Ep34 - Hungary and Spa Reviews

It's been a minute, but the boys are back after some real life dramas!

• Hungary GP
• Belgium GP
• Max Verstappen Marriage Counselling
• 3rd Host Reveal
• Wet Tyres, What are they good for?
• Game of Thrones: Alpine edition

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**Here's a summary of the podcast episode transcript:**

**Introduction**

* The hosts, Dan (Engine Mode 11) and Blake (Brake), are back after a brief hiatus due to real-life commitments.
* They discuss their decision to take a two-week break during the Formula One shutdown period.

**Hungarian Grand Prix Review**

* The hosts briefly touch on the Hungarian Grand Prix, which saw Max Verstappen win ahead of Lewis Hamilton and George Russell.
* They discuss the new alternative tire allocation rule, which resulted in fewer soft tires being available for the race weekend.
* They also discuss the impact of the track evolution on qualifying and the race.

**Belgian Grand Prix Preview**

* The hosts preview the upcoming Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps.
* They discuss the unique characteristics of the Spa circuit and the potential for exciting racing.
* They also mention that they may do a preview episode for the Zandvoort race before their scheduled return.

**News Roundup**

* The hosts discuss several news items from the Formula One world:
* A mass exodus of personnel from the Alpine F1 team, including Otmar Szafnauer, Alain Permane, and Marcin Budkowski.
* Rumors that Mattia Binotto, the former Ferrari team principal, may be in talks to join Alpine.
* Reports that Aston Martin may have breached the FIA's technical regulations.
* The FIA's issuance of a technical directive aimed at curbing the use of flexible rear wings.

**Danny Ricciardo's Return**

* The hosts briefly discuss Danny Ricciardo's return to Formula One with McLaren after a two-year absence.
* They note that Ricciardo has had a difficult start to the season but has shown some signs of improvement.

**Ferrari Driver Contracts**

* The hosts discuss the ongoing saga of Ferrari driver contracts, with Carlos Sainz Jr. and Charles Leclerc both rumored to be in negotiations for new deals.
* They speculate on the possibility of Sainz leaving Ferrari if he is not offered a competitive contract.

**Conclusion**

* The hosts wrap up the episode by thanking their listeners for tuning in and encouraging them to join the conversation on social media.
* They also tease some potential guests for future episodes. **Podcast Episode Summary: Formula One Belgian Grand Prix Recap and Controversies**

**Introduction:**

- The hosts discuss their hiatus and personal experiences before diving into the Belgian Grand Prix.

**Belgian Grand Prix:**

- The race weekend was affected by wet weather conditions, leading to a sprint race on Saturday.
- Max Verstappen dominated the qualifying session, securing pole position but receiving a 5-place grid penalty for a gearbox change.
- During the sprint race, there were several incidents, including Hulkenberg's aborted lap, Russell and Hamilton's lap line astern, and Stroll knocking out his teammate in qualifying.
- The main race started behind the safety car due to heavy rain, and drivers switched to intermediate tires when visibility improved.
- Lewis Hamilton and Sergio Perez collided during the race, resulting in a penalty for Hamilton and a retirement for Perez.

**Controversies and Discussions:**

- The hosts debate the usefulness of wet tires in extreme conditions and the need for improved visibility solutions.
- They also discuss the controversial incidents during the race, including the Hamilton-Perez collision and the subsequent penalty.
- The hosts express their dislike for sprint races and criticize the FIA's handling of various situations.

**Additional Topics:**

- The hosts mention the Alpine Formula One team's ongoing "Game of Thrones"-like drama.
- They discuss the rumors surrounding Carlos Sainz's contract renewal with Ferrari and potential replacements.
- The hosts also briefly touch upon the Formula E World Drivers Championship and Jake Dennis's victory.

**Conclusion:**

- The hosts wrap up the episode by emphasizing the overall disappointment with the Belgian Grand Prix weekend. * **Race Summary:**

The Hungarian Grand Prix witnessed a mixed tire strategy race with most drivers opting for soft tires. The race start saw a controversial incident between Piastri and Sainz, resulting in a collision and subsequent penalty for Sainz. Max Verstappen secured a strong P4 position by the end of the first lap.

The race was characterized by changing track conditions, with drivers struggling to maintain grip on the wet surface. This led to several tense moments, including a near-collision between Russell and Sainz. Lando Norris showcased impressive tire management, completing a 27-lap stint on the soft tires.

Verstappen and Perez faced some issues during the race, with Verstappen complaining about a lack of power and Perez experiencing tire degradation. Despite these challenges, Verstappen managed to secure a podium finish, while Perez finished fourth.

* **Fraud Watch:**

The "Fraud Watch" segment highlighted drivers or teams that faced criticism or scrutiny during the Hungarian and Belgian Grand Prix weekends. Gwen Uzsiah was mentioned as a potential candidate for the Hungarian Grand Prix, but Dan ultimately decided against putting him on the list.

For the Belgian Grand Prix, Charlotte Claire was singled out for criticism due to a controversial tweet regarding the race start incident. Additionally, Carlos Sainz was mentioned for his role in the collision with Piastri.

* **Engine Mode Good Boys:**

The "Engine Mode Good Boys" segment recognized individuals or teams that displayed exceptional performance or made positive contributions during the races. Red Bull Racing was acknowledged for their record-breaking winning streak, and Pirelli was praised for providing better tire options for the Hungarian Grand Prix.

For the Belgian Grand Prix, Sergio Perez's impressive performance and GP's ability to manage Verstappen's emotions were highlighted. Oscar Piastri was also recognized for his impressive rookie season, showcasing his talent and potential.

* **Additional Discussions:**

The podcast also featured discussions on various other topics, including:

* The upcoming break in the Formula One season and the potential activities that the hosts might engage in during this time.
* The challenges and financial considerations involved in pursuing a full-time career in streaming or gaming.
* The upcoming live event in London hosted by Tomo and Aldous, featuring several notable guests from the Formula One community.

Overall, the podcast provided an engaging and informative analysis of the Hungarian and Belgian Grand Prix weekends, while also incorporating segments that highlighted notable performances and addressed controversies within the sport. **Hungary GP:**

* The Hungarian Grand Prix was a thrilling race with several strategic decisions and intense battles.
* Max Verstappen secured a dominant victory, extending his lead in the championship standings.
* Ferrari's Carlos Sainz Jr. finished second, while George Russell of Mercedes completed the podium.
* The race was marked by a dramatic first lap incident involving Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton, resulting in Alonso's retirement.

**Belgium GP:**

* The Belgian Grand Prix was a chaotic race affected by heavy rain and poor visibility.
* The race was red-flagged after two laps due to the dangerous conditions, and no points were awarded.
* The decision to start the race despite the adverse weather conditions was met with criticism from drivers and fans.

**Max Verstappen Marriage Counselling:**

* Max Verstappen's recent struggles in qualifying and the first laps of races were discussed.
* The podcast hosts speculated on the reasons behind Verstappen's difficulties, including the pressure of being the championship leader and the intense competition in Formula One.
* They suggested that Verstappen may benefit from seeking advice from a sports psychologist or mental coach to help him manage the mental aspects of racing.

**3rd Host Reveal:**

* The podcast hosts teased the reveal of their third host, who will join the show in the near future.
* They hinted that the new host is a well-known figure in the Formula One community and has a unique perspective on the sport.
* The hosts promised to provide more details about the third host in the coming weeks.

**Wet Tyres, What are they good for?:**

* The podcast hosts discussed the importance of wet tires in Formula One racing.
* They explained how wet tires are designed to provide grip and control in wet conditions, allowing drivers to maintain speed and avoid accidents.
* The hosts also highlighted the challenges of driving on wet tires, including the reduced visibility and the risk of aquaplaning.

**Game of Thrones: Alpine edition:**

* The podcast hosts compared the current situation at Alpine F1 Team to the popular TV series Game of Thrones.
* They drew parallels between the political maneuvering and power struggles within the team and the complex relationships and alliances in Game of Thrones.
* The hosts also discussed the impact of Fernando Alonso's departure from Alpine and the team's search for a suitable replacement.

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[02:13.480 -> 02:20.160] You are listening to the most fraudulent f1 podcast with Dan aka engine mode 11
[02:20.160 -> 02:25.720] I secretly moonlight has helped Marko at race weekends. And Blake, aka Brake.
[02:25.720 -> 02:28.880] Echo chambers of farts and idiots on Twitter after races.
[02:28.880 -> 02:31.480] It's the engine breaking F1 podcast.
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[02:35.480 -> 02:44.480] Contrary to popular belief, we have not been cancelled or deleted off the internet.
[02:44.480 -> 02:50.240] Yeah, not yet, at least. They have been trying and we can feel the dark forces working in
[02:50.240 -> 02:54.700] the background, but we're we're fighting them. Welcome to the engine breaking podcast. I'm
[02:54.700 -> 03:03.640] your host, Blake, a break. And this is Dan, a K engine mode. Eleven hashtag frauds. Yeah,
[03:03.640 -> 03:09.280] we took a little break for a week. Life seems to happen, and when you have more to do than just a podcast, sometimes
[03:09.280 -> 03:10.040] it's like, you know what?
[03:10.720 -> 03:14.760] Let's just not do a podcast this week and we'll come back stronger, better, harder,
[03:15.120 -> 03:17.280] but not much longer because I got to get out of here.
[03:18.680 -> 03:20.000] And that was this week's episode.
[03:20.000 -> 03:22.880] So thanks everyone, and we'll see you again in another four weeks.
[03:23.120 -> 03:24.000] Yeah, cheers for tuning in.
[03:24.000 -> 03:26.080] Well, speaking of work, we are going to take a little break.
[03:26.080 -> 03:28.840] I think maybe two weeks off that I am.
[03:28.840 -> 03:31.240] I am adhering to the Formula One.
[03:31.240 -> 03:33.120] My dogs aren't happy with that news.
[03:33.120 -> 03:39.520] I'm adhering to the Formula One shutdown policy and I'm going to go on holiday while I can.
[03:41.160 -> 03:44.480] But I think we'll come back for a Zandvoort preview episode.
[03:44.720 -> 03:50.680] So this week we're going to we're going to kind of go through, I'll quickly touch on Hungry stuff, a little
[03:50.680 -> 03:53.040] bit happened, maybe there's a couple of things we're talking about.
[03:53.040 -> 03:56.520] Then we'll do a little bit of a news roundup because there's some interesting stuff going
[03:56.520 -> 03:57.520] on.
[03:57.520 -> 04:02.280] There's an exodus of personnel at Alpine at the top of the food chain.
[04:02.280 -> 04:05.840] We'll have a little check in with Danny Rick, not a whole lot to say there.
[04:07.020 -> 04:09.960] Scott, not Sky, a Ferrari talking about driver contracts.
[04:09.960 -> 04:14.600] And there's some rumors that Aston Martin have gotten a little.
[04:15.020 -> 04:17.220] Hey, guys. Hey, guys, can you stop doing that?
[04:17.220 -> 04:20.180] It's not strictly legal, but that's all rumors and nonsense.
[04:20.180 -> 04:23.340] So we're going to basically lean into it completely fraudulently.
[04:23.340 -> 04:26.480] Yeah. Slap him down with that technical directive.
[04:26.480 -> 04:27.800] Yeah, whatever that is.
[04:27.800 -> 04:29.680] And the thing about technical directives
[04:29.680 -> 04:33.920] is we don't see them unless somebody in the press leaks one.
[04:33.920 -> 04:36.680] Like the technical directives, like all the technical documents
[04:36.680 -> 04:40.920] that go out on the rules and checks and forms every weekend,
[04:40.920 -> 04:44.120] technical directives don't live anywhere.
[04:44.120 -> 04:45.360] We've both worked in F1. I was
[04:45.360 -> 04:49.120] there for six years. I never saw one. I don't know. Did you ever get to see one? I never even
[04:49.120 -> 04:54.080] saw one. Or did you? Because, because that was in the engineering group, they would come around to
[04:54.080 -> 04:58.640] that because a lot of the technical directives had to do with vehicle dynamics or aerodynamic
[04:58.640 -> 05:03.840] performance topics. So those were kind of important to know that, that, and then here's,
[05:03.840 -> 05:05.200] here's a funny story.
[05:05.200 -> 05:06.600] Here's how technical directives work.
[05:06.600 -> 05:08.080] And we've talked about this before,
[05:08.080 -> 05:09.760] and then I'll get into the rest of what we're doing,
[05:09.760 -> 05:12.960] but the ADHD is in full tilt, in classic swing.
[05:12.960 -> 05:15.200] Technical directives go something like this.
[05:15.200 -> 05:17.760] A team will write a letter to the FIA to say,
[05:17.760 -> 05:21.200] dear FIA, we would like to inquire if we did this thing,
[05:21.200 -> 05:24.120] which sounds a little bit like cheating, is cheating.
[05:24.120 -> 05:25.440] And the FIA replies,
[05:25.440 -> 05:30.720] dear ma'am or sirs, thank you for your polite inquiry. We acknowledge that you don't think
[05:30.720 -> 05:37.760] that anybody else is doing this. Ferrari, Red Bull, Aston Martin. We don't think anybody's
[05:37.760 -> 05:42.160] doing this, but if you were to try this, this would not be technically legal. And here's our
[05:42.160 -> 05:46.240] stance on these three variants of that topic. And then they kind of publish that.
[05:46.240 -> 05:50.800] And that's a, a notice to those teams to be like, don't do that.
[05:51.040 -> 05:53.800] And they're like, oh shit, we just lost half a second in the lap.
[05:55.560 -> 05:56.560] So that's how that works.
[05:56.560 -> 05:57.800] That's how technical directives work.
[05:58.040 -> 05:58.280] Yeah.
[05:58.320 -> 06:01.000] Dear FIA, can you confirm that we are in a gray area?
[06:01.000 -> 06:01.560] Thanks.
[06:03.520 -> 06:06.400] But you never ask on behalf of yourself, you say.
[06:07.360 -> 06:09.880] You know, you have a theoretically if we were to do this.
[06:10.680 -> 06:12.480] Yeah, exactly.
[06:13.120 -> 06:14.320] And then so that's that.
[06:14.560 -> 06:18.640] We'll talk about the Spa Grand Prix, the fantastic sprint weekend.
[06:19.560 -> 06:23.920] And then, yeah, like I said, after after the little break, I think we'll take two
[06:23.920 -> 06:25.480] weeks off and come back.
[06:25.720 -> 06:28.560] Uh, we'll have some new episodes, maybe some guests.
[06:29.600 -> 06:31.760] We even had a guest in ages.
[06:31.920 -> 06:32.800] It's been a hot minute.
[06:33.280 -> 06:34.280] It's because everyone hates us.
[06:34.800 -> 06:35.320] Yeah, it is.
[06:36.040 -> 06:40.160] No, we've got a list of people that are literally dying to be on the podcast.
[06:40.160 -> 06:42.440] And we said, yeah, Red Bull HR.
[06:43.480 -> 06:44.720] Yeah, exactly.
[06:42.520 -> 06:43.320] last we said yeah, Red Bull HR.
[06:44.840 -> 06:46.760] Yeah, exactly.
[06:47.600 -> 06:48.600] Team Red Bull.
[06:52.840 -> 06:55.840] Yeah, Christian helmet to be fair, helmets made a couple of appearances on podcast recently, which I was like there's no
[06:55.840 -> 06:58.280] fuck it like that.
[06:58.280 -> 07:01.200] Being said, you know he's gotten rid of the Nokia brick phone.
[07:01.200 -> 07:02.240] He's got an iPhone now.
[07:02.720 -> 07:04.600] Wow, hot news.
[07:04.640 -> 07:08.280] Ladies and gentlemen, yeah, he doesn't have the Nokia brick anymore. He's got an iPhone now. Wow, hot news. Ladies and gentlemen, he doesn't have the Nokia brick anymore.
[07:08.280 -> 07:09.280] He's got a real iPhone.
[07:09.280 -> 07:12.320] What a time to be alive.
[07:12.320 -> 07:13.320] It is a time.
[07:13.320 -> 07:21.840] But anyway, shall we get back into the Hungarian Grand Prix quick review?
[07:21.840 -> 07:25.000] We got a couple of points on this.
[07:26.000 -> 07:26.840] Hit it. What did you think?
[07:26.840 -> 07:28.440] All right, first thing first,
[07:28.440 -> 07:29.960] Hungary was the introduction
[07:29.960 -> 07:32.560] of the alternative tire allocation,
[07:32.560 -> 07:36.160] which is basically you've got a lot less tire sets.
[07:36.160 -> 07:38.240] A normal race weekend,
[07:38.240 -> 07:41.840] you've got two hards, three mediums, and eight softs.
[07:41.840 -> 07:44.160] For the alternative allocation weekends,
[07:44.160 -> 07:47.520] you have three hards, four mediums, and four softs. For the alternative allocation weekends, you have three hards, four mediums, and four softs.
[07:47.520 -> 07:49.900] Half the number of sets of softs.
[07:51.680 -> 07:54.160] And one of the restrictions is,
[07:54.160 -> 07:56.720] in qualifying in Q1, you've got to use hards.
[07:56.720 -> 07:58.760] In Q2, you have to use mediums.
[07:58.760 -> 08:01.300] And in Q3, you have to use softs.
[08:01.300 -> 08:04.620] So basically, they've cut out a shitload of soft tires
[08:04.620 -> 08:06.400] to save on tires, which
[08:06.400 -> 08:11.640] realistically this makes sense. But what did you think about that? Did you have any, did
[08:11.640 -> 08:15.720] it make any difference to you for the weekend? Yeah, so like the end product in terms of
[08:15.720 -> 08:23.240] spicing up qualifying, I enjoyed that. I think it worked quite well. Absolutely. Granted,
[08:23.240 -> 08:27.240] Hungary can be a bit of a, um, funky track for
[08:27.240 -> 08:29.440] qualifying with track evolution and things like that.
[08:29.440 -> 08:31.120] So how much of that was down to the tires?
[08:31.120 -> 08:31.940] I'm not really sure.
[08:32.680 -> 08:34.680] Um, I would like to see us try it again.
[08:34.680 -> 08:36.080] I imagine they're going to try it again.
[08:36.160 -> 08:38.480] I don't actually know off the top of my head if we're doing this again.
[08:38.880 -> 08:39.040] Yeah.
[08:39.040 -> 08:39.480] I mean, either.
[08:39.480 -> 08:41.440] I'm not sure exactly, but yeah.
[08:41.800 -> 08:45.000] Uh, but it did make Friday the most dullest. I mean, Fridays aren't exactly exciting as it is. Um, exactly. But yeah. But it did make Friday the most dullest.
[08:45.000 -> 08:48.000] I mean, Fridays aren't exactly exciting as it is.
[08:48.000 -> 08:49.000] No.
[08:49.000 -> 08:51.000] Everyone just basically sat in the garage and said,
[08:51.000 -> 08:53.000] no, we're not going to use these tyres.
[08:53.000 -> 08:55.000] We'll just, we'll do a couple of laps and that'll be it.
[08:55.000 -> 08:59.000] So it sort of wrecked the Friday to spice up the Saturday.
[08:59.000 -> 09:00.000] Yeah.
[09:00.000 -> 09:03.000] But I think, yeah, on one hand, if teams are out on a track,
[09:03.000 -> 09:09.040] that's a loss for the fans, honestly. If you're at the track, if you're watching on TV, that's a loss for the fans.
[09:09.040 -> 09:16.360] And interesting, most of the teams, they only ran two softs the entire weekend up until
[09:16.360 -> 09:17.960] they got to qualifying.
[09:17.960 -> 09:23.520] And in Q3, they ran two sets of new softs if they made it to Q3.
[09:23.520 -> 09:27.880] But as a result of this, most of the teams that made Q3 only
[09:27.880 -> 09:32.680] started with one new hard and a couple of used mediums and softs and maybe one used
[09:32.680 -> 09:38.880] hard I believe, but it seemed okay. Like you said, it brought in a little bit of unpredictability.
[09:38.880 -> 09:43.600] To your point, we also get those kind of unpredictable sessions when you have high-track evolution,
[09:43.600 -> 09:47.400] which signed me up for more of those, honestly.
[09:48.060 -> 09:48.160] Yeah.
[09:48.160 -> 09:51.980] I'd like to, like I said, I'd like to see it on a different track before we, um,
[09:53.340 -> 09:57.500] give our official seal of approval because clearly that's what the FIA are
[09:57.500 -> 10:00.340] waiting for, what we think on this podcast.
[10:00.940 -> 10:03.580] Stefano called me yesterday and I was just like, mate, I'm not sure.
[10:03.580 -> 10:07.280] We're like, we need a little bit more data, you know, and he's like, shut the fuck up. And
[10:07.280 -> 10:12.640] I was like, yeah, this, this call never happened. Yeah. We are the F1 shadow government. Our
[10:12.640 -> 10:18.440] buddy Rory talks F1 says Monza is the next alternative tire allocation weekend, which
[10:18.440 -> 10:23.200] could be a great shout. Um, qualifying if gone, I was going to say, if you want to come
[10:23.200 -> 10:26.880] and correct us live on air, which we do need people to do, cause we are shit at this.
[10:27.420 -> 10:28.580] Uh, how do you do that?
[10:28.580 -> 10:28.960] Blake?
[10:29.300 -> 10:34.520] Well, uh, usually we stream this on twitch.tv front slash B R R R a K E.
[10:34.520 -> 10:36.820] So that's, we usually do the podcast on my Twitch.
[10:37.100 -> 10:39.480] We're toying about doing this on the YouTube channel in the future.
[10:39.480 -> 10:43.080] So if you're listening to this or watching this on YouTube later, or you're on Spotify,
[10:43.440 -> 10:47.460] come over to our Twitter and let us know what you think. Like if you could tune into this live, where would you
[10:47.460 -> 10:55.000] be likely to tune into it? But otherwise, we'll see you there. But yeah. So qualifying
[10:55.000 -> 11:03.360] in Hungary, Hamilton takes poll a sniff, a sniff ahead of Max, like they were neck and
[11:03.360 -> 11:05.440] neck and it looked going back and looking at it.
[11:05.800 -> 11:07.840] Neither of them really got their lap together.
[11:07.840 -> 11:09.460] Hungary is a tricky track.
[11:09.460 -> 11:13.500] You've got this long turn one into this weird turn to high speed,
[11:13.500 -> 11:18.100] bouncy turn for turn five combined lots of low speed S's
[11:18.360 -> 11:21.800] and then a pretty, pretty fast medium speed, lots of long combined
[11:22.100 -> 11:24.440] corners at the end of the track where your tires are overheating.
[11:24.740 -> 11:29.280] You're trying to gauge your tire prep and warm up, which when you go too hard, too medium,
[11:29.280 -> 11:34.840] too soft, usually you go medium, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft,
[11:34.840 -> 11:35.840] soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft,
[11:35.840 -> 11:36.840] soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft,
[11:36.840 -> 11:37.840] soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft,
[11:37.840 -> 11:38.840] soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft,
[11:38.840 -> 11:39.840] soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft,
[11:39.840 -> 11:40.840] soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft,
[11:40.840 -> 11:41.840] soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft,
[11:41.840 -> 11:42.840] soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft,
[11:42.840 -> 11:43.840] soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft,
[11:43.840 -> 11:52.660] soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft, soft The race, the race for me was was okay. The best part about the race was Terry Cruz was on the grid with Red Bull and Jack from
[11:52.660 -> 11:57.300] Red Bull on marketing did a little interview with him and talking about the steering wheel.
[11:57.300 -> 12:01.260] Can I just get a nine nine if you're driving in your car just shout nine nine.
[12:01.260 -> 12:05.000] Or yeah, if you're on Twitter, let's see some that. Your dog even got.
[12:05.000 -> 12:08.000] The dogs are giving us a 99.
[12:08.000 -> 12:10.840] I love it.
[12:10.840 -> 12:12.280] Not 69, it's 99.
[12:12.280 -> 12:13.800] They're different.
[12:13.800 -> 12:19.640] The race tire compounds just a step softer than last year, which was good.
[12:19.640 -> 12:21.240] Here's a good one.
[12:21.240 -> 12:25.240] Qualifying for Hamilton Verstappen, Norris, Piastri, Joe.
[12:26.280 -> 12:26.600] Yeah.
[12:26.600 -> 12:33.760] Gwyneth Joe was in P5 and then he has an engine issue on the start and Bozo's back to P16.
[12:34.240 -> 12:36.040] And what else happened as a result of that?
[12:36.160 -> 12:40.200] It was almost comical and it kicked off a whole civil war, this next thing.
[12:40.680 -> 12:41.120] Yeah.
[12:41.480 -> 12:44.240] The French civil war of 2023 occurred.
[12:45.200 -> 12:50.560] Yeah, the French Civil War of 2023 occurred. The Alpines, I think Joe went into the back of Danny, which is a great start for him for
[12:50.560 -> 12:51.560] his first race.
[12:51.560 -> 12:53.720] That's just what you want, isn't it?
[12:53.720 -> 12:57.400] Which then tipped into one of the Alpines and then the Alpines basically took each other
[12:57.400 -> 12:59.680] out and it was just like, great.
[12:59.680 -> 13:00.680] Nice.
[13:00.680 -> 13:03.240] Well done, Alpine.
[13:03.240 -> 13:13.700] Not their fault, but still. Wow, dude. And like, just to cut through the race, like a race pace, fastest driver per team looked
[13:13.700 -> 13:18.820] like Verstappen, Hamilton and Norris, kind of in that order.
[13:18.820 -> 13:23.000] But obviously Norris finishes ahead.
[13:23.000 -> 13:25.160] Norris is on the, I'm just losing my mind from it.
[13:25.160 -> 13:26.700] Yeah, Norris is P2 in that race,
[13:26.700 -> 13:29.340] but realistically Hamilton losing out on the start.
[13:29.340 -> 13:32.300] He goes from pole and gets mugged back to P4
[13:32.300 -> 13:35.780] and behind Verstappen and the two McLarens.
[13:35.780 -> 13:37.620] And he just like when you when you're
[13:37.620 -> 13:39.580] not that much faster than those cars
[13:39.580 -> 13:41.060] and you get bozo'd like that,
[13:41.060 -> 13:42.660] like you're it's going to be
[13:42.660 -> 13:44.940] difficult to come back through.
[13:44.940 -> 13:46.620] He stops early and comes back.
[13:46.620 -> 13:48.880] His final stint was fucking rapid though.
[13:49.180 -> 13:54.340] So yeah, brace yourselves, everyone sit down and buckle your seatbelts.
[13:54.340 -> 13:55.180] We're going to actually have.
[13:55.800 -> 13:58.620] Some semi competent technical analysis here on the show.
[13:58.620 -> 14:00.100] It only happens once every month.
[14:00.180 -> 14:07.160] Um, but something I've picked up on is the Mercedes is absolutely dog shit on high fuel.
[14:07.920 -> 14:15.720] And as soon as you burn off a bunch of fuel, it's not, it's not a rocket ship, but it improves drastically.
[14:17.060 -> 14:21.800] And we see that in the final stints at the end of races where they just all of a sudden start flying.
[14:22.080 -> 14:23.520] It's where they've burned the fuel off.
[14:21.840 -> 14:22.120] where they just all of a sudden start flying.
[14:23.560 -> 14:24.160] It's where they've burned the fuel off.
[14:25.160 -> 14:30.700] It's, it's interesting. Cause I think looking at spa, it's not massively dissimilar to that.
[14:30.700 -> 14:33.040] Like, but the loose is pretty fast all weekend as well.
[14:33.040 -> 14:36.700] But in the past we do see like the final stint, it's like, aha, they're alive.
[14:36.700 -> 14:37.200] Finally.
[14:37.200 -> 14:39.240] It's like, where have you guys been?
[14:39.260 -> 14:42.800] We've been, we've been waiting for you, but, um, it's good to see that.
[14:42.800 -> 14:50.160] So, uh, yeah, two, two Red Bulls and Norris on that podium, but Norris,
[14:50.880 -> 14:55.920] Piastri, Piastri got the better of Norris on the start coming from P4 to P2.
[14:56.520 -> 14:59.560] And then unfortunately, he gets undercut.
[15:00.440 -> 15:01.840] He gets undercut by Norris.
[15:02.080 -> 15:06.880] Just Norris had a banger of an in lap and an out lap.
[15:06.880 -> 15:08.520] And that's the way it goes sometimes.
[15:08.520 -> 15:14.840] And then, ooh, had a little bit of wheel bang in between Perez and Piastri and Piastri
[15:14.840 -> 15:16.040] was dog-slew after that.
[15:16.040 -> 15:21.320] But to be fair, in the middle of his second stint, Piastri was falling away as well from
[15:21.320 -> 15:22.320] Norris.
[15:22.320 -> 15:31.960] Norris had quite a bit better pace. I think like after the race, did Piastri not say he had damage somewhere, which I feel
[15:31.960 -> 15:37.080] yeah. I feel I'm not sure. And this is this is a couple of weeks ago. I'm not sure if
[15:37.080 -> 16:08.560] the damage came from the wheel banging with Perez exit two into three. But yeah, not too to What's going on in Hungary? Russell shit Saturday drives from P18 to P7 and he was promoted to 6th after Leclerc got
[16:08.560 -> 16:10.360] a speeding in the pit lane.
[16:10.360 -> 16:11.360] Oof.
[16:11.360 -> 16:12.360] Oof.
[16:12.360 -> 16:13.360] So, um.
[16:13.360 -> 16:19.880] I mean, what, 6th after finishing 18th?
[16:19.880 -> 16:21.320] Yeah.
[16:21.320 -> 16:22.320] Pretty good going.
[16:22.320 -> 16:34.000] Yeah, decent recovery as well. But Perez had a recovery drive in from what, back in P8, 9 and finishing P9 up to P3.
[16:34.000 -> 16:38.000] Not too bad, but Lewis was coming for him at the end of the stint on the final race.
[16:38.000 -> 16:46.040] And then Ricardo does a 40 lap stint on the mediums with pretty low deg so he can finish P13. Yeah, yeah, that's.
[16:47.360 -> 16:50.120] Yeah, so I suppose Danny Rick is what we need to talk about, don't we?
[16:50.120 -> 16:52.560] Because Hungary was his first race back and I was.
[16:54.400 -> 16:58.200] I think I upset a lot of Danny Rick fans on Twitter because I do this quite often.
[16:58.200 -> 17:03.800] I don't mean it as an insult, but I didn't think Danny Rick would just jump in a car
[17:03.800 -> 17:05.520] and be competitive against Sonoda. And like I say, it's not think Danny Rick would just jump in a car and be competitive against an odor
[17:05.520 -> 17:08.320] and like I say, it's not a day against Danny Rick.
[17:08.320 -> 17:14.840] It's just Danny Rick's been out of a car for so many months and it's a new car and a new
[17:14.840 -> 17:17.480] team for him if you know what I mean.
[17:17.480 -> 17:18.840] So yeah, no, but very impressive.
[17:18.840 -> 17:19.840] Dan, well done.
[17:19.840 -> 17:20.840] Pick yourself up.
[17:20.840 -> 17:26.560] No, I mean, so I mean, let's I mean, that's kind of all I've got for spa or sorry for
[17:26.560 -> 17:29.280] hungry the podium for snapping Norris Perez.
[17:29.280 -> 17:32.120] And let's let's talk about that quickly.
[17:32.120 -> 17:33.840] McLaren look to be on a resurgence.
[17:33.840 -> 17:38.080] They've had several events in a row challenging for podiums, great qualifying performances,
[17:38.080 -> 17:43.120] and we'll see a little bit more of that in spa, at least in qualifying.
[17:43.120 -> 17:44.880] But Danny Rick, let's check in with him.
[17:44.880 -> 17:46.000] We're two races in.
[17:48.000 -> 17:50.980] He was, he was, got the better of it in Hungary.
[17:53.200 -> 17:57.540] How did he do in Spa compared to Sunota?
[17:59.840 -> 18:01.840] Yeah, I mean, he got into Q2.
[18:01.840 -> 18:04.220] Sunota didn't make it to Q2 in this session.
[18:04.220 -> 18:09.440] So it's a verdict's out, man., but I don't feel like we need to, do we need to put Dan
[18:09.440 -> 18:10.440] in a box right now?
[18:10.440 -> 18:11.440] Nah.
[18:11.440 -> 18:12.440] Faster, slower?
[18:12.440 -> 18:16.200] I mean, let's put it this way.
[18:16.200 -> 18:19.800] You're driving an Alfa Tauri, which is not a particularly fast car right now, so you're
[18:19.800 -> 18:21.080] not fighting for points.
[18:21.080 -> 18:22.840] You're lucky to get points.
[18:22.840 -> 18:23.840] Yeah.
[18:23.840 -> 18:27.280] I don't think he's made any howlers. He kept it
[18:27.280 -> 18:30.480] clean after getting smashed in the ass on the race start, so that's good.
[18:30.480 -> 18:33.440] Matt Farihan Yeah, and in Spa, P9 in the sprint,
[18:35.360 -> 18:41.360] nearly was it? Yeah, anyway, he's done a good job and welcome back and GG's.
[18:41.360 -> 18:46.220] Steven Yeah, so we've got, let's, let's, let's call Hungary wrapped up.
[18:46.220 -> 18:49.260] I'm sure we've missed a lot of really important stuff, but, um,
[18:49.300 -> 18:50.880] we foreshadowed something else.
[18:50.880 -> 18:56.100] We we've got the Alpine French civil war, the mass Exodus from the team
[18:56.280 -> 18:59.580] and going back to Hungary, what did they announce?
[19:00.100 -> 19:02.880] There was an announcement in Hungary that sounded like somebody was getting
[19:02.880 -> 19:06.200] a job promotion, which also means they got fired.
[19:06.200 -> 19:11.760] Yeah, yeah, Lauren, Lauren Rossi got the, what is it?
[19:11.760 -> 19:17.680] The Martin Whitmarsh treatment of being buried at the bottom of the MTC Lake.
[19:17.680 -> 19:22.700] So Lauren Rossi is now in wheeled into a cupboard somewhere in a very and told it's a job promotion
[19:22.700 -> 19:24.800] and he's never allowed out the room.
[19:24.800 -> 19:28.800] It's a special projects cupboard, which is basically where they keep a bunch of old
[19:28.800 -> 19:36.160] dusty stuff. But this seems like a match lighting off something that's been going
[19:36.160 -> 19:39.840] for a while and smoldering in the background, and they've just poured a little bit of kerosene on it.
[19:39.840 -> 19:49.200] In Spa, we've had basically the announcement of three more departures from the In Stone outfit.
[19:49.200 -> 19:50.200] What do we got?
[19:50.200 -> 19:55.840] Uh, Opmar got booted out after being there for what?
[19:55.840 -> 19:57.800] How long was he there?
[19:57.800 -> 19:58.800] Two seasons?
[19:58.800 -> 19:59.800] A season and a half, yeah.
[19:59.800 -> 20:00.800] Yeah, well done, great.
[20:00.800 -> 20:09.400] Um, for Alam Permain, we also lost him, but he has been part of In the Stone for like what?
[20:09.400 -> 20:10.400] Since 1989.
[20:10.400 -> 20:18.640] Yeah, so I mean, to show him the door after that amount of time is rough.
[20:18.640 -> 20:28.060] So Otmar, formerly team principal of Force India turned racing point turned Aston Martin, and then
[20:28.060 -> 20:35.360] he went to Alpine after you know, the strolls are like right, we'll get wet marsh and we'll
[20:35.360 -> 20:38.040] have this other shuffle and other people do these other jobs.
[20:38.040 -> 20:39.480] Otmar, you've been here long enough.
[20:39.480 -> 20:47.240] Thank you for keeping this team that I used to at, keeping it from letting Vijay destroy the team,
[20:47.240 -> 20:50.600] whatever he was doing, or yeah.
[20:50.600 -> 20:52.320] So, Aatmar kept that one afloat,
[20:52.320 -> 20:54.900] and he goes to Alpine, and he gets a year and a half,
[20:54.900 -> 20:56.960] and then he gets the Axe.
[20:56.960 -> 20:59.760] And then, Alan Permain's been there since 89,
[20:59.760 -> 21:01.960] and he was their sporting director.
[21:03.200 -> 21:04.040] Yeah.
[21:04.040 -> 21:05.160] I'm not really sure.
[21:05.160 -> 21:08.620] Uh, but someone has just reminded me in the chat.
[21:08.620 -> 21:14.980] We did get the quite possibly the best F1 quote in ages from Otmar who said, uh, getting
[21:14.980 -> 21:18.000] nine women pregnant doesn't give you a kid in one month.
[21:18.000 -> 21:19.000] Yeah.
[21:19.000 -> 21:23.680] And if anyone has any fucking clue what he is all about, uh, then please let me know.
[21:23.680 -> 21:28.720] Um, because he said, he said, Oh, as the old saying goes, who's ever fucking said that?
[21:28.720 -> 21:29.960] I've never heard that in my life.
[21:29.960 -> 21:31.120] What are you talking about?
[21:31.460 -> 21:35.360] I, I, somebody else mentioned it is, it has to do with the divisibility of work.
[21:36.120 -> 21:40.080] And it's like, you know, some, some things have a fixed time scale and you can't do
[21:40.080 -> 21:41.880] more work to make it work faster.
[21:41.880 -> 21:45.920] So, uh, my plan is to not to get anyone pregnant because I don't
[21:45.920 -> 21:47.720] want kids because they sound expensive.
[21:47.720 -> 21:53.680] Oh apparently it's a Warren Buffett quote, which makes sense why I've never heard it
[21:53.680 -> 21:57.160] because I have the financial prowess of a breeze block.
[21:57.160 -> 22:01.000] Yeah, can you give us some financial advice?
[22:01.000 -> 22:05.920] Yeah, I'm the poorest rich person that I know.
[22:16.880 -> 22:19.760] So, Alpine in their infinite wisdom have appointed Bruno Famin as the interim team principal, but
[22:27.880 -> 22:29.000] let's talk about that. And rumors, we'll come back to him, but rumors have it that Binotto is coming back to look after Alpine.
[22:29.000 -> 22:30.480] That's who they're thinking about.
[22:30.480 -> 22:33.120] I don't know, man.
[22:33.120 -> 22:40.240] Surely Ferrari, when they said to Binotto, like Binotto, it's time for you to step aside
[22:40.240 -> 22:41.240] or whatever.
[22:41.240 -> 22:46.280] Surely they gave him a massive envelope full of cash and then a little contract
[22:46.280 -> 22:50.920] in there that said, by the way, you can't, there's a non-compete clause for a year.
[22:50.920 -> 22:51.920] Surely.
[22:51.920 -> 22:54.480] I mean, at the end of the year, that'll come to that.
[22:54.480 -> 22:59.880] So maybe that's why our mate Bruno Femmen is holding that post until the end of the
[22:59.880 -> 23:10.200] year. But interestingly, Vassar, who is now the team principal of Ferrari, was the team principal
[23:10.200 -> 23:15.100] of the Instone outfit, which is Alpine in 2016.
[23:15.100 -> 23:18.480] And he got booted by a bit of Bull and Co and the goons.
[23:18.480 -> 23:30.600] But let's talk about the guy that is now the interim team principal, Bruno, here's what Alain Prost said about
[23:30.600 -> 23:31.600] him.
[23:31.600 -> 23:39.000] And so in early 2022, Alain Prost was dismissed from the team along with Marcin Bukowski.
[23:39.000 -> 23:40.840] And that was linked to like Otmar coming in.
[23:40.840 -> 23:44.120] And it sounds like Rossi was like, right, can you guys leave?
[23:44.120 -> 23:47.080] We're going to bring in Otmar and he's going to take over this thing.
[23:47.560 -> 23:53.200] Then Rossi fell out with Otmar recently, but Alan Prost was like their advisor,
[23:53.200 -> 23:55.200] like Nicky Lauda was to the teams.
[23:55.880 -> 24:02.760] And then this is what Alan Prost had to say about Lauren Rossi first.
[24:03.120 -> 24:06.000] Lauren Rossi is the finest example of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
[24:06.240 -> 24:09.440] That of an incapable leader who thinks he can overcome his
[24:09.440 -> 24:13.760] incompetences by his arrogance and his lack of humanity towards his troops.
[24:14.160 -> 24:16.680] He thought that he had understood everything from the start
[24:17.040 -> 24:18.320] when he was totally mistaken.
[24:18.800 -> 24:23.400] I love this team and seeing it in this state today saddens and distresses me.
[24:29.560 -> 24:34.480] Yeah. The translation of that is Laurent Rossi fucked around and found out. Yeah, he fucked around and found out he was, then he got stuck in the broom cupboard.
[24:34.480 -> 24:38.600] And then I did a little bit of digging about who Bruno Feminin is because I have no idea
[24:38.600 -> 24:39.600] who he is.
[24:39.600 -> 24:41.980] And there was an interview with him on Sky.
[24:41.980 -> 24:45.280] And if you look that up on Twitter, it's really impressive because he talks about projects,
[24:45.920 -> 24:52.320] an alignment of projects, and how people weren't aligned with the projects, and the projects weren't aligned with the people,
[24:52.320 -> 24:55.680] and he says that about 30 times, by which I forced
[24:56.560 -> 24:58.640] sand into my eyes. It's time to play
[25:00.560 -> 25:02.400] Buzzword Bingo.
[25:02.400 -> 25:04.080] Yeah, exactly.
[25:04.080 -> 25:05.000] Fucking hell.
[25:05.000 -> 25:08.720] So he's the VP of Alpine Motorsport.
[25:08.720 -> 25:10.940] He was a designer at Peugeot Sport in the 90s.
[25:10.940 -> 25:12.520] He did some other shit.
[25:12.520 -> 25:16.880] He became the technical director of Peugeot Sport in 2005.
[25:16.880 -> 25:21.600] And then director of Peugeot Sport in 2012, I believe.
[25:21.600 -> 25:25.000] And then he joined the FIA in 2019, as everybody do.
[25:25.000 -> 25:26.800] They just joined the FIA and they're like,
[25:26.800 -> 25:28.800] you can come here, do fuck all,
[25:28.800 -> 25:31.300] and we'll pay you a load of cash because you're one of our mates.
[25:31.300 -> 25:33.300] Yeah, we're just waiting for that call up.
[25:34.000 -> 25:36.800] And then he was the CEO in charge of engine development for Alpine
[25:36.800 -> 25:42.000] from February 2022, the great Alpine performance Renault engines.
[25:42.300 -> 25:47.860] Now he's the VP of Alpine Motorsport and yeah like
[25:47.860 -> 25:50.820] honestly and if Altmar got sacked because he hasn't turned the team around
[25:50.820 -> 25:55.060] in a year and a half you might as well sack Bruno Femming because like Renault
[25:55.060 -> 26:00.860] engines will never not be shit I'm sorry they're never not gonna be shit
[26:00.860 -> 26:06.360] it's true it's true and you know it's easy to meme on it and say, Renault engines are shit.
[26:06.360 -> 26:07.360] But it's true.
[26:07.360 -> 26:10.320] And it's very easy to, to, to figure out why.
[26:10.320 -> 26:12.840] And we, I think we've spoken about this before.
[26:12.840 -> 26:16.960] Renault is partially owned by the French government and trying to convince the French government
[26:16.960 -> 26:18.200] or any government for that matter.
[26:18.200 -> 26:22.760] It's like, Hey, our very engine development center, it's pretty old.
[26:22.760 -> 26:25.000] You know, we could probably invest a few millions into it.
[26:25.400 -> 26:26.800] I don't know.
[26:26.800 -> 26:28.300] 909 still leaking.
[26:28.300 -> 26:28.700] Fuck.
[26:28.700 -> 26:32.400] Yeah, I don't think any government's going to turn around and say,
[26:32.400 -> 26:33.000] yeah, sure.
[26:33.000 -> 26:33.400] Fuck it.
[26:33.400 -> 26:34.700] Have some money for your f1 team.
[26:34.700 -> 26:36.000] Exactly.
[26:36.900 -> 26:38.000] Exactly.
[26:38.000 -> 26:38.400] Yeah.
[26:38.400 -> 26:46.040] So our buddy Formula Racers on Twitter this morning posted something.
[26:46.040 -> 26:53.320] Since 2016, how many team principals has Instant had?
[26:53.320 -> 27:01.120] Well, it's more than I've had children, which is a pretty impressive feat.
[27:01.120 -> 27:04.760] So it's got to be more than three, surely.
[27:04.760 -> 27:05.600] It's four now.
[27:05.600 -> 27:08.600] So Frederick Vester, 16.
[27:08.600 -> 27:12.720] Cyril Abitbol, 2017 to 2020.
[27:12.720 -> 27:14.960] Saff Mauer, 22 to 23.
[27:14.960 -> 27:16.760] And now we've got Bruno Famin.
[27:16.760 -> 27:21.760] I'm probably butchering his name, but I really don't give a fuck.
[27:21.760 -> 27:25.520] Yeah, I'm sure he listens and he's very offended. We've lost a listener.
[27:29.200 -> 27:33.600] Uh, however, one listener that I want to shout out and I would like to bring back is a serial beatable, bring him back, bring him back.
[27:34.640 -> 27:39.920] I have a funny feeling him and another mate got shown the door because
[27:39.920 -> 27:41.080] they were doing bad stuff.
[27:41.480 -> 27:42.560] I don't think he'll be back.
[27:45.240 -> 27:48.840] There you go. A vicious rumor started from the engine breaking podcast there.
[27:48.840 -> 27:51.360] He was doing bad stuff.
[27:51.360 -> 27:53.040] I'm yeah, I'm pretty sure.
[27:53.040 -> 27:56.480] Yeah, I'm pretty sure he won't be back and he will never be invited back.
[27:56.480 -> 27:57.480] Yeah.
[27:57.480 -> 28:01.920] And you know, we don't, we can't say what that bad stuff is because that'd be very irresponsible
[28:01.920 -> 28:05.340] of us, but I'll say, and I'll just say domestic terrorism.
[28:05.340 -> 28:06.340] So there you go.
[28:06.340 -> 28:07.340] Let's move on.
[28:07.340 -> 28:18.760] Speaking, we mentioned our boy, Frederick Vasseur, and I'm sure he's been balls deep
[28:18.760 -> 28:22.760] in this next topic.
[28:22.760 -> 28:27.360] Is this the ongoing saga of Ferrari driver contracts?
[28:27.360 -> 28:28.360] It is.
[28:28.360 -> 28:34.360] And the game of how much into self-inflicted pain is Charles Secler?
[28:34.360 -> 28:35.360] Not kink shaming.
[28:35.360 -> 28:36.360] Yeah, exactly.
[28:36.360 -> 28:41.680] Yeah, no, hey, real quick, while we're on this topic, it's a serious topic, no kink
[28:41.680 -> 28:42.680] shaming.
[28:42.680 -> 28:45.320] If you want to drive for Ferrari and destroy your mental health
[28:45.320 -> 28:46.620] because that's what gets you off.
[28:49.300 -> 28:50.920] Have at it, yeah.
[28:53.360 -> 28:56.400] Yeah, so so the rumor,
[28:56.420 -> 28:57.500] of course, this is all
[28:57.500 -> 28:58.500] we have to work with.
[28:58.500 -> 28:59.960] His rumors is the Claire's looking at
[28:59.960 -> 29:01.160] another two or three years
[29:01.160 -> 29:02.400] of pain and suffering.
[29:02.820 -> 29:04.460] Two years takes them through
[29:04.460 -> 29:06.800] the end of this regulation cycle. And three years of pain and suffering. Two years takes them through the end of this regulation cycle,
[29:06.800 -> 29:10.160] and three years takes them into the 2026 power units,
[29:10.160 -> 29:13.480] the first year of that, which yikes.
[29:13.480 -> 29:15.800] Science wants the same deal,
[29:15.800 -> 29:17.600] but Frederick Vasseur said,
[29:17.600 -> 29:19.600] you're gonna have to stop driving into other people
[29:19.600 -> 29:21.720] and blaming other people on your shit race starts,
[29:21.720 -> 29:22.920] you fucking bozo.
[29:22.920 -> 29:24.320] Pfft.
[29:24.320 -> 29:29.840] Ha ha! We'll come back to that. Yeah, all right, we'll come back bozo. We'll come back to that.
[29:29.840 -> 29:37.200] But let's say hypothetically that you do not renew Carlos Sainz's contract.
[29:37.200 -> 29:46.760] Who are you putting in that second Scuderia Ferrari? Scooter and Ferrari.
[29:49.960 -> 29:51.600] I'm trying to think of who they got in their engine program.
[29:56.120 -> 29:57.240] In their sorry, their young driver program that's up and coming and.
[30:00.520 -> 30:00.960] I'm probably having a bozo moment, but I can't actually think of a single one.
[30:03.000 -> 30:04.600] Well, our buddy Yepa from the chat. If you're in the chat, I'm the secret ingredient.
[30:04.600 -> 30:09.080] Yep, but put a really good Twitter tweet just rounding up the Silly Season. Who's
[30:09.080 -> 30:13.720] available and who's not available? Type your Twitter username and everybody can check it
[30:13.720 -> 30:19.240] out real quick. But we're talking about Mick Schumacher. I don't think so. Charlotte suggesting
[30:19.240 -> 30:25.440] Oli Berman, but he looks like he needs some more time in F2. The Red Bull aren't going to let go of Lawson.
[30:31.800 -> 30:36.320] Um, so I will now, I know we're talking about who you're going to replace Carlos signs with, so I'm going to completely answer the opposite and say, I don't
[30:36.320 -> 30:39.480] think, I don't think they get rid of signs and I'll tell you why.
[30:39.620 -> 30:43.880] And I think it's because the Santander money is too good to turn down.
[30:44.560 -> 30:45.320] Yes.
[30:45.640 -> 30:52.520] Um, and if you're wondering, uh, Yepa is J E P P E underscore O L E S E N.
[30:52.720 -> 30:56.600] And he's got a very comprehensive, uh, summary of the, uh, silly season.
[30:56.700 -> 31:00.560] And I, I totally didn't agree with him or try to ratio him today.
[31:00.560 -> 31:04.000] So I feel like that's a little bit weird, but yeah.
[31:04.080 -> 31:06.320] Daniel Ricardo, people are saying that's a good one.
[31:07.040 -> 31:07.420] I don't know.
[31:07.420 -> 31:08.640] I don't, I don't see.
[31:09.120 -> 31:09.280] Yeah.
[31:09.280 -> 31:12.040] I think signs are sticking around as.
[31:15.320 -> 31:17.960] If you're Charles Leclerc, right.
[31:17.960 -> 31:23.440] And when you're not too busy putting out piano songs on Spotify, why
[31:23.440 -> 31:25.480] would you want to stay at Ferrari?
[31:25.800 -> 31:30.720] I understand there's a lot of heritage and it's, it's a Ferrari and all that jazz,
[31:30.720 -> 31:36.640] but after the amount of pain that Charles has gone through, he's got a much stronger
[31:36.640 -> 31:39.920] mental fortitude than I have, because I would just turn around and say, fuck this.
[31:39.920 -> 31:43.680] I'd rather drive a Haas at the minute than deal with this shit show year after year.
[31:44.000 -> 31:47.760] Well, I'll tell you why I wouldn't drive a Haas when we get to the spa bit.
[31:48.000 -> 31:48.960] But all right.
[31:49.000 -> 31:49.360] All right.
[31:49.520 -> 31:49.720] All right.
[31:49.720 -> 31:51.720] Let's turn this on its head again.
[31:53.480 -> 31:58.120] If you're Charles Leclerc and you're not driving a Ferrari and you can't go to
[31:58.120 -> 31:59.080] Red Bull, where are you going?
[32:01.120 -> 32:02.320] Mercedes or McLaren?
[32:02.420 -> 32:02.920] Where would you go?
[32:03.240 -> 32:09.960] I'd make a play for either Mercedes or McLaren because Lewis is out of contract.
[32:09.960 -> 32:14.560] We don't really know what he's doing and he's not getting any younger, you know, he will
[32:14.560 -> 32:15.560] leave eventually.
[32:15.560 -> 32:22.840] Why not sort of turn around and say, hello Mercedes.
[32:22.840 -> 32:26.760] McLaren I don't think, I don't see that opening. Piastri's doing
[32:26.760 -> 32:33.040] well. Blando, it would obviously move on somewhere, but where? What, like a swap between Charles
[32:33.040 -> 32:34.040] and Blando?
[32:34.040 -> 32:40.520] Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I, yeah, I'm, I'm agreeing with Jeppe in chat right now. I think Lewis
[32:40.520 -> 32:46.680] is doing it at this tent. He can't dip out and his best hope honestly is 2026 and if 2026 is shit,
[32:46.680 -> 32:47.620] dip out after that.
[32:48.600 -> 32:51.700] You know, if Mercedes don't turn around a good power unit in 26 and the
[32:51.700 -> 32:52.800] chassis still dog.
[32:55.000 -> 32:55.800] It's time.
[32:55.800 -> 32:56.840] Can we have that one more time?
[32:56.840 -> 32:57.000] Please?
[32:57.000 -> 32:57.700] That was really good.
[32:58.800 -> 33:01.300] That was that was not a dog in my background.
[33:01.300 -> 33:07.960] That was a bark straight from Blake there
[33:09.960 -> 33:10.520] But anyway speaking of
[33:17.340 -> 33:18.240] Teams that are not doing too hot right now some like the rumor mill is going and nothing's official that Aston Martin
[33:21.560 -> 33:22.440] Have have a have had a technical directive
[33:24.440 -> 33:24.720] Happen and they're fucked
[33:25.060 -> 33:25.240] Yeah commiserations a, uh, a technical directive happen and they're fucked. Yeah.
[33:25.280 -> 33:26.240] Commiserations.
[33:27.220 -> 33:31.440] So it would look like them upgrading and going the wrong direction could have been
[33:31.440 -> 33:36.960] them rectifying things that were found to be, um, relatively unsavory potentially,
[33:37.000 -> 33:40.340] or a combination of both, or they had to stop doing something.
[33:40.340 -> 33:40.680] So.
[33:41.220 -> 33:41.920] Yeah, I don't know.
[33:41.920 -> 33:46.200] I think this just stinks of Red Bull have won the last 12 races in a row.
[33:46.200 -> 33:46.960] We're bored.
[33:47.060 -> 33:49.160] What shit can we throw around and make stick?
[33:49.880 -> 33:53.000] But if you're asked and you definitely keep the burner on man.
[33:53.060 -> 33:56.240] I yeah, there's none of the rumors have been substantiated and I haven't seen
[33:56.240 -> 33:58.520] anything, but I think we'll probably get some more stuff coming out after the
[33:58.520 -> 33:58.840] break.
[33:59.000 -> 33:59.680] Aston Martin.
[34:00.480 -> 34:03.640] Investing an incredible amount of money into their team, which is great, but.
[34:05.520 -> 34:08.560] They still have issues with inseason development and that's something that
[34:08.560 -> 34:12.760] you know, they will catch up on eventually. You can't just instantaneously
[34:12.760 -> 34:16.720] spend money and improve that. That's a process you have to go through. They
[34:16.720 -> 34:19.320] built a fast car at the start of the season, I just think they've been
[34:19.320 -> 34:28.700] outdeveloped by stronger teams. The thing is though,. From what I can see is they're falling away relative to everyone
[34:29.100 -> 34:31.400] at quite a harsh step.
[34:32.400 -> 34:33.000] Which.
[34:33.900 -> 34:35.000] On the face, it's me.
[34:35.000 -> 34:36.100] I agree with you.
[34:36.100 -> 34:40.000] Teams are still developing, but I don't think everybody's found.
[34:41.500 -> 34:46.680] Half a percent over the period of three races collectively, like the top three, four or
[34:46.680 -> 34:47.680] five teams.
[34:47.680 -> 34:49.480] I mean, McLaren have.
[34:49.480 -> 34:51.360] McLaren have.
[34:51.360 -> 34:52.360] Ferrari haven't.
[34:52.360 -> 34:54.080] They're about the same gap to Red Bull.
[34:54.080 -> 34:55.880] Mercedes are about the same gap to Red Bull.
[34:55.880 -> 35:03.400] Yes, they keep having good results, but if you look at the offsets and pace, I think
[35:03.400 -> 35:04.400] I wouldn't be surprised.
[35:04.400 -> 35:05.120] Let's put it that way. I would not be surprised. Let's put it that way.
[35:05.120 -> 35:06.280] I would not be surprised.
[35:06.280 -> 35:07.760] Are you back in this room?
[35:07.760 -> 35:08.840] And then is that where you're?
[35:11.520 -> 35:12.240] You know what?
[35:12.240 -> 35:15.240] Uhm, can I put a hand on a Bible or something?
[35:15.280 -> 35:16.040] I don't have a Bible.
[35:16.040 -> 35:17.280] You to play button.
[35:19.000 -> 35:20.920] Yeah, no, I'm not going to do it.
[35:20.920 -> 35:21.480] Fuck that.
[35:23.440 -> 35:23.920] Why don't we?
[35:23.920 -> 35:27.400] Up so we'll get some more about that and keep an eye on Twitter.
[35:27.400 -> 35:30.280] If anything happens over the break, Dan's going to like keep you guys in the loop
[35:30.280 -> 35:34.640] because I'm totally getting off Twitter over shutdown that fucking dumpster fire.
[35:34.680 -> 35:36.400] You can't go to it anymore is X.
[35:37.120 -> 35:37.720] That's Twitter.
[35:37.760 -> 35:38.360] Fuck you.
[35:38.400 -> 35:39.600] You're dead to me right now.
[35:39.600 -> 35:40.200] The podcast.
[35:40.880 -> 35:41.880] Yeah, Elon.
[35:42.480 -> 35:43.360] Elon Musk.
[35:44.400 -> 35:54.080] It's a absolute. Ger in the worst way possible.
[35:54.080 -> 36:00.040] Speaking of absolute geezers, can we give a quick shout out to our dude Jake Dennis
[36:00.040 -> 36:05.600] for wrapping up the Formula E World Drivers Championship.
[36:07.840 -> 36:11.400] Go dude, honestly, could not have happened to a nicer
[36:11.400 -> 36:15.920] fucking dude, more talented, more versatile that they they locked it in.
[36:16.120 -> 36:20.720] Envision have locked in the Constructors Championship and formally.
[36:20.720 -> 36:23.880] I've got a couple of buddies that work there and they're fucking killing it.
[36:24.120 -> 36:31.600] So they they beat the factory team. Jake beats the factory team to the drivers and
[36:31.600 -> 36:38.040] then envision beat the factory Jaguar team to the constructors. What a time it wrecked
[36:38.040 -> 36:45.160] get wrecked nerds. Yeah, go on Jake though. Huge congratulations to both of them.
[36:45.160 -> 36:48.800] Let's move on to the spa race event.
[36:48.800 -> 36:51.520] What was your favorite thing about the spa race event?
[36:51.520 -> 36:53.360] When it finished.
[36:53.360 -> 36:54.880] Yeah, honestly, same.
[36:54.880 -> 36:58.040] My least favorite that it was a fucking sprint weekend.
[36:58.040 -> 37:00.800] I know I gave him the benefit of the doubt earlier in the season.
[37:00.800 -> 37:03.920] I was like, but it's more fun for fans if they're track.
[37:03.920 -> 37:05.400] Honestly, fuck sprint race weekends. I was like, but it's more fun for fans if they're track. Honestly, fuck sprint race weekends.
[37:05.400 -> 37:06.000] I'm sorry.
[37:06.600 -> 37:13.300] Who I want a strong conversation with whoever sat down, looked at the calendar
[37:13.300 -> 37:17.100] and for a spa would be a really good circuit for a sprint race.
[37:17.800 -> 37:21.400] Who who who thinks that the spa would be good for a sprint race?
[37:21.400 -> 37:21.800] No one.
[37:22.200 -> 37:23.800] We knew it before the weekend came.
[37:23.800 -> 37:26.960] As soon as they announced it, we all said sprint race at spa.
[37:26.960 -> 37:27.640] That's shit, mate.
[37:27.880 -> 37:28.560] That's bollocks.
[37:29.240 -> 37:29.520] Yep.
[37:30.000 -> 37:31.360] And, uh, it was bollocks.
[37:31.400 -> 37:36.360] So what, um, yeah, uh, basically fuck sprints.
[37:36.440 -> 37:38.800] Uh, I can't tell you what makes a good one or not a good one.
[37:38.800 -> 37:40.080] The, what makes a good sprint race?
[37:40.160 -> 37:40.640] Nothing.
[37:41.520 -> 37:42.620] Nothing makes a good sprint race.
[37:42.720 -> 37:45.800] Uh, even like a wet, dry. I don't get we'll get
[37:45.800 -> 37:49.480] into it in a minute. Let's let's get let's get into the event, shall we?
[37:49.480 -> 37:56.160] Sure, you don't want to. You know, one of the best things about spa is is leaving the
[37:56.160 -> 38:02.160] track on Sunday night, hauling ass from the paddock with a police escort in a convoy to
[38:02.160 -> 38:07.840] get to the airport on time. So you leave the circuit, you go up through the hills, through the sticks, you've got
[38:07.840 -> 38:13.240] a police guy on a motorcycle, and he's a bit of a geyser, he's definitely Belgian as fuck.
[38:13.240 -> 38:18.720] He's got a mustache, he's got a mustache, and he is driving his motorcycle, and you
[38:18.720 -> 38:22.840] guys are following him, cutting through traffic, and he's getting fuckers out of the way, and
[38:22.840 -> 38:26.200] he's pulling people over in the middle of the road saying, fuck off the convoys coming
[38:26.200 -> 38:28.800] through, uh, and he would drive through.
[38:28.920 -> 38:31.200] He's a bit of a dude, an absolute geezer.
[38:31.460 -> 38:35.840] And, uh, usually, yeah, it's like, I'd like to have a beer with this guy, but
[38:35.840 -> 38:40.320] he's my police car driver and, uh, it's good fun.
[38:40.560 -> 38:40.960] It's good fun.
[38:40.960 -> 38:41.200] That.
[38:42.620 -> 38:42.840] Yeah.
[38:42.840 -> 38:46.320] I thought he was going to say the best bit about spa is the complete
[38:46.320 -> 38:52.380] inability to create a correct, uh, drainage channels and the inability
[38:52.380 -> 38:56.480] to produce stairs that don't turn into ice rinks when it rains.
[38:56.520 -> 39:01.100] Oh, the, the death stairs that go up from the hospitality area to the paddock.
[39:01.100 -> 39:06.000] So the paddock is down a level and not, and the, in the paddock is up half a level.
[39:06.400 -> 39:07.520] Situated in turn one.
[39:07.800 -> 39:10.560] And that those metal stairs are the death stairs.
[39:10.600 -> 39:14.360] I think anybody here that's involved in sports cars or been in the paddock before
[39:14.560 -> 39:18.800] has probably almost had a death on those steps.
[39:19.440 -> 39:19.760] Yeah.
[39:19.760 -> 39:20.440] Lance stroll.
[39:20.440 -> 39:25.560] He had a near death experience going on to his, uh, wasn't the Aston Martin
[39:25.560 -> 39:28.080] hospitality, he went ass over tit, didn't he, bless him.
[39:28.080 -> 39:28.320] Yeah.
[39:28.880 -> 39:29.240] Yeah.
[39:29.880 -> 39:36.200] Oh, but even so like, we're getting into the weeds now, but team, team issued kit.
[39:36.200 -> 39:36.520] Right.
[39:36.520 -> 39:38.360] We used to get those, um, what are they?
[39:38.520 -> 39:39.640] The puma trainers.
[39:40.080 -> 39:42.520] And they were, they had like a special material on the sole.
[39:42.880 -> 39:50.880] So they wouldn't slip when you trodden oil in the garage, right? And it was pretty good. It worked pretty well. Even those could not handle the
[39:50.880 -> 39:57.680] fucking stairs of death. There's just something about them. Hey, it's Ryan Reynolds, owner and
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[41:02.880 -> 41:10.740] But let's get into the event. So it's a sprint weekend, so you've got one session to set up your car.
[41:10.740 -> 41:13.680] Free practice one and guess what?
[41:13.680 -> 41:14.680] It's wet.
[41:14.680 -> 41:19.620] It's fucking wet, so you get one session and then you go into park for me, which is French
[41:19.620 -> 41:23.280] for don't touch your fucking car and you can touch the front wing angle and that's about
[41:23.280 -> 41:24.280] it.
[41:24.280 -> 41:25.200] It was great. There wasn't a whole lot of running either. don't touch your fucking car and you can touch the front wing angle and that's about it.
[41:25.200 -> 41:26.200] It was great.
[41:26.200 -> 41:27.580] It wasn't a whole lot of running either.
[41:27.580 -> 41:29.020] People just like a fucking hell.
[41:29.020 -> 41:33.360] And the thing that sucks about sprint weekends, if you're an engineer, all you do is you set
[41:33.360 -> 41:36.280] up the car for the first session and then you're just fucking operational for the rest
[41:36.280 -> 41:37.280] of week.
[41:37.280 -> 41:39.600] It's like, yep, we'll put these tires on the car and we'll go drive.
[41:39.600 -> 41:43.560] And if you're hostile, definitely fuck your drivers out of both qualifying sessions.
[41:43.560 -> 41:45.120] We'll get to that. out of both qualifying sessions.
[41:47.680 -> 41:49.840] We'll get to that. We'll get to that. We're almost there.
[41:55.040 -> 42:01.280] Some people like sprints, that's fine. You know, in the same way that some people like Nickelback. I mean, I used to respect people like sprints. I just don't see it. There's nothing in it.
[42:01.280 -> 42:07.100] Honestly, I didn't. I said I wasn't going gonna watch Saturday. I just do the data analysis for my newsletter
[42:07.100 -> 42:09.900] at buymeacoffee.com slash break, which is pretty dope.
[42:11.180 -> 42:12.560] I had some guy email me and tell me
[42:12.560 -> 42:14.200] that the reports don't come out soon enough.
[42:14.200 -> 42:15.040] That's why he's canceling.
[42:15.040 -> 42:17.700] I'm like, dude, if you want me to just copy
[42:17.700 -> 42:19.140] and paste a bunch of fucking graphs
[42:19.140 -> 42:21.380] and do a document and send them out after the session,
[42:21.380 -> 42:22.220] I'll do it.
[42:22.220 -> 42:26.100] But that's the reason why you subscribe to this,
[42:26.100 -> 42:28.900] because you actually get somebody telling you
[42:28.900 -> 42:31.600] and explaining it to you, not just copying, pasting templates
[42:31.600 -> 42:33.180] that somebody else made for you.
[42:33.180 -> 42:35.640] Yeah, and it's working out quite well for you
[42:35.640 -> 42:37.120] because I won't reveal the name,
[42:37.120 -> 42:39.640] but there is a high profile subscriber
[42:39.640 -> 42:40.880] that you've got, isn't there?
[42:40.880 -> 42:43.040] We're not mentioning names.
[42:43.040 -> 42:44.720] We won't mention names, but yeah,
[42:44.720 -> 42:45.300] there is.
[42:45.340 -> 42:49.720] There is someone high up in the paddock that is quite interested in Blake's data.
[42:50.320 -> 42:50.820] Yeah.
[42:50.820 -> 42:51.020] Yeah.
[42:51.020 -> 42:53.180] That was an interesting thing, but I'm not going to spoil that.
[42:53.800 -> 42:54.520] It's not Dan.
[42:54.600 -> 42:55.400] No, it's not.
[42:55.400 -> 42:56.080] It's not 11.
[42:56.080 -> 42:57.520] No, I don't fucking paying for it.
[42:57.520 -> 42:58.160] You're having a laugh.
[42:58.160 -> 43:02.520] And yeah, I, yeah, I gave Dan a subscription to it, but, uh, yeah.
[43:02.640 -> 43:06.040] So anyway, uh, we, we go straight into qualifying and
[43:06.040 -> 43:08.660] qualifying is another intermediate to
[43:08.660 -> 43:11.460] dry crossover session switching to
[43:11.460 -> 43:16.120] enters in the middle of Q2.
[43:16.120 -> 43:18.840] Speaking as we were talking about Haas,
[43:18.840 -> 43:22.120] Hulkenberg was knocked out in Q1.
[43:22.120 -> 43:24.520] Because he missed an attempt to set
[43:24.520 -> 43:25.760] another flying lap at the end
[43:25.760 -> 43:28.840] of the session due to pit timing.
[43:28.840 -> 43:33.560] Basically measuring your out lap and your in lap and your cooldown lap and they fucked
[43:33.560 -> 43:36.360] it and they got him knocked out in Q1.
[43:36.360 -> 43:39.760] Yeah, fucking wild.
[43:39.760 -> 43:41.400] It's not the first time that happened this weekend.
[43:41.400 -> 43:43.920] I'm so so annoyed.
[43:43.920 -> 43:46.600] I'm so so annoyed. I'm so annoyed for Stappen.
[43:47.780 -> 43:48.760] Sets a lap.
[43:49.440 -> 43:51.720] At the end of the qualifying on a soft,
[43:52.480 -> 43:53.880] it was 8 tenths faster than
[43:53.920 -> 43:55.320] anybody else on a track.
[43:55.600 -> 43:57.520] It was kind of fucking wild.
[43:59.080 -> 44:00.600] I've just had a complete brain fart.
[44:01.360 -> 44:02.680] This is not the session where
[44:02.720 -> 44:04.000] they didn't declare it wet,
[44:04.080 -> 44:05.600] even though this is the next session.
[44:05.620 -> 44:06.860] Alright, OK, sorry.
[44:07.220 -> 44:09.100] Yeah, but I was confused as well.
[44:09.100 -> 44:10.940] I'm like they blend together because guess what?
[44:11.340 -> 44:14.060] It's really interesting that you say that because it's like there's like
[44:14.060 -> 44:17.180] two of the same sessions that are slightly different, but not different
[44:17.180 -> 44:18.540] enough to be fucking memorable.
[44:21.020 -> 44:27.620] Yeah, I'm with you, dude, so there's just a little general round up little general round
[44:27.620 -> 44:31.720] up McLaren looked slow in a straight line. So this event they're definitely running more
[44:31.720 -> 44:36.080] downforce than usual, despite the fact that McLaren have been more competitive in terms
[44:36.080 -> 44:41.680] of top speed in recent events. So their upgrades, which I've got a video coming out next week
[44:41.680 -> 44:49.280] about McLaren's performance improvements, Looking at the whole season using some pretty clever shit that I'm pretty happy about.
[44:49.280 -> 44:54.560] I'll share that on my buy me a coffee and also video coming out next week.
[44:54.560 -> 44:59.600] But McLaren, they put some more downforce on the car this weekend.
[44:59.600 -> 45:02.920] And that's one of those tradeoffs you usually get is like it's going to be wet this weekend.
[45:02.920 -> 45:06.680] You put a bit more downforce on the car and get some grip in the wet.
[45:06.680 -> 45:10.920] Or do you fit the fastest wing, which might be a little bit slower in the wet?
[45:10.920 -> 45:14.880] But who knows?
[45:14.880 -> 45:21.240] The results for Stappen, Leclerc, Perez, Hamilton and Sainz Carlos.
[45:21.240 -> 45:29.320] And that sets the grid for Sunday. Max also has to take a 5 place grid penalty for the gearbox,
[45:29.320 -> 45:32.280] which was confirmed later in that session.
[45:32.280 -> 45:33.480] So.
[45:34.440 -> 45:35.960] That brings us to the sprint shootout.
[45:37.200 -> 45:40.800] Oh yeah, another another another session where they're like slightly shorter.
[45:40.800 -> 45:43.840] The interesting thing that the only interesting thing is that since the session
[45:43.840 -> 45:45.760] shorter and the lap and spa is
[45:45.760 -> 45:53.400] so long, like the laps are like a minute 46 is a fast lap.
[45:53.400 -> 45:59.480] One set of tires, fast, slow, fast, out lap, in lap at either side of that.
[45:59.480 -> 46:06.480] It was an insert to dry crossover session, but the DRS was not made available in the session.
[46:06.480 -> 46:08.760] And there's something like it wasn't declared wet or something else.
[46:08.760 -> 46:09.760] I don't know.
[46:09.760 -> 46:17.760] So they didn't declare it wet because it means that you had to adhere to the.
[46:17.760 -> 46:19.000] The tire rules, is that not what it was?
[46:19.000 -> 46:20.520] I'm so fucking lost now.
[46:20.520 -> 46:27.740] It's some stupid nonsense where they didn't want people sticking soft on or
[46:27.740 -> 46:32.780] something dry tires on a track that was drying, but the way it was worded meant
[46:32.780 -> 46:34.820] they could still stick mediums on or something.
[46:34.840 -> 46:37.620] It was, it was just, it was basically the FIA.
[46:37.620 -> 46:41.660] Like we're not going to declare it wet because you lot are going to take
[46:41.660 -> 46:46.520] advantage of a loophole in the rules rather than us actually fixing our stupid
[46:46.520 -> 46:48.960] fucking terminology and rules.
[46:48.960 -> 46:49.840] So I was correct.
[46:49.840 -> 46:51.960] It was basically that you could pick,
[46:51.960 -> 46:53.300] use whatever time and whatever session.
[46:53.300 -> 46:54.840] So that way you had to use,
[46:54.840 -> 46:56.560] I believe you have to use hard, medium, soft
[46:56.560 -> 46:59.160] in this format as well.
[47:00.620 -> 47:02.080] And that throws all the windows out if you declare it.
[47:02.080 -> 47:02.980] So they didn't declare it,
[47:02.980 -> 47:07.000] but they did not enable DRS for the entire session, which looked
[47:07.000 -> 47:09.120] like it shifted the order around.
[47:09.120 -> 47:14.040] But before we get even further into that, Hulkenberg aborted his lap on his first set
[47:14.040 -> 47:15.040] of enters.
[47:15.040 -> 47:19.040] And apparently the chief race engineer was like, no, the tires are out of the window
[47:19.040 -> 47:20.280] box for a new set.
[47:20.280 -> 47:24.520] So he puts a new set of enters on in order for him not to cross the line in order to
[47:24.520 -> 47:26.160] be able to set a time lap.
[47:26.160 -> 47:28.600] You've got to set a fucking banker in these sessions.
[47:28.600 -> 47:29.600] Holy shit.
[47:29.600 -> 47:30.600] That was mine.
[47:30.600 -> 47:33.560] Straight out of the F1 manager 2023 playbook.
[47:33.560 -> 47:36.880] Yeah, I literally almost punched a hole through my screen when I saw that.
[47:36.880 -> 47:39.800] I was like, you can't do that.
[47:39.800 -> 47:48.000] In Q2, Stroll tries a medium at the end of the session as it's drying and unfortunately
[47:48.000 -> 47:52.200] gets a little bit off the dry line.
[47:52.200 -> 47:54.360] Four drivers didn't set a lap as a result of this.
[47:54.360 -> 47:57.440] Albon, Sergeant, Stroll, and Alonzo.
[47:57.440 -> 48:00.560] So Stroll knocked his teammate out for the sprint qualifying.
[48:00.560 -> 48:01.560] Here's...
[48:01.560 -> 48:02.560] Well done.
[48:02.560 -> 48:04.680] Did you see this?
[48:04.680 -> 48:07.860] In sprint qualifying three at the end of the session, Russell and Hamilton
[48:07.860 -> 48:09.920] start a lap line astern.
[48:09.960 -> 48:11.080] Jesus Christ.
[48:11.080 -> 48:11.560] Yes.
[48:12.160 -> 48:14.760] The internet burnt itself down over this.
[48:15.360 -> 48:15.680] Yeah.
[48:16.720 -> 48:19.440] So Russell is in front.
[48:20.340 -> 48:26.720] Uh, he fucks it up into T1, which then basically puts him in the way of Hamilton for the majority
[48:26.720 -> 48:30.360] of going up the Kemmel straight and all that.
[48:30.360 -> 48:32.880] Russell's not inclined to move out of the way.
[48:32.880 -> 48:38.400] They're basically, I don't know, Russell, fuck it, I'll put the blame on Russell.
[48:38.400 -> 48:40.120] He screws it up for Lewis.
[48:40.120 -> 48:44.760] However, the real blame here lies on Mercedes for putting him out with such a fucking small
[48:44.760 -> 48:45.500] gap between them
[48:46.300 -> 48:47.960] mmm, um
[48:47.960 -> 48:54.260] Yeah, I think that's the risk you take like when you when you I think what was the gap like three or four seconds or
[48:54.260 -> 48:57.020] Something and when Russell goes super huge wide
[48:57.640 -> 48:59.640] Hamilton gets the town but looking at the lap
[49:00.400 -> 49:02.740] Hamilton didn't actually lose much
[49:03.680 -> 49:06.380] From it like it but like, let's be fucking clear.
[49:06.380 -> 49:10.720] Didn't you put this on Twitter and end up getting cancelled for saying such a wild thing?
[49:10.720 -> 49:13.220] I didn't get cancelled because it was...
[49:13.220 -> 49:15.220] Fact?
[49:15.220 -> 49:18.760] Yeah, but it was left open enough. I'm not saying that...
[49:18.760 -> 49:22.140] Long story short, Toto said that Lewis could have been on pole.
[49:22.140 -> 49:29.800] And I looked at all the laps that everybody done the entire weekend and I was like I just like there's nothing that I can see that Lewis
[49:29.800 -> 49:32.080] is going to find what was it?
[49:32.080 -> 49:36.260] 9 tenths of a second from the lap that he said.
[49:36.260 -> 49:40.840] You know people like oh but what about track improvement in sector one like the track improvement
[49:40.840 -> 49:47.880] sector one was less than a tenth. Because guess what sector 1 is?
[49:47.880 -> 49:49.960] Sector 1 is a single fucking corner.
[49:49.960 -> 49:56.780] Sector 3 is the exit of a high speed corner which is flat and it's the bus stop.
[49:56.780 -> 50:06.360] So yeah, like realistically, him being offline going down to turn 5 wasn't ideal, but Lewis wasn't fast in turn
[50:06.360 -> 50:09.480] five at any point this entire weekend, including the race.
[50:09.480 -> 50:12.560] So I'm just like, I'm not seeing it and it's not me trying to dig on it, but it's just
[50:12.560 -> 50:16.640] like one of those, when you see a really weird statements like nine tenths off could have
[50:16.640 -> 50:19.600] been six tenths off.
[50:19.600 -> 50:20.920] How would he have been on pole?
[50:20.920 -> 50:24.480] He's just, Toto's on that PR hype.
[50:24.480 -> 50:27.920] Yeah. You got, yeah. Gas him up. And that PR hype. Yeah, you got gas him up and it was
[50:27.920 -> 50:32.440] shit. His lap got fucked. We're never going to know what happened. But yeah, top five
[50:32.440 -> 50:39.440] in the sprint shootout for stapping piastri. Piastri was absolutely mad in sector two,
[50:39.440 -> 50:47.200] whereas yesterday and Friday, Max was insane through turn 9, but seriously, Piastri was on one. Signs,
[50:47.200 -> 50:49.560] Leclerc and Norris. That's your top 5.
[50:49.560 -> 50:55.720] Yeah, yeah, I don't know. There you go.
[50:55.720 -> 51:00.640] I don't know what to say.
[51:00.640 -> 51:06.000] Yeah, there you go. Yeah, I got this bar. There you go.
[51:06.000 -> 51:08.000] Yeah, let's keep going the rest of the way.
[51:08.000 -> 51:10.000] The sprint race.
[51:10.000 -> 51:12.000] And this is really good.
[51:12.000 -> 51:14.000] The race
[51:14.000 -> 51:16.000] starts on wet behind the safety car
[51:16.000 -> 51:18.000] and they basically drive around
[51:18.000 -> 51:20.000] until the visibility improves
[51:20.000 -> 51:22.000] so that they can put on intermediate tires.
[51:22.000 -> 51:24.000] That's it.
[51:24.000 -> 51:28.160] Did I mention that I hate sprint races by the way? No, why don't you do it again?
[51:28.760 -> 51:32.200] Yeah, I hate him. But did you see what Mario Sola said?
[51:33.820 -> 51:37.720] Well what he said and what the internet thinks he said so
[51:38.440 -> 51:41.560] The internet thinks he said basically the wet tires are useless
[51:42.260 -> 51:46.920] Correct. What he actually said was wet tires are useless if you're only
[51:46.920 -> 51:48.480] going to use them to follow the safety car.
[51:49.360 -> 51:49.800] Correct.
[51:50.240 -> 51:50.840] I'll go.
[51:50.840 -> 51:53.400] I'll be as bold as to say, actually, both statements are true.
[51:53.920 -> 51:55.360] Yeah, they are fucking true.
[51:56.880 -> 52:00.280] Like, also, we didn't mention this.
[52:00.280 -> 52:03.760] The FIA the other week tested the wheel guards, which were meant to prevent spray.
[52:03.920 -> 52:08.120] But most of the spray comes from the diffuser blowing the water up into the air.
[52:08.120 -> 52:13.840] So obviously that wasn't an issue and deemed a failure.
[52:13.840 -> 52:19.020] And at some point, Isola said, yeah, we developed some wet tires that were five seconds a lap
[52:19.020 -> 52:26.400] faster than the previous ones, which is kind of weird because I've been at a couple of wet tire tests prior to
[52:26.400 -> 52:31.920] 2022 or 2021 when I left.
[52:31.920 -> 52:34.440] Yeah, I sorry.
[52:34.440 -> 52:36.040] Yes, I don't think that's true.
[52:36.040 -> 52:41.080] I don't think that statement is true.
[52:41.080 -> 52:47.000] But here's here's the solution to this. The solution is to,
[52:47.000 -> 52:50.000] Azolla proposed a super intermediate
[52:50.000 -> 52:53.000] or an intermediate plus for the 2024 season.
[52:53.000 -> 52:58.000] You could also just call this a usable wet tire.
[52:58.000 -> 53:00.000] But to be fair,
[53:00.000 -> 53:02.000] the cars are dealing with visibility issues.
[53:02.000 -> 53:05.500] In Spa, they were not gonna touch
[53:05.500 -> 53:07.400] a visibility issue with yours.
[53:07.400 -> 53:09.400] Like, they're like, no, we've already had,
[53:09.400 -> 53:12.560] in the past we had a fatality at the top of Eau Rouge.
[53:12.560 -> 53:16.520] During the Spa 24, there was also another fatality
[53:16.520 -> 53:20.560] related to visibility and high speeds.
[53:20.560 -> 53:21.600] And they're like, we're not touching this.
[53:21.600 -> 53:23.160] We're gonna wait until the spray's down
[53:23.160 -> 53:24.000] and we're gonna do this.
[53:24.000 -> 53:27.380] And I think that was the right decision, but in the longer term,
[53:27.380 -> 53:30.840] Pirelli need to come up Pirelli and the FIA need to come up with a solution
[53:30.840 -> 53:35.080] for visibility, um, and a better wet tire that doesn't aquaplan is badly.
[53:36.900 -> 53:39.860] Yeah, but see, this is another one of the issues, right?
[53:39.860 -> 53:45.760] So you bring in aero rules, right?
[53:46.720 -> 53:50.600] That mandate that your diffuser has to be the super aero slide 9,000.
[53:52.280 -> 53:56.640] And then you are surprised that all of a sudden spray becomes an issue.
[53:57.720 -> 54:02.120] It's like, I mean, I'm not blowing my own trumpet, but I think
[54:02.120 -> 54:03.160] we all saw this coming.
[54:04.160 -> 54:04.840] Why didn't they?
[54:07.920 -> 54:10.480] And there's nothing you can do about it. Right. I mean, what'm not blowing my own trumpet, but I think we all saw this coming. Why didn't they? And there's nothing you can do about it. I mean, what can you do? Do you spray from a giant diffuser? Nothing.
[54:11.280 -> 54:16.480] Yeah. Well, I get the end of the day. Yeah, that is what it is. So if you have tracks where
[54:16.480 -> 54:22.320] visibility is an issue, you cannot run in super extreme light conditions. And I'm sure there's a
[54:22.320 -> 54:30.860] lot more clever people that will figure this out. But yeah, all that to say, the race started on a tire that has been deemed
[54:30.860 -> 54:36.320] useless if they won't want it because of visibility. And I don't really think that's the tires
[54:36.320 -> 54:44.800] fault. That is, as you said, a byproduct of the design, the philosophy of this regulation
[54:44.800 -> 54:46.720] set. So fair enough.
[54:47.800 -> 54:48.360] Fair enough.
[54:49.480 -> 54:49.800] Yeah.
[54:49.960 -> 54:50.440] Sorry.
[54:50.440 -> 54:53.960] I don't mean to be a downer, but I just, I don't really know how you fix this.
[54:55.200 -> 54:55.480] You know?
[54:55.520 -> 54:55.760] Yeah.
[54:56.120 -> 54:56.560] I don't either.
[54:57.680 -> 54:58.600] You know how you fix it?
[54:59.440 -> 55:02.640] You take all the distraction away from the fact that everybody pitched straight
[55:02.640 -> 55:05.480] off of the enters or off the wets onto the inters.
[55:05.480 -> 55:10.840] Uh, Piastri pits first, he gets ahead of Verstappen and then Max overtakes him anyway.
[55:10.840 -> 55:16.760] And then you let Perez and Hamilton race and let Hamilton drive into Perez or understeer
[55:16.760 -> 55:22.080] into them when Perez was falling back and then let the internet set itself on fire again.
[55:22.080 -> 55:23.880] Yeah.
[55:23.880 -> 55:26.000] GG's. self on fire again. Yeah.
[55:26.720 -> 55:28.240] GGs.
[55:32.260 -> 55:33.440] I, I, uh, yeah, we, we lost a podcast listener as a result of some of my comments on this as well.
[55:33.600 -> 55:34.120] Oh, did we?
[55:34.560 -> 55:34.880] Yeah.
[55:34.920 -> 55:35.560] Unfortunately.
[55:35.600 -> 55:37.560] I'm surprised he stuck around this long anyway, to be honest.
[55:37.600 -> 55:37.760] Yeah.
[55:37.760 -> 55:38.720] So we're down to four.
[55:38.840 -> 55:39.480] Thank you guys.
[55:39.480 -> 55:41.200] I, we, we do appreciate all four of you though.
[55:41.200 -> 55:41.360] Yeah.
[55:41.360 -> 55:42.280] One of them's my nan.
[55:43.240 -> 55:44.120] One of them's your dad.
[55:44.480 -> 55:45.520] Yeah, exactly. And two of them are the Yeah. One of them's my nan. Um, one of them's your dad. Yeah, exactly.
[55:47.200 -> 55:49.800] And two of them are the blokes from Stevenage Butchers.
[55:50.360 -> 55:50.600] Yeah.
[55:51.080 -> 55:51.240] Yeah.
[55:51.240 -> 55:52.200] My, my, my butcher as well.
[55:52.200 -> 55:53.040] So we're still at five.
[55:53.120 -> 55:53.800] Ah, get in.
[55:55.520 -> 56:02.160] Um, but yeah, so basically Paris was falling back at 13, I think it was 13, 14.
[56:02.840 -> 56:05.200] And there's a door wide open and Lewis goes for it.
[56:05.200 -> 56:08.160] He gets up on the curb and he gets a little bit of understeer.
[56:08.160 -> 56:13.040] And there's some people taking a snapshot of when Lewis had corrected after he had touched
[56:13.040 -> 56:14.280] like he turned in on him.
[56:14.280 -> 56:20.840] I'm like, you motherfuckers should not be let anywhere near this without two fucking
[56:20.840 -> 56:24.240] brain cells to rub together to figure out that that was not Lewis turning in on him.
[56:24.240 -> 56:25.500] And I don't.
[56:25.500 -> 56:30.080] I feel like they gave Lewis the penalty because they retired at Paris, not because of what
[56:30.080 -> 56:31.480] happened there.
[56:31.480 -> 56:39.120] Yeah, the same kind of thing was a lap one incidents as a by John Russell on Verstappen
[56:39.120 -> 56:40.560] hole in the side pod.
[56:40.560 -> 56:43.280] Same level of damage sprint race.
[56:43.280 -> 56:45.800] They would that was deemed that like.
[56:45.800 -> 56:47.680] If you're Lewis and you don't go for that,
[56:47.680 -> 56:49.200] you're going to get you.
[56:49.200 -> 56:50.760] If you lose, you're going for that.
[56:50.760 -> 56:52.600] End of story.
[56:52.600 -> 56:54.600] Yeah, I don't know.
[56:54.600 -> 56:56.040] To be honest, I've not.
[56:56.040 -> 56:57.120] I watched it once,
[56:57.120 -> 56:59.160] so I'm not going to talk like
[56:59.160 -> 57:00.320] the authority on this one,
[57:00.320 -> 57:02.240] but I'm inclined to be more
[57:02.240 -> 57:03.880] lenient when it's wet.
[57:03.880 -> 57:07.000] Yeah, it's and it's not like it was a stupid move.
[57:07.000 -> 57:10.400] Perez was literally bleeding lap time there.
[57:10.400 -> 57:11.400] Yeah.
[57:11.400 -> 57:14.320] You're going for it, you're going for it.
[57:14.320 -> 57:18.200] And if you touch wheels, if you touch the side of the car, so be it.
[57:18.200 -> 57:24.000] I feel like the penalty was applied as a result of the DNF, not as a result of the contact
[57:24.000 -> 57:25.600] from a slightly
[57:26.480 -> 57:30.560] opportunistic move. I think, yeah, people are getting a little bit... yeah.
[57:30.560 -> 57:36.080] Yeah, I think the two penalty points on the license as well was a bit fucking harsh.
[57:38.080 -> 57:41.440] I'll have to check up on this, but I think, mate, I think when you get a time penalty,
[57:41.440 -> 57:44.640] you automatically get points on your license. I can't remember if that's still the case,
[57:44.640 -> 57:48.820] but I think that's why they ended up getting two points, but that's it's only two points
[57:48.820 -> 57:51.920] So he'll be alright just seemed a bit. I don't know. Yeah
[57:52.660 -> 57:56.360] as a red bull read a horribly biased red bull I
[57:57.040 -> 57:58.840] wasn't
[57:58.840 -> 58:00.840] insulted by Lewis's attempt
[58:01.800 -> 58:07.480] I'm too biased. I'm so biased that it's like reverse and I've got this like Stockholm bias syndrome where
[58:07.480 -> 58:09.840] I'm like, yeah, that was definitely right.
[58:09.840 -> 58:17.000] Um, I like that after this as well, where Hamon parked his car up, the onboard camera,
[58:17.000 -> 58:18.360] it was like right in front of a gate.
[58:18.360 -> 58:20.520] So it looks like he just drove straight into prison.
[58:20.520 -> 58:23.080] Oh yeah, that was so funny.
[58:23.080 -> 58:27.560] There's like the iron gates there. It's like Lewis Hammond has been sent directly to jail.
[58:27.560 -> 58:30.800] I was like, oh no, Lewis, don't do it.
[58:30.800 -> 58:33.000] No Lewis, no.
[58:33.000 -> 58:39.040] Um, yeah, but why don't we move on to the Grand Prix event?
[58:39.040 -> 58:42.480] The actual fricking race.
[58:42.480 -> 58:44.480] Why not?
[58:44.480 -> 58:46.000] Hey.
[58:46.000 -> 58:48.000] Um.
[58:48.000 -> 58:50.000] Right.
[58:50.000 -> 58:52.000] Well, pretty much the good thing is since it's been wet all weekend,
[58:52.000 -> 58:54.000] basically everybody has new tires.
[58:54.000 -> 58:56.000] So that's.
[58:56.000 -> 58:58.000] That's good.
[58:58.000 -> 59:00.000] It ends up being a mixed to stop race
[59:00.000 -> 59:02.000] with most drivers focusing on
[59:02.000 -> 59:04.000] the soft tire and like I'm looking at the stents
[59:04.000 -> 59:11.840] like people were doing about 15 to 20 laps on the soft people towards the end of the race. You saw
[59:11.840 -> 59:15.040] a lot more longer stents on the soft. The first and some people were hopping off of
[59:15.040 -> 59:22.240] that after lap six for Ricardo lap eight. So I mean the soft was okay, but if you abused
[59:22.240 -> 59:26.720] it, it wasn't going to hang around too long.
[59:31.600 -> 59:35.680] Yeah. Now let's get into another dumpster fire, which is there's only one answer to this dumpster fire. Race start. Race start. Let me paint a picture for you. Just close everybody. Close
[59:35.680 -> 59:39.680] your eyes. Unless you're driving. If you're driving, you can keep your eyes open, but if
[59:39.680 -> 59:49.360] you're driving, I recommend if you're driving. Yeah. on the race start, both Piastri and Sainz get reasonable starts and then
[59:49.360 -> 59:55.320] Sainz, uh, locks up and he basically has to avoid colliding into Lewis.
[59:55.320 -> 59:56.560] So he's like, right, there's a gap there.
[59:56.560 -> 59:58.560] I'm going to go for the gap on the apex of turn one.
[59:58.880 -> 01:00:00.760] Well, he was what?
[01:00:01.800 -> 01:00:04.560] Piastri's front left wheel was about the middle of Sainz's car.
[01:00:05.680 -> 01:00:09.420] And they basically both go for the spot at the apex of turn one.
[01:00:09.420 -> 01:00:15.120] So Sainz's reply after the race was, not what we wanted today, a racing incident.
[01:00:15.120 -> 01:00:17.300] But Oscar was too optimistic.
[01:00:17.300 -> 01:00:20.960] He was never side by side and that move would never really worked in Spa.
[01:00:20.960 -> 01:00:23.320] Congrats to the team and Charles on encouraging result.
[01:00:23.320 -> 01:00:24.640] We'll keep pushing after the break.
[01:00:24.640 -> 01:00:27.360] I was like, you fucking bozo.
[01:00:27.360 -> 01:00:28.960] Oh dear.
[01:00:28.960 -> 01:00:33.400] He doesn't know how to take the L.
[01:00:33.400 -> 01:00:34.400] Mr.
[01:00:34.400 -> 01:00:40.880] Uh, the new sponsor for a Ferrari is Teflon and they have been in race suit Teflon shoulders.
[01:00:40.880 -> 01:00:42.560] Yeah, exactly.
[01:00:42.560 -> 01:00:43.560] Nope.
[01:00:43.560 -> 01:00:47.640] Nothing to do with me. Nope. Nope, exactly. Nothing doing me. Nope, nope, nope.
[01:00:47.640 -> 01:00:56.840] So of course, the race, since we're so freaking biased, yeah, Max is up at P4 by the end of
[01:00:56.840 -> 01:00:57.840] lap one.
[01:00:57.840 -> 01:01:01.680] I'm pretty sure that's correct, unless my figures are wrong.
[01:01:01.680 -> 01:01:05.320] And then basically everybody goes from medium to soft
[01:01:05.320 -> 01:01:07.640] at that point, or sorry, starts from soft to medium.
[01:01:07.640 -> 01:01:12.640] But around lap 18, Russell starts sweating so profusely
[01:01:13.240 -> 01:01:16.320] that everybody starts to experience low grip, apparently.
[01:01:18.520 -> 01:01:19.760] And yeah, so we get a little bit of wet track
[01:01:19.760 -> 01:01:22.040] and people are like, ooh, ooh, do we stop?
[01:01:22.040 -> 01:01:24.500] Ooh, we're on that medium, maybe do we put on the soft?
[01:01:24.500 -> 01:01:26.000] Oh, oh, I don't know.
[01:01:26.000 -> 01:01:27.000] I don't know.
[01:01:27.000 -> 01:01:29.100] And it never was nothing really ever came of it.
[01:01:29.100 -> 01:01:30.300] The only thing that happened was.
[01:01:32.000 -> 01:01:37.500] Yeah, our guy Lando hits off of the mediums and he's on a hard
[01:01:37.500 -> 01:01:37.800] for a bit.
[01:01:37.800 -> 01:01:40.400] He planned it was the only person that fit a hard and then he
[01:01:40.400 -> 01:01:42.900] puts on to the soft during the rain and then does a 27 lap
[01:01:42.900 -> 01:01:45.520] stint to the end of the soft and where does he finish?
[01:01:47.160 -> 01:01:48.880] Yeah, P7, not a great result.
[01:01:48.920 -> 01:01:49.160] What?
[01:01:49.680 -> 01:01:52.120] 70 seconds near the whole lap off the lead.
[01:01:52.920 -> 01:01:53.320] Nearly?
[01:01:53.800 -> 01:01:54.280] Not quite.
[01:01:54.840 -> 01:01:55.240] Not quite.
[01:01:55.240 -> 01:01:58.200] F***ing by the end of it, mate, I think nearly everyone was a lap off the lead.
[01:01:58.240 -> 01:01:59.200] Jesus Christ.
[01:01:59.480 -> 01:02:01.840] Well, no, no, everybody, nobody was a lap down.
[01:02:02.560 -> 01:02:03.280] Nobody got lapped.
[01:02:04.320 -> 01:02:06.000] I mean, it's in a minute.
[01:02:06.000 -> 01:02:08.000] Through the mercy of Max Verstappen.
[01:02:08.000 -> 01:02:10.000] Yeah, exactly.
[01:02:10.000 -> 01:02:12.000] The fastest race lap was Hamilton's.
[01:02:12.000 -> 01:02:14.000] It was a 1.47. Most people's fastest
[01:02:14.000 -> 01:02:16.000] lap was 1.50, so they were all
[01:02:16.000 -> 01:02:18.000] slower than that, effectively, per driver.
[01:02:20.000 -> 01:02:22.000] What else is going on in this, man?
[01:02:22.000 -> 01:02:24.000] Ah!
[01:02:24.000 -> 01:02:25.240] I'm not going to spoil it here. I'm not going to spoil it here.
[01:02:26.360 -> 01:02:27.320] I'm not going to spoil it here,
[01:02:27.320 -> 01:02:28.920] but there was something seriously
[01:02:28.920 -> 01:02:31.080] up with the Red Bulls during the race,
[01:02:31.080 -> 01:02:33.960] and I guarantee you as a matter of fact
[01:02:33.960 -> 01:02:36.600] that both Red Bulls left at least 20
[01:02:36.600 -> 01:02:38.480] seconds of race time on the table.
[01:02:40.080 -> 01:02:41.080] And you don't need a rocket
[01:02:41.080 -> 01:02:42.560] surgery degree to see it.
[01:02:43.160 -> 01:02:46.640] And this has something to do with Max and GP fighting on the radio.
[01:02:46.640 -> 01:02:50.240] There's a video by the time if you're listening or watching this podcast later,
[01:02:50.240 -> 01:02:52.480] it will be out on YouTube. And if you're in the stream right now,
[01:02:52.480 -> 01:02:57.600] the video will be live in about 40 minutes. So I'm not going to spoil it, but.
[01:02:58.640 -> 01:03:01.040] Max's and GP's conversation during the race.
[01:03:03.600 -> 01:03:09.880] Yeah, the video will be on break f1, but yeah, that's so funny seeing Max and GP.
[01:03:09.880 -> 01:03:13.200] GP's like, thank God break is coming, like the shutdown.
[01:03:13.200 -> 01:03:16.400] I can't wait to like not have to talk to you during the race for a little bit.
[01:03:16.400 -> 01:03:23.400] I love their married couple relationship, and I love the fact that GP gives just as good as he gets back to Max.
[01:03:23.400 -> 01:03:27.560] I think was it during one of the qualifyings, he was like, Max was talking
[01:03:27.560 -> 01:03:31.400] about having to do two push laps or something and GP was like, well, yeah,
[01:03:31.400 -> 01:03:33.360] then you would have run out of energy and you wouldn't like that.
[01:03:33.360 -> 01:03:33.720] Would you?
[01:03:34.120 -> 01:03:34.520] Yeah.
[01:03:34.520 -> 01:03:36.120] And I was just like, go on GP.
[01:03:36.840 -> 01:03:37.000] Yeah.
[01:03:37.000 -> 01:03:38.520] That was a, that was Friday, wasn't it?
[01:03:39.280 -> 01:03:39.440] Yeah.
[01:03:39.440 -> 01:03:41.560] Cause Max was basically not happy.
[01:03:41.560 -> 01:03:44.400] Like these, all these events are blending into my head now.
[01:03:44.680 -> 01:03:45.060] Uh, Max was not happy that they almost got knocked out in Q2. He was basically dead happy. Like these, all these events are blending into my head now.
[01:03:45.060 -> 01:03:48.000] Max was not happy that they almost got knocked out in Q2.
[01:03:48.000 -> 01:03:50.140] He was basically dead last in Q2.
[01:03:52.180 -> 01:03:54.080] And yeah, GP was just like, right,
[01:03:54.080 -> 01:03:55.880] here, you do the run plan, you do the tires,
[01:03:55.880 -> 01:03:57.680] you do the sets and Max was like, okay.
[01:03:57.680 -> 01:03:59.840] And then at the end of that, Max did,
[01:03:59.840 -> 01:04:01.920] he said, I got a bit heated.
[01:04:01.920 -> 01:04:03.520] It happens, but that's the whole point
[01:04:03.520 -> 01:04:05.800] of the race engineers to deal with a driver having a pissy fit. It happens, but that's the whole point of the race engineers to deal with a driver having
[01:04:05.800 -> 01:04:06.800] a pissy fit.
[01:04:06.800 -> 01:04:12.740] It happens, like literally emotions are high and that is a skill required of a good race
[01:04:12.740 -> 01:04:14.760] engineer to be able to cope with that.
[01:04:14.760 -> 01:04:18.200] And I think if you're a driver like Max or Lewis or anybody else, you're going to be
[01:04:18.200 -> 01:04:19.680] extremely fucking demanding.
[01:04:19.680 -> 01:04:20.680] Yeah, yeah.
[01:04:20.680 -> 01:04:23.680] And they have a good relationship.
[01:04:23.680 -> 01:04:27.040] And it's a thing for F1 as well. I mean, there's been times when I've been
[01:04:27.040 -> 01:04:31.660] trackside stressed out my mind trying to, you know, fix or resolve something.
[01:04:31.660 -> 01:04:34.780] And I've been a bit feisty with someone that I work with or whatever.
[01:04:34.780 -> 01:04:38.660] And then like, yeah, two hours later, you know, we're still best of mates.
[01:04:38.660 -> 01:04:40.340] It's, you know, it's pressure.
[01:04:40.340 -> 01:04:43.660] It just happens, but we have a good enough relationship to deal with it.
[01:04:43.660 -> 01:04:44.660] Yeah.
[01:04:44.660 -> 01:04:55.680] To be fair though, like Bono is another fucking cool operator. Have you ever seen Bono flustered? pressure. It just happens, but we have a good enough relationship to deal with it. The only thing that I will say is you don't have Christian Hoppe on the radio very often,
[01:04:55.680 -> 01:04:59.600] but every now and then Bono's like, mate, I can't be fucking dealing with this right now.
[01:04:59.600 -> 01:05:03.200] Toto, can you sort it out? And he's like, Lewis, drive the car. We know it's shit.
[01:05:00.700 -> 01:05:02.580] Can you sort it out? And he's like Lewis drive the car.
[01:05:02.580 -> 01:05:03.380] We know it shit.
[01:05:04.500 -> 01:05:06.960] Lewis do it do it now, but like.
[01:05:08.840 -> 01:05:09.660] People could try to like
[01:05:09.660 -> 01:05:11.060] make a big deal about that stuff.
[01:05:11.060 -> 01:05:12.060] It's not a big deal.
[01:05:12.900 -> 01:05:13.540] Is the thing.
[01:05:15.000 -> 01:05:16.260] But anyway, the Red Bulls.
[01:05:17.180 -> 01:05:18.460] Sandbagging or not?
[01:05:18.460 -> 01:05:19.700] Question mark the video
[01:05:19.740 -> 01:05:20.980] will explain everything
[01:05:21.220 -> 01:05:22.460] at the end of the race.
[01:05:22.660 -> 01:05:24.620] Lewis smashes on a new medium.
[01:05:24.660 -> 01:05:25.220] You know why?
[01:05:25.220 -> 01:05:26.480] He didn't have any softs mate.
[01:05:29.440 -> 01:05:33.360] And then he he puts in a very ferocious lap.
[01:05:33.360 -> 01:05:36.040] His fastest lap was 147.3.
[01:05:36.040 -> 01:05:38.280] Max is fastest lap at 148.9,
[01:05:38.280 -> 01:05:40.440] which was on lap 32 for Max.
[01:05:40.440 -> 01:05:41.860] I don't want to be that guy,
[01:05:41.860 -> 01:05:43.280] but I looked at those laps
[01:05:43.280 -> 01:05:44.520] because I was like wow,
[01:05:44.520 -> 01:05:46.540] where did this find all that time?
[01:05:46.540 -> 01:05:50.380] It was Red Bull question mark sandbagging.
[01:05:50.380 -> 01:05:53.280] And they weren't even like, they didn't even go to full energy deployment.
[01:05:53.280 -> 01:05:54.440] They were clipping down.
[01:05:54.440 -> 01:05:56.400] The Red Bulls are clipping down the straights.
[01:05:56.400 -> 01:05:59.160] Like just so you know, when you get to like, get into the straight, like a hundred meters,
[01:05:59.160 -> 01:06:01.800] you should see the car speed dropping down because the batteries turned off.
[01:06:01.800 -> 01:06:02.800] They weren't even deploying energy.
[01:06:02.800 -> 01:06:08.060] They were not, I don't think Red Bull were trying, but outright either way, that lap
[01:06:08.060 -> 01:06:10.580] was pretty fucking rapid.
[01:06:10.580 -> 01:06:13.980] And it was only like a second and a bit off of the qualifying lap.
[01:06:13.980 -> 01:06:14.980] Yeah.
[01:06:14.980 -> 01:06:19.540] And you know, I think it's also as well, like we said earlier, the Mercedes on low fuel
[01:06:19.540 -> 01:06:20.540] is a quick car.
[01:06:20.540 -> 01:06:21.540] It does get better.
[01:06:21.540 -> 01:06:25.840] Race start, high fuel, it seems to struggle.
[01:06:25.840 -> 01:06:28.840] Somebody was, and I tried to look through the data and I didn't see anything clear about
[01:06:28.840 -> 01:06:34.140] it, but both Lewis and George were talking about bouncing, especially at higher fuel.
[01:06:34.140 -> 01:06:36.980] So maybe when the ride height's a little bit lower with the fuel load, they're getting
[01:06:36.980 -> 01:06:37.980] a little bit of that porpoising.
[01:06:37.980 -> 01:06:44.560] Yeah, Spar's always been a bit of an outlier for porpoising.
[01:06:44.560 -> 01:06:48.600] So that's, yeah, that is an odd one.
[01:06:48.600 -> 01:06:51.200] We talked about Norris's race.
[01:06:51.200 -> 01:06:54.700] Alonso finishes best of the rest, just ahead of Russell and Norris.
[01:06:54.700 -> 01:06:56.000] Not too exciting.
[01:06:56.000 -> 01:07:01.120] In terms of pace, it's clearly Verstappen, Perez, and then the Claire and Hamilton were
[01:07:01.120 -> 01:07:02.840] about similar.
[01:07:02.840 -> 01:07:06.600] Hamilton's final stint and the Claire's's like if you look at their stints,
[01:07:06.600 -> 01:07:10.760] the only thing is at the race start after Paris comes through,
[01:07:10.760 -> 01:07:13.080] Hamilton loses quite a bit of pace.
[01:07:13.080 -> 01:07:16.080] And then at that point, by virtue of losing that,
[01:07:16.080 -> 01:07:18.520] he's basically just slightly out of touch with the Claire,
[01:07:18.520 -> 01:07:21.120] but matching his pace.
[01:07:23.560 -> 01:07:23.840] Yeah.
[01:07:25.280 -> 01:07:27.520] Alonso is better than the rest of the pack, matching his pace. Yep.
[01:07:33.040 -> 01:07:40.880] Alonso's better than the rest of the pack, but the midfield was entertaining but completely chaotic. And then the podium for Stappen Perez Leclerc with Verstappen 22 seconds ahead of Perez and then 32 seconds ahead of
[01:07:41.240 -> 01:07:43.240] Charles Leclerc.
[01:07:43.600 -> 01:07:46.080] Yeah, Max had a bit of a monster weekend, didn't he?
[01:07:46.800 -> 01:07:53.520] Yeah, yeah, yeah. But somebody, somebody posted something, it's like,
[01:07:54.320 -> 01:07:59.440] F, you know, casual F1 fans are going to switch off because of this dominance. And it's like,
[01:08:00.640 -> 01:08:05.920] that's like, F1's always looked like this, unless you get to the end of a regulation cycle.
[01:08:05.920 -> 01:08:11.560] So if the sport loses fans, so be it.
[01:08:11.560 -> 01:08:18.600] Viewers may have noticed there is a bald peanut has appeared on my string.
[01:08:18.600 -> 01:08:20.600] Hello mate!
[01:08:20.600 -> 01:08:23.560] Are you guys related?
[01:08:23.560 -> 01:08:26.000] Can you give us your opinion on the spy F1 race, please?
[01:08:26.000 -> 01:08:27.000] What did you think of it?
[01:08:27.000 -> 01:08:31.000] No, you're just going to mash my keyboard instead.
[01:08:31.000 -> 01:08:32.000] Okay, thanks pal.
[01:08:32.000 -> 01:08:33.000] That's really helpful.
[01:08:33.000 -> 01:08:35.000] So yeah, there you go.
[01:08:35.000 -> 01:08:37.000] We got a new third host.
[01:08:37.000 -> 01:08:41.000] Yeah, I think that's what he thinks of the sprint race weekends.
[01:08:41.000 -> 01:08:44.000] He's like, yeah, they're absolutely garbage.
[01:08:44.000 -> 01:08:48.080] Garbo. Dan's kid is really cute. Oh my
[01:08:48.080 -> 01:08:52.560] God. I still don't want kids right now though. Did he hear me? Yeah.
[01:08:56.160 -> 01:08:59.440] Signs did not say that. I did not say that about Carlos signs.
[01:09:02.000 -> 01:09:04.880] Oh
[01:09:06.880 -> 01:09:08.320] Sorry, he's just headbutting the mic now
[01:09:12.480 -> 01:09:13.560] I love it. I love it. Dude. Oh dad life. I
[01:09:15.560 -> 01:09:17.280] Bye. Have a great night you drink
[01:09:25.400 -> 01:09:27.320] Anyway, yeah, that's what he thinks yeah, he's like Carlos I think with, he said Carlos signs is a little biatch.
[01:09:27.640 -> 01:09:27.840] Yeah.
[01:09:28.080 -> 01:09:29.040] Yeah. That's exactly what he said.
[01:09:29.880 -> 01:09:38.200] So records, Red Bull 13 consecutive wins for Stappen on eight consecutive wins.
[01:09:38.220 -> 01:09:42.480] If he wins in Zanford, he's tied with Vettel at nine consecutive wins.
[01:09:42.840 -> 01:09:45.560] And they're already breaking things like their trophies
[01:09:45.560 -> 01:09:46.880] for the second weekend in a row.
[01:09:46.880 -> 01:09:48.720] Just for the fans.
[01:09:48.720 -> 01:09:51.800] So it was one of the mechanics last race with the team.
[01:09:51.800 -> 01:09:53.880] I don't know where he's going,
[01:09:53.880 -> 01:09:55.320] but they basically like grabbed him
[01:09:55.320 -> 01:09:56.680] and hosed him down with the Red Bull
[01:09:56.680 -> 01:09:59.040] and you know, the team photo at the end,
[01:09:59.040 -> 01:10:01.960] and they knocked over the pit board
[01:10:01.960 -> 01:10:04.160] and smashed one of the trophies again.
[01:10:04.160 -> 01:10:05.440] Oh my God.
[01:10:06.480 -> 01:10:08.000] That was a freaking good one.
[01:10:08.720 -> 01:10:08.760] Oh yeah.
[01:10:09.840 -> 01:10:09.900] They look God awful.
[01:10:10.680 -> 01:10:10.700] Those trophies.
[01:10:11.240 -> 01:10:11.520] What are they like?
[01:10:13.560 -> 01:10:13.640] They were cruise ships in spa.
[01:10:15.400 -> 01:10:16.000] Makes perfect, makes perfect sense.
[01:10:17.240 -> 01:10:17.880] Why were they boats, man? That was weird.
[01:10:18.160 -> 01:10:20.440] Cause it was sponsored by MSC cruises.
[01:10:20.640 -> 01:10:24.640] Uh, cause the spa region is obviously a very popular cruise destination.
[01:10:25.200 -> 01:10:25.560] Okay.
[01:10:27.080 -> 01:10:27.480] Fair enough.
[01:10:28.160 -> 01:10:31.520] But yeah, so many of them, they're just smashing them for the fun.
[01:10:31.520 -> 01:10:31.760] Now.
[01:10:33.240 -> 01:10:33.760] Good job.
[01:10:33.760 -> 01:10:35.440] Good, good spot on that one.
[01:10:35.440 -> 01:10:37.080] So why don't we move on?
[01:10:37.080 -> 01:10:38.600] Cause we haven't done this in a couple of weeks and we've got
[01:10:38.600 -> 01:10:39.640] two weekends to catch up on.
[01:10:39.640 -> 01:10:41.240] We've got the section.
[01:10:41.320 -> 01:10:47.000] You ready for it?
[01:10:47.000 -> 01:10:51.000] Fraud Watch.
[01:10:51.000 -> 01:10:58.720] Right. Fraud Watch is where we put somebody on blast. We've got to do hungry and we've
[01:10:58.720 -> 01:11:07.760] got to do spa. Dan, who's on your front watch for Hungary? A bit harsh, I think, but I'm going for it anyway.
[01:11:07.760 -> 01:11:11.840] And I'm going for Gwen Uzsiah.
[01:11:11.840 -> 01:11:12.880] Sorry, I think.
[01:11:12.880 -> 01:11:14.320] I don't think it was his fault, man.
[01:11:14.320 -> 01:11:15.920] Fuck it, I'm not doing it.
[01:11:15.920 -> 01:11:17.880] Lean in, lean in.
[01:11:19.880 -> 01:11:21.280] Fair enough.
[01:11:21.280 -> 01:11:22.960] I gave, actually, incidentally,
[01:11:22.960 -> 01:11:24.680] I did this before you put that in.
[01:11:24.680 -> 01:11:26.360] I gave Al for a Mayo. So they just, I don actually incidentally I did this before you put that in. I gave Alpha a Mayo.
[01:11:26.360 -> 01:11:28.420] They just, I don't know.
[01:11:28.420 -> 01:11:29.420] Really slow.
[01:11:29.420 -> 01:11:30.420] Yeah, they've been disappointing.
[01:11:30.420 -> 01:11:33.420] Going backwards, haven't they?
[01:11:33.420 -> 01:11:36.580] So, yeah.
[01:11:36.580 -> 01:11:37.840] What about Spa?
[01:11:37.840 -> 01:11:39.760] Who's your on front watch for Spa?
[01:11:39.760 -> 01:11:40.820] Sprint races.
[01:11:40.820 -> 01:11:43.400] Just the whole concept of it at Spa.
[01:11:43.400 -> 01:11:44.780] Fuck them.
[01:11:44.780 -> 01:11:46.440] Mine's going to Charla Claire. No, I'm just kidding. It them. Um, mine's going to Charlotte Claire.
[01:11:46.920 -> 01:11:47.360] No, I'm just kidding.
[01:11:47.360 -> 01:11:48.200] It's Carlos signs.
[01:11:48.200 -> 01:11:49.480] You fucking bozo.
[01:11:51.200 -> 01:11:53.800] Only, only because of that tweet.
[01:11:54.600 -> 01:11:57.320] Otherwise, as like, dude, come on, own it.
[01:11:57.680 -> 01:11:59.560] You fucked up the start.
[01:11:59.760 -> 01:12:01.640] It was like, remember that tweet?
[01:12:02.040 -> 01:12:05.200] Was it Singapore 2018 or whatever? Where for I was like what
[01:12:05.200 -> 01:12:11.240] we tweeted was a factual statement of events or whatever. Shades of that again. Yeah, dude,
[01:12:11.240 -> 01:12:19.880] that is fucking wild. Engine mode good boy for Austria for Hungary. Hang on, we'll play
[01:12:19.880 -> 01:12:26.000] it. Oh, wait on. Oh, shit. Did I not do that? Play the bumper.
[01:12:28.000 -> 01:12:30.000] Oh, you did you lose a good boy. I am. I'm a good boy.
[01:12:30.000 -> 01:12:38.000] Oh yes. So engine mode good boys where we give somebody some props for an event and let's go for hungry.
[01:12:40.000 -> 01:12:46.320] I'm going for Red Bull just to break that record or equalize it at
[01:12:46.320 -> 01:12:50.640] Hungary or whatever, you know, I understand, right.
[01:12:50.640 -> 01:12:55.400] It's a bit boring that they've won what the first 12, 13 races, whatever it is.
[01:12:56.240 -> 01:12:59.340] But I'm now leaning into it and I'm like, no, I want to see him win them all now.
[01:12:59.360 -> 01:13:01.000] I just want to see how far they can go with this.
[01:13:01.360 -> 01:13:02.440] Fucking complete it, mate.
[01:13:04.400 -> 01:13:08.160] Anything less than a hundred percent is a failure and the team is mid.
[01:13:08.960 -> 01:13:10.200] Yeah, fair enough.
[01:13:10.440 -> 01:13:15.120] I'm giving mine to Pirelli because they did the alternative tire allocation, so
[01:13:15.120 -> 01:13:18.720] they produced less shit tires for this race and it worked out.
[01:13:20.160 -> 01:13:21.000] Yeah, that's fair, right?
[01:13:22.320 -> 01:13:24.120] Save the planet, quit making crap tires.
[01:13:22.560 -> 01:13:28.680] I think that's fair, right? Save the planet, quit making crap tires.
[01:13:28.680 -> 01:13:30.600] What about Spa?
[01:13:30.600 -> 01:13:32.600] Who's your engine mode good boy for Spa?
[01:13:32.600 -> 01:13:39.720] Carrying on with the Red Bull theme, I'm giving it to GP for his, you know, his ability to
[01:13:39.720 -> 01:13:43.040] be that person in the relationship.
[01:13:43.040 -> 01:13:44.040] And he's so patient.
[01:13:44.040 -> 01:13:46.700] Yeah, and just push it out as well as he takes it.
[01:13:47.200 -> 01:13:47.700] Yeah.
[01:13:48.800 -> 01:13:49.500] Fair enough.
[01:13:49.500 -> 01:13:51.800] I'm going to give mine.
[01:13:52.000 -> 01:13:55.500] I know it didn't really work out, but Oscar Piastri's been
[01:13:55.500 -> 01:13:56.600] fucking impressive.
[01:13:57.200 -> 01:13:59.700] And like I feel like now that the car is finally turning a
[01:13:59.700 -> 01:14:02.600] corner, he's able to show that like to be fair, McLaren have
[01:14:02.600 -> 01:14:07.640] been doing an awesome job, but Landando's had some some great runs as well, but castries
[01:14:08.600 -> 01:14:12.280] super impressive super impressive and I want to see nothing more than a
[01:14:13.160 -> 01:14:15.160] McLaren to keep improving their car
[01:14:16.040 -> 01:14:22.960] Because they've got two super talented drivers that deserve a top-notch piece of machinery that is high performance and well balanced
[01:14:25.480 -> 01:14:25.840] But yeah.
[01:14:26.800 -> 01:14:27.040] Yeah.
[01:14:27.720 -> 01:14:27.920] Yeah.
[01:14:27.960 -> 01:14:31.480] Rookie do it as Grim says in the chat, rookie actually doing good with a good
[01:14:31.480 -> 01:14:31.800] charm.
[01:14:31.840 -> 01:14:32.520] Imagine that.
[01:14:33.040 -> 01:14:33.400] Yeah.
[01:14:33.480 -> 01:14:34.400] Imagine that.
[01:14:34.520 -> 01:14:34.920] Yeah.
[01:14:34.960 -> 01:14:38.400] I'm I'm, I think I maybe spoke to you about it the other day or maybe someone
[01:14:38.400 -> 01:14:42.840] else and I was, I was like, who else has impressed as much as Oscar has in their
[01:14:42.840 -> 01:14:43.600] rookie season?
[01:14:44.400 -> 01:14:47.960] And I couldn't really think of anyone until I sort of went back to like
[01:14:47.960 -> 01:14:49.480] Max and Lewis and things like that.
[01:14:50.080 -> 01:14:50.360] Yeah.
[01:14:50.800 -> 01:14:52.320] No, nothing comes to mind.
[01:14:52.360 -> 01:14:53.340] It's not DeVries.
[01:14:53.340 -> 01:14:53.960] That's for sure.
[01:14:58.000 -> 01:15:02.320] So why don't we, um, what are you doing for you?
[01:15:02.360 -> 01:15:03.680] Are you, you're going to take a little break?
[01:15:03.680 -> 01:15:07.040] You're gonna be doing any streaming or gaming because we've got a couple weeks of no Formula
[01:15:07.040 -> 01:15:08.040] One.
[01:15:08.040 -> 01:15:12.200] I'm not going to do any podcasts until then.
[01:15:12.200 -> 01:15:16.220] I don't know because work is absolutely slamming me at the moment.
[01:15:16.220 -> 01:15:17.220] You should slam work.
[01:15:17.220 -> 01:15:20.560] I'm thinking, you know, we had this chat the other day, didn't we?
[01:15:20.560 -> 01:15:21.560] Yeah.
[01:15:21.560 -> 01:15:25.200] If I could afford to quit and do this full time, I would.
[01:15:25.200 -> 01:15:26.200] Yeah.
[01:15:26.200 -> 01:15:29.200] Well, basically how much money can you afford to spend on doing this full time?
[01:15:29.200 -> 01:15:30.200] Cause that's what it is.
[01:15:30.200 -> 01:15:31.200] It's not making money.
[01:15:31.200 -> 01:15:32.200] It's burning.
[01:15:32.200 -> 01:15:33.200] Yeah.
[01:15:33.200 -> 01:15:34.200] Well, yes.
[01:15:34.200 -> 01:15:39.720] If you want to be like a successful streamer that earns thousands, then start with millions
[01:15:39.720 -> 01:15:41.200] or however that saying goes.
[01:15:41.200 -> 01:15:42.200] Yeah.
[01:15:42.200 -> 01:15:43.200] Something like that.
[01:15:43.200 -> 01:15:44.200] That's a race car team.
[01:15:44.200 -> 01:15:45.900] I don't know what I'm doing over the shutdown.
[01:15:45.900 -> 01:15:47.800] So who knows?
[01:15:47.800 -> 01:15:50.000] Maybe I might surprise some people with some stuff.
[01:15:50.900 -> 01:15:51.600] I know what we are.
[01:15:51.600 -> 01:15:54.100] Oh, hey, I know what we are doing Friday.
[01:15:54.100 -> 01:15:54.600] Yeah.
[01:15:54.600 -> 01:15:55.700] What are we doing Friday?
[01:15:56.100 -> 01:15:59.500] We're going to be in London at Tomo and Aldous's live event.
[01:15:59.600 -> 01:16:00.400] It's going to be awesome.
[01:16:00.900 -> 01:16:02.100] Matt and Tommy are going to be there.
[01:16:02.100 -> 01:16:03.300] Katie Fairman's going to be there.
[01:16:03.300 -> 01:16:04.300] Tomo and Aldous.
[01:16:04.400 -> 01:16:05.320] Anybody else guests? I'm sure there's going to be there. Katie Fairman is going to be there. Tom and Aldous. Anybody else?
[01:16:05.320 -> 01:16:06.320] Guests?
[01:16:06.320 -> 01:16:08.240] I'm sure there's going to be everybody there.
[01:16:08.240 -> 01:16:12.440] Yeah, I think it's just them and Al so far for some fucking odd reason they've asked
[01:16:12.440 -> 01:16:13.440] us.
[01:16:13.440 -> 01:16:19.840] But hey, maybe me and Matty from P1 can finally unblock each other on Twitter.
[01:16:19.840 -> 01:16:20.840] He can unblock you.
[01:16:20.840 -> 01:16:21.840] Well, yeah, sorry.
[01:16:21.840 -> 01:16:22.840] He can unblock me.
[01:16:22.840 -> 01:16:24.040] Let's be real.
[01:16:24.040 -> 01:16:30.080] I think so. I think so. We can sort this out.
[01:16:30.080 -> 01:16:33.760] Bridges will be built. Yeah, exactly. It's for the greater good.
[01:16:34.320 -> 01:16:42.320] For the greater good. I've got that Friday. So if you're going, do be sure to say hello.
[01:16:42.320 -> 01:16:46.880] And then I'm going to take almost two weeks off and go to Greece.
[01:16:46.880 -> 01:16:51.680] It's my first proper holiday since 2019, so I'm going to enjoy it.
[01:16:51.680 -> 01:16:55.900] And yeah, I'm don't I'm not fucking thinking about Formula One.
[01:16:55.900 -> 01:16:56.900] I'm not taking my laptop.
[01:16:56.900 -> 01:17:01.020] I'm going to take a black notebook and a pen to write down ideas and I'm going to read
[01:17:01.020 -> 01:17:02.020] a couple of books.
[01:17:02.020 -> 01:17:04.480] Like Adrian Newey with your notepad.
[01:17:04.480 -> 01:17:05.680] Yeah, exactly.
[01:17:05.680 -> 01:17:07.440] And I'll just be drawing like kitties.
[01:17:07.960 -> 01:17:09.160] I might do Sterling.
[01:17:09.760 -> 01:17:15.520] I might take over the podcast and kick you out and do like a end of shut down round up of
[01:17:15.520 -> 01:17:18.800] the fucking send it, send it, get a guest on.
[01:17:19.200 -> 01:17:21.440] Yeah, I'll see what Marco is up to.
[01:17:22.040 -> 01:17:22.680] Yeah, exactly.
[01:17:22.680 -> 01:17:26.600] Man, I'll be so pissed if you do that without trying to learn.
[01:17:26.600 -> 01:17:28.440] Yeah, exactly.
[01:17:28.440 -> 01:17:32.320] So you guys do us a favor.
[01:17:32.320 -> 01:17:33.560] Don't forget to support your local butcher.
[01:17:33.560 -> 01:17:37.160] I'm going over to some mates house and I'm pretty sure they bought me at Costco.
[01:17:37.160 -> 01:17:39.040] Not sure that counts, but I'll scold them.
[01:17:39.040 -> 01:17:41.720] Oh yeah, I'll scold them.
[01:17:41.720 -> 01:17:47.280] In the US, Costco has good meat though, or Sam Sam's one of those has really good meat in the US
[01:17:47.280 -> 01:17:51.720] What you said Costa I was like, how does Costa have good meat? It's a coffee shop
[01:17:52.440 -> 01:17:57.540] Costco Costco, sorry. Yeah, I'm with you now. Yeah, everybody's saying Costco has good meat
[01:17:58.680 -> 01:18:00.680] But yeah
[01:18:01.480 -> 01:18:06.000] You guys have a safe if you're if you're observing the Formula One summer holiday,
[01:18:06.560 -> 01:18:13.440] be safe, have fun. Call your parents, tell them you love them, say hi if you can. And yeah,
[01:18:14.000 -> 01:18:14.800] to freaking toot.
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