When should an F1 driver retire? It has been a big topic of late, with F1's two most experienced competitors, Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso, struggling with unwieldy and uncompetitive machinery as they bid to recapture former glory.

When is the right time for them to hang up their helmets? That's the subject debated by 1996 F1 world champion Damon Hill and renowned F1 journalist Mark Hughes in the latest episode of The Undercut, the podcast where we give the duo a thought-provoking starting topic and then see where the conversation takes them...

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Damon Hill and Johnny Herbert are back for the first 2026 episode of their F1 podcast, Stay On Track! They discuss the impact winning the F1 world title will have on Lando Norris (and his McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri), and share their view on the mindset Isack Hadjar needs to have going into Red Bull Racing alongside Max Verstappen.

They also weigh up which team will get the new regulations right, and who might get them wrong, and what impact multiple exits will have on Red Bull. There's also talk of Lewis Hamilton's pivotal second Ferrari season, plus Hill and Herbert make their champion predictions for 2026...

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You've heard Stay On Track with Damon Hill and Johnny Herbert, and now it's time for its sister show: The Undercut, with Damon Hill and Mark Hughes.

The premise of the show is simple: We give Damon (the 1996 F1 world champion) and Mark (one of the most respected writers and analysts in the F1 paddock) a starting topic and then just see where the conversation takes them!

On this first episode, the topic is 'How the team boss role has evolved in F1' - but as you might expect with two of the most thoughtful minds in F1, the conversation meanders into several different areas...

You can also watched this episode on YouTube.

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