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# F1 podcast: Breakaway rumours and a team transformation
- URL: https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/f1-podcast-breakaway-rumours-and-stake-sauber-relaunch-audi/
- Published: 2024-01-08T06:53:05.000Z
- Updated: 2024-01-10T07:12:20.000Z
- Description: Could the F1/FIA relationship get so bad they split? Are moves already afoot? And is Audi on target as Alfa Romeo becomes Stake?
- Author: The Race Team
- Tags: Formula 1, #audi, #image-bottom-left

Tensions between Formula 1 and the FIA are greater going into 2024 than for many years.

Could things get so bad that F1 owner Liberty looks at breaking away from motorsport's governing body? Is it already doing so?

[![Stake](https://storage.ghost.io/c/dd/af/ddafbd99-2ccd-468c-b622-4b3cccf80b49/content/images/2023/12/STAKE-F1-TEAM-BLACK--1-.png)](http://stake.com/sponsorships/stakef1team?ref=the-race.com) 

That's one of the topics Edd Straw, Mark Hughes and Scott Mitchell-Malm debate in the new episode of The Race F1 Podcast.

As what was Alfa Romeo becomes Stake, the panel also look at the Sauber-run team's future and what's going on with its transformation into Audi for 2026.

Plus Hughes and Mitchell-Malm go into detail about what they learned in recent interviews with Adrian Newey and Max Verstappen respectively.

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