This week we start off with the news that American racing legend Dan Gurney passed away.  We take a look at the impact that Dan had on motorsports - it was more than just driving a car and winning some races...

Sir Stirling Moss is retiring from public life.

Changes are coming to F1 cars in 2019- to make it easier to place advertising on the cars.

Williams has finalized their driver line up.

Christian Horner spoke to Daniel Ricciardo about favoritism at the team - and says that there is none.

IndyCar drivers take issue with Haas' Gunther Steiner declaring that there are no American drivers ready to move into F1.

Mercedes realizes that maybe have two drivers pushing each other so hard that it causes public controversy might not be a great idea.

Cosworth wants to work with Aston Martin on an F1 engine.

We have a date for McLaren, Toro Rosso and Mercedes car launches.

And an icon of NHRA announces that they're closing their 1/4 mile drag strip. 

This week we're looking ahead to the 2018 season - so what's coming for 2018:

Circuit Paul Ricard is concerned about travel delays around the French Grand Prix

Pat Simmonds says that Formula One Group is looking at potential changes to grid formation

Could F1 be headed to Copenhagen?

A new merchandise scheme is coming to F1 races, and we're not as critical of it as the press seems to be.

Could a digital ticker be coming to the halo? We doubt it.

Zak Brown promises some great things coming to F1's media presence, and some big changes to the 2018 McLaren.

That Amazon show about McLaren we talked about early last year - there's now a release date, look for it on Feb 9.

Toto Wolf says that Pascal Wherlin may not have an F1 seat but he still has a job.

Ferrari has hired - Daniel Kyviat

Force India has cash - so they're upgrading their facilities.

Pirelli doesn't want a tire war and Cosworth says they need a partner if they're going to return to F1.

We take a look at the new technical and sporting regulations.

And finally we talk about the movie Williams - you can stream it over on Netflix.

Haas is open to being rebranded like Sauber was, and they admit that they shifted their focus to 2018 a little too early in the season.

Sergio Marchionne says that Kimi Raikonnen has one last chance to drive better.

Ferrari announce the reveal dates for their 2018 car - which has passed crash testing.

Mercedes and Valtteri Bottas want you to design Valterri's 2018 helmet.

Lewis is in a bit of trouble over an Instagram video.

Niki Lauda says that Mercedes pushed Red Bull into signing a contract with Max Verstappen.

Force India thinks that Esteban Ocon and Sergio Perez will be better behaved on track.

Honda's back up plan for 2018 - their 2017 engine.

Could the Nurburgring host F1 again?

Over in IndyCar, talks will start later this year over a new chassis possibly in 2021.

IndyCar wants a third manufacturer to join the series, and wants international races to kick off the season.

And Honda doesn't want turbo hybrid engines like F1 has to come to IndyCar - surprised?

It's our last show of the year - and once again our Christmas present to all of you is a break from us!

This week - IndyCar has a new team.

Honda is relieved that they don't have McLaren as a partner.

McLaren was concerned that Honda's problems could cause problems with staffing.

Oh - and the head of Honda's F1 Development team, has been given a new role at Honda...

Toro Rosso speaks well of Daniel Kyviat.

We answer who Sergey Sirotkin is.

Williams and Force India review their performance last year.

Renault has a goal for pre-season testing - don't break down so much...

And we talk about grid girls....

Wondering why we didn't talk about all the news that happened two weeks ago...  Well, wonder no more because we catch up on what we didn't discuss.

But first, last weekend was the opening race of the 2017/18 Formula E series and the debut race for the Audi Sport Formula team looked promising until it all fell apart...

Alexander Rossi tells Connor Daly to get a job... and he kind of changes teams.

Mexico City won't be getting an IndyCar race in 2018

The FIA launches it's Hall of Fame

There could be a decrease in F1 prize money for a few years.

Chase Carey says F1 needs to change - and maybe it will start with track design.

What won't change are the engine restrictions for 2018.

Alfa Romeo is returning to F1 on the back of Sauber.

Lance Stroll is going to Daytona...

Could F1 be coming to Miami?

Mark Webber has a new job.

Jean Todt has the same job.

And Carmen Jorda has a new job too...

This week is a short show.  We recorded it earlier in the week which is why we don't mention the Alfa Romeo / Sauber announcements.  But the whole point of this week's show is to review our predictions for the season and see how close we were...

You'll have to listen to find out who the winner was, and we promise there's no angry Sebastian Vettel audio all show...

We're sorry about last week, we fully planned on doing a show but we just ran out of weekend.

This week - the final week of the 2017 Formula 1 season:

The FIA refunded the entry fees for defunct Manor Racing Team

Force India may not become Force One for 2018

Could Formula 1 be getting a new logo?

Ross Brawn thinks that cheaper turbos are the way to avoid grid penalties for engine issues.

Ferrari is why we'll see more grid penalties next year - and Christian Horner is pissed.

Niki Lauda says some stupid things.

360 degree cameras will be coming to F1 cars next year.

The halo is a design problem.

Could Sauber be the path for Alfa Romeo to return to F1?

The crime is so bad in Sao Paulo Brazil that Pirelli cancelled the tire test scheduled for the week after the Brazilian Grand Prix.

Pirelli has released the details on next year's tires - and if we lose our clean rating it's Pirelli's fault.

Want to be an e-racing driver? And drive for Fernando Alonso? Now you can!

It's been a while since this has happened, but the weekend got away from us again and we ran out of time to record and edit a show this week...

The Constructor's Championship is settled and so is the Driver's Championship - so now what?

There's still drama to get us through the final two races of the season -

Could Lewis Hamilton be in some trouble over his prized jet and a VAT refund?

Yet again a team is held up while driving near the Interlagos circuit.

Changes this weekend to both the track and the Blue Flag system.

Toro Rosso and Renault have engaged in a slap fight...

Lewis Hamilton gets in a big wreck, and Felipe Massa is annoyed at Carlos Sainz Jr..

The League of Super Evil met this week - it seems that there's some confusion over the future of the shark fins.

Chase Carey says that a cost cap looks promising

Robert Kubica will test in a Williams - yet again.

Pirelli is looking to add yet another tire compound for next year.

And Marseille will be getting an F1 festival of their very own...

Well, the 2017 title battles are completely wrapped up, and while it looked like this year the storylines might be different in the end it was more of the same:

• Mercedes walks off with another Constructors Title
• A Mercedes driver wins the Drivers Championship
• And Ferrari falls apart in the last half of the season.

It was a thrilling start the the race in Mexico City though, and Ferrari hasn't completely imploded yet....

Fernando Alonso thinks that Lewis Hamilton had it easy this season... The rest of the world probably thinks otherwise.

Renault admits it probably pushed too much in Mexico City - and NBCSN - there were TWO Renault powered cars that finished the race, NOT ONE!

Felipe Massa is retiring at the end of the season... No, really...  No he really is....

Brendon Hartley almost ended up in IndyCar.

Bernie Ecclestone says that Mercedes is helping Ferrari with engine development - the response from the rest of F1 -why are we still listening to this guy?

McLaren is really excited for next year - because honestly, it can't get much worse than this year...

Buckle your seatbelts folks, this show is going everywhere this week.  We tried to put stuff in something that resembles order but even still we jump around quite a bit.

To start with, Circuit of the Americas wants an IndyCar race - and probably won't get one.  Josef Newgarden wants to drive in F1, but the American Team doesn't seem to want to give him a chance...

F1 went to Reddit to ask fans what we want from the sport - and the fans told F1 that we want to have streaming video, access to more of F1's video, access to more data, and that we'd be willing to pay for that.  Sean Bratches was listening because in the US at least we'll probably be seeing a new streaming service next year.

F1 has heard the complaints about the halo, and they're acting...  If they change the name it will make it all better right?

Oh, and expect to see F1 Live type of events coming to more cities in 2018 - our hope is that they remember that there's more to the host country of a race than just the city that the race is hosted in...

Could four wheel drive cars be coming? Maybe Friday practice will go away?

Pierre Gasley didn't win the Superformula series - but it wasn't his fault.

Brendan Hartley revealed how he got the job at Toro Rosso. His welcome to the team was a 50 page operations manual, and he had some helmet difficulties in his first sessions.

Daniel Kyviat is officially "terminated" by Toro Rosso.

Fernando Alonso will stay at McLaren for another year, and will drive in the Rolex 24 Hour race in Daytona next year.

Renault says that they're months ahead in their reliability efforts for 2018, which was of no comfort to Toro Rosso.

Sebastian Vettel had a difficult set of practice sessions for Mexico.

Williams almost got a pretty large fine for being late, and it's not the first time either.

Max Verstappen is still angry about how the USGP ended.

Daniel Riccardo didn't know that Max had a better engine.

McLaren is open to keeping Jenson Button around as an ambassador.

And Bernie Ecclestone is taking his toys and going to Switzerland...

No show next week - somebody booked a trip without consulting the F1 calendar.  Some of us are just as disappointed as you are...

Jolyon Palmer is out of a job - Renault managed to talk Red Bull into giving up Carlos Sainz Jr before the season ended.  Carlos will be wearing yellow in Austin.

Could Jolyon go to Williams? We think he's "mathematically eligible" for the seat.

Daniel Kvyat is back at Toro Rosso - but is he taking his old seat, Carlos Sainz Jr's seat, or Pierre Gasly's seat? Pierre won't be in Austin but will finish up the Super Formula series in Suzuka that week.

Roman Grosjean stirred up some trouble in the drivers meeting in Suzuka last week - but it's not clear what his issue was.

Sebastian Vettel got another reprimand from the stewards - one more and he's facing a grid penalty.

Team orders are staying at Force India for now.

Bernie Ecclestone (remember him?) thinks Williams should hire Robert Kubica.

F1 wants a race in Holland - but not at the track.

And the 2018 IndyCar challenge is out - and the series is going to Portland, just don't ask us which one...

First off, a big congratulations to Allan McNish on his new role as Team Principal for the Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler Formula E Team.

NBCSN has announced that they did not renew their broadcast deal with Formula 1 for 2018, followed a few hours later by an announcement from ESPN that they are the sport's new broadcast partner for 2018.  Before you go celebrating - we're not sure this means that we'll get better F1 coverage in the US, and its possible that things may get worse.

It's been confirmed that Renault has hired the former head of the FIA's technical department, and Renault has agreed to further delay his start date - we'll see if that eases the concerns over their new employee.

The grid penalties started coming in for this weekend's race long before the race weekend started.

The Formula 1 Vietnamese Grand Prix? Yeah we're not sure about that either.

And there's a change coming to F1 next year that sounds simple but is actually pretty neat.

After a week away we're back and just in time for another round of action...

First up is confirmation that there will be a Mexican Grand Prix this year..

Get ready for even more engine penalties for 2018.

F1 is testing 360 degree cameras.

The head of the FIA's technical section for F1 has resigned, and is reportedly headed to Renault and the rest of the F1 paddock isn't happy.

A couple bribed a security guard to get their picture taken on the track in Singapore - or did they?

Honda says McLaren is resistant to change

That big wreck in Singapore...  It made Fernando Alonso really angry

There was a race in Malaysia where nobody finished

And Lewis Hamilton has another Lightning McQueen moment

Singapore weekend is shaping up to be all about confirmations and yet more rumors.

What we know:

Singapore will continue to host a Grand Prix until at least 2021

Nico Rosberg is joining Robert Kubica's management team

Carlos Sainz Jr is being "loaned" to Renault for 2018

Jolyon Palmer will not be driving for Renault for 2018

Toro Rosso has a "multi-year" deal to become the Honda works team.

McLaren is dropping Honda from 2018 for a 3 year deal with Renault

Sergio Perez has a one year deal to continue driving for Force India

Valteri Bottas has a one year deal to continue driving for Mercedes

Fernando Alonso doesn't yet have a contract with McLaren for 2018

What we don't know

Who will be driving at Toro Rosso for 2018

If Red Bull will still be a customer of Renault in 2018

If Red Bull has a new title sponsor in Aston Martin

This week it's all about plans... and grid penalties...  and Honda....

Renault has a plan to improve reliability...

Red Bull has a plan to convince the Strategy Group to rethink it's plan for engines next year.

Ross Brawn has a plan to talk to the FIA about grid penalties.

Honda has a plan if Fernando Alonso leaves.

Could there a be a plan for Carlos Sainz Jr to leave Toro Rosso and head to Renault in exchange for a Honda engine, McLaren gearbox and a driver prospect to be named at a later date?

Sean Bratches says that most race promoters aren't very good - but he has a plan to fix that.

Jean Todt has a plan for yellow halos...

This has been a difficult weekend for us, but this show is how we're trying to get things back in place.

Because we didn't get to really talk about Spa last week - that's where we focused...  Actually we focused on the McLaren-Honda circus, because that's where the activity really is.

We still don't know if we're looking at a McLaren-Renault, Toro Rosso - Honda pairing for 2018 or if something else is going to happen.

It doesn't appear that Honda will be out completely, but beyond that, who knows....

F1 is back this week as the F1 show rolls into Spa Franchamps for the Belgian Grand Prix.

Before the race we got word that the FIA plans to roll out some form of cockpit head protection to the junior serious - because if it's good enough for F1, then it's good enough for the junior formulas.

Jenson Button says that he'll be racing next year, but we don't know where.

Like video games - F1 is launching an esports series.

Kimi Raikonnen, Sebastian Vettel, and Stoffel Vandorne both have contracts for next year - and Stoffel got the bonus of grid penalties too.

Toto Wolff says that the team didn't speak with Sebastian Vettel regarding a seat but they are working on contingencies so that they don't have another Rosberg situation.

And Pirelli insists that their tires are safe this weekend....

This week McLaren put forth a proposal for a Grand Prix in Woking UK, along with a new street circuit the Woking International Circuit.  McLaren doesn't believe that there are any obstacles to their plan other than all of the obstacles possible...

We learned about what Charlie Whiting did on his vacation this year...

Chase Carey explains how TV and Formula 1 have a complicated relationship.

Looking for a job? Force India and Renault Sport F1 may both have positions available.

Renault held up their development efforts in order to get things ready for Silverstone.

Toro Rosso won't be getting Honda engines next year.

Marcus Erickson things he's ready for a competitive team.

We learned a lot about the two seater F1 car (it's really and old Tyrel)

And Sebastian Bordais has the green light to return to racing.

We're deep into summer break and things have gotten quiet, but we still found a bit to talk about this week.

It turns out Formula 1 hasn't been using champagne in it's podium ceremonies since 2015 - but thanks to a new deal with Carbon, it's back.

The French Grand Prix at Paul Ricard will have a chicane in the long straight, because passing.

Drivers are getting their mid-season reviews over the next few weeks from both team bosses, journalists, and of course themselves.

And F1 bosses say they don't need to get V8s to make engines exciting - we say make the racing better first.