Short Corners
Enjoy Short Corners with your host, Peter Windsor. A championship-winning former F1 Team Manager (with Williams) and General Manager at Ferrari, Peter is also the recipient of six international awards for F1 journalism. Listen to Peter's absorbing livestreams and special features, all packed with F1 anecdotes and Peter's unique ability to recognise and to explain the precise styles of today's F1 drivers. Short Corners? A phrase originally coined by Rob Wilson to explain the extra-ordinary talent of the greatest F1 stars.
Episodes
208 episodes
2026 F1 Pirelli Italian GP - full analysis with Peter Windsor
Sir Lewis Hamilton finished only P6 for Ferrari but for the Tifosi at Monza there was still much about which to go crazy: Kimi Antonelli, the boy from Bologna, started his Mercedes from P19, led the race, dropped to P6 in a tyre change - and th...
F1 Livestream 0826 (post-Zandvoort) with Peter Windsor
Lots upon which to focus after the (last) Dutch GP at Zandvoort, as can be seen from the chapter headings below. The race resulted in a second consecutive victory for McLaren-Mercedes' Lando Norris. Mercedes finished two-three ahead...
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2026 F1 Dutch GP - full analysis with Peter Windsor
The diminutive Zandvoort circuit, hosting its last Dutch GP, proved to be less energy-rich than expected - but did produce a spectacular race, punctuated by Max Verstappen's first-lap crash; an absorbing battle between McLaren-Mercedes' Lando N...
Allan Moffat and Jim Smith - in their own words (Indy, 1965) with Peter Windsor
This podcast features two motor racing legends with very different talents telling their very different stories of how they came to be a part of Colin Chapman's winning team at Indianapolis in 1965. That was the year Jim Clark stunned the...
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Denny Hulme - in his own words with Peter Windsor
A true F1 hero, Denny Hulme dug deep in 1970, when his friend and mentor, Bruce McLaren, lost his life in a Goodwood testing accident. At the time, Denny was in the very early stages of recovery from extensive burns to his hands - mainly to his...
Sir Jack Brabham - in his own words with Peter Windsor
Visit our new merchandise store to Make Corners Great Again! https://sl1nk.com/l0uanyxShortly after announcing his retirement from F1 - after the Mexican GP, 1970 - Sir Jack Brabham looked back at the early days of his career and talked ...
Emerson Fittipaldi - in his own words with Peter Windsor
I sat down with Emerson Fittipaldi in his São Paulo office in 2015 - to talk with Emerson the double World Champion (1972, 1974), double Indy 500 winner (1989, 1993) and all-round father of all that is great about Brazilian motor racing. What a...
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Niel Allen - in his own words with Peter Windsor
Niel Allen is without question one of the fastest racing drivers I ever saw. A quiet Australian who did things his own way - first by building a commercial property empire in Sydney, then by racing a succession of stunning race cars prepared by...
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Niki Lauda - in his own words with Peter Windsor
In an interview recorded with Peter in early 2014, Niki Lauda talks about his racing career, his business world and life in general. Niki was World Champion in 1975 and 1977 with Ferrari and in 1984 with McLaren-TAG Porsche; in 1976 he famously...
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F1 Livestream 0804 (driving styles) with Peter Windsor
In this special August Break livestream Peter takes your questions and comments around a particular theme - about how Kimi Antonelli and Max Verstappen take T14 in Hungary. Delving deep into the subtleties of shorter corners and rotation ...
F1 Livestream 0729 (post-Hungary) feat. Mark Slade with Peter Windsor
Lots of great questions and comments here as we head into the August break in the turbulence of Hungary. Mark Slade, a race engineer who knows how to win at the Hungaroring, joins us with his unique understanding not only of the events of...
Camchat 0727 (post-Hungarian GP) feat. Cameron with Peter Windsor
Cameron's in excellent Wind-Up-Windsor form for this podcast, focusing, as he does, on Oscar, Max, Kimi and Lewis with much more squeezed in between. The August break may be upon us; nothing tranquil about today's chat, however. Enjoy.
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F1 Livestream 0722 (Spa debrief/Hungary preview) with Mark Slade and Peter Windsor
It was great to have Mark Slade with us again to guide us through the power management complexities of the Belgian GP and to provide an insight into what we might expect in Hungary this weekend. In this livestream there were also lots of penetr...
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Camchat 0720 (post-Belgian GP) feat. Cameron with Peter Windsor
Although this Monday morning debrief kicks off with chat about the Belgian GP trophy and Acting the Goat, it quickly dissolves into analysis of the George-Lewis clash on lap one; the ever-expanding excellence of Kimi; the heroism of Max; ...
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F1 Belgian GP - full analysis with Peter Windsor
Mercedes' Kimi Antonelli scored a perfectly-judged win at Spa after passing the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc in the closing stages - after making the pass, you could say, that he had been denied at Silverstone. Max Verstappen drove valiantly into...
F1 Livestream 0715 (Belgian GP preview) with Peter Windsor
In this livestream Peter and viewers/listeners look ahead to this weekend's Belgian GP at Spa - with plenty of other storylines along the way. A big thanks to all who joined YT chat for this stream - great stuff, as ever. With...
Camchat 0706 (post-British GP) feat. Cameron with Peter Windsor
Lots of chat here about what Max's lurid retirement from the British GP might mean for his future, plus: the Kimi Kolossus; Charles, Lewis and Ferrari; and the close relationship between billiards and F1. Cinnamon or chocolate with your latte?<...
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F1 Livestream 0707 (post-British GP) feat. Mark Slade with Peter Windsor
It being the Tuesday after the British GP, Peter begins this livestream by asking Mark about the key elements of the race - the component failure on Kimi Antonelli's Mercedes; Max Verstappen's DRS drama; and the relatively low top speeds at Sil...
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2026 F1 British GP - full analysis with Peter Windsor
Although F1's 2026 technology looked a bit stretched around the usually-brilliant Silverstone GP circuit, raw human emotions surely abounded. Charles Leclerc is a winner again; Kimi Antonelli was the star who almost made it; and Max Verstappen ...
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F1 Livestream 0701 (British GP preview) with Peter Windsor
Double-heading straight to Silverstone, many are the F1 storylines: can George win again? Will Kimi upstage him on home ground? Will Ferrari and Sir Lewis re-capture their Spanish magic? Will Max and Red Bull leap still further towards th...
Camchat 0629 (post-Austrian GP) feat. Cameron with Peter Windsor
No escaping the elements here: George and that single yellow; Kimi and his astonishing pace; Max and his taste for perfection; Ferrari and their tyre deg; McLaren and their downgrades. Plus, plus, plus. Barely time for an espresso, indeed.<...
2026 F1 Austrian GP - full analysis with Peter Windsor
George Russell may have converted his controversial pole into an Austrian win but it was his Mercedes team-mate, Kimi Antonelli, and Red Bull's Max Verstappen, who lit up the skies above Spielberg. Max, after pushing George hard in the second h...
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F1 Livestream 0624 (Austrian GP preview) with Peter Windsor
The focus in this livestream is on the upcoming Austrian GP but - as ever - there were plenty of distractions along the way...like our first question of the day - from Jim Hontz: "Name your top three drivers from each of the decades, starting f...
2026 F1 Barcelona-Catalunya GP - full analysis with Peter Windsor
This day in Spain will famously be remembered for the first Ferrari victory scored by Sir Lewis Hamilton. And it was no gift. After starting from the front row and splitting the two factory Mercedes in the early race phase, Lewis dr...
Camchat 0615 (post-Barcelona GP) feat. Cameron with Peter Windsor
Despite only four hours' sleep on Sunday night, Peter in this podcast is quickly fired up by the incisive Cameron - particularly with the focus on Sir Lewis's amazing win in Barcelona and Kimi's awesome pass at T1/T2/T3.Special thanks to @C...
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