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The 2022 Monaco GP again raises the question whether Monaco really should remain on the calendar. Well as Monaco GPs go this was probably one of the most exciting Monaco GPs in recent history. Ferrari yet again pulling off a debacle of a strategy which stole Charles of a win. The Monegasque has to wait at least another year to win his home race. The strategy played into RBR's hands and gifted them a 1-3 where Checo won his first Monaco GP and became the most successful Mexican Driver in F1 History.
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Intro: Howling (Sting) - Gunnar Olsen
Outro: Your Intro by Audionautix
**Summary of the Monaco Grand Prix and Discussion on Various Topics:**
- **Monaco GP Debate:** The podcast begins by addressing the ongoing debate about whether the Monaco GP should remain on the Formula One calendar. The hosts discuss the excitement of this year's race, which featured several strategy twists and overtakes, making it one of the more entertaining Monaco GPs in recent history.
- **Ferrari's Strategy Blunder:** Ferrari's strategic decisions during the race are heavily criticized. The team's decision to double-stack Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz for pit stops proved to be costly, as it resulted in Leclerc losing the lead to Red Bull's Sergio Perez. The hosts analyze the errors made by Ferrari's strategists and question their overall competence.
- **Sainz's Missed Opportunity:** Sainz, who had been running in second place, is discussed as having missed an opportunity to challenge for the win. The hosts speculate on whether Sainz should have made his own strategic calls, similar to what Lando Norris did in Russia in 2021, to secure a better result.
- **Perez's Victory and Title Contention:** Sergio Perez's victory in Monaco is highlighted as a significant moment for the Mexican driver, making him the most successful Mexican driver in F1 history. The hosts discuss Perez's strong performance throughout the weekend and his emergence as a potential title contender, given his close proximity to Max Verstappen in the championship standings.
- **Red Bull's Strategic Luck:** Red Bull's strategy during the race is analyzed, with the hosts noting that the team benefited from some fortunate circumstances. The decision to switch to medium tires during the red flag period is questioned, as it could have backfired if the race had resumed.
- **Alonso's Unique Race:** Fernando Alonso's race is described as a unique and entertaining spectacle. The Spaniard, driving for Alpine, opted for a different tire strategy and found himself leading the race at one point. The hosts discuss Alonso's ability to hold off faster cars and his overall performance, which showcased his experience and skill.
- **Haas Team's Struggles:** The Haas team's struggles continue, as both Kevin Magnussen and Mick Schumacher experienced mechanical issues during the race. The hosts express concern for the team's lack of competitiveness and question whether they can turn things around in the upcoming races.
- **Ricciardo's Ongoing Difficulties:** Daniel Ricciardo's poor performance in Monaco is discussed, with the hosts noting his struggles to adapt to the McLaren car. They speculate on whether Ricciardo's time in F1 may be coming to an end, given his lack of recent success.
- **Zak Brown's American Personality:** Zak Brown, the CEO of McLaren, is mentioned for his enthusiastic and outspoken personality, which is seen as a refreshing change in the typically reserved world of Formula One.
- **Albon's Hair Dye Fades:** Alexander Albon's hair dye is mentioned as having faded during the race, leading to jokes and memes on social media.
- **Conclusion:** The podcast concludes with a brief summary of the key takeaways from the Monaco GP, emphasizing the excitement of the race, Ferrari's strategic blunders, Perez's victory, and the unique performances of Alonso and Sainz. **Monaco Grand Prix Debrief with Guest Expert Aditya Bhat:**
* **Monaco's Place on the Calendar:**
* The debate over whether Monaco should remain on the Formula One calendar resurfaces after the 2022 race.
* Despite its iconic status, the narrow and unforgiving street circuit presents unique challenges for drivers and teams.
* The race's excitement and unpredictability, as seen in the 2022 edition, argue for its continued inclusion.
* **Ferrari's Strategic Mishaps:**
* Ferrari's strategy blunders once again cost Charles Leclerc a potential victory in his home race.
* The team's decision to pit Leclerc for a second time proved disastrous, handing the lead to Red Bull's Sergio Perez.
* Ferrari's strategic errors have become a recurring theme, raising concerns about their ability to challenge for the championship.
* **Perez's Triumph and Title Contention:**
* Sergio Perez's victory in Monaco marks his first-ever win at the prestigious circuit and his third overall in Formula One.
* The victory propels Perez into the title fight, as he now sits just 15 points behind championship leader Max Verstappen.
* Perez's strong performance highlights his growing confidence and potential to challenge for the championship.
* **Red Bull's Strategic Advantage:**
* Red Bull's strategic gamble to pit Perez for a second time during the safety car period proved decisive in securing the win.
* The team's quick thinking and adaptability allowed them to capitalize on Ferrari's mistakes and take control of the race.
* Red Bull's strategic prowess continues to be a key factor in their success this season.
* **Sainz's Continued Frustrations:**
* Carlos Sainz Jr. endured another disappointing race in Monaco, finishing second behind his teammate Perez.
* Sainz has consistently struggled to match Perez's pace and has yet to secure a race win in 2022.
* The Spaniard's frustrations grew evident as he expressed his disappointment over the team's strategy decisions.
* **Alonso's "Tank Engine" Antics:**
* Fernando Alonso's race in Monaco was marked by his entertaining antics, earning him the nickname "Alonso the Tank Engine."
* Alonso's aggressive driving style and tendency to hold up other drivers drew criticism from some quarters.
* Despite the criticism, Alonso's performance showcased his competitive spirit and ability to create excitement on the track.
* **Haas' Half-Story:**
* Haas' Kevin Magnussen and Mick Schumacher had contrasting fortunes in Monaco.
* Magnussen impressed with a strong qualifying performance and finished in the points, while Schumacher crashed out in the early stages of the race.
* The team's mixed results highlight their unpredictable nature and the challenges they face in consistently scoring points.
* **Ricciardo's Struggles Continue:**
* Daniel Ricciardo's struggles in Monaco epitomized his difficult season with McLaren.
* Ricciardo's radio message expressing his concerns about the car's handling raised questions about his confidence and comfort in the McLaren.
* The Australian driver's future in Formula One remains uncertain as he continues to search for a competitive seat.
* **Zak Brown's American Identity:**
* McLaren CEO Zak Brown's enthusiastic embrace of American culture and his efforts to promote the team's U.S. presence were highlighted.
* Brown's American identity and his desire to attract American fans have become defining characteristics of McLaren's brand.
* The team's association with the United States has opened up new opportunities for growth and expansion.
* **Albon's Fading Hair Dye:**
* Alexander Albon's hair dye, which had become a popular topic of discussion among fans, gradually faded away during the Monaco weekend.
* Albon's hair color change symbolized his transition from Red Bull to Williams and his efforts to establish himself as a leading driver in the midfield.
* The fading hair dye served as a reminder of the ever-changing nature of Formula One and the fleeting moments of success and popularity.
[00:00.000 -> 00:03.360] At least let's give it to him for finishing the race.
[00:03.360 -> 00:05.760] So, you know, he broke the curse, I guess, finally.
[00:06.560 -> 00:08.160] I don't know if he did. I don't know.
[00:11.200 -> 00:17.760] It's still 1 to 4 in Monaco. It's like the curse is half broken.
[00:17.760 -> 00:20.000] Yeah, half broken. Baby steps, I guess.
[00:21.000 -> 00:29.680] I'm sorry.
[00:32.760 -> 00:34.720] Hello, folks. Welcome to F1 Fan Fiction. This week, it's Monaco.
[00:34.720 -> 00:40.120] We've got a special new host for you this episode.
[00:40.120 -> 00:42.520] Let's get into it. We are your hosts.
[00:42.520 -> 00:43.520] I am Akash.
[00:43.520 -> 00:44.520] And I'm Sarang.
[00:44.520 -> 00:46.000] I'm Aditya. I am Aditya.
[00:46.000 -> 00:50.000] Welcome Aditya. How's it going man?
[00:50.000 -> 00:51.500] Good man. How are you guys?
[00:51.500 -> 00:56.200] We are doing awesome. Last night was some fun.
[00:56.200 -> 01:00.900] Yeah. Thank you for being here first of all. Thank you for joining us on this episode.
[01:00.900 -> 01:08.160] No worries. No worries. Three different time zones. I think it was, yeah, I was a little
[01:08.160 -> 01:12.280] worried like how we gonna manage this, you know, somehow it worked out. So I am glad.
[01:12.280 -> 01:21.400] It's a good time. But thoughts on the race, Aditya, like let's get your raw thoughts on
[01:21.400 -> 01:26.400] the weekend, the race. It was a different kind of Monaco over the past few years.
[01:26.400 -> 01:28.400] What did you think of the weekend?
[01:28.400 -> 01:37.600] So, qualifying, I think, you come to Monaco for the qualifying, especially for the Q3 and you sort of robbed of that.
[01:37.600 -> 01:40.600] Yeah. Second time in a row, by the way.
[01:40.600 -> 01:50.560] Yeah. Ferrari and Red Bull just parked it. So that was a and then the Sunday when it
[01:50.560 -> 01:57.220] comes to Monaco's not the dullest of Monaco Sundays. So I was like kind of
[01:57.220 -> 02:01.600] made up for it again but not really. I mean we're trying to make a
[02:01.600 -> 02:05.360] stronger case for Monaco on the calendar.
[02:05.480 -> 02:06.920] It's not really happening.
[02:08.000 -> 02:08.240] Yeah.
[02:08.240 -> 02:08.480] Right.
[02:08.880 -> 02:12.480] Considering how boring races are at Monaco, generally, like if you go back,
[02:12.480 -> 02:16.160] think about Ricardo's victory in 2018, where he was literally like dragging
[02:16.160 -> 02:20.880] his car through the field, but still won the race, but compared to that, I think
[02:20.920 -> 02:22.600] what we saw yesterday was pretty awesome.
[02:22.640 -> 02:27.960] Like at least we had a lot of shuffling going on, a lot of drama in terms of strategy.
[02:27.960 -> 02:33.400] And in general, I guess, like with the rain and everything, there was a lot of unpredictability overall.
[02:33.400 -> 02:39.040] So I think overall, it was a good race considering Monaco, I guess.
[02:39.040 -> 02:42.280] You never see overtakes here.
[02:42.280 -> 02:48.800] The play with tyres yesterday, especially with the rain which led to some people starting off on bets.
[02:48.800 -> 02:53.320] I think like 2 or 3 folks started off on inters. Ghastly one of them.
[02:53.320 -> 02:58.200] And he was de-wobbling everyone who was on bets above him.
[02:58.200 -> 03:01.320] I think he got 3 or 4 of them to some point.
[03:01.320 -> 03:04.320] And that overtaking was brilliant to see.
[03:04.320 -> 03:05.440] Because you never see overtakings brilliant to see because exactly you can never
[03:05.440 -> 03:12.080] see overtaking at Monaco and then him plowing through the few. You see overtakes when there's
[03:12.080 -> 03:21.120] such a tyre differential in terms of it's like who was Gasly, I think Stroll or someone and
[03:21.680 -> 03:26.880] not Stroll, I think it was a zoo zoo it was yeah and he was
[03:26.880 -> 03:33.920] like not forget being in a normal place to overtake he's just anywhere coming
[03:33.920 -> 03:40.960] into the swimming pool section he has grip he's just doing him in on there I
[03:40.960 -> 03:48.000] think I mean Monaco it's always that right? Like the roads are so narrow and there aren't really a lot of overtaking spots as such.
[03:48.000 -> 03:53.000] Like I can't, I can't point to one as the standard spot or anything.
[03:53.000 -> 03:57.000] So I think he was just trying to overtake anyhow possible.
[03:57.000 -> 04:00.000] Yeah, right before pit maybe. I think that's the only place.
[04:00.000 -> 04:04.000] But, but I think credit to him, man.
[04:04.000 -> 04:06.000] Like I think he was the only person who was
[04:06.000 -> 04:10.880] doing overtakes overall I guess throughout the field. I didn't see too many overtakes otherwise.
[04:10.880 -> 04:18.280] But again that was only when he had that such a advantage. That was the
[04:18.280 -> 04:25.640] complaint I had last night. I thought when because of the conservative start to the race with the
[04:25.640 -> 04:30.960] race directors I thought because we didn't get the full amount of laps I
[04:30.960 -> 04:34.520] don't know how many laps we missed out at the end but we switched to a countdown
[04:34.520 -> 04:47.900] timer and sort of yeah so the battle was shaping up at the end when like four cars are there in a few like in one TV frame but then how
[04:47.900 -> 04:57.480] does it matter like first I said if we had a lot more laps we see this actual
[04:57.480 -> 05:02.680] overtake battle happening but was it was it gonna happen or it was just gonna be
[05:02.680 -> 05:07.200] that procession till the end yeah yeah, Brundle said the same thing.
[05:07.200 -> 05:15.000] He was like, if this goes to the end of the race, the usual race, then we'd probably see some dive from Science or from Max on Science.
[05:15.000 -> 05:17.120] I'm with you. I doubt it.
[05:17.120 -> 05:22.200] Because they got into like accidental distances with each other on that turn.
[05:22.200 -> 05:24.400] Or even after the tunnel.
[05:24.400 -> 05:25.040] But there wasn't a real opportunity. distances with each other on that turn or even after the tunnel.
[05:29.560 -> 05:33.960] But there wasn't a real opportunity where maybe Perez's tyres would have worn out. Cause him skidding, him skidding on that, you know, right after that race start
[05:35.040 -> 05:38.800] over to the casino, like going on that straight, there's a flat spot that he did.
[05:39.240 -> 05:42.240] And I'm like, that could have ruled his race and he should have had
[05:42.240 -> 05:44.160] petered if this was like 77 laps.
[05:44.200 -> 05:45.060] But other than that, I don't think there would have been. Yeah, not really. could have ruled his race and he should have had petered if this was like 77 laps but other
[05:45.060 -> 05:49.160] than that i don't think there would have been yeah not really and also i think there was
[05:49.160 -> 05:55.260] this point where i think paris was trying to like go slow because he was avoiding trying
[05:55.260 -> 05:58.340] to reach the back markers and i think the commentators were saying the same thing that
[05:58.340 -> 06:03.460] uh it makes sense because like he didn't want to get into traffic and then that comes other
[06:03.460 -> 06:10.880] dangers and he was able to maintain that very easily. As we have seen a lot of times before, even if you're driving slow,
[06:10.880 -> 06:15.840] you can just park your car at the right places in Monaco so that nobody can pass you and that's
[06:15.840 -> 06:25.000] about it. And of course, we'll get there but the best case that proves it was basically Alonso yesterday.
[06:28.440 -> 06:29.800] Alonso was having his own F1.
[06:29.800 -> 06:33.480] I feel like he was, he didn't care about who was else where on the track.
[06:33.520 -> 06:35.000] He was leading his own race.
[06:40.000 -> 06:42.640] And yeah, anyways, we'll get to that later.
[06:44.760 -> 06:49.320] I think let's, let's address the main topic of today,
[06:49.320 -> 06:52.040] I guess would be like Ferrari being clowns, I guess.
[06:52.040 -> 06:56.160] Like the clown meme returning overall. Man,
[06:56.760 -> 07:00.120] Ferrari, I don't know, they probably hate winning or something.
[07:00.160 -> 07:03.320] And like every time they start winning,
[07:03.520 -> 07:06.160] they decide that we just need to f**k shit up and
[07:08.800 -> 07:15.440] let's spice this up a little. What was happening man? What are your thoughts? Was a double stack
[07:15.440 -> 07:21.440] really a good option? Aditya, thoughts? Double stack is a good option when you have that
[07:22.400 -> 07:26.640] buffer between like Max came in in didn't lose much time because
[07:26.640 -> 07:32.320] I think he was six seconds behind but chance was like three seconds and you're bound to lose time
[07:33.600 -> 07:40.640] yeah but then like I don't have a big problem with the strategy it was the indecision of the
[07:40.640 -> 07:46.540] entire thing yeah like and the lack of confidence letting science do whatever he wanted to do.
[07:46.540 -> 07:47.120] And then.
[07:47.800 -> 07:53.360] Uh, calling like, like in saying no, when he's already at 80 KPH.
[07:54.440 -> 07:54.840] Yeah.
[07:55.160 -> 07:56.320] It's just all of that.
[07:56.380 -> 08:01.140] Like what happens the next time when science says I want to stay out and say,
[08:01.140 -> 08:04.000] say, okay, like, like, first of all, this is not their job.
[08:04.000 -> 08:09.440] Well, like keeping a car in a straight line in Monaco rain is hard enough.
[08:10.360 -> 08:11.760] I don't let them.
[08:12.600 -> 08:17.760] You can ask, like, what do you think on these tires, but don't let them make,
[08:17.960 -> 08:18.800] make the choice.
[08:20.120 -> 08:23.480] And you could see, you could see like, almost parking his car,
[08:23.480 -> 08:26.800] waiting for signs to get out of the mechanic's hand.
[08:28.960 -> 08:31.240] Yeah. He was rightful to be super frustrated.
[08:31.400 -> 08:33.000] Yeah. And I think it was, it,
[08:33.160 -> 08:37.360] it almost reminded me of Hamilton doing the in, in, in, in thing with,
[08:39.040 -> 08:41.960] I don't know when was it, was it Germany, sir? Two years ago?
[08:43.800 -> 08:46.880] It was very reminiscent of that because like Charles,
[08:46.880 -> 08:52.560] I heard the radio like you know, come in like Vaux and then right after that no no no don't
[08:52.560 -> 08:56.640] come in and he's like what the f**k what are you doing and you know he went and just I didn't
[08:56.640 -> 09:01.760] understand like I feel it's somewhat like of course Ferrari messed up but I also think that
[09:01.760 -> 09:09.000] Charles should know by now that Ferrari doesn't have the best strategy and he should probably call his own shots I guess I don't know.
[09:09.000 -> 09:20.000] Especially after being with the team for the past 3-4 years, after seeing viewer strategy calls with Vettel and everything that has happened.
[09:20.000 -> 09:26.820] I don't know, I also place at least like 5% blame on him for listening to them I guess. I don't know. I also place at least 5% blame on him for listening to them, I guess. I don't know.
[09:26.820 -> 09:31.660] I mean, that's just a slippery slope, no?
[09:31.660 -> 09:32.820] Yeah.
[09:32.820 -> 09:35.500] Every time, I don't need strategies.
[09:35.500 -> 09:46.720] What do you think about the overcut? You don't see too many over-cut plays. Sure, Sainz made his own call.
[09:46.720 -> 09:51.160] But what do you think about the over-cut play that he ended up doing for himself?
[09:51.160 -> 10:25.280] Even with Sainz making his own call, I think Red Bull with Checo almost pulled the trigger and went very early. covering him off like obviously I'm just speaking out of this speculation right
[10:25.280 -> 10:34.400] now but it could have not been such a different outcome to his race and also
[10:34.400 -> 10:41.440] perhaps I'm not blaming science but could have sort of eliminated all this
[10:41.440 -> 10:46.320] confusion also yeah with him, him not going and then
[10:46.320 -> 10:50.800] Charles being told to stay out because of this is a new idea in their heads.
[10:50.800 -> 10:55.240] The overall result of just sticking to following Red Bull is a good strategy
[10:55.240 -> 10:58.240] for Ferrari.
[10:59.480 -> 11:04.600] That's an interesting perspective. We've been saying that
[11:04.600 -> 11:07.000] Ferrari messes up its strategy at this point.
[11:07.000 -> 11:17.000] But it sounds like, and I'm starting to hear this otherwise also, like science sort of messing up the weekend for Ferrari as a whole in some way.
[11:17.000 -> 11:26.400] But yeah, this is also similar to how Landau made his own call when he thought, he thought, I think Russia, when he was about to win.
[11:26.400 -> 11:30.000] And he thought he's got a good grip but it was a totally wrong call.
[11:30.000 -> 11:34.000] This worked out for science, sure. This could have been a repeat of Lando's situation.
[11:34.000 -> 11:43.280] That situation was just Will Joseph, the engineer, like it took all hands off making the decision and said everything's on Lando.
[11:43.280 -> 11:53.200] Whatever you want to do it. Well regardless I think Charles at least let's give it to him
[11:53.200 -> 12:09.180] for finishing the race so he. The curse is half broken.
[12:09.180 -> 12:11.780] Yeah, half broken. BB steps I guess.
[12:11.780 -> 12:16.280] It was such a good weekend for him. I don't think he put a foot wrong.
[12:16.280 -> 12:20.980] And to end up from 1 to 4 in a matter of few laps.
[12:20.980 -> 12:22.780] That's right man.
[12:22.780 -> 12:26.960] And when you are in the... When you're trundling down the pit lane
[12:26.960 -> 12:35.600] to hear a skid out and you know in that moment that the race is done. Yeah but I'm so glad that
[12:35.600 -> 12:46.760] Max did not win this race. I don't know why like overall I think Perez deserved it completely, especially after last race, I guess. Like that was his race to win.
[12:47.080 -> 12:47.960] At least I believe it.
[12:47.960 -> 12:52.840] But yeah, I'm kind of glad that Max didn't win it.
[12:52.840 -> 12:57.600] And also for another fact that Max didn't gain a huge advantage
[12:57.600 -> 12:59.920] over Charles in the championship as well.
[13:00.040 -> 13:00.920] So that's great.
[13:01.000 -> 13:03.600] So just how many, five points, right?
[13:03.720 -> 13:04.160] I guess.
[13:04.240 -> 13:04.480] Yeah.
[13:04.600 -> 13:06.160] Five or six points. Yeah.
[13:06.800 -> 13:12.480] I forget. I forget for instance. I think Charles like Perez is very close to Charles now.
[13:13.440 -> 13:20.880] Right. Yeah. I think Perez is like 15 points away from Max and he's a third and I guess,
[13:21.760 -> 13:27.200] let's see, Charles is at... Yeah. Perez is just six points behind Charles.
[13:27.200 -> 13:33.200] Interesting. So there is a three-way title battle forming now. That's for now.
[13:34.080 -> 13:37.040] So far, this is classic Simpsons. So far.
[13:40.080 -> 13:47.520] But yeah, good race for Perez to win. Max was clearly second driver this weekend.
[13:47.520 -> 13:50.000] For a change.
[13:50.000 -> 13:56.560] Yeah, so no matter how Red Bull tried to play it, he was second driver this weekend.
[13:56.560 -> 14:07.520] And it would have been tragic to see somehow Checo still fall behind after how good he was even with the crashing in qualifying.
[14:07.520 -> 14:12.840] Clearly the better driver and it worked out this weekend that he won.
[14:12.840 -> 14:14.440] Yep, yep, yep.
[14:14.440 -> 14:21.400] And I think like I've heard this and like I also kind of not really but I do believe
[14:21.400 -> 14:31.120] that Perez probably was you know started with qualifying where he crashed into the wall to maintain the lead in the qualification.
[14:31.120 -> 14:35.600] Just to take revenge for Spain.
[14:35.600 -> 14:38.080] But Schumacher loves revenge.
[14:38.080 -> 14:39.080] Exactly.
[14:39.080 -> 14:48.960] Everyone deploying Schumacher's strategy at this point. Yeah, but overall I think good race for Red Bull. I think
[14:50.160 -> 14:55.840] it I wouldn't say that they completely deserve it. It's not like they did some real outstanding
[14:55.840 -> 15:00.720] strategy. I think it was very in line with what Ferrari was thinking as well. Of course, like
[15:00.720 -> 15:08.120] it worked out better for them as you said because like they had the right amount of Delta between their drivers but overall I think there was a
[15:08.120 -> 15:12.240] lot of luck as well that kind of played into their hands which which gave them
[15:12.240 -> 15:17.720] the victory but great result man like I think Paris's dad must be enjoying it I
[15:17.720 -> 15:27.000] am really sad we didn't get to see him yeah I was looking for a teddy bear sort of image somewhere after the race win.
[15:27.000 -> 15:28.000] Never found it.
[15:28.000 -> 15:33.000] I still remember that victory in Mexico, like the way he celebrated.
[15:33.000 -> 15:34.000] It was awesome.
[15:34.000 -> 15:35.000] Insane.
[15:35.000 -> 15:38.000] I want to ask this.
[15:38.000 -> 15:44.000] When the race started, we saw, sure there was a tech glitch where they for a second
[15:44.000 -> 15:47.680] showed that Red Bull was on enters where these guys were on.
[15:47.680 -> 15:48.180] Yeah.
[15:48.180 -> 15:53.420] But, and I believed it until they fixed it.
[15:53.420 -> 15:59.920] But, during the race, the first thing I noticed was Red Bull was, like, their rears were skidding.
[15:59.920 -> 16:10.660] And I am like, okay, this makes sense because these guys are inters where the track is still wet. But when both were on actually wet during the race, I don't know why the Red Bulls were skidding.
[16:10.660 -> 16:13.440] There is no theory for that at this point.
[16:13.440 -> 16:20.080] When I saw they were on inters, first question was, how are they still 3 and 4?
[16:20.080 -> 16:27.200] And then, if you are on inters and it seems to be the correct option, why are you still behind and
[16:27.200 -> 16:29.200] not even close to it?
[16:29.200 -> 16:30.200] What's going on?
[16:30.200 -> 16:34.760] Yeah, I think even the commentators were confused as to is that a glitch?
[16:34.760 -> 16:35.760] What's going on?
[16:35.760 -> 16:37.560] They're definitely not our inters.
[16:37.560 -> 16:41.360] It doesn't seem that way at least.
[16:41.360 -> 16:44.480] I think F1 has a long way to go with their new graphics.
[16:44.480 -> 16:48.400] Because I've been seeing this, there still are a lot of glitches that they're
[16:48.400 -> 16:52.480] trying to iron out with like their leaderboard and everything like a lot of times you've
[16:52.480 -> 16:56.520] seen this especially in qualification I've noticed this a lot that like they just show
[16:56.520 -> 17:02.400] the names and the like that timing chart just disappears in between.
[17:02.400 -> 17:04.600] I don't know what's going on.
[17:04.600 -> 17:07.100] Still, still trying to work things out, I guess.
[17:07.100 -> 17:19.380] With that, what's the theory on Red Bull switching to, maybe not changing tires on Red Flag, but actually they switch to mediums again on Red Flag?
[17:19.380 -> 17:22.340] Why go mediums and not hard?
[17:22.340 -> 17:29.000] Yeah, yeah. It's a strange one. Especially, at the red flag condition, wasn't Perez ahead anyway.
[17:29.000 -> 17:32.120] He started the race.
[17:32.120 -> 17:39.960] I mean, I don't know. They clearly thought the mediums would go to the end.
[17:39.960 -> 17:48.240] I mean, they go to the end but they will drop off. It's a chance it's to give Max a chance to
[17:48.240 -> 17:54.800] catch signs but yeah poor gamble. But still give both of them the mediums that's surprising
[17:54.800 -> 17:59.920] actually I mean I kind of understand like splitting the strategies playing it safe with Perez giving
[17:59.920 -> 18:05.120] him hard since he's leading the race anyways and then giving max mediums to give him a
[18:05.120 -> 18:08.000] chance to maybe overtake Sainz.
[18:08.000 -> 18:12.760] But strange strategy call it again like kind of lucky that it worked for them because things
[18:12.760 -> 18:18.400] could have easily gone wrong and we could kind of see hints of that like Perez was not
[18:18.400 -> 18:21.640] having a good time towards the end of the race.
[18:21.640 -> 18:27.360] He of course locked up as well. So yeah, weird strategies overall but
[18:30.160 -> 18:35.520] bad Ferrari strategy but it wasn't a very good Red Bull strategy either.
[18:39.920 -> 18:46.120] With the double stacking, right, like on some numbers that I saw is both. And this happened with both the teams.
[18:46.120 -> 18:52.440] The first pit stop was 2-2.5 seconds. And then the second one went on for like 3-3.5 seconds.
[18:52.440 -> 18:57.640] I wonder if it's just a factor of double stacking at that point.
[18:57.640 -> 19:05.000] It's just bound to happen, right? At that point, you've just done a pit stop and doing a second one in three and a half is good. Yeah.
[19:05.000 -> 19:10.280] And, you know, honestly, actually while I was watching it, when Charles came in, so
[19:10.280 -> 19:13.800] first of all, of course, he had to wait a bit before science pit stop is complete.
[19:13.800 -> 19:18.680] But right after that, like he came in and I think he breaked a little before like the
[19:18.680 -> 19:21.720] line and I think the commentator called this out as well.
[19:21.720 -> 19:23.880] And he was surprised like, why did he do that?
[19:23.880 -> 19:29.560] And it instantly reminded me of Bhutas last year at Monaco where he had like the
[19:29.560 -> 19:35.040] longest put stop like oh my god is this how Shahal's race is going to end now
[19:35.040 -> 19:41.760] but thankfully that didn't happen. While we are on spat, first Mexican to win
[19:41.760 -> 19:49.200] Monaco so that's a winner. Red Bull Bull sort of won three out of its four
[19:49.200 -> 19:54.040] showings at Monaco with three different engine suppliers. That's an interesting
[19:54.040 -> 20:00.300] one. Tag Heuer, I think, obviously Honda and then this is Honda slash Red Bull
[20:00.300 -> 20:10.560] but we'll call it Red Bull engineering at this point. It feels like science is sort of like running on blue balls since his stint where he started getting on the podium.
[20:10.560 -> 20:15.240] Because he's always been second. He's just waiting for that P1 finish.
[20:15.240 -> 20:21.600] And then, yeah, Russell continuing his streak for top 5 finishes.
[20:21.600 -> 20:23.840] Man, that's commendable. Very honestly.
[20:23.840 -> 20:26.720] I'm very surprised by the consistency
[20:26.720 -> 20:32.480] with which like Russell is performing. I mean you know whatever like there have been a lot of talks
[20:32.480 -> 20:38.320] about like he's being given a more stable car in the sense of the settings and Hamilton is probably
[20:38.320 -> 20:45.040] like trying out the limits of the car and everything but still being a new driver in like a car
[20:45.040 -> 20:50.060] and like performing at such a good consistency I think it's it's amazing
[20:50.060 -> 20:54.520] like I think mr. Saturday has become mr. Sunday probably he is clearly leading
[20:54.520 -> 21:15.360] the leaderboard right? Where is he? P4 I guess P podiums. I think 1 or 2 podiums. No registrants.
[21:15.360 -> 21:27.860] And he is like 15-20 points behind Chekhov. It was like 4 or five podiums and a win. I think it's going to be
[21:27.860 -> 21:33.680] interesting. Let's see what he can do. It would be pretty awesome if he can beat
[21:33.680 -> 21:40.200] like science. That would be pretty embarrassing for science honestly.
[21:40.200 -> 21:48.000] Thankfully science finished the race as well by the way. Considering the races that he has had in the recent history.
[21:48.000 -> 21:54.000] And the moment he had on the pit finish straight.
[21:54.000 -> 21:56.000] Right, yeah.
[21:56.000 -> 21:58.000] The car was sideways.
[21:58.000 -> 22:00.000] Yeah, it was almost sideways.
[22:00.000 -> 22:04.000] The way Cropty shouted, I thought I was looking for damage.
[22:04.000 -> 22:11.560] I thought I was looking for parts flying. By the way did you notice there's no gravel in Monaco
[22:11.560 -> 22:21.440] that's why he didn't crash out. I guess that's what it is. Well I think since
[22:21.440 -> 22:25.920] since we are just messing around I think this is the right time to go into
[22:25.920 -> 22:30.560] some fresh hot memes.
[22:30.560 -> 22:31.560] Let me bring that up.
[22:31.560 -> 22:32.560] I'm going to share your screen.
[22:32.560 -> 22:38.560] Again, I need to keep doing this at some point, but like a Japanese manga version.
[22:38.560 -> 22:39.560] Be sexy.
[22:39.560 -> 22:47.320] You know how this whole text that goes. So for folks who are listening to this on audio
[22:47.320 -> 22:51.440] we also share these memes in our show notes so you can take a look at those
[22:51.440 -> 22:55.600] while listening to it so you're not you know we're not leaving you out of
[22:55.600 -> 23:07.100] anything. All right, let's take a look at the first one and of course that's the return of the
[23:07.100 -> 23:15.860] Ferrari clowns. I think very apt and classic meme.
[23:15.860 -> 23:25.000] Little bit of LGBT it as one. Yep. Yep. Alright.
[23:25.000 -> 23:29.000] So let's take a look at the next one.
[23:29.000 -> 23:33.000] This is none other than our friend Ricardo.
[23:33.000 -> 23:42.000] So basically it's a Photoshop of Ricardo's face over an old lady and a helper who is like
[23:42.000 -> 23:45.360] Ricardo saying I used to run these streets and the helper
[23:45.360 -> 23:51.120] being like sure you did Daniel let's get you back into an alpha.
[23:51.120 -> 23:55.120] Let's get you into an alpha.
[23:55.120 -> 23:56.120] Brutal.
[23:56.120 -> 23:57.120] Oh god.
[23:57.120 -> 24:15.260] I feel bad for her man like what's happened like once a race winner at Monaco and anyways let's go to the next one well this is the classic BOTAS I
[24:15.260 -> 24:26.720] think in fact BOTAS had shared this on his twitter you know. BOTAS is the one who shared this the most. It's not like other memes where people make it and the driver sometimes sees it.
[24:26.720 -> 24:29.920] The driver is making it, the driver is sharing it.
[24:29.920 -> 24:30.920] Exactly.
[24:30.920 -> 24:34.520] Did he even frame one for Hamilton too?
[24:34.520 -> 24:39.120] Yeah, yeah, yeah. He did. He also did a photo of Botas.
[24:41.120 -> 24:46.640] I have a theory that Botas probably bought his own photo to generate that money of a
[24:46.640 -> 24:53.760] charity because I think there's nobody else who loves his own ass as much as Botas.
[24:55.760 -> 25:01.440] All right, let's take a look at the next one which is of course none other than Terence's dad
[25:03.040 -> 25:07.640] celebrating the heck out at Mexico and then we have yet at
[25:07.640 -> 25:15.080] least a photo of him celebrating today after Chaco's win at his home so yeah
[25:15.080 -> 25:33.920] and the very last one and I think my personal favorite this is basically an old bank clerk playing solitaire and there's a huge line of people
[25:33.920 -> 25:34.920] waiting.
[25:34.920 -> 25:42.920] That's basically the entire field and the clerk being alone.
[25:42.920 -> 25:46.000] I love the way he like bunched everybody up.
[25:46.000 -> 25:50.880] In fact, I had also seen this one image where that was like the life map of positioning
[25:50.880 -> 25:52.240] of everybody on the track.
[25:52.240 -> 25:56.980] And you have all the leaders, like the first six cars ahead together.
[25:56.980 -> 26:00.360] And then you have Alonso and everybody else bunched up together.
[26:00.360 -> 26:02.760] And that was so funny to look at.
[26:02.760 -> 26:05.140] That's Hamilton's poker face on that lady there.
[26:05.140 -> 26:15.900] Right? That's so apt man. I can totally imagine that.
[26:15.900 -> 26:23.940] But speaking of, even Ted or Martin said this, that race end felt like a race start.
[26:23.940 -> 26:27.120] They were so close, bunched up together and
[26:27.120 -> 26:33.360] Alonzo managing his tire messed up race for I think like so many people, Hamilton, Gasly,
[26:33.920 -> 26:40.560] even who was it, Botas or someone was there to mess it up for everyone. Yep, yep, many people
[26:40.560 -> 26:50.000] and most importantly he messed up his own teammates race, that's Okon, because he of course had a penalty with the crash with Hamilton.
[26:50.000 -> 26:57.000] And the team, I don't know why, they did a very weird decision of informing him about the penalty in the last 10 minutes.
[26:57.000 -> 27:07.920] And they basically told him to try and make up the gap. And then he's like, wait, how do I do that? Alonso is not going ahead. I can't, I can't do anything until he starts going
[27:07.920 -> 27:10.720] faster. So then his engineer is like, okay, understood.
[27:10.760 -> 27:14.000] I'll give him the message. And then Alonso kind of started,
[27:14.000 -> 27:17.200] but it was probably too late for him. And he couldn't do anything after that.
[27:18.000 -> 27:21.600] I was okay out of the points. Yeah. Yeah. You got it.
[27:21.760 -> 27:24.040] I think Vettel got a point because of that.
[27:24.000 -> 27:28.000] Yeah, yeah, you got it. I think Vettel got a point because of that.
[27:35.000 -> 27:47.320] But thoughts on the penalty on Hamilton vs Ocon. Do you think it was justified? There's a few camera footage things I'm seeing. I don't know what to make of it because there's one where it's it looks like Hamilton's just in his blind spot and
[27:47.960 -> 27:52.380] It might call it a racing event and racing incident get away with it
[27:53.240 -> 27:57.660] but then like the one you see I don't know whether two incidents where the
[27:58.520 -> 28:00.240] only one right
[28:00.240 -> 28:06.880] Like one where on TV you see Ocon on the outside sort of cutting in to Hamilton.
[28:06.880 -> 28:08.580] To turn one. Yeah, turn one.
[28:08.580 -> 28:15.720] But then I saw this shot of Ocon's car, like from the back.
[28:15.720 -> 28:26.480] And it's just a thing of Hamilton's in his blind spot and he sort of just hits him where Ocon doesn't sort of even realize what's going on and
[28:27.520 -> 28:32.880] I'm like is that the penalty? Is that what it's for or is that for what I saw on TV? I don't know.
[28:33.680 -> 28:38.400] Yeah I'm not sure either because from what I saw at least like it earlier it seemed like it was
[28:38.400 -> 28:46.720] just a wheel-to-wheel crash like not even a crash like just them touching each other but I guess Hamilton also
[28:46.720 -> 28:51.760] received some damage right I think his front wings front plate was like broken or something
[28:51.760 -> 28:57.120] like that yeah but I don't know I'm not sure because the penalty came in very late like it
[28:57.120 -> 29:03.280] came in like I don't know maybe it could be an another incident which probably caused the penalty
[29:03.280 -> 29:06.720] and not the first one I think that would make more sense.
[29:06.720 -> 29:10.880] But they certainly didn't show it properly.
[29:10.880 -> 29:17.320] The one I saw on TV maybe looked more Ocon's fault the way I saw it.
[29:17.320 -> 29:24.680] But the other one I thought Hamilton was moving around trying to get a move done and possibly
[29:24.680 -> 29:27.760] was in Ocon's blind spot. Just made contact.
[29:27.760 -> 29:33.760] Or the brakes didn't hit as hard as you would have hoped.
[29:33.760 -> 29:46.240] Yeah, well, regardless, I think Alpine, they were having their own fun. Of course, they missed out on a point, however.
[29:51.840 -> 29:58.160] In fact, a couple of points actually, because of Ocon. But I guess overall, I don't know, man, what is Alpine doing? Very honestly, if you think about them, not just this season,
[29:58.160 -> 30:10.600] last season, and even before that, I've rarely seen Alpine doing really good. All other teams in the midfield I have seen having really good moments.
[30:10.600 -> 30:18.400] Even McLaren have had their own good moments and everything. But somehow, Alpine is always just mediocre.
[30:18.400 -> 30:25.920] They are just there. They are just in points somehow. But never ahead of that.
[30:26.000 -> 30:29.280] Last race is probably the only time that I've seen them
[30:29.280 -> 30:32.800] being so much on the camera, being so much discussed.
[30:32.800 -> 30:38.960] Otherwise, they've not been around much to be honest.
[30:38.960 -> 30:43.600] Yeah, it's odd. As I said, I don't really understand them.
[30:43.600 -> 30:45.200] Overall, they have been
[30:45.200 -> 30:51.760] trying to build a successful team for a while now like before until Renault and even now like
[30:51.760 -> 30:56.080] it's weird they don't have a single customer for their engine which is kind of embarrassing
[30:56.080 -> 31:04.480] honestly and yeah I mean and I think that also plays in a way in their development probably like
[31:04.480 -> 31:08.120] they also receive lesser feedback as well I guess since they just have two
[31:08.120 -> 31:14.080] cars on the field which are running their engines so I think in some I mean
[31:14.080 -> 31:18.960] I'm not an expert but I guess that definitely plays some factor maybe.
[31:18.960 -> 31:27.600] In terms of the season it's just been that. They haven't had moments. They've been there.
[31:27.600 -> 31:41.000] And last year, you just saw Ocon get a victory and Alonso fighting people off to get him that victory.
[31:41.000 -> 31:47.760] That sort of moment, it's been a thing for the way Alonso has been
[31:47.760 -> 31:55.280] driving this season. I think there was a P3 in qualifying that was on for him and then he had
[31:55.280 -> 32:07.760] some hydraulic issue and all that. So the points that Alonso has had this year, I think single digit so far is just not where the car is. Like the car
[32:07.760 -> 32:13.120] is capable and of course Alonzo is capable of a lot more and it's just that lack of moments
[32:13.120 -> 32:21.280] and yeah it's just weird this year. On that same thought, where's Aston Martin?
[32:21.920 -> 32:25.000] I mean something similar is happening for them. They try to copy them.
[32:25.000 -> 32:28.000] Vis-a-vis trying to copy Mercedes.
[32:28.000 -> 32:31.000] But yeah, Aston, I think
[32:31.000 -> 32:32.000] Yeah
[32:32.000 -> 32:38.000] We don't know how much they copied. I mean you copy the side part that has implications
[32:38.000 -> 32:41.000] Elsewhere on the car. Yeah
[32:41.000 -> 32:46.080] Obviously, they thought of this. They just didn't copy the side pod and hope
[32:46.080 -> 32:52.320] their suspension works with the side pod. I think you're giving them too much credit.
[32:52.320 -> 33:09.280] Again it's just like all these cars this year it's been a bit of setup plays such a big role like one
[33:09.280 -> 33:14.880] race you got the setup right and Magnuson is in P6 and the next race he's
[33:14.880 -> 33:18.680] like a your ass relax
[33:20.240 -> 33:25.000] by the way by the way, speaking of K-Mag,
[33:28.200 -> 33:29.480] okay, let's get into that. He crashed. We'll get,
[33:33.800 -> 33:37.160] I saw K-Mag standing outside the race track and I'm like, he's blowing his mind. And I'm like, wait, first of all, how did you get there? Like, why was he there?
[33:37.160 -> 33:38.520] Why was he out?
[33:39.040 -> 33:42.240] It was so bizarre, man. I was very confused. Like, first of all,
[33:42.240 -> 33:47.720] I saw on the leaderboard, like suddenly it was like Kmag grayed out at the end.
[33:48.240 -> 33:51.080] And then I see like Mick crashing. So I thought, first of all,
[33:51.080 -> 33:54.880] I thought that that's Kmag who crashed. And that's why they,
[33:54.920 -> 33:57.880] but I was also surprised that so instantly they also like, you know,
[33:57.880 -> 34:00.480] grayed out his name. Like, wow, that's like super fast.
[34:02.200 -> 34:06.180] Greg grayed out his name. He's just crashed and he is already in the pit lane.
[34:06.180 -> 34:16.520] And I was seeing this for some reason, not on Hotstar but on Sky Sports.
[34:16.520 -> 34:21.860] And Sky Sports being Sky Sports, decided to go on a break right when this happened.
[34:21.860 -> 34:27.760] So, when they came back, it was the half split split into two with the rear facing and the right facing.
[34:27.760 -> 34:29.400] So I was like, Oh shit, both the hasses,
[34:29.680 -> 34:31.440] like they ran into each other in the crash.
[34:32.240 -> 34:35.640] Until I saw like those two garage mechanics,
[34:36.160 -> 34:38.960] the safety folks, like lift marshals, thank you.
[34:39.160 -> 34:42.200] Lifting the car just the rear and oh, it's split.
[34:43.080 -> 34:46.480] I saw so many memes about that, I saw them
[34:46.480 -> 34:51.280] photoshopped in like a farm where they're like pulling the car.
[34:51.280 -> 34:59.600] What is it with these Haas cars breaking into two?
[34:59.600 -> 35:00.600] Yeah man.
[35:00.600 -> 35:04.560] Isn't it supposed to be standardized?
[35:04.560 -> 35:05.000] Right. It's supposed to be standardized, right?
[35:05.000 -> 35:08.000] Is it all this homologation thing?
[35:08.000 -> 35:10.000] I regulated.
[35:10.000 -> 35:13.000] What if this is Haas's way of ejection?
[35:13.000 -> 35:16.000] Anytime a crash happens, it splits and the driver ejects from the radar.
[35:16.000 -> 35:27.320] You see, they're far ahead of us. Oh, man.
[35:27.320 -> 35:29.920] But I mean, honestly, I don't know why KMF was on.
[35:29.920 -> 35:32.280] Does anyone know why KMF was on this board?
[35:32.280 -> 35:33.080] Nobody showed.
[35:33.080 -> 35:33.760] Nobody cared.
[35:33.760 -> 35:35.920] I don't know why.
[35:35.920 -> 35:38.840] It was not even discussed at all by any commentators.
[35:38.840 -> 35:42.040] I don't know what happened.
[35:42.040 -> 35:42.760] Yeah.
[35:42.760 -> 35:44.080] OK, we got to ask you this.
[35:44.080 -> 35:51.520] Maybe I didn't pay much attention. Did Nick lock up? Why do you think he spun out?
[35:51.520 -> 35:58.400] It was very odd, right? I was very confused looking at it. He was going straight and then suddenly like...
[35:58.400 -> 36:08.400] I don't think it was a lock up. But just losing the rears in... I haven't watched the on-board
[36:08.400 -> 36:15.960] enough but he was just coming into that corner he was already sort of gone. It
[36:15.960 -> 36:29.120] wasn't a moment that happened it just the entry into the corner was weird and it was lost but was it another this draft wind thing.
[36:30.560 -> 36:36.880] Oh by the way we have a theory about that. So basically last time we were talking about this
[36:36.880 -> 36:42.160] in the last episode in the Spanish GP where we saw like sign spinning and at the exact same spot
[36:42.160 -> 36:49.360] max spinning as well. So our theory is that it's me there's one more thing that if you go and check Nikita Mazhapin's
[36:49.360 -> 36:54.880] Twitter it still shows as a Formula One driver so our theory is that it's
[36:54.880 -> 37:06.000] basically his career's ghost which is waiting there to blow in. I think it just returned back today. Haunting Haas.
[37:06.000 -> 37:11.000] But that would be me, leaving that bio still as Formula 1 driver.
[37:11.000 -> 37:15.000] Can't take it.
[37:15.000 -> 37:19.000] He is still in denial, I guess.
[37:19.000 -> 37:25.000] Maybe when the war is over, I get to go back. That's what he's thinking, I guess.
[37:25.000 -> 37:30.000] The money is still invested. So, why not?
[37:30.000 -> 37:33.000] Yeah, sure.
[37:33.000 -> 37:40.000] Talking about that corner though, where the same place where Haas ran into his...
[37:40.000 -> 37:43.000] Merk... sorry, Mick ran his car into.
[37:43.000 -> 37:48.280] There's this whole internet tone over Ricardo and his engineers asking for the car.
[37:48.480 -> 37:49.080] Oh, man.
[37:49.120 -> 37:54.160] My personal take, my personal take is I playing the devil's advocate here.
[37:54.160 -> 37:54.680] I think.
[37:55.600 -> 38:00.720] Um, and I think like WTF one shared this where it's like the engineers hadn't
[38:00.720 -> 38:02.920] seen an accident show up on their screen.
[38:02.920 -> 38:05.360] So they, they just saw like a big spike
[38:05.360 -> 38:09.560] or something with the car and that's when they ask Ricardo is the car okay
[38:09.560 -> 38:14.040] and then is when they saw the race accident so then is when they knew. So that's
[38:14.040 -> 38:19.600] that's the backing head on what's true. That makes a lot more sense because
[38:19.600 -> 38:26.440] yeah I was very confused when I heard the radio. They're like straight up asking how's the car and you're like, I'm okay.
[38:29.520 -> 38:31.040] That makes sense. And also,
[38:32.240 -> 38:34.800] Ricardo's reaction in that moment makes sense.
[38:35.400 -> 38:36.400] I ask about
[38:40.800 -> 38:43.880] but Ricardo, man, let's talk about Ricardo a bit.
[38:49.040 -> 38:57.040] I think a lot of people have talked about this overall. Do you think Ricardo has brought this upon himself? Like in the sense that he's clearly not having a good time.
[38:57.040 -> 39:07.680] And I mean at least I feel this is my personal belief that he probably changed teams too many times in the last like
[39:07.680 -> 39:13.680] five years he changed two teams right I guess and I guess that is what kind of is coming back
[39:13.680 -> 39:18.720] to bite him. I don't know what are your thoughts? Yeah that was that was mine as well just
[39:27.340 -> 39:33.940] not staying to build a car and chasing the faster car which is acceptable with science because you don't say no to Ferrari.
[39:33.940 -> 39:42.860] Yeah of course. Yeah but then why leave Red Bull first of all like you were it
[39:42.860 -> 39:49.040] was becoming West Happens team but it wasn't that evident. Yeah, like you it wasn't gonna be like
[39:50.080 -> 39:55.320] Checo, I mean you could argue Checo is clearly the second driver and he sort of knows his role as well
[39:55.640 -> 40:00.520] Like I'll pick up the pieces. I'll get the odd race win. Maybe yeah
[40:01.520 -> 40:05.100] Fight now if it happens for a few more races, but
[40:05.100 -> 40:10.100] generally he knows his role that wouldn't have been the case when, if Ricardo had
[40:10.100 -> 40:12.200] stayed with Max.
[40:12.860 -> 40:17.340] And honestly, I think one could even argue that Max probably couldn't had won last
[40:17.340 -> 40:23.500] year's championship if it was Ricardo as his second driver, because a lot of times
[40:23.500 -> 40:25.480] where Perez like fell in line just
[40:25.480 -> 40:32.760] to help Max I'm not very sure Ricardo would do the same like
[40:32.760 -> 40:40.840] hmm yeah just the lack of confidence in the car as well and like you know that
[40:40.840 -> 40:47.300] the classic thing of when it rains it it pours. And he is just continuously pouring on this guy.
[40:47.300 -> 40:48.800] Yeah.
[40:48.800 -> 40:58.300] Now, he is at a point in his career where if this McLaren thing falls off, I don't see anyone else picking him up again.
[40:58.300 -> 41:03.900] And they are talking about Walter Herta, this thing I keep hearing.
[41:03.900 -> 41:07.000] And he has never raced in Formula 1. Why is his name in it?
[41:07.000 -> 41:10.000] I know he's a McLaren guy.
[41:10.000 -> 41:13.000] I think it's mainly only to try and...
[41:13.000 -> 41:19.000] So somehow very weirdly, I don't understand why McLaren has become the de facto American team.
[41:19.000 -> 41:23.000] Which is very weird when there is an actual American team, which is Haas.
[41:23.000 -> 41:25.520] But for some reason, Haas has never bought into that identity of an American team which is Haas but for some reason Haas has
[41:25.520 -> 41:29.440] never bought into that identity of an American team and McLaren somehow have
[41:29.440 -> 41:33.240] and I think from the rumors that I've heard at least it's basically that
[41:33.240 -> 41:41.160] McLaren is like trying to cash in on this you know this image and of course
[41:41.160 -> 41:49.660] since Herta is an American driver they are like propping him up by, you know, seeing that there's a chance of him coming.
[41:49.660 -> 41:50.660] I guess that's what I've heard.
[41:50.660 -> 41:54.160] I mean, McClaren has that Indy team.
[41:54.160 -> 41:54.660] Yeah.
[41:54.660 -> 41:59.460] And Zach Brown is the most American man in the world.
[41:59.460 -> 42:00.460] Yeah, that's true.
[42:00.460 -> 42:02.460] True. That's true.
[42:02.460 -> 42:05.160] Fair enough.
[42:05.160 -> 42:06.120] Yeah.
[42:06.120 -> 42:07.760] I think what's left for him is now
[42:07.760 -> 42:11.360] just wearing those cowboy shoes when he comes to Austin
[42:11.360 -> 42:12.400] this year later.
[42:12.400 -> 42:12.900] Yeah.
[42:16.280 -> 42:20.640] But I was saying, is there a way to get car bias settings
[42:20.640 -> 42:21.160] anywhere?
[42:21.160 -> 42:24.400] Because I want to now start comparing,
[42:24.400 -> 42:25.440] what are these
[42:25.440 -> 42:30.680] car settings that these drivers come on with and like we've seen maybe two
[42:30.680 -> 42:35.240] races three races at max where Daniel's done good with his McLaren and like
[42:35.240 -> 42:39.040] what's been different in terms of like setting across these races just so that
[42:39.040 -> 42:46.600] why is he still not able to like get long with this car. Yeah I mean the cars are sort of
[42:46.600 -> 42:53.320] built to be if it if it's if you're like the Michael Schumacher of Ferrari then
[42:53.320 -> 42:57.920] the car is built for you but otherwise it's sort of built to your preference
[42:57.920 -> 43:07.840] but then you have to adjust a lot and this is a default de facto excuse that you hold on to that the car
[43:07.840 -> 43:12.320] was only not built for me how am I going to the season I'm just trying to catch
[43:12.320 -> 43:16.600] up this entire season sort of thing yeah but still you've been in Formula One
[43:16.600 -> 43:26.000] since 2011 or 2012. Yeah that's true that's true. And out of the everyone who switched or run, like Alonzo, Daniel, Science and then…
[43:26.000 -> 43:27.000] Botas as well, by the way.
[43:27.000 -> 43:33.000] Botas as well, yes. He is the only one still struggling after a year and a half.
[43:33.000 -> 43:47.000] Yeah. That's somewhat sad, man. I mean, I was a Ricardo fan back when he was in Red Bull. I really enjoyed watching him race and he had some really good races, some really good battles through the years.
[43:47.000 -> 43:57.000] But ever since Renault and after that McLaren, it's just sad to see that he's kind of become a non-factor in races most of the times.
[43:57.000 -> 43:59.000] Yeah, just sad.
[44:01.000 -> 44:11.720] Well, okay, talking about sad, Latifi, man, those opening statements by themselves, I'm
[44:11.720 -> 44:15.800] like, where is this going?
[44:15.800 -> 44:23.640] Both Latifi and Stroll crashed under safety car, like what the fuck were they doing?
[44:23.640 -> 44:27.040] Right at the start of the race. Latifi was in the
[44:27.040 -> 44:32.840] barriers and Stroll had to puncture from what? He hit the barrier as well.
[44:32.840 -> 44:47.560] And that too at the slowest corner this guy Latifi at the hairpin. Air pen. Man. Both playing a Formula 1 3-pointer. 3-pointer. It's like a parallel dimension.
[44:47.560 -> 44:48.560] Yeah.
[44:48.560 -> 44:53.560] I thought they're probably going to get us trolled again at some point.
[44:53.560 -> 44:55.560] But that was fine.
[44:55.560 -> 44:58.560] Oh yeah. Strolled. Yes, I remember.
[44:58.560 -> 45:00.560] The whole meme that started. It was last year, right?
[45:00.560 -> 45:02.560] The anniversary. Yeah, the anniversary.
[45:02.560 -> 45:03.560] Strolled anniversary.
[45:03.560 -> 45:06.880] He got strolled me.
[45:13.200 -> 45:14.000] Even during like Perez and these four trying to lap Latifi and Albon too.
[45:20.040 -> 45:22.040] Yeah, please just just stay out. Let these four pass and then you can do whatever you want. Yeah.
[45:28.000 -> 45:37.000] Albon, like because of why Ferrari sort of had that problem. Albon though, I don't know. It's weird. He wasn't, the last two races in fact, this one as well as the last one, he's nowhere suddenly.
[45:37.000 -> 45:45.160] I don't know what happened and suddenly Latifi is outperforming him. Like's going on there it's it's pretty weird
[45:45.160 -> 45:46.720] did his hair dye come off?
[45:46.720 -> 45:49.280] that and I wanna yeah I wanna know I wanna come back to
[45:49.280 -> 45:54.720] Burt's your statement of like Albon being probably the reason behind Farah's problem
[45:54.720 -> 45:57.200] I think he is stuck behind
[45:57.200 -> 45:59.200] okay that's right
[45:59.200 -> 46:02.720] he is stuck behind I think losing multiple seconds behind him
[46:02.720 -> 46:04.720] yeah that's true
[46:04.720 -> 46:07.000] it's like did something else happen with respect to Albon and Traore?
[46:07.000 -> 46:12.000] But I think dying everyone's hair in the team is not the solution.
[46:12.000 -> 46:17.000] It's probably just him dying his hair is what's going to come up.
[46:17.000 -> 46:20.000] Yeah, man.
[46:20.000 -> 46:27.280] There's an interesting notice by someone, some reporter that said he was seen left,
[46:27.280 -> 46:31.120] he was seen leaving Monaco with Christian Horner yesterday.
[46:31.120 -> 46:36.800] I'm like what discussions are going on there?
[46:36.800 -> 46:37.800] Interesting.
[46:37.800 -> 46:38.800] In fact, I…
[46:38.800 -> 46:39.800] Good, good.
[46:39.800 -> 46:40.800] Perez won the race.
[46:40.800 -> 46:56.000] Christian telling him, so any hopes that you still have about Red Bull, shove it.
[46:56.000 -> 47:10.720] But I love it that this guy Helmut Mark was proven completely wrong about Perez, isn't he? And like that old fart, I personally like really dislike him, but I'm kind of glad that he's kind of shut up about Perez entirely now.
[47:12.720 -> 47:24.160] Isn't he the one why Checo is actually there? I thought he's the one who after, I thought, I mean, after Sakir went from 20 to 1, is the reason why Marco was like, let's get this guy on.
[47:24.320 -> 47:25.000] P2W is the reason why Marco was like, let's get this guy on.
[47:26.320 -> 47:27.000] That's what I thought. Interesting.
[47:31.320 -> 47:32.080] Because I've seen him criticize Perez a lot last year, at least,
[47:36.680 -> 47:37.080] in the first half of the season, like in the media. So I don't know.
[47:41.720 -> 47:41.760] And overall, I think that that guy is, I don't know, he,
[47:44.320 -> 47:44.760] like he is like, what can we say?
[47:47.520 -> 47:48.520] Christian Horner on drugs or something like basically.
[47:48.520 -> 47:54.240] Yeah, just you know, shit stirring all along.
[47:54.240 -> 48:03.680] But do you notice this, do you notice this, that anytime we see like an off-track situation,
[48:03.680 -> 48:07.040] it's always Marco, Christian and Max forming a huddle.
[48:07.040 -> 48:10.800] And then, Perez is just wandering alone.
[48:10.800 -> 48:18.440] Even yesterday, after the rain, Perez was drinking water all by himself and these three were forming a huddle and strategizing what to do next.
[48:18.440 -> 48:26.480] I am like, come on, man. Take him into that club as an eyesore. What else, man?
[48:26.480 -> 48:30.960] What else stood out for you besides what we've already
[48:30.960 -> 48:34.320] spoken about, that we haven't discussed?
[48:34.320 -> 48:38.320] But on to you, what else stood out for you?
[48:38.320 -> 48:43.920] I think at the start of the race as well, the race directors,
[48:43.920 -> 48:49.840] it's like, I feel like it's a bit of I mean we
[48:49.840 -> 48:56.400] know we're all for safety but it's like almost showing that a like we are not
[48:56.400 -> 49:07.480] Michael Massey like I'm better like I have no problems with you know you think it is too wet so you red flag it
[49:07.480 -> 49:14.920] but then after you when it's drying out and there's a four to five minute gap
[49:14.920 -> 49:19.920] where you're not doing anything and you're not even sending the safety car
[49:19.920 -> 49:26.580] out yeah have a look like how safe is it? I Brundle was saying we are all for safety
[49:26.580 -> 49:31.100] but this is Formula One like at least try, do something. That's right.
[49:31.100 -> 49:36.940] You could have had a few 3 to 4 laps. Yeah man. Yeah. You know this is one of those times
[49:36.940 -> 49:41.780] when I really appreciate watching the race like after the fact I generally
[49:41.780 -> 49:45.040] watch it because of course here generally it airs at like 6 a.m
[49:45.040 -> 49:51.040] or whatever on a Sunday so I generally like don't visit social media when I wake up and
[49:51.040 -> 49:54.720] just straight up start watching the race recording and I'm glad that I could just
[49:55.280 -> 50:00.640] fast forward through the whole meeting period and directly get to the race.
[50:06.720 -> 50:15.360] get to the race. Also, this yesterday showed me like how fickle fans can be. Like I'm seeing so many people saying bring back Michael Matthews. You guys, like a few
[50:15.360 -> 50:29.000] months ago he was the arch devil. People were literally asking for his head, quite literally. And then these guys say, let's wait five minutes and Michael Matthews is back.
[50:29.000 -> 50:30.000] True that.
[50:30.000 -> 50:38.520] But it is interesting, really, these guys, till the last minute, weren't disclosing if
[50:38.520 -> 50:44.880] it's going to be a rolling start or a standstill or what we are going to do, which in some
[50:44.880 -> 50:46.320] sense maybe is good.
[50:46.320 -> 50:49.040] There is some strategy to follow there for these guys.
[50:49.040 -> 50:52.960] Because Christian Onner at one point said, we were hoping that there is an interesting standings.
[50:52.960 -> 50:54.960] But I don't know why that makes a difference.
[50:54.960 -> 50:58.960] But yeah, that is also interesting from these days.
[50:58.960 -> 51:00.960] Do these guys have a history?
[51:00.960 -> 51:02.160] I'd have to look into this.
[51:02.160 -> 51:08.000] I don't know if these directors, the current ones, have a history of doing something with Formula 1.
[51:08.000 -> 51:13.000] It seems like they are coming in with a blank slate and solving new rules on their own.
[51:13.000 -> 51:20.000] Is that? I don't know. But can you just come in out of nowhere and become a Formula 1 race director?
[51:20.000 -> 51:30.820] I mean, they are probably somewhere else. Some other racing format. I was hoping they were in Formula 1, just in the FIA, in the lower rungs or something.
[51:30.820 -> 51:32.360] Probably.
[51:32.360 -> 51:38.660] I never thought about this. I am like, what is actually happening in India.
[51:38.660 -> 51:50.160] Let's see. Sarang, anything else that stood out before? I think there was this moment where Perez almost killed
[51:50.160 -> 51:56.760] a bird or something like that I saw and then yeah and I think that was when he locked up right I
[51:56.760 -> 52:11.000] think it was quite interesting to see that like apparently. The sacrificial ritual that RBR needs to do. Before it was Ghastly, then it was Alborn and now the bird is it?
[52:11.000 -> 52:17.000] I get it.
[52:17.000 -> 52:29.280] Okay, it's starting to go dark, I guess. Yeah.
[52:31.200 -> 52:33.840] Today I learned a situation for at least me yesterday was they used dry ice to cool these vents.
[52:33.840 -> 52:36.360] I'm like, it's buckets of dry ice.
[52:36.360 -> 52:36.960] I didn't know.
[52:36.960 -> 52:40.560] I mean, I thought it's just super strong blowers that they just
[52:40.560 -> 52:42.120] attach to these vents.
[52:42.120 -> 52:48.560] But there's some camera angle where they showed all this this quote-unquote smoke coming out is what I thought and I'm like
[52:48.560 -> 52:52.720] oh wait what's going wrong and I saw like a whole tray of ice. It makes sense and
[52:52.720 -> 52:59.640] interesting they used dry ice to do this which makes sense. Yeah of course. Yeah I guess all in all
[52:59.640 -> 53:08.960] a good weekend for Monaco particularly.. Um, one thing I started thinking of, uh, is, and this is what we close out on
[53:08.960 -> 53:11.060] is the trickiness that Monaco brings, right.
[53:11.060 -> 53:13.080] And especially with rain, this is what they were discussing.
[53:13.400 -> 53:18.080] And Ted, Ted brought this up is, um, how tunnel plays a very
[53:18.120 -> 53:20.080] crucial role in a bet Monaco.
[53:20.080 -> 53:22.960] Cause you have like a whole track, which is wet, but the tunnel is dry.
[53:23.480 -> 53:25.120] And then you went to the tunnel is dry and then you enter the tunnel
[53:25.120 -> 53:30.400] making the tunnel wet while the rest of the track starting to get dry and I'm like this is so
[53:30.400 -> 53:35.600] fascinating because then like your whole driving dynamics needs to change while you're going through
[53:35.600 -> 53:41.520] that whole section. I'm not sure like I wonder how much they think about this because anyway the
[53:42.080 -> 53:46.760] the tunnel is flat and all they're thinking about after
[53:46.760 -> 53:51.760] they've done Portier I think turn 8 and going through the tunnel is they're just
[53:51.760 -> 54:05.000] looking at the next pin. So I think if it's a full wet race and you're making the tunnel wetter,
[54:05.480 -> 54:08.820] then it sort of makes it even.
[54:10.440 -> 54:13.920] But I generally I don't see how much they think about it.
[54:13.920 -> 54:17.240] And it would be mad if someone just loses it
[54:17.240 -> 54:18.440] in the tunnel like that.
[54:18.440 -> 54:19.280] Yeah.
[54:21.920 -> 54:25.000] Yeah, with that, I think this was a brilliant Monaco.
[54:25.000 -> 54:29.000] The debate still continues if Monaco should be on the calendar or not.
[54:29.000 -> 54:35.000] But I think there is prayers going on to rain gods to keep making this track interesting every single year.
[54:35.000 -> 54:38.000] So, fingers crossed. And we will see where this goes.
[54:38.000 -> 54:43.000] Thank you, Aditya, for being on with this. I hope you had fun.
[54:43.000 -> 54:45.240] Thank you. Thank you for having me on.
[54:50.000 -> 54:51.520] Definitely. For sure. Folks, go follow at the rate of this. They are not. But that's right.
[54:51.520 -> 54:53.720] No, no, no. But don't mess up.
[54:54.560 -> 54:56.640] Let him plug it. Sorry.
[54:56.640 -> 54:59.400] Ignore me, but take it over.
[54:59.400 -> 55:00.920] But don't take on Instagram.
[55:00.920 -> 55:05.200] Just doing formula on stuff, stuff slightly technical but not only
[55:05.200 -> 55:12.560] technical. Go check him out please. Alright man, hope this friendship continues we can get
[55:12.560 -> 55:18.760] you again on a future race. Folks until the next race I think we're at
[55:18.760 -> 55:25.260] Azerbaijan two weeks from now this is F1 Fan Fiction. Signing off. Bye-bye.
