No Grip: An F1 Culture Podcast

No Grip: An F1 Culture Podcast

No Grip is a Formula 1 culture podcast hosted by Lily Herman. Each episode dives into the wacky and dramatic mishaps, scandals, and sagas surrounding the sport, both on the track and far away from it. From the ever-expanding world of F1 romance novels and the cataclysmic 2023 event Lily calls WAGageddon, to the infamous missing Monaco Grand Prix diamond and the astrology of the grid, No Grip dives headfirst into Formula 1’s under-explored cultural pockets. Episodes publish the Wednesday before any given race weekend. The show is produced, edited, and sound-designed by Yochai Maital. Max Miller serves as executive producer.

Episodes

Should we be more sympathetic to George Russell?

August 5, 2026 • 46 mins
Earlier this year, No Grip's executive producer Max Miller, the only non-F1 fan on our team, made an observation: People seem to have a lot of issues with Mercedes driver George Russell, far more than they did four years ago when we last worked on a Formula 1 show. What's changed since then? Is George himself really a different person nowadays — or has the perception from the fanbase shifted away from what he represents?
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Why are there suddenly a million F1 romance novels?

July 22, 2026 • 46 mins
Over the past three years, there's been a noticeable uptick in the number of Formula 1 romance novels coming out from traditional book publishers in the U.S. and abroad, not to mention an explosion of F1 romances in the indie and self-published markets. Lily became so fascinated with this phenomenon that she picked up a few F1 romances — and ended up reading over 30 of them. But that's just the tip of the iceberg with this su...
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Has Ferrari recovered from its 2019 cheating allegations?

July 8, 2026 • 45 mins
During Formula 1's 76-year history, few teams have had quite as many highs and lows as Ferrari, the Italian racing outfit known for its iconic prancing horse, passionate fanbase, and sky-high expectations. It has a long history of scandals and sagas going back decades, but it most recently found itself under fire during a series of incidents in the late 2010s, which culminated in cheating allegations in 2019 that may be haunting th...
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How have LGBTQ+ F1 fans made the sport their own?

June 24, 2026 • 37 mins
Queerness has always had a strange relationship to Formula 1, with homophobia still being a big issue in the sport and just a handful of drivers past and present openly identifying as LGBTQ+ throughout its 76-year history. Despite the lack of formal representation, queer fans have long been among F1's most fervent evangelists, but their presence leads to important questions. What does it means to be an LGBTQ+ fan of Formula 1 in 20...
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What's F1 losing without a great rivalry?

June 10, 2026 • 42 mins
Senna versus Prost. Hamilton versus Rosberg. Schumacher versus...well, a lot of people. Rivalries have been at the heart of Formula 1 since its founding 76 years ago. But it's been roughly half a decade since the sport's last iconic rivalry, and now that F1 is facing a bizarre season of much-maligned rule changes and a schedule upended by global conflicts, a new series of questions are popping up: Would a good, old-fashioned rivalr...
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Where's the 2004 Monaco Grand Prix's missing diamond?

June 3, 2026 • 34 mins
It's now summer, marking the perfect time to relax with an ice-cold beverage and dive into one of the greatest mysteries in Formula 1 history: What happened to the diamond that was lost at the 2004 Monaco Grand Prix? It's a winding tale that includes a backmarker F1 team desperate to get out of the sport, a glamorous movie partnership full of Hollywood A-listers, and a sketchy diamond sponsor.

This week, Lily sits down with ...
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What exactly is the point of the Cadillac F1 team?

May 20, 2026 • 51 mins
After a very public multi-year saga to get on the grid, Cadillac is currently making it way through its first season in Formula 1. On the surface, its results seem lackluster, to say the least. But is there more to this crew than meets the eye? And could it mark a turning point for U.S. teams in the sport?

For this week's episode, Lily talks to The Athletic's Formula 1 staff writer Madeline Coleman and American F1 fan Zach S...
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Does Susie Wolff's memoir tell us anything new?

May 6, 2026 • 43 mins
These days, conversations about women in motorsports are never complete without mentions of Susie Wolff. Susie is the last woman to participate in an official Formula 1 race weekend more than a decade ago, and now runs F1 Academy, the highly visible Formula 1 support series. She's long been held up as a paragon of motorsports girlbossdom, but is there more to her story?

In this bonus episode, Lily and her pal Indiah Porter g...
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Does Katherine Legge think F1 Academy is doing its job?

April 29, 2026 • 44 mins
When it debuted in 2023, the women-centric support series F1 Academy (F1A) was branded by Formula 1 and the greater racing ecosystem as a giant step forward for visibility and opportunity in motorsports for women. It even came with its own digital broadcast channels, major corporate sponsors, and attention from F1 teams. Three years later though, the promising championship has drummed up more questions than answers. Is it actually ...
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How did the 2023 WAGageddon shift F1 culture?

April 15, 2026 • 46 mins
Formula 1 has gone through several major cultural shifts over the past decade, from its acquisition by Liberty Media in the mid-2010s to the 'Drive to Survive' boom that followed a few years later during the pandemic. But there's a major cultural event that doesn't get talked about as frequently and yet really helped bring the sport's current cutthroat capitalist era to new heights: The 2023 phenomenon that Lily has dubbed WAGagedd...
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Why did F1 drivers go on strike in 1982?

April 8, 2026 • 43 mins
Though we're only three races into the 2026 F1 season, many drivers have been vocal about their hatred of the sport's brand-new rules and regulations. But what power do they actually have to change them? And how far would these racers go to get what they want?

Today's drivers don't seem to have much agency as individuals or as a group to alter their circumstances, but that wasn't always the case in Formula 1. In fact, maybe ...
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Is this the worst motorsports movie of all time?

March 25, 2026 • 46 mins
Is there one motorsports movie out there that's worse than all the rest? Several years ago, Lily sought to find this out, and after plenty of research, one film kept coming up: 'Driven,' the 2001 box office bomb written by and starring Sylvester Stallone. But is it really that bad? And did a certain Academy Award-winning motorsports movie actually take a lot of inspiration from this cinematic disaster?

This week, Lily talks ...
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What does astrology say about the 2026 F1 grid?

March 11, 2026 • 37 mins
There’s no shortage of ways to analyze the state of the Formula 1 grid nowadays, with everybody weighing in on lap times, aerodynamics, tire degradation, pitstops, overtakes, and a whole lot more. But during an era of new rules and regulations when so much is uncertain, the planets may actually offer a fresh perspective on what’s happening on the track. This week, Mikaela Kostaras, an astrologer and the popular content ...
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What went wrong for Daniel Ricciardo?

March 4, 2026 • 38 mins
For much of the 2010s and the first half of the 2020s, Australian driver Daniel Ricciardo was the belle of the ball in Formula 1. Initially beloved for his cheeky personality and mesmerizing driving style, he eventually started to build a larger empire for himself that included a sought-after merch line, an F1-inspired Hulu pilot, and a number of high-profile brand partnerships. However, while Ricciardo’s celebrity profile wa...
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Introducing: No Grip

February 25, 2026 • 1 min
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