Ep19 - Saudi Arabian GP Review

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[00:00.000 -> 00:07.960] You're listening to the most fraudulent F1 podcast with Dan, aka engine mode 11.
[00:07.960 -> 00:14.020] I secretly moonlight and tell what Marco race begins and Blake, aka break echo chambers
[00:14.020 -> 00:23.320] of farts and idiots on Twitter after races. It's the engine breaking F1 podcast.
[00:23.320 -> 00:24.320] Oh my goodness.
[00:24.320 -> 00:26.040] Welcome back. Welcome back.
[00:26.040 -> 00:27.040] Welcome back to another episode.
[00:27.040 -> 00:30.940] This is episode 19 of the Engine Breaking podcast.
[00:30.940 -> 00:34.720] This is our Saudi Arabian Grand Prix review episode.
[00:34.720 -> 00:37.520] Not only we're going to do that, we're going to do so much more.
[00:37.520 -> 00:38.860] So welcome.
[00:38.860 -> 00:39.860] Welcome to the pod.
[00:39.860 -> 00:40.860] My name is Blake, a.k.a.
[00:40.860 -> 00:46.700] Brake, and I'm joined by Engine Mode 11, who goes by the other alias of Dan, but
[00:46.700 -> 00:49.520] not Dan Fallows, apparently we found that you're not Dan Fallows.
[00:49.540 -> 00:51.320] Have you ever seen us in the same room together?
[00:51.940 -> 00:52.540] No, I haven't.
[00:52.580 -> 00:53.080] Well, there you go.
[00:53.500 -> 00:55.260] So I know what if busted.
[00:55.820 -> 00:57.780] No, I think I have, I think I have.
[00:58.040 -> 01:01.180] You probably were walking through the corridor and building one and Dan was in
[01:01.180 -> 01:04.540] his office and I'm contact with your beard.
[01:06.640 -> 01:12.160] And then Dan also made eye contact with your beard and me simultaneously and it was like a Dan sandwich for a minute.
[01:12.160 -> 01:16.160] Yeah probably. You know if you're looking deeply into this beard you might find some
[01:16.160 -> 01:21.960] of Adrian Newey's old notebooks. Or one of his old drawing tables in there or something
[01:21.960 -> 01:28.760] I don't know. Oh my goodness. It just occurred to me though right if this if you're listening to this now in your car
[01:28.760 -> 01:36.600] or whatever and the show title isn't Lawrence of Arabia then we have failed as a podcast.
[01:36.600 -> 01:37.600] Really?
[01:37.600 -> 01:38.600] Yeah Lawrence Stroll of Arabia.
[01:38.600 -> 01:39.600] Oh my god.
[01:39.600 -> 01:40.600] We could get away with that.
[01:40.600 -> 01:41.600] Could we?
[01:41.600 -> 01:42.600] Yeah.
[01:42.600 -> 01:43.600] Okay.
[01:43.600 -> 01:47.720] Bang in film by the way. I've never seen it. It's so long but
[01:47.720 -> 01:52.380] it's a proper classic. Speaking of long films we started Lord of the Rings
[01:52.380 -> 01:58.520] Return of the King extended version. It's four and a half hours long. So that's
[01:58.520 -> 02:02.200] like a Christmas tradition me and my wife do. We work our way through them yeah.
[02:02.200 -> 02:05.200] In the Christmas period. We do Harry Potter's
[02:05.200 -> 02:09.520] around Thanksgiving into Christmas time and then I was like let's watch let's do the Lord of the
[02:09.520 -> 02:15.760] Ring so we've been grinding and we're all the way to Return of the King but so here's I don't know
[02:15.760 -> 02:19.200] if you've ever done this you know on Amazon you can rent a film and it lasts for two days after
[02:19.200 -> 02:24.560] you start watching it. Yeah. Well so the second one uh the two towers. How many times did you
[02:24.560 -> 02:25.080] rent it?
[02:25.440 -> 02:28.760] We had to rent it two times because it was extended edition
[02:28.760 -> 02:31.240] and we're watching it over, you know, evenings and stuff.
[02:31.600 -> 02:33.360] But yeah, Return of the King.
[02:33.360 -> 02:35.480] They made a film about Fernando Alonso.
[02:35.480 -> 02:36.960] Says somebody in the Twitch chat.
[02:36.960 -> 02:38.000] Yeah, exactly.
[02:38.000 -> 02:38.240] Mr.
[02:38.240 -> 02:38.600] Big man.
[02:38.600 -> 02:39.240] Exactly.
[02:39.240 -> 02:43.400] That's Fernando Alonso's film versus Lawrence Stroll of Arabia.
[02:43.800 -> 02:45.320] So why don't we get into the episode?
[02:45.320 -> 02:49.240] So if you're wondering if you're new to the podcast, welcome.
[02:49.240 -> 02:54.160] We used to work in Formula One as engineers in various disciplines and over our cumulative
[02:54.160 -> 02:56.320] what about 15, 16 years in the industry.
[02:56.320 -> 03:00.720] We are here to give you a podcast which is fueled completely on vibes.
[03:00.720 -> 03:04.680] We'll get some facts and some anecdotes and some great stories in there, but for the most
[03:04.680 -> 03:07.200] part this is not a podcast.
[03:07.200 -> 03:09.200] This is a frodcast, alright?
[03:09.200 -> 03:13.760] Yeah, it's like looking for diamonds, you know?
[03:13.760 -> 03:18.080] You have to shovel away through a lot of shit and eventually you will come out with something
[03:18.080 -> 03:19.080] that's really good.
[03:19.080 -> 03:20.080] You know?
[03:20.080 -> 03:24.760] So this is episode 19 and we might find something good, so welcome in.
[03:24.760 -> 03:27.060] So here's what you guys can expect from this episode.
[03:27.060 -> 03:28.220] I'll give you a little bit of a teaser
[03:28.220 -> 03:29.680] to get your appetites going
[03:29.680 -> 03:32.480] and we'll keep you all the way to the end of the podcast.
[03:32.480 -> 03:33.920] We're gonna tell you what's going on in the world
[03:33.920 -> 03:34.740] of Formula One.
[03:34.740 -> 03:37.000] Some news that doesn't really relate to this weekend,
[03:37.000 -> 03:38.320] but there's a lot of stuff going on.
[03:38.320 -> 03:39.280] Things are always changing.
[03:39.280 -> 03:41.720] There's drama, there's chaos, and there's the FIA.
[03:42.680 -> 03:44.720] Yeah, the FIA are on another one this weekend,
[03:44.720 -> 03:46.560] but then we will obviously go through
[03:46.560 -> 03:49.440] our 2023 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix review.
[03:49.440 -> 03:51.520] We'll talk to you practice and qualifying
[03:51.520 -> 03:53.400] and then all the drama for the race.
[03:53.400 -> 03:56.480] And then we'll also detailed explain
[03:56.480 -> 03:58.680] all of the FIA's continued,
[03:58.680 -> 04:02.280] let's call it incompetence and the aftermath.
[04:02.280 -> 04:03.440] Shenanigans.
[04:03.440 -> 04:04.920] Shenaniganry, yeah.
[04:04.920 -> 04:08.880] If anybody says shenanigans one more time, I'm just kidding.
[04:08.880 -> 04:13.520] We also made some predictions before the event and who's going to win data or vibes and if
[04:13.520 -> 04:16.760] you're watching this in the live stream on twitch.tv from slash break who's going to
[04:16.760 -> 04:17.760] win data or vibes.
[04:17.760 -> 04:19.760] I'm telling you guys vibes.
[04:19.760 -> 04:21.720] All right, spoiled that one.
[04:21.720 -> 04:23.600] All right, we'll skip that later.
[04:23.600 -> 04:24.840] Everybody's saying vibes, right?
[04:24.840 -> 04:26.000] And then he looked so tell everybody about random fandom Alright, we'll skip that later. Everybody's saying vibes, alright. And then, you...
[04:26.000 -> 04:29.000] So tell everybody about Random Fandom and why we're doing that,
[04:29.000 -> 04:31.000] which is another segment we've been doing for a couple weeks.
[04:31.000 -> 04:35.000] You wanna know about Random Fandom? Listen, I'll tell you all about Random Fandom.
[04:35.000 -> 04:48.320] 🎵Random Fandom theme music🎵 Random Fandom, baby.
[04:48.320 -> 04:54.320] Basically we got accused of disgusting bias because Red Bull paid our mortgages for like
[04:54.320 -> 04:56.720] 10 years or whatever.
[04:56.720 -> 05:00.040] And I wanted to show everyone that we could hate every team equally.
[05:00.040 -> 05:05.000] So we randomly pick a team to represent for each race.
[05:07.260 -> 05:08.020] And, uh, we just do like a little book report on them.
[05:08.260 -> 05:08.820] Yeah.
[05:14.540 -> 05:15.260] I had Aston Martin for this weekend for Jeddah, which is, you know, pretty simple. Let's be honest.
[05:15.320 -> 05:17.300] And then you, you got Ferrari, didn't you?
[05:17.740 -> 05:18.540] I had Mercedes.
[05:18.600 -> 05:19.380] Oh, did you have Mercedes?
[05:19.380 -> 05:19.700] Sorry.
[05:19.700 -> 05:19.980] Okay.
[05:19.980 -> 05:20.640] Yeah, I did.
[05:21.080 -> 05:23.440] So we'll get to our report cards in a minute.
[05:23.440 -> 05:26.540] And then obviously after after after the week if
[05:26.540 -> 05:32.080] you are non biased dump on every team report card we're going to get into fraud watch and
[05:32.080 -> 05:33.080] engine mode.
[05:33.080 -> 05:37.600] Good boy, but real quick if you're new welcome if you've been here before.
[05:37.600 -> 05:41.460] Let's get a little toot toot and if you're new just roll down your window if you're driving
[05:41.460 -> 05:45.680] to work and just tell somebody on the corner that you love them.
[05:45.680 -> 05:48.900] And it doesn't matter which driver they support.
[05:48.900 -> 05:50.400] You still love them anyway.
[05:50.400 -> 05:51.400] Okay.
[05:51.400 -> 05:56.000] Yeah, rip up that a break, do a fat burnout and McDonald's drive through.
[05:56.000 -> 05:57.000] Oh, yeah.
[05:57.000 -> 06:02.760] And if anyone asks, say Dan said I could do it.
[06:02.760 -> 06:03.760] Dan Fallows, right?
[06:03.760 -> 06:04.760] Yeah, sorry.
[06:04.760 -> 06:07.320] Yeah, Dan Fallows, not me. Say Dan Fallows said you could do it. Dan Fallows, right? Yeah, sorry. Yeah, Dan Fallows, not me. So Dan Fallows said you
[06:07.320 -> 06:13.920] could do it. Oh, I wonder if we could get him on the podcast one day. Did he not comment
[06:13.920 -> 06:18.800] on one of your videos on YouTube once? Yeah, he did. Yeah, he did. Yeah. There you go.
[06:18.800 -> 06:25.300] This is all I exist for on this podcast, right? Is to big you up. What? Look, look behind you, man. Look behind you.
[06:25.320 -> 06:30.900] 85,547 Twitter fraud strong, man.
[06:31.560 -> 06:35.920] To be fair though, you did, you, you did carry me into this pretty heavily.
[06:36.020 -> 06:36.720] Oh God.
[06:36.800 -> 06:39.200] I mean, me forgetting you into content creation.
[06:39.680 -> 06:44.660] No, you're not getting me into it, but you're carrying me into the world
[06:44.660 -> 06:46.280] of formula One Twitter
[06:46.280 -> 06:51.080] frauddom. Yeah so when you're at the job center begging for money in a couple of
[06:51.080 -> 06:55.840] months time it'll be my fault. Yeah first part of the year you're at 69k yeah
[06:55.840 -> 07:01.600] we're flying but anyway why don't we digress. Why don't we get into the
[07:01.600 -> 07:07.760] news, the tea. Austria managed to secure
[07:07.760 -> 07:14.840] themselves the bag and got themselves a four-year extension after this year it
[07:14.840 -> 07:19.320] was gonna basically this year was gonna be the last year at Austria but they've
[07:19.320 -> 07:30.040] managed to get themselves a new deal and they're gonna be there until the end of 2027. That's a banger of a circuit honestly and it's those central European
[07:30.040 -> 07:33.540] circuits are some of those are massively underrated Spielberg is out in the
[07:33.540 -> 07:39.460] middle of the countryside the air is fresh it's it's great yep people are
[07:39.460 -> 07:44.500] nice food is awesome beer is cold beautiful views yeah stunning stunning
[07:44.500 -> 07:46.400] and is one of the rare tracks
[07:46.400 -> 07:50.240] where you can get a GA ticket and if you get yourself on one of the hills you can pretty
[07:50.240 -> 07:57.200] much see the entire track. Yep 100% and there's the giant the giant bull sculpture so if I could
[07:57.840 -> 08:07.320] I would love to take my van and go to a couple of European circuits and do like a road podcast tour. And maybe that'll happen one year.
[08:07.320 -> 08:08.160] I don't know.
[08:08.160 -> 08:11.640] The Engine Breaking podcast on tour.
[08:11.640 -> 08:14.200] And we can continue from last episode,
[08:14.200 -> 08:16.880] our review of trackside toilets.
[08:16.880 -> 08:17.760] Yeah, exactly.
[08:17.760 -> 08:18.680] Oh my goodness.
[08:18.680 -> 08:21.280] So it's like, you know, a lot of you guys like to see
[08:21.280 -> 08:22.960] like, where should I eat?
[08:22.960 -> 08:26.480] But what you really need to know is when you're at the track, where should I shit?
[08:26.800 -> 08:28.160] That's the most important thing.
[08:28.220 -> 08:28.440] Yep.
[08:28.560 -> 08:30.800] So we'll get back.
[08:30.820 -> 08:31.960] We'll get back to you guys on that one.
[08:32.600 -> 08:32.840] Yeah.
[08:32.920 -> 08:33.800] WTF one.
[08:33.800 -> 08:35.760] They had their own campsite at Silverstone.
[08:36.640 -> 08:37.000] Right.
[08:37.560 -> 08:40.600] We're going to, we're going to have our own holding pen for everyone
[08:40.600 -> 08:41.880] that gets arrested at Austria.
[08:41.840 -> 08:48.520] For everyone that gets arrested in Austria. I love that.
[08:48.520 -> 08:53.440] Some nerd with a beard says at Monza you're better off shitting in the woods than in the
[08:53.440 -> 08:54.440] toilets there.
[08:54.440 -> 08:55.440] Yeah, exactly.
[08:55.440 -> 08:57.400] But like enough toilet talk, let's get on to it.
[08:57.400 -> 09:00.320] Do you have to have a token to shit at Monza?
[09:00.320 -> 09:01.320] They did that.
[09:01.320 -> 09:02.320] Do you?
[09:02.320 -> 09:07.000] I don't know, they had the token system where they had to queue up for ages, right?
[09:07.000 -> 09:12.000] To exchange money for tokens, and then you had to queue up all over again
[09:12.000 -> 09:15.000] at the stand that you wanted to use to spend your tokens on.
[09:15.000 -> 09:17.000] It was fucking chaos.
[09:17.000 -> 09:20.000] Wow. Wow. What else we got?
[09:20.000 -> 09:27.000] We have got, sorry, how did we go from that to, I don't know, anyway, the Austrian GP, they got extended, GG's.
[09:27.000 -> 09:37.000] Listen everyone, I was ill 30 minutes before I came on this podcast and I'm pushing through it, so it's complete chaos this week, right?
[09:37.000 -> 09:41.000] I'm trying really hard. No more chaotic than normal.
[09:41.000 -> 09:45.400] Angela Cullen, she's leaving Mercedes, that was like
[09:45.400 -> 09:51.040] the big news. Seven-year partnership with Lewis Hamilton comes to an end and it
[09:51.040 -> 09:55.360] was a bit mysterious because it was all very sudden but apparently from what
[09:55.360 -> 10:07.840] I've heard from you know my little sources, apparently it's been in the pipeline since last season and these first sort of
[10:07.840 -> 10:10.040] races and tests were just for a handover.
[10:10.040 -> 10:14.520] So that's fine and if anybody's wondering who Angela Cullen is I think most of you probably
[10:14.520 -> 10:21.120] know but that is the the blonde haired woman who is Lewis's physio and trainer so that
[10:21.120 -> 10:28.880] she's been working with Lewis for seven years at the track and they've literally every photo before, after the race.
[10:29.000 -> 10:29.280] Oh yeah.
[10:29.280 -> 10:29.800] Angela's there.
[10:29.800 -> 10:30.080] Yeah.
[10:30.320 -> 10:30.560] Yeah.
[10:30.560 -> 10:30.800] Yeah.
[10:30.800 -> 10:33.960] She was her and Lewis got on really well, I think.
[10:34.080 -> 10:38.960] So, um, and she probably rebuilt his back after Baku last year.
[10:38.960 -> 10:41.360] So yeah.
[10:41.600 -> 10:46.800] Ah, but yeah, so there's, everybody's turning that into some kind of drama. Maybe Lewis got rid of her or she wanted to move on and do something else, but yeah, so there's everybody's turning that into some kind of drama. Maybe Louis
[10:46.800 -> 10:52.360] got rid of her or she wanted to move on and do something else. But like to be fair, put
[10:52.360 -> 10:58.880] that in perspective. A lot of the physios and trainers move around throughout the.
[10:58.880 -> 11:03.880] The paddock like depending on the team, the driver, a lot of them stick with their driver,
[11:03.880 -> 11:05.200] but some of them change every now and then.
[11:05.200 -> 11:15.400] For example, Ghazly's long-term physio, Purr, who's a guy who's also from Hinsa, who is the same company that Angela is employed by or contracted to.
[11:17.100 -> 11:22.500] He's now working with DeVries, who's basically stayed at Alpha Tauri.
[11:22.600 -> 11:23.500] Alpha Tauri, yeah.
[11:23.500 -> 11:25.140] So that's that's interesting. But like at the same time, Purr worked with Kiviat when. Yeah. So that's, that's interesting.
[11:25.140 -> 11:27.980] But like at the same time, Pura worked with a Kiviat when I was
[11:27.980 -> 11:29.840] with working on Kiviat's car.
[11:29.840 -> 11:31.320] So that's the same.
[11:31.380 -> 11:34.820] Uh, it's not exactly the same as race engineers, but they do, sometimes
[11:34.820 -> 11:37.180] they move with the driver, sometimes they stay with the team and it really
[11:37.180 -> 11:40.740] just depends on the arrangement, but the company that she works for does
[11:40.780 -> 11:46.160] have a lot of the coaches and physios for a lot of the drivers not only in Formula One,
[11:46.160 -> 11:52.000] they do other GP2, F2, F3, Formula E and everything. So it's a big one.
[11:53.040 -> 11:56.960] Yeah, I asked her if she wanted to come join us. She texted me back saying,
[11:56.960 -> 12:00.000] who are you? Delete this number. So there you go.
[12:00.880 -> 12:01.440] No, no.
[12:02.320 -> 12:04.640] The standard response I get from everyone in the paddock.
[12:04.640 -> 12:08.920] Yeah, I get that too. I get that too. It's like, don't, don't ever call me again.
[12:08.920 -> 12:12.320] I'm like, okay, fine. Sorry, Adrian. Just wanted to ask you when to come on a
[12:12.320 -> 12:14.320] podcast. He's like, what's the podcast.
[12:14.760 -> 12:19.560] Yeah. Yeah. He would come on the podcast, but sadly it'd be a handwritten note and
[12:19.640 -> 12:23.960] we'd have to put it through something that would automatically read it out, feed
[12:23.960 -> 12:25.080] it into a machine.
[12:25.720 -> 12:29.160] So, yeah.
[12:36.200 -> 12:36.440] We're going to rip into the FIA, literally the whole podcast, but this has got to be the most inane shit.
[12:37.120 -> 12:37.200] What have they done?
[12:38.240 -> 12:38.400] Oh, fuck's sake.
[12:38.800 -> 12:39.080] Right.
[12:48.660 -> 12:51.720] The FIA, the fun sponges, the fun police, the you will not wear jewelry, have now gone to you will not ride a bike on the track walk.
[12:51.720 -> 12:56.560] So basically on a Thursday evening drivers and their engineers they'll do themselves
[12:56.560 -> 12:58.720] a little stroll around the track.
[12:58.720 -> 13:01.120] I believe you used to do this didn't you?
[13:01.120 -> 13:02.120] Yeah.
[13:02.120 -> 13:05.400] Yeah so explain what is the purpose of this track walk?
[13:05.400 -> 13:10.920] So basically Thursday track walks, what they should be is the engineer and drivers and
[13:10.920 -> 13:13.400] the drivers coach, you're going around the track and you're looking like, right, this
[13:13.400 -> 13:16.200] curb is a little bit different here, right, man, here's the apex.
[13:16.200 -> 13:20.840] Really what the track walks are is a time where the engineers and drivers are away from
[13:20.840 -> 13:24.720] everybody else, their way from media, their way from meetings, and they get to talk about
[13:24.720 -> 13:25.840] what they want to have for dinner.
[13:26.720 -> 13:32.080] That is literally what track works were. Obviously, that you'll go through a spiel and you'll talk
[13:32.080 -> 13:35.440] about the track and anything you haven't talked about in meetings, but realistically, the track
[13:35.440 -> 13:40.320] walks are time for you and the engineers to get out and see the track and have a chat outside of
[13:40.320 -> 13:44.080] the office. And a little bit more, it's a little bit more relaxed, like think about the drivers
[13:44.080 -> 13:46.160] are in the mix all weekend.
[13:46.160 -> 13:51.760] You've got your press officer, you've got media, this, that meetings, your whole weekend
[13:51.760 -> 13:55.080] is literally just bing bing bong, answering questions, talking to people.
[13:55.080 -> 13:57.080] And this is just like, right, I'm going to go out with my mates and we're going to go
[13:57.080 -> 13:58.080] for a quick walk.
[13:58.080 -> 14:01.600] We're going to talk about the track, talk about the weekend and any stuff that you don't
[14:01.600 -> 14:05.960] want to say in the office, you can say to your driver on the track walk.
[14:07.920 -> 14:09.480] And some of the tracks are long and they take a very long time to walk.
[14:09.480 -> 14:11.060] And as I just mentioned,
[14:11.060 -> 14:12.840] drivers are busy and they're running around
[14:12.840 -> 14:13.920] all over the place,
[14:13.920 -> 14:16.460] you know, getting this meeting, that meeting.
[14:16.460 -> 14:20.640] So sometimes it's very, very useful to take a bicycle
[14:20.640 -> 14:21.840] because it saves time.
[14:21.840 -> 14:22.660] Yeah.
[14:23.520 -> 14:24.360] It makes sense.
[14:24.360 -> 14:26.040] And I don't think we've had any incidents with
[14:26.040 -> 14:27.200] bicycles on Thursdays.
[14:27.200 -> 14:29.240] I've not been there in a while, but I haven't heard of any.
[14:29.240 -> 14:34.760] But the FAA, the FAA decided Thursdays only.
[14:35.000 -> 14:37.940] So Thursdays, there's a time on the calendar between the
[14:37.940 -> 14:39.240] safety car running laps.
[14:40.080 -> 14:42.600] There's a period which says track walk.
[14:44.000 -> 14:45.680] And that during that time you can't run bikes.
[14:45.680 -> 14:48.160] So if you want to do a track walk on Wednesday,
[14:48.160 -> 14:49.200] if the drivers are there,
[14:49.200 -> 14:50.800] you can ride bikes on a Wednesday.
[14:50.800 -> 14:52.800] If you want to do it on a Friday after your session,
[14:53.920 -> 14:55.440] you want you can you can ride bikes on that.
[14:55.440 -> 14:56.160] But that was one of the things
[14:56.160 -> 14:57.360] like I used to go ride bikes
[14:58.000 -> 14:59.680] Thursday night, Saturday night.
[14:59.680 -> 15:02.000] After work, that was like,
[15:02.800 -> 15:04.400] that was my mental health therapy
[15:04.400 -> 15:05.640] is getting out and riding a bicycle.
[15:05.640 -> 15:09.600] So something's weird there and we're not too sure what they're doing, but what's
[15:09.600 -> 15:13.600] what's ironic about what another reason they shut down the track during the normal
[15:13.680 -> 15:15.400] track walk on Thursday at Jetta?
[15:15.400 -> 15:16.480] Oh, for Christ's sake.
[15:16.480 -> 15:20.680] So yeah, they, they decided to shut part of the track down and Hulkenberg mentioned
[15:20.680 -> 15:24.200] this and he, I think he was a little bit confused as to what was going on, but, uh,
[15:24.840 -> 15:30.080] will I am, uh, apparently was shooting a music video at various points around the track
[15:30.080 -> 15:34.800] throughout the evening accompanied by a stationary F1 show car which meant that
[15:34.800 -> 15:38.720] parts of the track, well, they couldn't be done because it was a film set so yeah
[15:38.720 -> 15:47.840] great good job good job everyone. Let's do a music video so you can't do it. Just in the background will I am.
[15:47.840 -> 15:48.840] Oh my god.
[15:48.840 -> 15:50.440] Oh my god.
[15:50.440 -> 15:51.440] But anyway.
[15:51.440 -> 15:52.440] But anyway.
[15:52.440 -> 15:53.440] So yeah.
[15:53.440 -> 15:54.440] No bicycle association.
[15:54.440 -> 15:55.440] Gone?
[15:55.440 -> 15:56.440] Oh okay.
[15:56.440 -> 15:57.440] Clever solution right.
[15:57.440 -> 15:58.440] It says I've read about it.
[15:58.440 -> 15:59.440] Yeah.
[15:59.440 -> 16:05.080] And it says you're not allowed to take two wheeled you know you know, bicycle scooters, right?
[16:05.080 -> 16:06.080] Tricycle, bro.
[16:06.080 -> 16:10.520] No, they didn't mention anything about tractor vehicles.
[16:10.520 -> 16:14.320] So what I think we should do is we should reach out to all those Ukrainian farmers that
[16:14.320 -> 16:18.400] stole all those Russian tanks at the start of that Ukrainian conflict, right?
[16:18.400 -> 16:26.800] And just see if we can borrow some T-72s and just sort of, you know, roll out.
[16:26.840 -> 16:27.240] Yeah.
[16:27.280 -> 16:30.320] And then during the Friday practice, there may be some issues with the
[16:30.320 -> 16:33.280] surface of the track afterwards, but yeah.
[16:34.240 -> 16:37.680] I mean, I'm pretty sure the Miami circuit's made out of like cheese or
[16:37.680 -> 16:40.520] something, so that would just muller that whole thing up and you'd have
[16:40.520 -> 16:41.760] like a rally course section.
[16:41.760 -> 16:42.280] It would improve it.
[16:42.640 -> 16:43.320] Let's be honest.
[16:43.800 -> 16:44.440] To be fair.
[16:44.880 -> 16:45.000] But anyway, speaking of, speaking of tanks. up and you'd have like a rally course section. It would improve it, let's be honest. To be fair.
[16:45.000 -> 16:50.160] But anyway, speaking of, speaking of tanks.
[16:50.160 -> 16:55.640] And Russian conflicts and God knows what else in the world of politics, Haas have managed
[16:55.640 -> 16:58.320] to get themselves in a bit of a sticky situation.
[16:58.320 -> 16:59.320] Oh no.
[16:59.320 -> 17:03.520] There was a report that came out in the US that alleged that Haas Automation, so like
[17:03.520 -> 17:09.660] the main sponsor company of the Haas F1 team, have directly provided machines and parts to
[17:09.660 -> 17:14.120] Russia while the war on Ukraine has been ongoing, which if true would be a
[17:14.120 -> 17:20.120] violation of the US export control and sanctions regulations. Now...
[17:20.120 -> 17:22.120] So what have they said?
[17:22.120 -> 17:27.040] Well they came out and said no you're chatting shit, nothing's been shipped from the factory
[17:27.040 -> 17:32.120] to Russia since March the 3rd in 2021 which I think was right the two-week period of when
[17:32.120 -> 17:34.320] it first kicked off over there.
[17:34.320 -> 17:39.200] So the things that are arriving apparently in Russia now are stuff that's like behind
[17:39.200 -> 17:43.040] sea freight and stuff like that.
[17:43.040 -> 17:49.240] So yeah but I did feel a bit sorry for Gunter Steiner because this has got nothing to do
[17:49.240 -> 17:56.800] with him or the F1 team, but he was, he was getting it a little bit about all this.
[17:56.800 -> 18:01.040] So I think he just ran away and said, I need to phone Jean, I need to phone Jean.
[18:01.040 -> 18:02.720] And yeah, that was that.
[18:02.720 -> 18:05.240] So we'll wait and see on that one,
[18:05.240 -> 18:09.080] but. Unsurprisingly hard tonight.
[18:09.080 -> 18:11.480] Yeah, yikes.
[18:11.480 -> 18:12.080] What else?
[18:12.080 -> 18:14.000] What else we got of the build up to this
[18:14.000 -> 18:16.760] weekend or any not specifically race
[18:16.760 -> 18:18.480] weekend related news before we get into
[18:18.480 -> 18:20.760] the race review in the whole weekend
[18:20.760 -> 18:22.240] and all the nonsense that happened?
[18:24.240 -> 18:28.680] I trust Ninja goes. I know we fucked up Gene, I'll handle it.
[18:28.680 -> 18:31.520] Gunter, save us Gunter.
[18:31.520 -> 18:37.880] Gunter is going out there now to broker peace talks between the lot of them.
[18:37.880 -> 18:39.440] I love that dude.
[18:39.440 -> 18:47.520] Speaking of pissing things off, Ferrari managed to piss off an entire religion so if you missed this
[18:47.520 -> 18:52.760] Ferrari have not only pissed off the Tifosi which is you know pretty much a religion
[18:52.760 -> 18:58.800] they've also now managed to piss off the Muslim population because they released a
[18:58.800 -> 19:04.760] poster for the Jetta Grand Prix which depicted the car in the courtyard and now forgive me
[19:04.760 -> 19:05.600] I'm sorry I'm gonna
[19:05.600 -> 19:08.880] butcher this I apologize. Just call it the English name because I can't
[19:08.880 -> 19:15.400] pronounce that either. I'm gonna try it right. The Masjid al-Nabwi at Medina
[19:15.400 -> 19:19.080] right and apparently it's the Prophet's mosque and it's a site of major
[19:19.080 -> 19:25.200] pilgrimage right so basically they photoshopped their car in the courtyard of this like religious place
[19:25.200 -> 19:28.800] A very serious place which is...
[19:28.800 -> 19:35.000] Yeah, and it got deleted basically after a lot of backlash for being distasteful and
[19:35.000 -> 19:36.000] disrespectful.
[19:36.000 -> 19:40.880] But the best part of it right, it wasn't even in Jeddah this place that they photoshopped
[19:40.880 -> 19:41.880] the car in.
[19:41.880 -> 19:45.560] What? that they photoshopped the car in. What's basically pissed off?
[19:47.080 -> 19:48.680] All those people and it wasn't
[19:48.680 -> 19:50.440] even in the right place, so yeah,
[19:50.440 -> 19:52.960] OK, so it was like it was not only
[19:52.960 -> 19:54.600] inappropriate, but it was like
[19:54.640 -> 19:56.760] contextually incorrect.
[19:57.200 -> 19:58.680] Yeah, I mean, but like OK,
[19:58.960 -> 20:01.000] that's that's an absolute fuck up
[20:01.000 -> 20:02.360] and a lot of ignorance.
[20:02.360 -> 20:04.680] That being said, have you seen?
[20:06.320 -> 20:10.800] Alfa Romeo's posters that they've been doing before the races are so cool. If you haven't
[20:10.800 -> 20:15.740] seen them, check out Alfa Romeo's Instagram. Shout out Alfa Romeo Instagram. Their their
[20:15.740 -> 20:24.920] pre event posters for the races are super cool and not disrespectful. So without.
[20:24.920 -> 20:28.120] That they won't. You won't do that mistake twice, but why don't
[20:28.120 -> 20:33.000] we, why don't we get on to the review of the Jetta Grand Prix weekend? And what, what kind
[20:33.000 -> 20:35.240] of, we're going to get to the meat of the weekend pretty quickly. I'll just run you
[20:35.240 -> 20:37.240] through the buildup and Dan, if you've got anything to add.
[20:37.240 -> 20:45.660] We will be the meat to your potatoes. So build up free practice before the weekend.
[20:45.660 -> 20:53.020] Leclerc's got a third set of an ES and control unit, so he's taking a 10 place grid penalty.
[20:53.020 -> 20:55.220] That is boom in stone.
[20:55.220 -> 21:00.700] A couple people change gear boxes, some other stuff there within allowance.
[21:00.700 -> 21:06.780] Initially in free practice, one Red Bull were stonks ahead of everybody else.
[21:06.780 -> 21:09.220] It was absolutely insane.
[21:09.220 -> 21:14.420] Red Bull was basically a second or half a second clear of Aston and then Aston was a
[21:14.420 -> 21:18.740] couple tenths back to Mercedes and there was a gaggle of cars and then Alfa Romeo off the
[21:18.740 -> 21:19.740] back right.
[21:19.740 -> 21:24.180] If P2 everybody gets a reasonable lap in.
[21:24.180 -> 21:26.160] And the order looks something like Red Bull, Aston,
[21:26.160 -> 21:29.720] then Alpine and Merkur close, and then the Ferrari are even behind Haas.
[21:29.720 -> 21:35.120] But people like, hold up, hold up, Ferrari be sandbagging.
[21:35.120 -> 21:35.600] And I'm like.
[21:36.960 -> 21:39.200] Hmm.
[21:39.520 -> 21:42.040] But let's let's put this in context, it is a street circuit
[21:42.480 -> 21:47.300] and there's 20 cars out there in a mix of low fuel, high fuel runs,
[21:47.300 -> 21:48.860] out of sync, out of pace.
[21:48.860 -> 21:50.000] It's just like qualifying,
[21:50.000 -> 21:52.360] like the likelihood that everybody,
[21:52.360 -> 21:55.320] all 20 cars get a good clean lap with no mistakes,
[21:55.320 -> 21:57.040] with no traffic is very low.
[21:57.040 -> 21:58.600] So you kind of have to look at the data and be like,
[21:58.600 -> 22:00.520] ah, okay, maybe that.
[22:00.520 -> 22:03.760] Ferrari, fast forward to free practice three,
[22:03.760 -> 22:06.060] Red Bull was a second ahead of everybody else to free practice three. Red Bull was a second ahead of everybody
[22:06.060 -> 22:11.140] else in free practice three. I'm looking at the chart of lap times. Red Bull a second
[22:11.140 -> 22:16.860] clear to Aston Martin, Mercedes, Ferrari, McLaren, Piastri moved up into the mix in
[22:16.860 -> 22:21.540] free practice three and the Alpine also looking good. Can't believe I had them on fraud watch,
[22:21.540 -> 22:23.260] but they looked shit before the season.
[22:23.260 -> 22:26.720] I said, I said this and I know you didn't go back.
[22:26.720 -> 22:27.920] Rewind the tapes.
[22:27.920 -> 22:33.520] I said Alpine, Alpine are going to, you know, not they're not going to look as weak as that.
[22:34.080 -> 22:35.040] It was just a one off.
[22:36.720 -> 22:39.760] Lo and behold, they're doing all right.
[22:39.760 -> 22:44.720] But so people like Ferrari, Sandbaking practice, looking back to their FP3 lap,
[22:45.620 -> 22:50.440] But so people like a Ferrari sandbag in practice looking back to their FP3 lap. They had really scrappy laps, street traffic, street circuit traffic, and it does look like
[22:50.440 -> 22:52.520] they are running a little bit lower engine mode.
[22:52.520 -> 22:54.800] But I looked at all the other Ferrari powered teams.
[22:54.800 -> 22:59.720] None of those teams run lower engine modes on Friday that I could tell or for FP3 practice
[22:59.720 -> 23:00.760] three compared to qualifying.
[23:00.760 -> 23:03.800] So not sure I could be wrong on that, but it doesn't look like that.
[23:03.800 -> 23:08.040] It looks like Ferrari were actually kind of a little bit in the mud, but it's Saturday and it's
[23:08.040 -> 23:13.920] qualifying time, baby. What do you, what were you takeaways from, uh, you want to walk us
[23:13.920 -> 23:17.360] through qualifying what you saw about it? Are you going to lead the tango?
[23:17.360 -> 23:23.560] No, no, no, no, it's fine. I can, I can, I can do this. I can do this. Um, what are we
[23:23.560 -> 23:26.000] on about qualifying? Oh oh yeah that was it.
[23:26.000 -> 23:28.000] So, uh,
[23:28.000 -> 23:30.000] thanks for listening everyone.
[23:30.000 -> 23:32.000] Ah,
[23:32.000 -> 23:34.000] dearing me, qualifying, Q1.
[23:34.000 -> 23:36.000] Um, poor old
[23:36.000 -> 23:38.000] Lothian Sargent, he had a
[23:38.000 -> 23:40.000] Logie Bear, he had a
[23:40.000 -> 23:42.000] good outing at
[23:42.000 -> 23:44.000] Bahrain, but this time
[23:44.000 -> 23:46.880] unfortunately he lost his lap time for touching.
[23:47.840 -> 23:50.880] He went just outside the line of the track near the pit entry.
[23:53.040 -> 23:54.800] A bit random that because I...
[23:57.360 -> 24:01.280] I mean you can cut a little bit off the track and save some time, but that's one of those
[24:01.280 -> 24:06.160] things before the weekend in the driver meeting, they say, right.
[24:06.160 -> 24:07.280] Drivers this is off limits.
[24:07.280 -> 24:08.280] Don't do this.
[24:08.280 -> 24:10.620] You will lose a lap time and that, you know, the drivers opening his lap, trying to make
[24:10.620 -> 24:14.100] a shortest line possible or just not paying attention because there's nothing else going
[24:14.100 -> 24:17.940] on and he's setting up to start that lap or close the lap and he crossed over that little
[24:17.940 -> 24:22.040] pink bit in between the track and the pit entry around the wall.
[24:22.040 -> 24:23.600] So so be it.
[24:23.600 -> 24:26.960] Um, but he seemed pretty, he seemed pretty flustered after that and
[24:26.960 -> 24:29.160] just couldn't get a lap together in Q1.
[24:29.160 -> 24:30.160] Unlucky, mate.
[24:30.160 -> 24:35.720] Yeah, and you know, I always go a bit lenient on the rookies in their first season because
[24:35.720 -> 24:41.720] well, it's their first season, isn't it? So, I'll give him a pass for this one. It was
[24:41.720 -> 24:45.120] a bit of a messy qualifying, but it's only a second. So.
[24:46.160 -> 24:50.120] Yeah, he's really, I think so far Sargent's doing reasonable.
[24:50.120 -> 24:53.800] He's had no howlers and I'm more disappointed in much more
[24:53.800 -> 24:55.420] seasoned drivers than him.
[24:57.100 -> 24:57.740] Florida man.
[24:57.740 -> 24:58.480] Yeah, exactly.
[24:58.480 -> 24:58.620] Yeah.
[24:58.620 -> 24:59.140] Sorry about that.
[24:59.140 -> 25:02.420] Florida man has messy qualifying more, more at 10.
[25:02.940 -> 25:03.500] More at 10.
[25:03.620 -> 25:08.440] Um, now I actually missed this part, but Lando managed to hit the inside
[25:08.440 -> 25:12.160] wall on his qualifying lap and did he break a track road, I believe.
[25:12.500 -> 25:13.020] Yeah.
[25:13.320 -> 25:15.540] Um, yeah, yeah.
[25:16.120 -> 25:19.440] Um, mechanics were like the mechanics were literally had the whole
[25:19.440 -> 25:22.120] brake drum assembly apart, trying to swap out that track car.
[25:22.120 -> 25:28.560] And it's, it's one of those things you're're like there was like something like eight minutes left in qualifying. And you know for a fact
[25:28.560 -> 25:31.760] you cannot change a track card in eight minutes. But if there's a red flag or anything else
[25:31.760 -> 25:35.720] you can keep working on the car through the red flag. So they were like let's send it
[25:35.720 -> 25:39.200] you know and there's one minute left and they're still bolting away and it's like okay fine
[25:39.200 -> 25:43.840] at that point. But people are people are clowning on that. I'm like no that makes perfect sense.
[25:43.840 -> 25:47.700] And there's a lot of teams that don't have that kind of mentality and they lose out as a result of that.
[25:47.700 -> 25:50.540] And that's a little bit of foreshadowing too later, unfortunately.
[25:50.900 -> 25:51.940] But I will have to come back to that.
[25:52.480 -> 25:52.780] Yeah.
[25:53.020 -> 25:53.260] Yeah.
[25:53.300 -> 25:56.300] Plenty of practice this weekend for McLaren swapping pass out.
[25:57.100 -> 25:57.500] Yeah.
[25:58.660 -> 25:59.860] To be fair, Red Bull did that.
[25:59.940 -> 26:03.620] Red Bull did a track rod on the grid at Budapest the other year.
[26:03.620 -> 26:04.060] Yeah.
[26:04.260 -> 26:04.540] Yeah.
[26:04.580 -> 26:05.800] That was, that was pretty rapid. I don't think itapest the other year. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was pretty rapid.
[26:05.800 -> 26:09.600] I don't think it was less than eight minutes, but yeah.
[26:11.000 -> 26:15.100] Yeah, and both Alpha Tauris got knocked out.
[26:15.100 -> 26:17.400] I'm not overly surprised about that.
[26:17.400 -> 26:22.900] I think they're a little bit, you know, down there this year.
[26:24.500 -> 26:26.080] You know why they're so slow?
[26:26.120 -> 26:28.680] Oh Christ, I know exactly where you're going with this.
[26:29.800 -> 26:32.280] Right, everyone get your tinfoil hats out.
[26:32.320 -> 26:34.720] Right, I need to get a tinfoil hat made for this, but.
[26:36.920 -> 26:40.640] AlphaTaurier is so slow because they've given Red Bull all their wins all the time.
[26:40.640 -> 26:45.440] I heard that from some experts on Twitter and Dan, can you explain to them how
[26:45.440 -> 26:49.360] absolutely asinine and how stupid that is and why that's not actually possible to do?
[26:49.360 -> 26:53.280] Just, and this is not to be, it is to be a dick. You guys are, you guys are idiots,
[26:53.280 -> 26:55.760] some of you guys. So Dan, please explain why you can't do that.
[26:56.640 -> 27:02.240] Right. Okay. So, and I can explain this because I was the one that designed the systems,
[27:02.240 -> 27:07.040] right? Humble brag, but but like separated all this so basically
[27:08.080 -> 27:14.880] you have a wind tunnel right and it used to be Red Bull's wind tunnel and then they literally
[27:15.840 -> 27:25.840] built a fucking wall right down the middle of it and now Alpha Tauri sit in one side and Red Bull sit in the other side
[27:25.840 -> 27:31.760] Red Bull staff aren't allowed in any of the buildings when AlphaTauri are on site
[27:31.760 -> 27:34.480] neither are vice versa
[27:34.480 -> 27:42.560] all completely separate systems or you know completely different networks
[27:42.560 -> 27:49.140] nothing is like connected or shared basically so and it's just not
[27:49.140 -> 27:53.920] possible. The only way you could do it is if an AlphaTauri engineer and a Red
[27:53.920 -> 27:59.640] Bull engineer met up in a car park and said hey this idea yada yada yada but
[27:59.640 -> 28:04.960] Aero doesn't work like that you can't just come out with a concept and sort of
[28:04.960 -> 28:09.020] explain it in the car park right because if we did if you could we'd all be
[28:09.020 -> 28:14.120] fucking aero engineers so they found that secured flash drive in raid and
[28:14.120 -> 28:17.820] handed that one off right exactly then if you if you extract from the car park
[28:17.820 -> 28:22.460] and it's still found in raid you can use that to upgrade your car yeah if you got
[28:22.460 -> 28:26.440] the escape from tarkov reference you get bonus points and make sure you leave a comment
[28:26.440 -> 28:27.280] on the podcast.
[28:27.280 -> 28:28.760] Yeah, you get yourself a little toot toot
[28:28.760 -> 28:30.880] to the Tarkov reference.
[28:30.880 -> 28:34.400] So even like, even down to the power,
[28:34.400 -> 28:38.400] the power draw on the building has to be audited
[28:38.400 -> 28:41.180] and logged against the job and then hours.
[28:41.180 -> 28:48.040] So, you know, if the FIA, because they do, they look at your energy bills and
[28:48.040 -> 28:50.960] they look at the power draw, their systems that monitor the power draw.
[28:52.160 -> 28:55.680] And then they monitor, they monitor when the fans are on, when the belt is on,
[28:55.800 -> 28:59.760] and they've got cameras in the wind tunnel watching what's on the belt.
[29:00.120 -> 29:00.440] Yeah.
[29:00.520 -> 29:06.000] And the power draw for a wind tunnel is significant to the point of where there was a
[29:06.000 -> 29:14.960] stage where every time Red Bull turned their wind tunnel on, right, on the same industrial estate
[29:14.960 -> 29:21.280] was one of those indoor skydiving centers. Oh no! They had to coordinate when which one of them was
[29:21.280 -> 29:26.120] going to be on because if they were both on at the same time, they would drop the entire block power
[29:26.120 -> 29:28.240] and they'd have to get someone to go to the substation
[29:28.240 -> 29:30.200] and reinstate the power and everything.
[29:30.200 -> 29:33.040] Oh my God.
[29:33.040 -> 29:35.200] But yeah, it's long story short,
[29:35.200 -> 29:38.040] it's very difficult, if not impossible,
[29:38.040 -> 29:40.480] to do such a thing.
[29:41.360 -> 29:44.200] Well, we do have the FIA monitoring that
[29:44.200 -> 29:45.480] and we'll get back to the FIA.
[29:45.480 -> 29:48.160] I'm not saying I'm not saying this is a conspiracy theory.
[29:48.160 -> 29:49.160] It's not possible.
[29:49.160 -> 29:52.120] Anyway, qualifying two happens.
[29:52.120 -> 29:56.520] That whole detour was AlphaTauri getting knocked out because they're really disappointing this
[29:56.520 -> 29:57.840] season, unfortunately.
[29:57.840 -> 30:00.000] But yeah, we also these things happen.
[30:00.000 -> 30:04.520] Didn't we not also have Franz Tost basically say, I don't trust any of my engineers.
[30:04.520 -> 30:06.760] I don't know what the fuck's going on with the car.
[30:06.760 -> 30:08.440] What is wrong with him?
[30:08.440 -> 30:13.060] Like imagine that you're so he's the same guy that says I'm working in the factory on
[30:13.060 -> 30:15.120] Christmas because I have stuff to do.
[30:15.120 -> 30:18.480] And then he's like, I don't know my engineers are doing.
[30:18.480 -> 30:19.480] I have no idea.
[30:19.480 -> 30:20.480] I don't trust them.
[30:20.480 -> 30:21.480] They've made a bad card.
[30:21.480 -> 30:22.720] It's like, dude, this is a you problem.
[30:22.720 -> 30:23.720] This is prop.
[30:23.720 -> 30:25.360] Like you are the person who's in charge of that.
[30:25.560 -> 30:26.560] Don't don't.
[30:27.160 -> 30:30.160] Yeah, that's, that's the weirdest response.
[30:30.240 -> 30:30.680] But anyway,
[30:30.760 -> 30:33.520] he's gone to the helmet Marco school of morale building.
[30:34.000 -> 30:34.240] Yeah.
[30:34.280 -> 30:36.760] Helmet Marco is about to helmet Marco him.
[30:37.960 -> 30:38.200] Yeah.
[30:38.200 -> 30:38.760] You know what I'm saying?
[30:39.320 -> 30:41.880] France, France tossed has had enough.
[30:41.920 -> 30:44.520] He is taking no more shit from anyone.
[30:44.520 -> 30:48.080] He is getting in his, I don't know, what,
[30:48.080 -> 30:50.560] Honda Civic, whatever they're sponsored by,
[30:50.560 -> 30:54.640] and he is driving around in,
[30:54.640 -> 30:57.400] fuck, I've forgotten where I have a Tauri base now.
[30:57.400 -> 30:58.960] Not Maranello, that's Ferrari.
[31:01.280 -> 31:03.800] Fuck, why have I forgotten where I have a Tauri's base?
[31:03.800 -> 31:06.540] I've just lost it too.
[31:06.540 -> 31:07.540] Let me know when you come back with it.
[31:07.540 -> 31:08.540] Let's get on to Q2.
[31:08.540 -> 31:09.540] Faenza, Faenza, of course.
[31:09.540 -> 31:16.180] Faenza, sorry, he's driving around Faenza in his little Honda Civic and he's just...
[31:16.180 -> 31:19.900] Fucking engineers, don't trust any of them.
[31:19.900 -> 31:20.900] Fuck's sake.
[31:20.900 -> 31:21.900] Oh my god.
[31:21.900 -> 31:22.900] But anyway, Q2.
[31:22.900 -> 31:23.900] Yeah.
[31:23.900 -> 31:25.320] Verstappen, driveshaft failure and does not set a representative time. Oh my God, but anyway, you too.
[31:25.320 -> 31:30.760] Yeah, for stopping drive shaft failure and does not set a representative time and our
[31:30.760 -> 31:34.480] man Oscar Piastri moves through to Q3.
[31:34.480 -> 31:41.120] And let's pick up pastry IQ to find any any shockers.
[31:41.120 -> 31:42.120] I don't think so.
[31:42.120 -> 31:43.880] Qualifying three was just weird.
[31:43.880 -> 31:45.680] It was just like a couple people
[31:45.680 -> 31:51.200] didn't set their best lap on their final run. Alonzo in Q2, Q3 had a spin on his owl app or
[31:51.200 -> 31:56.240] his prep lap. I'm like, what? When does Alonzo do that? Like Alonzo doesn't really goof up that much.
[31:56.960 -> 32:00.800] Well, is there any better way to warm up your tires than spinning them out?
[32:01.680 -> 32:05.680] Oh, who knows? You know, that's's actually that's a really bad way to do it
[32:05.680 -> 32:06.840] because you offline and it's dirty.
[32:06.840 -> 32:10.720] Maybe that was at the end of Q1, but in Q3, the Ferraris finally showed up.
[32:10.760 -> 32:15.160] Leclerc is P2 just behind Sergio and he does a pretty reasonable lap.
[32:15.360 -> 32:20.240] That being said, did you know Cechos Q3 lap was only about two tenths ahead of
[32:20.240 -> 32:22.960] Verstappen's FP3 lap, hot track.
[32:23.600 -> 32:25.700] I'm looking through qualifying.
[32:26.060 -> 32:26.960] I did not know that.
[32:27.380 -> 32:32.180] So looking from P3 to qualifying, most drivers found about half a second.
[32:32.240 -> 32:36.280] So could have, should have, would have, but I reckon Verstappen, if he'd been
[32:36.280 -> 32:41.720] in the mix, would have, um, he would have, he would have been up there.
[32:42.660 -> 32:49.760] I did know that Verstappen's Q1 lap would have been good enough for P4 at the end of
[32:49.760 -> 32:53.000] Q3.
[32:53.000 -> 32:54.720] That's wacky.
[32:54.720 -> 32:57.480] He did go out and qualify in one pretty hard.
[32:57.480 -> 32:59.960] But he'd been going out hard in every session.
[32:59.960 -> 33:01.060] Really.
[33:01.060 -> 33:06.120] So we made some predictions last week about the actual podium.
[33:06.120 -> 33:07.120] We did.
[33:07.120 -> 33:09.920] Do you want to since since you picked first, I'm going to go through it.
[33:09.920 -> 33:15.840] So go through the podium or the sorry, the top five in qualifying were Perez, Leclerc,
[33:15.840 -> 33:17.720] Russell, Alonso and Sainz.
[33:17.720 -> 33:21.000] Right, did I do that right?
[33:21.000 -> 33:22.760] Yes, I did.
[33:22.760 -> 33:23.760] That's right.
[33:23.760 -> 33:28.360] Dan picked Perez and Leclerc, then Alonso, then Sainz,
[33:28.360 -> 33:34.440] then Russell. So Dan picked the top two correct, and he named all five drivers in the top five.
[33:34.440 -> 33:42.120] I picked Verstappen, Perez, Leclerc, Sainz, and Hamilton. So I picked three of the top
[33:42.120 -> 33:45.260] five drivers and got none of them right. Sad.
[33:45.440 -> 33:46.620] So vibes win.
[33:46.660 -> 33:50.200] Absolute elite will will knowledge.
[33:50.260 -> 33:50.760] Right.
[33:52.900 -> 33:56.580] And I said in the last show that I wasn't going to put this to happen in the top five
[33:56.580 -> 33:59.040] because he was going to bump the wall in Q3 again.
[33:59.460 -> 34:03.640] So I wasn't far off his drive shaft decided to explode.
[34:04.120 -> 34:06.060] His drive shaft saw the wall getting close,
[34:06.060 -> 34:07.980] he was like, no, I'm gonna do it first
[34:07.980 -> 34:09.420] so you can't hurt me anymore.
[34:09.420 -> 34:13.020] Yeah, the Honda Power Unit derivative
[34:13.020 -> 34:16.860] in the back of that car, too much VTEC,
[34:16.860 -> 34:19.980] it twisted the driveshaft and that was it.
[34:19.980 -> 34:23.700] Yeah, so after qualifying,
[34:23.700 -> 34:26.320] did you see Mercedes interviews after qualifying?
[34:27.420 -> 34:28.260] Driver interviews?
[34:28.260 -> 34:29.580] No.
[34:29.580 -> 34:34.580] So obviously, Russell knows he's starting P3 on the grid.
[34:34.980 -> 34:36.220] He's pretty upbeat.
[34:36.220 -> 34:38.580] You know, he got a pretty decent lap in
[34:38.580 -> 34:42.460] and the person interviewing Lewis,
[34:42.460 -> 34:44.740] Lewis just was like, you know when a driver's in that mood
[34:44.740 -> 34:46.120] when they're like, mate, I don't want to talk.
[34:46.480 -> 34:49.600] And the guy was, the guy was, the guy wasn't prodding him, but Louis was like,
[34:50.040 -> 34:52.880] giving him the, I seriously don't want to talk to you right now.
[34:53.360 -> 34:55.920] And the completely understandable, he didn't have a very good qualifying.
[34:56.260 -> 35:00.320] Um, unfortunately, so, you know, I get it.
[35:01.240 -> 35:02.280] For a Mercedes.
[35:03.040 -> 35:03.400] Yeah.
[35:03.400 -> 35:06.880] It's a lot better than probably what we would expect, right?
[35:07.080 -> 35:11.640] Cause yeah, I mean, yeah, the W14 doesn't look terrible, but at the
[35:11.640 -> 35:12.880] same time, it doesn't look great.
[35:13.640 -> 35:13.980] Yeah.
[35:14.000 -> 35:19.680] So, but I mean, I think Russ, I don't know, Hamilton's not happy.
[35:19.680 -> 35:21.360] He hasn't looked too comfortable with the car.
[35:21.360 -> 35:25.680] The car doesn't look great, but George so far seems to be getting a little, or this weekend, at least George is getting a little bit more out with the car. The car doesn't look great, but George so far seems
[35:25.680 -> 35:27.840] to be getting a little or this weekend at least George is getting a little bit more
[35:27.840 -> 35:31.740] out of the car. And I think if I was you, Louis, you want to win, man, you don't want
[35:31.740 -> 35:37.280] to be P2 to your team that you don't. This is the first person you need to beat. So understandably
[35:37.280 -> 35:41.360] he was pissed off and probably the car is not great. Signs was about a half a second
[35:41.360 -> 35:42.360] off of Leclerc.
[35:42.360 -> 35:43.360] Yeah.
[35:43.360 -> 35:45.760] So I don't know.
[35:45.760 -> 35:48.560] We'll see what their driver offset looks like this season.
[35:48.800 -> 35:51.040] Um, both Alpines in the top 10.
[35:52.240 -> 35:52.740] Yep.
[35:53.680 -> 35:55.800] Front to back of the top 10 in qualifying.
[35:57.080 -> 35:58.640] A whole second, just about.
[36:00.240 -> 36:04.040] But anyway, before we get into our race review, why don't we have a little bit of
[36:04.040 -> 36:07.120] a little word from our friends, shall we?
[36:07.120 -> 36:08.120] Why don't we?
[36:08.120 -> 36:09.120] Are you ready?
[36:09.120 -> 36:10.120] Oh yeah, send it.
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[37:56.100 -> 37:59.800] And we're going to, you know what, we sometimes will go through it like point by point, lap
[37:59.800 -> 38:00.800] by lap.
[38:00.800 -> 38:01.800] We're not going to do that this week.
[38:01.800 -> 38:05.000] We're going to we've got a couple chunks that we want to focus on. And we're going to go. We're going to go do that this week. We're going to. We've got a couple chunks that we want to focus on.
[38:05.000 -> 38:06.000] And we're going to go.
[38:06.000 -> 38:07.000] We're going to go through all of it.
[38:07.000 -> 38:10.400] So why don't we talk about the race strategy?
[38:10.400 -> 38:11.400] Oh, right.
[38:11.400 -> 38:17.080] This is the time where everyone if you were sleepy, you can now go to sleep with Blake's
[38:17.080 -> 38:19.480] ASMR race strategy guide.
[38:19.480 -> 38:21.880] Nah, it's not.
[38:21.880 -> 38:23.960] It's not that deep, so let's be honest.
[38:23.960 -> 38:24.960] Let's be honest.
[38:24.960 -> 38:26.000] Everybody expected this weekend.
[38:26.000 -> 38:27.960] It's a super low deck circuit.
[38:27.960 -> 38:30.160] There's a lot, there's a lot of, there's 27 corners,
[38:30.160 -> 38:31.640] but realistically there's seven times
[38:31.640 -> 38:34.160] where you're loading up the tires quite heavily
[38:34.160 -> 38:34.980] and breaking.
[38:35.860 -> 38:38.000] The race is expected to be a one-stop, super low deck,
[38:38.000 -> 38:39.940] smooth surface, easy on the tires.
[38:39.940 -> 38:43.820] Most teams have selected a medium hard one-stop,
[38:43.820 -> 38:45.040] but there's a couple of people that
[38:45.040 -> 38:47.240] break this pattern and we'll get into it.
[38:47.240 -> 38:53.040] So why don't we, why don't we get into the race?
[38:53.040 -> 38:54.040] What about the race start?
[38:54.040 -> 38:55.040] We do.
[38:55.040 -> 39:00.120] That was, do you get, do you get, who gets adrenaline when you're watching the race start?
[39:00.120 -> 39:02.920] I don't know if it's adrenaline.
[39:02.920 -> 39:07.920] I still get a fear, the turn one fear that I used to
[39:07.920 -> 39:10.600] get when I was watching it while it being in...
[39:10.600 -> 39:11.600] Sea of War 2017?
[39:11.600 -> 39:12.600] Yeah.
[39:12.600 -> 39:13.920] Two redheads and a teenager?
[39:13.920 -> 39:14.920] Yeah, basically.
[39:14.920 -> 39:22.440] I just get the fear, um, watching a race thinking I'm still working at Red Bull and if we fuck
[39:22.440 -> 39:25.560] up turn one, I have to sit through that debrief
[39:25.560 -> 39:26.560] all over again.
[39:26.560 -> 39:28.320] I'm still in that still in that stage.
[39:28.320 -> 39:30.040] I haven't quite left that just yet.
[39:30.040 -> 39:31.520] Okay, I still feel that too.
[39:31.520 -> 39:37.480] I'm like, I'm buzzing, but um, race start shit housery.
[39:37.480 -> 39:38.480] Let's talk about it.
[39:38.480 -> 39:39.480] What happened?
[39:39.480 -> 39:44.320] Alonzo decided to park his wagon a little bit off and he was he was going aggressive
[39:44.320 -> 39:48.760] on the tire warming procedures and he just ended up a little bit to the left of his box.
[39:48.760 -> 39:51.640] He thought he was parking in a parent and child bay.
[39:51.640 -> 39:57.400] Um, it's really a little bit wider, but sadly, no, not the one.
[39:57.400 -> 39:59.760] But also somebody posted some photos.
[39:59.760 -> 40:03.720] There's a lot of cars up and down the grid, especially on the left side of the grid.
[40:03.720 -> 40:09.240] Alonzo's side that were quite far out and I am not sure on this. I know for a fact that the cars should
[40:09.240 -> 40:13.320] have a front and rear transponder that you can use to determine if you jump the start,
[40:13.320 -> 40:19.360] but I'm not sure if they have lateral transponders yet to tell if the car is inside of the box.
[40:19.360 -> 40:24.720] I don't believe they do. I don't think they do. I don't think. Okay, and then if I are
[40:24.720 -> 40:27.000] really good at eyeballing stuff and we're coming right back to that.
[40:27.000 -> 40:28.000] Yeah, yeah.
[40:28.000 -> 40:29.000] Cause yeah.
[40:29.000 -> 40:30.000] Oh yeah.
[40:30.000 -> 40:31.000] They never make a mistake.
[40:31.000 -> 40:32.000] No.
[40:32.000 -> 40:33.000] So Perez, poor start.
[40:33.000 -> 40:37.760] You know, you could tell he's in the, he's in the, he's in the damage cause Perez has
[40:37.760 -> 40:40.760] a bad start and he just starts inching over towards Alonzo, but he knows like, nah, that's
[40:40.760 -> 40:41.760] done mate.
[40:41.760 -> 40:44.660] Perez had a poor start in Bahrain as well.
[40:44.660 -> 40:46.200] So something he needs to work on there.
[40:46.200 -> 40:50.200] Maybe his, his clutch procedures are not good or his drive out.
[40:50.240 -> 40:51.260] I mean, that that's early.
[40:51.460 -> 40:54.680] Like if it's off the line like that, that's a clutch release procedure or,
[40:55.080 -> 40:59.180] uh, maybe the clutch isn't acting particularly favorable, but Alonzo
[40:59.180 -> 41:00.880] gets it done on the start.
[41:01.540 -> 41:02.640] Not bad for what?
[41:02.640 -> 41:05.160] 42 year old grand Grandad basically.
[41:05.160 -> 41:06.160] Yeah.
[41:06.160 -> 41:10.240] I was speaking of people's stats.
[41:10.240 -> 41:12.440] I like how during was it practice or qualifying?
[41:12.440 -> 41:14.320] I think it was FP3.
[41:14.320 -> 41:17.880] They put up some stats on the side of the screen and it was James Vowell's height and
[41:17.880 -> 41:18.880] weight.
[41:18.880 -> 41:19.880] It's like, of course we need to know.
[41:19.880 -> 41:21.400] I missed that completely.
[41:21.400 -> 41:24.000] We need to know the team principals height and weight.
[41:24.000 -> 41:27.000] What they need to do is get Horner and then Omar.
[41:27.000 -> 41:29.000] Horner's not very tall.
[41:29.000 -> 41:31.000] No, Horner's not very tall.
[41:31.000 -> 41:33.000] What's Horner, 5'8"?
[41:33.000 -> 41:35.000] No, I think he's a little bit...
[41:35.000 -> 41:37.000] I'll give him a 5'9".
[41:37.000 -> 41:39.000] He's not taller than I am, or about the same.
[41:39.000 -> 41:41.000] You're a little 5'9", are you?
[41:41.000 -> 41:42.000] Yeah.
[41:42.000 -> 41:43.000] Are you?
[41:43.000 -> 41:44.000] I'll die long, mate.
[41:44.000 -> 41:57.320] Oh, fuck it. I don't know how much I weigh now. So I know a lot. I am the W13 of people. All they need now is their reach on there so we can see who's going to win up the TP
[41:57.320 -> 41:58.320] boxing match.
[41:58.320 -> 42:03.280] But speaking of Zach Brown as well, both of the McLarens end up damaging their front wing
[42:03.280 -> 42:11.400] on the first lap and. He actually started in 8. And that was kind of like a redemption arc for a terrible
[42:11.400 -> 42:17.840] weekend that they've had, right? Yeah, I think then he ends up in the mud. All the way back
[42:17.840 -> 42:22.520] in the mud so. Unlucky.
[42:22.520 -> 42:28.360] Ray start as well. A clear starts 12th, but he makes up three positions on the first lap.
[42:28.360 -> 42:32.280] And he's also the only driver other than Norris to start on the soft tire.
[42:32.280 -> 42:34.880] So Leclerc's strategy was right.
[42:34.880 -> 42:36.760] We need to put the sticky stuff on at beginning.
[42:36.760 -> 42:38.600] We can chop through, we can make up the gap.
[42:38.600 -> 42:44.200] We should have a pace advantage to everybody in front of us, except for maybe the Red Bulls
[42:44.200 -> 42:45.440] is probably what they're thinking.
[42:45.440 -> 42:46.440] So forget it.
[42:46.440 -> 42:47.440] I get it.
[42:47.440 -> 42:54.880] I thoroughly enjoyed this decision to stick Norris and Charles on the soft tire.
[42:54.880 -> 42:59.560] Even after Pirelli came out and announced on Saturday night, they were like, look, medium
[42:59.560 -> 43:01.520] and hard tires are good.
[43:01.520 -> 43:05.640] We don't have much graining on those, but the softs, we're really struggling
[43:05.640 -> 43:06.640] with graining.
[43:06.640 -> 43:09.360] Come on, mate. Let's go.
[43:09.360 -> 43:13.320] And they just thought, hey, you know what would be really good? If we stick a fully
[43:13.320 -> 43:17.680] fuel loaded car on the softs at a race start, there'd be absolutely no problem with that
[43:17.680 -> 43:18.680] whatsoever.
[43:18.680 -> 43:21.280] They're just chewing gum on the surface, mate.
[43:21.280 -> 43:22.280] Christ.
[43:22.280 -> 43:25.040] So, so instead of going through every lap of the race, we're going to pick
[43:25.040 -> 43:28.560] up a couple of threads and we're going to, we're going to dig into them. And I think,
[43:29.200 -> 43:33.200] um, why don't we, let's start with the front. Let's start with the red bulls.
[43:35.200 -> 43:39.600] The red bullies. Yeah. The red bullies. I mean, I mean, it was like watching someone
[43:40.480 -> 43:45.000] driving F1 2022 with like 10% AI on.
[43:45.000 -> 43:48.480] No, dude, it was, it was, it was crazy.
[43:48.480 -> 43:51.880] So Max starts the race back in P15
[43:53.040 -> 43:55.680] and he makes, he makes up some positions
[43:55.680 -> 43:58.540] pretty, pretty quickly.
[43:59.960 -> 44:04.960] Before the safety car, he's from 15 to P4.
[44:08.240 -> 44:13.260] And after the safety car, he comes out second behind Perez and holds about a five second gap the entire time.
[44:13.260 -> 44:14.700] And they were just cruising there.
[44:14.700 -> 44:16.360] And we're thinking, I don't know what you're thinking.
[44:16.360 -> 44:19.760] I was thinking, I was like, is Max pushing like fuck or not?
[44:19.760 -> 44:29.840] Because he also towards the end of the race was like, GP, there's a weird sound. And he's, you know, he's having PTSD from the qualifying drive shaft pop out.
[44:30.560 -> 44:31.060] So.
[44:31.960 -> 44:37.040] There were some, some moments at like sort of the first half of the race where I was
[44:37.040 -> 44:38.480] watching Max doing overtakes.
[44:38.480 -> 44:42.600] And there were some instances where I thought, Oh, Max is good.
[44:42.640 -> 44:46.400] Max is going to go for that here, but he was a bit more reserved,
[44:46.400 -> 44:51.200] I think. Absolutely. Sometimes you think, oh that'd be a slam dunk, Max is gonna chuck that
[44:51.200 -> 44:54.960] up the inside, where he was just like, no I'm just gonna chill, I'll just wait for the DRS.
[44:56.000 -> 45:02.640] Yeah, exactly. But I will say, right, I'm gonna give a very special to Fernando Alonso,
[45:02.640 -> 45:06.960] who in the pre-race segment said that by lap 25 Max was going to be
[45:06.960 -> 45:16.480] in P2. Would you like to know what lap of the race it was when Max got into P2? Go on. Lap 25,
[45:16.480 -> 45:27.260] Fernando Alonso the Oracle. He's too good isn't he? He's way too good. So. So Max basically cuts through the field
[45:27.260 -> 45:30.320] and people are saying there's no way he's going to win that race and he didn't win the
[45:30.320 -> 45:34.680] race. But here's here's where it starts to get a little bit interesting towards the end
[45:34.680 -> 45:41.520] of the race. Max is given a lap time target of a one minute 33. Checos, Checos given the
[45:41.520 -> 45:45.000] same then Max comes on the radio to GP and he asks,
[45:45.000 -> 45:47.000] who's got the fastest lap?
[45:47.000 -> 45:49.000] GP replies, we don't need to worry about that.
[45:49.000 -> 45:53.000] And obviously, Max knows and says,
[45:53.000 -> 45:55.000] yes, I do need to worry about that, mate.
[45:55.000 -> 45:58.000] And I think at this point, this is a split of GP
[45:58.000 -> 46:00.000] and his race engineer trying to manage,
[46:00.000 -> 46:03.000] like, right, let's get the car home, finish the race.
[46:03.000 -> 46:05.720] And Max is like, I'd like to do both.
[46:05.720 -> 46:07.320] I'd like to get the car home and get the fastest lap.
[46:07.500 -> 46:11.880] I'm not sure if he knew that Checo had the fastest lap or not, but.
[46:13.040 -> 46:18.080] Um, it wouldn't matter if Matt, if checker had it or not, you're asking Max.
[46:18.640 -> 46:20.320] Do you, do you want a free point or not?
[46:20.320 -> 46:22.080] Yeah, of course he wants a free point.
[46:22.080 -> 46:22.240] Yeah.
[46:22.240 -> 46:22.960] He wants a free point.
[46:22.960 -> 46:24.760] Any racing driver was going to go for it.
[46:26.000 -> 46:27.000] Yeah.
[46:27.000 -> 46:33.720] Um, so what he then does is, um, Checo is asking Hugh, he's like, is Max doing the lap
[46:33.720 -> 46:34.720] times?
[46:34.720 -> 46:35.720] Like, no, he's doing a little bit faster than the lap times.
[46:35.720 -> 46:37.280] He told me, he's like, okay, well, are we holding?
[46:37.280 -> 46:38.760] And he's like, yeah, everything's fine.
[46:38.760 -> 46:39.760] We're going to the end.
[46:39.760 -> 46:42.280] And Hugh, as he does, he's just giving him confidence.
[46:42.280 -> 46:46.200] So their cruise into the end, they're holding out a five second gap.
[46:46.200 -> 46:50.320] And then I was I was watching it on my stream and I was like, Max is saving until the very
[46:50.320 -> 46:55.320] last lap to go purple because you can't react to that.
[46:55.320 -> 46:57.280] I don't think there's any communication to say he was going to do it.
[46:57.280 -> 46:59.920] It's just one of those things that you can't tell him you can't come on the radio, say
[46:59.920 -> 47:02.760] Max, don't take the fastest lap because he's going to try to go for it.
[47:02.760 -> 47:06.700] This dude pulls two seconds out in a single lap.
[47:07.180 -> 47:08.620] He's done this before though, hasn't he?
[47:08.620 -> 47:12.740] Where like you just be at some random point in the race, nothing is going on.
[47:13.780 -> 47:16.580] And then Max will just all of a sudden put his foot down for one lap.
[47:16.620 -> 47:20.280] And then GP comes across over the radio, like Max, what are you doing?
[47:20.300 -> 47:21.380] You need to slow it down, mate.
[47:22.100 -> 47:23.940] And he just sort of giggles back on the radio.
[47:27.520 -> 47:32.000] Yeah. So, uh, we're looking at that. You see purple sector one and then it's like, yeah, two seconds in a single lap.
[47:32.000 -> 47:35.920] So what were both of the Red Bulls holding back pace?
[47:35.920 -> 47:36.920] Yes.
[47:36.920 -> 47:42.640] But yeah, which brings us on to the next people down the road from them, which were the Aston's
[47:42.640 -> 47:45.360] of stroll causes that safety car after his first
[47:45.360 -> 47:52.800] stop unfortunately. That's a weak safety car call. That was so stupid. Can we talk about that for a
[47:52.800 -> 48:00.480] second? Yeah absolutely but before we do that can I just say I'm on hard watch ladies and gentlemen.
[48:00.480 -> 48:05.580] I've been on hard watch and I noticed that Aston Martin have gone back
[48:05.580 -> 48:10.740] to their usual trick of scrubbing their hard set of tires for a lap before the race.
[48:10.740 -> 48:15.540] So they did they did prep their tires because the tires had been used for a
[48:15.540 -> 48:20.220] single lap. But yeah let's talk about that stroll safety car and this is this
[48:20.220 -> 48:25.680] is really not on stroll. Stroll did everything right in that situation, um the FIA
[48:26.720 -> 48:35.280] what are they doing? Well apparently they the GPS they had which is normally super accurate right
[48:35.280 -> 48:41.440] because teams get access to that as well and uh they said the car looked like it was still on track
[48:41.440 -> 48:45.760] which I thought was a bit bizarre so either I didn't
[48:45.760 -> 48:50.720] see the dash on Stroll's car when he pulled up so either he had like a complete electronics failure
[48:50.720 -> 48:54.800] and the GPS showed his last position which probably would have been on track
[48:56.080 -> 49:00.880] um but they have cameras too so I don't know but yeah it was weird sometimes there are some
[49:00.880 -> 49:05.880] fucking tracks Australia being one of them, where the GPS at just one random
[49:05.880 -> 49:09.480] corner will be really shit and nobody knows why.
[49:09.480 -> 49:12.440] Well, here's, here's the thing.
[49:12.440 -> 49:18.520] I had strolls on board up on my FIA control sender, you know, my, my multi viewer powered
[49:18.520 -> 49:19.760] by F1 multi for F1.
[49:19.760 -> 49:21.560] If you haven't used it for F1, check it out.
[49:21.560 -> 49:27.680] But I had strolls camera up and I'm sitting here looking at stroll, pull his car into the hole in the wall next to the forklift through the
[49:27.680 -> 49:34.140] gap in the fence. I'm sorry if I can do that from my desk unless we're missing something
[49:34.140 -> 49:38.360] else completely. But if I can do that from my desk, they said the GPS looked off. It's
[49:38.360 -> 49:42.400] like well, imagine imagine that you've got all the cameras from all the cars which they
[49:42.400 -> 49:45.680] do. That's just like, what are you guys doing?
[49:45.680 -> 49:48.500] You guys are, you guys are so lost.
[49:48.500 -> 49:51.680] And I don't know if there's nobody there that has the confidence to make those decisions
[49:51.680 -> 49:55.640] because they're just hiring interns to just fill seats in their operation center.
[49:55.640 -> 49:59.940] But anyway, um, normally that would be a virtual safety car because stroll was completely off
[49:59.940 -> 50:00.940] the track.
[50:00.940 -> 50:02.360] He pulled his car into the gap.
[50:02.360 -> 50:03.360] It was fine.
[50:03.360 -> 50:06.680] Um, did the safety car help the race or hurt the race?
[50:07.680 -> 50:12.180] Um, it certainly helped Max cause he got free pit stop out of it.
[50:12.760 -> 50:12.900] Yeah.
[50:12.900 -> 50:17.360] So do you reckon that Max paid Lance to stop?
[50:17.880 -> 50:22.200] No, I'm going to go with what Kent has said in the chat and that
[50:22.200 -> 50:24.820] Flavio Briatore has been involved.
[50:24.840 -> 50:30.600] He went up to race control and press the red button because he's still associated with
[50:30.600 -> 50:32.280] Alonzo somehow, isn't he?
[50:32.280 -> 50:33.920] Ooh, yeah, yeah, definitely.
[50:33.920 -> 50:34.920] So there you go.
[50:34.920 -> 50:35.920] He gets a cut.
[50:35.920 -> 50:36.920] Yep.
[50:36.920 -> 50:42.720] I was going to say something else now I've completely forgotten.
[50:42.720 -> 50:46.400] Another quality, top quality podcast from yours truly.
[50:46.400 -> 50:47.400] That's all right.
[50:47.400 -> 50:49.480] Well, why don't we, why don't we, if you remember it, remember it, get back to me, but.
[50:49.480 -> 50:50.480] Oh, that was it.
[50:50.480 -> 50:51.480] Sorry.
[50:51.480 -> 50:52.480] Yeah.
[50:52.480 -> 50:53.480] What the hell?
[50:53.480 -> 50:57.440] I'm, I tried to go back and watch this, but I didn't get a chance to in the end.
[50:57.440 -> 51:01.600] What were McLaren doing with Piastri under this safety car?
[51:01.600 -> 51:03.000] Because I wasn't paying attention to McLaren.
[51:03.000 -> 51:07.000] They pitted him as a safety car was ending and I was like, what are you doing?
[51:07.000 -> 51:09.000] Why are you pitting him now?
[51:09.000 -> 51:10.000] That's okay.
[51:10.000 -> 51:11.000] That's bad.
[51:11.000 -> 51:15.000] Even do it as soon as a safety car comes out or don't do it at all.
[51:15.000 -> 51:17.000] Why are you doing it as it comes in?
[51:17.000 -> 51:19.000] That's, I don't know.
[51:19.000 -> 51:20.000] That's chaos.
[51:20.000 -> 51:23.000] Anyway, back, yeah, there's some more safety car chaos.
[51:23.000 -> 51:25.240] We're coming to that, but we're not going through this in linear order.
[51:25.240 -> 51:25.880] We're going to jump.
[51:25.880 -> 51:27.960] We're going to stay on the topic, which we haven't done.
[51:27.960 -> 51:28.880] Now we're going to ask the whole time.
[51:29.840 -> 51:32.840] Alonzo basically drives the thing home to the end.
[51:33.120 -> 51:36.800] The gap between him and Checo is about 18 seconds
[51:36.800 -> 51:38.840] almost at the end of the race or to Max.
[51:38.880 -> 51:42.280] So Alonzo was not closing the gap to the Red Bulls.
[51:42.280 -> 51:43.640] So the Red Bulls are managing.
[51:43.640 -> 51:44.600] There was no shot.
[51:44.600 -> 51:51.600] So it's kind of like Formula One and Formula 1.5 is being led by Alonso right now.
[51:51.600 -> 51:58.080] So yeah, there's just not like that was kind of like great.
[51:58.080 -> 51:59.200] Max gets through with the safety car.
[51:59.200 -> 52:00.200] He drives through everybody.
[52:00.200 -> 52:03.760] Alonso goes on to finish on the podium.
[52:03.760 -> 52:05.200] Or does he? Or does he?
[52:06.440 -> 52:06.480] Or does he?
[52:08.400 -> 52:19.520] We're going to play the new game of.
[52:22.920 -> 52:24.000] Whose third place is it anyway?
[52:26.880 -> 52:29.040] That's a new segment with the same sound as the other one. So production quality.
[52:29.040 -> 52:31.560] We're going to rattle through this because it was chaos.
[52:31.560 -> 52:33.700] I had no idea it was happening and it gave me PTSD.
[52:33.700 -> 52:38.660] On the last lap of the race, the FIA decided to reinvestigate Alonso's five second penalty
[52:38.660 -> 52:40.880] that he served during the pit stop.
[52:40.880 -> 52:42.600] Mercedes seemed to be aware of it.
[52:42.600 -> 52:46.000] So it's very likely that Mercedes looked at the footage and said, you know what, mate?
[52:46.000 -> 52:49.000] Your rear jack man touched that and they told the FIA.
[52:49.000 -> 52:53.000] And FIA classic of them not to do their own job, or was it?
[52:53.000 -> 52:58.000] So here's what happened, and we'll try to do this in 60 seconds.
[52:58.000 -> 53:05.440] Bear in mind, we're going to try to explain what happened, but let's be honest, I don't think even the FIA know what happened so wish us luck.
[53:10.320 -> 53:16.560] So they applied a 10 second penalty to Alonso after the podium ceremony and the third place goes to Russell. The result says, I'm summarizing this is from the FIA documents, blah blah blah
[53:16.560 -> 53:21.280] the race control center Geneva examined whether car 14 served its penalty in accordance with
[53:21.280 -> 53:30.720] regulations. The stewards determined the penalty had been served properly. The stewards did not examine the matter any further. Subsequently, at the last lap
[53:30.720 -> 53:35.920] of the race, mind you, the stewards received a report from race control that they considered
[53:35.920 -> 53:41.360] the penalty was not properly served on car 14 and they asked the stewards to investigate the matter.
[53:43.280 -> 53:46.960] They stated that what was agreed at this SAC meeting was teams
[53:47.200 -> 53:50.560] that no part of the car could be touched while a penalty was being served,
[53:50.920 -> 53:53.800] as this would constitute working on the car.
[53:54.000 -> 53:58.080] In this case, it was clear that the rear that the car was touched by the rear jack.
[53:58.080 -> 54:00.040] And I went back and watched that camera.
[54:00.080 -> 54:02.920] Yeah, literally, that the rear jackman slides the jack
[54:03.240 -> 54:06.600] under the rear impact structure about to lift the car
[54:06.600 -> 54:10.520] But doesn't lift the car up and it's like you guys have to be fucking kidding me
[54:11.440 -> 54:15.720] After the penalty was applied Aston Martin appealed the decision with new information
[54:15.720 -> 54:18.840] Which if there's new information you can appeal it in short the FIA
[54:19.400 -> 54:21.920] The new information if I stewards didn't know what was going on
[54:21.920 -> 54:25.120] That was an information but in support of the petition for review,
[54:25.120 -> 54:29.160] the stewards were shown minutes of the last latest SAC meeting and video
[54:29.160 -> 54:33.040] evidence of seven different instances where cars were touched by the jack
[54:33.240 -> 54:37.800] while serving a similar penalty to the one imposed on car 14 without being penalized.
[54:38.080 -> 54:38.560] Blah, blah, blah.
[54:38.560 -> 54:41.760] They reviewed the evidence and then they basically gave Alonzo the thing back.
[54:41.760 -> 54:42.600] So basically.
[54:44.120 -> 54:47.080] The FIA places it anyway.
[54:47.120 -> 54:47.800] It's Russell.
[54:47.800 -> 54:49.080] It's it's Russell's no wait.
[54:49.080 -> 54:49.880] No, it's Alonzo's.
[54:50.000 -> 54:51.920] Russell was his post on
[54:51.920 -> 54:52.760] Instagram was quite nice.
[54:52.760 -> 54:53.320] He was like.
[54:53.880 -> 54:54.680] You know this.
[54:54.680 -> 54:57.360] This should be Alonzo's, but.
[54:58.280 -> 55:01.200] You know, George PR Russell.
[55:01.200 -> 55:02.240] Why again?
[55:02.360 -> 55:03.880] You know, but like trying to win
[55:03.880 -> 55:05.680] the hearts and minds of everyone.
[55:05.680 -> 55:14.560] Oh actually that was, you know, GG's Alonzo called Limey mate, thanks for the trophy!
[55:14.560 -> 55:16.440] Oh my god.
[55:16.440 -> 55:21.600] I love how with the social media feeds all in like impression order or whatever, algorithm
[55:21.600 -> 55:25.560] order, it's like you really can't tell what's going on because it's never chronological.
[55:25.560 -> 55:30.280] So that was the aftermath of that for Mercedes, for Aston Martin.
[55:30.280 -> 55:34.080] And they, yeah, they didn't really get a, I get a shot at that.
[55:34.080 -> 55:35.080] Yep.
[55:35.080 -> 55:41.800] And then Lawrence Stroll did his best impersonation of a, what's the name out of legally blonde.
[55:41.800 -> 55:42.800] I don't know that one.
[55:42.800 -> 55:43.800] There you go.
[55:43.800 -> 55:44.800] Thank you for that.
[55:44.800 -> 55:46.000] A minute of chinchilla for that little reference. I know that one. There you go. Thank you for that, uh, Manila Chinchilla for that little reference.
[55:46.000 -> 55:47.000] I like that one.
[55:47.000 -> 55:49.000] Pick up yourself, give yourself a little.
[55:49.000 -> 56:00.000] And if you want to feed me references in chat to drop on pod and claim as my own, then you can by where can they watch us live?
[56:00.000 -> 56:06.480] Like, so we record the engine breaking podcast on my Twitch stream every Monday night 7 p.m.
[56:06.480 -> 56:11.720] UK time on twitch.tv front slash B R R R aka
[56:11.720 -> 56:16.380] good for everyone's teamwork for everyone's here live
[56:16.380 -> 56:26.280] and for everyone that's listening on the car or on the toilet Toot toots for you
[56:26.280 -> 56:28.280] Exactly. Let's get on to Mercedes
[56:28.800 -> 56:30.800] So we basically Red Bull
[56:31.480 -> 56:35.520] Aston we've covered their race and all the shenanigans after the race. Let's get on to Mercedes
[56:38.240 -> 56:40.600] Hamilton started the race on the hard tire
[56:41.520 -> 56:43.440] Russell on the medium
[56:43.440 -> 56:46.360] Hamilton struggled like hell on the hard tire and just falls back.
[56:46.600 -> 56:50.220] Uh, the Claire gets him for stop and drives through him.
[56:50.220 -> 56:52.140] And he's at that first stop.
[56:52.140 -> 56:55.520] He's like before the safety cars, like 15 seconds behind Russell
[56:55.520 -> 56:56.440] who started on the medium.
[56:56.720 -> 56:57.960] He's not having a good time, mate.
[56:58.320 -> 56:58.640] No.
[56:58.680 -> 57:02.800] Um, and he was like, he was on the radio basically saying the classic
[57:02.800 -> 57:07.000] Hamilton, the classic Hamilton radio message of this tire is shit.
[57:07.000 -> 57:10.200] Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
[57:10.200 -> 57:13.800] So it's like, okay, okay, fine.
[57:13.800 -> 57:16.320] But I don't know.
[57:16.320 -> 57:19.880] Russell's first stint, Russell's in P3 up until the safety car.
[57:19.880 -> 57:23.560] He cannot, he cannot hold on to Alonzo's wheel.
[57:23.560 -> 57:26.000] Magic Alonzo is way too grande magic.
[57:26.000 -> 57:31.360] So grande ares magique Alonzo.
[57:31.360 -> 57:36.360] I think Alonzo by the safety car is about 8 seconds ahead on just shy 20 laps.
[57:36.360 -> 57:39.560] So so it's a safety car.
[57:39.560 -> 57:41.200] Hamilton goes medium.
[57:41.200 -> 57:42.760] Yeah.
[57:42.760 -> 57:43.980] Russell gets hard.
[57:43.980 -> 57:47.000] Russell gets hard does he gets hard. Does he? Yeah, he does. But Alonzo,
[57:47.000 -> 57:52.960] I'm sorry. Hamilton is still behind him and he's like, I don't know my tires. I don't,
[57:52.960 -> 57:57.240] I didn't catch any of his radio messages, but basically you've got Lewis on a faster
[57:57.240 -> 58:06.720] tire behind George. He pulls up to me, spends probably the first 10 laps that stint up sniffing his gearbox and then just falls back.
[58:06.720 -> 58:13.380] It looks like the stint pace was dictated by Russell there, but at the same time, kind
[58:13.380 -> 58:14.380] of got to overtake.
[58:14.380 -> 58:19.420] And I think ultimately what happened is the safety car, a hard start tire was definitely
[58:19.420 -> 58:20.420] not the play.
[58:20.420 -> 58:21.420] No.
[58:21.420 -> 58:25.600] A. And then the alternative strategy could have been okay without the safety car
[58:27.020 -> 58:32.160] But then then they're out of sync and they're up against each other and Russell's dictating the pace for that stent. So
[58:33.680 -> 58:37.420] Ultimately Hamilton's poor step first and cost him position to his teammate
[58:38.320 -> 58:42.800] But I'm not sure it would have been the same story if they're both on a medium hard one stopper
[58:44.400 -> 58:45.840] Not sure.
[58:45.840 -> 58:47.200] Not sure.
[58:47.200 -> 58:50.320] But yeah, I like I've seen people, you know, dig it.
[58:50.320 -> 58:51.800] Oh, they should prioritize Lewis.
[58:51.800 -> 58:53.560] They should prioritize George.
[58:53.560 -> 58:58.120] At the same time, like Russell's been kind of flawless all weekend.
[58:58.120 -> 58:59.120] Like P3 quali.
[58:59.120 -> 59:00.120] Or sorry, P3 restart.
[59:00.120 -> 59:07.080] You know, they're in vastly different areas of the field in terms of qualifying.
[59:07.080 -> 59:09.600] That also dictates your strategy.
[59:09.600 -> 59:15.360] So yeah, you know, I don't know, but like I say, everyone's an armchair.
[59:16.080 -> 59:19.400] Analyst and race strategist, aren't they?
[59:19.520 -> 59:21.480] Including us two fucking frauds.
[59:21.880 -> 59:22.600] I'm a big fraud.
[59:22.640 -> 59:23.800] Can we real quick though?
[59:24.080 -> 59:25.560] Um, Bernie Collins on the sky broadcast was an absolute game changer and actual Those two fucking frauds. I'm a big fraud. Can we real quick though?
[59:25.560 -> 59:29.720] Bernie Collins on the Sky broadcast was an absolute game changer and actual strategist
[59:29.720 -> 59:31.720] in the Skybox on the TV all weekend.
[59:31.720 -> 59:35.440] I usually turn the TV down quite a bit, but I left it on a little bit just so I could
[59:35.440 -> 59:39.540] hear when she was talking because it was like actually very insightful stuff and she picks
[59:39.540 -> 59:46.520] up on stuff that the other the other presenters do not either understand, or they wouldn't have picked up.
[59:46.520 -> 59:48.560] She's super clever, super awesome.
[59:48.560 -> 59:49.800] So that was awesome.
[59:49.800 -> 59:54.560] Ex-Aston Martin head of strategy there, now on the Sky broadcast.
[59:54.560 -> 59:55.560] Huge, huge Ws.
[59:55.560 -> 59:56.560] Can we get a toot toot?
[59:56.560 -> 01:00:00.640] Oh, there you go, Bernie.
[01:00:00.640 -> 01:00:05.440] Hopefully she doesn't smuggle a firearm for a Brazilian airport like the last Bernie in
[01:00:05.440 -> 01:00:06.440] F1 did.
[01:00:06.440 -> 01:00:11.720] Oh my god, yeah every time they say Bernie I'm like oh god not Bernie Ecclestone please
[01:00:11.720 -> 01:00:13.480] please not that.
[01:00:13.480 -> 01:00:16.560] But anyway, that was awesome to have her on the broadcast.
[01:00:16.560 -> 01:00:18.440] I don't think we heard enough of her during the race.
[01:00:18.440 -> 01:00:21.200] We heard a lot during practice but I think we could have used a little bit more during
[01:00:21.200 -> 01:00:23.560] the race but one stops are boring.
[01:00:23.560 -> 01:00:24.560] True.
[01:00:24.560 -> 01:00:28.880] And it's her first weekend, isn't it? You don't want to throw her into the...
[01:00:29.840 -> 01:00:31.200] She did all right. She did really well.
[01:00:32.960 -> 01:00:34.560] Speaking of the deep end...
[01:00:34.560 -> 01:00:36.320] Speaking of the deep end...
[01:00:36.880 -> 01:00:39.280] How about them Ferraris, man?
[01:00:41.280 -> 01:00:42.160] Aye, aye, aye.
[01:00:43.520 -> 01:00:50.960] Well, good news Ferrari, next year is your year.
[01:00:50.960 -> 01:00:55.040] Let's be honest, we can already confirm that this is probably not the year.
[01:00:55.040 -> 01:01:02.920] Hey, listen, we're going to be hard on Ferrari, but I have to give them something.
[01:01:02.920 -> 01:01:06.120] For this race and the last race they took the fastest pit
[01:01:06.120 -> 01:01:07.120] stop.
[01:01:07.120 -> 01:01:10.040] Okay, well they're improving something.
[01:01:10.040 -> 01:01:13.560] Some positivity there for you to foesy listening.
[01:01:13.560 -> 01:01:20.400] Yeah, so Leclerc started on the soft, Sainz on the medium.
[01:01:20.400 -> 01:01:24.680] Sainz basically holds on to the back of Russell and then kind of falls back.
[01:01:24.680 -> 01:01:29.600] So from that first stint, both of those among the mediums, Russell has the upper hand on
[01:01:29.600 -> 01:01:30.600] the Ferrari.
[01:01:30.600 -> 01:01:35.680] Leclerc comes through on the soft and then there's the pit stop.
[01:01:35.680 -> 01:01:36.680] There's the pit stop.
[01:01:36.680 -> 01:01:40.040] And I looked at this.
[01:01:40.040 -> 01:01:45.460] Long story short, here's how the pit stops or safety car situation works.
[01:01:45.460 -> 01:01:50.080] During the safety car, you have a lap time delta on your dash, which is programmed by
[01:01:50.080 -> 01:01:51.080] the FIA.
[01:01:51.080 -> 01:01:55.380] So the FIA says during this time of the track, you have to be going, this this needs to be
[01:01:55.380 -> 01:01:56.380] your lap time at this point.
[01:01:56.380 -> 01:02:00.400] And it's a relatively slow pace to keep cars safe, because something bad has happened,
[01:02:00.400 -> 01:02:01.400] there's a safety car out.
[01:02:01.400 -> 01:02:09.600] And this instance, Lance Stroll was behind the barriers and everything was fine, but never mind. But if there's no obstruction on the main straight,
[01:02:09.600 -> 01:02:16.520] you are using the main straight and you can go full chat between the safety car lines.
[01:02:16.520 -> 01:02:22.280] So once the pit entry, once the pit exit, you should do that by default. But the Claire
[01:02:22.280 -> 01:02:26.640] is driving, he's warming his tires on that main straight and he gets mad
[01:02:26.640 -> 01:02:30.160] at his engineer for not telling him that Hamilton was pitting.
[01:02:30.160 -> 01:02:35.400] Also that lap, he was two seconds slower than signs even throughout the rest of the lap.
[01:02:35.400 -> 01:02:40.260] So he was two seconds shy of the Delta anyway.
[01:02:40.260 -> 01:02:43.080] And then he's cruising down the main straight and Hamilton's pitting.
[01:02:43.080 -> 01:02:45.440] His engineer tells him, I push now Hamilton's pitting.
[01:02:45.440 -> 01:02:46.320] He's like, you have to tell me that.
[01:02:48.320 -> 01:02:52.080] It's like, yeah, but like at the same time, it's like, you know, that people are pitting
[01:02:52.080 -> 01:02:52.880] probably around you.
[01:02:52.880 -> 01:02:57.200] Why would you like that is one of the default calls is push between safety car lines.
[01:02:58.160 -> 01:03:00.160] Like you don't need to be told that every weekend.
[01:03:01.120 -> 01:03:02.800] And maybe that's a procedural thing for them.
[01:03:03.360 -> 01:03:03.520] But.
[01:03:07.080 -> 01:03:08.080] Yeah, that was sad. That was sad.
[01:03:08.080 -> 01:03:13.600] So rather than coming ahead of Hamilton.
[01:03:13.600 -> 01:03:15.180] Hamilton ends up getting signs.
[01:03:15.180 -> 01:03:22.960] Hamilton cruises off, tucks in behind Russell signs, finishes ahead of Leclerc.
[01:03:22.960 -> 01:03:23.960] Ferrari bring it home in.
[01:03:23.960 -> 01:03:25.800] 67. ahead of Leclerc. Ferrari bring it home in.
[01:03:26.600 -> 01:03:28.300] 67
[01:03:29.900 -> 01:03:30.500] What the heck is going on?
[01:03:32.600 -> 01:03:36.200] There's no chance for them to attack the Mercedes in the final stint and I expected me Ferrari to be clear of Mercedes,
[01:03:36.200 -> 01:03:37.200] honestly, but uh.
[01:03:38.500 -> 01:03:39.600] Wasn't to be made.
[01:03:39.700 -> 01:03:40.800] No, wasn't to be.
[01:03:40.800 -> 01:03:44.700] I didn't have Ferrari getting outpaced by Mercedes on race
[01:03:44.700 -> 01:03:47.640] two on my bingo card. No, no way, dude
[01:03:47.640 -> 01:03:53.320] Like and that's one of the threads that I'm trying to I'm gonna work on a video this week on my youtube channel break
[01:03:53.320 -> 01:03:57.420] Everyone but who's got it worse right now. Is it Mercedes a Ferrari? I
[01:03:58.600 -> 01:04:00.600] Don't know
[01:04:01.160 -> 01:04:05.600] Ferrari I think I'm my guts telling me the Ferrari as well.
[01:04:05.600 -> 01:04:10.000] Purely because, and I'll tell you who I feel sorry for, and that's Fred.
[01:04:10.000 -> 01:04:13.680] Good old Fred, for sure.
[01:04:13.680 -> 01:04:19.920] Because it cannot be easy getting chucked into there to save the team, and it's not
[01:04:19.920 -> 01:04:21.600] quite working out that way.
[01:04:21.600 -> 01:04:24.800] And it's not going to, because you're not just going to walk into a team and get instant
[01:04:24.800 -> 01:04:25.360] results.
[01:04:25.800 -> 01:04:26.080] No.
[01:04:26.200 -> 01:04:29.520] Unless your name's Max Verstappen and you're at the Spanish 2016 Grand Prix.
[01:04:29.520 -> 01:04:29.800] But.
[01:04:30.760 -> 01:04:31.840] That was the diff maps though.
[01:04:32.360 -> 01:04:33.000] Was that by you?
[01:04:33.000 -> 01:04:33.360] Was it?
[01:04:33.680 -> 01:04:35.480] Did you make, did you make the difference?
[01:04:35.880 -> 01:04:36.160] Yep.
[01:04:36.680 -> 01:04:36.960] No.
[01:04:37.160 -> 01:04:38.000] 30 seconds.
[01:04:38.000 -> 01:04:38.840] 30 seconds.
[01:04:39.520 -> 01:04:41.800] That was Melbourne 2018 actually.
[01:04:42.040 -> 01:04:42.760] Oh, sorry.
[01:04:42.760 -> 01:04:43.120] Sorry.
[01:04:43.120 -> 01:04:47.840] I'm not my Blake trivia isn't as, you know, I've not brushed off on it. Oh, sorry, sorry. I'm not my Blake trivia isn't as you know, I'm not brushed off on it.
[01:04:47.840 -> 01:04:49.040] Oh, I love it.
[01:04:49.040 -> 01:04:49.840] But let's.
[01:04:51.200 -> 01:04:51.700] Yeah.
[01:04:52.720 -> 01:04:56.880] But like at the same time last year, Bonato is like, we're unlucky and Fred's like.
[01:04:57.840 -> 01:04:59.440] I'm going to fucking smash somebody up.
[01:05:00.160 -> 01:05:02.800] So I'd like to see Fred make a change.
[01:05:02.800 -> 01:05:05.540] I just don't know if he can make a difference
[01:05:05.540 -> 01:05:08.000] in a machine with that much inertia.
[01:05:08.000 -> 01:05:08.840] You know?
[01:05:08.840 -> 01:05:09.880] Hi.
[01:05:09.880 -> 01:05:10.720] Hi.
[01:05:10.720 -> 01:05:11.540] Hi.
[01:05:11.540 -> 01:05:15.160] So why don't we talk about our podium predictions
[01:05:15.160 -> 01:05:16.600] that we made before the weekend?
[01:05:16.600 -> 01:05:17.480] Yeah.
[01:05:17.480 -> 01:05:19.120] I vaguely remember.
[01:05:19.120 -> 01:05:21.980] I think I know who I predicted in first place.
[01:05:21.980 -> 01:05:26.660] So we had, our podium was Perez Verstappen, Alonso, Russell Alonso.
[01:05:26.720 -> 01:05:29.440] So it's final result Perez Verstappen, Alonso.
[01:05:30.820 -> 01:05:39.200] You Dan, you picked Perez one, the Claire, or sorry, Verstappen two, and the Claire three.
[01:05:39.480 -> 01:05:41.640] So you got two out of three, correct?
[01:05:48.860 -> 01:05:50.440] Uh, I picked Verstapp Stappen Perez Alonso.
[01:05:51.860 -> 01:05:52.440] So you got third, right?
[01:05:55.560 -> 01:05:55.740] I got the third right and I got all three of the drivers right together.
[01:05:56.280 -> 01:05:57.960] We got it. We got it all right.
[01:05:58.240 -> 01:05:59.040] Bingo card.
[01:05:59.040 -> 01:05:59.740] We smashed it.
[01:05:59.740 -> 01:06:02.520] Ladies and gentlemen, forget all these other podcasts.
[01:06:02.520 -> 01:06:03.520] Forget the tech.
[01:06:04.000 -> 01:06:06.640] Come here for the vibes and we got you covered.
[01:06:07.440 -> 01:06:07.940] So.
[01:06:08.840 -> 01:06:12.960] Only the best from our spare bedrooms direct to your ears.
[01:06:15.680 -> 01:06:18.400] But yeah, I put Perez, sorry, what was you going to say?
[01:06:18.840 -> 01:06:21.240] No, I was going to just pick up everyone listening.
[01:06:21.320 -> 01:06:24.000] Um, put Perez in first because.
[01:06:28.040 -> 01:06:33.980] There's something about Perez and street circuits and he goes well at street circuits and you know, he did exactly what he needed to do this
[01:06:33.980 -> 01:06:34.480] weekend.
[01:06:34.480 -> 01:06:36.280] And that's when Max is out of position.
[01:06:36.760 -> 01:06:37.760] Pick up the pieces.
[01:06:38.440 -> 01:06:38.640] Yeah.
[01:06:38.640 -> 01:06:39.680] Don't fuck up and dude.
[01:06:39.680 -> 01:06:44.440] And he had a, to be fair, check out how to bad-ass drive, flawless, surgical, no,
[01:06:44.440 -> 01:06:45.760] no dramas fast.
[01:06:45.960 -> 01:06:48.920] They were also using up their track limits, burner cards as well.
[01:06:48.920 -> 01:06:54.840] If you noticed a lot of people doing that, a lot of teams are cutting a 22, 23 to save a little bit of time.
[01:06:55.520 -> 01:06:56.600] Cheeky fuckers.
[01:06:56.960 -> 01:06:58.880] Yeah, but like how many you get three warnings, right?
[01:06:59.240 -> 01:07:00.920] Well, if they're there, use them.
[01:07:01.400 -> 01:07:01.720] Yeah.
[01:07:01.760 -> 01:07:05.600] If you, if you're not using your warnings, you're being a little shit.
[01:07:05.600 -> 01:07:12.800] But yeah, and that exactly same theory goes with work as well, which is why I was in the
[01:07:12.800 -> 01:07:15.240] HR office so often at Red Bull.
[01:07:15.240 -> 01:07:21.000] If you're in Rubin's race, wait, no, geez, that's not what happened.
[01:07:21.000 -> 01:07:22.480] Oh my God.
[01:07:22.480 -> 01:07:28.440] But anyway, and if you haven't left us a five star review on Spotify,
[01:07:28.460 -> 01:07:29.300] why the fuck not?
[01:07:29.860 -> 01:07:30.680] What's happening?
[01:07:30.680 -> 01:07:32.100] Like, do you not love us?
[01:07:32.300 -> 01:07:35.360] Cause those, those are been over an hour into this podcast and you're
[01:07:35.360 -> 01:07:36.600] not leaving us five stars.
[01:07:36.600 -> 01:07:38.100] What are you fucking doing with your lives?
[01:07:38.420 -> 01:07:39.000] You should do it.
[01:07:39.000 -> 01:07:39.460] You should do it.
[01:07:39.460 -> 01:07:41.660] So what the fuck are we doing with our lives?
[01:07:41.840 -> 01:07:44.040] I'm I'm in my short shorts.
[01:07:44.300 -> 01:07:45.800] Um, the camo ones.
[01:07:45.800 -> 01:07:48.800] I'm doing a podcast and I'm starving because it's 8.30.
[01:07:48.800 -> 01:07:51.600] I'm eating chunks of dinner that I chucked up out of my beard.
[01:07:51.600 -> 01:07:54.000] Just give me five stars for that for fuck's sake.
[01:07:54.000 -> 01:07:56.600] Let me feed my kids.
[01:07:56.600 -> 01:08:01.440] So championship standings for Stappen leads Perez by one point.
[01:08:01.440 -> 01:08:02.960] The magic lap.
[01:08:02.960 -> 01:08:06.960] Alonso 13 points behind. points behind Carlos signs, Lewis Hamilton,
[01:08:07.440 -> 01:08:11.480] Jorge Russell, stroll, the Claire Bautist, Ocon, Gasly, Magnuson.
[01:08:11.480 -> 01:08:13.780] Anybody below 13th does not have a single point.
[01:08:14.160 -> 01:08:16.080] Red Bull racing 87 points.
[01:08:16.200 -> 01:08:19.440] Aston Martin are tied with Mercedes with 38.
[01:08:20.080 -> 01:08:24.960] Ferrari 26, uh, Alpha Tauri and McLaren have zero points.
[01:08:25.000 -> 01:08:26.360] What the actual hell?
[01:08:27.240 -> 01:08:30.160] McLaren Williams have a point.
[01:08:31.140 -> 01:08:32.440] Pass have a point.
[01:08:33.340 -> 01:08:35.160] McLaren Nilpa.
[01:08:36.040 -> 01:08:36.560] Hmm.
[01:08:37.740 -> 01:08:53.920] Is it time for random fandom? No, it's not.
[01:08:53.920 -> 01:08:55.040] I just wanted to play the tune.
[01:08:55.040 -> 01:08:56.560] Yeah, no, it's time for random fandom.
[01:08:56.560 -> 01:09:00.720] So your report card this weekend, you had Aston Martin.
[01:09:00.720 -> 01:09:07.500] We've talked about him a lot, but tell us about how you felt about Aston Martin. Um, how did we've talked about him a lot, but, uh, tell us about how you felt about
[01:09:07.500 -> 01:09:09.200] Aston Martin this weekend.
[01:09:09.200 -> 01:09:10.200] Yeah.
[01:09:10.200 -> 01:09:12.240] I'm co cognizant Aston Martin racing.
[01:09:12.240 -> 01:09:13.240] Sure.
[01:09:13.240 -> 01:09:14.240] Whatever, whatever.
[01:09:14.240 -> 01:09:15.760] I want to call themselves this week.
[01:09:15.760 -> 01:09:18.720] Uh, it was another strong out in for Aston Martin.
[01:09:18.720 -> 01:09:21.160] I don't think anyone was overly surprised.
[01:09:21.160 -> 01:09:25.600] I was interested to see if they would keep that momentum going into this circuit
[01:09:30.320 -> 01:09:37.200] because it's like a street circuit and it's not not the same as Bahrain. But they look to be the only team who could really challenge the Red Bulls after Friday. Qualifying both drivers said they
[01:09:37.200 -> 01:09:42.160] were happy with the car balance heading into qualifying. Alonso just lost out to Charles and
[01:09:42.160 -> 01:09:45.640] ended up in P3 but that ended up as a net P2 because
[01:09:45.640 -> 01:09:47.360] of Charles's penalty.
[01:09:47.360 -> 01:09:52.160] Stroll made a small mistake at turn 22 and ended up fifth, which isn't really bad considering
[01:09:52.160 -> 01:09:53.160] he's still recovering.
[01:09:53.160 -> 01:09:56.480] I'm not really sure why I'm doing all these hand movements, but let's just carry on with
[01:09:56.480 -> 01:09:57.680] it.
[01:09:57.680 -> 01:10:02.520] In the race, Alonso obviously had that rocket start, absolutely mugged off Checo and was
[01:10:02.520 -> 01:10:08.560] leading the race for the first few laps. Unsurprisingly the Red Bull was able to
[01:10:08.560 -> 01:10:13.280] quickly pass when the DRS was enabled. He did get that five second penalty for
[01:10:13.280 -> 01:10:18.000] being out of his grid slot at the start and when serving it of course we had the
[01:10:18.000 -> 01:10:22.960] mechanics did they didn't they who really gives a shit. But poor old
[01:10:22.960 -> 01:10:25.240] Lance bless him he ended up retiring due
[01:10:25.240 -> 01:10:30.560] to a suspected ERS issue but before that he did have a lovely overtake on signs
[01:10:30.560 -> 01:10:33.640] on the outside of turn 13 did you see that that was dope
[01:10:33.640 -> 01:10:39.160] oh yeah and through comes Lance Stroll
[01:10:39.160 -> 01:10:47.500] I'll give him that yeah the car looked good all weekend and it's still showing that strong race pace.
[01:10:47.500 -> 01:10:51.500] So clearly best of the rest at the minute by the looks of it.
[01:10:51.500 -> 01:10:54.500] Yeah, the leaders of Formula 1.5, hey?
[01:10:54.500 -> 01:10:56.000] Yeah, why not?
[01:10:56.000 -> 01:11:01.000] They're blowing my mind, man. They're great.
[01:11:01.000 -> 01:11:06.220] Yeah, I had doubts after testing. I was like, I don't know how genuine that is
[01:11:07.600 -> 01:11:09.600] But you know
[01:11:10.480 -> 01:11:12.800] Voting and testing this is grande
[01:11:14.420 -> 01:11:18.780] The magic whatever that is magical on some you know
[01:11:20.000 -> 01:11:22.000] Fucking hell. So oh
[01:11:22.340 -> 01:11:25.200] My god, right. Who's your homework? Give me your homework.
[01:11:25.560 -> 01:11:29.000] I had my homework on Mercedes AMG.
[01:11:29.600 -> 01:11:36.480] Um, they were kind of anonymous, um, throughout the weekend and then qualifying,
[01:11:36.480 -> 01:11:37.680] they kind of put it together.
[01:11:37.920 -> 01:11:42.480] Um, I had them down to beat Alonzo in qualifying at least, but they didn't.
[01:11:42.720 -> 01:11:46.200] George was about two tenths of a second off.
[01:11:46.200 -> 01:11:47.560] Hamilton was half a second off.
[01:11:47.560 -> 01:11:52.400] So Hamilton not sitting very happy with the car in general.
[01:11:52.400 -> 01:11:54.220] George didn't seem too thrilled about it,
[01:11:54.220 -> 01:11:57.860] but like he's like, I'm rolling up third on the grid, mate.
[01:11:57.860 -> 01:12:01.600] Their race strategy, I'm in two minds.
[01:12:01.600 -> 01:12:02.940] I'm in two minds about it.
[01:12:06.400 -> 01:12:08.840] I think that the alternate strategy was a good call.
[01:12:09.400 -> 01:12:12.720] Considering Hamilton starting out a little bit behind, I just don't.
[01:12:13.700 -> 01:12:22.080] I don't think they're expecting the hard time to be that bad, and if it wasn't for the safety car, if the hard was slightly better, that could have worked out OK and it kept them out of that.
[01:12:22.600 -> 01:12:26.000] I'm not sure about the end of the race. I think they did the right thing.
[01:12:27.080 -> 01:12:29.840] I think they could have let them race, but who knows?
[01:12:31.640 -> 01:12:32.240] Who knows?
[01:12:32.280 -> 01:12:36.960] Um, it's a bit early in the season for team or yeah, it is.
[01:12:36.960 -> 01:12:37.920] It is exactly.
[01:12:38.280 -> 01:12:38.800] Um.
[01:12:40.600 -> 01:12:43.680] The first in on the hard just look to be like, you know, one of those things in
[01:12:43.680 -> 01:12:45.160] hindsight, abysmal. Honestly, for know, one of those things in hindsight,
[01:12:45.160 -> 01:12:46.160] abysmal.
[01:12:46.160 -> 01:12:50.720] Honestly, for where the team's at right now, I'm giving them a B for this weekend.
[01:12:50.720 -> 01:12:54.160] If both drivers had put the lap together and been happy with the car and qualifying, I
[01:12:54.160 -> 01:12:58.040] would have been, you know, that would have been a, a weekend for them to finish fourth
[01:12:58.040 -> 01:12:59.040] or fifth with that car.
[01:12:59.040 -> 01:13:00.720] I know it's not where they want it to be.
[01:13:00.720 -> 01:13:03.880] And I think we should judge it based on that.
[01:13:03.880 -> 01:13:09.440] It's not an A because either they couldn't get Hamilton happy with the car or Hamilton
[01:13:09.440 -> 01:13:11.600] wasn't vibing with the car this weekend in my opinion.
[01:13:11.600 -> 01:13:15.880] Is he still driving around with 20 kilos of Dell servers attached to the back of his car
[01:13:15.880 -> 01:13:16.880] do we know?
[01:13:16.880 -> 01:13:20.680] No, nah, they haven't wheeled that one out so who knows.
[01:13:20.680 -> 01:13:21.680] Maybe that's next race.
[01:13:21.680 -> 01:13:22.680] Yeah exactly.
[01:13:22.680 -> 01:13:26.000] So that's my report card Yeah, exactly. So.
[01:13:26.760 -> 01:13:29.200] That's my report card. So you're given Aston full marks.
[01:13:29.360 -> 01:13:33.920] I don't think I can give them full marks because Lance ended up retiring.
[01:13:33.960 -> 01:13:37.680] I don't necessarily think that's an Aston issue because if it's an ERS issue,
[01:13:38.400 -> 01:13:40.000] that's PU supplier.
[01:13:40.080 -> 01:13:42.280] You crapped on my team this weekend.
[01:13:42.360 -> 01:13:43.920] I had Mercedes this weekend, bro.
[01:13:43.960 -> 01:13:44.840] Fuck you.
[01:13:45.000 -> 01:13:46.000] Fuck Mercedes.
[01:13:46.000 -> 01:13:47.000] Right.
[01:13:47.000 -> 01:13:51.280] I'll have you know, stick it on TikTok.
[01:13:51.280 -> 01:13:53.240] Watch me get cancelled.
[01:13:53.240 -> 01:13:56.800] Oh, if only people knew.
[01:13:56.800 -> 01:14:00.360] Why don't we go to our next segment of the podcast?
[01:14:00.360 -> 01:14:10.320] You ready for this one?
[01:14:11.280 -> 01:14:11.600] Fraud watch.
[01:14:13.160 -> 01:14:14.000] Do you want to tell everybody what fraud watch is?
[01:14:18.760 -> 01:14:26.040] Fraud watch is where we get to pick our bad thing of the weekend, whether that's team, driver, racing, governing body, track, your local butcher, the Swedish meatballs that you picked up from
[01:14:26.040 -> 01:14:28.400] your corner shop, whatever.
[01:14:28.400 -> 01:14:31.880] And basically we put them on what we call Fraud Watch.
[01:14:31.880 -> 01:14:37.480] So basically if you're on, if you get three nominations across the season for Fraud Watch,
[01:14:37.480 -> 01:14:39.520] bang, you're getting slammed up.
[01:14:39.520 -> 01:14:44.240] You're going down straight into the jail of bad things.
[01:14:44.240 -> 01:14:48.600] Oh my goodness yikes. So yeah our bad thing
[01:14:48.600 -> 01:14:55.600] of this weekend now I have in testing and Bahrain I put McLaren down for both
[01:14:55.600 -> 01:15:02.040] so they're already on two out of three. However for this weekend I'm afraid
[01:15:02.040 -> 01:15:05.480] I'm giving it to Ferrari because although you had
[01:15:05.480 -> 01:15:09.600] the fastest pit stop for the second race running I have to question what the fuck
[01:15:09.600 -> 01:15:17.400] is going on where you're arguing over safety car lines and now getting
[01:15:17.400 -> 01:15:22.040] outclassed by Mercedes you went from being championship favorites at the
[01:15:22.040 -> 01:15:25.800] start of 2022 to getting bossed around
[01:15:25.800 -> 01:15:30.920] by Lawrence Stroll and his son's toy that he bought for him.
[01:15:30.920 -> 01:15:33.000] Oh my God.
[01:15:33.000 -> 01:15:37.200] There's a couple of people that fall foul of that.
[01:15:37.200 -> 01:15:38.480] So you got the FIA.
[01:15:38.480 -> 01:15:43.000] McLaren are on two ticks from Dan and Ferrari have got a tick from you this weekend in the
[01:15:43.000 -> 01:15:44.680] naughty books.
[01:15:44.680 -> 01:15:45.080] Correct. Okay. and Ferrari have got a tick from you this weekend, the naughty books.
[01:15:45.920 -> 01:15:46.720] Correct.
[01:15:48.280 -> 01:15:51.240] Okay. In testing, I gave mine to Alpine.
[01:15:51.240 -> 01:15:53.580] In Bahrain, I gave mine to Ferrari,
[01:15:54.480 -> 01:15:55.840] cause what the actual fuck.
[01:15:55.840 -> 01:16:00.840] But this weekend, I was actually pissed off at the FIA.
[01:16:00.920 -> 01:16:02.080] Remember last year,
[01:16:02.080 -> 01:16:03.580] last year there was a safety car line
[01:16:03.580 -> 01:16:07.080] where signs was out ahead of Paris at the safety car line.
[01:16:07.080 -> 01:16:12.200] Checo gets ahead of him and then it takes the FIA the entire safety car period and then
[01:16:12.200 -> 01:16:16.040] the race restarting to be like, oh, you know what guys actually signs was ahead.
[01:16:16.040 -> 01:16:19.040] This is after Abu Dhabi 2021.
[01:16:19.040 -> 01:16:20.920] The FIA were like, yeah, we need to step it up.
[01:16:20.920 -> 01:16:24.200] Well, sack Massey because he was a problem and all this other stuff is like, the problem
[01:16:24.200 -> 01:16:25.040] is you guys are.
[01:16:26.960 -> 01:16:27.360] Wow.
[01:16:28.640 -> 01:16:28.960] Yeah.
[01:16:29.000 -> 01:16:31.840] Mid mid, uh, fraud watch this week.
[01:16:31.840 -> 01:16:32.800] I've got the FIA.
[01:16:32.840 -> 01:16:35.440] So does that mean since I picked for last week, does
[01:16:35.440 -> 01:16:36.600] that mean Ferrari have two ticks?
[01:16:37.360 -> 01:16:37.640] Yeah.
[01:16:37.640 -> 01:16:40.560] And I was looking at this and just, I think maybe we should, yeah.
[01:16:40.560 -> 01:16:42.120] Do like a cumulative.
[01:16:42.120 -> 01:16:43.040] Is that the right term?
[01:16:43.160 -> 01:16:43.400] Yeah.
[01:16:43.480 -> 01:16:43.720] Yeah.
[01:16:43.720 -> 01:16:45.680] I get there on two strikes
[01:16:45.680 -> 01:16:52.000] yeah Ferrari McLaren and Ferrari you guys and to be fair that makes perfect sense but
[01:16:52.000 -> 01:16:55.840] I think the FIA are gonna need a couple more world fraud championship the WFC it's the
[01:16:55.840 -> 01:17:01.000] only fucking championship them two are gonna be beefing over this year yeah exactly so
[01:17:01.000 -> 01:17:05.400] we've got one more segment in the show before we kiss you guys goodnight.
[01:17:05.400 -> 01:17:06.400] So uh,
[01:17:06.400 -> 01:17:09.400] Oh, you think you're a good boy.
[01:17:09.400 -> 01:17:10.400] I am.
[01:17:10.400 -> 01:17:13.160] I'm a good boy.
[01:17:13.160 -> 01:17:17.040] So this is, this is, this is a fucking funny segment.
[01:17:17.040 -> 01:17:18.240] This is called engine mode.
[01:17:18.240 -> 01:17:19.240] Good boy.
[01:17:19.240 -> 01:17:20.240] Yeah.
[01:17:20.240 -> 01:17:22.680] This is where basically we gas somebody up from the weekend.
[01:17:22.680 -> 01:17:25.600] You know, somebody that we're happy with. Um, we do.
[01:17:25.600 -> 01:17:25.880] Yeah.
[01:17:27.480 -> 01:17:28.560] And it's called engine mode.
[01:17:28.560 -> 01:17:29.000] Good boy.
[01:17:29.000 -> 01:17:32.960] Because somebody slathered me on Twitter and, you know, it's not like
[01:17:32.960 -> 01:17:34.720] we've never let it go or anything.
[01:17:34.800 -> 01:17:35.960] Um, it's funny.
[01:17:35.960 -> 01:17:37.080] He said I was an engine mode.
[01:17:37.080 -> 01:17:37.640] Good boy.
[01:17:37.680 -> 01:17:38.840] Red bull apologist.
[01:17:38.880 -> 01:17:40.160] I was like, that's a good name.
[01:17:40.160 -> 01:17:42.440] Actually, we're going to take that for an award.
[01:17:43.800 -> 01:17:46.480] So yeah, this is all good thing of the weekend.
[01:17:46.480 -> 01:17:56.480] That could be anything. So I have given it in testing. I gave it to Joe Bahrain, gave it to Alonzo.
[01:17:56.480 -> 01:18:02.280] And you know what I'm gonna, for this one I'm gonna give it to Sunoda.
[01:18:02.280 -> 01:18:05.160] Because I think you went a little bit under the radar.
[01:18:05.160 -> 01:18:08.680] I think he just narrowly missed out on that point,
[01:18:08.680 -> 01:18:13.520] beefing with Magnussen for the majority of the race.
[01:18:13.520 -> 01:18:16.600] I just think Sonoda has matured a lot as a driver.
[01:18:16.600 -> 01:18:18.760] Although, yeah, when he got overtaken,
[01:18:18.760 -> 01:18:22.080] he came across the radio and was like, fuck, or whatever.
[01:18:22.080 -> 01:18:23.280] That's just Yuki, isn't it?
[01:18:23.280 -> 01:18:24.560] Any driver would do that.
[01:18:24.560 -> 01:18:28.320] It's just the FIA and FOM decided to stitch him up by broadcasting that.
[01:18:28.320 -> 01:18:29.320] Yeah.
[01:18:29.320 -> 01:18:30.320] But yeah.
[01:18:30.320 -> 01:18:33.320] No, I think, you know, Yuki, big up.
[01:18:33.320 -> 01:18:34.320] To be fair, Sunoda.
[01:18:34.320 -> 01:18:40.320] Honourable mention to Strouwe for that Alonso, for the Carlos Sainz maneuver in turn 13.
[01:18:40.320 -> 01:18:43.320] But no, Sunoda, I think you're underappreciated.
[01:18:43.320 -> 01:18:45.680] I'm bigging you up. Yeah. To be fair, Sunoda, I think you're underappreciated. I'm bigging you up. Yeah.
[01:18:45.680 -> 01:18:49.640] To be fair, Sunoda up five positions.
[01:18:49.640 -> 01:18:54.760] So the only other people, Sargent 20th, 15th on the race on lap one.
[01:18:54.760 -> 01:18:56.080] Does that make sense?
[01:18:56.080 -> 01:18:57.560] Leclerc up five.
[01:18:57.560 -> 01:18:58.560] Yep.
[01:18:58.560 -> 01:19:01.080] Sunoda up five.
[01:19:01.080 -> 01:19:03.200] But I've got to give mine.
[01:19:03.200 -> 01:19:07.240] It's not, this is really kind of, I don't know, this is boring and I'm glad I did.
[01:19:07.240 -> 01:19:10.760] I had Mercedes this week because I said nice things about Mercedes, but I'm gonna give
[01:19:10.760 -> 01:19:11.760] this one to Max.
[01:19:11.760 -> 01:19:12.760] Red Bull bias.
[01:19:12.760 -> 01:19:13.760] Cancel it.
[01:19:13.760 -> 01:19:14.760] Cancel it.
[01:19:14.760 -> 01:19:15.760] Right.
[01:19:15.760 -> 01:19:18.760] Thanks for 19 episodes and that's it.
[01:19:18.760 -> 01:19:21.440] The mask has been on engine mode.
[01:19:21.440 -> 01:19:22.440] Good.
[01:19:22.440 -> 01:19:45.860] Max, if you want to send me that Fiverr, cheers mate. to drive, he's. He's clearly got it figured out. It's like this is race two. It's a long season.
[01:19:45.860 -> 01:19:50.740] The car is a monster and I've got so much pace in hand. It's just like let's just get
[01:19:50.740 -> 01:19:58.980] through this and then that. I really think that final lap just smashing it out anonymously
[01:19:58.980 -> 01:20:04.700] is just like it's just classic him and like that's that's the kind of I'm not. I think
[01:20:04.700 -> 01:20:05.880] Leclerc is awesome, but Leclerc seems like you's that's the kind of. I'm not. I think LeClaire is awesome,
[01:20:05.880 -> 01:20:09.880] but LeClaire seems like you had to feed him stuff and Max like I'm just fucking taking this.
[01:20:10.140 -> 01:20:11.780] But like at the same time,
[01:20:11.800 -> 01:20:12.120] you know,
[01:20:12.120 -> 01:20:12.580] last year,
[01:20:12.580 -> 01:20:17.840] LeClaire's was it last year where they're like we don't think anybody can take the fastest lap and he's like,
[01:20:17.840 -> 01:20:18.520] OK,
[01:20:18.840 -> 01:20:20.320] but OK,
[01:20:20.320 -> 01:20:21.120] yeah,
[01:20:21.140 -> 01:20:23.020] Max just goes watch me.
[01:20:23.540 -> 01:20:24.040] Yeah,
[01:20:24.540 -> 01:20:26.840] I don't know. It's different and I think it's
[01:20:26.840 -> 01:20:32.720] a good shout. And I think in a lot of instances that the Claire's characteristics are going
[01:20:32.720 -> 01:20:36.840] to be more favorable in some times, but this weekend I'm going to give to him. But to be
[01:20:36.840 -> 01:20:43.160] fair, engine mode boys going to Max Checo fucking solid weekend, kept it clean, fast
[01:20:43.160 -> 01:20:45.960] won the race, no dramas, but yeah.
[01:20:46.960 -> 01:20:48.720] Come back to performance engineer moment.
[01:20:48.760 -> 01:20:49.280] Is that you?
[01:20:49.280 -> 01:20:51.480] Yeah, I assume.
[01:20:52.120 -> 01:20:54.120] So ladies and gentlemen,
[01:20:54.120 -> 01:20:56.160] this is the end of this episode.
[01:20:56.160 -> 01:20:57.960] Our next episode we're going to do on Monday.
[01:20:59.320 -> 01:20:59.880] Next Monday.
[01:20:59.880 -> 01:21:00.560] Sure, why not?
[01:21:00.560 -> 01:21:01.040] Let's keep this.
[01:21:01.040 -> 01:21:02.360] Alright, let's try to keep this momentum.
[01:21:02.360 -> 01:21:03.360] Monday 7 is good.
[01:21:03.360 -> 01:21:04.200] Monday 7 o'clock.
[01:21:04.200 -> 01:21:05.160] Frauds be like that. Monday 7 o'clock. Frauds be like that.
[01:21:05.160 -> 01:21:06.680] Monday seven o'clock.
[01:21:06.680 -> 01:21:07.520] We'll be live.
[01:21:07.520 -> 01:21:08.360] We record this thing on twitch.tv.
[01:21:08.360 -> 01:21:09.520] Front slash break.
[01:21:10.360 -> 01:21:12.560] It's going to be out on Spotify, on YouTube.
[01:21:12.560 -> 01:21:14.680] And if also we're going to start posting
[01:21:14.680 -> 01:21:16.440] short form content again this week.
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[01:21:23.200 -> 01:21:26.240] So Dan, stay away from sketchy meatballs.
[01:21:26.720 -> 01:21:29.200] I'm going to go get some pork chops in the system.
[01:21:29.480 -> 01:21:31.840] And you guys do me a favor and have a lovely evening.
[01:21:32.000 -> 01:21:33.720] Yeah. Big up your local butcher.
[01:21:33.720 -> 01:21:37.280] Big up your local Swedish meatball meat based products.
[01:21:37.640 -> 01:21:39.680] That damn big up your nans.
[01:21:41.000 -> 01:21:42.800] Big up your toots.
[01:21:42.800 -> 01:21:50.000] Big up your toots, big up your IKEA Swedish meatballs, yeah, and yeah you can all fuck off.