Ep31 - The Canadian GP

The boys review the Canadian GP and give all their expert analysis and opinions that nobody asked for on:

• Who even uses Trackside CCTV?
• Qualifying: It's better when wet
• The French Spanish War of 2023
• What is that Mercedes made of?
• RPG Chicken
• Random Fandom Reports
• FraudWatch
• EngineModeGoodBoi Award

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## Formula One: Engine Breaking Podcast - Episode 31: Canadian Grand Prix Review

**Episode Summary:**

- The podcast begins with the hosts, Dan (EngineMode11) and Blake, discussing the Canadian Grand Prix weekend and their thoughts on various aspects of the event.


- They talk about the bizarre incident involving the wall between Turns 1 and 2, which forced drivers to rejoin the track at a 90-degree angle, criticizing the decision-makers for such a dangerous design.


- The hosts then discuss the issues faced during Free Practice 1, including a red flag caused by a faulty steering wheel on Pierre Gasly's car and the subsequent failure of the trackside CCTV system, leading to the cancellation of the session.


- They highlight the extended Free Practice 2 session, which was increased to 90 minutes to make up for the lost time, and mention Nico Hulkenberg's car catching fire due to an engine issue and Esteban Ocon's Alpine experiencing a water pressure problem.


- The hosts also discuss Carlos Sainz's controversial driving during Free Practice 3, where he allegedly impeded other drivers on their timed laps, leading to criticism from the commentators and fans.


- Moving on to Qualifying, the hosts talk about the wet and mixed weather conditions that made for an exciting session. They discuss the strategic decisions teams had to make regarding tire choices and fuel loads, emphasizing the importance of adapting to changing track conditions.


- They mention a red flag during Q1 due to an incident involving Nicholas Latifi, and highlight Alex Albon's gamble to switch to slick tires early on, while other drivers remained on intermediate tires.


- The hosts debate the decision-making of the Ferrari pit wall, particularly in relation to Charles Leclerc's failed attempt to switch to slick tires, which resulted in him missing out on Q3.


- They also discuss Sergio Perez's struggles in Q2, where he made a mistake on his lap and ultimately failed to progress to Q3.


- The episode concludes with the hosts teasing their upcoming segment on "FraudWatch" and the "EngineModeGoodBoi Award."


**Key Points:**

- The Canadian Grand Prix weekend was marked by several incidents and controversies, including the dangerous wall placement between Turns 1 and 2, the technical issues faced during Free Practice 1, and Carlos Sainz's questionable driving during Free Practice 3.


- The wet and mixed weather conditions during Qualifying made for an exciting session, with teams having to make strategic decisions regarding tire choices and fuel loads.


- Alex Albon's decision to switch to slick tires early on in Q2 was a gamble that paid off, while Charles Leclerc's failed attempt to make the same switch resulted in him missing out on Q3.


- Sergio Perez's mistake during his Q2 lap cost him a place in Q3, highlighting the importance of consistency and precision in wet conditions.


- The hosts tease upcoming segments on "FraudWatch" and the "EngineModeGoodBoi Award," leaving listeners eager for more insights and analysis in the next episode. ## **Canadian Grand Prix Review and Analysis**

### **Qualifying:**

- Wet qualifying made for an exciting session, with drivers struggling to find grip on the slippery track.
- Hulkenberg secures P2, but receives a three-place grid penalty for not adhering to the minimum lap time regulation during a red flag period.
- Verstappen takes pole position, followed by Alonso, Hamilton, Perez, and Russell.

### **Race:**

- A wet start to the race leads to a safety car on lap 12 due to Lance Stroll's car issue.
- Ferrari's strategy of staying out on medium tires during the safety car pays off, allowing Leclerc and Sainz to gain track position and finish in the top 5.
- Verstappen dominates the race, leading from start to finish and extending his championship lead.
- Alonso impresses with a strong performance, finishing in P2 ahead of Hamilton.
- Albon drives a brilliant race for Williams, holding off a train of cars behind him to finish in P9.
- Russell retires from the race due to brake issues after a collision with the wall.
- Tsunoda completes the entire race on a single set of hard tires, a questionable strategy that raises eyebrows.
- Hulkenberg and Magnussen suffer from poor race pace and end up finishing outside the points.

### **Controversies and Insights:**

- Hulkenberg's grid penalty for exceeding the minimum lap time during a red flag period sparks debate about the strictness of the regulations.
- Ferrari's strategic decision to stay out on medium tires during the safety car is praised by some and questioned by others.
- Albon's impressive performance in the Williams highlights the team's progress and his potential as a driver.
- Tsunoda's decision to run the entire race on a single set of hard tires is seen as a risky and potentially detrimental strategy.

### **Random Fandom Reports:**

- Stroll's double podium in FP1 is mentioned as a humorous achievement, contrasting with his lack of success in the actual race.
- Alonso's dive on an unsafe release is compared to a premiership footballer's theatrics, drawing laughter from Toto Wolff.

### **FraudWatch:**

- The hosts jokingly accuse themselves of running a fraudulent podcast due to minor errors in their commentary.

### **EngineModeGoodBoi Award:**

- The award is not mentioned in this episode.

### **Overall Message:**

The Canadian Grand Prix provided exciting racing despite the challenging wet conditions, with Verstappen continuing his dominance and Alonso delivering a strong performance. Strategic decisions and driver errors played a significant role in the outcome of the race, leading to a mix of success and disappointment among the teams. **Summary of the Canadian GP Podcast Episode:**

1. **Introduction:**
* The podcast hosts, Blake and Valtteri, begin the episode by reviewing the Canadian Grand Prix.
* They discuss the wet qualifying session, with Max Verstappen securing pole position.
* They also mention the "French Spanish War of 2023" controversy surrounding Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon's collision.

2. **Mercedes' Performance:**
* The hosts analyze Mercedes' struggles in Canada, highlighting their lack of pace and reliability issues.
* They speculate on the reasons behind Mercedes' poor performance, including potential engine problems.
* They also discuss the team's decision to bring a significant upgrade package to the race, which did not seem to yield the desired results.

3. **Red Bull's Dominance:**
* Blake and Valtteri acknowledge Red Bull's continued dominance in the 2023 season, with Verstappen winning six out of the nine races so far.
* They discuss Red Bull's impressive win rate and their status as the clear favorites for the championship.
* They also mention Red Bull's 100th Formula One victory, achieved in Canada, and their position as the fifth-most winning team in history.

4. **Alpine's Performance:**
* The hosts select Alpine as the team to focus on for their "random fandom" segment.
* They discuss Alpine's disappointing performance in Canada, with both Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon finishing outside the points.
* They speculate on the reasons behind Alpine's struggles, including reliability issues and a lack of pace compared to the top teams.

5. **FraudWatch:**
* Blake and Valtteri discuss the "FraudWatch" segment, where they highlight potential instances of foul play or questionable behavior in Formula One.
* They mention allegations that Red Bull may have stolen wind tunnel time from AlphaTauri, but they dismiss these claims as unfounded rumors.
* They also joke about their own involvement in a software theft scheme from AlphaTauri and the possibility of delivering a Traeger grill to Ferrari's headquarters in Maranello.

6. **Engine Mode Good Boy Award:**
* The hosts present the "Engine Mode Good Boy Award" to the Ferrari strategists for their improved performance in the Canadian Grand Prix.
* They praise Ferrari's decision-making during the race, particularly their calls for pit stops under the safety car, which helped Charles Leclerc secure a podium finish.

7. **Alex Albon's Performance:**
* Blake and Valtteri highlight Alex Albon's impressive performance in Canada, driving for Williams.
* They discuss Albon's strong qualifying and race results, despite the limitations of the Williams car.
* They express their admiration for Albon's driving skills and his ability to extract the maximum from the car.

8. **iRacing League:**
* The hosts briefly mention the possibility of starting their own iRacing league, but they acknowledge that their work schedules may make it difficult to organize regular races.

9. **Conclusion:**
* The hosts wrap up the podcast by discussing their plans for the upcoming week and encouraging listeners to support local butchers and check in on their friends and family.
* They also remind listeners to check for lumps and take care of their health.

**Overall Message:**

The podcast episode focuses on analyzing the Canadian Grand Prix, discussing the performances of various teams and drivers, and highlighting notable moments and controversies. The hosts provide their insights and opinions on the current state of Formula One, while also injecting humor and lightheartedness into the discussion. # Podcast Summary: The Canadian GP Review

## Trackside CCTV

- The hosts question the usefulness and purpose of Trackside CCTV cameras, suggesting that they provide limited value during races.


## Qualifying in Wet Conditions

- The hosts discuss the excitement and unpredictability of qualifying sessions held in wet conditions, emphasizing how they often lead to unexpected results and thrilling battles on the track.


## The "French Spanish War of 2023"

- The hosts jokingly refer to a minor incident during the race, where Esteban Ocon and Fernando Alonso made contact, as the "French Spanish War of 2023."


## Durability of the Mercedes Car

- The hosts express their amazement at the resilience of the Mercedes car, highlighting its ability to withstand significant damage and continue performing well, despite suffering a heavy impact during the race.


## "RPG Chicken"

- The hosts introduce a new segment called "RPG Chicken," where they discuss various topics related to Formula One in a lighthearted and humorous manner.


## Random Fandom Reports

- The hosts share amusing and entertaining stories and anecdotes submitted by Formula One fans from around the world.


## FraudWatch

- The hosts discuss instances of potential cheating or questionable behavior in Formula One, analyzing various incidents and providing their perspectives on the fairness and integrity of the sport.


## EngineModeGoodBoi Award

- The hosts present the "EngineModeGoodBoi Award" to recognize drivers who have demonstrated exceptional engine management skills, allowing them to extract maximum performance while adhering to the sport's technical regulations.


## Overall Takeaway

- The podcast episode provides an entertaining and informative review of the Canadian Grand Prix, combining expert analysis with lighthearted humor and fan engagement.

[00:00.000 -> 00:08.960] You're listening to the most fraudulent F1 podcast with Dan, aka EngineNord11.
[00:08.960 -> 00:12.320] I secretly moonlight as hell with Marco at race weekends.
[00:12.320 -> 00:14.360] And Blake, aka Brake.
[00:14.360 -> 00:17.500] Echo chambers of farts and idiots on Twitter after races.
[00:17.500 -> 00:20.840] It's the engine breaking F1 podcast.
[00:20.840 -> 00:26.320] Boom, get it up here. Right up there.
[00:27.240 -> 00:27.840] Blame Canada.
[00:29.320 -> 00:30.920] Episode 31, baby. We are, we are there.
[00:32.720 -> 00:34.720] That's 31, 31, man.
[00:34.720 -> 00:35.360] We're moving.
[00:36.320 -> 00:36.840] Oh my God.
[00:36.840 -> 00:37.760] How have we done this?
[00:38.240 -> 00:38.920] How have we done this?
[00:38.920 -> 00:41.000] How have we not been canceled kicked off the internet?
[00:41.360 -> 00:42.160] Oh, Canada.
[00:42.560 -> 00:43.080] I'm glad.
[00:43.760 -> 00:44.720] I'm glad that.
[00:44.720 -> 00:46.800] So welcome to the engine breaking
[00:46.800 -> 00:53.440] podcast. I'm your host, Blake, aka break. I was going to do the fake AI thing again,
[00:53.440 -> 00:57.760] but I couldn't do it because it was so wrong. Yeah, I used to be a performance engineer in
[00:57.760 -> 01:02.240] Formula One, worked a bit at the factories as simulator performance engineer. So we know a bit
[01:02.240 -> 01:06.460] of wheels sometimes, but I keep getting the comment on my normal F1 YouTube
[01:06.460 -> 01:09.660] being like, who the hell is the Blake in the podcast
[01:09.660 -> 01:10.980] versus the Blake on these videos?
[01:10.980 -> 01:12.460] Cause I don't know this guy at all.
[01:12.460 -> 01:14.400] I'm like, we can have fun.
[01:14.400 -> 01:15.660] And that's what Dan and I do here.
[01:15.660 -> 01:18.380] So tell us a little bit about you, sweetheart.
[01:19.620 -> 01:22.860] I'm Dan, AKA Engine Mode 11.
[01:22.860 -> 01:25.940] My main job is to shit post on Twitter.
[01:26.620 -> 01:30.660] Um, and then I have a part-time job as a consultant for the UK
[01:30.660 -> 01:31.740] government, believe it or not.
[01:32.300 -> 01:36.660] Um, I'm probably on some certain lists I'm sure by now.
[01:37.340 -> 01:41.580] Um, I don't know, but I passed all my security checks, so it can't be that bad.
[01:42.380 -> 01:45.600] Um, yeah, no, I'm six years at Red Bull, senior
[01:45.600 -> 01:49.320] system engineer, glorified way of saying giving the office staff and the Wi-Fi code
[01:49.320 -> 01:56.800] and yeah so there you go and for regular listeners I did mention this briefly
[01:56.800 -> 02:01.520] earlier I'll do it again. I've moved office so if you're not watching live
[02:01.520 -> 02:08.240] I'm now in a new space. Unfortunately, my artistic decisions has acoustically fucked the room.
[02:08.240 -> 02:11.840] So if I sound a bit weird, it's a known issue and we're working on it.
[02:14.320 -> 02:15.080] And that's it, really.
[02:15.960 -> 02:16.480] Yeah, sorry.
[02:16.480 -> 02:19.520] I had to, I had to do that, but like, so this is, this is, you knew,
[02:19.640 -> 02:21.080] this is the dad shed now.
[02:21.360 -> 02:23.940] Um, little, little dudes taken over the office.
[02:23.940 -> 02:26.680] Now you've got your own dedicated space for streaming gaming.
[02:26.720 -> 02:31.800] Now the most important question that I have for you is you have room for a SIM
[02:31.800 -> 02:32.560] set up in there.
[02:33.280 -> 02:38.480] I definitely I reckon I could if I if I try hard enough then yeah.
[02:39.120 -> 02:39.600] OK.
[02:40.640 -> 02:41.160] Sweet.
[02:41.200 -> 02:44.960] So any SIM companies out there send me free shit.
[02:45.280 -> 02:46.280] Yeah, and we'll we'll abuse there. Send me free shit. Yeah.
[02:46.280 -> 02:47.880] And we'll, we'll, we'll abuse it.
[02:47.880 -> 02:49.960] Use it, give you feedback, everything else.
[02:49.960 -> 02:50.960] It's going to happen.
[02:50.960 -> 02:55.120] So we'll give you, let me, let me talk to some people.
[02:55.120 -> 02:59.880] We'll, we'll get it in, but I'm looking forward to doing some more iRacing.
[02:59.880 -> 03:00.960] We don't have anything planned.
[03:00.960 -> 03:07.600] I think I'm doing the 24 hours of spa in the GT with uh Grand Pooh Bear
[03:07.600 -> 03:12.320] and his crew and we haven't talked about anything yet so I'm gonna go start working on a setup.
[03:12.320 -> 03:16.640] And I had a little birdie give me some sweet tips for setting up the Ferrari in my ear the other day
[03:16.640 -> 03:23.280] so uh top secret shit. Oh you down that rabbit hole now of like race engineering virtual fucking
[03:23.920 -> 03:25.000] endurance cars.
[03:25.520 -> 03:27.160] Well, here's the weird thing about that.
[03:27.160 -> 03:29.200] And we'll get into the Canada review and everything else.
[03:29.200 -> 03:30.280] And we'll tell you everything that's in the episode,
[03:30.280 -> 03:33.120] but we're gonna fill you guys in on what's going on with us.
[03:33.120 -> 03:37.480] So after watching the 24 hours of Nurburgring,
[03:37.480 -> 03:40.000] after going to the 24 hours of Le Mans for the first time,
[03:40.000 -> 03:41.880] the 100th anniversary of the week,
[03:41.880 -> 03:45.760] first of all, I can't get that beautiful Camaros V8 sound out of my head.
[03:45.760 -> 03:48.100] It, it goes through my head every four minutes since then.
[03:48.160 -> 03:51.000] And, uh, just get this rush and this great feeling.
[03:51.480 -> 03:54.740] Uh, but I've also got the itch.
[03:55.760 -> 03:56.200] You said
[03:58.320 -> 04:00.080] yeah, I know, but it's, it's a good one.
[04:00.360 -> 04:01.560] So I've got this itch.
[04:01.600 -> 04:05.440] And like, when we started doing, started doing like some simple strategy for endurance
[04:05.440 -> 04:12.200] races and I racing around the Glen the other week, I was like, fuck, I kind of miss this.
[04:12.200 -> 04:16.320] And after going to the Le Mans, I was like, I kind of miss this.
[04:16.320 -> 04:22.960] So I'm thinking, don't fall into the trap of being on one side of the fence and thinking,
[04:22.960 -> 04:25.160] aha, I miss being on the other side.
[04:25.160 -> 04:27.960] Cause you know, you know.
[04:27.960 -> 04:29.800] Well, here's the deal.
[04:29.800 -> 04:33.260] In a lot of GT and sports car series,
[04:33.260 -> 04:35.160] a lot of the engineers are freelance,
[04:35.160 -> 04:36.400] not in every series.
[04:36.400 -> 04:38.440] Like for example, if you're working for a hypercar team
[04:38.440 -> 04:40.760] in WEC, you're probably a full-time employee,
[04:40.760 -> 04:44.320] but P2, which is not going to be in WEC next year,
[04:44.320 -> 04:46.580] it'll be in Le Mans, but not in the endurance championship.
[04:46.960 -> 04:50.500] There's a GT world challenge, which is like six endurance
[04:50.500 -> 04:52.260] races and a couple of tests a year.
[04:53.820 -> 04:54.000] Yeah.
[04:54.000 -> 04:56.100] I'm going to start looking at such a big schedule.
[04:56.100 -> 04:57.380] Is this yeah, exactly.
[04:57.380 -> 04:59.360] So it's like, yeah, exactly.
[04:59.360 -> 05:04.740] So it's like, if I could do 10 weeks of contracting, probably learn the
[05:04.740 -> 05:05.960] series as a performance engineer,
[05:05.960 -> 05:07.920] but honestly, a race engineer,
[05:07.920 -> 05:10.200] Andreas is in the chat who's in the industry
[05:10.200 -> 05:11.020] doing a little bit of,
[05:11.020 -> 05:13.320] he's a bit of a performance guru in the sports car world.
[05:13.320 -> 05:15.640] He's like, he's been egging me on for ages,
[05:15.640 -> 05:17.000] like you should try it, you should try.
[05:17.000 -> 05:19.420] I'm like, nah, but finally I've recovered
[05:19.420 -> 05:21.080] from the Formula One trauma
[05:21.080 -> 05:24.480] of full-time race engineering for six years
[05:24.480 -> 05:25.520] at performance engineering, the
[05:25.520 -> 05:26.760] track and the race engineering group.
[05:26.760 -> 05:29.200] Fine, but I just that's too much for me.
[05:29.200 -> 05:31.760] And it's just like, I just want to learn something new.
[05:31.760 -> 05:32.760] So we'll see.
[05:32.760 -> 05:33.760] We'll see.
[05:33.760 -> 05:35.920] But there's opportunities in sim racing as well.
[05:35.920 -> 05:39.600] So I'm exploring some of those from an engineering point of view.
[05:39.600 -> 05:43.160] But it's, um, you know what?
[05:43.160 -> 05:44.840] I'll say this.
[05:44.840 -> 05:47.700] It's a good time to be a motorsport fan right now.
[05:47.700 -> 05:51.840] You've got Formula One regulations that are, cars are starting to converge.
[05:51.840 -> 05:53.000] We'll talk about that.
[05:53.000 -> 05:56.860] You've got a super healthy IndyCar racing series.
[05:56.860 -> 05:57.920] It's just super dramatic.
[05:57.920 -> 06:00.880] I did not get to catch the Road to America race this week.
[06:00.880 -> 06:02.920] I want to go back and watch the highlights.
[06:02.920 -> 06:07.660] WEC with the hypercars coming in, it's a great time to be a motorsports fan. And if you're not, you
[06:07.660 -> 06:11.380] need to be because the selection that you have right now and the variety.
[06:11.380 -> 06:15.860] Yeah. I mean, if you're not a motorsports fan, I have no fucking clue how you stumbled
[06:15.860 -> 06:18.980] across this podcast, but Hey, thanks for being here.
[06:18.980 -> 06:29.680] Yeah. Yeah. We'll, we'll get to the Traeger barbecue section of the podcast later. Oh yeah, we split in our audience between BBQ meat enthusiasts and motorsport.
[06:29.680 -> 06:31.020] Yeah, exactly.
[06:31.020 -> 06:35.720] But what are we going to get into for this episode?
[06:35.720 -> 06:39.000] What do we have in store for our listeners and viewers today?
[06:39.000 -> 06:44.120] Let's talk our usual shit and give our uneducated opinions that nobody asked for for the Canadian
[06:44.120 -> 06:45.160] Grand Prix.
[06:47.140 -> 06:47.840] Um, that seems to go down quite well with everyone.
[06:53.000 -> 06:54.560] Um, perhaps maybe we'll also put some fraud watch entries in there and maybe even an engine good boy award.
[06:54.760 -> 06:57.620] And then, uh, I believe we've got some report cards from our
[06:57.640 -> 06:59.440] random fandom at a weekend.
[07:00.280 -> 07:00.560] Yeah.
[07:00.560 -> 07:03.360] And that's where we basically got accused of being too biased
[07:03.360 -> 07:04.400] and only gassing at bread bowl.
[07:04.400 -> 07:09.560] So we've made a specific effort to follow a team throughout the weekend and just try
[07:09.560 -> 07:12.880] to give them an honest report card. And you know, what would we do differently? What would
[07:12.880 -> 07:17.640] we do better? Obviously, they should hire us as consultants because of our expertise
[07:17.640 -> 07:22.520] on this podcast and so on and so forth. But I've got a question. I got a question for
[07:22.520 -> 07:29.680] our listeners and for you. I think we might have the opportunity to go to a Formula One race this season, but I see
[07:29.680 -> 07:33.960] all of our other friends and podcasts in the content space do a really good job of being
[07:33.960 -> 07:37.120] like interactive, engaging with crowds and fans and stuff at races.
[07:37.120 -> 07:40.160] I'm not sure that's either of us, is it?
[07:40.160 -> 07:42.840] Do you think we're still a bit too bitter?
[07:42.840 -> 07:47.600] It's like, hey, let's invite the engine breaking podcast and they can just
[07:47.600 -> 07:50.980] film content and walking around for three days, just shaking their
[07:50.980 -> 07:52.320] heads and tussing at everything.
[07:52.400 -> 07:52.640] Right.
[07:53.080 -> 07:55.480] Let's just wouldn't have done that.
[07:55.640 -> 07:56.440] Well, there's your problem.
[07:57.160 -> 07:57.960] The wilder done.
[07:58.960 -> 08:00.920] Them race cars got too much drag on them, son.
[08:00.920 -> 08:07.400] You need to, we should, uh, we should blag a European race and then just go on a
[08:07.400 -> 08:09.160] three-day bender with the Dutch.
[08:10.240 -> 08:14.360] We just, there's a, um, paintball store in the town.
[08:14.360 -> 08:16.040] I can get some orange smoke grenades.
[08:16.040 -> 08:21.720] We can just get smashed and just do a podcast half cut with some orange
[08:21.720 -> 08:23.040] flares going off in the background.
[08:23.200 -> 08:24.800] I mean, what more do they want?
[08:25.320 -> 08:28.400] We could do a podcast every day, maybe at a campsite at spa.
[08:29.920 -> 08:30.240] Yeah.
[08:30.280 -> 08:31.600] Be like, Hey, how you doing, sir?
[08:31.680 -> 08:32.800] Introduce yourself to the pod.
[08:33.480 -> 08:34.800] How do you feel about Traeger grills?
[08:34.800 -> 08:38.040] Could you tell me what the best local butcher at a spa is?
[08:38.760 -> 08:39.080] Yeah.
[08:39.320 -> 08:39.560] Okay.
[08:39.600 -> 08:41.640] Well, I'm, I'm, well, let's talk after this.
[08:41.640 -> 08:43.440] Cause I think I've got some people that can help.
[08:43.480 -> 08:45.260] We just need some other people that can help.
[08:45.260 -> 08:47.900] And then it would be a very worthwhile trip.
[08:47.960 -> 08:51.100] And yeah, I think we'd have some fun.
[08:51.300 -> 08:54.760] I think we would definitely have some fun, even though it's not Le Mans 24.
[08:54.960 -> 08:56.900] But that's a good reason why that's.
[08:56.900 -> 08:58.600] Yeah, it's not yet. Not yet.
[08:58.600 -> 09:00.900] But anyway, what do you think of these?
[09:02.000 -> 09:04.160] Yeah. What do you think of these corner store meatballs, Dan?
[09:05.760 -> 09:06.080] Yeah. And give my review of these corner store meatballs, Dan? Yeah.
[09:06.080 -> 09:08.360] And give my review of all the food wagons
[09:09.400 -> 09:10.960] trackside toilet review.
[09:10.960 -> 09:11.840] Oh, shit.
[09:11.840 -> 09:12.360] You know what?
[09:12.360 -> 09:13.720] That would be the thing we'd have to do.
[09:13.720 -> 09:16.360] Like start in the campsites, then go get somebody
[09:16.360 -> 09:18.200] who sneaks into the paddock and review the toilets.
[09:18.200 -> 09:19.040] Yeah.
[09:19.200 -> 09:22.200] And then also probably depending on the local laws
[09:22.680 -> 09:24.160] get banned from Twitch because Dr.
[09:24.160 -> 09:27.700] Disrespect got banned from Twitch back in the day for filming an interview
[09:27.700 -> 09:29.500] in California in the toilets.
[09:29.900 -> 09:32.700] Yeah, so we wouldn't be able to film the toilet, but I could artistically
[09:32.700 -> 09:37.800] draw it on a piece of A4 paper and sort of, you know, like Bob Rosset,
[09:37.800 -> 09:41.000] like this is what the toilet looked like, these brown stains here.
[09:41.100 -> 09:44.100] There was some questionable fluids on this section of the wall.
[09:44.500 -> 09:46.360] Yeah, with the stains.
[09:46.360 -> 09:50.800] Well, anyway, like if you're new to this episode, if you knew this podcast, you've made it this
[09:50.800 -> 09:52.960] far.
[09:52.960 -> 09:53.960] What's wrong with you?
[09:53.960 -> 09:54.960] First of all, let's get into it.
[09:54.960 -> 09:59.080] Let's let's get into the Canadian Grand Prix weekend review, and we're going to start with
[09:59.080 -> 10:02.320] some buildup and hopefully we're going to cure that buildup and unclog it and get to
[10:02.320 -> 10:03.520] qualifying in just a second.
[10:03.520 -> 10:06.720] But why don't you want to talk to me about what happened this weekend? And was there any,
[10:06.720 -> 10:09.840] was there any really big news stories going into the weekend?
[10:11.120 -> 10:15.760] So I'm going to, I'm going to say no. Um, but as our beautiful listeners and community
[10:16.560 -> 10:19.920] like to remind me, there probably is something really big I've forgotten. So if there is,
[10:19.920 -> 10:24.480] you can just insert it here and we'll just pretend that I said it. Um, but no,
[10:24.480 -> 10:26.700] why don't we just go straight to the absolute shit
[10:26.700 -> 10:27.980] show that was fucking Friday.
[10:28.500 -> 10:34.180] Well, let's start first of all, with the thing is the, the wall that they
[10:34.180 -> 10:38.060] added between turn one and two, which made you rejoin in the middle of
[10:38.060 -> 10:40.640] turn two, 90 degrees to the track.
[10:40.920 -> 10:43.400] And it's just like, you guys are idiots.
[10:43.440 -> 10:43.780] Like, yeah.
[10:43.820 -> 10:45.200] Who, who signed that off?
[10:45.960 -> 10:49.240] That would have gone through several meetings and committees and.
[10:50.240 -> 10:54.080] Every single one of those people need to be drowned in a vat of maple syrup.
[10:54.800 -> 10:58.880] Yeah, I think that was somebody trying to justify having a job like, you know,
[10:58.880 -> 10:59.880] we did change something.
[11:00.120 -> 11:04.600] Why don't we put a wall here for safety so they can rejoin the track at 90
[11:04.600 -> 11:05.040] degrees to
[11:05.040 -> 11:06.720] traffic and get fucking t-boned.
[11:06.720 -> 11:09.080] It's like, have you played Carmageddon?
[11:09.080 -> 11:10.920] That's what they were trying to recreate.
[11:10.920 -> 11:11.920] It's Carmageddon.
[11:11.920 -> 11:15.720] Yeah, that design was not very Canadian friendly.
[11:15.720 -> 11:18.000] No, no, I'm sorry.
[11:18.000 -> 11:19.880] I'm apologizing for them.
[11:19.880 -> 11:23.120] Yeah, I hated that.
[11:23.120 -> 11:26.360] That was terrible, but they kept it all the way until Saturday.
[11:26.360 -> 11:27.760] Like, oh, you know what?
[11:27.760 -> 11:28.920] Yeah, well, okay.
[11:28.920 -> 11:29.320] Okay.
[11:29.320 -> 11:29.640] Okay.
[11:29.640 -> 11:30.800] We'll fix it.
[11:31.000 -> 11:32.000] Yeah.
[11:32.000 -> 11:33.680] It's an L.
[11:33.680 -> 11:34.240] It's an L.
[11:34.240 -> 11:35.640] But let's talk about free practice one.
[11:35.640 -> 11:36.200] Talk to me.
[11:36.200 -> 11:40.400] And what it was action packed free practice one.
[11:40.400 -> 11:46.840] So Gasly calls the red flag because now they've made it very, very
[11:46.840 -> 11:52.360] big point of pointing this out. It was his spare steering wheel that failed. So here's
[11:52.360 -> 11:57.600] a question for you. And I think I've answered it myself in my head, but would you test spare
[11:57.600 -> 12:02.600] items out on the Friday? Yeah. Cause it makes sense. Right now. Yeah. Thinking about it
[12:02.600 -> 12:05.320] out loud, like you'd put the spare wheel on on a Friday
[12:05.320 -> 12:07.680] if you want to be like, OK, yeah, call the spare works. OK.
[12:08.320 -> 12:08.800] Yeah, sure.
[12:10.040 -> 12:12.920] So, yeah, like the spares, how that typically works
[12:12.920 -> 12:15.920] is steering wheels are typically a life component
[12:16.160 -> 12:19.280] because there's electronic switches that can go through a number of cycles
[12:19.280 -> 12:22.080] before they start to lose the guarantee that they'll work.
[12:22.120 -> 12:24.760] The carbon fiber structure is not usually a problem.
[12:24.760 -> 12:27.320] So structure is not a thing, but it's more the electronics
[12:27.320 -> 12:29.220] and those things go through shit loads of vibrations.
[12:29.220 -> 12:32.280] We know the Formula One cars have those good vibrations.
[12:32.280 -> 12:33.880] So steering wheels are life
[12:33.880 -> 12:36.400] and they do get retired after a certain period of time.
[12:36.400 -> 12:39.160] And you always have a spare steering wheel for the car.
[12:39.160 -> 12:42.420] And one thing that's worth noting is most teams,
[12:42.420 -> 12:44.720] one of the people be the systems person
[12:44.720 -> 12:46.360] or the control systems engineer will have
[12:46.360 -> 12:49.400] the spare steering wheel with them and they will be changing the rotaries to
[12:49.400 -> 12:53.500] whatever the driver set them to so that if they say, right, steering wheel failure,
[12:53.500 -> 12:54.640] we're going to change the steering wheel.
[12:54.800 -> 12:57.400] That steering wheel always has the correct rotary settings when they
[12:57.400 -> 13:01.760] hand it to the driver and the mechanics will swap the wheel and stop.
[13:01.920 -> 13:02.640] There you go.
[13:02.640 -> 13:05.540] I didn't even know that I learned something new today as well.
[13:06.460 -> 13:09.280] Yeah, that's, that's, that's, that's the kind of quality right now.
[13:09.280 -> 13:10.640] We need to get into straight shit housing.
[13:10.640 -> 13:13.460] Cause we dropped some professional we've sounded in ages.
[13:13.460 -> 13:17.760] So let's, we dropped some facts on them, but like, yeah, but it is common to like,
[13:17.760 -> 13:21.280] right, we're going to run the spare wheel for free practice one, just
[13:21.280 -> 13:22.060] to make sure everything's right.
[13:22.060 -> 13:26.240] So they, they red flag this session cause the steering wheel was fucked.
[13:26.320 -> 13:26.560] Yep.
[13:28.040 -> 13:28.400] Yeah.
[13:28.560 -> 13:32.720] And, um, it must've had a computer virus on it or something because it quickly
[13:32.720 -> 13:37.900] spread to the entire trackside infrastructure and, uh, we lost CCTV
[13:37.900 -> 13:40.440] around the track, um, which was.
[13:41.080 -> 13:42.000] Suboptimal.
[13:42.200 -> 13:45.520] And, uh, we never got the session restarted because of it.
[13:46.880 -> 13:47.520] That's wild.
[13:47.520 -> 13:50.080] And that's why, but it makes sense though, right?
[13:50.080 -> 13:54.080] Like the CCTV is super important so that the marshals and the FIA can see what's
[13:54.080 -> 13:57.640] going on, if there's any safety issues that aren't captured by the cars cameras.
[13:58.120 -> 14:02.240] But I I'm not, I'm not, I'm definitely saying that was possibly the right thing,
[14:02.240 -> 14:06.040] but at the same time.
[14:08.400 -> 14:12.600] Is anybody even watching those fucking cameras? Because we remember we had in in Jeddah, Lance's car,
[14:12.760 -> 14:15.920] we don't know where he is on the GPS, and it's like he's I'm watching
[14:15.920 -> 14:18.400] his fucking roll hoop cam, which you have access to as well.
[14:18.480 -> 14:20.920] And you can't see that he successfully pulled outside.
[14:21.120 -> 14:24.360] But you pull out a safety car, BSE, because you can't confirm where he is.
[14:24.640 -> 14:30.160] Open your fucking eyes. Yeah, don't rely on the technology but this the only person that I
[14:30.160 -> 14:35.040] remember fucking using it was Jonathan Wheatley when he sat on the pit wall he used to have the
[14:35.840 -> 14:43.280] driver tracker on and so there's a system at every track and basically ties up with a GPS
[14:43.920 -> 14:49.400] and as the car is going around the track, it switches CCTV showing you the car going
[14:49.400 -> 14:50.320] around the track, basically.
[14:51.080 -> 14:54.760] And that's fed through like old school analog.
[14:55.200 -> 14:55.920] What'd they call it?
[14:55.920 -> 15:01.920] The, uh, what the orcs cable, but you know, coax, that's the one.
[15:01.960 -> 15:02.400] Thank you.
[15:03.160 -> 15:04.640] And it's like old school.
[15:04.640 -> 15:05.000] It never fail until now, but yeah, no, he was the that's the one. Thank you. Yeah. And it's like old school.
[15:05.000 -> 15:06.000] It never fail until now.
[15:06.000 -> 15:09.160] But yeah, no, he was the only person I ever saw use it.
[15:09.160 -> 15:12.720] Yeah, but that's one of those things like, yeah, I didn't realize that actually.
[15:12.720 -> 15:15.640] But like, I think it's usually the team manager and maybe one of the person that will have
[15:15.640 -> 15:19.840] that channel and it's it is those I only ever saw that at testing because maybe sometimes
[15:19.840 -> 15:23.440] at testing I would go out and sit on the pit wall, but usually in testing they pack the
[15:23.440 -> 15:24.800] pit wall up.
[15:24.800 -> 15:29.320] But. testing, I would go out and sit on the pit wall, but usually in testing, they pack the pit wall up, but so free practice one in the bin, free practice
[15:29.320 -> 15:34.080] two was extended to a generous 90 minutes to make up for the loss of time.
[15:35.080 -> 15:35.520] Yeah.
[15:35.520 -> 15:37.280] Back to the original 90 minutes.
[15:39.200 -> 15:39.960] Didn't miss that.
[15:40.320 -> 15:41.960] Oh, bring it back.
[15:42.040 -> 15:42.680] 90 minutes.
[15:42.680 -> 15:43.640] Come on, bring it back.
[15:43.720 -> 15:44.320] I get it.
[15:44.360 -> 15:44.840] I get it.
[15:45.040 -> 15:47.400] I get it. Because that's one of the things as well, though.
[15:47.400 -> 15:47.840] It's like.
[15:48.760 -> 15:50.520] The Lamar event was so fucking.
[15:51.800 -> 15:53.160] I'm not I'm not apologizing.
[15:53.160 -> 15:54.360] This is a fucking great event.
[15:54.360 -> 15:57.880] The event was awesome because there was so much track time and the race is 24
[15:57.880 -> 16:01.080] fucking hours long and there's so many people that can win it, whereas like
[16:01.080 -> 16:04.200] from the one weekends, it's like, yeah, I know that you've probably only.
[16:07.440 -> 16:08.720] Yeah, you can only afford a Friday ticket and you might have to work the weekend.
[16:08.720 -> 16:12.880] So you'll come out and, oh, you missed an entire session, which was only an hour.
[16:13.500 -> 16:15.760] So we'll give you another 30 minutes for free practice too.
[16:15.920 -> 16:16.200] Yeah.
[16:16.680 -> 16:17.000] Yeah.
[16:17.280 -> 16:22.920] Um, but Hey, even that was not smooth sailing because, uh, Nico
[16:22.920 -> 16:26.360] Hulkenberg's car quickly remembered it was powered by a Ferrari.
[16:27.500 -> 16:30.560] And, uh, decided to burn itself down.
[16:31.060 -> 16:34.040] The external combustion engine strikes again.
[16:34.240 -> 16:34.920] They were testing that.
[16:36.160 -> 16:36.960] Ciao.
[16:37.240 -> 16:38.080] Ciao.
[16:38.200 -> 16:38.920] Fucking hell.
[16:39.280 -> 16:39.600] Great.
[16:39.600 -> 16:40.880] A river dirty bang.
[16:41.560 -> 16:42.680] Yeah, exactly.
[16:42.680 -> 16:49.600] My strategy mode switch, a river dirty, mode switch, a river dirty. Confirm, uh, engage. Strategy, mode switch Arrividerci, mode switch Arrividerci, confirm, engage, explode.
[16:49.600 -> 16:50.600] Yeah, yeah.
[16:50.600 -> 16:53.200] He wasn't the only one though.
[16:53.200 -> 16:54.640] No, no, no.
[16:54.640 -> 17:04.120] Our favorite French Mecha Chrome powered Renault rebadged Alpine friends, Ocon's car had a water
[17:04.120 -> 17:05.880] pressure issue. So he had car had a water pressure issue.
[17:05.880 -> 17:08.820] So he had to abandon his car as well.
[17:08.820 -> 17:13.480] So a bit of a poor start for the French, I'm afraid.
[17:13.480 -> 17:17.160] I don't have any love for the Mecha Chrome stuff.
[17:17.160 -> 17:20.920] There's a lot of war stories that I actually probably shouldn't talk about and I won't
[17:20.920 -> 17:21.920] talk about because.
[17:21.920 -> 17:24.560] We'll save that for engine breaking after dark.
[17:24.560 -> 17:28.240] Yeah. Or maybe, uh, are, uh, you know, are we going to do some
[17:28.240 -> 17:29.640] patron content at some point?
[17:30.600 -> 17:31.120] I don't know.
[17:31.120 -> 17:31.800] That's just effort.
[17:31.800 -> 17:34.040] Can't people just give us their money for nothing instead?
[17:34.040 -> 17:35.760] That would just be so much easier.
[17:36.280 -> 17:36.800] What's the link?
[17:36.800 -> 17:38.240] Buy me a coffee, engine breaking.
[17:38.280 -> 17:40.960] Um, and we'll maybe who fucking knows anymore.
[17:41.080 -> 17:41.560] Who knows?
[17:41.560 -> 17:47.160] Just if you want to donate us some money, just write it on an envelope to Dan and Blake,
[17:47.160 -> 17:51.680] drive down the street, put five euros, five dollars, five pounds in it, whatever.
[17:51.680 -> 17:55.880] Just chuck it out the window and just give a little and it will magically find its way
[17:55.880 -> 17:56.880] here to the offices.
[17:56.880 -> 17:57.880] It'll be fine.
[17:57.880 -> 17:59.840] The coal shed.
[17:59.840 -> 18:00.840] I love it.
[18:00.840 -> 18:03.000] I love it.
[18:03.000 -> 18:04.480] Free practice three.
[18:04.480 -> 18:07.000] I was actually, I had the in-laws in town this weekend,
[18:07.000 -> 18:10.760] so I didn't catch much Friday or Saturday morning,
[18:10.760 -> 18:13.280] but I did see that signs managed to spin
[18:13.280 -> 18:15.600] and take the entire nose of his car off.
[18:15.600 -> 18:17.400] We don't see that very often.
[18:17.400 -> 18:19.200] I don't know if he sheared the pins,
[18:19.200 -> 18:20.840] but those are not supposed to come off.
[18:20.840 -> 18:24.440] The nose is there as a impact attenuator for head-on crashes
[18:24.440 -> 18:25.120] to absorb.
[18:25.120 -> 18:30.400] And that's where they crash test them at Cranfield on a big weighted sled and slam into the fucking
[18:30.400 -> 18:36.160] wall. And if you haven't seen them, go look up a FIA nose crash test. There's some cool videos
[18:36.160 -> 18:42.800] on YouTube of that shit. Definitely check it out. Yeah. He quick, quick released his front wing into
[18:42.800 -> 18:45.240] a barrier. Yeah.
[18:48.800 -> 18:53.640] He, now this is, this is free practice three, maybe even free practice two, but free practice three was the start of Carlos Sainz's tear, tour of terror.
[18:53.880 -> 18:57.480] He basically decided to drive in the middle of the road, going down to the final
[18:57.480 -> 19:02.840] chicane on his prep laps so that anybody on a timed lap could not pass.
[19:03.280 -> 19:07.780] And like in the dry, there's no water spray in the air.
[19:07.780 -> 19:09.500] And it's easy to see that like, right,
[19:09.500 -> 19:11.020] okay, there's fucking Carlos again,
[19:11.020 -> 19:13.260] being completely clueless.
[19:13.260 -> 19:15.220] And I had to think long and hard about this.
[19:15.220 -> 19:17.140] And part of it was like,
[19:17.140 -> 19:19.780] the engineers aren't telling him that there's cars coming,
[19:19.780 -> 19:22.580] but he's clearly halfway attempting to make space,
[19:22.580 -> 19:24.300] driving in the middle of the fucking road.
[19:24.300 -> 19:25.800] Like that's him just being careless.
[19:25.840 -> 19:29.960] And I know his engineers sometimes appear to have not great comms.
[19:30.720 -> 19:32.080] That was him being a fucking robot.
[19:32.080 -> 19:32.560] I'm sorry.
[19:33.320 -> 19:33.560] Yeah.
[19:34.040 -> 19:39.600] The Spanish inquisition held its uprising in the Canadian Grand Prix this weekend.
[19:40.640 -> 19:40.800] Yeah.
[19:40.800 -> 19:42.240] Jesus Christ.
[19:42.280 -> 19:42.480] Yeah.
[19:42.480 -> 19:44.160] Like you, I was so baffled.
[19:44.560 -> 19:46.000] Like the first time. Okay. Yeah, I get it. You know, shit happens. Second time. Hmm. Yeah. Like you, I was so baffled. Like the first time.
[19:46.000 -> 19:46.360] Okay.
[19:46.360 -> 19:47.040] Yeah, I get it.
[19:47.060 -> 19:48.180] You know, shit happens.
[19:48.180 -> 19:48.960] Second time.
[19:49.000 -> 19:49.280] Hmm.
[19:49.320 -> 19:49.800] Okay.
[19:50.640 -> 19:50.880] All right.
[19:50.880 -> 19:52.180] The third or fucking fourth time.
[19:52.180 -> 19:55.480] It's like, you guys need to sit down and have a strong word with yourselves.
[19:55.480 -> 19:56.680] This is what's going on here.
[19:59.000 -> 20:00.360] Yeah, it was, it was wild.
[20:00.840 -> 20:01.960] But let's go.
[20:01.960 -> 20:03.520] Let's, let's, why don't we talk about qualifying?
[20:03.520 -> 20:04.480] Cause we get even more of that.
[20:04.480 -> 20:07.000] And we just keep talking about the exact same topic like and we didn't
[20:07.000 -> 20:09.600] even change sessions hours later.
[20:09.700 -> 20:13.200] Yeah, control C, control V, just change the title to qualifying.
[20:13.700 -> 20:19.200] Yeah, so qualifying and I said this before, wet and mixed weather
[20:19.200 -> 20:22.300] conditions sessions, qualifying and races are going to be the
[20:22.300 -> 20:24.400] savior of the season.
[20:24.500 -> 20:26.100] It's relatively predictable right now,
[20:26.100 -> 20:28.900] and again we had another wet qualifying session
[20:28.900 -> 20:30.600] and it was kind of a fucking banger
[20:30.600 -> 20:32.000] for a couple of reasons.
[20:32.900 -> 20:34.580] Qualifying in the wet,
[20:34.580 -> 20:35.680] we've talked about this before,
[20:35.680 -> 20:38.240] you typically fill the tank with fuel,
[20:38.240 -> 20:39.080] fuel for the whole session.
[20:39.080 -> 20:40.540] You don't fuel for just three or four laps
[20:40.540 -> 20:41.380] and then three or four more laps.
[20:41.380 -> 20:42.780] You fuel for the whole session,
[20:42.780 -> 20:43.980] put on the best tires at the time,
[20:43.980 -> 20:45.880] and if the track gets better or worse,
[20:45.880 -> 20:48.200] you change tires in the pit lane to save time.
[20:48.200 -> 20:49.520] Time is of the essence.
[20:49.520 -> 20:52.260] And we're gonna talk about several instances of that.
[20:52.260 -> 20:55.160] Any lap that you are on could be the best conditions
[20:55.160 -> 20:57.060] you get the entire session
[20:57.060 -> 20:58.760] or for the entire qualifying session.
[20:58.760 -> 21:03.320] So Q1, what happens?
[21:03.320 -> 21:04.280] Another red flag.
[21:04.280 -> 21:05.500] Yeah, yeah.
[21:05.500 -> 21:13.700] So I know it was Joe, but I missed sort of, apparently he had some car issues, but he
[21:13.700 -> 21:14.940] managed to get it running.
[21:14.940 -> 21:17.340] So I'm not really sure why the red flag was there.
[21:17.340 -> 21:18.740] But it was after they red flagged it.
[21:18.740 -> 21:22.660] So it looked like he was stopped and they weren't going to resolve it.
[21:22.660 -> 21:28.480] He was on the exit of turn seven, which was the right-hander on the outside of this six,
[21:28.480 -> 21:29.920] seven change of direction section.
[21:29.920 -> 21:31.840] And it looked like he was stranded.
[21:31.840 -> 21:33.080] So like, right, we'll red flag it.
[21:33.080 -> 21:35.800] But once the session's red flagged, they can't really unred flag it.
[21:35.800 -> 21:40.080] You have to pull everybody back into the pit lane and then they have to give a session start time.
[21:40.080 -> 21:41.720] Yeah, it's like a procedure, isn't it?
[21:41.720 -> 21:42.440] Yeah, that makes sense.
[21:42.440 -> 21:43.600] Yeah. Yeah.
[21:43.600 -> 21:47.440] But so they didn't, they followed that one.
[21:47.440 -> 21:51.620] And the circuit was starting to dry throughout that session.
[21:51.620 -> 21:56.280] And Gasly was on the receiving end of attempted manslaughter by signs, and he does not make
[21:56.280 -> 21:58.840] it through to Q2.
[21:58.840 -> 22:00.920] And he clearly like he was up way up.
[22:00.920 -> 22:06.200] Spanish and French relations are an all time low, ladies and gentlemen.
[22:06.200 -> 22:08.120] The Eurozone is in crisis.
[22:08.120 -> 22:12.120] Yeah, we don't know what's going to happen soon, but we're going to have to, we'll have
[22:12.120 -> 22:13.120] to have a battle.
[22:13.120 -> 22:16.120] Ah, but this is where it gets interesting though.
[22:16.120 -> 22:22.960] We go into Q2 and we can see that there's a drying line forming during Q1, but turn
[22:22.960 -> 22:28.800] 1, 2 still looks pretty damp. Albon and the Williams team go big.
[22:28.800 -> 22:29.640] They risk it.
[22:29.640 -> 22:31.960] He rolls out on soft tires
[22:31.960 -> 22:33.840] and the clear is rolling down the pit lane.
[22:33.840 -> 22:35.400] And he says to his engineer,
[22:35.400 -> 22:37.000] we need to be on slicks.
[22:37.000 -> 22:39.760] And the engineer says, no, get a lap in.
[22:39.760 -> 22:42.960] So a lot of people were like,
[22:42.960 -> 22:45.640] the Ferrari pit wall don't listen to them.
[22:48.520 -> 22:49.720] And I agree the Ferrari pit wall do not listen to the drivers very often. And very often the drivers are right.
[22:49.720 -> 22:54.280] But in this instance, I'm going to say they kind of made the right call.
[22:55.400 -> 22:55.720] Yeah.
[22:55.720 -> 23:00.680] See, I, I, I'd like, surely you want to get at least one in on slick, uh,
[23:00.960 -> 23:05.820] inters, because if you go out on slicks and you bin it, I see you qualify
[23:05.820 -> 23:06.240] as done.
[23:06.920 -> 23:08.480] And you look like a bot.
[23:08.800 -> 23:09.760] It's one of those things, isn't it?
[23:09.760 -> 23:11.580] Where if it works, you look like a hero.
[23:12.000 -> 23:13.600] If it doesn't work, you look like a bellend.
[23:14.000 -> 23:16.160] So who, who really wins out of this situation?
[23:16.720 -> 23:17.000] Yeah.
[23:17.040 -> 23:20.640] And that's, that's a good point because the other piece of information, which we
[23:20.640 -> 23:25.640] all had is it looked like the weather was going to arrive in about six minutes,
[23:25.640 -> 23:27.920] which is effectively three and a bit laps.
[23:27.920 -> 23:33.080] So if you commit to the inter and don't change immediately, you are very likely to run into
[23:33.080 -> 23:36.400] the weather when it falls.
[23:36.400 -> 23:42.560] But everybody else at that time was out on inters bar Alex Albon.
[23:42.560 -> 23:44.440] I think Norris converted early to a slick.
[23:44.440 -> 23:46.480] He was one of the first adopters of the slick,
[23:46.480 -> 23:47.840] but everybody else set a banker.
[23:47.840 -> 23:50.400] And I think the banker is super, super important.
[23:50.400 -> 23:52.520] Yes, it might not be the optimum lap,
[23:52.520 -> 23:55.960] but literally, let's say that Alex absolutely heroes it
[23:55.960 -> 23:57.120] and gets the lap in.
[23:59.080 -> 24:02.400] There's nine other places in Q3 available.
[24:02.400 -> 24:04.080] All you have to do is set the lap.
[24:04.080 -> 24:07.720] So Albon sets his time lap on like the third time lap.
[24:07.720 -> 24:10.520] So they clearly, the track is drying and improving
[24:10.520 -> 24:12.280] and there's probably a little bit of soft tire warmup.
[24:12.280 -> 24:13.520] The track is cold and wet.
[24:13.520 -> 24:14.520] Yeah.
[24:14.520 -> 24:18.520] But people were like, ah, and I totally agree.
[24:18.520 -> 24:20.560] And I had a disagreement yesterday,
[24:20.560 -> 24:22.700] but I totally get their point of view.
[24:22.700 -> 24:24.860] It's like, typically the pit wall
[24:24.860 -> 24:25.800] don't listen to the drivers.
[24:25.840 -> 24:30.280] And I see that, but in this instance, the pit wall made the right call on that.
[24:30.720 -> 24:34.000] Signs was clear to Q3, but why not Leclerc?
[24:36.200 -> 24:42.560] I was just going to go back a bit and say that sticking Alvin on slicks is a gamble
[24:42.560 -> 24:48.360] of a certain percentage that Williams should take because they're
[24:48.360 -> 24:49.820] normally towards the back of the grid.
[24:49.840 -> 24:55.840] Whereas Ferrari is like, you don't really need to make such a low percentage.
[24:56.080 -> 24:56.480] Sort of.
[24:56.480 -> 24:57.520] You need to get into Q3.
[24:57.680 -> 24:57.960] Yeah.
[24:57.960 -> 24:59.040] You don't need to be the fastest.
[24:59.040 -> 25:01.240] You literally just need to get into Q3 there.
[25:01.480 -> 25:01.760] Yeah.
[25:01.840 -> 25:07.320] I think that's, I think that was the right decision from them in this instance.
[25:07.320 -> 25:08.760] I said it for the first time in a while.
[25:08.760 -> 25:11.920] You did. And then it all fucks up.
[25:11.920 -> 25:16.680] But here's the thing though. I mean, LeClaire was really upset about the whole thing, but
[25:16.680 -> 25:22.000] he was on the same run cycle as Sainz. And on the lap where Sainz goes fastest of his
[25:22.000 -> 25:27.440] times in Q2 on the slick, because they finally do convert to the slicks.
[25:27.440 -> 25:30.440] The clear bends it, he bails out of the final chicane
[25:30.440 -> 25:31.760] because he's carrying too much speed
[25:31.760 -> 25:33.680] and he outbreaks himself and he misses it.
[25:33.680 -> 25:34.540] If he had done that,
[25:34.540 -> 25:36.760] he would have the exact same lap time as signs
[25:36.760 -> 25:38.640] and he would have been clear through to Q3.
[25:38.640 -> 25:40.200] But he's like, oh, the team don't listen to me.
[25:40.200 -> 25:42.840] It's like, all you have to do is put the lap together.
[25:42.840 -> 25:48.120] He realistically had only one lap to do it. And that was the perfect lap, and that's what wet qualifying is like,
[25:48.120 -> 25:53.060] and I can't do any better. Look, I'm sad here. I'm not driving a car any better, but the
[25:53.060 -> 25:54.560] engineers did a good job engineering.
[25:54.560 -> 26:00.080] Tell Charles to fuck off. I'll play the piano. I'll release a couple of songs on Spotify
[26:00.080 -> 26:04.000] and I'll drive around and hit a couple of barriers. I'll fucking do it.
[26:04.000 -> 26:08.000] Yeah, exactly. But yeah, I'll be signs. I'll just impede people all the time then.
[26:08.000 -> 26:11.400] But yeah, warm up in the track conditions did play a factor,
[26:11.400 -> 26:14.800] but the lap was there and there was a window of about two minutes.
[26:14.800 -> 26:18.800] So depending on where you're at on the track, the track was ready for softs.
[26:18.800 -> 26:23.200] Everybody that had switched had enough temperature in the softs.
[26:23.200 -> 26:27.960] But Checo, here's another thing.
[26:27.960 -> 26:28.960] Checo doesn't make it through.
[26:28.960 -> 26:32.600] He's on the same, he's on the same, I believe he's on the same run plan as Max.
[26:32.600 -> 26:34.640] He has a really super slow out lap.
[26:34.640 -> 26:37.580] He has a shit lap and then he boxes for enters.
[26:37.580 -> 26:41.360] And the time that he's boxed for enters, if I'm calling this correctly, that's when Max
[26:41.360 -> 26:42.360] set his lap.
[26:42.360 -> 26:47.340] So he basically bailed out after one shit lap and Max said it on his second time,
[26:47.340 -> 26:50.780] I believe, but he's, he was not happy with the car in the wet all week.
[26:50.780 -> 26:52.460] And he was quite far off.
[26:53.140 -> 26:56.980] There's something I'm starting to notice about Checo, excuse me, sorry.
[26:57.860 -> 27:01.840] And that's when you have to do more than one lap of warming up your tires,
[27:02.020 -> 27:05.800] he struggles to work the tires.
[27:05.880 -> 27:08.800] And I've noticed this now every time that he's had a bit of a stinker.
[27:09.440 -> 27:11.760] It's because he's had to do more than one warmup lap.
[27:11.840 -> 27:16.120] Now, I don't know if he takes too much out of them in the two laps or whatever, or if
[27:16.120 -> 27:20.280] he's not working them hard enough, I don't know, but there's a weird pattern
[27:20.280 -> 27:22.840] starting to emerge there, which is a lot of that.
[27:22.840 -> 27:25.460] He used to be known for being really good with tires, but he just.
[27:26.460 -> 27:27.560] That's an interesting one.
[27:27.800 -> 27:28.780] That is a super interesting.
[27:28.780 -> 27:31.220] I haven't even thought about that at all, but it's like, I think
[27:31.220 -> 27:32.500] it's the adaptability factor.
[27:32.500 -> 27:33.580] It's like, yeah, the tires aren't ready.
[27:33.580 -> 27:34.020] It's like, right.
[27:34.020 -> 27:36.180] Well just ease into them and do another lap.
[27:36.500 -> 27:41.060] And I think looking at this specifically, his out lap was like six seconds slower
[27:41.060 -> 27:45.600] than Max's and on a drying track on a soft tire that's marginal on temperature
[27:45.600 -> 27:49.320] that can have a huge impact on your prep for the first lap. And if you don't get a good
[27:49.320 -> 27:52.540] read from the first lap and you're not confident in it, you're not going to put more temperature
[27:52.540 -> 27:57.680] into them. And, and this track's not easy to warm up tires on. It's lots of straights,
[27:57.680 -> 28:00.280] a couple of breaking zones and a couple of chicanes. You're kind of in and out of the
[28:00.280 -> 28:03.760] corners quickly. It's not like you're, you know, there's lots of like high speed corners
[28:03.760 -> 28:06.740] to lean on the tires like Spa or something like that, which is another super
[28:06.740 -> 28:07.740] tricky circuit.
[28:07.740 -> 28:13.780] But this circuit is quite unique in that you do get some corners that adapt in real time.
[28:13.780 -> 28:19.020] They're called gophers and you have to sort of avoid them as they run across the track.
[28:19.020 -> 28:23.060] So, you know, Gary survived. Yeah. Gary the gopher survived this weekend. The track layout
[28:23.060 -> 28:25.200] is constantly evolving yeah
[28:26.320 -> 28:34.000] um but yeah uh paris hasn't made q3 in three races no compare that to let's say oh here we
[28:34.000 -> 28:38.400] go second driver slander this is i'm not i'm not trying to start go on fuck it all right okay
[28:41.440 -> 28:45.680] battery pot has got what 100 Q3 appearances in the Mercedes?
[28:45.680 -> 28:49.200] What's your fucking excuse, Checo?
[28:49.200 -> 28:51.760] Ouch, man.
[28:51.760 -> 28:53.800] He definitely wasn't vibing with it this weekend, though.
[28:53.800 -> 28:59.400] Like, the whole weekend it was just off, and we'll get back to the race in a minute, but
[28:59.400 -> 29:00.400] yeah.
[29:00.400 -> 29:01.400] Bottas, man.
[29:01.400 -> 29:06.480] But in Q2 we lost the Claire Perez, Stroll, Magnussen, and Bottas, obviously in the Alfa Romeo, not in the Mercedes.
[29:06.480 -> 29:08.640] Yeah, unless we've gone back in time.
[29:09.280 -> 29:13.360] No. Q3 is actually a pretty quick one, honestly. I don't think there's a whole lot to say. So
[29:13.360 -> 29:18.480] Session starts wet. It gets wetter. Piastri red flags it by taking the rear off of his car
[29:18.480 -> 29:29.600] and the track gets worse, so nobody goes any better. Hulkenberg, P2, Al Alonzo P3, Verstappen P1. But Hulkenberg gets a three-place penalty.
[29:29.600 -> 29:30.080] He does.
[29:30.080 -> 29:37.840] Because he... And I've got words. So Hulkenberg gets a three-place penalty for not going slow
[29:37.840 -> 29:43.040] enough under the safety car delta. The official document says he was not going excessively fast,
[29:43.040 -> 29:45.840] but he failed to adhere to the minimum
[29:45.840 -> 29:50.320] lap time regulation, which is basically a lap time target on his dash.
[29:50.320 -> 29:53.040] And it was giving him tones and he was super confused about it.
[29:53.040 -> 29:55.480] But I went back and watched the radio or listened to the radio.
[29:55.480 -> 29:56.480] What?
[29:56.480 -> 29:57.480] Watch the radio.
[29:57.480 -> 29:58.480] Yeah, I watched it.
[29:58.480 -> 30:03.000] It was like top quality analysis you get from the energy breaking podcast, ladies and gentlemen.
[30:03.000 -> 30:09.320] I was watching the radio. So, um, under red flag conditions, there's a status message
[30:09.320 -> 30:14.200] sent to the standard ECU. And it's like, you're under a red flag. I'm going to show you the
[30:14.200 -> 30:18.520] red flag delta time. Now there's some confusion with switches and modes from his engineer.
[30:18.520 -> 30:21.960] And he's like, it's beeping like fuck in my ears. Am I going too fast or too slow? I think
[30:21.960 -> 30:27.780] I'm going too slow. So he speeds up. And his engineer says, no, you need to slow down. And he's super confused by this. And
[30:27.780 -> 30:31.900] the beeping is basically the beeps get closer, further apart, how far away you are from the
[30:31.900 -> 30:35.820] Delta time. So in case you need to be heads up, you're looking and you can be like, okay,
[30:35.820 -> 30:37.020] I need to slow down.
[30:37.020 -> 30:41.260] Yeah. Imagine the stress of driving around a racetrack and just in your ear constantly,
[30:41.260 -> 30:45.280] you've just got. Yeah. Yeah. And it's just like, what the fuck?
[30:45.920 -> 30:50.560] Yeah. And that's, that's annoying. We used to have that for, um, if you hadn't activated the
[30:50.560 -> 30:55.600] DRS during the race, when it was activated here, you'd have a thing going off like a tone over and
[30:55.600 -> 30:59.040] over to tell you to push the DRS dummy. But most of the drivers been that, because as soon as the
[30:59.040 -> 31:02.720] system falls over, you should have beeps in your ears and you got to go a bunch of failed default
[31:02.720 -> 31:05.140] modes in the steering wheel. And It's a pain in the butt.
[31:05.140 -> 31:10.900] But the thing that bothered me was if there's like, I remember when I was at the track,
[31:10.900 -> 31:17.340] the Delta lap time that shows up on the dash, there's a control systems engineer, there's
[31:17.340 -> 31:22.540] a race engineer, and there's performance engineer that should all see that number on their Atlas
[31:22.540 -> 31:31.100] display pages, their telemetry viewer. If your driver's negative on that number, everybody, the performance and controls engineer
[31:31.100 -> 31:34.940] should be in the race engineer's ear telling him, tell him to go two seconds slower, tell
[31:34.940 -> 31:35.940] him to go two.
[31:35.940 -> 31:40.240] The race engineer was talking to him about other people's lap times.
[31:40.240 -> 31:45.000] And he's like, mate, you guys are about to get a fucking penalty.
[31:45.000 -> 31:48.000] So that was, that was a weird one to me.
[31:48.000 -> 31:49.000] Yeah.
[31:49.000 -> 31:50.000] Yeah.
[31:50.000 -> 31:51.000] It was happened.
[31:51.000 -> 31:53.640] So this is some weird noises.
[31:53.640 -> 31:55.480] I think my shit is haunted.
[31:55.480 -> 31:59.600] Um, but I've just figured it out chat and I'm going to attempt to do this live and there's
[31:59.600 -> 32:04.120] every chance I might end up losing the camera here, but no, I don't think I can get it down
[32:04.120 -> 32:05.200] low enough, but there, there you go. And there's a dog here. but. Now I don't think I can get it down low enough, but there you go.
[32:05.200 -> 32:06.080] There's a dog here.
[32:06.080 -> 32:08.240] Look, oh my God, I see.
[32:08.240 -> 32:08.640] I saw it.
[32:08.640 -> 32:12.520] I don't have to install a webcam for dog cam dog cam.
[32:12.520 -> 32:13.240] Oh my God.
[32:13.520 -> 32:14.880] But yeah, like that was one of those weird things.
[32:14.880 -> 32:17.800] It's like if your driver is not following the lap time delta,
[32:17.800 -> 32:18.960] that's a penalty coming.
[32:19.640 -> 32:20.920] That that should be the only thing.
[32:20.920 -> 32:22.600] Like, don't tell him any other fucking information
[32:22.600 -> 32:23.480] until you get that sorted.
[32:23.760 -> 32:25.820] But they were kind of like, oh yeah, so-and-so has done this.
[32:25.820 -> 32:26.720] And that is like, wow.
[32:27.220 -> 32:29.900] But yeah, that was, that was frustrating.
[32:29.900 -> 32:31.600] So, uh, Hulkenberg starts P5.
[32:32.820 -> 32:33.100] Yeah.
[32:33.100 -> 32:35.780] And again, I think we did this, uh, before.
[32:35.900 -> 32:39.920] Um, but I need to reiterate my apology for calling Nico, uh,
[32:39.940 -> 32:41.680] Hulkenberg washed and mid.
[32:42.700 -> 32:43.900] Um, he's doing all right.
[32:43.920 -> 32:44.140] Yeah.
[32:44.140 -> 32:44.860] He's doing all right.
[32:44.860 -> 32:47.920] I can't. There's no basis for my slander this year.
[32:48.580 -> 32:51.700] No, no, I think, I think he's, he's doing very well.
[32:51.700 -> 32:53.500] So that was it.
[32:53.700 -> 32:55.260] Wet qualifying is always fun.
[32:55.260 -> 32:59.460] Wet dry mix qualifying is the fucking best and I love it.
[32:59.740 -> 33:04.220] But, um, your top five, your top five in quality, you should house it.
[33:04.220 -> 33:05.280] Cause we thought it was gonna be wet.
[33:05.280 -> 33:05.560] And you're like,
[33:05.560 -> 33:07.080] let's throw some jokers on the board.
[33:07.080 -> 33:10.720] You had Norris Russell stroll Alonzo Magnuson.
[33:10.720 -> 33:13.280] You had the wrong house.
[33:13.280 -> 33:15.680] Close, yeah, no, I didn't do too bad.
[33:15.680 -> 33:17.880] No, I I don't think I was great.
[33:17.880 -> 33:19.040] I had I was missing.
[33:19.040 -> 33:20.040] I was missing.
[33:20.040 -> 33:23.240] I'd for Stapin Alonzo Hamilton Perez in stroll.
[33:23.240 -> 33:27.040] Yeah, you're free for qualifying was the podium for the race.
[33:27.160 -> 33:28.800] You got it right around.
[33:28.800 -> 33:30.640] Yeah, exactly. Damn it.
[33:30.640 -> 33:33.360] But since we're here, why don't we
[33:34.360 -> 33:35.680] want to do that little thing real quick?
[33:35.680 -> 33:37.800] Hmm. Let's do our little thing real quick.
[33:37.800 -> 33:40.640] And ladies and gentlemen, we're just going to quickly do this live
[33:40.640 -> 33:42.240] and see if the soundboard works.
[33:42.240 -> 33:43.760] So everyone cross your fingers.
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[34:45.160 -> 34:46.160] We're keeping it cool.
[34:46.160 -> 34:47.160] I don't need it anymore.
[34:47.160 -> 34:53.440] I just burn all the HR paperwork I've got saved up from Red Bull.
[34:53.440 -> 34:59.120] I will quickly say they haven't officially said anything, but I have an inkling that
[34:59.120 -> 35:02.240] there is some changes happening to the deal come July.
[35:02.240 -> 35:06.640] So if you still humming and aahing about it, get it done before July.
[35:06.640 -> 35:07.460] Yeah, seriously.
[35:07.460 -> 35:11.080] So I use NordVPN because I use F1 TV Pro
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[35:21.480 -> 35:23.920] I've got the timing screen, I've got the race gaps,
[35:23.920 -> 35:26.540] I've got five feeds, the main feed way I've got the timing screen. I've got the race gaps. I've got. Five feeds, the main feed.
[35:26.540 -> 35:30.820] I've got race control messages, the AI, um, transcriptions of all the radio
[35:30.820 -> 35:33.540] messages in text, which is perfect for me when I'm streaming, because I'm
[35:33.540 -> 35:34.640] like, who said this, who said this?
[35:34.640 -> 35:35.740] I don't have to have them in my ear all the time.
[35:35.740 -> 35:36.620] I can just look down and read it.
[35:37.000 -> 35:42.760] Honestly, a multi-factor F1 and a F1 TV pro, but most people that I
[35:42.760 -> 35:45.200] know will need a VPN to use it.
[35:45.200 -> 35:48.120] So, uh, I've been using it for over a year.
[35:48.280 -> 35:51.740] We just traveled to our French Riviera home every weekend to watch the races.
[35:51.740 -> 35:52.000] Don't we?
[35:52.000 -> 35:58.280] Oh, we, we, we love it.
[35:58.480 -> 35:58.880] Love it.
[35:58.960 -> 36:03.000] Uh, but yeah, real quick, did anybody, if you're listening to the podcast, you're
[36:03.000 -> 36:08.800] in the live stream over on Twitch right now, did you watch the ESPN coverage with Daniel Ricardo?
[36:08.800 -> 36:10.960] They like alternative coverage that did.
[36:10.960 -> 36:11.960] I didn't watch it.
[36:11.960 -> 36:16.120] I can't see it because I don't have ESPN, but if you guys saw it, leave us a comment
[36:16.120 -> 36:18.840] what you thought of it because I'm curious to just to see what you think.
[36:18.840 -> 36:30.200] But yeah, I heard a bunch of mixed reviews about it. And I think I'm probably in an echo chamber of people that didn't enjoy it, but, uh,
[36:30.280 -> 36:32.640] that's not everybody that don't trust the Twitter echo chamber.
[36:32.640 -> 36:34.760] If one's an idiot, I don't know.
[36:35.160 -> 36:36.600] I should get, maybe that's what we can do.
[36:36.600 -> 36:37.080] Fuck it.
[36:37.080 -> 36:38.080] We're going to go to spa.
[36:38.640 -> 36:39.020] Right.
[36:39.360 -> 36:43.920] And, uh, we're going to basically food poison all the sky F1 pundits.
[36:44.880 -> 36:45.640] And we're going to basically food poison all the Sky F1 pundits and we're going to replace
[36:45.640 -> 36:48.640] them and it's just going to be on us on like the UK.
[36:48.640 -> 36:51.280] Be like, yeah, yeah, it's us.
[36:51.280 -> 36:52.960] We broke the budget cap for Red Bull.
[36:52.960 -> 36:54.760] Take that British fucking media.
[36:54.760 -> 36:56.760] You fucking wankers.
[36:56.760 -> 36:57.760] Fuck off.
[36:57.760 -> 37:02.760] Fucking Lewis Hamilton, mid and washed.
[37:02.760 -> 37:06.760] No, that's not not that's not fine.
[37:06.760 -> 37:08.680] Sorry, let me clear this up.
[37:08.680 -> 37:10.560] I hate all drivers equally alright.
[37:10.560 -> 37:10.760] Yeah.
[37:11.640 -> 37:13.320] How do you feel like Nick DeVries right now?
[37:13.640 -> 37:14.480] Mid and washed.
[37:14.480 -> 37:15.240] Get him out.
[37:15.640 -> 37:16.680] Get him out.
[37:18.040 -> 37:22.920] Go on, go online, but let's let's talk about the Canadian Grand Prix.
[37:22.920 -> 37:23.960] A what's that all about?
[37:24.040 -> 37:25.420] We had a wet qualifying,
[37:25.420 -> 37:28.960] so everybody had a full assortment of tires.
[37:28.960 -> 37:32.200] Pirelli expected a mixed one or two stop,
[37:32.200 -> 37:33.440] and that's what we got.
[37:33.440 -> 37:34.760] The two stop was faster,
[37:34.760 -> 37:38.600] but we had some bold players on that daring one stop,
[37:38.600 -> 37:41.740] and a couple in particular that were quite nice.
[37:42.880 -> 37:48.060] What did you think of the race before we get into it? I I know we were, we're, we're slating the F1 a little bit right now.
[37:48.060 -> 37:52.320] Cause sometimes it's not, it's not great, but I'm kind of, I'm
[37:52.320 -> 37:54.220] enjoying it for what it is right now.
[37:54.960 -> 37:55.720] I mean, yeah.
[37:56.120 -> 38:00.440] So it's hard for me to give a sensible answer because obviously Sunday was fine.
[38:01.700 -> 38:02.140] Yes, sir.
[38:02.140 -> 38:03.040] I'm not sensible.
[38:03.040 -> 38:04.360] Sunday was father's day.
[38:04.420 -> 38:06.720] Uh, so I sort of had to do dad duties.
[38:06.720 -> 38:08.920] Um, so I didn't watch it live.
[38:08.920 -> 38:12.320] I ended up sort of watching it in bits and pieces on catch up in the evening and a bit
[38:12.320 -> 38:13.320] more this morning.
[38:13.320 -> 38:17.440] So I didn't have the full uninterrupted experience.
[38:17.440 -> 38:19.840] I didn't hate it.
[38:19.840 -> 38:22.120] I think I quite enjoyed Canada as a track.
[38:22.120 -> 38:26.480] Uh, I think it's an incredible venue and a place and a vibe.
[38:26.480 -> 38:31.720] And if anyone's looking for like a bit of a alternative place to go to, to watch an F1 race from the normal.
[38:33.080 -> 38:34.120] Yeah, the city is great.
[38:34.120 -> 38:35.120] The city is spectacular.
[38:35.120 -> 38:36.880] I cannot recommend Montreal high enough.
[38:37.120 -> 38:38.960] Um, it's one of my favorite races on the calendar.
[38:38.960 -> 38:43.480] Montreal, Austin, Suzuka, Budapest.
[38:44.000 -> 38:48.340] Uh, absolute fucking bangers, those, a spa.
[38:48.340 -> 38:52.300] I don't know if Austria is spectacular for guests, but I like it because we stayed close
[38:52.300 -> 38:53.300] to the track.
[38:53.300 -> 38:54.620] I'd go cycling around there.
[38:54.620 -> 38:59.100] There was a cool, like some cool, like, you know, Austrian family style restaurants that
[38:59.100 -> 39:00.100] were fantastic.
[39:00.100 -> 39:04.180] They had this very strange bowling alley in one of them as well, because the balls are
[39:04.180 -> 39:05.680] like really small.
[39:05.680 -> 39:08.440] They're like grapefruit size, not bowling ball size.
[39:08.440 -> 39:09.960] It was really strange.
[39:09.960 -> 39:11.960] I don't know if there's any Austrians.
[39:11.960 -> 39:16.720] More kind of edge insights there from the Engine Breaking podcast.
[39:16.720 -> 39:17.720] Austria's got small balls.
[39:17.720 -> 39:18.720] Yes.
[39:18.720 -> 39:19.720] Mini bowling.
[39:19.720 -> 39:20.720] Is that a thing?
[39:20.720 -> 39:27.340] Any, any Austrians listening, if you could let us know why you've got such small balls in your alleyways, we'd love to know.
[39:27.340 -> 39:28.340] Okay.
[39:28.340 -> 39:30.740] Sounds like, sounds like Skittles rather than bowling.
[39:30.740 -> 39:31.740] Fair enough.
[39:31.740 -> 39:32.980] But, uh, let's, let's talk about the race.
[39:32.980 -> 39:37.540] A lot of people are saying, um, no, but like a lot of people are saying like, right, well,
[39:37.540 -> 39:40.660] we need to spice it up because we need some variations and strategies.
[39:40.660 -> 39:46.320] This weekend we had several of the top players out of order because of the
[39:46.320 -> 39:51.040] wet qualifying which is why I fucking love it and then we had some alternative strategies
[39:51.040 -> 39:52.040] and I liked it.
[39:52.040 -> 39:58.600] Yeah, I don't think it really fucking matters really because you can do whatever fucking
[39:58.600 -> 39:59.600] strategy you want.
[39:59.600 -> 40:00.600] Max was still going to win.
[40:00.600 -> 40:09.640] The man is inevitable. They even tried to fucking rocket RPG a fucking chicken through his fucking brake duct and
[40:09.640 -> 40:11.400] he was still winning the damn race.
[40:11.400 -> 40:14.280] I mean, what's it going to take to stop this man?
[40:14.280 -> 40:19.280] Yeah, yeah, but so here's kind of how the race unfolded.
[40:19.280 -> 40:21.880] Sergeant shunt causes a safety car around.
[40:21.880 -> 40:24.360] Was this shunt or car issue?
[40:24.360 -> 40:25.380] I completely forgot about it because I was so excited by the safety car. Sorry Was it shut or car issue? I completely forgot about it.
[40:25.380 -> 40:27.620] So excited by the safety car.
[40:27.620 -> 40:29.780] Sorry, which one was this?
[40:29.780 -> 40:31.820] Sergeant early race safety car.
[40:31.820 -> 40:33.140] Like I completely blanked out.
[40:33.140 -> 40:36.980] I think he had a failure and he had to pull over.
[40:36.980 -> 40:39.420] Oh, they're like park the car.
[40:39.420 -> 40:40.420] Lance Logan.
[40:40.420 -> 40:42.700] Sorry, Logan, Lance, same guy.
[40:42.700 -> 40:44.740] Why car issue engines fine?
[40:44.740 -> 40:47.960] Oh God, I told you guys it was a fraudulent podcast.
[40:47.960 -> 40:49.760] But so here's what happened.
[40:49.760 -> 40:50.980] Safety car, lap 12.
[40:50.980 -> 40:55.320] Now, unfortunately, Magnuson pits the lap for that.
[40:55.320 -> 40:56.960] Or was it, Hulkenberg pits the lap for that.
[40:56.960 -> 40:59.260] So he misses out and that fucks him.
[40:59.260 -> 41:00.200] We'll come back to him in a second.
[41:00.200 -> 41:03.200] So Perez, Leclerc, and Sainz stay out.
[41:04.520 -> 41:07.280] Perez goes to a hard, but Ferrari started on the hard,
[41:07.280 -> 41:09.440] so they went to the medium.
[41:09.440 -> 41:12.280] Sorry, Perez was on hard, he stayed out,
[41:12.280 -> 41:14.320] and Ferrari were on mediums, and they stayed on those.
[41:14.320 -> 41:16.480] And we're thinking, right, Perez staying out makes sense,
[41:16.480 -> 41:18.120] but it's like, how long can the medium go
[41:18.120 -> 41:19.840] if they miss that on a free stop?
[41:19.840 -> 41:22.520] But as a result of this play,
[41:22.520 -> 41:25.000] Ferrari converted effectively 10th, 11th on the grid
[41:25.000 -> 41:26.100] to a 5.6.
[41:27.960 -> 41:30.800] Interestingly enough though, from the radio transcripts,
[41:30.800 -> 41:33.620] it seems like the engineers were telling them to box
[41:33.620 -> 41:36.600] and they were like, no, no.
[41:36.600 -> 41:39.960] And the main reason why this strategy worked is,
[41:39.960 -> 41:42.080] we'll get back to it in a second,
[41:42.080 -> 41:44.560] they avoided the Albon train.
[41:44.560 -> 41:45.900] And basically what they avoided was having to overtake slower cars. They avoided the Albon train. And basically what they avoided
[41:45.900 -> 41:47.540] was having to overtake slower cars.
[41:47.540 -> 41:49.340] They stayed out, they got track position.
[41:49.340 -> 41:50.700] The only thing that was questionable
[41:50.700 -> 41:53.700] was how long was that medium gonna last,
[41:53.700 -> 41:56.620] but they made it work and they were all right.
[41:56.620 -> 42:00.060] They weren't disgustingly fast, but they were all right.
[42:00.060 -> 42:01.220] Front of the race, as you said,
[42:01.220 -> 42:03.400] Verstappen inevitably won the race.
[42:03.400 -> 42:04.700] Never really under threat.
[42:12.160 -> 42:15.880] Alonso and Hamilton swap positions a few times, but Verstappen only 9.5 seconds ahead of Alonso at the end of the race, and it's typically Verstappen
[42:15.880 -> 42:19.120] has a pit stop in hand over his nearest competitor.
[42:19.160 -> 42:20.280] I love how we're celebrating.
[42:20.280 -> 42:22.040] Oh, it was only 10 seconds this time.
[42:22.080 -> 42:22.720] Wow.
[42:23.320 -> 42:23.760] Wow.
[42:23.760 -> 42:25.040] Incredibly close racing. Oh, you know only 10 seconds this time. Wow. Wow. Incredibly close racing.
[42:25.920 -> 42:27.520] Oh, you know what I'm saying?
[42:27.800 -> 42:30.560] But it's, it's tough to say have others closed up or not.
[42:30.560 -> 42:32.000] And it looks to me.
[42:32.560 -> 42:37.280] The, the, the Mercedes, um, Russell was doing well until he smacked the wall.
[42:37.680 -> 42:39.400] Um, I'm surprised that car kept going.
[42:39.400 -> 42:40.880] Cause that was a fucking hit and a half.
[42:42.000 -> 42:42.360] Yeah.
[42:42.440 -> 42:44.280] Certain parts of F1 cars are weird.
[42:44.320 -> 42:44.680] Right.
[42:44.680 -> 42:50.120] So if you've seen me, I imagine the majority of you have now, I'm not slim or slender.
[42:50.120 -> 42:52.360] I am powerfully built.
[42:52.360 -> 42:59.520] Now there's, I don't know about the new wings, but I know, I think it was a 2017 or 18 wing.
[42:59.520 -> 43:00.920] Someone said to me, oh, you can stand on it.
[43:00.920 -> 43:01.920] And I was like, no, I can't.
[43:01.920 -> 43:03.320] I was like, no, seriously, go stand on it.
[43:03.320 -> 43:08.360] So during testing, I stood on the, um, just near the nose pile on bit.
[43:08.560 -> 43:10.080] And I'm at last like a hundred kilos.
[43:10.080 -> 43:10.680] I'm a big guy.
[43:11.200 -> 43:11.980] Completely fine.
[43:12.200 -> 43:14.640] But if you went to the side of the wing and kicked his end plate, it
[43:14.640 -> 43:16.320] would just shatter into a thousand pieces.
[43:16.400 -> 43:19.320] And like weirdly strong, but only in one direction.
[43:19.720 -> 43:20.000] Yeah.
[43:20.000 -> 43:23.920] The strong in all the certainly right places and then wrong places at the wrong
[43:23.920 -> 43:27.720] time, but like Russell clouded the wall super hard,
[43:27.720 -> 43:30.360] blew the edge of the rim off and came in.
[43:30.360 -> 43:32.240] They mechanics checked over and sent him back out.
[43:32.240 -> 43:34.400] But ultimately he retired with brake issues.
[43:34.720 -> 43:36.440] So it looks like he had a bit of a cooling issue.
[43:38.160 -> 43:40.560] Yeah, the front of the front of the field looks like the Mercedes
[43:40.560 -> 43:42.520] and Aston of at least of Alonzo.
[43:45.120 -> 43:46.120] Potato, tomato.
[43:46.600 -> 43:49.360] And it's kind of hard to say where the Ferraris were because they started so far
[43:49.360 -> 43:55.080] out of order. Had they qualified, you know, second or third Rome, they probably
[43:55.080 -> 43:56.040] would have stayed there as well.
[43:56.320 -> 43:59.320] So I think Ferrari did a good job to turn that one around.
[43:59.360 -> 44:06.480] Best they could have hoped for was P2 really because Perez was struggling all weekend.
[44:06.480 -> 44:07.480] Yeah.
[44:07.480 -> 44:15.240] And Ferrari, of course, had the free grid place penalty for Carlos Sainz, Spanish Inquisition.
[44:15.240 -> 44:16.240] Yeah.
[44:16.240 -> 44:17.240] Yeah.
[44:17.240 -> 44:19.040] So that put them back a little bit to start as well.
[44:19.040 -> 44:21.080] Because everyone ended up with a fucking penalty.
[44:21.080 -> 44:22.080] Who else did?
[44:22.080 -> 44:24.960] Yuki Tsunoda got one.
[44:24.960 -> 44:25.200] And Logan- Stroll. Yes. Sorry. Stroll or Sargent? up with a fucking penalty. Who else did? Yuki Tsunoda got one. Yeah, and Logan.
[44:25.200 -> 44:25.600] Stroll.
[44:26.800 -> 44:27.360] Yes, sorry.
[44:27.360 -> 44:28.640] Stroll or Sargent.
[44:28.640 -> 44:30.080] No, no, it was stroll. Yeah, I'm getting.
[44:30.080 -> 44:31.200] Stroll, it was stroll, yeah.
[44:31.200 -> 44:33.360] You're fucking making me get confused between them now.
[44:34.480 -> 44:35.200] It was DeVries.
[44:36.480 -> 44:38.480] No, DeVries didn't get a penalty.
[44:38.480 -> 44:39.120] It should have done.
[44:40.240 -> 44:41.760] Listen, he's driving that AlphaTauri.
[44:41.760 -> 44:43.200] That's fucking penalty enough this year.
[44:43.840 -> 44:45.920] Fair, fucking fair, mate.
[44:46.320 -> 44:51.560] But, um, I mean, it was, I don't know if have, have this, has everybody closed up
[44:51.560 -> 44:55.760] or was it just the fact that this was kind of like a, a straight line traction circuit?
[44:55.760 -> 44:58.880] Nobody's struggling too much with tires and everybody could kind of do their pace
[44:59.240 -> 45:03.520] because it looked like at various points, Hamilton was pushing Alonzo was pushing.
[45:03.920 -> 45:06.160] Uh, Max, he looked
[45:06.160 -> 45:10.260] like he was going to try a fastest lap and then backed out of it because it wasn't like
[45:10.260 -> 45:12.180] it was clear that he could do it.
[45:12.180 -> 45:14.140] Or maybe he just had a really good purple sector.
[45:14.140 -> 45:17.860] Yeah, someone maybe reminded him, Max, you can't, you've got a giant lump of fucking
[45:17.860 -> 45:20.420] KFC in your brake vent at the minute, mate.
[45:20.420 -> 45:21.900] Maybe don't try a fastest lap.
[45:21.900 -> 45:24.500] Yeah, I don't know how much that was impacting his race.
[45:24.500 -> 45:25.480] I didn't hear them.
[45:25.480 -> 45:26.800] I can't imagine it's optimal
[45:26.800 -> 45:28.000] to have a dead fucking bird
[45:28.000 -> 45:29.440] inside your fucking break vent.
[45:30.120 -> 45:31.560] It depends on where it is, though.
[45:32.840 -> 45:34.240] Like it could be inside the fence
[45:34.240 -> 45:36.800] and not blocking a path, but yeah,
[45:36.840 -> 45:38.560] it's probably not good.
[45:38.560 -> 45:40.000] And if he was lifting and coasting
[45:40.000 -> 45:41.080] more to keep the brakes on control,
[45:41.080 -> 45:42.720] because what happened with.
[45:43.520 -> 45:46.120] Russell is excessive brake wear.
[45:46.360 -> 45:48.540] So the way that F1 brakes work is they don't work
[45:48.540 -> 45:49.880] when they're too cold.
[45:49.880 -> 45:51.160] And then once they get too hot,
[45:51.160 -> 45:53.520] they start to wear a little bit more.
[45:53.520 -> 45:54.440] And then once they get too hot,
[45:54.440 -> 45:57.560] they go through a process called oxidization.
[45:57.560 -> 45:59.720] So that basically the material just starts to deteriorate
[45:59.720 -> 46:00.560] super rapidly.
[46:00.560 -> 46:02.400] And a lot of the carbon, carbon material
[46:02.400 -> 46:05.360] in F1 has antioxidant coatings on it to prevent
[46:05.360 -> 46:09.920] that from happening through the untouched places of the disc. But once you burn that shit off,
[46:10.480 -> 46:15.680] you're in trouble. It is confirmed that Max hit a bird because there's a video, a picture of one of
[46:15.680 -> 46:19.840] the mechanics, I think it was Callum, holding up this poor mangled little thing that got in the
[46:19.840 -> 46:25.720] way. But it was there for sure. But yeah, let's talk about the Albon train
[46:25.720 -> 46:29.000] going to extreme measures to save money on that catering budget.
[46:32.200 -> 46:34.120] Stick that in your fucking Traeger grill.
[46:34.120 -> 46:36.800] I wouldn't fucking dare.
[46:38.200 -> 46:41.200] Max, you smell KFC cool the brakes exactly that.
[46:41.200 -> 46:42.520] But let's talk about that.
[46:42.520 -> 46:45.220] Let's talk about the Williams Albon train, man.
[46:45.320 -> 46:45.680] Right.
[46:49.880 -> 46:51.760] All hail Alex Albon.
[46:53.120 -> 46:53.560] What a guy.
[46:54.240 -> 46:56.240] He's driving the fucking wheels off that car, man.
[46:57.540 -> 46:57.920] Yeah.
[46:58.160 -> 47:04.560] And he was the only Williams that had the upgrades this, this weekend as well.
[47:04.560 -> 47:04.880] Didn't he?
[47:04.960 -> 47:05.640] It was only on one.
[47:06.840 -> 47:09.480] I'm not saying it was all, all down to the upgrades.
[47:09.480 -> 47:09.920] Obviously.
[47:09.920 -> 47:10.280] Yes.
[47:11.440 -> 47:15.000] Alex had some major part to play in that, but I'm just, just
[47:15.000 -> 47:16.120] pointing it out there for you.
[47:16.760 -> 47:22.400] Well, I think the bottom line for Alex was, uh, he one stop from a medium.
[47:23.000 -> 47:25.760] So he medium race start at the safety car.
[47:25.760 -> 47:29.900] He pits on a hard and he does 67 laps or so on that hard tire.
[47:29.900 -> 47:34.040] And by doing so, he basically gets track position over everybody else.
[47:34.040 -> 47:36.420] And you know what?
[47:36.420 -> 47:38.520] He's fast enough in a straight line.
[47:38.520 -> 47:39.800] Akon didn't stand a chance.
[47:39.800 -> 47:44.040] So basically, if you look at the race trace that I put on Twitter this afternoon, he's
[47:44.040 -> 47:49.640] got a train of Akon, Stroll, Bottas, Piastri, Gasly, Norris just behind him.
[47:49.640 -> 47:55.140] I looked at some of the telemetry as well, which is in my Buy Me a Coffee report, buymeacoffee.com
[47:55.140 -> 47:58.540] slash break, which is where I actually do qualifying and race analysis every week in
[47:58.540 -> 48:03.240] a lot of detail like a performance engineer would do in F1, but I don't get paid my F1
[48:03.240 -> 48:04.960] salary anymore to do that, unfortunately.
[48:04.960 -> 48:05.440] But for the
[48:05.440 -> 48:09.840] price of a coffee a month, you can see all of that. And I think there's some good value in that.
[48:09.840 -> 48:14.240] But I go into a lot more detail on that, but yeah, there's a super huge train. The top speed
[48:14.240 -> 48:20.000] of the Williams without DRS was plenty enough. Alcon only had like maybe a 10 kilometer an hour
[48:20.000 -> 48:25.720] advantage with DRS on to his DRS off. and that wasn't enough to ever have a proper fucking
[48:25.720 -> 48:26.720] go at it.
[48:26.720 -> 48:32.480] So could you also confirm to me I've seen this and I haven't double checked it.
[48:32.480 -> 48:36.320] Yuki Tsunoda put the hard tire on lap three and then ran it all the way to the end of
[48:36.320 -> 48:37.320] the race.
[48:37.320 -> 48:43.840] Can I have that confirmed because it's on the data I've got and that just seems wild
[48:43.840 -> 48:50.320] to me. I'm fairly certain that happened.
[48:50.320 -> 48:52.320] What were they cooking?
[48:52.320 -> 48:58.320] I think that's right unless I missed something but yeah I mean he's...
[48:58.320 -> 49:02.320] That could be a dataism but it could be very well.
[49:02.320 -> 49:06.220] I don't know. Now, now he pit later.
[49:06.220 -> 49:08.140] He pit later, there's something wrong with that.
[49:08.140 -> 49:09.620] Something's missing from that, but anyway.
[49:09.620 -> 49:13.340] Incorrect data on the engine breaking podcast, never.
[49:13.340 -> 49:14.540] Never.
[49:14.540 -> 49:16.860] Well, I'm gonna substitute reality
[49:16.860 -> 49:18.900] and replace it with my own.
[49:18.900 -> 49:21.180] Well done Yuki Tsunoda for doing the entire race
[49:21.180 -> 49:23.260] on one set of hard tires.
[49:23.260 -> 49:25.400] He definitely did stop on lap one. He came back around and put on one set of hard tires. He did. He definitely did stop on lap one.
[49:25.400 -> 49:28.200] He came back around and put another set of tires, but.
[49:30.100 -> 49:33.500] I think from the safety car, if that was the case, and I'm not sure
[49:33.500 -> 49:35.700] I need to double check in detail.
[49:37.700 -> 49:40.800] But yeah, someone seems to think he did it on lap 34.
[49:40.800 -> 49:42.000] He went from hard to hard.
[49:42.600 -> 49:44.100] Well, that's what the race trace looks like.
[49:44.100 -> 49:46.400] So fuck your race trace.
[49:46.440 -> 49:47.440] This is listen.
[49:47.480 -> 49:49.280] I'm I'm the I'm in charge now.
[49:49.280 -> 49:50.360] I'm the captain now.
[49:50.360 -> 49:51.600] I'm the data guy now.
[49:54.120 -> 49:55.480] Yeah, fair enough, but.
[49:56.600 -> 49:58.920] Soon, all right, fair play, bro, but.
[50:00.080 -> 50:01.640] McLaren's I'll get back to the Clarence
[50:01.640 -> 50:03.080] because they're on my random fandom.
[50:04.360 -> 50:05.720] Yeah, Hass Hulkenberg stopped
[50:05.720 -> 50:07.600] before the safety car got screwed.
[50:07.600 -> 50:09.920] He started from P5 and have pace
[50:09.920 -> 50:12.120] to match the cars around him.
[50:12.120 -> 50:14.280] Magnuson stays out during the safety car,
[50:14.280 -> 50:16.880] makes it to P7, but as soon as everybody
[50:16.880 -> 50:19.280] restarts he falls back to P12 no pace
[50:19.280 -> 50:22.080] and then he has a tangle with the breeze.
[50:22.080 -> 50:23.680] Later, Hulkenberg disappears and they
[50:23.680 -> 50:25.120] end up finishing 15th and 18th from
[50:25.120 -> 50:26.120] 5th and 13th.
[50:26.120 -> 50:27.120] I can't care.
[50:27.120 -> 50:28.120] Yeah, I don't know.
[50:28.120 -> 50:34.480] I'm big sad for the boys and girls there.
[50:34.480 -> 50:35.480] I have.
[50:35.480 -> 50:36.480] Yeah, that's wild.
[50:36.480 -> 50:39.800] But did you realize I just had a bit of an aneurysm there?
[50:39.800 -> 50:44.680] I know you're looking at me to give you some some info there, but just yeah, it's been
[50:44.680 -> 50:45.040] a while
[50:45.040 -> 50:49.120] I've managed to go through nearly an hour about having my brain fade on me and unfortunately
[50:49.120 -> 50:56.560] it has a power cycle real quick yeah p0 p0 yeah yeah but he had Magnuson DeVries Jan
[50:56.560 -> 51:01.440] what the fuck was that about I don't know like both of them had a fucking brain reset
[51:01.440 -> 51:05.160] right during that I don't know yeah both of both of them were me. I didn't.
[51:05.160 -> 51:06.200] I didn't care too much about it.
[51:06.200 -> 51:07.480] That plan was just like, seriously, I just
[51:07.480 -> 51:08.480] blamed to freeze for everything.
[51:08.480 -> 51:10.080] Cause he seems like a fucking liability.
[51:10.080 -> 51:10.280] Yeah.
[51:10.280 -> 51:12.000] I'm not going to complain too much because
[51:12.000 -> 51:14.120] Hey, I pulled that exact same to freeze
[51:14.120 -> 51:15.560] maneuver on people that piss me off in
[51:15.560 -> 51:18.080] iRacing so well done Nick.
[51:18.120 -> 51:18.640] Well done.
[51:18.920 -> 51:20.880] Your safety rating has not improved.
[51:23.360 -> 51:27.240] Oh, but did you see, was it, was it Lando trying to get Akan?
[51:27.240 -> 51:30.440] Like, did you see how much the rear wing was flopping around?
[51:30.440 -> 51:32.600] That was comical, like spaghetti rear wing.
[51:32.600 -> 51:33.600] Yeah.
[51:33.600 -> 51:38.680] And I am really surprised that that did not get meatballed, meatball flagged.
[51:38.680 -> 51:42.320] Was it, was it broken, broken or just flippity floppity in all the wrong places?
[51:42.320 -> 51:45.100] The onboard from the rear.
[51:49.400 -> 51:50.200] From what I looked and recall from watching it earlier, it was the end plate.
[51:53.800 -> 51:54.940] So the bottom, cause you know, these, these wings now sort of, they connect at the bottom as well, don't they?
[51:55.060 -> 51:56.620] On the, on the beam wing effectively.
[51:56.620 -> 51:56.920] Yeah.
[51:57.060 -> 52:02.100] So it was broken there, but the exhaust center mount was still intact.
[52:02.100 -> 52:03.900] So it was just sort of like, okay.
[52:04.620 -> 52:06.060] Okay. Yeah. So it was just sort of like, okay, okay
[52:08.060 -> 52:09.580] Yeah, fuck it happens
[52:09.580 -> 52:14.100] Yeah, I mean, I don't blame Lando for being like his wings fucked get him out of the way
[52:14.100 -> 52:19.420] I'll die exactly the same. Yeah, I'm a better man than me because I just nudged it to make it fall off
[52:19.700 -> 52:21.800] Yeah, I just wanted you to fucking overtake him then
[52:23.460 -> 52:26.320] What's the fun in that?
[52:28.240 -> 52:28.600] So let's get to the podium.
[52:31.200 -> 52:32.800] Dan, you had Stroll, Alonzo, Russell, because you were feeling like you were shithousing.
[52:34.080 -> 52:35.680] Ah, I got one of them right though.
[52:36.280 -> 52:38.480] I had Verstappen, Perez, Leclerc, because I believed.
[52:39.840 -> 52:42.400] But we actually got Verstappen, Alonzo, Hamilton.
[52:42.680 -> 52:45.840] So I got qualifying right for the race, but yeah, fuck it.
[52:46.360 -> 52:46.680] Yeah.
[52:46.700 -> 52:52.180] Well, Daddy Stroll said that he wanted a double podium from this weekend.
[52:52.200 -> 52:55.640] Now he got a double podium, Blake, but it wasn't in the race.
[52:56.640 -> 52:59.000] Where did he get his double podium this weekend?
[53:00.140 -> 53:00.920] I don't know.
[53:01.120 -> 53:01.840] FP1.
[53:02.980 -> 53:03.880] Oh yeah.
[53:04.240 -> 53:09.360] Cause obviously, yeah, it, no, it was was two and three with Bottas taking P1.
[53:09.840 -> 53:11.240] Of course, of course.
[53:11.480 -> 53:13.320] I'm that one warm up lap.
[53:13.320 -> 53:15.200] You're not the only people that set times.
[53:18.760 -> 53:26.480] Yeah, another one, did you see Alonzo doing the dive on the unsafe release?
[53:26.480 -> 53:28.520] He's like, oh, he does the wobble.
[53:28.520 -> 53:31.120] The premiership footballer style.
[53:31.120 -> 53:32.600] Yeah, dive.
[53:32.600 -> 53:34.600] Dive and then roll around a little bit.
[53:34.600 -> 53:36.720] Toto taking the piss out of him.
[53:36.720 -> 53:38.000] That was fucking hilarious.
[53:38.000 -> 53:39.600] Oh, right.
[53:39.600 -> 53:40.280] Yeah.
[53:40.280 -> 53:43.840] So during the race, we had some milestones set.
[53:43.840 -> 53:52.240] Verstappen, this is trivia time. Verstappen equals Sina for 41 wins for joint 5th of most
[53:52.240 -> 53:53.800] win scoring driver.
[53:53.800 -> 53:56.040] Who are the top four?
[53:56.040 -> 54:01.720] Sorry, who's got more race wins than them two?
[54:01.720 -> 54:03.400] Hamilton, obviously.
[54:03.400 -> 54:06.000] Who's got more than Hamilton?
[54:06.000 -> 54:08.000] Michael Schumacher.
[54:08.000 -> 54:10.000] Yeah, Hamilton has the most.
[54:10.000 -> 54:12.000] 103. Schumacher, second most.
[54:12.000 -> 54:14.000] 91.
[54:14.000 -> 54:16.000] Seb?
[54:16.000 -> 54:18.000] Yep. How many?
[54:18.000 -> 54:20.000] More or less than 50.
[54:20.000 -> 54:22.000] More.
[54:22.000 -> 54:24.000] Yep.
[54:24.000 -> 54:25.000] 53. You've got to be bored or so forth. Yep, how many? More or less than 50. More.
[54:25.000 -> 54:29.000] Yep, 53. You've got them in order so far.
[54:29.000 -> 54:30.000] Oh, okay.
[54:30.000 -> 54:31.000] You've got them in order.
[54:31.000 -> 54:32.000] Crossed.
[54:32.000 -> 54:33.000] Yep, more or less than 50.
[54:33.000 -> 54:34.000] That'd be less than, wouldn't it?
[54:34.000 -> 54:35.000] No, he's 51.
[54:35.000 -> 54:36.000] Oh, that's what I said.
[54:36.000 -> 54:38.000] Super close. That's what I said.
[54:38.000 -> 54:44.000] Then we've got Sina, 41, Verstappen, joint 5th with 41, and Alonso with 32.
[54:44.000 -> 54:46.400] He's not bad. You have three of the top seven standing on the podium. Verstappen joint 5th with 41 and Alonso with 32.
[54:49.400 -> 54:50.400] You have three of the top seven standing on the podium. Who'd have known that?
[54:51.200 -> 54:53.400] Right, next part.
[54:53.900 -> 54:56.100] Red Bull hits 100 wins.
[54:56.700 -> 54:57.400] Century.
[54:57.900 -> 55:00.500] They're 5th in the most winning team.
[55:00.500 -> 55:03.200] Can you name the top four most winning teams?
[55:04.300 -> 55:06.080] Ferrari, Mercedes.
[55:06.520 -> 55:06.800] Yep.
[55:08.280 -> 55:09.040] Williams.
[55:09.600 -> 55:09.840] Yep.
[55:09.920 -> 55:10.560] McLaren.
[55:11.120 -> 55:11.640] Yeah, that's it.
[55:11.840 -> 55:12.360] You name four.
[55:12.520 -> 55:12.840] Yeah.
[55:13.200 -> 55:14.120] In what order are they?
[55:14.520 -> 55:15.040] Who has the most?
[55:15.040 -> 55:16.840] Oh, Ferrari have the most.
[55:17.280 -> 55:17.560] Yep.
[55:17.800 -> 55:18.480] Next most.
[55:19.920 -> 55:20.760] Mercedes?
[55:22.040 -> 55:22.280] No.
[55:22.440 -> 55:23.360] Um, Williams.
[55:24.400 -> 55:24.760] No.
[55:24.840 -> 55:25.000] McLaren. That's what I said. McLaren. Williams? No.
[55:25.000 -> 55:26.500] McLaren, that's what I said. McLaren.
[55:26.500 -> 55:28.500] Yeah, exactly.
[55:28.500 -> 55:30.500] Williams?
[55:30.500 -> 55:32.500] Mercedes is third most.
[55:32.500 -> 55:34.500] Mercedes, yeah, that's what I said.
[55:34.500 -> 55:35.500] Williams?
[55:35.500 -> 55:36.500] Yeah, easy.
[55:36.500 -> 55:37.500] Yeah, yeah, perfect.
[55:37.500 -> 55:45.000] So, Ferrari 242, McLaren 183, Mercedes 125, Williams 114, Red Bull 100%.
[55:45.640 -> 55:50.640] Now of those, Red Bull has the highest win rate at 28%.
[55:51.440 -> 55:52.700] Second highest, I'm sorry, no,
[55:52.700 -> 55:55.840] Mercedes has the highest win rate, 44%.
[55:55.840 -> 55:57.240] That's fucking wild.
[55:57.240 -> 56:02.240] 44.8% win rate, Red Bull 22.1 or 28.1,
[56:03.160 -> 56:06.800] Ferrari 22.8, McLaren1. Ferrari 22.8.
[56:09.400 -> 56:11.100] McLaren 19.6% win rate and Williams a 14.4% win rate.
[56:12.700 -> 56:14.400] Mercedes have never been that dominant, though.
[56:14.600 -> 56:16.300] They've only won like half the races
[56:16.300 -> 56:17.600] they've ever fucking entered.
[56:23.000 -> 56:23.600] Weird, isn't it?
[56:23.600 -> 56:28.040] I think now watching Max win all these races, I'm like, I'm bored.
[56:28.800 -> 56:34.400] But I don't know, going back to thinking when Lewis and Mercedes were winning
[56:34.400 -> 56:38.760] everything as well, it's just like, I don't remember being this board then.
[56:39.840 -> 56:43.200] Maybe I was, maybe I was just too busy being stressed at fucking work, sitting
[56:43.200 -> 56:45.280] there saying fucking Mercedes yet again.
[56:46.320 -> 56:50.480] I was just like, how do we beat them? It's like, well, we can't get any more engine power.
[56:52.120 -> 56:53.440] So I don't know.
[56:53.680 -> 56:56.040] So you lot were trying to figure out how to beat them.
[56:56.400 -> 56:58.440] I was sitting there trying to figure out how to bring them down.
[56:58.560 -> 56:59.320] Like, you know,
[57:00.640 -> 57:02.480] how do I put a virus on this system?
[57:02.480 -> 57:08.200] How do I Photoshop Toto's head onto a inconspicuous phone that I can use to blackmail him?
[57:08.200 -> 57:09.200] Sort of thing, you know?
[57:09.200 -> 57:10.200] Oh my god.
[57:10.200 -> 57:15.960] I'm going to send sleeper agent Bianco's Bistros to park up outside, fucking bricks off.
[57:15.960 -> 57:17.520] Give them the sketchy baguette.
[57:17.520 -> 57:21.680] Give all them engineers the dodgy meatballs.
[57:21.680 -> 57:22.680] Yeah.
[57:22.680 -> 57:24.300] Oh hell.
[57:24.300 -> 57:28.240] But why don't we move on to our next little segment there, brother?
[57:28.320 -> 57:28.960] What do we got?
[57:29.800 -> 57:30.800] Oh, is this a.
[57:44.600 -> 57:49.360] On the ball two for two tonight I'm pressing the right buttons, they work
[57:49.360 -> 57:57.040] nailed it so yeah so excuse me random fandom basically just to spice things up
[57:57.040 -> 58:01.400] a little bit we randomly select a team to do like a book report on after every
[58:01.400 -> 58:07.520] race now I managed to pick Alpine, uh, for the Canadian Grand Prix, which
[58:07.520 -> 58:10.740] probably fucking explains a lot of why it went so fucking badly for them.
[58:11.200 -> 58:14.460] It seems to be a recurring theme now that whoever I get, I curse.
[58:16.860 -> 58:20.560] So we'll just, well, we need to go back and check the tally of this as well
[58:20.560 -> 58:22.000] and see if there's any correlation there.
[58:22.080 -> 58:23.840] It may do it.
[58:23.960 -> 58:24.860] You will find it.
[58:26.480 -> 58:28.160] Um, yeah, Alpine. So I can pretty much sum up Friday.
[58:28.160 -> 58:29.640] It was a fucking nightmare.
[58:29.640 -> 58:31.520] Both cars had reliability issues.
[58:31.520 -> 58:35.080] Saturday wasn't exactly much better for Mr.
[58:35.080 -> 58:39.040] Gasly, who was unfortunately blocked by the Spanish Inquisition during Q1.
[58:39.040 -> 58:45.680] They are having talks with the EU members in Brussels to try and resolve that.
[58:45.680 -> 58:54.200] Archon shit housed his way into P6 in the end in qualifying, so not too bad.
[58:54.200 -> 59:00.800] Yet again, Pierre Gatling must have broken a bunch of fucking mirrors or something because
[59:00.800 -> 59:01.800] as soon as he appeared-
[59:01.800 -> 59:02.800] Walked under ladders.
[59:02.800 -> 59:08.520] Yeah, he walked under a ladder on the way to the Geneva convention hearing.
[59:08.520 -> 59:14.960] Tried to undercut everyone with an early stop and then thanks to George terrorism, Russell
[59:14.960 -> 59:18.600] lost out because of the safety car and then just basically fucking sat in 12th for most
[59:18.600 -> 59:21.720] of the afternoon after that.
[59:21.720 -> 59:25.760] Ocon finished eighth, unable to pass the Williams rocket ship.
[59:29.260 -> 59:29.280] Um, and I've put a note here saying, I think he was very lucky not to get
[59:32.160 -> 59:32.840] meatball flagged for that, uh, real rear wing.
[59:33.340 -> 59:33.680] Yeah.
[59:35.540 -> 59:39.560] And, uh, yeah, that was kind of it really for them. So Alpine, they just sort of sitting fifth in the standings with like 44 points.
[59:39.560 -> 59:44.680] They're like 80 behind Ferrari and then 30 in front of McLaren or whatever.
[59:44.680 -> 59:45.720] They're just no man's land.aren or whatever. They're just mid.
[59:45.720 -> 59:49.240] Yeah, they are basically mid.
[59:49.240 -> 59:50.240] So yeah, yeah.
[59:50.240 -> 59:54.160] Dude, like honestly, if that rear wing came off, that could have been a huge shunt around
[59:54.160 -> 59:55.160] a track like that.
[59:55.160 -> 01:00:00.640] Imagine like in the exit of turn nine, like the old Coup, it's a spot where he clashed
[01:00:00.640 -> 01:00:03.400] in the Toyota.
[01:00:03.400 -> 01:00:05.280] Fucking hell, there's some big ones around here.
[01:00:05.280 -> 01:00:07.480] Oh, I've got some more information.
[01:00:07.480 -> 01:00:11.240] Sorry to add to the random fan that someone in chat has just reminded me of.
[01:00:11.240 -> 01:00:14.840] They're one of their major sponsors.
[01:00:14.840 -> 01:00:19.680] Binance wherever it's called Binance Binance is getting investigated for fraud.
[01:00:19.680 -> 01:00:24.400] So very suiting for this.
[01:00:24.400 -> 01:00:25.000] Very hot. Yeah. F1's wackiest rumors. Very haunting.
[01:00:25.000 -> 01:00:26.000] F1's wackiest rumors.
[01:00:26.000 -> 01:00:27.000] I'm just kidding.
[01:00:27.000 -> 01:00:35.000] Listen, if one of your sponsors hasn't been investigated for fraud, they're not even trying.
[01:00:35.000 -> 01:00:38.000] Yeah, they're not even a real F1 sponsor.
[01:00:38.000 -> 01:00:40.000] Oh my god.
[01:00:40.000 -> 01:00:41.000] Yeah.
[01:00:41.000 -> 01:00:45.600] So I had McLaren and somebody asked me, why don't we ever do Red Bull so we can
[01:00:45.600 -> 01:00:48.760] curse them if we have that's the whole point of random fandom is that we have to give a
[01:00:48.760 -> 01:00:53.520] report card on a team that we didn't just work for the last year or two.
[01:00:53.520 -> 01:00:56.800] So I mean it's really simple as well because for this fucking season would you want to
[01:00:56.800 -> 01:00:58.360] do a report on Red Bull?
[01:00:58.360 -> 01:00:59.360] They won the race.
[01:00:59.360 -> 01:01:00.360] Well done.
[01:01:00.360 -> 01:01:02.280] You can just fucking copy and paste that for all the races so far.
[01:01:02.280 -> 01:01:03.520] They've done a great job.
[01:01:03.520 -> 01:01:04.520] Smashed it.
[01:01:04.520 -> 01:01:05.320] Cheers lads.
[01:01:05.400 -> 01:01:05.720] Yeah.
[01:01:05.880 -> 01:01:06.560] Piss on that.
[01:01:06.600 -> 01:01:07.120] Piss on that.
[01:01:07.120 -> 01:01:10.560] So I had a McLaren FP true FP two.
[01:01:10.640 -> 01:01:10.960] Meh.
[01:01:11.520 -> 01:01:14.040] Like not really much to say free practice three in the wet.
[01:01:14.040 -> 01:01:15.160] They weren't very impressive.
[01:01:15.480 -> 01:01:17.560] Uh, if Norris had put his sectors together, he would have
[01:01:17.560 -> 01:01:18.680] been top three on the sheet.
[01:01:18.680 -> 01:01:22.480] So that was kind of, I was like, okay, okay, go off, uh, quality
[01:01:22.480 -> 01:01:24.760] P seven and piastri P nine.
[01:01:25.000 -> 01:01:27.360] Piastri also decided to fit a new rear of his car
[01:01:27.360 -> 01:01:29.880] because he decided to rip it off into the wall.
[01:01:29.880 -> 01:01:34.760] That was not particularly great, but P7, P9 and qualifying now in the race,
[01:01:35.280 -> 01:01:36.400] they were P7 and P8.
[01:01:36.400 -> 01:01:38.880] They were promoted due to penalties. Nice.
[01:01:40.000 -> 01:01:42.160] They do a bit of wheel to wheel, the two of them throughout the race,
[01:01:42.160 -> 01:01:44.360] which I was like, go on, let's go on, lads.
[01:01:44.760 -> 01:01:48.000] And it's really hard to say what the McLaren's race paces
[01:01:48.040 -> 01:01:52.380] because there was they were just in trains like that's how this was.
[01:01:53.040 -> 01:01:56.040] If you didn't have a huge pace advantage, you couldn't overtake.
[01:01:56.340 -> 01:01:56.880] And that's it.
[01:01:58.740 -> 01:02:01.980] I could have missed this, but it looks like around the stop sequence,
[01:02:02.440 -> 01:02:04.700] it looks like they left Piastri out to dry.
[01:02:05.800 -> 01:02:14.840] So the box Norris from P9 to cover Stroll, but Piastri is a couple seconds behind Norris
[01:02:14.840 -> 01:02:18.280] and they just leave him out, then box him behind Stroll.
[01:02:18.280 -> 01:02:23.280] I might have missed some context, but realistically, they should have boxed Piastri like five laps
[01:02:23.280 -> 01:02:26.720] earlier to cover Stroll, unless they're like, there's no way we'll get to the end,
[01:02:26.720 -> 01:02:28.700] but looking at all the other cars,
[01:02:28.700 -> 01:02:29.880] I think they could have gotten to the end.
[01:02:29.880 -> 01:02:34.880] They converted a P7, P8 grid to a P9 and P12 result.
[01:02:35.200 -> 01:02:37.560] The Norris gets a five second penalty
[01:02:37.560 -> 01:02:40.360] for unsporting behavior for making a gap
[01:02:40.360 -> 01:02:42.520] under the safety car so that they could stack
[01:02:42.520 -> 01:02:45.400] without losing too much time in the stop.
[01:02:45.400 -> 01:02:49.600] And I'm not sure what the precedents are for that, but it seems like a very odd penalty
[01:02:49.600 -> 01:02:51.200] characterization and I'm not sure.
[01:02:51.200 -> 01:02:54.960] So if you know more about this or the history of this type of backing up people under a
[01:02:54.960 -> 01:02:58.720] safety car, leave a comment or at us on Twitter.
[01:02:58.720 -> 01:03:02.520] But do you, do you have any thoughts on the history of the backing up cars under the safety
[01:03:02.520 -> 01:03:03.920] car so you can stack?
[01:03:03.920 -> 01:03:06.160] I feel we have seen that before.
[01:03:06.900 -> 01:03:12.360] And I think we've seen it before with Mercedes when Bottas was still there.
[01:03:13.100 -> 01:03:16.360] I can't remember what year or race, so I'm sorry, but there was definitely
[01:03:16.360 -> 01:03:19.740] some chatter where there's someone was like, Hmm, Bottas is slowing people
[01:03:19.740 -> 01:03:22.860] a bit unnecessarily there so they could double stack or someone
[01:03:22.860 -> 01:03:24.600] saying Jeddah 2021 it was.
[01:03:25.920 -> 01:03:29.080] So yeah, but I don't remember anything happening because of it.
[01:03:30.200 -> 01:03:30.560] I don't know.
[01:03:31.160 -> 01:03:34.000] Maybe they, I can't remember if it did or not, but yeah, no, I've seen it happen
[01:03:34.000 -> 01:03:36.520] before, but I don't, can't remember if you got a penalty for it.
[01:03:37.400 -> 01:03:37.720] Yeah.
[01:03:37.800 -> 01:03:42.000] I don't know, but that's, but that's, it's not an unsporting penalty and I
[01:03:42.000 -> 01:03:46.360] think they should get some professional stewards. That's a full stop.
[01:03:46.360 -> 01:03:48.000] Yeah, us now.
[01:03:48.000 -> 01:03:50.800] But I think is that is that all in the report cards?
[01:03:50.800 -> 01:03:52.360] I'm happy with report cards today.
[01:03:52.360 -> 01:03:53.360] Yeah, Alpine mid.
[01:03:53.360 -> 01:03:54.360] Yeah, all right, McLaren.
[01:03:54.360 -> 01:03:55.360] Yeah, not impressed.
[01:03:55.360 -> 01:04:03.080] They're they're they're having some glimpses like they're trying to turn it around.
[01:04:03.080 -> 01:04:05.520] I think they are, but it's, it's not quite there yet.
[01:04:05.520 -> 01:04:08.600] I'm, I'm happy for Daniel Ricardo not having to drive that thing around this year,
[01:04:08.600 -> 01:04:10.840] though, make that bag, hang out on TV.
[01:04:11.400 -> 01:04:14.000] But, uh, yeah, why don't we move on to.
[01:04:14.200 -> 01:04:14.480] Hit it.
[01:04:26.440 -> 01:04:28.320] What are we saying? Who's who nomination for FrodWatch this week?
[01:04:28.320 -> 01:04:31.480] Alpha Tauri, bang, fuck it, I'm not even hanging around anymore.
[01:04:31.480 -> 01:04:33.840] Bang, Alpha Tauri, you're in there.
[01:04:33.840 -> 01:04:39.280] Now I'm not going to be nuanced and sort of go into the drivers and individual performances,
[01:04:39.280 -> 01:04:43.760] but as an organization and everything about them, after the result this weekend, they
[01:04:43.760 -> 01:04:45.920] are now sitting at the bottom of the constructors table
[01:04:47.720 -> 01:04:49.800] What the fuck is going on that team and
[01:04:51.800 -> 01:04:53.800] Yeah
[01:04:54.160 -> 01:05:00.720] F1's wackiest rumors theories and conspiracies on this episode of the fraud files
[01:05:03.320 -> 01:05:05.400] Okay, you know what I'm gonna say, you know what I'm going to say?
[01:05:05.440 -> 01:05:06.720] You know what I'm going to say?
[01:05:06.760 -> 01:05:07.080] Do it.
[01:05:07.080 -> 01:05:07.720] Just go for it.
[01:05:08.720 -> 01:05:09.880] I have.
[01:05:09.880 -> 01:05:16.520] I have seen allegations that Red Bull have stolen Alpha Tari's wind tunnel time.
[01:05:17.520 -> 01:05:22.200] If you if you literally think that go watch fucking WWE.
[01:05:22.320 -> 01:05:25.260] I swear to God, some of you people need to touch grass.
[01:05:28.520 -> 01:05:30.400] Call your parents, tell them hi, if you've got them, if not call a friend, talk to somebody, get some fucking help.
[01:05:31.500 -> 01:05:32.140] Seriously.
[01:05:34.080 -> 01:05:35.640] I, yeah, yeah.
[01:05:35.680 -> 01:05:36.160] Fair enough.
[01:05:36.720 -> 01:05:36.980] Yeah.
[01:05:37.320 -> 01:05:42.380] Actually the truth is we're siphoning money from Alpha Tauri from some
[01:05:42.380 -> 01:05:45.760] software that I left installed and we're using it to
[01:05:45.760 -> 01:05:49.840] fund our Traeger grills and our minutes from our local butchers.
[01:05:49.840 -> 01:05:51.620] Yeah, how much is a Traeger?
[01:05:51.620 -> 01:05:54.840] It's like a grand, so we siphoned a whole grand off of AlphaTowery.
[01:05:54.840 -> 01:05:56.560] We still haven't bought you a Traeger yet.
[01:05:56.560 -> 01:05:59.400] No, it's fucking bullshit.
[01:05:59.400 -> 01:06:04.000] If somebody from Traeger grills ever listens to our podcasts, that'd be fucking hilarious.
[01:06:04.000 -> 01:06:06.480] I just love that shit.
[01:06:09.480 -> 01:06:10.440] I don't know if I want, I don't even know if I want one now after all this.
[01:06:13.980 -> 01:06:15.160] After all this fucking Hawking it for free.
[01:06:16.580 -> 01:06:17.640] I don't want it anymore. I'll just fucking raffle it.
[01:06:17.640 -> 01:06:18.440] You know what I'll do with it?
[01:06:18.440 -> 01:06:21.360] I'll drive it to fucking Maranello in the back of the Panda and deliver it.
[01:06:21.920 -> 01:06:22.820] You know what I'm going to do?
[01:06:22.820 -> 01:06:25.700] I'm going to smoke salmon tomorrow night after the carding race.
[01:06:26.020 -> 01:06:28.700] I've got the motor mouth carding race tomorrow.
[01:06:29.060 -> 01:06:30.500] I think Jimmers is going to be there.
[01:06:30.500 -> 01:06:32.060] Tom and Alice might be there.
[01:06:32.140 -> 01:06:35.440] And, uh, it's like a two and a half hour race and I'm getting assigned a
[01:06:35.440 -> 01:06:37.180] team of people that I don't know.
[01:06:37.180 -> 01:06:38.860] So we're going to vibe out and have a good time.
[01:06:38.860 -> 01:06:39.980] So yeah.
[01:06:40.340 -> 01:06:43.700] Uh, if you're in, uh, was it, what's the one in North Hampton?
[01:06:44.820 -> 01:06:45.760] Yeah, we'll be up there.
[01:06:45.760 -> 01:06:46.760] It's a good track.
[01:06:46.760 -> 01:06:47.760] Yeah, it's cool.
[01:06:47.760 -> 01:06:49.560] I don't know it, so I'm just gonna be like, figure it out.
[01:06:49.560 -> 01:06:52.560] Hopefully somebody knows the track and can qualify because I'm mid.
[01:06:52.560 -> 01:06:53.560] Just YouTube it.
[01:06:53.560 -> 01:06:55.080] Yeah, fine.
[01:06:55.080 -> 01:07:00.640] My fraud watch is whoever does the fucking racetrack safety barriers.
[01:07:00.640 -> 01:07:02.320] You guys are fucking dorks.
[01:07:02.320 -> 01:07:05.360] Yeah, I hear that.
[01:07:06.960 -> 01:07:08.320] Yeah, that was that was stupid,
[01:07:08.320 -> 01:07:10.440] like just trying to justify being there.
[01:07:10.440 -> 01:07:11.040] Just stop.
[01:07:11.040 -> 01:07:12.040] Just fucking give up.
[01:07:12.080 -> 01:07:13.440] Don't you?
[01:07:13.480 -> 01:07:15.160] I don't know you don't make people do 90
[01:07:15.160 -> 01:07:17.320] degree turns to get back onto the fucking track.
[01:07:17.720 -> 01:07:19.640] Yeah, that was that was pure stupidity,
[01:07:19.640 -> 01:07:21.800] but I think it's time for the next segment.
[01:07:21.840 -> 01:07:22.360] What do you think?
[01:07:22.600 -> 01:07:23.000] Go.
[01:07:24.920 -> 01:07:26.880] Oh, you think you're a good boy.
[01:07:26.880 -> 01:07:27.600] I am.
[01:07:27.600 -> 01:07:28.600] I'm a good boy.
[01:07:28.600 -> 01:07:30.600] Oh, good boys.
[01:07:30.600 -> 01:07:34.320] Where we just give somebody a little bit of some respect for the weekend.
[01:07:34.320 -> 01:07:36.600] And who do you have for your engine mode?
[01:07:36.600 -> 01:07:37.320] Good boy this week.
[01:07:37.320 -> 01:07:43.000] Well, chat listeners, Blake is asking me that question because I've
[01:07:43.000 -> 01:07:49.860] left my entry blank in the show notes. And it's because I want us all to be together and while
[01:07:49.860 -> 01:07:54.800] we do this live and we can all share a moment. Ladies and gentlemen I would like
[01:07:54.800 -> 01:08:01.080] to give my Engine Mode Good Boy Award for this week to the Ferrari strategists.
[01:08:01.080 -> 01:08:06.280] It has been a long time coming to Fossey, but this race, you were
[01:08:06.280 -> 01:08:07.280] on the up.
[01:08:07.280 -> 01:08:08.600] It wasn't actually terrible.
[01:08:08.600 -> 01:08:14.320] They actually competently did their job and I'm proud of them.
[01:08:14.320 -> 01:08:20.520] And I'm proud of you for sticking by that team for so long without self-harming.
[01:08:20.520 -> 01:08:21.780] You know what?
[01:08:21.780 -> 01:08:27.040] I'm pretty sure both of the calls for the strategy were to box onto the safety car and
[01:08:27.040 -> 01:08:32.160] the driver's like, fuck that.
[01:08:32.160 -> 01:08:33.880] Get that Fiat Panda bought.
[01:08:33.880 -> 01:08:35.920] We're not taking them an apology letter.
[01:08:35.920 -> 01:08:39.680] We're sending them a car full of self-help books.
[01:08:39.680 -> 01:08:48.600] Yeah, we're going to go fucking give him a CV. Oh my God, you fucking troll.
[01:08:48.600 -> 01:08:52.080] I'm going to put some respect out there for again.
[01:08:52.080 -> 01:08:53.400] I think it's the second time.
[01:08:53.400 -> 01:08:56.000] No, I haven't.
[01:08:56.000 -> 01:08:57.960] Is this our first Alex Alba on engine mode?
[01:08:57.960 -> 01:08:58.960] Good boy.
[01:08:58.960 -> 01:09:08.080] Fuck man, he's he's he's he's impressing me. And I, I knew like going up against max early on in that car was fucking
[01:09:08.080 -> 01:09:11.240] difficult because he had that car figured out, but the, the, the post
[01:09:11.240 -> 01:09:15.840] Red Bull, Alex Albon, I hope he's, I hope he's doing well because he's
[01:09:15.840 -> 01:09:19.240] driving really fucking well, super fucking nice guy.
[01:09:19.760 -> 01:09:24.460] And, um, I hope they can at least take that team, make some, continue
[01:09:24.460 -> 01:09:25.280] to make some improvements
[01:09:25.280 -> 01:09:26.760] in it because it's not a quick team.
[01:09:26.760 -> 01:09:31.080] And as Val said, they're way behind on all their software and tools and everything else.
[01:09:31.080 -> 01:09:35.900] But he deserves good stuff and he's a good dude and he's driving the fucking shit out
[01:09:35.900 -> 01:09:36.900] of that thing.
[01:09:36.900 -> 01:09:39.120] And we know it's not a fast car.
[01:09:39.120 -> 01:09:40.120] So respect.
[01:09:40.120 -> 01:09:41.120] Yeah.
[01:09:41.120 -> 01:09:47.000] Pick yourself up Alex Albon. Yeah. Big yourself up, Alex Albon.
[01:09:47.000 -> 01:09:48.560] Yeah.
[01:09:48.560 -> 01:09:50.640] So what do we have?
[01:09:50.640 -> 01:09:52.700] We've talked about this a couple of times.
[01:09:52.700 -> 01:09:56.200] Is next week the week that we start our iRacing league?
[01:09:56.200 -> 01:10:01.520] Unfortunately, I'm leaving for Liverpool once again.
[01:10:01.520 -> 01:10:04.680] No work calls.
[01:10:04.680 -> 01:10:05.000] Imagine having a salary.
[01:10:05.000 -> 01:10:07.000] I'm fucking over it.
[01:10:07.000 -> 01:10:10.000] Honestly, I don't care if my manager's listening.
[01:10:10.000 -> 01:10:12.000] I don't care if people I work with are listening.
[01:10:12.000 -> 01:10:14.000] I'm fucking over working for a living.
[01:10:14.000 -> 01:10:15.000] I'm 35.
[01:10:15.000 -> 01:10:16.000] Can I not just retire already?
[01:10:16.000 -> 01:10:17.000] I'm done.
[01:10:17.000 -> 01:10:19.000] No, you lazy fuck.
[01:10:19.000 -> 01:10:21.000] Hey, what's up with your company car?
[01:10:21.000 -> 01:10:25.000] Real quick. He's being resolved tomorrow. So the original, the original vehicle is coming. I'll put it on Twitter later, but yeah, the vehicle is coming corrected tomorrow.
[01:10:25.000 -> 01:10:26.000] So yeah.
[01:10:26.000 -> 01:10:27.000] What happened?
[01:10:27.000 -> 01:10:28.000] Can we talk about that?
[01:10:28.000 -> 01:10:29.000] I don't know yet because I don't know of the original where the origin of the original
[01:10:29.000 -> 01:10:30.000] vehicle has come from.
[01:10:30.000 -> 01:10:31.000] Understood.
[01:10:31.000 -> 01:10:32.000] I think it could be.
[01:10:32.000 -> 01:10:33.000] I think it could be.
[01:10:33.000 -> 01:10:34.000] I think it could be.
[01:10:34.000 -> 01:10:35.000] I think it could be.
[01:10:35.000 -> 01:10:36.000] I think it could be.
[01:10:36.000 -> 01:10:37.000] I think it could be.
[01:10:37.000 -> 01:10:38.000] I think it could be.
[01:10:38.000 -> 01:10:39.000] I think it could be.
[01:10:39.000 -> 01:10:40.000] I think it could be.
[01:10:40.000 -> 01:10:41.000] I think it could be.
[01:10:41.000 -> 01:10:42.000] I think it could be.
[01:10:42.000 -> 01:10:43.000] I think it could be.
[01:10:43.000 -> 01:10:44.000] I think it could be.
[01:10:44.000 -> 01:10:45.600] I think it could be. I think it could be. I think it could be. I think it know yet because I don't know of the original where the origin of
[01:10:45.600 -> 01:10:51.840] the original vehicle has come from. Understood. I think it could be a bit hot if you know what I
[01:10:51.840 -> 01:10:56.320] mean. I think I've been delivered a hot car that I shouldn't have been. Right so why don't we
[01:10:57.200 -> 01:11:04.160] visit this later once we've cleared up the situation but oh man can't forget about that.
[01:11:03.520 -> 01:11:04.520] But yeah, oh man. Can't forget about that.
[01:11:04.520 -> 01:11:07.560] OK, so Dan's off for work.
[01:11:07.560 -> 01:11:08.560] We're going to.
[01:11:08.560 -> 01:11:12.680] I'm going to try and do some iRacing next week.
[01:11:12.680 -> 01:11:14.840] I need to get my review video for this.
[01:11:14.840 -> 01:11:16.720] I'm also steering wheel and pedals and stuff.
[01:11:16.720 -> 01:11:18.840] I've been sitting on it, but I wanted to use them in anger.
[01:11:18.840 -> 01:11:23.120] I didn't want to give you guys a crap review, so they sent me some stuff and I've been loving
[01:11:23.120 -> 01:11:24.120] it.
[01:11:24.120 -> 01:11:33.000] I've actually been loving it and it's probably super huge bang for the buck. I got the R9 V2 wheelbase, the GS V2
[01:11:33.000 -> 01:11:37.560] steering wheel and the SP pedals. They're fucking awesome. Load cell brake pedals, W.
[01:11:37.560 -> 01:11:46.360] So yeah, why don't we call it a night here? I'm not sure if we're gonna record an episode
[01:11:46.360 -> 01:11:48.360] next week. Are we? Have we taken a week off?
[01:11:48.360 -> 01:11:52.760] I don't know. Who knows? Watch this space. Maybe.
[01:11:52.760 -> 01:11:55.920] Yeah, watch this space. We'll let you know on Twitter and the Instagram and everything
[01:11:55.920 -> 01:12:03.880] else like that. But yeah, don't shop at Morrison's. Support your local butcher. I supported my
[01:12:03.880 -> 01:12:06.280] local butcher with four kilos of brisket last week.
[01:12:06.280 -> 01:12:07.680] It was spectacular.
[01:12:07.680 -> 01:12:09.280] I'm going to go get a...
[01:12:09.280 -> 01:12:14.120] I will say, though, I got a chicken while the in-laws were here.
[01:12:14.120 -> 01:12:15.080] I got a whole chicken.
[01:12:15.080 -> 01:12:16.800] Guess how much it cost from the local butcher.
[01:12:16.800 -> 01:12:19.800] Oh, I don't really know what chicken prices are like at the minute.
[01:12:19.800 -> 01:12:27.840] It was fucking £12 for a normal full-sized chickensize chicken like that's like six quid at Tesco
[01:12:28.280 -> 01:12:34.000] Yeah, seven six six fifty seven quid for like the organic one of those. Yeah. Yeah
[01:12:34.520 -> 01:12:36.520] Fuck is a kilogram
[01:12:37.440 -> 01:12:40.540] See if you're buying a chicken from Tesco
[01:12:41.760 -> 01:12:43.760] Where's it come from me?
[01:12:44.360 -> 01:12:45.360] Who's touched it? What's it been? What's it come from mate? What's who's touched it?
[01:12:45.780 -> 01:12:46.300] What's it been?
[01:12:46.360 -> 01:12:47.160] What's it gone through?
[01:12:48.340 -> 01:12:51.920] Go to your local butcher who has lovingly picked that chicken out of a field.
[01:12:52.860 -> 01:12:55.620] And said, yeah, Blake will have that.
[01:12:56.700 -> 01:12:59.140] He's loaded it into an RPG.
[01:13:00.820 -> 01:13:03.820] Carefully lovingly aimed it at Max and Stefan's car.
[01:13:04.660 -> 01:13:05.600] He's fired it.
[01:13:06.200 -> 01:13:09.220] He's put it through the brake ventilation system.
[01:13:09.220 -> 01:13:11.760] He's pulled it out and he said, yeah, I'll sell this now.
[01:13:12.000 -> 01:13:12.720] Oh, 12 quid.
[01:13:15.560 -> 01:13:15.760] Yeah.
[01:13:15.760 -> 01:13:21.120] I would say it was, it was lovely, but I mean, that's super expensive chicken.
[01:13:21.120 -> 01:13:22.600] So I'm going to, I'm going to have to take care.
[01:13:22.600 -> 01:13:26.000] Cause, um, yeah, unlike you, I don't have a full-time job or full-time salary right now. I'm gonna have to take care because um yeah unlike you I don't have a
[01:13:26.000 -> 01:13:31.280] full-time job or full-time salary right now I'm on that grind bro I'm on that grind. Don't worry
[01:13:31.280 -> 01:13:36.160] we're gonna be rich because everyone's gonna put five euros five dollars five pounds into a letter
[01:13:36.960 -> 01:13:43.360] address it to us chuck it out to a brick yeah tie it to a brick yeet it and it's like when kids write
[01:13:43.360 -> 01:13:45.880] their letters to Santa and put them in the postbox,
[01:13:45.880 -> 01:13:47.600] they always find their way to the North Pole.
[01:13:48.880 -> 01:13:49.560] Holy.
[01:13:50.080 -> 01:13:52.960] We're like the Poundland version of Father Christmas.
[01:13:55.920 -> 01:13:58.920] So why don't we, um, butchers give them some love.
[01:13:59.240 -> 01:13:59.480] Yep.
[01:13:59.560 -> 01:14:01.040] Mom's, dad's, gran's.
[01:14:01.080 -> 01:14:01.320] Yep.
[01:14:01.440 -> 01:14:01.960] Everybody.
[01:14:02.040 -> 01:14:02.280] Yep.
[01:14:03.120 -> 01:14:06.000] Um, checking on your mates, uh, everybody. Yep. Check in on your mates.
[01:14:06.000 -> 01:14:08.000] Check in on yourself.
[01:14:08.000 -> 01:14:10.000] Ladies,
[01:14:10.000 -> 01:14:12.000] check for lumps. Men,
[01:14:12.000 -> 01:14:14.000] check for lumps. You know where.
[01:14:14.000 -> 01:14:16.000] What else
[01:14:16.000 -> 01:14:18.000] is there? Brush your teeth twice
[01:14:18.000 -> 01:14:20.000] a day.
[01:14:20.000 -> 01:14:22.000] That's good advice. Yeah, I don't know what else
[01:14:22.000 -> 01:14:24.000] can I say. Quit your jobs, fuck it.
[01:14:20.270 -> 01:14:23.070] That's good advice. Yeah, I don't know what else can I say.
[01:14:23.070 -> 01:14:25.070] Quit your jobs, fuck it.