Podcast: F1 Fanfiction
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Max and Red Bull continue their campaign of domination at Monza, the temple of speed at 2022 Italian GP. No matter what Ferrari did, the hard pill to swallow is that Max was just unstoppable at Monza.
This race was also the debut of Nyck de Vries who gained half of all the points Williams has earned in a single race and completely humiliating Latifi in the process.
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Intro: Howling (Sting) - Gunnar Olsen
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**Summary: Italian Grand Prix 2022**
* Max Verstappen and Red Bull continued their dominance at the Italian Grand Prix, further extending their lead in the championship standings.
* Nyck de Vries, making his F1 debut, impressed by scoring points for Williams, outperforming his teammate Nicholas Latifi.
* The race ended under a safety car, sparking debate about whether it should have been red-flagged instead, considering there were no safety concerns.
* The new driver, Nick De Vries, had a remarkable debut, earning half of Williams' total points in a single race and outshining Latifi.
* The Ferrari team's strategic decisions were questionable, leading to Charles Leclerc's disappointing result and missed opportunities for a better finish.
* Safety concerns arose during the race, with several retirements due to engine failures and brake issues, highlighting the demanding nature of the high-speed Monza circuit.
* Pierre Gasly expressed frustration with Daniel Ricciardo's consistent presence behind him, indicating Ricciardo's strong performance before his retirement.
* Ferrari's struggles continued, with Leclerc's poor result and Carlos Sainz's damage-related issues, while Lewis Hamilton showed strong pace, closing in on Sainz in the championship standings.
* The "curse of Monza" was discussed, referring to the misfortunes of previous winners at the circuit, with Leclerc, Gasly, and Ricciardo all experiencing setbacks after their victories.
* Sergio Perez is poised to overtake Leclerc in the championship standings, setting up an exciting battle for second place in the remaining races. In the 2022 Italian Grand Prix, Max Verstappen and Red Bull continued their reign at Monza, the "temple of speed." Despite Ferrari's efforts, Verstappen proved unstoppable, securing another dominant victory.
This race also marked the impressive debut of Nyck de Vries for Williams, who earned half of the team's total points in a single race, outperforming his teammate Nicholas Latifi.
The podcast delves into various topics, including the controversial safety car finish, the debate on whether races should conclude under safety car conditions, and the emergence of de Vries as a rising star in Formula One.
The hosts also discuss the strategic battles among teams, highlighting the intriguing tire strategies employed to gain an advantage. The race witnessed a mix of strategies, with some opting for a softer and mediums combination, while others, like Sergio Perez, switched from hards to mediums to overtake opponents.
The podcast further examines Kevin Magnussen's five-second penalty for cutting the corner at Turn 1 and gaining positions. The hosts question whether the penalty was sufficient, given Magnussen's aggressive move.
The conversation also touches upon Red Bull's high downforce rear wing, which provided an advantage in sector two and DRS zones. The hosts emphasize the team's confidence in their car's straight-line speed, which allowed them to excel at Monza.
The podcast concludes by addressing the need for FIA to review regulations to prevent similar situations like the safety car finish at Monza. The hosts also express gratitude to their listeners for their support and encourage them to rate the podcast on various platforms. They emphasize the importance of fan engagement and feedback in keeping the podcast going.
[00:00.000 -> 00:02.920] There's this curse of Monza that's been spoken of.
[00:02.920 -> 00:06.800] Leclerc wins in 2019, 2020, he shuts off.
[00:06.800 -> 00:10.240] Gasly wins in 2020, 2021, he shuts off.
[00:10.240 -> 00:13.880] Ricciardo wins 2021, 2022, he DNFs.
[00:14.240 -> 00:17.800] So the only lighting for Ferrari here is
[00:17.800 -> 00:20.400] they know Max is gonna lose next year.
[00:30.000 -> 00:33.000] year. And Bonde Maylander wins the race.
[00:33.000 -> 00:35.000] Don't confuse yourself.
[00:35.000 -> 00:37.000] This is a show about F1.
[00:37.000 -> 00:39.000] Welcome to F1 Fan Fiction.
[00:39.000 -> 00:43.000] We are a show about F1 race weekend reviews
[00:43.000 -> 00:47.120] and F1 community interviews. We are your hosts. I am Akash.
[00:47.760 -> 00:53.520] And I'm Saran. And for those who were confused with that first sentence, you heard it right.
[00:53.520 -> 01:02.160] Actually, Bernd Maylander did win the race yesterday. He is the Formula 1 safety car driver,
[01:02.160 -> 01:05.000] the only Aston Martin to cross the chequered flag.
[01:05.000 -> 01:09.000] And yeah, the race finishes under a safety car yesterday.
[01:09.000 -> 01:19.500] It's been a blah, a nice, a good view on strategies, tyres, engines burning out.
[01:19.500 -> 01:26.000] Overall, I'd call it a decent race with a stupid ending.
[01:30.720 -> 01:35.360] Sarang, your thoughts on the race. How was the weekend for you? I mean, the weekend was exciting for sure. I think the qualification was also pretty exciting.
[01:35.360 -> 01:40.400] For a change, there was a real fight for the pole position. There was a good three-way fight
[01:40.400 -> 01:46.560] going on. The lead-up to the weekend was great, even the race itself I think most of it
[01:46.560 -> 01:51.600] was decent, it was good in the sense that as you said right there were a lot of things happening
[01:51.600 -> 01:56.720] like even though there was not a lot of action, close wheel-to-wheel racing as such but there were
[01:56.720 -> 02:01.600] like you know a lot of different strategies at play like people were having issues and it was
[02:01.600 -> 02:11.000] all over the place like people were most people were starting in the wrong positions. Like as we know, the whole confusion about nobody knew who's starting
[02:11.000 -> 02:17.640] where. I think even Pierre tweeted, like, can someone tell me where am I starting on
[02:17.640 -> 02:28.560] the grid tomorrow? Exactly. Yeah, man. But yeah, let's see. We'll probably do a shot or something about that.
[02:28.560 -> 02:33.880] But yeah, overall, I think the race was good. Like of course the end, I don't know, finishing
[02:33.880 -> 02:39.960] behind the safety car, I don't completely agree to what happened. Like I do agree that,
[02:39.960 -> 02:43.800] okay, yeah, I mean, to the letter of the law, they did it correctly. It was the correct
[02:43.800 -> 02:45.120] thing to do for sure.
[02:49.000 -> 02:51.200] But at the same time, I think there's like, it needs to be reconsidered. Is this the right thing to do?
[02:51.200 -> 02:55.280] And especially considering that there were no safety concerns, was this the right
[02:55.520 -> 02:56.320] choice? What do you think?
[02:57.040 -> 02:59.920] Yeah, let's bring this topic up here.
[02:59.920 -> 03:01.520] Like when we're talking about this, right.
[03:01.560 -> 03:09.560] I feel what happened yesterday was fine, to be honest. Like there's this whole debate.
[03:09.560 -> 03:12.960] And as you said, right, like there should have either been red flagged or
[03:13.520 -> 03:14.360] something else.
[03:15.400 -> 03:18.720] I don't think the variables have been set into motion yet.
[03:18.800 -> 03:22.520] And that's why you probably didn't see a red flag. In my brain,
[03:22.520 -> 03:24.680] a red flag is something that's, it's,
[03:24.680 -> 03:27.760] it's completely an undrivable condition or which says,
[03:28.240 -> 03:31.960] which warranties that something's gone so bad that, hey, it's serious.
[03:31.960 -> 03:35.680] We need to stop. That wasn't the case yesterday.
[03:36.280 -> 03:38.080] That's one. And then B,
[03:38.400 -> 03:43.040] should we red flag when it's like the penultimate laps to have
[03:43.040 -> 03:47.640] fans enjoy the racing and to sort of, in the spirit of the game,
[03:48.440 -> 03:54.760] add this extra clause that a red flag where it's not the, it's not drive to save situation, right?
[03:55.760 -> 04:04.760] That, yes. But having no regulations along those lines, if you would have seen some play along, you know, let's red flag and do this again,
[04:08.560 -> 04:14.560] those lines, if you would have seen some play along, you know, let's red flag and do this again, it would have been a repeat of 2021 Abu Dhabi. And I'm pretty sure half of the fans would have cried if something would have gone south from there again.
[04:15.040 -> 04:17.880] Right. Yeah. So that's that's my take on that.
[04:18.760 -> 04:21.080] Yeah, no, I do agree with what you're saying.
[04:21.080 -> 04:25.760] Like, I understand that, you know, like that red flag is generally associated with safety.
[04:27.200 -> 04:32.800] I don't disagree with what they did because that's what the rules are. But I think there
[04:32.800 -> 04:37.840] needs to be some conversation about is this the right thing to do. Because in one sense, while
[04:37.840 -> 04:45.520] I do agree that people say that this is not an entertainment, this is a sport. But I say like as a counter argument to that, that
[04:45.520 -> 04:51.120] if you are finishing the race behind a safety car, even when the track conditions themselves
[04:51.120 -> 04:56.240] are safe, you are actually kind of removing the actual competition from the competition, right?
[04:56.240 -> 05:01.040] Like you are kind of neutralizing the competition when safety is not really a concern. And that
[05:01.040 -> 05:09.520] was not the case yesterday at all. I think there's some you know something to be changed here for sure. For sure, some discussions that do need to go in there
[05:11.680 -> 05:16.880] and I feel like there is there is something that also needs to be discussed going into future like
[05:16.880 -> 05:26.480] why did it take so much time for a few things to happen. For example, the safety car didn't come out for a couple of laps, which is not
[05:27.600 -> 05:33.520] good. Like sure you had a VSC, but you flagged it as an NSC. Where was the safety car? I mean,
[05:33.520 -> 05:40.160] probably off to lunch or something. Yes. Dinner. Seem that way. And I think that's been happening
[05:40.160 -> 05:49.280] more often. Even last time when Botas basically parked his car, it took them so long to decide on the safety car. Yeah, safety car came in quickly, but still
[05:49.280 -> 05:54.840] I think there's something to be improved upon here for sure, like making the calls faster,
[05:54.840 -> 06:02.200] especially when it's affecting the positions of the race, they should kind of act quickly.
[06:02.200 -> 06:10.120] And personally, again, I feel like while we say it's sports and not entertaining, I feel every sport is entertainment as well.
[06:10.120 -> 06:14.080] Exactly. Otherwise, we wouldn't have fans seeing the players playing. Right.
[06:14.120 -> 06:24.120] So, for the spirit of the sport and like the entertainment that fan comes to come to watch for off the sport, there should be rules around
[06:26.160 -> 06:30.720] come to watch off the sport, there should be rules around situations like spa last year, situations like the end of the race this year at Monza and so on and so forth.
[06:31.840 -> 06:37.440] Folks, tell us what you think about should it have been red flagged? What do you think
[06:37.440 -> 06:41.920] FIA should look into going into the future? And if you have any creative solutions,
[06:41.920 -> 06:47.040] just let us know. Yeah. We would be interested doing that. We've established someone at FIA does listen to us.
[06:47.040 -> 06:48.480] So, you know,
[06:49.240 -> 06:50.760] Your suggestion might be picked, you know.
[06:53.760 -> 07:03.640] But, Sarang, overall, I think the main highlight from yesterday for everyone is we have a new Chad in the house.
[07:04.240 -> 07:05.360] Oh, yes. None other than, another a new Chad in the house. Oh, yes.
[07:06.800 -> 07:09.560] None other than another Dutch driver, by the way.
[07:10.040 -> 07:10.440] Oh, yeah.
[07:10.480 -> 07:11.480] Nick Devereus.
[07:11.840 -> 07:13.400] That's true. Another Dutch guy.
[07:13.680 -> 07:18.840] I think he's sort of like been all over the place during the weekend.
[07:18.880 -> 07:25.700] Because, first of all, all the news popping up about Albans got appendicitis
[07:25.700 -> 07:30.700] and then three other things. I think like we even tweeted about this on our IG handle.
[07:31.700 -> 07:36.100] He had quite a lot going on, right. So, the whole spiel started from there.
[07:37.300 -> 07:42.900] He, Nick drove for FP1 for Aston Martin
[07:43.500 -> 07:48.640] and then quali for Williams and then beautiful race that we had
[07:48.640 -> 07:57.600] where half the points for Williams as of today is brought by this one guy who drove FP1 for
[07:57.600 -> 08:01.000] another team and a race for another team.
[08:01.000 -> 08:07.000] Oh my god man, oh my god, the memes, the memes, oh my god.
[08:07.000 -> 08:16.560] Oh yes man, it was awesome man, it was I think like his lucky day, he woke up on the right
[08:16.560 -> 08:18.560] side from his bed today.
[08:18.560 -> 08:29.000] He was having a great time, yesterday he wiped the floor with Latifi in the qualification. And today, just humiliated him with two points.
[08:29.000 -> 08:34.240] And where did Latifi come in? T something? N-1?
[08:34.240 -> 08:37.640] Why are we even discussing this? I am pretty sure you are last.
[08:37.640 -> 08:41.640] Man, impressive. Impressive performance.
[08:41.640 -> 08:43.840] Oh, second to last. Kevin Magnussen.
[08:43.840 -> 08:46.000] Second to last? Okay.
[08:46.000 -> 08:49.000] Well deserved driver of the day as well for Dick Deftwiss.
[08:49.000 -> 08:51.000] That was awesome. Yeah man.
[08:51.000 -> 08:54.000] And also, he also got a ride to the stewards as well.
[08:54.000 -> 08:55.000] Do you know that?
[08:55.000 -> 08:57.000] I don't know this.
[08:57.000 -> 09:02.000] I think when Ricardo's car was being picked up by those cranes,
[09:02.000 -> 09:05.840] while it was parked there, he got a bit too close to it and
[09:05.840 -> 09:12.400] brake like erratically and I think he was probably just confused or whatever. Just not too experienced
[09:12.400 -> 09:17.520] with the procedures. So yeah, but that's fine. It was just a reprimand to just let him go after that.
[09:17.520 -> 09:22.240] Fair enough. Okay. That's good to know. Yeah. I don't know. There isn't much information about
[09:22.240 -> 09:25.620] this out there. But he did say… I think you are right.
[09:25.620 -> 09:30.180] Like, it's just him being a newbie on the track during his first F1 race.
[09:30.180 -> 09:34.340] Because he did say, he can't feel his shoulders now after the race.
[09:34.340 -> 09:38.180] That's fair enough, right? Like, you are driving this length for the first time
[09:38.180 -> 09:40.860] in a more powerful car.
[09:40.860 -> 09:43.420] And basically carrying the team on his own shoulders as well.
[09:43.420 -> 09:44.060] That's true.
[09:44.060 -> 09:46.660] You know what? The best part is… And basically carrying the team on his own shoulders as well. That's true.
[09:55.320 -> 09:55.820] You know what? The best part is, so last year Latifi was 21, because 20th was... Yeah.
[09:58.480 -> 10:01.460] Halkenberg, I think, right? Or somebody else? No, no, no. Kubica, I think.
[10:01.460 -> 10:01.960] Kubica.
[10:01.960 -> 10:02.960] It was Kubica. Yeah.
[10:01.440 -> 10:02.000] No, no, no. Kubica, I think. Kubica.
[10:02.000 -> 10:03.000] It's Kubica. Yeah.
[10:03.000 -> 10:06.160] Kubica was 20th last year.
[10:06.160 -> 10:08.520] This year, he is again 21st.
[10:08.520 -> 10:10.240] He is going to be the 20th.
[10:10.240 -> 10:14.720] And I am pretty sure, let's get Nico Hulkenberg again for a race
[10:14.720 -> 10:17.800] and push Latifi to 22.
[10:17.800 -> 10:21.560] You know what is happening after the race?
[10:21.560 -> 10:26.260] I am pretty sure Latifi is going back to his room, home, house, whatever,
[10:26.260 -> 10:33.420] counting the amount of cash he's left in the bank and be like, okay, I think I can still live here with the amount of cash I have.
[10:33.420 -> 10:45.120] Man, I'm kind of tired of, you know, making fun of him, honestly. I don't want to, you know, I'm sure he is a decent person and I don't mean any harm to him.
[10:45.120 -> 10:47.200] But get him out of there, man.
[10:47.200 -> 10:55.200] It just enrages me that when we have talent like Nick out there waiting.
[10:55.200 -> 11:01.120] And clearly it shows that Albon is also showing that Williams is not the back marker at all.
[11:01.120 -> 11:02.800] They have potential.
[11:02.800 -> 11:04.640] And the team is also losing out.
[11:04.640 -> 11:09.120] I agree he is bringing in money. But I think they need to look in and really think is it really worth it.
[11:09.120 -> 11:14.640] Because they are losing out on the prize money as well right. So I don't know.
[11:14.640 -> 11:27.120] Yeah and to your point Sagar, you were saying this before we started recording that we really need to consider cash is king versus getting such people out from the track.
[11:27.120 -> 11:33.840] And again, nothing against Latifi. It's just that there is so much raw talent waiting on the grid, right?
[11:33.840 -> 11:37.600] Like, I am pretty sure Piast is going to blow up again once he is there.
[11:37.600 -> 11:42.320] We have already seen a glimpse of Nick De Vries when he drove.
[11:42.320 -> 11:48.520] Great. Nick Deverest when he drove. Yeah. Just give these F2 people some opportunity
[11:48.520 -> 11:52.620] and I'm pretty sure they're going to outdo the counterparts.
[11:52.620 -> 11:54.960] Like as of yesterday, Alpha Romeo,
[11:54.960 -> 11:58.560] Xao finished P10 and Botas has gone in 13.
[11:58.560 -> 12:01.160] Xao had some wonderful battles too.
[12:01.160 -> 12:06.120] So, yeah. Some of these new folks are just brilliant.
[12:07.360 -> 12:14.560] Yeah, man. Exactly. That's what I think nobody had expected Jav to actually, he's pretty much
[12:14.560 -> 12:16.520] beating Bhutas at this point, I think, right?
[12:16.680 -> 12:17.040] Oh, yeah.
[12:17.040 -> 12:18.720] At least it seems that way. Exactly.
[12:19.000 -> 12:22.760] I want to see like, what's the, because you raised that point, I want to see like what the
[12:22.760 -> 12:26.720] driver's standings are. And I'm looking at the screen right now.
[12:26.720 -> 12:28.560] Jha was at six points.
[12:28.560 -> 12:30.720] Oh no, I take that back.
[12:30.720 -> 12:32.400] I am so wrong here.
[12:33.040 -> 12:34.480] I am so wrong here.
[12:34.480 -> 12:37.680] Jha was at 17, six points.
[12:37.680 -> 12:40.800] Botas is 10 with 46 points.
[12:41.520 -> 12:42.480] It couldn't have been more wrong.
[12:42.480 -> 12:44.160] Okay. Yeah. Yeah.
[12:44.160 -> 12:45.000] No, I think what happened with Botas is he did... 46 points. It couldn't have been more wrong. Yeah.
[12:45.000 -> 12:50.040] No, I think what happened with Botas is he did, if I remember correctly, let's take a
[12:50.040 -> 12:52.600] look at his standings.
[12:52.600 -> 12:57.640] So I can see that he started with Bahrain 9 points.
[12:57.640 -> 13:01.320] Then he had one good at Emula 12 points.
[13:01.320 -> 13:07.680] I think it's after the break that basically his luck has gone to shit because I see from Great Britain
[13:08.000 -> 13:10.000] Onwards all his races have been zero
[13:10.520 -> 13:13.000] So it seems like something went wrong
[13:13.000 -> 13:20.000] So then to redeem our sentences, Shah has been more of a consistent driver than Bhutasar
[13:20.000 -> 13:24.000] Yeah, I think that's correct and puts us in a good light
[13:25.480 -> 13:26.480] Yes but Yeah, that seems more politically correct and puts us in a good light. Yes.
[13:27.000 -> 13:35.600] But speaking of underperformances, battle of douchebags is what's happening when we drive in Europe.
[13:36.640 -> 13:39.720] Yeah, man. I mean, I don't know what's going on.
[13:40.360 -> 13:47.640] I'm sure this existed and probably this is coming out more or I don't know it's like the popularity but suddenly like
[13:47.960 -> 13:52.340] I'm hearing all these crazy stories from all of these GPs
[13:53.000 -> 13:58.260] Not just to Europeans, but I'm sorry, it's kind of coming out from there. It's pretty weird
[13:58.260 -> 14:04.100] I don't know what's going on because even I heard a lot of chatter on Twitter about
[14:05.580 -> 14:11.100] because even I heard a lot of chatter on Twitter about hooliganism on tracks harassment and things like that people I think there was there were some fans who
[14:11.100 -> 14:16.860] were like chanting in in the grandstands that you know I don't know I don't want
[14:16.860 -> 14:22.320] to give them any supports I'm not gonna say what they said but it was pretty bad
[14:22.320 -> 14:28.240] about Max's mom and you know that's. I don't understand the booing and everything. I don't get it.
[14:28.240 -> 14:30.800] It's like, I don't know, man. It's pretty weird.
[14:30.960 -> 14:45.400] I think for everyone listening to this who's not, A, who's not Indian and B, even if you're Indian and you don't probably follow cricket, go see a match or just a shot of a match on how Indian stadiums are.
[14:45.400 -> 14:52.720] They have this whole huge barricade and then they have a pit so that you know fans can't get onto the ground.
[14:52.720 -> 14:58.120] Like a zoo basically. So, I am not trying to infer anything here.
[14:58.120 -> 15:01.280] So, please don't come grabbing my neck here.
[15:01.280 -> 15:05.840] But maybe Europeans need something along those lines.
[15:05.840 -> 15:08.480] Something similar. Yeah, it seems that way more and more, right?
[15:08.480 -> 15:28.240] Right. Because it's getting crazy. So, while on a serious subject, you say what the fans have been chanting and booing and all of that. The other part of hooliganism that I've seen of late also is how everyone goes bonkers,
[15:28.240 -> 15:36.080] runs across the track to grab any piece of souvenir or even like sponsor banner or whatever junk,
[15:36.080 -> 15:43.040] probably like maybe someone's shit on the track line somewhere, just take it in a box as a souvenir.
[15:43.040 -> 15:47.240] I don't get it. I get like you have this super passion for whatever you want,
[15:47.240 -> 15:49.520] you can grab and I'll probably even do it when I'm there.
[15:50.160 -> 15:52.120] But hey, I'm not European, right? I can't.
[15:53.880 -> 15:57.440] But something needs to be taken care of here. Red flares now.
[15:58.080 -> 16:01.440] I think each country is going to start like representing themselves with their
[16:01.480 -> 16:02.320] colored flares.
[16:03.840 -> 16:10.000] Green ones in Saudi. themselves with their colored flares. We already got orange in Europe, Mexico
[16:10.000 -> 16:15.440] green, I don't know white. I know yeah use all three colors from the flag that
[16:15.440 -> 16:22.560] would be even better. Let's make it you know like Mario Kart like you'll have
[16:22.560 -> 16:27.680] these random smoke screens in between which you can activate to distract the driver behind you.
[16:27.680 -> 16:28.680] Fair enough, fair enough.
[16:28.680 -> 16:34.960] And to give some honest fans some genuine credit here, what I did like though is this
[16:34.960 -> 16:37.960] Monza is home to Ferrari, right?
[16:37.960 -> 16:48.240] And then what I did like is after the race near the grandstand, two of these huge groups which took this giant as flags off the foresee.
[16:48.880 -> 16:56.480] And they were like, you know, giving it a wave world. That to me is true passion. That to me is
[16:57.280 -> 17:09.280] a calm way of showing that you are at home of Ferrari and you know you've got some brilliant fans here. Versus... And it's a curse of growing sport, I guess.
[17:09.280 -> 17:13.360] Like you're gonna have these new raw fans who don't have that passion for...
[17:13.360 -> 17:17.880] But I'm pretty sure maybe they'll... Again, giving them the benefit of the doubt.
[17:17.880 -> 17:20.280] Probably, they'll change over time.
[17:20.280 -> 17:22.760] I don't care, to be honest.
[17:22.760 -> 17:27.760] But it's just sad to see it going southwards and no regulations
[17:27.760 -> 17:28.760] coming in.
[17:28.760 -> 17:29.760] It's a tough one.
[17:29.760 -> 17:30.760] It's a tough one.
[17:30.760 -> 17:31.760] Yeah.
[17:31.760 -> 17:33.760] But something will have to come along to make this better.
[17:33.760 -> 17:36.760] Yeah, no, no, I agree.
[17:36.760 -> 17:43.560] Well, I think since we are talking about the Ferrari fans, so let's talk about, you know,
[17:43.560 -> 17:48.440] the Ferrari way of doing things and we again
[17:48.440 -> 17:55.360] yes we can kill dreams. Dude it was a bit painful I'm not gonna lie
[17:55.360 -> 18:08.400] seeing Charles's whole body language after the end of the race. It was so sad. At least the funny part to me was during Max's interview,
[18:08.400 -> 18:11.760] we had this whole shot of Charles chugging his water bottle.
[18:15.200 -> 18:19.280] So okay, at least some comic timing coming out of there,
[18:19.280 -> 18:21.840] but like dude, his whole body language was super sad.
[18:22.640 -> 18:26.080] Yeah, man. I mean, uh, I don't know.
[18:26.120 -> 18:30.000] It's very weird. Like the whole team seems pretty weird.
[18:30.040 -> 18:33.800] You know, the whole radio messages that went by today of, you know, uh,
[18:34.320 -> 18:38.520] these lengthy conversations and discussions and strategizing that they do
[18:38.520 -> 18:43.480] during the race. Um, it's so weird, dude. Like, uh,
[18:43.640 -> 18:47.600] I've never heard GP asking Max as to, you know, what do you
[18:47.600 -> 18:48.600] think should be done?
[18:48.600 -> 18:53.120] There's generally a very definitive statement and like that's about it.
[18:53.120 -> 18:54.120] Yeah, yeah.
[18:54.120 -> 19:02.600] I just, just to give some more context there in terms of what I heard was, so I think Ted
[19:02.600 -> 19:07.000] and again, for me, I can't differentiate between the two commentators.
[19:07.000 -> 19:08.720] I'm going to say Ted.
[19:08.720 -> 19:14.280] Ted came on and said he had a chance to speak with Matteo over the weekend and then ask
[19:14.280 -> 19:20.000] him like why do your engineers ask these questions to the drivers.
[19:20.000 -> 19:27.800] And it seems like it is a working style environment at Ferrari versus Red Bull, where Ferrari
[19:27.800 -> 19:32.340] wants to involve the drivers into the live decision making.
[19:32.340 -> 19:40.240] And he says, and I paraphrase obviously that the drivers have been brought into these conversations,
[19:40.240 -> 19:42.640] have been asked.
[19:42.640 -> 19:47.240] And it's a well known two two-sided conversation where we want
[19:47.240 -> 19:51.200] the drivers to know what their options are and because they are on the track we
[19:51.200 -> 19:55.200] want them to take the decisions along with us. So from his point of view and
[19:55.200 -> 20:05.000] his working style I agree but it's not working so as a fan. Exactly, that's exactly what I was going to say. Is it really working?
[20:05.000 -> 20:27.600] I mean, okay. Okay. If we live in the reality where, you know, the photo that you posted on Instagram about, you know, the championship standing starting at Charles, it's definitely working in that case. But otherwise, not really.
[20:29.200 -> 20:35.760] And I bet you, let's put this out there. Folks, it's an open bet. I bet you $10,
[20:37.280 -> 20:44.880] that Perez takes Leclerc next race. There's a nine point difference between
[20:49.080 -> 20:53.960] next race. There's a nine point difference for P2WDC between Charles and Perez at this point. And I bet you $10 that Perez is taking Charles next race.
[20:53.960 -> 20:59.520] That's possible. Yeah, sure. But yeah, I think Charles might fight back. So yeah, I'll take
[20:59.520 -> 21:02.680] on that bet. I'll give him some benefit of doubt.
[21:02.680 -> 21:05.000] I trust Charles. I don't trust Ferrari. Oh, I mean Ferrari. Yeah, I meant to say I'll give them the benefit of doubt. I trust Charles. I don't trust Ferrari.
[21:05.000 -> 21:08.000] Oh, I mean Ferrari. I meant to say I'll give them the benefit of doubt.
[21:08.000 -> 21:11.000] But I'm not sure whether I want to give or not. But whatever.
[21:11.000 -> 21:16.000] Oh man, yeah, I don't know. As soon as they pitted during the BSC,
[21:16.000 -> 21:21.000] I, at that exact same moment, I was watching a piece with my friend today
[21:21.000 -> 21:26.200] and I told him, okay, that's done here. Like, like Max is winning this after that.
[21:27.080 -> 21:28.120] Because that felt like a...
[21:28.120 -> 21:30.280] I want to take you up on that. No, no, hang on, hang on there.
[21:30.280 -> 21:31.600] Hang on there. I want to take you up on that.
[21:31.880 -> 21:36.280] So I have a different stance there because what I thought was the VSC
[21:36.280 -> 21:38.440] happened, another drivers came in, right?
[21:38.920 -> 21:42.560] And you do have an advantage pitting under VSC because everyone's trying to
[21:42.560 -> 21:49.800] maintain their dead cars. Their pit. Their entire pit stop is shorter. Charles comes in, he's serviced and as
[21:49.800 -> 21:55.320] soon as he's about to get out like you know after the 80 kilometer per whatever
[21:55.320 -> 22:02.200] was for this track mark, it went green. That meant no one behind him could come in.
[22:02.200 -> 22:07.140] To me that sort of felt like an advantage because he basically got a shorter pit
[22:07.140 -> 22:07.980] stop for free.
[22:07.980 -> 22:11.940] While I agree to that, the issue with that strategy was that,
[22:13.460 -> 22:16.380] it was too soon. It was just eight laps in.
[22:16.420 -> 22:21.340] And that basically handed Max the advantage of he could always go
[22:21.340 -> 22:30.000] long because of that. And I feel the fatal flaw with the strategy was, I totally agree that it was a pretty lucky call for them.
[22:30.000 -> 22:37.000] It kind of, in fact, if not for the track going green instantly, he might have come off worse.
[22:37.000 -> 22:45.440] And that's the reason why actually I was pretty sure at that exact moment when they decided to pit that it's done because
[22:45.880 -> 22:50.920] It was pretty clear that Max is not gonna pit after that. He's just gonna retain the position. Yeah, and
[22:51.720 -> 22:57.080] Basically when he pitted right? I think he had an advantage of 18 laps. I think with his mediums and
[22:58.200 -> 23:00.200] From then on it was just you know
[23:00.800 -> 23:03.880] Cakewalk after that. So yeah, I felt they
[23:07.840 -> 23:12.880] know, a cakewalk after that. So yeah, I felt they tried to capitalize on the VSC, but they kind of lost sense of, you know, the long-term plan of their strategy. That's what it seemed
[23:12.880 -> 23:13.880] to me kind of.
[23:13.880 -> 23:17.480] But there was still some serendipity coming his way at least with the green flag.
[23:17.480 -> 23:18.480] Exactly.
[23:18.480 -> 23:22.640] So like maybe Monza luck and this could still play out in the future.
[23:22.640 -> 23:25.840] I was hoping hoping of course.
[23:27.680 -> 23:28.600] And even those radio messages, man,
[23:33.400 -> 23:35.400] when he was asked to not short-circuit. Oh yeah.
[23:37.320 -> 23:38.800] Make that engine right. Oh my God.
[23:41.400 -> 23:41.720] I mean, I'm pretty sure he was saying that, Hey,
[23:48.700 -> 23:49.700] you keep an eye on the engine so that you know, I'm not overburdening this, but dude, make sure the engine is right. Those words.
[23:49.700 -> 23:50.700] Yeah, man.
[23:50.700 -> 24:00.340] I'm, I'm, I know it's out of context, but it sounds really spicy.
[24:00.340 -> 24:03.340] I mean, that's our job, right?
[24:03.340 -> 24:04.340] Yeah, man.
[24:04.340 -> 24:07.080] But whatever, let's, job, right? To make fun of our opponent. Yeah, man. But whatever. Let's forget it.
[24:07.080 -> 24:10.880] I think there's no point. Just day in and day out.
[24:10.880 -> 24:16.200] Yeah, I'm going to use this meme that's obviously become a generic thing now.
[24:16.200 -> 24:20.720] Hard to solo pill. Max would have won the race irrespective of the cadence.
[24:20.720 -> 24:22.040] I agree. Yeah.
[24:22.040 -> 24:27.520] He was de-wavering the whole thing, man. He went up to P3
[24:30.160 -> 24:31.600] by the end of lap one or two.
[24:32.560 -> 24:36.520] So, you know, I put up the story on IG and the poll to see what people think if it's going to
[24:36.540 -> 24:38.720] be Tifosi or like someone, I said Max,
[24:38.720 -> 24:41.760] but I also put an option of someone might win this race.
[24:42.560 -> 24:46.100] And I put this like during the formation lap and by lap 3
[24:46.100 -> 24:49.840] I was thinking of already deleting it because Max was up in like P3 or P2
[24:49.840 -> 24:53.760] I was like why?
[24:54.000 -> 25:01.600] yeah anyways let's move on. Speaking of max climbing positions let's take a look
[25:01.600 -> 25:11.700] at some stats this race Monza 2022 was the first time in history that two Dutch drivers finished the race in point positions.
[25:11.700 -> 25:18.260] Obviously Max and Nick de Vries who raced for the first time and win half the points for Williams.
[25:18.260 -> 25:20.560] All time points by the way.
[25:20.560 -> 25:29.560] All time points, yes alltime points. Not yesterday. Max position gained, Carlos Sainz and Lewis Hamilton.
[25:29.560 -> 25:33.920] A stupidly awesome 14 positions.
[25:33.920 -> 25:40.160] Lewis went all mental, man. I feel like, sure, even Carlos went all mental.
[25:40.160 -> 25:49.120] But starting P19 and ending all the way up P4 or wherever he was, P4, P5, whatever that was.
[25:49.120 -> 25:50.120] Just crazy.
[25:50.120 -> 25:51.720] And he had a damage as well, by the way.
[25:51.720 -> 25:53.560] Yeah, something flew off, right?
[25:53.560 -> 25:56.680] I think like something flew off, maybe science's car or someone's car.
[25:56.680 -> 25:59.480] Yeah, onto his.
[25:59.480 -> 26:00.000] Yeah.
[26:00.000 -> 26:03.600] And last but not the least, Max positions lost.
[26:03.600 -> 26:06.840] Latifi with six positions.
[26:06.840 -> 26:10.920] At least he gets somewhere with stats on there.
[26:10.920 -> 26:12.680] So, that's a win.
[26:12.680 -> 26:14.080] Well, he got into the stats section.
[26:14.080 -> 26:15.960] So, you know, that's a no-no, I guess.
[26:15.960 -> 26:16.480] Yeah.
[26:16.480 -> 26:17.000] Yeah.
[26:17.000 -> 26:17.520] Yeah.
[26:17.520 -> 26:18.040] Yeah.
[26:18.040 -> 26:19.760] Points table get interesting.
[26:19.760 -> 26:21.760] No fascinating stats here.
[26:21.760 -> 26:25.600] But as we've said, nine points separate Charles Leclerc, Sergio Perez.
[26:25.600 -> 26:28.680] Seven points separate Perez and George Russell.
[26:28.680 -> 26:33.680] So that P2, P3 fight between Charles Perez and Russell
[26:33.680 -> 26:35.880] is getting pretty tight here.
[26:35.880 -> 26:38.440] And it's going to be fun seeing where this goes.
[26:38.440 -> 26:42.560] Something to look out for as well is a P5 fight between Carlos Sainz
[26:42.560 -> 26:45.600] and Lewis Hamilton at 187 versus 168.
[26:45.600 -> 26:46.100] Oh.
[26:46.100 -> 26:46.600] Effectively.
[26:46.600 -> 26:55.360] So, yeah, Lewis is coming for that P5 spot because Ferrari is not sandbagging,
[26:55.360 -> 26:59.160] but what sandbagging actually should mean is what they do.
[26:59.160 -> 26:59.660] Yeah.
[26:59.660 -> 27:06.600] But having said that, someone driving good, there's this curse of Monza that's been spoken of.
[27:06.600 -> 27:07.600] Oh, yes.
[27:07.600 -> 27:09.800] It's an interesting one. It's an interesting one.
[27:09.800 -> 27:14.800] So, Leclerc wins in 2019, 2020, he shuts off.
[27:14.800 -> 27:19.800] Gasly wins in 2020, 2021, he shuts off.
[27:19.800 -> 27:23.800] Ricciardo wins 2021, 2022, he DNFs.
[27:23.800 -> 27:28.000] So, the only lighting for Ferrari here is
[27:28.000 -> 27:32.000] they know Max is going to lose next year.
[27:32.000 -> 27:34.000] The Ferrari master plan.
[27:34.000 -> 27:38.000] The Ferrari master plan. Oh yeah, that's right.
[27:38.000 -> 27:43.000] The whole reason I brought this up was to bring Daniel DNFs into limelight.
[27:43.000 -> 27:46.960] Yeah man, that was a hard break man. He was driving a very good
[27:46.960 -> 27:53.680] race yesterday. The Daniel train that we saw in fact. Yeah yeah yeah yeah. Gasly, did you see the
[27:53.680 -> 27:59.440] interview of Gasly after that? He was like I was so tired of looking at Daniels. I tried everything
[27:59.440 -> 28:07.280] but that guy didn't make a single mistake. To be honest like he was P4, he was outdoing Lando for a long time.
[28:08.360 -> 28:10.880] And I saw a glimpse of old Daniel, man.
[28:10.960 -> 28:15.440] I loved how he was doing for a super long time.
[28:16.240 -> 28:20.000] You're right. Ghasly did come on the radio as well as a frustrating tone.
[28:20.000 -> 28:23.440] Daniel's all over the place because he was worrying a bit, but I...
[28:23.440 -> 28:24.880] He was actually, yeah.
[28:29.560 -> 28:36.560] It wasn't dangerous enough to be called out that badly so I was fine with it but I loved I loved those first initial laps and Daniel yeah yeah
[28:36.560 -> 28:42.640] that was it was pretty awesome man sadly though I think he had some oil leak
[28:42.640 -> 28:45.960] issues right with his engine and because of which his engine shut down.
[28:45.960 -> 28:49.960] Yeah, yeah, yeah, oil leak for Daniel with an engine failure.
[28:49.960 -> 28:51.360] Sad for him.
[28:51.360 -> 28:58.760] Well, but I guess anyways, it's his last few races in F1 and this was kind of important
[28:58.760 -> 29:04.040] for him, I would say, especially like he needs to kind of prove if he wants to take, you
[29:04.040 -> 29:06.000] know, if he wants a seat rather next year.
[29:06.000 -> 29:11.000] But it seems like he's inclining towards taking a break. That's what I've heard.
[29:11.000 -> 29:17.000] And I think I'd also heard about like him having some, you know, he missing his home too much.
[29:17.000 -> 29:19.000] That's what I've heard. Yeah.
[29:19.000 -> 29:31.960] I'd love to actually see him become this brand ambassador for GoPro to be honest. He's into some some nice other extreme sports too with like you know the mud bike stunt
[29:31.960 -> 29:38.280] thingy that he has fun with like the bicycle... I forget what it's
[29:38.280 -> 29:43.280] called. But like having fun with like the tracks and you know some of the extreme
[29:43.280 -> 29:46.360] toys that he likes to play with and he runs and stuff.
[29:46.360 -> 29:51.360] So I'd like to see an alternate side of Daniel if he's got that position there.
[29:52.040 -> 29:53.840] But speaking of his retirement,
[29:53.840 -> 29:57.760] just to put some light on multiple retirements that we had yesterday,
[29:57.760 -> 30:02.760] Monza to be honest is a super high speed track and that does end up taking toll
[30:05.000 -> 30:06.080] on your engine.
[30:08.400 -> 30:09.120] So people did have to watch out for their engines.
[30:11.520 -> 30:12.200] Starting off with like Wettel's retirement,
[30:15.120 -> 30:15.960] that was an energy recovery system failure for him,
[30:21.000 -> 30:21.820] which would either did already cut out his engine or would have in the near future.
[30:22.480 -> 30:27.680] What did look like was a brake failure issue or a brake on fire or brake
[30:27.680 -> 30:32.480] overheating on Stroll wasn't the case but it looks like could have been a similar issue what
[30:32.480 -> 30:37.520] Vettel faced for Stroll as well leading to his retirement. Perez also had some issues with his
[30:37.520 -> 30:45.000] brakes right during his pit stop if you recall. Like there was literally smoke and fire coming out of his tires at that time.
[30:45.000 -> 30:50.640] I do have a shot of like a good glimpse of fire coming out of his tires there.
[30:51.560 -> 30:54.120] Ricardo, we've said, had an oil leak issue.
[30:54.240 -> 30:57.480] And then Alonzo, it was an interesting issue.
[30:57.480 -> 30:59.320] He had a drop in water pressure,
[30:59.320 -> 31:03.960] which eventually would have led to leak in the radiator and then an engine failure
[31:03.960 -> 31:04.800] down the road.
[31:05.600 -> 31:11.640] So some interesting situations for these engines taking toll on Mecca of high speed.
[31:11.640 -> 31:15.620] And I think Alonso is also having some issues with ERS as well.
[31:15.620 -> 31:20.560] Because I remember there was this radio where he was basically losing places left and right
[31:20.560 -> 31:30.500] and he's like talking to his team and they said basically that there's issues with the ERS, with deployment basically, which is the ERS. So, I guess, yeah, something
[31:30.500 -> 31:35.760] else was going wrong as well. So, and I think even Okon didn't finish too good, right? Yesterday,
[31:35.760 -> 31:36.760] where did he finish?
[31:36.760 -> 31:41.000] Okon finished T11, right outside the points.
[31:41.000 -> 31:46.080] Oh, okay. Yeah, but I guess it's still not great because there were a lot of retirements.
[31:46.080 -> 31:50.080] So he should have probably ended up much higher than that.
[31:50.080 -> 31:55.080] So seems like, you know, Alpine just didn't have the right car for this one.
[31:55.080 -> 31:58.520] I think there was a lot of strategy going on though, right?
[31:58.520 -> 32:00.520] Like there's so much like, ODI chess.
[32:00.520 -> 32:01.520] Yeah, yeah.
[32:01.520 -> 32:06.880] For all the anti-climax that was happening... And Sarang, you've done some good research into this.
[32:06.880 -> 32:10.680] But like for all the anticlimax that was happening yesterday at the end of the race,
[32:11.120 -> 32:17.360] something super exciting for me was the tyre strategies and how these teams were
[32:18.240 -> 32:22.960] looking at pit stopping and changing tyres for an undercut, overcut and like who
[32:23.240 -> 32:25.200] they were going to be in front of and behind.
[32:26.240 -> 32:31.200] Sarang take it over man. I think that was something very exciting and brilliant as an F1 fan yesterday.
[32:31.200 -> 32:37.280] Overall it seemed like of course the winning strategy was as exemplified by Vastapan and a
[32:37.280 -> 32:49.600] lot of the drivers was a softer and mediums. But overall I think of course there was a strain formed behind Ricardo of Ricardo Gasly, Deveris, Zhao, Mick, who else?
[32:49.600 -> 33:06.640] That's it right? I hope so. And basically everybody was trying to undercut, overcut whatever each other because you know it was just basically them all within like one second of each other. And yeah, I think it was like Ricardo was on a strategy of medium and hard, Gasly was mimicking
[33:06.640 -> 33:14.080] him, which was kind of weird to me actually. But I guess, I don't know, maybe they weren't getting
[33:14.080 -> 33:19.120] or probably they were getting a lot of degradation or whatever. Deverest was on, of course, the
[33:19.120 -> 33:28.760] winning strategy, the soft and mediums and he drove a brilliant race of course. And of course, as you can see, like he was also able to maintain the tire grip as well.
[33:29.120 -> 33:33.760] Because if you really think about it, it's not easy to run the whole race with soft and medium.
[33:34.000 -> 33:37.320] Yeah. Especially finishing where he finished.
[33:37.760 -> 33:38.400] Pretty good job.
[33:38.520 -> 33:44.200] Your first race going in for a one stopper with no hards on there.
[33:44.520 -> 33:45.160] Exactly. Yeah, there. Exactly.
[33:45.160 -> 33:46.160] Let's commend you.
[33:46.160 -> 33:48.160] Yeah, man. Totally.
[33:48.160 -> 33:53.160] Xao, I think, went in again with medium hards, copying Ricardo and Gasly.
[33:53.160 -> 33:57.160] And Mick went in again in the winning strategy of mediums and softs.
[33:57.160 -> 34:02.160] But I think, of course, it worked kind of for them.
[34:02.160 -> 34:04.660] Not really because they didn't get the points.
[34:04.660 -> 34:08.960] But at least within Haas, I think he was ahead of K-Max.
[34:08.960 -> 34:11.480] So, I guess that strategy worked for them kind of.
[34:11.480 -> 34:19.920] Yeah, it's interesting, right? Because what you described right now is, I mean, how these guys thought of taking up their strategies.
[34:19.920 -> 34:28.500] But like in terms of also how we saw them fight, we saw Russell get onto the hards early on just to probably go longer
[34:29.100 -> 34:32.460] and get that benefit for position because others might try to, you know,
[34:32.460 -> 34:35.900] stop in early for a medium or something. But then he lacked grip,
[34:35.940 -> 34:40.380] which we saw at least the pace of the car lifted him through the end of the
[34:40.380 -> 34:45.760] race. When we talk about Perez, I think we saw him go for hards, sorry,
[34:45.760 -> 34:51.920] stop from hards to go on to mediums. And at that point, I think, I forget who was in front of him,
[34:51.920 -> 34:58.000] but that guy was on hards. And that strategy was sort of to see if Perez can use mediums fast enough
[34:58.000 -> 35:07.120] to overtake whoever was in front of him on hards. And there was this flavor of going with a softer compound for the one that is in
[35:07.120 -> 35:14.160] front of you so that you sort of take advantage of the grip that Monza provides and then bounce
[35:14.160 -> 35:25.760] in front of the guy in front of you. Yeah, so overall I think all the strategists were having a field day basically just trying to outwit each other.
[35:26.800 -> 35:35.040] But yeah, that's the fun part of it as well. Just trying to go through these strategies again and
[35:35.920 -> 35:39.600] trying to understand the rationale behind those. It's fun.
[35:39.600 -> 35:46.680] Speaking of strategies, tell me this. I know KMag was trying to pull his own strategy to do something,
[35:46.680 -> 35:50.800] but I don't know why he got a five second stop and go. What was happening there?
[35:50.960 -> 35:53.280] Oh yeah. No, by the way, it was not a stop and go.
[35:53.280 -> 35:57.080] It was just a five second penalty. So like he just served it during the playoff.
[35:57.160 -> 35:58.000] But anyways,
[35:58.400 -> 36:02.880] but basically he in the first lap on turn one,
[36:02.880 -> 36:05.940] he basically cut the corner T1 and gained
[36:06.460 -> 36:08.460] position from seven cars. What?
[36:08.460 -> 36:10.460] And yeah, exactly.
[36:10.460 -> 36:12.460] And he just didn't give it back.
[36:12.460 -> 36:14.460] Oh god, seven.
[36:14.460 -> 36:16.460] I don't know how I missed that.
[36:16.460 -> 36:18.460] There was this whole gaggle of cars going through turn one and he just decided fuck it I'm just gonna go.
[36:18.460 -> 36:20.460] On my own way.
[36:20.460 -> 36:22.460] I don't know how I missed that.
[36:22.460 -> 36:24.460] There was this whole gaggle of cars going through turn one and he just decided fuck it I'm just gonna go.
[36:24.460 -> 36:27.320] On my own way. I don't know how I missed that. There was this whole gaggle of cars going through turn one and he just decided,
[36:27.320 -> 36:30.080] fuck it, I'm just going to go my own way.
[36:32.880 -> 36:34.200] God, I missed that. That was...
[36:34.360 -> 36:38.440] I guess it was probably, in fact, I feel he deserved more than that.
[36:38.440 -> 36:40.920] Because it felt a bit shameless, you know.
[36:40.920 -> 36:44.880] I mean, he finished last, right? Otherwise, it would have been that meme of,
[36:52.560 -> 36:58.160] stop it, he's already dead. Yeah exactly yeah I don't know what happened to K Mag man like he's just dropped off doesn't it seem like that like Mick has suddenly. Do you think? I don't
[36:58.160 -> 37:07.000] know. I think there's some strategy going on between Mick and J.Mag where they're probably trying to show Mick is a better driver here.
[37:07.000 -> 37:11.000] So that he secures a position for next year.
[37:11.000 -> 37:14.000] Fair, fair. Just till he gets his contract renewed.
[37:14.000 -> 37:18.000] Yeah, I'm all for starting a new controversy and a new concept.
[37:18.000 -> 37:21.000] Yeah, who knows.
[37:21.000 -> 37:25.480] I think one more interesting thing yesterday was that Red Bull was running a high downforce
[37:25.480 -> 37:28.080] wing compared to everybody else.
[37:28.080 -> 37:32.920] And that also kind of goes to show that the confidence that they had in the power of the
[37:32.920 -> 37:36.800] car because of course, like a lot of people have been talking about that the straight
[37:36.800 -> 37:42.200] line speed of Red Bull is really good now, especially in this part of the season.
[37:42.200 -> 37:45.080] And they were able to basically gain an advantage
[37:45.080 -> 37:51.280] in sector too by having a higher downforce rear wing. Also, I think basically they were
[37:51.280 -> 37:55.600] getting a higher DRS advantage as well as compared to others. So that also worked in
[37:55.600 -> 37:58.360] their favor because they had a larger wing.
[37:58.360 -> 38:05.680] Yeah. And yesterday I think like we did see quite a lot of teams try to play with their rear wings.
[38:05.680 -> 38:09.680] Because again, like, Monza demand speed and good downforce.
[38:09.680 -> 38:11.520] And a couple of them were also trying to play.
[38:11.520 -> 38:13.520] But obviously, RBR came on top of it.
[38:15.120 -> 38:18.720] Overall, I don't have any issues with this race,
[38:18.720 -> 38:22.480] other than the fact that FIA needs to do some of their homework again
[38:22.480 -> 38:25.180] to see what new regulations they need to
[38:25.180 -> 38:33.200] bring in to address situations like these and then for some of you who might
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