Podcast: EngineBraking
Published Date:
Tue, 27 Sep 2022 02:04:27 GMT
Duration:
1:34:14
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Episode 4, the boys talk about the upcoming Singapore race and what joyous memories they have from it in the past, then finish up with a Q&A
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**Singapore Preview and Q&A Discussion:**
- The episode begins with a lighthearted conversation about Nicholas Latifi's retirement from Formula One and his contributions to the sport.
- The hosts discuss the upcoming Singapore Grand Prix, expressing excitement about the unique atmosphere and challenges of the street circuit.
- They speculate about potential driver and team performances, mentioning Daniel Ricciardo's strong record in Singapore and the possibility of a resurgence from McLaren.
**News and Rumors:**
- The hosts discuss the recent news of Nicholas Latifi's departure from Williams and the potential candidates to replace him, including Nyck de Vries, Logan Sargeant, and Alex Albon.
- They also mention Yuki Tsunoda's contract extension with AlphaTauri for the 2023 season and praise his entertaining and passionate driving style.
- There is speculation about a potential Honda-Red Bull partnership in the future, given Honda's previous success with the team and their recent decision to return to Formula One as an engine supplier.
**Monaco Grand Prix Extension:**
- The hosts debate the renewal of the Monaco Grand Prix contract until 2025, with differing opinions on the value and excitement of the race.
- One host criticizes the lack of overtaking opportunities and the high costs associated with attending the event, while the other appreciates the unique atmosphere and history of the race.
- They discuss the possibility of changes to the circuit layout or regulations to improve the racing spectacle.
**Tire Blanket Ban in 2024:**
- The hosts discuss the FIA's decision to ban tire blankets from the 2024 season onward, aiming to reduce costs and promote more sustainable practices.
- They acknowledge the potential challenges of racing on cold tires, particularly during qualifying, and wonder if Pirelli, the tire supplier, will be able to develop tires that perform well without blankets.
- They also mention the possibility of extended FP2 sessions to allow teams more time to test and develop their strategies without tire blankets.
**Q&A Segment:**
- The hosts answer questions submitted by listeners on Twitter, covering topics such as the likelihood of a driver strike, the impact of the budget cap on team performance, and the potential for new teams to enter Formula One in the future.
- They also discuss the possibility of a Formula One race in Africa and the challenges of organizing such an event.
**Conclusion:**
- The episode ends with the hosts expressing their enthusiasm for the upcoming Singapore Grand Prix and encouraging listeners to follow them on social media for more Formula One content. **Summary of the Podcast Episode Transcript:**
- The podcast begins with the hosts, Dan, and Blake, discussing the upcoming Singapore Grand Prix and sharing their memories of the race.
- Dan talks about Daniel Ricciardo's infamous quote about his penis, and Blake expresses his desire for some spicy crabs.
- They discuss the ongoing "Silly Season Musical Chairs" in Formula 1, where drivers are negotiating contracts and moving between teams.
- Dan and Blake debate the merits of the Monaco Grand Prix, with Dan calling it "mid" and Blake defending its iconic status.
- Blake's cat makes a surprise appearance during the podcast, adding a touch of humor and chaos to the conversation.
- The hosts address a viewer question about the advantages and disadvantages of Mick Schumacher, son of legendary driver Michael Schumacher, in Formula 1.
- Dan shares an article that compares Mick Schumacher to Max Verstappen, suggesting that Verstappen's success is partly due to his father not being a seven-time world champion like Michael Schumacher.
- The hosts discuss the physical demands of the Singapore Grand Prix, which is known for its hot and humid conditions and challenging street circuit.
- Dan recounts an amusing incident where he was caught wearing shorts in the engineering room during a race session, which is typically reserved for engineers wearing trousers.
- They reveal that the 2015 Singapore Grand Prix was affected by electromagnetic interference caused by metal bridges near the track, leading to telemetry issues for the cars.
- The hosts delve into the infamous 2008 Singapore Grand Prix, also known as "Crashgate," where Renault instructed Nelson Piquet Jr. to crash his car to benefit Fernando Alonso's race.
- They discuss the history of "F1X," a term used to describe controversial incidents or scandals in Formula 1, and encourage listeners to share their knowledge of the oldest F1X scenarios.
- Dan and Blake reminisce about the vibrant street food scene in Singapore, particularly the spicy crab dish, and recommend some local favorites to their listeners.
- They recall the infamous 2017 Ferrari sandwich incident, where two Ferrari cars collided with a teenager in the pit lane, leading to a hilarious tweet from the Ferrari team.
- The hosts share a behind-the-scenes story from the 2016 Malaysian Grand Prix, where a mishap during the packing up of equipment in Singapore resulted in technical issues during the race.
- They discuss the upcoming Singapore Grand Prix in terms of circuit characteristics and potential team performances, with Mercedes expected to be competitive due to the high downforce requirements.
- Dan and Blake make their predictions for the race, with Dan favoring Charles Leclerc for the win, Max Verstappen in second, and George Russell in third, while Blake predicts a Verstappen victory followed by Leclerc and Sergio Perez.
- The podcast concludes with the hosts expressing their anticipation for the Singapore Grand Prix and the potential for entertaining drama and controversies. **Summary of the Podcast Episode**
In this episode of the Engine Breaking podcast, the hosts, Dan and Blake, discuss the upcoming Singapore Grand Prix and share their fond memories of the race. They also answer questions from their listeners, including one about the reliability of control electronics across different teams and another about how many Red Bull cans Dan drank on a race weekend.
**Key Points:**
* Dan mentions that Daniel Ricciardo's penis was once brought up in a conversation with Christian Horner.
* Blake expresses his desire for some spicy crabs.
* The hosts discuss the ongoing Silly Season musical chairs among Formula One drivers.
* They debate whether Monaco is a marvelous or a middling race track.
* Blake's cat makes a guest appearance during the podcast.
**Q&A Highlights:**
* A listener asks about the varying reliability of control electronics across teams despite them all being supplied by McLaren Applied Sciences. The hosts explain that thermal management plays a significant role in the reliability of these components.
* Another listener inquires about Dan's Red Bull consumption during race weekends. Dan reveals that he tended to opt for coffee instead of energy drinks, but he would occasionally enjoy a Red Bull Cola.
* The hosts also discuss the last time they had a Red Bull, with Dan admitting that he has only had two since leaving the Red Bull Racing team.
* A listener asks if it is possible to tell during pre-season testing whether a new car will be a dud or a contender. The hosts explain that it is difficult to make accurate predictions based solely on testing data.
* Another listener wants to know if the expansion of the Formula One calendar to 24 races will lead to an increase in personnel turnover. The hosts agree that it could potentially lead to higher turnover rates and discuss the need for adjustments to the budget cap to accommodate the additional costs associated with a larger calendar.
**Overall Message:**
The podcast provides an entertaining and informative discussion of various Formula One-related topics, including the upcoming Singapore Grand Prix, driver transfers, and the challenges of an expanded race calendar. The hosts also engage with their listeners by answering their questions and sharing their insights and opinions on various aspects of the sport. # Episode 4: Singapore Race and Q&A
## Upcoming Singapore Race
- The hosts, Dan and Blake, express their excitement for the upcoming Singapore Grand Prix.
- They reminisce about past joyous memories at the Singapore race.
## Q&A Segment
### Question 1: Engineers' Role in Fuel Management
- A listener asks about the primary role of a trackside engineer in relation to fuel.
- Blake explains that his job was to manage race fuel, including determining when drivers should push, when they should conserve fuel, and how much fuel they needed to save.
### Question 2: Fuel Management in F1 Manager
- Dan asks Blake how many times he has run out of fuel in the F1 Manager game.
- Blake admits to having one DNF (did not finish) due to fuel mismanagement, specifically with Yuki Tsunoda's car.
## Other Topics Discussed
- Daniel Ricciardo's anatomy is briefly mentioned.
- Blake expresses his desire for spicy crabs.
- The hosts discuss the ongoing "Silly Season" musical chairs in the F1 driver market.
- They debate whether Monaco is a "mid" or "marvellous" race track.
- Blake's cat makes a guest appearance during the podcast.
## Conclusion
- The hosts wrap up the episode by thanking the listeners and encouraging them to leave reviews and comments on Twitter.
- They also mention that they will be uploading gameplay episodes of F1 Manager on Dan's YouTube channel, Break.
- The episode ends with a humorous exchange between Dan and Blake, with Dan telling Blake to "stay fraudulent."
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[02:15.000 -> 02:21.400] You're listening to the most fraudulent F1 podcast with Dan, AKA EngineNord11.
[02:21.520 -> 02:24.400] I secretly moonlight as Helmut Marko at race weekends.
[02:24.680 -> 02:26.920] And Blake, AKA Brake.
[02:26.920 -> 02:29.960] Echo chambers of farts and idiots on Twitter after races.
[02:29.960 -> 02:32.840] It's the Engine Breaking F1 podcast.
[02:38.520 -> 02:39.420] Oh my God.
[02:41.720 -> 02:42.760] How we doing?
[02:42.760 -> 02:48.000] God, we're good, mate, we're good. We are four episodes in. Can you believe it?
[02:48.000 -> 02:50.000] Can't.
[02:50.000 -> 02:54.000] Welcome to the engine breaking podcast, ladies and gentlemen.
[02:54.000 -> 02:56.000] What do we got tonight?
[02:56.000 -> 03:01.000] Yes, welcome to the most fraudulent podcast on the internet.
[03:01.000 -> 03:05.560] Tonight we are going to go with a little bit
[03:05.560 -> 03:07.040] of a Singapore preview.
[03:07.040 -> 03:09.320] And a little bit of a Twitter Q&A
[03:09.320 -> 03:12.840] because we've had to wait two weeks without a race.
[03:12.840 -> 03:17.840] So, you know, we're just filling out stat padding.
[03:17.920 -> 03:20.280] Yeah, I really think, you know,
[03:20.280 -> 03:22.880] the 24 race calendar next year is not enough
[03:22.880 -> 03:28.120] because that means there's too many gaps in the calendar. We need the entire paddock to be completely dead
[03:28.120 -> 03:33.960] inside. We're talking minimum 40 races and I think really that's the place so
[03:33.960 -> 03:37.840] that you know us who have nothing better to do with our lives can sit around and
[03:37.840 -> 03:45.460] watch and talk about Formula One every single week. So welcome. Welcome to the pod. This is
[03:47.180 -> 03:52.580] episode 4 We are hitting us baby. This is us. We're hitting all these short form content now on your Instagram your
[03:53.320 -> 04:00.740] Twitters your YouTube your YouTube shorts your tick tocks are we got our first tick tock going and then every episode
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[04:05.360 -> 04:06.000] every episode we're going to keep those rolling to keep you lunatics and sickos in the loop but
[04:10.800 -> 04:13.840] yep and all you lunatics that want to see our faces by watching it on youtube i can't believe people actually do that it's disgusting freaking freaks
[04:16.160 -> 04:23.600] oh but honestly i i actually enjoyed having a little break off from the races and we're we're
[04:23.600 -> 04:26.360] going out east now and it's Singapore
[04:26.360 -> 04:31.120] next but before we get to the little Singapore preview we've got some news and there's some
[04:31.120 -> 04:35.160] interesting stuff happening in the paddock and it would be rude not to talk about it
[04:35.160 -> 04:36.160] honestly.
[04:36.160 -> 04:48.000] Yeah, so first and foremost this episode is dedicated to Nicholas Latifi, who has sadly announced that he will be leaving us and returning
[04:48.000 -> 04:54.760] back to the homeland to eat his Nutella on the sofa while watching the 2023 season.
[04:54.760 -> 04:57.360] Thanks for everything you've done for us, mate.
[04:57.360 -> 04:58.540] The goat.
[04:58.540 -> 04:59.540] The goat retires.
[04:59.540 -> 05:00.540] Yep.
[05:00.540 -> 05:03.800] Thank you for securing my championship winning bonus last year.
[05:03.800 -> 05:07.360] Cheers, brother. Yep, big yourself up.
[05:07.360 -> 05:12.480] Red Bulls are on the way.
[05:12.480 -> 05:17.760] He managed to fraud himself three years of employment so he's alright in my book.
[05:17.760 -> 05:23.960] That's not bad after what four seasons of F2, six incomplete seasons but four whole
[05:23.960 -> 05:25.000] seasons.
[05:25.620 -> 05:27.880] He got beat by Nick DeVries in the ultimate,
[05:27.880 -> 05:29.780] penultimate or the final season that he competed.
[05:29.780 -> 05:33.220] And then just bought a team or bought a seat in a team.
[05:33.220 -> 05:37.500] But there's a couple, there's a couple gamers in there.
[05:37.500 -> 05:39.020] Here's some amusing trivia.
[05:39.020 -> 05:44.020] If we discount that so-called race of the 2021 SPA,
[05:45.560 -> 05:46.820] in the last five seasons,
[05:46.820 -> 05:48.960] William's best result in a Grand Prix
[05:48.960 -> 05:50.600] belongs to Nicholas Satifi
[05:50.600 -> 05:52.760] when he got seventh in Hungary last year.
[05:52.760 -> 05:54.480] So there you go.
[05:54.480 -> 05:55.460] That's a fake stat,
[05:55.460 -> 05:57.040] just like William's being third
[05:57.040 -> 05:59.440] in the Constructors' Championship in like 2015.
[05:59.440 -> 06:02.360] Those aren't real, those never freaking happened.
[06:02.360 -> 06:03.200] No way.
[06:03.200 -> 06:04.480] Up to the timelines.
[06:04.480 -> 06:11.560] Yeah. Have you been watching a little bit of of a too much of Marvel Cinematic Universe the multiverse of madness Nicholas the TV
[06:12.120 -> 06:16.760] 12-time world champion that's where I pulled this shirt out from make the multiverse
[06:18.240 -> 06:20.520] it's if you're if you're listening to this it's a
[06:21.600 -> 06:27.320] Magnificent specimen of a dad shirt and just a little bit of the the chest for a poppin through love it
[06:27.320 -> 06:30.040] Oh, yeah, oh, yeah. Oh, yeah
[06:30.920 -> 06:33.600] So yeah, Nicholas TV. He's out of there
[06:34.940 -> 06:37.400] We do appreciate everything you've done for us. Yeah
[06:39.880 -> 06:41.980] Former Red Bull regards. Oh
[06:43.480 -> 06:48.560] Jesus who do you think is going in to replace him? Well there's
[06:48.560 -> 06:54.400] this talk about DeVries right and like everybody's shit hot on DeVries after he you know did a
[06:54.400 -> 07:02.240] decent drive in that car but uh who knows it sounds like Alpha Tauri, the good doctor Helmet's
[07:02.240 -> 07:06.800] looking to maybe snag him if Gasly wants to go to Alpine.
[07:06.800 -> 07:11.840] And it seems like they're willing to let Gasly do his thing if they can secure their driver.
[07:11.840 -> 07:18.920] So everybody's gone a little bit super excited about DeVries in a short period of time.
[07:18.920 -> 07:22.040] Some people are talking about Logan Sargent as well, aren't they?
[07:22.040 -> 07:26.000] Colton didn't get the super license point concession, so he's off his card.
[07:26.000 -> 07:28.000] Logan hasn't got the super license points either.
[07:28.000 -> 07:32.000] Not officially, until the season ends in November.
[07:32.000 -> 07:34.000] Okay, so that's actually a gamble.
[07:34.000 -> 07:38.000] So you're going to do one of those super late Checo driver announcements where it's like,
[07:38.000 -> 07:40.000] Hey, guess who's driving? It's me!
[07:40.000 -> 07:46.240] Yeah, and if Nick de Vries' Dunmonds are he's done Monza, more than likely going to do Singapore
[07:46.240 -> 07:47.240] if we're being realistic.
[07:47.240 -> 07:52.360] Why don't you just turn around and say Sod it, why don't you just have the whole seat
[07:52.360 -> 07:53.360] next year?
[07:53.360 -> 07:54.360] Yeah.
[07:54.360 -> 07:55.360] So.
[07:55.360 -> 07:56.360] Interesting.
[07:56.360 -> 07:57.360] Interesting.
[07:57.360 -> 07:58.680] I will get to it.
[07:58.680 -> 08:00.160] Are we getting to Albon later?
[08:00.160 -> 08:01.160] Yeah, sure.
[08:01.160 -> 08:02.160] Why not?
[08:02.160 -> 08:03.160] We'll do that later.
[08:03.160 -> 08:04.160] Because I don't know what's going on.
[08:04.160 -> 08:07.000] But yeah. Nothing's officially been announced.
[08:07.000 -> 08:12.000] No, but we talked about one of the Alpha Tau'ri seats.
[08:12.000 -> 08:13.000] What?
[08:13.000 -> 08:17.000] We've got the big man, Yuki Tsunoda. Confirmed for 23.
[08:17.000 -> 08:28.360] Everyone's favorite sweary man, Yuki. Secured the bag for 2023. Let. Let's go. He's actually a genuinely nice dude. So
[08:28.360 -> 08:32.920] I'm every time we talk, I don't hear anybody say anything bad about Yuki, except he swears
[08:32.920 -> 08:37.880] a lot. But I think it's, it's awesome. I love it. Everyone swears a lot. They just seem
[08:37.880 -> 08:45.800] to specifically clip those sections of Yuki's radio. Like, you listen to anyone's driver radio
[08:45.800 -> 08:48.080] and you think they're about to get out of the car
[08:48.080 -> 08:49.360] and start a fight with you.
[08:49.360 -> 08:50.200] Yeah.
[08:50.200 -> 08:53.280] Like, in F1 Manager, Yuki on his outlap,
[08:53.280 -> 08:54.200] this car's shit!
[08:54.200 -> 08:56.040] I'm like, I guess that they've just, that's all they've-
[08:56.040 -> 08:57.640] That's the first time you've driven it, son.
[08:57.640 -> 08:59.480] Yeah, I guess that's all they've got to work with
[08:59.480 -> 09:00.960] is the audio clips from the track
[09:00.960 -> 09:03.040] and it's just like, Yuki's swearing.
[09:03.040 -> 09:04.200] Yeah, the car's fucking good.
[09:04.200 -> 09:10.080] Okay, fine, Yuki. Okay, okay. But anyway, but anyway. So well done him.
[09:10.080 -> 09:14.840] Right, should we start a random conspiracy? Gone.
[09:14.840 -> 09:20.080] If we get that to sweeten some future Honda deal.
[09:20.080 -> 09:21.440] Ooh.
[09:21.440 -> 09:26.600] Because he has some Honda backing I believe. That's the impression I got.
[09:26.600 -> 09:31.000] You know, because it, yeah, I think Yuki does have some Honda connections.
[09:31.000 -> 09:33.960] I don't, that's not substantiated anyway, but I'm pretty sure he does.
[09:33.960 -> 09:40.860] So maybe that's a little bit of foreshadowing of future Red Bull powertrains collaborations
[09:40.860 -> 09:44.360] in the future after the Porsche deal.
[09:44.360 -> 09:46.000] Somebody got their hand caught in a
[09:46.000 -> 09:50.320] cookie jar and they said, that's too many cookies. We're going to have to end this relationship
[09:50.320 -> 09:51.320] early.
[09:51.320 -> 09:58.280] Yeah, Honda and Christian sat down. They said, it's not you. It's me. They went out, they
[09:58.280 -> 10:03.920] played the field, realized that the grass wasn't greener, and now they are crawling
[10:03.920 -> 10:04.920] back.
[10:04.920 -> 10:05.440] Love it.
[10:05.640 -> 10:09.280] It's like, please, can we have some more?
[10:09.480 -> 10:12.840] But I said this last time, it's like
[10:13.040 -> 10:16.920] the Red Bull Honda thing is so good, it is so good.
[10:17.120 -> 10:20.600] And then, you know, Honda's management decided they wanted out.
[10:20.800 -> 10:22.600] So they're like, OK, fine.
[10:22.800 -> 10:28.040] It's like, why do they keep hopping out when they're on the edge of greatness, you know?
[10:28.040 -> 10:31.160] They're about to get their second driver's championship
[10:31.160 -> 10:33.740] and their first constructors in a while, so.
[10:33.740 -> 10:37.120] But was it not literally one person high up in Honda
[10:37.120 -> 10:39.240] that just said, no, I don't feel like it anymore?
[10:39.240 -> 10:40.080] No.
[10:40.080 -> 10:42.680] While everyone else was just like, what?
[10:42.680 -> 10:44.400] That's usually how those kind of thing goes.
[10:44.400 -> 10:45.760] There's just one person that vetoes it and it sounds like they've had a management change and they're like, actually, just like what? That's usually how those kind of thing goes. There's just one person that vetoes it.
[10:45.760 -> 10:50.760] It sounds like they've had a management change and they're like actually you know what Formula One does sound pretty cool if you guys
[10:50.760 -> 10:52.920] are gonna burn some synthetic fake
[10:53.520 -> 10:57.720] you know stuff in a couple years. Yeah, we're winning. Yeah exactly.
[10:58.560 -> 11:04.960] But change of the guard maybe and a new direction, but that these these auto manufacturers just seem to be jumping in and out of
[11:04.520 -> 11:07.760] The guard maybe, a new direction, but these auto manufacturers just seem to be jumping in and out of motorsport back and forth.
[11:07.760 -> 11:10.560] Formula E, not Formula E. DTM, not DTM.
[11:10.560 -> 11:11.560] Sports cars, no.
[11:11.560 -> 11:12.560] Yes, no.
[11:12.560 -> 11:13.560] I don't know, man.
[11:13.560 -> 11:18.360] But yeah, could be a little Yuki connection, a little foreshadowing of future plans with
[11:18.360 -> 11:22.100] both Alfa Tauri and Red Bull Racing.
[11:22.100 -> 11:26.720] Another conspiracy is Honda considering buying a team? Could
[11:26.720 -> 11:32.800] Honda buy a substantial stake in Afatari to have a works team and then supply engines to Red Bull?
[11:33.760 -> 11:39.120] Yeah, I was always under the assumption, and maybe I got it wrong, but I'm pretty sure Marco said in
[11:39.120 -> 11:45.020] the press years ago that, back when it was Toro Rosso, I'm pretty sure he said,
[11:45.020 -> 11:46.420] look, if anyone gives us enough money,
[11:46.420 -> 11:48.260] they can have the team.
[11:48.260 -> 11:49.860] I don't think they've ever been,
[11:51.920 -> 11:53.820] what's the word I'm looking for?
[11:53.820 -> 11:55.100] Attached?
[11:55.100 -> 11:55.940] Yeah.
[11:57.920 -> 11:59.100] Yeah.
[11:59.100 -> 12:00.200] It's just like one of those things.
[12:00.200 -> 12:02.360] It's like, and I guess nowadays,
[12:02.360 -> 12:04.060] probably with the sister teams,
[12:04.060 -> 12:07.580] with the restrictions on information access and data sharing
[12:08.300 -> 12:13.500] Like I don't know what you could do like does that help them a lot does it not help them to?
[12:14.060 -> 12:15.940] to have a sister team
[12:15.940 -> 12:20.540] Because they're buying your gearboxes and some of your components that you're you know
[12:20.740 -> 12:23.500] Regulated components that you can sell to other teams
[12:24.100 -> 12:25.680] And that's it.
[12:25.680 -> 12:32.440] Yeah, I mean is it more just a place to sit their young drivers?
[12:32.440 -> 12:34.360] Yeah, yeah that's a fair bit.
[12:34.360 -> 12:38.760] You see Mercedes have that, people are like, oh Red Bull have too much control, but then
[12:38.760 -> 12:44.120] you look at Mercedes for example, they're putting their young drivers, Nick, through
[12:44.120 -> 12:46.200] every single one of their teams
[12:46.200 -> 12:50.520] that they supply. Like we said, he's cool. Like Thanos, he's gonna come out with his
[12:50.520 -> 12:55.680] infinity racing glove. Yeah, and he's gonna snap his fingers and I don't know
[12:55.680 -> 12:58.880] what he's gonna do if he snaps his fingers but yeah. But you know that's the
[12:58.880 -> 13:02.200] kind of influence that a works manufacturer has. They run their
[13:02.200 -> 13:08.560] chassis program, they run their engine program, and they've got a lot of young drivers through the young driver program it's like right
[13:08.560 -> 13:13.520] Aston we'll cut you a deal you can get a free engine um stick this guy in your car
[13:14.080 -> 13:21.680] uh well yeah williams yeah so ferrari that's pretty normal we got uh yeah but yeah
[13:21.900 -> 13:23.060] We've got a, but yeah.
[13:24.100 -> 13:25.240] You begin a Haas. Yeah.
[13:25.240 -> 13:30.240] Should we talk about our favorite fraudulent mid driver
[13:31.200 -> 13:33.140] of the last few years?
[13:33.140 -> 13:36.140] And I always get shit for this, but Nico Hulkenberg.
[13:37.080 -> 13:38.640] I love Nico.
[13:40.120 -> 13:43.300] I love him too, but he's 37, man.
[13:43.300 -> 13:46.080] And he's spent two years out of the sport.
[13:47.520 -> 13:50.400] Do you feel like you're physically able to do a whole F1 season?
[13:50.400 -> 13:55.120] No, I went running this afternoon and I gave up after 15 minutes and walked back home.
[13:55.920 -> 13:57.040] There you go, I don't know.
[13:57.040 -> 13:59.040] Hülkenberg.
[14:00.960 -> 14:02.800] He's a lovely guy. Did you work with him?
[14:02.800 -> 14:07.320] Yeah, I was on the opposite car. So I was on Dresta's car and I think he was in and out.
[14:07.320 -> 14:10.480] So Dresta and Perez's car when he was in the team.
[14:10.480 -> 14:13.120] Yeah, I mean, he was like, he was good.
[14:13.120 -> 14:13.960] He was always good.
[14:13.960 -> 14:17.600] Super nice dude switched on, but I,
[14:17.600 -> 14:18.720] it's one of those things like Ferrari,
[14:18.720 -> 14:22.680] you're not unlucky all the time, you know?
[14:22.680 -> 14:25.000] So maybe something was a little bit lacking,
[14:25.000 -> 14:27.060] but he was a solid driver.
[14:28.840 -> 14:29.680] He was-
[14:29.680 -> 14:31.160] Yeah, I just think given the opportunity
[14:31.160 -> 14:33.560] and people out there,
[14:33.560 -> 14:36.500] I think it's better to either A, stick with Mick,
[14:37.520 -> 14:41.360] or just make a play for Danny Rick.
[14:41.360 -> 14:44.320] Yeah, like I feel like if you get Daniel a different car,
[14:44.320 -> 14:47.480] he'll probably be all right, but it sounds at this point like Daniel is
[14:48.340 -> 14:53.000] He's taking a break next season. Yeah, and let's let's be honest, man
[14:53.040 -> 14:56.080] we've talked about it before and people taking the piss but like
[14:56.640 -> 14:59.040] I'm just looking back at some of the results Daniel's
[14:59.640 -> 15:04.940] Usually he's been a lot of second-place finishes around Singapore like a lot of them
[15:04.940 -> 15:05.680] He's been a lot of second place finishes around Singapore like a lot of them
[15:10.720 -> 15:16.440] Bit of a fucking dude, and I'm easy like one to watch this weekend Then no I don't think so not in that car man not in not this Daniel this year not that car this year for him
[15:16.760 -> 15:19.400] Like I don't I don't see the McLaren doing well around there either
[15:20.200 -> 15:25.280] But yeah, well that'll disappoint our high profile McLaren listener.
[15:25.280 -> 15:27.680] Yeah I know, I know. But like it's just...
[15:27.680 -> 15:33.120] I'm not sure that they expect the car to go particularly well around there and I don't think...
[15:33.120 -> 15:38.240] I don't think he's... I don't think the peak honey badger is there for Singapore this year, unfortunately.
[15:38.240 -> 15:43.840] And it's a shame, because he brings something to the table that a lot of the other drivers...
[15:43.840 -> 15:47.000] Like they just don't have in terms of the charisma and how
[15:47.000 -> 15:51.000] how fucking dorky the guy is and I love him for that.
[15:51.000 -> 15:53.000] Massive dong as well apparently.
[15:53.000 -> 15:54.000] Wow.
[15:54.000 -> 15:56.000] Yeah, just in case you want to know that info.
[15:56.000 -> 15:58.000] No I didn't, I didn't actually.
[15:58.000 -> 15:59.000] Danic Fiat told me that.
[15:59.000 -> 16:00.000] Really?
[16:00.000 -> 16:01.000] Yeah.
[16:01.000 -> 16:02.000] Yeah, he did.
[16:02.000 -> 16:06.580] When we went cycling on a team building exercise, we didn't get to share the shower at the same time
[16:06.580 -> 16:09.260] So I didn't I didn't get to witness that but uh, oh
[16:09.260 -> 16:15.960] I've got some video floating around of us on the velodrome and Daniel Ricardo zooming past me on in Grinch and going around this
[16:16.380 -> 16:20.140] 45 degree banking at 40 kilometers an hour. It's pretty dope
[16:21.300 -> 16:25.600] Yeah, so there you go. Danny Rick if you're listening Kvyat told me you've got
[16:25.600 -> 16:34.240] a massive dong because apparently you streaked into Danny Kvyat's changing room once. It's
[16:34.240 -> 16:40.080] the story he told me. Sounds fine, that sounds legit. It sounds like something he would do.
[16:40.080 -> 16:50.760] Yeah it does, it does. Fair enough. So, from massive dongs to massive dongs of tracks, Monaco has managed to blag its renewal
[16:50.760 -> 16:51.760] until 2025.
[16:51.760 -> 16:56.360] W. How do we feel about that?
[16:56.360 -> 16:58.360] Right, so...
[16:58.360 -> 16:59.360] Don't.
[16:59.360 -> 17:00.600] I'll upset a lot of purists here.
[17:00.600 -> 17:01.600] Go on, go on.
[17:01.600 -> 17:02.920] Couldn't give a shit about Monaco.
[17:02.920 -> 17:03.920] Yeah, tell them.
[17:03.920 -> 17:04.920] The cars are too big.
[17:04.920 -> 17:09.620] Yeah, tell them why. The cars are too them why heavy yeah Saturday is the only exciting part
[17:09.620 -> 17:14.480] Sunday's fucking boring yep it's a ball late to work in because there's no
[17:14.480 -> 17:19.560] fucking space yep you don't even get to stay in Monaco you all have to fucking
[17:19.560 -> 17:25.280] sleep in Nice I got to stay in Monaco. Yeah you did because you're fucking important. No I'm not. You
[17:25.280 -> 17:30.960] floored your way into importance. Oh I just had a short 15 minute walk to the circuit my friend.
[17:30.960 -> 17:40.400] Oh fuck off man. No I yeah but that. Did you stay on uh Max's sofa? Nah nah I didn't. No but that's
[17:40.400 -> 17:47.900] that's one of those things like it's a great it's a great, it's a great event, it's a shit race.
[17:48.760 -> 17:51.480] It's such a cool event and like, it's overpriced,
[17:51.480 -> 17:54.200] it's overhyped, but the atmosphere and vibe,
[17:54.200 -> 17:55.800] you don't get anywhere else.
[17:55.800 -> 17:58.280] You know, Abi Dhabi tried to replicate it inside the paddock
[17:58.280 -> 18:00.440] but you're not in a city, you're in a racetrack
[18:00.440 -> 18:02.360] that just happens to have a marina in it.
[18:02.360 -> 18:04.400] Whereas in Monaco, you're actually in a marina
[18:04.400 -> 18:06.660] that happens to have a racetrack built on the street
[18:06.660 -> 18:08.880] through all these super cool places it's been talked about
[18:08.880 -> 18:11.080] in movies, films, and pop culture
[18:11.080 -> 18:13.840] for as long as it's existed.
[18:13.840 -> 18:15.320] But it's a shit race.
[18:15.320 -> 18:19.020] And it would be weird to have a calendar without it.
[18:19.020 -> 18:21.340] But if it disappeared, I don't know if I would miss it.
[18:21.340 -> 18:24.080] But that's the funny thing though.
[18:24.080 -> 18:27.120] So that got announced indirectly.
[18:27.160 -> 18:29.760] They didn't even announce that Monaco got re-signed.
[18:30.040 -> 18:36.640] The FIA or FOM or Formula One or whoever released the 20, uh, 23 calendar ahead
[18:36.640 -> 18:38.280] of time, you know, like here, right.
[18:38.480 -> 18:40.280] Here's the 24 race calendar.
[18:40.280 -> 18:44.000] And people are like, China, maybe.
[18:44.000 -> 18:44.440] Okay.
[18:44.440 -> 18:47.120] And then like, wait, so you guys did a deal with Monaco and they're like, China? Maybe? Okay. And then they're like, wait, so you guys did a deal with Monaco?
[18:47.120 -> 18:48.800] And they're like, oh yeah, about that.
[18:48.800 -> 18:50.160] We forgot. We forgot to do that.
[18:50.160 -> 18:51.200] An hour later they announce it.
[18:51.200 -> 18:53.120] Oh, by the way, Monaco.
[18:53.120 -> 18:55.360] Somebody hit send on that.
[18:55.360 -> 18:56.400] They print it and sent it.
[18:56.400 -> 18:58.880] And then they're like, fuck.
[18:58.880 -> 19:00.400] Did you announce Monaco yet?
[19:00.400 -> 19:01.840] Nah, mate. You? Nah, mate.
[19:02.640 -> 19:04.880] I heard that calendar was sent to the teams
[19:04.880 -> 19:07.180] about two hours before they tweeted it Wow
[19:08.320 -> 19:10.080] there was a lot of
[19:10.080 -> 19:12.120] unhappy people yeah, but
[19:13.120 -> 19:19.320] Anyway, but so we've got only a three-year extension on Monica. What do you what do you think about that?
[19:20.800 -> 19:26.680] Not very long considering we all talk about prestige and history.
[19:26.680 -> 19:30.080] I wonder if it was like a sort of concessions related.
[19:30.080 -> 19:36.160] They've had to negotiate certain conditions for its renewal.
[19:36.160 -> 19:43.400] So we know they used to, they run their own television direction.
[19:43.400 -> 19:44.400] Which was shocking.
[19:44.400 -> 19:45.360] Yes.
[19:47.520 -> 19:48.680] Well, where else is it?
[19:48.680 -> 19:50.680] Oh, they got like this weird advertising deals
[19:50.680 -> 19:52.280] that are specific to Monaco.
[19:52.280 -> 19:53.120] Yep.
[19:53.120 -> 19:54.280] So you end up having, what is it?
[19:54.280 -> 19:59.280] Like a Rolex clock as the official F1 timing.
[20:00.200 -> 20:01.680] And then in the background,
[20:01.680 -> 20:03.720] there's a load of Tag Heuer branding.
[20:03.720 -> 20:05.600] Yeah, that's a weird one.
[20:05.600 -> 20:06.880] Yeah, weird little things like that.
[20:06.880 -> 20:11.840] And apparently it was the cheapest in terms of fees to F1.
[20:11.840 -> 20:12.840] Yeah, I was just-
[20:12.840 -> 20:14.040] I imagine that's changed.
[20:14.040 -> 20:15.480] I was just reading that.
[20:15.480 -> 20:17.400] Oh, we've got- Cat just joined us.
[20:17.400 -> 20:18.400] He's scratching.
[20:18.400 -> 20:20.640] Don't lick your butt on the podcast, please, buddy.
[20:20.640 -> 20:21.160] Thank you.
[20:21.160 -> 20:22.480] No, we'll keep it in though.
[20:22.480 -> 20:23.280] Yeah, okay.
[20:23.280 -> 20:25.280] Um, but yeah. So, I'll keep it in though. Okay But yeah
[20:25.280 -> 20:26.360] so I
[20:26.360 -> 20:28.360] Read was reading that basically are paying like
[20:28.480 -> 20:33.480] Monaco pays like half the fees of all the other tracks that pay and you know, you've got like Pete circuits like Jeddah and stuff
[20:34.440 -> 20:35.520] absolutely
[20:35.520 -> 20:43.040] Literally rapid firing cash at a poem to have their you know race on the calendar and stuff like that. So
[20:43.640 -> 20:46.400] Yeah, I'm I'm happy to see it there and I
[20:46.400 -> 20:50.160] hope we get some more cool events and I'd like to be able to go to a race there.
[20:52.960 -> 20:56.160] Yeah, just to do it once as a dork.
[20:56.160 -> 20:59.520] As like a general punter or do you want to be a blagging paddock?
[20:59.520 -> 21:02.080] No, I'd like to be a dirtbag just chilling.
[21:02.080 -> 21:02.480] Yeah.
[21:02.480 -> 21:03.440] Yeah, yeah, exactly.
[21:04.000 -> 21:05.640] Interesting, interesting. Interesting.
[21:05.640 -> 21:06.640] And then obviously leverage my connections.
[21:06.640 -> 21:12.760] Yeah, I was gonna say, if anyone's listening, they can get us into Monaco Paddock.
[21:12.760 -> 21:13.760] I love the circuit.
[21:13.760 -> 21:14.760] I've never bad mouthed it.
[21:14.760 -> 21:16.800] It's a great race.
[21:16.800 -> 21:28.120] And if no one offers me Monaco Paddock access, then I'd rather shit your man's and clap than
[21:28.120 -> 21:31.240] go and watch a race there, to be honest.
[21:31.240 -> 21:35.600] Honestly, I just know a couple of restaurants and there's a couple of places outside of
[21:35.600 -> 21:37.320] Monaco and one just into Italy.
[21:37.320 -> 21:41.600] So it's like, I'd like to go experience that and take my girlfriend for a nice date.
[21:41.600 -> 21:46.640] The life of a race engineer like a
[21:46.640 -> 21:52.160] slumming senior systems engineers yeah so you you stayed in the porta cabin in
[21:52.160 -> 21:57.200] the in the parking garage man with a sleeping bag I drive in not even allowed
[21:57.200 -> 22:07.640] to stay in the same country oh my goodness oh wait here's a anyway anyway yeah sorry we ran it about Monaco some of us
[22:07.640 -> 22:12.480] are happy some of us aren't and some of us don't know how to feel no points
[22:12.480 -> 22:17.600] points whoever can guess on a postcard how I feel about it I've been quite coy
[22:17.600 -> 22:24.160] about my feelings yeah but but that being said speaking of and I'm hijacked
[22:24.160 -> 22:25.000] this for just a second,
[22:25.400 -> 22:28.700] I have bought tickets to the Monaco Grand Prix.
[22:28.700 -> 22:29.900] I have secured a place.
[22:29.900 -> 22:30.500] Not Monaco.
[22:30.700 -> 22:31.100] Sorry.
[22:31.200 -> 22:31.700] I have bought.
[22:31.700 -> 22:32.600] I was going to say, what?
[22:32.700 -> 22:36.400] I've bought flights to Austin for the Grand Prix.
[22:37.500 -> 22:39.300] I've got a place to stay for the week.
[22:40.200 -> 22:49.680] And I have nothing going on and I am not sure I can find access to the paddock or to the track for
[22:49.680 -> 22:55.280] a reasonable amount of cash. Like three-day admission is insane stupid cash. So I will be
[22:55.280 -> 23:00.720] in Austin for the Grand Prix hanging out. I'm trying to find some connections to do some cool
[23:00.720 -> 23:06.720] content at the track, but if nothing happens, I will be hanging out drinking cold beverages and
[23:07.680 -> 23:09.680] Terry Black's getting some barbecue.
[23:10.200 -> 23:12.200] So, we'll be getting around.
[23:13.200 -> 23:18.160] The 30% of our podcast listeners who are American, which I found out.
[23:18.760 -> 23:23.200] Hello. Hello fellow Americans. Our number one demographic, American.
[23:23.960 -> 23:25.800] Love that. Love that. We love you
[23:25.800 -> 23:33.680] guys. So if any of you can get Blake into the paddock again. Yeah, I had a couple years
[23:33.680 -> 23:38.000] away. I've had what, four years away and I'm ready to go back and feel the pain and smell
[23:38.000 -> 23:45.520] the race fuel. Good vibe, isn't it Austin? Around sort of the, in the town or whatever city. Yeah it's awesome it's so good.
[23:45.520 -> 23:52.120] I've never been myself. No I love the place I would honestly live there if I
[23:52.120 -> 23:55.400] could but it's expensive and I'm a broke ass now that I don't have a real job.
[23:55.400 -> 24:02.480] True true well now we better start sponsoring the doing the advertisement
[24:02.480 -> 24:12.320] for our penis enlargement now I'm only kidding. Yeah. Gotta get that cash. So moving on from I'm very very
[24:12.320 -> 24:16.680] phallic orientated tonight aren't I? Yeah you're getting cancelled bro. What's that about?
[24:16.680 -> 24:27.640] Not sure. Anyway where were we? Tire blankets. 2024 goodbye tire blankets. Is that done? Or is that TBC?
[24:28.480 -> 24:31.040] No, I believe it's done. I think it was part of the
[24:33.620 -> 24:35.620] When the FIA released their
[24:36.160 -> 24:40.160] World Motorsport Council, that's the nonsense. I'm thinking of WMC
[24:41.520 -> 24:44.840] Should we ask yeah, should we ask sterling what he thinks about the time?
[24:44.840 -> 24:49.720] I should because for those are listen on the podcast at the minute Blake's cat
[24:49.720 -> 24:54.040] is currently trying to lick the back of his microphone buddy buddy what do you
[24:54.040 -> 24:58.480] think about tire blankets he thinks they're great and they're a great off
[24:58.480 -> 25:02.840] and they're a great way not to race waste a lot of race fuel so uh that's
[25:02.840 -> 25:06.100] sterling's take on it and if you don't drink the sneak energy, buddy,
[25:06.100 -> 25:08.340] that stuff will send you to the moon.
[25:08.340 -> 25:10.340] 150 milligrams of caffeine for my cat?
[25:10.340 -> 25:11.220] I don't think so.
[25:12.380 -> 25:16.220] No, I actually think ditching tire blankets
[25:16.220 -> 25:18.280] is a bit of a silly idea.
[25:18.280 -> 25:19.120] Yeah, I thought that we'd-
[25:19.120 -> 25:21.580] I don't really see why we should have cars
[25:21.580 -> 25:26.680] going out on track, which are basically effectively driving on ice
[25:26.680 -> 25:28.420] for the first, what, lap?
[25:29.560 -> 25:31.800] So it makes the racing more entertaining, does it?
[25:31.800 -> 25:33.920] Or does it just mean everyone's avoiding a crash
[25:33.920 -> 25:35.480] for the one lap?
[25:35.480 -> 25:37.760] Well, I've heard a couple of arguments,
[25:37.760 -> 25:40.760] and I'm not, after I heard some of the arguments,
[25:40.760 -> 25:43.400] I actually took a step back,
[25:43.400 -> 25:45.680] because the initial take was it's like
[25:45.680 -> 25:49.960] right in qualifying you're going to need several laps you know push push push you're going
[25:49.960 -> 25:54.640] to burn a lot more fuel and let's be honest the race fuel consumption is not a big factor
[25:54.640 -> 25:59.100] in terms of Formula One's footprint in general the logistics and everything else are the
[25:59.100 -> 26:10.900] biggest contributor to that so whether you do know, whether a qualifying run, you can do, you know, out and in fine, or, you know, whether, you know, you have to do three push laps to get the
[26:10.900 -> 26:15.980] tires up to temperature to get a lap in, but who knows. Sterling does not agree. He thinks
[26:15.980 -> 26:25.220] we should ban them because he's a little dork. But get down dork. I think a lot of people are saying,
[26:25.220 -> 26:27.640] take IndyCar for an example.
[26:27.640 -> 26:29.800] It's actually not bad.
[26:29.800 -> 26:32.520] You know, you do have a bigger warmup period,
[26:32.520 -> 26:33.800] you have different strategies.
[26:33.800 -> 26:36.320] And my buddy who's a race engineer,
[26:36.320 -> 26:37.360] he was like, it's interesting,
[26:37.360 -> 26:39.240] because depending on the limitation of the circuit,
[26:39.240 -> 26:40.840] you can have the overcut is more viable
[26:40.840 -> 26:42.240] or the undercut is more viable,
[26:42.240 -> 26:43.720] not like the super tight one
[26:43.720 -> 26:44.960] where like they may or may not work.
[26:44.960 -> 26:50.720] So my initial impression was it's a stupid it's a waste of time but it's up to Pirelli
[26:50.720 -> 26:54.960] to get the compounds right and make them work so that you know when you go out on a stint you're
[26:54.960 -> 27:04.080] not driving on ice for the first lap. Will Pirelli be able to do it in two years? I'm not. That's a
[27:04.080 -> 27:05.280] very interesting question
[27:05.280 -> 27:06.860] and we'll wait and see what they come up with.
[27:06.860 -> 27:08.200] But at the end of the day,
[27:08.200 -> 27:11.560] you're just gonna have a lower performance tire overall.
[27:11.560 -> 27:13.660] I think, I'm not entirely sure on that,
[27:13.660 -> 27:15.500] but I'm pretty sure that's how that works.
[27:15.500 -> 27:17.540] Like you'll have to have it, have a bigger window,
[27:17.540 -> 27:19.480] thus a lower overall performance.
[27:20.420 -> 27:23.480] But does it matter if all the cars get slower
[27:23.480 -> 27:24.320] by the same margin?
[27:24.320 -> 27:26.160] I'm not sure.
[27:28.720 -> 27:30.380] Yeah, well the good news is
[27:33.920 -> 27:34.640] this year the Japanese and the US Grand Prix are going to have
[27:39.200 -> 27:40.040] P2 extended to 90 minutes for Pirelli to do some testing for this future
[27:46.840 -> 27:48.400] tire blanketless. So we're actually going to see them running Sands tire warmers on some Pirelli rubber in these sessions.
[27:48.400 -> 27:51.160] I believe it's been extended, question.
[27:51.160 -> 27:53.400] I believe it's been extended for this purpose,
[27:53.400 -> 27:55.400] for Pirelli to do some initial testing.
[27:55.400 -> 27:56.480] Yeah.
[27:56.480 -> 27:57.880] And then apparently next year,
[27:57.880 -> 28:00.080] I don't know if this is officially confirmed,
[28:00.080 -> 28:03.480] but next year all of FP2 is gonna be 90 minutes.
[28:03.480 -> 28:04.320] Interesting.
[28:05.080 -> 28:05.920] What's your take? I honestly, I hate watching FP2 is going to be 90 minutes. Interesting. Uh, what's your take?
[28:05.920 -> 28:09.840] I honestly, I hate watching FP2 when it's that long.
[28:09.840 -> 28:12.400] I literally, it bores the shit out of me.
[28:12.400 -> 28:15.320] When I watch FP2, I want to watch, right,
[28:15.320 -> 28:17.880] let's go medium tire, a couple laps,
[28:17.880 -> 28:19.680] fill out the car, do some setup changes,
[28:19.680 -> 28:21.200] soft tire, a couple laps,
[28:21.200 -> 28:24.640] and then let them get maybe barely eight laps
[28:24.640 -> 28:25.880] on a high fuel run to get
[28:25.880 -> 28:31.020] a fuel for the race and then you have all these people making all these mistakes no
[28:31.020 -> 28:35.560] names Ferrari in the race with their strategy and their pace predictions on different tires
[28:35.560 -> 28:39.980] and we have well that's not good because it's just for you know it's Ferrari messing up
[28:39.980 -> 28:44.540] more often than not which is bad but I think it does add variability throughout that's
[28:44.540 -> 28:48.720] only accentuated because it's just Red Bull and Ferrari up at the top and Mercedes
[28:48.720 -> 28:51.880] is like, well, if you guys fuck up, we'll take those points off you for now.
[28:51.880 -> 28:52.880] Yeah.
[28:52.880 -> 28:53.880] Thank you very much.
[28:53.880 -> 28:54.880] Cheers.
[28:54.880 -> 28:55.880] We'll take it.
[28:55.880 -> 28:56.880] Yeah.
[28:56.880 -> 28:57.880] 90 minutes FP2.
[28:57.880 -> 29:06.200] I mean, yeah, I'll take it because when it used to be on in the factory, I used to enjoy sitting
[29:06.200 -> 29:09.200] around doing nothing for 90 minutes.
[29:09.200 -> 29:12.640] And when they brought it back down to 60, I was fuming.
[29:12.640 -> 29:15.360] That's half hour that I lost.
[29:15.360 -> 29:20.360] So yeah, I just don't find them particularly stimulating sessions to watch because there's
[29:20.360 -> 29:21.360] nothing happening.
[29:21.360 -> 29:29.620] You know, it's like, it's you're watching the teams with very little insight into what they're actually doing and you're just making some observations like oh, there's cars driving around the track now
[29:29.960 -> 29:31.960] So yeah, you know make it better
[29:32.200 -> 29:37.480] If they actually had someone on commentary that had experience with run plans and things like that
[29:37.840 -> 29:41.000] so they can actually tell you what the fuck's going on rather than just
[29:41.920 -> 29:45.600] He may be on a push lap. He knows oh he's doing a burnout in the
[29:45.600 -> 29:51.040] garage for some reason why is he doing that his curse system's on fire and there's a fuel bowser
[29:51.040 -> 29:57.760] on fire what what test is that oh my god yeah i don't know but like yeah i just don't i i mute
[29:57.760 -> 30:03.040] the sessions like when i'm doing watch alongs on my stream on twitch uh break on twitch by the way
[30:03.040 -> 30:09.000] live watch alongs on the weekend you gotta get to get that plug in. You got to, but no, you know, like, yeah. And we're, and we're
[30:09.000 -> 30:12.680] actually doing this podcast live over here anyway. So if you're recording next week,
[30:12.680 -> 30:15.800] follow us on Twitter and everything else, and you will know when we're going live and
[30:15.800 -> 30:19.000] then you can watch the podcast on YouTube. And then after you're done watching our beautiful
[30:19.000 -> 30:22.880] faces, you can go back and listen to it. And then if you haven't had enough yet, you can
[30:22.880 -> 30:25.040] go and consume all the short form content
[30:25.040 -> 30:28.400] on Instagram and TikTok and YouTube shorts.
[30:28.400 -> 30:30.440] But I don't know, man.
[30:30.440 -> 30:33.800] I just can't, I can't do 90 minute sessions, bro.
[30:33.800 -> 30:34.620] I'll add to that.
[30:34.620 -> 30:36.640] If you come watch us live,
[30:36.640 -> 30:39.240] I'll put another amazing dad shirt on for you.
[30:39.240 -> 30:42.400] Ooh, I think hook, line and sinker.
[30:42.400 -> 30:44.480] Yeah, if that doesn't get him in, nothing will.
[30:44.480 -> 30:45.040] Nothing will. 50% of the time it works every time. Exactly. Think hook line and sinker. Yeah, if that doesn't get him in nothing will nothing will
[30:46.480 -> 30:51.480] 50% of the time it works every time exactly. It's that shirt by Sex Panther that one
[30:51.480 -> 30:56.700] I think you may have like a sex panther on it somewhere. Oh my god, it is
[30:59.880 -> 31:02.520] My it smells like you want to smell a vision eyes
[31:03.640 -> 31:05.600] disappointment and cigarettes. Yeah
[31:06.280 -> 31:08.720] Old cappuccino. Yeah a
[31:09.440 -> 31:11.440] Diet is that diet coke?
[31:11.560 -> 31:13.560] It is today. Yes. Yeah. Yeah
[31:14.240 -> 31:20.480] Go on go on couldn't couldn't find any rich energy. No, no, no way. So here's here's a good one from uh,
[31:20.480 -> 31:26.080] I saw this article and it was translated from a German publication and it
[31:26.080 -> 31:35.320] was a Ross Braun talking about comparing Mick to Max.
[31:35.320 -> 31:39.600] And the quote was something like, Max's big advantage over Mick is that his father was
[31:39.600 -> 31:44.280] also here in the Netherlands, but he didn't win, wasn't a world champion seven times and
[31:44.280 -> 31:47.080] isn't an icon like Michael in Germany."
[31:47.080 -> 31:49.960] And I read that quote and I was like, I need to go find the whole article.
[31:49.960 -> 31:53.200] And I went and found the article and that was, you know, it wasn't like, you know, a
[31:53.200 -> 31:55.240] couple lines jammed together.
[31:55.240 -> 31:57.560] I was just like, what is this?
[31:57.560 -> 32:00.960] Well, like, is that somebody's take?
[32:00.960 -> 32:03.840] And it's like, that's Ross Brawn that said that.
[32:03.840 -> 32:05.860] I was like, okay, Ross is pretty sound usually,
[32:05.860 -> 32:08.360] but like, so what he's saying is,
[32:09.940 -> 32:14.940] Max's main advantage is that his dad
[32:15.340 -> 32:17.540] wasn't a seven time world champion.
[32:17.540 -> 32:21.040] I was like, or you could just look at their racing career
[32:21.040 -> 32:24.660] and say that Max is probably pretty good
[32:24.660 -> 32:26.080] and Mick's probably not bad but
[32:26.080 -> 32:33.720] his, let's say his trajectory right now is not looking as good, there's still time, but
[32:33.720 -> 32:40.560] I'm just not seeing Mick as a world destroyer and I don't think it has anything to do with
[32:40.560 -> 32:41.560] the pressure.
[32:41.560 -> 32:44.240] And then in the same article he talked about how he was good at dealing with pressure so
[32:44.240 -> 32:48.560] it's like, which one is it? And maybe that was a weird translation or
[32:48.560 -> 32:53.480] something, but I had people in my DMs on Instagram, which is where I shared that, and they were
[32:53.480 -> 32:57.740] like, yeah, absolutely, that's how that works. I'm like, cool, so you should definitely get
[32:57.740 -> 33:03.400] hired as a driver psychologist or something because you've definitely unlocked this and
[33:03.400 -> 33:05.400] that's obviously why
[33:08.400 -> 33:09.360] Mick Schumacher is in a world champion right now or on his way to be
[33:13.880 -> 33:14.920] Yeah, I didn't read all of it. I saw that initial quote and
[33:19.100 -> 33:19.960] Same force as you I was a bit confused why that's come out of Ross Brawn's mouth
[33:24.300 -> 33:24.880] Hmm. I don't know. I'm not really sure what he's actually trying to say there. I think he's a
[33:26.560 -> 33:28.040] Having a senior moment bless him
[33:30.820 -> 33:32.000] Yeah, but that actually like there was somebody
[33:37.140 -> 33:42.680] Somebody slid into my DMS like somebody I don't know which is super weird like if it's Twitter comment But don't send me a DM on Instagram, man. I don't know you and he was like, it's because max isn't very good
[33:42.680 -> 33:47.340] I was like and he went on and elaborating on all this other stuff, and I was like okay
[33:47.720 -> 33:53.240] That's my cue to get off Instagram for the month never again. I'm not sharing any more thoughts on that
[33:53.240 -> 33:55.240] I thought f1 Twitter was bad f1 Instagram is
[33:57.960 -> 34:02.160] Yeah, so everyone can find break on Instagram at break and
[34:03.400 -> 34:07.280] Slip into his DMZ loves loves it please don't let's break
[34:07.280 -> 34:14.880] with three hours but don't offer offer me your best we'll do a segment i'll put up a story later
[34:14.880 -> 34:22.320] on uh your best f1 conspiracy theory like max's shit uh he's just lucky that's not conspiracy
[34:22.320 -> 34:25.920] that's fact oh fine yeah but he's he's washed as well and mid. So yeah mid
[34:29.880 -> 34:35.800] Anyway, should we get should we get on to the Singapore sling the scene preview?
[34:37.560 -> 34:42.600] We don't have fraud watch this week, but we'll just go down we just wanted some backing. Yeah, exactly
[34:43.880 -> 34:45.920] The limbs hips kicked in. Yeah, let's go. I'm about to get some sneak energy and just backing to that. Yeah, exactly. The LEMSIPs kicked in.
[34:45.920 -> 34:46.920] Yeah, let's go.
[34:46.920 -> 34:49.520] I'm about to get some sneak energy and just mainline it.
[34:49.520 -> 34:50.560] Yeah.
[34:50.560 -> 34:54.600] Singapore, last raced in 2019, thanks to COVID.
[34:54.600 -> 34:56.400] 2019, I can't believe it's that long ago.
[34:56.400 -> 34:57.240] It's mental, isn't it?
[34:57.240 -> 34:58.600] I hate you, COVID.
[34:58.600 -> 35:02.360] Yeah, there's gonna be people in here
[35:02.360 -> 35:05.800] or listening to this that weren't even watching F1 when we last
[35:05.800 -> 35:11.280] raced in Singapore. That's cool, that's actually pretty cool. Yeah and if that's
[35:11.280 -> 35:16.400] you, big yourselves up, welcome to your first Singapore event. Welcome!
[35:16.400 -> 35:22.480] It's pretty cool, I like it, I hate driving it in the games because I just
[35:22.480 -> 35:25.300] bounce it off the walls. Yeah, but go on but you know
[35:26.240 -> 35:28.240] So yeah
[35:28.360 -> 35:34.960] Apparently I say apparently it is but to using your expert race engineering background
[35:36.240 -> 35:39.480] You warmed up you ready? Yeah, we're good. Sorry. I just had to fire up
[35:40.280 -> 35:46.000] Why is Singapore regarded as one of the most demanding circuits we visit?
[35:46.000 -> 35:52.000] It's hotter than a sumbitch, man. It's humid, it's hot, lots of corners.
[35:52.000 -> 35:56.000] How many corners are on the track? I don't, like, honestly, I'm a fraud, I don't remember these things.
[35:56.000 -> 36:01.000] There's a lot of corners, it's a super physical street circuit, it's hotter than hell, and it's humid as fuck.
[36:01.000 -> 36:05.120] And that is one of those things where the drivers will tend to lose
[36:05.120 -> 36:10.160] a lot of fluids through perspiration during the event. And uh, it takes it a bit out of you. I
[36:10.160 -> 36:13.680] mean like you do have the benefit of Formula 1 cars do have power steering, whereas like when
[36:13.680 -> 36:18.160] F2 and stuff would race here, they don't have power steering. Those guys, yes their races are
[36:18.160 -> 36:24.880] shorter, but those guys are getting absolutely beasted. But yeah, it is considered one of the
[36:24.880 -> 36:26.600] most demanding circuits on the grid
[36:26.600 -> 36:28.800] specifically for a combination of that.
[36:28.800 -> 36:30.800] Like, Malaysia used to be pretty tough as well.
[36:30.800 -> 36:33.800] Malaysia was a high-speed track in similar conditions,
[36:33.800 -> 36:35.300] often raced during the day.
[36:35.300 -> 36:39.300] Singapore's at night where it's still pretty- it's cooled off a bit, but uh...
[36:39.300 -> 36:39.800] You walk-
[36:39.800 -> 36:40.600] Super humid.
[36:40.600 -> 36:43.600] Yeah, I remember my favorite thing about- not my least favorite,
[36:43.600 -> 36:52.080] but memorable thing about Singapore is you stay in the city, you walk to the track for most people, right? I would wear a
[36:52.080 -> 36:58.560] white t-shirt and my shorts, you know, my team kit shorts. By the time you get to the circuit,
[36:59.840 -> 37:10.160] you need to take another shower because you're sweating so profusely. So I would take a hand towel from the room, I would have to change that shirt as soon
[37:10.160 -> 37:14.720] as I got in and put on my race top, but I would also have to towel down just to get
[37:14.720 -> 37:17.440] all the sweat off of me before that.
[37:17.440 -> 37:22.840] And I remember one particular story where engineers are not allowed to wear shorts during
[37:22.840 -> 37:23.840] sessions.
[37:23.840 -> 37:24.840] I remember this.
[37:24.840 -> 37:26.000] Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know sessions. Ha! I remember this.
[37:26.000 -> 37:28.000] I don't know why, it's a team thing.
[37:28.000 -> 37:30.000] There's other things like certain teams,
[37:30.000 -> 37:33.000] like if you're on the pit wall you have to wear trousers,
[37:33.000 -> 37:35.000] you cannot wear shorts on the pit wall.
[37:35.000 -> 37:37.000] So engineers had to wear shorts.
[37:37.000 -> 37:40.000] And that was just the rules, like just do it.
[37:40.000 -> 37:41.000] Engineers wearing shorts.
[37:41.000 -> 37:42.000] Thanks Jonathan.
[37:42.000 -> 37:47.040] So I remember very clearly clearly once because in between sessions
[37:47.040 -> 37:48.960] I was like, well, it's super hot in here. Yes
[37:48.960 -> 37:51.680] We have an air-conditioned room the air conditioners probably failing in this room
[37:51.680 -> 37:55.620] But I'm gonna go ahead and put my shorts on in between sessions because it's just swampy everybody does it
[37:55.620 -> 38:01.540] So I'd be the first one back into the engineering room and I just drop my trousers change throw some shorts on and continue
[38:01.540 -> 38:09.280] You know debriefing the session and getting on with it, But then for FP2 one day I walk out to the garage not thinking about it and I spend the
[38:09.280 -> 38:16.560] entire session in shorts and I walk back to the office I'm like, oh shit.
[38:16.560 -> 38:21.080] Nobody ever said anything to me because I'm, you know, good break so nobody, I don't do
[38:21.080 -> 38:24.120] bad things but I never got bollocked for that so that was good.
[38:24.120 -> 38:26.360] But it's hot.
[38:26.360 -> 38:27.840] The Blake Goodboy Award.
[38:27.840 -> 38:30.240] Oh my god.
[38:30.240 -> 38:33.440] Never gets in trouble with HR.
[38:33.440 -> 38:38.280] Never got in trouble with Jonathan for wearing shorts instead of trousers.
[38:38.280 -> 38:41.120] It's probably because I've got really nice calves.
[38:41.120 -> 38:43.000] Maybe, maybe he enjoyed looking at them.
[38:43.000 -> 38:44.000] Who knows?
[38:44.000 -> 38:45.000] I don't know.
[38:45.000 -> 38:52.960] 23 corners in answer to your previous question, thanks to the power of Wikipedia.
[38:52.960 -> 38:54.400] Google it.
[38:54.400 -> 38:58.440] And Kevin Magnuson holds the record still from 2018.
[38:58.440 -> 38:59.440] Race lap, or quali lap.
[38:59.440 -> 39:00.440] Yeah, race lap record, yeah.
[39:00.440 -> 39:01.440] Is he alright?
[39:01.440 -> 39:02.440] K-Mag.
[39:02.440 -> 39:03.440] Suck my balls.
[39:03.440 -> 39:09.200] Classic K-Mag. Suck my balls. Classic K-Mag.
[39:09.200 -> 39:17.840] Deary me. And yeah so here's a little bit of fun trivia for you. When in 2015 was
[39:17.840 -> 39:21.860] you did you go there for 2015? Yep yeah it was my first year at Red Bull. So
[39:21.860 -> 39:28.240] apparently there was this quirky little issue where I think it was around turn 17.
[39:28.240 -> 39:30.220] It's the metal bridge.
[39:30.220 -> 39:33.680] It's the old iron, wrought iron bridge
[39:33.680 -> 39:36.080] in second and third sector, yep.
[39:36.080 -> 39:37.520] So when the cars went over it,
[39:37.520 -> 39:40.400] apparently there was loads of weird signal distortion.
[39:40.400 -> 39:41.240] Yep.
[39:41.240 -> 39:43.120] And they could never figure out what it was.
[39:43.120 -> 39:45.060] Apparently it was, some people said it was
[39:49.700 -> 39:50.320] The electrical lines were too close to the surface under the road or whatever bridge whatever
[39:52.680 -> 39:56.360] Train lines other than I do we had to deserve a locker I don't remember talking about that after the first couple years because I remember
[39:56.760 -> 40:02.920] It was a topic where there's like a shitload of electrical interference, and you definitely definitely would often have sketches with telemetry
[40:02.920 -> 40:05.640] But yeah, there was issues with like you know
[40:06.680 -> 40:08.680] hydraulics system
[40:09.320 -> 40:13.440] Hydraulics sensors going haywire and like you know you don't want to be
[40:14.080 -> 40:18.160] upshifting during a you know for one of your clutch position or gear shift barrels is uh
[40:18.360 -> 40:24.480] Not in the right spot because that that translates to a boom a big big big bout of boom I
[40:25.480 -> 40:26.720] Don't remember. I don't remember that.
[40:26.720 -> 40:27.880] Like I remember talking about it
[40:27.880 -> 40:29.580] and then like down the road,
[40:29.580 -> 40:33.320] maybe when they switched to a different telemetry system,
[40:33.320 -> 40:34.160] that wasn't an issue.
[40:34.160 -> 40:35.040] But if it was, you know,
[40:35.040 -> 40:37.400] interfering with sensors on the car,
[40:37.400 -> 40:40.560] that's a pretty serious, you know,
[40:40.560 -> 40:44.080] like a pretty serious electromagnetic interference.
[40:44.080 -> 40:44.900] But that's weird.
[40:44.900 -> 40:45.460] But it was that,
[40:45.460 -> 40:48.860] it's whatever the big old iron bridge is.
[40:48.860 -> 40:50.180] Anderson Bridge?
[40:50.180 -> 40:51.540] Don't know, don't know.
[40:52.500 -> 40:54.060] Are you looking at a map right now?
[40:54.060 -> 40:55.500] Maybe.
[40:55.500 -> 40:56.760] I have no idea, bro.
[40:59.200 -> 41:01.660] So yeah, that was a fun little thing
[41:01.660 -> 41:02.980] for those of you that are new,
[41:02.980 -> 41:08.880] that may not know that little amusing bit of trivia and apparently they had to reinforce parts of
[41:08.880 -> 41:12.920] the car with electromagnetic shielding or something.
[41:12.920 -> 41:19.360] Basically some speed ballast. Tin foil. Tin foil hats oh my god.
[41:19.360 -> 41:26.440] They put some tin foil hats on the cars to protect them it could protect it from f1x ed
[41:27.800 -> 41:29.000] exactly
[41:29.000 -> 41:30.360] that's a
[41:30.360 -> 41:35.860] That's an interesting one that that'll take us back. We'll just hop on that one the original
[41:36.800 -> 41:43.120] Tinfoil hat that didn't actually wasn't actually tinfoil hat it was actually a thing does any does everybody know about?
[41:44.200 -> 41:46.800] 2008 Singapore aka
[41:47.520 -> 41:49.520] Renault crash-gate
[41:49.640 -> 41:56.820] Featuring original the original f1 extra fix. How do you pronounce it? I just say fixed. I say f1 xt
[42:00.760 -> 42:05.180] But uh yeah Nelson PK jr. Was instructed to
[42:05.920 -> 42:14.040] Shunt the car so flanzo could could win and then uh after he got let go from the team and Hungarian Grand Prix in 2009
[42:14.040 -> 42:22.200] He fucking sold him out. Yeah, just went straight to like was it the FIA or the press which is our bottle air crashed on purpose
[42:22.200 -> 42:27.400] Yeah, the flip Flavio made me do it So Flavio got what a couple years banned
[42:29.720 -> 42:36.100] That that blows my mind that like that could happen and you could be involved in that level of sports fixing and then there's all
[42:36.100 -> 42:38.100] The lads on the yachts in Monaco. It's like a
[42:38.480 -> 42:40.780] Domenicali flavor wave Christian
[42:42.920 -> 42:46.760] All the other lads it's like guys, you guys are icons of the sport.
[42:46.760 -> 42:48.400] Thank you so much for all your contributions,
[42:48.400 -> 42:50.320] including Crashgate 2008.
[42:50.320 -> 42:54.080] But yeah, those new fans don't know about that,
[42:54.080 -> 42:56.960] but you know about the real F1 X.
[42:56.960 -> 42:57.800] That is the original.
[42:57.800 -> 42:59.560] 2008 Crashgate.
[42:59.560 -> 43:02.520] If you're new to the sport, go look that up.
[43:02.520 -> 43:04.880] And there's some funny footage as well.
[43:04.880 -> 43:05.280] I'm not sure if it was the, to the grid formation lap, that up. And there's some funny footage as well, I'm not sure if
[43:05.280 -> 43:11.560] it was the to the grid formation lap or maybe it was in practice, but he's actually practicing
[43:11.560 -> 43:14.080] spinning out on that corner.
[43:14.080 -> 43:15.080] No.
[43:15.080 -> 43:19.880] It's like an identical style crash that he rehearses, obviously not hitting the wall.
[43:19.880 -> 43:20.880] Yeah, it's like right.
[43:20.880 -> 43:21.880] He knows what to do.
[43:21.880 -> 43:24.680] Just get a bit closer, mate. Not this time, but like we'll get ready for that.
[43:24.680 -> 43:25.440] Yeah. It's like right. He knows what to do. Just keep it closer mate. Not this time, but like we'll get ready for that.
[43:27.440 -> 43:27.600] Yeah, it's uh, it's wild.
[43:31.680 -> 43:32.560] For any of our podcast listeners, the super savvy ones, you know, you're the kind of
[43:36.880 -> 43:37.360] dude that will, anybody talks about you to Formula 1, you tell them I've been watching since the 80s
[43:40.960 -> 43:41.440] um, and you obviously know everything all the way back to the 50s. So if any of you guys are listening
[43:44.240 -> 43:46.000] leave us a, leave us a little comment on Twitter, let us know what the oldest
[43:46.000 -> 43:47.600] Yeah, you're fucking nerds.
[43:47.600 -> 43:53.920] Yeah, the oldest F1-ixt scenario you can think of. We've gone only back to 2008, that's not
[43:53.920 -> 43:58.320] that long ago really, that's like what, I still feel like 2008 was like four years ago.
[44:01.440 -> 44:04.800] How old was you in 2008? Here you go, this is what's gonna make you feel old.
[44:05.520 -> 44:06.520] I was 23. Was you feel old. I was 23.
[44:06.520 -> 44:09.120] Was you? Okay, I was 20, so...
[44:09.120 -> 44:10.120] Yeah.
[44:10.120 -> 44:11.120] We're not that far apart.
[44:11.120 -> 44:12.120] No.
[44:12.120 -> 44:18.920] But yeah, we need to, uh, we need to, we need to find the original F1X, so if any of you
[44:18.920 -> 44:22.560] dorks, uh, let us know. Let us know what the original fixed was.
[44:22.560 -> 44:25.240] The Prost and Senna crash was probably
[44:27.080 -> 44:29.320] quite controversial, wasn't it, I suppose.
[44:29.320 -> 44:33.780] And there was the, was it Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill?
[44:33.780 -> 44:35.940] Yeah, that was that shunt we had.
[44:35.940 -> 44:37.300] Yeah.
[44:37.300 -> 44:38.700] Yeah.
[44:38.700 -> 44:39.540] But like all these people coming into this-
[44:39.540 -> 44:42.280] There's weird things that definitely happened in the past.
[44:42.280 -> 44:43.640] But like people coming into the sport
[44:43.640 -> 44:46.000] and like upset about last year. It's like coming into the sport and like upset about last year.
[44:46.000 -> 44:48.000] I get why people are upset about last year. You should probably be upset about last year.
[44:48.000 -> 44:50.000] Because, you know,
[44:50.000 -> 44:52.000] they've highlighted that to themselves.
[44:52.000 -> 44:54.000] But, this stuff, this isn't new.
[44:54.000 -> 44:56.000] This is not new.
[44:56.000 -> 44:58.000] There's too many peanuts to play for
[44:58.000 -> 45:00.000] and people will do
[45:00.000 -> 45:02.000] a lot of weird stuff. But, anyway.
[45:02.000 -> 45:04.000] Anyway.
[45:04.000 -> 45:05.280] What else we got about Singapore?
[45:06.800 -> 45:08.620] This is actually, if anybody's listening,
[45:08.620 -> 45:11.080] this is a racetrack that I would love to go back to
[45:11.080 -> 45:12.980] because the street food is awesome.
[45:12.980 -> 45:14.760] The circuits, you know, the race is at night.
[45:14.760 -> 45:17.720] So when you're done at the race, you're going out.
[45:17.720 -> 45:19.920] And so let's say it was like Saturday night qualifying,
[45:19.920 -> 45:22.480] you go back, you have a shower, you go out.
[45:22.480 -> 45:24.500] It's like F30 in the morning.
[45:25.280 -> 45:30.080] And then you're going to like, you know down to get some street food and like everything's like just shutting up and
[45:30.560 -> 45:35.960] Everybody's pissed coming out of the bars and everything else and you're just like I'm looking for a couple beers and everybody's like already on
[45:35.960 -> 45:40.160] One because you've been at the track for several hours after qualifying was over and then got back and showered
[45:40.240 -> 45:46.540] But honestly Singapore is a spectacular event. I have a big soft spot for cheap,
[45:46.540 -> 45:49.340] shitty street food and dim sum.
[45:49.340 -> 45:51.880] Yeah, this raises a good question, actually.
[45:51.880 -> 45:53.420] We've had a few questions from people
[45:53.420 -> 45:55.020] and we will go through them in a bit,
[45:55.020 -> 45:56.060] but while you're on the topic,
[45:56.060 -> 45:57.180] there were a few questions
[45:57.180 -> 45:59.060] from people that are going out there.
[45:59.060 -> 45:59.900] Ooh.
[45:59.900 -> 46:00.740] For recommendations.
[46:00.740 -> 46:05.000] Now, my sort of recommendation, Orchard Towers is, you know.
[46:07.160 -> 46:08.340] Don't take your kids.
[46:08.340 -> 46:10.340] Yeah, don't take your kids to that one.
[46:11.980 -> 46:15.020] Yeah, you got any favorite places you can recall?
[46:15.020 -> 46:17.420] What were the food halls or the food courts called?
[46:17.420 -> 46:18.660] Like where all the street foods,
[46:18.660 -> 46:20.940] oh my God, I can't think of the name right now.
[46:20.940 -> 46:23.180] There was some alleys, Clark Keys,
[46:23.180 -> 46:25.240] a bunch of clubs and bars. That was fun.
[46:25.600 -> 46:33.520] There's, I remember what year was that? 2014 or 15. I went out with our senior
[46:33.520 -> 46:38.880] tire engineer from Force India. It was just me and him. Super nice dude. And
[46:39.440 -> 46:42.720] we're like walking around looking for this Japanese restaurant that his friend
[46:42.720 -> 46:47.860] recommended him. And we ended up going in a really really dodgy shopping mall
[46:47.860 -> 46:49.560] which you know everything in the shopping mall is closed
[46:49.560 -> 46:51.760] there's like a lot of adult stores and that
[46:51.760 -> 46:53.960] and then ultimately we get up to like the fifth floor
[46:53.960 -> 46:55.680] and then around this corner of this dark alleyway
[46:55.680 -> 46:57.760] there's this like really nice Japanese restaurant
[46:57.760 -> 47:01.120] and we have a great meal and it's like you know 12 30 at night
[47:01.120 -> 47:04.160] I was like this is this is bizarre
[47:04.160 -> 47:07.120] the street food is good. There is a one
[47:07.120 -> 47:12.800] Michelin star noodle place somewhere that some of the guys went to one year that was
[47:12.800 -> 47:18.480] awesome. And then, uh, apparently what is it? The crap? What's the crab? You know, I'm talking
[47:18.480 -> 47:25.360] about the Singapore, the, um, Oh, come on. The spicy crab. It's a local specialty
[47:25.680 -> 47:28.600] And then you get from Orchard Towers and no not crabs
[47:28.600 -> 47:34.200] It's a singular large crab, but not the the Orchard Tower. No, it's it's a crab from
[47:36.000 -> 47:40.080] For you were saying you forgot that a word for lobster no no it's um I
[47:42.360 -> 47:50.380] If anybody's right spicy spicy crab the local crab thing just google it I'm googling right now. Oh, where's my keyboard anyway?
[47:53.280 -> 47:55.280] Singapore spicy crab
[47:59.600 -> 48:05.580] Chili crab chili crab yeah, that's like that's like a local thing is chili crab so in a poor chili crab
[48:05.580 -> 48:10.600] You've got it. You've got to get that you've got to hit some find some street food get some dim sum
[48:11.240 -> 48:14.460] Check out the food courts have a blast have fun
[48:15.160 -> 48:19.140] Local crab thing is now in somebody's search history. Thanks. Thanks Bob
[48:20.760 -> 48:27.700] Can you get crabs in Singapore hmm spicy ones yes anyway, what else we got about Singapore?
[48:28.760 -> 48:30.360] infamous
[48:30.360 -> 48:32.360] 2017 oh
[48:32.560 -> 48:38.300] the Ferrari sandwich the the to the two Ferraris and a teenager involved in a
[48:39.040 -> 48:43.840] young Maxwell staffers in the middle of the receiving end of two elderly gentlemen oh
[48:45.840 -> 48:50.760] Jesus oh In the middle of the receiving end of two elderly gentlemen. Oh Jesus. Oh my God. And then Ferrari's tweet is still up about that.
[48:50.760 -> 48:51.760] How does that tweet go?
[48:51.760 -> 48:54.720] It's like this is not, you know, this is a description of factual events.
[48:54.720 -> 48:55.720] It's not up for speculation.
[48:55.720 -> 48:58.760] I'm like, and they've left that one in.
[48:58.760 -> 49:02.760] They full sent, they sent F1 Twitter.
[49:02.760 -> 49:03.760] They set it alight.
[49:03.760 -> 49:04.760] They set it on fire.
[49:04.760 -> 49:08.060] Oh yeah. They sent f1 Twitter. They set it alight. They set it on fire. Oh, yeah, that was that was like one of the original og
[49:09.080 -> 49:12.760] Copy pastors that was yeah, was that not a wet race start as well
[49:13.980 -> 49:16.880] It was wet going into drawing. I believe okay
[49:16.880 -> 49:17.240] Yeah
[49:17.240 -> 49:23.500] but like speaking of speaking of then we might have a little bit of weather this weekend, so that was a
[49:24.200 -> 49:25.760] Moist grid and we could have some moist bit of weather this weekend. So that was a moist grid
[49:25.760 -> 49:28.080] and we could have some moist Saturday,
[49:28.080 -> 49:30.200] Sunday action this year as well,
[49:30.200 -> 49:35.160] which is gonna make for a pure fucking chaos in Singapore.
[49:35.160 -> 49:39.320] Oh my God, I'm thriving on chaos and instability
[49:39.320 -> 49:40.760] right now in racing, so.
[49:42.960 -> 49:47.720] Yeah, so what else have we got?
[49:47.720 -> 49:55.120] 2008 Crashgate, the famous Ferrari shunt of 2017.
[49:55.120 -> 50:00.360] There was, I was going to say there was 2016.
[50:00.360 -> 50:04.000] So in 20, this is not well known, obviously.
[50:04.000 -> 50:07.500] So here you go. Here's one of my tales from behind the curtain.
[50:07.500 -> 50:08.500] Oh my god.
[50:08.500 -> 50:09.800] You're gonna like this.
[50:09.800 -> 50:11.000] Let's just do a segment for this one, honestly.
[50:11.000 -> 50:12.000] You may remember this one.
[50:12.000 -> 50:14.000] Go on.
[50:14.000 -> 50:16.000] Was you out in Malaysia for 2016?
[50:16.000 -> 50:17.000] Yeah, boy.
[50:17.000 -> 50:20.000] Okay, you might be familiar with this, if you can recall.
[50:20.000 -> 50:28.360] So, some genius, during the pack-down of Singapore 2016 2016 left all the racks out in the pit lane
[50:28.360 -> 50:34.200] and then there was like this torrential monsoon rain like they get.
[50:34.200 -> 50:42.200] So some genius decided not to tell anyone that all these racks were now soaking wet.
[50:42.200 -> 50:45.280] They got packed into air freight or whatever it was.
[50:45.280 -> 50:48.240] It was definitely air. If it was IT racks, it was air freight for sure.
[50:48.240 -> 50:54.800] Yeah. Then they decided, well, as it, when they were up in the air, they're sort of condensate in,
[50:55.600 -> 51:00.640] recondensate in, evaporating, you know. So by the time they got out in Malaysia,
[51:01.280 -> 51:07.800] everything was rusted to fuck. They booted up the racks, like half of the kit worked,
[51:07.800 -> 51:10.240] everything else just blew instantaneously.
[51:11.240 -> 51:15.960] So Malaysia 2016, the race where we took a one-two
[51:16.820 -> 51:19.640] with, who was it at the time in 2016?
[51:19.640 -> 51:21.040] It'd have been Max and Daniel, wouldn't it?
[51:21.040 -> 51:22.240] Yeah, that was a good race.
[51:22.240 -> 51:28.440] Yeah, that whole event in Malaysia was run on like hope and a prayer in terms of all
[51:28.440 -> 51:30.440] the servers and kit in the background.
[51:30.440 -> 51:38.360] I remember having to pull like nearly a 48 hour shift in Mjolnir Kings in the ops room,
[51:38.360 -> 51:43.880] just waiting for things to start blowing up and doing what I can remotely to fix it.
[51:43.880 -> 51:46.940] Backup plan, reboot, fire fire it up finger blast it from
[51:46.940 -> 51:52.700] across the ocean oh my god dude that's my happy Singapore memory yeah it wasn't four
[51:52.700 -> 51:56.320] floors than I got him but yeah that's dude that's one of those things like those pack
[51:56.320 -> 52:02.740] downs if it pisses down so don't put them trouble don't put the racks in the pit lane
[52:02.740 -> 52:08.080] until no but you know what these things happen I'm sure they haven't done it since then
[52:08.720 -> 52:13.600] But yeah, no, they just dropped off a forklift, but that'll be that that'll be we'll talk about that another day
[52:14.160 -> 52:19.920] Yeah, so here's here's something that we we've talked about before I think we'll both have some predictions for this event
[52:20.400 -> 52:22.400] but before we get to predictions
[52:22.640 -> 52:24.960] This is another one of those high downforce circuits
[52:24.960 -> 52:25.080] You will put the biggest dirtiest nastiest rear wing barn door that you can on the car to go But before we get to predictions, this is another one of those high downforce circuits.
[52:25.080 -> 52:29.040] You will put the biggest, dirtiest, nastiest rear wing barn door that you can on the car
[52:29.040 -> 52:32.400] to go as fast as hell through the corners.
[52:32.400 -> 52:37.920] Mercedes have done very well in Hungary, albeit Ferrari had a bit of a shit fight and Max
[52:37.920 -> 52:47.400] didn't get a lap in, but Mercedes did, George did put it on pole there. That sounds weird to say that out loud hungry
[52:48.600 -> 52:51.560] Sorry, I lost you for a second there. Okay. I just said
[52:52.280 -> 52:53.380] hungry
[52:53.380 -> 52:54.520] Russell
[52:54.520 -> 52:59.700] Mercedes yeah, yeah, and like that sounds weird to say I was like wait Russell got a pole this year
[53:00.760 -> 53:05.000] Question yeah, I forget that too. Yeah. Yeah.
[53:05.000 -> 53:07.640] Kind of like Williams finishing third in the constructors championship in 2015.
[53:07.640 -> 53:10.320] I don't know why that keeps coming back up.
[53:10.320 -> 53:12.080] That just blows my mind, man.
[53:12.080 -> 53:17.160] So Mercedes have gone well in low fuel pace at Zandvoort.
[53:17.160 -> 53:19.280] They've gone well in low fuel pace at Hungary.
[53:19.280 -> 53:21.000] Two low down four circuits.
[53:21.000 -> 53:24.060] Now we're coming up on Singapore.
[53:24.060 -> 53:25.440] People are gassing them up
[53:25.440 -> 53:31.840] and I'm I'm thinking they will be closer because we've got like for example at
[53:31.840 -> 53:36.400] Spa and Monza the temple of speed and the the temple of almost cancelled race
[53:36.400 -> 53:41.060] for the future yeah Red Bull Ferrari were quick in a
[53:41.060 -> 53:44.720] straight line Red Bull surprisingly not the fastest in a straight line around
[53:44.720 -> 53:45.320] Monza.
[53:45.320 -> 53:48.480] They put a little bit of a rear wing on the car
[53:48.480 -> 53:49.320] there for the race.
[53:49.320 -> 53:50.140] Which, uh.
[53:50.140 -> 53:53.280] Yeah, I wonder if that's because the lower downforce wing.
[53:53.280 -> 53:57.280] Did you see the DRS actuator kept imploding on it?
[53:57.280 -> 53:58.600] So I wonder if they had to revert
[53:58.600 -> 54:01.400] to a more reliable design for that.
[54:01.400 -> 54:03.720] Ooh, that's an interesting point.
[54:03.720 -> 54:06.240] Because when you look back at it, it looks like
[54:06.240 -> 54:09.120] they did something quite clever because actually putting a little bit more downforce on the
[54:09.120 -> 54:11.120] car, they had great traction.
[54:11.120 -> 54:17.040] The Red Bull did go quite well around Monza with a higher downforce package and Ferrari
[54:17.040 -> 54:19.360] didn't really have an answer in terms of tire degradation.
[54:19.360 -> 54:29.520] So Mercedes, are they going to go well or not in Singapore? I think they will go better than they did in Monza.
[54:29.520 -> 54:30.520] But I'm, unless-
[54:30.520 -> 54:32.520] It wins too far.
[54:32.520 -> 54:35.320] Yeah, I think your beard's safe, honestly mate.
[54:35.320 -> 54:42.480] Unless, unless we've got a, you know, another redhead sandwich on a 24 year old Max Verstappen.
[54:42.480 -> 54:43.480] Carlos and Charles.
[54:43.480 -> 54:44.480] Yeah, exactly.
[54:44.480 -> 54:46.160] Slamming into Max at and Charles. Yeah, exactly. But they're all- Slamming into Max at the start.
[54:46.160 -> 54:50.480] Yeah, exactly. It's like, guys, you can go to the club afterwards and slam on whoever you want,
[54:50.480 -> 54:56.320] but let's, let's, it's a wet race. Imagine that. Imagine that. I don't want to manifest this, but
[54:56.320 -> 55:04.240] another moist grid start and a DNF turn one. Well, if that happens, then it's all your
[55:04.240 -> 55:06.160] fucking fault, isn't it, really? I've just said it.
[55:06.160 -> 55:12.080] You've willed this into existence. I said it. I'm also careless and I thrive on chaos right now so.
[55:12.720 -> 55:19.440] True, very true. It's, but I think, I don't think, I think the only way Mercedes are going to win
[55:20.080 -> 55:23.680] around Singapore and Singapore's probably gonna be one of their better chances of doing so
[55:23.680 -> 55:26.740] is if both Ferrari and Red Bull have a disaster because in
[55:26.740 -> 55:32.920] Terms of single lap pace Hungary's as close as they is the best they've done which is a great qualifying result
[55:34.280 -> 55:35.760] but
[55:35.760 -> 55:38.640] Neither the Ferrari Red Bull really had that hooked up and yes
[55:38.640 -> 55:42.640] Yes, they get it did you caught out and they're on the back foot the whole weekend, but I'm not seeing it
[55:42.640 -> 55:50.880] I want to say and if it does does happen I'll happily eat that you know but I just don't see it honestly if I was gonna put money on it I would say
[55:53.920 -> 56:00.880] look give me your prediction first uh I'm I've gone for Charles for the victory race victory okay
[56:01.440 -> 56:06.720] just to spice things up in terms of the championship. It's all but over, let's be honest.
[56:06.720 -> 56:08.320] It's done. It's done.
[56:08.320 -> 56:13.360] You know, maybe a little cheeky Ferrari win just to keep people on tender hooks a bit longer.
[56:13.360 -> 56:14.560] Yeah, exactly.
[56:14.560 -> 56:20.640] Max in second, and then a cheeky little Russell shithouse podium again in third.
[56:20.640 -> 56:23.360] Oh, go on lad. Go on lad, governor.
[56:23.360 -> 56:25.000] Blimey. Blimey.
[56:25.000 -> 56:26.000] Blimey.
[56:26.000 -> 56:27.000] I...
[56:27.000 -> 56:28.000] I'm thinking...
[56:28.000 -> 56:35.000] I'm hoping we're gonna have a Perez back up in the mix this weekend.
[56:35.000 -> 56:36.000] Yeah?
[56:36.000 -> 56:37.680] I'm hoping, but I'm not sure.
[56:37.680 -> 56:43.200] I think Max is gonna take the dub here, but I do not think he's going to take the championship,
[56:43.200 -> 56:45.920] so I think LeClair will be in the mix as well.
[56:45.920 -> 56:50.480] But I think this is a max dubbing.
[56:50.480 -> 56:51.480] Leclerc P2.
[56:51.480 -> 56:53.360] Extending the max hype train.
[56:53.360 -> 56:55.360] Yeah I'm fully committed.
[56:55.360 -> 56:59.040] That would be his 6th win on the bounce?
[56:59.040 -> 57:01.340] Yes number 6.
[57:01.340 -> 57:08.760] So he needs 5, no he needs 4 more to tie Seb for his nine in a season.
[57:08.760 -> 57:13.320] So yeah, what the next races we got coming up?
[57:13.320 -> 57:14.120] Is that possible?
[57:14.120 -> 57:14.760] Must be.
[57:16.040 -> 57:17.960] Yeah, it's it's it's he's got plenty.
[57:17.960 -> 57:20.240] We got Singapore, Japan.
[57:20.240 -> 57:21.960] That's that could easily win there.
[57:21.960 -> 57:24.640] Yeah, the US could easily win there.
[57:24.640 -> 57:27.000] Mexico and Brazil. They're dead certs.
[57:27.000 -> 57:28.000] Almost.
[57:28.000 -> 57:31.000] So yeah, if he wins in Singapore,
[57:31.000 -> 57:32.000] we could be on, boys.
[57:32.000 -> 57:33.000] Could be on.
[57:33.000 -> 57:34.000] Wee, that's it.
[57:34.000 -> 57:35.000] That's it.
[57:35.000 -> 57:37.000] Simply lovely.
[57:37.000 -> 57:41.000] Yeah, but I don't know.
[57:41.000 -> 57:43.000] I think I'm going to go with my prediction.
[57:43.000 -> 57:45.720] Verstappen, Leclerc, Perez.
[57:49.640 -> 57:53.300] Okay, so that's it. There you go, Tifosi. I'm the only one here that's given you hope. I don't believe in them. They haven't given me any reason to believe in them.
[57:53.300 -> 57:57.600] I don't know if Charles believes in them. I don't know if Sainz believes in himself.
[57:58.880 -> 58:04.040] Sainz just seems more happy than anything when he has a good result. He's like, oh really we did okay, and he's not bad. He's a
[58:05.600 -> 58:08.360] decent peddler man, so I don't know
[58:09.240 -> 58:11.240] But anyway anyway
[58:12.040 -> 58:18.500] Well, I think that wraps us for our Singapore little preview. I'm really looking forward to
[58:19.400 -> 58:24.320] Shooting that the podcast after Singapore probably do that next Monday same time same place
[58:24.320 -> 58:25.040] The podcast after Singapore probably do that next Monday same time same place
[58:26.960 -> 58:34.520] I Hope I hope hope hope that we've got some absolute shit house. Are we to digest after the Singapore Grand Prix?
[58:34.520 -> 58:36.520] Oh my god, he calls. Yeah
[58:37.360 -> 58:40.480] F1 X part 3 this is it. Yeah, we've had Sunoda
[58:40.480 -> 58:51.060] We've had all the all the say all the fixing has been done already This Latifi crashing in the same place that Nelson Piquet did so max could win the race. Yeah, that'd be
[58:51.760 -> 58:53.760] Chef's kiss. Yeah. Well
[58:54.200 -> 58:56.200] another Ferrari strategy meltdown
[58:57.360 -> 59:04.360] Do we right we've we've run the medium tires and there's five laps to go. Do we fit the softs of the intermediates? It's dry
[59:04.360 -> 59:06.360] and there's five laps to go, do we fit the softs or the intermediates? It's dry. Half and half.
[59:06.360 -> 59:10.240] Full wets. Yeah, three softs and one intermediate.
[59:10.240 -> 59:12.240] Yep.
[59:12.240 -> 59:18.000] You can't really do that because the intermediates have a taller tread depth.
[59:18.000 -> 59:22.320] So you'd be like on this, you know, three-legged stool.
[59:22.320 -> 59:26.600] Every single sensor on the car would shit itself, basically.
[59:26.600 -> 59:27.600] Question.
[59:27.600 -> 59:28.600] Yeah.
[59:28.600 -> 59:29.600] Right.
[59:29.600 -> 59:32.740] Do you want to, should we dig into the Q&A?
[59:32.740 -> 59:37.320] So we put out a feeler on Twitter and I put out a feeler on Instagram and I lost access
[59:37.320 -> 59:42.120] to the answers because Instagram is one of the best social media platforms on the internet.
[59:42.120 -> 59:45.340] Follow us at Engine Breaking on every social media outlet possible.
[59:45.880 -> 59:48.680] Um, but yeah, let's go to our,
[59:51.620 -> 59:52.680] I need to get a different sound.
[59:52.680 -> 59:53.880] Q&A.
[59:54.160 -> 59:55.920] Do do do do do do.
[59:55.920 -> 59:58.400] I don't know why I went to the countdown tune there, but why not?
[59:58.520 -> 59:59.160] Thanks Michael.
[59:59.160 -> 59:59.720] We love you, bro.
[59:59.720 -> 01:00:00.220] Yeah.
[01:00:00.320 -> 01:00:01.280] Yeah. Big up Michael.
[01:00:01.480 -> 01:00:01.980] Right.
[01:00:02.040 -> 01:00:02.600] Let's get involved.
[01:00:02.600 -> 01:00:03.120] Question.
[01:00:03.160 -> 01:00:09.720] Question one from Manan Shah. Apologies. I've probably butchered. I'm gonna butcher all these names. I'm eating shit
[01:00:10.640 -> 01:00:17.600] How are the control electronics to some teams more reliable than others when they are all sent by McLaren applied sciences?
[01:00:18.800 -> 01:00:23.960] Flavio Briatore actually gets to pick out of a hat who gets the reliable units and who doesn't
[01:00:24.840 -> 01:00:26.440] It's inil hat removed.
[01:00:26.440 -> 01:00:27.440] Cool.
[01:00:27.440 -> 01:00:33.760] I thought it was just various ways of managing heat, but your answer sounds much more fun.
[01:00:33.760 -> 01:00:36.240] Actually since you're not actually shit at it, I was thinking you actually have the right
[01:00:36.240 -> 01:00:37.240] answer.
[01:00:37.240 -> 01:00:38.240] Go on.
[01:00:38.240 -> 01:00:40.320] I was right.
[01:00:40.320 -> 01:00:43.000] That's probably a strong factor, is thermal management.
[01:00:43.000 -> 01:00:44.000] I'm right.
[01:00:44.000 -> 01:00:47.120] Thank you. I'll get the pen and paper out, we'll get the tallies going.
[01:00:47.120 -> 01:00:48.560] Yeah, one deal.
[01:00:48.560 -> 01:00:53.360] How many cans of Red Bull did you drink on a race weekend from Chirag B?
[01:00:53.360 -> 01:00:57.200] I think to answer that question concisely,
[01:00:57.200 -> 01:01:00.400] all the electronics supplied by McLaren should be identical,
[01:01:00.400 -> 01:01:02.240] and they will be identical.
[01:01:02.240 -> 01:01:07.160] There's variability, invariably things will fail and there's a probability that anything
[01:01:07.160 -> 01:01:08.540] can fail.
[01:01:08.540 -> 01:01:13.120] But also a lot of those sensors, they need to be properly managed in terms of thermal
[01:01:13.120 -> 01:01:17.680] so teams will come up with their own cooling solutions for, you know, the number of times
[01:01:17.680 -> 01:01:21.360] you sat in the garage and people like, can we put the ECU fans back in?
[01:01:21.360 -> 01:01:25.360] When those things are stationary in the garage, especially at a hot place like Singapore,
[01:01:25.360 -> 01:01:30.720] you can melt an ECU if you leave it on. It just generates that much heat. It needs active,
[01:01:30.720 -> 01:01:34.440] they're passively cooled, so they are only cooled when the car is moving through the air,
[01:01:34.440 -> 01:01:39.440] or you've got a leaf blower plugged down a hole, blowing them.
[01:01:39.440 -> 01:01:45.440] Yeah, and Slawdog just said in the chat, even down to the connectors, they're all the same.
[01:01:45.440 -> 01:01:46.440] Yes, mate, they are.
[01:01:46.440 -> 01:01:47.440] Yep.
[01:01:47.440 -> 01:01:48.440] All the standard parts.
[01:01:48.440 -> 01:01:49.440] Yep.
[01:01:49.440 -> 01:01:50.440] Those will be spec'd.
[01:01:50.440 -> 01:01:51.440] Yep.
[01:01:51.440 -> 01:01:56.880] So that is one way that the control electronics will be installation-specific across teams.
[01:01:56.880 -> 01:01:57.880] Yes.
[01:01:57.880 -> 01:02:02.080] So, how many cans of Red Bull did you drink on a race weekend, Blake?
[01:02:02.080 -> 01:02:05.760] I tended to go for coffee.
[01:02:05.760 -> 01:02:13.520] In the evening on a Friday night, I really, really enjoyed a Red Bull Cola, which I think
[01:02:13.520 -> 01:02:14.960] some people hate it.
[01:02:14.960 -> 01:02:18.440] I enjoyed a couple Red Bull Colas.
[01:02:18.440 -> 01:02:24.320] If it was a test or a big one, I'd have probably no more than a can a day, just because I don't
[01:02:24.320 -> 01:02:25.000] drink that much. I don't drink that much,
[01:02:25.000 -> 01:02:28.080] I don't drink sugary drinks ever, hardly.
[01:02:29.080 -> 01:02:31.600] Listen, let me tell you, I used to slam.
[01:02:31.600 -> 01:02:33.280] Listen, son.
[01:02:33.280 -> 01:02:35.000] I used to slam about four of those
[01:02:35.000 -> 01:02:36.580] sugar-free Red Bulls a day.
[01:02:38.120 -> 01:02:38.960] Go on, man.
[01:02:38.960 -> 01:02:40.480] They were free, they were free, you know?
[01:02:40.480 -> 01:02:44.880] And yeah, I just slammed the shit out of them.
[01:02:44.880 -> 01:02:48.700] Which leads nicely into our next question from Jobafan,
[01:02:48.700 -> 01:02:51.400] who goes, the last time you actually drank a Red Bull,
[01:02:51.400 -> 01:02:54.540] and I'll tell you, since leaving Red Bull,
[01:02:54.540 -> 01:02:56.320] I've only drank two.
[01:02:56.320 -> 01:02:57.300] Really?
[01:02:57.300 -> 01:02:59.900] Because I will not fucking pay one pound 89
[01:02:59.900 -> 01:03:01.720] for such a tiny drink.
[01:03:01.720 -> 01:03:05.920] You gotta, I'm just gonna hold I'm just going to hold up my,
[01:03:05.920 -> 01:03:07.680] Yeah, go on, plug, plug the,
[01:03:07.680 -> 01:03:09.680] My little sneak energy shaker here.
[01:03:09.680 -> 01:03:11.000] Yeah.
[01:03:11.000 -> 01:03:12.020] Yes boys.
[01:03:13.840 -> 01:03:14.680] Yeah.
[01:03:15.640 -> 01:03:16.480] I guess you probably don't,
[01:03:16.480 -> 01:03:18.000] I guess you haven't drink then.
[01:03:18.000 -> 01:03:19.540] Don't drink either then.
[01:03:19.540 -> 01:03:22.920] I don't, I don't buy fizzy drinks.
[01:03:22.920 -> 01:03:27.120] I've saved my pennies to buy a nice ale every now and then.
[01:03:27.120 -> 01:03:28.320] And all I've got is canned Guinness,
[01:03:28.320 -> 01:03:30.260] which I've been informed by an Irish person
[01:03:30.260 -> 01:03:31.780] that you should never drink canned Guinness.
[01:03:31.780 -> 01:03:34.840] I'm like, well, I don't wanna go down to the pub tonight,
[01:03:34.840 -> 01:03:36.640] so I'm having Guinness out of a can.
[01:03:38.280 -> 01:03:40.120] Yeah, so there you go.
[01:03:40.120 -> 01:03:43.640] Blake is a craft beer wanker
[01:03:43.640 -> 01:03:45.920] that your friends warned you about.
[01:03:47.280 -> 01:03:52.240] I'm not like the other guys, I promise. This is the double dry hop New England IPA.
[01:03:53.200 -> 01:03:58.560] Speaking of, well let's interrupt the Q&A. What do we, we need to have like some kind of milestone
[01:03:58.560 -> 01:04:09.440] or achievement for the podcast whereby if we hit this goal, we will actually do a live stream podcast from my
[01:04:09.440 -> 01:04:16.820] garage and we'll get a couple beverages in uh we'll make it a we'll make it a long one
[01:04:16.820 -> 01:04:22.360] and uh yeah so so I I don't know what that is but we'll get some nice craft ales uh we'll
[01:04:22.360 -> 01:04:27.960] put on our finest dad wear it'll probably be freezing balls in my garage and record an episode
[01:04:28.680 -> 01:04:36.320] together IRL of the engine breaking podcast from my makeshift meth lab slash micro brewery slash
[01:04:37.440 -> 01:04:39.440] tool storage garage
[01:04:39.440 -> 01:04:41.800] I'll have to wear shorts or left wear trousers
[01:04:43.760 -> 01:04:48.000] Well if we get the pit wall installed in the garage it'll have to be trousers for health and safety.
[01:04:48.000 -> 01:04:50.000] But, just checking.
[01:04:50.000 -> 01:04:52.000] Otherwise it's gotta be Daisy Dukes.
[01:04:52.000 -> 01:04:54.000] Mm-hmm.
[01:04:54.000 -> 01:04:59.000] To be fair, Blake, all shorts look like fucking Daisy Dukes on me.
[01:04:59.000 -> 01:05:01.000] I'm not a small lad.
[01:05:01.000 -> 01:05:25.440] Uhhhhhhh, let's go. Let's go. Right, umhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhthththththththttp http Being very polite. What I'm saying is give us your fucking money And I'll pork any shit you want
[01:05:26.140 -> 01:05:28.080] No way, bro. No way, bro, right?
[01:05:28.080 -> 01:05:29.720] so works like magic
[01:05:29.720 -> 01:05:35.240] Asks, can you tell for sure in testing if a new car is a real dud and the season will suck or if there's a permanent?
[01:05:35.240 -> 01:05:38.120] Sense of hope that a breakthrough will come during the season
[01:05:38.280 -> 01:05:42.880] What have we what have we learned about this over the last couple of years from preseason testing?
[01:05:44.400 -> 01:05:47.200] Where Red Bull now do this,
[01:05:47.200 -> 01:05:49.240] like filming day in Silverstone,
[01:05:50.240 -> 01:05:53.220] what we all tend to do is about three o'clock in the morning
[01:05:53.220 -> 01:05:55.000] we all stand around the car,
[01:05:56.160 -> 01:05:58.360] then we chant some Austrian hymns
[01:05:58.360 -> 01:06:02.280] and then crack a red ball on the top of the car.
[01:06:02.280 -> 01:06:04.520] And depending on which way the red ball
[01:06:04.520 -> 01:06:06.000] runs down the side pod
[01:06:06.360 -> 01:06:08.760] Tells us if it's gonna be a good year or a bad year
[01:06:10.440 -> 01:06:13.680] That's my way of saying I have no fucking idea what's your answer
[01:06:14.400 -> 01:06:18.080] Well, that's that's that's actually epic. I love that
[01:06:18.600 -> 01:06:20.600] I
[01:06:20.600 -> 01:06:26.720] Think I thought it was when you cracked the Red Bull and you poured it over the car if it turned into blood You knew it was a good year
[01:06:26.720 -> 01:06:28.240] Wasn't this?
[01:06:28.240 -> 01:06:29.960] Yeah
[01:06:29.960 -> 01:06:33.520] Or you've just cut your hand open on the tin. That's more like it
[01:06:33.520 -> 01:06:38.220] Yeah composites are fucked up and they've not sanded down the carbon and you just cut your fucking hand on
[01:06:38.880 -> 01:06:42.980] God, I think like from the filming day. You're not telling shit from the filming day
[01:06:42.980 -> 01:06:46.920] You're going out to make sure the sensors work, the suspension's in the right spot and
[01:06:46.920 -> 01:06:47.920] everything else.
[01:06:47.920 -> 01:06:52.600] And then winter testing, you know, we thought Mercedes were looking pretty, pretty handy
[01:06:52.600 -> 01:06:53.840] this season in winter testing.
[01:06:53.840 -> 01:06:57.600] And we showed up at the first race and it's like, Oh my God, no side pods.
[01:06:57.600 -> 01:06:58.600] Oh my God.
[01:06:58.600 -> 01:07:05.280] Yeah, but they showed up the first one with the A-spec car, then
[01:07:05.280 -> 01:07:09.420] rolled up with the ZeroPod car, and it's like, you know, it's hard to tell what people's
[01:07:09.420 -> 01:07:13.040] programs are, you know, and race weekends are much more clear if somebody's on the pace
[01:07:13.040 -> 01:07:19.140] or not, and even like, some events, yeah, you don't know until you get to qualifying
[01:07:19.140 -> 01:07:26.620] to see, you know, what cards they're playing. But like Mercedes didn't look that far off in testing
[01:07:26.620 -> 01:07:29.100] and they've had an abysmal start to the year
[01:07:29.100 -> 01:07:30.420] compared to where they were.
[01:07:30.420 -> 01:07:34.260] They're getting closer but honestly you can't really tell
[01:07:34.260 -> 01:07:35.100] in winter testing.
[01:07:35.100 -> 01:07:36.180] Like you can tell if it's gonna be,
[01:07:36.180 -> 01:07:38.660] if it's atrociously shit and the driver's like,
[01:07:38.660 -> 01:07:40.780] mate this is undriveable, I can't get the tires working,
[01:07:40.780 -> 01:07:44.060] the balance is terrible, it's unpredictable, fine.
[01:07:44.060 -> 01:07:48.620] But I think you have a good idea in testing
[01:07:48.620 -> 01:07:50.180] where you might be, but realistically,
[01:07:50.180 -> 01:07:52.900] I don't remember one time ever going into winter testing
[01:07:52.900 -> 01:07:55.020] and being like, oh yeah, this thing's gonna be
[01:07:55.020 -> 01:07:56.820] an absolute beast, and then showing up
[01:07:56.820 -> 01:07:57.940] and it was an absolute beast.
[01:07:57.940 -> 01:07:59.460] You're like, it looks pretty good,
[01:07:59.460 -> 01:08:01.580] and as far as we can tell, we're probably competitive.
[01:08:01.580 -> 01:08:02.980] Then you rock up to the first event,
[01:08:02.980 -> 01:08:04.860] you get absolutely fucking slapped down,
[01:08:04.860 -> 01:08:06.860] usually with reliability issues
[01:08:07.440 -> 01:08:09.600] Not usually but it will be enough perhaps
[01:08:11.400 -> 01:08:13.120] Exactly some
[01:08:13.120 -> 01:08:15.120] bar in nice
[01:08:15.160 -> 01:08:17.160] This year nice
[01:08:17.280 -> 01:08:21.640] Beating nearly beating Ferrari in the championship with one driver now nice
[01:08:23.160 -> 01:08:45.400] Low yeah exactly so driver now. Nice. Troll, lolololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololololol Do you think the new 24 is calendar and possibly even more once the Concord agreement runs out will make it so that the personnel?
[01:08:45.560 -> 01:08:47.040] turnover becomes
[01:08:47.040 -> 01:08:49.040] insanely high
[01:08:49.280 -> 01:08:51.280] It already is high
[01:08:51.640 -> 01:08:53.640] My knowledge. Yeah
[01:08:56.760 -> 01:09:03.280] Again this and this is my idea. I keep sort of repeating if they want to add more races. They need to put a
[01:09:10.960 -> 01:09:13.560] Exemption or If they want to add more races, they need to put an exemption or adjustment to the budget cap that allows for rotation of staff.
[01:09:13.560 -> 01:09:18.160] You're going to need more personnel, and they're going to be specialised, and they're going
[01:09:18.160 -> 01:09:22.280] to be expensive, and you need to be able to pay people a rate.
[01:09:22.280 -> 01:09:26.920] Yeah, I mean, they can fucking have 48 races a year
[01:09:26.920 -> 01:09:28.440] as far as I'm concerned, I don't give a shit,
[01:09:28.440 -> 01:09:31.680] as long as someone's only doing 50% of them
[01:09:31.680 -> 01:09:34.200] and then someone's doing the other 50%.
[01:09:34.200 -> 01:09:36.520] But I mean, to clarify that,
[01:09:36.520 -> 01:09:39.640] I didn't drop F1 because of the schedule.
[01:09:41.720 -> 01:09:44.920] To some extent, yes, but for the most part,
[01:09:44.920 -> 01:09:48.560] even if it was a 12 race championship i'd probably still not be doing formula one
[01:09:48.880 -> 01:09:52.960] You know if you know, I might have stayed in the track side role a bit longer if it was 12 races
[01:09:53.520 -> 01:09:58.480] um, but you know 2022 races was a bit too much for me and I was like i'd like my weekends back, please
[01:09:58.560 -> 01:10:00.560] I don't want to spend half the year on the road
[01:10:00.640 -> 01:10:05.640] Yeah, I mean you dropped it because you got sacked right? Yeah I got sacked for um... Yeah same, same.
[01:10:05.640 -> 01:10:11.220] Wait, I'm still trying to remember like, I've actually never had a howler that I fucked
[01:10:11.220 -> 01:10:12.480] up anything.
[01:10:12.480 -> 01:10:15.000] You got sacked because you played Mario Kart on the simulator.
[01:10:15.000 -> 01:10:16.000] Yeah, true.
[01:10:16.000 -> 01:10:17.000] Okay, that's a good one.
[01:10:17.000 -> 01:10:19.920] What was your story?
[01:10:19.920 -> 01:10:25.300] My story was I accidentally used the executive bathroom next to Christian's office and left
[01:10:25.300 -> 01:10:28.300] the dookie in there that didn't flash.
[01:10:28.300 -> 01:10:31.960] I love that.
[01:10:31.960 -> 01:10:32.960] I love that.
[01:10:32.960 -> 01:10:40.000] But, but like, but like seriously, that's actually a fireball offense, but I don't.
[01:10:40.000 -> 01:10:43.120] Yeah, your take on that I think is perfect.
[01:10:43.120 -> 01:10:48.480] You know, you, if you, if you increase the races, then you need to increase the number of personnel, otherwise
[01:10:48.480 -> 01:10:52.840] you're going to have a huge turnover and just, you know, people are going to get super patient
[01:10:52.840 -> 01:10:55.040] hold, never be able to leave.
[01:10:55.040 -> 01:10:57.960] And it's just like, it's not going to be sustainable for anybody.
[01:10:57.960 -> 01:11:00.760] And let's not, people are like, oh, the poor race engineers and drivers.
[01:11:00.760 -> 01:11:03.440] It's like, no, that's not how far it extends.
[01:11:03.440 -> 01:11:05.520] Like all the other trackside personnel
[01:11:05.520 -> 01:11:10.080] all the factory personnel required to support those things they'll be like oh just do more
[01:11:10.080 -> 01:11:15.680] hours and it's like hmm how about sure i'll get right on that yeah i mean no but like but like
[01:11:15.680 -> 01:11:20.800] seriously it's got to be a balance it's an exchange of values like here's some money to do a job it's
[01:11:20.800 -> 01:11:28.280] like well if i can find a job that's better and I don't have to work that much and I'm not having to do 30 races a year or
[01:11:28.280 -> 01:11:33.560] something you will do that. You will do that. So I think there's I think there's
[01:11:33.560 -> 01:11:38.120] scope to keep a long calendar. I mean NASCAR has been doing it for ages. How
[01:11:38.120 -> 01:11:40.480] many events is a NASCAR calendar? 30 something?
[01:11:40.480 -> 01:11:44.560] Mmm it's all America though isn't it? Yeah but like at the same time America's not a
[01:11:44.560 -> 01:11:45.960] small place.
[01:11:45.960 -> 01:11:49.120] That's the equivalent of being in the center of Europe and flying all around.
[01:11:49.120 -> 01:11:51.320] 30% of our listeners are from there.
[01:11:51.320 -> 01:11:53.320] So yeah, no, NASCAR's amazing.
[01:11:53.320 -> 01:11:56.560] America is fantastic.
[01:11:56.560 -> 01:11:58.720] I like your big portions of food.
[01:11:58.720 -> 01:11:59.720] Yep.
[01:11:59.720 -> 01:12:01.400] I like ZZ Top.
[01:12:01.400 -> 01:12:02.400] Yeah.
[01:12:02.400 -> 01:12:03.400] Spiritually.
[01:12:03.400 -> 01:12:04.400] Gives away.
[01:12:04.400 -> 01:12:06.120] Yeah. Yeah, but exactly the fact thing. It gives away, yeah.
[01:12:06.960 -> 01:12:09.480] Yeah, but exactly. I like the fact that you have dirty, great, big V8s.
[01:12:09.480 -> 01:12:10.320] Yeah, I love that.
[01:12:10.320 -> 01:12:11.160] I miss that.
[01:12:11.160 -> 01:12:13.360] But we should also line up a pod
[01:12:13.360 -> 01:12:16.320] and do a pod at a NASCAR event one year.
[01:12:16.320 -> 01:12:17.160] Yeah.
[01:12:17.160 -> 01:12:18.000] I'm gonna find somebody, we'll line it up.
[01:12:18.000 -> 01:12:19.040] It's gonna happen.
[01:12:19.040 -> 01:12:19.880] All right.
[01:12:19.880 -> 01:12:21.600] But yeah, like, no matter what,
[01:12:21.600 -> 01:12:22.720] it doesn't matter where it is,
[01:12:22.720 -> 01:12:23.840] the travel is not the thing.
[01:12:23.840 -> 01:12:27.200] It's a huge stress on a lot of people.
[01:12:27.200 -> 01:12:28.860] And like some people love it, and that's fine,
[01:12:28.860 -> 01:12:30.280] if you love it, that's great.
[01:12:30.280 -> 01:12:33.280] But like, I think it'll be difficult for them to attract.
[01:12:33.280 -> 01:12:35.360] How much are you gonna love it
[01:12:35.360 -> 01:12:37.880] when it goes to a 24 race calendar?
[01:12:38.720 -> 01:12:39.920] You know, that's what I'm saying.
[01:12:39.920 -> 01:12:42.000] Do a season, then tell me how much you love it
[01:12:42.000 -> 01:12:42.840] at the end of it.
[01:12:42.840 -> 01:12:44.600] Yeah, exactly, but like, but even now,
[01:12:44.600 -> 01:12:48.780] like my content is based around being active for
[01:12:48.780 -> 01:12:53.960] Formula One sessions, races, practices, you know doing content after that so it's like
[01:12:53.960 -> 01:13:00.760] I'm enjoying it right now but am I gonna continue to do 24 you know you know streams you know
[01:13:00.760 -> 01:13:07.920] 24 race weekend streams a year? Probably not I'm'm not going to do all of them. I'll get rid of the shit ones because there's enough content to go around
[01:13:07.920 -> 01:13:13.480] and it's, you know, it's kind of a bit backwards, but that I left Formula One to do more Formula
[01:13:13.480 -> 01:13:21.720] One for less money, but freedom, flexibility and control and I'm my own boss. So when it
[01:13:21.720 -> 01:13:25.160] fucks up, it's my fault. Yeah
[01:13:30.220 -> 01:13:31.240] Yeah, and I just left because I got you know, three small kids now
[01:13:33.800 -> 01:13:34.840] And I just wanted to be at home more. So
[01:13:38.640 -> 01:13:39.240] Yeah, but next question is this is a good one. Actually. I like this one. I love this
[01:13:42.440 -> 01:13:42.680] Anthony Cullen asks who's one of the unsung heroes at Red Bull
[01:13:48.040 -> 01:13:50.680] We hear a lot about big names like Horner, Nui and the Drivers, but who is someone behind the scenes that is essential to Red Bull's success?
[01:13:52.860 -> 01:13:55.920] Now, I have a answer,
[01:13:55.920 -> 01:13:58.680] but it's kind of a bit of an easy answer.
[01:13:58.680 -> 01:14:01.600] I'm gonna say Hannah, Hannah Schmitz,
[01:14:01.600 -> 01:14:03.360] but she kind of is well known now.
[01:14:03.360 -> 01:14:06.320] She's, her profile is growing.
[01:14:06.320 -> 01:14:07.160] Good.
[01:14:08.000 -> 01:14:08.820] So.
[01:14:09.960 -> 01:14:12.480] And so for the people that not a lot of people,
[01:14:12.480 -> 01:14:14.800] like yes, Hannah's name is out there.
[01:14:14.800 -> 01:14:16.560] She's very present.
[01:14:16.560 -> 01:14:18.960] She's done a lot of content with F1 and with Red Bull,
[01:14:18.960 -> 01:14:21.520] but for the people that don't know, who is Hannah?
[01:14:23.720 -> 01:14:26.880] She is, is she a chief strategist now?
[01:14:26.880 -> 01:14:27.720] Her role?
[01:14:27.720 -> 01:14:28.560] Principal strategist.
[01:14:28.560 -> 01:14:30.600] Principal strategist, yeah.
[01:14:30.600 -> 01:14:34.160] So she does everything that Ferrari does
[01:14:34.160 -> 01:14:35.520] just 10 times better.
[01:14:35.520 -> 01:14:38.080] Yeah, and this is not to take away
[01:14:38.080 -> 01:14:39.160] from anything that Hannah does,
[01:14:39.160 -> 01:14:43.160] but also Hannah is one of four or five people
[01:14:43.160 -> 01:14:44.440] that do strategy for the team.
[01:14:44.440 -> 01:14:46.720] There's the head of strategy, a guy called Will.
[01:14:47.560 -> 01:14:49.440] There's a couple of other people that work in the strategy department.
[01:14:49.440 -> 01:14:51.520] And there's people that developing software and tools
[01:14:51.800 -> 01:14:54.080] to help the strategy team make great calls so far.
[01:14:54.320 -> 01:14:56.160] I was looking for a hero of the year.
[01:14:56.160 -> 01:15:00.680] It's the people making, you know, great tools to help these excellent
[01:15:00.680 -> 01:15:04.960] engineers think quickly on their feet, make split second decisions and react
[01:15:05.320 -> 01:15:06.880] and do a better job than all the other teams
[01:15:06.880 -> 01:15:08.460] because I'm looking at some analysis
[01:15:08.460 -> 01:15:10.900] for the RB 18 this year for my next video
[01:15:10.900 -> 01:15:14.200] and they're hitting everything, man.
[01:15:14.200 -> 01:15:19.200] It's super, it's clockwork, it's oiled, it's surgical.
[01:15:19.680 -> 01:15:22.360] That's a very, yeah.
[01:15:22.360 -> 01:15:26.680] Yeah, I think that is one like definitely and it's good. It's really cool
[01:15:26.680 -> 01:15:29.200] I think there's you've seen a shift in teams start putting
[01:15:29.840 -> 01:15:35.360] Their key personnel a bit in the light now, you know, and like they're giving them a platform. It's like
[01:15:36.520 -> 01:15:39.160] Guys, there's this and I in a mostly
[01:15:39.680 -> 01:15:42.200] Dude dominated sport. You've got this girl
[01:15:42.200 -> 01:15:49.160] I'm one of the most high-pressure situations and positions on the pit wall making some big calls and hitting
[01:15:49.160 -> 01:15:55.880] home runs very often. I'm gonna tell you who my unsung hero is. Gary, a chap called
[01:15:55.880 -> 01:16:06.120] Gary French, right? He is in charge of the data centers which if you don't know what a data center is,
[01:16:06.120 -> 01:16:08.240] it's basically like these giant halls
[01:16:08.240 -> 01:16:11.440] where you stick all the big computers in, things like that.
[01:16:11.440 -> 01:16:14.200] He manages all the air con systems, power systems,
[01:16:14.200 -> 01:16:16.040] keeps all that turned on.
[01:16:16.040 -> 01:16:17.640] But that's not the reason he's my hero.
[01:16:17.640 -> 01:16:21.100] The reason he is my hero is because he went out
[01:16:21.100 -> 01:16:23.780] to Woburn Sands on his bike one lunchtime,
[01:16:25.840 -> 01:16:32.320] did a jump, broke his fucking neck, right, had to get airlifted to hospital.
[01:16:32.320 -> 01:16:34.080] Oh no, dude!
[01:16:34.080 -> 01:16:37.680] Right, and we're all outside at lunch thinking, oh someone's had a really bad accident,
[01:16:37.680 -> 01:16:42.560] look at this air ambulance flying over the factory, and then like a fucking hour or two later,
[01:16:42.560 -> 01:16:47.260] we're like, where the fuck's's Gary and then his wife calls us about he's broken his fucking neck he's in he was
[01:16:47.260 -> 01:16:51.640] in the helicopter we're like oh shit but yeah no he was all good he was all fine
[01:16:51.640 -> 01:16:58.160] but it's just the fact that he is so fucking accident prone only he could
[01:16:58.160 -> 01:17:03.260] fucking go out for his lunch break on a bike break his fucking neck and then get
[01:17:03.260 -> 01:17:06.400] like six months off work, so yeah, pick up yourself Gary
[01:17:07.320 -> 01:17:14.320] Dude, I don't know that's that's terrible. There's been a yeah, that's that's mountain biking injuries
[01:17:14.840 -> 01:17:16.840] name a better duo
[01:17:17.440 -> 01:17:19.120] Yeah, exactly
[01:17:19.120 -> 01:17:23.200] Who's so you've mentioned the strategist or Hannah specifically?
[01:17:23.720 -> 01:17:26.360] I extend that to strategy.
[01:17:26.360 -> 01:17:27.840] I think the people,
[01:17:29.780 -> 01:17:31.860] I don't wanna dox anybody, so I'm not gonna name names,
[01:17:31.860 -> 01:17:34.800] but there's a lot of people involved
[01:17:36.040 -> 01:17:40.220] in making the right decisions for designing the car
[01:17:40.220 -> 01:17:41.640] that nobody talks about.
[01:17:41.640 -> 01:17:44.240] All you hear, you hear people singing Adrian praises
[01:17:44.240 -> 01:17:50.640] for his exceptional skills as an aerodynamicist. Like the people like him are gone. There's going to be very
[01:17:50.640 -> 01:18:00.400] few of these can do everything you know super oracle level aerodynamicists or engineers you
[01:18:00.400 -> 01:18:09.080] know your Ross Bronze and those sort of guys like they're not gonna exist soon you know the James Allison's another great example of that
[01:18:09.080 -> 01:18:15.660] there's a lot of people that are involved in all these pieces and hitting
[01:18:15.660 -> 01:18:19.320] the marks and understanding you know interpreting what the drivers are saying
[01:18:19.320 -> 01:18:22.940] turning those into deliverables on what they should do with the car is design
[01:18:22.940 -> 01:18:28.960] and then making sure that people are doing a good job
[01:18:28.960 -> 01:18:31.240] with all those tools, simulations, systems.
[01:18:31.240 -> 01:18:34.000] So it's, yeah, it's like people,
[01:18:34.000 -> 01:18:36.000] there's a lot of that stuff that people don't appreciate
[01:18:36.000 -> 01:18:38.520] that has to happen in order for a team to rock up
[01:18:38.520 -> 01:18:40.760] with a fucking spectacular car.
[01:18:40.760 -> 01:18:43.080] And if it's not a good car, what are they doing
[01:18:43.080 -> 01:18:49.880] in order to hit the marks and make and deliver upon that? Red Bull have done a great job with that year this year.
[01:18:49.880 -> 01:18:54.500] And it's the same people that at Mercedes for the past eight years have been churning
[01:18:54.500 -> 01:18:58.480] out world-destroying cars you know they've got the best engines they've got insanely
[01:18:58.480 -> 01:19:04.160] strong chassis and they've been able to do eight you know constructors in a year.
[01:19:04.160 -> 01:19:08.560] Those people you know made a huge miss this year at that team.
[01:19:08.920 -> 01:19:11.480] Which is okay, because after you've done eight,
[01:19:11.480 -> 01:19:14.980] you're entitled to a joker card.
[01:19:14.980 -> 01:19:18.520] But those are the people that have so much influence
[01:19:18.520 -> 01:19:20.520] over how well that car does.
[01:19:20.520 -> 01:19:22.000] And it's not one or two people,
[01:19:22.000 -> 01:19:25.120] it's actually probably a handful of
[01:19:25.120 -> 01:19:29.180] people orchestrating hundreds of people to make sure that you're executing and
[01:19:29.180 -> 01:19:33.740] delivering on those designs. You know who else I'm gonna give a shout out to?
[01:19:33.740 -> 01:19:41.460] Go on. HR. Oh yeah? For having to spend six years putting up with my bullshit on Twitter.
[01:19:41.460 -> 01:19:47.000] MVP! MVP! They warned some of the shit they had to police.
[01:19:47.000 -> 01:19:49.840] Tell you, don't envy them.
[01:19:49.840 -> 01:19:54.440] They must have sacked half the staff there now because they're not needed anymore.
[01:19:54.440 -> 01:19:55.440] Oh my god.
[01:19:55.440 -> 01:19:56.440] They've left.
[01:19:56.440 -> 01:19:57.440] Yeah, exactly.
[01:19:57.440 -> 01:19:59.320] Big up HR.
[01:19:59.320 -> 01:20:05.280] We had a tense relationship, but I still love you all.
[01:20:05.280 -> 01:20:11.120] So Paul, how much input do the drivers have on car development?
[01:20:11.120 -> 01:20:14.280] No, they just let Max develop the whole car.
[01:20:14.280 -> 01:20:17.080] That's why it's so quick.
[01:20:17.080 -> 01:20:18.760] That's my final answer.
[01:20:18.760 -> 01:20:21.760] Checo gets all of his parts out of the bin.
[01:20:21.760 -> 01:20:26.800] I think the drivers have quite a bit of feedback but at the end of the day, there's only like
[01:20:26.800 -> 01:20:30.120] stuff like aerodynamic changes over a season take a really long time.
[01:20:30.120 -> 01:20:33.720] You know, it's like just to go like nerd out for 20 seconds.
[01:20:33.720 -> 01:20:38.360] It's like, imagine you have low speed understeer at the apex of a corner as a result of the
[01:20:38.360 -> 01:20:44.280] tires being very weak and when they're low, sorry, as a result of the tires being very
[01:20:44.280 -> 01:20:46.560] weak on the front when they're not loaded very much
[01:20:46.560 -> 01:20:53.800] at low speeds, a la Red Bull, or not even the Red Bull, the Pirelli, the 20, 22, 18 inch
[01:20:53.800 -> 01:20:57.540] Pirellis are, they are not particularly strong on the front end.
[01:20:57.540 -> 01:21:00.360] How do you resolve that with aero or mechanical things?
[01:21:00.360 -> 01:21:03.160] Because like, you know, with your springs and bars and your mechanical setup for all
[01:21:03.160 -> 01:21:09.440] you F1 manager gurus, you know, know those those things are like really coarse changes that you can only affect like
[01:21:09.440 -> 01:21:14.480] global areas of it but it's like I need more front end at low speed when I'm turning in but
[01:21:14.480 -> 01:21:20.320] only here not there those things take a long time so the drivers absolutely have a lot of input on
[01:21:20.320 -> 01:21:29.280] that but then you're completely reliant on having a strong tool chain and well correlated tools and models that let you go from right driver says
[01:21:29.280 -> 01:21:34.660] this and I need to fix it here my tool says I can fix this thing here but then
[01:21:34.660 -> 01:21:37.660] does the when you go make that part and put it on the car does it do that thing
[01:21:37.660 -> 01:21:41.380] and that's that that's that process you're always refining your correlation
[01:21:41.380 -> 01:21:49.160] loop and ensuring you have a good hit rate. So the drivers do have a huge amount of input on the development of the car, but in years
[01:21:49.160 -> 01:21:55.040] like this year, you actually had so many unknowns about the performance of the car.
[01:21:55.040 -> 01:21:59.200] One, you'd run some Pirellis on a mule car and they may or may not have been the exact
[01:21:59.200 -> 01:22:01.280] same Pirellis that you end up racing this season.
[01:22:01.280 -> 01:22:05.360] So you can gather some data on those on an unrepresentative car.
[01:22:05.360 -> 01:22:10.060] You got a wind tunnel model and a CFD model about the aerodynamic performance of the car.
[01:22:10.060 -> 01:22:14.080] You still do aero mapping on the track for one very specific reason.
[01:22:14.080 -> 01:22:18.320] The tools are not always right and when you have huge regulations they're likely to be
[01:22:18.320 -> 01:22:24.200] more wrong than a regulation you've had for four years.
[01:22:24.200 -> 01:22:26.800] So the drivers have a huge input into the
[01:22:26.800 -> 01:22:31.600] development process but sometimes the variables that you're playing with, the unknowns, are
[01:22:31.600 -> 01:22:35.280] huge compared to the drivers. Like well I prefer it's like that and then you show up in testing
[01:22:35.280 -> 01:22:39.360] it's like yeah it's nothing like that. You know I didn't I wasn't around for testing this year so I
[01:22:39.360 -> 01:22:46.460] have no idea how well they hit the marks with the RB18 for example. But yeah, drivers, yeah.
[01:22:46.460 -> 01:22:49.540] The drivers that can identify what they need to go faster
[01:22:49.540 -> 01:22:52.820] and what's hindering them the most from going faster
[01:22:52.820 -> 01:22:55.440] and who can deal with disturbances,
[01:22:55.440 -> 01:22:58.700] those guys will thrive more
[01:22:58.700 -> 01:23:00.500] and be able to give better feedback.
[01:23:03.100 -> 01:23:04.940] Well, that's a lovely serious answer there.
[01:23:04.940 -> 01:23:06.080] I got, all right, we got it.
[01:23:06.080 -> 01:23:07.080] Let's go fraud.
[01:23:07.080 -> 01:23:08.080] Let's go fraud.
[01:23:08.080 -> 01:23:09.080] I'm losing it, man.
[01:23:09.080 -> 01:23:11.120] We can, we can forward it up with the next question from...
[01:23:11.120 -> 01:23:12.120] I got it.
[01:23:12.120 -> 01:23:17.040] ...the weirdest thing each of you had to do at the office.
[01:23:17.040 -> 01:23:21.560] I mean, I got pretty used, I must have had probably over a hundred PCR swabs up my nose
[01:23:21.560 -> 01:23:23.520] and after a while it was like...
[01:23:23.520 -> 01:23:24.520] Oh shit, yeah.
[01:23:24.520 -> 01:23:25.100] I haven't swabbed in a while, I'm just, do you need to do a test? Like, no, I just need to stick something up my nose and after a while it's like I haven't swabbed in a while
[01:23:25.100 -> 01:23:28.360] I'm just do you need to do a test like no I just need to stick something up my
[01:23:28.360 -> 01:23:31.900] nose weirdest thing I had to do with the office man what do you got anything
[01:23:31.900 -> 01:23:36.580] cuz I'm I'm struggling I had to give Dietrich Matus a tour around building
[01:23:36.580 -> 01:23:41.660] four once oh cuz I was the only one around that knew the layout and yeah
[01:23:41.660 -> 01:23:46.600] it was in there and what it was there for. Big D! And Helmut Marker was with him too, right?
[01:23:46.600 -> 01:23:49.800] So it was the big cheeses, the pair of them.
[01:23:49.800 -> 01:23:50.800] Yeah.
[01:23:50.800 -> 01:23:54.600] And when they came into the office I was working,
[01:23:54.600 -> 01:23:56.600] no one told me this was happening.
[01:23:56.600 -> 01:24:01.400] I knew he was visiting the site, but no one told me they were coming to me.
[01:24:01.400 -> 01:24:06.760] So when they came into my office, they just sort of opened the door, walked
[01:24:06.760 -> 01:24:10.440] straight in and I was just sitting there with my headphones and my feet on the desk. I was
[01:24:10.440 -> 01:24:12.160] like, great, this is a fucking good start.
[01:24:12.160 -> 01:24:14.080] So you will give us a tour now?
[01:24:14.080 -> 01:24:19.880] Yeah, pretty much. So walked him around, showed him what's going on. And Dietrich never said
[01:24:19.880 -> 01:24:29.380] a word. He must understand English and speak English, but he just never fucking said anything.
[01:24:29.380 -> 01:24:33.800] And Helmut Marko, I think Helmut Marko said like four words, and then Christian just sort
[01:24:33.800 -> 01:24:37.000] of said, right, thanks, and then away they went.
[01:24:37.000 -> 01:24:41.000] Oh my god!
[01:24:41.000 -> 01:24:45.600] And yeah, I didn't get fired. That's good. Yeah.
[01:24:45.600 -> 01:24:47.600] How long was that before you left?
[01:24:47.600 -> 01:24:48.600] Because that could have been a long...
[01:24:48.600 -> 01:24:52.600] Oh, that was like, I was only like in there for like, I say only.
[01:24:52.600 -> 01:24:54.600] That must have been like my second fucking year in.
[01:24:54.600 -> 01:24:55.600] Okay.
[01:24:55.600 -> 01:24:58.600] So, and I managed six years out of it, so...
[01:24:58.600 -> 01:25:01.600] It took them four years to process the paperwork.
[01:25:01.600 -> 01:25:04.600] The weirdest thing...
[01:25:04.600 -> 01:25:08.560] It's not at the office, but this is a really weird one
[01:25:08.560 -> 01:25:15.360] and it's like a travel sketch right? So one year on the way to Budapest the flights got cancelled
[01:25:15.360 -> 01:25:24.560] from a huge storm. I think this was 2017. So we landed nearby in Bratislava and we randomly went
[01:25:24.560 -> 01:25:31.500] through the phone book, the freaking yellow pages or something, and found somebody with a van and a trailer to put a bunch of suitcases in.
[01:25:31.500 -> 01:25:33.500] I think there was like 8 of us engineers.
[01:25:33.500 -> 01:25:37.500] And we drove overnight from Budapest to Bratislava.
[01:25:37.500 -> 01:25:40.500] Or, from Bratislava to Budapest.
[01:25:42.500 -> 01:25:47.660] And it's like like what the heck the guy the guy was like wrapped up in a
[01:25:47.660 -> 01:25:52.740] blanket like basically hibernating and sleeping while he was driving I'm like
[01:25:52.740 -> 01:25:56.540] dude this is not safe and I was like I was unwell I had a cold or something I
[01:25:56.540 -> 01:25:59.580] just passed out at the back of the van yeah I said a little prayer it's like
[01:25:59.580 -> 01:26:06.240] you know might not make it tonight text text my girlfriend, it's like, I love you. This might not end well.
[01:26:06.240 -> 01:26:07.840] I'll talk to you in the morning.
[01:26:07.840 -> 01:26:09.240] Ha ha!
[01:26:09.240 -> 01:26:11.080] Did you ever, at winter testing,
[01:26:11.920 -> 01:26:13.560] did you ever get to, you know when,
[01:26:13.560 -> 01:26:15.280] so at winter testing, they hire out
[01:26:15.280 -> 01:26:18.560] a load of these Volkswagen transporter vans, right?
[01:26:18.560 -> 01:26:20.040] For people that don't know.
[01:26:20.040 -> 01:26:21.800] And what they tend to do is they take
[01:26:21.800 -> 01:26:23.160] a load of the back seats out,
[01:26:23.160 -> 01:26:24.960] so they can do airport runs for parts
[01:26:24.960 -> 01:26:26.000] and things like that with them.
[01:26:27.000 -> 01:26:32.000] So all the rear benches and things like that end up getting stacked next to the tires.
[01:26:33.000 -> 01:26:39.000] So late at night we used to just sit on these Volkswagen benches with the tire warmers over us to keep us going.
[01:26:41.000 -> 01:26:46.640] No, I was usually up in the office like delirious from not sleeping for running testing two
[01:26:46.640 -> 01:26:47.640] days in a row.
[01:26:47.640 -> 01:26:49.600] That was pretty good.
[01:26:49.600 -> 01:26:53.820] Yeah, now I don't remember too much weird shit.
[01:26:53.820 -> 01:26:56.800] I'm sure like if some like I get a couple beers in me, I'll remember some really weird
[01:26:56.800 -> 01:26:59.920] stories but nothing really weird at the office.
[01:26:59.920 -> 01:27:03.080] Office was usually pretty calm for me.
[01:27:03.080 -> 01:27:06.860] Yeah, nothing, nothing crazy. Nothing you're willing to admit on
[01:27:06.860 -> 01:27:14.940] camera just yet. Yeah, definitely not. Not yet. I need a couple beers first. Yeah. Right.
[01:27:14.940 -> 01:27:26.120] Last one. Juste Landsvat, again, probably butchered that.'re welcome John thanks John big Steve big
[01:27:26.120 -> 01:27:32.800] John if you would ever want to work any other f1 team which other team would
[01:27:32.800 -> 01:27:40.120] have your preference and why would you ever go back to f1 should we ask you
[01:27:40.120 -> 01:27:45.480] when your money's run out yeah yeah okay Yeah, okay. If you were gonna go back,
[01:27:45.480 -> 01:27:47.120] do you have a preference on team?
[01:27:48.320 -> 01:27:49.880] If I went back,
[01:27:52.520 -> 01:27:54.160] I would only go back to Red Bull.
[01:27:55.800 -> 01:27:56.920] I've worked at two teams.
[01:27:56.920 -> 01:27:58.360] Because you know, oh, okay.
[01:27:58.360 -> 01:28:00.680] Okay, so I've worked at two teams.
[01:28:00.680 -> 01:28:03.440] I do not want to,
[01:28:03.440 -> 01:28:04.840] I mean, it depends,
[01:28:04.840 -> 01:28:09.500] because maybe, let's say I go back and I decide I want to go back and run a vehicle
[01:28:09.500 -> 01:28:11.220] Dynamics department or something
[01:28:11.220 -> 01:28:15.040] Well, I don't know if I want to go to Red Bull to do that because they've already got good people doing that
[01:28:15.040 -> 01:28:17.040] What I want to go to a team that's
[01:28:17.120 -> 01:28:23.060] You know want somebody a new perspective would they have me fuck probably not like you've done YouTube for two years
[01:28:23.520 -> 01:28:27.520] You dumbass. I'm not
[01:28:27.520 -> 01:28:34.580] sure. I'm not sure honestly. I think if I went back to a Formula 1 team, I would only
[01:28:34.580 -> 01:28:38.900] go back to Red Bull at this stage. That's it. That's my take. I know the place. I know
[01:28:38.900 -> 01:28:44.000] the people that work there. I don't have any interest in working at Mercedes. Like if you
[01:28:44.000 -> 01:28:46.040] have to wear like nice clothes to work and
[01:28:46.520 -> 01:28:52.160] It's it's a much more corporate environment. I'm not interested. I have no interest at working at Ferrari I
[01:28:53.320 -> 01:28:56.680] Don't want to move to Italy that the simple ass. I don't want to Italy
[01:28:57.320 -> 01:28:59.320] and I think
[01:28:59.520 -> 01:29:01.560] they worked pretty freaking hard there and
[01:29:02.520 -> 01:29:07.660] Then they have a couple people throw it all away for him. That's not true, that's not, but like you know I don't
[01:29:07.660 -> 01:29:12.340] have any interest in that. That's it, that's it, that's me. I'd go back to
[01:29:12.340 -> 01:29:18.660] Red Bull. Hmm, see I'd be opposite, I wouldn't bother. No. If I was gonna go
[01:29:18.660 -> 01:29:26.240] back to F1 I'd probably only do it for Ferrari because you you know, as troubled as they've been, there is still something
[01:29:26.240 -> 01:29:29.760] very alluring about a red uniform.
[01:29:29.760 -> 01:29:33.120] Yep. That nurse's outfit that you were thinking about.
[01:29:33.120 -> 01:29:39.600] Yeah, that's the one. Yeah. Yeah, I'd love nothing more than for Mattia Bonotto to just
[01:29:39.600 -> 01:29:46.000] shout at me. Angry Italian. Yeah.
[01:29:46.000 -> 01:29:48.000] Plan F.
[01:29:48.000 -> 01:29:50.000] Question?
[01:29:50.000 -> 01:29:52.000] Stupid question.
[01:29:52.000 -> 01:29:54.000] Yeah, dude.
[01:29:54.000 -> 01:29:56.000] Yeah, I don't know, man. I don't think...
[01:29:56.000 -> 01:29:58.000] Yeah, I get that, though.
[01:29:58.000 -> 01:30:00.000] Like, Seb Fettel had the same thing.
[01:30:00.000 -> 01:30:02.000] He's like, everybody's a Ferrari fan.
[01:30:02.000 -> 01:30:04.000] And I probably would have a while back,
[01:30:04.000 -> 01:30:10.460] but after being out of it, I don't like if I'm if I'm gonna sacrifice my entire life
[01:30:10.460 -> 01:30:14.960] to do something I'm doing it for myself again you know I'm not I'm not doing it for another
[01:30:14.960 -> 01:30:20.320] team I give it in if YouTube and Formula One content and streaming and everything else
[01:30:20.320 -> 01:30:27.440] don't work out I can go get a job in vehicle dynamics. Or we could start our own team.
[01:30:27.440 -> 01:30:32.240] We could start our own team, I don't have any interest in that. Fraudulent F1. Fraud F1, yeah.
[01:30:33.680 -> 01:30:36.800] It'd be like a spec series, we could run a Formula 4 team or something.
[01:30:38.320 -> 01:30:41.760] But I don't know, I just don't really have that much interest in going back into professional
[01:30:41.760 -> 01:30:46.320] motorsport, like I'm on the steep end of the learning curve on this again with doing content and stuff and
[01:30:46.320 -> 01:30:51.360] I'm having fun and it gives me a lot of different things to do that I didn't
[01:30:51.360 -> 01:30:57.440] wouldn't get to do working a normal nine-to-five so a lot more risks.
[01:30:57.440 -> 01:31:01.800] You heard it here first me and Blake you'll see us in six months at your
[01:31:01.800 -> 01:31:07.360] local McDonald's. Yep see you there. At least you've got a normal job.
[01:31:07.360 -> 01:31:08.360] I do, yeah, I do.
[01:31:08.360 -> 01:31:14.000] So people that don't know, I do like IT consulting.
[01:31:14.000 -> 01:31:18.840] It sounds all very big and serious because it's all related to government, UK government
[01:31:18.840 -> 01:31:21.840] contracts, NHS, universities, councils.
[01:31:21.840 -> 01:31:27.080] But it's different and I get to work from home, which means I get to spend more time
[01:31:27.080 -> 01:31:28.080] with my family.
[01:31:28.080 -> 01:31:30.520] So win-win-win for me.
[01:31:30.520 -> 01:31:33.440] Yeah, speaking of, I need to go spend some time with the cats.
[01:31:33.440 -> 01:31:37.000] It's time for them to be fed as well, because they're going to rip my face off or shit in
[01:31:37.000 -> 01:31:40.000] the corner of my office, which they haven't done yet.
[01:31:40.000 -> 01:31:42.160] No, my kids haven't either.
[01:31:42.160 -> 01:31:46.000] Okay. That's my oldest.
[01:31:46.000 -> 01:31:48.000] Just left a nice mess by the new RGB lamp.
[01:31:48.000 -> 01:31:50.000] Which is gorgeous by the way.
[01:31:50.000 -> 01:31:52.000] Did we
[01:31:52.000 -> 01:31:54.000] Did we manage to stick to our
[01:31:54.000 -> 01:31:56.000] one hour time schedule Blake?
[01:31:56.000 -> 01:31:58.000] Nah, we're an hour and a half but everybody loves it.
[01:31:58.000 -> 01:32:00.000] You guys are absolute frauds.
[01:32:02.000 -> 01:32:04.000] You guys are absolute frauds.
[01:32:04.000 -> 01:32:06.680] So, I think should we wrap it there
[01:32:07.560 -> 01:32:09.560] Yeah, I think that was that was a long episode
[01:32:09.640 -> 01:32:14.160] We'd love to hear if you guys enjoyed the episode and you've watched it leave us a you know
[01:32:14.160 -> 01:32:15.920] We'll hit leave us a comment on Twitter
[01:32:15.920 -> 01:32:22.600] Leave us a review a glowing five-star review and big shout out to whoever left that one-star review. You're an absolute legend
[01:32:22.600 -> 01:32:24.600] I want to give you a forehead kiss
[01:32:21.760 -> 01:32:23.080] to whoever left that one star review, you're an absolute legend.
[01:32:23.080 -> 01:32:24.720] I wanna give you a forehead kiss.
[01:32:26.840 -> 01:32:30.200] And if you're interested in perhaps playing
[01:32:30.200 -> 01:32:33.360] Formula One Manager, but you do not own it,
[01:32:33.360 -> 01:32:36.960] you go over to our Twitter account,
[01:32:36.960 -> 01:32:39.360] you will see we've got a code to give away.
[01:32:39.360 -> 01:32:41.440] All you gotta do is follow us on Twitter
[01:32:41.440 -> 01:32:44.160] and retweet that tweet, and away you go,
[01:32:44.160 -> 01:32:45.240] you're in the draw.
[01:32:45.240 -> 01:32:46.080] Oh yes.
[01:32:46.080 -> 01:32:46.900] Do that.
[01:32:46.900 -> 01:32:47.740] And speaking of-
[01:32:47.740 -> 01:32:49.160] I'll do that before we go live next week.
[01:32:49.160 -> 01:32:50.680] Yeah, speaking of F1 Manager,
[01:32:50.680 -> 01:32:51.880] they've just dropped a new patch.
[01:32:51.880 -> 01:32:53.920] They've changed the tire degradation,
[01:32:53.920 -> 01:32:55.760] some of the pace stuff and the fuel management.
[01:32:55.760 -> 01:32:57.560] So as an awesome game,
[01:32:57.560 -> 01:32:59.560] I think you've probably spent a bit more time on it
[01:32:59.560 -> 01:33:02.360] than I have, but like as an out of a box simulator game
[01:33:02.360 -> 01:33:04.840] for F1, the game's awesome.
[01:33:04.840 -> 01:33:06.600] And they've listened to what everybody said
[01:33:06.600 -> 01:33:09.000] and they fixed a handful of the things that are not,
[01:33:09.000 -> 01:33:10.960] they weren't ideal in the initial, they were passable,
[01:33:10.960 -> 01:33:14.440] but it's like, these guys and gals are doing an awesome job
[01:33:14.440 -> 01:33:16.000] with this game and I cannot wait to play it some more.
[01:33:16.000 -> 01:33:19.000] I'll probably, I'll probably play it a bit more on stream
[01:33:19.000 -> 01:33:21.280] later this week, so I'll let you guys know on Twitter
[01:33:21.280 -> 01:33:28.800] when that's happening and I'm uploading all the episodes. So we've had some pretty funny ones. I've uploaded all the episodes to
[01:33:30.240 -> 01:33:34.200] Break on YouTube. So break is my gaming channel and break f1 is my f1 content
[01:33:34.200 -> 01:33:37.480] Do be sure to follow both of those Dan. Where can they find you on Twitter?
[01:33:37.480 -> 01:33:44.140] I think it's the same as your username is it engine mode 11 with sixty four thousand seven hundred and eighty five followers currently
[01:33:44.280 -> 01:33:46.000] Yeah, I'm reading it for you.
[01:33:46.000 -> 01:33:49.000] Thank you, boss. Yeah, we're on that.
[01:33:49.000 -> 01:33:51.000] No worries.
[01:33:51.000 -> 01:33:56.000] And just before we go, Blake, I wonder if you could help me answer a couple of questions.
[01:33:56.000 -> 01:34:03.000] What was your primary role when you was a trackside engineer in relation to fuel?
[01:34:02.740 -> 01:34:05.980] engineer in relation to fuel?
[01:34:07.380 -> 01:34:10.240] I managed the race fuel. I told them when to go fast, when they had to save
[01:34:10.240 -> 01:34:13.320] and how much they had to save and stuff like that.
[01:34:13.320 -> 01:34:14.160] Cool.
[01:34:14.160 -> 01:34:15.760] How many times in F1 Manager, Blake,
[01:34:15.760 -> 01:34:17.360] have you ran out of fuel?
[01:34:17.360 -> 01:34:20.680] I've done five races and I've DNF'd one car
[01:34:20.680 -> 01:34:23.580] and I didn't DNF Tsunoda because he was lapped.
[01:34:24.760 -> 01:34:25.880] Get better better dude.
[01:34:25.880 -> 01:34:28.260] There you have it ladies and gentlemen, there you have it.
[01:34:28.260 -> 01:34:36.560] The most fraudulent pairing of the F1 podcast in the world.
[01:34:36.560 -> 01:34:39.560] Fraud watch.
[01:34:39.560 -> 01:34:40.560] Fraud watch.
[01:34:40.560 -> 01:34:42.520] Yeah that's me, that's me.
[01:34:42.520 -> 01:34:43.520] Frauded.
[01:34:43.520 -> 01:34:47.440] Fraud fraud fraud fraud fraud. Yeah. But anyway,
[01:34:47.440 -> 01:34:50.320] you guys have an awesome evening. If you're hanging out live on the stream, we'll hang
[01:34:50.320 -> 01:34:53.520] out for another couple of minutes. But if you guys listening or watching on YouTube
[01:34:53.520 -> 01:34:57.400] or your favorite podcast software, thank you guys for hanging out. And we'll see you guys
[01:34:57.400 -> 01:35:03.760] probably have our episode out Tuesday after the Singapore Grand Prix. In case I get called
[01:35:03.760 -> 01:35:06.180] out to the race to go hang out at Orchard
[01:35:06.180 -> 01:35:09.500] Towers, which probably won't happen, so I'll see you there.
[01:35:09.500 -> 01:35:10.940] And we'll ch- oh yeah.
[01:35:10.940 -> 01:35:14.060] But anyway, you guys, um, stay fraudulent, yeah?
[01:35:14.060 -> 01:35:15.060] Yeah, stay fraudulent.
[01:35:15.060 -> 01:35:19.340] You're not gonna tell him that thing you always tell him?
[01:35:19.340 -> 01:35:20.340] Fuck off.
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