Ep17 - Bahrain GP Review

The F1 2023 Season has officially begun, while the order around the midfield might have changed, the boys fraudulent wheel knowledge and opinions hasn't.

We see the return of our beloved race reviews, including:

• FraudWatch
• EngineGoodBoyAward
• Random Fandom

And taking a look at the winners and losers of this GP

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## **Episode Transcript Summary**

### **Introduction**

* Hosts Dan and Blake introduce the podcast, "The Engine Breaking F1 Podcast."
* They mention their previous episode's record-breaking downloads and thank their listeners.
* The podcast has not been canceled or deleted from the internet yet.

### **Race Review: Bahrain Grand Prix 2023**

* The hosts discuss the Bahrain Grand Prix race weekend.
* They talk about the return of their beloved race review segments, including FraudWatch, EngineGoodBoyAward, and Random Fandom.
* They also discuss the winners and losers of the Grand Prix.

### **Shoutouts and Promotion**

* The hosts give a shoutout to NordVPN for sponsoring the episode.
* They encourage listeners to share the podcast with their friends and family.

### **Race Build-Up and Practice Sessions**

* Dan admits that he missed FP1 and FP2 due to working on his data analysis database.
* Blake shares his observations from the practice sessions, including the hype around Aston Martin and Fernando Alonso.
* They discuss the performance of various teams and drivers, including Williams, AlphaTauri, Red Bull, Ferrari, and Lance Stroll.

### **Qualifying**

* The hosts analyze the qualifying session, which they describe as "distinctly what they thought it would be."
* They discuss the battle between Red Bull and Ferrari, as well as the surprise decision by Charles Leclerc to skip his second run in Q3 to save a set of tires.
* They also talk about the impressive performance of Logan Sargent, who qualified in P19 despite being a rookie.

### **Race Start and Lap One**

* The hosts discuss the biggest gains and losses on lap one of the race.
* Valtteri Bottas had the biggest gains, moving up from P12 to P8.
* Sergio Perez and Guanyu Zhou had a collision, causing them to lose positions.
* Lance Stroll also lost a position on the race start.

### **Fernando Alonso's Penalty**

* The hosts discuss the series of penalties that Fernando Alonso received during the race.
* He received a five-second penalty for being out of position at the grid start.
* He then received a 10-second penalty for failing to serve the first penalty correctly.
* Finally, he received another five-second penalty for speeding in the pit lane.

### **Alpine's Performance**

* The hosts express their amusement at Alpine's comical performance in the race.
* Esteban Ocon qualified in P9 but finished in P17 due to a series of penalties.
* Pierre Gasly, on the other hand, had a strong race, recovering from a poor qualifying position to finish in P9.
* The hosts speculate that Alpine may be finally removing the sandbags from their car.

### **Conclusion**

* The hosts wrap up the episode by discussing the overall takeaways from the Bahrain Grand Prix.
* They highlight the strong performance of Red Bull and Ferrari, as well as the impressive starts of Valtteri Bottas and Pierre Gasly.
* They also mention the struggles of Alpine and the penalties that Fernando Alonso received. ## **2023 Bahrain Grand Prix Race Review**

### **Race Overview**

* Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez secured a dominant 1-2 finish for Red Bull, with Verstappen leading every lap of the race.
* Ferrari's Charles Leclerc retired from the race due to a suspected energy store issue, while Carlos Sainz Jr. struggled with tire degradation and finished sixth.
* Fernando Alonso finished on the podium for Aston Martin, his first podium since the 2021 Qatar Grand Prix.
* Lewis Hamilton and George Russell finished fifth and sixth for Mercedes, respectively.
* McLaren endured a difficult race, with Lando Norris finishing last after a series of pit stops to address an air leak, and Oscar Piastri retiring with a suspected steering wheel issue.
* Alex Albon scored a point for Williams, finishing in 12th place, while Logan Sargeant finished 15th in his Formula 1 debut.
* Kevin Magnussen's decision to start on hard tires backfired for Haas, as he dropped to last place at the start of the race and finished 18th.
* Nico Hulkenberg received a time penalty for exceeding track limits and finished 17th for Haas.
* Pierre Gasly recovered from a poor qualifying session to finish ninth for Alpine.

### **FraudWatch**

* Red Bull continued their dominance from last season, with Verstappen and Perez finishing well ahead of the rest of the field.
* Ferrari's struggles with reliability and tire degradation were evident, raising concerns about their ability to challenge Red Bull for the championship.
* McLaren's poor performance was a major disappointment, with both Norris and Piastri experiencing issues.

### **EngineGoodBoyAward**

* Red Bull's power unit performed flawlessly, allowing Verstappen and Perez to control the race from start to finish.
* Mercedes' power unit also appeared to be strong, with Hamilton and Russell finishing in the top six.
* Aston Martin's power unit showed signs of improvement, with Alonso finishing on the podium.

### **Random Fandom**

* Fernando Alonso's podium finish was a popular result among fans, who were happy to see the veteran driver back on the podium.
* Lando Norris' struggles with McLaren drew sympathy from fans, who expressed their disappointment with the team's performance.
* Alex Albon's point for Williams was a positive result for the team and its fans.

### **Winners and Losers of the Bahrain GP**

**Winners:**

* Red Bull
* Fernando Alonso
* Alex Albon

**Losers:**

* Ferrari
* McLaren
* Haas **Race Review:**

* The 2023 Formula One season commenced with the Bahrain Grand Prix.
* Max Verstappen of Red Bull Racing secured a dominant victory, leading from start to finish.
* Sergio Perez, Verstappen's teammate, finished second, completing a 1-2 finish for Red Bull.
* Fernando Alonso of Aston Martin delivered an impressive performance, securing the final podium position and earning the "Engine Mode Good Boy Award."
* Ferrari, who were considered title contenders, had a disappointing race. Charles Leclerc retired due to a mechanical issue, while Carlos Sainz Jr. finished eighth.
* Logan Sargeant of Williams Racing had a solid debut, finishing ninth and earning praise for his performance.

**New Segments:**

* "Random Fandom": The hosts select a team randomly and provide their analysis and opinions on the team's performance in the race.
* "Fraud Watch": The hosts identify a team or individual who they believe has performed poorly or engaged in questionable tactics, earning them a spot on the "Fraud Watch" list.

**Winners and Losers:**

* Winners: Red Bull Racing, Fernando Alonso, Logan Sargeant
* Losers: Ferrari, McLaren, AlphaTauri

**Controversies and Insights:**

* The hosts expressed concern over Ferrari's poor performance, highlighting the team's lack of pace and reliability.
* They also criticized McLaren for their continued struggles, suggesting that the team is in a difficult position with an unreliable car.
* The hosts praised Alonso's impressive drive, noting his strategic moves and competitive spirit.
* They also acknowledged Sargeant's promising debut, highlighting his potential as a future star in Formula One.

**Overall Message:**

The Bahrain Grand Prix marked a dominant start for Red Bull Racing, with Max Verstappen securing an emphatic victory. However, the race also raised concerns about the competitiveness of Ferrari and McLaren, while Fernando Alonso and Logan Sargeant emerged as bright spots with their impressive performances.

[00:00.000 -> 00:09.380] You're listening to the most fraudulent F1 podcast with Dan, aka engine mode 11. I secretly
[00:09.380 -> 00:15.400] moonlight and smell what Marco race weekend and Blake, aka break echo chambers of farts
[00:15.400 -> 00:29.960] and idiots on Twitter after races. It's the engine breaking F1 podcast. Welcome back. Welcome back. How you guys doing? This is another episode of the engine breaking
[00:29.960 -> 00:34.120] podcast. We've made it to 17 episodes. We have not killed each other. We have not been
[00:34.120 -> 00:40.920] canceled or deleted from the internet. So welcome. My name is Blake, a.k.a. Brake, a
[00:40.920 -> 00:45.440] former F1 engineer, now full time, full of crap talking about Formula One on the internet.
[00:45.440 -> 00:48.840] And here we have Dan, aka Engine Mode 11.
[00:48.840 -> 00:52.080] Yeah, and I'm also full of absolute shit.
[00:52.080 -> 00:58.160] So why not combine forces and make a shitnado of a podcast?
[00:58.160 -> 00:59.720] Right, so here we are.
[00:59.720 -> 01:01.640] So this is what we do.
[01:01.640 -> 01:04.140] This is this is our first full season.
[01:04.140 -> 01:06.960] We did a little bit of a season preview with testing.
[01:06.960 -> 01:08.920] We did a Bahrain preview.
[01:08.920 -> 01:10.680] We're gonna do Bahrain review.
[01:10.680 -> 01:13.240] And then next week we'll get you guys with another episode,
[01:13.240 -> 01:14.600] maybe with a couple of segments,
[01:14.600 -> 01:16.000] maybe find a guest for next week
[01:16.000 -> 01:18.040] to do a little Saudi preview.
[01:18.040 -> 01:18.860] But-
[01:18.860 -> 01:20.160] Yeah, we'll find, we'll get a guest
[01:20.160 -> 01:22.040] and they can do all the heavy lifting for us.
[01:22.040 -> 01:24.200] Exactly, say, hey, can you send us the script notes?
[01:24.200 -> 01:26.640] Cause we're both complete trash.
[01:26.640 -> 01:31.240] So but anyway, this is this is going to be an awesome season.
[01:31.240 -> 01:32.840] How are we doing so far this season?
[01:32.840 -> 01:37.160] Just to pick up you guys out there gassing us up on the Internet.
[01:37.160 -> 01:38.160] Yeah.
[01:38.160 -> 01:43.080] So I was it last episode where I said we broke our previous record of downloads.
[01:43.080 -> 01:44.080] Yeah.
[01:44.080 -> 01:45.840] Yeah. You've done it again. Listeners.
[01:45.840 -> 01:52.040] Oh my God. We're on the earth. Come on. I love to see that man. And a big toot toot
[01:52.040 -> 01:55.560] for all you guys. If you're driving home from work, driving to work, driving to your third
[01:55.560 -> 02:01.200] job or going to pick the kids up to you. But, um, seriously, this is a lot of fun.
[02:01.200 -> 02:05.000] Listening while you're on the toilet. Yeah, exactly. That's my favorite thing.
[02:05.000 -> 02:09.000] That's when I I just listen to your talk of streams when I'm on the toilet.
[02:09.000 -> 02:11.000] Yeah, I would have done that.
[02:11.000 -> 02:12.000] It's like, oh, I'm dead again.
[02:12.000 -> 02:15.000] But here's the shout out last week.
[02:15.000 -> 02:21.000] One of my cats or both of my cats dive bombed the stream and Ryan Excel nerd 2032 on Twitter
[02:21.000 -> 02:22.000] got the memo.
[02:22.000 -> 02:24.000] My cats called Barry and Sterling.
[02:24.000 -> 02:28.040] That's actually a reference to the animated series Archer,
[02:28.240 -> 02:32.240] which is probably one of the best animated series on the internet. So if you're,
[02:32.240 -> 02:36.360] um, if you're listening to this podcast, do be sure to share it with your, um,
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[02:41.000 -> 02:43.200] definitely Facebook, Twitter, my space, send it to your friends.
[02:43.440 -> 02:48.500] And if you're in the stream where we live record this over on twitch.tv French last break, don't hesitate
[02:48.500 -> 02:52.200] to throw a screenshot up on your Instagram story and tell everybody how crap this podcast
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[02:55.400 -> 03:02.520] So yeah, pick up your local butcher. Tell them all about us. Yep, exactly. Phrasing
[03:02.520 -> 03:06.240] exactly. What's in the episode today, Dan? What have we got for everybody?
[03:06.240 -> 03:07.840] The Bahrain Race Review.
[03:07.840 -> 03:10.800] We're not going to give you a lap-by-lap account.
[03:10.800 -> 03:13.840] I think there's other podcasts available that can do that.
[03:13.840 -> 03:14.840] We're just going to shit talk.
[03:14.840 -> 03:15.840] They'll probably do a better job as well.
[03:15.840 -> 03:16.840] Yeah, they'll probably do a better job.
[03:16.840 -> 03:21.080] We're just going to shit talk our way through it.
[03:21.080 -> 03:25.880] And then we have our first random fandom report cards are due in.
[03:25.880 -> 03:28.640] Ooh, more about that later.
[03:28.640 -> 03:31.600] And Fraud Watch and NGMOCA Boy Awards.
[03:31.600 -> 03:32.600] Oh my gosh.
[03:32.600 -> 03:36.200] And if you're not familiar with those, those are some regular segments and they're, they're
[03:36.200 -> 03:39.480] a bit of a laugh, but we'll tell you all about them.
[03:39.480 -> 03:47.320] Why don't we get into a little Bahrain race one of 2023 review. Started with the buildup to the weekend and throughout practice.
[03:47.340 -> 03:47.840] What we got?
[03:48.640 -> 03:51.240] Well, look, listen again, confession time.
[03:51.700 -> 03:55.500] I am afraid that I did not watch any FP one or FP two.
[03:56.480 -> 03:56.980] Oh my.
[03:56.980 -> 03:59.680] So I might have to lean on you for this bit.
[04:00.080 -> 04:00.540] That's okay.
[04:00.540 -> 04:06.480] I, I, I was building the, uh, the data analysis database on the Buy Me A Coffee, where if you're
[04:06.480 -> 04:12.080] a huge data nerd, you can check that out. I'll put a link in the YouTube and you can check it out on
[04:12.080 -> 04:16.320] my Twitter or something, but nevermind about that. I had my finger on the pulse this weekend.
[04:17.440 -> 04:21.680] Let's be honest. A show of hands or two toots in the car if you're driving to work,
[04:21.680 -> 04:25.920] who was on the Aston Martin Alonzo Dark Lord hype train
[04:25.920 -> 04:28.000] following winter testing or even following his
[04:28.720 -> 04:31.040] appointment to the Aston Martin team?
[04:31.040 -> 04:31.920] What do you think?
[04:31.920 -> 04:32.480] Were you on it?
[04:32.480 -> 04:32.960] I was.
[04:32.960 -> 04:33.280] Me?
[04:33.280 -> 04:34.560] Yeah, I was.
[04:34.560 -> 04:36.720] I was, yeah, choo-chooing.
[04:37.280 -> 04:39.200] Yeah, I was toot-toot from winter testing.
[04:39.200 -> 04:40.480] Like I saw that and I was like,
[04:41.120 -> 04:44.960] my data analysis and interpretation skills said
[04:46.240 -> 04:46.920] they were not doing the opposite of Alpine. and I was like my my data analysis and interpretation skills said they.
[04:49.040 -> 04:50.080] We're not doing the opposite of Alpine. They were not sandbagging.
[04:50.080 -> 04:51.520] They were just playing what they got
[04:51.520 -> 04:52.920] and that thing was good.
[04:53.880 -> 04:56.520] Alonzo top in the sheets and FP2.
[04:57.040 -> 04:57.760] Not too shabby.
[04:57.760 -> 04:58.160] You know what?
[04:58.200 -> 04:59.240] It's free practice too.
[04:59.280 -> 04:59.800] Don't worry.
[05:00.000 -> 05:01.320] Free practice three.
[05:01.840 -> 05:02.760] Throw away session.
[05:02.800 -> 05:03.760] Forget about it, but.
[05:04.640 -> 05:10.800] Dude, I was so gutted to see Williams and AlphaTauri like way, way in no man's land
[05:10.800 -> 05:12.720] in P2, but it wasn't so bad in qualifying.
[05:12.720 -> 05:17.680] And when you say FP3 is a throw away session, some people might not get why that is a throw
[05:17.680 -> 05:18.680] away session.
[05:18.680 -> 05:21.680] Would you like to tell our dear listeners why?
[05:21.680 -> 05:22.680] Yeah, why not?
[05:22.680 -> 05:26.440] But it's like, it's like one of those things like the lap times are super
[05:26.440 -> 05:31.240] slow. The track is super hot. The tracks usually in terrible condition. You notice throughout
[05:31.240 -> 05:37.440] qualifying the track ramped up by about a second. So imagine a track earlier in the
[05:37.440 -> 05:43.440] day, the heat 40, 50, sometimes approaching 55, 60 degrees track temperature Celsius.
[05:43.440 -> 05:45.360] American friends, I don't know how hot that is in Fahrenheit.
[05:45.360 -> 05:49.840] I've I've wiped that scale from my memory because it's clearly inferior.
[05:49.840 -> 05:56.560] Yes, that was part of your what you call it normalization into residency. You had to
[05:56.560 -> 06:00.160] have that wiped and now you drink tea exclusively.
[06:01.040 -> 06:05.240] Dude, I ran out of coffee the morning I had a cup of Earl Grey with a slice of lemon,
[06:05.240 -> 06:06.640] which is my absolute favorite.
[06:06.640 -> 06:08.760] It didn't hit the spot.
[06:08.760 -> 06:10.160] No, no, no.
[06:10.160 -> 06:12.320] Ah, our boy, our boy, Pirelli condoms.
[06:12.320 -> 06:13.320] What a username.
[06:13.320 -> 06:15.800] It says that's about 140 Fahrenheit.
[06:15.800 -> 06:20.000] So one of those numbers I said was fraud and hide.
[06:20.000 -> 06:30.600] But so during practice, the Red Bull looked comfortable. Ferrari looked like they were a bit off, but they didn't seem too bothered yet.
[06:30.600 -> 06:35.880] What did you think about the Lance Strom struggling with injury during practice sessions and his
[06:35.880 -> 06:36.880] extraction?
[06:36.880 -> 06:38.560] This is not to laugh at him being injured.
[06:38.560 -> 06:40.840] That was super serious, but he was back.
[06:40.840 -> 06:45.600] If you're not poor, you have access to science and medicine that us peasants could never touch.
[06:45.600 -> 06:50.960] Very true, yeah. So what was it in the end? I think it was two broken wrists and a broken toe.
[06:50.960 -> 06:54.000] I didn't realize he had a broken toe until he mentioned it.
[06:54.000 -> 06:55.160] Me neither. Me neither.
[06:55.160 -> 07:02.280] Yeah, but like you say, a lot of people kicking off on Twitter and things like that,
[07:02.280 -> 07:06.540] but at the end of the day, I think basically there are a lot of doctors
[07:06.540 -> 07:11.540] there that get paid a lot more than me and you and anyone on Twitter with
[07:11.540 -> 07:13.920] degrees in medical science.
[07:13.920 -> 07:19.320] So look, if he, if he can pass an extraction test, which granted he failed
[07:19.320 -> 07:23.980] the first one, but it's not super uncommon to fail your first one.
[07:23.980 -> 07:25.920] Cause sometimes you end up like kicking
[07:25.920 -> 07:27.600] a fucking barge board or something.
[07:27.600 -> 07:34.120] Yeah, dude, I'm pretty sure I've seen perfectly fit drivers fail an extraction test, which
[07:34.120 -> 07:36.320] before the halo, it was only five seconds.
[07:36.320 -> 07:40.960] So you're bolted into the car seat belts on, you have to take the steering wheel off, throw
[07:40.960 -> 07:41.960] it out of the car.
[07:41.960 -> 07:46.220] And in the case of a test, you'd hand it to mechanic belts off out of the car, jump both
[07:46.220 -> 07:48.080] feet firmly on the ground.
[07:48.080 -> 07:49.920] Five seconds now with the halo, that's seven seconds.
[07:49.920 -> 07:56.240] But I've seen perfectly fit people that with no injuries fail their first egress test.
[07:56.240 -> 08:00.760] So you know, a lot of a lot of our Twitter experts were ripping into it.
[08:00.760 -> 08:04.800] And there was, I mean, there was people about to go to war over whether or not Lance should
[08:04.800 -> 08:09.960] drive and, uh, you fuckers need to go touch grass I swear
[08:09.960 -> 08:13.880] if I had to do an extraction test it'd probably take you about half hour and
[08:13.880 -> 08:18.280] they'd probably have to grease me up a little bit yeah but that's just what you
[08:18.280 -> 08:22.760] like to do on a Saturday night anyway just get a little bit of butter on and uh yeah
[08:22.760 -> 08:28.480] yeah a little bit a little bit like I think a little bit of butter on and uh, yeah. I think a little bit, a little bit, like I think, um, a little bit of this was, oh, it's
[08:28.480 -> 08:29.480] Lance Stroll.
[08:29.480 -> 08:33.360] Let's, let's, you know, give him a little bit of a dig and a little bit of hate.
[08:33.360 -> 08:36.120] Cause I think Lance does get a little bit of hate.
[08:36.120 -> 08:41.560] I mean, he showed up as the Canadian cash boy, but like genuinely we say this day in
[08:41.560 -> 08:47.640] and day out, you know, sometimes in recent history, he seems to be lacking a little bit of spatial
[08:47.640 -> 08:51.080] awareness, but other than that, the dude's been very reasonable.
[08:51.080 -> 08:58.000] I think last year he got a reputation of spectacular race starts and excellent race craft in the
[08:58.000 -> 09:02.080] wet, which is, you know, not something you typically equate with a turd.
[09:02.080 -> 09:03.480] Pay drive.
[09:03.480 -> 09:06.380] Yeah, exactly. I think he's solid.
[09:06.380 -> 09:08.060] You know, he's, I think he's earned his spot.
[09:08.060 -> 09:11.160] Does he, I don't think, did he pay to get there?
[09:11.300 -> 09:11.500] Yeah.
[09:11.500 -> 09:15.740] His dad owns the team, but I don't think he deserves the title pay driver.
[09:16.660 -> 09:17.020] Yeah.
[09:17.020 -> 09:19.300] I mean, is he going to win a world championship?
[09:19.580 -> 09:23.580] Probably not, but he's not going to be like Latifi levels of
[09:23.860 -> 09:25.280] comically bad at the back.
[09:25.680 -> 09:27.400] Well, you say that.
[09:28.140 -> 09:30.180] Is that team going to win a world championship?
[09:30.180 -> 09:32.020] Hear me out, hear me out.
[09:32.760 -> 09:37.560] I think it's entirely possible because we don't know about these regulations.
[09:37.620 -> 09:41.000] Um, the, the wind tunnel time, which basically the better you do in the
[09:41.000 -> 09:44.240] championship, the less development you get, the cost cap, but put it in
[09:44.240 -> 09:48.040] perspective, Mercedes spent almost $400 million in 2020.
[09:49.200 -> 09:51.960] Now the cost cap is $140-ish.
[09:53.920 -> 09:57.360] Uh, the teams at the back, they've got a new, I've done a video on this.
[09:57.360 -> 09:58.240] It's coming out Wednesday.
[09:58.280 -> 10:00.240] Don't ask us what the budget cap is.
[10:00.240 -> 10:01.400] We're ex-Red Bull engineers.
[10:01.400 -> 10:02.640] We don't know what the number is.
[10:04.000 -> 10:04.480] Yeah.
[10:07.920 -> 10:11.520] Oh, it was catering, man. Five guys goes hard. Yeah, sandwiches were fucking great.
[10:11.520 -> 10:15.520] Yeah, it is awesome. I could be wrong on that figure, but I think I think the cost cap is
[10:15.520 -> 10:19.240] somewhere around there. It depends on what currency you're using. We don't use euros
[10:19.240 -> 10:25.520] here. We use dollars, kilometers and Celsius. Deal, everybody? You guys understood? Comprende?
[10:25.520 -> 10:26.360] Yeah.
[10:26.360 -> 10:29.000] But the cost cap is in dollars though, isn't it?
[10:29.000 -> 10:29.840] Because it is.
[10:29.840 -> 10:32.640] Yeah, a lot of figures in F1 they do in dollars.
[10:32.640 -> 10:33.600] Freedom currency.
[10:33.600 -> 10:35.400] Considering like what, eight out of 10 teams
[10:35.400 -> 10:37.640] are based in the UK or whatever.
[10:37.640 -> 10:38.600] Yeah, exactly.
[10:38.600 -> 10:39.440] Thanks for that.
[10:39.440 -> 10:41.480] Let's just convert it to dollars and be-
[10:41.480 -> 10:43.000] Well, that was the thing, wasn't it?
[10:43.000 -> 10:49.960] Christian, I think, was whinging in the media, I think was it in 21 or whenever, saying oh
[10:49.960 -> 10:53.440] we need more budget cap because the exchange rate's gone to shit.
[10:53.440 -> 10:55.160] Ooh, interesting.
[10:55.160 -> 10:58.680] So yeah, but anyway, sorry I went off on a tangent.
[10:58.680 -> 10:59.680] Rip.
[10:59.680 -> 11:03.880] What do we, is that everything for the build up for the weekend before we get to Qualischwein?
[11:03.880 -> 11:05.040] I believe so.
[11:05.040 -> 11:05.440] Yeah.
[11:05.440 -> 11:11.000] I think the main story was like you say, it was, uh, Stroll who we
[11:11.000 -> 11:13.760] professionally put down as having wankers whiplash.
[11:14.320 -> 11:14.560] Yeah.
[11:15.160 -> 11:17.920] Comes to find out he broke a toe doing that as well.
[11:17.920 -> 11:21.720] So I feel like that was actually a bicycle accident, not a, uh, a
[11:21.720 -> 11:25.480] channel 987 incident at the hotel.
[11:25.480 -> 11:31.400] Maybe when he, you know, he kicked the table as he jumped up quickly or something, stubbed his toe.
[11:32.400 -> 11:34.120] Mom, not when I'm cleaning my room.
[11:34.240 -> 11:37.480] Oh my God.
[11:37.840 -> 11:40.960] Anyway, qualifying, talk to me Goose.
[11:41.000 -> 11:41.840] Did you watch qualifying?
[11:41.960 -> 11:42.960] You did watch qualifying, didn't you?
[11:42.960 -> 11:43.480] Yes, I did.
[11:44.000 -> 11:44.360] Oh yeah.
[11:44.560 -> 11:45.040] What we saying? How are watch qualifying, didn't you? Yes I did. Oh yeah. What were we saying?
[11:45.040 -> 11:46.480] How are we feeling about qualifying this week?
[11:47.680 -> 11:51.600] It was distinctly what I thought it would be.
[11:52.480 -> 11:56.240] In the Red Bull and Ferrari were sort of tussling.
[11:58.400 -> 12:00.640] I expected a little bit of drop-off from Aston
[12:01.280 -> 12:04.800] because I think Aston were showing a lot of their hand early.
[12:06.960 -> 12:12.200] And when you get into qualifying for Red Bull and Ferrari always show a bit more.
[12:12.200 -> 12:20.800] Very surprised at Charles deciding to skip his second run in Q3 to save a set of tyres.
[12:20.800 -> 12:23.200] Yeah, a little extra set of bags for the race.
[12:23.200 -> 12:30.120] Yeah, but now on retrospect it kind of makes. And we'll get into all this bit later, but with his ERS change, then
[12:30.120 -> 12:33.440] perhaps maybe there was a reason why they thought, nah, look, we're not going to improve.
[12:33.440 -> 12:39.320] Just save a set of tires. Now I missed this. Was the energy store changed before or after
[12:39.320 -> 12:45.200] Quali? After. It was after Quali. Okay. So they they so they maybe didn't know that but but like
[12:45.760 -> 12:50.160] So I think the thing that we're hitting hinting on here is the qualifying order was Red Bulls
[12:51.120 -> 12:56.560] Ferraris Alonzo's and Mercedes and then Lance behind them, but you know
[12:57.840 -> 13:03.360] They saved as the Ferrari. I don't the signs didn't save a set because he had to do an extra run
[13:04.160 -> 13:05.960] to get through as
[13:05.960 -> 13:08.920] far as I recall, but the Claire saved a set of new soft for the race.
[13:08.920 -> 13:12.160] And that kind of hints on what we've been seeing through winter testing.
[13:12.160 -> 13:16.640] I don't think Ferrari are confident in their race pace and their tire degradation.
[13:16.640 -> 13:18.160] They're like, you know what?
[13:18.160 -> 13:21.720] A qualifying run on a set of tires is effectively three laps.
[13:21.720 -> 13:25.000] Realistically, it's effectively two laps in terms of full
[13:25.000 -> 13:29.660] speed laps. But you know what? Those two laps could make a huge difference on a set of tires
[13:29.660 -> 13:33.280] and that just have that edge to be able to push out of the box. So they save that for
[13:33.280 -> 13:34.280] the race.
[13:34.280 -> 13:41.880] Yes, but again, I'm going to jump around a bit here. That advantage was literally pretty
[13:41.880 -> 13:45.780] much yeah, you didn't need a pit wall to see that. No
[13:47.040 -> 13:50.220] was only literally like a one lap advantage because when the
[13:51.040 -> 13:53.340] Red flag came out in was in q2
[13:53.860 -> 14:00.480] That's early q1 for the Debris. Okay a red ball. Oh, he didn't out and straight back in lap on a set of softs
[14:00.800 -> 14:01.920] Yeah, yeah, exactly
[14:01.920 -> 14:08.360] And they put new bags on for the next one all a pretty much did was just take the shine off of the tire. Exactly. And Aston Martin do
[14:08.360 -> 14:14.080] that already anyway. They didn't this, not this time. Did they not? No, no, they didn't
[14:14.080 -> 14:18.460] do that. I missed that because I usually, Aston Martin typically just do an outlap on
[14:18.460 -> 14:22.200] all their sets of tires. So when they go into the race, you always see them with only used
[14:22.200 -> 14:26.200] tires, but that is absolutely correct in terms of
[14:26.200 -> 14:31.860] Aston had two new hards and one new medium each and three used softs going into qualifying.
[14:31.860 -> 14:34.860] So not this time, an Aston Martin.
[14:34.860 -> 14:41.380] They have given up on their tire scrubbing and obviously paid off.
[14:41.380 -> 14:42.460] More on that in a minute.
[14:42.460 -> 14:47.480] So sorry qualifying, we're jumping ahead a bit. We keep wanting to, we keep wanting to talk about the race
[14:47.480 -> 14:48.880] because that's where all the meat was.
[14:48.960 -> 14:50.480] We just, we're on the potatoes right now.
[14:50.480 -> 14:56.280] And I enjoyed a couple of carrots, but, um, let's, let's, let's, let's
[14:56.280 -> 14:57.400] jump around a little bit.
[14:57.440 -> 14:59.000] Um, let's talk about the newbies.
[14:59.320 -> 14:59.720] Yeah.
[15:00.200 -> 15:01.480] Let's start with the breeze.
[15:02.360 -> 15:04.120] Uh, what happened in his qualifying run?
[15:04.160 -> 15:06.480] Cause you don't finish dead last on purpose.
[15:06.480 -> 15:08.680] No, he got track limits, didn't he?
[15:08.680 -> 15:09.680] He got time deleted.
[15:09.680 -> 15:12.200] Ah, son of a gun.
[15:12.200 -> 15:14.020] Yeah, you can't do that.
[15:14.020 -> 15:15.020] That's going to screw you.
[15:15.020 -> 15:18.320] What was he set up for before the truck limits?
[15:18.320 -> 15:19.320] Was he in the mix or not?
[15:19.320 -> 15:20.320] I don't fucking know.
[15:20.320 -> 15:21.320] You're the one with all the data.
[15:21.320 -> 15:22.320] Jesus.
[15:22.320 -> 15:23.320] I missed it.
[15:23.320 -> 15:26.040] I didn't look too hard at qualifying because it was just like I was just so excited about
[15:26.040 -> 15:27.040] it.
[15:27.040 -> 15:29.040] Like is Alonzo going to do it governor?
[15:29.040 -> 15:32.440] Yeah, that's true.
[15:32.440 -> 15:38.880] So DeVries track limits, blah, piastry, not a great qualifying session either.
[15:38.880 -> 15:39.880] P19.
[15:39.880 -> 15:44.600] Um, but I got to give some props to my brother from Florida, Logan Sargent.
[15:44.600 -> 15:47.860] He got knocked out in Q1 brother, but that's some bitch was fast
[15:47.880 -> 15:53.240] And he was actually just as fast is that Lando Norris guy?
[15:53.920 -> 15:56.060] Unfortunately Lando set his lap time first
[15:56.720 -> 15:58.800] And he got through so correct
[15:59.360 -> 16:05.400] It's not not the headline you expect to see when you see a Florida man goes crazy in the
[16:05.400 -> 16:06.400] Middle East.
[16:06.400 -> 16:07.400] No, exactly.
[16:07.400 -> 16:13.160] Yeah, just a cheeky Q1 knockout, but just.
[16:13.160 -> 16:16.040] So you know what?
[16:16.040 -> 16:17.040] Pretty good for that.
[16:17.040 -> 16:20.720] And the Williams so far, we'll look at the race in a little bit.
[16:20.720 -> 16:24.000] I don't have too many notes on them for the race, but not bad.
[16:24.000 -> 16:29.840] Yeah, not bad. Yeah. I had a Florida man. I, I, I boldly predicted they would not finish this season
[16:29.840 -> 16:36.440] in bottom place. And, uh, I think, I think it could be slightly paying off early days
[16:36.440 -> 16:39.080] yet, but it definitely looks like they made a step forward.
[16:39.080 -> 16:46.400] Yeah. And Albon solid. I cannot say enough good things about Albon, but I'll wipe my chin off there
[16:46.400 -> 16:47.400] and move on.
[16:47.400 -> 16:49.480] Oh for fuck's sake.
[16:49.480 -> 16:54.200] Let's talk about our qualifying predictions. Should we go back to them? I've got them here.
[16:54.200 -> 16:57.700] Have you got them yet? Because I can't even remember what I fucking predicted.
[16:57.700 -> 17:04.840] Our top five in quali you predicted Verstappen, Perez, Alonso, Leclerc, Hamilton in order.
[17:04.840 -> 17:05.120] Okay. So you've got two correct. Verstappen, Perez, Alonso, Leclerc, Hamilton in order.
[17:05.320 -> 17:08.040] Okay. So you've got two correct.
[17:08.680 -> 17:12.360] You got two correct and Hamilton not in the top five.
[17:13.640 -> 17:20.480] Uh, I predicted Verstappen, Leclerc, Perez, Sainz, Russell.
[17:20.600 -> 17:28.640] So in order, I only got Verstappen and Sainz in the correct positions, but I
[17:28.640 -> 17:33.000] did get the top five. So we were splitting hairs there, but we're both close. We're both
[17:33.000 -> 17:36.440] in the mix. We both had a good feel for what was going on.
[17:36.440 -> 17:40.000] Yeah, maybe we put too much faith in Mercedes.
[17:40.000 -> 17:47.100] We did. Wait, where did I? Is Russell right? Anyway, fuck it. Yeah, I think with anyway to each
[17:47.200 -> 17:50.000] qualifying now Alonzo is P5.
[17:50.000 -> 17:50.900] That is correct.
[17:51.100 -> 17:54.900] So I got to write and the wrong top
[17:54.900 -> 17:55.100] five.
[17:55.100 -> 17:55.700] So we tied.
[17:55.900 -> 17:57.600] We did an equally bad job, but good
[17:57.600 -> 17:59.100] good on you for being so freaking
[17:59.100 -> 18:00.200] biased, even though they're not even
[18:00.200 -> 18:01.100] paying you anymore.
[18:01.100 -> 18:01.700] You rat.
[18:01.800 -> 18:02.200] Yep.
[18:03.100 -> 18:03.900] Oh my gosh.
[18:03.900 -> 18:04.400] All right.
[18:04.500 -> 18:06.920] We'll get back to the podium predictions later,
[18:06.920 -> 18:09.240] cause we both made some bold predictions there.
[18:09.680 -> 18:10.280] Um.
[18:11.040 -> 18:13.480] Alpine qualifying.
[18:14.440 -> 18:15.000] No.
[18:16.000 -> 18:19.000] The sound of the sandbags permanently glued on.
[18:19.640 -> 18:21.960] They actually went for cement bags.
[18:22.000 -> 18:23.560] That's what they decided to use.
[18:23.720 -> 18:26.000] So I mean, I've been ripping
[18:26.000 -> 18:28.000] Alpine a bit through testing because
[18:28.000 -> 18:30.000] people are like, oh, they're just doing extreme setup
[18:30.000 -> 18:32.000] tests. I'm like, OK, cool.
[18:32.000 -> 18:34.000] They wasted three days.
[18:34.000 -> 18:36.000] That was, no, this was everybody.
[18:36.000 -> 18:38.000] It was everybody else, but
[18:38.000 -> 18:40.000] Ocon qualified
[18:40.000 -> 18:42.000] 9th. Gasman didn't get
[18:42.000 -> 18:44.000] through. He qualified
[18:44.000 -> 18:45.280] P20. Ouch.
[18:45.280 -> 18:53.680] Yeah, Gasly had a time deleted. But if you looked at the time that was deleted, it still
[18:53.680 -> 18:55.000] wouldn't have been good enough.
[18:55.000 -> 18:59.800] Yeah, so Gasly doesn't make it out of Q1, but Archon does it all the way through. But
[18:59.800 -> 19:06.080] they swap places later in the race, which is a Gasly Gasly, yeah, Alcon did a good qualifying.
[19:06.080 -> 19:07.080] Gasly had a great race.
[19:07.080 -> 19:11.120] We'll talk about that in a minute, but uh, they're not as bad as they looked, but there's
[19:11.120 -> 19:15.320] there's nobody that's going to convince me that the way that they approach winter testing
[19:15.320 -> 19:19.200] means that they knew what they were doing with the car.
[19:19.200 -> 19:20.200] I just can't.
[19:20.200 -> 19:26.320] I've talked to other people that work in race engineering and I'm like, Hey, be honest with
[19:26.320 -> 19:28.560] me. What do you think about that? And they're like, what the hell were they doing? I'm like,
[19:28.560 -> 19:33.200] yeah, okay, cool. Just checking that it's not me just being this super cynical person, but
[19:33.920 -> 19:39.920] um, yeah, we'll get back to the race in a minute. Speaking of is it race time?
[19:42.160 -> 19:45.160] Uh, I think so. let's just see.
[19:45.160 -> 19:49.400] Nico Hulkenberg shithouses way into P10 in qualifying.
[19:49.400 -> 19:52.600] Yeah go on, go on Hulk.
[19:52.600 -> 19:58.280] I spent a whole winter off-season slandering Haas for making the wrong decision in choosing
[19:58.280 -> 20:06.160] Hulkenberg and in the first qualifying of the year, I can see him serving up that humble pie, but I'm
[20:06.160 -> 20:08.200] not ready to eat it yet.
[20:08.200 -> 20:09.200] All right.
[20:09.200 -> 20:10.200] All right.
[20:10.200 -> 20:12.560] Well, wait, did you see races as it was what I've done?
[20:12.560 -> 20:13.560] Okay.
[20:13.560 -> 20:14.560] Okay.
[20:14.560 -> 20:17.400] Did you see Tom O's and Nico Hulkenberg apology form that he shared on Twitter?
[20:17.400 -> 20:18.400] Yeah.
[20:18.400 -> 20:20.520] I'm not ready to fill that out just yet.
[20:20.520 -> 20:23.480] So you're not going to fill it out and drive to Switzerland to give it to him?
[20:23.480 -> 20:26.280] I reckon he lived in Switzerland, doesn't he?
[20:26.280 -> 20:27.280] Does he?
[20:27.280 -> 20:28.280] I'm not sure.
[20:28.280 -> 20:29.280] I don't know.
[20:29.280 -> 20:32.280] Anyway, I haven't talked to him in a while, but anyway, forget Unico.
[20:32.280 -> 20:35.360] I'll tell you where he lives, in Kevin Magnusson's pocket.
[20:35.360 -> 20:37.320] Oh my God.
[20:37.320 -> 20:43.520] Let's move on to our race, shall we?
[20:43.520 -> 20:50.920] Sure, why not? Okay, I've got a question for everybody, and this is hidden from you as well.
[20:50.920 -> 20:56.720] Who had the biggest gains on lap one of the race?
[20:56.720 -> 20:58.480] Biggest gains, lap one of the race?
[20:58.480 -> 21:02.880] I think I know this because it's part of my homework.
[21:02.880 -> 21:03.880] Ah, okay.
[21:03.880 -> 21:04.880] Good for you.
[21:04.880 -> 21:05.060] I think it for you.
[21:05.200 -> 21:07.000] I think it might've been Valtteri Bottas.
[21:07.440 -> 21:10.380] It was indeed the Valtteri Bottas.
[21:10.380 -> 21:13.940] He went from P12 to P8 on the race start.
[21:13.960 -> 21:17.100] Now, other impressive race starts.
[21:17.460 -> 21:19.040] Um, what else you got?
[21:19.180 -> 21:22.520] Anybody else that's a notable honorable mention for that?
[21:24.160 -> 21:26.500] Uh, good race starts.
[21:26.500 -> 21:27.800] Who had a good race start?
[21:27.800 -> 21:29.200] All I know is I know the people
[21:29.200 -> 21:30.200] that had a bad one.
[21:31.000 -> 21:32.400] Yeah, we'll get back to that one.
[21:32.400 -> 21:33.200] We'll get back to that one.
[21:33.200 -> 21:34.200] Who else had a good start?
[21:34.200 -> 21:35.400] Both of the Williams were up
[21:35.400 -> 21:36.500] three on the race start.
[21:36.500 -> 21:37.700] I do believe so.
[21:38.100 -> 21:39.500] Good starts from the Willys.
[21:39.800 -> 21:41.600] So, who were the losers?
[21:41.600 -> 21:42.600] I suppose Gasly must have had
[21:42.600 -> 21:43.600] a good start, right?
[21:43.800 -> 21:46.040] Gasly must have been up there on lap one.
[21:46.040 -> 21:48.840] Let me check the data but anyway we'll move on.
[21:48.840 -> 21:53.260] Who had a crappy, crappy race start?
[21:53.260 -> 21:54.260] So I know two.
[21:54.260 -> 21:58.200] I know Checo kind of stuffed up his start.
[21:58.200 -> 22:01.160] He was a bit slow coming out of the box.
[22:01.160 -> 22:06.040] And our boy Guan Yu Zhou decided to light him up.
[22:06.040 -> 22:07.040] Yeah.
[22:07.040 -> 22:12.580] And, um, maybe, maybe not to go on your apology form, Hulkenberg and Zhou down four on the
[22:12.580 -> 22:13.580] race start.
[22:13.580 -> 22:16.920] According to my data, extra oof.
[22:16.920 -> 22:26.560] Um, Gasly apparently had a really good lap one, but my didn't make it up or was it on the second lap? But apparently
[22:26.560 -> 22:36.420] Gassley had a rocket ship start as well. But anyway, starts winners, losers, Lance only
[22:36.420 -> 22:42.440] Lance lost a position on the race start. Usually Lance starts extremely well, but not today.
[22:42.440 -> 22:45.400] Maybe it was the toe and he couldn't feel the throttle pedal, the broken
[22:45.400 -> 22:47.500] wrist, he couldn't feel the clutch, but uh, yeah.
[22:47.500 -> 22:51.220] And the extra added weight of having some pins as well in his wrist.
[22:51.220 -> 22:52.300] Apparently he's got some.
[22:52.780 -> 22:53.100] Yeah.
[22:53.340 -> 22:57.580] And that's what Alex, Alex Albon still, um, no appendix weight savings.
[22:57.580 -> 22:57.940] Merchant.
[22:57.940 -> 22:58.340] Yeah.
[22:58.460 -> 22:58.720] Yeah.
[22:58.720 -> 22:58.980] Yeah.
[23:01.180 -> 23:07.700] But anyway, lap one also saw the Dark Lord drop from fifth to seventh.
[23:07.700 -> 23:12.620] Rumor has it that the Virgin Sacrifices were not allowed in Bahrain, so he didn't get the
[23:12.620 -> 23:15.540] extra blessing enchantment on his race start.
[23:15.540 -> 23:20.380] But uh, I thought he just let off the accelerator sort of down the back straight just to let
[23:20.380 -> 23:24.740] the Mercedes pass so he could sort of shit house his way past him again later.
[23:24.740 -> 23:25.360] Sort of like false hope sort of shit houses way past him again later.
[23:25.360 -> 23:30.120] So like false hope sort of thing. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, go on. Go on. It's a beautiful car to
[23:30.120 -> 23:34.040] drive. Yes, we're your customer team. We don't want to, you know, we don't want you to yank
[23:34.040 -> 23:40.040] the engines away from us. Yeah, well, you know what? Lance was so concerned about Alonzo's
[23:40.040 -> 23:45.280] not so great lap one that he almost checked in on him on a turn four on the first lap there.
[23:45.280 -> 23:49.200] That was imagine dude, just like just the time machine, right?
[23:49.200 -> 23:53.760] And then a butterfly farts in the wrong direction and lands and does actually fully
[23:53.760 -> 23:55.440] T-bone the dark Lord.
[23:56.560 -> 24:01.200] I reckon you would see Alonzo stroll fistfight in the paddock and he'd break his ankles too.
[24:01.840 -> 24:09.480] Uh, I think we'd have woken up this morning on BBC News to find that the Spanish government had declared war against Canada. I think
[24:09.480 -> 24:14.760] it would have happened. Oh what else we got that I mean that was a pretty
[24:14.760 -> 24:17.640] interesting lap one I was excited I didn't know what to expect and at the
[24:17.640 -> 24:21.800] when you're at the track race starts are pretty intimidating and exciting even
[24:21.800 -> 24:29.880] when you can't fucking do anything man you're sat there but now that I'm fully detached from the circus I get that same level of hype
[24:29.880 -> 24:33.960] at the race start what was the mood like with the last lap guys was it nuts?
[24:33.960 -> 24:40.120] Yeah it was it was I think you know obviously my disgusting red bull bias I was probably
[24:40.120 -> 24:45.440] the happiest one there. Although Hayden was pretty pleased, he's been an Aston Martin
[24:45.440 -> 24:46.920] and Stroll fan for a while.
[24:46.920 -> 24:47.920] Has he?
[24:47.920 -> 24:48.920] Yeah.
[24:48.920 -> 24:49.920] What top was he wearing?
[24:49.920 -> 24:52.360] He had a Stroll. He Strolled to a Pond, bless him.
[24:52.360 -> 24:54.240] Go on lad, go on lad.
[24:54.240 -> 25:01.840] But yeah, I think, did we not also have in the start, Hulkenberg and Ocon have a little
[25:01.840 -> 25:09.680] knock to come together in one of the corners. Yeah, it did happen and that kicked off a bit of a chain reaction for Aucon.
[25:09.680 -> 25:14.880] Hulkenberg did lose an endplate and had to stop for a front wing, which kind of screwed
[25:14.880 -> 25:15.880] up his race.
[25:15.880 -> 25:19.280] Hulkenberg ending up down 5 from where he started.
[25:19.280 -> 25:24.320] Haas endplates on lap 1 saga continues into the new season.
[25:24.320 -> 25:29.200] Yeah, Hulkenberg carried the Danish meatball flag for the first race.
[25:29.900 -> 25:30.560] Poor bloke.
[25:32.080 -> 25:33.320] Dude, what happened to Archon?
[25:33.320 -> 25:35.200] How comical was that?
[25:35.540 -> 25:37.120] Like what?
[25:37.720 -> 25:38.480] He was speed.
[25:38.480 -> 25:40.680] I think he was trying to speed run, getting a black flag.
[25:42.520 -> 25:43.640] So what did he do?
[25:43.640 -> 25:46.240] He started, he got a five second penalty because he
[25:46.240 -> 25:51.240] was out of position at the grid start. And I think it was like ever so
[25:51.240 -> 25:55.640] slightly over the yellow line. Yeah something like that. It wasn't
[25:55.640 -> 26:00.160] hideous. No it's all computerized now isn't it? And if you set the sensor off
[26:00.160 -> 26:07.840] then bang to rights. And then when he came into the pits to serve that five second penalty,
[26:07.900 -> 26:09.800] um, I'm not a hundred percent sure what happened.
[26:09.800 -> 26:13.220] I think maybe one of the Alpine guys accidentally touched a tire or something.
[26:14.220 -> 26:17.500] Um, so then he got an additional 10 second penalty after that for
[26:17.500 -> 26:19.140] failing to serve it correctly.
[26:19.500 -> 26:24.320] So they served like most of a five second penalty and then don't do that.
[26:24.320 -> 26:27.600] So they get another 10 second penalty on top of that.
[26:27.880 -> 26:28.240] Yeah.
[26:28.280 -> 26:32.380] Uh, but then it continues because when he came in to serve the new 10 second
[26:32.380 -> 26:36.420] penalty, uh, he decided just for shits and gigs that he would speed down the pit
[26:36.420 -> 26:36.760] lane.
[26:37.160 -> 26:39.480] Um, yeah.
[26:39.880 -> 26:40.960] So there you go.
[26:41.000 -> 26:44.000] You ended up with a, another five second penalty, I think on top of that.
[26:46.320 -> 26:48.280] And then I, wasn't there another speeding one?
[26:48.280 -> 26:52.400] Basically trying to get disqualified, thrown out of the race, throw the book at him.
[26:52.400 -> 26:59.400] Yeah, I mean I have to dedicate a shout out to Alpine, this is some serious sandbag in
[26:59.400 -> 27:00.400] there doing.
[27:00.400 -> 27:02.400] It's really impressive.
[27:02.400 -> 27:08.840] But like at the same time, I couldn't tell if his pit lane over speeds because there's
[27:08.840 -> 27:14.360] there's a common mechanism by which you can pit lane over speed. So you can over speed
[27:14.360 -> 27:20.360] on the way in by out breaking yourself for the control line. Or you can disengage the
[27:20.360 -> 27:24.960] pit lane speed limber too early. But there's another way, which is a cock up from your
[27:24.960 -> 27:27.380] engineers, which they would have caught earlier in the week. And I don't think
[27:27.380 -> 27:31.280] it's this, but we've seen it before is you can set your pit lane speed limiter control
[27:31.280 -> 27:36.940] to aggressive. And, um, the drivers, the drivers flat out on the throttle in the pit lane,
[27:36.940 -> 27:40.900] they just hit the limiter. As soon as the car speed goes under the speed limit, the
[27:40.900 -> 27:47.400] limiter catches the car and it holds that speed. So if the control systems engineers feel a little bit cheeky, because you can dial
[27:47.400 -> 27:51.660] in 0.01 or 0.1 kilometers an hour, you can dial that in.
[27:51.660 -> 27:55.160] And if you get close to the edge without getting popped, you can save a little bit
[27:55.160 -> 27:59.360] of time. It's minuscule, but Formula One's about minuscule stuff.
[27:59.840 -> 28:01.840] I don't think it was that. It looks like he just oversped.
[28:02.280 -> 28:03.440] Did you hear his radio comment?
[28:03.760 -> 28:05.840] He's like, man, how is this happening?
[28:05.840 -> 28:08.840] I drive years without this.
[28:08.840 -> 28:12.120] He was he was down horrendously bad.
[28:12.120 -> 28:14.640] Maybe the FIA heard that and said, you've been doing this for years.
[28:14.640 -> 28:18.080] OK, we're going to give you all the penalties for all your previous seasons in this one
[28:18.080 -> 28:19.080] race.
[28:19.080 -> 28:26.320] Yeah, but his teammate, however, Gasly, crap qualifying, recovers up to P9 and honestly looking at his race
[28:26.320 -> 28:31.700] pace at the end of the race, it was not dissimilar to the Dark Lord.
[28:31.700 -> 28:37.320] So no, and is this now when the sandbags finally may be coming off the Alpine on gas?
[28:37.320 -> 28:43.120] Yeah, and it sounds like the start there went to testing. They had some issues changing
[28:43.120 -> 28:47.760] from the push rod to pull rod or whatever they changed. Apparently setup changes took longer so they couldn't
[28:47.760 -> 28:51.940] get through as much of their program, blah, blah, blah. But maybe the car is not too decent.
[28:51.940 -> 28:56.920] They had a scrappy qualifying session. And that happens. And that's about the driver
[28:56.920 -> 29:02.560] and engineer getting the tires in the window, hitting the marks, not getting your track
[29:02.560 -> 29:07.000] the limit track limits, deleted lap times, and breaks.
[29:07.000 -> 29:09.000] Some teams have issues getting the breaks in the window.
[29:09.000 -> 29:13.500] You heard so many people moaning about breaks and they're pulling and this and that in qualifying last year.
[29:13.500 -> 29:19.500] Let's see. I hope for the best for them because they should be challenging for P4 based on last season.
[29:19.500 -> 29:27.000] Yeah. Yep. Especially now McLaren have spectacularly dropped the ball.
[29:27.000 -> 29:32.360] Yeah, can we do this, like this doesn't count, but can we do this entire race review without
[29:32.360 -> 29:36.520] even mentioning Red Bull? I think it's possible.
[29:36.520 -> 29:44.120] I mean what, Max pulled like a two second gap by what, lap, like halfway around lap
[29:44.120 -> 29:46.400] two or something. So yeah, and that was it.
[29:46.400 -> 29:47.200] That's all you saw him.
[29:47.200 -> 29:48.200] So GGs.
[29:48.800 -> 29:50.100] McClare didn't stand a chance.
[29:50.100 -> 29:55.900] Max, Max, both of the Red Bulls doing soft, soft, hard.
[29:56.700 -> 29:57.400] Correct.
[29:57.700 -> 29:58.700] Soft, soft, hard.
[29:58.700 -> 30:00.900] Where Ferrari, what were they doing?
[30:01.900 -> 30:02.900] Soft, hard, hard.
[30:02.900 -> 30:06.760] Yeah, and they were like, we can't do it.
[30:06.760 -> 30:10.360] So Red Bull able to back the pace off, manage their softs.
[30:10.360 -> 30:13.920] Max did pull a reasonable gap to Checo and both of them just kind of held their gap to
[30:13.920 -> 30:14.920] the end.
[30:14.920 -> 30:20.200] It looks like Max finishing 12, 14 seconds ahead of Checo.
[30:20.200 -> 30:23.480] But the Clare didn't have an answer for either of them, man.
[30:23.480 -> 30:27.400] And I know we said, I know we literally just said, we're not, we're going to do this without
[30:27.400 -> 30:31.800] mentioning them, but I can't not mention the fact that GP was on the radio telling Max
[30:31.800 -> 30:36.800] to put on another 0.7 of a second to his lap time because he was going too fast.
[30:36.800 -> 30:37.800] Yeah.
[30:37.800 -> 30:40.920] I mean, they were, they were, and they were on hards that final stint, they boxed around
[30:40.920 -> 30:44.240] lap 35 to hards finally.
[30:44.240 -> 30:46.080] And they basically did a stint at the end of the race which
[30:46.080 -> 30:50.000] was the same that they'd done on the middle stint on the softs and he's like you can just go slower
[30:50.000 -> 30:55.760] mate you can go slow you can go slower yeah you can go slower unbelievable i'm done asking go
[30:55.760 -> 31:01.920] slower i on and he you heard max talking he's like is checo matching he's like yeah don't worry
[31:01.920 -> 31:09.680] there's not a race on we're just locking this in one, two done. A lot of people said, can Checo hit and get an extra point for fastest
[31:09.680 -> 31:16.360] lap to which I replied, that's a very Ferrari thing to do is to potentially bottle a one
[31:16.360 -> 31:19.000] two to score an additional point.
[31:19.000 -> 31:23.920] Yeah. But how big was the gap? Was it like, would it have been tight or would it have
[31:23.920 -> 31:25.200] been safe?
[31:28.160 -> 31:28.680] Um, it was after the Claire.
[31:29.720 -> 31:30.080] It was, it was safe.
[31:33.920 -> 31:34.160] It was 40 down to, it was over 30 seconds.
[31:34.520 -> 31:34.560] 25.
[31:38.120 -> 31:39.200] It was 25 seconds for most of that stint, I believe to the dark Lord. So easy.
[31:39.760 -> 31:41.920] He could have done it fine, but it's one of those things like
[31:41.920 -> 31:43.600] imagine you have a bum stop.
[31:43.920 -> 31:49.600] And then all of a sudden you've got Alonso taking second step to the podium. Yeah, well I mean it's the first
[31:49.600 -> 31:56.960] race of the year, you've absolutely decimated you know your nearest rivals. Are you going to risk
[31:57.680 -> 32:02.400] like you say all that just for a single point in the first race of the season? No, not really.
[32:02.400 -> 32:09.480] That's stupidity, that's actual, I mean you could turn it around but like the season. No, not really. That's stupidity. That's actual. I mean, you could turn it around, but like the risk reward there, I didn't look at, look
[32:09.480 -> 32:10.480] at the pace.
[32:10.480 -> 32:13.040] They've not look at where Ferrari is sitting and look at where their nearest competitor
[32:13.040 -> 32:14.040] behind that is.
[32:14.040 -> 32:20.600] It's not the one, but speaking of their nearest competitor, talk to me.
[32:20.600 -> 32:21.600] Ferrari.
[32:21.600 -> 32:22.600] No, Aston.
[32:22.600 -> 32:23.600] Oh yeah.
[32:23.600 -> 32:24.600] Ferrari.
[32:24.600 -> 32:25.920] Oh yeah. No, good point. I don't know, I don't know.
[32:25.920 -> 32:29.840] Aston yeah no you're right. I don't know, I don't know. Yeah no it would be Aston.
[32:29.840 -> 32:36.160] Um no let's talk about Ferrari though. Let's go for Ferrari because. F for Ferrari. Yeah um Ferrari
[32:36.160 -> 32:42.960] have started the season pretty much uh how they ended last year um and that's you know a bit
[32:50.600 -> 32:58.120] and that's you know a bit comical. So what do we have we had Charles had to replace his energy store on the Saturday night after qualifying. He did he had a
[32:58.120 -> 33:01.840] good start he managed to get past Checo on you know make the most of them new
[33:01.840 -> 33:09.900] softs that he saved from qualifying. Uh, but then Ferrari decided that, well, the Ferrari car remembered it was a
[33:09.900 -> 33:12.560] Ferrari car and decided to just give up the ghost.
[33:13.520 -> 33:20.200] Uh, but it will give some, some hope to the, uh, the fans, the Tifosi out there.
[33:20.740 -> 33:23.420] That it just looked like the car shut down, which it could have
[33:23.420 -> 33:24.560] just been a sensor thing.
[33:24.660 -> 33:25.240] It, you know, there was no smoke, no fluid. there, but it just looked like the car shut down, which it could have just been a sensor thing.
[33:25.240 -> 33:28.040] It, you know, there was no smoke, no fluid.
[33:28.040 -> 33:32.520] It was, you know, it's possible that that is salvageable.
[33:32.520 -> 33:41.160] But it sounds like it, the media suggested it could be the ES, the energy store.
[33:41.160 -> 33:45.200] Yeah, which is the part they replaced, which is the part of their place.
[33:45.200 -> 33:50.860] And it's funny you say that because the regulations I do believe allow for two energy stores to
[33:50.860 -> 33:55.880] be used this season. Yep. They moved one. Yep. Saturday. Yeah, because they weren't
[33:55.880 -> 34:00.440] happy with something they saw on it. Yep. And that could have been like a you know,
[34:00.440 -> 34:03.640] they do a cycle test and they're like, Oh, there's a cell that has an issue or there's
[34:03.640 -> 34:06.200] a hot spot. As a precaution, we can change this.
[34:06.200 -> 34:07.920] We've only used one out of two.
[34:07.920 -> 34:10.040] Now they've put the second one in the car.
[34:12.320 -> 34:13.880] So once they've been raced,
[34:13.880 -> 34:15.400] they're introduced and they're in the pool.
[34:15.400 -> 34:17.120] So if they have to use a new one,
[34:17.120 -> 34:21.280] he will take whatever penalty there is for the third ES,
[34:21.280 -> 34:23.280] assuming both of them are scuffed.
[34:23.280 -> 34:24.680] If he can use the first one, fine.
[34:24.680 -> 34:27.320] If the second one's fine, he's used both of them in the pool.
[34:27.680 -> 34:28.840] But that doesn't bode well.
[34:28.840 -> 34:31.720] If you've had two out of two in a single weekend on one car.
[34:32.320 -> 34:34.640] And that's just a time bomb for signs.
[34:35.680 -> 34:37.440] I didn't see like any issues.
[34:37.960 -> 34:40.480] I can't remember any issues with them in like testing or anything like that.
[34:40.480 -> 34:43.200] So it's a bit odd while all of a sudden.
[34:44.000 -> 34:46.160] Two of the sides to go so quickly. Uh, maybe it got a bit of sand all of a sudden two have decided to go so quickly.
[34:46.160 -> 34:47.920] Maybe it got a bit of sand in there. I don't know.
[34:48.720 -> 34:55.840] Yeah. Chat is now suggesting that it's a new ES is a 10 place. So, um, can they recover from
[34:55.840 -> 35:03.040] that during a race? Yeah, but their pace and degradation was kind of not great at all.
[35:03.600 -> 35:05.600] It was really not great. And We'll get on to what happened with
[35:05.600 -> 35:06.600] Aston but...
[35:06.600 -> 35:13.160] That is one of our concerns that you know we had was have Ferrari solved their degradation
[35:13.160 -> 35:20.040] issues and looking like how Carlos struggled on those hard tyres at that point when people
[35:20.040 -> 35:25.040] were just pretty much driving past him. You just think, not quite there yet.
[35:25.680 -> 35:30.720] Well, I'm looking at the Verstappen versus Ferraris in the data, right? And let's put
[35:30.720 -> 35:36.640] this in perspective. First stint on the softs, Max is kind of just cruising, gets into a little
[35:36.640 -> 35:43.600] bit of degradation. Leclerc gets into quite serious degradation and Max is averaging somewhere about
[35:43.600 -> 35:46.200] three quarters of a second lap faster throughout that first
[35:46.200 -> 35:53.300] stint. They put on the hards, they have relatively low deg, but the Red Bulls go faster with
[35:53.300 -> 36:04.020] less deg and go longer on a soft tire. Sweet baby Jesus. Final stint, signs, you know,
[36:04.020 -> 36:08.140] that stint is probably on average half a second off, maybe a quarter
[36:08.140 -> 36:15.080] second off on hards and signs is trying to not lose positions for Stappen is saving something
[36:15.080 -> 36:21.680] to the tune of over a second, a lap of lap time from what he could comfortably do.
[36:21.680 -> 36:23.400] This does not look good for Ferrari.
[36:23.400 -> 36:27.340] Red Bull has built a dominator. I hate to say
[36:27.340 -> 36:28.340] it.
[36:28.340 -> 36:36.160] Yeah, it's very ominous. It's where is it? I found I thought, pick this stat out earlier.
[36:36.160 -> 36:45.760] Where was it? About Red Bull? Yes, their first victory, Bahrain since 2013.
[36:50.380 -> 36:51.680] And it's the first time they got a one, two in qualifying and a race since Avid Avid 2013.
[36:51.680 -> 36:53.520] So it's, it's been a minute, man.
[36:53.840 -> 36:54.600] It's been a minute.
[36:55.720 -> 36:57.200] But yeah.
[36:57.240 -> 37:00.120] What else, what else we got on the, uh, on the race?
[37:00.120 -> 37:03.080] Do you want to swap over and tell everybody about our friends real quick and then come
[37:03.080 -> 37:04.040] back and finish the race?
[37:04.160 -> 37:04.760] It's about the middle.
[37:05.040 -> 37:06.040] Uh, yeah, sure.
[37:06.040 -> 37:07.040] Why not?
[37:07.040 -> 37:08.040] Why don't we do that now?
[37:08.040 -> 37:09.040] Why don't we run it?
[37:09.040 -> 37:10.040] I'll get right onto that.
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[38:22.720 -> 38:27.520] I don't know why they're telling me to fix it. Did you not hear the perfect edit of 2023?
[38:28.360 -> 38:29.440] Well, we'll sort it out.
[38:29.440 -> 38:34.640] But anyway, this weekend, I, it's the first race of the year I watched.
[38:35.040 -> 38:39.760] Um, I flew home to America and I transplanted my office perfectly back at home.
[38:40.040 -> 38:46.240] Um, and I watched F1 TV pro with multiiviewer and it was absolutely freaking fantastic.
[38:46.240 -> 38:49.600] I had probably, I think I've got like eight car cameras up.
[38:49.600 -> 38:52.440] I've got the track map, the race control messages.
[38:52.440 -> 38:54.160] I can hear the driver radios and I can go,
[38:54.160 -> 38:57.760] oh, Alonzo had a message five seconds ago or 10 laps ago.
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[39:13.640 -> 39:19.000] And I mean, it's a great thing, because if you just have a quick shout out for my stream,
[39:19.000 -> 39:23.400] so on Saturdays and Sundays I do qualifying and race watch along.
[39:23.400 -> 39:27.040] So go live an hour before the race, but during the race we'll watch it.
[39:27.040 -> 39:32.200] And if you're using multiviewer and F1 TV pro, you can sync so that your stream is perfectly
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[39:36.720 -> 39:37.720] It's great.
[39:37.720 -> 39:42.400] But speaking of the race, let's get back to the rest of the talking points before we get
[39:42.400 -> 39:47.160] into our regular segments about what happened in the 2023 Bahrain Grand Prix.
[39:47.160 -> 39:56.460] Should we talk about how McLaren have successfully built a slow and unreliable car?
[39:56.460 -> 40:02.080] Somebody asked, was it their side pod like panels?
[40:02.080 -> 40:03.080] You know, the little display.
[40:03.080 -> 40:04.080] The Amazon Kindles.
[40:04.080 -> 40:08.800] Yeah, the Amazon Kindles on the top of their side pods, their dynamic display advertising
[40:08.800 -> 40:09.800] boards.
[40:09.800 -> 40:12.800] Could that have messed up Piastri's steering wheel?
[40:12.800 -> 40:13.800] No.
[40:13.800 -> 40:16.000] Categorically, the answer is nine.
[40:16.000 -> 40:23.760] No, but Zach has come out in the media and said that they are going to bring an upgrade
[40:23.760 -> 40:28.960] package to those Amazon Kindles. And what they're going to do is they're going to display Adrian Newey's
[40:28.960 -> 40:30.920] book, How to Build a Race Car.
[40:30.920 -> 40:35.720] Oh my God. So the chief designers, when the mechanics work on the car, they're going to
[40:35.720 -> 40:39.360] sit out in the garage and read that on the Kindle. Yeah. And just like, Hey, can we change
[40:39.360 -> 40:43.240] the bodywork? It's like, no fuck off mate. I'm on chapter 10. How not to build a slow
[40:43.240 -> 40:45.280] as fuck car. Yep. Got it.
[40:45.520 -> 40:45.960] Okay.
[40:46.440 -> 40:47.320] Understood.
[40:49.240 -> 40:49.360] I've got a signed copy of that book actually.
[40:50.340 -> 40:51.480] Oh, yeah. Besties with Adrian.
[40:51.680 -> 40:53.280] Just, you know, in there.
[40:55.120 -> 40:55.680] It's nice.
[40:56.960 -> 40:58.180] That's that's some summer reading.
[40:58.180 -> 41:02.800] And then now that I've got away far enough away from formula one, I, uh, I'm
[41:02.800 -> 41:05.680] looking forward to reading that honestly,. But, dude, that-
[41:05.680 -> 41:07.720] You know what, I've not read it yet either, to be honest.
[41:07.720 -> 41:09.760] So, what the fuck do we know?
[41:09.760 -> 41:11.760] It's one of those things, it's one of those things.
[41:11.760 -> 41:12.600] What do we know?
[41:12.600 -> 41:13.420] I don't know anything,
[41:13.420 -> 41:15.640] and I'm honest with you guys all the time,
[41:15.640 -> 41:18.760] but McLaren, let's talk about McLaren.
[41:18.760 -> 41:19.960] Back to the McLaren.
[41:19.960 -> 41:20.800] Back to the McLaren.
[41:20.800 -> 41:21.960] God!
[41:21.960 -> 41:24.800] Well, Piastry, DNF, you know,
[41:24.800 -> 41:27.480] and they boxed in to change his steering wheel, no issues.
[41:27.480 -> 41:29.440] He thought his gearbox was screwed.
[41:29.440 -> 41:33.440] I mean, that's not a great first run for the rookie Piastri.
[41:33.440 -> 41:35.440] No, it's not.
[41:35.440 -> 41:39.960] And the, you know, by changing the steering wheel, they were effectively basically trying
[41:39.960 -> 41:44.440] to turn the car off and on again to see if that resolved the issue.
[41:44.440 -> 41:46.420] It did not, I'm afraid.
[41:47.220 -> 41:53.440] Um, and then just for pure banter, um, Lando's car decided to spring an air leak.
[41:54.700 -> 42:00.780] Um, and then that effectively turned Lando's race into an extended test session,
[42:00.780 -> 42:02.220] really, because he ended up to pit.
[42:03.020 -> 42:10.920] I think it was six times and finished last. Let's look at this I've got the pit stop chart here Norris one
[42:10.920 -> 42:16.880] two three four five six he did seven stints six stops. Yeah so and some people
[42:16.880 -> 42:21.720] I've seen asked like why on earth would you need to top a car up with air and I
[42:21.720 -> 42:25.160] believe it's got something to do with the way the injectors work on the
[42:25.160 -> 42:32.920] engine. It's the valves. Yes. Yeah, the valves. They can't do it like our cars do it because
[42:32.920 -> 42:36.960] they need to do it a lot quicker. So they have to use compressed air or something to
[42:36.960 -> 42:42.320] make the valves work. Something like that. Look, exactly. And that system sprung a leak.
[42:42.320 -> 42:45.480] So you can't really just fix that. Um, so you saw
[42:45.480 -> 42:49.880] when every time landed would come into the stop, there'd be on the left side of the car
[42:49.880 -> 42:53.040] in the pit stop who would reach over into the cock or is on the side of the cockpit
[42:53.040 -> 42:56.440] for them actually. It's in the top of the side pod. And he'd plug in an air cylinder
[42:56.440 -> 43:00.480] that would recharge that and they would go again. And they were doing pit stop testing,
[43:00.480 -> 43:08.540] which was good. They got really good at filling up the pneumatics, which was great for them. But unfortunately he did like, I don't know,
[43:08.540 -> 43:12.500] he did a seven lap stint on hards at one point.
[43:12.500 -> 43:14.640] I was like, oh my God.
[43:14.640 -> 43:15.480] Oh, oh my God.
[43:15.480 -> 43:18.460] Was he the only person to go on mediums as well
[43:18.460 -> 43:19.540] at one point in the race?
[43:19.540 -> 43:23.700] That is the only body that ran the butter compound,
[43:23.700 -> 43:24.540] the yellow.
[43:24.540 -> 43:25.000] I can just only assume that's because that was literally like the only tire that ran the butter compound. And the yellow only issue.
[43:25.000 -> 43:27.800] And that's because that was literally like the only tire set they had left.
[43:28.240 -> 43:28.880] Fit tires.
[43:28.880 -> 43:29.200] Yeah.
[43:29.240 -> 43:30.760] Fit tires, fit tires, fit tires.
[43:30.760 -> 43:35.400] So, uh, dude, speaking of, let's, let's talk about two things.
[43:36.560 -> 43:37.480] You're McLaren right now.
[43:37.520 -> 43:38.200] What do you do?
[43:38.400 -> 43:41.880] First, but like, I don't think it's Zach.
[43:41.960 -> 43:43.080] I, it can't be Zach.
[43:43.280 -> 43:46.800] They, they were worse before. They're not that like
[43:46.800 -> 43:52.720] Zach is the commercial guy, the CEO. He's not the person making technical decisions.
[43:52.720 -> 43:57.720] Whoever's making technical decisions on that. Somebody's dropping the ball massively. There's
[43:57.720 -> 44:05.000] tools wrong. There's philosophy wrong. There's something so abysmally bad, it makes me depressed.
[44:07.520 -> 44:12.320] Yeah, I think I said this on the last lap.
[44:12.320 -> 44:17.320] I said that for a company that has such a large pool
[44:17.720 -> 44:21.640] of resources, staff, facilities,
[44:21.640 -> 44:26.480] it's not acceptable to continuously build howlers like this.
[44:26.480 -> 44:31.480] Back in Honda days, you could turn around and say, well, this was the Honda PU shit,
[44:31.480 -> 44:33.500] but there's no hiding from it now.
[44:33.500 -> 44:37.040] But it's rumored that they sabotaged the Honda to make it look even worse than it was, but
[44:37.040 -> 44:40.600] it was a piece of crap when they started, but now it's the best engine on the grid.
[44:40.600 -> 44:41.600] Imagine.
[44:41.600 -> 44:43.880] And rumor has it they're talking to them again.
[44:43.880 -> 44:49.000] Yeah, but are they talking to them or are they talking to Red Bull power trains?
[44:49.000 -> 44:51.440] I don't know because Honda is also entered in aren't they?
[44:51.440 -> 44:56.400] I think it was officially confirmed that they've been talking to Red Bull power trains.
[44:56.400 -> 45:00.000] Ah, but you know, people talk all the time.
[45:00.000 -> 45:01.960] I mean, just friends.
[45:01.960 -> 45:02.960] Yeah.
[45:02.960 -> 45:06.360] Like I think even Sebastian Vettel at one point was talking about.
[45:07.080 -> 45:09.740] Talking to red ball after he left Ferrari, but that's just
[45:09.740 -> 45:12.840] because everyone talks, you know, I talked, I talked to people.
[45:13.160 -> 45:13.560] Yeah.
[45:14.000 -> 45:15.760] I think it was a different conversation than what you
[45:15.760 -> 45:17.920] usually have with people, but yeah, maybe.
[45:18.440 -> 45:19.600] Yeah, exactly.
[45:19.600 -> 45:23.600] But dude, if you're, if you're Daniel Ricardo right now, how smug are you?
[45:23.560 -> 45:24.160] Dude, if you're, if you're Daniel Ricardo right now, how smug are you?
[45:30.600 -> 45:32.400] You got paid to get out of a terrible shit car to avoid to drive a terrible shit car for another year.
[45:33.640 -> 45:34.000] Yeah.
[45:34.480 -> 45:39.440] I suppose he got, he's laughing right now and I'm happy for him.
[45:39.480 -> 45:42.760] Was it 18 million to sit back and relax?
[45:44.000 -> 45:48.020] I feel really bad for Lando and Piari because I feel like Lando's one of the
[45:48.020 -> 45:52.600] guys that really, I think could be up there with Max LeClaire in terms of the
[45:52.600 -> 45:59.840] new guys coming through, not, not even to mention Alonzo Hamilton, but he sat here
[45:59.840 -> 46:03.580] in this shed and he's got his hands tied and Piastri, another one of those, you
[46:03.580 -> 46:06.840] know, George Russell types, ace the junior category show up.
[46:06.840 -> 46:09.800] And what do you got?
[46:09.800 -> 46:11.560] Whole lot of nothing.
[46:11.560 -> 46:13.200] George did his dues in the willies.
[46:13.200 -> 46:19.860] He got rocked up to drive the Mercedes, did a spectacular job, got a seat fine.
[46:19.860 -> 46:22.120] And Lando's sitting there.
[46:22.120 -> 46:24.040] He's dying inside, man, for sure.
[46:24.040 -> 46:27.600] Do you reckon he's gone at the end of the season?
[46:27.600 -> 46:28.640] Lando.
[46:28.640 -> 46:30.480] I hope for his own personal sake he is.
[46:30.480 -> 46:32.200] And there's people even mentioning, you know,
[46:32.200 -> 46:36.920] potentially what about Alpha soon, Audi, Seidel's there.
[46:36.920 -> 46:37.740] Yeah.
[46:37.740 -> 46:38.580] Who knows?
[46:38.580 -> 46:42.360] I, and this isn't a dig at the people that work there,
[46:42.360 -> 46:49.680] cause I know there's people that work at McLaren that follow me on Twitter and I can only imagine how hard it is in a
[46:49.680 -> 46:50.680] minute for them.
[46:50.680 -> 46:51.680] It sucks man.
[46:51.680 -> 47:01.780] Yeah, but I, if it was like, let's say Ferrari, at least the car looks quick with the Ferrari.
[47:01.780 -> 47:02.780] You can work on the-
[47:02.780 -> 47:03.780] And there's some passion there.
[47:03.780 -> 47:08.040] Yeah, and you, well, okay. And you can work on the reliability, but with the McLaren, it doesn't
[47:08.040 -> 47:09.840] even look fast and it's unreliable.
[47:10.440 -> 47:10.760] Yeah.
[47:11.520 -> 47:11.920] Like, yeah.
[47:12.200 -> 47:13.880] And that's something to be very clear.
[47:14.000 -> 47:17.960] It's like, I spent a couple of years at force India.
[47:18.520 -> 47:19.560] Car was not fast.
[47:19.560 -> 47:21.000] You know, we had some terrible races.
[47:21.000 -> 47:25.000] We just, we rewatched, we rewatched Malaysia 13, double DNF.
[47:27.400 -> 47:29.420] It's not like the engineers are going back saying,
[47:29.420 -> 47:31.560] you idiot designers, you screwed it up.
[47:31.560 -> 47:32.760] We're like, how do we fix this?
[47:32.760 -> 47:34.360] And at the same time, it's like,
[47:35.280 -> 47:36.920] there's people that I know that work at McLaren
[47:36.920 -> 47:38.480] and it sucks to see them doing well,
[47:38.480 -> 47:42.440] but ultimately there's a problem pretty far up
[47:42.440 -> 47:44.840] the food chain, probably quite far removed from my friends
[47:44.840 -> 47:49.160] that are making terrible decisions for a number of years and
[47:49.160 -> 47:52.560] doesn't seem like it's getting any better. Speaking of people higher up the food
[47:52.560 -> 47:57.880] chain, after the race Andrea Stella said that both cars were quick enough for
[47:57.880 -> 48:03.040] points without issues. That feels like a bit of a fucking reach to me. Is there
[48:03.040 -> 48:06.000] anything you've seen in the data that might suggest they may have scored any
[48:06.000 -> 48:09.600] points in their McLarens?
[48:09.600 -> 48:13.440] It's hard to tell from Lando's pace.
[48:13.440 -> 48:17.920] Lando was matching the rest of the midfield, you know, the back midfield.
[48:17.920 -> 48:20.280] His pace was not there.
[48:20.280 -> 48:23.400] Maybe on the final stint, great, but it's so unrepresentative.
[48:23.400 -> 48:27.280] Piastri, once everybody pit from around him, he was going okay.
[48:27.640 -> 48:28.880] Maybe they could have got points.
[48:30.200 -> 48:33.240] But I think from the data we have, only somebody in the team
[48:33.640 -> 48:34.880] would have been able to see that.
[48:34.880 -> 48:37.080] So, yeah, plausible.
[48:39.480 -> 48:41.800] But the Alpine still looks better than the McLaren to me.
[48:43.520 -> 48:45.880] Yeah, I would be inclined to agree with that.
[48:46.720 -> 48:47.120] Yeah.
[48:47.520 -> 48:49.840] Um, who else have we got?
[48:50.160 -> 48:53.760] Williams, cheeky little point on the first race of the season.
[48:54.200 -> 48:55.040] Go on Alex.
[48:55.080 -> 48:58.400] And a Florida man, P12 dude.
[48:59.520 -> 49:03.600] I don't, my verdict's out on Sargent, but I think he could be really solid.
[49:03.680 -> 49:04.800] Alex is no slouch.
[49:04.800 -> 49:09.840] And, uh, you know, I don't load Logan to set the world on fire for his first season
[49:10.120 -> 49:12.420] But if he's up there punching hanging out with Alex
[49:13.540 -> 49:15.540] Good for them
[49:15.720 -> 49:21.200] It was a real solid debut for you know sergeant. I don't really know what else you could have no cops, right?
[49:21.920 -> 49:35.280] We should have had him on one of our report cards, but we don't we'll get to the report cards in a minute. Haas. Haas. Haas. Haas. Gene. They gambled.
[49:35.280 -> 49:41.200] Jane. I'm going to call Jane. Jane. Look like a wankers. All right Gene should we fit the hard
[49:41.200 -> 49:47.200] tyre? Yeah so Magnuson was the only one that decided to start on the hard compound tire, which
[49:47.680 -> 49:50.960] was an absolutely incredible decision because he ended up dropping to last
[49:50.960 -> 49:52.000] place off the start line.
[49:52.200 -> 49:55.840] God, they seem like they gamble a lot, you know, cause they're like, I'm
[49:55.840 -> 49:56.700] not sure how we're going to go.
[49:56.700 -> 49:59.440] Why don't we mix, you know, split strategies and mix it.
[49:59.440 -> 50:03.480] It's like, it just goes to tell you, they didn't have the confidence and
[50:03.480 -> 50:05.200] information, like like, how bad
[50:05.200 -> 50:06.200] could the hard be?
[50:06.200 -> 50:07.200] It's like, pretty bad.
[50:07.200 -> 50:08.200] It's pretty fucking bad.
[50:08.200 -> 50:10.320] At least to start on.
[50:10.320 -> 50:15.640] Even my cat, Sterling here says, no, those hards were absolute doo doo buddy.
[50:15.640 -> 50:16.640] Yeah.
[50:16.640 -> 50:21.920] We have another guest appearance there from the F1 engine breaking podcast cat.
[50:21.920 -> 50:26.240] If you would like to see the cat cat you can find us on YouTube and Twitch
[50:27.840 -> 50:33.200] um but if not you know if you're audio only then I'll just say it's a middle-aged man cuddling
[50:33.200 -> 50:38.320] the cat right now in the middle of the podcast. He's a black and white tuxedo, short hair, white
[50:38.320 -> 50:44.800] gloves, very elegant, very distinguished, a little sterling kitty cat. Yep there we go um
[50:42.920 -> 50:43.200] very distinguished, a little sterling kitty cat.
[50:43.440 -> 50:43.600] Yep.
[50:44.240 -> 50:44.520] There we go.
[50:46.560 -> 50:47.000] Um, so what was he saying? Haas.
[50:47.000 -> 50:47.320] Yeah.
[50:47.360 -> 50:53.160] Uh, uh, my brain's gone to mush the power of the cat.
[50:53.160 -> 50:53.720] Let's move on.
[50:53.720 -> 50:54.320] I'm over it.
[50:54.440 -> 50:56.360] Well, wait, wait, wait, wait.
[50:56.360 -> 50:58.240] So yeah, Magnuson, hard tires.
[50:58.560 -> 50:59.480] Wrong decision.
[51:00.080 -> 51:01.520] Uh, Hulkenberg had a howler.
[51:01.520 -> 51:04.040] He had a little tangle with Ocon, damaged his front wing.
[51:04.920 -> 51:07.140] Uh, pretty much cost him performance and lap time.
[51:07.200 -> 51:10.760] And then just for the Bantz, he got a time penalty for exceeding track limits
[51:10.760 -> 51:12.420] too many times towards the end.
[51:12.780 -> 51:13.100] Yeah.
[51:13.100 -> 51:14.180] He's like, you know what, I'm over it.
[51:14.180 -> 51:15.140] Let's make up some lap time.
[51:15.140 -> 51:19.440] But realistically, like if you can get a couple of like cheeky track
[51:19.440 -> 51:22.540] limits towards the end of the race, what was it, Austin last year with Max
[51:22.540 -> 51:25.120] and Lewis trading track limits?
[51:25.120 -> 51:26.720] Just like, Oh, he's he's track limits.
[51:26.720 -> 51:27.720] Oh, he's track limits.
[51:27.720 -> 51:28.720] Oh, he's track limits.
[51:28.720 -> 51:29.720] Penalty.
[51:29.720 -> 51:30.720] Yeah.
[51:30.720 -> 51:33.560] You can, you can throw a couple of jokers in there, but, uh, they weren't going anywhere.
[51:33.560 -> 51:34.560] No.
[51:34.560 -> 51:39.360] And the Haas, you know, in the first race of the seasons, they have looked strong in
[51:39.360 -> 51:40.360] the past.
[51:40.360 -> 51:44.800] Whereas this time it looked, we've gone back to a very mediocre Haas.
[51:44.800 -> 51:46.120] Yeah. it seems.
[51:46.120 -> 51:48.440] Yeah, not too thrilled about it.
[51:48.440 -> 51:52.040] Um, next.
[51:52.040 -> 51:55.240] Gasly, we talked about Gasly's recovery.
[51:55.240 -> 51:59.040] He nailed it. P20 up to P9.
[51:59.040 -> 52:03.040] Used the undercut to, you know, an advantage.
[52:03.040 -> 52:07.840] And he was sort of coming up to pot ass for eight, but just ran out
[52:07.840 -> 52:08.600] of laps, really.
[52:08.920 -> 52:10.800] Yeah, no, he really did close the gap.
[52:10.800 -> 52:15.040] But, uh, here's something that Rory says is that Gasly still on penalty, 10 penalty
[52:15.040 -> 52:15.320] points.
[52:15.320 -> 52:18.200] So if he gets another one, is that a race ban?
[52:19.120 -> 52:19.800] I believe so.
[52:20.560 -> 52:21.840] Oh my goodness.
[52:22.560 -> 52:28.760] Oh, should we, should we get on to the, um, to the final part of the race?
[52:28.760 -> 52:29.760] The Dark Lord.
[52:29.760 -> 52:32.640] You've wrote some kind words for him.
[52:32.640 -> 52:33.640] This is poetic.
[52:33.640 -> 52:36.640] I want the random stat.
[52:36.640 -> 52:37.640] Yeah, let's go.
[52:37.640 -> 52:38.640] Come on, read it out.
[52:38.640 -> 52:44.640] So, at 41 years and 219 days old, only one older driver has been on the podium in the
[52:44.640 -> 52:47.680] last 37 years. Can anybody in
[52:47.680 -> 52:52.880] chat tell me and for the sake of our audio listeners, I'm not going to leave you hanging.
[52:52.880 -> 52:56.720] I'm just going to tell you it was Michael Schumacher. He was 43 when he finished third
[52:56.720 -> 53:03.200] in Valencia in 2012. That's pretty impressive. That was a cool track until they took the track
[53:03.200 -> 53:08.960] down and then everybody has just like destroyed the track as soon as they closed that it was old America's Cup facility wasn't
[53:08.960 -> 53:09.960] it?
[53:09.960 -> 53:11.400] They ripped all the cabling out the copper.
[53:11.400 -> 53:16.320] The place is completely scuffed and actually our good buddy Matt Amos has done a video
[53:16.320 -> 53:17.320] on that.
[53:17.320 -> 53:20.720] You can go walk around that circuit if you haven't followed Matt on YouTube.
[53:20.720 -> 53:21.880] Definitely check his channel.
[53:21.880 -> 53:24.640] He does so much cool stuff on his channel.
[53:24.640 -> 53:26.440] Really really excellent content creator.
[53:26.440 -> 53:30.000] I don't think you can walk around all of it anymore because I think he said they've turned
[53:30.000 -> 53:31.960] part of it into a housing development now.
[53:31.960 -> 53:32.960] Oh fine.
[53:32.960 -> 53:36.400] Yeah, and when the lights turn off they just rip all the copper out of that shit again
[53:36.400 -> 53:37.400] too.
[53:37.400 -> 53:38.400] Yeah, yeah, probably.
[53:38.400 -> 53:41.480] I was never a fan of Valencia to be honest.
[53:41.480 -> 53:44.040] I only went there once and then it was off the calendar the next season.
[53:44.040 -> 53:45.000] I never went there, I just meant in terms off the calendar. I never went there.
[53:45.000 -> 53:47.240] I just meant in terms of the track, I just, I don't know.
[53:47.240 -> 53:48.240] It didn't vibe with me.
[53:48.240 -> 53:52.360] I'm not a huge fan of city tracks, but yeah.
[53:52.360 -> 53:53.360] Cryzin Baku.
[53:53.360 -> 53:54.360] Yeah.
[53:54.360 -> 53:55.360] Well done Baku.
[53:55.360 -> 53:59.120] I'd go to Baku if I could.
[53:59.120 -> 54:01.720] So next race.
[54:01.720 -> 54:02.720] Is that it for the race?
[54:02.720 -> 54:03.720] I think so.
[54:03.720 -> 54:04.720] I think that's everyone.
[54:04.720 -> 54:07.800] We at Red Bull dominated Ferrari, dropped the ball signs, couldn't hang on.
[54:07.800 -> 54:11.280] The dark Lord comes through to finish on the podium.
[54:11.280 -> 54:13.480] If a lot, here's a, here's one for you.
[54:13.480 -> 54:20.720] If Alonzo hadn't dropped back behind the Mercs initially, I'm looking at their pace.
[54:20.720 -> 54:26.040] Alonzo got substantially held up by the Mercs in that first stint because he,
[54:26.040 -> 54:32.680] Alonzo overcut Russell in the first stop and nearly overcut Lewis on the second stop.
[54:32.680 -> 54:35.120] And it had me scratching my head.
[54:35.120 -> 54:38.320] Were they sleeping with Lewis on his second stint?
[54:38.320 -> 54:39.880] Because Lewis was like, why are you stopping me?
[54:39.880 -> 54:42.720] I can keep going, which implies why are you stopping me?
[54:42.720 -> 54:44.280] I can keep going or I can go faster.
[54:44.280 -> 54:50.840] I could have gone faster the whole time. I think Lewis was managing and I think they were not.
[54:50.840 -> 54:54.200] I think they dropped the ball on that call. Genuinely, it's easy to say in hindsight,
[54:54.200 -> 55:01.080] but looking at that, you know, you see Alonzo closing and then Lewis stops to cover the
[55:01.080 -> 55:05.840] overcut right or to cover cover them undercutting him.
[55:05.840 -> 55:07.160] And then Alonso just stays out
[55:07.160 -> 55:09.520] and almost overcuts him anyway.
[55:09.520 -> 55:12.080] Yeah, I mean, Mercedes have dropped the ball
[55:12.080 -> 55:13.680] in a lot of aspects, really.
[55:15.200 -> 55:17.520] But it's weird because like the W14
[55:17.520 -> 55:18.960] doesn't look anywhere near as bad
[55:18.960 -> 55:21.360] as what the 13 did at the start of last year.
[55:21.360 -> 55:22.480] But I think the issue is,
[55:22.480 -> 55:25.280] is that Aston have basically leapfrogged them. It's still about the same off as it was at the start of last year, but I think the issue is, is that Aston have basically leapfrogged them.
[55:25.280 -> 55:27.800] It's still about the same off as it was
[55:27.800 -> 55:28.800] at the start of last season.
[55:28.800 -> 55:30.040] The gap is the same.
[55:30.040 -> 55:33.620] So the gap from Bahrain a year to year is the exact same.
[55:33.620 -> 55:36.200] And Aston are just like, hey, we're really close.
[55:36.200 -> 55:41.200] Aston were 2.5% off of pole on average last season.
[55:41.200 -> 55:42.600] What was it this time?
[55:42.600 -> 55:49.620] And they were 0.7, which is about where Mercedes have been sitting. So it sucks
[55:49.620 -> 55:54.220] to see Mercedes down like that, but there's people getting paid a fuckload of money to
[55:54.220 -> 55:58.000] make decisions on what to do, how to develop the car, where to put the money, where to
[55:58.000 -> 56:02.000] put the resources. And they've made a miss and they've paid the price for it for last
[56:02.000 -> 56:06.480] year and they hedged the bets gone into this year and it's not paid off.
[56:07.200 -> 56:08.040] Toto's down.
[56:08.240 -> 56:08.920] Toto's down.
[56:08.920 -> 56:09.840] The cost cap area.
[56:09.840 -> 56:11.400] You can't just spend your way out of it.
[56:11.400 -> 56:13.320] You kind of limited now as to.
[56:13.400 -> 56:16.120] No, their, their budgets like less than a half of what it was.
[56:16.120 -> 56:20.000] So you fuck up one year and it's going to carry on for like, well, like we're
[56:20.000 -> 56:23.240] seeing for the next year and whatnot.
[56:23.840 -> 56:24.120] Yeah.
[56:24.160 -> 56:26.120] But the thing was like, you see Toto.
[56:26.520 -> 56:29.920] We're not going to give up Lewis super supportive and encouraging as he always
[56:29.920 -> 56:31.220] is, which I do love about him.
[56:31.220 -> 56:35.120] You know, he'll get down sometimes, but at the end of the day, he always comes back
[56:35.460 -> 56:39.000] and Russell straight up in the press was like, Red Bull are going to win every race
[56:39.000 -> 56:44.160] this year, his comms person, whoever they were, I sent a prayer for them because
[56:44.160 -> 56:49.400] they're like literally in the press box about to, about to fall over on their sword.
[56:49.400 -> 56:52.680] When, when George is like, blind me, they're going to win them all mate.
[56:52.840 -> 56:53.080] Yeah.
[56:53.080 -> 56:55.680] George PR Russell strikes again.
[56:55.800 -> 56:56.600] Oh, there you go.
[56:56.600 -> 57:00.520] Another podcast with a guest appearance from my dogs barking in the background.
[57:01.760 -> 57:02.600] Oh, cuties.
[57:02.640 -> 57:04.600] Why don't we talk about our race predictions?
[57:06.200 -> 57:07.200] I wrote them down. Yeah.
[57:07.200 -> 57:08.240] What did we get?
[57:08.240 -> 57:15.000] So you predicted Leclerc, Alonso, Hamilton.
[57:15.000 -> 57:20.520] Yeah, because I said that the Red Bulls were going to have another double DNF because they're
[57:20.520 -> 57:23.640] going to win the championship and it'd be a repeat of last year.
[57:23.640 -> 57:26.500] So they've got the race one curse right now.
[57:26.500 -> 57:30.500] It's it's it's we have to wait until next week to see if that's not the thing.
[57:30.500 -> 57:31.000] Yep.
[57:31.000 -> 57:34.500] I pulled one out man.
[57:34.500 -> 57:36.000] My prediction.
[57:36.000 -> 57:39.000] Verstappen Perez Alonso.
[57:39.000 -> 57:41.000] I went back and listen to the podcast this morning.
[57:41.000 -> 57:42.500] Yeah, just to write it down.
[57:42.500 -> 57:43.500] There's just a little check.
[57:43.500 -> 57:44.000] But uh.
[57:44.000 -> 57:45.480] Do you think it nailed it? But yeah, just to double check. I forgot to write it down. Just to double check, but uh.
[57:45.480 -> 57:46.480] You nailed it.
[57:46.480 -> 57:47.760] Nailed it, but yeah.
[57:47.760 -> 57:54.320] Back to this, do you think Max could break the wins in a season record?
[57:54.320 -> 57:59.600] And I don't know, it's.
[57:59.600 -> 58:03.000] He looks, that car looks so good.
[58:03.000 -> 58:06.080] Looking at this race, the Ferraris were nowhere, man.
[58:06.080 -> 58:10.200] I know, but it's the first race.
[58:10.200 -> 58:15.200] Like, this is quite a rear limited circuit, then we're going to Jeddah, which is, you
[58:15.200 -> 58:16.200] know, front limited.
[58:16.200 -> 58:17.200] Is that gonna?
[58:17.200 -> 58:18.380] Well, yeah, we'll see.
[58:18.380 -> 58:23.800] But like, I think the Red Bull should come even more alive there.
[58:23.800 -> 58:25.680] But the Ferrari with a pointy car maybe, but
[58:25.680 -> 58:28.100] they're not going to be able to make their tires last.
[58:28.100 -> 58:29.100] But let's see.
[58:29.100 -> 58:30.100] Let's see.
[58:30.100 -> 58:31.100] I'm looking forward to it.
[58:31.100 -> 58:33.960] I'm not going to say that they're not, but you have to say this is a dominant start to
[58:33.960 -> 58:34.960] the season.
[58:34.960 -> 58:35.960] I mean, yeah, absolutely.
[58:35.960 -> 58:36.960] A hundred percent.
[58:36.960 -> 58:43.000] This is well, like I said earlier, it's 2013 levels of Sebastian Vettel dominant, isn't
[58:43.000 -> 58:44.000] it?
[58:44.000 -> 58:45.640] So we shall see.
[58:45.640 -> 58:48.720] And of course it happens after me and you leave Red Bull.
[58:48.720 -> 58:50.480] So awesome.
[58:50.480 -> 58:52.960] We were the problem the whole fucking time.
[58:52.960 -> 58:53.800] Yeah.
[58:53.800 -> 58:55.080] Why don't we, why don't we move on?
[58:55.080 -> 58:55.920] We got a little bit.
[58:55.920 -> 58:56.960] Well, let's, let's move on a bit.
[58:56.960 -> 58:59.820] Why don't we go to our new segment?
[59:01.500 -> 59:02.920] The random fandom.
[59:02.920 -> 59:03.760] Yeah, go on.
[59:03.760 -> 59:05.000] You got something new, don't you?
[59:05.000 -> 59:06.000] I do.
[59:06.000 -> 59:07.000] Ready?
[59:07.000 -> 59:08.000] Yeah.
[59:08.000 -> 59:09.000] Random fandom.
[59:09.000 -> 59:10.000] Wow.
[59:10.000 -> 59:11.000] Yeah, that was beautiful.
[59:11.000 -> 59:12.000] I'm not sure about the, ah, blimey!
[59:12.000 -> 59:13.000] But it was nice recording you kind of singing.
[59:13.000 -> 59:14.000] I'm not going to lie, I pressed the wrong button.
[59:14.000 -> 59:15.000] I'm not going to lie, I pressed the wrong button.
[59:15.000 -> 59:16.000] I'm not going to lie, I pressed the wrong button.
[59:16.000 -> 59:17.000] I'm not going to lie, I pressed the wrong button.
[59:17.000 -> 59:18.000] I'm not going to lie, I pressed the wrong button.
[59:18.000 -> 59:19.000] I'm not going to lie, I pressed the wrong button.
[59:19.000 -> 59:20.000] I'm not going to lie, I pressed the wrong button.
[59:20.000 -> 59:21.000] I'm not going to lie, I pressed the wrong button.
[59:21.000 -> 59:22.000] I'm not going to lie, I pressed the wrong button.
[59:22.000 -> 59:23.000] I'm not going to lie, I pressed the wrong button.
[59:23.000 -> 59:24.000] I'm not going to lie, I pressed the wrong button.
[59:24.000 -> 59:25.520] I'm not going to lie, I pressed the wrong button. I'm not going to lie, I pressed the wrong button. I'm not going to lie, I pressed the wrong button. I'm not going to lie, I pressed the wrong button. I'm not sure about the...
[59:25.520 -> 59:29.720] I'm not gonna lie, I pressed the wrong button.
[59:29.720 -> 59:33.240] Were you supposed to auto-tune it? I was supposed to, yeah, but we ended up going for the
[59:33.240 -> 59:37.720] George Russell radio message button instead. Right, tell everybody about Random
[59:37.720 -> 59:44.200] Fandom. Random Fandom. We have been accused, right, unfairly of Red Bull bias,
[59:44.200 -> 59:47.620] which, you know, I can't believe somebody
[59:47.620 -> 59:53.980] would accuse two people that had their mortgages paid by Red Bull for seven years of being
[59:53.980 -> 01:00:00.260] biased towards them. But to prove that we can hate every team equally, we're going to
[01:00:00.260 -> 01:00:07.000] select a team each at random for the race and give like a little report about
[01:00:07.000 -> 01:00:16.000] them and this for the first race I got Alfa Romeo, you got Ferrari.
[01:00:16.000 -> 01:00:19.520] So yeah, would you like to hear my little...
[01:00:19.520 -> 01:00:21.120] I'd love to hear your report card.
[01:00:21.120 -> 01:00:25.120] Tell me how your boys Jogonhjoo and Valtteri Bottas did.
[01:00:31.040 -> 01:00:38.840] Okay, so qualifying, right? Qualifying, Guan Yu Zhou was only 0.03 seconds behind his teammate Bottas. So Bottas was 12th, Zhou was 13th. Zhou's been a lot closer
[01:00:38.880 -> 01:00:42.680] this time in qualifying to Bottas. Hopefully that's a good sign of things to
[01:00:42.680 -> 01:00:43.440] come, right?
[01:00:43.480 -> 01:00:43.680] Yep.
[01:00:46.640 -> 01:00:52.320] to Bottas. Hopefully that's a good sign of things to come, right? Bottas had a wicked start. I think we mentioned that earlier. Sadly, Joe had a bit of a wheel spin at his
[01:00:52.320 -> 01:01:01.120] start and it was a bit of a mess to be honest. Yeah. That's the professional term. But he
[01:01:01.120 -> 01:01:05.980] was all right. He was running behind Bottas. You know, he wasn't doing too bad. He struggled a little bit for grip
[01:01:05.980 -> 01:01:08.160] on the second set of tires.
[01:01:08.160 -> 01:01:09.640] And that sort of dropped him out
[01:01:09.640 -> 01:01:12.000] of contention a little bit.
[01:01:12.000 -> 01:01:15.080] But big brain time here from Alfa Romeo
[01:01:15.080 -> 01:01:16.380] who decided actually, look,
[01:01:16.380 -> 01:01:18.780] we're not gonna get any better than 12th here.
[01:01:18.780 -> 01:01:20.620] Let's pit him at the very end
[01:01:20.620 -> 01:01:22.420] so we can steal the fastest lap away
[01:01:22.420 -> 01:01:25.820] from Gasly in the Alpine. Right. So he doesn't
[01:01:25.820 -> 01:01:30.720] get a point for that because Joe finished 16th, but it denies Gasly the point because
[01:01:30.720 -> 01:01:36.480] he finished in ninth. I think Gasly was, wasn't it? Yeah. So, and Alpine are probably going
[01:01:36.480 -> 01:01:43.400] to be one of their rivals this season. So fucking big brain from them. Hype, mega hyped
[01:01:43.400 -> 01:01:44.400] up for that.
[01:01:44.400 -> 01:01:45.500] Yeah. That's so petty. That's petty though. Isn't it? It's like, right. We can't get that big brain from them. Hyped, hyped up for that.
[01:01:46.900 -> 01:01:47.100] Yeah, that's so petty.
[01:01:48.100 -> 01:01:48.600] That's petty though, isn't it? It's like right.
[01:01:48.600 -> 01:01:50.200] We can't get that bonus point.
[01:01:50.300 -> 01:01:51.600] We can take it away from you.
[01:01:51.600 -> 01:01:53.600] We'll stick you on another set of bags.
[01:01:53.600 -> 01:01:58.600] Get that smoky hot lap in and Pierre Gasly did not like that.
[01:01:58.700 -> 01:02:01.900] No, that could be, you know, could be, could be,
[01:02:04.700 -> 01:02:08.240] my brains broken. Could be the decider or whatever
[01:02:08.240 -> 01:02:09.240] later in the season.
[01:02:09.240 -> 01:02:10.240] Could be.
[01:02:10.240 -> 01:02:14.400] But Bottas you know he had a stormer a bit of a quiet stormer because he kind of went
[01:02:14.400 -> 01:02:17.440] under the radar that um he finished eighth.
[01:02:17.440 -> 01:02:21.040] Alonso stole everybody's hype no matter what Alonso.
[01:02:21.040 -> 01:02:28.920] So much you know going on everywhere else I think Bottas managed to sneak an eighth place finish in there, which is probably the
[01:02:28.920 -> 01:02:31.280] best they were going to get this weekend out of it.
[01:02:31.280 -> 01:02:37.080] So Alfa Romeo, I give you, I'm going to give a star rating.
[01:02:37.080 -> 01:02:40.640] I'll give them a four stars out of five.
[01:02:40.640 -> 01:02:41.640] I think they did well.
[01:02:41.640 -> 01:02:47.640] I think they maximized the result out of one driver and used their out of position driver
[01:02:47.640 -> 01:02:50.400] in an effective manner to steal a point from the competition.
[01:02:50.400 -> 01:02:53.600] I like it. Alpha Romeo, GG's.
[01:02:53.600 -> 01:02:55.040] Well done.
[01:02:55.040 -> 01:03:00.040] I picked Ferrari for my random fandom.
[01:03:00.320 -> 01:03:03.800] And I've got to say, I was feeling pretty good at the start.
[01:03:03.800 -> 01:03:07.040] Their practice and qualifying looked reasonably qualifying.
[01:03:07.040 -> 01:03:08.680] They're just kind of doing the program.
[01:03:08.680 -> 01:03:09.680] Nothing bad.
[01:03:09.680 -> 01:03:12.560] Dag looks OK, but.
[01:03:12.560 -> 01:03:14.920] Yeah, practice normal qualifying.
[01:03:14.920 -> 01:03:16.000] I'll give him four out of five.
[01:03:16.000 -> 01:03:19.160] I mean, Charlotte didn't think they think they have this shot.
[01:03:19.160 -> 01:03:23.400] Didn't seem to think they had a shot and he looked more surprised than anything that they
[01:03:23.400 -> 01:03:25.840] were second room.
[01:03:25.840 -> 01:03:28.160] Their race, I'm going to break it down a little bit.
[01:03:28.160 -> 01:03:34.200] Their race pace and management of their tires three out of five, like barely good enough
[01:03:34.200 -> 01:03:35.560] for midfield.
[01:03:35.560 -> 01:03:40.200] You know, it's just not, it's not up there.
[01:03:40.200 -> 01:03:41.560] Perez did have a terrible start.
[01:03:41.560 -> 01:03:46.880] Leclerc took advantage of that, but Leclerc had zero shot of catching Max and Ferrari's goal is not to
[01:03:46.880 -> 01:03:48.920] be circulating completing laps.
[01:03:48.920 -> 01:03:50.480] They need to be winning World
[01:03:50.480 -> 01:03:50.960] Championships otherwise.
[01:03:50.960 -> 01:03:53.480] What are they doing?
[01:03:53.480 -> 01:03:56.080] Leclerc so far seems clear signs.
[01:03:56.080 -> 01:03:57.800] Not really a surprise,
[01:03:57.800 -> 01:03:59.140] but maybe not too far apart.
[01:03:59.140 -> 01:04:01.440] But for the race they get an F.
[01:04:01.440 -> 01:04:03.200] They get zero out of five stars for me,
[01:04:03.200 -> 01:04:04.880] like shambles,
[01:04:04.880 -> 01:04:05.500] DNF on Leclerc and signs didn't have pace They get an F. They get zero out of five stars for me. Like shambles.
[01:04:05.500 -> 01:04:09.080] DNF on the clear and signs didn't have pace
[01:04:09.080 -> 01:04:13.280] and he got boxed up by an Aston Martin
[01:04:13.280 -> 01:04:16.880] of some geezer, some absolute old dude.
[01:04:16.880 -> 01:04:18.360] Oh AP.
[01:04:18.360 -> 01:04:19.960] Yeah, seriously.
[01:04:19.960 -> 01:04:23.400] So I'm frarring, you get nothing.
[01:04:23.400 -> 01:04:24.640] You get nothing from me.
[01:04:29.320 -> 01:04:32.760] Well, the random fandom's gone well. We've just turned it into slander.
[01:04:32.760 -> 01:04:34.480] We'll pick new teams for next week though.
[01:04:34.480 -> 01:04:36.200] When we do all our shit at a premium.
[01:04:36.200 -> 01:04:39.920] It's difficult to big up Ferrari after that sort of,
[01:04:39.920 -> 01:04:40.840] you know.
[01:04:40.840 -> 01:04:43.020] To be fair, maybe I'll give them one star
[01:04:43.020 -> 01:04:45.440] because their car reveal was really cool.
[01:04:45.440 -> 01:04:52.200] True, but unfortunately this is not for testing, this is for the race.
[01:04:52.200 -> 01:04:55.680] Why don't we move on to our next segment?
[01:04:55.680 -> 01:04:57.680] Yeah, it's back.
[01:04:57.680 -> 01:04:58.680] FRODWATCH!
[01:04:58.680 -> 01:05:00.680] Oh my goodness.
[01:05:00.680 -> 01:05:07.080] I'll tell you guys about Toot Toot. Oh my goodness.
[01:05:07.080 -> 01:05:13.520] Let me, I'll tell you guys about to to the frog watch is basically a system by which
[01:05:13.520 -> 01:05:18.680] we will take a team from any week and we will call them out.
[01:05:18.680 -> 01:05:22.340] We will put them on the fire and they're on fraud watch.
[01:05:22.340 -> 01:05:24.280] So we pick a team that's done something terrible.
[01:05:24.280 -> 01:05:27.680] It could be a team, a driver, it could be the FIA, it could be Pirelli to be fair.
[01:05:27.680 -> 01:05:31.080] If I, and the Prele are usually in the fraud watch like quarantine zone.
[01:05:31.080 -> 01:05:33.000] So they get special treatment.
[01:05:33.000 -> 01:05:34.160] Otherwise it's just super easy.
[01:05:34.160 -> 01:05:35.360] They just say something.
[01:05:35.560 -> 01:05:38.680] Uh, MBS is also in that because like, as soon as he opens his mouth, it's
[01:05:38.680 -> 01:05:41.640] like instantly in the bin, something, something he's done something
[01:05:41.640 -> 01:05:42.960] controversial to piss somebody off.
[01:05:42.960 -> 01:05:49.360] But last week, um, Dan, you put Fraud Watch on to McLaren.
[01:05:49.360 -> 01:05:50.360] I did, yeah.
[01:05:51.360 -> 01:05:55.040] And in a shocking turn of events, I don't think anyone would be surprised
[01:05:55.040 -> 01:05:58.200] to hear that I'm keeping them on Fraud Watch.
[01:05:58.600 -> 01:05:59.680] Oh, two weeks in a row.
[01:05:59.680 -> 01:06:02.240] What happens if somebody gets three weeks in a row on Fraud Watch?
[01:06:02.240 -> 01:06:04.080] There's a special reward, like the wall of shame?
[01:06:04.320 -> 01:06:04.560] Yeah.
[01:06:04.560 -> 01:06:05.080] Like a long, seasonal the wall of shame. Yeah.
[01:06:05.080 -> 01:06:06.080] The seasonal.
[01:06:06.080 -> 01:06:07.080] Okay, cool.
[01:06:07.080 -> 01:06:12.680] So Dan picked Fraud Watch from McLaren because they just had a shocking, shocking.
[01:06:12.680 -> 01:06:13.680] Yeah.
[01:06:13.680 -> 01:06:16.880] And basically I summed it up like I did earlier.
[01:06:16.880 -> 01:06:17.880] Right.
[01:06:17.880 -> 01:06:20.520] So it's good to have a fast car that's unreliable.
[01:06:20.520 -> 01:06:21.520] Right.
[01:06:21.520 -> 01:06:22.840] Because you can work on that.
[01:06:22.840 -> 01:06:23.840] Yep.
[01:06:23.840 -> 01:06:25.800] Or, you know, a slow car that's reliable. You know, you can work on that. Yep, or you know a slow car that's reliable
[01:06:25.960 -> 01:06:31.220] You know you can work on that. Yeah a slow car. That's unreliable you fucked me
[01:06:36.560 -> 01:06:40.680] Somebody suggested in the chat that we give them the golden toilet award
[01:06:42.000 -> 01:06:46.240] I can find a golden toilet seat on Amazon. I'll post that
[01:06:46.240 -> 01:06:55.040] to them. Oh my goodness. So that's interesting. Last week I picked Alpine. Now to clarify
[01:06:55.040 -> 01:06:58.940] their situation, my stance on them, they are better than I expected, but they are still
[01:06:58.940 -> 01:07:08.640] on probation because we need them to be fighting for fourth. They're not fighting for fourth. They're, I don't know, maybe they're fifth, sixth right now
[01:07:08.640 -> 01:07:11.520] in terms of outright pace if they both get their eye in,
[01:07:11.520 -> 01:07:14.920] but their qualifying result was terrible,
[01:07:14.920 -> 01:07:16.240] but the car doesn't look as bad
[01:07:16.240 -> 01:07:17.640] as it looked through testing.
[01:07:17.640 -> 01:07:19.840] So hopefully they learned a lot about their car
[01:07:19.840 -> 01:07:21.720] and they can fix it and not screw up qualifying.
[01:07:21.720 -> 01:07:26.480] But this week, Dan, you've put McLaren back on Fraud Watch.
[01:07:26.480 -> 01:07:27.680] Yeah, this is it.
[01:07:27.680 -> 01:07:28.680] Two out of three.
[01:07:28.680 -> 01:07:33.400] Yeah, one more strike and they're out.
[01:07:33.400 -> 01:07:37.000] Miss Hellcat suggests we could get a toilet seat shot glass on Amazon.
[01:07:37.000 -> 01:07:38.000] Is it gold?
[01:07:38.000 -> 01:07:39.000] That'll do.
[01:07:39.000 -> 01:07:40.000] That'll do.
[01:07:40.000 -> 01:07:41.960] Oh, toilet seat and painted gold.
[01:07:41.960 -> 01:07:47.640] Can you drive to, do you want to drive to Woking and deliver the golden toilet seat to them if they hit it?
[01:07:48.520 -> 01:07:48.920] Sure.
[01:07:48.920 -> 01:07:49.440] Why not?
[01:07:49.800 -> 01:07:52.800] I don't know if I can do like a shot of Jaeger out of it or something.
[01:07:53.320 -> 01:07:56.080] Yeah, but wait, do you have the Fiat Panda yet?
[01:07:57.040 -> 01:07:58.120] Uh, negative.
[01:07:58.160 -> 01:07:58.920] I'm afraid not.
[01:07:58.960 -> 01:07:59.440] Not yet.
[01:07:59.800 -> 01:08:01.760] Has James May called you up on that one again?
[01:08:02.280 -> 01:08:03.400] Uh, not for a while.
[01:08:03.520 -> 01:08:04.400] Not for a while.
[01:08:04.440 -> 01:08:06.640] I think it's due again. Okay. Okay. Fair enough. But we'll get up on that one again. Uh, not for a while, not for a while. I think it's, it's due again.
[01:08:07.180 -> 01:08:07.440] Okay.
[01:08:07.800 -> 01:08:08.040] Okay.
[01:08:08.040 -> 01:08:08.340] Fair enough.
[01:08:08.340 -> 01:08:09.640] But we'll, we'll get back to that one.
[01:08:10.160 -> 01:08:11.400] Uh, maybe another day.
[01:08:11.600 -> 01:08:17.960] So this week, unsurprisingly, I am putting Ferrari on fraud watch.
[01:08:18.680 -> 01:08:19.800] This is, this is your year.
[01:08:19.800 -> 01:08:23.180] Every year is your year and you're breaking all of your fans,
[01:08:23.180 -> 01:08:24.520] hearts and dreams.
[01:08:25.320 -> 01:08:26.320] They're depressed.
[01:08:26.320 -> 01:08:28.080] I don't know how you got them to love you so much.
[01:08:28.080 -> 01:08:32.040] Maybe it's because the Italian language and you guys are so charming.
[01:08:32.040 -> 01:08:33.360] But I really hope you guys turn it around.
[01:08:33.360 -> 01:08:34.760] But they're on Fraud Watch this week.
[01:08:34.760 -> 01:08:35.760] Yeah.
[01:08:35.760 -> 01:08:36.760] Sorry.
[01:08:36.760 -> 01:08:38.080] No, don't apologize.
[01:08:38.080 -> 01:08:39.280] Never apologize.
[01:08:39.280 -> 01:08:40.280] Never apologize.
[01:08:40.280 -> 01:08:41.600] Fraud alert.
[01:08:41.600 -> 01:08:43.320] Break F1 analysis.
[01:08:43.320 -> 01:08:44.320] Suspicious activity.
[01:08:44.320 -> 01:08:46.000] Why don't we move on to our next segment?
[01:08:46.000 -> 01:08:47.000] You ready for it?
[01:08:47.000 -> 01:08:48.000] Hit it.
[01:08:49.000 -> 01:08:51.000] Oh, you think you're a good boy?
[01:08:51.000 -> 01:08:53.000] I am. I'm a good boy.
[01:08:53.000 -> 01:08:56.000] Oh, tell us about Engine Mode Good Boy.
[01:08:56.000 -> 01:08:59.000] Engine Mode Good Boy was something that was dreamt up because
[01:08:59.000 -> 01:09:03.000] somebody called me Engine Mode Good Boy on Twitter
[01:09:03.000 -> 01:09:06.320] because I was defending Red Bull, so we decided to run with it.
[01:09:06.320 -> 01:09:09.480] And we've now turned it into basically our good thing of the week award.
[01:09:11.340 -> 01:09:15.560] Um, so for testing you put Bottas down.
[01:09:16.020 -> 01:09:16.520] Yep.
[01:09:16.680 -> 01:09:21.320] Uh, and then I put, yeah, and I put, uh, Juan Yujo down because he took the
[01:09:21.320 -> 01:09:22.680] fastest lap on one of the days.
[01:09:22.680 -> 01:09:23.180] So.
[01:09:23.280 -> 01:09:23.780] Another lap.
[01:09:23.780 -> 01:09:26.760] And you've given us your report card on both of the laps.
[01:09:26.760 -> 01:09:29.880] And I think for a mayo loving at the minute.
[01:09:29.880 -> 01:09:30.880] I love it.
[01:09:30.880 -> 01:09:31.880] I love it.
[01:09:31.880 -> 01:09:34.640] Should we, we should see if we can get Valtteri Bottas or Joe Gagnier on the show one day.
[01:09:34.640 -> 01:09:35.720] Yeah, why not?
[01:09:35.720 -> 01:09:36.720] I would love that.
[01:09:36.720 -> 01:09:41.080] Like it's like one of those like long bombs and just like, yeah, but, but I've probably
[01:09:41.080 -> 01:09:44.880] going to have to sit naked in a sauna if we interview Bottas though.
[01:09:44.880 -> 01:09:45.840] That's the only problem.
[01:09:45.840 -> 01:09:51.120] I'd do it. I went to Finland for a team building with Red Bull when KVN joined the team.
[01:09:51.120 -> 01:09:56.080] And we did snowmobiling in saunas and there was lots of nudity in beer.
[01:09:56.080 -> 01:09:59.280] And outdoor activities in the snow. Not nude or with beer.
[01:09:59.280 -> 01:10:05.480] Unfortunately, if they film us doing that for Drive to Survive, they're going to need a fucking wide angle
[01:10:05.480 -> 01:10:10.080] lens to fit my ass in it.
[01:10:10.080 -> 01:10:13.760] Who do you have for Engine Mode Good Boy Award this week?
[01:10:13.760 -> 01:10:20.520] It can only be one winner of the Engine Mode Good Boy Award and that is the Dark Lord himself,
[01:10:20.520 -> 01:10:21.960] Fernando Alonso.
[01:10:21.960 -> 01:10:24.760] Give yourself a little...
[01:10:24.760 -> 01:10:25.000] Go on, lad.
[01:10:25.000 -> 01:10:27.000] I think he done a stellar job.
[01:10:27.000 -> 01:10:30.000] I loved his racing against Lewis.
[01:10:30.000 -> 01:10:33.000] The big brain switchbacks and things like that.
[01:10:33.000 -> 01:10:35.000] It was just...
[01:10:35.000 -> 01:10:39.000] It was a drive that reminded you just how good Alonso is.
[01:10:39.000 -> 01:10:41.000] And he's 41, man.
[01:10:41.000 -> 01:10:43.000] He's still got the moves, man.
[01:10:43.000 -> 01:10:44.000] He has.
[01:10:44.000 -> 01:10:47.440] If you're listening to this in your car on the way to work, give us a little toot
[01:10:47.440 -> 01:10:52.800] toot for Fernando Alonso, the Dark Lord himself, and if you'd like to make a human sacrifice
[01:10:52.800 -> 01:10:55.320] to his career, I'm sure there's a hotline you can call.
[01:10:56.000 -> 01:10:57.160] Yeah, no, absolutely.
[01:10:59.200 -> 01:11:03.280] I have put Logan on my good boy list this week.
[01:11:03.720 -> 01:11:09.040] Just reasonable start. Best newcomer performance
[01:11:09.040 -> 01:11:11.040] of the weekend, I think overall.
[01:11:11.040 -> 01:11:14.320] Yeah, probably not hard considering, you know, Piastri.
[01:11:14.320 -> 01:11:15.840] They really shit the bed.
[01:11:15.840 -> 01:11:23.200] Yeah, Piastri shit the bed and De Vries is in an Alpha Tauri, which is not the greatest
[01:11:23.200 -> 01:11:26.440] car at the minute to show your ability.
[01:11:26.440 -> 01:11:29.920] I'm so sad, I'm so sad for Alpha Tauri because I want them to do well and they should do
[01:11:29.920 -> 01:11:30.920] well but.
[01:11:30.920 -> 01:11:34.520] Fully on board with your suggestion of Sargent and if I hadn't picked Alonso he would have
[01:11:34.520 -> 01:11:36.320] been my second choice.
[01:11:36.320 -> 01:11:41.960] Yeah, so that brings our usual program to a little bit of a wrap but what can what can
[01:11:41.960 -> 01:11:45.520] everybody our listeners and viewers on YouTube expect from us next week?
[01:11:46.440 -> 01:11:49.080] Uh, we're going to do like a little Saudi preview.
[01:11:50.000 -> 01:11:52.940] We will do our new predictions for the Saudi race.
[01:11:52.940 -> 01:11:59.920] We're going to do our, uh, random fandom spinning the wheel for our, uh, Saudi.
[01:12:00.480 -> 01:12:04.320] And just basically more shit housery and fraudulent takes.
[01:12:04.920 -> 01:12:05.000] I love it. I love it. and just basically more shithousery and fraudulent takes.
[01:12:05.000 -> 01:12:07.080] I love it. I love it.
[01:12:07.080 -> 01:12:10.560] So if you guys are listening to us on Spotify
[01:12:10.560 -> 01:12:14.080] or Apple music or MySpace or any of those podcast platforms,
[01:12:14.080 -> 01:12:18.000] do be sure to give us your honest rating.
[01:12:18.000 -> 01:12:20.320] If it's five stars, great.
[01:12:20.320 -> 01:12:23.280] Tell your nan about it.
[01:12:23.280 -> 01:12:25.760] Tell your nan, you love your Formula One podcast.
[01:12:25.760 -> 01:12:27.280] And if you want to learn a little bit of shit house,
[01:12:27.280 -> 01:12:28.600] or a bit of swearing,
[01:12:28.600 -> 01:12:30.560] and a little bit of wheel knowledge,
[01:12:30.560 -> 01:12:31.520] it's a great place.
[01:12:31.520 -> 01:12:33.800] Don't hesitate to share it with your friends.
[01:12:33.800 -> 01:12:34.960] If you're watching this on YouTube,
[01:12:34.960 -> 01:12:36.480] don't forget to like and subscribe,
[01:12:36.480 -> 01:12:38.080] and also share it with your Nan.
[01:12:38.080 -> 01:12:39.680] The video format is a lot better,
[01:12:39.680 -> 01:12:42.140] because Dan and his beard are so handsome.
[01:12:42.140 -> 01:12:46.080] I can't draw a beard, no unfortunately. For people that are
[01:12:46.080 -> 01:12:49.440] watching the video of this I do apologize my cameras white balance has
[01:12:49.440 -> 01:12:54.640] been changing wildly throughout tonight so one moment I look incredibly tanned
[01:12:54.640 -> 01:12:58.320] and the next moment I look like Casper the ghost. I don't think you're
[01:12:58.320 -> 01:13:06.960] incredibly tanned though. No I'm not, I'm just saying the white balance is all over the place today. So yeah, big up your local butchers.
[01:13:07.760 -> 01:13:09.560] Shout out to your nans.
[01:13:10.560 -> 01:13:12.000] Big up Myspace.
[01:13:14.920 -> 01:13:15.880] I think that's about it really.
[01:13:15.880 -> 01:13:17.440] Now you can all fuck off.