way of racing, I enjoy it more when I understand what I’m watching.

@spannersready.bsky.social @megschuster.bsky.social is this the part of the story where Wheatley goes full heel like Spanners predicted? Or do we think he will wrap his arms around Lance Stroll and tell him "it's all ok," and he "just needs to try his best"?

@megschuster.bsky.social @spannersready.bsky.social Pierre Gasly fan, but not an Alpine fan, and I’m holding my stock on the current regulations. I’d like them a lot more if they gave points beyond top 10 because the midfield battles are fun but don’t carry much weight without points.

Horner to Audi Probably I dunno

We're going to be told that Adrian Newey only ever intended to be team principle for a race or two.

Compression ratio merchant

Get in there Kimi!!

Verstappen struggling to catch a Hass today

Formula Yo-yo!! 🤣

fun so far

hmmm these overtakes leave me cold

Apologises for the lack of a Saturday reaction recording. The day is just getting away from me in terms of doing all the dad things

Verstappen P8 Ground effect merchant

@spannersready.bsky.social Liked the summing up you did at the Ringer about the way drivers and teams are learning, and that the "artificial" overtakes will probably not be that for too long. Thank you www.instagram.com/reel/DVwA7BM... The "buttons" can be used to overtake AND defend!

it was Gemini

Petition to only count overtakes if they hold the position. Swapping places by ghosting by each other due to varying battery deployment should not be considered an overtake All in favour say aye

Life is a nap sport

Not an expert but feels like a huge compromise and not efficient therefore not logical

This is not strategy. Right or wrong, you don’t know in the moment, and hindsight now is a wonderful thing, but they had the opportunity to split their cars taking advantage in both scenarios. They gambled, they didn’t make strategic decisions. #F1

It still feels like yesterday

Alonso doing intermittent racing

So you can take a cheap energy overtake knowing that you're then vunerble to lose it immediately.. I mean that's not NOT fun

The energy swaps being touted as great overtakes . Definitely visually interesting .. digesting

My guess is that you'd want the power to accelerate as quickly as possible