Podcast: F1 Fanfiction
Published Date:
Wed, 26 Oct 2022 05:15:00 +0000
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We return to Circuit of the Americas the 2nd race in the US on the F1 calendar. We saw another dominant performance from the Max camp where Red Bull clenched the World Constructors Championship after 8 long years! From Flying cars to messed up pit stops, made the US GP a lot more entertaining that most people had imagined.
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Intro: Howling (Sting) - Gunnar Olsen
Outro: Your Intro by Audionautix
**Summary of the F1 Fanfiction Podcast Episode: United States Grand Prix Circuit of the Americas Race Recap**
**Key Points:**
- Record-breaking crowds attended the United States Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas (COTA).
- Sebastian Vettel's impressive performance included gaining five positions in the first lap and leading the race for a time.
- Despite a pit stop that dropped him to the back of the pack, Vettel fought back to overtake several drivers and finish in P8.
- Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton engaged in a thrilling battle in the final laps, with Verstappen ultimately securing the win.
- Fernando Alonso experienced a spectacular airborne incident after colliding with Lance Stroll, but managed to continue the race after repairs.
- The track invasion, a formal event at COTA, allowed fans to enter the track after the race.
**Additional Highlights:**
- Connor, a guest host and TikTok creator, shared his experiences attending the race as a first-time Formula One attendee.
- The hosts discussed the challenges of following Formula One during free practice sessions.
- The episode featured insights into the American presence in Formula One, including the potential for more American drivers to join the sport.
- The hosts commented on the role of Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, in waving the checkered flag at the race.
- They also mentioned the unfortunate passing of Dietrich Mateschitz, the co-founder and CEO of Red Bull, and the team's dedication to winning the race in his honor.
- The episode concluded with a discussion of Fernando Alonso's recent unfollowing spree on Instagram, where he removed all but five drivers from his following list.
**Overall Message:**
The United States Grand Prix at COTA delivered an exciting and entertaining race, showcasing the talents of veteran drivers like Vettel and Alonso, as well as the continued dominance of Max Verstappen and Red Bull. **Summary of the F1 Fan Fiction Podcast Episode: US Grand Prix 2022 Debrief**
**Key Points:**
* Record-breaking crowds attended the US Grand Prix at Circuit of the Americas (COTA).
* Inspector Hamilton, Mad Mad Seb Vettel, Track Invasion, Alonso's Airtime, and Whose Faults was it anyway? were among the topics discussed.
* The possibility of American drivers joining Formula One in the future was brought up, with Logan Sargeant being a potential candidate.
* Kevin Magnussen received the "meatball flag" for a damaged end plate, highlighting the inconsistency in FIA's penalty decisions.
* A five-second stop-and-go penalty for Pierre Gasly for a racing incident was deemed excessive by the hosts.
* A 30-second post-race penalty for Fernando Alonso due to a loose mirror was controversial, with the hosts questioning FIA's responsibility in ensuring car compliance.
* The hosts praised Vettel's promotion to seventh place as a result of Alonso's penalty.
* The near-miss incidents involving Stroll and Alonso, as well as Stroll and Gasly, were discussed, emphasizing the importance of driver safety.
* The hosts acknowledged the challenges faced by FIA in managing the exponential growth of the sport and the increased scrutiny brought by social media.
* The use of different plans, such as Plan E for a potential collision involving both Red Bulls, was mentioned.
* The botched pit stops during the race were attributed to the allure of Austin's cuisine.
* The hosts criticized Tim Cook's lack of enthusiasm while waving the checkered flag, suggesting that he may have been forced to do it as a punishment.
* Despite the controversies, the hosts agreed that the US Grand Prix was an entertaining race with plenty of talking points.
**Conclusion:**
The podcast episode provided an engaging and informative discussion of the US Grand Prix, covering various aspects of the race, including controversies, driver performances, and the evolving landscape of Formula One. The hosts offered their perspectives and insights, while also acknowledging the challenges faced by the sport's governing body, the FIA.
[00:00.000 -> 00:08.000] The entire energy that was lifted with like Vettel overtaking K-Mag on that last turn, it was all sucked away.
[00:08.000 -> 00:10.000] With like Tim Cook.
[00:10.000 -> 00:14.000] It really felt to me like it was a punishment for him or something.
[00:14.000 -> 00:19.000] Like the board of members at Appleside, you know the last quarter's profits weren't really good.
[00:19.000 -> 00:22.000] So now you have to go and wave the flag at the F1 race.
[00:22.000 -> 00:26.000] Why do they tell him to do it like that? Like put some energy into it.
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[00:34.000 -> 00:36.000] Hello and welcome
[00:36.000 -> 00:38.000] back to F1 Fan
[00:38.000 -> 00:40.000] Fiction. This
[00:40.000 -> 00:42.000] is a race where I think we
[00:42.000 -> 00:44.000] broke record last year or
[00:44.000 -> 00:46.400] last year with like 400,000 people.
[00:46.400 -> 00:50.000] And it's just blown up since then as a sport too.
[00:50.000 -> 00:55.600] We are talking about none other than the United States Grand Prix Circuit of the Americas.
[00:55.600 -> 01:00.800] Before we get into the episode, today again you've got a third host for yourselves.
[01:00.800 -> 01:03.200] We are your hosts. I am Akash.
[01:03.200 -> 01:04.800] And I'm Sarang.
[01:04.800 -> 01:06.640] And third host, take it away. All yours.
[01:07.400 -> 01:11.640] And I am Connor, the face behind Hass of cards on TikTok.
[01:12.360 -> 01:13.280] Welcome, Connor.
[01:13.680 -> 01:21.840] Head over to TikTok. Go follow Hass of cards. That's H-A-S-S, Hass, not anything else that you might think of.
[01:21.840 -> 01:24.520] Hass of cards. Thanks, Connor. Thanks for being here, man.
[01:24.680 -> 01:28.800] Absolutely. We're looking forward to this. I want to toss it off to you first. I want to toss it off to you.
[01:28.800 -> 01:35.040] You were at the show and I call it a show because at the end Shaq comes with a giant trophy and
[01:35.040 -> 01:46.120] hands it off to the folks. So how was it man? How was it? It was wild. So I have been to NASCAR races. I have been to IndyCar races.
[01:46.320 -> 01:51.240] This was my first official formula one Grand Prix, and it was, it was insane.
[01:51.720 -> 01:55.520] So I was there all three days and I expected Friday to be able
[01:55.520 -> 01:56.680] to walk around the whole track.
[01:56.680 -> 02:01.240] And we ended up showing up with, let's see, we had four people in our group.
[02:01.960 -> 02:03.440] Two of us are five people.
[02:03.760 -> 02:09.840] Two had been to the race before Benicota, multiple times. Three of us had never been. And we got lost on Friday.
[02:09.840 -> 02:15.040] The crowds were insane. So they said it was the craziest Friday they've ever seen.
[02:15.680 -> 02:20.240] But yeah, speaks to breaking records. It was electric the whole time.
[02:21.360 -> 02:22.080] Sweet.
[02:22.080 -> 02:25.040] I can totally imagine. Even qualifications when they were like you
[02:25.040 -> 02:29.040] know panning onto the crowds it was so insane like it felt like it was jam-packed
[02:29.040 -> 02:34.320] I don't know it looked that way at least on the screen. Oh man it was packed yeah and so we had
[02:34.320 -> 02:38.240] the general admission tickets so we were scoping out different corners to sit at we sat at a
[02:38.240 -> 02:49.560] different corner for every practice session and qualifying in for the race too. And yeah it was hard to find space I'll tell you that. So tell me this I
[02:49.560 -> 02:56.600] mean even though we I personally follow F1 for like years now I sometimes feel a
[02:56.600 -> 03:02.440] bit lost and like you know I don't want to watch free practice. How's the energy
[03:02.440 -> 03:05.600] like during free practice? Is it as boring as it might
[03:05.600 -> 03:15.080] seem on the TV or like what's what's happening? It totally is. You see people get really excited for the first 5-10 minutes.
[03:15.080 -> 03:19.240] They'll take pictures, they'll take videos and by the second half you're
[03:19.240 -> 03:24.440] like this is this is meh. It's just background noise. And so right free
[03:24.440 -> 03:26.080] practice was a free practice too,
[03:26.080 -> 03:27.640] was the one that was 90 minutes long
[03:27.640 -> 03:29.480] because they do an entire test.
[03:29.480 -> 03:31.840] So I mean, that drug on for sure.
[03:31.840 -> 03:34.600] And I mean, there wasn't a whole lot of drama, right?
[03:34.600 -> 03:36.520] I don't know, no anything.
[03:36.520 -> 03:40.040] So yeah, it's something that I would consider
[03:40.040 -> 03:41.400] skipping next time.
[03:43.240 -> 03:44.280] Gotcha.
[03:44.280 -> 03:45.960] Makes sense.
[03:50.040 -> 03:54.680] And then before getting into the main event, I have to ask this because the moment Sarang said, let's do this co-level like for
[03:54.680 -> 03:57.440] sure. Why us?
[04:00.560 -> 04:07.360] Yeah. So I started this account, I want to say it was summer of 2021, maybe a little
[04:07.360 -> 04:12.920] bit before that. So back when, I mean, we, we sucked. Not that we are very good to begin
[04:12.920 -> 04:17.360] with, but it was rough, like no points on anything. And I thought it'd be a joke. That'd
[04:17.360 -> 04:27.600] be funny and be like, Oh, you know what? I got into racing from NASCAR. And I know Stuart Haas, they've got a NASCAR team. And I figured, right, F1 is super
[04:27.600 -> 04:34.240] popular now. I'll be honest, I got back into it from Drive to Survive. That got me back into
[04:34.240 -> 04:40.800] Formula 1. I was already watching NASCAR. I was already watching IndyCar. But I felt like that
[04:40.800 -> 04:44.400] piece of it was missing. You have an American team that is not leaning into all the American
[04:44.400 -> 04:45.040] branding. It's not leaning into all the American branding.
[04:45.040 -> 04:46.640] It's not leaning into American stereotypes.
[04:46.640 -> 04:48.280] It's not speaking to the American crowd.
[04:48.280 -> 04:51.320] So I figured, all right, let's take Formula One.
[04:51.320 -> 04:55.160] And if you look back at some of my first videos, I was trying to combine Formula One with college
[04:55.160 -> 05:00.000] football and really bring the American sport fan into it.
[05:00.000 -> 05:01.360] And I just kind of kept rolling with it.
[05:01.360 -> 05:02.360] And here we are.
[05:02.360 -> 05:03.360] It's been a blast.
[05:03.360 -> 05:05.200] And I was walking around the track.
[05:05.200 -> 05:08.560] I saw people wearing shirts that I had designed and produced.
[05:08.560 -> 05:11.280] And that's just like, wow, it was a whole moment, man.
[05:12.160 -> 05:12.960] That's awesome.
[05:12.960 -> 05:13.600] That's awesome.
[05:13.600 -> 05:14.160] That's awesome.
[05:14.160 -> 05:15.840] Oh, on that note, I have to ask this.
[05:15.840 -> 05:22.800] I saw that you had, you were gonna put up a flag on the track and you're asking people to sign it.
[05:22.800 -> 05:23.360] Did you get it back?
[05:23.360 -> 05:26.720] Yeah, I did. I'm off to find it somewhere
[05:26.720 -> 05:29.280] It's in one of my backpacks. But yeah, so I got it signed
[05:30.560 -> 05:32.560] There's probably like 20 or 30
[05:32.840 -> 05:34.840] signatures about
[05:34.920 -> 05:39.920] First signature I got was Jamie Price. He's the photographer if you ever see him on tick-tock or Instagram
[05:39.920 -> 05:43.360] Mm-hmm. We saw him under the s's at free practice, too
[05:44.480 -> 05:48.480] Yeah, so figure that and then once I went and got him to sign it,
[05:48.480 -> 05:49.840] people started to come up to me like,
[05:49.840 -> 05:51.080] hey, are you the guy from TikTok?
[05:51.080 -> 05:52.680] I was like, all right, we're doing it.
[05:52.680 -> 05:54.880] So I just passed it around and had people autograph it.
[05:54.880 -> 05:56.960] That is awesome.
[05:56.960 -> 05:58.120] That is awesome.
[05:58.120 -> 06:01.200] Into the weekend, man, or into the Sunday.
[06:01.200 -> 06:06.240] Raw thoughts, just pure Sarang, off to you first. Like raw thoughts,
[06:06.240 -> 06:12.160] what do you think? How was the race? Well, I mean, the race started off a bit boring,
[06:12.160 -> 06:17.440] honestly. Like I didn't have a lot of hopes, like considering that Max had already won the
[06:17.440 -> 06:22.240] championship. I was not too keen. And then at the start, of course, science spun off. So I was like,
[06:22.240 -> 06:28.960] okay, this is going to be a very typical day. You know, of course, Ferrari messed up, Max, you know, is leading the charge.
[06:28.960 -> 06:30.960] And this is going to be a super boring one.
[06:31.400 -> 06:34.640] But I think things change later on, especially like, you know, with all the
[06:34.960 -> 06:42.320] messed up pit stops, the crashes, flying cars and everything that happened.
[06:42.880 -> 06:44.880] It was, yeah, it was a mixed race.
[06:44.880 -> 06:46.240] I enjoyed it towards
[06:46.240 -> 06:51.920] I enjoyed it more towards the end but yeah not a bad way of spending a Sunday for sure
[06:53.840 -> 07:00.720] and we were having fun seeing Aston Martin come around what was it like p3 p5 those for oh man
[07:00.720 -> 07:05.800] people were screaming their heads off so we were in turn 11 and we were just having a blast.
[07:05.800 -> 07:08.480] We found a whole group of people who were all excited too.
[07:08.480 -> 07:10.760] And it was fun to watch.
[07:11.400 -> 07:11.960] That's sweet, man.
[07:11.960 -> 07:12.240] Sweet.
[07:12.920 -> 07:17.440] I was, I remember I was pinging Saren because I watched it, um, as, as a
[07:17.440 -> 07:21.480] recording and not live and I was like, this is such a boring race and this is
[07:21.480 -> 07:32.560] like lap 17-ish and he's like it gets interesting later. I think lap 22 Alonzo sets a flying lap.
[07:32.560 -> 07:40.440] I'm like sure this happened and then it was again so boring until like Vettel's
[07:40.440 -> 07:46.000] engineers botched it on purpose I want want to say, for the spectators.
[07:46.400 -> 07:47.240] For entertainment?
[07:47.240 -> 07:47.760] Yeah.
[07:48.920 -> 07:53.400] But overall, I still found it a bit meh, to be honest.
[07:54.320 -> 07:58.520] But Red Bull wins the championship, right?
[07:58.800 -> 07:59.320] Yeah.
[07:59.320 -> 08:00.720] Constructor championship.
[08:01.200 -> 08:03.520] What is it like after 2013?
[08:03.520 -> 08:04.040] Is it?
[08:04.040 -> 08:04.760] Let me think.
[08:06.480 -> 08:13.920] I mean, Vettel. It has to be Vettel. Yeah, Vettel. Yeah. Domination of the series was since. Because ever since 2014 I think most of
[08:13.920 -> 08:19.920] these has been winning. So I think 2013 was the last one I guess. Yeah. And then with that
[08:19.920 -> 08:25.160] championship I don't know. I couldn't help but notice like the last few laps that
[08:25.160 -> 08:34.760] Hamilton was policing. Literally policing. He's gone off turn 9. I think Brundle or someone even said like,
[08:34.760 -> 08:40.800] we've got a live commentary coming out of Hamilton at this point. Because it was like lap 9, he's gone off.
[08:40.800 -> 08:44.360] Turn 9, he's gone off. Turn 20, he's gone off. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
[08:44.360 -> 08:45.240] Like, so I haven't heard the messages. I haven't watched the replay. So like's gone off, blah blah blah. Like so I haven't heard
[08:45.240 -> 08:48.080] the messages, I haven't watched the replay, so like all this stuff there's no
[08:48.080 -> 08:51.200] messages that I probably haven't heard yet. I've seen some memes on Twitter but
[08:51.200 -> 08:53.920] I'm gonna have to go back and actually watch the actual race because I've only
[08:53.920 -> 08:58.160] seen the highlights so far. How do you all sort of get to see anything that's
[08:58.160 -> 09:05.200] happening live besides the car shooshing around? It's hard. It really is.
[09:05.200 -> 09:06.720] And I was telling this because a couple of people with us
[09:06.720 -> 09:08.680] had never been to a race at all before.
[09:09.760 -> 09:12.140] And especially at a road course like that, it's so big.
[09:12.140 -> 09:14.480] We were on turn 11, so we could see turn 10,
[09:14.480 -> 09:16.000] turn 11 in the back straight.
[09:17.360 -> 09:19.900] But after that, I mean, there's a couple of TV screens,
[09:19.900 -> 09:21.560] but they're not that big.
[09:21.560 -> 09:23.680] So we had one guy in our group had binoculars
[09:23.680 -> 09:24.900] and he goes up there looking to see
[09:24.900 -> 09:31.760] what the leaderboard was. And then you do see like the F1 TV direction, but I mean, we're missing a
[09:31.760 -> 09:35.920] ton of stuff. So there was stuff that we had no idea about until the end of the race.
[09:38.480 -> 09:42.080] I've heard from a friend of mine as well, who had attended a race that he was basically
[09:42.080 -> 09:47.520] streaming on his phone while on the track, like you can't really actually know what's going
[09:47.520 -> 09:59.240] on. You get no idea. That's hilarious. Yeah I mean at least one similarity is that you
[09:59.240 -> 10:05.920] probably will have the same shock when you see Alonzo's car fly as Max had in the
[10:05.920 -> 10:12.400] cool-down room. Hey what happened to Alonzo? And then they cut the shot where
[10:12.400 -> 10:21.040] there's no idea. As Hamilton was policing there was this black and white flag
[10:21.040 -> 10:25.840] that was waved at him with a potential five second penalty that would have come
[10:25.840 -> 10:32.080] and Max was like sure bring it on I'm gonna like you know take a five second lead almost-ish
[10:32.080 -> 10:37.200] and not care about that penalty that might come. I was like super max at that point.
[10:38.160 -> 10:41.760] But the funny thing was both of them got the black and white flag. The funny thing is that
[10:41.760 -> 10:50.880] while Hamilton was complaining that Max is going off the track, right after Max got the black and white flag, very soon after Hamilton got it as
[10:50.880 -> 10:54.880] well. So it was really funny to see that. Yeah. Yeah.
[10:56.000 -> 11:07.920] Well, but Red Bull, it's been so dominant this season, man. I mean, um, even after the terrible pit stop that Matt's had, honestly, at that
[11:07.920 -> 11:11.920] point, I thought that Hamilton might win it because, you know, of course, like he
[11:11.920 -> 11:14.560] had like a food, like 11 second pit stop or something.
[11:15.040 -> 11:18.960] Uh, but that car is just blazing fast, man.
[11:18.960 -> 11:20.320] It didn't matter to him at all.
[11:20.320 -> 11:23.760] Like he just went, I chased him and overtook him and made a
[11:23.760 -> 11:24.960] four second gap after that.
[11:25.920 -> 11:30.400] Yeah. It's just too good. There's no question about it these days. It's just,
[11:31.280 -> 11:36.400] yeah, even with that pit stop, it's... So that's one thing you can watch. We saw that on TV and
[11:36.400 -> 11:40.560] people were going crazy. I'll say, we probably... there were more Red Bull fans than anyone else
[11:40.560 -> 11:45.920] there at the track that day. And most of them, I would say, or I'd say at least half of them were Checo fans,
[11:45.920 -> 11:50.160] for sure. But people were going crazy during that pit stop.
[11:51.080 -> 11:54.400] No, we were definitely taking bets on how quickly Sainz would lose the lead after
[11:54.400 -> 11:56.600] being in pole and it did not take long.
[11:57.400 -> 11:58.920] Did not take long at all, man.
[11:58.960 -> 12:02.360] So Sarang and I were texting, like, I think after quali.
[12:03.000 -> 12:05.320] And we were like, and Sarang was like you know
[12:05.320 -> 12:08.960] Hamilton should really win this race he's I'm rooting for Hamilton is what he
[12:08.960 -> 12:12.840] said and I'm like it's it's very well possible because Ferrari is gonna fuck
[12:12.840 -> 12:17.680] up their race and then all Hamilton has to do is fight Max and that's exactly
[12:17.680 -> 12:31.720] what happened. Exactly what happened, that's true. But did you hear this after after race discussion where someone asked Hamilton what happened
[12:31.720 -> 12:48.800] in turn one and I am not, wait, was this planned?
[12:53.160 -> 12:54.720] It's a master plan right there. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. For sure.
[12:59.320 -> 13:02.000] We know this one. Speaking of Hamilton, man, how good were these oldies yesterday? All of them. That's true, right?
[13:02.120 -> 13:05.800] Yeah. There was a lot of Sebastian Vettel fans out there too. And
[13:05.800 -> 13:09.440] I'm assuming pretty much everyone who hadn't asked Martin Cherdon was a Vettel fan. I don't
[13:09.440 -> 13:14.240] know how many Stroll fans are out there. Two, three.
[13:14.240 -> 13:19.000] But yeah, well, in Canada, maybe.
[13:19.000 -> 13:20.000] Yeah.
[13:20.000 -> 13:28.840] Yeah, I mean, I think it was pretty weird. Like, I mean, not weird, like we have of course seen these veterans like doing good a lot
[13:28.840 -> 13:33.600] of times, but that's usually like under, you know, weird conditions, like it's rainy or
[13:33.600 -> 13:36.360] you know, something weird is going on.
[13:36.360 -> 13:39.880] But yesterday it seemed like they were all on fire and especially Vettel.
[13:39.880 -> 13:48.340] I mean, what a day he had, like, I think in lap one, he gained five positions because I think he started what P 10,
[13:48.340 -> 13:52.900] I think, or something. No. Uh, yeah, whatever. He gained five positions,
[13:54.140 -> 13:57.580] uh, at the point he led the race. And with that,
[13:57.620 -> 14:02.380] he also got some 3,500 laps, leading the race.
[14:02.380 -> 14:05.520] So he got that record, record, which is pretty cool.
[14:07.000 -> 14:10.600] Of course, his pit stop was, you know, I don't know what that was.
[14:12.320 -> 14:16.640] It was pretty funny to see, but then man, that recovery drive later on,
[14:16.680 -> 14:19.160] I honestly, after the pit stop, I thought that, you know,
[14:19.640 -> 14:22.800] like in typical fashion, I think he might just, you know, like,
[14:24.120 -> 14:26.520] fall behind and, you know, he won't be able to come back.
[14:26.560 -> 14:31.160] But then yesterday, I think it felt to me like this was the old Vettel that we
[14:31.160 -> 14:33.560] know of, you know, who was winning the championships.
[14:33.560 -> 14:35.000] Like he was on fire.
[14:35.000 -> 14:38.480] He was the one who was stuck in a DRS train, which was like, I think four or
[14:38.480 -> 14:42.960] five cars long, which is often very difficult to get out of, especially if
[14:42.960 -> 14:45.600] you don't have a, you know you don't have enough performance gap with
[14:45.600 -> 14:52.600] the car ahead of you. But he did it. He overtook everybody. He overtook KMag on the very last
[14:52.600 -> 15:07.600] corner. That one hurt. That one hurt. Yeah, I can feel that. But it was a good drive. Because we were, I remember, I mean, the grandstands went crazy
[15:07.600 -> 15:14.320] when he had that pit stop. And you just saw his name start falling down. But yeah, him
[15:14.320 -> 15:19.040] coming back. It's cool to see that. I mean, it sucks when you see someone like that getting
[15:19.040 -> 15:23.120] relegated to the very back of the pack. But it's cool to see him actually fight for spots
[15:23.120 -> 15:28.920] at the pack. But it's cool to see Maxie fight for spots at the end. Did he have like a four second gap to Kmag before?
[15:29.360 -> 15:29.800] He did.
[15:29.800 -> 15:33.400] Like two or two and a half laps back before the checkered flag.
[15:33.680 -> 15:36.240] I was like, OK, this he's not going to get.
[15:36.920 -> 15:38.000] Cut to Max.
[15:38.000 -> 15:42.400] They see the shot of the shot of Max going and the fireworks going off.
[15:43.120 -> 15:44.840] Cut to wait, wait, wait, what?
[15:44.840 -> 15:48.240] How did he make it there? And they're fighting through the last turns.
[15:48.240 -> 15:51.360] And like, wow, this is, this is brilliant.
[15:51.360 -> 15:57.200] So last three laps, I think, you know, I was like looking at the leaderboard because I was like closely following
[15:57.200 -> 16:03.120] Vettel because I could see that he had overtaken Sonoda. And I don't know who the other two guys were, but
[16:04.000 -> 16:10.440] he overtook them. And I think there was like a five second gap at a point between him and Magnussen.
[16:10.440 -> 16:12.520] And I was like, yeah, this is not happening for sure.
[16:12.520 -> 16:15.480] I mean, he'll end up at P8, which is still good.
[16:15.480 -> 16:17.040] Two points, not bad.
[16:17.040 -> 16:22.520] But then every second he was gaining like a point one second on K-Mag, which was insane
[16:22.520 -> 16:26.440] to see like every second he's gaining a tenth of a second.
[16:26.440 -> 16:29.680] And wow, by the last corner, he was right there.
[16:29.680 -> 16:34.120] And even during the last lap, if you see the footage again,
[16:34.120 -> 16:36.360] it seemed like he didn't have a lot of grip on his tires
[16:36.360 -> 16:39.320] because I think he lost a lot of tire life,
[16:39.320 -> 16:40.520] you know, overtaking everybody else
[16:40.520 -> 16:43.240] because there was two corners where he almost lost it.
[16:43.240 -> 16:44.280] He almost lost it.
[16:44.280 -> 16:46.040] And he somehow, you know, like, uh,
[16:46.060 -> 16:49.200] steadied his car and went ahead. It was pretty cool to watch.
[16:50.800 -> 16:55.640] A game recognizes game because K Mac was saying like that some of the
[16:55.660 -> 16:59.400] best, uh, racing on track racing he's,
[16:59.400 -> 17:02.880] he's done in the past few years. So I was like, that's,
[17:02.960 -> 17:06.040] you can't even be mad, right? When you like, you're beat that way.
[17:06.040 -> 17:06.880] Yeah.
[17:06.880 -> 17:09.640] That's exciting to watch,
[17:09.640 -> 17:11.160] the release, and we didn't know.
[17:11.160 -> 17:13.880] So we were already walking towards the track invasion.
[17:13.880 -> 17:17.000] So we didn't see them battling at the end.
[17:17.000 -> 17:19.280] And what we saw was, you see the leaderboard
[17:19.280 -> 17:21.360] and places switch at the very end.
[17:21.360 -> 17:23.200] And we're like, ah, we lost.
[17:23.200 -> 17:27.920] Wow. So it's a thing now, track invasion. I always said
[17:27.920 -> 17:32.960] like okay some tracks do it but okay it's a thing now. Yeah I didn't know it's like I didn't know
[17:32.960 -> 17:38.320] that there's a term for it that's interesting. Yeah so me neither we were looking at it and it
[17:38.320 -> 17:44.160] was actually like formal. They were actually like banners that said here's where you enter for the
[17:44.160 -> 17:47.520] track invasion and it was like one on the end of the straight and one in the
[17:47.520 -> 17:52.120] beginning so you just see people like lining up the last 10 laps five laps
[17:52.120 -> 17:56.920] whatever it was. Which other oldie was having fun? Oh fuck we got Alonzo.
[17:56.920 -> 18:06.400] Alonzo man. Oh yeah. He was having some air time. So I don't know how that car was still in it.
[18:06.400 -> 18:08.400] Yeah, I can't believe it.
[18:08.400 -> 18:12.120] Like while watching the race, I saw his car like suddenly like flying up, like taking
[18:12.120 -> 18:13.120] off.
[18:13.120 -> 18:14.800] I was like, what the hell is going on?
[18:14.800 -> 18:17.400] Repeat of Weber from whatever, right?
[18:17.400 -> 18:21.120] Yeah, it was Valencia or IndyCar.
[18:21.120 -> 18:25.040] So we all agree that it was TrollsVault or do we think Alonzo is to blame?
[18:25.040 -> 18:30.440] I thought I thought you were gonna say do we think it's trolls fault or
[18:30.440 -> 18:39.720] something just struck Alonzo's eye. That's a good question that's a good
[18:39.720 -> 18:49.440] question. I saw that because they kept showing that as a repeat the same replay. I have
[18:49.440 -> 18:54.200] to agree with Alonzo because he came out saying it was a racing incident and
[18:54.200 -> 19:01.000] very honestly I think it was. So if we were to replay this for folks
[19:01.000 -> 19:09.840] who probably haven't seen this or whatever, right? Like, it's like, it was a classic, you know, slipstream following from Alonso onto Stroll
[19:09.840 -> 19:15.040] and how they sort of like just stick their neck out at the last minute to take that overtake.
[19:15.040 -> 19:20.640] And every driver's got that one chance to sort of like go right or left and defend their position.
[19:20.640 -> 19:25.040] I think Stroll was very right in his terms to sort of like wait until
[19:25.040 -> 19:29.640] the last moment to see which side Alonzo was going to plunge on. Sorry, lunge on.
[19:29.640 -> 19:36.240] He saw left. He went left. That was just too late for Alonzo to get out of that
[19:36.240 -> 19:41.960] position and these things don't happen but it happened and unfortunately with a
[19:41.960 -> 19:46.600] veteran who should have known better sort of thing, but it is what it is.
[19:46.600 -> 19:49.500] I mean, it's fine. Luckily, no one's hurt.
[19:49.700 -> 19:51.600] Yeah, that's a fast part of the track right there.
[19:51.700 -> 19:54.200] So I don't know how fast they were going when they hit, but it would have been,
[19:56.100 -> 19:57.000] that would have been a heavy hit.
[19:58.400 -> 20:00.600] I have a conspiracy theory over here.
[20:00.600 -> 20:05.760] So I think, I think that Alonso was helping out Vettel because Stroll was ahead of him.
[20:08.720 -> 20:16.560] Let me wreck his race. Out there, Stroll have a nice weekend. Exactly. Because he was shaping up
[20:16.560 -> 20:21.840] to have a really good weekend. Exactly. Dude, seriously, I think if he would have finished,
[20:21.840 -> 20:29.520] personally, he was the driver of the day for me. Because he had a brilliant qualifying. He was having a superb race.
[20:29.520 -> 20:35.440] It was all set up to be like, you know, wait, who's this new driver on the track?
[20:35.440 -> 20:37.760] And I just realized, oh, wait, it's Stroll. Okay.
[20:37.760 -> 20:44.560] Yeah, he did have a really good qualifying. It got a lot of people going that day.
[20:44.560 -> 20:48.440] But Stroll has always been very inconsistent.
[20:48.440 -> 20:53.600] I mean, in the sense that we also see some brilliant performances like yesterday's, but
[20:53.600 -> 20:59.960] at the same time, we have also seen him like crash on his own during Monaco, I think, right?
[20:59.960 -> 21:04.280] So it's, I don't know.
[21:04.280 -> 21:07.520] It's a very difficult thing to decide I I can't
[21:07.520 -> 21:11.760] form an opinion on Stroll no matter what like he seems like a decent guy like you
[21:11.760 -> 21:29.000] know just. That's what Lawrence tells his wife. He's got a kid I can't form an opinion on him yet. Yeah but man that crash was horrific like first of
[21:29.000 -> 21:33.600] all like Alonso is what he's 40 something now right like yeah that car
[21:33.600 -> 21:38.800] did have some airtime it landed again and of course those cars are not known
[21:38.800 -> 21:47.680] for the suspension at all like I'm pretty sure he felt like all the G's while coming back down.
[21:47.680 -> 21:50.040] And then it hit the wall.
[21:50.040 -> 21:54.360] His like half his car was missing because when he came into the pits, like it was super
[21:54.360 -> 21:55.360] weird.
[21:55.360 -> 21:57.960] And then I thought like he's going to just, you know, park his car, of course, like he's
[21:57.960 -> 21:59.840] not going to continue that race.
[21:59.840 -> 22:05.640] But man, like he just kept driving.
[22:09.000 -> 22:11.000] You mentioned, Akash, you were talking about, you mentioned IndyCar before. Because that was, what was that, Marcus Ericsson last year?
[22:11.000 -> 22:15.400] Where he ran into someone, flipped his car kind of like that, came back down, won the race.
[22:15.400 -> 22:17.400] Yeah, so even...
[22:17.400 -> 22:19.400] He won the race? Really?
[22:19.400 -> 22:21.400] I don't recall this at all.
[22:21.400 -> 22:26.600] So there's been two airtime thing and Weber's done it at Valencia.
[22:26.880 -> 22:31.680] And one of our followers on Instagram pointed this out because I had completely forgotten.
[22:31.680 -> 22:34.640] Nikhil, shout out to you, man.
[22:34.680 -> 22:38.960] He said he pointed out Weber in Valencia and then the IndyCar incident.
[22:39.960 -> 22:43.120] And dude, like Weber won like he completely flipped.
[22:43.120 -> 22:46.280] But this IndyCar one is an amazing one.
[22:46.520 -> 22:48.760] It's exactly like this because he flew.
[22:49.240 -> 22:51.480] And Alonso flying time, nah.
[22:51.640 -> 22:58.000] Alonso flying time is like taking a chartered flight from San Jose to Reno, maybe.
[22:58.000 -> 23:03.920] Sure. But the IndyCar one was like going from East Coast to West Coast.
[23:03.920 -> 23:06.000] That's... he flew.
[23:06.000 -> 23:08.000] Yeah.
[23:10.000 -> 23:14.000] So, that's an interesting air time that he had.
[23:14.000 -> 23:19.000] But yeah, it was for a launch it was like nothing as if nothing happened.
[23:19.000 -> 23:26.640] He went in there, fixed his car, came out, missed his right mirror.
[23:26.640 -> 23:27.400] Right, yeah.
[23:27.400 -> 23:27.920] Yeah.
[23:27.920 -> 23:28.240] Yeah.
[23:29.320 -> 23:32.600] He lost his right mirror and is like, sure, I don't need mirrors at this point.
[23:36.160 -> 23:38.040] Driving on pure feels, that's it.
[23:38.360 -> 23:40.160] Yeah, dude, seriously.
[23:40.520 -> 23:43.240] But I want to take this.
[23:44.720 -> 23:48.000] Did we miss any other veterans at this point?
[23:48.000 -> 23:50.000] Oh, Hamilton, of course. Yeah.
[23:50.000 -> 23:54.000] I'll come back to my part later. Let's talk about Hamilton.
[23:54.000 -> 23:59.000] Yeah, man. Like, I was, as we just talked about, I was totally rooting for him.
[23:59.000 -> 24:09.160] I don't know why. It just felt like he was super confident you know in his interviews and everything generally like at least in this season he never seemed confident
[24:09.160 -> 24:13.700] with his car but this time it did seem that way because even on qualification
[24:13.700 -> 24:18.400] he was doing pretty good and I know overall I think he has a pretty big fan
[24:18.400 -> 24:23.480] following here as well in the US so and I've seen that especially in like UK or
[24:23.480 -> 24:26.280] wherever he has a very strong fan following,
[24:26.280 -> 24:27.280] he generally does good.
[24:27.280 -> 24:33.600] I don't know what is it about it, but yeah, the confidence of course, probably.
[24:33.600 -> 24:38.840] But and even at a point, especially like when Max's pitch stop went bad, I think at that
[24:38.840 -> 24:43.240] point, Hamilton will be able to, you know, keep his position and, you know, just defend
[24:43.240 -> 24:44.240] Max.
[24:44.240 -> 24:48.280] But I guess towards the end, like he was too close and I think there were five
[24:48.280 -> 24:51.640] laps remaining and I think, yeah, that was the tire differential between the
[24:51.640 -> 24:55.420] mediums and the hards and plus Max having newer tires.
[24:55.840 -> 25:00.840] I think that didn't play off in his favor, but overall tremendous effort by Hamilton
[25:00.840 -> 25:08.760] still, I feel because his car is, I mean, the Mercedes, I don't know, what what would you call it the second fastest car yesterday was it what do you
[25:08.760 -> 25:15.200] think yeah Charles wasn't able to you know like keep Max behind it seemed like
[25:15.200 -> 25:21.160] Max had a lot more pace than him so I guess second fastest car so yeah pretty
[25:21.160 -> 25:25.120] awesome yeah you're right they had a ton of support out there.
[25:26.800 -> 25:27.040] Lots of Hamilton fans in the crowd.
[25:27.920 -> 25:28.960] And yeah, I mean, he held on. He made the race exciting.
[25:28.960 -> 25:32.080] And that was the fun part about it, because Ferrari was not.
[25:32.800 -> 25:33.760] Yeah, of course.
[25:33.760 -> 25:34.260] Yeah.
[25:35.280 -> 25:40.960] I feel a bit sad, though, for Hamilton and Mercedes at this point, and I'll tell you why.
[25:40.960 -> 25:47.840] This is because they came into the weekend with this amazing upgrades, right? And then the whole
[25:47.920 -> 25:56.240] the whole discussion was these are our 2023 upgrades, a whole new revamped front wing and a few parts and whatnot.
[25:56.240 -> 26:03.480] I think a few folks even made some good content out of it. And I was like, okay, you know, they're gonna get like a
[26:04.840 -> 26:05.240] And I was like, OK, you know, they're going to get like a futuristic car,
[26:07.880 -> 26:11.320] quote unquote, futuristic, because it's all testing at this point. But like a 2023 upgraded to a 2022 race.
[26:11.800 -> 26:14.720] And I'm like, this is going to be a good fight
[26:15.320 -> 26:18.760] because it's not a Mercedes friendly track, to be honest.
[26:19.320 -> 26:22.480] It's more of a Ferrari and a Red Bull friendly track at this point.
[26:22.560 -> 26:27.200] But with 2023 upgrades, Max still sort of
[26:27.200 -> 26:35.920] dominated the shit out of this guy. I felt happy to see that Hamilton's doing so well now, but at
[26:35.920 -> 26:42.160] the same point I was like, oh man, there's still such a long way to go for that Mercedes-Red Bull
[26:42.160 -> 26:46.000] fight to happen because we haven't yet seen what Red Bull's
[26:46.000 -> 26:49.520] gonna bring to the table at start 2023, right?
[26:49.520 -> 26:53.120] So all in all, it's only getting exciting,
[26:53.120 -> 26:54.820] but if this is what it is,
[26:55.720 -> 26:59.560] man, I feel a bit sad for Hamilton and Mercedes.
[26:59.560 -> 27:00.400] Yeah.
[27:01.360 -> 27:03.160] So do you think, I mean, this is it?
[27:03.160 -> 27:06.000] Do you think this is Red Bull domination moving forward?
[27:06.000 -> 27:08.880] I am afraid of that, very honestly.
[27:08.880 -> 27:12.640] I kind of see it.
[27:12.640 -> 27:13.360] I kind of see it.
[27:13.360 -> 27:15.840] And that's a good point you raise, Connor.
[27:15.840 -> 27:20.240] Because when Vettel was dominating, he only had a three-year contract sort of thing.
[27:20.240 -> 27:24.480] And he called it quits after 2013 when he left for Ferrari.
[27:24.480 -> 27:25.200] This guy, they've roped Max in until 2028. and he called it quits after 2013 when he left for Ferrari.
[27:29.280 -> 27:29.760] This guy, they've roped Max in until 2028.
[27:33.040 -> 27:33.600] So we've got at least five years of Max with Red Bull.
[27:37.360 -> 27:37.760] As long as Christian, Adrian Newey, Hannah Schmidt and like
[27:42.960 -> 27:45.760] maybe Oldie Marco sticks around, I feel like there's some good show that we're going to get from the Red Bull camp for sure.
[27:45.760 -> 27:48.360] For sure. Yeah. Yeah. I think you're right.
[27:48.360 -> 27:52.160] Yeah. Yeah, man. And I really hope that doesn't happen.
[27:52.160 -> 28:00.360] Like I hope, OK, not not Ferrari, but I hope Mercedes like, you know, fix their car and bring up.
[28:01.120 -> 28:02.520] Some team, right? Some team.
[28:02.520 -> 28:08.000] Because you want to see that fight for championship or whatever until like the last race.
[28:08.000 -> 28:13.000] As we've seen like years back, years back, we've seen that happen.
[28:13.000 -> 28:16.000] Well Ferrari doesn't need a car fixing. Even this season actually.
[28:16.000 -> 28:22.000] Even this season. If you go back to the first few races, we did see a very close competition very honestly.
[28:22.000 -> 28:28.320] So yeah, I know. But yeah man, great job by Red Bull though.
[28:28.320 -> 28:33.840] I have to say because and especially also given that I'm sure I'm gonna mess up his name.
[28:34.480 -> 28:41.520] And also one day after Deit Rich who's the founder and CEO of Red Bull and he passed away
[28:41.520 -> 28:45.840] of course which was a pretty sad news but yeah Red Bull did it like the very
[28:45.840 -> 28:51.760] next day he went they went out and won it for him and I think even on the radio if you recall like
[28:51.760 -> 28:57.040] Gasly also like was like at the start of the race you know for their thrills let's go and
[28:57.040 -> 29:02.800] you know do good here which was pretty cool the team coming together winning you know everything
[29:02.800 -> 29:07.400] this season pretty much I think it was a super dominant performance, I guess.
[29:07.400 -> 29:13.520] But let's see. I hope next season we get some good competition again.
[29:13.520 -> 29:17.200] I had something open up on my screen.
[29:17.200 -> 29:19.680] Because we are talking about old folks here.
[29:19.680 -> 29:21.480] I think...
[29:21.480 -> 29:25.200] I'm starting to realize. I wanna... I think... I don't know where we are.
[29:26.800 -> 29:30.000] I'm starting to realize Connor sort of like has this question now
[29:30.000 -> 29:31.680] every time I say something like this.
[29:31.680 -> 29:33.440] Where is this going?
[29:33.440 -> 29:36.880] No, because Alonzo, right?
[29:36.880 -> 29:40.560] Alonzo... Sarang, you said he's 40 but he did this, he did that.
[29:40.560 -> 29:48.860] But mentally, he's like any 40 year old uncle or an aunt cuz cuz cuz what
[29:48.860 -> 29:53.860] he's done is what he's done is he's gone on to unfollow everyone on Instagram
[29:53.860 -> 29:59.380] except like five drivers Carlos, Max, Asthaban, Lance, Lando and Yuki. He's
[29:59.380 -> 30:12.480] unfollowed everyone. Interesting. It sounds like he's super pissed with everyone else because they probably said he's the one at fault interesting
[30:12.480 -> 30:26.000] now like yeah he unfollowed people now yeah yeah in the last 24 hours Yeah, this is great. Why is nobody voting on this? Reddit for the win.
[30:26.000 -> 30:28.000] I'm scrolling through Reddit
[30:28.000 -> 30:30.000] and I'm like, wait, what?
[30:30.000 -> 30:32.000] Laughter
[30:32.000 -> 30:34.000] So yeah,
[30:34.000 -> 30:36.000] that's a 40-odd point.
[30:36.000 -> 30:38.000] The kind of things you learn on Reddit is, you know,
[30:38.000 -> 30:40.000] I don't think you can learn anything else.
[30:40.000 -> 30:42.000] A bunch of people with
[30:42.000 -> 30:44.000] a lot of time on hands.
[30:44.000 -> 30:48.160] For sure. And then I think he even posted out a story.
[30:48.160 -> 30:49.840] Again, I don't want to paraphrase.
[30:49.840 -> 30:50.840] I'm just going to read it.
[30:50.840 -> 30:53.960] He says, thanks for all the messages I received yesterday and today.
[30:53.960 -> 30:58.400] It's one of those rare times in sport that I feel we are all on the same page and share
[30:58.400 -> 31:00.880] the same opinion towards rules and regulations.
[31:00.880 -> 31:10.340] Therefore, Thursday is an important day for the sport that we love so much as this decision will dictate if we are going in the right direction for the future.
[31:11.000 -> 31:22.800] He's so hurt. I hope by Thursday he's not talking about the whole Red Bull situation because I think that's also going to come up on Thursday-ish.
[31:24.160 -> 31:26.280] I hope he's talking about his situation
[31:26.280 -> 31:30.520] and he's probably raised this as a question to FIA.
[31:30.520 -> 31:32.000] To be honest, he's probably talking
[31:32.000 -> 31:33.200] about the Red Bull situation.
[31:33.200 -> 31:36.000] But hey, we got to use this content as a response
[31:36.000 -> 31:37.480] to what we see, right?
[31:37.480 -> 31:40.160] We'll just say that he's talking about himself, so sure.
[31:40.160 -> 31:40.760] Exactly.
[31:40.760 -> 31:41.260] Exactly.
[31:44.040 -> 31:44.840] Interesting.
[31:44.840 -> 31:45.520] Yeah.
[31:45.520 -> 31:47.600] What are some other nice fun stats, right?
[31:47.600 -> 31:53.920] So you mentioned one which is Vettel has now led over 3,500 laps.
[31:53.920 -> 31:55.680] That's a good way to retire.
[31:55.680 -> 31:56.960] That's a good way to retire.
[31:56.960 -> 32:01.680] I think like his retirement is probably going to be like Federer crying
[32:03.520 -> 32:07.100] with, you know, with like Nadal also crying on the side.
[32:07.100 -> 32:13.100] And I'm pretty sure this is probably going to be one of those where Alonso and Hamilton are crying.
[32:13.100 -> 32:16.000] Schumacher is also crying but for different reasons.
[32:16.000 -> 32:19.000] So that's probably going to happen.
[32:19.000 -> 32:25.000] 33 wins for Maggs so far. That's some brilliant stuff.
[32:25.000 -> 32:27.160] And I heard Ted Arbundle say this.
[32:27.160 -> 32:31.800] That's a combined total of all American driver wins so far.
[32:31.800 -> 32:34.080] And that's commendable.
[32:34.080 -> 32:36.600] He's won 13 races this season.
[32:36.600 -> 32:39.600] So that ties with Michael Schumacher and Vettel
[32:39.600 -> 32:42.560] with Max wins in a season.
[32:42.560 -> 32:44.800] I, for one, that's one stat that I don't
[32:44.800 -> 32:45.840] want to pay much attention
[32:45.840 -> 32:51.320] to because back when Schumacher and Vettel won 13 races, there were only 18 or 19 races
[32:51.320 -> 32:57.360] in the season. We've got more races, so on and so forth. But it's still commendable.
[32:57.360 -> 33:02.280] I don't want to take the light away from the achievement. So that's still commendable.
[33:02.280 -> 33:10.400] When you talk about how that's combined total for all American drivers, I mean that surprises me. Because I mean I know there's not a whole
[33:10.400 -> 33:15.840] lot of American F1 drivers in the past, but I mean there's been a decent amount. And I know
[33:15.840 -> 33:19.360] there's been some good ones, but I don't know. Now that we've got an American on the grid,
[33:19.920 -> 33:24.640] hopefully, potentially next year. We'll see. Maybe there'll be a resurgence over the next few years.
[33:21.480 -> 33:21.920] Hopefully, potentially next year.
[33:22.280 -> 33:22.320] Yeah.
[33:22.720 -> 33:22.760] We'll see.
[33:24.800 -> 33:26.280] Maybe there'll be a resurgence over the next few years.
[33:26.680 -> 33:27.080] Hopefully.
[33:33.480 -> 33:33.840] That's a good topic you raise, man, because I don't remember a time when someone said
[33:39.960 -> 33:41.040] that person X is going to be a driver for us as long as he meets this quota.
[33:48.000 -> 33:51.360] And this is, I personally feel is a good thing because the sport is maturing where they are seeing so many young talent and they are sort of putting that confidence publicly.
[33:51.360 -> 33:54.240] They would have made these sentences like behind closed doors.
[33:54.240 -> 33:58.240] But this time around, like they've made something publicly, you know,
[33:58.240 -> 34:02.960] sure, call it PR marketing to rope more American fans and stuff.
[34:02.960 -> 34:05.760] I am fine with it. I am fine with
[34:05.760 -> 34:12.480] it. Yeah, yeah, it'd be fun to see Logan Sargent next year for Williams, man. Yeah,
[34:12.480 -> 34:17.880] and I mean you talk about the marketing PR angle. That was huge. So at the track,
[34:17.880 -> 34:23.120] right, Williams had come out with their American themed merch collection. They
[34:23.120 -> 34:28.360] were selling like bolo ties and French jackets really leaning into it.
[34:28.360 -> 34:34.100] Then the track, they had American flag Williams shirts,
[34:34.100 -> 34:37.840] and they were trying to recruit people hard.
[34:37.840 -> 34:42.720] At the pop-up shop, there were a lot of old school Williams fans,
[34:42.720 -> 34:44.920] and we'd see friends go to the pop-up shop,
[34:44.920 -> 34:47.000] and it was just in downtown.
[34:48.480 -> 34:50.840] I guess for people who are buying merch,
[34:50.840 -> 34:52.840] they were starting to hand out these extra tickets
[34:52.840 -> 34:54.960] to a party that had them later that night.
[34:54.960 -> 34:55.800] That's cool.
[34:55.800 -> 34:57.400] So the people at the Williams party,
[34:57.400 -> 35:01.000] they were selling VIP tables for over 1,000 bucks for this thing.
[35:01.000 -> 35:04.080] They were trying to get the elites who were there to come to this.
[35:04.080 -> 35:09.520] Really, you could tell when you were there, there's a section for the people who had the VIP stuff.
[35:09.520 -> 35:13.040] And then there's a section at the top for like the people who had the handout tickets. So you
[35:13.040 -> 35:17.840] can tell there's a difference. But I mean, it seemed like they were doing their best to try
[35:17.840 -> 35:21.520] to get as many fans interested in them the day before the announcement.
[35:22.640 -> 35:23.120] Interesting.
[35:23.120 -> 35:23.680] Nice.
[35:23.680 -> 35:24.080] Nice.
[35:24.080 -> 35:24.800] That's pretty cool.
[35:22.000 -> 35:24.000] the day before the announcement. Interesting.
[35:24.000 -> 35:26.000] That's pretty cool.
[35:26.000 -> 35:28.000] I think I'm not that
[35:28.000 -> 35:30.000] of a veteran watching this podcast.
[35:30.000 -> 35:32.000] I don't remember the last American driver
[35:32.000 -> 35:34.000] on the grid. Who was it?
[35:34.000 -> 35:36.000] I don't.
[35:36.000 -> 35:38.000] I think Will Power had
[35:38.000 -> 35:40.000] participated in some of these.
[35:40.000 -> 35:42.000] That was like 2000s
[35:42.000 -> 35:44.000] or 90s.
[35:44.000 -> 35:45.000] That's 90s.
[35:45.000 -> 35:47.000] Somebody else after that?
[35:47.000 -> 35:49.000] Was Scott Speed?
[35:49.000 -> 35:50.500] Oh, yeah.
[35:50.500 -> 35:53.000] 2015, 14, something like that?
[35:53.000 -> 35:54.000] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[35:54.000 -> 35:55.000] Scott Speed, I think.
[35:55.000 -> 35:56.000] OK, OK.
[35:56.000 -> 35:57.000] So that recent, right?
[35:57.000 -> 35:58.000] Yeah.
[35:58.000 -> 35:59.000] Yeah, man.
[35:59.000 -> 36:04.000] Especially with the sport getting so much popularity in the US
[36:04.000 -> 36:06.560] over the past few years and how Liberty Media
[36:06.560 -> 36:11.800] sort of like doing a great job in making the sport so global and bringing so many new fans
[36:11.800 -> 36:12.800] in.
[36:12.800 -> 36:13.800] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[36:13.800 -> 36:17.120] I want to see what this talent is.
[36:17.120 -> 36:19.840] I don't think I've seen him.
[36:19.840 -> 36:28.080] He's done a few free practice ones to get those one points, single point to bump himself up. But it's going to
[36:28.080 -> 36:35.520] be a nice thing to see an American in that car after a long time. Oh, and I do have to add a
[36:35.520 -> 36:41.600] correction there. It was Scott Speed 2014-2015 when he did Formula E. So it would have been
[36:47.360 -> 36:49.360] did Formula E so it would have been Alexander Rossi was 2015. It lost F1 driver. Oh, Rossi.
[36:50.560 -> 36:52.640] I completely forgot about Rossi.
[36:53.280 -> 36:54.880] Interesting.
[36:54.880 -> 36:56.480] But he won not that long ago.
[36:59.920 -> 37:03.040] Let's talk about the elephant in the room, FIA.
[37:03.200 -> 37:06.720] Let's talk about the elephant in the room, FIA.
[37:11.960 -> 37:12.120] God, I took a poll on our Instagram page before the weekend
[37:15.840 -> 37:16.560] because that was when there were these news that
[37:20.600 -> 37:21.120] Boris Johnson could probably make a comeback as UK's prime minister.
[37:25.440 -> 37:32.660] And I was like, if Boris can make a comeback, how much do we think Martin should come back sorry Massey should come back and I do it I I feel
[37:32.660 -> 37:45.200] proud and sort of scared at the same time because our followers are like evil Because most of them voted, yes, let's take it back.
[37:46.600 -> 37:47.800] Bring the chaos. Let's do it.
[37:49.600 -> 37:52.000] But might as well, man. Might as well. Because this weekend was…
[37:52.800 -> 37:55.600] They got to iron things out.
[37:56.400 -> 37:58.200] Because there's so much inconsistency.
[37:58.600 -> 38:01.000] I'm going to start this conversation off with the fact that
[38:01.400 -> 38:05.280] during qualifying, there is this ever so thin difference between
[38:06.080 -> 38:15.360] Xiao and Max going off track, where Xiao got his lap time deleted and then Max didn't.
[38:16.080 -> 38:20.720] And to be honest, sure, there's this wafer thin difference between the two.
[38:22.240 -> 38:26.560] But still, you got to be consistent, man. Because now there's, everyone's
[38:26.560 -> 38:27.920] picking these things up.
[38:27.920 -> 38:32.080] Yeah, there's a lot of controversy surrounding that. Because even on Reddit, I saw people
[38:32.080 -> 38:39.480] were sharing photos of Max going out, you know, off the track and his lap not getting
[38:39.480 -> 38:46.600] deleted. I think there's, yeah, man, like FIA overall, I think, first of all, they, they were doing
[38:46.600 -> 38:51.840] this rotating panel of race directors, I think right up to this race and this race, they
[38:51.840 -> 38:56.760] stopped doing that, I think, which is, I think kind of good because that was just insane.
[38:56.760 -> 39:01.520] I never understood why, why they were doing that, because of course you're gonna get more
[39:01.520 -> 39:06.000] inconsistency with that, with, you're gonna get more inconsistency with that. With you know, with respect to changing every time.
[39:06.000 -> 39:08.000] Exactly.
[39:08.000 -> 39:10.600] So I'm at least glad that they are sticking with one.
[39:10.600 -> 39:12.600] But still we saw so many inconsistencies.
[39:12.600 -> 39:14.600] That was one which you mentioned.
[39:14.600 -> 39:16.600] I think even with like the
[39:16.600 -> 39:18.600] meatball flag, right?
[39:18.600 -> 39:20.600] The black and orange flag thing.
[39:20.600 -> 39:22.600] There was a lot of controversy around that as well.
[39:22.600 -> 39:24.600] Because Perez wasn't given one
[39:24.600 -> 39:32.240] even when his Zen plate was broken. I think who else, there was one more guy other than Alonso who also I think
[39:32.240 -> 39:37.360] it was Russell. Yeah Russell also had a damaged end plate and he even he wasn't given a black and
[39:37.360 -> 39:46.120] orange flag and so which clearly shows by the way that FIA hates KMAG because they have given him the
[39:46.120 -> 39:47.120] flag at least twice.
[39:47.120 -> 39:48.120] Seriously, man, seriously.
[39:48.120 -> 39:55.520] And then Checo had an end plate fall off, right?
[39:55.520 -> 39:57.080] Yeah, yeah.
[39:57.080 -> 39:58.080] Yeah.
[39:58.080 -> 40:01.400] Yeah, this is also alright, this might be a dumb question.
[40:01.400 -> 40:03.320] Have we always called it the meatball flag?
[40:03.320 -> 40:04.320] Or is that new?
[40:04.320 -> 40:09.520] No, I didn't know that. Sarang educated me. I've been hearing that. I also never knew it. I only
[40:09.520 -> 40:13.760] I always knew that it's the black and orange flag. But recently I've been hearing everywhere
[40:14.640 -> 40:19.680] as it being referred as the meatball flags. I'm like, okay, why not? Meatballs are tasty. So
[40:21.200 -> 40:27.000] I was getting comments about meatball Magnuson. I was was like what does this mean? I had to go look it up myself.
[40:27.000 -> 40:31.000] I like meatball Magnuson shirt.
[40:31.000 -> 40:33.000] That's a t-shirt.
[40:33.000 -> 40:35.000] Yeah that's a t-shirt.
[40:35.000 -> 40:37.000] I'll credit that one to y'all. I'll go make that.
[40:37.000 -> 40:42.000] But if you ever come to see y'all, you can visit. I'll get you that t-shirt made.
[40:42.000 -> 40:44.000] For sure.
[40:44.000 -> 40:48.160] In my head I was like, you T-bone.
[40:48.560 -> 40:50.840] First of all, you lock up.
[40:50.840 -> 40:52.720] You T-bone someone.
[40:52.720 -> 40:55.400] That someone ends up
[40:55.400 -> 40:58.880] DNFing even before turn two.
[40:59.560 -> 41:00.560] Right.
[41:00.760 -> 41:03.920] And you get a five second stop and go penalty.
[41:04.520 -> 41:05.000] Which is the same. Just a five second. Just a five second. He served it as second stop and go penalty, which is the same.
[41:05.000 -> 41:06.000] Oh, not stop and go, just a five second.
[41:06.000 -> 41:08.000] Just a five second. He served it as a stop and go.
[41:08.000 -> 41:31.080] Which is, which is by the way, same as not intentionally making a 10 car length gap between the car ahead of you and yourself right and then again being scrutinized because they were slightly off between the five seconds that were served and
[41:31.280 -> 41:33.280] before the
[41:33.520 -> 41:35.520] Mechanics are doing their thing
[41:36.000 -> 41:38.000] And I'm like, come on
[41:39.400 -> 41:45.200] No, I mean this is that this one is, right? Like Formula One is such a
[41:46.560 -> 41:51.920] innovative sport, right? You have so much technology going into this. And then yet we're
[41:51.920 -> 41:57.280] still arguing over like grainy pictures of whether the car is over the line, under the line. Like,
[41:57.280 -> 41:59.840] why are we, someone hasn't developed something for this yet?
[42:00.400 -> 42:07.000] Exactly. Yeah, it is. It is. I mean, this, this problem can easily be solved by just having some sensors
[42:07.000 -> 42:12.320] on the car or something like that. If your sensor crosses that boundary, like that's
[42:12.320 -> 42:17.060] it, like, you know, you can't do that. Right? No, they have to come up with these super
[42:17.060 -> 42:21.440] complex rules, you know, because that's what brings the controversy. And you know, that's
[42:21.440 -> 42:29.960] and we are talking about it. And no that's working for them I guess. Well actually that's a good point. The other side of that coin is
[42:29.960 -> 42:34.760] just no track limits. If you've never seen a NASCAR race at Kota, go watch it.
[42:34.760 -> 42:40.600] You'll see them so far out of the loop. Oh yeah, find a screenshot of like turn one or
[42:40.600 -> 42:45.000] just any turn on that track. There's no such thing as track limits.
[42:45.000 -> 42:47.000] Drive straight.
[42:47.000 -> 42:49.000] Yeah.
[42:49.000 -> 42:53.000] That's one thing I probably miss having not done while I was in the US.
[42:53.000 -> 42:55.000] Seeing a NASCAR race.
[42:55.000 -> 42:57.000] Yeah.
[42:57.000 -> 43:01.000] It's something. And I know a lot of fans probably don't.
[43:01.000 -> 43:05.040] I don't know. I know watching cars go around in an oval on TV
[43:05.840 -> 43:11.040] might not sound the most exciting, but it did, it gets the people going. Like you go to a race
[43:11.040 -> 43:16.400] and you've experienced that people who are like camping out there for days. NASCAR fans are a
[43:16.400 -> 43:24.640] totally different breed. Yeah, I'm sure. And I think also in a NASCAR oval, at least like,
[43:28.800 -> 43:33.880] I mean, of course I've not been to one, but I'm guessing that since it's an oval, you probably can see a lot more of the track as compared to what you see on a F1 race.
[43:33.880 -> 43:40.880] But so I guess you're also seeing a lot more live racing as compared to what you would see in like a F1 race or something.
[43:40.880 -> 43:43.880] So even that might add to the excitement of things.
[43:43.880 -> 43:44.560] So makes sense.
[43:44.560 -> 43:47.640] At that point, probably everything's a racing incident. So sure.
[43:54.600 -> 43:58.720] Yeah, man, I was, I was furious with that five seconds. And for once I liked it,
[43:58.720 -> 44:04.200] cause Ted or Prandul, again, I can never differentiate their voices.
[44:05.000 -> 44:10.040] One of those guys, they, they came on and said, like, it's not the same as,
[44:10.040 -> 44:15.160] you know, crushing someone out as doing 10 car length difference.
[44:15.880 -> 44:19.600] And they showed a replay where I don't know who was in front of Gasly,
[44:19.600 -> 44:23.360] but it was like the front of the pack suddenly accelerated.
[44:23.400 -> 44:26.560] Exactly. You have no control over as a driver.
[44:26.560 -> 44:29.120] So, and that's, it's like...
[44:29.120 -> 44:33.440] And that too when he was at a corner, like he was at a headwind,
[44:33.440 -> 44:38.000] where he had to really slow down and the guy ahead of him just like, you know, bolted.
[44:38.000 -> 44:38.760] So...
[44:38.760 -> 44:45.760] It's like when we were kids, if we were like studying for eight straight hours but we for a split
[44:45.760 -> 44:50.840] second you know kept our books on the side and watched something and that's
[44:50.840 -> 44:57.720] the exact point when your parents walk in. You would have been studying for eight hours.
[44:57.720 -> 44:59.720] Is this what you are going to judge me on?
[44:59.720 -> 45:06.000] Exactly. That's what happened with Ghazali That's the exact time the directors decided to see.
[45:06.000 -> 45:13.440] What else was FIA drama about? What is this? Yeah, we've written this 30-second for Alonzo.
[45:15.520 -> 45:18.400] Oh yeah, of course, we kind of forgot to talk about that.
[45:18.400 -> 45:20.640] Yeah, this is going to be huge and I guess it's still ongoing.
[45:21.200 -> 45:27.480] Yeah, it is huge. I mean, I, I totally agree to one point that, and
[45:27.480 -> 45:31.680] even while watching the race, I was like, this is, you know, this shouldn't be allowed.
[45:31.680 -> 45:35.760] Like his, his mirror is just flopping around and you know, and it's pretty heavy. The mirror
[45:35.760 -> 45:39.120] is pretty heavy. If it would have, you know, gone and hit somebody, it would have been
[45:39.120 -> 45:47.600] a pretty terrible accident. So I, I understand why has protest protested and of course, like with how many times K-Mag has
[45:47.600 -> 45:57.040] gotten that flag, it makes sense that they protested. But a 30 second penalty after the race
[45:57.040 -> 46:03.520] doesn't make sense to me because I feel this is FIA's fault and not Alpine's fault because
[46:07.680 -> 46:12.240] FIA's fault and not Alpine's fault because I mean you are the governing body right like you had the right opportunity to give him the flag and force him to come into the pitch
[46:12.240 -> 46:18.240] top and you know fix that but they are basically pushing the responsibility onto Alpine saying
[46:18.240 -> 46:24.320] that it is the team's responsibility to ensure that the car is you know compliant throughout
[46:24.320 -> 46:26.720] the race and that's why he got
[46:26.720 -> 46:27.720] the 30 second penalty.
[46:27.720 -> 46:28.720] But I don't know.
[46:28.720 -> 46:29.720] What do you think?
[46:29.720 -> 46:34.520] So let me ask you all this and this might have been in the report.
[46:34.520 -> 46:38.920] Had the mirror been off, like let's say they took it into the pit, hammered that mirror
[46:38.920 -> 46:43.320] off, would they have been allowed to let that thing back on track with just one mirror?
[46:43.320 -> 46:48.560] Yeah, that's interesting as well. Again one of the commentators said that it is
[46:48.560 -> 46:55.000] possible to replace a mirror as well so they could have very well like brought
[46:55.000 -> 47:06.000] him in and sort of done something or at best they duct tape Yuki's rear wing in Azerbaijan.
[47:06.000 -> 47:08.000] Why not duct tape this thing?
[47:09.400 -> 47:11.160] Yeah, I'm with you, Sarang.
[47:11.160 -> 47:14.200] I don't see this as Alpine's fault.
[47:14.240 -> 47:16.600] This is again one of those FIA inconsistencies.
[47:16.600 -> 47:22.160] And again, this thing FIA is saying in their words, right?
[47:22.160 -> 47:26.720] Like this is six times as more severe as t-boning someone and almost
[47:28.000 -> 47:34.880] ruining it. Yeah, so sure. That's one way to look at it. So let me ask you all this, right? If you're
[47:34.880 -> 47:40.480] watching the broadcast, did they mention the mirror while it was still on the car? Like did we
[47:40.480 -> 47:45.040] know during the race that the mirror was damaged or had fallen off?
[47:45.400 -> 47:48.840] No, I saw Alonso.
[47:49.100 -> 47:52.700] He was in the wake of I forget who, and he overtook him
[47:53.440 -> 47:55.200] and something fly off on the track.
[47:55.200 -> 47:58.980] And then there was a replay where, oh, this was Alonso's right mirror.
[47:59.280 -> 48:03.480] And we're guessing this is as an aftermath of like that incident
[48:03.480 -> 48:04.940] with Stroll and stuff.
[48:04.940 -> 48:05.020] So there wasn't any mention of the mirror that I can remember and we're guessing this is as an aftermath of like that incident with stroll and stuff.
[48:05.020 -> 48:09.840] So there wasn't any mention of the mirror that I can remember before
[48:09.960 -> 48:10.800] it flew off.
[48:11.880 -> 48:13.960] Yeah. I mean, only a few saw his onboards.
[48:13.960 -> 48:17.000] It was kind of obvious that something was wrong with his mirror for sure,
[48:17.000 -> 48:20.880] because it was just, you know, shaking violently, which was not normal at all.
[48:22.320 -> 48:28.260] But I didn't think anybody like, yeah, called it out as such. But yeah, man, it's sad for him.
[48:28.260 -> 48:32.880] Like even after his tremendous drive, he didn't get a single point,
[48:32.900 -> 48:37.160] which is really sad. Yeah. Again, 30 seconds is too, too, too harsh.
[48:37.160 -> 48:40.520] According to me, I think I understand if they gave him like a five or 10 second
[48:40.520 -> 48:42.480] penalty. But yeah.
[48:43.360 -> 48:46.080] Drop from P7 to P15, I think, right?
[48:46.120 -> 48:47.320] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[48:47.360 -> 48:51.760] But again, the good thing is that Vettel got a promotion because of that, and he got an extra point.
[48:51.760 -> 48:56.520] So, yeah, Vettel 7, Kmag was 8, now it is 8.
[49:01.840 -> 49:10.680] On that same note, before we go to the next point is I got to give it to the folks who are driving right behind these two as well.
[49:11.160 -> 49:25.000] Because my brain instantly switched to a repeat of Spa and Antoine Hubert because Stroll was right there sitting 90 degrees with the drag.
[49:25.000 -> 49:26.000] That was scary.
[49:26.000 -> 49:29.500] And if anyone would have keyboard him, it would have been nasty.
[49:29.920 -> 49:30.920] It would have been super bad.
[49:30.920 -> 49:32.120] Dude, Ghastly, did you see that?
[49:32.120 -> 49:35.580] He like threaded the needle because he was right behind them both.
[49:36.040 -> 49:39.700] They crashed and he was like just going through in between their cars.
[49:39.700 -> 49:40.700] It was super scary.
[49:40.700 -> 49:42.660] If you go and watch his onboard.
[49:42.700 -> 49:43.620] Even Lando's.
[49:43.620 -> 49:49.880] Lando has complete smoke from like the tires screeching stuff. And he picked the right
[49:49.920 -> 49:55.040] and those the right choice. So yeah, so that was something scary.
[49:56.520 -> 50:00.040] But I guess like even FIA is how much I would be shut on them, I guess like FIA
[50:00.040 -> 50:05.840] is learning to because there was a similar situation where they did get a recovery vehicle
[50:05.840 -> 50:10.480] on track and this time around they notified all garages that you know hey there's a recovery
[50:10.480 -> 50:14.320] vehicle on track where now the garages are supposed to tell each and every driver that
[50:14.320 -> 50:19.120] there's a recovery vehicle on track. The thought I'm having and this is a question for you all is
[50:20.400 -> 50:27.360] that the sport under Bernie Eccleston before Liberty Media was somewhere along the lines where,
[50:27.360 -> 50:31.840] you know, I want to keep it very niche, very reserved, only the fans sort of thing.
[50:31.840 -> 50:37.200] And then Liberty Media comes in and blows this off the roof, right, with like the viewership and stuff.
[50:37.200 -> 50:49.040] And with that, there's been this exponential explosion of things coming into the sport where even FIA is sort of like trying to scramble and manage all of these changes coming in
[50:49.040 -> 50:53.440] all at once. I think like this is somewhere a flavor of that and I'm only
[50:53.440 -> 50:57.600] playing devil's advocate to not shut on them too much. What do you think?
[50:57.600 -> 51:02.920] What are your thoughts, Connor? So I guess when you talk about new stuff
[51:02.920 -> 51:05.160] coming in, are you talking new tech or are we talking
[51:05.160 -> 51:12.480] just like the entertainment value and how that they're trying to, I guess, be cognizant
[51:12.480 -> 51:14.440] of the PR scandals that come with it?
[51:14.440 -> 51:15.440] What do we think?
[51:15.440 -> 51:18.200] The latter, for sure the latter.
[51:18.200 -> 51:19.200] The cars have been similar.
[51:19.200 -> 51:22.000] I mean, there have been just minor adjustments and improvements.
[51:22.000 -> 51:24.920] The tracks have been the same.
[51:24.920 -> 51:25.760] But the number of eyes that the same, but the number of
[51:25.760 -> 51:29.440] eyes that have come on and the number of questions that have been raised and like
[51:29.440 -> 51:34.720] the Max vs. Zhao thing, I'm pretty sure like back in the day, no one would have cared about it so
[51:34.720 -> 51:41.920] much as now people see it and spot it and talk about it. Yeah, no, then 100% with you there,
[51:42.480 -> 51:46.320] right? Because I mean, for better or worse, right? Social media is
[51:46.320 -> 51:51.120] not the only driver, but it's a huge driver, right? Because all of a sudden you have armchair
[51:51.120 -> 51:55.560] team principals, all of us who think we're all experts, right?
[51:55.560 -> 51:58.560] And that's a t-shirt.
[51:58.560 -> 52:06.600] Yeah. But yeah, every little minute detail gets criticized. And rightfully so. I mean, there's definitely parts we should be critical of.
[52:06.600 -> 52:08.200] But you're right.
[52:08.200 -> 52:13.520] Working on the PR team for the FY sounds like the worst job in the world.
[52:13.520 -> 52:16.720] You have to manage all this stuff and it's never gonna go right.
[52:16.720 -> 52:17.720] Yeah.
[52:17.720 -> 52:22.480] And I think there's another factor playing over here, which if you really think about,
[52:22.480 -> 52:25.600] think about watching these races, you
[52:25.600 -> 52:32.160] know, like 10 years ago, when you only saw what the TV director is showing you, whereas
[52:32.160 -> 52:38.960] now, almost every person has access to, via F1 TV at least, has access to like every single
[52:38.960 -> 52:43.840] driver's camera footage. And like, you know, you can really scrutinize every aspect of
[52:43.840 -> 52:46.440] every decision sitting at home, which nobody
[52:46.440 -> 52:47.440] could do earlier.
[52:47.440 -> 52:51.680] Very few people had actually good access of all these footages.
[52:51.680 -> 52:58.080] So I think even that kind of plays a factor a bit that now, with the amount of data that
[52:58.080 -> 53:04.880] is available to everybody, things come under the scanner a lot more as compared to a few
[53:04.880 -> 53:07.920] years back when, and again, social media as well, you know,
[53:07.920 -> 53:11.400] plays a big factor because now anybody who finds it, you know,
[53:11.400 -> 53:14.160] can just post it. And then now the world knows that's it.
[53:15.240 -> 53:18.480] And then they have people like Saring,
[53:18.480 -> 53:23.480] you and me want to use sentences to start up
[53:24.160 -> 53:34.680] near controversy and make jokes. Some other
[53:34.680 -> 53:40.560] items that were happening Leclerc saying let's consider plan E and
[53:40.560 -> 53:46.880] Connor and for folks listening who've sort of like seen us decipher
[53:46.880 -> 54:09.480] these 26 alphabets plan E for us meant explosion. Science has exploded in the If you could take out both Red Bulls at the same time, then we've got one more race.
[54:09.480 -> 54:10.480] That's a strategy.
[54:10.480 -> 54:13.000] So what's the farthest we've gotten?
[54:13.000 -> 54:14.000] Plan G?
[54:14.000 -> 54:16.000] Is that the furthest in the alphabet they've been?
[54:16.000 -> 54:17.000] Yes.
[54:17.000 -> 54:18.000] I think so.
[54:18.000 -> 54:19.000] Yes.
[54:19.000 -> 54:22.880] I'm saying Plan G is probably the only last letter that I've got.
[54:22.880 -> 54:26.880] They have these so many different scenarios ready with them always.
[54:26.880 -> 54:36.760] And then it's so funny that no matter how much they prepare, things still go wrong.
[54:36.760 -> 54:41.040] That makes me wonder, like, was science more angry about the fact that Russell took him
[54:41.040 -> 54:52.000] out or was he more angry about the fact that he had to learn 10 different plans for a Sunday weekend to not even go to turn 2.
[54:52.320 -> 54:57.000] That's true honestly. I'd be so pissed.
[54:57.000 -> 55:04.000] Prepare 3 days for an exam only to realize you can't even take that? Damn, I'd be angry.
[55:04.000 -> 55:14.720] That's exactly it. anyone take that? Oh, pit stops. Dude, every pit stop yesterday was botched. To be honest,
[55:14.720 -> 55:20.800] like everything was above three point. What is the theory? The theory is that Austin has such
[55:20.800 -> 55:28.240] good food that everybody was, you know, they in a food coma that they couldn't perform at all.
[55:29.200 -> 55:33.520] It's true. As long as that Texas barbecue, you definitely can't come after that.
[55:35.360 -> 55:38.800] And lastly, lastly, we, dude,
[55:39.520 -> 55:44.760] the entire energy that was lifted with like Wettel overtaking K-Mag on that last
[55:44.760 -> 55:49.800] turn and giving us another photo finish the way he did with like Alonso a few races back.
[55:50.880 -> 55:59.560] It was all sucked away with like Tim Cook moving and he was moving his shoulders not even his wrist or his elbow.
[55:59.560 -> 56:00.520] He was like moving his...
[56:09.480 -> 56:14.520] Oh man, that guy, it really felt to me like it was a punishment for him or something like the board of members at Apple, you know, the last quarter's profits weren't really good.
[56:14.520 -> 56:18.600] So now you have to go and wave the flag at the F1 race.
[56:18.600 -> 56:23.200] And he was there out there just because you know, he's being forced to, he's just waving
[56:23.200 -> 56:24.200] there.
[56:24.200 -> 56:25.120] Man, it was so weird.
[56:25.120 -> 56:27.440] I don't know, why do they get people like that
[56:27.440 -> 56:28.280] to wave the flag?
[56:28.280 -> 56:29.440] It makes no sense to me.
[56:31.160 -> 56:32.600] Why do they tell him to do it like that?
[56:32.600 -> 56:34.000] Like put some energy into it.
[56:34.000 -> 56:34.840] Yeah.
[56:34.840 -> 56:35.680] Yeah.
[56:36.760 -> 56:41.760] Did he not know that he was gonna be waving?
[56:42.560 -> 56:46.000] I'm curious, was he told at the last minute? What was it?
[56:47.520 -> 57:06.160] I couldn't, I can't come up with, I think the only thing that I can think of, and I think I'd mentioned to you guys a bit earlier was that he got snubbed by the cameraman. So he was pretty pissed off. Because earlier, when he was standing besides Ed Sheeran, the cameraman cameraman didn't show him and panned the camera away from him.
[57:06.160 -> 57:10.800] I think that's all. He was just pissed and he was like, yeah, I'm gonna ruin your show now.
[57:10.800 -> 57:18.000] Oh man, I saw someone tweet that he'll never close his rings on his Apple Watch.
[57:18.000 -> 57:29.440] Nice one. That's a good one. Well, I guess all in all, it was, it wasn't that bad of a weekend.
[57:29.440 -> 57:33.400] There's, there's too much content that we got to, to take out of it.
[57:33.400 -> 57:39.240] A car that fits one shack can fit an entire Red Bull team is what we saw.
[57:39.240 -> 57:48.200] I really want to know what the suspension is made out of because it's the same
[57:48.200 -> 57:57.600] sorry it's the same one that Alonzo's car had. On that note we'll see you in
[57:57.600 -> 58:04.000] Mexico folks these are your hosts signing off off to corner to Hassaf
[58:04.000 -> 58:06.920] Kards take it away oh yeah no thanks
[58:06.920 -> 58:09.720] for having me I mean being at the race was awesome that I got to share it with
[58:09.720 -> 58:14.700] y'all but yeah this was this was quite the experience it's cool to see the
[58:14.700 -> 58:17.680] community out here and getting more engaged and I mean what you guys are
[58:17.680 -> 58:21.100] doing is a lot of fun so I'm glad y'all reached out and thanks for having me
[58:21.100 -> 58:23.560] bye-bye
[58:23.010 -> 58:26.450] down. Thanks for having me. Bye-bye.