Former BBC F1 presenter Jake Humphrey has launched a new F1 podcast along with former Aston Martin and Alpine team principal Otmar Szafnauer and ex-Ferrari man Rob Smedley.<\/p>\n
Humphrey fronted the BBC\u2019s Formula 1 coverage for four seasons between 2009 and 2012, forming a popular partnership with the late F1 team owner Eddie Jordan and former Red Bull and McLaren driver David Coulthard.<\/p>\n
Jake Humphrey launches new F1 podcast with Otmar Szafnauer and Rob Smedley<\/p>\n
Want more PlanetF1.com coverage? Add us as a preferred source on Google<\/a> to your favourites list for news you can trust<\/p>\n The 47-year-old turned his attention to football presenting from 2013 before emerging as a leading voice in the podcast industry.<\/p>\n Ahead of the resumption of the F1 2026 season in Miami next weekend, Humphrey has launched a new F1 podcast, High Performance Racing, along with Szafnauer and Smedley.<\/p>\n Ranked: Martin Brundle and Jacques Villeneuve among best F1 pundits<\/p>\n Ranking the best pundits in F1: Brundle, Rosberg, Hill and more all rated<\/a><\/p>\n Jacques Villeneuve\u2019s bold and savage quotes: Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton targeted<\/a><\/p>\n In a statement provided to PlanetF1.com, Humphrey said: \u201cThe four years I spent fronting the BBC\u2019s F1 coverage were the most incredible of my career.<\/p>\n \u201cI have waited a long time to return to the sport and this new show is the perfect moment.<\/p>\n \u201cNo other podcast brings the knowledge of a race engineer and team boss to the audience.<\/p>\n \u201cRob, Otmar and I have almost 50 years combined F1 experience and we\u2019ll bring it all to High Performance Racing.<\/p>\n \u201cI can\u2019t wait to take our audience to the heart of the greatest sport on earth at a time when it\u2019s generating more opinion than ever before.<\/p>\n \u201cI hope you come along for the ride!\u201d<\/p>\n Smedley memorably served as Felipe Massa\u2019s race engineer at Ferrari between 2006 and 2013 before following the Brazilian driver to Williams.<\/p>\n He left Williams in 2018 and has since gone on to establish a low-cost karting series, Total Karting, which uses electric-powered karts.<\/p>\n Szafnauer, meanwhile, has not held an active role in F1 since being brutally sacked by the Alpine team during the Belgian Grand Prix weekend in 2023.<\/p>\n The 61-year-old previously worked for the Aston Martin team, with which he held a senior role stretching back to 2009 when it competed as Force India.<\/p>\n As reported by PlanetF1.com<\/a>, Szafnauer joined the Van Amersfoort junior team last month in the dual role of chief executive officer and managing partner.<\/p>\n Szafnauer has made no secret of his desire to return to F1 with a potential 12th team, revealing in an exclusive interview with PlanetF1.com<\/a> last year that he is working on a possible new entry.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cI\u2019ve been working with some American funders and some car manufacturers to look at a 12th team for the future.<\/p>\n \u201cAt the time, when I started the project, it was going to be the 11th team, but now Cadillac is in so they\u2019ve got the 11th spot.<\/p>\n \u201cSo when they open up the process of adding the 12th team, I hope to be able to put in a robust case to allow the 12th team to go to the people that I have funding it, as well as the manufacturer that I\u2019m working with.\u201d<\/p>\n Want to be the first to know exclusive information from the F1 paddock? Join our broadcast channel on WhatsApp<\/a> to get the scoop on the latest developments from our team of accredited journalists.<\/p>\n You can also subscribe to the PlanetF1 YouTube channel<\/a> for exclusive features, hear from our paddock journalists with stories from the heart of Formula 1 and much more!<\/p>\n