Podcast: F1 Fanfiction
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We are back with the first sprint race of this season, again at Imola! The 2022 Imola GP was yet another banger and just like last year included several spins and crashes. We witnessed the 2021 WDC lap the 7 time World Chamipion not once but twice! Charles binning it and gifting Lando with a Podium.
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**Summary of the F1 Fan Fiction Podcast Episode on the 2022 Imola Grand Prix:**
* The episode begins with a discussion of the hosts' intoxicated state, particularly Sarang's excessive beer consumption.
* The hosts then delve into the 2022 Imola Grand Prix, starting with the sprint race. They express their opinion that sprint races should be eliminated, as they do not add value to the overall race weekend, especially considering that cars can now follow each other more closely.
* The conversation shifts to Max Verstappen's dominant performance at Imola, where he achieved a grand slam by winning the sprint, the main race, and securing the fastest lap, while also leading every lap. The hosts praise Verstappen's consistency and skill, noting that he is the reigning world champion for a reason.
* The hosts discuss the midfield battle, highlighting the impressive performance of Kevin Magnussen, who started in fourth place and displayed aggressive driving throughout the race. They also mention the unfortunate incident between Carlos Sainz and Daniel Ricciardo, which resulted in both drivers retiring from the race.
* The hosts then analyze the strategies employed by the teams during the race, particularly the decision by Haas and Latifi to start on medium tires while everyone else opted for softs. They speculate that this strategy might have been advantageous towards the end of the race if the track had dried up completely.
* The conversation moves on to the DRS controversy, with the hosts noting that the FIA experimented with limiting the use of DRS during the race. They discuss the possibility of eliminating DRS altogether, given that the new regulations have made it easier for cars to follow each other.
* The hosts also discuss the resurgence of Valtteri Bottas at Alfa Romeo, who has been performing well and earning praise from the team. They attribute this to Bottas feeling more valued and respected in his new team compared to his previous experience at Mercedes.
* The episode concludes with a discussion of the meme-worthy moments from the race, including a clip of Verstappen lapping Lewis Hamilton, a TikTok video about car porpoising, and a comparison of the midfield drivers to the Top Gear trio of Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May. **2022 Imola Grand Prix Review: Battles, Surprises, and Controversies**
The 2022 Imola Grand Prix, held at the iconic Imola circuit, was an action-packed race filled with thrilling battles, unexpected twists, and controversial incidents. The podcast hosts delve into the key moments of the race, highlighting the fierce duels between drivers and analyzing the strategies employed by the teams.
**Key Race Moments:**
* **Max Verstappen's Dominance:** Max Verstappen, the reigning World Champion, continued his impressive form by securing a dominant victory at Imola. He led from start to finish, showcasing his exceptional pace and control throughout the race.
* **George Russell's Strong Performance:** George Russell, in his second season with Mercedes, impressed with a spirited drive, finishing ahead of his more experienced teammate, Lewis Hamilton. Russell's performance highlighted his growing confidence and potential as a future championship contender.
* **Carlos Sainz's Struggles:** Carlos Sainz, the Ferrari driver, had a difficult race, making several mistakes and crashing out of the lead. His disappointing result contrasted with his teammate Charles Leclerc's strong performance, who finished second behind Verstappen.
* **Kevin Magnussen's Resurgence:** Kevin Magnussen, driving for Haas, had a remarkable race, battling his way through the field to finish in the points. His performance marked a significant improvement for Haas, who struggled in the previous season.
* **Yuki Tsunoda's Impressive Drive:** Yuki Tsunoda, driving for AlphaTauri, had a standout race, showing great pace and overtaking several cars. His performance hinted at his potential to be a future contender in Formula One.
**Controversial Red Flag Incident:**
The race was briefly interrupted by a red flag period caused by Lando Norris crashing into the barriers. Some drivers, including Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc, expressed their frustration, arguing that the red flag benefited Norris by allowing him to secure a higher position than he would have achieved otherwise. This incident sparked a debate about whether drivers who cause red flags should be penalized.
**Conclusion:**
The 2022 Imola Grand Prix was a thrilling race that showcased the excitement and unpredictability of Formula One. The podcast hosts provided insightful commentary on the key moments of the race, analyzing the performances of drivers and teams, and discussing the controversies that arose during the event.
[00:00.000 -> 00:08.560] We sort of starting to lean towards this thought that FIA at this point is bringing a bazooka gun to a dartboard challenge competition.
[00:09.720 -> 00:14.840] They're trying to do everything which I'm okay with because as long as they experiment for a few reasons,
[00:15.520 -> 00:19.400] they figure out what's working, what's not working and then go back and change the thing.
[00:35.040 -> 00:39.800] Well, hello, hello. Before we get into anything, we are your hosts. Let's... we're going to start it a different way today. We are your hosts. I am Akash and the other host today
[00:39.800 -> 00:47.120] is a birthday boy. I'm Sarang. I think I am Sarang. Happy birthday Sarang who's just
[00:47.120 -> 00:52.000] returned from I don't know how many pubs, how many drinks and how many beers later
[00:52.000 -> 00:57.920] on this very special Imola GP recording. It's gonna be a fun one that's
[00:57.920 -> 01:05.000] guaranteed because I think like if I if you were to ask, Sarang, how many beers are you down at this point? Do you have a count?
[01:07.320 -> 01:11.680] I guess I can just barely count it on my two hands. So, yeah.
[01:13.520 -> 01:18.640] I think let's go to the North route and be like, it's N plus 1 because you've got one more in your hand right now.
[01:19.760 -> 01:20.920] Man, I just finished it.
[01:21.000 -> 01:24.520] I just finished it.
[01:27.480 -> 01:27.520] Hello, folks. And this is F1 Fan Fiction.
[01:29.840 -> 01:29.880] We're going to be discussing Emola GP today.
[01:33.200 -> 01:33.240] As you know, the race weekend was brilliant.
[01:37.880 -> 01:39.160] For some, maybe it wasn't because we've seen some contradicting and mixed emotions on the socials this time.
[01:39.360 -> 01:40.880] Let us know. Let's talk about this.
[01:40.920 -> 01:42.880] Let us know what you thought about the weekend.
[01:42.920 -> 01:46.640] Was it as exciting for you as it was for us as well?
[01:46.880 -> 01:48.440] Because for me, I had fun.
[01:48.600 -> 01:53.280] Sure. The last few races, 2022, the race games completely changed.
[01:53.280 -> 01:55.680] So their expectations have gone up high.
[01:56.360 -> 01:59.200] But a sprint race again after a year.
[02:00.280 -> 02:02.160] Yeah, let's get into it. Let's get into it, man.
[02:02.160 -> 02:03.680] Let's start with sprint race.
[02:03.680 -> 02:05.180] What did you think about that race start?
[02:05.700 -> 02:08.300] From Charles on a Mola sprint. Okay
[02:09.060 -> 02:13.160] Before we even get into the start of the sprint race. Let's talk about the sprint rate itself
[02:14.520 -> 02:16.660] Okay, first of all, do you think?
[02:17.680 -> 02:22.860] Having a sprint race is the correct thing when no the cars can follow each other
[02:22.940 -> 02:23.460] No
[02:23.460 -> 02:26.240] so I think last year too, I was,
[02:26.240 -> 02:29.640] I think both of us were of the opinion that sprint races shouldn't be a thing.
[02:29.640 -> 02:32.400] Sure. It's getting the crowd, blah, blah, blah.
[02:32.400 -> 02:37.640] But I'm all the more a proponent of the fact that they should just eliminate sprint races.
[02:37.640 -> 02:42.560] Yeah. Right. I think even the commentators kind of said the same thing.
[02:42.560 -> 02:44.640] And it makes sense to me.
[02:44.640 -> 02:46.400] Okay. considering that
[02:47.280 -> 02:54.480] even without DRS, cars are able to follow each other, why do you have a sprint race? Yeah, yeah. I think the
[02:54.480 -> 03:00.800] race day has this charm where sure someone's been able to put themselves in that qualifying
[03:01.600 -> 03:07.880] which sure over the span of the race they they are going to get to their original car and driving space
[03:07.880 -> 03:11.000] at a P10 plus, whatever, right?
[03:11.000 -> 03:14.740] But that shuffling that happens leads to some time gain
[03:14.740 -> 03:18.080] and lost for race leaders who are going to lap that person.
[03:18.080 -> 03:20.520] Which we lose, because what ends up happening
[03:20.520 -> 03:24.280] is we see that for some laps during the sprint,
[03:24.280 -> 03:25.100] but by the end of the
[03:25.100 -> 03:28.980] sprint or like the last one third of the sprint the race pacers are shuffled
[03:28.980 -> 03:37.220] around well and then the feature race is just like a good train of decent pace following each other.
[03:37.220 -> 03:45.520] Yeah man, I think it was a good idea back when it wasn't sure that people would be able to follow each other.
[03:45.520 -> 03:49.200] I think Liberty Media did a good experiment.
[03:49.200 -> 03:53.920] Luckily for them, the new rules are working as intended.
[03:53.920 -> 03:55.720] So they should just scrap it.
[03:55.720 -> 04:07.760] But regardless, we are here for Imola GP with a sprint race and an actual race. And I think we have a record broken with Max being the first driver who
[04:07.760 -> 04:18.160] got a qualification, who got sprint, who got the race win and the fastest lap. So I think
[04:18.160 -> 04:30.720] we need to talk about that. Max gets max points. Yeah, yeah. Max gets max points. Yeah, yeah. Max points, max points. Yeah, brilliant weekend from him overall, right? Like, at the start of Imola, I mean, Charles had that launch booster of a start.
[04:30.720 -> 04:32.920] First of all, that was a very surprising start for me.
[04:32.920 -> 04:35.080] And I was like, this is a done deal, right?
[04:35.080 -> 04:39.600] Because from the beginning of the season, we've seen that Ferrari's got that pace.
[04:39.600 -> 04:44.880] That once they are in the lead, it's like Hamilton in that seven-year hybrid era, right?
[04:44.880 -> 04:45.280] So, he's got in that lead. it's like Hamilton in that seven year hybrid era, right?
[04:45.280 -> 04:49.200] So he's gotten that lead, he's off, it's done.
[04:49.200 -> 04:51.400] Let's focus on 2+.
[04:51.400 -> 04:59.080] But that launch booster of a start and then the way it ended where Max was eventually
[04:59.080 -> 05:07.720] able to get that brilliant overtake, charging on Max, more that's a GP thing again yeah yeah
[05:07.720 -> 05:13.120] lovely from Max yeah I mean I'm impressed and you know our theory goes
[05:13.120 -> 05:18.560] on that max either wins or just boxes car
[05:18.560 -> 05:31.960] yeah statistically it's been happening 50-50 50-50 till now. So, you know, we are right. But anyways, Max, I think he won the last championship.
[05:31.960 -> 05:34.600] He is the reigning champion.
[05:34.600 -> 05:39.840] And he did everything right, man, this season.
[05:39.840 -> 05:41.760] I can't fault him with anything.
[05:41.760 -> 05:44.000] The sprint was insane.
[05:44.000 -> 05:46.640] The overtake that he did was really good.
[05:46.640 -> 05:55.360] And yeah, I don't know what to talk about. I mean, honestly, I have praised him a lot last season.
[05:55.360 -> 06:07.720] I don't want to continue that this season, I guess. So, I am not going to continue on this. but yeah, awesome. Flaws. Flaws. I mean, he's still trying to be that aggressive driver that he is.
[06:09.600 -> 06:11.320] He's starting to crib.
[06:11.400 -> 06:15.120] I wouldn't call it crib, but I think like he's, he's starting to go the Hamilton route,
[06:15.640 -> 06:17.800] at times when, when things aren't falling right.
[06:17.800 -> 06:22.520] So there are, there are these, these annoying flaws that are coming up, but I think like overall,
[06:23.120 -> 06:24.280] Max is doing good.
[06:24.520 -> 06:27.360] What I want to come back to is the restart.
[06:27.360 -> 06:31.680] Cause what kept happening during the restart is a
[06:31.680 -> 06:36.240] wonderful following slash sandwich that ended up happening between
[06:36.240 -> 06:39.840] Perez, Daniel and Kmag.
[06:40.480 -> 06:43.960] Kmag, first of all, this weekend has just been fighting.
[06:43.960 -> 06:49.800] So we will let's dedicate a segment entire to KMAG, which will probably be towards the
[06:49.800 -> 06:52.680] first one third end of this episode.
[06:52.680 -> 06:55.320] But there was a brilliant sandwich there.
[06:55.320 -> 06:57.360] Daniel just skimming past through.
[06:57.360 -> 07:02.680] KMAG was able to start in the fourth place, was again brilliant.
[07:02.680 -> 07:06.000] Just quite a lot of shuffling happening there. Alonzo again
[07:06.000 -> 07:11.840] for the second time has given us like a beautiful view from his car. So okay do
[07:11.840 -> 07:15.840] you mean the engine that we saw later on in the race or are you talking about things earlier?
[07:15.840 -> 07:25.720] Yeah he's been delivering view after view on all fronts at that point.
[07:30.520 -> 07:35.080] But I want to, I don't know what, if FIA has this rule of tires, which they've obviously eliminated from like that Q2 to race,
[07:35.520 -> 07:38.600] you don't need to get those tires in. But I don't know if that,
[07:38.760 -> 07:43.080] if that's carried on in, from sprint to race as well,
[07:43.080 -> 07:45.960] during these sprint weekends. But what I noticed
[07:45.960 -> 07:53.140] interesting was that everyone started on softs. Everyone started on softs because
[07:53.140 -> 07:56.640] I guess like it was a 21 lap race so might as well just go all out with the
[07:56.640 -> 08:04.540] tires. Except Haas. I don't know why they started on mediums. Haas and Latifi. So
[08:04.540 -> 08:10.760] except these three, everyone was on softs, which had to a certain point for me made sense.
[08:11.000 -> 08:17.320] But then towards the fag end of the of the sprint race, I was like, probably Haas and Latifi have gotten their strategy correct.
[08:17.320 -> 08:19.040] That they're going to launch because they've got mediums.
[08:19.040 -> 08:20.120] They're going to go the long race.
[08:20.360 -> 08:22.440] And these guys are going to have tire degradation.
[08:22.440 -> 08:23.240] So, yeah.
[08:22.000 -> 08:24.000] and these guys have tyre degradation. So yeah.
[08:24.000 -> 08:26.000] Okay, before we talk about that,
[08:26.000 -> 08:28.000] one thing I needed to point out is that
[08:28.000 -> 08:30.000] people who aren't really used
[08:30.000 -> 08:32.000] to the sprint race will be super confused
[08:32.000 -> 08:34.000] why we are talking about
[08:34.000 -> 08:36.000] softs when there was rain
[08:36.000 -> 08:38.000] on the track on the remain race.
[08:38.000 -> 08:40.000] Right?
[08:40.000 -> 08:42.000] And here's the point again.
[08:42.000 -> 08:44.000] This is really confusing I guess
[08:44.000 -> 08:52.400] to a lot of people. But anyways, let's talk about the sprint. Uh, I think, uh, this is a good opportunity for teams
[08:52.400 -> 08:58.480] to test out what is the right tire for the mean days. And I think as you said, like K-Mag was one
[08:58.480 -> 09:07.500] of the few people who went on to mediums and, uh, they tried, I think they kind of found out and sprint race.
[09:07.600 -> 09:12.920] I think at this point is the, uh, the only good advantage of it is that the
[09:12.920 -> 09:17.680] teams get a data point to decide what the strategy should be for the main race.
[09:18.100 -> 09:22.400] So I think it was evident that the, uh, you know, medium that was
[09:22.400 -> 09:31.360] not great for the short days, but I think a lot of people utilize that regardless in the main race because of the rain.
[09:31.360 -> 09:35.920] But I think sprint should be honestly removed.
[09:35.920 -> 09:41.880] I mean, again, I don't want to get back to that topic, but honestly speaking, it just
[09:41.880 -> 09:45.760] felt to me like the sprint race was just a preview to the main race for the teams.
[09:45.760 -> 09:48.960] And people just experimented with that.
[09:48.960 -> 09:49.760] Yeah, right.
[09:49.760 -> 09:51.760] Yeah. Fair point.
[09:51.760 -> 09:53.760] Yeah. Folks, comment man.
[09:53.760 -> 09:57.760] What do you think is your opinion on should the sprint races be eliminated?
[09:57.760 -> 10:01.760] Because this is the fourth race where we at FN Fan Fiction think it's just...
[10:01.760 -> 10:05.280] To be very honest honest every sprint race has
[10:05.280 -> 10:10.040] become very boring through the past one and a half year. So yeah let us know what
[10:10.040 -> 10:16.200] your thoughts are. Anyway switching gears you know how these these folks get other
[10:16.200 -> 10:27.000] people on the radio. Don't you ever wonder Christian Horner is always available for radio chat with Bramji. Yeah man, okay. Sometimes I really wonder, does he really do any work?
[10:27.000 -> 10:34.000] Right, just stare at the screen very intently to figure out if something is going bad.
[10:34.000 -> 10:43.000] Exactly, he is probably the only team driver, I mean sorry, team principal who is always free during the race, talk on the radio.
[10:43.000 -> 10:46.480] Because it seems, it's very disproportionate.
[10:46.480 -> 10:51.680] I've never seen Toto on the commentary. No one, no one. Maybe, I think like maybe
[10:51.680 -> 10:58.960] Zach or who's the Aston Martin guy, sorry, Alfa Romeo guy, right? They sometimes pop up,
[10:58.960 -> 11:05.520] but Christian's always there. Like every race, he's always there. It's super weird. I think he is basically
[11:06.080 -> 11:08.320] probably the PR person for the team.
[11:13.120 -> 11:15.680] Team principle defined in a different way. Sure.
[11:16.880 -> 11:20.080] What else was happening during the sprint? Let's see. Let's see.
[11:21.120 -> 11:29.600] I think we now have seen Botas 100.0, 1000.0 I don't know whatever that is.
[11:29.600 -> 11:37.200] I've lost count. Infinity. Yeah, whatever. But man, he is coming alive, right?
[11:37.200 -> 11:42.560] Like Merc is probably not missing him though. But whatever, you know.
[11:42.560 -> 11:50.000] Yeah, there's this nice video of you know, how he's become famous of that Heineken and being traditions, right?
[11:50.560 -> 11:57.360] So, it's sort of now moved on to having traditions being celebrated alone in your trailer
[11:58.080 -> 12:03.680] to now being revered by the whole team because you're doing whatever with Alpha Romeo and P5.
[12:04.160 -> 12:05.240] And that's true. That's true.
[12:05.240 -> 12:11.360] Like, I feel like he's gotten his mojo back in this team because it sounds like he's been heard.
[12:11.360 -> 12:16.280] He's come out and made a statement that his opinions are mattering more than...
[12:16.280 -> 12:17.400] I don't know. Is it?
[12:17.400 -> 12:18.680] Must be that toxic anyway.
[12:18.680 -> 12:20.840] Anyways, let's move on from there.
[12:20.840 -> 12:21.320] No comments.
[12:21.320 -> 12:21.880] No comments.
[12:21.880 -> 12:28.640] But yeah, something brilliant that at least was happening throughout the
[12:28.640 -> 12:33.040] weekend was there were these these trains forming, three car trains,
[12:33.560 -> 12:37.040] which just just the players kept shuffling around.
[12:37.040 -> 12:40.000] But the three car trains always kept constant.
[12:40.480 -> 12:44.280] They were always there and the players kept shuffling and they were able to follow
[12:44.280 -> 12:45.360] each other for a very long long time.
[12:45.360 -> 12:53.160] I was able to take this screenshot which probably you will see now is you can see how like there
[12:53.160 -> 12:57.320] was too many too many dots just following each other.
[12:57.320 -> 13:00.040] Yeah, it's just a super train that gets formed.
[13:00.040 -> 13:07.280] I think I think we need to address this that in the main race itself, there was one thing that
[13:07.280 -> 13:08.280] people noticed.
[13:08.280 -> 13:11.440] Okay, first of all, of course, the start was wet.
[13:11.440 -> 13:14.120] So everybody started on intermediates.
[13:14.120 -> 13:19.560] But one thing that we noticed that even when the track was kind of drying up, the stewards
[13:19.560 -> 13:31.920] were still not loving the DRS. Right. So, it seems like they were kind of experimenting with, is DRS really needed?
[13:31.920 -> 13:39.480] You know, because especially with the new regulations, it seems like following is a lot easier.
[13:39.480 -> 13:43.000] And it doesn't seem like DRS is anymore needed.
[13:43.000 -> 13:46.260] Because in Bahrain, right, what we could see is that
[13:46.260 -> 13:52.780] Max and Charles were kind of playing the games with the little DRS because they had to break
[13:52.780 -> 13:58.280] and you know, that was kind of definitely causing some dangerous situations because
[13:58.280 -> 14:11.720] I think about it in the main race when not just the leaders but when everybody is doing the same thing you can see some situations where people break too early just to get that DRS advantage
[14:11.720 -> 14:16.000] and I guess FI is kind of thinking of you know
[14:16.000 -> 14:18.240] is DRS really needed?
[14:18.240 -> 14:20.000] should we get rid of it?
[14:20.000 -> 14:23.560] so we could kind of see that they were not enabling it
[14:23.560 -> 14:26.240] even after when the track was kind of drying up.
[14:26.240 -> 14:27.960] So yeah, I guess that's something.
[14:28.120 -> 14:31.920] Yeah, they went on to like lap 34 before they enabled it.
[14:32.160 -> 14:34.920] Because again, it's the same thing, like multiple trains forming at that time.
[14:34.920 -> 14:43.000] I think at that time, lap 26 was Albon, Gasly, Hamilton train, right around when sort of Max start to overtake the trio.
[14:43.640 -> 14:45.700] But folks, let us know what your thoughts are again.
[14:45.700 -> 14:54.800] Because we sort of starting to lean towards this thought that FIA at this point is bringing a bazooka gun to a dart board challenge competition.
[14:56.000 -> 15:01.100] They're trying to do everything which I'm okay with because as long as they experiment for a few reasons,
[15:01.700 -> 15:05.200] they figure out what's working, what's not working and then go back and change
[15:05.200 -> 15:10.480] the thing. So sure we think DRS can be removed because the cars are able to hollow each other
[15:10.480 -> 15:16.720] very well. Yeah let us know what you think. Let us know what you think. But yeah. You know something
[15:16.720 -> 15:35.160] Akash, I think FIA is doing the right thing that as we ourselves have been doing very honestly just you know shoot bullets into the dark see what hits. I am telling you man someone is listening to us from FIA.
[15:35.160 -> 15:45.440] If only if we could copyright something like this. But I mean I'm happy about it. Yeah, sure.
[15:45.440 -> 15:51.560] Obviously, why not have someone like someone from FIA follow us and follow our tactics?
[15:51.560 -> 15:52.560] Why not?
[15:52.560 -> 15:56.960] But let's come to the main race at this point.
[15:56.960 -> 15:57.960] Right.
[15:57.960 -> 16:04.360] And something that if we can bring up some tech data to let's do that later in the episode.
[16:04.360 -> 16:09.720] But like that race start from Max versus Charles was somewhat of a brilliant
[16:09.720 -> 16:14.920] restart in the sense that they had the exact same reaction time, but that 0 to
[16:14.920 -> 16:21.080] 200 kmph speed that they kept showing for Max was where that advantage
[16:21.080 -> 16:26.400] lied and he was able to pull away from Charles and get that great
[16:26.400 -> 16:28.440] lead at the start itself.
[16:28.440 -> 16:34.520] Yeah, the start I was actually kind of surprised about because till now what we have seen,
[16:34.520 -> 16:40.480] it does seem like the Ferrari car has the advantage with in terms of engine power at
[16:40.480 -> 16:41.480] least.
[16:41.480 -> 16:45.880] But after this race and the sprint as well, I'm not sure about that anymore.
[16:45.880 -> 16:46.240] Right.
[16:46.600 -> 16:50.160] Because it seems like Honda probably has some reliability issues
[16:50.200 -> 16:51.360] that they need to work about.
[16:51.760 -> 16:55.480] It does seem like a fast car because yeah, definitely.
[16:55.480 -> 16:57.400] Like, you know, he didn't finish two races.
[16:57.800 -> 17:04.600] I give it that, but, uh, both of the ones that he won, it was brilliant
[17:11.440 -> 17:19.800] But both of the ones that he won, it was brilliant because he, I don't think he ever had a competition with Charles for both the races that he won. And I'm kind of scared that he can become Hamilton 2.0. I don't know. I'm somewhat concerned about that.
[17:19.800 -> 17:26.000] First few years of this decade, we say Vettel's winning so much that fans are gonna be bored.
[17:26.000 -> 17:30.500] Second half of the decade, we say Hamilton's winning so much that we're gonna be bored.
[17:30.500 -> 17:37.500] And are you saying that the first half of this decade, we're gonna be like Max is winning so much, we're gonna be bored?
[17:37.500 -> 17:39.300] Yeah, might as well be right.
[17:39.300 -> 17:40.800] Could be. Could be.
[17:40.800 -> 17:46.400] Yeah, yeah. No, but there was much drama happening there.
[17:46.400 -> 17:54.600] I was somewhere also hoping that he doesn't just nope out again towards the final few laps of the race.
[17:54.600 -> 17:58.680] But touch wood nothing happened. It was a smooth clean race for him.
[17:58.680 -> 18:03.240] With that race start, we did see a couple of people just launching up ahead, right.
[18:03.240 -> 18:08.440] Like Vettel and Russell, for example, were up by five positions after that restart.
[18:08.440 -> 18:10.080] That was just super brilliant.
[18:10.080 -> 18:16.400] I mean, Vettel, sure. But Russell, yeah, I mean, that was surprising that he ended up gaining five positions there.
[18:17.600 -> 18:19.200] He just keeps surprising me.
[18:19.640 -> 18:25.520] I have, I mean, OK, I've kind of been a fan of his, in the sense that he did brilliant things in the limbs.
[18:25.520 -> 18:32.520] But I never thought that he would be beating Hamilton fair and square.
[18:32.520 -> 18:34.480] I don't know.
[18:34.480 -> 18:37.560] Let's bring this conversation in while we are here.
[18:37.560 -> 18:41.120] So, Mercedes Hamilton and Russell at this point.
[18:41.120 -> 18:45.960] So, I have a theory where I don't think it's at this point
[18:45.960 -> 18:51.360] about Hamilton versus Russell. I think it's more about Mercedes versus the
[18:51.360 -> 18:56.640] other teams because the first few races Mercedes has realized that they are
[18:56.640 -> 19:01.440] nowhere in the competition. What do they need to do just to get there, right? And
[19:01.440 -> 19:09.040] there's two things that put me to this theory. One is there was a radio message around lap 23 where,
[19:09.040 -> 19:10.680] where they were,
[19:10.680 -> 19:14.880] where they were telling Hamilton that he's not going to have the flap
[19:14.880 -> 19:18.560] adjustment that Russell had. That's one.
[19:18.560 -> 19:19.680] And at the end of the race,
[19:19.680 -> 19:24.200] it felt like Toto was telling Hamilton that we just gave you an abysmal car.
[19:24.400 -> 19:27.960] So sorry about that. And then Hamilton being very, you know,
[19:28.840 -> 19:32.920] nonchalant in a way, but still knowing what's happening. No worries, Toto. Right?
[19:33.080 -> 19:37.840] So that to me tells that they are doing this on purpose where they are
[19:37.840 -> 19:40.480] making minor tweaks and adjustments to Russell's car,
[19:40.880 -> 19:47.640] who is definitely a good driver and can push that car to see how much of those pushy adjustments
[19:47.640 -> 19:48.640] can work.
[19:48.640 -> 19:53.880] And then at the same time, they're making like solid, you know, bold adjustments to
[19:53.880 -> 20:00.680] Hamilton's car and using that raw decade of experience from Hamilton on an F1 car to see
[20:00.680 -> 20:02.000] what feedback can we get.
[20:02.000 -> 20:10.040] So I think like this is just fooling us fans in some way for a major bounce back that Mercedes is gonna do. You kind of
[20:10.040 -> 20:15.840] convinced me with that argument because before I mean honestly before this I was
[20:15.840 -> 20:22.440] under the impression that Russell is probably somehow fitting the car
[20:22.440 -> 20:26.920] better than Hamilton. Right. But it seems to me that you're
[20:26.920 -> 20:33.280] right that Mercedes is really like doing a baseline you know with Hamilton just
[20:33.280 -> 20:38.240] trying to understand the car itself. They are just letting him run the base car
[20:38.240 -> 20:42.400] itself to kind of understand what the weaknesses are and it makes sense with
[20:42.400 -> 20:51.360] the most experienced driver on the team to kind of figure that out and you know give out the experimental adjustments to the new driver
[20:51.360 -> 20:53.320] and try to see what works.
[20:53.320 -> 20:56.280] Yeah definitely I think Mercedes will bounce back.
[20:56.280 -> 20:58.320] Hamilton too will definitely bounce back.
[20:58.320 -> 21:04.880] I don't think that he is in for the championship for the season but he is gunning for probably
[21:04.880 -> 21:07.680] like the next few other seasons though.
[21:07.680 -> 21:17.440] He's not retiring. As much as I would want him to struggle for that 8th championship, he is definitely not retiring without that 8th title.
[21:17.440 -> 21:27.680] Yeah, yeah, yeah. But talking about strategies and team dynamics and what might be working and what might be not,
[21:27.680 -> 21:33.760] there's two uncanny teams, team dynamics that I want to talk to, that I want to get your opinion
[21:33.760 -> 21:41.280] on. So the first one is Red Bull, where we've got Max and Carlos. And then the second one is
[21:41.280 -> 21:47.700] McLaren, where we've got Daniel and Lando. Wait, you just said Max and Carlos. I'm a little confused.
[21:47.900 -> 21:49.700] Oh, sorry. Max and...
[21:50.900 -> 21:56.700] Dude, wait. One second. I have drunk some beers. You haven't.
[22:02.700 -> 22:09.440] Well, I can... I'm high on caffeine.
[22:09.440 -> 22:15.800] But yeah, so we've got Max and Perez and then we've got Lando and Daniel.
[22:15.800 -> 22:22.420] And what I want to focus on is Perez, Daniel, and then let's bring in the third person into
[22:22.420 -> 22:25.440] dynamics, Carlos, because of that incident that he had, right?
[22:25.840 -> 22:42.560] These three switching teams into the new sort of team last year, we are still seeing two people sort of trying to fit in, which is Carlos and Daniels still trying to fit into their teams, whereas Perez has sort of like shattered that competition.
[22:45.840 -> 22:54.000] has sort of like shattered that competition. It's surprising, right? Last year, I remember talking every single episode that Carlos is fairly beating Schaltz. What has changed? I mean,
[22:54.000 -> 22:58.240] the car, if anything, has gotten better. I don't understand what's going on.
[22:59.520 -> 23:07.280] Like, it's been two races since we have been seeing that Carlos has been getting out in like, right?
[23:07.280 -> 23:08.080] Lap one.
[23:08.640 -> 23:10.880] He's being Mazispin, what Mazispin was.
[23:11.520 -> 23:12.960] Yeah, I mean, I was trying.
[23:13.520 -> 23:14.640] He's the new Mazispin.
[23:15.200 -> 23:16.800] There it is. He's the new Mazispin.
[23:16.800 -> 23:19.120] I was trying to, you know, like, mellow it a bit.
[23:19.120 -> 23:22.960] You know, I was trying to think of a better term, but yeah, for sure. I agree.
[23:24.560 -> 23:29.360] Okay, while you're at it, so let's come to that particular incident during the race.
[23:29.360 -> 23:31.160] Like Carlos versus Daniel.
[23:31.720 -> 23:37.960] Now, if you see the cams, Carlos is ahead on that turn.
[23:38.720 -> 23:43.680] He's going into that left turn and is about to take his right turn.
[23:44.160 -> 23:46.960] And he has that race line. He is from the inside.
[23:47.440 -> 23:51.240] And then suddenly you see a tap from Daniel and both of them just kissing each
[23:51.240 -> 23:53.760] other in a very romantic way. Right.
[23:55.040 -> 23:56.480] But if you listen...
[23:59.760 -> 24:01.400] Turn ASMR at this point.
[24:02.240 -> 24:06.400] But if you go back and listen to the post-race interviews, right,
[24:06.400 -> 24:12.440] Carlos is like, it was his mistake also at a very significant level because he's like,
[24:12.440 -> 24:19.240] I did sort of open up the line to him for him, allowing him to come inside and making it my mistake.
[24:19.240 -> 24:22.160] Because then I tried to close the gap when he was already inside.
[24:22.160 -> 24:24.680] And then, yeah, one thing led to another and we were out.
[24:22.960 -> 24:26.760] close the gap when he was already inside and then yeah, one thing led to another and we were out. So yeah,
[24:26.760 -> 24:31.040] Carlos has sort of like forgotten his mojo and then Daniel sort of gotten
[24:31.080 -> 24:35.600] probably so hungry for a, for a proving point to himself that,
[24:36.800 -> 24:38.360] oh yeah, I don't know. I don't know what's happening.
[24:38.360 -> 24:41.000] What are you? I think it's, yeah.
[24:41.200 -> 24:42.120] Incident particular.
[24:42.120 -> 24:44.680] The incident in particular, I think, um,
[24:49.720 -> 24:53.400] it was a racing incident as the steward decided, because I don't think either of them was at a fault.
[24:53.400 -> 24:58.760] Both of them were, you know, I mean, it was a wet race.
[24:58.760 -> 25:03.480] They didn't have the best conditions and both were trying to do good.
[25:03.480 -> 25:05.680] And it just seemed that they were at the right,
[25:05.680 -> 25:13.520] wrong place at the wrong time and things happened. They both were kind of at fault but they both
[25:13.520 -> 25:21.280] suffered at the same time, one more than the other of course. Yeah man, I think Carlos should,
[25:21.280 -> 25:27.680] he needs to step up. Charles definitely is able to deal with the car more.
[25:27.680 -> 25:34.000] He clearly is the number one driver in the team. It felt to me that Carlos possibly was the better
[25:34.000 -> 25:41.600] driver, at least last season, but maybe not. Maybe it was something of a Mercedes kind of
[25:41.600 -> 25:45.000] a strategy that Ferrari was playing last year as we just
[25:45.000 -> 25:49.800] discussed where they were probably giving Carlos the better parts in terms
[25:49.800 -> 25:56.260] of experimentation and that's why we saw him ahead of Schaltz but this season
[25:56.260 -> 26:00.480] it's very clear who the number one driver is the mistakes that Carlos has
[26:00.480 -> 26:05.280] done is pretty weird. The last incident that I want to sort of bring up
[26:05.280 -> 26:10.120] from that restart is I don't know if it was a domino effect of these two sort of
[26:10.120 -> 26:16.000] spinning out but I felt like yesterday Nick Schumacher just wanted to reverse
[26:16.000 -> 26:19.800] race on that track because he was just spinning out he did that twice the first
[26:19.800 -> 26:25.400] time he did he almost no I don't want to call it almost because he knocked out Alonzo's
[26:25.400 -> 26:33.160] side, he knocked out half of his rear end on the right exposing the guts and the
[26:33.160 -> 26:38.280] intestines of the car and then he did it all by himself somewhere middle in the
[26:38.280 -> 26:42.960] race and he just kept spunning to the opposite side. At this point let's change
[26:42.960 -> 26:49.840] the gears a bit and go towards our meme section. I think like I'm starting to love this section of ours on our showcase.
[26:49.840 -> 26:56.920] It's a good segue into the Reddit, the Twitter, the nonsense world that entertains us too.
[26:56.920 -> 27:03.000] So let's let's see. Sarang, you want to share your screen? See, let's see what we've got
[27:03.000 -> 27:05.200] in our curated list today. I think I think it's time. Okay, let's I think let's see what we've got in our curated list today I think I
[27:05.200 -> 27:15.320] think it's time okay let's let's go me section my best Japanese manga animated
[27:15.320 -> 27:25.840] whatever I think I think this we really need to discuss.
[27:25.840 -> 27:29.440] OTA is getting fucked by a bad pitch top.
[27:29.440 -> 27:33.000] I think those are traditions for sure.
[27:33.000 -> 27:37.880] We saw that last season as well as this season.
[27:37.880 -> 27:46.000] But the good part is, this time it wasn't his fault.
[27:46.000 -> 27:49.000] Last time it was his fault.
[27:49.000 -> 27:59.000] Regardless of what effort he puts in, somehow his team always disappoints him.
[27:59.000 -> 28:05.400] But regardless, he got a superb result. So, yeah.
[28:05.400 -> 28:06.240] Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
[28:06.240 -> 28:09.720] And especially that fight at the end, man.
[28:09.720 -> 28:11.000] I was gunning for it.
[28:11.000 -> 28:14.120] Like that P4 fight that he had with Russell.
[28:14.120 -> 28:16.520] I was gunning for it.
[28:16.520 -> 28:21.560] I was probably hoping Toto is gonna be on the radio, Russell team orders at this point.
[28:21.560 -> 28:24.120] But obviously, that would have been the joke of it.
[28:24.120 -> 28:27.560] Yeah, nonetheless, nice meme here.
[28:27.560 -> 28:32.080] I think the next one, pretty much everybody noticed this.
[28:32.080 -> 28:37.440] Pitting so that you will have fresh tyres.
[28:37.440 -> 28:40.000] Cut to pitting to come out.
[28:40.000 -> 28:43.960] Oh man, pitting to come behind Lewis, so you can lap him.
[28:43.960 -> 28:45.160] Oh, this is gonna...
[28:45.160 -> 28:50.800] And that's true. That's true. Because he did lap that trio once.
[28:50.800 -> 28:56.360] And then he lapped and I was like, oh, Lewis just went by. So he's gonna have to lap them again.
[28:56.360 -> 29:08.840] Yeah, man. Like, honestly, just seeing Verstappen lapping Hamilton was really surprising it kind of felt bad to me I
[29:08.840 -> 29:19.680] wish Hamilton was not not so far behind but yeah it happened okay next one
[29:19.680 -> 29:28.000] listeners you have to check this out on our socials because this is none other than Akash who created this meme.
[29:31.200 -> 29:36.680] Oh this one. Oh man, there's no music to this one on this recording right now.
[29:36.680 -> 29:43.520] But folks, go to our TikTok if you're not in India and you have access to TikTok. Go to our TikTok.
[29:43.520 -> 29:45.620] I'm gonna probably put this on YouTube as well.
[29:46.040 -> 29:51.180] It's the car for poising with some nice music in the background.
[29:51.340 -> 29:56.580] And it was funny because all these cars were just bouncing so much around on the track.
[29:56.620 -> 29:59.260] Yeah, man. Forfeiting is a real issue.
[29:59.260 -> 30:00.260] Very honestly.
[30:02.420 -> 30:03.140] Look at that helmet.
[30:03.140 -> 30:04.140] Look at that helmet.
[30:04.140 -> 30:09.960] Forget driving at 5Gs or whatever. I cannot think driving this car
[30:09.960 -> 30:18.600] which just jumps up and down constantly. But that's the thing right? Imagine that. So far
[30:18.600 -> 30:27.360] these drivers only had lateral and longitudinal Gs. This year they have vertical G's as well like 1 1 1 1 so it's crazy.
[30:27.360 -> 30:30.960] I want to see the AWS statistics on the vertical G's man.
[30:33.280 -> 30:39.680] That that has to be it because it's insane like I saw this even in the last race
[30:40.720 -> 30:50.000] uh how much they popoise but you know yeah. Popoise yeah. I think the last one that we really need to check is
[30:50.000 -> 31:11.440] Oh yeah the Top Gear Trio. This was so true this year, this race. This was so true, this race. I think Hamilton had probably the first experience in his life where he was just following other cars.
[31:11.640 -> 31:18.840] He was the NPC as such, you know, the non-playable character in the game.
[31:24.040 -> 31:24.840] For a change.
[31:33.900 -> 31:37.140] Who's who? So, we've got the trio here. I think like we've got... I don't know who's following who in this clip here. But let's just put this into perspective. Who's who?
[31:37.140 -> 31:49.680] I think Hamilton has to be James May, man. The expression just fits him for somehow. Yeah, he wants to overtake. He's also flicking
[31:49.680 -> 31:56.080] that indicator light that he wanted to switch lanes, but he just can't. You know what I would
[31:56.080 -> 32:06.320] say not Albon, it was Zunoda who was Jeremy Clarkson because he was really leading the train as such.
[32:06.320 -> 32:09.200] Yeah, with all the cussing too.
[32:09.200 -> 32:10.720] Yeah, with all the cussing too.
[32:10.720 -> 32:13.600] And then Ghazalie being Richard Hammond.
[32:13.600 -> 32:16.480] I can kind of think of him as that.
[32:16.480 -> 32:20.560] This is good.
[32:20.560 -> 32:23.760] On to our main discussions back.
[32:23.760 -> 32:28.400] One guy I want to dedicate an entire segment to at this point is K Bang.
[32:28.400 -> 32:36.200] This is one guy that we've deliberately not spoken about last season because we just didn't want to talk about him.
[32:36.200 -> 32:39.800] By the way, also because he was not in the season as well.
[32:39.800 -> 32:46.120] You know what I mean. Like basically basically, whenever he was there with Grosjean.
[32:48.120 -> 32:49.360] But that's a fair point, actually.
[32:51.120 -> 32:59.000] But this season, man, especially this weekend, this weekend, it felt like he was completely into battles.
[32:59.200 -> 33:06.040] Battle after battle, during sprints, during the feature race, he was constantly fending for himself,
[33:06.040 -> 33:09.680] putting his foot down just to stay at the race.
[33:09.680 -> 33:17.600] I think he somehow stuck gold because he definitely wants to fight that fight and he has the equipment
[33:17.600 -> 33:19.440] with him this time.
[33:19.440 -> 33:27.000] And till now, he did try, but he never had the right tools to do that.
[33:27.000 -> 33:32.000] But Haas has somehow, by sacrificing the last season,
[33:32.000 -> 33:36.000] been able to develop a card which can fight this season.
[33:36.000 -> 33:40.000] And he is completely taking advantage of it, isn't he?
[33:40.000 -> 33:41.000] True, definitely.
[33:41.000 -> 33:45.500] Because there was like a four-lap long battle between Russell and K-Mag.
[33:45.500 -> 33:52.200] And it still wasn't over then. Then, right as soon as that ended, he was again in a battle with Botaz.
[33:52.200 -> 33:57.500] I think like towards later on in the race, Yuki and K-Mag got into a fight as well.
[33:57.500 -> 34:04.000] So, and it's not like the Haas that we've seen, where it's a clear-cut overtake.
[34:04.000 -> 34:05.640] They're not even in the game.
[34:05.640 -> 34:11.040] I wouldn't talk about Mick much at this point because he was trying to reverse-face yesterday.
[34:11.040 -> 34:15.160] But then for K Mag, he's showing that true potential for Haas
[34:15.160 -> 34:19.680] that probably Gunter has wanted to see for Gene Haas at that point.
[34:19.680 -> 34:22.960] Yeah, proving his entire worth at this point.
[34:22.960 -> 34:24.640] Proving his entire worth at this point.
[34:24.640 -> 34:29.680] So, yeah, I'm super happy with what's happening with KMAG in this season.
[34:30.640 -> 34:33.440] But you know what? Talking about battles, that's got me thinking.
[34:33.440 -> 34:36.720] Talking about battles, there have been some lovely battles yesterday.
[34:37.840 -> 34:41.280] We've seen Perez versus Charles. That was a lovely battle.
[34:41.280 -> 34:41.360] Yeah.
[34:41.360 -> 34:54.240] Right? They wanted to overtake each other. That went on for so long. Yeah man. At one point, I really thought that Charles might just pass by Perez, considering the previous races that we have seen.
[34:54.240 -> 35:06.780] But Perez had the pace entirely. He was just short of Max. Other than him, I think he was the first one on the track and yeah Charles was
[35:06.780 -> 35:13.560] you know we have seen him performing really well but I think this race wasn't
[35:13.560 -> 35:20.720] his and Ferrari was missing just the edge as such in terms of pace because
[35:20.720 -> 35:28.600] Red Bulls were really clearly faster. And let's point this out, the last time Red Bull had won 2 was when
[35:28.600 -> 35:30.700] Ricardo was on the team.
[35:30.700 -> 35:32.100] 2016.
[35:32.100 -> 35:36.300] Yeah, 2016 Ricardo and Max won 2.
[35:36.300 -> 35:39.600] And here we are with Max being the no.1 driver this time
[35:39.600 -> 35:41.600] and somebody else being there.
[35:41.600 -> 35:48.640] So Perez, brilliant defense, brilliant driving throughout the race.
[35:49.360 -> 35:57.080] The undercut working fine too. Like he did come behind. He did come out after Perez, sorry, after Charles on that thing.
[35:57.080 -> 36:04.440] But obviously he pitted earlier. So he's got that warmer tires and he was able to take on Charles.
[36:04.500 -> 36:04.800] So, he's got that warmer tires and he was able to take on Charles.
[36:10.800 -> 36:12.200] The other battle, which didn't last much long was Stroll versus Sunoda.
[36:17.040 -> 36:17.540] Sunoda wasn't in the limelight yesterday, but I feel Sunoda had a brilliant race. For sure.
[36:17.540 -> 36:18.600] Brilliant feature race.
[36:19.240 -> 36:20.560] He was overtaking.
[36:20.560 -> 36:21.680] He was being bold.
[36:21.680 -> 36:23.120] He was being confident.
[36:32.000 -> 36:47.280] He was being bold. He was being confident. And I'm starting to think like with more focus from this guy, he's a very good fighter. He's a very good contender. I mean, we have seen him last season fight Hamilton, right? And he did pretty good. And I think he's carrying that forward into the season as well. We saw that train forming with pretty much Snowda was leading it for almost the entire race
[36:47.280 -> 36:54.800] and he's doing really good. I think Alfred Tavri have a really good combo with Gasly being the
[36:54.800 -> 37:01.280] number one driver though very honestly his performance this race was a yeah. It's not been
[37:01.280 -> 37:05.480] as last year's start. Yeah I think he he's still kind of, you know, understanding
[37:05.480 -> 37:12.400] the car probably and somehow Sunoda has lucked out and you know, we are seeing this duality
[37:12.400 -> 37:17.640] and I think pretty much every team where one driver is doing really well and the other
[37:17.640 -> 37:24.960] isn't and that also shows up in the leaderboard as well. A lot of races, but, but I think,
[37:24.960 -> 37:28.480] yeah, I think this is a first season. So people are still figuring out.
[37:28.480 -> 37:33.600] Ghastly, I hope he finds his mojo. But Snoda, man, he's been doing really good.
[37:33.600 -> 37:42.400] Yeah. Albon almost got that P10 yesterday too. Because I think he went from P20 post-sprint.
[37:42.400 -> 37:48.160] Did he pit this race? Yeah, he had.
[37:48.160 -> 37:57.680] But speaking of battles, I mean, I don't want to undermine and because we were on Alpha Tauri,
[37:57.680 -> 38:08.000] Gasly's wonderful defense on Lewis, not letting Lewis pass, even getting into that fighting distance for Lewis for that matter.
[38:08.000 -> 38:14.400] It was like that meme of that wide screen Gasly is all what Hamilton saw.
[38:14.400 -> 38:25.200] I remember listening to the commentators constantly saying like, you know, Hamilton is getting there to go and get Gatsby. They are like, you know, I think this lap is
[38:25.200 -> 38:31.440] where Hamilton gets Gatsby. And then, oh no, I don't think this is the lap. And that happened
[38:31.440 -> 38:38.800] like 36 times or something like that. I don't know. Yeah, that went on forever. That went on forever.
[38:39.840 -> 38:46.880] Let's see. One last item that I want to sort of bring up is I noticed Ocon had some sort of a time penalty.
[38:46.880 -> 38:50.400] I had no idea why. Why did Ocon have some time penalty yesterday?
[38:50.920 -> 38:54.360] Yeah, right. I think Ocon had a time penalty because of the pit stop, right?
[38:54.360 -> 39:05.400] Because I think there was some impeding that basically Alpine released him into the path of Hamilton when Hamilton had already joined the
[39:05.400 -> 39:11.560] pit lane and fair enough it was a slam-dunk penalty especially with the
[39:11.560 -> 39:18.880] you know how FIA has been dealing with penalties this season I think I like it
[39:18.880 -> 39:24.000] that they have been just handing out penalties left and right whenever you
[39:24.000 -> 39:28.400] break any rules and I agree to it That's what they should be doing anyways.
[39:28.400 -> 39:31.800] And then making it racing incidents when it is.
[39:31.800 -> 39:34.800] Because like Ricardo versus Carlos was a racing incident.
[39:34.800 -> 39:36.000] No one got points. Yeah, yeah.
[39:36.000 -> 39:36.600] Fair enough.
[39:36.600 -> 39:39.000] And it was a slam dunk penalty.
[39:39.000 -> 39:41.400] And they did it. So, I am happy about it.
[39:41.400 -> 39:42.000] Yeah.
[39:42.000 -> 39:43.800] Yeah, true.
[39:43.800 -> 39:45.200] Yeah, that pit stop, I remember. Like everyone came in and then it. Yeah. Yeah. True. Yeah. That stuff I remember,
[39:45.200 -> 39:49.040] like everyone came in and then everyone wanted to leave out at the same time,
[39:49.640 -> 39:52.400] which come, which that's a good point you raised.
[39:52.400 -> 39:56.960] Cause that's got me thinking to science's statement from,
[39:57.000 -> 39:58.760] from the post race interview,
[39:58.760 -> 40:03.440] where he says that folks causing a red flag
[40:03.920 -> 40:05.460] should be penalized.
[40:05.460 -> 40:08.580] I for one personally agree to this.
[40:08.580 -> 40:10.060] Sarang, what are your thoughts?
[40:10.060 -> 40:12.060] I think Lander would oppose that.
[40:12.060 -> 40:14.560] Obviously.
[40:14.560 -> 40:16.560] And Charles.
[40:16.560 -> 40:19.280] And Charles. Yeah.
[40:19.280 -> 40:22.180] By the way, he did quote both of them.
[40:22.180 -> 40:23.040] Yeah, man.
[40:23.040 -> 40:25.440] I think I totally agree.
[40:25.440 -> 40:27.760] Because I think that is a loophole right now.
[40:27.760 -> 40:30.400] We saw this in Monaco with Charles.
[40:30.400 -> 40:32.400] Yeah, but Emola was the same thing, right?
[40:32.400 -> 40:36.160] Emola was the same thing with Lando securing P3 at the same time.
[40:36.160 -> 40:38.560] He crashed. He got the P3.
[40:38.560 -> 40:40.720] I think there needs to be a penalty for that.
[40:40.720 -> 40:45.880] Because I think, at this point, by doing this, you can easily secure
[40:45.880 -> 40:50.520] an easy win. And yeah, it should be clamped down on.
[40:50.520 -> 40:51.520] With no repercussions.
[40:51.520 -> 40:58.680] Exactly. And I think since we are really trying to make this sports fair by really giving
[40:58.680 -> 41:02.120] penalties to everybody, they should clamp down on this.
[41:02.120 -> 41:06.000] Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I was gonna just end the episode.
[41:06.000 -> 41:08.000] How can we end this episode without
[41:08.000 -> 41:10.000] mentioning Latifi?
[41:10.000 -> 41:12.000] Was he trying to deploy spikes
[41:12.000 -> 41:14.000] at that lap 45?
[41:14.000 -> 41:16.000] Something came off his car.
[41:16.000 -> 41:18.000] It was like, probably Latifi
[41:18.000 -> 41:20.000] is into that mode where he now decides
[41:20.000 -> 41:22.000] who gets to win this race.
[41:22.000 -> 41:24.000] No, dude. I realized that
[41:24.000 -> 41:26.060] that was a cry from
[41:26.060 -> 41:30.440] Williams for donations because they clearly stated that our parts are just
[41:30.440 -> 41:50.600] flying off from the car. For people, don't donate to Williams, donate to F1 fanfiction. Yes, yes, we are in dire need.
[41:50.600 -> 41:54.720] On that note, we end the episode here.
[41:54.720 -> 42:00.640] Folks do let us know what do you think about this red flag fining incident and comment
[42:00.640 -> 42:04.880] from science because I'm pretty sure the internet is going to be torn about this.
[42:04.880 -> 42:10.160] Yeah, on that note, we will see you next week, hopefully with a special guest.
[42:10.160 -> 42:17.200] The circus and the carnival travels to Miami for the first time. It's a Silverstone sort of
[42:17.200 -> 42:23.200] design track revamped at a different geographical location. It's going to be fun. It's going to be
[42:28.600 -> 42:32.720] location it's gonna be fun it's gonna be whatever we have more fun the last thing I want you to comment on this is tell us what you thought about the
[42:32.720 -> 42:38.440] slurring and the drunk sorrow if this is something that you want we normalize
[42:38.440 -> 42:45.520] this and we have like a drunk sorrow every. But we also want donations for medical costs for all the drinking.
[42:45.520 -> 42:53.040] Yeah man. On that note, these are your hosts signing off. Bye.
