Podcast: EngineBraking
Published Date:
Wed, 12 Jul 2023 16:14:07 GMT
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1:12:42
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Dan and Blake, two ex F1 engineers with over 10+ years in the industry bring you all the talking points from the Silverstone GP with a healthy blend of technical analysis and down right fraudulent takes
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**Episode Overview:**
* Hosts Dan, a former Red Bull Racing engineer, and Blake, an ex-F1 performance engineer, discuss the latest news and events in Formula One, including the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
**Key Points:**
* **Nick de Vries Replaced by Daniel Ricciardo at AlphaTauri:**
- Nick de Vries was unexpectedly dropped from AlphaTauri after just 10 races, with Daniel Ricciardo returning to the team for the remainder of the season.
- Red Bull's decision to loan Ricciardo to AlphaTauri is seen as a strategic move, potentially targeting Sergio Perez's seat at Red Bull Racing.
- Liam Lawson, a promising junior driver in the Red Bull academy, may be groomed for a future AlphaTauri seat.
* **Silly Season Speculation:**
- The Formula One silly season, known for driver transfers and contract negotiations, has begun earlier than usual this year.
- Rumors suggest that Ricciardo's return to AlphaTauri could impact Perez's position at Red Bull Racing.
- The driver market is uncertain, with many teams considering their options for the 2023 season.
* **Silverstone Race Analysis:**
- Carlos Sainz Jr. secured his maiden Formula One victory at Silverstone, followed by Sergio Perez and Lewis Hamilton.
- Ferrari's strategic decisions, including a late pit stop for Sainz, proved crucial in securing the win.
- Mercedes showed improved performance, with Hamilton delivering a strong race despite a grid penalty.
- Fernando Alonso's impressive drive in the Alpine, finishing fifth, highlighted his continued competitiveness.
**Fraud Watch:**
* **Alpine's Engine:**
- Alpine's engine, used by the team and its customer, Williams, has been plagued by reliability issues throughout the season.
- Esteban Ocon and Alex Albon have both experienced engine failures, costing them valuable points.
- The unreliability of the Alpine engine raises concerns about its long-term competitiveness.
**Engine Mode Good Boy:**
* **McLaren's Progress:**
- McLaren has shown significant improvement in recent races, with Lando Norris and Daniel Ricciardo scoring consistent points.
- The team's upgrades and strategic decisions have contributed to their resurgence.
- McLaren is now in contention for fourth place in the constructors' championship.
**Random Fandom:**
* **Williams' Resurgence:**
- Williams, under new management, has shown signs of recovery after several challenging seasons.
- Alex Albon has impressed with his performances, scoring points and battling in the midfield.
- The team's improved competitiveness is a positive development for Formula One.
**Overall Message:**
The British Grand Prix at Silverstone provided exciting racing and strategic battles, with Carlos Sainz Jr. claiming his first Formula One victory. Silly season is in full swing, with rumors and speculation surrounding driver transfers and team strategies. McLaren's progress and Williams' resurgence are positive developments in the sport. # Formula One: Silverstone Grand Prix Debrief
## Overview:
- Formula One experts, Dan and Blake, provide an in-depth analysis of the Silverstone Grand Prix, combining technical insights with entertaining commentary.
- YouTube milestone: Blake reaches 100k subscribers.
- Driver Performances:
- Daniel Ricciardo's return raises questions about Sergio Perez's future at Red Bull.
- McLaren's impressive resurgence continues with strong performances from Lando Norris and Daniel Ricciardo.
- Williams shows signs of improvement with competitive pace at Silverstone.
- Ferrari struggles to find pace and consistency.
- Technical Deep Dive:
- Teams introduce significant upgrades for the Silverstone race.
- AlphaTauri, Alpha Romeo, and McLaren bring comprehensive updates.
- Wind tunnel limitations and the challenges of modeling crosswinds are discussed.
- Qualifying Highlights:
- Track evolution and changing conditions play a crucial role.
- Sergio Perez's qualifying struggles are attributed to tire preparation issues and a compromised outlap.
- Max Verstappen's pit lane incident adds to the drama.
- Bottas faces fuel sample issues, leading to disqualification.
- McLaren's Resurgence:
- McLaren's recent qualifying performances indicate a significant improvement.
- The team's gap to pole position has been steadily decreasing.
- Lando Norris secures pole position at Silverstone, showcasing McLaren's progress.
- Aston Martin's Struggles:
- Aston Martin's qualifying performance has been declining in recent races.
- The team faces challenges in maintaining momentum and developing updates throughout the season.
## Conclusion:
The Silverstone Grand Prix provided exciting racing and highlighted the evolving dynamics among the top teams. McLaren's resurgence, Williams' improvement, and Ferrari's struggles add intrigue to the upcoming races. The technical analysis delves into the complexities of wind tunnel modeling and tire preparation, showcasing the intricate details that influence Formula One performance. ## 2022 British Grand Prix Race Summary
The 2022 British Grand Prix took place at the Silverstone Circuit on July 3, 2022.
**Qualifying:**
- Max Verstappen secured pole position with a time of 1:17.075, followed by Lando Norris in P2 and Carlos Sainz in P3.
- Lewis Hamilton qualified fourth, ahead of teammate George Russell in P5.
- Sergio Perez endured a disappointing qualifying session, finishing in P15 after a spin on his final lap.
**Race:**
- Verstappen made a poor start and dropped down to P4, allowing Norris to take the lead.
- Norris held the lead for the majority of the race, with Verstappen closing the gap in the latter stages.
- A late safety car period caused a shake-up in the order, with Russell pitting for soft tires and jumping ahead of Norris.
- Norris stayed out on his hard tires and managed to hold off Hamilton to secure his first Formula 1 victory.
- Verstappen finished third, ahead of Sainz, Russell, and Hamilton.
- Sergio Perez recovered from his poor qualifying position to finish P6, ahead of Fernando Alonso, Esteban Ocon, and Sebastian Vettel.
**Key Moments:**
- Norris's victory marked the first time a British driver had won the British Grand Prix since David Coulthard in 1999.
- It was also McLaren's first victory since the 2021 Italian Grand Prix.
- The race featured several exciting battles, including a close fight between Norris and Sainz for the lead.
- The safety car period played a crucial role in the outcome of the race, allowing Russell to jump ahead of Norris.
- Verstappen's poor start cost him a chance at victory, but he still managed to secure a podium finish.
**Overall:**
The 2022 British Grand Prix was a thrilling and unpredictable race, with several key moments that shaped the outcome. Norris's victory was a popular result with the home crowd, and it marked a significant moment in his career. Verstappen's dominance continued, but he was unable to secure a fifth consecutive victory. The race also saw McLaren return to the top step of the podium, and it provided further evidence that the midfield battle in Formula 1 is closer than ever. ## Silverstone Grand Prix Podcast Summary
### Introduction
* The podcast begins with the hosts, Dan and Blake, discussing their excitement for the Silverstone Grand Prix.
* They also mention that Blake has reached 100,000 subscribers on YouTube.
### Main Topics
**1. Danny Ric Returns, Bad News for Checo?**
* The hosts speculate on the potential impact of Daniel Ricciardo's return to McLaren on Sergio Perez's position in the team.
* They note that Ricciardo has a strong track record and could pose a threat to Perez's seat.
**2. McLaren and Williams Are Cooking**
* The hosts praise the performance of McLaren and Williams in the Silverstone Grand Prix.
* They highlight Lando Norris's podium finish and George Russell's impressive qualifying performance.
**3. Ferrari Are Not**
* The hosts criticize Ferrari's performance in the race, particularly Carlos Sainz's mistake that cost him a potential podium finish.
* They also discuss the team's ongoing struggles with reliability.
**4. Fraudwatch**
* The hosts discuss the controversial penalty that was given to Sebastian Vettel for a collision with Esteban Ocon.
* They debate whether the penalty was justified and whether Vettel should have been disqualified from the race.
**5. Enginegoodboi**
* The hosts praise the performance of Mercedes' power unit, which helped Lewis Hamilton win the race.
* They also discuss the potential impact of the new engine regulations on the upcoming races.
**6. Random Fandom**
* The hosts share their thoughts on various other topics related to Formula One, including the performance of AlphaTauri, the future of Oscar Piastri, and the potential for a new Grand Prix in Las Vegas.
### Conclusion
* The hosts wrap up the podcast by discussing their overall impressions of the Silverstone Grand Prix.
* They agree that it was an exciting and unpredictable race, and they look forward to the next race in Austria.
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[02:13.360 -> 02:20.040] You are listening to the most fraudulent f1 podcast with Dan aka engine mode 11
[02:20.040 -> 02:28.440] I secretly moonlight is now what Marco race weekend and Blake aka break echo chambers of farts and idiots on Twitter after races
[02:28.440 -> 02:31.000] It's the engine breaking f1 podcast
[02:36.960 -> 02:38.960] Yeah
[02:39.360 -> 02:44.080] Episode 33 for all you Alonzo stands out there. We believe in the 33
[02:45.500 -> 02:47.980] Not sure if it's gonna happen this year though, sadly.
[02:48.420 -> 02:49.480] Uh, but we'll get into that.
[02:50.020 -> 02:51.340] Yeah, we'll, we'll get into that.
[02:51.520 -> 02:55.020] Welcome to the engine breaking podcast, the most fraudulent
[02:55.020 -> 02:56.720] formula and podcasts on the internet.
[02:56.720 -> 03:01.120] My name's Blake, AKA break former F1 performance engineer at now full-time
[03:01.120 -> 03:06.240] formula, one content creator, analyst,, and occasional podcasting shit poster.
[03:06.240 -> 03:13.280] Who are you? I'm Dan, aka Engine Mode 11. I spent six years at Red Bull Racing as a senior systems
[03:13.280 -> 03:18.400] engineer, and now I've just got no clue what I'm doing with my life. So hey, why not do what
[03:18.400 -> 03:24.320] everyone else is doing and start a podcast, right? Yeah, and honestly, we talk it down a little bit.
[03:25.520 -> 03:30.360] Yeah, honestly, we talk it down a little bit. The reviews are actually really kind and I'm surprised because like we're basically the
[03:30.360 -> 03:33.720] idea behind this podcast was like, hey man, you like talking about formula?
[03:33.720 -> 03:34.720] Yeah, I guess so.
[03:34.720 -> 03:35.720] I was like, yeah, me too.
[03:35.720 -> 03:36.720] It's like we've been around a bit.
[03:36.720 -> 03:37.880] OK, why don't we do a podcast?
[03:37.880 -> 03:48.420] We did a podcast and despite all of the shit house arena and the gags. We, uh, we do like to add a little bit of insight to the world of Formula
[03:48.420 -> 03:51.840] One and get a little bit of that behind the scenes flavor that everybody loves.
[03:51.840 -> 03:54.400] And you guys, we don't really get anywhere else on the internet.
[03:54.400 -> 03:58.040] So instead of interviewing team bosses, you can just ask us what we think they
[03:58.040 -> 04:00.200] might say, and we'll totally be not wrong.
[04:00.440 -> 04:00.800] Yeah.
[04:00.840 -> 04:06.300] I mean, where else in the myriad of F1 podcasts that litter the universe, which
[04:06.300 -> 04:11.860] how many of them out there have firsthand experience of the Red Bull catering
[04:11.860 -> 04:20.100] sandwiches? They're delicious. It's amazing. The old canteen though from like
[04:20.100 -> 04:25.000] 2015 wouldn't survive today. That place was tiny, but I'm sure.
[04:25.720 -> 04:29.120] If you're sitting in a small little office now listening to this podcast,
[04:29.640 -> 04:32.480] that's twice the size of what the old canteen used to be.
[04:32.480 -> 04:34.560] It was, it was not good.
[04:35.280 -> 04:39.280] It was probably like maybe six or seven of my offices, which are not very small.
[04:39.280 -> 04:42.360] I can almost reach back and touch that wall behind me if you're on video.
[04:42.760 -> 04:47.200] But anyway, speaking of the, speaking of the authority of this podcast,
[04:47.200 -> 04:49.500] we just posted a clip on the tweeters.
[04:49.500 -> 04:54.200] We predicted what we're just about to talk about,
[04:54.200 -> 04:55.400] but we'll get into that prediction.
[04:55.400 -> 05:00.200] It's kind of like this Nostradamus thing where we're usually pretty good.
[05:00.200 -> 05:00.900] Are we good?
[05:00.900 -> 05:06.960] I'm not really good at like celebrating wins. So you said we predicted it.
[05:06.960 -> 05:07.960] You predicted it.
[05:07.960 -> 05:13.320] I was a little bit like, no, I don't, I don't, you know, I don't, I don't believe so it was
[05:13.320 -> 05:18.520] very kind of you to wrap that into the entire podcast prediction, but let's be real here.
[05:18.520 -> 05:19.520] You predicted it.
[05:19.520 -> 05:20.520] I'll shut it down.
[05:20.520 -> 05:24.000] You said that you basically did the, ain't no way.
[05:24.000 -> 05:25.000] Ain't no way. Ain't no way.
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[05:32.000 -> 05:33.000] no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
[05:33.000 -> 05:45.160] no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no racing. We did some F1 manager. I absolutely murdered us and then I had to redeem myself
[05:45.160 -> 05:48.740] later but we'll get into that. And I just had a good time. They had some of the show
[05:48.740 -> 05:55.420] car which was cool. They had the gaming area and all sorts of other stuff and it was really
[05:55.420 -> 06:01.340] cool. Drivers were out there. We got to meet some of the Williams F1 Academy drivers. Logan
[06:01.340 -> 06:03.720] was out there. Alex was out there the next day. So if you guys went out there and had
[06:03.720 -> 06:07.160] a good time, maybe they'll do something like that again soon. And then we
[06:07.160 -> 06:10.980] can all come hang out there and meet up and have a little party and steal all the seat
[06:10.980 -> 06:13.120] time on the racing Sims and take each other out.
[06:13.120 -> 06:18.320] Yeah. The best part as well as we got a photo of us standing with the 2012 Pasta Maldonado
[06:18.320 -> 06:24.200] Spanish Grand Prix trophy. Yeah, that was the thing of legends. We went to the church
[06:24.200 -> 06:25.200] of Maldonado.
[06:25.200 -> 06:26.800] I had a prayer.
[06:26.800 -> 06:29.200] I had a prayer and I said, please let something good happen.
[06:29.200 -> 06:30.200] It did happen.
[06:30.200 -> 06:31.200] I had a good time.
[06:31.200 -> 06:34.000] We also saw a Nicholas Latifi signed end plate as well.
[06:34.000 -> 06:36.000] I thought, well, yeah, big up Latifi.
[06:36.000 -> 06:38.000] Thank you for my 2021 bonus.
[06:38.000 -> 06:42.200] Yeah, it looked like, it looked like a piece of crash damage bits.
[06:42.200 -> 06:45.320] They're like, this is, this is somewhat noteworthy.
[06:45.520 -> 06:45.840] Yeah.
[06:46.000 -> 06:47.480] Sign it, slap it on the plinth.
[06:47.500 -> 06:47.800] Done.
[06:48.340 -> 06:48.520] Yeah.
[06:48.520 -> 06:48.920] Done.
[06:49.240 -> 06:50.240] But no, it was a good day out.
[06:50.720 -> 06:51.440] It was a good day out.
[06:51.440 -> 06:51.800] Thank you.
[06:51.800 -> 06:52.280] I hope they do something.
[06:52.280 -> 06:54.080] Because to be, let's be honest, I'll be honest.
[06:54.080 -> 06:54.960] We were all friends here.
[06:55.480 -> 06:58.360] I just tagged along with Blake and just followed him in because he was there to do
[06:58.360 -> 06:59.480] work and I was like, fuck it.
[06:59.480 -> 07:01.320] I'm going to follow in him and just go for a jolly.
[07:02.000 -> 07:04.560] But it was an open event anyway, so it didn't really matter.
[07:04.560 -> 07:06.320] And you, um, you got to hang out.
[07:06.560 -> 07:09.760] Um, you did some video recording and we had a couple of chats with a couple
[07:09.760 -> 07:11.140] of really nice people at Williams.
[07:11.160 -> 07:12.720] Um, I really had a good time.
[07:12.720 -> 07:16.480] So maybe, maybe something else in that vein in the future, but
[07:16.480 -> 07:17.600] we can't talk about that now.
[07:18.000 -> 07:21.920] But, yeah, contracts have to be signed first.
[07:23.560 -> 07:24.840] Nobody's signing any contracts.
[07:25.600 -> 07:29.840] I don't do contracts, just NDAs and, uh, and cease and desist.
[07:29.840 -> 07:31.160] That's all I sign.
[07:31.160 -> 07:31.480] Yeah.
[07:32.960 -> 07:35.760] But, um, during the Silverstone Grand Prix, I thought it'd be
[07:35.760 -> 07:37.280] a perfect time to go to France.
[07:37.400 -> 07:40.560] I went to TwitchCon for the first time ever.
[07:41.080 -> 07:48.240] Um, and I was invited by our, our Twitch sports guru and Twitch legend in the background,
[07:48.240 -> 07:52.640] Josh Bloom was like, hey, do you want to be on a panel? There was Ash Vandele, there was
[07:52.640 -> 07:57.720] Tom, there was Idru, there was Alexander Carly, and we talked about the future of motorsport
[07:57.720 -> 08:02.420] and streaming and digital media, and it was super fun. And if anybody's interested, message
[08:02.420 -> 08:09.760] me and I'll send you a link to the timestamp of that chat. It was about an hour long panel. It was in the biggest room in TwitchCon. And
[08:09.760 -> 08:13.280] like, honestly, there was enough space in there for a couple hundred people. And I was
[08:13.280 -> 08:18.080] really honestly pleasantly surprised that 50 people showed up. And it was interesting
[08:18.080 -> 08:23.280] because as we asked them to show a raise of hands, most of them were quite old school fans.
[08:23.280 -> 08:27.440] So they're old school fans. They were community members or other streamers from Twitch.
[08:27.840 -> 08:29.880] And they, they wanted to come and see what we had to say.
[08:29.920 -> 08:32.680] And it was really interesting because everybody had a very different
[08:32.680 -> 08:34.760] background with motor sport.
[08:35.200 -> 08:39.400] And, uh, I was just like in the, if you saw Ash Vanderlei's tweet about the
[08:39.400 -> 08:43.400] swear jar of like talking about sports cars, I was like, yes, please keep going.
[08:43.400 -> 08:43.880] I love it.
[08:44.960 -> 08:45.000] Yeah. It was an interesting cars. I was like, yes, please keep going. I love it.
[08:45.320 -> 08:46.240] Yeah. It's an interesting chat.
[08:46.240 -> 08:47.040] I listened in.
[08:47.960 -> 08:51.120] And thank you for the, uh, thank you for the love and the support in the chat.
[08:51.520 -> 08:54.440] We thank you to Josh for picking up the podcast at the intro as well.
[08:54.440 -> 08:57.560] And I was like, Oh yeah, go on, go on Josh.
[08:57.600 -> 08:59.400] Josh is Josh is a super nice dude.
[08:59.560 -> 09:02.440] And I've learned quite a bit from him, so we appreciate you, homie.
[09:02.840 -> 09:03.760] Um, definitely.
[09:03.760 -> 09:07.200] I will link that on the discord and put an engine
[09:07.200 -> 09:09.360] breaking and the break discord. But also
[09:09.360 -> 09:14.200] something much more important that's happened. Like, could you
[09:14.200 -> 09:17.640] please tell us what milestone have you achieved?
[09:21.560 -> 09:30.840] Dramatic pause. Yesterday afternoon we crossed 100,000 subscribers on BreakF1 on YouTube.
[09:30.840 -> 09:33.920] Absolutely wild.
[09:33.920 -> 09:38.000] One year, three months after my first long form video, we've done it.
[09:38.000 -> 09:43.400] Over 14 million views on the channel, including short form and it's wild.
[09:43.400 -> 09:46.140] But silver plaque is coming
[09:46.240 -> 09:47.920] soon, but I just want to say, thank you guys.
[09:48.400 -> 09:49.640] Thank you, Dan, for all the love.
[09:50.040 -> 09:52.680] And, uh, you were the first, you were the first one.
[09:53.060 -> 09:53.960] You were the, Oh yeah.
[09:53.960 -> 09:54.480] You're like shit.
[09:54.480 -> 09:55.120] I haven't subscribed yet.
[09:55.760 -> 09:57.960] You were the first one to share that this morning that I saw.
[09:58.480 -> 10:00.240] Um, I really appreciate that, man.
[10:00.240 -> 10:00.680] Thank you.
[10:00.960 -> 10:03.400] Not stalking you early in the morning or anything.
[10:03.960 -> 10:09.160] It's like, no, let's see what them subscribers is like. But yeah. I'll tell you what as well, just completely
[10:09.160 -> 10:13.760] changing tacks. The reason I was up so early this morning is because foolishly I went to
[10:13.760 -> 10:18.200] sleep last night. Well I took my son to bed and he was, he's not very well so he's a bit
[10:18.200 -> 10:22.800] fussy so I was like alright I'll lay him down in the big bed next to me and when he's settled
[10:22.800 -> 10:25.520] down I'll pick him up and I'll put him back in his bed.
[10:30.720 -> 10:35.680] That was about six o'clock. That didn't fucking happen. I just fell asleep with him and my wife decided to not wake me up either so I woke up about midnight after six hours sleep and I was
[10:35.680 -> 10:43.360] just fucking wired. So I spent from 12 p.m to like 5 a.m fucking playing Skyrim. So yeah,
[10:42.080 -> 10:43.000] 5 AM fucking playing Skyrim.
[10:47.000 -> 10:47.400] So yeah, perfect 35 year old bad behavior.
[10:48.320 -> 10:50.400] Yeah, exactly. I mean, that's that's par for the course.
[10:50.480 -> 10:51.680] That's par for the course.
[10:51.760 -> 10:57.520] Uhm, dude, I also forgot I've got a call after we record this, so we have.
[10:57.840 -> 11:03.320] We have to make this podcast one hour and nine minutes long, so 60 minutes from now
[11:03.720 -> 11:05.600] we can do it and we can make it up already
[11:05.600 -> 11:08.600] because we're already at one nine minutes and all we've done is shit.
[11:08.600 -> 11:11.880] Now we got 60 minutes left, but let's let's get on to the news.
[11:11.880 -> 11:14.720] And I feel like this is that part of season and Formula One.
[11:14.720 -> 11:16.200] We're like everybody's bored.
[11:16.200 -> 11:17.840] The racing is like really predictable.
[11:17.840 -> 11:19.080] No teams have gotten faster.
[11:19.080 -> 11:20.080] No teams have gotten slower.
[11:20.080 -> 11:22.360] There's been no signings, no firings, no crazy.
[11:22.600 -> 11:23.040] Oh, wait.
[11:24.320 -> 11:26.640] Welcome to silly season, motherfuckers.
[11:26.640 -> 11:27.640] It's here!
[11:27.640 -> 11:30.640] Only after 10 races as well we got silly season.
[11:30.640 -> 11:31.640] Talk to me.
[11:31.640 -> 11:32.640] What have we got?
[11:32.640 -> 11:34.640] So this is the big news.
[11:34.640 -> 11:37.680] If you've been living under a rock, and that's fine.
[11:37.680 -> 11:46.720] So, Nick DeVries has been booted out of AlphaTauri and Danny Rick is back in the seat for the rest of the season.
[11:48.080 -> 11:54.240] So yeah, you sort of said you could see this happening. I did not think I could see it
[11:54.240 -> 11:59.360] happening and I was surprised. I've been around the helmet chaos, I've been close to the firing
[11:59.360 -> 12:06.620] lines man. I've seen men fall and men rise and I rise. And I was like, this is totally normal.
[12:06.620 -> 12:07.620] This is totally normal.
[12:07.620 -> 12:08.620] I've seen it.
[12:08.620 -> 12:09.620] I can see it.
[12:09.620 -> 12:10.620] Yeah.
[12:10.620 -> 12:13.460] Well, I made that I made a mistake of thinking, oh, they wouldn't do that again, would they?
[12:13.460 -> 12:14.460] Oh, totally.
[12:14.460 -> 12:15.460] But yeah.
[12:15.460 -> 12:17.240] That's that's that's all right.
[12:17.240 -> 12:22.780] So I like I like how it's always a close family friend that leaks the information.
[12:22.780 -> 12:24.180] I'm like, all right.
[12:24.180 -> 12:26.600] So if you're a journalist and a close family friend, you're like, I'm
[12:26.600 -> 12:32.160] going to burn this friendship just to leak this news early because my job is more, that
[12:32.160 -> 12:33.880] means like they know them or something.
[12:33.880 -> 12:35.160] That's not, it doesn't mean they're friends.
[12:35.160 -> 12:41.620] So the, the hot rumor is that this wasn't meant to be announced until next week.
[12:41.620 -> 12:44.840] But De Vries was understandably quite upset.
[12:44.840 -> 12:46.240] So he got his family to
[12:46.240 -> 12:51.400] leak it to the Dutch media. That is the rumor I'm hearing as why it sort of was
[12:51.400 -> 12:59.080] very sudden. So we got the first report in like Dutch media saying he's done and
[12:59.080 -> 13:06.680] Danny Ricks back in the car and then sort of an hour or two later, Al Fatari announced that Danny Rick's
[13:06.680 -> 13:11.240] back on loan from Red Bull Racing for the remainder of the F1 season, starting from
[13:11.240 -> 13:19.640] Hungary. So I was on Twitter and the first announcement of this on Twitter was Red Bull
[13:19.640 -> 13:24.280] Racing tweeting a photo of Danny Rick smiling saying, when you find out you've got a race
[13:24.280 -> 13:28.880] seat. And I was just like, okay, that's one way to announce it like before AlphaTauri tweeted
[13:28.880 -> 13:32.320] it or anything it was just like oh okay I guess that's official then.
[13:33.200 -> 13:37.200] I mean he was in the car at the tyre test at Silverstone when it got announced.
[13:38.720 -> 13:41.360] Yeah and don't get me started on this because
[13:44.320 -> 13:46.440] oh Danny Ricks at a time that would put
[13:46.440 -> 13:49.700] him on the front row on June Sunday's race.
[13:49.700 -> 13:51.980] That doesn't mean fucking a fucking thing.
[13:53.920 -> 13:54.660] I love it.
[13:54.660 -> 13:59.720] Like, to be fair, Chris Medlin did tweet that and he did have a qualifier to say
[13:59.960 -> 14:02.780] what it's worth, which means he knows it's not worth anything, but there's
[14:02.780 -> 14:03.760] some other people quoting it.
[14:03.760 -> 14:05.120] It's like, yeah, yeah, totally.
[14:05.120 -> 14:07.880] Like if Daniel Rick was driving these completely different tires on a
[14:07.880 -> 14:10.480] completely different track condition, the track didn't just definitely start
[14:10.480 -> 14:13.200] wet and these are not different tire spec and no warmers and different.
[14:14.080 -> 14:15.700] It's like, please like, stop.
[14:15.700 -> 14:16.760] Don't don't do this.
[14:16.840 -> 14:18.760] We can't, we can't deal with this.
[14:18.960 -> 14:21.040] And like somebody was saying, like, yeah, the times would
[14:21.040 -> 14:22.400] have been for like PA or something.
[14:22.800 -> 14:23.520] Like, okay.
[14:23.920 -> 14:24.780] Front row PA.
[14:25.200 -> 14:30.920] So pretty much. Matthew Fallon pretty much it's a different day, different atmospheric conditions, different test tires,
[14:30.920 -> 14:34.680] a Pirelli set run plan.
[14:34.680 -> 14:36.480] Different spec of car for fuck's sake.
[14:36.480 -> 14:37.560] Yeah, it's wild.
[14:37.560 -> 14:42.200] But 20 and 95% of the people in Twitch chat right now are happy that Danny Rick is back.
[14:42.200 -> 14:45.160] So let's let's talk about this quickly. Um.
[14:46.880 -> 14:49.000] I think we've got the statements from Taurus, so we've got the
[14:49.000 -> 14:50.120] statements from Christian.
[14:50.480 -> 14:50.980] Um.
[14:51.960 -> 14:54.440] Christian even alluded that his times were competitive, which is,
[14:54.480 -> 14:57.040] you know, you have to say that you're going to say, yes, times
[14:57.040 -> 15:00.080] are absolutely fucking dog shit, but, uh, might have a have a go.
[15:00.080 -> 15:01.560] It could what's what could be worse, right?
[15:01.840 -> 15:02.340] Um.
[15:03.040 -> 15:07.320] But you, you, you've touched touching this on Twitter yesterday, the wording in
[15:07.320 -> 15:08.960] Christians announcements announcement.
[15:09.440 -> 15:11.640] It was a very impressive drive, and we're excited to see that
[15:11.640 -> 15:15.200] the rest of the season brings for Daniel on loan at
[15:15.200 -> 15:16.680] Scuderia Alpha Tauri.
[15:18.320 -> 15:21.080] The online thing is very interesting language, but I
[15:21.080 -> 15:22.360] think you nailed that on the head.
[15:22.640 -> 15:27.260] Yeah, so on the on loan part, a lot of people are like, what does this mean?
[15:27.260 -> 15:30.240] So Red Bull is a bit fucking weird in the way it does things.
[15:30.240 -> 15:33.240] And I don't think any other team does this.
[15:33.240 -> 15:38.000] All the drivers are hired directly by Red Bull, the parent company, and then they are
[15:38.000 -> 15:43.080] leased back to the teams, which is why previously they've been able to sort of pick one up and
[15:43.080 -> 15:47.000] just swap them teams around or whatever, without it being some big legal kerfuffle.
[15:47.000 -> 15:50.500] It's just because it's a loan agreement or whatever.
[15:50.500 -> 15:56.000] So, but I will say it is odd that they mentioned on loan and they hadn't done that in the past so I don't know.
[15:56.000 -> 15:58.000] It's just the way Red Bull do things, the drivers...
[15:58.000 -> 16:00.000] It's very deliberate language.
[16:00.000 -> 16:04.000] It's not, you don't use the word on loan on accident.
[16:04.000 -> 16:09.840] Yeah. It's not actually, you don't use the word on loan on accident. So I can't, I can't read into it any more than you can here, but at the same time, it
[16:09.840 -> 16:10.840] is interesting.
[16:10.840 -> 16:12.880] So let's talk about it.
[16:12.880 -> 16:13.880] All right.
[16:13.880 -> 16:17.880] We've talked about comparing lap times from the test to race.
[16:17.880 -> 16:18.880] Please don't do that.
[16:18.880 -> 16:21.660] And don't use that as anything objective or meaningful ever.
[16:21.660 -> 16:25.600] And also please do not use, he was quick in the simulator to say that he's good.
[16:25.600 -> 16:28.320] Now, if somebody's dog shit slow in the simulator,
[16:28.320 -> 16:30.280] they can still be quick in real life.
[16:30.280 -> 16:31.400] Now, it doesn't happen that often,
[16:31.400 -> 16:33.840] but I have seen people that just do not drive the sim
[16:33.840 -> 16:35.040] very particularly well,
[16:35.040 -> 16:36.280] and they go drive a real race car
[16:36.280 -> 16:38.160] and they're fucking legendary.
[16:38.160 -> 16:41.800] So it all goes to say that you just can't really use
[16:41.800 -> 16:44.360] that tool for that thing.
[16:44.360 -> 16:45.080] And knowing what you can and can use that tool for that thing. And knowing what you
[16:45.080 -> 16:52.080] can and can't use it for is enough. Now, how do you feel about it? And your short answer,
[16:52.080 -> 17:01.320] how do you feel about them doing this? Harsh. It is harsh. Harsh. And I say your quick answer
[17:01.320 -> 17:06.200] harsh, but then I peel back the layers to this and the more I think about it and look into it
[17:06.200 -> 17:08.200] There's two things
[17:08.320 -> 17:13.080] One I don't think this has got anything to do with Nick DeVries. I think it was just convenient to kick him out
[17:13.080 -> 17:15.360] I think this is more to do with Checo
[17:16.040 -> 17:18.480] So they can turn around and say hey check out look
[17:18.480 -> 17:24.240] We got Danny Rick in a seat for the rest of the season and I saw yourself out because who knows what might happen next year
[17:24.600 -> 17:28.220] It'd be a shame if we swap drivers that are on loan.
[17:28.840 -> 17:33.200] And another thing I was thinking of as well is why are they even, why did they
[17:33.200 -> 17:34.940] even bring Nick in, in the first place?
[17:36.560 -> 17:37.640] I just don't get it.
[17:37.680 -> 17:41.640] If, if you're only going to have him for 10 races, what the hell was the
[17:41.640 -> 17:43.060] point of him having him in the beginning?
[17:43.060 -> 17:44.360] It just seems like an emergency.
[17:44.360 -> 17:44.860] Oh shit.
[17:44.860 -> 17:45.960] Gas is going to Alpine.
[17:45.960 -> 17:46.640] We need someone.
[17:46.640 -> 17:48.640] Uh, fuck, uh, Nick, you'll do.
[17:48.640 -> 17:49.040] Fuck.
[17:51.480 -> 17:52.160] I get that.
[17:52.880 -> 17:56.160] But at the same time, people like, oh, it's super harsh, blah, blah, blah.
[17:56.200 -> 17:56.680] And I get it.
[17:56.680 -> 17:57.160] It is harsh.
[17:57.160 -> 17:58.160] I agree with you on that.
[17:58.440 -> 18:01.400] But at the same time, it showed that they are.
[18:02.080 -> 18:05.680] Liam Lawson has done a spectacular job in the junior formula.
[18:05.680 -> 18:06.640] He's been epic.
[18:06.640 -> 18:08.580] He's over in Japan in super formula,
[18:10.240 -> 18:11.940] kicking names and taking some ass right now.
[18:11.940 -> 18:14.080] He's doing an outstanding job in that series,
[18:14.080 -> 18:16.320] which is a specialist series in a car,
[18:16.320 -> 18:19.080] which is performance level between F2 and IndyCar
[18:19.080 -> 18:19.920] in Formula 1.
[18:19.920 -> 18:21.920] It is a fast car, a specialist series,
[18:21.920 -> 18:24.440] specialist tracks, and he's showing up and performing,
[18:24.440 -> 18:30.720] which is a good indication of outright pace and adaptability, right?
[18:30.720 -> 18:36.520] But the fact that they hadn't promoted him to Al Fatahri means they weren't ready for
[18:36.520 -> 18:37.520] him.
[18:37.520 -> 18:38.520] As in now?
[18:38.520 -> 18:39.520] As in at this point?
[18:39.520 -> 18:44.660] Yeah, at this point and at last year when they picked DeVries out of seemingly, outside
[18:44.660 -> 18:48.520] of the Red Bull driver allocation.
[18:48.520 -> 18:52.360] So I think putting him in super formula for a season is a smart decision.
[18:52.360 -> 18:54.120] I'm kind of, I rate that decision.
[18:54.120 -> 18:59.320] So like, yes, this does seem chaos and we're trying to attribute it to malice or harshness
[18:59.320 -> 19:01.960] or whatever else, but they've been quite calculated with Lawson.
[19:01.960 -> 19:05.520] I think that they don't want to put pressure on him too early.
[19:05.940 -> 19:06.100] Yeah.
[19:06.100 -> 19:09.700] Which is why they've seen what it does to, we've seen this a number of times.
[19:10.800 -> 19:11.040] Yeah.
[19:11.040 -> 19:14.600] And they obviously haven't learned because they only gave Nick 10 races.
[19:14.840 -> 19:16.780] Um, he wasn't, look, Nick wasn't great.
[19:17.000 -> 19:19.280] I, I know that we all know that.
[19:20.160 -> 19:27.600] Um, but I just don't know really what, what is the success criteria for Nick in that car.
[19:27.600 -> 19:29.800] I mean the car's dog shit.
[19:29.800 -> 19:35.480] Yuki's only got two points and there's no disrespect to Yuki, I love Yuki, but those
[19:35.480 -> 19:39.080] two points were pretty much scored because everyone else in front of him fucking retired
[19:39.080 -> 19:40.080] in Australia.
[19:40.080 -> 19:46.560] I don't know, I would have just, I don't know. This is why I'm sat here doing a podcast
[19:46.560 -> 19:48.080] and obviously not running a team.
[19:48.080 -> 19:52.800] But like, who wants that kind of aggro? It's just politics and like shooting from the hip
[19:52.800 -> 19:57.000] often. I think here's the thing, 10 races. Is that enough for a rookie driver? There's
[19:57.000 -> 20:03.680] two, two avenues to go down with that, right? Nick is a rookie, sort of. He's a Formula
[20:03.680 -> 20:06.000] One rookie. He did very well in his attempt.
[20:06.000 -> 20:08.320] He did very well in his shots last year,
[20:08.320 -> 20:12.120] but like he's a very experienced driver with a,
[20:12.120 -> 20:13.280] that was outside my house.
[20:13.280 -> 20:15.120] Who's beaten you outside your house?
[20:15.120 -> 20:16.880] Somebody's toot tooting.
[20:16.880 -> 20:18.520] Experienced driver in a lot of different formulas.
[20:18.520 -> 20:19.880] He's done well, but like, for example,
[20:19.880 -> 20:22.160] in F2, he only had to beat Latifi.
[20:22.160 -> 20:23.840] That's not a particularly strong category.
[20:23.840 -> 20:24.680] Apparently he-
[20:24.680 -> 20:27.320] Whoa, steady. I'm not having any fucking Latifi slander.
[20:27.320 -> 20:31.160] Listen he's been decent in other series that he's driven.
[20:31.160 -> 20:32.600] Formally he is pure chaos.
[20:32.600 -> 20:33.960] I'm into it.
[20:33.960 -> 20:37.200] Wasn't particularly consistent in that from what I understand.
[20:37.200 -> 20:38.320] But I just don't.
[20:38.320 -> 20:39.320] Here's the thing.
[20:39.320 -> 20:41.200] And I think this is the crux of the problem.
[20:41.200 -> 20:46.360] I think unfortunately people don't put enough respect on how well Yuki's doing.
[20:46.360 -> 20:53.720] So when they see Yuki outperforming Nick, they say Nick must be terrible.
[20:53.720 -> 20:56.280] So here's what we extrapolate to this.
[20:56.280 -> 21:08.560] To go back to your point, if Dan and this is this is this is this is where it gets interesting. If Ricardo does not destroy Sunoda, Sunoda will end both Daniel
[21:08.560 -> 21:11.060] Ricardo's career and DeVries career.
[21:11.360 -> 21:11.640] Right.
[21:11.640 -> 21:12.920] So this is a good point.
[21:12.940 -> 21:16.580] And one I wanted to raise with you again, we're just two
[21:16.580 -> 21:17.540] blokes doing the podcast.
[21:17.540 -> 21:18.300] What the fuck do we know?
[21:18.680 -> 21:23.440] Uh, what do we class as the success criteria for Danny Rick in this Alpha Towering?
[21:24.680 -> 21:28.680] Does he have to score points or does he just have to not be at the back?
[21:28.680 -> 21:29.680] I don't know.
[21:29.680 -> 21:36.120] He has to outperform Tsunoda, outperform in race and outperform and qualify Tsunoda in
[21:36.120 -> 21:37.360] a majority of the races.
[21:37.360 -> 21:42.840] But the problem is you still have the question marks over Daniel and people I don't think
[21:42.840 -> 21:46.880] put the correct amount of respect on Tsunoda. And I don't know people I don't think put the correct amount of respect on Sunoda.
[21:46.880 -> 21:47.880] And I don't know, I don't know.
[21:47.880 -> 21:51.600] So this is, this is my gut feeling, but I think Sunoda has become quite decent.
[21:51.600 -> 21:58.320] Um, but he has to, he has to definitively outclass Sunoda in the next 10 races.
[21:58.320 -> 22:00.760] Otherwise, yeah, that's it.
[22:00.760 -> 22:01.760] Okay.
[22:01.760 -> 22:03.640] There was an advocate.
[22:03.640 -> 22:05.640] We get Danny Rick in the car.
[22:05.640 -> 22:07.680] Takes a few races to get up to speed, right?
[22:07.680 -> 22:10.240] I think everyone's going to give him that.
[22:10.240 -> 22:11.240] End of the season.
[22:11.240 -> 22:15.040] He hasn't outperformed Yuki and he sits below him in the table.
[22:15.040 -> 22:16.040] What do you do now?
[22:16.040 -> 22:18.280] You've, you're stuck with Danny Rick in the car.
[22:18.280 -> 22:30.240] You take him back out the car for Lawson. This is why all of this just stinks to me like this is this isn't a Nick problem.
[22:30.240 -> 22:31.240] This is a Checo problem.
[22:31.240 -> 22:36.720] Yeah, it is. But I think he has to outperform. I think by the end of the season, he has to
[22:36.720 -> 22:42.280] be on a clear trajectory to outperforming Sunoda definitively, not maybe not mix or
[22:42.280 -> 22:45.960] match then. Then you put the pressure on Checo and if
[22:45.960 -> 22:49.740] Checo still in a slump at the end of the season he gets the boot any Rick goes
[22:49.740 -> 22:54.180] back in then you've got Lawson and Sunoda whatever Alpha Tauri is called
[22:54.180 -> 22:59.340] next year no I mean that seems like that seems like it's common that seems like
[22:59.340 -> 23:06.680] it makes sense listen I've spoken to Marco, right? I'm going to exclusively reveal the plan.
[23:06.680 -> 23:10.880] Yuki and Max at Red Bull next year.
[23:10.880 -> 23:13.480] I'm all about, fuck it, I'm all about Yuki.
[23:13.480 -> 23:14.480] I'm 100% invested.
[23:14.480 -> 23:21.680] Get the little angry swearing man in that car.
[23:21.680 -> 23:23.440] Here's the other problem.
[23:23.440 -> 23:27.760] Max is an extremely difficult measuring stick to go up against and there's not so many people
[23:27.760 -> 23:33.120] in the paddock right now that could go up against him and stand a chance.
[23:33.120 -> 23:34.840] There's a handful of people tops.
[23:34.840 -> 23:43.800] Yeah, the problem with Max Verstappen is that his meteoric rise and entry into F1 has completely
[23:43.800 -> 23:45.600] fucked any other rookie that's coming into the
[23:45.600 -> 23:50.160] sport ever again because everyone's like why are you not as good as Max was when he first started?
[23:50.160 -> 23:56.400] It's like well Max is definitely not the average rookie driver when he comes in you know. I think
[23:56.400 -> 24:00.000] everyone's now out there like who's the next Max Verstappen? Who's the next Max Verstappen? It's
[24:00.000 -> 24:03.760] like uh yeah I don't know if you're gonna find the next Max Verstappen that easily.
[24:03.920 -> 24:05.040] It's like, I don't know if you're going to find the next Max was laughing that easily.
[24:05.760 -> 24:06.320] No, I don't think so.
[24:06.960 -> 24:11.760] I don't think so. But anyway, I think there's a lot of variables that will start to unfold
[24:11.760 -> 24:14.120] themselves over the next months.
[24:14.200 -> 24:19.080] Um, we've got a couple of races, then a break, reset, recharge and go again.
[24:19.800 -> 24:24.640] And, uh, yeah, I'm happy for Danny, you know, um, I hope he gets his
[24:24.640 -> 24:26.480] mojo back and he does well.
[24:26.480 -> 24:30.920] But yeah, this whole thing is just like wild to me.
[24:30.920 -> 24:31.920] Yeah.
[24:31.920 -> 24:34.640] It's not surprising to me.
[24:34.640 -> 24:36.160] It's not surprising at all.
[24:36.160 -> 24:39.920] It's surprising to me in how early in the season it was done.
[24:39.920 -> 24:40.920] Ten races in.
[24:40.920 -> 24:43.640] I thought we were at least going to get to the summer break.
[24:43.640 -> 24:44.640] I think you're right though.
[24:44.640 -> 24:48.640] This, I think this is more of a Checo thing than a DeVries thing.
[24:48.640 -> 24:56.260] And like, honestly, it doesn't really matter at this point with AlphaTauri because they've
[24:56.260 -> 25:01.920] only scored two points. They're unlikely to score that many more except for under attrition.
[25:01.920 -> 25:06.300] So what's the point? The point is to sort out Red Bull's driver lineup.
[25:06.300 -> 25:07.480] That is the whole point of that team right now.
[25:07.480 -> 25:08.900] And it's okay for it to be that point
[25:08.900 -> 25:11.020] because the car's not good.
[25:12.800 -> 25:15.520] Yes, it's to get Danny Rick up to speed.
[25:15.520 -> 25:16.360] It is, you can use it.
[25:16.360 -> 25:18.600] You can go past the season and then
[25:18.600 -> 25:19.420] Make your assessment.
[25:19.420 -> 25:22.440] Yeah, then say, oh, sorry, Checo, you're out.
[25:24.520 -> 25:26.280] Because Checo's on a two year deal, right?
[25:26.280 -> 25:29.000] So is this year and next year, but.
[25:29.000 -> 25:31.320] We all know there's no such thing as a multi-year deal.
[25:31.320 -> 25:34.840] Yeah, I think this is, the read between the lines,
[25:34.840 -> 25:37.160] it say this year and an option for next year
[25:37.160 -> 25:40.000] is usually what it actually is if you read the contract.
[25:40.000 -> 25:41.980] There are typically performance clauses
[25:41.980 -> 25:43.860] in contracts that go both ways.
[25:45.680 -> 25:47.840] For one, for the teams, one to cover the team's ass
[25:47.840 -> 25:49.600] and one to cover the driver's ass.
[25:50.640 -> 25:51.480] But yeah.
[25:51.480 -> 25:52.300] Let's uh-
[25:52.300 -> 25:53.280] With Helmut Marko, you're lucky to even get
[25:53.280 -> 25:54.720] a multi-race deal, let alone a fucking
[25:54.720 -> 25:56.300] some multi-season deal.
[25:56.300 -> 25:57.760] Yeah, exactly.
[25:57.760 -> 25:58.960] Fire it, Will.
[25:58.960 -> 26:00.560] But let's move on to Silverstone.
[26:00.560 -> 26:03.720] I think we might end up kind of jumping through
[26:03.720 -> 26:07.040] some of this because I missed Friday in Silverstone.
[26:07.040 -> 26:09.800] I just spent a little bit of time analyzing qualifying.
[26:11.480 -> 26:13.280] And then I spent a lot of time analyzing the race.
[26:13.280 -> 26:14.320] So I think we can focus on that
[26:14.320 -> 26:16.400] because there's some actually really interesting stuff
[26:16.400 -> 26:18.960] and that, and then we'll get into a Fraud Watch
[26:18.960 -> 26:21.480] and Engine Mode, Good Boy and our Random Fandom.
[26:21.480 -> 26:22.840] Mine's really short.
[26:22.840 -> 26:23.680] Yeah.
[26:23.680 -> 26:27.280] So just a heads up, Random F is where we dig into a team.
[26:27.280 -> 26:29.720] Dan's got Williams this week and I've got AlphaTauri.
[26:29.720 -> 26:33.640] You can assume that I've got nothing but great, glowing reviews for AlphaTauri after this
[26:33.640 -> 26:34.640] weekend.
[26:34.640 -> 26:36.960] Oh my god.
[26:36.960 -> 26:41.480] As we get into Silverstone, someone asked in the chat if AlphaTauri have bought any
[26:41.480 -> 26:42.480] upgrades.
[26:42.480 -> 26:45.100] Well that beautifully leads us on to this point.
[26:46.600 -> 26:48.600] Loja teams bought. You guys are beautiful, ladies and gentlemen.
[26:50.000 -> 26:53.100] And if people want to watch live, like where can they do it?
[26:53.900 -> 26:56.800] If you want to watch the stream live, it's currently on twitch.tv
[26:56.800 -> 26:59.300] front slash re RRR, a break.
[26:59.600 -> 27:02.300] But I think in the near future, maybe after the break or shortly
[27:02.300 -> 27:06.960] before, I think we might start doing the whole stream live over on YouTube.
[27:06.960 -> 27:07.960] I'm kind of.
[27:07.960 -> 27:10.720] I think we're still chatting about that, and I think it just makes more sense that we have
[27:10.720 -> 27:15.800] it in its home place rather than on our stream, or we'll both stream it or something.
[27:15.800 -> 27:16.800] I don't know.
[27:16.800 -> 27:18.960] I don't know what you want to chat to me about it for me.
[27:18.960 -> 27:19.960] You're the boss.
[27:19.960 -> 27:21.600] You do all the stream inside of it.
[27:21.600 -> 27:26.000] I just do all the beautiful audio recordings so I can get your beautiful Barry White voice.
[27:26.000 -> 27:26.600] Hmm.
[27:26.600 -> 27:29.800] Oh, sorry.
[27:29.800 -> 27:30.900] Completely off topic.
[27:30.900 -> 27:33.000] Um, yeah, upgrades.
[27:33.000 -> 27:37.200] Uh, AlphaTauri did bring quite a significant upgrade to Silverstone.
[27:37.200 -> 27:42.900] A new floor, a new diffuser, a new engine cover, suspension, rear wing, beam wing.
[27:42.900 -> 27:46.200] Uh, I'm not going to go through all of them because pretty much all the teams
[27:46.200 -> 27:47.840] bought a myriad of updates.
[27:47.840 -> 27:50.040] I think the only people that didn't were red.
[27:50.040 -> 27:52.120] Oh, no, they must have because checkers running in.
[27:54.240 -> 27:58.600] Arrow, what you call it, fence on FB1, so it's just not on my list.
[27:58.640 -> 28:01.120] OK, anyway, I think I'm stuff.
[28:01.160 -> 28:03.440] Yeah, it's Alpha Tower.
[28:03.440 -> 28:06.320] Alpha Tower and Alpha Romeo brought basically whole new
[28:06.320 -> 28:06.840] packages.
[28:06.840 -> 28:08.760] It's easier to list what they didn't upgrade.
[28:09.280 -> 28:12.260] Um, and then a lot of people just brought new, new front wings.
[28:12.260 -> 28:15.360] Honestly, a lot of teams bringing new front wings at this point in the season.
[28:16.680 -> 28:17.120] Mm-Hmm.
[28:18.000 -> 28:18.320] Sorry.
[28:18.320 -> 28:23.000] I'm just in the middle of taking a sip of my diet cola.
[28:24.880 -> 28:30.640] Disgusting. Um, yes, because it's Silverstone and it's the home race for
[28:30.640 -> 28:34.240] a lot of the teams. So it's literally just chuck a load of shit in the back of a transit
[28:34.240 -> 28:39.020] van and deliver it to the circuit. I'm going to stop you right there. Silverstone. People
[28:39.020 -> 28:43.240] always talk about Silverstone being the home race and it's, oh, we'll just bring this out.
[28:43.240 -> 28:49.160] Silverstone every year is an absolute clusterfuck of a race because people like, oh yeah, no, we'll just we'll
[28:49.160 -> 28:52.880] just like bring that out like Thursday night and then you're sitting there waiting Thursday
[28:52.880 -> 28:56.720] night to fire up because some dickhead was like, oh yeah, I forgot this piece for this
[28:56.720 -> 29:00.360] thing so we can't build the car now. It's like I hate you. I literally hope you stub
[29:00.360 -> 29:04.560] your toe because you drive 90 minutes to Milton Keynes to the factory to pick up one fucking
[29:04.560 -> 29:06.760] cable that some donut forgot to bring.
[29:06.760 -> 29:08.600] Yeah, you've never done that.
[29:08.600 -> 29:09.600] Have you?
[29:09.600 -> 29:13.200] No, listen, my Iran a tight ship, right?
[29:13.200 -> 29:14.200] Okay.
[29:14.200 -> 29:15.200] Silverstone went perfectly.
[29:15.200 -> 29:16.720] It's all the other fucking races.
[29:16.720 -> 29:17.720] It was a drama.
[29:17.720 -> 29:22.320] Yeah, I'm gonna I'm just gonna like unleash Barry and whoever's house that was and let
[29:22.320 -> 29:24.480] him just run around and do a shit NATO.
[29:24.480 -> 29:25.640] Yep.
[29:25.640 -> 29:29.840] So yeah, everyone bought upgrades.
[29:29.840 -> 29:32.720] The Friday FP practice.
[29:32.720 -> 29:36.400] Dogs are very excited about FP.
[29:36.400 -> 29:37.400] Not not great deal happened.
[29:37.400 -> 29:41.160] I mean, the only thing to talk about from Friday's where the fucking hell did the Williams
[29:41.160 -> 29:42.160] Pikes come from?
[29:42.160 -> 29:46.300] I mean, they've been they've been starting to look super quick.
[29:46.300 -> 29:50.100] Was it just like and I I'm out of the loop because I was in France on Friday
[29:50.800 -> 29:53.200] and I didn't I did deliberately catch up on qualifying the race,
[29:53.200 -> 29:54.000] but free practice.
[29:54.000 -> 29:54.800] I was just like, you know what?
[29:54.800 -> 29:55.300] Fuck it.
[29:55.600 -> 29:58.300] I wasn't too excited about it, but they've been.
[29:59.500 -> 30:02.900] Interesting lately, the Williams and it's, you know, simple as that car
[30:02.900 -> 30:05.920] looks and as much as like, you know, we've got a long way to go and our tools are way out of
[30:05.920 -> 30:11.000] date, they're doing a very reasonable job, especially considering you've got
[30:11.000 -> 30:12.240] teams like that.
[30:12.240 -> 30:16.120] I think are probably better off like pass Alpha Tauri.
[30:16.880 -> 30:22.240] Um, and Alfa Romeo that are literally, we're struggling to understand
[30:22.240 -> 30:23.440] what they're doing, honestly.
[30:24.520 -> 30:28.000] Yeah. Williams on the Friday took this rare accolade.
[30:28.000 -> 30:31.700] So every now and again, you'll get a free practice or a Friday
[30:31.700 -> 30:38.300] or a race or whatever, where a team midfield or lower just has
[30:38.300 -> 30:39.800] pace and they just look quick.
[30:39.800 -> 30:42.200] And you look at the data and it's like, I don't understand where
[30:42.200 -> 30:42.800] this has come from.
[30:44.100 -> 30:45.700] This is one of them. I said on like, I don't understand where this has come from. Yeah. And this was one of them.
[30:45.720 -> 30:50.040] I said on Friday, um, I think on Twitter or something, I said, Williams is quick and I
[30:50.040 -> 30:52.320] can't tell you why or where it just is quick.
[30:53.200 -> 30:59.800] Um, they reckon it was down to, uh, not being as affected by the gusty winds at
[30:59.800 -> 31:04.040] Silverstone because Silverstone is quite an open flat piece of land, isn't it?
[31:04.040 -> 31:06.960] So you do get quite a lot of wind shear.
[31:06.960 -> 31:11.360] Super gusty and like lots of those really interesting like turn seven, turn six into
[31:11.360 -> 31:15.960] seven, like turn seven is this low speed corner and you go through 180 degrees of rotation.
[31:15.960 -> 31:19.680] So if there's wind on the track, you will have a headwind, crosswind and tailwind at
[31:19.680 -> 31:21.640] some point in that corner.
[31:21.640 -> 31:24.560] It's everything and it's always a super fuck.
[31:24.560 -> 31:25.040] Yeah.
[31:25.040 -> 31:30.320] So the general consensus is that they were least affected by the wind and they just,
[31:30.600 -> 31:33.680] um, the classic Williams quick in a straight line.
[31:34.880 -> 31:38.560] If you don't have any downforce, you can't lose any downforce to crosswind.
[31:40.400 -> 31:48.000] And crosswind is, and here's a really interesting thing about, uh, crosswind is, here's a really interesting thing about crosswind is most wind tunnels
[31:48.000 -> 31:53.000] only go up to six, seven, eight degrees of yaw,
[31:53.020 -> 31:55.620] which is interesting because that's yaw.
[31:55.620 -> 31:58.080] And then to get really technical,
[31:58.080 -> 32:00.320] wind tunnels do not have curvature,
[32:00.320 -> 32:02.880] which is a huge problem for correlation and understanding.
[32:02.880 -> 32:04.000] And this is where discrepancies
[32:04.000 -> 32:06.480] between the tools and reality come out is,
[32:06.480 -> 32:09.200] if you think about a car going through a corner,
[32:09.200 -> 32:11.440] just think about the car and look at from above, right?
[32:11.440 -> 32:13.080] And you follow this car from above,
[32:13.080 -> 32:14.040] the car goes through a corner.
[32:14.040 -> 32:17.960] It is not only you will have the wind hitting the car
[32:17.960 -> 32:19.200] at some angle,
[32:19.200 -> 32:21.200] but the car is also spinning like a top
[32:22.440 -> 32:23.540] through the wind as well.
[32:23.540 -> 32:27.160] So you have angles of incidence of wind on the front of the car and the rear of the car
[32:27.160 -> 32:28.400] are always different.
[32:28.400 -> 32:32.440] So you have yaw and curvature, which wind tunnels are not particularly good at modeling
[32:32.440 -> 32:36.720] extreme yaws and wind tunnels and your tools struggle to model curvature.
[32:36.720 -> 32:42.340] So that's why stuff like that in those corners and those extreme conditions, people like
[32:42.340 -> 32:43.680] we don't understand why our car shit here.
[32:43.680 -> 32:45.400] It's like, yeah, because you can't model it.
[32:45.400 -> 32:46.920] You can only observe what happens in reality.
[32:47.360 -> 32:50.160] So there's, there's your only tech tip for the day.
[32:50.160 -> 32:50.560] I'm done.
[32:50.640 -> 32:50.880] Wow.
[32:50.880 -> 32:51.400] You guys later.
[32:51.960 -> 32:52.200] Bye.
[32:52.400 -> 32:54.480] And he took us 30 minutes to get there, but well done.
[32:54.920 -> 32:55.280] Well done.
[32:55.280 -> 32:56.240] Regular listeners.
[32:56.240 -> 32:58.200] That would be a shock to you as well as it is to me.
[32:59.000 -> 32:59.920] Uh, new people.
[32:59.920 -> 33:01.440] Thank you for lasting this long.
[33:01.720 -> 33:05.080] Um, Oh dear.
[33:05.360 -> 33:07.380] Yeah. And you can't rotate the model or anything in the wind tunnel
[33:07.380 -> 33:08.440] because it's on a rolling road.
[33:08.960 -> 33:09.540] You can't spin it.
[33:09.540 -> 33:14.220] You would need to basically have a flatbed in a, like a sky hook that
[33:14.220 -> 33:20.020] moves the car through a racetrack sized space, or maybe a 60% size racetrack
[33:20.020 -> 33:23.540] and move it around in this space and have like a global wind don't don't.
[33:23.980 -> 33:24.580] It's coming now.
[33:24.720 -> 33:28.720] Why don't we design a giant 60% scale model SkyElectrics?
[33:29.720 -> 33:31.720] All all.
[33:31.720 -> 33:33.640] All of the trouble.
[33:34.800 -> 33:37.280] Like all the things you could solve, you could basically do this,
[33:37.600 -> 33:40.920] have a virtual simulator, virtual wind tunnel, and you get a 60% person
[33:40.920 -> 33:43.400] to go drive a 60% car around.
[33:43.560 -> 33:44.880] You can hit them with the shrink ray.
[33:44.880 -> 33:47.780] I'm not a 60. I'm 160% of a person. I'm not 60% of to go drive a 60% car around. You just can hit him with the shrink ray. I'm not a 60, I'm 160% of a person.
[33:47.780 -> 33:49.480] I'm not 60% of a person.
[33:50.020 -> 33:52.360] Uh, uh,
[33:55.000 -> 33:57.720] Yuki is the new wind tunnel simulator driver.
[33:57.800 -> 33:58.480] Uh, yes.
[33:58.520 -> 33:59.360] Yeah, no, he'll do.
[33:59.380 -> 33:59.800] He'll do.
[34:00.320 -> 34:00.820] Good luck.
[34:00.820 -> 34:01.180] Good luck.
[34:01.440 -> 34:03.720] But, um, yeah, that was Friday really, to be honest.
[34:04.160 -> 34:06.040] Let's let's, let's not spend too much time on it.
[34:06.040 -> 34:07.040] But what about Saturday?
[34:07.040 -> 34:11.880] And this this was another qualifying specifically start with qualifying free practice.
[34:11.880 -> 34:13.580] Three is also dead to me.
[34:13.580 -> 34:19.760] But yeah, I did some notes for qualifying and my first one is track evolution goes.
[34:19.760 -> 34:26.320] And and as an extension of that comment, which is something I love, track evolution and weird changeable
[34:26.320 -> 34:28.960] dampish conditions go brr.
[34:28.960 -> 34:32.000] Like we've had what, four mixed
[34:32.000 -> 34:33.720] damp qualifying sessions in a row.
[34:33.720 -> 34:34.840] Maybe some intermediate running,
[34:34.840 -> 34:37.140] maybe damp track, maybe cold track.
[34:37.140 -> 34:39.640] We had, Australia was cold track
[34:39.640 -> 34:40.760] and qualifying as well.
[34:40.760 -> 34:42.520] And when we have this stuff,
[34:42.520 -> 34:43.720] the teams who are very good at
[34:43.720 -> 34:48.640] understanding their tires and understanding the preparation needed to get the tires working will rise to the
[34:48.640 -> 34:55.320] top. And if you have anything like a compromised outlap or traffic on your outlap, you might,
[34:55.320 -> 34:58.720] you could be pretty much boned. And we'll come back to that point because it's a very
[34:58.720 -> 35:02.360] interesting point. So what's, what's the next thing on that?
[35:02.360 -> 35:06.160] Yeah. So talking, talking, talking about that. Actually, no's Checo. Yeah. So talk to me about that.
[35:06.160 -> 35:09.400] Actually, no, we don't need to come back to it later because it was fucking Q1, wasn't it?
[35:09.920 -> 35:10.600] Yeah, exactly.
[35:10.600 -> 35:12.680] So we've got Perez delivered another stinker.
[35:13.000 -> 35:16.760] Um, and obviously he got absolutely demolished about this on the internet.
[35:17.480 -> 35:21.080] Uh, however, I, I, I'm coming to his defense a little bit and this
[35:21.080 -> 35:22.160] is what we'll talk about now.
[35:23.120 -> 35:25.680] I think he was stifled a
[35:25.680 -> 35:30.020] little bit here not necessarily by the team because they weren't to know but by
[35:30.020 -> 35:34.160] sitting at the end of the pit lane for so long on his tires just basically
[35:34.160 -> 35:37.480] fucking turned him stone-cold and it was like yeah unlucky you got to do one push
[35:37.480 -> 35:41.540] lap on these stone-cold tires you got to somehow get him into the window and nail
[35:41.540 -> 35:45.760] your lap. I think that's,
[35:48.680 -> 35:50.920] I think we're starting to highlight one of the things that Checo is struggling with and it's
[35:50.920 -> 35:52.240] Tire prep.
[35:52.240 -> 35:54.360] Adaptability and tire prep.
[35:54.360 -> 35:57.280] And I think the team in general,
[35:57.280 -> 35:58.680] I don't think this is something that's specific
[35:58.680 -> 35:59.800] to Max's side of the garage.
[35:59.800 -> 36:03.040] I think the team in general are usually pretty good
[36:03.040 -> 36:05.040] at getting tires working consistently.
[36:05.060 -> 36:10.800] But when it's not this, when it's not this dry, you know, classic Q1, Q2, Q3
[36:10.800 -> 36:14.700] session where the track conditions are just like slowly ramping up, Checo has
[36:14.700 -> 36:17.960] been struggling in those conditions and I'm probably missing shit loads of context, but.
[36:18.440 -> 36:22.760] I, I'm another little bit of context or something to throw in there as well.
[36:22.760 -> 36:30.120] Is don't forget we had new construction of tyres for this event as well. Which you know I know I know Pirelli like
[36:30.120 -> 36:35.120] to say in their press release oh nothing nothing's gonna change it's just a sidewall strengthening
[36:35.120 -> 36:38.760] bollocks you can't change a single thing in these wheels this is we're talking about a
[36:38.760 -> 36:46.320] sport that is down to the hundredths of a, whatever you change on a tire is going to change its performance window
[36:46.320 -> 36:48.120] and how it operates.
[36:48.120 -> 36:51.080] Now I will counter that at agreeing with you
[36:51.080 -> 36:52.720] and disagreeing with you at the same time.
[36:52.720 -> 36:56.080] And the important bit is the magnitude of these changes
[36:56.080 -> 37:00.040] and the magnitude by which teams can predict
[37:00.040 -> 37:02.480] a given construction and compounds performance
[37:02.480 -> 37:04.080] over the course of a season,
[37:04.080 -> 37:06.920] how well that team can predict that.
[37:06.920 -> 37:11.080] How much time it takes them to learn and their how their ability to learn versus if you change
[37:11.080 -> 37:12.520] something subtle.
[37:12.520 -> 37:18.080] I have a funny feeling after I have a funny feeling that if you didn't tell any of the
[37:18.080 -> 37:22.160] teams of the change, anything, none of them would have noticed or very few of them would
[37:22.160 -> 37:25.060] have noticed because variability and conditions and them would have noticed because the variability in conditions
[37:25.060 -> 37:31.100] and everything else week to week varies more than the significance of that change.
[37:31.100 -> 37:32.100] That's not a fact.
[37:32.100 -> 37:33.100] I'm just saying it's a hunch.
[37:33.100 -> 37:38.660] And I've seen that in the past with the exception of what, 2014, 15, when it was like steel
[37:38.660 -> 37:43.300] belt tires and Silverstone exploding and they went back to Kevlar reinforced rather than
[37:43.300 -> 37:44.300] steel.
[37:44.300 -> 37:46.720] That was a huge difference because that was a fundamental construction change.
[37:47.160 -> 37:50.840] I don't remember the exact details of that, so don't quote me, but this kind of
[37:50.840 -> 37:53.040] stuff where they're like, I will just add a little bit more here.
[37:53.840 -> 37:58.120] It's very possible that teams would not have even noticed that was a difference.
[37:58.480 -> 38:00.640] They would have chalked it up to variability.
[38:01.040 -> 38:01.320] Yeah.
[38:01.320 -> 38:06.000] I mean, you got years of race engineering experience and sim experience.
[38:06.600 -> 38:09.640] Uh, so in regards to your opinion, I think you can go fuck yourself.
[38:09.720 -> 38:15.440] Um, along with the UK government, sky sports and all those guys, right?
[38:18.200 -> 38:21.800] It's one of those things like the magnitude and the sensitivity
[38:21.800 -> 38:23.000] are super important things.
[38:23.000 -> 38:25.360] And we, a lot of stuff gets lost in the noise
[38:25.360 -> 38:30.120] and I and there's I can almost guarantee you in the past there have been times when Pirelli
[38:30.120 -> 38:35.040] changed something and nobody knew about it. Maybe it was a manufacturing technique or
[38:35.040 -> 38:41.480] something slightly changed. Illegal Pirelli testing this week on the fraud files. Oh my
[38:41.480 -> 38:45.000] God, I'm not going to do that. Because we got this. We got it.
[38:45.000 -> 38:49.320] We got time crunch, but you know this is this is the practical aspect of race engineering.
[38:49.320 -> 38:50.720] Would they do anything malicious like that?
[38:50.720 -> 38:51.720] No, absolutely.
[38:51.720 -> 38:53.340] But like imagine this.
[38:53.340 -> 38:56.600] This batch of tires was made in January.
[38:56.600 -> 39:01.040] And that that set of tires that you're using, you know, before shutdown there.
[39:01.040 -> 39:04.720] They're what, seven, eight months old now, six months old, whereas the tires using for
[39:04.720 -> 39:07.680] the rest of the season. they were made in August.
[39:08.340 -> 39:11.240] So, you know, even stuff like that, the age and everything else, it.
[39:12.180 -> 39:14.660] How much I'm not a tire expert, but anyway, I'm going to, I'm
[39:14.660 -> 39:16.740] going to stop on that because that, um,
[39:16.800 -> 39:21.420] well, all that serious tire talk and Perez and shit housing.
[39:22.040 -> 39:25.200] Um, Max decided that.
[39:26.600 -> 39:30.500] Max decided to just fucking drive into the pit wall and
[39:30.500 -> 39:32.900] incredibly that wasn't the most embarrassing thing that
[39:32.900 -> 39:34.500] happened to Red Bull in qualifying.
[39:35.800 -> 39:38.600] Yeah, he's like I've got a little bit too much understeer
[39:38.600 -> 39:41.600] leaving the pit box Bosch straight into the wall.
[39:41.600 -> 39:43.700] Silverstone is a pretty big pit lane as well.
[39:44.300 -> 39:47.240] But uh, those walls just come out of nowhere, mate.
[39:48.000 -> 39:48.400] I don't know.
[39:48.400 -> 39:51.140] I think he's just fucking getting bored now and just doing it for a laugh.
[39:51.160 -> 39:52.540] He's just doing it on purpose.
[39:52.800 -> 39:53.600] Well, here's the thing.
[39:53.600 -> 39:55.560] I was streaming F1 man.
[39:55.560 -> 39:59.540] I was streaming a pre release Frontier invited me to come stream from their
[39:59.540 -> 40:03.640] booth at Twitch con and I'm streaming my playthrough of the Silverstone
[40:03.640 -> 40:05.120] Grand Prix is Williams to redeem
[40:05.120 -> 40:10.720] after I fucked us in that race and like everybody in the chat blowing up just like, Oh my God,
[40:10.720 -> 40:17.440] Max and also I'm sitting here streaming F1 23 from the frontier booth in Twitch Con embarrassed.
[40:17.440 -> 40:21.440] And I've got my phone up right here. I'm like, yeah, so anyway, Alex's strategy will stop now.
[40:21.440 -> 40:25.240] I'm like, what the fuck? It was was like God, I can't do this.
[40:25.240 -> 40:26.560] You guys are too much.
[40:26.560 -> 40:28.240] But there's easier than banning
[40:28.240 -> 40:29.360] and timing all of you guys out
[40:29.360 -> 40:30.120] for distracting me,
[40:30.120 -> 40:33.800] but it was a great time and I actually
[40:33.800 -> 40:35.840] will be doing a little.
[40:35.840 -> 40:38.400] Little F1 manager stream this week
[40:38.400 -> 40:40.200] on stream probably tomorrow.
[40:40.200 -> 40:41.160] So by the time you hear this,
[40:41.200 -> 40:43.160] check out twitch.tv front slash break
[40:43.200 -> 40:44.480] hashtag add but hashtag
[40:44.480 -> 40:46.260] also freaking sweet game
[40:47.360 -> 40:49.360] It's good. It's genuinely good
[40:49.360 -> 40:55.080] But anyway, I got my hands on it the Williams event and we did a we did our two-player
[40:55.960 -> 41:01.720] Trying to do Williams strategy and we completely fucked it. I think we had one DNF and
[41:02.720 -> 41:05.160] The last place or something for the other one.
[41:05.160 -> 41:08.240] So yeah, don't hire us for strategies.
[41:08.440 -> 41:09.080] Mate, all right.
[41:09.080 -> 41:13.440] Just, just before we get into the rest of qualifying, uh, in my F1 manager
[41:13.440 -> 41:17.080] qualifying with Williams, uh, it was a mixed wet dry session and it was a little
[41:17.080 -> 41:19.520] bit more variable than the session we had in real life that weekend.
[41:19.760 -> 41:21.200] Uh, well done frontier for that save.
[41:21.200 -> 41:31.520] That was a really good one and it was super fun, but, uh, I got Alex Alba on P2 in the willies very much very similar to what happened in, was it Canada? Hey it's Ryan
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[43:08.880 -> 43:18.800] starts here. So, you know, I did that and then the race was fantastic. I was on different
[43:18.800 -> 43:26.080] strategies for Alex and Logan and it was to the point where we said, you know, it was alternate strategies.
[43:26.080 -> 43:28.200] Let the other car through.
[43:28.200 -> 43:29.600] Alex was on the alternate strategy.
[43:29.600 -> 43:33.920] I told Logan to not attack, not to let his teammate through.
[43:33.920 -> 43:35.600] Basically, guess what he did?
[43:35.600 -> 43:37.800] He took him out in turn five.
[43:37.800 -> 43:38.800] Beautiful.
[43:38.800 -> 43:41.600] So, uh, I DNF'd both cars because they took each other out.
[43:41.600 -> 43:42.600] Yeah.
[43:42.600 -> 43:44.360] So basically nobody hire me and Blake.
[43:44.360 -> 43:46.240] I honestly may, I did. I, so basically nobody hire me and Blake. I honestly may I did.
[43:46.240 -> 43:47.600] I'm toot my own horn.
[43:47.600 -> 43:50.640] I did really, really good in that drip, but I had to.
[43:50.640 -> 43:52.960] I had to have a word with Alex and Logan after that.
[43:52.960 -> 43:53.960] Mostly Logan.
[43:53.960 -> 43:54.960] I was like, listen here, swamp son.
[43:54.960 -> 44:00.000] Listen, swamp buddy, you need to go real fast and you need to go real left son.
[44:00.000 -> 44:03.560] Yeah, he went way to left straight into Alex.
[44:03.560 -> 44:05.160] Son of a bitch
[44:08.600 -> 44:09.440] That's the boss. That's the boss of Daytona. Isn't it real fast? I
[44:15.400 -> 44:16.440] Saw it somewhere on YouTube and I thought that's brilliant. I love that. That's us one day, hopefully
[44:18.520 -> 44:23.560] Valtteri Bottas Decided to you know, he didn't want to miss out on the fun. So he decided to run out of fuel
[44:27.840 -> 44:28.560] Which is something that you're quite familiar with.
[44:30.760 -> 44:31.240] Oh, let me tell you about running out of fuel.
[44:35.800 -> 44:37.340] It's a really uncomfortable feeling and race fuel, like running qualifying fuel on a Formula one car is awesome.
[44:37.540 -> 44:38.820] Here's, here's, here's what happens.
[44:38.820 -> 44:44.300] You need 0.7 kilos or one liter of fuel to sample at the end.
[44:44.360 -> 44:47.100] And they basically, they know your fuel stash
[44:47.100 -> 44:49.400] and they say, right, we'll take a sample for control sample
[44:49.400 -> 44:51.040] so we can, that's in the archives.
[44:51.040 -> 44:52.060] We'll take a sample of your fuel
[44:52.060 -> 44:53.520] and compare it to what we know your fuel should be.
[44:53.520 -> 44:54.940] And if it's different, you're in trouble.
[44:54.940 -> 44:55.880] That's why you need one liter,
[44:55.880 -> 44:57.440] half a liter for each of those.
[44:57.440 -> 45:02.100] Now, mass or weight is everything in an F1 car.
[45:03.800 -> 45:09.240] So you need to make sure you use this. you're using all the fuel up in your tank.
[45:09.240 -> 45:11.120] You're not leaving extra fuel wasted in the tank.
[45:11.120 -> 45:13.400] And what you will do is you will push quite a lot.
[45:13.400 -> 45:21.120] So as a reference, when I was at 4Cindy doing race fuel, we needed 0.7 kilos in the car
[45:21.120 -> 45:22.120] for a sample.
[45:22.120 -> 45:26.960] And our goal was to finish qualifying with 300 grams of margin or something.
[45:26.960 -> 45:31.960] So that's about, if you can see on this stream,
[45:32.240 -> 45:34.680] if you're on YouTube, it's about that cup full of fuel.
[45:34.680 -> 45:37.320] That's how much sample or how much margin you needed.
[45:38.200 -> 45:40.160] I got that amount a lot.
[45:40.160 -> 45:41.720] And you have to measure your outlaps,
[45:41.720 -> 45:43.480] your time lapse, and your in-lapse.
[45:46.720 -> 45:51.200] And you have to adjust for that. And there's other stuff that can happen, like your fuel bowser, the fuel delivery system in the garage. Sometimes it says,
[45:51.200 -> 45:56.560] hey, mate, I was 300 grams short. So you tell your driver, it's like, listen,
[45:56.560 -> 45:59.280] mate, you've got to save fuel on your outlap. I know you've got to prep your tires, but you're
[45:59.280 -> 46:04.480] going to get fucked. So save fuel on your outlap. And after you cross the line, lift out of it,
[46:04.480 -> 46:05.280] roll it, coast
[46:05.280 -> 46:07.040] it as much as you can do not burn fuel.
[46:07.760 -> 46:10.320] And something went wrong there somewhere along that line with the potass.
[46:10.320 -> 46:15.040] So he got done for not being able to provide a fuel sample and there were no mitigating
[46:15.040 -> 46:15.760] circumstances.
[46:15.760 -> 46:19.520] And that's happened to Sebastian Fetel in Baku years ago as well.
[46:19.520 -> 46:22.160] I believe we lost that podium as a result of the fuel sample.
[46:22.720 -> 46:23.200] Hungry.
[46:23.200 -> 46:23.440] Yeah.
[46:23.440 -> 46:24.160] Yeah.
[46:24.160 -> 46:24.960] I don't know.
[46:24.960 -> 46:25.120] There's a funny story about that, but I'm not sure if I'm allowed to actually tell it publicly. if we lost that podium as a result of the fuel sample. Hungry, yeah. Yeah, I don't know.
[46:25.120 -> 46:27.320] There's a funny story about that, but I'm not sure if I'm allowed
[46:27.320 -> 46:28.560] to actually tell it publicly.
[46:29.120 -> 46:29.640] I wouldn't.
[46:29.880 -> 46:31.280] But we'll chat after this.
[46:31.720 -> 46:36.200] But yeah, um, so that's race fuel management is a hell of a drug, and
[46:36.200 -> 46:40.040] it's honestly, genuinely one of those motorsport things, it gets me excited.
[46:40.040 -> 46:41.120] Man, heart pumping.
[46:41.240 -> 46:43.880] You're coming, the car's coming into the pit lane and you have what's
[46:43.880 -> 46:47.240] called a collector level sensor. And if you're running down into the collector, which is
[46:47.240 -> 46:51.280] the last bit, all the fuel is pumped out of the tank into a collector. And that collector
[46:51.280 -> 46:54.920] is a volume of fuel so that it consistently delivers fuel to the engine. There's a level
[46:54.920 -> 46:58.180] sensor in that. So once the car's in the pit lane, you should see this level sensor on
[46:58.180 -> 47:03.400] your data screen just running down. You know, yes, yes, yes. And there's, there've been
[47:03.400 -> 47:05.120] opportunities in Q2
[47:05.120 -> 47:07.440] where I had used way too much fuel.
[47:07.440 -> 47:08.740] Like we were deep into the collector.
[47:08.740 -> 47:11.300] It's like, they will barely pull a sample out of this
[47:11.300 -> 47:12.140] if they have to.
[47:12.140 -> 47:14.040] And then you correct it for the final run,
[47:14.040 -> 47:15.640] but it's a rush.
[47:15.640 -> 47:16.480] So you're measuring that
[47:16.480 -> 47:18.720] and then you're reacting as soon as the car's in the pit lane
[47:18.720 -> 47:19.960] you guess how much they're gonna use
[47:19.960 -> 47:21.680] by the time they get in the pit lane,
[47:21.680 -> 47:24.960] by the time they pull in the box and stop the car,
[47:24.960 -> 47:25.080] add that amount and then give the fuel man a figure for the next run. It's a rush. the time they get in the pit lane, by the time they pull in the box and stop the car,
[47:25.080 -> 47:28.100] add that amount and then give the fuel man a figure for the next run.
[47:28.100 -> 47:29.100] It's a rush.
[47:29.100 -> 47:30.100] Inject it to me.
[47:30.100 -> 47:31.100] Yeah.
[47:31.100 -> 47:35.000] Because if you fuck up, you get fucked and you ruin the whole team's day.
[47:35.000 -> 47:38.480] And if you save a hundred grams of fuel, you save three thousands of a second.
[47:38.480 -> 47:39.480] Yeah.
[47:39.480 -> 47:43.880] My favorite part about all this is the super technical, highly, you know, technology driven
[47:43.880 -> 47:46.040] F1 and race engineers and
[47:46.040 -> 47:48.800] a fuel bowser man are still communicating with post-it notes.
[47:48.800 -> 47:51.080] So I used to do that at Force India.
[47:51.080 -> 47:54.640] Writing it down on a little note saying, here you go, here's what you need.
[47:54.640 -> 47:58.400] Rick would come over to me with a pad and I'd just write it down on the pad.
[47:58.400 -> 47:59.880] It was dope.
[47:59.880 -> 48:01.840] But uh, what do we got?
[48:01.840 -> 48:03.480] So yeah, so that was Q1.
[48:03.480 -> 48:05.040] I think did Magnussen also not?
[48:05.040 -> 48:08.080] I think Magnussen retired or pulled over because he had an electronics issue.
[48:08.080 -> 48:09.000] I think I can't remember.
[48:09.000 -> 48:09.760] I didn't write that down.
[48:09.760 -> 48:10.440] Something happened.
[48:10.480 -> 48:11.600] They're having a tough time, man.
[48:11.600 -> 48:12.080] I feel for you.
[48:12.080 -> 48:16.040] But we lost Magnussen, De Vries, Joe, Sonoda and Perez.
[48:16.800 -> 48:19.520] Q2, I don't really think anything happened in Q2.
[48:19.560 -> 48:23.320] We lost Hulkenberg, Stroll, Ocon, Sargent, Bottas.
[48:24.160 -> 48:28.200] Yeah. Well done Sargent though for getting where he did.
[48:28.380 -> 48:31.600] Um, Q3, McLaren are cooking.
[48:32.540 -> 48:34.300] Mate, it's real.
[48:34.900 -> 48:38.020] Um, Norris had the upgrades the other week.
[48:38.280 -> 48:39.960] They both got the upgrades this week.
[48:40.820 -> 48:41.940] This is the real deal, man.
[48:42.140 -> 48:46.760] This is, this is genuinely a this is genuinely a recovery story.
[48:46.760 -> 48:47.760] Genuinely.
[48:47.760 -> 48:48.760] Yeah.
[48:48.760 -> 48:50.440] Should we talk about it now?
[48:50.440 -> 48:51.440] Yeah, why not?
[48:51.440 -> 48:53.320] Let's save this bit for the race.
[48:53.320 -> 48:57.000] Okay, we can we can talk about the qualifying performance in a second because I do have
[48:57.000 -> 48:58.000] a bit for that.
[48:58.000 -> 48:59.000] So we'll come back to that.
[48:59.000 -> 49:00.360] McLaren are definitely cooking.
[49:00.360 -> 49:01.360] Yeah.
[49:01.360 -> 49:07.200] I also fully enjoyed listening to the crowd going absolutely mental when Norris took pole for about a whole 20 seconds
[49:07.620 -> 49:10.200] Before max ruined everything as he always does
[49:13.080 -> 49:15.080] Alvin p8
[49:15.800 -> 49:20.180] Come on now on bud. I'm just I just love seeing Alex when I don't know why I
[49:20.960 -> 49:23.960] Don't know why I just I just love seeing him doing well, honestly
[49:26.200 -> 49:35.280] He's a self- Let's talk about the qualifying performance, though, I think so.
[49:35.280 -> 49:38.840] One of the most exciting things about qualifying for the last couple of races is that it's
[49:38.840 -> 49:41.160] been those mixed sessions.
[49:41.160 -> 49:46.600] Like we said before, team awareness, preparation, traffic management, tire understanding,
[49:46.600 -> 49:50.840] and driver adaptability are all key. If it was just a classic drive session with a little
[49:50.840 -> 49:55.440] bit of track evolution, most of the drivers in this series will do very well at that because
[49:55.440 -> 49:59.360] they're good at it. But throw in some fucking chaos and see who cracks. And we're seeing
[49:59.360 -> 50:04.740] a couple of cracks for them. This weekend, Red Bull set the reference as usual. And here's
[50:04.740 -> 50:05.440] the interesting thing
[50:05.440 -> 50:10.880] in this, and this is not me, I take no joy. I would much prefer Mercedes were literally
[50:10.880 -> 50:15.800] in a four-way battle for the win and the points. And I would much prefer that Max wasn't winning
[50:15.800 -> 50:27.840] the constructors championship on his own. I would much prefer that, but let's be realistic. Mercedes best performance this season was in qualifying in Australia
[50:27.840 -> 50:31.720] with that weird, a weird cold track, weird prep.
[50:31.720 -> 50:33.000] And they did a very good job.
[50:33.000 -> 50:35.200] They're about 0.4% off of pole.
[50:35.200 -> 50:39.840] But right now they started the season at about 0.6 off pole.
[50:39.840 -> 50:41.480] They're at a 0.5 off pole
[50:41.480 -> 50:43.400] and they've had some shockers and some winners
[50:43.400 -> 50:47.320] and they haven't been within 0.5% since Monaco.
[50:47.320 -> 50:49.200] They've been like worse performance than that.
[50:49.200 -> 50:51.640] So Mercedes are clearly not finding this.
[50:51.640 -> 50:55.840] Now, if you look at this trend in terms of gap to pole through all the qualifying sessions,
[50:55.840 -> 51:05.120] Spain, McLaren 0.75% off pole, Canada, wet session again, crazy session. Their fastest lap was about
[51:05.120 -> 51:14.520] 0.78 off of pole. And then boom, Austria, Lando, 0.4 percent off of pole. Great Britain,
[51:14.520 -> 51:21.440] Silverstone, 0.35 off of pole. Over a period of several events, McLaren have clearly been,
[51:21.440 -> 51:25.440] they started the season, average 1.5% off of pole.
[51:25.440 -> 51:28.760] And now they're literally, if Ferrari had got their shit together, Ferrari would have
[51:28.760 -> 51:30.700] been closed, but they weren't quick here.
[51:30.700 -> 51:33.200] And McLaren looked like they're on the struggle bus.
[51:33.200 -> 51:39.040] So it's wild for the McLaren's third weekend in a row, they're improving their gap.
[51:39.040 -> 51:40.560] And I think Red Bull performed well.
[51:40.560 -> 51:49.840] So that was a really strong benchmark that they've been all season. All the other teams like the other fast teams gaps. Here's the other thing. Fry have had their first,
[51:49.840 -> 51:54.880] their fourth worst qualifying of the season, despite the fact is about 0.5% off pole and
[51:54.880 -> 51:58.320] uh, Aston Martin are becoming anonymous Martin.
[51:58.320 -> 52:06.180] Neither they've, they've gone from Miami. So they started the season around half a percent off and then Miami and Monaco,
[52:06.180 -> 52:12.960] they were within 0.3 and then since Monaco, since Spain, 1% off, 1.3% off,
[52:13.320 -> 52:17.680] a 0.9% off and then in Silverstone, 1.1% off.
[52:18.860 -> 52:20.320] And they're not quick in the race anymore.
[52:20.760 -> 52:21.720] The last couple of events.
[52:21.720 -> 52:24.360] So, no, but this is, this is a problem, right?
[52:24.360 -> 52:24.920] You can have a.
[52:29.360 -> 52:33.680] But no, no, no, no, no problem, right? You can have a bonus. No, not a dig at Aston Martin. No, because they've done, they've, they've done a huge job over the season to find that much performance. Yeah. But this is where
[52:33.680 -> 52:39.400] you sort out sort of the big teams from the small teams as it were, where can you continue
[52:39.400 -> 52:43.120] that momentum throughout the season and continue it with your updates and your developments
[52:43.120 -> 52:49.000] and things like that. And we've seen it plenty of times in the past where a team will come out of a good car,
[52:49.000 -> 52:53.320] like Haas, some years they've had a pretty quick car, but then they just fade off as
[52:53.320 -> 52:57.040] the season goes on because they can't build on that and the developments.
[52:57.040 -> 52:59.720] So I think that's kind of what's happening to Aston at the minute.
[52:59.720 -> 53:02.880] I thought you were going to say it's because Haas like start off strong and then they can't
[53:02.880 -> 53:04.560] put their wheel nuts on their car in Australia.
[53:04.560 -> 53:07.560] Yeah, well, there is that too. That sucks, by the
[53:07.560 -> 53:12.240] way. I hate seeing that. But yeah, it is one of those things. And it potentially I mean,
[53:12.240 -> 53:16.960] when was when was Aston Martin's upgrade package like did they have they gone down the wrong
[53:16.960 -> 53:22.740] path because let's let's put this to be clear. Everybody's bringing upgrades all the time.
[53:22.740 -> 53:26.120] So the reference is continually changing. The conditions are continually changing.
[53:26.120 -> 53:27.780] Tracks may or may not suit another car.
[53:27.780 -> 53:31.320] But if you go event to event and you see trends like this,
[53:31.320 -> 53:32.760] those are usually meaningful.
[53:34.040 -> 53:35.340] And if you look at the back of the field,
[53:35.340 -> 53:37.400] these guys are absolutely fucking chaos.
[53:37.400 -> 53:40.080] Alpha Tauri, Haas, Alpha Romeo,
[53:40.080 -> 53:44.080] and yeah, those guys, random chaos,
[53:44.080 -> 53:45.040] random number generator.
[53:45.040 -> 53:46.960] I have no idea how they're going to perform on any weekend.
[53:46.960 -> 53:47.960] It's unpredictable.
[53:47.960 -> 53:51.960] But again, like.
[53:51.960 -> 53:55.600] Williams seemingly making some strides as well in terms of their average gap.
[53:55.600 -> 54:00.080] If you even if you ignore Canada, but even Spain was terrible for them, so they're doing
[54:00.080 -> 54:01.080] OK.
[54:01.080 -> 54:04.600] I'd say Williams is doing average and they're getting a little bit more out of the car.
[54:04.600 -> 54:11.840] But yeah, pole is set by Verstappen by just about just over two tenths to Lando.
[54:11.840 -> 54:12.840] Piastri P3.
[54:12.840 -> 54:17.760] Yeah, it's a solid performance out of Leclerc and Boies.
[54:17.760 -> 54:21.360] Leclerc was four tenths off.
[54:21.360 -> 54:24.400] Signs just behind him, just behind him, 12 thousands.
[54:24.400 -> 54:30.080] But yeah, Mercedes behind that. Interesting.
[54:30.080 -> 54:36.280] Very interesting. Um, let's talk about the race, shall we? Is it race time? Sure. And
[54:36.280 -> 54:40.320] I'm so fucking happy. Honestly, I've said it. I've talked to Graham Poop air about it.
[54:40.320 -> 54:48.360] I'm so happy. The McLaren is getting good now and Lando's going well. Because I think he's one of those drivers that if we, if we, if he spent his entire
[54:48.360 -> 54:53.700] Formula One career driving a car, which was not competitive, it would be a shame.
[54:53.700 -> 54:55.140] So I hope they can continue that.
[54:55.140 -> 54:57.480] And I hope to see McLaren back up to the front.
[54:57.480 -> 55:00.380] And I hope to see Mercedes back up to the front because we've got a lot of excellent
[55:00.380 -> 55:05.840] drivers if they're in good machines, we'd be having one of the best seasons ever.
[55:08.880 -> 55:09.680] The talent in this grid is deep.
[55:13.840 -> 55:16.480] Yeah. If you just exclude Max for it, you'd be on to a classic.
[55:20.560 -> 55:22.480] Hey, look, Max is doing well. Good for him. You know, can't punish him because he's winning.
[55:23.760 -> 55:25.000] So yes, race start.
[55:25.000 -> 55:30.960] Max, I think, was it not, did it not say post race that Max basically let his clutch out
[55:30.960 -> 55:33.160] too early, which fluffed his start up.
[55:33.160 -> 55:35.160] That's how he bogged it.
[55:35.160 -> 55:36.160] Yes.
[55:36.160 -> 55:40.400] And that result within Lando jumping into the lead, which yet again, the Silverstone
[55:40.400 -> 55:44.200] crowd went absolutely wild for.
[55:44.200 -> 55:45.540] I love that. The energy. Oh, I love that the energy.
[55:45.560 -> 55:47.400] Yeah, the energy was wild.
[55:47.400 -> 55:52.800] So many British drivers on the grid right now and every time I was.
[55:52.820 -> 55:53.880] I was loving it.
[55:53.880 -> 55:56.200] Piastri even had a look after Max's terrible start.
[55:56.200 -> 55:57.800] He was alongside and he's like, go on lad.
[55:59.000 -> 56:00.680] But they didn't do anything rash there and it was.
[56:01.600 -> 56:04.880] Yeah, Hamilton drops back a spot at I think it's turn three.
[56:04.880 -> 56:09.760] Goes a little bit deep, a little bit wide. That's right. He collects that. Perez drops back
[56:09.760 -> 56:14.400] at the start and he's being super cautious and I was looking at Perez's race position
[56:14.400 -> 56:21.200] chart. He overtakes one car every fourth lap for most of the race and realistically for
[56:21.200 -> 56:27.140] a recovery drive like that. I mean Perez starting from the 15th or back
[56:27.140 -> 56:30.320] I was for those 14th because Baltasar disqualified.
[56:30.320 -> 56:32.580] I believe something like that.
[56:32.580 -> 56:34.020] If you're in a Red Bull, you need to.
[56:34.020 -> 56:35.340] You need to be on the podium.
[56:35.340 -> 56:37.220] Yeah, minimum.
[56:37.220 -> 56:42.180] We saw Max win the race from, you know, getting knocked out like that.
[56:42.180 -> 56:46.680] If you're in that car, you need to be super calculated, super aggressive and not make
[56:46.680 -> 56:47.840] any fucking mistakes.
[56:47.840 -> 56:51.700] But it was it was a it was a it was an okay recovery drive, I think.
[56:51.700 -> 56:54.280] But we don't want to we don't want to have that conversation about recovery drives.
[56:54.280 -> 56:55.840] We want to have a fucking one, too.
[56:55.840 -> 56:59.840] Yeah, if you're if you're mean, if you're Red Bull, you don't need to have two guys
[56:59.840 -> 57:00.840] that are going to win the race.
[57:00.840 -> 57:01.840] You can't have two guys win the race.
[57:01.840 -> 57:03.200] You need a one and a two.
[57:03.200 -> 57:09.400] And realistically, it's a lot more interesting if you have a one and a two which are clear
[57:09.400 -> 57:13.840] what they are. They don't trip over each other that much.
[57:13.840 -> 57:20.200] Yep. So where are we? Yeah, Max pretty much shoots off into the distance after lap five
[57:20.200 -> 57:27.720] when he gets the overtake done. McLaren though, the pace seemed... my
[57:27.720 -> 57:31.240] concerns was it's all good and well being quick and qualifying but can you
[57:31.240 -> 57:35.720] translate that into race pace? And that has been their kind of thing it's like
[57:35.720 -> 57:39.240] oh they had a good qualifying result and they just end up anonymous or
[57:39.240 -> 57:44.600] embarrassing in the race but this was not that race. No it was you know they
[57:44.600 -> 57:45.640] had genuine pace.
[57:45.640 -> 57:49.560] I think what were they similar to Mercedes, if not a little bit quicker?
[57:49.560 -> 57:53.960] I think so, because we saw like if you get if you're if you have track position over
[57:53.960 -> 57:59.320] a car that's the same pace, what tends to happen is you lose time defending and the
[57:59.320 -> 58:01.720] people attacking burn up their tires.
[58:01.720 -> 58:02.960] Mercedes did not have enough pace.
[58:02.960 -> 58:04.280] Oh, oh my God.
[58:04.280 -> 58:05.440] Mercedes did not have enough pace to Oh my God. Mercedes did not have
[58:05.440 -> 58:08.720] enough pace to overtake them, which means they're probably similar ish. Who do we got
[58:08.720 -> 58:11.440] on the stream? If you're watching this on video or YouTube, we got a pupper.
[58:11.440 -> 58:13.600] Yeah, Peanut has just arrived.
[58:13.600 -> 58:17.280] Hello Peanut. He's handsome.
[58:17.280 -> 58:18.280] He's a little shitbag.
[58:18.280 -> 58:20.960] Oh, at least he didn't shit all over your house yesterday.
[58:20.960 -> 58:24.240] No, no, but he just jumped the child gate to get in here.
[58:24.240 -> 58:25.600] Oh, well, he's cute.
[58:25.600 -> 58:27.000] He can stay for a bit, can he?
[58:27.000 -> 58:28.000] Yeah, he's all right.
[58:28.000 -> 58:29.000] Good.
[58:29.000 -> 58:30.000] So, um.
[58:30.000 -> 58:32.920] Yeah, I mean, their pace is good.
[58:32.920 -> 58:33.920] Their pace was super.
[58:33.920 -> 58:35.600] Let's let's talk about this one.
[58:35.600 -> 58:41.620] What was your alright, so we all know that Magnuson Ferrari installed the external combustion
[58:41.620 -> 58:45.320] engine on his car this weekend on Magnusson's Haas.
[58:45.320 -> 58:49.960] It was a fireball on the exit of turn six on the inside of the track, just parked there.
[58:49.960 -> 58:54.360] Or sorry, exit of five.
[58:54.360 -> 58:55.360] What did you think?
[58:55.360 -> 58:59.040] I don't use straight or corner names, I only use corner numbers.
[58:59.040 -> 59:10.820] I forgot about that, sorry. But, um, what did you think when the McLaren pit off of their mediums onto hards at that
[59:10.820 -> 59:11.820] point?
[59:11.820 -> 59:15.620] Oh, you were, you were, everybody was on Twitter and I'm like, I'm thinking the same thing
[59:15.620 -> 59:19.580] because I was a little bit behind watching it on the train, but it's yeah.
[59:19.580 -> 59:20.580] What lap is it?
[59:20.580 -> 59:21.580] It's lap 34.
[59:21.580 -> 59:22.580] Yeah.
[59:22.580 -> 59:25.100] And they stick Lando on hards instead of softs.
[59:25.100 -> 59:29.900] I've got seen how long George took his softs for in the opening stage.
[59:30.000 -> 59:30.400] Yeah.
[59:30.400 -> 59:33.500] Yeah, what was it like 29 laps or something insane and they were already
[59:33.500 -> 59:34.900] used at the start of the race.
[59:35.700 -> 59:37.200] Yeah, this is like 32.
[59:37.200 -> 59:37.800] 31.
[59:38.000 -> 59:40.400] Yeah, there were 31 32 lap old tires easy.
[59:41.100 -> 59:45.880] Yeah, no, I was like, what are you doing? Soft is surely the answer here.
[59:45.880 -> 59:46.880] Yep.
[59:46.880 -> 59:48.800] So here's, here's what I thought about that.
[59:48.800 -> 59:49.800] And I looked back at it.
[59:49.800 -> 59:51.760] So Piastri lost out.
[59:51.760 -> 59:58.040] Piastri ends up finishing fourth behind Lewis because Piastri pits just before the safety
[59:58.040 -> 01:00:02.800] car and the amount of time that you save pitting under safety car is huge.
[01:00:02.800 -> 01:00:08.600] So he loses out, but he had got one lap in on that hard tire because at that point, uh,
[01:00:08.600 -> 01:00:10.440] piastri pit on lap 30.
[01:00:10.440 -> 01:00:13.120] So you had 23 laps to go.
[01:00:13.120 -> 01:00:16.200] They probably saw George doing that on the soft.
[01:00:16.200 -> 01:00:17.200] So like, we're not sure.
[01:00:17.200 -> 01:00:19.240] Cause George was just as quick as the McLaren's were at that point.
[01:00:19.240 -> 01:00:25.000] Very similar pace to Lewis, very similar pace, um, to, to the McLarens.
[01:00:26.480 -> 01:00:29.720] Piaget has a really good first lap on that hard tire.
[01:00:29.720 -> 01:00:30.840] And they said, you know what?
[01:00:30.840 -> 01:00:32.840] Why don't we fit this new hard tire for Lando
[01:00:32.840 -> 01:00:34.280] instead of using a U soft
[01:00:34.280 -> 01:00:35.780] because we're not sure how it's going to go.
[01:00:35.780 -> 01:00:38.600] We're not that confident that we'll get the same result
[01:00:38.600 -> 01:00:40.840] as Russell does.
[01:00:40.840 -> 01:00:43.400] For example, other laps, Sunota and DeVries
[01:00:44.440 -> 01:00:48.160] were the only other guys to start on a soft except for Akon who retired after nine laps
[01:00:48.160 -> 01:00:52.260] So their confidence in that at that point they're like hmm, okay
[01:00:52.260 -> 01:00:57.500] And they saw that they saw that a piastri could go well in the hard that you know what this is the safe option
[01:00:58.760 -> 01:01:01.400] And it turned out okay in the end it turned out very well
[01:01:02.280 -> 01:01:04.280] Lewis jumps Russell and
[01:01:07.560 -> 01:01:08.960] In the end it turned out very well. Lewis jumps Russell and Lewis can't overtake Norris and Lewis is on a new soft.
[01:01:08.960 -> 01:01:14.800] Yeah, as soon as I saw Lewis behind Norris on the soft I thought, that's it, it's over.
[01:01:14.800 -> 01:01:18.480] It's done on the restart, he's going to get goosed after two corners.
[01:01:18.480 -> 01:01:20.320] I was worried about the warm up as well.
[01:01:20.320 -> 01:01:25.400] There was a couple of moments where he came close, but yeah, no, once the tires, the hard
[01:01:25.400 -> 01:01:30.400] tires on Lando's car took a few laps to sort of bed in and get up to temperature, that
[01:01:30.400 -> 01:01:31.400] was it.
[01:01:31.400 -> 01:01:33.560] And I was like, wow, a mad lad's going to do it.
[01:01:33.560 -> 01:01:34.560] Yeah.
[01:01:34.560 -> 01:01:37.900] And even Piastri started to close up to Hamilton towards the end of the race as well.
[01:01:37.900 -> 01:01:41.520] But it looks like people that fit the soft tire at the end of the race that were going
[01:01:41.520 -> 01:01:46.640] ballistic on it, it did not have the same performance level that Russell saw when he was managing it.
[01:01:47.840 -> 01:01:49.720] You know, his Russell's lap times were solid.
[01:01:50.000 -> 01:01:52.920] They were consistent, but everybody went ballistic at the end of the race.
[01:01:52.960 -> 01:01:56.880] Everybody that was on a tear, like Max, Max got into a little bit of
[01:01:56.880 -> 01:01:59.320] dagging, I think as soon as he had a gap, he backed off because he knew.
[01:02:00.320 -> 01:02:03.640] Norris was defending and there's like, that's fine, but yeah.
[01:02:03.920 -> 01:02:04.240] Yeah.
[01:02:04.320 -> 01:02:07.920] Once, you know, after a handful of laps of Lewis pushing
[01:02:07.920 -> 01:02:09.920] Chasing Lando you saw his tires
[01:02:10.680 -> 01:02:12.680] Oh, do you mind?
[01:02:12.840 -> 01:02:14.840] I'm into my mute button. Can you repeat that please?
[01:02:16.200 -> 01:02:22.080] Lewis's soft tires after a few laps. You can see this all went off and he just wasn't able to to get it done
[01:02:22.720 -> 01:02:26.360] Yeah, I was very surprised. I thought when I saw the hearts go on, I thought, ah, fucking
[01:02:26.360 -> 01:02:27.800] McLaren have thrown this away.
[01:02:28.340 -> 01:02:28.680] Yeah.
[01:02:28.820 -> 01:02:32.960] But that's, that's the kind of thing, like when you see people do that kind of stuff
[01:02:33.440 -> 01:02:36.000] and they get it right, and it's like, they knew something we didn't.
[01:02:36.920 -> 01:02:37.280] I love it.
[01:02:38.500 -> 01:02:38.880] I love it.
[01:02:39.080 -> 01:02:39.800] That was super cool.
[01:02:39.960 -> 01:02:41.120] Um, very cool.
[01:02:41.320 -> 01:02:47.760] And someone in chat saying that the McLaren sim sim, the McLaren racing in free
[01:02:47.760 -> 01:02:50.640] practice on the hard tires was apparently very competitive.
[01:02:50.640 -> 01:02:51.720] So perhaps maybe they knew.
[01:02:52.600 -> 01:02:55.500] Well, they must've known because that's why me and you were sitting here doing a
[01:02:55.500 -> 01:02:56.920] podcast and not sitting on a strategy.
[01:02:57.880 -> 01:03:04.400] Yeah, but yeah, so let's, let's, um, the safety car, um, basically anybody that
[01:03:04.400 -> 01:03:07.300] stopped before the safety car got screwed, and especially,
[01:03:07.300 -> 01:03:10.440] so that is Piastri, that is Russell.
[01:03:10.440 -> 01:03:13.760] Russell was not happy about that, but that's what happens when the safety car comes out
[01:03:13.760 -> 01:03:16.920] and people are pushing it, trying to do a one stop.
[01:03:16.920 -> 01:03:18.560] Later you're going to get screwed.
[01:03:18.560 -> 01:03:20.520] You're going to lose track position to those people.
[01:03:20.520 -> 01:03:22.840] Ferrari, let's talk about Ferrari.
[01:03:22.840 -> 01:03:23.840] So Leclerc-
[01:03:23.840 -> 01:03:24.840] Jesus Christ.
[01:03:24.840 -> 01:03:29.360] Leclerc pit on lap 19 off of a medium onto a hard.
[01:03:29.360 -> 01:03:30.840] So he was like, let me do something different.
[01:03:30.840 -> 01:03:31.840] I'm going to get out of this.
[01:03:32.200 -> 01:03:34.120] I've got, I'm under pressure from Russell.
[01:03:34.280 -> 01:03:38.800] I can't, I don't have any room to push Russell's as fast or faster than me.
[01:03:38.980 -> 01:03:40.400] So I'm gonna do is I'm gonna do something different.
[01:03:40.760 -> 01:03:41.600] I'm a pit now.
[01:03:41.960 -> 01:03:44.600] And he did, he did.
[01:03:49.320 -> 01:03:52.400] Effectively undercut Russell because by the time Russell pits, Russell comes out just behind him and then he overtakes him with ease.
[01:03:52.400 -> 01:03:54.880] Mercedes clear of Ferrari this weekend.
[01:03:54.880 -> 01:03:56.400] So they did not have the pace.
[01:03:56.400 -> 01:03:58.880] And that you say they made terrible strategy calls.
[01:03:58.880 -> 01:04:02.400] They could not have predicted the safety car A.
[01:04:02.400 -> 01:04:08.360] But yeah, signs also pits before the safety car as he's under pressure from Hamilton.
[01:04:08.360 -> 01:04:12.000] And he does the exact same thing. He comes straight through Alonso and then safety car
[01:04:12.000 -> 01:04:19.680] boom so. Yeah, it sucks. They converted what a 34 into a not or 45 into a 910 basically
[01:04:19.680 -> 01:04:25.480] and they were realistically a fourth fastest team on the track this weekend. So yeah.
[01:04:25.480 -> 01:04:31.320] Mercedes, or anything you want to say on the Ferrari?
[01:04:31.320 -> 01:04:33.400] Signs got dumped on after the safety car restart.
[01:04:33.400 -> 01:04:37.440] He goes from P8 down to P10 on the safety car restart.
[01:04:37.440 -> 01:04:38.440] So yikes.
[01:04:38.440 -> 01:04:55.960] I think I know everyone knows I'm quite harsh on Ferrari. I don't do it for fun, you know, but I think this was quite embarrassing for them to get
[01:04:55.960 -> 01:05:02.240] a nine and a ten to come away from Silverstone qualifying, what did they say, fourth and
[01:05:02.240 -> 01:05:06.800] fifth and you've come away with three points.
[01:05:06.800 -> 01:05:13.160] And arguably you could say the tenth was under threat.
[01:05:13.160 -> 01:05:18.560] So they may have come away with only getting a single point or whatever, a single point
[01:05:18.560 -> 01:05:19.560] scoring car.
[01:05:19.560 -> 01:05:20.560] I don't know.
[01:05:20.560 -> 01:05:22.160] I don't understand what happened to Ferrari in the race.
[01:05:22.160 -> 01:05:26.760] They just. Well, they've gone, they've, the Ferrari had two problems.
[01:05:26.760 -> 01:05:31.960] One, they were the fourth fastest car and two, they did not have
[01:05:31.960 -> 01:05:33.240] any cover for a late safety car.
[01:05:33.240 -> 01:05:35.800] If there was a late safety car, definitively they were fucked.
[01:05:36.360 -> 01:05:39.320] Um, and it didn't, you know, the, you can't predict those, so
[01:05:39.320 -> 01:05:42.260] you can't bank on those things, but they were trying to do their
[01:05:42.260 -> 01:05:46.720] best race, which was making sure they could finish as the fourth fastest car.
[01:05:46.720 -> 01:05:47.840] That was all they had on the table.
[01:05:47.840 -> 01:05:49.040] They weren't going to win this race.
[01:05:49.040 -> 01:05:51.360] They weren't going to be on the podium at all.
[01:05:51.360 -> 01:05:52.720] There's no way that was happening.
[01:05:52.720 -> 01:05:56.400] So it's a bit of a bummer for them for sure.
[01:05:56.400 -> 01:05:59.800] What about Mercedes?
[01:05:59.800 -> 01:06:03.200] It's really tough to say, man.
[01:06:03.200 -> 01:06:08.960] Asked, Aston, Disappear, McLaren are coming up to the front and we talked about the performances
[01:06:08.960 -> 01:06:11.240] in qualifying not exciting at all.
[01:06:11.240 -> 01:06:13.000] It's just not.
[01:06:13.000 -> 01:06:15.920] So I'm gonna, am I gonna do this?
[01:06:15.920 -> 01:06:16.920] Yes, I'm gonna do this.
[01:06:16.920 -> 01:06:17.920] Right.
[01:06:17.920 -> 01:06:18.920] Send it.
[01:06:18.920 -> 01:06:23.800] I'll preface this and I'll say this is not slander or anything, right?
[01:06:23.800 -> 01:06:26.800] So chill out with your keyboards in the comments.
[01:06:28.740 -> 01:06:35.660] If McLaren can take their car, which was dog shit at the start of the season,
[01:06:36.920 -> 01:06:44.220] and now have two strong races under their belts, what is Mercedes excuse for
[01:06:44.220 -> 01:06:47.640] flailing around and sort of up and
[01:06:47.640 -> 01:06:48.800] down like a roller coaster?
[01:06:48.800 -> 01:06:52.700] Whereas this is early days, right?
[01:06:52.700 -> 01:06:56.320] If McLaren come through and the next few races for McLaren are also strong.
[01:06:57.340 -> 01:07:02.600] Questions have got to be asked within Ferrari and Mercedes and Aston Martin
[01:07:02.700 -> 01:07:04.060] of what are they doing?
[01:07:04.180 -> 01:07:06.320] Like what, how has McLaren done this?
[01:07:07.360 -> 01:07:08.520] Mate, a hundred percent.
[01:07:08.520 -> 01:07:10.780] Like, and the questions you have to ask,
[01:07:10.780 -> 01:07:13.640] have Mercedes and Ferrari locked in philosophies
[01:07:13.640 -> 01:07:15.980] into the design, which are too expensive
[01:07:15.980 -> 01:07:17.700] to change inside of the cost cap,
[01:07:17.700 -> 01:07:19.040] or are they being arrogant
[01:07:19.040 -> 01:07:21.040] with certain philosophical decisions
[01:07:21.040 -> 01:07:23.240] about how they approach designing the car,
[01:07:23.240 -> 01:07:29.960] or have other teams just started to find some stuff that they haven't yet to learn. And I find that difficult. Or
[01:07:29.960 -> 01:07:36.380] the third question is, maybe Mercedes is not well structured to deal with the cost cap
[01:07:36.380 -> 01:07:42.320] era in terms of their development efficiency and their information throughput. You know,
[01:07:42.320 -> 01:07:47.720] I don't know. I'm not hedging any of those bets on any of those things.
[01:07:47.720 -> 01:07:51.320] I'm just saying those are some things that would be very interesting to be a fly on the
[01:07:51.320 -> 01:07:54.080] wall and accumulate enough information to make an assessment on that.
[01:07:54.080 -> 01:08:00.120] Because those are three very real possibilities.
[01:08:00.120 -> 01:08:05.000] So I think that's, in terms of their race, we talked about Russell.
[01:08:09.860 -> 01:08:10.580] Um, the Claire undercuts them, but Russell was like, nah, I'm just going to overtake you.
[01:08:10.580 -> 01:08:11.180] Sorry, dork.
[01:08:11.760 -> 01:08:13.560] Um, yeah.
[01:08:13.980 -> 01:08:15.260] Well done, George Russell.
[01:08:15.320 -> 01:08:19.500] I like to, you know, give you some grief about your terrorism
[01:08:19.500 -> 01:08:20.800] tool and things like that.
[01:08:20.800 -> 01:08:23.740] But, uh, no, you, your own instinct on your softs.
[01:08:23.820 -> 01:08:26.120] I'll give you a big two, two,
[01:08:28.120 -> 01:08:29.800] good, bold drive from them.
[01:08:29.800 -> 01:08:30.620] And it was calculated.
[01:08:30.620 -> 01:08:33.200] They're not going to let George just do some stupid ass shit.
[01:08:33.240 -> 01:08:35.280] Like if you think you can make it work, here's your targets.
[01:08:35.560 -> 01:08:36.760] Here's what we need to hit to make this work.
[01:08:36.760 -> 01:08:37.240] And they did it.
[01:08:37.480 -> 01:08:38.560] So hats off to them.
[01:08:38.880 -> 01:08:43.960] Um, Hamilton clean, super clean race, but the acceptance start, which is fine.
[01:08:43.960 -> 01:08:46.680] Had a little bobble at the start and then I drove it.
[01:08:46.700 -> 01:08:50.800] He got, he got the safety car this time in his favor and goes home to take the
[01:08:50.800 -> 01:08:54.100] podium at his home race to British drivers on the podium.
[01:08:54.680 -> 01:08:55.180] Pretty dope.
[01:08:55.420 -> 01:08:56.860] I believe as well.
[01:08:57.180 -> 01:08:58.060] Someone will correct me.
[01:08:58.060 -> 01:09:02.140] I think it's like how was 14th Silverstone podium or something mental like that?
[01:09:02.700 -> 01:09:09.000] Man, mad podium. These podiums lately have been really exciting because you've got some legends and future
[01:09:09.000 -> 01:09:15.280] legends up on those steps and I feel like sport is in a better place.
[01:09:15.280 -> 01:09:18.240] We're happier and we're talking about the good things in the race and I don't even want
[01:09:18.240 -> 01:09:20.160] to talk about Martin Brundle on the grid.
[01:09:20.160 -> 01:09:23.120] Like I'm going to mention that if you've seen all the shit fight about that, I don't want
[01:09:23.120 -> 01:09:24.120] to talk about it.
[01:09:24.120 -> 01:09:25.080] I don't care. Me neither. Good. That's all we're going to mention that if you've seen all this shit fight about that, I don't want to talk about it. I don't care.
[01:09:25.080 -> 01:09:26.080] Me either.
[01:09:26.080 -> 01:09:27.080] Good.
[01:09:27.080 -> 01:09:28.080] That's all we're going to say about it.
[01:09:28.080 -> 01:09:30.680] So just real quick, I'm going to plug my Buy Me a Coffee, actually.
[01:09:30.680 -> 01:09:35.240] So if you if you like, like the analytical deep dives, I actually do a written report,
[01:09:35.240 -> 01:09:38.960] like an engineering performance summary report, every qualifying in every race for every Grand
[01:09:38.960 -> 01:09:39.960] Prix.
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[01:09:42.160 -> 01:09:45.640] So if that's something that's interested, like the analytical deep dives,
[01:09:45.640 -> 01:09:47.580] do be sure to check that stuff out
[01:09:47.580 -> 01:09:49.040] because I go into a lot more detail
[01:09:49.040 -> 01:09:50.500] and I love sharing that with you guys.
[01:09:50.500 -> 01:09:53.580] I love having those technical conversations with you,
[01:09:53.580 -> 01:09:55.320] you guys in the stream
[01:09:55.320 -> 01:09:57.800] and you guys in the podcast and Dan, but yeah.
[01:09:57.800 -> 01:10:00.500] Let him fucking bore you with it instead of me.
[01:10:00.500 -> 01:10:02.760] Yeah, so let's quickly talk about
[01:10:02.760 -> 01:10:04.580] our race podium predictions.
[01:10:06.080 -> 01:10:07.920] You did, you did, you done well.
[01:10:07.920 -> 01:10:08.920] Well, yeah, right.
[01:10:08.920 -> 01:10:09.920] I smashed it.
[01:10:09.920 -> 01:10:10.920] I'm claiming I smashed it.
[01:10:10.920 -> 01:10:11.920] Go on lad.
[01:10:11.920 -> 01:10:17.040] I put for my predictions, I put Verstappen, Perez, Norris.
[01:10:17.040 -> 01:10:18.960] Good, good lad.
[01:10:18.960 -> 01:10:23.320] And I love the belief, seeing McLaren on the rise up saying, you know what, we're going
[01:10:23.320 -> 01:10:24.320] to do it.
[01:10:24.320 -> 01:10:29.240] I went really boring and I did Verstappen, Leclerc and I could not have been more wrong.
[01:10:29.240 -> 01:10:32.760] I mean, to be fair, you, the Perez was, we were way wrong with Perez.
[01:10:32.760 -> 01:10:33.760] It's fine.
[01:10:33.760 -> 01:10:37.000] We're putting too much faith into Perez at the minute.
[01:10:37.000 -> 01:10:38.000] Yep.
[01:10:38.000 -> 01:10:39.080] Yeah, exactly.
[01:10:39.080 -> 01:10:45.120] So my bold Norris prediction came out well as we got Verstappen, Norris and Hamilton.
[01:10:51.680 -> 01:10:56.720] Yeah, so why don't we quickly, um, I need to shoot in like 10 minutes. I've got myself 10 more minutes, but I think... Let's, let's get through it. We're gonna, we're gonna rip through Fraudwatch,
[01:10:56.720 -> 01:10:59.920] so I'm not gonna play the bumper. So Fraudwatch is where we put somebody on...
[01:10:59.920 -> 01:11:10.400] Not even gonna play the fucking music. 🎵Frodwatch🎵
[01:11:10.400 -> 01:11:11.440] 🎵Frodwatch🎵
[01:11:11.440 -> 01:11:12.320] Right, Frodwatch.
[01:11:12.320 -> 01:11:13.520] Right, bang.
[01:11:13.520 -> 01:11:14.640] Ferrari, I'm in.
[01:11:14.640 -> 01:11:15.200] Yeah.
[01:11:15.200 -> 01:11:16.000] Alright, you're in for a cry.
[01:11:16.000 -> 01:11:17.120] You know what Frodwatch is by now?
[01:11:17.120 -> 01:11:19.280] It's where we slate someone that did really badly at the weekend.
[01:11:19.280 -> 01:11:20.240] Bang, Ferrari.
[01:11:20.240 -> 01:11:20.720] What you doing?
[01:11:21.440 -> 01:11:25.040] I feel really bad to do this because I.
[01:11:25.040 -> 01:11:29.160] I think he's a super nice guy, but like I think Perez is on it for me this week.
[01:11:29.160 -> 01:11:30.540] He's got to step up.
[01:11:30.540 -> 01:11:32.340] He's got the best car in the grid.
[01:11:32.340 -> 01:11:35.180] He needs to get his head in the game for qualifying.
[01:11:35.180 -> 01:11:39.600] He's got a really awesome group of guys and gals around him helping him to get the most
[01:11:39.600 -> 01:11:42.100] out of it, and I feel like.
[01:11:42.100 -> 01:11:47.960] I don't know for a fact, but I feel like the balls in his court on this one and he needs to figure out what he needs to do to get the most out of the car
[01:11:47.960 -> 01:11:48.960] and qualifying.
[01:11:48.960 -> 01:11:52.360] So he does not have to do these recovery drives in the race. Cause when he does those recovery
[01:11:52.360 -> 01:11:56.440] drives in the race, he does them well, but it's not like he's able to sail back onto
[01:11:56.440 -> 01:12:03.880] the podium every time. So yeah. And that's no, and he did ask me when I saw him in, uh,
[01:12:03.880 -> 01:12:05.860] at the Red Bull show and he's like, Hey, do you have a real job yet?
[01:12:06.360 -> 01:12:07.080] You fucking joke.
[01:12:07.080 -> 01:12:09.520] And this is not, I like Jekyll a lot.
[01:12:09.520 -> 01:12:14.280] And I just hope that he can find that because this is, this is clear.
[01:12:16.080 -> 01:12:20.360] And that's easy, easy for us to say some stupid ass losers sitting on our asses on
[01:12:20.360 -> 01:12:22.360] a podcast talking shit with no impact.
[01:12:22.840 -> 01:12:27.400] Um, so fair enough, but why don't we quickly move on to.
[01:12:29.500 -> 01:12:31.500] Oh, you think he's a good boy.
[01:12:31.500 -> 01:12:32.300] I am.
[01:12:32.300 -> 01:12:33.300] I'm a good boy.
[01:12:33.600 -> 01:12:34.900] This is this is the opposite of that.
[01:12:34.900 -> 01:12:38.700] This is what we put some put some love on somebody again, we think
[01:12:38.700 -> 01:12:40.000] might not be getting enough of it.
[01:12:40.000 -> 01:12:41.600] So give it give it to me.
[01:12:41.700 -> 01:12:41.900] Yeah.
[01:12:41.900 -> 01:12:46.320] So in Austria, I gave it to McLaren and listen, Silverstone, I'm giving
[01:12:46.320 -> 01:12:48.080] it to McLaren again, two in a row.
[01:12:49.840 -> 01:12:52.520] The, the rise in of McLaren.
[01:12:52.520 -> 01:12:53.200] I'm here for it.
[01:12:53.800 -> 01:12:54.280] We're here.
[01:12:54.640 -> 01:12:58.080] I was going to go with Albon because I'm just super impressed by what he's doing
[01:12:58.080 -> 01:13:02.240] with that car and qualifying and the race, but I feel like Lando getting that home
[01:13:02.240 -> 01:13:06.040] podium, great qualifying, great race, calculated,
[01:13:06.040 -> 01:13:08.840] new win to take risks, new win to not take risks.
[01:13:08.840 -> 01:13:09.840] Good lad.
[01:13:09.840 -> 01:13:10.840] Good lad.
[01:13:10.840 -> 01:13:13.840] I'm really into that.
[01:13:13.840 -> 01:13:17.560] Um, do you, I need to call it very shortly.
[01:13:17.560 -> 01:13:20.520] Do you want to give your very short version of your random fandom?
[01:13:20.520 -> 01:13:29.020] Yeah, so my random fandom, I had Williams, uh, quick on Friday as they were evaluating some new items, new
[01:13:29.020 -> 01:13:30.980] front wing and a rear wing on Logan's car.
[01:13:30.980 -> 01:13:33.080] Interestingly did not use the rear wing in the end.
[01:13:33.080 -> 01:13:33.700] I found out.
[01:13:34.540 -> 01:13:37.100] Uh, qualifying went well for Albon.
[01:13:37.140 -> 01:13:41.160] Um, Sergeant had a little bit more of a messy qualifying as he had two lap times
[01:13:41.160 -> 01:13:43.300] late in Q2 and ran out of soft tires.
[01:13:43.300 -> 01:13:45.480] So 14th was the best he could achieve.
[01:13:45.480 -> 01:13:46.840] We can't be doing that.
[01:13:46.840 -> 01:13:50.280] P8 for Albon was his third successive Q3 appearance.
[01:13:50.280 -> 01:13:51.280] Go on lad.
[01:13:51.280 -> 01:13:55.640] The start of the race was tricky due to the changeable conditions and wind.
[01:13:55.640 -> 01:14:00.240] Team had concerns over degradation appearing high during the first stint.
[01:14:00.240 -> 01:14:03.680] Actually the tyres held up better than expected so a one stop using the soft and medium tyres
[01:14:03.680 -> 01:14:04.680] was possible.
[01:14:04.680 -> 01:14:05.080] Logan got unlucky with a safety car, came out one stop using the soft and medium tyres was possible.
[01:14:05.080 -> 01:14:07.260] Logan got unlucky with the safety car,
[01:14:07.260 -> 01:14:08.800] came out one lap after he pitted,
[01:14:08.800 -> 01:14:11.060] but he still managed to finish 11th.
[01:14:11.060 -> 01:14:14.280] But the safety car helped Albon when it came to his stop,
[01:14:14.280 -> 01:14:19.280] and soft tyre choice helped him pass Sainz to finish P8.
[01:14:19.880 -> 01:14:22.820] Williams best result in a home race since 2015.
[01:14:23.840 -> 01:14:29.320] Third score of the season now now has moved Williams up to seventh in a constructors championship
[01:14:29.320 -> 01:14:32.320] ahead of Haas, Alfa, Romeo and Alfa Tauri.
[01:14:32.320 -> 01:14:37.160] Williams, you get yourself a big...
[01:14:37.160 -> 01:14:38.160] Well done.
[01:14:38.160 -> 01:14:46.880] So, that was a very good report card, and I'm delighted for them. them. And I think I think Logan, I think he's got some
[01:14:47.520 -> 01:14:50.280] some development improvement to do, but I don't think it's terrible.
[01:14:51.320 -> 01:14:53.240] I've got Alpha Towering.
[01:14:53.880 -> 01:14:56.040] They get a fucking F.
[01:14:56.040 -> 01:15:00.360] Seriously, like I'm so frustrated that they're not competitive
[01:15:00.360 -> 01:15:03.240] because their sister team is Red Bull Racing.
[01:15:03.240 -> 01:15:06.400] They should be buying all the parts they can buy from Red Bull,
[01:15:06.400 -> 01:15:09.200] using all that extra resource to figure out how they need to optimize
[01:15:09.200 -> 01:15:11.360] the aerodynamics and make that package work best for them.
[01:15:12.000 -> 01:15:15.680] But they got knocked out both in Q1 and they finished the race P16 and P17.
[01:15:16.640 -> 01:15:20.480] We talked at length about DeVries, but it's not like Tsunoda did a fucking
[01:15:20.480 -> 01:15:23.000] fantastic stinker this weekend either.
[01:15:23.000 -> 01:15:26.600] So I'm frustrated and disappointed and I've
[01:15:26.600 -> 01:15:30.720] got quite a few friends that work there and I wish it was going better for them. That's
[01:15:30.720 -> 01:15:31.720] all I've got to say on the topic.
[01:15:31.720 -> 01:15:35.560] Yep, let's see how it works out with them now they got Danny Rick.
[01:15:35.560 -> 01:15:40.060] Yeah, let's see. And I hope it's a positive experience because I hate seeing that it's
[01:15:40.060 -> 01:15:45.140] like these knee jerk, you know, like, oh, this isn't working out, let's just get rid of them.
[01:15:45.140 -> 01:15:49.060] But anyway, I've got a jet, ladies and gentlemen.
[01:15:49.060 -> 01:15:52.120] So we'll see you maybe next week, maybe the week after,
[01:15:52.120 -> 01:15:53.120] maybe we'll take a little break
[01:15:53.120 -> 01:15:54.240] or maybe we'll get a guest on.
[01:15:54.240 -> 01:15:55.660] I've got a couple of very,
[01:15:55.660 -> 01:15:57.300] I think people that you guys would like to hear from.
[01:15:57.300 -> 01:15:58.140] I think Dan does too.
[01:15:58.140 -> 01:16:03.140] So we're gonna start getting into engine breaking with guests
[01:16:03.820 -> 01:16:05.640] I think that'll be super good and I think that will
[01:16:05.640 -> 01:16:11.840] make some more varied content that you guys are going to enjoy. All right, tomorrow. Got
[01:16:11.840 -> 01:16:15.560] a little F1 manager stream over on the Twitch, so I'll see you guys over there. Anything
[01:16:15.560 -> 01:16:16.560] going on with you, Dan?
[01:16:16.560 -> 01:16:20.000] Fuck off. I'm not going to lie to you. No.
[01:16:20.000 -> 01:16:26.000] Send it, mate. All right. Got to love you and leave you. Local butchers support them.
[01:16:26.000 -> 01:16:28.000] I've just got some chicken from my local butcher as well.
[01:16:28.000 -> 01:16:30.000] I'm gonna smoke it tonight. I'm gonna brine it tonight, smoke it tomorrow.
[01:16:30.000 -> 01:16:32.000] You guys, look after yourselves.
[01:16:32.000 -> 01:16:34.000] Yep.
[01:16:34.000 -> 01:16:36.000] Fuck off.
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