Podcast: EngineBraking
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Wed, 26 Apr 2023 23:10:39 GMT
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1:35:21
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The lads run through the latest news and a look forward to the Baku GP
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# **The Engine Breaking F1 Podcast: Baku Preview**
## **Hosts:**
- Dan, also known as EngineMode11
- Blake, also known as Brake
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## **News and Updates:**
- **Soundboard Mishap:** Dan accidentally breaks his soundboard during the recording.
- **Blake's Texan Adventure:** Blake shares his experiences from his recent trip to Texas, including a barbecue, lake visit, and campfire.
- **Street Circuit vs. Not Street Circuit:** The hosts discuss the upcoming Baku Grand Prix and whether or not it should be considered a street circuit.
- **Random Fandom Draw:** A listener is randomly selected from the audience to ask a question or make a comment.
- **Traeger Grill and Race Ticket Shenanigans:** Dan attempts to blag a Traeger grill from a sponsor, while Blake tries to blag a race ticket.
- **Putin's Magic Briefcase:** The hosts speculate about the contents of a mysterious briefcase that Russian President Vladimir Putin is often seen carrying.
## **NordVPN Partnership:**
The hosts promote their partnership with NordVPN and encourage listeners to visit nordvpn.com/engine for an exclusive offer.
## **Vacuum Stories from the Past:**
The hosts reminisce about vacuuming stories from their past, including a time when Dan accidentally vacuumed up a cat.
## **Baku Grand Prix Preview:**
- **Predictions:** The hosts make predictions for the upcoming Baku Grand Prix, with Blake favoring Max Verstappen and Dan favoring Charles Leclerc.
- **Strategy:** They discuss the potential strategies teams might employ during the race, considering the unique characteristics of the Baku circuit.
- **Controversies:** They highlight some of the controversies surrounding the Baku Grand Prix, including past incidents and safety concerns.
- **Random Fandom Draw:** Another listener is randomly selected to ask a question or make a comment.
## **Wrap-Up:**
The hosts wrap up the podcast by emphasizing the importance of making Formula One fun again and embracing the fraudulent nature of the sport. They also encourage listeners to engage with them on social media and share their thoughts and opinions.
## **Additional Highlights:**
- The hosts discuss the recent news that Audi has given an update on their Formula One project, including hiring staff and building a single-cylinder test engine.
- They also mention the upcoming deadline for teams to apply for the 2026 engine regulations and speculate on whether any other manufacturers might join Audi and Porsche in entering the sport.
- The hosts express concern about the potential impact of strikes by French energy workers on the Monaco Grand Prix and the Cannes Film Festival.
- They also discuss the ongoing rumors and speculation surrounding a potential relationship between Fernando Alonso and Taylor Swift.
- The hosts conclude the podcast by discussing Felipe Massa's recent decision to challenge the outcome of the 2008 Formula One World Championship due to the "crashgate" scandal. - The podcast begins with the hosts discussing various news items, including Dan breaking his soundboard, Blake's adventure at the Big Texan Steak Ranch, and the debate over whether a street circuit is truly a street circuit.
- They also mention a random fan interaction and Dan's attempt to blag a Traeger Grill and Blake's attempt to blag a race ticket.
- The hosts then discuss the rumor that Vladimir Putin has a briefcase that can blank out all phone and radio signals, which was allegedly used to prevent teams from communicating during his visits to the Sochi Grand Prix.
- They also discuss the news that Nikita Mazepin is suing Canada for sanctions against him, which is seen as an attempt to get back into Formula One.
- The podcast then covers the announcement that Franz Tost will be leaving his role as Team Principal of AlphaTauri at the end of the season.
- The hosts speculate on the reasons behind Tost's departure and discuss potential candidates to replace him, including current Ferrari race director Laurent Mekies.
- They also discuss the news that James Allison is returning to Mercedes to focus on Formula One duties, swapping roles with Mike Elliott.
- The hosts speculate on the reasons behind this move and discuss the implications for the team.
- They also discuss the FIA's decision to increase the number of power unit components that teams are allowed to use during the season, which is seen as a response to the high number of penalties being handed out for exceeding the previous limits.
- The podcast then covers the launch of the F1 Academy, a new series for women drivers, and the controversy surrounding its lack of visibility and broadcast coverage.
- The hosts discuss the challenges facing the series and suggest ways to increase its exposure.
- They also discuss the upcoming Baku Grand Prix and the history of the race, including the fact that there have been no repeat winners and that only Ferrari and Mercedes have taken pole position.
- The podcast concludes with the hosts reminiscing about some of the more painful memories from past Baku Grands Prix, including the infamous double DNF for Red Bull in 2018. ## Baku: A Unique Formula One Street Circuit
### Introduction
In this podcast episode, hosts Dan and Blake delve into the upcoming Formula One Grand Prix in Baku, Azerbaijan. They discuss the unique characteristics of the Baku City Circuit, its history, and the excitement it brings to the world of Formula One racing.
### Baku City Circuit: A Street Circuit Like No Other
- The Baku City Circuit is a street circuit, meaning it is set up on public roads in the city of Baku.
- It is a challenging track with a mix of high-speed straights, tight corners, and narrow sections.
- The circuit also features a long straight that runs along the Caspian Sea, offering stunning views for drivers and spectators alike.
### History of the Baku Grand Prix
- The Baku Grand Prix was first held in 2016 and has quickly become a fan favorite.
- The race has produced some memorable moments, including a dramatic crash involving Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton in 2016.
- The 2022 race saw Sergio Perez take the checkered flag, followed by Max Verstappen and George Russell.
### Excitement and Chaos of the Baku Grand Prix
- The Baku Grand Prix is known for its unpredictable and chaotic races.
- The narrow streets and tight corners often lead to collisions and safety car periods.
- The long straight along the Caspian Sea provides opportunities for overtaking and thrilling battles between drivers.
### Controversies and Challenges
- The Baku Grand Prix has also been marred by controversy, with concerns raised about human rights issues in Azerbaijan.
- The race has also faced logistical challenges, including the need to close down public roads and the difficulty of transporting equipment and personnel to the circuit.
### The Future of the Baku Grand Prix
- Despite the challenges, the Baku Grand Prix remains a popular event on the Formula One calendar.
- The race offers a unique and exciting spectacle for fans around the world.
- The future of the Baku Grand Prix looks bright, with the race likely to continue to be a highlight of the Formula One season.
### Conclusion
The Baku City Circuit is a unique and challenging street circuit that has quickly become a fan favorite in the world of Formula One racing. The race has produced some memorable moments and has become known for its unpredictable and chaotic nature. Despite some controversies and challenges, the Baku Grand Prix remains a popular event on the Formula One calendar and is likely to continue to be a highlight of the season for years to come. ## **Transcript Summary: The Formula One Podcast**
**Episode:** The Formula One Podcast - Latest News and Baku GP Preview
**Hosts:** Dan and Blake
**Main Discussion Points:**
* **New Qualifying Format:**
* Spring Shootout format explained.
* Medium, medium, soft tire strategy for the sessions.
* Dan prefers the new format over the previous sprint races.
* Blake hates the new format and sprint races in general.
* **Baku Resurfacing:**
* Significant resurfacing done on the Baku track.
* Drivers will have to adapt to the new track conditions.
* Teams will likely do low-grip running in the simulator to prepare.
* **DRS and Red Bull's Dominance:**
* Red Bull has one of the most powerful DRS systems.
* DRS is not a fix-all for Red Bull's success.
* Other factors like efficient car design contribute to their dominance.
* **Predictions for Baku GP:**
* Both Dan and Blake predict a Red Bull 1-2 finish.
* Dan predicts Verstappen, Perez, Alonso, Hamilton, Russell for top 5 in qualifying.
* Blake predicts Verstappen, Perez, Russell, Hamilton, Leclerc for top 5 in qualifying.
* Dan predicts Alonso to win the race, with Verstappen and Perez on the podium.
* Blake predicts Verstappen, Perez, Leclerc for the podium.
**Random Fandom:**
* Technical issues prevented the hosts from doing the random fandom segment.
**Overall Message:**
The podcast provides an insightful preview of the upcoming Baku Grand Prix, discussing the new qualifying format, track resurfacing, and predictions for the race. The hosts engage in lively banter and share their unique perspectives on Formula One. **Engineered Insanity: Baku GP Preview and Traeger Grill Shenanigans**
* **Random Fandom:**
* Blake and Dan randomly select teams to represent and hype up for the upcoming Baku GP.
* Blake gets Williams, while Dan gets Haas.
* **Nico Hulkenberg AMA on r/Formula1:**
* Nico Hulkenberg will be doing an AMA on the Formula 1 subreddit on Thursday afternoon.
* Dan and Blake discuss Hulkenberg's reputation as a nice guy and a bit of a lad.
* **Traeger Grill Blag Attempt:**
* Dan tries to convince Traeger to send him a grill by repeatedly calling out to them on the podcast.
* Blake suggests that Dan should do a brisket cook on his Traeger grill.
* **Upcoming Busy Schedule:**
* The hosts acknowledge that they will have a busy schedule in the coming weeks.
* They encourage listeners to reach out with ideas and feedback for the show.
* **ADHD and Soundboard Shenanigans:**
* Dan mentions that he is not taking medication for his ADHD, which can sometimes lead to chaotic moments on the podcast.
* He also apologizes for the occasional soundboard mishaps.
* **Appreciation and Call to Action:**
* The hosts express gratitude to their listeners for hanging out with them.
* They encourage listeners to leave a five-star rating and share the podcast with friends and family.
[00:00.000 -> 00:08.760] You're listening to the most fraudulent F1 podcast with Dan, aka EngineNord11.
[00:08.760 -> 00:12.120] I secretly moonlight as hell with Marco at race weekends.
[00:12.120 -> 00:14.160] And Blake, aka Brake.
[00:14.160 -> 00:17.320] Echo chambers of farts and idiots on Twitter after races.
[00:17.320 -> 00:20.120] It's the engine breaking F1 podcast.
[00:20.120 -> 00:25.040] Boom, get it up. Yeah.
[00:27.440 -> 00:29.080] Episode 23 Baku preview.
[00:32.240 -> 00:33.400] I'm in the driver's seat because Blake's got too much jet lag.
[00:34.040 -> 00:34.760] P zero.
[00:36.000 -> 00:36.720] You guys know what PZ remains. This is a quiz.
[00:37.000 -> 00:39.360] We know that you're not listening to our podcast, but if you're in your
[00:39.360 -> 00:41.360] car, just say out loud what P zero is.
[00:43.480 -> 00:43.800] What is it?
[00:43.800 -> 00:44.360] That's correct.
[00:44.400 -> 00:44.640] Yeah.
[00:44.720 -> 00:46.320] I'm sure everyone just got that correct. Yeah. We're not going to, we're not going to spoil it. If you don't know what PZ is. What is it? That's correct, yeah, I'm sure everyone just got that correct.
[00:46.320 -> 00:46.920] Yeah, we're not going to.
[00:46.960 -> 00:47.720] We're not going to spoil it.
[00:47.720 -> 00:49.440] If you don't know what P0 is, keep listening.
[00:50.640 -> 00:51.320] How are we doing man?
[00:51.320 -> 00:51.840] That's us.
[00:52.880 -> 00:55.080] Dan, Dan has done the heavy lifting.
[00:55.080 -> 00:59.080] I just got back from Texas yesterday, but welcome to the stream.
[00:59.280 -> 01:01.360] Uh, how was your big Texan adventure?
[01:01.880 -> 01:03.960] Mate, it was fantastic.
[01:04.040 -> 01:07.880] Uh, I barbecue, I went to the lake, hung out around a great campfire.
[01:07.880 -> 01:12.360] My brother has five cats and a chicken and a dog.
[01:12.360 -> 01:14.680] My parents have my old cat who's 16.
[01:14.680 -> 01:15.680] He's awesome.
[01:15.680 -> 01:16.680] I had a great time.
[01:16.680 -> 01:19.480] It was a good little reset before I had a time.
[01:19.480 -> 01:20.480] It was a good little reset.
[01:20.480 -> 01:24.920] The five races in the next six weeks, 10 races in the next 14.
[01:24.920 -> 01:25.760] Who are you, by the way?
[01:25.960 -> 01:27.200] Welcome to anybody just tuning in.
[01:27.240 -> 01:29.760] Welcome to the engine breaking podcast.
[01:29.760 -> 01:33.520] My name is Blake, former performance engineer, current full-time degenerate
[01:33.520 -> 01:35.560] content creator, and who are you?
[01:35.880 -> 01:38.240] I'm Dan, AKA Engine Mode 11.
[01:39.040 -> 01:42.080] Um, I don't really know what to say about myself.
[01:42.280 -> 01:44.160] A prolific Twitter shit poster.
[01:45.040 -> 01:49.840] Uh, six years stealing a living from Red Bull racing as a senior systems engineer.
[01:50.600 -> 01:54.160] Um, and then for some reason we thought it'd be a good
[01:54.160 -> 01:56.200] idea to start an F1 podcast.
[01:56.240 -> 02:01.200] I mean, we got to be in the top, what, 50 of F1 podcasts, surely.
[02:02.080 -> 02:03.120] Top 500, maybe.
[02:03.120 -> 02:03.360] Yeah.
[02:03.360 -> 02:03.520] Yeah.
[02:03.520 -> 02:07.060] To be, to be fair, there were probably 50 new F1 podcasts
[02:07.060 -> 02:11.040] started next last week, which is, which is cool. It just goes to show you that the sport
[02:11.040 -> 02:15.540] is on the up. Everybody's excited and interested in it. And, uh, if you're choosing to listen
[02:15.540 -> 02:21.060] to us, thank you. And we hope you enjoy it. If you're, if you're first time stick around,
[02:21.060 -> 02:23.840] we pretend like we don't know what we're talking about. Sometimes, you know, what we're talking
[02:23.840 -> 02:29.160] about, um, between us being in Formula One for 16 years, you do learn a little bit, but
[02:29.160 -> 02:30.880] that doesn't mean we're going to be serious.
[02:31.920 -> 02:32.160] Okay.
[02:32.360 -> 02:33.760] I'm not going to be serious all the time.
[02:34.080 -> 02:35.360] Make F1 fun again.
[02:35.920 -> 02:36.600] Exactly.
[02:36.600 -> 02:38.400] Make F1 fraudulent again.
[02:38.480 -> 02:39.560] Now we'll talk about that as well.
[02:41.440 -> 02:41.800] All right.
[02:41.920 -> 02:43.800] What do we, what do we got in store for everybody today?
[02:44.720 -> 02:46.040] We got some, yeah.
[02:46.040 -> 02:47.920] I, Oh, I've been doing some notes, mate.
[02:47.920 -> 02:51.400] Listen, we got ourselves some news.
[02:51.720 -> 02:53.200] We got ourselves some.
[02:53.800 -> 02:55.840] Vacuum stories from the past.
[02:56.200 -> 02:56.880] Oh, yes.
[02:57.040 -> 02:59.400] We got ourselves a vacuum preview.
[03:01.000 -> 03:04.160] We got ourselves an Adobe creative cloud notification.
[03:04.160 -> 03:06.640] It's just popped up and anyone listening on
[03:06.640 -> 03:10.240] the audio will be thinking what the fuck was that?
[03:10.240 -> 03:13.200] And we got a random fandom draw as well.
[03:13.200 -> 03:16.760] Ooh, we're also gonna make some predictions for the Grand Prix because we're usually pretty
[03:16.760 -> 03:17.760] good at that.
[03:17.760 -> 03:22.800] Between us, if you combine our results every time we get it right, that being said, for
[03:22.800 -> 03:25.760] the last couple of races, you've got to be pretty special not to guess
[03:25.760 -> 03:27.000] who's going to get on the podium.
[03:27.000 -> 03:34.000] I mean, yeah, it's not as random as we maybe have intended it to be.
[03:34.000 -> 03:36.280] Yeah, yeah, it's not.
[03:36.280 -> 03:37.880] Why don't we get into it?
[03:37.880 -> 03:41.480] Yeah, man, lead us into what's been happening in Formula 1.
[03:41.480 -> 03:49.120] We've had just in case anybody's tuning in, if you want to understand how Formula One works a little bit better, when there's no races, literally the
[03:49.120 -> 03:54.080] factory is shut down and everybody goes home and nobody does any work at all. It's great. So when
[03:54.080 -> 03:58.880] there's no races on, the entire world of Formula One just shuts down. All the media, all the
[03:58.880 -> 04:03.920] journalists, all the TV producers, all the podcasts, all the mechanics, engineers, they just go home.
[04:04.800 -> 04:06.520] Oh wait, no, that's not how that works.
[04:07.900 -> 04:11.320] You had me going there because even I was like, did they officially
[04:11.320 -> 04:13.040] class this as a break and shut down?
[04:14.320 -> 04:15.800] I actually fucking believed you.
[04:15.960 -> 04:19.720] It took 23 episodes, but I actually gave some credibility to something you said.
[04:20.340 -> 04:20.640] Yeah.
[04:20.700 -> 04:26.600] Just in case anybody's wondering, um, formula, cause we've had the chat, like let's, let's just go into that before we get into the news, it's like, we've got five races in case anybody's wondering. Formal because we've had the chat like let's just go into that before we get
[04:26.600 -> 04:27.100] into the news.
[04:27.100 -> 04:29.900] It's like we've got five races in six weeks coming up.
[04:29.900 -> 04:32.800] Did you like when they were long breaks?
[04:32.800 -> 04:34.400] Did you just take the week off or something?
[04:34.400 -> 04:35.200] Or what did you do?
[04:35.200 -> 04:36.800] Because you were predominantly factory-based.
[04:36.800 -> 04:39.200] I was for your your Senate Red Bull.
[04:39.200 -> 04:40.900] I two weeks off.
[04:40.900 -> 04:43.200] I was one of the I say two weeks off, right?
[04:43.200 -> 04:48.560] So August shut down the summer shut down. You get a mandated two weeks off by I was one of the, I say two weeks off, right? So August shutdown, the summer shutdown, you get a mandated two weeks off by the
[04:48.560 -> 04:49.480] FIA, right?
[04:49.640 -> 04:50.760] Everyone has to have it.
[04:51.320 -> 04:52.760] Everybody in the company takes that off.
[04:52.800 -> 04:53.080] Yeah.
[04:53.120 -> 04:58.440] Apart from me and about four other people, it was our busiest period of the year.
[04:59.360 -> 05:03.080] Cause it was the only time that we could upgrade systems and things like that
[05:03.080 -> 05:05.800] without interrupting manufacturing and things like that.
[05:05.800 -> 05:06.800] So I would work.
[05:06.800 -> 05:11.680] So your infrastructure upgrades, they're like, right, certain classes of people.
[05:11.680 -> 05:15.000] If you work in certain things, you can do work when there was some exceptions for wind
[05:15.000 -> 05:19.680] tunnel upgrades and IT infrastructure stuff you could do.
[05:19.680 -> 05:20.680] Yeah.
[05:20.680 -> 05:24.560] So marketing, marketing is also excluded, but most teams, marketing staff also fall
[05:24.560 -> 05:25.560] into that.
[05:25.560 -> 05:27.400] Marketing don't do any fucking work anyway.
[05:27.400 -> 05:34.320] I mean, just listen to JP from last episode, fucking fraudulent marketing.
[05:34.320 -> 05:39.680] They just sit around and drink the champagne and take photos for the Instagram.
[05:39.680 -> 05:41.480] Fuck it out.
[05:41.480 -> 05:42.480] Uh, yeah.
[05:42.480 -> 05:47.120] So my, my summer shutdown period actually, ironically was my busiest period.
[05:47.720 -> 05:49.800] Um, but yeah, there you go.
[05:50.600 -> 05:53.960] Uh, my wife just messaged me cause she's listening as well saying, Oh yeah, I
[05:53.960 -> 05:56.880] remember fond memories of you working for our wedding anniversary.
[05:56.880 -> 06:00.200] I was like, yeah, yeah, that was my summer shutdown, August 19th.
[06:00.240 -> 06:01.160] I was always working.
[06:02.320 -> 06:03.440] Oh my God.
[06:03.600 -> 06:07.080] But yeah, so, so that's the other thing is a lot of people are saying I had a couple
[06:07.080 -> 06:11.160] comments and people saying, oh, well, if you're not changing wheels on somebody's car, what
[06:11.160 -> 06:12.160] are you doing?
[06:12.160 -> 06:16.480] And I'm like, OK, me personally, I'm not allowed to touch a wheel gun because I would destroy
[06:16.480 -> 06:17.480] a car with it.
[06:17.480 -> 06:20.440] You know, those things literally if you hit the nut wrong, it just machines the nut off.
[06:20.440 -> 06:22.400] But anyway, they don't trust me with tools in the garage.
[06:22.400 -> 06:26.040] I tried to take the pedals out once and they're like they got the mechanics are like and I
[06:26.040 -> 06:27.040] put that down.
[06:27.040 -> 06:28.040] I was like Jackie, please.
[06:28.040 -> 06:30.040] He's like no, no.
[06:30.040 -> 06:33.960] Okay, so engineers.
[06:33.960 -> 06:35.560] Here's the engineer schedule, right?
[06:35.560 -> 06:38.720] You typically fly out Wednesday or Thursday.
[06:38.720 -> 06:42.320] You're at the track all the way through Sunday.
[06:42.320 -> 06:46.000] Very glamorously, you get changed in the car park into your travel clothes.
[06:47.200 -> 06:48.240] You go to the airport.
[06:50.800 -> 06:54.800] And then you get home at probably one o'clock in the morning and you're in the office the next day
[06:54.800 -> 06:58.640] at nine o'clock or something. And then you're working all the way through. If it's a double
[06:58.640 -> 07:04.560] header, you're not taking any time off. You might get an afternoon off in the next five weeks.
[07:02.280 -> 07:02.580] taking, you're not taking any time off.
[07:04.720 -> 07:06.320] You might get an afternoon off in the next five weeks.
[07:06.880 -> 07:12.640] That's it. The amount of times I've got my, uh, ass out in the middle of a, uh, circuit car park.
[07:12.760 -> 07:14.920] So I can get changed for the flight home or whatever.
[07:15.520 -> 07:15.680] Yeah.
[07:15.680 -> 07:16.560] Happy times.
[07:16.760 -> 07:19.000] The security guard in Barcelona has seen those beautiful
[07:19.000 -> 07:19.960] cheeks a couple of times.
[07:19.960 -> 07:20.360] I haven't, yeah.
[07:20.360 -> 07:22.200] They don't show you that on Ted's notebook, do they?
[07:22.640 -> 07:27.360] No, no, but imagine there's, there's a market for that. I reckon only car parks.
[07:29.200 -> 07:33.200] Wow, nobody wants to see that. Nobody wants to do that either. But yeah, so in case you're
[07:33.200 -> 07:38.880] wondering, Formula One teams are super busy. And a big problem is people struggle to take
[07:38.880 -> 07:43.360] all their holidays, especially traveling personnel. It's not like there's no race,
[07:43.360 -> 07:45.760] nothing's happening. So I've been
[07:45.760 -> 07:49.760] super condescending to a lot of people who've been absolute bell ends on Twitter, but it's
[07:50.640 -> 07:54.640] pretty ignorant. But now you're informed and you know what it's like and it's a lot of fun,
[07:55.280 -> 07:57.680] but it is a lifestyle. And it is a grind.
[07:57.680 -> 08:01.760] Don't let it put you off. You should absolutely 100% push for it, go for it.
[08:02.960 -> 08:06.460] I don't regret any of it. No, it was fucking hard work.
[08:06.880 -> 08:07.020] Yeah.
[08:07.020 -> 08:08.380] It's it's, it's super rewarding.
[08:08.380 -> 08:12.180] The highs are high, the lows are abysmal and you're going to be tired a lot, but.
[08:12.960 -> 08:17.340] It's a pretty cool job, but just to say that when you get out of it, you can shit
[08:17.340 -> 08:19.820] house your way onto a podcast like us two did.
[08:23.780 -> 08:24.060] Yeah.
[08:24.100 -> 08:26.200] But anyway, let's get onto the news.
[08:26.200 -> 08:27.200] Sorry.
[08:27.200 -> 08:28.200] We ran it.
[08:28.200 -> 08:33.640] We did a typical rant for us to start off the show.
[08:33.640 -> 08:35.120] Classic on brand ADHD.
[08:35.120 -> 08:36.120] Yeah, yeah.
[08:36.120 -> 08:37.120] Away we go.
[08:37.120 -> 08:38.120] Send us.
[08:38.120 -> 08:39.120] So right.
[08:39.120 -> 08:40.120] Listen, serious.
[08:40.120 -> 08:48.360] Audi have given us an F1 update as we know Audi and Sauber are linking up
[08:48.360 -> 08:53.520] for 2026. Audi I think it was like a Chinese car show or something and they
[08:53.520 -> 08:57.760] gave like a big update I think it's clear that Audi obviously a heavily
[08:57.760 -> 09:07.760] targeting the Chinese market. Grand new, just putting that out there, putting the feelers out for that.
[09:07.760 -> 09:14.880] So far they've already hired 260 specialist staff and they're going to expand that to
[09:14.880 -> 09:19.600] probably more than 300 by the end of the year.
[09:19.600 -> 09:23.880] They've already built a single cylinder test engine and that's been on the test bench for
[09:23.880 -> 09:28.160] validation and all the measuring instruments and that which isn't too
[09:28.160 -> 09:30.640] uncommon people are gonna be thinking what the fuck in hell is a single
[09:30.640 -> 09:36.280] cylinder engine a lot of the PU tests for like future engines they do it on a
[09:36.280 -> 09:40.200] single cylinder yeah because that's all you need because you're just testing
[09:40.200 -> 09:42.760] combustion and things like that and you can just do that off a single cylinder
[09:42.760 -> 09:49.360] it's cheaper and easier to make yeah You don't need to build all six cylinders. You can build one to understand the combustion.
[09:50.320 -> 09:55.120] We should actually get an engine guy or gal on at some point to talk us through
[09:55.680 -> 09:58.720] early engine development, because that's going to become a very interesting topic.
[09:58.720 -> 10:01.200] I'm sure we must know someone.
[10:01.760 -> 10:06.440] So here's the thing though, when they're saying they've got 260 specialist
[10:06.440 -> 10:12.800] staff, I think it's very unlikely that they're only working on engine stuff.
[10:12.800 -> 10:16.760] Like probably if it's Audi, yes, it's mostly engine stuff, but even engine suppliers will
[10:16.760 -> 10:22.280] have performance simulations and vehicle dynamic simulations because they do need to understand
[10:22.280 -> 10:25.040] a lot about the energy flows with the new regulations.
[10:25.040 -> 10:29.280] They've got bigger MGUK, which means it can deploy more energy and it can recover more
[10:29.280 -> 10:30.280] energy off the rear axle.
[10:30.280 -> 10:34.720] And they've got a bigger battery, but the engine, the energy flows change completely
[10:34.720 -> 10:36.680] because we don't have an MGUH anymore.
[10:36.680 -> 10:41.060] I'm glad you brought that up because part of their update as well also mentioned that
[10:41.060 -> 10:49.000] they were working on updating all of their simulators at their German base of operations I've forgotten the name I've got to write it
[10:49.000 -> 10:55.480] down but bringing all this in yeah Audi land to bring it up to f1 spec so yeah
[10:55.480 -> 11:00.480] they're already working on stuff like that in the background. That's wacky.
[11:00.480 -> 11:05.440] Yeah their first complete PU which is like the entire engine electric
[11:05.440 -> 11:09.920] motor battery ECU yada yada yada they reckon that's gonna be on the test bench
[11:09.920 -> 11:14.920] for the end of the year so running a cylinder they're gonna upgrade the full
[11:14.920 -> 11:25.080] copy paste the cylinder and then get a new crankshaft and good to go English stats. Yes. Thank you for that chat. Dankeschön. Danke. Danke.
[11:25.080 -> 11:26.080] Yeah.
[11:26.080 -> 11:32.880] Oh, get to the chopper. No, that's Austria, isn't it?
[11:32.880 -> 11:37.720] So that's pretty cool. And it's, we've got another engine manufacturer. Do you reckon
[11:37.720 -> 11:39.280] we're going to see another one now?
[11:39.280 -> 11:44.960] Oh, I don't know. You say this like I should know that there should be someone else. Oh,
[11:44.960 -> 11:45.440] you're just genuinely asking.
[11:45.440 -> 11:46.440] I don't know.
[11:46.440 -> 11:47.440] Yeah.
[11:47.440 -> 11:50.000] Are we going to have any other, because we've got a couple of deadlines coming up.
[11:50.000 -> 11:54.760] I think we might talk about them, but the team's applications for the 2026 cycle is
[11:54.760 -> 12:00.840] coming up and interested parties will be putting their stuff out there.
[12:00.840 -> 12:01.840] I don't think so.
[12:01.840 -> 12:03.680] I can't think of anyone off the top of my head.
[12:03.680 -> 12:06.720] Mind you, if you said to me Ford were going to enter with Red Bull, I'd have laughed at you.
[12:07.520 -> 12:10.320] No, but at the same time, Ford are doing the battery technology.
[12:10.320 -> 12:11.520] That's what they're focusing on.
[12:11.520 -> 12:11.840] True.
[12:11.840 -> 12:17.440] RBPT is doing the combustion side and probably all the ancillaries and Ford is
[12:18.000 -> 12:24.240] doubling down on the EV market and hence their involvement in Formula 1 in the battery.
[12:24.240 -> 12:25.600] Well, that's very true.
[12:25.600 -> 12:27.360] Um, do I think another name?
[12:27.360 -> 12:28.080] Oh, then we have.
[12:29.680 -> 12:34.800] Um, Cadillac and Andretti, or was that more just the sort of chassis side?
[12:34.800 -> 12:36.640] They weren't getting involved with the PE were they?
[12:36.640 -> 12:41.360] Because they had a, supposedly they've got a agreement in principle with Renault.
[12:41.360 -> 12:42.320] I think it was, wasn't it?
[12:42.960 -> 12:44.320] Yeah, but Porsche said they're done.
[12:44.320 -> 12:45.440] We talked about that last week.
[12:45.440 -> 12:47.800] Porsche were like, nah, we're out, mate.
[12:47.800 -> 12:49.320] Yeah, they fumbled it big time.
[12:50.240 -> 12:53.240] They got a bit too greedy, tried to buy 50% of a team.
[12:54.360 -> 12:57.040] Everyone said fuck off, and now they've found themselves
[12:57.040 -> 13:02.040] basically with no way into F1, so there you go.
[13:02.040 -> 13:03.660] Well, maybe next time, eh?
[13:04.600 -> 13:06.560] Yeah, give it four four years and then we'll
[13:06.560 -> 13:12.440] start these Porsche rumors again, Jesus. Yeah I know but hey what's up we always talk about
[13:12.440 -> 13:18.520] our favorite street circuit, oh wait no Monaco is not our favorite street circuit but we
[13:18.520 -> 13:25.280] could have some issues with that Grand Prix which is in the next month or two. What's going on with that? Ah, well Monaco,
[13:27.040 -> 13:32.320] everyone knows Monaco, it's quite a small place. And because of that, they're reliant on a lot of
[13:32.320 -> 13:39.920] external things, right? So in this instance, all of their power is provided to them through the
[13:39.920 -> 13:48.720] French power grid. Really? It is, yeah. Because, Cause you know Monaco doesn't have a secret nuclear reactor underneath it.
[13:48.720 -> 13:49.280] I'm afraid.
[13:50.320 -> 13:52.800] Um, so.
[13:53.400 -> 13:56.280] Now that they had all the professional cyclists and athletes just on their,
[13:56.280 -> 13:58.200] um, watt bikes turning over the grid.
[13:58.960 -> 13:59.200] Yeah.
[13:59.200 -> 14:04.320] It's it's Bottas on his watt bike with his ass out powering the Monaco power grid.
[14:05.440 -> 14:10.760] Bottas on his Watt bike with his ass out powering the Monaco power grid. But the French have come out and you know confirmed that they are going to do the thing
[14:10.760 -> 14:16.520] they love to do the most and strike the ready get ready for this I'm going to try and pronounce
[14:16.520 -> 14:22.880] this the Confederation Général du Taval or let's just say CGT.
[14:22.880 -> 14:27.200] They are the energy sector union, whatever, they're protesting
[14:27.200 -> 14:31.960] against, I think they've got like some pension changes or something over in France. Anyway,
[14:31.960 -> 14:36.640] they decided to have a tear up because that's what they like to do out there, fair play.
[14:36.640 -> 14:40.720] And they basically said, oh, we're going to do like a hundred days of strikes or whatever
[14:40.720 -> 14:45.360] in the power sector. Unlucky for you, that includes the French Open,
[14:46.000 -> 14:51.520] the Monaco GP and the Cannes Film Festival. So there's like a chance.
[14:51.520 -> 14:55.600] It's not just sporting events. It's also like Cannes is always the week before Monaco.
[14:55.600 -> 14:56.100] Yeah.
[14:56.720 -> 15:00.960] Dude, that's, but remember last year when there was a huge storm and like they had to roll out
[15:00.960 -> 15:04.880] the generators. I don't know if they can run a whole Grand Prix on generators.
[15:04.800 -> 15:05.680] they had to roll out the generators. I don't know if they can run a whole Grand Prix on generators.
[15:10.160 -> 15:16.480] Yeah. Well, the teams have like quite beefy generators in the, well, it's Monaco as well, isn't it? So I don't know if they actually have them there. Anyway, Monaco looks like we could
[15:16.480 -> 15:22.880] be powered by, you know, AA batteries. They're going to bring Formula E in as a support race
[15:22.880 -> 15:28.000] and just basically plug all the teams into the cars, the Formula E cars and run it off of that.
[15:28.800 -> 15:29.360] Love that.
[15:29.360 -> 15:29.600] Yeah.
[15:29.600 -> 15:30.240] I love that.
[15:30.240 -> 15:34.480] So who knows what's going to happen there, but this is Monaco, so I'm sure there'll be some
[15:34.480 -> 15:39.680] magic golden opportunity for them to somehow be completely immune to all of this.
[15:41.680 -> 15:42.240] Let's see.
[15:42.240 -> 15:42.640] Let's see.
[15:42.640 -> 15:45.440] Imagine we'll just have to watch the Indy 500 because it's on the same day.
[15:46.120 -> 15:46.720] True.
[15:46.720 -> 15:48.120] We should watch anyway.
[15:48.280 -> 15:49.640] Maybe watch anyway.
[15:49.880 -> 16:00.040] Maybe this is all part of F1's wackiest rumors, theories and conspiracies on this episode of the Fraud Files.
[16:02.280 -> 16:08.000] The Indy 500 have unionized the French national power grid.
[16:08.000 -> 16:09.000] What?
[16:09.000 -> 16:14.280] Right, to threaten the Monaco GP to push more people to watch the Indy 500.
[16:14.280 -> 16:16.280] You've heard it here first.
[16:16.280 -> 16:19.280] Oh my, fraud files.
[16:19.280 -> 16:20.280] Everybody gasps.
[16:20.280 -> 16:30.280] The entire Twitch chat is just gasp. Which is, you know, a massive conspiracy that we should push onto Twitter, right?
[16:30.280 -> 16:36.920] And get going because hey, Twitter conspiracies and rumors are doing really well right now,
[16:36.920 -> 16:38.280] aren't they Blake?
[16:38.280 -> 16:40.120] Excellent engagement, excellent engagement.
[16:40.120 -> 16:46.280] If we want to talk about, and I'm not even sure this one's worthy of fraud files. This is, is this legit or not?
[16:47.060 -> 16:50.600] The dark Lord himself and Taylor Swift.
[16:51.000 -> 16:51.700] Is this a thing?
[16:51.840 -> 16:54.000] Alonzo Fernando Alonzo and Taylor Swift.
[16:54.000 -> 16:55.160] Is this actually a thing?
[16:55.840 -> 16:57.720] Like it was a tick tock joke.
[16:58.720 -> 17:01.600] And then it kind of, it kind of gained steam.
[17:01.600 -> 17:07.120] And honestly, I think this has more specific energy or more total
[17:07.120 -> 17:08.960] energy rather.
[17:08.960 -> 17:12.560] I think this has more total energy than the French strikes.
[17:12.560 -> 17:13.560] We need to harness this.
[17:13.560 -> 17:14.560] And the 500 paying them off.
[17:14.560 -> 17:15.560] Yeah.
[17:15.560 -> 17:16.560] I don't know, man.
[17:16.560 -> 17:21.720] I think we could put a little bit of heat behind the French strikes, but I think Alonso
[17:21.720 -> 17:24.920] and Taylor Swift, is it a thing?
[17:24.920 -> 17:25.000] I mean, I don't know. strikes, but I think Alonzo and Taylor Swift, is it a thing?
[17:29.600 -> 17:30.080] I mean, I dunno, they were, they were asking drivers at the NASCAR race. That happened.
[17:30.080 -> 17:32.960] I saw them asking Bubba Wallace and he's like, nope.
[17:33.480 -> 17:34.680] But what the heck?
[17:34.920 -> 17:36.240] And then, uh, how was it?
[17:36.240 -> 17:39.800] Fernando uploaded a TikTok of him just sitting there listening to a Taylor Swift
[17:39.800 -> 17:40.560] song as well.
[17:40.640 -> 17:42.280] And he was like, he knows what he's doing.
[17:42.960 -> 17:43.840] Like, all right.
[17:44.760 -> 17:47.600] She's got to be at least a foot taller than he is.
[17:48.360 -> 17:48.900] At least.
[17:49.400 -> 17:50.400] Oh, probably.
[17:50.800 -> 17:52.980] Cause cause I'm, I'm five nine.
[17:53.240 -> 17:53.920] I say five 10.
[17:53.920 -> 17:54.940] I'm probably five nine.
[17:55.260 -> 17:58.840] I'm quite a bit taller than Alonzo when I've walked past him in the paddock.
[17:59.480 -> 18:01.340] I I'm, I'm kind of like, you're right, mate.
[18:01.960 -> 18:02.440] You're right, mate.
[18:02.620 -> 18:07.000] He's like, see, She's 5 foot 10. She
[18:07.000 -> 18:11.240] is. Yeah, according to the internet, she's 5 foot 10. Nah, she's gotta be taller than
[18:11.240 -> 18:19.760] that. Oh, well, listen, hey, the well-known reputable website, j-14.com, right, is telling
[18:19.760 -> 18:26.320] me she's 5 foot 10. Google says to me in freedom units that's 1.8 meters.
[18:26.320 -> 18:28.320] No, and freedom units.
[18:28.320 -> 18:30.320] Oh is it? Oh whatever, I don't fucking care.
[18:30.320 -> 18:32.320] Whatever.
[18:32.320 -> 18:37.680] But yeah, I don't think, I think this is just something on TikTok that just went wildly out of control.
[18:37.680 -> 18:43.840] Articles started getting written about it and Alonso being Alonso was like, yeah I'm going to lean into this
[18:43.840 -> 18:47.840] and just sort of fucking shit house everyone with it.
[18:47.840 -> 18:49.960] Does Taylor Swift even know who Alonso is?
[18:49.960 -> 18:53.200] I don't know.
[18:53.200 -> 18:55.160] She has to now if she has.
[18:55.160 -> 18:56.160] She does now.
[18:56.160 -> 18:57.160] Definitely.
[18:57.160 -> 19:01.480] It's for all those championships he's won in the last five years.
[19:01.480 -> 19:11.160] But I say that jokingly, maybe at some point, I don't know Aston. Well something leads another something something they keep it up Dan
[19:12.200 -> 19:14.200] Dan follows
[19:14.280 -> 19:16.720] Yeah, leading the charge on that. Let's let's see
[19:17.240 -> 19:25.080] Maybe the fraud files go deeper and deeper and deeper. Mmm. We got some more fraudulent files now.
[19:25.080 -> 19:26.080] Hold on.
[19:26.080 -> 19:29.360] Stay cool Felipe baby, I'll get that lawsuit for you.
[19:29.360 -> 19:30.360] Stay cool.
[19:30.360 -> 19:31.360] Beautiful intro.
[19:31.360 -> 19:37.080] Yeah, Felipe Massa has now decided to move forward with his plans to evaluate whether
[19:37.080 -> 19:41.400] they're legal grounds for him to challenge the outcome of the 2008 F1 World Championship.
[19:41.400 -> 19:44.280] Right on the surface of this, you could look at this and just think, fucking whatever,
[19:44.280 -> 19:50.080] get over it. Like, yeah, but but reading into this I don't blame him and I'm
[19:50.080 -> 19:58.000] always sort of rooting for him but like at the same time like imagine that I mean there's
[19:58.000 -> 20:06.160] new information but I don't know people like oh what a sad fuck, but like, nevermind you and you're, you know, all of your world championships on Twitter.
[20:06.500 -> 20:13.400] Um, but I don't know, man, if there was a chance, would you do it?
[20:13.560 -> 20:17.880] If you had some expendable income, what is it, what's it going to, is it the only
[20:17.880 -> 20:21.880] person that's gonna be super excited about is you and maybe your friends and family.
[20:22.260 -> 20:22.600] Yeah.
[20:23.360 -> 20:28.960] So maybe his 2008 championship will last longer than what was it, the 12 seconds until Lewis
[20:28.960 -> 20:30.560] crossed the line or whatever.
[20:30.560 -> 20:38.640] But yeah, no, this is all come about because everyone's favorite fucking troll, Bernie
[20:38.640 -> 20:42.640] Eccleston, previous F1 boss.
[20:42.640 -> 20:46.760] I'm not sure where he was talking about this, but he was talking about crash gate,
[20:46.800 -> 20:47.240] right?
[20:47.360 -> 20:51.600] Which if you don't know, it was the Singapore Grand Prix in, was it 2008?
[20:51.600 -> 20:51.880] Wasn't it?
[20:51.880 -> 20:52.120] Yeah.
[20:52.600 -> 20:54.320] Where Nelson Piquet Jr.
[20:54.360 -> 20:59.000] driving for Renault at the time, was told to crash from the lead of the race.
[20:59.120 -> 21:04.000] So they could like create a safety car to benefit teammate Fernando Alonso.
[21:04.000 -> 21:06.000] Again, Alonso is involved, fuck sake.
[21:06.000 -> 21:08.280] He's the dark lord, I'm telling you, man.
[21:08.280 -> 21:09.800] He's got some skeletons in his closet.
[21:09.800 -> 21:10.640] He does, yeah.
[21:11.200 -> 21:14.200] And, uh, well, Fernando went on to win the race, right?
[21:14.200 -> 21:22.000] So then I think that ended up benefiting, uh, Hamilton over Massa.
[21:22.000 -> 21:26.360] And so Hamilton won the championship in the end and not Massa or whatever.
[21:26.360 -> 21:34.880] But back then there was a rule basically that the world championship classification after the FIA awards ceremony ended here, right?
[21:34.880 -> 21:38.640] It's untouchable. Once that ceremony's done, you can't do anything about it.
[21:38.640 -> 21:42.560] So Hamilton obviously got his trophy, yada yada, everything was fine.
[21:42.560 -> 21:46.020] But then, was it 2009 season?
[21:46.020 -> 21:50.220] It came out that crash gate was a thing and it all came to light.
[21:50.720 -> 21:54.820] PK basically, once he got sacked by Renault, he ratted them out.
[21:55.380 -> 21:57.180] And then everybody's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever.
[21:57.180 -> 22:01.180] And then they started digging into it and putting people, like
[22:01.180 -> 22:03.580] they properly investigated and they had people on record.
[22:03.740 -> 22:05.120] And I forgot who was one
[22:05.120 -> 22:06.520] of the sporting directors or something.
[22:06.520 -> 22:08.760] He was like, I can't answer that.
[22:08.760 -> 22:10.240] And it's like, okay, that means yes.
[22:10.240 -> 22:14.200] And eventually it came out and they did confirm it was a thing.
[22:14.200 -> 22:18.200] Flavor Flavio Bregatore and the boys and the dark Lord himself.
[22:18.200 -> 22:20.000] Alonso says he didn't know about it.
[22:20.000 -> 22:21.000] You got to say that though, don't you?
[22:21.000 -> 22:22.000] Yeah, yeah.
[22:22.000 -> 22:24.360] I mean, legally, you have to say that.
[22:24.360 -> 22:28.520] You have to say that though, don't you? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, legally, you have to say that. Um, you have to say that it turns out apparently that, uh, they knew, I'll
[22:28.520 -> 22:31.480] say they knew Bernie Eccleston and a couple of other people within the
[22:31.480 -> 22:33.640] FIA knew about it in 2008.
[22:34.720 -> 22:39.000] And, um, they should have canceled the race in Singapore under those conditions.
[22:39.000 -> 22:41.480] It means it would never would have happened for the championship standings.
[22:41.480 -> 22:49.200] And then Felipe Massa would have become world champion and not Lewis Hamilton. So that's that's Massa's issues the fact that they knew about it but they didn't
[22:49.200 -> 22:55.200] want to bring any controversy or or you know like. Formula One never does controversy. No no never
[22:55.200 -> 23:06.940] not at all never. Okay so so I mean. So you're saying he thinks based on that, that he shouldn't have a right to that and
[23:06.940 -> 23:08.260] they should cancel that race.
[23:08.260 -> 23:13.200] And that's the thing to do when a team has meddled with the result, they've fixed the
[23:13.200 -> 23:14.200] race effectively.
[23:14.200 -> 23:20.020] So a team fixes a race and they're suggesting that the solution is cancel that Grand Prix
[23:20.020 -> 23:22.860] and then Felipe Massa 2008 stay cool baby.
[23:22.860 -> 23:23.860] Yeah.
[23:23.860 -> 23:28.120] I think Felipe's issue with this is the FIA knew about it, potentially
[23:28.120 -> 23:30.360] according to Bernie and let's remember, let's, you got to remember Bernie
[23:30.360 -> 23:31.920] talks shit, right?
[23:32.360 -> 23:33.880] This could all be complete bollocks.
[23:33.960 -> 23:39.080] You know, I think Massa's issue is that Bernie knew about it and decided not to
[23:39.080 -> 23:43.240] do anything about it at the time because it would bring the sport into disrepute.
[23:43.800 -> 23:46.840] It seems to be a phrase we're saying quite a lot recently within these last few years,
[23:46.840 -> 23:47.340] but there you go.
[23:48.400 -> 23:50.280] So yeah, I don't fucking know.
[23:50.960 -> 23:56.040] So we've had somebody, uh, the question proposed in the chat and Twitch say if they
[23:56.260 -> 24:03.120] overturn this race, then surely they can overturn 2021 in Hamilton's favor, but.
[24:03.720 -> 24:04.300] Who knows.
[24:04.320 -> 24:06.860] So let's put, let's put those, let's do a side
[24:06.860 -> 24:15.360] by side, right? So Singapore was a team fixing a race. Everybody claims that the FIA fixed
[24:15.360 -> 24:20.640] Abu Dhabi effectively, or their, their decision was incorrect. And that influenced the outcome
[24:20.640 -> 24:27.240] of the race. The decision did influence the outcome of the race. Yeah, the decision did influence the outcome of the race fine. But if the statute is.
[24:27.240 -> 24:29.400] An old race and you do the
[24:29.400 -> 24:31.000] same thing at the Dabby.
[24:31.000 -> 24:32.320] Max still wins the championship
[24:32.320 -> 24:34.480] if that is the thing count back.
[24:34.480 -> 24:35.880] Yeah, yeah, because he was
[24:35.880 -> 24:37.640] true. He was leading going into that
[24:37.640 -> 24:38.720] or they were tied with.
[24:38.720 -> 24:40.760] He had more wins going into that race.
[24:40.760 -> 24:42.440] Yeah, so if you cancel that so,
[24:42.440 -> 24:44.240] but I'm not that excited
[24:44.240 -> 24:45.400] about that conversation conversation and that's
[24:45.400 -> 24:46.760] just going to stir up a bunch of stuff.
[24:46.760 -> 24:51.760] Like I feel like we're almost ready to stop bringing it up every five minutes, but we
[24:51.760 -> 24:52.760] did it.
[24:52.760 -> 24:53.760] Yeah, no fuck it.
[24:53.760 -> 24:54.760] Who cares?
[24:54.760 -> 24:55.760] Embrace it.
[24:55.760 -> 25:02.320] Um, but if anyone out there generally believes the FIA would fix a race, I'm not going to,
[25:02.320 -> 25:04.960] I'm not going to give you a definitive answer, right?
[25:04.960 -> 25:08.580] Because you're entitled to your opinion, but I'll just offer these words of wisdom.
[25:09.200 -> 25:14.560] After someone that's worked quite closely with the FIA for six years, they are not
[25:14.560 -> 25:17.580] fucking capable of fixing a race.
[25:17.640 -> 25:21.680] They can barely fucking get a race going, let alone fixing the result of one.
[25:22.460 -> 25:23.920] And that's my personal opinion, right?
[25:23.920 -> 25:25.920] So, you know, if you still want to believe that,
[25:25.920 -> 25:26.920] that's fine, that's on you,
[25:26.920 -> 25:29.120] but I'm just offering those words of wisdom.
[25:30.080 -> 25:33.720] You know what, cherish those words because, yeah.
[25:33.720 -> 25:37.040] Like the name of the game for the last couple of years
[25:37.040 -> 25:39.420] has been incompetence, not,
[25:40.320 -> 25:43.140] well, incompetence and corruption,
[25:44.160 -> 25:46.480] they're not necessarily mutually exclusive, but in
[25:46.480 -> 25:51.240] this case, you're going to need a little bit more competence than that to be that corrupt.
[25:51.240 -> 25:52.240] Yeah.
[25:52.240 -> 25:56.280] I mean, you're talking about a company that still was trying to use fax machines in like
[25:56.280 -> 25:58.600] fucking 2017 or whenever it was.
[25:58.600 -> 26:00.280] It was like, Jesus, come on, mate.
[26:00.280 -> 26:02.520] Is that how they communicated with Adrian or Dr. Marco?
[26:02.520 -> 26:07.360] It's like, can you send me the piece of electric scan paper? And then I'll print that paper on my side onto paper.
[26:08.160 -> 26:13.440] Yeah, we were getting these, uh, I remember someone in the office who deals with like, uh,
[26:14.160 -> 26:18.640] the bills and things like that was questioning, like, why we've got this random ass fucking
[26:18.640 -> 26:19.440] telephone line.
[26:20.240 -> 26:24.160] And then someone from like CIO level or whatever had to come down and was just like, oh yeah,
[26:24.160 -> 26:27.680] that's because, um, Bernie still mandates that we need to have a fax machine.
[26:27.680 -> 26:32.880] I was like, for fuck's sake, like use fucking email, man.
[26:32.880 -> 26:33.880] Come on.
[26:33.880 -> 26:39.120] The pinnacle of motorsport and technology, ladies and gentlemen, Bernie Ecclestone's
[26:39.120 -> 26:40.800] fax machine.
[26:40.800 -> 26:44.400] What the actual hell, dude.
[26:44.400 -> 26:49.160] Speaking of, um, lawsuits and everything else, what's our boy Mazepin up to, man?
[26:49.160 -> 26:53.960] Yeah, Nikita Mazepin has come out from under his rock.
[26:53.960 -> 26:57.160] He's not under a rock, he's busy spinning records, bro.
[26:57.160 -> 26:59.160] True, yes.
[26:59.160 -> 27:10.240] DJ Mazepin, the records. He's decided that in, you know, in his frustration of not having his racing
[27:10.240 -> 27:15.880] license back and all that, because of obviously the political situation, he's
[27:15.880 -> 27:22.140] decided to very calmly and sensibly sue the entire fucking government of Canada.
[27:24.260 -> 27:25.200] You know what, man?
[27:26.960 -> 27:27.960] You guys are so polite.
[27:27.960 -> 27:29.240] I'm going to sue your asses.
[27:29.280 -> 27:29.440] Yeah.
[27:29.440 -> 27:29.800] Why?
[27:30.160 -> 27:31.760] Why specifically Canada?
[27:31.880 -> 27:36.040] How does he doesn't he, he can't compete, but why is he what's up with that?
[27:36.360 -> 27:39.560] Uh, well, I'm, I'm trying to, I've tried to figure this out.
[27:40.080 -> 27:43.320] The only thing I can think of is because Canada still have him
[27:43.880 -> 27:45.440] on their active sanctions list.
[27:46.320 -> 27:52.320] So they put him and his dad and someone else on their sanction list because obviously if your
[27:52.320 -> 27:57.760] mates with Putin or whatever you're, excuse me. And apparently his dad is closely related.
[27:57.760 -> 27:59.840] Oh yeah, he's photos of them together and things like that. So yeah.
[27:59.840 -> 28:00.560] The mates.
[28:00.560 -> 28:05.840] Yeah. Um, yeah. So Canada put them on the sanctions list.
[28:05.840 -> 28:07.200] Now real quick though.
[28:07.200 -> 28:08.200] Yeah.
[28:08.200 -> 28:12.120] I've seen a picture of, of Lewis Hamilton and Vladimir Putin.
[28:12.120 -> 28:13.480] The Russian Grand Prix.
[28:13.480 -> 28:14.480] Yeah.
[28:14.480 -> 28:15.480] Yeah.
[28:15.480 -> 28:20.440] Anybody that's been on the podium, but there is the rumor that that wasn't actually him.
[28:20.440 -> 28:21.440] It was a body double.
[28:21.440 -> 28:22.440] Oh, probably.
[28:22.440 -> 28:26.000] So I think we might have spoken about this before.
[28:26.000 -> 28:29.280] You know what we're going we're going we're going ADHD we're going full. Yeah no I don't care I'm
[28:29.280 -> 28:34.880] embracing it. Send it embrace it. Putin's magic briefcase so have we spoken about this before on
[28:34.880 -> 28:40.000] the show? Oh I feel like I've heard about it but I'm not sure that we've talked about it so why
[28:40.000 -> 28:46.880] don't you uh. Yeah Putin's magic briefcase right So when he was in Sochi and he'd walked down the pit lane, obviously
[28:46.880 -> 28:48.040] he's got his body guards.
[28:48.480 -> 28:51.700] And, and one of them has got the briefcase, which has got like the big red button on
[28:51.700 -> 28:56.460] it in case, you know, he has to casually launch nukes while he's watching the chaos
[28:56.460 -> 28:57.540] at turn one or whatever.
[28:57.940 -> 28:58.580] Yeah, exactly.
[28:58.580 -> 28:59.260] It's like a caveat.
[28:59.260 -> 28:59.820] Don't do that.
[28:59.820 -> 29:00.660] No.
[29:00.660 -> 29:00.940] Yeah.
[29:00.940 -> 29:01.140] Yeah.
[29:01.140 -> 29:01.460] Yeah.
[29:01.460 -> 29:01.840] To be fair.
[29:01.840 -> 29:02.940] That was half Seb's fault.
[29:02.940 -> 29:03.940] The second was Seb's fault.
[29:04.220 -> 29:06.840] The torpedo, God, yeah. To be fair, that was half Seb's fault. The second was Seb's fault. I stand by that. The torpedo, God love him.
[29:06.840 -> 29:14.000] But also in this briefcase was a magical set of electronics that would just like completely
[29:14.000 -> 29:19.400] blank out all your phone signal, all the wifi signal, all the radio signal and shit like
[29:19.400 -> 29:20.400] that.
[29:20.400 -> 29:23.200] So you knew when he was coming down the pit lane close to your garage because you'd lose
[29:23.200 -> 29:24.680] all the signal for everything.
[29:24.680 -> 29:25.120] No. Yeah. the signal for everything.
[29:25.880 -> 29:25.920] No.
[29:26.240 -> 29:30.240] Yeah. And I mean, everything like you'd fucking, you'd lose camera feeds and all sorts.
[29:30.240 -> 29:34.420] And it was just like, and he got so bad to the point of where I think this is back
[29:34.420 -> 29:35.600] when Bernie was still running it.
[29:35.600 -> 29:41.040] Like the teams had to go to Bernie and say, Bernie, you're quite chummy with Putin.
[29:42.000 -> 29:45.280] Can you ask him to like not turn up until like near the end of the race, please?
[29:45.280 -> 29:49.240] Cause we can't continuously have all these outages from his magic briefcase
[29:49.240 -> 29:50.560] walking up and down the pit lane.
[29:51.920 -> 29:53.640] Oh, that's so fucking wild.
[29:53.760 -> 29:55.040] So yeah, there you go.
[29:55.080 -> 29:58.800] Putin's magic briefcase, ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, and
[29:58.800 -> 30:02.480] which brings us back to why Putin is suing Canada.
[30:02.520 -> 30:03.200] That one's my fault.
[30:03.520 -> 30:03.760] Yeah.
[30:03.760 -> 30:05.840] Suing Canada because he's still on their
[30:05.840 -> 30:11.920] active sanctions list. Now, I was a bit like, well, why doesn't he sue the EU? Well,
[30:11.920 -> 30:15.520] he's not on the EU sanctions list anymore. Right. He got taken off of it.
[30:16.080 -> 30:22.000] So what I'm getting at is he's basically going against them because he's pretty,
[30:22.000 -> 30:26.220] that's probably the only Grand Prix he can't go to because he's sanctioned in that country.
[30:26.220 -> 30:29.860] And that's a barrier to him getting a seat again.
[30:29.860 -> 30:33.220] That that's, I believe that's what it stems down to.
[30:33.220 -> 30:34.220] Yeah.
[30:34.220 -> 30:37.980] They've got the cash, whether or not you want them in the sport, like pretty sure they got
[30:37.980 -> 30:38.980] the cash.
[30:38.980 -> 30:45.640] I knew his dad was well off, but I didn't realize he's like $5.4 billion well off.
[30:47.800 -> 30:47.920] He's, you know, yeah.
[30:49.440 -> 30:50.440] What is that more than that? More than strolls?
[30:50.480 -> 30:51.040] I don't know.
[30:51.400 -> 30:52.720] Well, he hasn't bought a team yet, so.
[30:53.280 -> 30:54.520] I don't think he can now, can he?
[30:55.000 -> 30:57.240] It's all locked away, but yeah, anyway, sorry.
[30:57.240 -> 31:01.080] So Canada, I believe it's because he's the only left on their
[31:01.080 -> 31:02.280] sanction list or something.
[31:02.320 -> 31:03.200] I don't fucking know.
[31:03.680 -> 31:09.200] I mean, I don't, I don't think being on their sanction list is the reason you haven't got
[31:09.200 -> 31:11.960] a seat, mate, to be fair.
[31:11.960 -> 31:16.760] I think there's bigger issues at play why you don't have a seat and being on the sanctions
[31:16.760 -> 31:18.760] list isn't one of them.
[31:18.760 -> 31:21.480] Oh, yeah.
[31:21.480 -> 31:24.800] Perhaps maybe you could sue them for some talent.
[31:24.800 -> 31:25.400] I don't know. Oh, yeah. Perhaps maybe you could sue them for some talent. I don't know.
[31:26.120 -> 31:27.800] Oh, scandalous.
[31:27.880 -> 31:28.240] Hmm.
[31:28.920 -> 31:31.360] Not that we're any better at F1 2022.
[31:31.400 -> 31:32.000] Oh my God.
[31:32.040 -> 31:36.440] If anybody missed that, Dan and I played a couple of races of a career on F1 22.
[31:36.480 -> 31:42.040] Um, basically we wrote off three front rings, each two chassis and DNF two out
[31:42.040 -> 31:43.760] of three races are going to do that again this week.
[31:44.880 -> 31:51.960] Well, I don't know. I like how we did such a disastrous attempt at running F1 2022 that
[31:51.960 -> 31:56.320] your immediate thought was, Hey, I'm going to go out and buy a year subscription to iRacing
[31:56.320 -> 32:00.800] because that's surely going to be much easier than F1 2022.
[32:00.800 -> 32:05.420] There's something about it, right? I probably I bought it last night and I played for about
[32:05.420 -> 32:12.860] an hour and I drove the MX5 cup car around Alton Park. Dude. I mean, I drove so here's
[32:12.860 -> 32:19.120] the here's the little rewind back in the day in 2006, seven, eight and nine. I drove spec
[32:19.120 -> 32:30.520] MX5 in the US. My dad's friend had a car. He let us run it because he got a bigger car. He bought a he had a custom Mustang built and it was spectacular. And he's like, I've got this
[32:30.520 -> 32:35.320] old MX-5. It's a really nice car. It's won a couple championships. Why don't you destroy
[32:35.320 -> 32:42.380] this car? So I drove that for a couple seasons and I got a couple, I got at least one regional
[32:42.380 -> 32:50.300] pole position in a race and I got a couple of podiums. I think maybe I was outside of the podium often, but it was so fucking good man and
[32:50.300 -> 32:56.000] playing that. On iRacing gave me such a good feeling like it was like, oh my God, this
[32:56.000 -> 33:02.200] is this is great. I'm not sure I've got that feeling from the F1 game yet. No, and they're
[33:02.200 -> 33:09.200] different. They're completely different games and I'm'm not, I'm not you're comparing apples to oranges, but honestly, I think iRacing might have the hook.
[33:09.200 -> 33:16.400] Yeah. Okay. Okay. I think I've got an account on it. It's just different, man. But, um,
[33:16.400 -> 33:26.640] it's fun. That's off England, is it? We'll have to, maybe we can get a series going. The Engine Breaking Fraudulent MX5 Cup Series.
[33:26.640 -> 33:30.080] Yeah, sponsored by.
[33:30.080 -> 33:32.000] Injury Lawyers for you.
[33:32.000 -> 33:33.000] Interesting.
[33:33.000 -> 33:34.000] Right.
[33:34.000 -> 33:35.000] So, yeah, sorry.
[33:35.000 -> 33:36.000] Right.
[33:36.000 -> 33:38.200] Mazepin Suess Canada, GG's, whatever.
[33:38.200 -> 33:40.880] Good luck to you.
[33:40.880 -> 33:41.880] Breaking News.
[33:41.880 -> 33:47.100] Oh, today, like you wrote the episode and then like we're going through, it's like,
[33:47.100 -> 33:48.500] oh, did we get that?
[33:48.500 -> 33:49.400] Did we get that?
[33:49.400 -> 33:49.900] This is today.
[33:49.900 -> 33:50.700] This is right now.
[33:51.700 -> 33:52.200] Yep.
[33:52.200 -> 33:54.700] Plans tossed.
[33:54.700 -> 34:01.500] Al Fatauri, team principal for 18 years, is leaving at the end of this year,
[34:01.500 -> 34:02.500] end of the season.
[34:03.400 -> 34:04.900] Man, that's wacky.
[34:04.900 -> 34:05.000] But so here's the thing. Man, that's wacky.
[34:05.000 -> 34:05.900] But so here's the thing.
[34:05.900 -> 34:07.700] We had Mekes, right?
[34:07.700 -> 34:09.900] There was the announcement that Mekes was going to go join
[34:09.900 -> 34:10.700] AlphaTauri.
[34:11.400 -> 34:11.700] Yes.
[34:11.700 -> 34:15.700] So Mekes is race director.
[34:15.800 -> 34:18.000] Yeah, race director at Ferrari.
[34:20.500 -> 34:24.100] I understood it at first because the rumor first came out that
[34:25.360 -> 34:25.640] Lauren Mekes was leaving Ferrari to go work at AlphaTauri. I understood it at first because the rumor first came out that, um,
[34:29.160 -> 34:29.720] Lauren Mekes was leaving Ferrari to go work at AlphaTauri.
[34:31.560 -> 34:32.080] The rumor was he was going to work alongside.
[34:32.680 -> 34:32.960] Exactly. Franz.
[34:32.960 -> 34:35.920] And as soon as I heard that, I was like, no, no.
[34:36.280 -> 34:40.160] I, the way they picked, they, it did sound like a sort of handover, didn't it?
[34:41.280 -> 34:45.080] And so that was the, that was what I was going to pitch in this episode.
[34:45.080 -> 34:48.520] Originally it was like, Oh, it sounds like it's going to be like a retirement deal.
[34:48.920 -> 34:49.720] But then it happened.
[34:49.720 -> 34:50.040] Yeah.
[34:50.040 -> 34:50.240] Yeah.
[34:50.240 -> 34:53.480] AlphaTauri heard, they must've seen my show notes and they thought, no, fuck you.
[34:53.480 -> 34:54.720] No exclusive for you.
[34:54.740 -> 34:55.760] We're just going to reveal it.
[34:55.760 -> 34:56.260] Yeah, shitters.
[34:57.280 -> 34:57.920] Shitters.
[34:58.560 -> 35:07.200] But, um, what about, so Tost, been there a long time, but Mechies used to work at Torosso.
[35:07.200 -> 35:07.840] Correct.
[35:07.840 -> 35:08.200] Yeah.
[35:08.200 -> 35:15.560] Well, even further back than that, because for Torosso it was Minardi.
[35:15.600 -> 35:15.960] Yep.
[35:16.120 -> 35:18.320] So he worked there for Minardi.
[35:18.880 -> 35:22.680] I didn't realize he worked for Minardi because I knew, I remember seeing him
[35:22.760 -> 35:24.800] in the paddock at Torosso and then he left.
[35:25.200 -> 35:28.200] Yeah, he went to the FIA, didn't he?
[35:28.200 -> 35:31.840] He, he worked in, I think safety, something else in safety.
[35:31.840 -> 35:33.040] So he was still at the track.
[35:33.040 -> 35:34.440] He was involved in stuff.
[35:34.440 -> 35:38.120] I think he was kind of, he's been in the industry a long time, so he's been dabbling bits and
[35:38.120 -> 35:42.280] pieces and he went to FIA for a bit and then he went to Ferrari.
[35:42.280 -> 35:51.920] Yes. And then he went to Ferrari. Yes, you know, because the calling of the great big red Prancing horse is a strong one.
[35:51.920 -> 35:57.240] And I thought, well, would you offer the job there once?
[35:57.240 -> 35:58.240] Was you?
[35:58.240 -> 35:59.240] Couldn't say.
[35:59.240 -> 36:01.360] Was you, was you invited to interview?
[36:01.360 -> 36:02.920] Let me say that.
[36:02.920 -> 36:03.920] Couldn't say.
[36:03.920 -> 36:04.920] Okay.
[36:04.920 -> 36:06.000] I see. Yes, I. Couldn't say. Okay. That's a yes. I was, I declined.
[36:06.000 -> 36:12.480] Okay. I didn't want to. I didn't, I know. I don't want, I don't like, I don't like, I know we talk a
[36:12.480 -> 36:18.240] lot of shit on this podcast, but like, honestly, like working for a Ferrari would be amazing,
[36:18.240 -> 36:23.680] even though it's probably super, super political, um, as we can tell from everything going on,
[36:23.680 -> 36:25.440] but I just didn't want to move country.
[36:25.440 -> 36:29.440] And at that point, I was already falling out of love with being trackside engineer. And I was
[36:29.440 -> 36:32.640] like, I don't want to do it again. You know, cause once you, if you go to another team,
[36:33.200 -> 36:36.640] you're not, you're not going to Ferrari for a year. You're going to Ferrari for three years,
[36:36.640 -> 36:40.800] minimum, especially if you're a trackside personnel. I don't even remember if it was a
[36:40.800 -> 36:45.760] trackside or if it was after I left the track, but I was just like, I'm not interested in three more years.
[36:45.760 -> 36:51.600] Like I, when I was ending my force India days, I was like, I think I might be over this.
[36:51.600 -> 36:54.360] Then Red Bull was like, Hey, I was like, oh hell yeah.
[36:54.360 -> 36:57.840] And I got a little bit of mojo back and then I was like, yeah, I'm done with the track.
[36:57.840 -> 36:58.840] Yes.
[36:58.840 -> 37:02.480] The irony of an American living in the UK moaning, they didn't want to move country
[37:02.480 -> 37:05.860] is not lost on me, but I understand you.
[37:05.860 -> 37:06.860] I had done it once.
[37:06.860 -> 37:09.160] I had done it once and that was enough for me.
[37:09.160 -> 37:10.160] Yeah.
[37:10.160 -> 37:17.640] We had a guy that moved into Red Bull, into my team was the most Northern guy you could
[37:17.640 -> 37:19.240] possibly ever think of.
[37:19.240 -> 37:20.240] Right.
[37:20.240 -> 37:25.820] Like he drank Bovril for like, you know, as like an afternoon snack sort of thing.
[37:31.460 -> 37:31.960] And he did two or three years in Fienza working for Toro Rosso.
[37:32.360 -> 37:33.060] Yeah.
[37:36.480 -> 37:38.280] And it like the culture change with this big Northern bloke living in Fienza for like two years.
[37:38.680 -> 37:39.160] Oh yeah.
[37:39.480 -> 37:40.160] Fun times.
[37:40.720 -> 37:42.040] Anyway, sorry.
[37:42.240 -> 37:43.040] What was I saying?
[37:43.080 -> 37:43.440] Yeah.
[37:44.640 -> 37:47.960] Alpha Tauri. swapping it about.
[37:47.960 -> 37:48.960] Yeah.
[37:48.960 -> 37:51.200] But, um, yeah.
[37:51.200 -> 37:53.520] And also I picked up this a little bit.
[37:53.520 -> 37:57.720] Alpha Tauri's got a new CEO, Peter Beyer, or Beyer.
[37:57.720 -> 38:06.840] He was FIA secretary general and for sport and later executive director until 2022. It's not clear what he's been up to in the last year,
[38:08.120 -> 38:11.160] but he will be taking over AlphaTauri as CEO.
[38:11.160 -> 38:13.520] And I looked him up and I could find very little on him.
[38:13.520 -> 38:17.040] So he's obviously avoided the news articles quite well.
[38:17.040 -> 38:19.560] He's been enjoying the garden and leave for a year.
[38:19.560 -> 38:21.880] Who's signed me up on a garden, man.
[38:23.240 -> 38:30.020] But there you go, all'll change what else we got. So we've got so we've we've had team principal silly season earlier
[38:30.100 -> 38:32.460] We've got a new team principal coming
[38:33.540 -> 38:35.540] And then Mercedes. Yeah
[38:36.180 -> 38:40.560] Interesting swap. I remember if we spoke about this last episode or not. I just had a
[38:42.380 -> 38:45.240] If we did I forgotten about it about it already, but fuck it.
[38:45.240 -> 38:46.520] We'll talk about it again if we have.
[38:46.600 -> 38:49.720] The Lord and Savior, James Allison is coming back.
[38:50.040 -> 38:50.560] He is.
[38:50.560 -> 38:52.360] To focus on the Formula One duties.
[38:52.360 -> 38:55.560] He's been away on technical projects, doing boats and everything else.
[38:55.920 -> 38:58.440] And he's basically, Mike Elliott's been the technical director
[38:58.440 -> 38:59.680] effectively and they're swapping.
[38:59.720 -> 39:03.360] I'm not sure if that's the exact position title, but the chief technical dude
[39:03.360 -> 39:05.300] looking after the race car, make it go zoom.
[39:05.700 -> 39:05.900] Yeah.
[39:06.440 -> 39:09.480] Allison has been doing other projects and maybe a bit of consulting,
[39:09.480 -> 39:13.940] but not primarily on F1 and then Mike Elliott's been doing primarily F1
[39:13.940 -> 39:16.620] and they're like, right, we're going to swap you guys.
[39:18.220 -> 39:21.960] Yeah, but it's not like a negative thing, but they both seem quite happy with this
[39:21.960 -> 39:27.280] sort of, or at least they're putting on a good front that they're happy to be doing this swap.
[39:27.280 -> 39:31.920] But like, are you going to be like, yeah, I'll do it, but autosport, by the way, I'm
[39:31.920 -> 39:36.440] not happy about this. You know who I reckon is more pissed off?
[39:36.440 -> 39:37.440] Who?
[39:37.440 -> 39:38.440] James Allison.
[39:38.440 -> 39:39.680] You think?
[39:39.680 -> 39:44.000] I reckon, I mean, and this is disclaimer, full disclaimer, this is full speculation.
[39:44.000 -> 39:46.800] I reckon Allison was like, right,
[39:46.800 -> 39:50.000] he's been at the top of Formula One for a very long time
[39:50.000 -> 39:51.960] and done a fucking bang up job,
[39:51.960 -> 39:54.160] as well as gone through all sorts of other stuff
[39:54.160 -> 39:57.600] in his personal life while being, you know,
[39:57.600 -> 39:59.760] traveling to all the races and everything else.
[39:59.760 -> 40:03.320] He goes back to Mercedes, he keeps them taking over,
[40:03.320 -> 40:08.480] he goes away and then they're like, Toto's like, by the way, mate, uh, yeah,
[40:08.480 -> 40:11.220] we're going to want you back, you know, full-time on F1.
[40:11.220 -> 40:12.640] He's like, I just got here, man.
[40:13.040 -> 40:14.360] You know, this was, this was my way out.
[40:14.520 -> 40:15.880] I've already tipped all the boxes.
[40:16.200 -> 40:19.360] Like, well, can we pay you a little bit more money to come back and do this again?
[40:19.360 -> 40:20.320] He's like, I guess so.
[40:20.800 -> 40:21.400] Speculation.
[40:21.440 -> 40:21.840] Fine.
[40:21.840 -> 40:26.800] I want to think in my reality, he's walked back into the garage.
[40:28.200 -> 40:30.440] Um, fuck it.
[40:30.440 -> 40:31.080] Where are they based?
[40:31.120 -> 40:31.480] Again?
[40:31.560 -> 40:33.160] Why have I forgotten where Mercedes are based?
[40:33.160 -> 40:33.520] Brackley.
[40:33.520 -> 40:34.400] I was going to say Bricksworth.
[40:34.400 -> 40:35.200] Who's at Bricksworth?
[40:36.240 -> 40:36.760] HPP.
[40:36.880 -> 40:37.520] Ah, that's it.
[40:37.520 -> 40:38.520] I was getting too mixed up.
[40:38.560 -> 40:42.920] He's walked back into the garage in Brackley with a spanner in his hand.
[40:43.000 -> 40:45.920] And he's like giving himself that Thanos line of fine,
[40:45.920 -> 40:54.800] I'll do it myself sort of thing. I don't know about that. I reckon he was probably enjoying
[40:54.800 -> 41:01.760] doing something else. Yeah, I reckon he's sort of seen the success recently again of Adrian Nui
[41:04.280 -> 41:05.280] recently again of Adrian Newey and he's fought. Fuck Adrian.
[41:05.280 -> 41:06.280] I'm coming back, baby.
[41:06.280 -> 41:11.260] I'm going to, it's me, James Allison versus Adrian Newey.
[41:11.260 -> 41:15.060] This is the fuck all these content creator boxing matches.
[41:15.060 -> 41:16.060] This is what we want to see.
[41:16.060 -> 41:18.740] James Allison versus Adrian Newey.
[41:18.740 -> 41:19.740] Right.
[41:19.740 -> 41:23.260] And if you're in the Twitch stream right now, we're recording this live.
[41:23.260 -> 41:26.680] If anybody can run a poll, whose theory do you like better?
[41:26.680 -> 41:31.780] The Thanos theory or the, I can't believe you motherfuckers called me back to go do
[41:31.780 -> 41:32.780] all this stuff again.
[41:32.780 -> 41:33.780] This is like, what's that?
[41:33.780 -> 41:34.780] Like a Liam Neeson story.
[41:34.780 -> 41:37.000] You know, he's like a retired assassin.
[41:37.000 -> 41:43.360] He got on the phone to Toto and was like, I've got a very specific set of skills, Toto.
[41:43.360 -> 41:45.760] I've got no money. set of skills, Toto.
[41:46.840 -> 41:51.080] I've got no money. I don't know what you want, but what I can do is build another W11.
[41:54.880 -> 41:56.040] Oh my God.
[41:56.040 -> 41:59.800] Absolute scenes, scenes.
[41:59.920 -> 42:07.320] But, um, for reasons that we'll get back to, um, shortly, all the teams get
[42:07.320 -> 42:10.960] more engine components now out of apparently nowhere, but not nowhere.
[42:12.120 -> 42:12.400] Yeah.
[42:13.400 -> 42:16.680] They're they're all absolutely sitting there in the car parks, giving it
[42:18.320 -> 42:23.660] now that they have been officially given their fourth component, when I'm pretty
[42:23.660 -> 42:27.800] sure every single team had already put it in their run plans. They were going to run four anyway
[42:30.680 -> 42:34.300] Yeah, so good for them so basically what's happened is
[42:35.400 -> 42:40.340] and I think this might be related to what we're gonna talk about in a bit the sprint changes, but
[42:40.920 -> 42:45.000] The PU elements have been increased by one, right?
[42:45.000 -> 42:48.600] So before you could only use three internal combustion engines,
[42:48.600 -> 42:54.800] three turbos, three MGU-Hs and three MGU-Ks throughout a season.
[42:54.800 -> 42:58.000] But I've now upped that to four.
[42:58.000 -> 43:04.200] If you went over three previously, you got yourself a penalty, whatever.
[43:04.200 -> 43:06.800] But I'm almost certain, right,
[43:06.800 -> 43:08.720] at least from my experience
[43:08.720 -> 43:10.780] and what I've dealt with in the past,
[43:11.920 -> 43:15.920] no team plans to ever stick to this free,
[43:15.920 -> 43:16.920] the amount of free.
[43:16.920 -> 43:17.920] None of them could do it.
[43:17.920 -> 43:19.240] And they all said, this is bollocks.
[43:19.240 -> 43:21.360] We'll just plan when we're going to take our penalty.
[43:21.360 -> 43:23.440] But you're saying that they're deliberately
[43:23.440 -> 43:25.880] breaking the rules, Dan Dan and taking a penalty.
[43:26.480 -> 43:27.480] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[43:27.480 -> 43:29.320] This is anyone fucking saying, how dare you?
[43:29.840 -> 43:30.760] How dare you?
[43:31.000 -> 43:36.280] Oh, wait, listen, that's what happens when you read the fucking rules.
[43:36.640 -> 43:39.440] Listen, I will fucking say what I want to say, right?
[43:39.480 -> 43:39.880] What?
[43:40.040 -> 43:41.200] Oh, I gov.
[43:41.680 -> 43:42.240] You want some?
[43:42.440 -> 43:42.760] Cool.
[43:42.760 -> 43:45.880] I mean, Oh, so yeah. Anyway, there's I agree. Or or gov you want some.
[43:48.080 -> 43:52.600] So yeah, anyway, this I agree. 3 to 4 teams are never saying, oh yeah, we're not going to go over that.
[43:52.600 -> 43:56.600] Like for example, and the thing that sucks about we've talked about this at length.
[43:57.040 -> 44:01.240] The power unit penalties disproportionately hurt slower teams.
[44:03.160 -> 44:03.640] Hmm.
[44:04.640 -> 44:05.600] Yeah, so.
[44:06.280 -> 44:07.440] But like trying to correct,
[44:07.440 -> 44:07.760] let's not.
[44:07.760 -> 44:08.800] Let's not try and correct that,
[44:08.800 -> 44:10.480] but yeah, that'll be interesting,
[44:10.480 -> 44:11.520] but we're going to get back to
[44:11.520 -> 44:12.960] why they've decided to do that.
[44:12.960 -> 44:14.560] So that the FIA have obviously
[44:14.560 -> 44:16.600] had to do a little give in a little
[44:17.000 -> 44:18.160] while the teams do a little give.
[44:18.160 -> 44:19.480] So what about this?
[44:19.480 -> 44:20.240] We haven't we didn't.
[44:20.960 -> 44:22.680] We didn't plan to talk about this,
[44:22.680 -> 44:23.600] but somebody mentioned it
[44:23.600 -> 44:31.120] before I went live is F1 Academy. So the new series for women drivers. It's a Formula 4. It's going to be
[44:31.120 -> 44:36.760] run alongside at some events and then standalone events or other support races elsewhere. They're
[44:36.760 -> 44:41.280] gassing it up super huge style and then they dropped something or didn't drop something
[44:41.280 -> 44:45.680] on us earlier this week. It looks like, and it's not confirmed.
[44:45.680 -> 44:50.280] And if it would completely, let's put it this way, we didn't know the details of the sprint
[44:50.280 -> 44:55.320] format for this weekend until yesterday, effectively the day before, right?
[44:55.320 -> 44:56.600] Classic.
[44:56.600 -> 45:01.040] We don't know if F1 Academy are going to be broadcast at all.
[45:01.040 -> 45:02.040] Yeah.
[45:02.040 -> 45:06.800] And what's the purpose of F1 Academy?
[45:06.800 -> 45:09.600] To hype up women in motorsport.
[45:09.600 -> 45:12.640] You know, it's like a...
[45:12.640 -> 45:13.640] It's supposed to be a feeder series.
[45:13.640 -> 45:14.640] It's a feeder series.
[45:14.640 -> 45:19.320] It's a stepping stone into F3 and F2.
[45:19.320 -> 45:20.320] Yeah.
[45:20.320 -> 45:23.360] And I always sort of catch a bit of heat for this.
[45:23.360 -> 45:25.520] I say it's the replacement for W-Series,
[45:25.520 -> 45:31.120] but apparently that's not correct. But. But it is because W-Series, despite, yeah, it's,
[45:32.000 -> 45:35.040] they don't have any drivers, they don't have any rights, they don't have, they have rights,
[45:35.040 -> 45:37.920] but they don't have anything else. So it's like, right, you don't have any drivers or anything
[45:37.920 -> 45:45.000] else. It's fucked. I reckon. They've, they've shot themselves in the foot with that.
[45:45.000 -> 45:48.000] They put it behind the same paywall that a sky and everything else.
[45:48.000 -> 45:49.000] So it's like great.
[45:49.000 -> 45:51.000] You've got a relatively then it's not.
[45:51.000 -> 45:52.000] It's not a dig.
[45:52.000 -> 45:53.000] It's a relatively obscure series.
[45:53.000 -> 45:56.000] And if you don't know about it, you're not looking for it.
[45:56.000 -> 45:57.000] Correct.
[45:57.000 -> 46:05.420] You know, it's like the whole point of this is to put a spotlight on the young women coming up and driving and give them a platform in the competition
[46:05.420 -> 46:09.800] open wheel series with prestige, but it's like the TV rights and everything else just
[46:09.800 -> 46:13.640] buried it under a paywall so nobody could ever fucking watch it.
[46:13.640 -> 46:19.760] Yeah, and I, they're going to be a support race for F1 next year.
[46:19.760 -> 46:20.760] Yeah.
[46:20.760 -> 46:28.000] Um, so my theory is that this year was so I, I, I don't think they wanted to bring this in this year.
[46:28.040 -> 46:33.400] I think their hand was forced with the collapse of W series and they've had to bring it in a year early.
[46:34.560 -> 46:39.960] So maybe it's, you know, which I think has fucked everything up because they're not on any supports.
[46:40.000 -> 46:43.400] I think they're doing Cota, the U S Grand Prix.
[46:43.520 -> 46:46.180] I think they are running at the same track.
[46:47.400 -> 46:51.820] Um, but for like the first couple of races, I mean, it's on this weekend,
[46:51.820 -> 46:55.500] it's the Baku weekend, but they're racing over in Red Bull Ring in Austria.
[46:56.900 -> 46:57.400] Um,
[46:57.860 -> 47:00.900] I think you might be onto something with like a little bit too little, too late
[47:00.900 -> 47:04.220] and, you know, being forced, cause you can't just magic up a racing series,
[47:04.220 -> 47:07.680] but I guarantee you that I think the thing that a lot of people are bummed out about
[47:07.680 -> 47:11.840] is if something fucked up and happened with the weird with the F1 schedule, they would
[47:11.840 -> 47:12.840] figure it out.
[47:12.840 -> 47:13.840] Yeah.
[47:13.840 -> 47:19.200] You know, just because it's the academy or whatever, it's just like, fuck it, whatever,
[47:19.200 -> 47:22.840] you know, or there's not the money because like this stuff just doesn't happen overnight.
[47:22.840 -> 47:23.840] Fine.
[47:23.840 -> 47:27.240] You know, putting together a broadcast, who knows, but like what can they do?
[47:27.240 -> 47:33.160] And one of the things I put on on Twitter is why don't they make that series, like put
[47:33.160 -> 47:38.200] a broadcast up somehow without commentary and find a handful of creators that want to
[47:38.200 -> 47:40.280] stream it and commentate it on their own.
[47:40.280 -> 47:43.600] Like you'd have to, you'd have to be careful and you'd have to have a partnership with
[47:43.600 -> 47:47.520] the series, obviously to protect certain things and make sure that you're presenting it in
[47:47.520 -> 47:48.520] the right way.
[47:48.520 -> 47:55.040] But I guarantee you could find several content creators who would love, um, to help put eyes
[47:55.040 -> 47:56.040] on that sport.
[47:56.040 -> 48:02.960] There's many a good content creator out there that focuses on female representation.
[48:02.960 -> 48:05.340] We've had one of them on this show Tony you
[48:05.340 -> 48:09.660] know I would dude I would respect Tony could she rate could she commentate a
[48:09.660 -> 48:13.440] race maybe not but she could walk around interview people or something she's got
[48:13.440 -> 48:16.800] that I mean do it all she could do it all but even then like you're not even
[48:16.800 -> 48:21.780] trying to put people on the ground you're like right cameras fine and then
[48:21.780 -> 48:25.720] us talk about it like you don't even you don't even have to be, I don't know.
[48:25.720 -> 48:32.040] If my local karting track can stream their races live, I don't fucking see why an FIA
[48:32.040 -> 48:33.040] sanctioned event can't.
[48:33.040 -> 48:34.040] Yeah.
[48:34.040 -> 48:35.840] And that was, that was my take on it.
[48:35.840 -> 48:45.320] But I think this lack of visibility and all that is because it has come a year earlier than what they
[48:45.320 -> 48:46.320] thought it would have been.
[48:46.320 -> 48:47.320] Right.
[48:47.320 -> 48:52.320] Um, so I don't think anything's in place when it's a support series next year for F1.
[48:52.320 -> 48:56.800] I can 100% see it going on F1 TV because it's already there.
[48:56.800 -> 48:57.800] All the cameras are there.
[48:57.800 -> 49:02.560] It makes sense that that would work, but yeah, I just think this season they fucked it up.
[49:02.560 -> 49:03.560] Yeah.
[49:03.560 -> 49:06.360] And I think it's one of those things, like if you put it that way, it's better that it
[49:06.360 -> 49:10.280] exists and they don't have the infrastructure to support it than not having a series for
[49:10.280 -> 49:11.560] an entire year.
[49:11.560 -> 49:12.560] Fine.
[49:12.560 -> 49:16.560] But the other thing, and somebody in the stream as well has said it is, what if, you know,
[49:16.560 -> 49:20.440] there's people that are actually making it more difficult because they want exclusivity
[49:20.440 -> 49:22.320] to the series, for example, sky or something.
[49:22.320 -> 49:26.000] And it's like, I'm not saying that's the case, but that seemed like what was
[49:26.000 -> 49:28.360] something that happened with W series is like, what did they do?
[49:28.680 -> 49:33.020] So one of, one of, um, one of the guys on Twitter was even saying, uh, his
[49:33.020 -> 49:36.880] daughter wanted some merch, they didn't have any merch, they had nothing.
[49:36.900 -> 49:40.520] So it's like they made some, like that's, that's fucking awesome.
[49:40.760 -> 49:41.000] Yeah.
[49:41.000 -> 49:44.280] And if, uh, if you're listening, yeah, that is super fucking cool.
[49:44.920 -> 49:46.000] If you sell to two, two.
[49:46.000 -> 49:47.800] I want to drop them.
[49:47.800 -> 49:51.000] No, but have we, have we got, we got no deals with Sky have we?
[49:52.600 -> 49:54.000] Nothing coming up? No, good.
[49:54.000 -> 49:55.200] So fuck them.
[49:55.200 -> 49:56.400] I can say fuck Sky then.
[49:56.400 -> 49:56.800] Cool.
[49:56.800 -> 49:57.200] Right.
[49:57.200 -> 49:59.000] Sky go fuck yourselves.
[49:59.000 -> 50:02.200] Oh my God.
[50:02.200 -> 50:02.400] Right.
[50:02.400 -> 50:06.080] Well, anyway, since we've done that, why don't we have a little word with our sponsors real
[50:06.080 -> 50:07.080] quick?
[50:07.080 -> 50:08.080] You ready for that one?
[50:08.080 -> 50:09.080] Uh, am I ready for that one?
[50:09.080 -> 50:10.080] Yeah, I think it's this button.
[50:10.080 -> 50:11.080] Ready?
[50:11.080 -> 50:12.080] Yep.
[50:12.080 -> 50:16.200] No, that was the fraud files button for fuck's sake.
[50:16.200 -> 50:19.760] I even teed it up before this fucking goddamn show.
[50:19.760 -> 50:20.760] Right again.
[50:20.760 -> 50:21.760] F1's wackiest.
[50:21.760 -> 50:25.400] Oh wait, I got the fraud files on two buttons.
[50:25.400 -> 50:26.400] What the fuck?
[50:26.400 -> 50:27.400] Edit, edit.
[50:27.400 -> 50:39.680] I can cut this out, but the live crew get to see this live.
[50:39.680 -> 50:40.680] Where are we?
[50:40.680 -> 50:43.760] The old live gang, you have to build different.
[50:43.760 -> 50:47.280] Ah, dear. Fra fraud files on that button.
[50:48.000 -> 50:48.960] Well, there we go.
[50:48.960 -> 50:49.200] Right.
[50:49.200 -> 50:49.680] Ready?
[50:49.680 -> 50:50.640] We try again.
[50:50.640 -> 50:51.680] Three, two.
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[51:59.000 -> 52:04.320] Again, you guys have been awesome, but why don't we, why don't we take a
[52:04.320 -> 52:07.200] stroll back through memory lane?
[52:07.200 -> 52:09.800] Oh, take a stroll down memory lane.
[52:09.800 -> 52:13.000] Here's something that caught you out and it caught me out as well.
[52:13.000 -> 52:16.280] I was like, Oh, Baku has only been a Grand Prix since 2017.
[52:16.280 -> 52:17.800] I was like, that was my last year.
[52:17.800 -> 52:20.080] And I'm pretty sure I've been to Baku twice.
[52:20.080 -> 52:23.200] In 2016, it was the European Grand Prix.
[52:23.200 -> 52:28.000] I forgot about this. And I forgot about all the drama it caused.
[52:29.400 -> 52:31.400] Oh, I was like, I was not in Europe.
[52:32.400 -> 52:33.320] I can't find it.
[52:33.320 -> 52:43.920] I was like, I can't find like, I know there was a 2016 Grand Prix and I knew that was the year that Red Bull had the most horrific degradation I've ever seen in my life.
[52:44.120 -> 52:46.700] Ferrari 2022, 2023.
[52:46.700 -> 52:49.920] You ain't got shit on Red Bull Baku 16.
[52:50.320 -> 52:51.840] Oh my sweet Jesus.
[52:51.880 -> 52:53.160] But yeah.
[52:53.160 -> 52:53.880] So what else we got?
[52:54.000 -> 52:57.080] Talk to, talk to me about Baku or the European Grand Prix for one year.
[52:58.440 -> 53:00.200] The 2016 European Grand Prix.
[53:01.920 -> 53:05.200] Only Ferrari and Mercedes have been on pole at Baku.
[53:05.200 -> 53:08.040] I, oh, that's my fact.
[53:08.040 -> 53:09.040] I didn't, I didn't realize that.
[53:09.040 -> 53:12.000] I was like, surely we've had a Red Bull pole here before.
[53:12.000 -> 53:14.600] No Red Bull pole position in Baku yet.
[53:14.600 -> 53:16.360] Max was on a close one.
[53:16.360 -> 53:23.060] Wasn't Daniel was on a burn at one point in a turn left-hander 14, 15 down the hill wall
[53:23.060 -> 53:24.060] under the bazzas.
[53:24.060 -> 53:26.000] Oh yeah. That's a tough one man.
[53:26.500 -> 53:28.100] No repeat winners.
[53:28.700 -> 53:29.400] Ooh.
[53:30.200 -> 53:35.800] In how many was we missed a year from covid, but that's 676 seasons yet.
[53:36.100 -> 53:36.600] Oof.
[53:36.900 -> 53:37.400] Oof.
[53:37.500 -> 53:38.900] So here's a fun game.
[53:38.900 -> 53:39.500] We can play.
[53:39.500 -> 53:41.600] Oh, who's one at the?
[53:43.000 -> 53:44.100] Baku Grand Prix.
[53:44.500 -> 53:45.720] I've looked this up.
[53:45.760 -> 53:46.560] Oh, okay.
[53:46.560 -> 53:47.840] You fucking dirty cheat.
[53:48.440 -> 53:53.320] So, uh, Bottas, Hamilton, Rosberg, uh, Leclerc.
[53:54.120 -> 53:54.480] No.
[53:55.360 -> 53:56.160] Leclerc's not won.
[53:56.240 -> 53:56.560] Nope.
[53:57.400 -> 53:58.240] Sainz has won then.
[53:58.840 -> 53:59.080] Nope.
[54:00.720 -> 54:01.640] Oh fuck.
[54:01.920 -> 54:02.320] Yeah.
[54:02.480 -> 54:02.920] Oh, hang on.
[54:02.920 -> 54:03.200] No, no, no.
[54:03.200 -> 54:08.000] You may be, maybe you won the 2016 because the fucking way this works for Wikipedia.
[54:08.000 -> 54:11.000] Uh, where are we?
[54:11.000 -> 54:12.000] 2016.
[54:12.000 -> 54:15.000] No, 2016 was won by Nico Rosberg.
[54:15.000 -> 54:17.000] So 2016 Rosberg.
[54:17.000 -> 54:18.000] Yeah.
[54:18.000 -> 54:19.000] Yeah.
[54:19.000 -> 54:20.000] 2017 Danny Rick.
[54:20.000 -> 54:21.000] Oh shit.
[54:21.000 -> 54:22.000] Yeah.
[54:22.000 -> 54:23.000] He got one.
[54:23.000 -> 54:24.000] Yeah.
[54:24.000 -> 54:25.000] Down Danny. Yeah. He got one. Yeah. Down Danny.
[54:25.000 -> 54:26.000] Yeah.
[54:26.000 -> 54:27.000] 2018.
[54:27.000 -> 54:28.000] It was Lewis.
[54:28.000 -> 54:29.000] We don't talk about 2018.
[54:29.000 -> 54:30.000] It never happened.
[54:30.000 -> 54:32.440] None of the, neither the Red Bulls one.
[54:32.440 -> 54:33.440] We'll talk about why.
[54:33.440 -> 54:34.440] Yeah.
[54:34.440 -> 54:35.440] Hamilton won 2018.
[54:35.440 -> 54:36.440] Okay.
[54:36.440 -> 54:37.440] 2019.
[54:37.440 -> 54:38.440] Valparaiso.
[54:38.440 -> 54:39.440] Yeah.
[54:39.440 -> 54:40.440] 2020 COVID.
[54:40.440 -> 54:41.440] So we didn't have it.
[54:41.440 -> 54:42.440] 2021.
[54:42.440 -> 54:43.440] Leclerc?
[54:43.440 -> 54:45.000] No, you know, you should know who won 2021. Oh we didn't have it. 2021. Leclerc.
[54:47.560 -> 54:47.600] No, you know, you should know who won 2021.
[54:47.880 -> 54:48.080] Oh, check.
[54:48.360 -> 54:48.560] Yep.
[54:49.000 -> 54:49.080] Thank you.
[54:50.840 -> 54:53.000] And then last year, obviously.
[54:53.600 -> 54:53.680] Maximum.
[54:54.200 -> 54:54.640] There you go.
[54:55.040 -> 54:55.960] Oh yeah.
[54:59.840 -> 55:00.920] I don't, why did I think that Leclerc had, Oh, cause he's Leclerc's Ferrari.
[55:03.320 -> 55:04.720] Leclerc has a couple of polls there and he's also got the one where he bend it and qualifying I am stupid.
[55:05.040 -> 55:06.040] Yes. Yes. The infamous qualifying I am stupid. Yes.
[55:06.040 -> 55:07.040] Yes.
[55:07.040 -> 55:08.040] The infamous I am stupid message.
[55:08.040 -> 55:09.040] Yes.
[55:09.040 -> 55:13.100] You know, he's, he's probably one of the most likable drivers on the grid.
[55:13.100 -> 55:14.100] I think.
[55:14.100 -> 55:15.100] Yeah.
[55:15.100 -> 55:16.100] He's also released.
[55:16.100 -> 55:17.780] Have you seen this?
[55:17.780 -> 55:19.520] He's released a song on Spotify.
[55:19.520 -> 55:20.520] I didn't listen to it yet.
[55:20.520 -> 55:21.520] I've not listened to it.
[55:21.520 -> 55:22.520] No.
[55:22.520 -> 55:23.800] I think it's like him on piano or something.
[55:23.800 -> 55:24.800] I don't know.
[55:24.800 -> 55:25.800] Yeah. Apparently it's really good, but I'll have to to it yet. I've not listened to it, no. I think it's like him on piano or something. I don't know. Yeah.
[55:25.800 -> 55:27.480] Apparently it's really good, but I'll have to check it out.
[55:27.480 -> 55:28.480] Yeah.
[55:28.480 -> 55:29.480] Well, there you go.
[55:29.480 -> 55:31.120] Let's, let's talk about some of the more painful memories though.
[55:31.120 -> 55:32.760] Cause we said we wouldn't want to talk about it.
[55:32.760 -> 55:35.680] Tell me about, were you in the ops room in 2018?
[55:35.680 -> 55:37.760] I was working from home.
[55:37.760 -> 55:38.760] Was I?
[55:38.760 -> 55:39.760] No.
[55:39.760 -> 55:42.760] Was I in the ops room in 2018?
[55:42.760 -> 55:45.820] Yeah, no, I think I was.
[55:45.820 -> 55:46.140] Yeah.
[55:46.420 -> 55:46.600] Yeah.
[55:46.600 -> 55:47.620] Because I, okay.
[55:47.620 -> 55:47.880] Yeah.
[55:47.900 -> 55:52.960] So 2018, the infamous, uh, red ball, double DNF.
[55:53.660 -> 55:55.860] Um, so you heard the debrief.
[55:56.660 -> 55:57.000] Yes.
[55:57.000 -> 55:57.900] Oh yeah.
[55:58.860 -> 55:59.220] Yeah.
[55:59.700 -> 55:59.820] Yeah.
[55:59.820 -> 56:03.380] I was laughing my ass off the entire time, mate, because I didn't have a microphone.
[56:03.660 -> 56:04.500] I was on mute.
[56:04.540 -> 56:07.280] I was sitting back in Milton Keynes nobody could listen to me
[56:07.280 -> 56:11.400] I was just sitting there like... Dan mate your microphone's on can you mute up please
[56:11.400 -> 56:18.960] Adrian's talking. Oh this is spicy wait until five years time when I talk about this on the
[56:18.960 -> 56:27.880] podcast. So I'm not gonna spill any tea on it. No no no. I have it I have it on Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
[56:27.880 -> 56:28.880] oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
[56:28.880 -> 56:29.880] oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
[56:29.880 -> 56:30.880] oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
[56:30.880 -> 56:31.880] oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
[56:31.880 -> 56:45.400] oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Also, what else? What else happened in 2018?
[56:45.960 -> 56:48.640] What else that's famous 2018?
[56:50.680 -> 56:52.240] Uh, what, the Baku?
[56:53.360 -> 56:54.760] Ericsson hit us, I think.
[56:54.880 -> 56:58.560] Oh, it's just the mysterious Grosjean crashing all by himself.
[56:58.840 -> 56:59.340] Yeah.
[56:59.400 -> 56:59.900] Yeah.
[57:00.440 -> 57:00.940] Yeah.
[57:00.940 -> 57:01.440] I forgot about that.
[57:01.440 -> 57:02.600] Oh, bless him.
[57:03.000 -> 57:03.800] Bless him.
[57:04.600 -> 57:05.160] Bless him. Um, we had about that. Bless him. Bless him. Bless him.
[57:05.200 -> 57:08.160] Um, we had a 2021.
[57:08.760 -> 57:09.040] Yeah.
[57:09.080 -> 57:11.560] Well, 2021 was brake magic on the restart.
[57:11.600 -> 57:12.040] Yes.
[57:12.040 -> 57:13.560] Where Lewis flew off the track.
[57:13.840 -> 57:14.000] Yeah.
[57:14.000 -> 57:15.480] He had the, the, the brake warming.
[57:15.480 -> 57:15.720] Yeah.
[57:15.880 -> 57:17.480] He touched the wrong button on the wheel.
[57:18.240 -> 57:18.520] Yep.
[57:19.200 -> 57:20.760] Bottom of my tires are flat.
[57:21.040 -> 57:22.080] And what else happened?
[57:22.120 -> 57:26.840] Well, see, I'm not sure how public knowledge this is, but because I love
[57:26.840 -> 57:32.720] you and everyone that listens, I like to drop in a little bit behind the scenes
[57:32.720 -> 57:35.320] thing now and again, just do it quietly.
[57:35.400 -> 57:35.640] Yeah.
[57:35.640 -> 57:36.640] Shh, don't tell anyone.
[57:36.800 -> 57:43.040] Uh, but Perez barely made it to the end of that race because he was sitting on the grid.
[57:43.560 -> 57:44.720] We had the blowout, didn't we?
[57:44.720 -> 57:45.880] Then it was the red flag. Yeah. Everyone was sitting down and then, um, everyone was sitting on the grid. We had the blowout, didn't we? Then it was the red flag.
[57:45.880 -> 57:49.960] Everyone was sitting down and then, um, everyone was sitting down.
[57:49.960 -> 57:50.400] You know what I mean?
[57:50.400 -> 57:51.200] Everyone was stopped.
[57:52.400 -> 57:56.960] And then the day it was coming through, the Czechos Khan, it was like, this
[57:56.960 -> 57:59.880] thing has got like no hydraulic pressure left.
[57:59.880 -> 58:02.520] I'm not sure if this thing is going to even fucking make it off the start
[58:02.520 -> 58:04.000] line, let alone to the end of the race.
[58:04.000 -> 58:08.880] What was it like three or four laps or something? It wasn't many laps to the end.
[58:09.520 -> 58:13.680] The entire time it was just like this fucking car is just about to give up at any moment now.
[58:15.200 -> 58:23.120] But no Perez did it. And I think the, I think it was the gearbox pretty much gave up as he,
[58:23.120 -> 58:25.040] as he sort of rolled it into the pit lane.
[58:25.040 -> 58:26.560] So I was just like, Oh, that was close.
[58:27.200 -> 58:31.040] Yeah. Yeah. But that's the thing. Like when you've got, let's say during a race,
[58:31.040 -> 58:35.200] you've got a hydraulics leak or something on air pressure leak, like Norris had in Jetta.
[58:35.760 -> 58:39.520] You're not going to retire the car. Like arguably they should have retired Lando in that. That was
[58:39.520 -> 58:43.040] silly, but like, let's say it's, you know, five laps to go and you're like, Oh, we've got a
[58:43.040 -> 58:45.580] hydraulics leak. Oh yeah. Let's just protect it and pull it in.
[58:45.680 -> 58:50.720] Now, if you're running way out of the points in like 15th, you're like, oh yeah, actually FIA.
[58:50.720 -> 58:50.860] Yeah.
[58:50.860 -> 58:52.320] We've got something with our car.
[58:53.080 -> 58:53.320] Yep.
[58:53.720 -> 58:53.960] Yep.
[58:53.980 -> 58:55.740] You can tell by this keyboard, that's a keyboard.
[58:55.740 -> 58:59.520] We've got something wrong with our car, so we're going to stop and save some mileage on the engine.
[59:00.680 -> 59:03.160] But yeah, when you're, when you're in the points, you're going to fuck it.
[59:03.160 -> 59:04.160] Everything and nothing, baby.
[59:04.920 -> 59:05.160] Everything and nothing. Yeah. Everything and nothing.
[59:05.160 -> 59:06.160] Yeah.
[59:06.160 -> 59:12.640] Well, back in 2021, it was pretty clear that it was close between Mercedes and Red Bull.
[59:12.640 -> 59:14.160] So it was like, fuck it.
[59:14.160 -> 59:15.960] We need to try to get Checo's car to the end.
[59:15.960 -> 59:16.960] Good luck.
[59:16.960 -> 59:17.960] Yep.
[59:17.960 -> 59:23.040] And you know, sadly, didn't get the Constructors, but there you go.
[59:23.040 -> 59:24.040] So be it.
[59:24.040 -> 59:32.040] 2020. So we missed 2020, 2021 was the blowout and Perez and break magic 2022 Ferrari, double
[59:32.040 -> 59:33.040] DNF.
[59:33.040 -> 59:34.760] I don't remember who won last year.
[59:34.760 -> 59:35.760] Checo won.
[59:35.760 -> 59:36.760] No, Max won.
[59:36.760 -> 59:37.760] Max was last year.
[59:37.760 -> 59:38.760] 2022.
[59:38.760 -> 59:39.760] Yeah.
[59:39.760 -> 59:40.760] Yeah.
[59:40.760 -> 59:41.760] Because sorry, sorry.
[59:41.760 -> 59:42.760] This was processing.
[59:42.760 -> 59:48.460] This was in our early days, me and you of our content creation journey, because we
[59:48.460 -> 59:52.760] went and did backseat driver for Veloce, didn't we in London for this?
[59:53.700 -> 59:54.260] Yes.
[59:54.260 -> 59:54.740] Back in the day.
[59:54.740 -> 59:56.240] This was before the podcast.
[59:57.780 -> 01:00:00.340] Was that the first time we actually chat properly in person?
[01:00:00.340 -> 01:00:00.820] I think so.
[01:00:00.820 -> 01:00:01.060] Yeah.
[01:00:01.060 -> 01:00:03.540] I think that may have been the first time we probably had a chat chat.
[01:00:03.540 -> 01:00:03.940] Didn't we?
[01:00:04.500 -> 01:00:08.040] So, I mean, the work basically coming on four year of our relationship. Oh fuck. Yeah. I think that may have been the first time we probably had a little chat chat. Didn't we? So, I mean, the work basically coming on full year of our relationship.
[01:00:08.080 -> 01:00:08.680] Oh fuck.
[01:00:08.680 -> 01:00:09.000] Yes.
[01:00:09.000 -> 01:00:10.440] I one year anniversary.
[01:00:10.440 -> 01:00:11.920] I didn't, I didn't even realize.
[01:00:12.600 -> 01:00:14.880] Oh, did you get me a cider sometime?
[01:00:14.920 -> 01:00:15.720] I'll get you a cider.
[01:00:16.520 -> 01:00:17.640] Oh yeah.
[01:00:17.640 -> 01:00:17.800] No.
[01:00:17.800 -> 01:00:18.040] All right.
[01:00:18.040 -> 01:00:18.600] I'll say that.
[01:00:19.120 -> 01:00:24.080] Did we, did we do the Reddit talk with a F1 subreddit before backseat driver?
[01:00:24.200 -> 01:00:25.760] Yeah, but we weren't together for that
[01:00:25.760 -> 01:00:31.280] backseat driver we were together we shared we shared a coffee in the velocity lounge
[01:00:31.280 -> 01:00:39.040] yeah and we admired collab our first collab was with the yeppa anil and the f1 subreddit also
[01:00:39.040 -> 01:00:47.280] fucking dope yeah but baku you know we got to sit out on that cafe on that high street and admire all the dogs.
[01:00:47.280 -> 01:00:49.680] Lovely. Yeah. Dogs prowl.
[01:00:49.680 -> 01:00:52.400] Yeah, there you go. What a lovely moment.
[01:00:52.840 -> 01:00:55.880] Here's my question for you and for everybody else.
[01:00:57.480 -> 01:00:58.400] Right, hit me with it.
[01:00:59.800 -> 01:01:02.240] Is Baku the best street circuit on the calendar?
[01:01:03.800 -> 01:01:08.880] Is it? Is Baku the best street circuit on the calendar? Is it? Is Baku the best street circuit on the current Formula One calendar?
[01:01:08.880 -> 01:01:12.280] I'm going to answer your question.
[01:01:12.280 -> 01:01:13.280] With another question.
[01:01:13.280 -> 01:01:14.560] No, by belching, I just had to mute that.
[01:01:14.560 -> 01:01:15.560] Sorry.
[01:01:15.560 -> 01:01:18.660] I'm going to answer your question with another question.
[01:01:18.660 -> 01:01:24.440] Is it only regarded as the best circuit because of the amount of chaos that happens?
[01:01:24.440 -> 01:01:27.760] In terms of racing, I don't think the racing there is that good.
[01:01:29.280 -> 01:01:31.760] I think it's just because something always fucking blows up.
[01:01:33.440 -> 01:01:36.160] And you know where people are like, oh cool, something's blown up,
[01:01:36.160 -> 01:01:37.520] that'll change the order up a bit.
[01:01:38.320 -> 01:01:41.840] I'm a simple man. I see chaos, I'm happy.
[01:01:41.840 -> 01:01:47.440] Yeah, well, yeah, okay. But from a pure racing vibe, I know,
[01:01:47.440 -> 01:01:52.080] I think it's been all right. I get what you're saying. I I'm, I'm with you. I'm with you. And
[01:01:52.080 -> 01:01:57.520] I'm not sure I haven't gone through the emotional stress of separating it and then voicing my opinion
[01:01:57.520 -> 01:02:02.000] on Twitter for validation. I haven't done that part yet. I might do that soon. It works for me,
[01:02:03.200 -> 01:02:05.820] but like, here's, here's one of those. Put it in perspective.
[01:02:05.920 -> 01:02:08.880] Uh, Albert park, Australia.
[01:02:09.560 -> 01:02:12.040] Nevermind that it's kind of a street circuit.
[01:02:12.040 -> 01:02:14.100] It's it's not, it is, isn't whatever.
[01:02:14.520 -> 01:02:15.360] I'm not comparing that.
[01:02:15.360 -> 01:02:18.300] And I don't think it's better, but that race was like, Oh wow.
[01:02:18.300 -> 01:02:20.720] What a crazy race this year.
[01:02:20.880 -> 01:02:22.520] It's a fucking terrible race.
[01:02:22.740 -> 01:02:25.640] There was, there was the only thing that was exciting was chaos.
[01:02:25.720 -> 01:02:29.800] It was a one-stop or no, a no-stop hard tire sprint race with
[01:02:29.800 -> 01:02:30.800] red flags, either side of it.
[01:02:31.480 -> 01:02:31.840] Okay.
[01:02:31.880 -> 01:02:32.160] That's it.
[01:02:32.480 -> 01:02:35.840] Oh, so if we, we are going to put Albert Park in this conversation,
[01:02:35.880 -> 01:02:36.640] is that what you're saying?
[01:02:37.600 -> 01:02:38.120] No, I'm not.
[01:02:38.280 -> 01:02:41.360] Oh, so you don't, you're not going to class Albert Park as a street circuit.
[01:02:43.840 -> 01:02:48.760] This is very important because it's the answer to this, you know, is my next question.
[01:02:49.800 -> 01:02:50.520] I'm not sure.
[01:02:50.640 -> 01:02:50.960] Right.
[01:02:51.240 -> 01:02:53.720] Are we, so I'm going to continue with my second question anyway.
[01:02:54.600 -> 01:02:57.040] Are we classing Canada as a street circuit?
[01:02:57.480 -> 01:03:00.320] Well, it's, it's in the same vein as Albert Park.
[01:03:01.600 -> 01:03:01.960] Hmm.
[01:03:02.200 -> 01:03:04.640] Because I would put Canada above Baku.
[01:03:06.400 -> 01:03:08.840] I just like, just like Canada.
[01:03:08.840 -> 01:03:09.840] I like the people.
[01:03:09.840 -> 01:03:13.080] I like, I like the fact that they've pissed off Nikita Mazepin.
[01:03:13.080 -> 01:03:14.560] I love that for them.
[01:03:14.560 -> 01:03:18.600] Dude, honestly, like anybody listening, if you're in North America or you get a chance
[01:03:18.600 -> 01:03:22.480] to go to a Grand Prix and you get to choose where you go, sometimes the weather's dogshit,
[01:03:22.480 -> 01:03:28.320] but Montreal is a bad-ass city. Don't forget to tip them at restaurants because they will literally
[01:03:28.320 -> 01:03:32.100] tell you that you can't leave until you tip them, um, because they're like
[01:03:32.100 -> 01:03:34.640] America where they don't pay waitstaff, a proper wage, and they let the
[01:03:34.640 -> 01:03:35.920] patrons pay their waitstaff.
[01:03:35.920 -> 01:03:37.920] The companies don't pay them, which is fucked.
[01:03:38.440 -> 01:03:40.520] Uh, yeah, Montreal is better.
[01:03:40.640 -> 01:03:47.160] And it's, it's a complete, complete vibe and not in the, um, city and all that.
[01:03:47.160 -> 01:03:50.440] They shut it all down and it's just, it's a vibe.
[01:03:50.480 -> 01:03:52.000] Montreal is a vibe.
[01:03:52.400 -> 01:03:57.040] If I could pick a Grand Prix to go to, and I got to go hang out, I'd go back to
[01:03:57.040 -> 01:03:58.240] Austin or I'd go to Montreal.
[01:03:58.400 -> 01:04:01.000] Not, and not just because they're primarily English speaking, because
[01:04:01.000 -> 01:04:02.800] they, it's also in French Canada.
[01:04:03.080 -> 01:04:05.840] Um, but the food, the people, the circuit,
[01:04:05.840 -> 01:04:09.120] the city, great time, highly recommended.
[01:04:09.120 -> 01:04:12.720] If anybody's listening to this and they would like me to come out and show them around Montreal,
[01:04:12.720 -> 01:04:16.000] I can take you to all the eating and drinking places.
[01:04:16.000 -> 01:04:17.880] Dan Dan will come to he's cheap.
[01:04:17.880 -> 01:04:19.200] Yeah, no, I'm yeah.
[01:04:19.200 -> 01:04:20.200] Yeah.
[01:04:20.200 -> 01:04:23.000] If you're going to invite Blake, you have to fucking invite me.
[01:04:23.000 -> 01:04:24.000] That's the rule.
[01:04:24.000 -> 01:04:29.160] Any takers Twitter? Yeah, let's go. But But also did you ever did you ever go to Baku?
[01:04:29.160 -> 01:04:35.720] Yes. So in terms of viewing the race there's not really many good places to
[01:04:35.720 -> 01:04:39.640] view the race right? It's a street so you're not gonna see much. But Baku as a
[01:04:39.640 -> 01:04:46.840] place I was really impressed with it. It's clean, it's nice, it's cheap, and there's culture, there's history.
[01:04:46.840 -> 01:04:47.840] Yeah.
[01:04:47.840 -> 01:04:52.680] So in the evening, you'd go out in the city and the thing that me and Simon would always
[01:04:52.680 -> 01:04:55.320] joke about is like the guys would, they're really familiar.
[01:04:55.320 -> 01:04:58.400] Like, you know, the arms around each other's shoulder when you're walking through the street,
[01:04:58.400 -> 01:05:00.040] you might have a nice restaurant.
[01:05:00.040 -> 01:05:01.040] The food was awesome.
[01:05:01.040 -> 01:05:02.720] The people were just nice, super nice.
[01:05:02.720 -> 01:05:05.280] But I think it was one of those, and I, and this is not disrespectful.
[01:05:05.280 -> 01:05:08.580] I think it was one of those places where as soon as you go off the beaten path,
[01:05:08.600 -> 01:05:10.040] it's not as nice as that.
[01:05:10.380 -> 01:05:13.980] And I think they do try to do a good job because they've, they've, they've
[01:05:13.980 -> 01:05:16.440] had some issues in the past that I think have been discussed.
[01:05:16.980 -> 01:05:17.360] Um,
[01:05:17.580 -> 01:05:18.000] Wow.
[01:05:18.360 -> 01:05:20.760] Well, yeah, there are some places like that on there.
[01:05:21.520 -> 01:05:24.980] It's, it was not a great place to watch the race because it's a street circuit.
[01:05:24.980 -> 01:05:25.080] It's basically cement great place to watch the race because it's a street circuit.
[01:05:25.080 -> 01:05:29.160] It's basically cement walls and barriers.
[01:05:29.160 -> 01:05:33.280] One thing I like is whenever you go to Baku, there's always stray cats everywhere, like
[01:05:33.280 -> 01:05:34.280] inside the paddock.
[01:05:34.280 -> 01:05:35.280] And it's like, oh, there'd be cats.
[01:05:35.280 -> 01:05:38.480] I'd sat in a park one night, a cat just runs up and sits in my lap and starts purring.
[01:05:38.480 -> 01:05:40.000] It's like we'd finished dinner.
[01:05:40.000 -> 01:05:41.000] We're walking around.
[01:05:41.000 -> 01:05:43.280] There was a nice view and the cat just runs up and sits in my lap.
[01:05:43.280 -> 01:05:45.400] I was like, hello, but he didn't speak English.
[01:05:45.400 -> 01:05:46.600] So we couldn't really communicate.
[01:05:46.600 -> 01:05:47.880] Oh, that was the problem.
[01:05:47.880 -> 01:05:48.120] Was it?
[01:05:48.120 -> 01:05:48.720] Okay.
[01:05:49.440 -> 01:05:50.480] Back, back is a good one though.
[01:05:50.480 -> 01:05:51.920] But so to conclude.
[01:05:52.360 -> 01:05:53.720] Sorry, what was the year again?
[01:05:53.720 -> 01:05:56.040] We're well off tangents this evening.
[01:05:56.240 -> 01:05:58.000] I'm talking about cats and Sterling got jealous.
[01:05:58.000 -> 01:05:58.960] He just walked in the room.
[01:05:58.960 -> 01:05:59.280] If you.
[01:06:00.600 -> 01:06:01.280] What's he trashing?
[01:06:01.280 -> 01:06:03.160] I can hear him trashing something in the background.
[01:06:03.360 -> 01:06:04.000] No, that's Sarah.
[01:06:04.000 -> 01:06:04.680] She just walked in.
[01:06:04.680 -> 01:06:06.200] She's making a load of racket.
[01:06:06.480 -> 01:06:07.120] Hey, Sarah.
[01:06:07.880 -> 01:06:08.680] Dan says hi.
[01:06:09.520 -> 01:06:10.040] Toot toot.
[01:06:10.080 -> 01:06:11.320] Can we get a toot toot, Sarah?
[01:06:12.480 -> 01:06:13.320] Just say toot toot.
[01:06:14.120 -> 01:06:14.640] She said no.
[01:06:16.320 -> 01:06:16.840] Unbelievable.
[01:06:19.440 -> 01:06:23.440] I think if you include Canada in that list, Baku doesn't take the cake, but
[01:06:23.520 -> 01:06:24.400] Baku's a good one.
[01:06:24.520 -> 01:06:24.840] Yeah.
[01:06:25.560 -> 01:06:26.560] I might rate it. See, I don, but Baku's a good one. Yeah. I might rate it.
[01:06:26.560 -> 01:06:27.560] I don't know.
[01:06:27.560 -> 01:06:28.560] It's a good one.
[01:06:28.560 -> 01:06:29.560] Okay.
[01:06:29.560 -> 01:06:30.560] Right.
[01:06:30.560 -> 01:06:35.480] I'm going to, again, it's a very simple question you've asked me, but I've turned it into a
[01:06:35.480 -> 01:06:40.080] real fucking political debate and cultural debate and everything.
[01:06:40.080 -> 01:06:43.160] So let me make it easy for myself.
[01:06:43.160 -> 01:06:48.040] A race that I will enjoy watching regardless of whether it's entertaining
[01:06:48.080 -> 01:06:50.040] or for the pure racing or whatever.
[01:06:50.880 -> 01:06:51.920] Baku is up there.
[01:06:52.560 -> 01:06:52.840] Right.
[01:06:53.160 -> 01:06:53.960] Vibe-tacular.
[01:06:54.240 -> 01:06:55.120] Vibe-tacular.
[01:06:55.560 -> 01:06:55.880] Okay.
[01:06:56.080 -> 01:06:57.480] So we'll just end it at that.
[01:06:58.480 -> 01:06:58.880] Cool.
[01:06:59.480 -> 01:07:00.080] Rock and roll.
[01:07:01.440 -> 01:07:01.760] Done.
[01:07:02.400 -> 01:07:02.840] There you go.
[01:07:02.880 -> 01:07:03.160] Done.
[01:07:03.920 -> 01:07:04.200] All right.
[01:07:04.200 -> 01:07:09.480] Well, let's, let's, let's, since we've talked it to death, let's go through some numbers
[01:07:09.480 -> 01:07:10.480] real quick.
[01:07:10.480 -> 01:07:12.560] You want to go through some numbers?
[01:07:12.560 -> 01:07:15.420] It's a really, let's talk about the track because it's a really interesting track.
[01:07:15.420 -> 01:07:22.880] It's basically something like this, sector one and sector two are what, second gear,
[01:07:22.880 -> 01:07:23.880] second third gear corners.
[01:07:23.880 -> 01:07:25.400] This is your department mate, you ran this on the sim, third gear. This is your department, mate.
[01:07:25.400 -> 01:07:26.960] You ran this on the sim, not me.
[01:07:26.960 -> 01:07:27.400] I'm not.
[01:07:28.840 -> 01:07:32.480] I feel like the first part of the circuit, second and third gear corners everywhere.
[01:07:33.120 -> 01:07:35.480] And then sector three is the second longest.
[01:07:36.600 -> 01:07:38.240] Or it's the longest main straight, isn't it?
[01:07:38.560 -> 01:07:41.160] There's kinks in it, but you're flat out for two point two kilometers.
[01:07:41.160 -> 01:07:47.280] Yeah, I mean, on the track map is put it as a corner, but I mean, keep it lit, mate.
[01:07:47.280 -> 01:07:53.960] Yeah, so Bottas, I'm I Google this and I keep finding different results.
[01:07:53.960 -> 01:08:00.120] It doesn't make any sense to me, but I'm fairly certain Bottas holds the highest top speed
[01:08:00.120 -> 01:08:05.680] in a Formula One car during a race from 2016 in the Willys at 378, AKA kilometers
[01:08:05.680 -> 01:08:09.160] an hour, 378 kilometers an hour at 3, 235.
[01:08:09.160 -> 01:08:12.280] There's also a super fast one in Mexico in the last couple of years.
[01:08:12.280 -> 01:08:13.280] Um, okay.
[01:08:13.280 -> 01:08:15.320] Or maybe that was in practice actually.
[01:08:15.320 -> 01:08:16.320] Yes.
[01:08:16.320 -> 01:08:19.120] I'll, I'll, I'm not going to correct you because we're friends.
[01:08:19.120 -> 01:08:20.120] I don't do that.
[01:08:20.120 -> 01:08:21.120] I will clarify.
[01:08:21.120 -> 01:08:22.120] So I also looked at this stat.
[01:08:22.120 -> 01:08:24.320] Why don't you pass progressively quote tweet me on Twitter.
[01:08:24.320 -> 01:08:25.240] Ah, good idea. Pass progressively quote tweet me on Twitter? Ah, good idea.
[01:08:25.240 -> 01:08:26.320] Pass progressively quote tweet me on Twitter.
[01:08:26.320 -> 01:08:27.200] That's how you make friends.
[01:08:27.200 -> 01:08:27.720] Yes.
[01:08:27.720 -> 01:08:30.240] Listen to this fucking idiot who thinks
[01:08:30.240 -> 01:08:35.080] that Bottas has the record for the highest top speed in a race.
[01:08:35.080 -> 01:08:36.840] Yeah, this fucking fraud.
[01:08:36.840 -> 01:08:40.720] It's the highest top speed at an F1 event
[01:08:40.720 -> 01:08:42.360] because this was in practice.
[01:08:42.360 -> 01:08:48.880] This apparently he got fucking wild that he got 235 miles an hour in practice, but hey,
[01:08:48.880 -> 01:08:49.880] go for it.
[01:08:49.880 -> 01:08:52.880] And then Williams of all things, back when Williams used to be quick.
[01:08:52.880 -> 01:08:54.760] It was a slippy car as well that year.
[01:08:54.760 -> 01:08:55.760] True.
[01:08:55.760 -> 01:09:01.600] So his Mexico one is the record for a race in the actual race.
[01:09:01.600 -> 01:09:04.840] This one is for our weekend.
[01:09:04.840 -> 01:09:09.160] Yeah, yeah. Session. Okay. Um, but the top speed ever
[01:09:09.160 -> 01:09:18.600] officially recognized by the FIA in a car is 299 miles per hour. And that was on a modified
[01:09:18.600 -> 01:09:21.960] BAR Honda that ran at...
[01:09:21.960 -> 01:09:22.960] Project Bonneville 400.
[01:09:22.960 -> 01:09:23.960] Yes.
[01:09:23.960 -> 01:09:25.700] Yeah. So that was 400. It was basically, they Yes. Yes, it was 400.
[01:09:25.700 -> 01:09:27.800] It was basically they did one out.
[01:09:27.900 -> 01:09:30.700] There's Project 400 and the goal was to reach 400 kilometers
[01:09:30.700 -> 01:09:32.600] an hour on the outward leg.
[01:09:32.600 -> 01:09:35.800] They did reach just over 400 kilometers an hour, but on Bonneville
[01:09:35.800 -> 01:09:37.700] on Bonneville, you have to record.
[01:09:37.700 -> 01:09:40.800] It's the average speed of both passes out and back.
[01:09:40.800 -> 01:09:43.100] Yep, and they did not.
[01:09:43.300 -> 01:09:44.800] The average was sub 400.
[01:09:44.800 -> 01:09:46.240] I think it's 398. I definitely didn't
[01:09:46.240 -> 01:09:51.760] do a TikTok on this at all. So I can't remember it, but here's a funny story.
[01:09:51.760 -> 01:09:56.800] Who was driving that? I forgot. I do not recall the name of the scapegoat.
[01:09:56.800 -> 01:10:01.360] I haven't seen this, was it not Burt Maylander, our safety car driver?
[01:10:02.160 -> 01:10:09.640] Not sure. But I didn't realize this, but one of my old colleagues who worked at Red Bull,
[01:10:09.960 -> 01:10:13.480] um, he designed the control systems for that car.
[01:10:13.880 -> 01:10:17.820] So I'm going to reach out to him for, to do a video about it in more detail.
[01:10:18.680 -> 01:10:19.440] He's retired now.
[01:10:19.880 -> 01:10:22.800] So, uh, it's, it's, it's a long time ago.
[01:10:22.800 -> 01:10:23.640] So, but anyway,
[01:10:24.160 -> 01:10:27.960] It's the medical, sorry. It's the medical car driver, Alan van de Meur.
[01:10:27.960 -> 01:10:28.960] Okay.
[01:10:28.960 -> 01:10:31.920] So, but my lender is close car driver.
[01:10:31.920 -> 01:10:36.880] Who also apparently randomly helped Herman Tilke design the Baku circuit.
[01:10:36.880 -> 01:10:37.880] Yes.
[01:10:37.880 -> 01:10:39.800] I read about this and I was like, what?
[01:10:39.800 -> 01:10:40.800] I saw that you put that in.
[01:10:40.800 -> 01:10:48.720] He's like, right, mate, I've been out in my Fiesta going around the city of Baku and this is the turn you need. Turn nine right here, baby. Right, Herman? And he's like,
[01:10:48.720 -> 01:10:53.200] yeah, yeah, go on. Yeah. I knew Herman Tilker, like, obviously designs a lot of the tracks that
[01:10:53.200 -> 01:10:58.400] we've got recently and he has a consultancy company. Yes. And his son as well. But for this
[01:10:58.400 -> 01:11:05.280] one as well, like I read about it, apparently, like you say, our safety car driver, Burt Mayland randomly helped him with this.
[01:11:05.340 -> 01:11:08.820] So I'm fucking from what capacity?
[01:11:08.820 -> 01:11:09.340] I don't know.
[01:11:09.340 -> 01:11:10.460] Not down in his ability.
[01:11:10.460 -> 01:11:13.360] I just didn't know he had that in him.
[01:11:13.480 -> 01:11:17.720] He went out in a fucking Lada and he was just like doing laps around Baku.
[01:11:18.120 -> 01:11:18.480] Yeah.
[01:11:19.600 -> 01:11:19.840] Yeah.
[01:11:19.840 -> 01:11:22.900] Do you remember, did you see, I can't remember what fucking track it was now,
[01:11:22.900 -> 01:11:30.480] but when we had the Aston Martin DBX, you know, that like SUV thing, a medical car, do they still use
[01:11:30.480 -> 01:11:31.480] that?
[01:11:31.480 -> 01:11:32.480] I think they do, don't they?
[01:11:32.480 -> 01:11:33.480] Who knows, man.
[01:11:33.480 -> 01:11:37.280] I can't remember what track it was, but he got it up on fucking two wheels going around
[01:11:37.280 -> 01:11:39.240] one of the fucking bends in it.
[01:11:39.240 -> 01:11:40.560] And I was like, Jesus Christ.
[01:11:40.560 -> 01:11:42.600] Oh, I do remember that.
[01:11:42.600 -> 01:11:43.600] Yeah.
[01:11:43.600 -> 01:11:48.000] He's, he's very good at testing the limits of the safety vehicles.
[01:11:48.000 -> 01:11:49.000] Nice.
[01:11:49.000 -> 01:11:51.720] That is, that is good.
[01:11:51.720 -> 01:11:52.720] That's good shit.
[01:11:52.720 -> 01:11:56.000] Well, we've, we've kind of beat around the bush the entire podcast.
[01:11:56.000 -> 01:11:58.000] That's not like us.
[01:11:58.000 -> 01:11:59.000] No, definitely.
[01:11:59.000 -> 01:12:04.200] And this is not because ADHD, this is, this is a scheduled bit of programming here.
[01:12:04.200 -> 01:12:06.000] We've got a new sprint race
[01:12:06.000 -> 01:12:10.040] format which was just confirmed the other day and it's happening. The teams have all
[01:12:10.040 -> 01:12:15.320] agreed and it's gone through the processes and they've rubber stamped it. It's happening
[01:12:15.320 -> 01:12:21.480] this weekend. What? Tell me, tell me what it is. And what are you thinking about it?
[01:12:21.480 -> 01:12:22.480] I've got some pretty...
[01:12:22.480 -> 01:12:27.040] I can't because you just asked me as I was yawning. I've got some pretty strong feelings about this but
[01:12:28.560 -> 01:12:31.920] I'll let you set the uh set that let me get myself ready
[01:12:34.320 -> 01:12:37.920] the sprint race format right the sprint race that we all know and love
[01:12:39.760 -> 01:12:46.020] is changing so now Friday we'll have our FP1 session like normal, right?
[01:12:49.860 -> 01:12:52.000] Then we're going to have a qualifying session, uh, which is going to set the grid for Sunday's race.
[01:12:53.440 -> 01:12:58.820] Then Saturday, we're going to have, um, a qualifying session.
[01:12:59.940 -> 01:13:01.020] The sprint shootout.
[01:13:01.020 -> 01:13:02.300] Yeah, the sprint shootout.
[01:13:02.300 -> 01:13:02.520] Sprint shootout.
[01:13:02.520 -> 01:13:04.860] Fucking that's another marketing special that is, isn't it?
[01:13:05.760 -> 01:13:09.960] Which will set the grid for the sprint race that's going to happen on Saturday.
[01:13:09.960 -> 01:13:10.960] Yep.
[01:13:10.960 -> 01:13:14.360] Now, the sprint shootout.
[01:13:14.360 -> 01:13:15.360] It's not a shootout.
[01:13:15.360 -> 01:13:16.360] It's just a short sprint.
[01:13:16.360 -> 01:13:17.360] It's a short qualifying.
[01:13:17.360 -> 01:13:19.480] A shootout is like a one lap shootout.
[01:13:19.480 -> 01:13:21.600] That is how I think.
[01:13:21.600 -> 01:13:22.600] Or a shootout.
[01:13:22.600 -> 01:13:24.320] It's like a head to head, like they do in Formula E or something.
[01:13:24.320 -> 01:13:25.880] That's a shootout. This is. Or shootout. It's like a head to head, like they do in Formula E or something. That's a shootout.
[01:13:27.000 -> 01:13:27.040] This is not a shootout.
[01:13:32.600 -> 01:13:32.960] This is basically, this is misinformation and I'm going to get it fact checked.
[01:13:33.280 -> 01:13:33.440] Yeah.
[01:13:33.920 -> 01:13:35.000] It's a lie.
[01:13:37.400 -> 01:13:37.480] So Nikita Mazabin is going to sue Canada.
[01:13:39.480 -> 01:13:40.400] We're going to sue FOM.
[01:13:40.680 -> 01:13:41.080] Yep.
[01:13:42.840 -> 01:13:43.240] Um, and everyone's going to be happy.
[01:13:44.040 -> 01:13:47.280] Uh, so yes. How much do you reckon we're getting from this lawsuit, by the way?
[01:13:47.280 -> 01:13:48.280] Probably a cease and desist.
[01:13:48.280 -> 01:13:52.800] I think that's the only thing we're going to get out of this.
[01:13:52.800 -> 01:13:54.880] They're going to review bomb our podcast as well.
[01:13:54.880 -> 01:13:56.440] Yeah, yeah, that's it.
[01:13:56.440 -> 01:13:57.440] We're done before.
[01:13:57.440 -> 01:13:59.440] Get up to 2.8 lads.
[01:13:59.440 -> 01:14:02.080] I think we're on 4.8.
[01:14:02.080 -> 01:14:03.280] Biggie sells up everyone.
[01:14:03.280 -> 01:14:04.280] Thank you for that.
[01:14:04.280 -> 01:14:06.520] Thank you. Yeah, we haven't cancelled yet.
[01:14:06.520 -> 01:14:10.240] And if you've not left us a review, then fucking don't bother. I don't care if you do or you
[01:14:10.240 -> 01:14:12.640] don't. You do you.
[01:14:12.640 -> 01:14:16.960] Five stars and nothing, right? Dan, stop talking. Five stars and nothing. If you haven't left
[01:14:16.960 -> 01:14:20.880] a review on Spotify or Apple Music, it actually is, would be really appreciated. So if you're
[01:14:20.880 -> 01:14:28.680] enjoying the podcast, do it. And if you see our stuff on Instagram or Twitter, uh, and you enjoy it and you think your friends might
[01:14:28.680 -> 01:14:32.400] enjoy it, you can always hit that retweet button or share it or send it to your Nan
[01:14:32.400 -> 01:14:33.400] or to the butcher.
[01:14:33.400 -> 01:14:34.400] Yeah, yeah.
[01:14:34.400 -> 01:14:35.400] Yeah, local butcher as well.
[01:14:35.400 -> 01:14:36.400] Yeah.
[01:14:36.400 -> 01:14:37.400] Yeah.
[01:14:37.400 -> 01:14:38.400] But
[01:14:38.400 -> 01:14:41.280] If you listen to us and enjoy us, seek professional, uh, mental help.
[01:14:41.280 -> 01:14:43.360] Yeah. There's nothing wrong with that as well.
[01:14:43.360 -> 01:14:44.840] That's cause that's what we've done.
[01:14:44.840 -> 01:14:47.800] Yeah, exactly. I need it. I need it.
[01:14:50.320 -> 01:14:57.560] So we've got sorry, yeah. So spring shoot out. Here's how it works, right? It's going to be shorter than traditional qualifying, right?
[01:14:57.600 -> 01:15:06.320] Okay, sq one. I fucking it all along. And all I can think of is this Audi model names. Now've done this. SQ1 is going to set to run for
[01:15:06.320 -> 01:15:16.160] 12 minutes and you mandatory have to have medium tires on. Mid-jum. Mid-jum right. SQ2 is going to
[01:15:16.160 -> 01:15:25.040] be 10 minutes so two minutes shorter and again mandatory medium tires for that one. Okay. Medium, medium.
[01:15:25.040 -> 01:15:26.040] Sorry, sorry, sorry.
[01:15:26.040 -> 01:15:29.120] SQ3, eight minutes.
[01:15:29.120 -> 01:15:33.320] And that's going to be a mandatory soft tires for that.
[01:15:33.320 -> 01:15:34.320] Okay.
[01:15:34.320 -> 01:15:37.640] Let's just, let's just do a quick think.
[01:15:37.640 -> 01:15:43.800] Ooh, can you do two time lap run, two single time lap runs in SQ3?
[01:15:43.800 -> 01:15:45.160] Eight minutes. It'll depend on the circuit. Cause Baku's... There's no way. two time lap run, two single timed lap runs in SQ3?
[01:15:46.600 -> 01:15:47.520] Uh, eight minutes. It'll depend on the circuit,
[01:15:47.520 -> 01:15:49.600] cause Baku's, uh,
[01:15:49.600 -> 01:15:50.440] 145 or something like that.
[01:15:50.440 -> 01:15:52.640] An out lap is about two minutes.
[01:15:52.640 -> 01:15:53.480] Yeah.
[01:15:53.480 -> 01:15:56.920] Out lap, one minute 40, let's say,
[01:15:56.920 -> 01:15:58.160] and another two minutes.
[01:15:58.160 -> 01:15:58.980] So no.
[01:15:58.980 -> 01:16:00.320] So this could actually,
[01:16:00.320 -> 01:16:02.160] SQ3 will be a one and done.
[01:16:02.160 -> 01:16:05.120] Yeah, the SQ3 will be finding the right time in the track.
[01:16:05.120 -> 01:16:09.080] It's not always the latest and there's traffic and everything else, but there's only 10 cars.
[01:16:09.080 -> 01:16:12.560] We're going to see some shenanigans.
[01:16:12.560 -> 01:16:17.400] So is it medium, medium soft or medium soft soft for the sessions?
[01:16:17.400 -> 01:16:18.960] Medium medium soft.
[01:16:18.960 -> 01:16:19.960] OK.
[01:16:19.960 -> 01:16:23.960] But we spoke about this before because they were thinking about bringing this in and when
[01:16:23.960 -> 01:16:25.040] they were talking about it, yes
[01:16:25.120 -> 01:16:31.360] Yeah for normal qualifying as a trial. I think they should have done hard medium soft myself
[01:16:32.840 -> 01:16:36.720] They went safe Dan they went they done went safe on it
[01:16:37.600 -> 01:16:40.160] Yeah, I'm not sure why they called it a shootout
[01:16:40.160 -> 01:16:44.820] But in summary you go Friday you practice then you qualify for the race Saturday
[01:16:44.820 -> 01:16:45.320] You qualify for the sprint then you sprint, then you qualify for the race. Saturday, you
[01:16:45.320 -> 01:16:51.240] qualify for the sprint, then you sprint. And then Sunday you do the normal race. I think
[01:16:51.240 -> 01:16:54.360] this is a massive improvement over the previous format.
[01:16:54.360 -> 01:17:01.480] I still, again, I appreciate everyone's got their own takes on this. And if you enjoy
[01:17:01.480 -> 01:17:07.360] sprint races, yeah, fuck you. If you enjoy sprint races, then more power to you.
[01:17:07.360 -> 01:17:09.640] But me personally, I fucking hate sprint races.
[01:17:09.640 -> 01:17:11.000] I hate the whole idea of it.
[01:17:11.680 -> 01:17:16.440] Give me back my precious FP3 in qualifying that I know Blake fucking hates.
[01:17:17.880 -> 01:17:21.000] Um, FP3 is the most important session of the weekend.
[01:17:21.000 -> 01:17:22.560] Don't listen to anything Blake says.
[01:17:22.560 -> 01:17:23.960] God damn it, dude.
[01:17:24.640 -> 01:17:27.860] FP3 is the most useless session ever,
[01:17:27.860 -> 01:17:30.060] but let's let's let's let's let's
[01:17:30.060 -> 01:17:30.700] put it this way.
[01:17:30.700 -> 01:17:32.560] We've got sprint races like it or not.
[01:17:32.560 -> 01:17:35.260] That's that's FOMFIA want it.
[01:17:35.260 -> 01:17:36.060] We've got it.
[01:17:36.060 -> 01:17:37.260] The teams have said OK,
[01:17:37.260 -> 01:17:38.460] we can do it this way.
[01:17:38.460 -> 01:17:40.020] We lose.
[01:17:40.020 -> 01:17:41.260] Here's here's why I think this
[01:17:41.260 -> 01:17:42.500] this new format is better.
[01:17:43.300 -> 01:17:44.800] Before I agree,
[01:17:44.800 -> 01:17:46.600] but just caveat, I agree.
[01:17:46.600 -> 01:17:47.600] This format...
[01:17:47.600 -> 01:17:48.600] You don't like it.
[01:17:48.600 -> 01:17:52.040] I don't like any of them, but out of the two, I prefer this format.
[01:17:52.040 -> 01:17:53.800] Yeah, no, that's fine.
[01:17:53.800 -> 01:17:54.800] Please continue.
[01:17:54.800 -> 01:18:03.560] But, right, so before you'd go free practice one, qualify, free practice two and the car's
[01:18:03.560 -> 01:18:05.040] in park format, you can't change it.
[01:18:05.040 -> 01:18:06.000] So it's just like you might get a,
[01:18:06.000 -> 01:18:08.120] do a high fuel run on check some tires,
[01:18:08.120 -> 01:18:10.160] and then you go into the sprint,
[01:18:10.160 -> 01:18:12.120] then the sprint sets the order for the race.
[01:18:12.120 -> 01:18:14.480] The fact that the sprint sets the order for the race
[01:18:14.480 -> 01:18:17.200] before sucks because you basically,
[01:18:17.200 -> 01:18:20.120] if you have anything out of order,
[01:18:20.120 -> 01:18:22.200] you just unshuffle the grid and you're back in pace order
[01:18:22.200 -> 01:18:23.480] at the end of the sprint.
[01:18:23.480 -> 01:18:25.700] And it's like, great, Now the race is even more predictable.
[01:18:27.260 -> 01:18:31.460] Losing FP2 does one more thing that's good for us.
[01:18:32.540 -> 01:18:35.960] Teams will have to be very careful on what they can do with their run plan.
[01:18:35.960 -> 01:18:40.340] Free practice one will probably look something like medium low fuel, soft,
[01:18:40.340 -> 01:18:44.160] low fuel run, and then a high fuel run on a different tire.
[01:18:45.400 -> 01:18:48.480] I'm thinking I'm not sure how the tire allocation works with the new thing, and I'm thinking
[01:18:48.480 -> 01:18:52.480] they can do that, but you're going to be very short abbreviated runs and it's going to be
[01:18:52.480 -> 01:18:57.320] no dicking around, get the car at the least worst as soon as possible, be very reliant
[01:18:57.320 -> 01:19:01.760] on how well your models and your sim can help you prepare for the track, and you don't get
[01:19:01.760 -> 01:19:02.760] practice.
[01:19:02.760 -> 01:19:06.860] Now people have said it's unsafe to only have one free practice session.
[01:19:06.860 -> 01:19:10.340] And I would like to politely remind everybody
[01:19:10.340 -> 01:19:13.820] that we still race in the rain, we qualify in the rain.
[01:19:13.820 -> 01:19:16.720] Putting a wet track is putting a driver on a track
[01:19:16.720 -> 01:19:18.540] in a car that they've never driven before.
[01:19:18.540 -> 01:19:20.300] The conditions are changing every lap,
[01:19:20.300 -> 01:19:23.340] they're changing corner to corner, they manage.
[01:19:23.340 -> 01:19:24.740] They're supposed to be the best of the best.
[01:19:24.740 -> 01:19:26.080] We're not sure if they're the best of the best.
[01:19:26.400 -> 01:19:29.080] We should probably start one of those arguments about if IndyCar, Formula E or
[01:19:29.080 -> 01:19:32.000] NASCAR drivers are better, just for interaction and engagement.
[01:19:32.720 -> 01:19:33.400] Oh, okay.
[01:19:33.440 -> 01:19:33.680] Yeah.
[01:19:33.680 -> 01:19:35.680] Just to fuck with the algorithm.
[01:19:36.520 -> 01:19:37.160] Yeah.
[01:19:37.840 -> 01:19:38.760] Um, yeah.
[01:19:38.760 -> 01:19:40.320] When drivers admit, no, I'm just kidding.
[01:19:40.320 -> 01:19:42.560] But like, seriously, like, I don't think it's unsafe.
[01:19:42.960 -> 01:19:43.760] I don't think it's unsafe.
[01:19:43.760 -> 01:19:47.920] I think it's, um, it will accentuate a skill gap and drivers that can
[01:19:47.920 -> 01:19:51.600] learn and adapt more quickly, but I do not think it's unsafe.
[01:19:51.640 -> 01:19:53.480] I think we will, we will see a skill gap.
[01:19:53.480 -> 01:19:58.880] So, uh, Max is just going to destroy everybody.
[01:19:58.880 -> 01:19:59.320] No, I'm just kidding.
[01:19:59.560 -> 01:19:59.840] I don't know.
[01:20:00.800 -> 01:20:01.520] Thanks for listening.
[01:20:01.520 -> 01:20:02.200] Thanks for watching.
[01:20:02.200 -> 01:20:02.600] Bye.
[01:20:02.880 -> 01:20:03.280] Yeah.
[01:20:03.640 -> 01:20:04.160] Predictions.
[01:20:04.200 -> 01:20:04.360] Yeah.
[01:20:04.360 -> 01:20:05.000] Destroyed, destroyed, destroyed. Um, but Hey, listen, so we're going to. Thanks for listening. Thanks for watching. Bye. Yeah. Yeah.
[01:20:05.000 -> 01:20:06.000] Destroyed, destroyed, destroyed.
[01:20:06.000 -> 01:20:12.720] Um, but Hey, listen, so we're going to, we're going to change all the format of the weekend
[01:20:12.720 -> 01:20:16.520] to make it exciting, but Hey, guess what else we could do to make it even more exciting
[01:20:16.520 -> 01:20:18.200] Blake?
[01:20:18.200 -> 01:20:20.920] You could change the track in another way, I guess.
[01:20:20.920 -> 01:20:28.140] How could you, you could put some brand new tarmac with that nice bitumen layer that is basically brand
[01:20:28.140 -> 01:20:38.960] new and turn it into a skating rink that we've done in Kota in 2013 and Turkey in 2020.
[01:20:38.960 -> 01:20:40.440] Fucking sounds like a sound idea.
[01:20:40.440 -> 01:20:41.440] Let's do it.
[01:20:41.440 -> 01:20:42.440] Oh wait, they have.
[01:20:42.440 -> 01:20:45.600] Wait, do you know how much they've resurfaced?
[01:20:46.300 -> 01:20:49.500] A significant amount from what I've seen in images.
[01:20:50.000 -> 01:20:50.800] Ooh.
[01:20:51.400 -> 01:20:55.300] Um, I don't think they have to worry about rain.
[01:20:55.900 -> 01:21:00.100] Uh, I don't think it could be on the forecast, but who knows?
[01:21:00.240 -> 01:21:00.740] Hmm.
[01:21:01.300 -> 01:21:03.140] Have we ever had a wet race at Baku?
[01:21:03.140 -> 01:21:03.700] We probably have.
[01:21:03.700 -> 01:21:04.500] I don't know.
[01:21:05.360 -> 01:21:13.800] Yeah. knows. Have we ever had a wet race at Baku? We probably haven't. I don't know. Yeah, no, a resurfaced track is going to basically cause fun and games for people that still
[01:21:13.800 -> 01:21:17.280] working in the procession like you.
[01:21:17.280 -> 01:21:18.640] That's going to be a little bit of a thing.
[01:21:18.640 -> 01:21:24.400] Cause like, no matter how good your preparation is, you don't really like, I guarantee you
[01:21:24.400 -> 01:21:27.760] teams knowing that the track has been resurfaced, they will be doing some
[01:21:27.760 -> 01:21:30.880] low grip running in the simulator to anticipate.
[01:21:30.880 -> 01:21:34.340] You know historically what they've seen on low tracks and how much the tracks improve
[01:21:34.340 -> 01:21:35.340] as they weather.
[01:21:35.340 -> 01:21:40.640] Yeah, but apparently backers got rain forecast for Monday, so hopefully that doesn't shift
[01:21:40.640 -> 01:21:43.360] into Sunday, but it's not like it matters.
[01:21:43.360 -> 01:21:48.000] It's gonna be slicker than shit on a hot shovel anyway. I've been in Texas for a bit.
[01:21:48.000 -> 01:21:53.200] I was going to say, oh, that sounds like someone that's been in Texas for a week.
[01:21:53.200 -> 01:21:58.400] This hat that I got from Terry Blocks in Dallas, not in Austin. I didn't drive down to Austin
[01:21:58.400 -> 01:22:02.440] for a while, but it still smells like barbecue. Yeah. Oh my God. It's so good.
[01:22:02.440 -> 01:22:07.000] What's this thing where if you really want to upset someone, you have to say it's not
[01:22:07.000 -> 01:22:08.360] real barbecue or something.
[01:22:08.360 -> 01:22:09.360] What's that about?
[01:22:09.360 -> 01:22:14.800] Apparently, I think there's a Texas style and I think it's Kansas city style or Memphis
[01:22:14.800 -> 01:22:15.800] style.
[01:22:15.800 -> 01:22:19.440] There's a couple of different, there's a couple of different schools of barbecue and I don't
[01:22:19.440 -> 01:22:20.440] know about all of them.
[01:22:20.440 -> 01:22:23.320] All I know is I like that Texas style.
[01:22:23.320 -> 01:22:24.320] Yeah.
[01:22:24.320 -> 01:22:28.680] Yes, sir. Beef rib, brisket, pork ribs,
[01:22:28.680 -> 01:22:34.340] turkeys. Did you get to big up any local butchers while you were out there? Uh, no, just Terry
[01:22:34.340 -> 01:22:39.200] Black's. We didn't cook very much. International butcher relations are at an all time low,
[01:22:39.200 -> 01:22:44.240] thanks to you. You know what? Um, all right. Just a quick interruption before we get to
[01:22:44.240 -> 01:22:45.440] the last bit.
[01:22:46.280 -> 01:22:49.720] We need to get somebody to get Dan and I out to a race to do some content for them.
[01:22:49.720 -> 01:22:51.480] We'd love to, we're not a liability.
[01:22:51.480 -> 01:22:52.320] We'll have a great time.
[01:22:52.520 -> 01:22:55.520] I mean, if I have to make content, I will, but I just want to freebie.
[01:22:56.400 -> 01:22:58.200] Ah, don't tell him that.
[01:22:58.840 -> 01:23:00.200] Dan said everything's fine.
[01:23:00.280 -> 01:23:00.840] You didn't hear that.
[01:23:00.880 -> 01:23:02.360] We can edit that out and post, right?
[01:23:02.400 -> 01:23:02.600] Sure.
[01:23:02.600 -> 01:23:02.720] Sure.
[01:23:02.720 -> 01:23:03.000] Sure.
[01:23:03.440 -> 01:23:03.800] Okay, cool.
[01:23:03.800 -> 01:23:04.000] Cool.
[01:23:04.000 -> 01:23:04.240] Cool.
[01:23:04.240 -> 01:23:04.320] Cool.
[01:23:04.560 -> 01:23:06.820] But, um, that's going to happen this year.
[01:23:06.820 -> 01:23:10.560] Imagine Terry Black's episode, me and the big man.
[01:23:11.220 -> 01:23:12.980] Well, you don't, you don't want to go to a race.
[01:23:12.980 -> 01:23:15.180] You just want some random butcher to get us out there.
[01:23:15.660 -> 01:23:16.060] All right.
[01:23:16.060 -> 01:23:16.340] Okay.
[01:23:16.340 -> 01:23:16.940] I understand.
[01:23:16.940 -> 01:23:17.100] Yeah.
[01:23:17.100 -> 01:23:18.260] No, no, please.
[01:23:18.660 -> 01:23:20.340] I'm so transparent.
[01:23:20.380 -> 01:23:21.220] God damn it.
[01:23:21.220 -> 01:23:24.260] Please put out the local, the word to your local butchers.
[01:23:28.520 -> 01:23:29.520] So you had, you had a question question though about last question about Baku. I did.
[01:23:29.520 -> 01:23:30.520] And you did the video about this, didn't you?
[01:23:30.520 -> 01:23:31.520] On your YouTube.
[01:23:31.520 -> 01:23:33.360] Would you like to plug your YouTube?
[01:23:33.360 -> 01:23:36.440] Well, the question was, is a good question.
[01:23:36.440 -> 01:23:41.860] I think will Red Bull's big magical DRS make them untouchable this weekend, which was what
[01:23:41.860 -> 01:23:42.860] you put in there.
[01:23:42.860 -> 01:23:45.640] And, uh, yeah, that's yeah, that's a really good question
[01:23:45.640 -> 01:23:47.280] because the DRS is powerful,
[01:23:47.280 -> 01:23:50.000] but when you tend to be leading the race,
[01:23:50.000 -> 01:23:52.040] which they have done often,
[01:23:52.040 -> 01:23:53.200] doesn't really help you that much.
[01:23:53.200 -> 01:23:56.000] So is it making a huge difference for them in qualifying?
[01:23:56.000 -> 01:23:57.400] And the answer is sort of,
[01:23:57.400 -> 01:24:00.200] I did a whole video on Break F1 on YouTube about it,
[01:24:00.200 -> 01:24:03.840] but the short answer is Red Bull,
[01:24:03.840 -> 01:24:08.080] like Haas have had one of the biggest DRS's at every race we've been to so far.
[01:24:08.280 -> 01:24:10.540] And they're about sixth team in pace order.
[01:24:11.640 -> 01:24:16.680] You, sorry, when you say this, do you mean the, uh, on to off, not, not
[01:24:16.680 -> 01:24:18.600] deficit, is that not the word I'm looking for?
[01:24:18.600 -> 01:24:21.880] Is it the difference in the Delta?
[01:24:21.880 -> 01:24:25.760] So when, how much speed they gain with it on versus how fast they go with it
[01:24:25.760 -> 01:24:30.000] off. Right, right. Passive had like the first or second at every race. Red Bull have been
[01:24:30.000 -> 01:24:33.800] second, sixth and second or second, sixth and first or something like that in terms
[01:24:33.800 -> 01:24:38.720] of the first two races. The Red Bull just has a super, super efficient car. They make
[01:24:38.720 -> 01:24:43.360] downforce in the corners and they have low drag on the straights, which is like a holy
[01:24:43.360 -> 01:24:48.080] grail of a design philosophy. It's not the engine because Alpha Tauri tend to be one of the slowest.
[01:24:48.280 -> 01:24:51.680] Now that could be why Franz is getting the diff, but he's not a technical person.
[01:24:52.080 -> 01:24:53.600] He's the, in principle.
[01:24:53.800 -> 01:24:57.600] He has been more outlandish in his statements in the last couple of months.
[01:24:57.600 -> 01:24:58.000] So maybe.
[01:24:58.000 -> 01:24:59.520] I don't know what the engineers are doing.
[01:24:59.520 -> 01:25:01.440] It's like, well, have you tried talking to them?
[01:25:01.600 -> 01:25:04.360] They're busy writing your fucking retirement card, Franz.
[01:25:04.360 -> 01:25:07.520] Jesus, give them a break.
[01:25:07.520 -> 01:25:08.520] Poor bloke.
[01:25:08.520 -> 01:25:14.680] But yeah, I think Red Bull's DRS is powerful, but it's not the most powerful and it's not
[01:25:14.680 -> 01:25:15.680] like a fix-all.
[01:25:15.680 -> 01:25:17.840] It's not like, oh, big DRS, we win.
[01:25:17.840 -> 01:25:22.160] Because in designing a big DRS, you also have to make compromises in other things with the
[01:25:22.160 -> 01:25:24.840] rear wing, the fuser, and floor, which I don't know anything about.
[01:25:24.840 -> 01:25:27.640] So I'm going to have to see if João wants to come back on the podcast.
[01:25:27.960 -> 01:25:29.040] Oh, big up JWoww.
[01:25:31.080 -> 01:25:34.160] But, um, what's JWoww up to these days?
[01:25:35.520 -> 01:25:37.880] Uh, I'm going to see him at the 24 hours of Le Mans.
[01:25:38.200 -> 01:25:39.640] So I'll let you know.
[01:25:39.720 -> 01:25:39.960] Yep.
[01:25:40.320 -> 01:25:41.520] Chat him up, get him back on.
[01:25:43.240 -> 01:25:47.360] So Red Bull's magical DRS, not necessarily magical.
[01:25:47.380 -> 01:25:53.080] However, leading into our next section predictions, I mean, it's a
[01:25:53.080 -> 01:25:54.520] fucking Red Bull one, two, right?
[01:25:54.520 -> 01:25:55.020] Surely.
[01:25:55.680 -> 01:25:55.960] Sure.
[01:25:56.080 -> 01:25:57.540] So give me your top five and quality then.
[01:25:57.640 -> 01:25:57.860] All right.
[01:25:57.860 -> 01:25:58.500] My top five.
[01:25:58.500 -> 01:26:01.660] So this is the main event we're predicting.
[01:26:01.660 -> 01:26:03.140] I'm not fucking bothering with sprint.
[01:26:03.300 -> 01:26:03.560] Yeah.
[01:26:03.580 -> 01:26:04.480] We're not doing sprint quality.
[01:26:04.480 -> 01:26:05.240] We're just doing the main event.
[01:26:05.240 -> 01:26:07.160] And then Barry's going to tell you if you got them right or wrong.
[01:26:07.360 -> 01:26:09.520] If you're watching this on YouTube, you'll see Barry.
[01:26:09.520 -> 01:26:12.560] If you're on Spotify, you've got a gorgeous little fluffy cat here.
[01:26:12.720 -> 01:26:15.560] Barry is sitting with Blake like a Bond villain at the moment.
[01:26:15.560 -> 01:26:20.120] So qualifying Verstappen, Perez, Alonso, Hamilton, Russell.
[01:26:20.840 -> 01:26:21.120] Okay.
[01:26:21.120 -> 01:26:22.880] Ver, Per, Aloham, Russ.
[01:26:23.320 -> 01:26:28.240] I didn't know where to put Ferrari in this, but I just don't think they have that outright
[01:26:28.240 -> 01:26:29.240] speed.
[01:26:29.240 -> 01:26:34.600] They ain't got that dog in them. Well, I'll tell you mine and I'll tell you why. And then
[01:26:34.600 -> 01:26:38.880] I'll tell you why I doubt it based on what you've said. So I'm going Ver like per Russ
[01:26:38.880 -> 01:26:47.600] Ham Verstappen Leclerc Perez Russell Hamilton. Um, I do not, like, I know we said it last week.
[01:26:47.600 -> 01:26:49.840] It's like, oh yeah, they've got all the DRS
[01:26:49.840 -> 01:26:52.160] and Aston's gonna be not great.
[01:26:52.160 -> 01:26:53.840] They weren't terrible.
[01:26:53.840 -> 01:26:56.240] Mercedes slightly better in terms of efficiency.
[01:26:57.240 -> 01:26:59.960] I think Verstappen will get pole, easy collapse here.
[01:26:59.960 -> 01:27:02.440] Perez could be second or he could get pole here.
[01:27:02.440 -> 01:27:03.800] He's not, you know, the narrative,
[01:27:03.800 -> 01:27:04.840] he's good around street circuits.
[01:27:04.840 -> 01:27:05.660] He's good and lucky,
[01:27:05.660 -> 01:27:08.400] but he's, you're not, if you're lucky all the time,
[01:27:08.400 -> 01:27:09.800] does that make you not good?
[01:27:11.000 -> 01:27:13.360] I think Perez is solid around street circuits.
[01:27:14.440 -> 01:27:16.320] The Ferrari looked to be,
[01:27:16.320 -> 01:27:18.080] this comes out of the other YouTube video
[01:27:18.080 -> 01:27:20.360] about the top speeds I mentioned.
[01:27:21.440 -> 01:27:23.400] Ferrari were really quick in the first race.
[01:27:23.400 -> 01:27:26.320] They had a similar performance characteristic to Red Bull
[01:27:26.320 -> 01:27:30.160] in terms of in Bahrain,
[01:27:30.160 -> 01:27:33.200] they gave up a little bit of cornering for top speed
[01:27:33.200 -> 01:27:36.260] and they were comparable to the Red Bull, right?
[01:27:36.260 -> 01:27:39.200] And then after that, they had some woes in that event.
[01:27:39.200 -> 01:27:43.440] And the next event, they were like kinda a little bit slower,
[01:27:43.440 -> 01:27:44.640] looked like a less efficient car.
[01:27:44.640 -> 01:27:45.540] So I think Ferrari could be up there, but I'm not sure if they will be. they were like kind of. Little bit slower, look like a less efficient car so.
[01:27:45.540 -> 01:27:47.340] I think Ferrari could be up there,
[01:27:47.340 -> 01:27:50.400] but I'm not sure if they will be.
[01:27:50.400 -> 01:27:51.240] Oh, interesting.
[01:27:51.240 -> 01:27:53.200] So for Stappen, Leclerc, Perez, Russell,
[01:27:53.200 -> 01:27:56.800] Hamilton, Barry, what do you think, bro?
[01:27:56.800 -> 01:27:59.600] He digs. He's down with that, is he?
[01:27:59.600 -> 01:28:02.960] Yeah, he he confirms alright good.
[01:28:02.960 -> 01:28:03.880] Podium race podium.
[01:28:03.880 -> 01:28:05.240] Never mind the sprint.
[01:28:05.240 -> 01:28:06.640] Like the sprint is an accessory.
[01:28:06.640 -> 01:28:07.080] I get it.
[01:28:08.120 -> 01:28:08.520] Right.
[01:28:09.200 -> 01:28:09.800] Here we go.
[01:28:10.640 -> 01:28:11.280] My podium.
[01:28:11.280 -> 01:28:11.680] Are you going bold?
[01:28:11.720 -> 01:28:12.400] Are you going bold?
[01:28:12.680 -> 01:28:13.400] Yeah, I am.
[01:28:13.960 -> 01:28:14.920] Ooh.
[01:28:15.200 -> 01:28:21.240] Um, powered by all of the, um, Taylor Swift fans and the fandom.
[01:28:21.840 -> 01:28:23.160] And that rom-com incognizant.
[01:28:23.320 -> 01:28:23.640] Yep.
[01:28:24.160 -> 01:28:25.000] Uh, Fernando Alonso is going to win this race. Oh, weco incognizant? Yep.
[01:28:25.000 -> 01:28:27.000] Fernando Alonso is going to win this race.
[01:28:27.000 -> 01:28:28.000] Oh!
[01:28:28.000 -> 01:28:33.000] With Verstappen in second and Perez in third.
[01:28:33.000 -> 01:28:35.000] Is that his Baku name?
[01:28:35.000 -> 01:28:37.000] I refuse to elaborate any further.
[01:28:37.000 -> 01:28:38.000] That's it.
[01:28:38.000 -> 01:28:40.000] That's my podium prediction.
[01:28:40.000 -> 01:28:43.000] The dark lord on top step.
[01:28:43.000 -> 01:28:46.480] Maybe if he's made a human sacrifice, he can unlock the power.
[01:28:46.740 -> 01:28:50.140] No, he's going to be, he's fueled by the tick-tock rumors.
[01:28:50.320 -> 01:28:51.560] He's he's going for it.
[01:28:52.880 -> 01:28:53.400] I love that.
[01:28:53.420 -> 01:28:55.280] I'm, I'm going pretty bland.
[01:28:55.480 -> 01:28:56.700] Honestly, I'm not going bold.
[01:28:57.160 -> 01:28:58.120] I hope you're right.
[01:28:58.180 -> 01:28:58.720] Actually.
[01:28:59.040 -> 01:29:00.000] I hope you're fucking right.
[01:29:00.840 -> 01:29:04.280] Um, Scar says Max and check across Alonzo leads.
[01:29:04.440 -> 01:29:09.040] I mean, we haven't seen any sparks between the drivers yet, and I feel like everybody's
[01:29:09.040 -> 01:29:10.080] had a little break.
[01:29:10.080 -> 01:29:11.840] Maybe they've calmed down.
[01:29:11.840 -> 01:29:17.840] I'm not sure, but I'm going for Verstappen, Perez, Leclerc, following on from my Ferrari
[01:29:17.840 -> 01:29:19.720] ain't that bad.
[01:29:19.720 -> 01:29:28.360] But that's what our predictions are for. We're not going to put anybody on Fraud Watch this week.
[01:29:28.360 -> 01:29:30.680] No, I don't think it's fair to do that.
[01:29:30.680 -> 01:29:34.520] No, exactly, but we could just be completely fraudulent and put somebody on Fraud Watch.
[01:29:34.520 -> 01:29:35.520] I'm not going to do it.
[01:29:35.520 -> 01:29:36.520] No, okay, that's fine.
[01:29:36.520 -> 01:29:41.360] Um, what else do we need to do?
[01:29:41.360 -> 01:29:43.520] Oh, random fandom, don't we?
[01:29:43.520 -> 01:29:44.520] Yeah.
[01:29:44.520 -> 01:29:46.000] There's a problem though.
[01:29:46.000 -> 01:29:50.000] That's fine. I think I know what the problem is. We've had some soundboard issues.
[01:29:50.000 -> 01:29:52.000] What do you think the problem could be?
[01:29:52.000 -> 01:29:54.000] I don't know. I don't know.
[01:29:54.000 -> 01:29:58.000] Oh no, no, no. Just if we just keep people stalling for a few minutes.
[01:29:58.000 -> 01:30:00.000] Yeah, no. What could be the problem?
[01:30:00.000 -> 01:30:02.000] Yeah, anyway, sorry. Where was I?
[01:30:02.000 -> 01:30:05.120] Oh shit, no, it's still the wrong fuck
[01:30:07.080 -> 01:30:13.840] Anyway, anyway, Barry Barry thinks we should do the random fandom draw does he think we should do the random fandom?
[01:30:13.840 -> 01:30:17.180] Oh, okay. Well Barry luckily for you
[01:30:19.480 -> 01:30:24.200] That's the no VPN, oh my god, you're so mid chat I
[01:30:24.860 -> 01:30:28.440] Listen, right. I reformatted my fucking computer
[01:30:28.440 -> 01:30:45.000] the other week and it's not gone well, let me tell you. Oh dear. Anyway, sorry. Oh, fucking worst episode yet, I think. I love it. You guys, you guys pay extra for that, right? Yeah.
[01:30:45.000 -> 01:30:46.000] Yeah.
[01:30:46.000 -> 01:30:47.000] Oh, wait, you're not paying us.
[01:30:47.000 -> 01:30:48.000] Okay, good.
[01:30:48.000 -> 01:30:49.000] Anyway, someone's in chat saying, Blake, how shit was IT at Red Bull was Dan was running
[01:30:49.000 -> 01:30:50.000] the show there?
[01:30:50.000 -> 01:30:51.000] Listen.
[01:30:51.000 -> 01:30:52.000] We didn't have any GoXLR products.
[01:30:52.000 -> 01:30:53.000] It was pretty fucking awful.
[01:30:53.000 -> 01:30:54.000] I mean, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was
[01:30:54.000 -> 01:30:55.000] like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like,
[01:30:55.000 -> 01:30:56.000] I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like,
[01:30:56.000 -> 01:30:57.000] I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like,
[01:30:57.000 -> 01:30:58.000] I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like,
[01:30:58.000 -> 01:30:59.000] I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like,
[01:30:59.000 -> 01:31:00.000] I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like,
[01:31:00.000 -> 01:31:01.000] I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was
[01:31:01.000 -> 01:31:06.240] like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, I was like, saying Blake, how shit was IT at Red Bull was Dan was running the show there. Listen,
[01:31:07.860 -> 01:31:08.760] we didn't have any go XLR products.
[01:31:10.200 -> 01:31:11.520] It was pretty fucking awful.
[01:31:12.480 -> 01:31:13.080] Let me tell you that.
[01:31:14.200 -> 01:31:14.540] Oh, dearie me. Right.
[01:31:14.540 -> 01:31:15.400] Random fandom.
[01:31:15.400 -> 01:31:20.320] This is the part of the show where, because we obviously have disgusting Red Bull bias.
[01:31:21.060 -> 01:31:21.520] Hideous.
[01:31:21.520 -> 01:31:26.720] We thought we would liven it up by giving each, you know, we'd randomly select
[01:31:26.720 -> 01:31:33.480] a team to represent and hype up for the race. And then in our review show, we will do like
[01:31:33.480 -> 01:31:36.580] a little report on them, how it went, things like that.
[01:31:36.580 -> 01:31:40.360] And not just, not just pick them up for the sake of, we'll give them an honest report,
[01:31:40.360 -> 01:31:44.460] but we'll try to be constructive. Like we want them to do well. Like we know that they're
[01:31:44.460 -> 01:31:46.560] not going to fail Ferrari.
[01:31:47.440 -> 01:31:47.920] Hmm.
[01:31:48.820 -> 01:31:49.040] Yeah.
[01:31:49.060 -> 01:31:50.020] Anyway, moving on.
[01:31:50.120 -> 01:31:52.760] So yeah, no, we, we will randomly pick a team.
[01:31:52.760 -> 01:31:54.660] So Blake, you're up first.
[01:31:55.280 -> 01:31:58.700] Um, for multiple episodes.
[01:31:58.700 -> 01:32:01.260] Now I have said, I'm going to get a physical wheel to spin.
[01:32:02.260 -> 01:32:03.660] It's been two months.
[01:32:03.720 -> 01:32:05.960] I still have not got a physical wheel to spin.
[01:32:05.960 -> 01:32:13.240] So we are just going to go with this beautiful website, wheelofnames.com. Here we go. Nice.
[01:32:13.240 -> 01:32:19.960] Complete with a little sound effect as well. So Blake for you. Oh, you got Williams. Will
[01:32:19.960 -> 01:32:27.000] I am? Yeah. You got Will I Ams for this one. Florida man and my boy Alex. Nice. Yeah. You got will I am so this one Florida man and my boy Alex. Oh nice. OK.
[01:32:27.000 -> 01:32:30.160] I don't think we've had I think we've had Williams this year for anyone.
[01:32:31.000 -> 01:32:32.300] Are you going to spin yourself?
[01:32:32.300 -> 01:32:34.400] I'm going to spin myself.
[01:32:34.560 -> 01:32:35.660] The hands off.
[01:32:35.660 -> 01:32:37.960] There's no no no funny game.
[01:32:37.960 -> 01:32:39.540] It's free spinning. Wow.
[01:32:39.540 -> 01:32:41.800] Oh, for fuck's sake. I got house.
[01:32:42.740 -> 01:32:45.220] I'm sorry. I mean, yes, I got Haas.
[01:32:46.040 -> 01:32:46.720] America's team. Yes.
[01:32:47.920 -> 01:32:49.080] That's nice Haas.
[01:32:50.920 -> 01:32:52.360] Oh my God.
[01:32:52.440 -> 01:32:56.240] Which actually that could play in quite well, because I think this, this could be
[01:32:56.240 -> 01:33:00.680] the race where I finally have to admit, depending on the result, I have to
[01:33:00.680 -> 01:33:02.520] admit I was wrong about Hulk.
[01:33:02.520 -> 01:33:03.360] The fucking legend.
[01:33:03.360 -> 01:33:04.320] Nico Hulkenberg.
[01:33:04.320 -> 01:33:04.640] Yeah.
[01:33:04.680 -> 01:33:06.080] So this could tie in nicely.
[01:33:06.640 -> 01:33:10.160] Who's going to, who's going to perform better this weekend, Holt or K-Mag?
[01:33:11.600 -> 01:33:17.040] Probably Nico, because he obviously wants me to apologize on this podcast
[01:33:17.040 -> 01:33:18.320] for calling him mid and washed.
[01:33:18.960 -> 01:33:27.600] Ooh, Hey, real quick though, Nico Hulkenberg is going to be on the Formula One subreddit this
[01:33:27.600 -> 01:33:32.440] weekend. Talk to me, you just spend some details on it, but if you haven't checked out the
[01:33:32.440 -> 01:33:37.000] Formula One subreddit, do check it out because that is actually happening. No, I'm not getting
[01:33:37.000 -> 01:33:42.360] paid, but tomorrow afternoon, so this will be Thursday afternoon. Nico Hulkenberg will
[01:33:42.360 -> 01:33:45.320] be doing an AMA on the F1 subreddit.
[01:33:46.040 -> 01:33:47.160] Fucking stonks.
[01:33:47.160 -> 01:33:47.440] Yeah.
[01:33:47.600 -> 01:33:50.560] Nico's actually a super fucking nice dude.
[01:33:50.880 -> 01:33:53.160] Uh, I, I was never, I was not on his car.
[01:33:53.160 -> 01:33:56.920] I was on the other side of the garage, but a big, a big Hulkenberg fan.
[01:33:56.920 -> 01:33:58.000] He's a super nice dude.
[01:33:58.000 -> 01:34:00.080] And he's a, he's a bit of a lad and a good laugh.
[01:34:00.520 -> 01:34:06.180] Yeah, we should, uh, we should, we should do something with, um, the, uh, formula one
[01:34:06.180 -> 01:34:07.180] subreddit soon.
[01:34:07.180 -> 01:34:09.120] I think we should, don't you think?
[01:34:09.120 -> 01:34:10.540] Wing wing nudge nudge.
[01:34:10.540 -> 01:34:14.700] We should wink, wink, nudge, nudge, but right.
[01:34:14.700 -> 01:34:18.900] Ladies and gentlemen, um, I need to go have a word with my butcher because I need to do
[01:34:18.900 -> 01:34:20.420] a brisket sometime soon.
[01:34:20.420 -> 01:34:22.260] Oh, in your Traeger grill.
[01:34:22.260 -> 01:34:23.260] Yeah, man.
[01:34:23.260 -> 01:34:24.260] Come on, come on.
[01:34:24.260 -> 01:34:25.400] Trigger Danny to Traeger. Yeah, exactly. Where's my fucking Traeger grill. Yeah man, I'm trying to come on. Traeger come on.
[01:34:25.800 -> 01:34:26.900] Traeger Danny to Traeger.
[01:34:26.900 -> 01:34:29.100] We exactly where's my fucking Traeger come on.
[01:34:31.800 -> 01:34:35.800] But but we've had a good break.
[01:34:36.100 -> 01:34:38.000] It's going to be flat out for the next couple weeks.
[01:34:38.000 -> 01:34:39.400] We're going to be here with you.
[01:34:39.600 -> 01:34:42.500] If there's anything that you want to see on the show at us on
[01:34:42.500 -> 01:34:46.000] Twitter, but we'll get back to you. If you've got any ideas things you want to see on the show, add us on Twitter. We'll get back to you if you've got any ideas,
[01:34:46.000 -> 01:34:48.000] things you want to hear more of, less of.
[01:34:48.000 -> 01:34:51.000] The ADHD is not going anywhere because I'm not getting medication.
[01:34:51.000 -> 01:34:54.000] I mean, there's plenty of things people want to hear less of,
[01:34:54.000 -> 01:34:57.000] and that's probably me furiously punching my GoalXR
[01:34:57.000 -> 01:35:01.000] to play four different sound effects and then eventually find the right one.
[01:35:01.000 -> 01:35:04.000] Oh, yeah, I've got to edit that one out as well.
[01:35:04.000 -> 01:35:05.280] But thank you guys for hanging out
[01:35:05.280 -> 01:35:10.480] with us thank you for the vibes make sure to give us that five star rating and if you see stuff that
[01:35:10.480 -> 01:35:14.480] you like from us don't hesitate to share it with your friends or your butcher or your grandma. Yeah
[01:35:14.480 -> 01:35:21.680] yeah big up the nans, big up the butchers, big up the dodgy corner shop meatballs. No don't not again
[01:35:28.080 -> 01:35:28.840] Bulls. No, don't. Not again. Never again. Anyway, you guys do that thing. All right. Fuck off.