Podcast: EngineBraking
Published Date:
Wed, 29 Nov 2023 20:35:52 GMT
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1:18:00
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The boys take a look at the last race of the season at Abu Dhabi
And if we don't see you before, thank you for being with us this season, have a happy holidays and we'll see you in the new year
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* **Introduction:**
The episode begins with a brief mention of the upcoming holidays and a special offer from Omaha Steaks. The hosts, Ryan Reynolds, Blake, and Dan, introduce the podcast and acknowledge the ongoing season of Formula One.
* **Main Discussion:**
1. **F1 Commission Meeting:**
* The F1 Commission meeting took place in Abu Dhabi, bringing together teams, stakeholders, and journalists to discuss plans for the future.
* Key topics included potential changes to sprint race weekends, such as reverse grids and revised timetables, as well as the elimination of tire blankets to save energy.
* The ban on tire blankets was met with skepticism by the hosts, who argued that it would lead to increased fuel consumption and negate the intended energy-saving benefits.
* Discussions also centered around driver cooling measures, with the FIA considering modifications to allow for improved airflow in the cockpit.
* The 2026 car development regulations were addressed, emphasizing the importance of adhering to timelines and ensuring teams have sufficient time to provide feedback.
2. **McLaren and Monster Energy Partnership:**
* Monster Energy's departure from Mercedes and subsequent partnership with McLaren was announced.
* The hosts debated the potential impact on branding and speculated about the possibility of unique McLaren-inspired Monster Energy flavors.
3. **McLaren's Engine Deal with Mercedes:**
* McLaren secured a long-term engine supply deal with Mercedes, extending their partnership through 2030.
* The hosts expressed confidence in Mercedes' power unit capabilities and predicted potential teething issues for Red Bull's new engine in 2026.
4. **Alfa Tauri's Potential Name Change:**
* Rumors surfaced regarding a potential name change for Alfa Tauri, with "Racing Bulls" being the rumored new moniker.
* The hosts criticized the lack of creativity in the potential new name, expressing a preference for retaining the Toro Rosso or Minardi names.
5. **Michael Masi's Return Speculation:**
* Mohammed bin Sulayem, the FIA president, hinted at the possibility of reinstating Michael Masi as race director.
* The hosts expressed skepticism and disapproval of this potential move, highlighting Masi's controversial decisions and the need for a fresh start.
* **Conclusion:**
The episode wraps up with a reminder to subscribe to the Break F1 podcast on audio platforms and a mention of an upcoming interview with Liam Lawson on Blake's YouTube channel. **Summary of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Podcast Episode:**
* Michael Masi, the former race director, made an appearance at the race, raising eyebrows among fans.
* A lighthearted discussion ensued about the popularity of Blake, the host, compared to the relative anonymity of the podcast's engineer, Dan.
* The hosts joked about their preference for cheap cola and engaged in a playful banter about fraud and engine performance.
* The podcast acknowledged that this was the final episode of the season and thanked listeners for their support throughout the year.
* The hosts briefly reviewed the Free Practice sessions, noting a few incidents, including a red flag caused by Yuki Tsunoda's crash and a pit lane infraction involving Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon.
* They highlighted an amusing incident involving a Ferrari kid who approached Ted Kravitz during his notebook segment, leaving fans entertained.
* The qualifying session was discussed, with Mercedes, McLaren, Williams, Ferrari, and Red Bull showing strong pace.
* The hosts expressed surprise at Lewis Hamilton's struggles in qualifying and noted that George Russell had a better overall qualifying record against Hamilton this season.
* Max Verstappen secured pole position, followed by Charles Leclerc, Oscar Piastri, and George Russell.
* The podcast provided an analysis of the qualifying statistics, revealing that Verstappen had a dominant qualifying record over Sergio Perez, similar to Fernando Alonso's advantage over Lance Stroll.
* The hosts praised Yuki Tsunoda's performance this season, despite a few notable errors.
* Verstappen's dominance in qualifying was highlighted, with Red Bull setting the fastest lap and qualifying margin on average.
* Mercedes showed improvement but remained behind Red Bull in terms of performance.
* AlphaTauri and McLaren showed signs of recovery towards the end of the season.
* The hosts discussed the race strategy employed by Ferrari, particularly their attempt to hold up George Russell to help Sergio Perez secure P2 in the Constructors' Championship.
* Charles Leclerc's suggestion to let Perez pass and impede Russell was analyzed, highlighting Ferrari's lack of trust in their pit wall compared to Red Bull's strategic prowess.
* Carlos Sainz's disappointing race was mentioned, as he started P16 and eventually retired from the race.
* The podcast concluded with a lighthearted farewell to the listeners and a promise to return in the new year. **Summary of the F1: Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Podcast Episode**
**Overall Race Recap:**
* The final race of the season took place at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
* Michael Masi, the former race director, made a controversial return.
* No one seemed to know who Dan was, and Red Bull's energy drinks were not on his Christmas list.
* Blake, one of the hosts, unexpectedly enjoyed a cheap-tasting cola.
**Key Moments and Incidents:**
* Ferrari's strategy to secure a podium position backfired when they failed to secure a safety car in time.
* Sergio Perez's strong tire management allowed him to maintain track position and secure a podium finish.
* McLaren's drivers, Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, faced tire issues, affecting their race performance.
* Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso engaged in a tense battle on track, with Alonso accused of brake-checking Hamilton.
**Team and Driver Performances:**
* Mercedes secured second place in the constructors' championship, three points ahead of Ferrari.
* George Russell finished the race in fifth place, while Lewis Hamilton finished ninth.
* Carlos Sainz's poor qualifying and race performance contributed to Ferrari's loss in the constructors' championship.
* Yuki Tsunoda led the race for a brief period, becoming the first Japanese driver to lead an F1 race since 1996.
* Max Verstappen secured his 19th win of the season, breaking the record for most wins in a single season.
**Random Fandom Segment:**
* The hosts selected AlphaTauri as the team to focus on for the Random Fandom segment.
* Daniel Ricciardo struggled with his car throughout the weekend, qualifying in 15th and finishing in 11th place.
* Yuki Tsunoda had a strong race, leading for a period and finishing in eighth place, securing the team's first "Driver of the Day" award.
* Franz Tost, the team principal of AlphaTauri, retired after 18 years with the team.
**Conclusion:**
* The hosts expressed their appreciation for the listeners who have joined them throughout the season.
* They encouraged listeners to check on their friends and support local businesses.
* They promised to return with more episodes in the future. # Podcast Summary: Formula One Season Finale at Abu Dhabi
**Introduction:**
The podcast episode delves into the final race of the Formula One season held in Abu Dhabi, providing insights and analysis of the thrilling events that unfolded. The hosts, Blake, and Dan, along with their guest, Michael Masi, engage in lively discussions, sharing their perspectives on the race and addressing various topics related to the sport.
**Main Discussion Points:**
1. **Michael Masi's Return:**
- The episode begins with a humorous acknowledgment of Michael Masi's return, despite his controversial involvement in previous races.
2. **Dan's Identity Crisis:**
- The hosts poke fun at Dan's lack of recognition among the Formula One community, highlighting the humorous disconnect between his passion for the sport and his anonymity.
3. **Red Bull Energy Drinks and Dan's Christmas List:**
- Dan expresses his dissatisfaction with Red Bull Energy Drinks, indicating that they will not be on his Christmas list due to their perceived inferior taste.
4. **Blake's Unexpected Preference for Cheap Cola:**
- In a surprising turn of events, Blake reveals his enjoyment of cheap-tasting cola, contrasting with Dan's disdain for Red Bull.
5. **"Fraudwatch" and "EngineGoodBoi":**
- The hosts engage in lighthearted banter, coining the terms "Fraudwatch" and "EngineGoodBoi" to describe certain aspects of the race.
**Season Wrap-Up and Farewell:**
The episode concludes with the hosts expressing their gratitude to the listeners for their support throughout the season. They bid farewell to the audience, wishing them a happy holiday season and promising to return in the new year with more exciting Formula One content.
**Overall Message:**
The podcast episode serves as a lighthearted and entertaining recap of the final Formula One race of the season, offering a blend of humor, analysis, and camaraderie among the hosts. It encapsulates the spirit of the sport while providing a fun and engaging experience for listeners.
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[02:27.600 -> 02:28.200] Brake.
[02:28.200 -> 02:30.000] Echo chambers of farts and idiots
[02:30.000 -> 02:31.240] on Twitter after races.
[02:31.240 -> 02:33.960] It's the engine breaking F1 podcast.
[02:41.160 -> 02:41.880] Pick yourselves up.
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[02:43.720 -> 02:44.360] Welcome back.
[02:44.680 -> 02:49.040] Episode 44. Hasht hashtag blessed podcast hashtag.
[02:49.040 -> 02:50.040] Thank you.
[02:50.040 -> 02:53.560] Thank you guys for another wild and crazy season.
[02:53.560 -> 02:55.520] I hope you guys are doing well.
[02:55.520 -> 02:58.760] We've finished off the 2023 season.
[02:58.760 -> 02:59.760] Nobody got hurt.
[02:59.760 -> 03:02.760] No, except for Daniel Ricardo, but I'm glad he's better.
[03:02.760 -> 03:04.280] Yeah, I mean, he did.
[03:04.280 -> 03:07.040] Yeah, I want to launch trial at the start of the season, didn't he?
[03:07.680 -> 03:08.160] Bust his wrist or something.
[03:08.160 -> 03:09.720] Oh, Fernando pushed him off his bicycle.
[03:09.760 -> 03:10.080] Yeah.
[03:10.440 -> 03:14.440] Oh, the, yeah, the, the whiplash from that unfortunate, uh, yeah.
[03:15.200 -> 03:16.880] That's what you get for riding a bicycle.
[03:18.720 -> 03:21.120] But mama always said, wait, is it going blind?
[03:21.120 -> 03:21.800] That's not, but.
[03:23.040 -> 03:24.360] Where was you going with that?
[03:25.680 -> 03:28.760] That's, you know, when you, you say, yeah, Oh, you're a scum reference in there or something.
[03:29.200 -> 03:30.880] No, you'll go blind from that.
[03:32.040 -> 03:32.280] What?
[03:32.480 -> 03:34.520] Doing the old, um, hand shuffle.
[03:35.040 -> 03:35.320] Yeah.
[03:35.560 -> 03:36.600] Oh, wankers whiplash.
[03:36.640 -> 03:36.880] Yeah.
[03:36.880 -> 03:37.080] Yeah.
[03:37.080 -> 03:37.280] Yeah.
[03:37.280 -> 03:37.480] Yeah.
[03:37.480 -> 03:37.680] Yeah.
[03:39.440 -> 03:40.400] Anyway, welcome back.
[03:40.400 -> 03:45.480] This is a formula one podcast, not some, not some Aston Martin fan fiction nonsense.
[03:45.480 -> 03:48.240] But anyway, DeVries got hurt.
[03:48.240 -> 03:49.560] Did he?
[03:49.560 -> 03:50.560] Emotionally.
[03:50.560 -> 03:54.280] Yeah, he had a tough time, but you know what?
[03:54.280 -> 04:01.360] What's he driving some Formula E, driving some World Endurance Championship next season?
[04:01.360 -> 04:02.920] It'll be all right.
[04:02.920 -> 04:04.320] It'll be all right.
[04:04.320 -> 04:05.440] But yeah., yeah.
[04:05.800 -> 04:06.000] What?
[04:06.600 -> 04:07.920] Welcome back.
[04:08.000 -> 04:09.600] If you're old school, welcome.
[04:09.600 -> 04:12.120] If you're new, this is the engine breaking podcast.
[04:12.120 -> 04:13.560] My name is Blake, AKA break.
[04:13.960 -> 04:18.440] Um, this is Dan, AKA engine mode, 11 to frauds used to work in formula one.
[04:18.440 -> 04:23.920] And now we do, I'm basically jobless and Dan actually has a real job.
[04:24.360 -> 04:24.600] Yeah.
[04:24.600 -> 04:25.320] Congratulations. Senior consultant. I'll have, you know, I'm basically jobless and Dan actually has a real job. Yeah, congratulations.
[04:25.320 -> 04:26.560] Senior consultant.
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[04:40.600 -> 04:41.440] True.
[04:42.320 -> 04:46.520] Good enough to make it to the end of the season of 44 episodes.
[04:46.520 -> 04:47.520] So thanks.
[04:47.520 -> 04:52.000] Oh, and everyone tagging us in there, Spotify wrapped.
[04:52.000 -> 04:54.560] Hey, you know what?
[04:54.560 -> 04:55.560] Big yourself up.
[04:55.560 -> 05:00.160] If you've got us on your Spotify wrap, um, in my book, you're an absolute legend.
[05:00.160 -> 05:04.480] I've had so many people message me to say, Hey, look, you made it on my Spotify wrap.
[05:04.480 -> 05:07.760] That was like, you just went and like set them on auto repeat while you're sleeping.
[05:07.760 -> 05:11.760] Like, yeah, definitely. But you know, I just wanted to, you know, it's free real estate,
[05:11.760 -> 05:16.800] you know, I was like, all right, cool. I appreciate that. But, um, why don't we,
[05:16.800 -> 05:20.320] why don't we get into the news of Formula One? I mean, the season has wrapped up.
[05:20.320 -> 05:26.680] There've been some interesting changes, especially considering the Formula One commission meeting.
[05:26.680 -> 05:29.600] What do we, what do we got as our takeaways from that?
[05:29.600 -> 05:30.600] Yeah.
[05:30.600 -> 05:38.240] So this is basically all the teams and people involved in it having chats about their plans.
[05:38.240 -> 05:41.440] And I think they invited the journalists and everything else, or they published this to
[05:41.440 -> 05:50.000] them to say, here's what we're gonna be doing for the next couple of years. Yeah. Yeah. And I think they do it every year, but I'll be honest with you. I've
[05:50.000 -> 05:56.080] never given a shit about it until we've had a podcast. So yeah, it's like, it's like, we'll
[05:56.080 -> 05:59.280] just figure out what happens next year. It's like, don't you want to know? It's like, no,
[05:59.280 -> 06:03.200] I don't like, I'll tell you one thing my girlfriend does that drives me insane for
[06:03.200 -> 06:09.840] no reason whatsoever. We'll watch a film and she will read the cliff notes of the film before we watch it to see
[06:09.840 -> 06:11.760] if she wants to invest the time in it.
[06:11.760 -> 06:13.960] And that's kind of how I feel about these F1 commission notes.
[06:13.960 -> 06:16.680] I'm like, you know what, let's get the 2026.
[06:16.680 -> 06:18.400] Just surprise me, surprise me.
[06:18.400 -> 06:21.780] I'm willing to wait for two years and she can't wait an hour and a half.
[06:21.780 -> 06:24.000] But on one hand, I do respect it.
[06:24.000 -> 06:30.160] Always prepared. Yeah. Where we used to get the, uh, when they bought out the, um, technical regs with
[06:30.160 -> 06:35.080] all the cost cap stuff in it, and it was like a 600 page document or something.
[06:35.080 -> 06:37.400] I remember sitting in the meeting saying, I'm not fucking reading all this.
[06:37.400 -> 06:38.960] Can someone just summarize it for me?
[06:38.960 -> 06:41.720] Because I can't fucking deal with this.
[06:41.760 -> 06:42.120] Yeah.
[06:42.120 -> 06:44.240] And, uh, lo and behold, we broke the cost cap.
[06:44.240 -> 06:48.120] So perhaps maybe that was why, maybe it was me because I couldn't be asked to read it.
[06:48.120 -> 06:50.240] Yeah, so sorry.
[06:50.240 -> 06:55.560] Yeah, Commission, the F1 Commission hearing took place on the Thursday at Abu Dhabi.
[06:55.560 -> 06:59.840] Good news for all of you F1 sprint haters.
[06:59.840 -> 07:02.160] I know you will gather here at this podcast.
[07:02.160 -> 07:08.160] Yeah, we're gonna have a we're gonna do like a sacrifice circle for the sprint races later.
[07:08.160 -> 07:09.840] My place. I'll give you guys the address later.
[07:10.960 -> 07:14.480] Yes, and we're going to potentially shake it all up.
[07:14.480 -> 07:22.160] They're looking at possibly bringing in some reverse grids and revamping the weekend timetable.
[07:24.640 -> 07:26.800] Apparently one idea.
[07:26.800 -> 07:34.160] They didn't hear us that we said, listen, you absolutely, the sprint weekends, can you
[07:34.160 -> 07:35.160] get rid of them?
[07:35.160 -> 07:37.900] They're like, no, no, we can't.
[07:37.900 -> 07:39.800] No one's going to believe that because you censored it.
[07:39.800 -> 07:45.840] If it was us, we'd be, they'd get both balls, double barrel.
[07:47.560 -> 07:51.520] Um, yes. So one idea is for spring qualifying to happen on Friday afternoon, qualifying
[07:51.520 -> 07:53.400] for the main race on the Saturday.
[07:54.680 -> 07:58.680] I don't really care how they shuffle it as long as they get rid of the,
[07:58.720 -> 08:00.320] the park Ferme bullshit.
[08:01.400 -> 08:04.760] That, that would be very interesting to see because it's like the argument for,
[08:04.960 -> 08:07.200] so if anybody's not clued in the park
[08:07.200 -> 08:10.880] for a May thing is basically after
[08:10.880 -> 08:12.840] free practice one on a sprint weekend,
[08:12.840 -> 08:14.240] you go into qualifying and as soon
[08:14.240 -> 08:15.360] as the car leaves the garage,
[08:15.360 -> 08:16.840] you cannot change the car setup.
[08:17.160 -> 08:18.800] And that's kind of sucks when you've got.
[08:19.600 -> 08:20.440] Qualify.
[08:21.600 -> 08:23.000] For sprint.
[08:23.880 -> 08:25.900] Sprint race and the race.
[08:25.900 -> 08:29.700] Like you can't change the car set up and it's like, you know, maybe you don't have on those
[08:29.700 -> 08:32.300] Fridays, you don't get the opportunity to learn about the car set because you have one
[08:32.300 -> 08:35.300] free practice session to set the car up and then you're like, cool, there you go.
[08:35.300 -> 08:40.200] And if you completely mess it up, you learn about it in the sprint race and you can't
[08:40.200 -> 08:40.800] do anything about it.
[08:40.800 -> 08:42.300] So it could be interesting.
[08:42.300 -> 08:43.500] I don't hate it at all.
[08:44.200 -> 08:47.400] No, and I forgot to write them down, but they also announced what races
[08:47.400 -> 08:48.680] are getting the sprint next year.
[08:49.360 -> 08:51.960] And they actually all seemed to make sense.
[08:52.240 -> 08:55.080] We haven't got any stupid like Baku or Spa.
[08:56.080 -> 09:01.520] You know, it's like the usual Brazil, uh, Austria, and I've forgotten what
[09:01.520 -> 09:04.080] the others were, but they were at tracks that it sort of makes sense at.
[09:05.520 -> 09:07.880] Sick. That'd be, uh, you know what?
[09:07.880 -> 09:10.400] So are we going to go to what are they changing the qualifying format?
[09:10.400 -> 09:11.400] Did they mention that yet?
[09:11.400 -> 09:17.360] Or is it just that I don't think we have checking.
[09:17.360 -> 09:19.680] They are stop inventing, stop inventing.
[09:19.680 -> 09:20.680] They are inventing.
[09:20.680 -> 09:21.680] Okay, fine.
[09:21.680 -> 09:22.680] Okay, sick.
[09:22.680 -> 09:26.220] I'm, you know what, if they change something, fine.
[09:26.220 -> 09:31.160] If they make it a different championship for the Bantz and something else, fine.
[09:31.160 -> 09:36.980] I personally, I understand they're selling more tickets at the racetrack and they're
[09:36.980 -> 09:38.620] making more money.
[09:38.620 -> 09:45.040] As a content creator, tech analyst, some random guy on the internet, which there's plenty
[09:45.040 -> 09:50.480] of guys on the internet with opinions and not all of them are good. I had a chat this
[09:50.480 -> 09:56.120] afternoon with Niasha as well. And it was just like, it's just so nonstop, man. It's
[09:56.120 -> 10:02.080] really hard to have some of those really interesting deep dive conversations that you want to have
[10:02.080 -> 10:09.820] because you rinse repeat always on, which is the same reason I left trackside engineering, which is the same reason I left F1 altogether.
[10:09.820 -> 10:15.540] Ironically, I'm back in it for peanuts to do a podcast and make videos.
[10:15.540 -> 10:19.580] I'm doing the job I was paid a lot for, for nothing.
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[10:30.960 -> 10:34.240] What else we got?
[10:34.240 -> 10:37.880] What else have the FIA commission, F1 commission said?
[10:37.880 -> 10:38.880] Tire blanket ban.
[10:38.880 -> 10:39.880] Yeah.
[10:39.880 -> 10:40.880] Get out of here.
[10:40.880 -> 10:43.140] They're getting rid of it.
[10:43.140 -> 10:44.680] So they're getting rid of the ban.
[10:44.680 -> 10:46.320] They're not getting rid of tire blankets.
[10:46.320 -> 10:48.000] Yeah, they were interesting.
[10:48.000 -> 10:52.560] They've been flirting with this idea for ages and I think it keeps getting pushed back.
[10:52.560 -> 10:57.040] And now eventually they've come to the conclusion that these Pirelli tires are never going to
[10:57.040 -> 11:00.520] be in a condition where they can run without being warmed up.
[11:00.520 -> 11:02.000] That's not a slight on Pirelli.
[11:02.000 -> 11:13.520] I'm just saying that's the truth. Yeah, you can't design F1 race tires and go through all this chemical analysis and things
[11:13.520 -> 11:14.520] like that.
[11:14.520 -> 11:18.240] And then all of a sudden say, Oh, by the way, guys, you're not allowed to heat them up anymore,
[11:18.240 -> 11:23.720] which is like a major component of the chemical reaction.
[11:23.720 -> 11:26.760] I think on one hand, other series are able to do it,
[11:27.080 -> 11:28.200] and it's not without problems.
[11:28.200 -> 11:29.680] We had spa and the WEC.
[11:30.040 -> 11:31.280] Spa and the WEC was a difficult one,
[11:31.280 -> 11:33.200] but at the same time, right?
[11:34.680 -> 11:36.120] Formula One has a big problem.
[11:36.640 -> 11:39.440] They do not have allowances
[11:39.440 -> 11:40.320] in the structure
[11:40.360 -> 11:41.720] for proper tire testing.
[11:43.080 -> 11:43.720] That is true.
[11:43.760 -> 11:44.120] That's it.
[11:44.280 -> 11:44.960] Bottom line, it's like
[11:47.080 -> 11:48.500] let's develop a tire during a free practice one session
[11:48.500 -> 11:49.960] at random events throughout the year.
[11:49.960 -> 11:54.840] No, you need A, B, C, A testing throughout an entire day.
[11:54.840 -> 11:57.040] You need several variations, a lot.
[11:57.040 -> 11:58.680] Pirelli don't have the money to do it.
[11:58.680 -> 12:01.440] And the teams don't have the money inside the cost cap
[12:01.440 -> 12:03.360] nor the resources with the calendar
[12:03.360 -> 12:04.680] unless they build up a test team
[12:04.680 -> 12:11.600] to do a proper warmer list tire for F1. I could be wrong. And if somebody does tires,
[12:11.600 -> 12:15.120] please send me a message. I would love to hear your thoughts on it. And if you want,
[12:15.120 -> 12:20.960] I can relay those thoughts anonymously. But seriously, I'm really interested because that's
[12:20.960 -> 12:26.520] my gut feeling. I feel quite strongly about it. But on the other hand, I've never developed a tire.
[12:26.520 -> 12:30.520] I've participated in many tire tests, but I don't know.
[12:30.520 -> 12:33.720] But here's the other thing.
[12:33.720 -> 12:37.320] The idea is to get rid of tire blankets to save money and save electricity.
[12:38.560 -> 12:40.600] Guess how you warm up the tires
[12:40.600 -> 12:44.000] by burning fucking fuel in the combustion engine, because it's like, yeah,
[12:44.000 -> 12:49.560] these are going to need like, you know, if you make a tire that you can heat up in three push
[12:49.560 -> 12:50.560] laps.
[12:50.560 -> 12:56.200] Yeah, OK, well, you've just wasted two laps of fuel.
[12:56.200 -> 12:58.680] Add that up for an entire season, then you'll have these really weird.
[12:58.680 -> 13:00.040] It's like.
[13:00.040 -> 13:04.400] Right now, I like the fact that a car can go out and do a one shot qualifying lap.
[13:04.400 -> 13:07.880] It could go out and do a one shot qualifying out timed lap in most tracks.
[13:07.880 -> 13:08.880] We've had that Vegas.
[13:08.880 -> 13:12.760] We didn't have that, which was a very weird flow to a session.
[13:12.760 -> 13:14.760] I did not enjoy that whatsoever.
[13:14.760 -> 13:19.520] Personally, the Q3 session was awkward.
[13:19.520 -> 13:24.280] But the fact that you can do out lap flying lap in lap.
[13:24.280 -> 13:25.000] Great, it makes for some really exciting Q3 sessions in my opinion. You can do out lap, flying lap, in lap.
[13:25.000 -> 13:28.000] Great it makes for some really exciting Q3 sessions in my opinion.
[13:28.000 -> 13:29.000] Yeah.
[13:29.000 -> 13:34.080] What are you feeling on that?
[13:34.080 -> 13:43.160] I think that to say we're going to get rid of tyre blankets under the umbrella of energy
[13:43.160 -> 13:46.240] saving is nonsense really.
[13:46.480 -> 13:48.680] When you decide to-
[13:48.680 -> 13:50.160] It sounds a little bit greenwashy, doesn't it?
[13:50.160 -> 13:53.200] It's like, oh yeah, we've raced in Baku.
[13:53.480 -> 13:54.880] Now we're going to fly to Canada.
[13:54.920 -> 13:57.440] Oh, by the way, now we're going to come back to Monza or whatever.
[13:57.440 -> 13:58.120] It's just like, what?
[13:58.120 -> 13:59.960] And you want me to turn my tire blankets off?
[14:00.600 -> 14:01.120] Get out.
[14:01.360 -> 14:02.360] Get out.
[14:02.760 -> 14:03.000] Yeah.
[14:03.000 -> 14:07.120] It's like you've got, you know, you've got your grow farm in the attic, but you're
[14:07.120 -> 14:10.000] worried about turning the kettle on to boil a cup of tea.
[14:10.000 -> 14:11.240] These guys are on there on the product.
[14:11.240 -> 14:16.260] Yeah, they need to switch to LED lights rather than the.
[14:16.260 -> 14:17.640] The tungsten bulbs or whatever.
[14:17.640 -> 14:18.640] That's the one.
[14:18.640 -> 14:20.080] No, it's sodium bulbs, isn't it?
[14:20.080 -> 14:21.680] I don't know why I know that.
[14:21.680 -> 14:24.040] No, we don't know that.
[14:24.040 -> 14:27.200] Anyway, what else did the commission talk about?
[14:27.200 -> 14:30.800] Because we've had some other big issues that are, I think, probably more
[14:30.800 -> 14:34.100] important than either of those things this season, and it only happened once.
[14:35.300 -> 14:35.900] Yes.
[14:37.000 -> 14:42.000] Driver cooling in the wake of the Qatar and everyone nearly fainting
[14:42.000 -> 14:42.800] and things like that.
[14:44.800 -> 14:46.600] The regulations are gonna be amended
[14:47.560 -> 14:50.600] to permit a scoop to boost driver cooling.
[14:50.600 -> 14:52.800] Now I have no idea what that's gonna look like
[14:52.800 -> 14:55.320] or how it's gonna work or more importantly,
[14:56.440 -> 14:58.920] how do you determine when you're allowed to run that
[14:58.920 -> 14:59.760] and when you're not?
[14:59.760 -> 15:02.080] You're gonna have people like,
[15:02.080 -> 15:06.300] right, we've determined that in Las Vegas, we need some driver cooling
[15:06.300 -> 15:10.860] because it reduces drag, which I find that that doesn't make sense.
[15:10.860 -> 15:15.660] But so currently they've got the holes usually in the nose cones
[15:15.660 -> 15:17.600] in the past or like a duct under the side.
[15:17.600 -> 15:22.600] And that's some driver cooling to keep air moving into the cockpit and out.
[15:23.700 -> 15:25.960] But yeah, it'll be interesting to see what they do with that.
[15:25.960 -> 15:31.640] You know, like, but I think what they'll have is, for example, currently they have a notification
[15:31.640 -> 15:35.400] that goes out on the race control prior to the session to tell the teams which headrest
[15:35.400 -> 15:36.400] material to use.
[15:36.400 -> 15:37.400] Yeah.
[15:37.400 -> 15:38.400] So the.
[15:38.400 -> 15:40.520] So they could do it like that.
[15:40.520 -> 15:47.320] If the ambient temperature outside is X at the hour before the race or expected
[15:47.320 -> 15:48.320] to be, you'll have to do it.
[15:48.320 -> 15:49.320] Well, babe, who knows?
[15:49.320 -> 15:54.240] But it's one of those things, it's like you could see them allowing you to change it outside
[15:54.240 -> 15:55.240] of park ferme.
[15:55.240 -> 15:58.600] And if it has adverse effects on the performance, just deal with it.
[15:58.600 -> 16:02.840] Yeah, I can't wait till we get, what is it?
[16:02.840 -> 16:05.120] Is it the F-duct or the S-duct, which is the one where if the
[16:05.120 -> 16:11.600] McLaren drivers moved their hand in a certain position in the cockpit back in the 2000s,
[16:12.560 -> 16:16.160] it would stall the air on the rear wing. Can't wait for that.
[16:16.160 -> 16:19.360] Adam Backman Do you see the driver putting his foot up in
[16:19.360 -> 16:21.440] the cooling duct on the straights or something? Matt Gauntlet
[16:21.440 -> 16:25.520] Yeah. I want to see Adrian Newey design a system where if you
[16:25.560 -> 16:28.800] gurn in the correct manner in your helmet, you get an extra
[16:28.800 -> 16:30.240] 10 miles an hour on the straight.
[16:31.700 -> 16:33.800] Or you could see him doing the elbow carting.
[16:34.680 -> 16:34.960] Yeah.
[16:34.960 -> 16:35.200] Yeah.
[16:35.200 -> 16:36.280] The old leaning forward.
[16:37.560 -> 16:37.780] Yeah.
[16:37.780 -> 16:40.280] Lance Stroll's just running to somebody else in a breaking zone.
[16:40.280 -> 16:41.000] Son of a.
[16:41.560 -> 16:41.880] Yeah.
[16:41.880 -> 16:44.800] Everyone, I went go-karting once and everyone was doing that leaning forward
[16:44.800 -> 16:49.120] trick and I came in and someone was like, why aren't you doing the leaning forward trick?
[16:49.120 -> 16:51.440] I was like, mate, I can't lean forward, my gut's in the way.
[16:51.440 -> 16:53.880] I'm giving her all she's got, captain.
[16:53.880 -> 16:55.880] I can't go any quicker.
[16:55.880 -> 17:01.880] That'll be interesting.
[17:01.880 -> 17:09.760] Weather visibility, are we getting some more work on those fricking scoops or the little boops on the rear wheels?
[17:09.760 -> 17:12.880] The uh, the Subaru Rally Edition mud flaps.
[17:12.880 -> 17:13.880] Yeah, boy.
[17:13.880 -> 17:20.800] Taken straight off of Colin McRae's old Subaru and slapped on the back of an F1 car.
[17:20.800 -> 17:26.240] The FIA are going to look at doing more tests on the wheel covers, try and help
[17:26.240 -> 17:28.000] with visibility in the spray.
[17:28.000 -> 17:30.000] Good luck with that.
[17:30.000 -> 17:33.120] Yeah, good luck fucking goobers.
[17:33.120 -> 17:36.960] Um, 2026 car development.
[17:36.960 -> 17:40.520] They've made some interesting stances on that.
[17:40.520 -> 17:43.480] So this is not next year.
[17:43.480 -> 17:46.440] Was that a statement or a question. It was a question really.
[17:46.440 -> 17:56.240] So the 2026 car is the new engine era, the Nome MGU-H simplified power unit with a smaller,
[17:56.240 -> 18:00.000] less ice power, less combustion engine power and more electrical power.
[18:00.000 -> 18:01.960] But the commission has made some statements.
[18:01.960 -> 18:11.600] What do they think about that? They say, listen, you gits, should you so much as even look at working on the car in
[18:11.600 -> 18:16.960] 2026 before the start of 2025, you're going to be in big doo-doo.
[18:16.960 -> 18:18.880] So that does not include the power units.
[18:18.880 -> 18:24.240] Those are exceptions to that, but the car, but at the same time, they're still trying
[18:24.240 -> 18:26.960] to work out what the
[18:26.960 -> 18:29.200] 2026 regulations even look like.
[18:29.200 -> 18:32.240] So I don't understand how teams can not work on it.
[18:32.240 -> 18:38.120] You know, like it's, it's like, cause they'll be coming up with stuff and people will need
[18:38.120 -> 18:39.120] to check that.
[18:39.120 -> 18:41.000] It makes sense because in the FIA is infinite wisdom.
[18:41.000 -> 18:44.760] They do have technical people that can help draft regulations, blah, blah, blah.
[18:44.760 -> 18:49.320] But at the same time, how do you get teams feedback on that if they can't actually
[18:49.320 -> 18:52.880] go through the process of checking that shit actually makes sense?
[18:52.880 -> 19:03.000] Yeah, I don't know. I don't know, mate. Yeah, that's an odd one. I can't fix everything,
[19:03.000 -> 19:05.440] mate. I know. I know me neither. Why don't we just tell them? So that's that's an odd one. I can't fix everything, mate. I know. I know me neither.
[19:05.440 -> 19:08.240] Why don't we just tell them?
[19:08.240 -> 19:09.880] So that's that's the F1 commission.
[19:09.880 -> 19:14.400] I think nothing too crazy there, but let's get in.
[19:14.400 -> 19:15.560] Let's get in the race for weekend.
[19:15.560 -> 19:21.200] But before that, Monster Energy have left Mercedes for McLaren.
[19:21.200 -> 19:22.720] That's going to be wild.
[19:22.720 -> 19:24.840] But does Lewis still have his deal with Monster?
[19:24.840 -> 19:27.360] Because I don't know what it looks like from a branding point of view, but
[19:27.360 -> 19:30.760] apparently Lewis also has a personal deal with monster energy.
[19:31.160 -> 19:31.660] Yes.
[19:32.160 -> 19:33.560] Viewers will be keen to know.
[19:33.560 -> 19:38.360] And if you've watched a few times, you do know I like to sink a Lewis Hamilton
[19:38.360 -> 19:40.640] special limited edition monster.
[19:40.640 -> 19:41.720] It's my favorite flavor.
[19:42.640 -> 19:44.040] It really hashtag not an ad.
[19:48.440 -> 19:54.720] Um, but yes, he does keep his own deal. Apparently it's just, I guess Mercedes lose all the monster fridges and they get shipped
[19:54.720 -> 19:56.440] over to McLaren instead.
[19:56.440 -> 19:57.440] Yep.
[19:57.440 -> 20:05.600] I didn't really, I completely forgot that monster used to sponsor Michael Schumacher when he was at
[20:05.600 -> 20:08.080] Mercedes, when he came back to Mercedes, I completely forgot.
[20:08.760 -> 20:10.000] Someone reminded me on Twitter.
[20:11.560 -> 20:14.280] That's not just the Lewis Hamilton thing.
[20:14.880 -> 20:15.400] No, exactly.
[20:15.400 -> 20:18.720] Do you think we'll see some special McLaren flavors?
[20:18.720 -> 20:19.400] They've got to.
[20:19.840 -> 20:20.640] A papaya one.
[20:23.000 -> 20:23.280] Yeah.
[20:23.320 -> 20:25.400] And it'll probably taste like dog shit.
[20:25.400 -> 20:28.160] Oh my god.
[20:28.160 -> 20:31.640] I've worked for Red Bull for six years.
[20:31.640 -> 20:34.440] I've tried every single flavour of Red Bull there is.
[20:34.440 -> 20:37.160] 99% of them taste like dog water.
[20:37.160 -> 20:39.360] They're not good.
[20:39.360 -> 20:42.520] I can't imagine the monster ones are any different.
[20:42.520 -> 20:43.880] I like all of them.
[20:43.880 -> 20:44.880] I don't drink them often.
[20:44.880 -> 20:45.140] Did you like them?
[20:45.140 -> 20:46.180] But I hate yeah,
[20:46.180 -> 20:48.500] seriously classic I love.
[20:48.500 -> 20:49.800] I just don't like that much sugar
[20:49.800 -> 20:51.060] and caffeine at the same time.
[20:51.460 -> 20:53.460] The yellow tropical edition is amazing.
[20:53.460 -> 20:54.980] The cactus fruit one is amazing.
[20:54.980 -> 20:56.740] The pink like honestly.
[20:57.260 -> 20:58.260] Yeah, I love all the much
[20:58.260 -> 20:59.220] don't like that much sugar
[20:59.220 -> 21:00.260] in a soft drink so.
[21:00.460 -> 21:02.100] Oh, you know what?
[21:02.100 -> 21:04.220] I liked a lot that everybody else hated.
[21:06.620 -> 21:12.560] Or like other people. It's very divisive. The cola. I loved it. Oh my God. That tasted how it gave me a headache, man.
[21:12.560 -> 21:18.320] That's how bad it tasted. I love the Red Bull Cola. I think it's great. Shout out anyone
[21:18.320 -> 21:26.560] who's had the lucky opportunity to taste Red Bull Cola. I love it. It kind of tastes like...
[21:26.640 -> 21:33.700] this might be a UK sort of thing but people in the UK might know that cheap
[21:33.700 -> 21:46.700] corner shop coca-cola. It tastes a bit like that. You know like the real dodgy bottles of cola you can buy from your corner shop by some brand you've never heard of. Why is this stuff called Choca-Cola?
[21:46.700 -> 21:47.700] Looks really similar.
[21:47.700 -> 21:48.700] Rola-Cola.
[21:48.700 -> 21:56.320] But, um, speaking of Macca's McLaren, they've signed a deal with Mercedes for their power
[21:56.320 -> 21:58.480] units through 2030.
[21:58.480 -> 22:00.940] They have said, yes, we are going to commit to you.
[22:00.940 -> 22:04.400] We hope that you have a good 2026 power unit.
[22:04.400 -> 22:09.600] And I think Mercedes should be probably the strongest power unit.
[22:09.600 -> 22:14.880] I can't see them not being, I really like, I won't be surprised if Red Bull has some
[22:14.880 -> 22:16.680] teething issues the first couple of years.
[22:16.680 -> 22:17.680] Oh yeah.
[22:17.680 -> 22:20.280] Honestly, I want like, it's not a slight, but I won't be surprised.
[22:20.280 -> 22:24.960] But at the same time, I think Mercedes should be quite a safe bet.
[22:24.960 -> 22:25.920] Yeah, I'm not surprised be quite a safe bet.
[22:28.520 -> 22:29.080] Yeah, I'm not surprised by that announcement at all.
[22:30.400 -> 22:30.480] No, I agree with you.
[22:37.040 -> 22:38.720] I think it's a big step, uh, Red Bull to produce a new engine.
[22:40.840 -> 22:43.440] It's not, it's not new, new, is it? I mean, there are elements carried over, but still it's a big
[22:43.440 -> 22:49.200] ask for a first time company. It's, it's very easy to sort of take over an existing engine and say right
[22:49.200 -> 22:53.720] we'll just tinker with it and improve it but to make a new one from scratch there'll be
[22:53.720 -> 22:55.040] teething issues I think.
[22:55.040 -> 23:00.480] Yeah well you remember when Honda came back in the V6? I mean that thing was shitting
[23:00.480 -> 23:09.440] conrods and all sorts of bits into the circuit in Australia. It's like Jensen on the lap to grid and there's a fucking cog stuck in the tarmac kind of
[23:09.440 -> 23:10.440] vibes.
[23:10.440 -> 23:12.420] It's like that wasn't a little boom boom.
[23:12.420 -> 23:15.240] That was guts out boom boom.
[23:15.240 -> 23:17.200] Renault 2017 baby.
[23:17.200 -> 23:18.200] Fun times.
[23:18.200 -> 23:22.600] Oh, this is a good one.
[23:22.600 -> 23:24.680] What's the new Alfa Tauri's got a new name.
[23:24.680 -> 23:29.080] Is it it's rumored to be in this company registered called racing bulls.
[23:29.080 -> 23:31.720] Oh yeah.
[23:31.720 -> 23:34.680] Apparently that's like the registered trademark for it, but we don't actually know if that's
[23:34.680 -> 23:35.680] I see.
[23:35.680 -> 23:40.440] That's such an unimaginative name.
[23:40.440 -> 23:43.880] It's Red Bull racing and their sister team racing bulls.
[23:43.880 -> 23:45.720] It's like, well, come on, man.
[23:45.720 -> 23:51.360] I like the Toro Rosso because it had the, had the flair and it gave, you know, a good
[23:51.360 -> 23:53.240] feel to the roots of the team and everything else.
[23:53.240 -> 23:55.320] So I said, just bring back Minardi.
[23:55.320 -> 23:57.640] Yeah, exactly.
[23:57.640 -> 23:59.120] Toro Rosso's dope as well.
[23:59.120 -> 24:00.720] Yeah, Toro Rosso was good.
[24:00.720 -> 24:01.720] Yeah.
[24:01.720 -> 24:09.680] But, um, before we get into the race weekend, the you see MBS, Mohammed bin Salih Amin said,
[24:09.680 -> 24:12.760] he's like, if I need to, I'll bring back Michael Massey.
[24:12.760 -> 24:17.800] You know, I'm like, dude, he said that he would say this.
[24:17.800 -> 24:21.680] The dude's like, nobody's talked about me in a month.
[24:21.680 -> 24:23.960] I must get a headline.
[24:23.960 -> 24:25.480] I know what I can do.
[24:25.480 -> 24:29.960] I can shake, stir the pot and then defecate in it all at once.
[24:29.960 -> 24:35.040] No way is this dude bringing, come on man.
[24:35.040 -> 24:38.160] This is the apparently paid Red Bull actor.
[24:38.160 -> 24:43.680] There's no freaking way you guys bring Michael Massey back.
[24:43.680 -> 24:44.680] You don't.
[24:44.680 -> 24:45.000] It doesn't happen. It will not happen. guys bring Michael Massey back. You don't.
[24:46.000 -> 24:46.920] It doesn't happen. It will not happen.
[24:47.500 -> 24:47.920] I don't.
[24:47.920 -> 24:49.960] What is even Michael doing these days?
[24:49.960 -> 24:51.040] Is he even doing anything?
[24:51.320 -> 24:54.120] I think he's living off of that Red Bull payout.
[24:55.600 -> 24:58.420] I'm pretty sure he's doing something with sports cars back in Oz.
[24:59.400 -> 25:00.120] Not sure.
[25:00.900 -> 25:01.220] Right.
[25:01.240 -> 25:02.220] One last thing.
[25:02.500 -> 25:08.040] Chat live stream users on the video, Spotify or Apple Music listeners.
[25:08.040 -> 25:10.480] I've done something a little bit cheeky.
[25:10.480 -> 25:16.480] I did a video last week about super form with Liam Lawson and I only used about three minutes
[25:16.480 -> 25:19.240] of footage from that interview.
[25:19.240 -> 25:23.560] Just some tidbits, but tomorrow on break F1, which is on Apple and Spotify.
[25:23.560 -> 25:29.320] If you guys like whenever I get a time and like Dan's busy, I just like blurt out a whole qualifying a race summary.
[25:30.960 -> 25:36.240] So do be sure to subscribe to break F1 on audio platforms and go to my main YouTube channel.
[25:36.520 -> 25:40.320] The full Liam Lawson interview will be out tomorrow and it is awesome chatting him.
[25:40.320 -> 25:45.440] That dude's such a nice dude, so humble and he's fecking fast as well.
[25:46.320 -> 25:50.560] An absolute lad and it was really awesome to have the chat with him and learn about his experience.
[25:50.560 -> 25:57.920] A moving to Japan to race in Super Formula and B getting to drive the Scuderici Alpha Tauri.
[25:58.880 -> 26:04.000] You know I'm saying? Check it. Let's get into the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Wait,
[26:04.000 -> 26:07.360] I got to do this. There we go.
[26:07.360 -> 26:10.360] Tell me, tell me about it.
[26:10.360 -> 26:11.860] Let's start with free practice one.
[26:11.860 -> 26:15.160] We'll do our usual linear walk through the weekend,
[26:15.160 -> 26:17.060] but there's a couple of shenanigans this weekend.
[26:17.060 -> 26:20.660] Yeah, FP1 was bring your child to work day.
[26:20.660 -> 26:29.160] And Red Bull Racing, both of them drivers just thought, no, I'm having the morning off.
[26:29.160 -> 26:30.160] Sod it.
[26:30.160 -> 26:31.680] They replaced both Checo and Max.
[26:31.680 -> 26:33.840] They were like, we're done.
[26:33.840 -> 26:40.240] So you had Jake Dennis in Max's car and Isaac Adger in Checo's car.
[26:40.240 -> 26:44.880] And then Max and GP were sat on the pit wall, just chilling out during the session.
[26:44.880 -> 26:49.360] And the performance engineers were race engineering the cars and they had somebody else performance
[26:49.360 -> 26:49.920] engineering the car.
[26:49.920 -> 26:55.280] So Max is up there on the pit wall sitting there with GP and GP is like, you see how
[26:55.280 -> 26:55.840] hard this is?
[26:55.840 -> 26:56.720] You see what I have to do?
[26:56.720 -> 26:59.360] And Max is like, ah, easy, mate.
[27:00.160 -> 27:00.720] Easy, mate.
[27:01.280 -> 27:05.120] Did anybody did any of the junior junior drivers have a
[27:07.120 -> 27:11.600] Goof was everybody safe. I didn't watch the session. Not really
[27:11.600 -> 27:17.280] I think they're all everyone pretty much kept it on track Jack doing in the Alpine nearly
[27:17.920 -> 27:21.040] Slammed it into the back of Logan sergeant, but that's because I think
[27:21.840 -> 27:24.440] His pit wall didn't give him the calms. He got a
[27:24.200 -> 27:27.480] But that's because I think his pit wall didn't give him the comms. He got a fine for that, didn't he?
[27:27.480 -> 27:28.480] That was sketch.
[27:28.480 -> 27:31.020] That was actually terrifying.
[27:31.020 -> 27:33.200] That dude was boxed for new underwear.
[27:33.200 -> 27:38.040] He probably had to have emergency sphincter surgery that night.
[27:38.040 -> 27:39.040] Yeah.
[27:39.040 -> 27:40.040] Oh yeah.
[27:40.040 -> 27:41.600] And chat's reminding us that Jake...
[27:41.600 -> 27:44.640] Did his skin, his helmet sucked off?
[27:44.640 -> 27:46.760] He forgot to tighten his helmet.
[27:46.760 -> 27:47.200] Bless him.
[27:48.160 -> 27:50.920] I wouldn't be surprised if he tightened it, what he normally
[27:50.920 -> 27:53.760] tightens it and didn't realize that the Formula One car will,
[27:54.480 -> 27:58.480] if you don't have the, so if you, if you look at it, some drivers have the
[27:58.480 -> 28:03.000] little spoilers on the back and those are to prevent buffeting because there's a
[28:03.000 -> 28:07.840] lot of pressure there and you will get the helmet like pulling on the chin strap.
[28:07.840 -> 28:09.720] So good GG Jake.
[28:09.720 -> 28:12.480] Jake's Jake's an absolute freaking dude though.
[28:12.480 -> 28:13.480] What dude?
[28:13.480 -> 28:15.600] Yeah, you're quite quite good friends.
[28:15.600 -> 28:16.600] Who aren't you?
[28:16.600 -> 28:18.280] Yeah, I'm a big Jake Dennis fan.
[28:18.280 -> 28:20.640] Like dude, super freaking talented.
[28:20.640 -> 28:24.400] Like he did a he did a podcast with motor mouth.
[28:24.400 -> 28:27.600] Have you been on with Motor Mouth as well?
[28:27.600 -> 28:28.600] Haven't you?
[28:28.600 -> 28:29.600] Yes.
[28:29.600 -> 28:30.600] Yeah.
[28:30.600 -> 28:31.600] Yeah.
[28:31.600 -> 28:34.600] So Tim, Tim does that, um, Tim Sylvie.
[28:34.600 -> 28:36.600] And it was just, it was, I listened to some clips from it.
[28:36.600 -> 28:40.080] It's just like, Jake's just a super humble down to earth dude.
[28:40.080 -> 28:44.520] Goes from racing 10 tops and Aston Martin through that starts, they're like, Hey, this
[28:44.520 -> 28:48.520] guy is pretty good. And then he starts doing simulator work, which is how I got to know
[28:48.520 -> 28:53.200] Jake so much. And he's had a couple of opportunities to drive the car and rear end driver tests
[28:53.200 -> 28:58.420] and tire tests. And then he gets the, you know, he was talking about the opportunity
[28:58.420 -> 29:01.360] to go racing formally when he was testing with Andretti and they're like, yeah, do you
[29:01.360 -> 29:04.760] want to come do a simulator test? And he's like, yeah, okay, definitely check it out.
[29:04.760 -> 29:08.000] Motor Mouth podcast, great episode with Jake Dennis and Tim.
[29:08.240 -> 29:09.700] Tim Silvey is also very good host.
[29:09.700 -> 29:11.200] So do we should check that out?
[29:11.460 -> 29:11.760] Chat.
[29:11.760 -> 29:13.660] This is chat and listeners.
[29:13.660 -> 29:15.060] This is the big difference, right?
[29:15.060 -> 29:19.060] Between people that actually do the real work behind the scenes in the
[29:19.060 -> 29:23.360] garage and the people that pose out front like Blake, everyone remembers
[29:23.360 -> 29:24.660] Blake and knows who he is.
[29:25.240 -> 29:27.720] No, one's got a fucking clue who I am or remembers who I am.
[29:27.720 -> 29:31.880] They just remember the guy with a beard that occasionally reset the internet.
[29:31.880 -> 29:35.720] Mate, honestly, I am not that guy.
[29:35.720 -> 29:37.480] When there's a camera, I'm getting out of it.
[29:37.480 -> 29:42.040] There's other people if you watch, except for the comms managers, you know, the comms
[29:42.040 -> 29:47.840] managers are there deliberate with the driver to be like, you know, don't ask that question or, you know, whatever else.
[29:47.840 -> 29:48.840] And they keep them.
[29:48.840 -> 29:49.840] Oh, yeah.
[29:49.840 -> 29:50.840] HR probably remember me quite well.
[29:50.840 -> 29:55.540] Yeah, I bet they remember me.
[29:55.540 -> 29:57.780] But nobody resets that router better than you, baby.
[29:57.780 -> 29:58.780] You know what I'm saying?
[29:58.780 -> 29:59.780] Thank you.
[29:59.780 -> 30:00.780] Thank you.
[30:00.780 -> 30:09.540] Um, free practice to very short FP2 session. Science has a little bumpy bump over turn three and sends it completely into the
[30:09.540 -> 30:10.640] bazzas pretty hard.
[30:10.960 -> 30:12.060] Red flag the session.
[30:12.840 -> 30:16.800] Um, yeah, it was a couple laps, a couple basically outlaps, and then he's in the
[30:16.800 -> 30:20.000] bazzas and then there's like 15 minutes of running at the end of the session.
[30:20.000 -> 30:22.240] And some people had a look at high fuel runs, but.
[30:23.040 -> 30:28.560] You know, most of those teams, they hadn't driven the actual car because they had a junior driver in FP1.
[30:29.480 -> 30:33.440] That Ferrari, that's the third instance.
[30:33.840 -> 30:34.760] Ferrari.
[30:34.760 -> 30:36.560] Ooh, that Ferrari.
[30:37.000 -> 30:37.800] Ferrari.
[30:37.800 -> 30:42.280] That's the third instance that I can recall off top of my head where it's spun
[30:42.280 -> 30:46.880] out quite badly after hitting a bump this season.
[30:46.880 -> 30:51.040] Miami another track that escapes me now.
[30:51.040 -> 30:59.240] Oh no sorry yeah Miami, Bahrain testing I think it was and now Avidavi.
[30:59.240 -> 31:02.560] There is something funky with that Ferrari.
[31:02.560 -> 31:03.560] Ferrari.
[31:03.560 -> 31:06.960] I think in one way they're definitely trying to set it up quite low.
[31:07.680 -> 31:12.480] B, they're running it quite stiff to keep it as low as they can.
[31:12.480 -> 31:16.960] And then I believe I could be completely non-sensing,
[31:16.960 -> 31:21.200] but I was under the impression I saw a picture of somebody having ground down,
[31:21.200 -> 31:25.280] like the circuit having ground down the bump at turn three after that session.
[31:25.280 -> 31:28.800] Uh, yes, and I agree that bump was quite a bad bump.
[31:28.800 -> 31:30.320] You saw a lot of people struggle with it.
[31:30.880 -> 31:35.120] Yeah, but there is something going on with that Ferrari where when it hits a bump,
[31:35.840 -> 31:37.600] it really unsettles the rear of that car.
[31:38.720 -> 31:44.240] Yeah, and in case anybody's wondering, Dan was, if you're a video viewer, Dan was just
[31:44.240 -> 31:45.640] brushing his
[31:47.040 -> 31:49.000] beard with a beautiful beard.
[31:49.000 -> 31:50.440] It's a little bit.
[31:52.240 -> 31:56.620] Are you going to get only beards sponsor like, or maybe like
[31:56.800 -> 31:58.000] manscaped or something?
[31:58.040 -> 32:01.920] No, I reckon we might need to do another bet where for next season, where
[32:01.960 -> 32:03.520] something happens, it gets shaved off.
[32:04.240 -> 32:05.520] Yeah, fair enough.
[32:05.520 -> 32:07.520] Make a suggestion in the comments.
[32:07.780 -> 32:14.040] Yeah, you guys let us know. So, Free Practice 3 was a typical quali prep, a few drivers having a look at high fuel.
[32:14.040 -> 32:16.040] Oh, hang on, wait. Sorry.
[32:16.660 -> 32:24.440] Yeah, you forgot Maxwell Stapp and Fernando Alonso committing domestic terrorism at the pit lane exit in FP2.
[32:24.880 -> 32:25.120] Yeah, they were reported and Fernando Alonso committing domestic terrorism at the pit lane exit in FP2.
[32:30.800 -> 32:36.320] Yeah, they were reported for a violation of several treaties and peace acts, both international and domestic. They overtook drivers in the pit lane.
[32:38.800 -> 32:42.640] The speeds, some of the speeds they were overtaking at, like when you get into double
[32:42.640 -> 32:46.480] digit kilometers per hour,
[32:50.400 -> 32:55.120] as soon as you cross that threshold of, you know, from going like nine to 10 kilometers an hour, and you're overtaking a car, it's just, it's really dangerous and really bad things can happen.
[32:55.120 -> 32:57.600] People get hurt. People will get hurt.
[32:59.440 -> 33:01.040] Sorry, I just can't stop laughing.
[33:02.560 -> 33:07.280] The internet absolutely losing their minds that Max overtook people in the pit lane.
[33:08.280 -> 33:15.000] Fernando Alonso must be sitting there thinking this is the perfect crime I've got away with this because nobody said a fucking thing about him doing it.
[33:16.880 -> 33:18.680] Oh, Fernando, baby.
[33:18.680 -> 33:21.360] He's like, yeah, these cunts don't hate me that much.
[33:23.640 -> 33:24.240] I love it.
[33:24.800 -> 33:26.000] I fucking love it man.
[33:26.000 -> 33:28.000] Yeah, so they did,
[33:28.000 -> 33:30.000] they said, you know what?
[33:30.000 -> 33:32.000] Abidabi is a unique pit lane because you go
[33:32.000 -> 33:34.000] down through a tunnel under the track and then you
[33:34.000 -> 33:36.000] join on the inside of the track, so
[33:36.000 -> 33:38.000] fine. And have we had a shunt in the
[33:38.000 -> 33:40.000] tunnel before? Like an outlap,
[33:40.000 -> 33:42.000] somebody bidding it? I'm sure in the race we've had somebody
[33:42.000 -> 33:44.000] buzzer that.
[33:44.000 -> 33:47.500] Can't recall, but I'd be surprised if not.
[33:47.600 -> 33:49.000] This is F1 we're talking about.
[33:50.000 -> 33:51.300] You know, it's funny as hell though.
[33:51.600 -> 33:55.900] Somebody is somebody trying to stir shit, but you know, I'll bite.
[33:56.200 -> 34:00.000] They posted a clip of the F1 TV commentators versus the sky commentators
[34:00.000 -> 34:01.500] talking about that pit lane incident.
[34:01.800 -> 34:04.000] One of them was like, oh, I go on lad.
[34:04.000 -> 34:06.500] And the other one was like talking about the war crime.
[34:06.740 -> 34:07.240] Yes.
[34:07.780 -> 34:08.460] Yes.
[34:09.020 -> 34:09.820] That was good times.
[34:10.020 -> 34:10.520] Yeah.
[34:10.620 -> 34:11.120] Good times.
[34:11.500 -> 34:16.860] And did you see, uh, did you see the, the Ferrari kid on Ted's notebook?
[34:17.420 -> 34:18.420] No.
[34:20.220 -> 34:23.020] There was this kid in like this Ferrari hat or something.
[34:23.500 -> 34:24.000] Right.
[34:24.000 -> 34:24.500] Right.
[34:24.500 -> 34:29.560] And this is, is triggering off my chest infection. infection now so much I'm laughing about this again.
[34:29.560 -> 34:30.560] It was Ted's notebook.
[34:30.560 -> 34:33.640] I think it was on the Friday or the Saturday.
[34:33.640 -> 34:39.360] And this kid in his Ferrari cap just goes to Ted and was just like, Oh, you're a massive
[34:39.360 -> 34:42.080] fan of the British drivers or something, aren't you?
[34:42.080 -> 34:46.020] And he was just like, Ted was just like, Oh no, I'm impartial and all this sort of
[34:46.020 -> 34:46.260] thing.
[34:46.260 -> 34:47.680] And I was just like, Oh, it's brilliant.
[34:47.680 -> 34:50.560] This, this kid in a Ferrari cat just winked at the camera and walked off.
[34:50.560 -> 34:52.100] And I was like, what a legend.
[34:54.280 -> 34:55.580] Oh, what a dude.
[34:55.940 -> 34:57.060] I need to find that.
[34:58.020 -> 34:58.500] I forgot.
[34:58.500 -> 34:59.340] I've got to find that.
[35:01.180 -> 35:02.980] Uh, I I've I've I'm looking for it.
[35:04.260 -> 35:06.080] Anyway, I can't wait to watch this. Anyway, I'll get.
[35:06.080 -> 35:07.440] I can't wait to watch this.
[35:07.440 -> 35:12.000] Honestly, that gets me excited and I don't get excited about much these days, but anyway,
[35:12.000 -> 35:15.920] good vibes, good vibes.
[35:15.920 -> 35:21.720] Oh, Chris in the chat just real quick since we're live streaming, it's a perfect opportunity.
[35:21.720 -> 35:26.720] So as someone fairly new to the sport, what are some of the best resources for stats post
[35:26.720 -> 35:27.720] race?
[35:27.720 -> 35:30.080] Is it all behind some paywall or is there a good go to site?
[35:30.080 -> 35:32.080] Just looking to learn.
[35:32.080 -> 35:33.600] I can offer you one.
[35:33.600 -> 35:34.600] Some of it is free.
[35:34.600 -> 35:39.960] Some of it is behind a paywall, but there's a I think there's a good reason because it's
[35:39.960 -> 35:41.720] the only.
[35:41.720 -> 35:45.440] X performance engineer making analytical qualifying and race content on the internet.
[35:45.440 -> 35:46.440] Here we go.
[35:46.440 -> 35:52.840] Break.com, B-R-R-R-A-K-E.com. And I do post a lot of free articles on there. And it's
[35:52.840 -> 35:58.240] basically a coffee a month is the subscription fee. And you can join over 500 other members
[35:58.240 -> 36:02.560] and get in on all the deep scoop. And if you really want to learn, and I do my best to
[36:02.560 -> 36:09.760] boil it down and make it very accessible for not only the enthusiast audience, but the casual audience as well.
[36:09.760 -> 36:13.440] And there may or may not be a team principal that also subscribes to that, which we still
[36:13.440 -> 36:16.440] have not revealed who they are.
[36:16.440 -> 36:17.600] But that is an actual fact.
[36:17.600 -> 36:18.600] It's not a joke.
[36:18.600 -> 36:23.800] So actual factual, actual in it.
[36:23.800 -> 36:24.800] Free practice three.
[36:24.800 -> 36:25.400] Are we ready to go there?
[36:26.080 -> 36:26.440] No.
[36:26.480 -> 36:30.040] Now I want to talk about what I, you know, now we've talked about what you can do on
[36:30.040 -> 36:30.960] buy me a coffee.
[36:31.600 -> 36:33.120] What are you going to the only dads?
[36:33.640 -> 36:34.000] Yeah.
[36:34.000 -> 36:36.960] Only dads, uh, beard grooming tips.
[36:36.960 -> 36:38.040] Maybe I could offer.
[36:38.680 -> 36:41.440] Ooh, petty Manny, uh, video tutorials.
[36:42.120 -> 36:45.440] Yeah, maybe we'll have to come up with an idea, but I can chill.
[36:46.240 -> 36:47.740] Yeah, exactly.
[36:48.740 -> 36:53.040] Oh, OK, now you can proceed to FP3 now.
[36:53.040 -> 36:56.440] Alright, free practice three was your typical quality preparation,
[36:56.440 -> 37:01.540] but like we said, very few drivers have got to run high fuel properly
[37:01.540 -> 37:04.140] and very few of the Macs, for example, didn't do a proper high fuel.
[37:04.140 -> 37:11.480] And he did one of those push lap DRS on with medium fuel load into a sustainable
[37:11.480 -> 37:18.360] run, which is what they do a lot in winter test. We talking all about it then, but yeah,
[37:18.360 -> 37:23.000] the pace order looked like Mercedes, McLaren, Williams, Ferrari, and Red Bull. And after
[37:23.000 -> 37:27.080] looking at that session result, I said said there's no way that session was meaningful
[37:27.080 -> 37:31.080] for any fans to look at and try to glean anything for qualifying.
[37:31.080 -> 37:32.800] Fast forward to qualifying.
[37:32.800 -> 37:33.800] It's Saturday.
[37:33.800 -> 37:36.000] The sun's going down.
[37:36.000 -> 37:41.080] Q1 I forgot what happened in Q1 except for the fact that we lost Carlos Sainz, Magnussen,
[37:41.080 -> 37:43.360] Bottas and Joe.
[37:43.360 -> 37:46.120] Magnussen, Bottas, Joe, not surprising signs.
[37:46.840 -> 37:47.780] Very surprising.
[37:47.780 -> 37:50.920] He had one of those weekends where it doesn't look like he showed up in the
[37:50.920 -> 37:52.200] race, he wasn't really there either.
[37:52.440 -> 37:57.480] Sergeant does not qualify because he had both of his, or all
[37:57.480 -> 37:58.760] of his time laps deleted.
[37:59.640 -> 38:02.760] So the race director granted him permission to start the race, despite
[38:03.000 -> 38:08.460] not setting a lap time within 107% of the fastest of that lap of that session.
[38:09.360 -> 38:10.140] RIP Sergeant.
[38:10.360 -> 38:11.200] That sucks, man.
[38:11.720 -> 38:14.140] I don't think that's the first time that's happened to him this year either.
[38:15.780 -> 38:16.340] Possibly.
[38:17.420 -> 38:18.020] Possibly.
[38:19.340 -> 38:19.660] Shame.
[38:19.740 -> 38:23.860] I like him, but even now, unless something's happened, I'm not aware if he's got a
[38:23.860 -> 38:24.980] drive for next year or not.
[38:24.980 -> 38:25.500] There's still sort of, I mean, I think it's happened, I'm not aware if he's got a drive for next year or not.
[38:25.500 -> 38:29.580] They're still sort of, I mean, I think it's all political, isn't it?
[38:29.580 -> 38:33.700] Oh, we'll carry on with Q3 and we'll talk about this at the end.
[38:33.700 -> 38:35.340] I just remembered something as well.
[38:35.340 -> 38:36.340] Speaking of contracts.
[38:36.340 -> 38:43.080] Um, Q2, Verstappen makes it through Q2 on a single set of new tires at the beginning
[38:43.080 -> 38:44.080] of the run.
[38:44.080 -> 38:47.120] So he forgoes any of the track evolution, sets up anchor early.
[38:47.120 -> 38:53.080] The team look at that lap time and they say, yeah, we can predict the track evolution here.
[38:53.080 -> 38:54.680] We know this track quite well.
[38:54.680 -> 39:01.040] Perez runs two new tires and all other drivers run used tire, the new tire.
[39:01.040 -> 39:05.880] So I think basically Checo wanted to get through on one tire,
[39:05.880 -> 39:07.560] but they realized his lap was
[39:07.560 -> 39:09.440] not good enough or safe enough,
[39:09.440 -> 39:11.600] so they sent him out on another new
[39:11.600 -> 39:13.720] tire to make sure he got advantage
[39:13.720 -> 39:15.400] of all that track evolution.
[39:15.400 -> 39:16.760] But we lost Hamilton,
[39:16.760 -> 39:18.840] Akon, stroll, Albon and Ricardo Hamilton,
[39:18.840 -> 39:21.880] not having a great time.
[39:21.880 -> 39:23.360] In qualifying this season,
[39:23.360 -> 39:26.620] looking at the tally and if you include sprint
[39:26.620 -> 39:35.240] shootouts, Russell 15, Hamilton 13 on sprint shootout head to heads. That surprised me.
[39:35.240 -> 39:36.240] Yeah, me too actually.
[39:36.240 -> 39:37.240] That surprised me.
[39:37.240 -> 39:38.240] Me too.
[39:38.240 -> 39:42.080] So Hamilton really just looked like he was struggling to put a lap together. He would
[39:42.080 -> 39:45.600] get sector one right, sometimes wrong the next lap.
[39:45.600 -> 39:49.480] But if he put his best sectors together, he made it to Q3, but he was struggling on his
[39:49.480 -> 39:53.400] push lap with turn one and then the final set of corners.
[39:53.400 -> 39:57.400] So not ideal.
[39:57.400 -> 39:59.840] Crew three, Q3.
[39:59.840 -> 40:03.160] Verstappen does not improve on his second run.
[40:03.160 -> 40:05.680] Verstappen, Leclerc, Piastri and Russell are the front
[40:05.680 -> 40:10.920] two rows of the grid. I kind of expected Ferrari to go well here and Leclerc obviously being
[40:10.920 -> 40:18.400] P2 and then Sainz qualifying P16. That's not really a way that you want to start your bid
[40:18.400 -> 40:21.400] to secure P2 in the Constructors' Championship, is it?
[40:21.400 -> 40:24.200] No, there's better ways of doing it.
[40:24.200 -> 40:29.520] I think there's, I can think of probably, what is that for Marie Qualifying I can think of 14 other ways
[40:29.520 -> 40:35.040] to do a better job than that. I don't think you've taken Pol and LeClaire.
[40:35.040 -> 40:40.560] I wonder how much of the science problems were probably because they had to rebuild the car and how many sort of
[40:40.560 -> 40:45.680] end of season it's only got a last of race parts were thrown on it.
[40:46.480 -> 40:49.840] Maybe so, but looking at the Claire versus signs qualifying
[40:49.840 -> 40:50.960] tally, you want to take a guess?
[40:51.840 -> 40:52.560] Even close.
[40:52.560 -> 40:56.040] I know this because I think I saw it and they're even Stevens, aren't they?
[40:56.560 -> 41:00.000] No, LeClaire is 18 to signs is 10, including sprint shootouts.
[41:00.640 -> 41:01.320] 18 to 10.
[41:01.360 -> 41:02.320] I thought they were even.
[41:03.280 -> 41:03.800] Negative.
[41:04.560 -> 41:08.320] Uh, Russell and Hamilton are the closest on the grid.
[41:08.320 -> 41:12.560] Everybody else is basically a factor of two or more, and we'll come back to that.
[41:12.560 -> 41:21.560] Sunota, can we get a toot-shoot for Yuki Sunota with a P6 and that AlphaTauri and Perez is
[41:21.560 -> 41:23.520] P9 after a deleted lap time?
[41:23.520 -> 41:24.520] I don't remember exactly.
[41:24.520 -> 41:29.640] I'll tell you what, for Yuki, I'll even go for a...
[41:29.640 -> 41:34.280] Yuki Tsunoda has been kind of, like we say this so much this season, he's one of those
[41:34.280 -> 41:41.800] drivers who's, it's a bit thankless for him because he's, he's done a damn good job.
[41:41.800 -> 41:45.580] And I think Ricardo's done really well against him in head to heads.
[41:45.580 -> 41:51.080] I think, I'm not sure exactly, I think it's like Yuki seven to Ricardo's five or something
[41:51.080 -> 41:55.200] in head to heads. I could be wrong. I didn't, I didn't boil that stat down all the way,
[41:55.200 -> 42:00.160] but Yuki's done a good job. They're looking pretty handy in that car. And he's, you know,
[42:00.160 -> 42:06.560] he had that kind of goober move in Mexico that he never really put his hand up for. But at the end of the day, you know what, man?
[42:06.560 -> 42:08.240] Oh dear, we all have them days, Yuki.
[42:09.120 -> 42:09.760] I rate him.
[42:10.800 -> 42:14.800] So, end of the season Verstappen takes 12 out of 22 pole positions.
[42:15.440 -> 42:21.200] Albon 28-0 to Sargent in qualifying and shootout heads to heads.
[42:21.200 -> 42:24.160] Verstappen 25-3 on Perez.
[42:24.800 -> 42:27.040] Alonso 25- three on Stroll.
[42:27.840 -> 42:29.280] And when you put it like that,
[42:29.600 -> 42:30.880] that sounds so bad.
[42:32.280 -> 42:33.680] What one the stroll?
[42:34.240 -> 42:35.760] No, like the fact that for
[42:35.760 -> 42:37.400] Stappen to Perez is the same
[42:37.400 -> 42:40.200] qualifying ratio is Alonso on stroll.
[42:40.240 -> 42:42.680] Sorry for Stappen on Perez
[42:42.720 -> 42:43.800] versus Alonso on stroll.
[42:43.800 -> 42:44.760] They're both 25 to
[42:44.760 -> 42:45.880] three on their teammates.
[42:45.880 -> 42:52.840] Yeah, but I'm not massively surprised though with Perez because no disrespect to him, but
[42:52.840 -> 42:55.840] he's not really known as a fantastic qualifier.
[42:55.840 -> 42:58.600] Compared to Max.
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[44:12.700 -> 44:17.360] It's a lot. It's a lot. And I don't think that is indicative of his performance level, but it is not been his season and I would really like to see him have a much stronger
[44:17.360 -> 44:23.280] next season. But yeah, so that's that's qualifying. Looking at the overall season trends as we
[44:23.280 -> 44:25.360] as we tend to do, and I'm working on a
[44:25.360 -> 44:31.040] report on the buymeacoffee or break.com to do like an end of season breakdown on the stats,
[44:32.080 -> 44:36.080] actual stats, wins, qualifying, head to heads, front rows, all that stuff,
[44:36.080 -> 44:38.560] but also the performance and the characteristics of the car.
[44:40.080 -> 44:45.760] Red Bull set the pole margin for fastest lap and qualifying on average, very close.
[44:45.760 -> 44:52.000] Mercedes more or less basically found very little improvement to Red Bull throughout the season. Yes,
[44:52.000 -> 44:56.640] they did get closer, but at the end of the season, they're still 0.4% off.
[44:58.400 -> 45:03.200] They had a good run in Hungary and they had a good run in Singapore. But other than that,
[45:03.500 -> 45:06.940] run in Singapore. But other than that.
[45:08.500 -> 45:10.380] You know, that's tough.
[45:12.140 -> 45:14.140] Alpha Tari came back at the end of the season, but they had a couple lumps and bumps
[45:14.140 -> 45:16.860] and McLaren are well and truly back with.
[45:17.740 -> 45:19.400] What I believe is a like.
[45:19.400 -> 45:21.140] I'm kind of disregarding Las Vegas.
[45:21.140 -> 45:23.700] That was a massive all over the spot.
[45:26.160 -> 45:29.440] Willow, our buddy will look creative, says you should send your stats to Williams. Apparently
[45:29.440 -> 45:33.940] they need to review Logan stats before they confirm him. Was that during the race? James
[45:33.940 -> 45:37.480] Fowles said they're not in a position to confirm Logan Sergeant will be driving for the team
[45:37.480 -> 45:45.720] next season. That being said. We we need an American in Formula One. We do need an American driver.
[45:48.880 -> 45:53.080] It's, it's, it's, and I think he's not a bad driver. I think he's had a tough time and you see that the pressure, let's be honest.
[45:53.080 -> 45:54.960] It's not like the Williams is a spectacular car.
[45:54.960 -> 45:58.160] Alex Albarn has driven the living shit out of that thing.
[45:58.560 -> 45:59.240] It's not the one.
[45:59.680 -> 46:02.920] Alex is definitely outperforming that, but who do they put in?
[46:03.200 -> 46:03.560] I don't know.
[46:03.560 -> 46:03.800] I don't know.
[46:03.800 -> 46:06.800] Who's the most controversial American NASCAR driver?
[46:07.800 -> 46:09.060] Let's get there.
[46:09.060 -> 46:13.960] I'm not up to scratch on American drivers right now.
[46:13.960 -> 46:18.960] Why don't we bring a friend of the podcast, Conor Daly.
[46:19.520 -> 46:20.400] Get him in there, man.
[46:20.400 -> 46:23.200] Yeah, we'll back him.
[46:23.200 -> 46:24.040] Get him in.
[46:24.040 -> 46:26.320] Conor's an absolute lad. We need to get him back on
[46:27.200 -> 46:28.960] Love that dude
[46:28.960 -> 46:30.960] Looking at qualifying though. I will say
[46:31.280 -> 46:34.480] Two people that massively missed out and could have improved their position
[46:34.600 -> 46:40.200] Hamilton could have gotten into q2 or q3 with his best sectors and also Norris best sectors
[46:40.600 -> 46:46.840] Would have put him neck and neck with Leclerc Norris, even after he said it several times this season,
[46:46.840 -> 46:50.960] quote, he's basically been very down on himself
[46:50.960 -> 46:52.240] about his qualifying performances.
[46:52.240 -> 46:56.880] And it's like, I think if Lando can find that state
[46:56.880 -> 46:59.000] where he doesn't have to stress himself out
[46:59.000 -> 47:01.180] and he can just lock it in and knock a lap out,
[47:01.180 -> 47:03.880] that dude's gonna be fucking terrifying
[47:03.880 -> 47:04.840] in that car next season
[47:04.840 -> 47:05.160] if they
[47:05.160 -> 47:07.240] keep adding performance to it.
[47:07.240 -> 47:08.240] I'm hyped for that, honestly.
[47:08.240 -> 47:13.560] And I think, I think Piastri's got, he's still learning, but he's going to be a gooden.
[47:13.560 -> 47:18.040] Yeah, I'm really, really impressed with Piastri this season.
[47:18.040 -> 47:19.040] Me too.
[47:19.040 -> 47:20.040] Me too.
[47:20.040 -> 47:21.040] And he's, he's fucking hilarious.
[47:21.040 -> 47:22.040] I love that dude.
[47:22.040 -> 47:29.360] Honestly, like, I, I, I don't usually watch too many of the post race driver interviews and stuff,
[47:29.360 -> 47:33.720] but his usually crack me up.
[47:33.720 -> 47:34.720] So yeah.
[47:34.720 -> 47:36.360] Should we get on to the Grand Prix?
[47:36.360 -> 47:38.840] Yeah, come on in.
[47:38.840 -> 47:40.960] Go on then.
[47:40.960 -> 47:42.560] Last year was mostly a two stop race.
[47:42.560 -> 47:43.880] We had the same tire compounds.
[47:43.880 -> 47:45.240] I think it's.
[47:47.400 -> 47:47.960] I was at 345 C345.
[47:49.740 -> 47:53.640] Anyway, same tire compounds as last year. Last year for Stapp and Leclerc eked out a one stop.
[47:53.640 -> 47:54.740] They made it work.
[47:55.600 -> 47:58.960] But other people to stopped it and they were pushing a bit harder,
[47:58.960 -> 48:02.560] but regardless, there was still a reasonable amount of management.
[48:03.240 -> 48:06.640] And this year after the race, a lot of people were saying, yeah, we tried the one stop,
[48:06.640 -> 48:09.360] but we bailed off of it and converted to the two.
[48:09.360 -> 48:11.160] Unless you're Ferrari.
[48:11.160 -> 48:14.640] You don't take, you don't hold the L's, you just take even bigger L's.
[48:14.640 -> 48:21.380] For Sapan in the race, honestly, was completely unmatched in terms of performance.
[48:21.380 -> 48:24.040] Nobody really came too close to him.
[48:24.040 -> 48:25.760] Leclerc, Le. The Claire finished P2.
[48:25.760 -> 48:31.720] The Claire was strong during the race, but he just didn't have that next level of oomph.
[48:31.720 -> 48:34.640] So the Claire was really good on his tires in the first stint.
[48:34.640 -> 48:38.040] His short stint on the hard was cut a bit short.
[48:38.040 -> 48:41.440] And then at the end, his final stint on the hard was not as strong.
[48:41.440 -> 48:45.220] And ultimately he ended up backing off, which we'll come back to.
[48:48.400 -> 48:52.160] What did you, what did you think of, uh, the front of the race? Nothing too exciting other than the Russell Perez, McClare kind of.
[48:54.400 -> 49:00.680] I enjoyed, I very much enjoyed Charles's, uh, opening few laps against Max.
[49:01.240 -> 49:02.840] Yeah, that was spicy.
[49:03.080 -> 49:06.480] And I want to see Ferrari get their shit together just
[49:06.480 -> 49:13.440] because I want to see Charles and Max going at it for our season. Yeah, I do too. Um,
[49:13.440 -> 49:19.000] I got in trouble with Leclerc fans the other day on Twitter. I don't know if we talk about
[49:19.000 -> 49:27.920] that now, but did you maybe, maybe no, I, I said, I probably could have, I probably, I needed to be, because
[49:27.920 -> 49:30.760] I'm, because when you talk about a specific driver, you have to be very careful about
[49:30.760 -> 49:37.640] the language and phrasing that you use, because if it's perceived as a slight or an insult,
[49:37.640 -> 49:40.280] people that are, you know, really fan centric will be upset by that.
[49:40.280 -> 49:42.600] And I know that, and that's, that's on me.
[49:42.600 -> 49:50.880] But it's an interesting thing that Leclerc always keeps the some throttle on a lot of the time during braking, which is an old technique
[49:50.880 -> 49:54.200] that a lot of drivers would use. You can like, you know, if you're on throttle, but it loads
[49:54.200 -> 49:59.680] up the diff and adds a little bit stability. And I think a lot of people didn't have any
[49:59.680 -> 50:06.000] interest to understand my point that the fact that. Yes, the driver probably can do that,
[50:06.000 -> 50:08.000] but the way the V6 hybrids work,
[50:08.000 -> 50:10.000] it doesn't do what it used to do
[50:10.000 -> 50:12.500] when you go on the throttle pedal.
[50:12.500 -> 50:14.000] It's not like it's telling the engine
[50:14.000 -> 50:15.000] to burn fuel and like combust
[50:15.000 -> 50:16.000] and start driving forward
[50:16.000 -> 50:17.000] when you go on the throttle pedal.
[50:17.000 -> 50:18.000] It just turns off some
[50:18.000 -> 50:20.000] of the rear brake pressure.
[50:20.000 -> 50:21.000] So it's like why?
[50:21.000 -> 50:24.000] Why not just change the brake maps?
[50:24.000 -> 50:28.280] Kind of is if it lets let, let's rephrase that.
[50:28.280 -> 50:31.400] Charlie Clare's probably one of the best qualifiers in F1.
[50:31.400 -> 50:33.680] If he's doing something and it's working for him,
[50:33.680 -> 50:34.780] God bless him, send it.
[50:34.780 -> 50:38.880] I'm just telling you, as setting up those systems
[50:38.880 -> 50:40.400] to make it super consistent
[50:41.400 -> 50:43.040] could be potentially quite challenging.
[50:43.040 -> 50:45.560] I haven't tried that, but I've had to deal with drivers.
[50:45.560 -> 50:47.720] Like I think Kiviat was very tall.
[50:47.720 -> 50:49.600] So he inadvertently rested on the throttle
[50:49.600 -> 50:51.320] sometimes under braking.
[50:52.560 -> 50:54.840] That is really not fun to deal with.
[50:54.840 -> 50:57.000] Sterling agrees, Sterling wasn't alive
[50:57.000 -> 50:58.320] when I was working with Daniel,
[50:58.320 -> 51:01.000] but Sterling remembers, I told him many stories about that.
[51:01.000 -> 51:02.440] If you're listening on audio,
[51:02.440 -> 51:05.040] my very handsome cat who decided
[51:05.040 -> 51:10.560] to do two dirty protests yesterday outside of the litter box, uh, he's come to say hello.
[51:10.560 -> 51:14.320] Yeah, I got to stroke your pussy the other day as well, didn't I?
[51:14.320 -> 51:18.960] Yeah, it was a really nice. I'll have to put that one on the internet for the, uh, the only,
[51:18.960 -> 51:24.320] only dads as Sterling came and sat on the sofa and he just sat on Dan's chest, sniffed his beard a
[51:24.320 -> 51:28.260] couple of times. He's like, I like cigarettes. And you're like, me too, mate.
[51:28.260 -> 51:31.300] Yeah. He was very freaked out by my beard, I think.
[51:31.300 -> 51:36.980] Yeah, he liked it, I think. Go on, buddy. Hop down. But yeah, I mean, so I have to be,
[51:36.980 -> 51:40.380] I should, I need to be a little bit more tactful and sensitive, but it's just like when I'm
[51:40.380 -> 51:48.920] having a conversation about an engineering topic, I don't usually try to consider the feelings of the system or person or topic that I'm discussing.
[51:48.920 -> 51:52.880] And if I use strange language, I get, you'll upset fans.
[51:52.880 -> 51:58.120] And I, I need to, I should be more mindful of that at the same time.
[51:58.120 -> 52:03.660] I don't really, I don't mind that I've bothered somebody with an objective factual statement,
[52:03.660 -> 52:07.660] but more so the fact that I have to deal with the aggro from a bunch of really upset people.
[52:07.700 -> 52:08.860] And it's just like, it's not worth it.
[52:09.340 -> 52:18.000] People need to toughen up a little bit and a little bit, both sides.
[52:19.500 -> 52:20.900] Oh, there you go.
[52:20.940 -> 52:21.500] How about that?
[52:22.120 -> 52:23.400] I like that neutral stance.
[52:24.020 -> 52:27.000] Any slander on this podcast is only banter.
[52:27.000 -> 52:29.400] Yeah, it's not that deep.
[52:29.400 -> 52:31.400] We don't hate anyone.
[52:31.400 -> 52:32.400] I don't.
[52:32.400 -> 52:36.400] No, the only thing we hate is sprint races and Pirelli.
[52:36.400 -> 52:37.400] What about that?
[52:37.400 -> 52:38.400] I'm not going to say it.
[52:38.400 -> 52:39.400] I'm not going to say it.
[52:39.400 -> 52:40.400] I'm not going to go there.
[52:40.400 -> 52:43.920] Perez had a pretty good recovery drive, man.
[52:43.920 -> 52:45.920] Honestly, let's go back to the race.
[52:45.920 -> 52:52.640] Perez goes from P9, ultimately finishing P3 on the road, but loses the position to Russell
[52:52.640 -> 52:53.640] with the penalty.
[52:53.640 -> 52:54.720] Why don't we talk about that?
[52:54.720 -> 52:57.600] So basically, Perez does a very good job.
[52:57.600 -> 53:02.640] He goes a lap longer than everybody else, despite starting P9 and having to drive through
[53:02.640 -> 53:03.640] traffic.
[53:03.640 -> 53:08.560] So when you're in traffic, you still do put quite a bit of work on your tires. And he drove straight through that,
[53:08.560 -> 53:14.080] made it work, came through the field on his hard stint, on his second stint. And he extended that
[53:14.720 -> 53:19.120] a reasonable amount, not quite as long as Max did, but it's similar stint length.
[53:19.120 -> 53:23.760] And he came through Norris at the end, came through Russell at the end,
[53:23.760 -> 53:25.320] and he had a five second penalty for his collision with Norris at the end, came through Russell at the end, and he had a five second penalty
[53:25.320 -> 53:32.640] for his collision with Norris. A lot of people said it was a deserved penalty. A lot of people
[53:32.640 -> 53:37.400] thought it was that, but at the same time, I don't really want to get involved in that
[53:37.400 -> 53:44.680] because I don't feel like it's a particularly high IQ conversation and I don't have a dog
[53:44.680 -> 53:45.400] in that fight.
[53:45.400 -> 53:50.080] I just don't think it was particularly consistent with other rulings that we've seen this season,
[53:50.080 -> 53:51.680] which is one of the biggest problems.
[53:51.680 -> 53:56.560] Yeah, that was my biggest problem with it, is that we've seen that sort of thing go by
[53:56.560 -> 54:03.920] unpunished so many times and then it's like, okay, now for whatever reason we flipped a
[54:03.920 -> 54:05.880] coin, now we're going to penalize it.
[54:05.880 -> 54:11.040] It's just like, I don't mind the penalty, but it needs to be consistent.
[54:11.040 -> 54:12.040] Yeah.
[54:12.040 -> 54:17.560] And I think arguably, a lot of people say that, you know, late moves like that aren't
[54:17.560 -> 54:24.040] good, but at the same time, there was plenty of room for them both on the road.
[54:24.040 -> 54:30.320] And I don't know, it wasn't like one of those desperate lunges, but it was a, it was a strong
[54:30.320 -> 54:31.320] move.
[54:31.320 -> 54:32.320] So do you allow them or not?
[54:32.320 -> 54:37.320] And I, and Checo was critical on the radio on the end of the race.
[54:37.320 -> 54:40.880] And he said, you know, these guys are not F1 level, these stewards.
[54:40.880 -> 54:48.300] And they're, he got summoned and he was let off with a reprimand or he apologized,
[54:48.300 -> 54:49.880] but I agree with him.
[54:49.880 -> 54:55.040] And I think it doesn't matter who you're a fan of, if you're a fan of a driver, a team,
[54:55.040 -> 55:00.520] if you enjoy the sport, I think there's a lot, I will happily say I speak for most people,
[55:00.520 -> 55:08.080] we are not happy with the consistency of stewarding decisions. Maybe the stewards were the same people that you upset on Twitter.
[55:09.360 -> 55:10.720] They both seem pretty soft.
[55:13.200 -> 55:14.000] It's possible.
[55:15.920 -> 55:20.640] But yeah, so that was Perez's race, but at the end, so here's the tango.
[55:21.520 -> 55:27.200] He needs to get a five second gap to Russell.
[55:27.200 -> 55:33.960] Because if he finishes ahead of Russell, Ferrari take P2 in the constructors championship.
[55:33.960 -> 55:38.680] So Leclerc's on the radio talking to his engineers, like, can we let Perez pass and hold up Russell
[55:38.680 -> 55:39.680] a bit?
[55:39.680 -> 55:41.720] And they're like, ah, we have checking over and over.
[55:41.720 -> 55:44.560] And then finally, like, okay, do it on the last lap.
[55:44.560 -> 55:45.480] Leclerc didn't throw the anchor out either. He didn't really milk that for all it was worth. we are checking over and over and then finally like, okay, do it on the last lap.
[55:45.480 -> 55:47.200] Leclerc didn't throw the anchor out either.
[55:47.200 -> 55:49.480] He didn't really milk that for all it was worth.
[55:49.480 -> 55:56.360] I think he felt that wasn't fair, but you remember when Checo held up Lewis in 2021?
[55:56.360 -> 56:00.960] That was, I mean, he's seen that and it's like, that's what you need to do if you're
[56:00.960 -> 56:02.560] going to make this work on the last lap.
[56:02.560 -> 56:05.080] But I think Ferrari could have pulled the trigger on that sooner.
[56:07.460 -> 56:15.280] I, what was Russell on? Russell was on nearly 10 lap older, hard tires than the Clare.
[56:15.320 -> 56:15.560] I know.
[56:15.600 -> 56:15.920] Sorry.
[56:17.160 -> 56:18.520] Now they're the same age as the Clare.
[56:18.640 -> 56:21.280] I did enjoy the five head thinking though from Charles.
[56:21.680 -> 56:25.300] He's like, but like, honestly, that just goes to show you.
[56:26.440 -> 56:27.100] Why the hell?
[56:27.100 -> 56:30.540] Why the hell is Charles coming up with that when he's in the middle of the fucking race?
[56:31.040 -> 56:31.380] Why?
[56:31.380 -> 56:37.100] Because he doesn't not being like, uh, why don't we just try a little bit of, uh, because he doesn't trust him.
[56:37.100 -> 56:38.140] He doesn't believe in them.
[56:38.600 -> 56:41.220] And honestly, the fact that they didn't bring that up.
[56:42.660 -> 56:45.000] Just goes to show you they're not not they're not racing on the same.
[56:45.160 -> 56:48.240] They're not they're not on the same level as Red Bull's pit wall.
[56:48.800 -> 56:52.400] And yes, yes, I'm singing praises to Red Bull's pit wall because they've been
[56:52.400 -> 56:53.800] disgusting. Yes.
[56:54.320 -> 56:56.560] Yeah, because they've been fucking good.
[56:56.560 -> 57:02.240] That's why. So that tilted me, man, because literally that is Ferrari in a nutshell.
[57:02.240 -> 57:03.720] It's like we didn't think of that.
[57:03.720 -> 57:10.960] It's like you ah, we didn't think of that. It's like you fucking Ferrari for the ultimate, ultimate embodiment of racing on vibes.
[57:11.680 -> 57:15.920] But I mean, it's like, yeah, you'll have the the the cheat fuel flow meter for
[57:15.920 -> 57:26.720] God knows how long, but it's like comes to Sunday and your race strategy and like, ah, we'll just, yeah. Speaking of, signs.
[57:27.120 -> 57:28.000] Signs.
[57:30.800 -> 57:31.440] Carlos signs starts, where does he start?
[57:32.720 -> 57:36.160] P16, right?
[57:36.880 -> 57:40.560] Where does he finish?
[57:40.800 -> 57:43.120] Um.
[57:44.240 -> 57:44.800] Oh, he DNFs. That's right.
[57:44.800 -> 57:48.680] He DNFs, but he was going to finish effective P10.
[57:48.680 -> 57:54.000] I completely even forgot about signs, I'm sorry.
[57:54.000 -> 57:59.800] Yeah, but like honestly, so here's what they did with signs, and I'm not a strategist,
[57:59.800 -> 58:05.840] so I'm armchairing this, but I do know a little bit about race strategy. So science starts on a
[58:05.840 -> 58:10.240] hard because the idea is that they will be able to go longer than the people that start on mediums.
[58:10.240 -> 58:16.080] The medium was the prime start tire. Everybody except for science, Bottas and Stroll started on
[58:16.080 -> 58:27.120] a medium. Science starts P16. He's very quickly to P13 and then he sits there behind Lance Stroll for a bit of an eternity.
[58:27.120 -> 58:30.560] Arguably, the Ferrari should have been quite a bit faster than that.
[58:30.560 -> 58:34.320] And the fact that he couldn't get around him, he was, Sainz was struggling massively on
[58:34.320 -> 58:37.400] the hard tire and he just stays out for an eternity.
[58:37.400 -> 58:41.920] And then we get to lap 24 or so and he puts another hard on.
[58:41.920 -> 58:44.920] And at that point, he's fit two hard tires.
[58:44.920 -> 58:47.360] He has to stop again.
[58:47.360 -> 58:50.580] And Ferrari's plan was, oh, we'll just hope for a safety car.
[58:51.440 -> 58:52.500] Whoops.
[58:52.500 -> 58:56.200] If you didn't get the safety car by lap fucking 20, chuck it in.
[58:56.480 -> 59:01.940] You will do better off like from from the point at which they don't cover Perez.
[59:03.040 -> 59:07.240] Or, you know, mirror Perez's stop, they're bleeding
[59:07.240 -> 59:14.280] track position. And then they commit to something which is just like the one stop didn't work.
[59:14.280 -> 59:18.680] You've got another hard tire fit it later, like everybody else is too stopping. I was
[59:18.680 -> 59:31.040] just like the fact that they hailed married on signs of strategy when P3, P2 in the championship was up. Signs, that event goes from, I believe P4 to P7 in the driver's championship.
[59:31.720 -> 59:37.680] Maybe signs, uh, read that comment by MBS about bringing Michael Massey back.
[59:37.680 -> 59:41.400] And he thought, Oh, I'm going to gamble on the late safety car.
[59:44.560 -> 59:47.000] You thought he's back, this is time.
[59:47.000 -> 59:49.000] My time to shine.
[59:49.000 -> 59:52.000] Yeah, then you have the team principals on the radio.
[59:52.000 -> 59:54.000] Bring out the safety car, says Christian.
[59:54.000 -> 59:55.000] And Toto's like, no, don't do it.
[59:55.000 -> 59:58.000] It'll interfere with the race.
[59:58.000 -> 01:00:01.000] You know, I didn't realize that Toto was on the radio.
[01:00:01.000 -> 01:00:03.000] It took me a while to realize that Toto was out there.
[01:00:03.000 -> 01:00:05.520] Like, no, no safety car.
[01:00:05.520 -> 01:00:10.240] It's like there's a car in the wall mate like in the middle of the corner.
[01:00:10.240 -> 01:00:17.560] Oh dear, I wish everyone had access to the unfiltered radios.
[01:00:17.560 -> 01:00:18.560] You do not do it now.
[01:00:18.560 -> 01:00:19.560] It is on that.
[01:00:19.560 -> 01:00:20.560] Do it now.
[01:00:20.560 -> 01:00:21.560] Anyway.
[01:00:21.560 -> 01:00:27.600] Yeah, what else do we got?
[01:00:27.600 -> 01:00:31.400] Let's talk about the McLarens real quick.
[01:00:31.400 -> 01:00:35.080] McLarens Piastri fell back at the race start from P3.
[01:00:35.080 -> 01:00:39.800] Norse moved up from P5 to P3, but they were dogshit on their tires.
[01:00:39.800 -> 01:00:46.520] Like not not that bad, but they were among. There's Verstappen and Leclerc on
[01:00:46.520 -> 01:00:48.280] the mediums at the race start.
[01:00:48.280 -> 01:00:51.640] Both be able to go very strong.
[01:00:51.640 -> 01:00:55.240] Lando nukes his tires pretty quickly.
[01:00:55.240 -> 01:00:56.520] Piastri struggles on the
[01:00:56.520 -> 01:00:58.280] second stint on the hards.
[01:00:58.280 -> 01:01:00.000] He loses quite a bit of track time,
[01:01:00.000 -> 01:01:01.680] about 5 seconds to his teammate.
[01:01:09.520 -> 01:01:10.600] And yeah, the final stint, they were okay, but they just didn't have it.
[01:01:11.240 -> 01:01:14.120] Not, not bad. That first didn't fucked him over on the mediums, but hey, yo,
[01:01:15.080 -> 01:01:16.440] what is, what happened with Louis?
[01:01:16.640 -> 01:01:19.040] Louis goes from P 11 to P nine.
[01:01:19.240 -> 01:01:20.600] I just didn't have the pace.
[01:01:20.600 -> 01:01:22.120] He spent most of the race with Alonzo.
[01:01:22.120 -> 01:01:26.040] I think Alonzo was accused of break checking him at one point, but I guess they looked
[01:01:26.040 -> 01:01:27.960] at the data and said nothing.
[01:01:27.960 -> 01:01:36.360] No, it was another classic Alonso shithouse where he went slightly off track because you
[01:01:36.360 -> 01:01:37.960] can do that in Abu Dhabi, right?
[01:01:37.960 -> 01:01:40.440] Because it's all just painted runoff.
[01:01:40.440 -> 01:01:45.160] He went slightly off track and and slowed down there's like a
[01:01:45.160 -> 01:01:48.600] Shithouse attempt to get Lewis to overtake him before the DRS point
[01:01:49.600 -> 01:01:51.600] Is that what it was? Yeah
[01:01:53.600 -> 01:01:57.960] That sort of shenanigans is it I like it I like it good moves
[01:01:58.800 -> 01:02:01.140] but yeah, so I mean
[01:02:02.240 -> 01:02:06.140] Yeah, I don't know Sunota tried a one one stop. He went from P6 to P8,
[01:02:06.140 -> 01:02:09.040] but it was honestly a decent one stop.
[01:02:09.040 -> 01:02:10.540] It just didn't work out
[01:02:10.540 -> 01:02:12.240] as much as he wanted.
[01:02:12.240 -> 01:02:14.680] Sunota finishes 14th
[01:02:14.680 -> 01:02:16.380] in the constructors or the drivers.
[01:02:16.380 -> 01:02:17.240] Sorry, he doesn't move up.
[01:02:17.240 -> 01:02:19.740] Albon takes 13, but yeah.
[01:02:21.140 -> 01:02:23.080] Main main takeaways from that race
[01:02:23.080 -> 01:02:27.060] is a primarily two stop race with a bit of management.
[01:02:27.060 -> 01:02:31.780] The medium tire was difficult for quite a few, especially at the race start.
[01:02:31.780 -> 01:02:36.620] And then the medium speed corners that are like slightly longer duration, like long combined
[01:02:36.620 -> 01:02:40.180] things where you've got the steering lock on for a long time, very much tend to wear
[01:02:40.180 -> 01:02:41.180] out the front tires.
[01:02:41.180 -> 01:02:50.920] And a lot of drivers were struggling with loss of front end towards the end of the race. Mercedes take P2 and the constructors over Ferrari by three points.
[01:02:50.920 -> 01:02:57.480] Signs unfortunately, but like what's signs in the Drag Championship? 200 to Leclerc's
[01:02:57.480 -> 01:03:06.580] 206. So they're not that dissimilar. I think in general and underperformance from the Scuderia as a whole this season, unfortunately, and
[01:03:06.580 -> 01:03:09.900] I would love to see them back.
[01:03:09.900 -> 01:03:14.380] Their car was faster than Mercedes on single lap throughout the season.
[01:03:14.380 -> 01:03:22.620] Race pace and tire management not as good and operationally leaving a lot on the table
[01:03:22.620 -> 01:03:25.240] there. Um, we're stopping with a pretty
[01:03:25.240 -> 01:03:31.800] flawless weekend. Um, looking at the telemetry later, uh, in my report, I looked at the symmetry
[01:03:31.800 -> 01:03:36.880] a bit of detail. The car was on fricking rails, turned two, three flat final corners, carrying
[01:03:36.880 -> 01:03:42.520] a lot of speed to him relative to anybody else. Team pace order was definitely Red Bull,
[01:03:42.520 -> 01:03:48.120] Ferrari, Mercedes, and Aston. And then after that, it was a bit of a gaggle of cars and hard to say really.
[01:03:48.120 -> 01:03:53.560] But, um, yeah, the Aston was, well, as soon as it got on the straight, though, it was
[01:03:53.560 -> 01:03:55.840] like someone threw a parachute out the back of it.
[01:03:55.840 -> 01:03:58.200] There was no straight line speed on that.
[01:03:58.200 -> 01:04:00.720] Everyone just zoomed past it straight.
[01:04:00.720 -> 01:04:01.720] Yeah.
[01:04:01.720 -> 01:04:06.040] Even Alonso almost gave the GP2 engine message again.
[01:04:06.040 -> 01:04:10.720] So let's let's talk about some since the race is over before we get to random fandom and
[01:04:10.720 -> 01:04:11.720] the fraud watch engine mode.
[01:04:11.720 -> 01:04:12.720] Good boy.
[01:04:12.720 -> 01:04:16.920] Max Verstappen 19 wins in a season.
[01:04:16.920 -> 01:04:26.540] New record highest win percentage 86.3 topping Albert Ascari's Alberto Ascari's 1952 75% 10 wins in a row.
[01:04:26.540 -> 01:04:27.700] Knock that out.
[01:04:27.700 -> 01:04:31.360] He took that one from Seb who had that.
[01:04:31.360 -> 01:04:34.380] Most wins from Poland a season.
[01:04:34.380 -> 01:04:38.380] 12 Mansel and Vettel had nine.
[01:04:38.380 -> 01:04:41.740] Most consecutive wins from pole.
[01:04:41.740 -> 01:04:43.880] So does that make sense?
[01:04:43.880 -> 01:04:47.760] 16 consecutive wins from I guess if he was on pole winning.
[01:04:47.760 -> 01:04:52.440] Yeah, it on and on and on 21 podiums in a season.
[01:04:52.440 -> 01:04:59.160] Most points in a season by far highest points scored and most.
[01:04:59.160 -> 01:05:01.640] He led what a thousand laps season.
[01:05:01.640 -> 01:05:04.360] Hell, yeah, absolutely wild.
[01:05:04.360 -> 01:05:05.360] And just as a reminder, if you're watching this live with us on YouTube, don't forget laps season. Hell yeah, absolutely wild.
[01:05:08.280 -> 01:05:13.160] And just as a reminder, if you're watching this live with us on YouTube, don't forget to hit that thumbs up button. If I check, we've only got what?
[01:05:13.160 -> 01:05:16.640] 61 people have hit that thumbs up button and we've got, you know, 300 and
[01:05:16.680 -> 01:05:20.920] nearly 350 people listening right now. Click that button. It does help us out.
[01:05:20.920 -> 01:05:25.200] And we do appreciate you guys joining us for this live podcast.
[01:05:25.520 -> 01:05:28.040] But listen, is it gone?
[01:05:29.240 -> 01:05:31.520] Red Bull Racing as an organization.
[01:05:33.160 -> 01:05:40.280] Needs to go into work tomorrow and claim bankruptcy and fold because, uh, I'm
[01:05:40.280 -> 01:05:43.080] sorry, but they didn't wing Singapore.
[01:05:43.320 -> 01:05:45.360] So because of that, this whole season's ruined.
[01:05:47.200 -> 01:05:55.200] You know, I'm, I'm distraught, honestly. So why don't we, yeah, you guys, you fucked it.
[01:05:55.200 -> 01:06:02.000] Yep. You absolutely missed the setup in Singapore. Unbelievable. Everybody makes mistakes. Nobody's
[01:06:02.000 -> 01:06:07.440] perfect, right? Mid and washed. Shall we? It's time to do that thing. You guys ready?
[01:06:07.440 -> 01:06:08.440] Hit the button.
[01:06:08.440 -> 01:06:09.440] Fraud Watch.
[01:06:09.440 -> 01:06:10.440] Fraud Watch.
[01:06:10.440 -> 01:06:25.000] Fraud Watch is where we put somebody on blast for terrible weekend.
[01:06:25.000 -> 01:06:36.400] Hmm, Dan, we've had the TV directors, McLaren run, Front Watch a lot, Ferrari and the FIA,
[01:06:36.400 -> 01:06:38.200] DeVries.
[01:06:38.200 -> 01:06:40.360] Signs has been on quite a few.
[01:06:40.360 -> 01:06:42.480] We've both done signs a couple of times.
[01:06:42.480 -> 01:06:50.000] Who you got this weekend? Maybe slightly controversial, but also slightly under the radar.
[01:06:50.000 -> 01:06:52.000] Kevin Magnussen.
[01:06:52.000 -> 01:06:54.000] K-Mag, what's he done?
[01:06:54.000 -> 01:06:56.000] He's just...
[01:06:56.000 -> 01:07:03.000] This season just underlines a woeful performance from him pretty much all season.
[01:07:03.000 -> 01:07:06.800] Qualifying? Consistently, consistently beat.
[01:07:08.320 -> 01:07:08.820] Yeah.
[01:07:09.680 -> 01:07:11.280] Consistently beaten by Nico.
[01:07:12.000 -> 01:07:14.000] The guy that sat out.
[01:07:14.000 -> 01:07:14.880] Should be retired.
[01:07:14.880 -> 01:07:15.380] Yeah.
[01:07:15.380 -> 01:07:16.440] Should be retired.
[01:07:16.440 -> 01:07:17.760] And I like K-Mag.
[01:07:17.760 -> 01:07:18.720] I think, no.
[01:07:18.720 -> 01:07:19.360] I do too.
[01:07:19.360 -> 01:07:20.880] I like the guy, but.
[01:07:24.880 -> 01:07:26.100] He's just lost.
[01:07:26.740 -> 01:07:28.260] He's not really done much, has he?
[01:07:28.260 -> 01:07:29.220] The constructors,
[01:07:29.220 -> 01:07:30.300] champions or the drivers?
[01:07:30.300 -> 01:07:32.260] Sorry, he finished 19th.
[01:07:34.620 -> 01:07:35.420] I mean, to be fair,
[01:07:35.420 -> 01:07:37.060] Sergeant managed to finish 21st
[01:07:37.060 -> 01:07:38.700] and a 20 driver championship as well.
[01:07:39.300 -> 01:07:40.420] With one point to his name.
[01:07:41.800 -> 01:07:43.400] Yes, that is true, but yeah,
[01:07:43.420 -> 01:07:47.000] no, that's a difficult car as car is rolling. I don't care.
[01:07:47.000 -> 01:07:52.000] It's just that Nico's got a difficult car as well. Yeah, he should have been beating
[01:07:52.000 -> 01:07:59.160] Nico in my opinion. We would have liked to have seen that. Yeah, but all the Nico Hulkenberg
[01:07:59.160 -> 01:08:09.640] doubters have been proven wrong. He's better than Kevin. Yeah, I, maybe that's why I've been proven wrong. He's better than Kevin. Yeah, maybe that's why I put him on the Fraud Watch for this week, because I confidently
[01:08:09.640 -> 01:08:16.080] said that K-Mag was going to make Nico look average, and I believe I have to hold that
[01:08:16.080 -> 01:08:19.480] L as the kids say.
[01:08:19.480 -> 01:08:20.480] How big is it?
[01:08:20.480 -> 01:08:21.480] It's very big.
[01:08:21.480 -> 01:08:22.480] Okay.
[01:08:22.480 -> 01:08:26.520] Fair enough. I think that's 19 to 9.
[01:08:26.520 -> 01:08:30.560] Who else had 19 to 9 in qualifying head to heads?
[01:08:30.560 -> 01:08:32.360] I don't know.
[01:08:32.360 -> 01:08:37.000] Bottas and Joe, as well as Norris and Piastri.
[01:08:37.000 -> 01:08:39.000] Hmm.
[01:08:39.000 -> 01:08:41.560] So interesting.
[01:08:41.560 -> 01:08:44.920] I'm going to go with Carlos Sainz this weekend.
[01:08:44.920 -> 01:08:51.440] He had one of those duff weekends and I'm not going to say he cost them the championship
[01:08:51.440 -> 01:08:53.760] because that doesn't happen in a single event.
[01:08:53.760 -> 01:08:57.480] It happens over the series of events.
[01:08:57.480 -> 01:09:01.000] He's had some bright moments this season, but like this is one of those moments where
[01:09:01.000 -> 01:09:02.800] the Claire showed up.
[01:09:02.800 -> 01:09:06.520] He hit everything on the head this week and he. He
[01:09:06.520 -> 01:09:18.580] didn't have a fault. Front row. Finish P2 was, you know, high levels of CPU usage of
[01:09:18.580 -> 01:09:23.540] making sure they get the most out of the race and science was.
[01:09:23.540 -> 01:09:27.840] Shit qualifying. Not great. Had a struggle in the race, his fault or not,
[01:09:27.840 -> 01:09:30.440] and then the team fucked him in the race as well.
[01:09:30.440 -> 01:09:33.840] So, yeah, fair enough.
[01:09:33.840 -> 01:09:42.480] But if you're wondering, audio listeners and YouTube watchers about our sort of entire
[01:09:42.480 -> 01:09:46.520] season, Fraud Watch winners and things like that,
[01:09:46.520 -> 01:09:48.720] do not fear because we are planning to do our
[01:09:48.720 -> 01:09:52.480] end of season award show at some point before Christmas.
[01:09:52.480 -> 01:09:54.580] I just have to tie in the time with Blake.
[01:09:56.000 -> 01:09:57.720] Yeah, we'll sort that out.
[01:09:57.720 -> 01:10:00.600] And you best believe we're doing,
[01:10:00.600 -> 01:10:04.520] we'll tie in the Fraud Watch season awards
[01:10:04.520 -> 01:10:06.640] and the season awards which you guys, our
[01:10:06.640 -> 01:10:09.400] listeners and viewers are going to help us put together as well.
[01:10:09.400 -> 01:10:14.240] Yeah, yous have voted for, so keep an eye on Twitter and we will let you know how you
[01:10:14.240 -> 01:10:17.760] can vote and when we will do the show.
[01:10:17.760 -> 01:10:23.400] My sparkly tuxedo is ready, I hope yours is ready.
[01:10:23.400 -> 01:10:26.400] My tux is ready but, it doesn't fit anymore.
[01:10:26.400 -> 01:10:27.400] And that bowtie is-
[01:10:27.400 -> 01:10:28.400] I never said it fits, but yeah.
[01:10:28.400 -> 01:10:29.400] Yeah, fair enough.
[01:10:29.400 -> 01:10:32.160] Well, why don't we, we've talked some shit.
[01:10:32.160 -> 01:10:34.760] Why don't we put some respect on a couple of names?
[01:10:34.760 -> 01:10:35.760] Let's go.
[01:10:35.760 -> 01:10:36.760] Let's go.
[01:10:36.760 -> 01:10:37.760] You ready?
[01:10:37.760 -> 01:10:38.760] You ready?
[01:10:38.760 -> 01:10:39.760] I'm ready.
[01:10:39.760 -> 01:10:40.760] Oh, you think he's a good boy?
[01:10:40.760 -> 01:10:41.760] I am.
[01:10:41.760 -> 01:10:42.760] I'm a good boy.
[01:10:42.760 -> 01:10:43.760] Are you a good boy?
[01:10:43.760 -> 01:10:44.760] Yeah, I think so.
[01:10:44.760 -> 01:10:46.100] I think so good boy. Are you a good boy? Uh, yeah, I think so.
[01:10:46.300 -> 01:10:47.000] I think so.
[01:10:47.000 -> 01:10:47.300] Okay.
[01:10:48.000 -> 01:10:48.500] Who are you?
[01:10:48.500 -> 01:10:49.600] Who are you putting on engine mode?
[01:10:49.600 -> 01:10:50.000] Good boy.
[01:10:50.000 -> 01:10:52.900] Who are you giving some some props to this weekend for?
[01:10:55.300 -> 01:10:56.700] It's got to be the one.
[01:10:56.700 -> 01:10:57.500] The only.
[01:11:00.600 -> 01:11:01.500] Yuki Tsunoda.
[01:11:02.400 -> 01:11:04.100] Oh, get in there.
[01:11:04.100 -> 01:11:04.500] You mean?
[01:11:06.000 -> 01:11:08.000] He's been all right alright hasn't he?
[01:11:08.000 -> 01:11:10.000] Yeah.
[01:11:10.000 -> 01:11:12.000] Yoints.
[01:11:12.000 -> 01:11:14.000] We got yoints ladies and gentlemen.
[01:11:14.000 -> 01:11:18.000] And the first Japanese driver to lead a Grand Prix since...
[01:11:18.000 -> 01:11:20.000] Ah, I noticed I wrote it down.
[01:11:22.000 -> 01:11:24.000] 1996?
[01:11:27.280 -> 01:11:30.880] It's been a minute. Who was it?
[01:11:36.880 -> 01:11:37.600] Oh, only the second time in history that a Japanese driver has led an F1 race.
[01:11:39.120 -> 01:11:41.600] We got some yoints, mate.
[01:11:42.560 -> 01:11:43.600] So yeah, fair enough.
[01:11:47.520 -> 01:11:48.520] I'm honestly going to be a bit of a dickhead and give it to Max. Disgusting bias.
[01:11:48.520 -> 01:11:57.280] It's just like, but like honestly, man, like he doesn't fucking miss. He is not happy with
[01:11:57.280 -> 01:12:00.880] just, you know, like I want it already. Like there was nothing else to prove. And he goes
[01:12:00.880 -> 01:12:07.040] out and has another absolute fucking banger of a weekend. His qualifying was not perfect.
[01:12:07.040 -> 01:12:11.520] Despite being on pole, he still did not improve on his second lap, but they got the job done.
[01:12:11.520 -> 01:12:14.360] It just doesn't, he's not missing.
[01:12:14.360 -> 01:12:19.600] And I think until somebody produces a much faster car.
[01:12:19.600 -> 01:12:27.440] Yeah, the fact exactly, as we said in chat. The fact that getting a thousand laps lead
[01:12:27.440 -> 01:12:32.560] it was plan A. Like the dude is literally just trying to tick off accomplishments because
[01:12:32.560 -> 01:12:35.600] there's no other challenge right now.
[01:12:35.600 -> 01:12:37.600] What else is he going to do?
[01:12:37.600 -> 01:12:43.360] Yeah, I've got a lot of time for people that like athletes that are focused like that.
[01:12:43.360 -> 01:12:45.080] It's it's impressive and humbling
[01:12:45.080 -> 01:12:46.980] cause I'm fucking lazy piece of shit.
[01:12:46.980 -> 01:12:47.820] So,
[01:12:49.780 -> 01:12:51.840] so is it,
[01:12:51.840 -> 01:12:54.200] we've got one more segment before we conclude
[01:12:54.200 -> 01:12:55.360] tonight's episode.
[01:12:57.280 -> 01:12:58.240] Oh, we do.
[01:12:58.240 -> 01:13:01.560] And it is not that button.
[01:13:02.560 -> 01:13:16.000] It is...
[01:13:18.000 -> 01:13:20.000] I did so well the other week. No, you nailed every one of them, man.
[01:13:20.000 -> 01:13:22.000] Not today.
[01:13:22.000 -> 01:13:24.000] No, send it.
[01:13:24.000 -> 01:13:30.000] Yeah, Random Fandom fandom where we are randomly pick a team to hype up for the weekend
[01:13:30.000 -> 01:13:33.200] and then give you a after action report.
[01:13:34.400 -> 01:13:35.200] For this week.
[01:13:35.200 -> 01:13:40.400] I got alpha towery, which is the reason why you key smashed it because he was
[01:13:40.900 -> 01:13:42.500] the beard was on his side.
[01:13:42.500 -> 01:13:43.900] He knew all about it.
[01:13:45.000 -> 01:13:51.160] Surprisingly, they bought a bunch of upgrades to this race, but Daniel struggled more with
[01:13:51.160 -> 01:13:57.040] the car throughout the weekend, and as discussed, we lost him in Q2 qualifying in 15th.
[01:13:57.040 -> 01:14:04.760] Tsunoda squeezed his way into Q3 and then shit-housed his way to 6th, so good on him.
[01:14:04.760 -> 01:14:06.240] Yeah, that's a 2-2 for that.
[01:14:06.240 -> 01:14:13.520] Yeah, there you go. And it was looking good right for the team to
[01:14:13.520 -> 01:14:18.160] overtake Williams for seventh. I think they were only seven points ahead in the
[01:14:18.160 -> 01:14:21.560] championship at that point in time so you know he's looking looking positive.
[01:14:21.560 -> 01:14:29.300] Yeah could have done it. So for the race Sonoda ran a long first stint trying one stop in the hopes of doing something
[01:14:29.300 -> 01:14:33.660] different which is the reason why we ended up having him leading the race at
[01:14:33.660 -> 01:14:37.760] one point and like I said only the second time in history that Japanese
[01:14:37.760 -> 01:14:43.040] driver has led an F1 race so big up yourself Yuki. Let's go lad. Unfortunately
[01:14:43.040 -> 01:14:48.960] because of the whole one stop he ended up falling backwards a bit down to eighth as his tires were sort of dead towards the end
[01:14:48.960 -> 01:14:53.760] and sadly that was not enough to pass Williams in the constructors however he
[01:14:53.760 -> 01:14:59.880] did win his first driver of the day award. Well done Yuki it was a good drive
[01:14:59.880 -> 01:15:08.440] it was a banger drive. Daniel Ricciardo's weekend was not as good, unfortunately.
[01:15:08.440 -> 01:15:12.320] Like I say, he was struggling with his car pretty much all through the weekend and then
[01:15:12.320 -> 01:15:16.320] it just went from bad to worse during the race as he picked up a tear off in his brake
[01:15:16.320 -> 01:15:17.320] duct.
[01:15:17.320 -> 01:15:18.840] Oh, the banana peel, eh?
[01:15:18.840 -> 01:15:24.760] Yep, had to pit early to deal with that, which sort of left him no choice but to go to an
[01:15:24.760 -> 01:15:30.320] aggressive two-stop. He did well to recover back to p11 he was only less
[01:15:30.320 -> 01:15:35.920] than a second away from 10th so you know it was a good recovery but no points
[01:15:35.920 -> 01:15:43.520] unfortunately. And finally it was the last Alpha Taui race or any race in
[01:15:43.520 -> 01:15:48.000] general for Franz Tost as he's off into retirement
[01:15:48.000 -> 01:15:54.280] after 18 years of running Alpha Tauri back when it was Toro Rosso and whatnot.
[01:15:54.280 -> 01:16:01.960] So yeah, big up yourself Franz, even though Lewis Hammond doesn't know who you are.
[01:16:01.960 -> 01:16:04.960] He's some, not some American dude, is he?
[01:16:04.960 -> 01:16:06.720] No. That's a good one. He's some not some American dude, is he no
[01:16:11.480 -> 01:16:12.120] It's a good one that fair enough man in 18 years in the sport is
[01:16:14.120 -> 01:16:15.000] it's impressive I
[01:16:22.560 -> 01:16:23.720] I've got Williams and Williams finished p7 ahead of Alpha Tauri in the constructors championship. Therefore they get an a-plus. Fuck you
[01:16:25.820 -> 01:16:29.200] Okay, fine. great, well done.
[01:16:30.000 -> 01:16:30.800] Excuse me.
[01:16:33.800 -> 01:16:36.000] Excuse me, no, this weekend for Williams, I think a forgettable one.
[01:16:36.000 -> 01:16:36.900] Honestly, what do we got?
[01:16:36.900 -> 01:16:39.900] So Logan Sergeant didn't set a qualifying time.
[01:16:39.900 -> 01:16:42.600] He starts from God knows where.
[01:16:42.900 -> 01:16:46.600] Alex gets knocked out in Q2.
[01:16:46.600 -> 01:16:53.760] P14, not a particularly strong performance, but the track, medium and low speed corners,
[01:16:53.760 -> 01:16:58.600] a couple of highs, a little bit of everything.
[01:16:58.600 -> 01:16:59.600] Wasn't going to go well.
[01:16:59.600 -> 01:17:08.000] Long straights, fine, but the Williams wasn't having it this weekend. And then in the race was Sargent, P16, Albon, P14,
[01:17:08.560 -> 01:17:13.560] no points for them, no loints or anything.
[01:17:15.960 -> 01:17:16.960] I don't know.
[01:17:16.960 -> 01:17:18.560] I'm gonna give this a,
[01:17:20.800 -> 01:17:24.640] relative to absolute terms, probably okay
[01:17:24.640 -> 01:17:27.500] from what they could have expected to do.
[01:17:27.500 -> 01:17:28.500] Probably still not.
[01:17:28.500 -> 01:17:32.720] I don't think they're particularly happy with that weekend, especially.
[01:17:32.720 -> 01:17:38.760] They needed they literally just needed before going into the event.
[01:17:38.760 -> 01:17:39.760] They were a point ahead.
[01:17:39.760 -> 01:17:43.520] Sorry, that we were only a point behind Al-Fatahri.
[01:17:43.520 -> 01:17:44.520] Wait.
[01:17:44.520 -> 01:17:48.840] I'm sorry, going into the weekend, they were 7 points ahead of Alfattore.
[01:17:48.840 -> 01:17:50.880] Sorry, I couldn't math.
[01:17:50.880 -> 01:17:52.580] They were not going to catch Alpine.
[01:17:52.580 -> 01:17:57.320] They were locked in at P7.
[01:17:57.320 -> 01:18:01.560] That's a bit of a gap to close to next season to Alpine from a performance, but Alpine's
[01:18:01.560 -> 01:18:03.000] been inconsistent as hell.
[01:18:03.000 -> 01:18:07.700] The Alston Martin dropped off, but where do you see Williams finishing next season?
[01:18:09.640 -> 01:18:10.620] P6 best.
[01:18:11.700 -> 01:18:12.920] Man, it's a hard one.
[01:18:12.920 -> 01:18:27.200] I like the trajectory, but it's so hard to keep that trajectory when all the other teams out there, you know, we know Alpha Tauri are taking as many parts of the Red Bull as they can
[01:18:27.200 -> 01:18:28.200] legally.
[01:18:28.200 -> 01:18:29.200] Legally.
[01:18:29.200 -> 01:18:34.560] I don't see them being any higher than 7th again.
[01:18:34.560 -> 01:18:38.920] I think, I think it's too much of a tall order.
[01:18:38.920 -> 01:18:48.040] I just, I don't know if like, I don't know if Alpine have the, have it in them to keep pushing if other people are developing.
[01:18:48.040 -> 01:18:50.760] I just don't have that much faith in Renault.
[01:18:50.760 -> 01:18:53.320] I don't.
[01:18:53.320 -> 01:18:59.840] So maybe that's, I think that's best unless they have some great stuff in the pipeline
[01:18:59.840 -> 01:19:00.840] over the season.
[01:19:00.840 -> 01:19:07.480] I think Sargent, you know, Albon scored 27 points and the drivers to Sargent's
[01:19:07.480 -> 01:19:12.080] one point. Albon was there to pick up the pieces in Shithouse's way and outperform that
[01:19:12.080 -> 01:19:19.120] car and Sargent scraped by with, what was it, a point in Zandvoort or USA or something?
[01:19:19.120 -> 01:19:32.640] I don't even remember. Anyway, anyway, I think, yeah, that's a D for Williams this weekend, easily.
[01:19:32.640 -> 01:19:36.280] But yeah, did somebody in the chat ask, did I ever work for Otmar?
[01:19:36.280 -> 01:19:39.960] Otmar was the boss at Force India when I was there.
[01:19:39.960 -> 01:19:44.400] He was a good dude and it's very interesting that he got ousted from there, considering
[01:19:44.400 -> 01:19:51.240] it doesn't look like any of the other people that are left there are particularly spectacular.
[01:19:51.240 -> 01:19:56.840] At the top of the food chain, the engineers that are doing the hard bits, there's some
[01:19:56.840 -> 01:20:02.480] absolute legends and gems there, but I don't really know about their senior management.
[01:20:02.480 -> 01:20:06.200] I don't know them, so I'm not enthused about their senior management. I don't know them so Not dozed about any of them
[01:20:06.640 -> 01:20:08.160] But yeah
[01:20:08.160 -> 01:20:13.160] Let's let's do this. Let's wrap it up here. We'll get a we'll get our season review episode
[01:20:13.160 -> 01:20:19.320] Maybe next week or maybe the week after and then we'll be back with some more freaking fraudulence. Yeah. Yeah, we'll figure out
[01:20:19.320 -> 01:20:21.560] We'll have to leave enough time for people to vote
[01:20:22.200 -> 01:20:26.360] Yeah, all that jazz, but you guys do yourselves a favor.
[01:20:26.900 -> 01:20:30.040] Um, check on your mates, go check on your butcher.
[01:20:30.040 -> 01:20:33.200] Make sure you've been buying local meat from him and not from Tesco.
[01:20:34.680 -> 01:20:35.000] Yeah.
[01:20:35.160 -> 01:20:37.820] And if you've been with us for this season, thank you very much.
[01:20:37.820 -> 01:20:38.520] Appreciate it.
[01:20:39.560 -> 01:20:42.340] Hope to see you again next season, but we will be doing bits and
[01:20:42.340 -> 01:20:43.920] pieces throughout the off season.
[01:20:45.000 -> 01:20:48.680] Uh, but if you don't, you know, if you don't want to do anything until winter
[01:20:48.680 -> 01:20:50.880] testing, fine, enjoy your Christmas.
[01:20:50.880 -> 01:20:51.780] Have a happy new year.
[01:20:53.220 -> 01:20:53.860] Good luck to you.
[01:20:55.480 -> 01:20:57.040] And, uh, you can fuck off.
[01:20:57.040 -> 01:20:57.640] If you wouldn't mind.
[01:20:59.080 -> 01:20:59.520] Do that.
[01:21:00.420 -> 01:21:01.360] We'll see you guys later.
[01:21:02.240 -> 01:21:03.120] One more toot toot.
[01:21:04.520 -> 01:21:06.000] One more toot toot. One more toot toot.
[01:21:06.000 -> 01:21:08.000] Oh, one more toot toot.
[01:21:08.000 -> 01:21:10.000] Love that, love that.
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