For almost a decade, my mom and I have kept one tradition. Wherever Formula 1 races that weekend, that is where dinner comes from. Melbourne sends us to the Australian coast. Suzuka brings Japan into our kitchen. Monza means Italy, and a very long lunch.

What began as a way to watch together became the best part of our week. A country we have never visited. An ingredient we have never bought. An hour side by side at the stove before the lights go out. Somewhere between the first course and the checkered flag, it stopped being dinner and became ours.

For years we joked that it should be a cookbook. Now we are writing it, together, one race at a time.

Podium Plates is more than a book to us. It is a reason to keep building something side by side, to keep learning the places we have only seen on a screen, and to follow this sport a little closer with every season. Support it, and you are not only backing a cookbook. You are pulling up a chair at our table, and coming along for whatever comes next.

Alan Permane

British engineer from the Enstone team who became team principal of Racing Bulls in 2025

Alan Permane

British engineer from the Enstone team who became team principal of Racing Bulls in 2025

Alan Permane started at Benetton in 1989, working on test electronics, and spent the next three decades at the same factory in Enstone while the name over the door kept changing: Benetton, Renault, Lotus, Renault again and finally Alpine. Along the way he engineered Jean Alesi, Jarno Trulli and Giancarlo Fisichella, became chief race engineer in 2007 and sporting director in 2012.

He left Alpine in the summer of 2023 and joined Red Bull's second team as racing director for 2024. Midway through 2025, when Laurent Mekies moved up to run Red Bull Racing, Permane was appointed team principal of Racing Bulls. It was, remarkably, only his second employer in Formula One.

Teams led

Racing Bulls, 2025 to today

Every Grand Prix has a flavor.

Start with a name, a place or a year.

My mom and I.

Wherever the race goes, dinner goes too.

A World, A Menu, A Race Weekend.

Five things, every round.

Discover the destination

Choose one dish

Share the table

Watch the race

Repeat next round

The Founders Edition

Round one, Melbourne.

Pan seared barramundi

Explore it with us.

Researched where it comes from

Written for any kitchen

Every fact traced to a source

Independent and unofficial

Pull up a chair with us.

Buy the cookbook

Join The Podium Table

Support our journey

Before you pull up a chair.

Your next race weekend starts at the table.

Alan Permane

Alan Permane

Teams led

Every Grand Prix has a flavor.

Start with a name, a place or a year.

My mom and I.

Wherever the race goes, dinner goes too.

A World, A Menu, A Race Weekend.

Five things, every round.

Discover the destination

Choose one dish

Share the table

Watch the race

Repeat next round

The Founders Edition

Round one, Melbourne.

Pan seared barramundi

Explore it with us.

Researched where it comes from

Written for any kitchen

Every fact traced to a source

Independent and unofficial

Pull up a chair with us.

Buy the cookbook

Join The Podium Table

Support our journey

Before you pull up a chair.

Every Grand Prix, in your inbox.

Your next race weekend starts at the table.

Alan Permane

Teams led