Podcast: F1 Fanfiction
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Welcome to F1 Demolition Derby edition here at Australian GP! With 3 Red Flags, 1 Safety Car and 1 VSC, FIA decided to throw the kitchen sink at the audience, but were you entertained? We saw a surprise comeback by Mercedes, yet another heartbreak for Ferrari, more sheer dominance by Red Bull and only 12 cars finishing the race!
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Music
Intro: Howling (Sting) - Gunnar Olsen
Outro: Your Intro by Audionautix
**Summary of the Australian Grand Prix and Key Moments:**
* The Australian Grand Prix was a chaotic race with three red flags, one safety car, and one virtual safety car.
* Mercedes had a surprise comeback with George Russell finishing third, while Ferrari continued to struggle.
* Red Bull dominated the race with Max Verstappen taking the win and Sergio Perez finishing fifth with the fastest lap.
* Haas cars experienced multiple issues, including Kevin Magnussen's unusual crash and Nico Hulkenberg's retirement.
* Esteban Ocon, Yuki Tsunoda, Lando Norris, and McLaren all had impressive performances.
* Akash expressed his frustration with the excessive red flags and criticized the FIA's handling of the race.
* George Russell faced mechanical issues, including a turbo oil fire, causing his retirement.
* Sergio Perez earned praise for his brilliant overtaking maneuvers, particularly at Turn 9.
* Fernando Alonso continued his impressive form, finishing sixth and leading the midfield battle.
* The race featured numerous DRS battles, with drivers taking advantage of the four DRS zones.
* Hulkenberg's performance in the Aston Martin was highlighted, surpassing Charles Leclerc in the driver's championship standings.
* McLaren showed signs of improvement with Lando Norris finishing sixth and Oscar Piastri scoring his first points in Formula One.
* The podcast hosts discussed the impact of the 4DRS zones on the closeness of the racing and the excitement it generated. # F1 Demolition Derby: Australian Grand Prix Recap
The Australian Grand Prix lived up to its reputation as a chaotic and unpredictable race, featuring three red flags, a safety car, and a virtual safety car.
## Key Points:
* **Mercedes' Surprise Comeback:** Mercedes, struggling in the early races, made a surprising comeback in Australia, with Lewis Hamilton finishing fourth and George Russell finishing third, securing the team's first podium of the season.
* **Ferrari's Continued Heartbreak:** Ferrari faced another disappointing race, with Carlos Sainz retiring due to a hydraulics issue and Charles Leclerc finishing sixth after a poor start and a collision with Fernando Alonso.
* **Red Bull's Dominance:** Red Bull continued its dominance, with Max Verstappen winning the race and Sergio Perez finishing second, marking the team's third consecutive 1-2 finish.
* **Haas' Fragility:** Haas endured a difficult race, with Kevin Magnussen retiring due to a water leak and Mick Schumacher finishing 13th after a spin. The team's cars have shown a concerning tendency to break easily.
* **Alpine's Strong Performance:** Alpine had a solid race, with Esteban Ocon finishing seventh and Pierre Gasly finishing ninth. Gasly's performance was particularly impressive, considering he started from the pit lane.
* **DRS Controversy:** The Australian Grand Prix featured four DRS zones, which some drivers and experts believe is excessive and compromises the integrity of the racing.
* **Russell's Fire Hazard:** George Russell experienced a frightening moment when his Mercedes caught fire during the race. The fire was quickly extinguished, but it raised concerns about the safety of the cars.
* **Perez Chicane:** Sergio Perez's aggressive defense against Lewis Hamilton at Turn 9 earned him the nickname "Perez Chicane" among fans.
* **Hulkenberg's Impressive Performance:** Nico Hulkenberg, standing in for Sebastian Vettel at Aston Martin, had a strong race, finishing P7 ahead of Charles Leclerc.
* **F1's Expansion Plans:** Stefano Domenicali, the CEO of Formula 1, hinted at the possibility of expanding the calendar to 32 races, a move that has drawn mixed reactions from fans and teams.
* **Technical Changes and Fan Engagement:** The podcast discussed the need for Formula 1 to provide more technical insights and analysis to engage fans who are interested in the intricacies of the sport.
* **Azerbaijan Preview:** The next race on the calendar is the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, which is known for its unpredictable and exciting racing.
## Overall Message:
The Australian Grand Prix was a chaotic and entertaining race, showcasing the unpredictable nature of Formula 1. While Mercedes made a strong comeback, Ferrari faced continued struggles. Red Bull maintained its dominance, while Haas' cars exhibited concerning fragility. The race also highlighted the ongoing debate about the excessive use of DRS and the need for Formula 1 to better engage fans with technical insights. The podcast concluded with a preview of the upcoming Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
[00:00.000 -> 00:08.640] It felt like Russell was in that mindset of a Michael Scott meme, you know how he tells, you know, Stanley, I am a victim of hate crime.
[00:09.640 -> 00:12.080] And Stanley says, that's not hate crime.
[00:12.080 -> 00:14.880] And Michael says, well, I hated it.
[00:27.760 -> 00:28.400] Welcome to F1 Fan Fiction, folks.
[00:30.240 -> 00:30.800] The drama is increasing.
[00:33.360 -> 00:35.280] We are at Demolition Derby. Oh, sorry, Australian Grand Prix.
[00:35.280 -> 00:38.960] I wanted to interject as soon as you said that the drama is increasing.
[00:38.960 -> 00:42.320] I wanted to ask, is it increasing or is it being increased?
[00:42.320 -> 00:50.240] Is it at this point just Australian Grand Prix every single year trying to outdo itself or who knows what's happening?
[00:50.240 -> 00:54.560] Because you know, it's been flashbacks of so many events.
[00:54.560 -> 00:58.000] And let me list two of my favorite ones.
[00:58.000 -> 01:00.400] One is Gutierrez versus Alonso.
[01:00.400 -> 01:07.000] You know, the accident where Alonso like sort of like went tumbling into the gravel after that straight and stuff.
[01:07.000 -> 01:16.000] Right. And then I think like 2002 when Rubens Barricado sort of like lifted and launched his car after and behind Ralf Schumacher's Ferrari.
[01:16.000 -> 01:27.000] So it's like 2002 saying this is the race with the most incidents and then 2023 coming along the way and saying hold my beard.
[01:27.000 -> 01:33.320] Yeah, so I think it was like it felt like a red flag day or something.
[01:33.320 -> 01:38.280] They were celebrating something or I don't know the marshal just felt like waving it a lot.
[01:38.280 -> 01:39.640] Yeah.
[01:39.640 -> 01:50.760] Like, oh, what's this color? I like this. Let't it like one of those, I think it's Wolf of Wall Street, Leonardo DiCaprio meme,
[01:50.760 -> 01:53.280] like he's tossing the money sort of meme, right?
[01:53.280 -> 01:55.280] Like he's tossing out red flags.
[01:55.280 -> 01:56.280] Or Oprah Winfrey.
[01:56.280 -> 01:57.280] Oprah Winfrey.
[01:57.280 -> 01:58.280] You get a red flag.
[01:58.280 -> 01:59.280] You get a red flag.
[01:59.280 -> 02:00.280] Yeah.
[02:00.280 -> 02:04.440] Anyways, anyways, anyways, folks, we are already into the episode.
[02:04.440 -> 02:05.440] We are your hosts.
[02:05.440 -> 02:06.440] I am Akash.
[02:06.440 -> 02:07.440] And I'm Saran.
[02:07.440 -> 02:14.400] And we'll be talking about, obviously, the demolition derby topic continues.
[02:14.400 -> 02:16.240] Was Mercedes sandbagging?
[02:16.240 -> 02:19.480] Red Bull is on a different planet.
[02:19.480 -> 02:29.440] Alonzo is having the time of his life. And then some brilliant racing scene from Haas, Ocon, Sunoda, Lando,
[02:31.280 -> 02:37.520] McLaren for a change. Yes. So too much to unpack from this weekend, but let's continue with the
[02:37.520 -> 02:42.560] demolition derby. Oh man, let's try and recall what all happened. Like why did we get so many
[02:42.560 -> 02:47.720] red flags in the first place? What was the first one? It was Albon I think, right?
[02:47.720 -> 02:55.840] Yeah, Albon understeering and then running into that barrier into T6, a TechPro barrier
[02:55.840 -> 03:02.680] coming loose, which originally sort of like felt like he just spewed gravel on the track.
[03:02.680 -> 03:06.400] But there are a few angles that at least I've seen where I kind of feel like the
[03:06.400 -> 03:10.360] tech pro was out and the barrier needed fixing.
[03:10.360 -> 03:11.680] So yeah, definitely.
[03:12.600 -> 03:16.160] Yeah. The first red flag made sense to me because, yeah, like that's,
[03:16.160 -> 03:20.800] that's definitely in the rules that they have to red flag the race when the
[03:20.800 -> 03:24.880] barriers are affected, because if somebody else crashes at the same place again,
[03:24.960 -> 03:27.600] of course, like that would be very terrible.
[03:28.360 -> 03:30.720] If the barriers are not like functioning as expected.
[03:30.840 -> 03:33.960] So I think kudos to them to like instantly red flagging the race.
[03:34.320 -> 03:38.280] They didn't waste much time. But yeah, poor Albon, he was doing so well, man.
[03:38.280 -> 03:43.200] Like he qualified what P10 and then I think at one point he was,
[03:43.920 -> 03:45.400] what was he? Yeah, right.? He was having a good race.
[03:45.400 -> 03:46.400] Yeah, right.
[03:46.400 -> 03:47.400] He was having a very good race.
[03:47.400 -> 03:48.400] He was having a very good race.
[03:48.400 -> 03:50.320] Yeah, poor fellow.
[03:50.320 -> 03:55.560] For this week's Brain Itch, I mean, we thought we'll probably make a reel or a short or whatever
[03:55.560 -> 04:00.960] you want to call it on the TechPro barrier, but turns out we've already spoken about it
[04:00.960 -> 04:02.480] and what it is.
[04:02.480 -> 04:06.880] Go check out our socials, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, wherever you get stuff from.
[04:06.880 -> 04:12.880] Last year, July, Bhatt.Tech has spoken about what tech pro barriers are on the show.
[04:12.880 -> 04:16.480] So yeah, go check them out. Also check out that episode if you want.
[04:16.480 -> 04:20.560] Also check out the episode. Yeah, that was fun as well. We've had some good laughs there.
[04:20.560 -> 04:28.000] But yeah, man, I think hair coloring isn't working out well for Albon. We'll see where that lad holds up.
[04:28.000 -> 04:31.000] What was the second one? K-Mag, just forgetting.
[04:31.000 -> 04:37.000] He forgot the track limits. I don't know what happened. He forgot where the barrier is.
[04:37.000 -> 04:42.000] It was very weird. And if you remember, he did the same thing last race as well.
[04:42.000 -> 04:47.480] Or was it Nico? It was one of the Haas cars where he was trying to defend Logan Sargent.
[04:47.800 -> 04:50.120] And he just, you recall, right?
[04:50.120 -> 04:51.440] He just went into the paradise.
[04:51.440 -> 04:51.940] Yeah.
[04:52.440 -> 04:53.600] Oh, it was Nico by the way.
[04:53.600 -> 04:54.400] But yeah, yeah.
[04:54.400 -> 04:55.920] Went too much to the right.
[04:55.920 -> 04:57.080] And yeah, yeah, yeah.
[04:58.160 -> 05:00.800] Also, one more thing that we have talked about earlier as well.
[05:01.160 -> 05:03.360] Why do Haas cars break so easily?
[05:04.640 -> 05:06.600] Yeah, man. I think like American
[05:06.600 -> 05:17.080] made. No no no. But yeah man, originally I thought like he probably too understood
[05:17.080 -> 05:22.840] and sort of like went too wide and eventually ended up going into into the
[05:22.840 -> 05:25.640] wall. But after a few replays, I don't think
[05:25.640 -> 05:27.160] that's what actually happened.
[05:27.160 -> 05:30.840] I think he just sort of lost, and this is my take,
[05:30.840 -> 05:33.240] but I think he actually lost sense of
[05:33.240 -> 05:37.400] how far he probably was from that barrier,
[05:37.400 -> 05:39.560] and eventually ran into it, losing a tire.
[05:39.560 -> 05:42.640] And I don't even think he realized he lost a tire,
[05:42.640 -> 05:45.840] because it felt like he only knew about the suspension
[05:45.840 -> 05:47.960] and then got out of the car and realized,
[05:47.960 -> 05:49.160] oh damn, I'm missing a tire.
[05:49.160 -> 05:50.000] Yeah.
[05:50.000 -> 05:55.000] I'm glad he didn't ask on the radio, can we fix it?
[05:55.320 -> 05:56.160] Yeah.
[05:56.160 -> 05:57.840] Yeah, right?
[05:57.840 -> 05:58.680] Yeah.
[05:58.680 -> 06:01.600] I think even though K-Mag lost out,
[06:01.600 -> 06:04.440] Nico took advantage of it and got some points.
[06:04.440 -> 06:09.080] So, you know, it was kind of like a worthy sacrifice for K-Mag, I guess.
[06:09.080 -> 06:11.960] That his team got some points because of that.
[06:11.960 -> 06:18.560] But what was the third red flag? Oh, the carnage, right? Between the Alpines.
[06:18.560 -> 06:23.240] I mean, I understand France is under a revolution right now.
[06:23.240 -> 06:25.200] And they want to to not work.
[06:25.200 -> 06:26.960] I get that.
[06:26.960 -> 06:30.320] But that doesn't need to transport all the way to like...
[06:30.320 -> 06:31.920] You get my point, right?
[06:31.920 -> 06:32.960] Right. Yeah.
[06:32.960 -> 06:38.400] Yeah, man. That was very silly from Ghastly.
[06:38.400 -> 06:42.080] I don't know. He kind of did a stroll yesterday pretty much.
[06:42.080 -> 06:48.720] Because he went out, he came back in, he didn't check his mirrors, he forgot his teammate exists and just that's it.
[06:48.720 -> 06:56.400] It felt like a rookie mistake from his side.
[06:56.400 -> 07:09.040] And even the commentators were like, he did have his wits to sort of like check right, left, front, back, all at the same time coming out of the gravel trying to get into the racing lane I think it was just too overwhelming for Gasly to sort of
[07:09.040 -> 07:15.720] like take that situation in and eventually like fuck it. Yeah and I think
[07:15.720 -> 07:20.600] it was also kind of a chain reaction where like if you noticed a few things
[07:20.600 -> 07:25.000] happened Alonso braked and started to turn in.
[07:25.640 -> 07:29.480] That's when signs kind of bumped into him. Gasly was right behind him.
[07:29.680 -> 07:34.680] Gasly also kind of had to take a little evasive action to get away from there.
[07:35.040 -> 07:37.120] So he went onto the gravel. He tried to come back.
[07:37.880 -> 07:41.600] And it was just carnage after that. And, and even like from the camera,
[07:41.600 -> 07:43.680] like when they were showing it from the front view,
[07:44.040 -> 07:46.800] I could see like a lot of dust and car parts flying behind.
[07:46.800 -> 07:48.640] I'm like, wait, what's going on there? Exactly.
[07:49.760 -> 07:54.560] I think FI is to blame here partially because mainly I feel they kind of created
[07:54.560 -> 07:58.000] this dangerous situation where there were only four... Partially?
[07:58.360 -> 08:00.880] Yeah, I mean, we'll get into that in detail.
[08:00.920 -> 08:04.320] But you know, like there were only what, four laps remaining.
[08:04.360 -> 08:08.400] And I understand like there was a lot of debris on the track and everything.
[08:08.800 -> 08:11.280] And like they couldn't continue racing,
[08:11.840 -> 08:16.840] but the creative situation where especially people who were behind had very
[08:17.300 -> 08:21.080] little to lose and they could like risk it all. Everybody got fresh tires.
[08:21.200 -> 08:24.400] You have just four laps, just go gungo.
[08:26.640 -> 08:33.200] And I think that's what happened right. Basically everybody was just so anxious that they might lose out that yeah it was just chaos which
[08:33.200 -> 08:38.320] created another red flag and I think I honestly was pretty confident that that would happen
[08:38.880 -> 08:44.800] while watching the race and it did. Yeah okay so here's two things right like I think
[08:51.400 -> 08:59.000] Yeah. Okay. So here's two things, right? Like, I think overall, it was a very boring race to watch because of all the shenanigans that happened. But imagine this, right? Like you've not had a race there for a few years because of COVID.
[08:59.000 -> 09:06.560] You've paid so much money and have like 450,000 people coming into the stadium over the weekend to watch
[09:06.560 -> 09:11.680] a race. Australia sort of like promising for like its previous carnages that it's done.
[09:12.480 -> 09:17.760] So at this point and obviously right you gotta make a good episode for DTS as well.
[09:17.760 -> 09:29.160] So at this point think about Cassius King and they're like yeah we're gonna probably use all the two hours, we'll probably even go beyond that, do as much shenanigans as we
[09:29.160 -> 09:35.620] can and just have fun. So what did it cost? Yeah the Alpines going out but sure.
[09:35.620 -> 09:42.700] What did it cost? Eight cars retiring. Seriously man only 12 cars finished the
[09:42.700 -> 09:46.080] race that's crazy.
[09:49.640 -> 09:52.280] But, but you know what, like what's the worst of it? What's the worst of it? And I'm somewhere on science's side for this one.
[09:53.160 -> 09:56.840] Dude getting a five second penalty for a lap that never even got counted.
[10:01.440 -> 10:03.920] This is another really funny thing that actually happened.
[10:04.320 -> 10:09.840] I remember that right after the second red flag, I think, when the carnage happened,
[10:09.840 -> 10:10.840] exactly.
[10:10.840 -> 10:11.840] Yeah.
[10:11.840 -> 10:17.160] After the second red flag, the commentators, sorry, there came a message saying that like
[10:17.160 -> 10:22.000] stewards to investigate starting procedures or something like that.
[10:22.000 -> 10:24.600] And the commentators are like, who are they going to investigate themselves?
[10:24.600 -> 10:27.160] And I'm like, yeah, right on.
[10:28.040 -> 10:31.360] Yeah. Cause see, here's, here's where, and folks, like,
[10:31.400 -> 10:35.640] I feel like this is where probably rest of the world needs to learn, right.
[10:35.640 -> 10:39.040] From, from how the quote unquote, they see world sort of operates,
[10:39.040 -> 10:43.280] which is the difference between textual knowledge and practical knowledge.
[10:43.280 -> 10:46.680] So based on guidelines, at least from what I gather,
[10:47.400 -> 10:51.080] what FIA did was correct because under the driving conditions and the weather
[10:51.080 -> 10:54.260] conditions, uh, track temperature and everything, yes,
[10:54.260 -> 10:57.400] you're supposed to have a standing start after a red flag,
[10:58.040 -> 11:01.520] but practically not when you only have two laps to go.
[11:01.560 -> 11:05.000] So sort of like adapt to the situation when you have
[11:05.000 -> 11:06.440] to sort of deal.
[11:06.440 -> 11:12.120] Or just finish the race behind the safety car. I agree it's boring. Nobody wants that.
[11:12.120 -> 11:16.360] But at that point, this was a low stake race. This was just the third race of the season.
[11:16.360 -> 11:21.840] It's not like a championship decider or anything. But yeah, I understand like people paid money
[11:21.840 -> 11:25.160] to watch a grandstand finish.
[11:31.840 -> 11:39.520] Well, OK, but I think at least rolling start would have been a middle ground as such, you know, where you get kind of both, which is a safer start. And yeah, anyway, like for a change, at least race three, it's good to see Mercedes coming back onto the podium.
[11:40.200 -> 11:46.000] What could have beautifully been probably both drivers on the podium, unfortunately, tough luck.
[11:46.000 -> 11:52.000] They couldn't have predicted this, but yeah, yeah, nonetheless, Mercedes is back.
[11:52.000 -> 11:59.000] Russell, man, he just lost out. It was so sad. Like he, first of all, he pitted, like he thought that he's gonna undercut.
[11:59.000 -> 12:05.840] And then right after that, oh, by the way, was that Albon? Oh, was that scripted?
[12:05.840 -> 12:07.840] I see, I see, I see.
[12:07.840 -> 12:09.840] You see where my mind is going, right?
[12:09.840 -> 12:11.840] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[12:11.840 -> 12:13.840] Like Dr. Marco has a button in Albon's car still probably.
[12:13.840 -> 12:15.840] Yeah, probably.
[12:15.840 -> 12:17.840] He clicked it and Albon goes out.
[12:17.840 -> 12:19.840] Yeah.
[12:19.840 -> 12:21.840] But yeah, he just lost out.
[12:21.840 -> 12:23.840] But it's very weird to me man.
[12:23.840 -> 12:27.760] I also talked about this a little before you started recording.
[12:27.760 -> 12:29.760] Like in the first lap itself,
[12:29.760 -> 12:34.760] Russell just went off and he created a good, like two second, three second gap.
[12:34.760 -> 12:39.040] It didn't seem like Westhapen had the pace at that point because he was
[12:39.040 -> 12:42.240] struggling. People were like really, like really close to him.
[12:42.400 -> 12:45.000] But after the first red flag again we
[12:45.000 -> 12:50.340] saw that Max just went off yeah even like of course like Hamilton got a good
[12:50.340 -> 12:55.960] start but right after that with DRS and the straight line speed Max just went
[12:55.960 -> 13:00.560] off Hamilton couldn't defend at all yeah at one point he had what some eight
[13:00.560 -> 13:08.160] second gap or something like that so I'm a bit confused about Mercedes's performance because Russell was clearly driving pretty
[13:08.160 -> 13:09.160] good.
[13:09.160 -> 13:11.000] But then their performance just fell through.
[13:11.000 -> 13:13.120] So I'm not sure what's going on there.
[13:13.120 -> 13:15.000] Yeah, it's a bit weird.
[13:15.000 -> 13:19.200] But to be honest, like I feel the Red Bull would have still caught up to Russell because
[13:19.200 -> 13:22.520] it was still just a few laps into the race.
[13:22.520 -> 13:23.520] That's right.
[13:23.520 -> 13:24.520] True.
[13:24.520 -> 13:25.780] And probably things were still...
[13:25.780 -> 13:27.780] I think it was about at lap 9 or lap 10.
[13:27.780 -> 13:32.580] Yeah, so probably like the Red Bull would have eventually caught up
[13:32.580 -> 13:35.980] because like it's still, it's definitely got that straight line pace and stuff.
[13:35.980 -> 13:43.180] And like my issue with the whole thing though is the fact that while Red Bull is dominant,
[13:43.180 -> 13:47.000] I feel like they have some issues under the hood,
[13:47.000 -> 13:49.640] which is probably, if not addressed,
[13:49.640 -> 13:52.000] is going to come and bite them back.
[13:52.000 -> 13:53.680] This is still one race, so there's
[13:53.680 -> 13:56.400] no predicting where all of this is going.
[13:56.400 -> 13:58.640] A faster track with four DRS zones,
[13:58.640 -> 14:02.760] Mercedes in favor of taking an advantage there,
[14:02.760 -> 14:04.480] grabbing that podium, so on and so forth.
[14:04.480 -> 14:09.040] Sure. We'll have to see and monitor how this progresses, what upgrades they bring,
[14:09.040 -> 14:14.400] and how the weekend sort of starts shaping as we get deeper into the season.
[14:14.400 -> 14:17.920] What food did Russell have? Why was his ass on fire yesterday?
[14:17.920 -> 14:26.580] It was pretty bizarre, right? Suddenly his car was smoking and then there's this like fire pluming right behind.
[14:27.060 -> 14:32.380] And yeah, unfortunately, like his bad luck didn't end at just missing out in the red flag.
[14:32.780 -> 14:35.300] It he had also mechanical failure.
[14:35.300 -> 14:41.060] And I think it was his first mechanical retirement, like a mechanical failure.
[14:41.100 -> 14:41.940] Right. Yeah.
[14:41.940 -> 14:44.180] Yeah. Ever since joining Mercedes.
[14:44.180 -> 14:47.600] Yeah, that's that's great there is a speculation though from
[14:47.600 -> 14:54.160] Scarp's tech that it looked like it was a turbo oil fire I see it's still his
[14:54.160 -> 14:58.920] first power unit of the season so the damage may may not be controlled but
[14:58.920 -> 15:03.520] yeah so looks like there's some issues with the turbo and possibly the MGU-H
[15:03.520 -> 15:10.660] at this point keep an eye on what's happening with his car but it felt like Russell was in that
[15:10.660 -> 15:16.200] mindset of a Michael Scott meme you know how he tells you know Stanley I am a
[15:16.200 -> 15:30.400] victim of hate crime and Stanley says that's not hate crime and Michael says well I hated it. You could sense that Russell's tone.
[15:30.400 -> 15:34.360] As soon as there was a red flag he was like oh damn. On the other side but you know what?
[15:34.360 -> 15:38.520] Hang on I gotta give props to Russell at this point because he owned that up
[15:38.520 -> 15:43.280] because as soon as Russell pitted and then science pitted Hamilton came on to
[15:43.280 -> 15:45.680] the radio and said should we have pitted are we science pitted, Hamilton came onto the radio and said, should we have pitted?
[15:45.680 -> 15:51.440] Are we missing out on this? And then he was told, you know, yeah, Max is not. So let's stay out.
[15:51.440 -> 15:55.840] We're expecting this, blah, blah, blah. And then he gets a writ, and then the race gets a writ.
[15:56.560 -> 16:01.920] So while Hamilton wasn't sure on what decision to take, and he was leaning more towards his
[16:01.920 -> 16:07.860] engineers, at least Russell owned up to the blunder that was made like sure we couldn't have predicted this
[16:07.860 -> 16:13.680] yeah I'm sure if it was the other way around somebody would be throwing a
[16:13.680 -> 16:21.860] hessypet oh yeah for sure wink wink we know where this is going yeah exactly so
[16:21.860 -> 16:26.820] let's talk about what was going on the parking lot during the restart
[16:26.820 -> 16:33.080] procedure. Oh damn dude seriously now he's allowed to do what he was doing and
[16:33.080 -> 16:37.040] then obviously we're referring to when the race was about to restart Hamilton
[16:37.040 -> 16:41.640] sort of like trying to back the pack up 10 cars length sort of thing but
[16:41.640 -> 16:45.320] whatever he was he was playing by the book so all of
[16:45.320 -> 16:49.960] that's allowed but he was causing this chain reaction where you know how you
[16:49.960 -> 16:53.880] are on a freeway or a highway whatever you call it if one car breaks you get
[16:53.880 -> 16:57.600] like a traffic jam for like 10 miles kilometers whatever you are listening
[16:57.600 -> 17:02.280] to this for for end to end that's what ended up happening right like Hamilton
[17:02.280 -> 17:10.560] was trying to back the back up someone 10 cars down had to brake so much so that there were four cars parked on turn to exit,
[17:11.120 -> 17:18.320] where K-Mag eventually had to take the gravel to possibly not call the spare safety car out as well.
[17:20.000 -> 17:27.320] Exactly. That was super weird. I was so confused what's going on because not just KMAG, I don't know who else,
[17:27.840 -> 17:29.280] so KMAG had to go into the gravel.
[17:29.320 -> 17:32.280] There was two other cars who had to go on the other side as well.
[17:32.880 -> 17:37.880] And it was like, everybody's just trying to take evasive action.
[17:38.760 -> 17:42.400] I'm like, what's going on here? You know, seriously.
[17:43.600 -> 17:47.520] Yeah. I mean, there are some rules regarding this because I
[17:47.520 -> 17:53.040] don't know man it's it's it's super dangerous I understand like it's part of
[17:53.040 -> 17:58.160] strategy to kind of block people like managing your like your temperatures and
[17:58.160 -> 18:01.280] everything but at the same time there should be some minimum speed that you
[18:01.280 -> 18:05.800] have to stick to you can't just know, like create a traffic jam.
[18:05.800 -> 18:06.640] Yeah.
[18:06.640 -> 18:08.480] I know it's something needs to change
[18:08.480 -> 18:11.000] because this is like, this is unnecessary risk
[18:11.000 -> 18:11.960] that's not required.
[18:11.960 -> 18:12.800] I agree.
[18:12.800 -> 18:15.520] And somehow, like, I don't see this happening
[18:15.520 -> 18:18.080] when Max is behind a safety car
[18:18.080 -> 18:19.560] and trying to restart the race.
[18:19.560 -> 18:22.240] He does that with the consciousness
[18:22.240 -> 18:26.400] that he needs to only race the two or three cars behind
[18:26.400 -> 18:29.560] him and does not need to back everyone up.
[18:29.560 -> 18:37.400] So there's a very different approach to how he restarts versus what we saw yesterday.
[18:37.400 -> 18:42.720] But nonetheless, man, as much as I've shitted on Hamilton for years and years in the past,
[18:42.720 -> 18:45.280] it was fun to see him hold the flag.
[18:45.280 -> 18:50.000] Yesterday he was driving brilliantly, man. Even Alonso said this in the chat.
[18:50.000 -> 18:55.680] He tried so much to get close to him. But Hamilton was just brilliant.
[18:55.680 -> 19:07.240] And anything he threw at him, he just defended it. So, brilliant, right? But yeah, man, let's talk about Red Bull there.
[19:07.240 -> 19:15.120] I, for a change, feel that F1 should change their starting commentary.
[19:15.120 -> 19:19.520] It should be more around the lights of, it's lights out and away we go.
[19:19.520 -> 19:21.360] Max takes the leads and fucks off.
[19:21.360 -> 19:25.720] Well, on to F1 now, you know, so on and so forth.
[19:27.080 -> 19:30.520] Yeah. I think, I think I agree. Yeah. They should, they should change it.
[19:30.600 -> 19:33.760] You know, something like it shouldn't start from P1, P2, P3,
[19:33.760 -> 19:36.080] like they should just have a different podium for him.
[19:36.720 -> 19:40.080] Yeah. You know, you know how some of these podiums,
[19:40.080 -> 19:43.160] so some of these podiums have like a Ferrari sponsored,
[19:43.160 -> 19:44.280] so you have Ferrari written.
[19:44.600 -> 19:48.560] So we should like in the past with the turbo era,
[19:48.640 -> 19:49.960] there should have been like Hamilton,
[19:50.760 -> 19:51.920] because he was always on the podium.
[19:52.240 -> 19:54.120] It should now be like Max Ritter all over.
[19:55.800 -> 19:56.680] I'm starting to,
[19:56.760 -> 19:59.560] I'm starting to shift my hatred for the seven,
[19:59.560 -> 20:00.000] eight years,
[20:00.000 -> 20:00.680] whatever it was,
[20:00.720 -> 20:02.680] which was for Hamilton because he was always winning.
[20:02.840 -> 20:03.120] Yeah.
[20:03.120 -> 20:07.600] To like now it being for Max and I just want to root for whoever is beating Max.
[20:07.600 -> 20:10.280] Yeah. Oh, definitely. Yeah. I mean,
[20:10.720 -> 20:15.720] the only reason I was supporting Max like in 2021 was because he was
[20:15.720 -> 20:17.240] like bringing it up to Hamilton.
[20:17.480 -> 20:17.880] Exactly.
[20:17.880 -> 20:21.680] But now like the tables have turned all of a sudden and it's, it's weird.
[20:21.680 -> 20:26.880] Like it's, it's exactly like how Hamilton used to be, where he would be complaining
[20:26.880 -> 20:29.800] through the race and still win it with ease.
[20:29.800 -> 20:35.560] And that's exactly what we saw again, like previous race as well as this race.
[20:35.560 -> 20:41.760] Max had issues, we clearly saw, he also like, he shot, where he went into the grass for
[20:41.760 -> 20:42.760] a bit.
[20:42.760 -> 20:43.760] Overshot, yeah.
[20:43.760 -> 20:47.600] But still, that didn't affect him because he had a gap of 8 seconds or something.
[20:47.600 -> 20:52.480] So, even after making mistakes, even after complaining throughout the race about front brakes,
[20:52.480 -> 20:53.840] still won the race.
[20:53.840 -> 20:54.880] Yeah.
[20:54.880 -> 20:55.840] No matter to him.
[20:55.840 -> 20:58.160] But then, let's talk about the other Red Bull.
[20:58.160 -> 21:00.720] Like, Checo starting in from the pits.
[21:00.720 -> 21:03.040] Brilliant drive yesterday, man.
[21:03.040 -> 21:06.220] Like, all the way up into those
[21:06.220 -> 21:12.840] points. Brilliantly run, brilliantly driven. What was outstanding was
[21:12.840 -> 21:18.840] his crazy control of the car at turn 9, at which point even the
[21:18.840 -> 21:26.560] commentator said like we should rename this corner to check a corner. Inside line, outside line, elbows out.
[21:27.320 -> 21:33.320] Dude, it was just brilliant driving, brilliant overtake. Yeah. Hats off. Hats off.
[21:33.440 -> 21:37.240] Especially the first overtake that he did there, which was, I think on K-Mag.
[21:37.920 -> 21:43.200] He came out of nowhere and props to K-Mag as well, because he didn't like crash into him.
[21:43.200 -> 21:46.200] Because it was kind of a dive bomb very honestly.
[21:46.200 -> 21:46.600] Yes.
[21:46.600 -> 21:54.920] So props to him that he kind of still gave him space and wow, that first overtake was just insane.
[21:54.920 -> 21:56.520] Even the commentator lost his mind.
[21:56.520 -> 21:59.320] He was like, whoa, whoa, what's going on?
[22:00.640 -> 22:02.120] Yeah, dude, seriously.
[22:03.200 -> 22:04.760] Yeah, brilliant drive too, man.
[22:08.000 -> 22:10.000] And that too, like he lost out a bit doing the first red flag. He didn't have a good start.
[22:10.000 -> 22:15.000] So, I think, in the first part of the race, he made up some positions.
[22:15.000 -> 22:17.000] He lost out again after the first restart.
[22:17.000 -> 22:20.000] And then again, he made up some positions.
[22:20.000 -> 22:21.000] Yeah.
[22:21.000 -> 22:22.000] So, it was insane.
[22:22.000 -> 22:24.000] And where did he end up? P5, I think.
[22:24.000 -> 22:26.280] Peraz. Yeah. P5. And he did he end up? P5, I think. Perez, yeah. P5.
[22:26.280 -> 22:30.000] And he even got that fastest lap point for himself.
[22:30.000 -> 22:34.560] So, yeah. It was an amazing weekend from Perez, for sure.
[22:34.560 -> 22:36.800] And what? Next race is what? Baku?
[22:36.800 -> 22:39.320] Yeah. Street Circuit. King of Street.
[22:39.320 -> 22:41.320] So, let's see where he ends up.
[22:41.320 -> 22:43.880] Yeah, man. I am really rooting for Checo this time.
[22:43.880 -> 22:52.000] I hope that he does... he brings the fight to max. I don't want it to be a one-horse race.
[22:52.000 -> 23:08.520] He has it in him this time. It seems like it. Last season, it took him some time to get comfortable. But this time, he seems pretty fast. Of course, he's still... I'm not sure if it's a mistake. He also had some issues as well. I know that in the
[23:08.520 -> 23:12.320] qualification where basically, yeah, he got knocked out in Q1 because of that.
[23:12.320 -> 23:17.080] Yeah, let's see. It's also that of course, it's well known that Red Bull favors Max.
[23:17.080 -> 23:21.720] So, they kind of build a car for him. So, yeah. The way I was following this race
[23:21.720 -> 23:27.360] was as soon as Peres started climbing those positions at turn 9, turn 10,
[23:27.360 -> 23:30.360] I started looking what's next for him.
[23:30.360 -> 23:35.240] And then there was this train of Science, Gasly and Stroll.
[23:35.240 -> 23:38.960] And all of them were within that 1, 1.5 second window of each other.
[23:38.960 -> 23:50.880] So, it sort of felt like if he keeps on to this, there's a good chance he can overtake all three of them and then be comfortably fighting Alonso for that P4, P3 position.
[23:50.880 -> 24:05.520] But the gap for all those three, which was already lapped 52-53.
[24:06.320 -> 24:09.960] So, it was just impossible for Parias to then start fighting for P4.
[24:09.960 -> 24:11.160] But nonetheless...
[24:11.160 -> 24:15.440] Well, one person that we have to talk about is Alonso.
[24:15.440 -> 24:19.480] He is the saviour of this season for me.
[24:19.480 -> 24:28.100] I mean, as I just said some time ago, I don't want to watch the race if he's not P3, at least P3 in the season.
[24:28.100 -> 24:28.860] Yeah. Yeah.
[24:30.100 -> 24:34.940] He's having a tough time of his life, man. It's like reborn yet again, something like that.
[24:34.940 -> 24:35.440] I don't know.
[24:36.100 -> 24:37.220] For sure. For sure.
[24:37.540 -> 24:45.840] It's so interesting because I was following his Insta stories and obviously he's had some great fun yesterday and over the weekend with
[24:45.840 -> 24:50.960] like some brilliant drive trying to force as we said and spoke about some error from
[24:50.960 -> 24:55.360] Hamilton blah blah blah blah blah so he's posted some seven eight stories about like a brilliant
[24:55.360 -> 25:00.560] weekend and then his last story is about him separating with his partner and I'm like dude
[25:02.320 -> 25:09.520] and and and it's it's not like out of. I mean, there have been rumors and whatnot, but I'm like,
[25:09.560 -> 25:10.320] are you still having,
[25:10.320 -> 25:13.800] how are you still having the time of your life while going through something in
[25:13.800 -> 25:16.520] your personal life and blah, blah, blah. But yeah,
[25:16.520 -> 25:21.320] you see him pulling the lucky goatee of one of his race engineers
[25:21.800 -> 25:23.680] while celebrating. And I'm like, dude, this,
[25:23.680 -> 25:28.000] this man is just enjoying it up there and enjoying like his 40s.
[25:28.000 -> 25:30.560] Like no one else is. I'm in my thirties,
[25:31.000 -> 25:35.440] self doubting myself so much that I've had midlife crisis twice.
[25:35.440 -> 25:37.200] And that guy is in his forties having fun.
[25:39.280 -> 25:43.560] And that too, like, it's, he always seems like a wild card to me.
[25:43.880 -> 25:47.100] It's always like, I've never seen him stressed.
[25:47.100 -> 25:52.200] I'm sure he has his stresses, but I've never seen him stressed on track.
[25:52.200 -> 25:55.100] He seems so calm and collected somehow.
[25:55.100 -> 25:57.900] Yeah, super weird.
[25:57.900 -> 26:03.700] But yeah, man, I think he, at this point, I'm pretty sure most people are rooting for him.
[26:03.700 -> 26:08.040] First of all, it was such a surprise that Ashton Martin are doing so well.
[26:08.400 -> 26:09.240] All of a sudden.
[26:09.360 -> 26:10.640] Yeah. Even Stroll is surprised.
[26:10.640 -> 26:11.880] How is he so up?
[26:13.760 -> 26:14.600] Exactly.
[26:15.200 -> 26:18.600] Stroll every weekend is like that Pakistani roadies meme that,
[26:18.600 -> 26:20.120] have you selected me?
[26:20.120 -> 26:20.960] Are you sure?
[26:21.360 -> 26:22.640] Like, I'm this up?
[26:22.920 -> 26:23.920] I get so many points.
[26:24.120 -> 26:24.960] Are you sure?
[26:26.720 -> 26:31.040] Oh yeah, man. But, oh, that nudge that science gave him. Yeah.
[26:31.040 -> 26:34.080] It was so, so I was heartbroken.
[26:34.080 -> 26:38.040] And I'm like, it was so sad that he drove such a good race, but,
[26:38.840 -> 26:42.920] like just lost out because of that nudge. But of course he was so, again,
[26:42.920 -> 26:45.920] he was so calm and collected and he's like, wait, we didn't finish that
[26:45.920 -> 26:52.400] lap. So technically, he was so on point, right? Like quickly caught on to that. He was like,
[26:52.400 -> 26:58.000] we should restart again because we never finished. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It shows the experience. But did
[26:58.000 -> 27:05.800] you have like that SpongeBob moment where you're watching the race, you see Alonzo spin and then you, you know, fold the chair and start walking back in.
[27:05.800 -> 27:09.960] Exactly. Yeah, exactly. I was like, why?
[27:10.000 -> 27:15.520] I don't want to finish this race. Like there's no point. Why do I, why am I doing this to myself?
[27:15.640 -> 27:16.480] I don't know.
[27:17.160 -> 27:21.080] Oh, well, talking about interesting, what's going on with Ferrari, man?
[27:21.320 -> 27:28.000] Yeah, it's, it's, you know, how from our our childhood and I don't know the average age of people listening but
[27:28.000 -> 27:35.000] you know you used to have like Captain Planet as a cartoon where earth, fire, water, wind, life, we have Captain Planet.
[27:35.000 -> 27:42.000] It's something like that where you have FIA, race director, Ferrari themselves, the drivers, everyone comes together
[27:42.000 -> 27:43.000] and pasta sauce
[27:43.000 -> 27:48.000] to make sure, yes, to just make sure that the reds are never up there.
[27:50.560 -> 27:55.280] Oh man, first of all, Charles did a self-sabotage on lap one itself. He was like,
[27:55.280 -> 28:00.160] you know, fuck it, why give people hope, let's just finish this off in lap one.
[28:00.160 -> 28:01.760] So let's get out of the way.
[28:02.000 -> 28:06.000] So, let's get out of the way. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[28:06.000 -> 28:10.000] So, we pulled this on our socials and interestingly,
[28:10.000 -> 28:14.000] I mean, sure it came back as a 5446,
[28:14.000 -> 28:19.000] so still close enough with like almost 60-70 votes overall.
[28:19.000 -> 28:24.000] But I don't understand why there's 5446.
[28:24.000 -> 28:26.720] I mean, a 70-30, 80-20, sure.
[28:26.720 -> 28:34.000] But to me, that was clearly Charles's over-ambitiousness, trying to get in his own way sort of situation.
[28:35.080 -> 28:36.160] Oh, yeah. Totally, man.
[28:36.520 -> 28:40.920] And you know, the best thing that I want to point out is,
[28:41.480 -> 28:45.920] Hulkenberg is P9 in drivers championship and Charles is P10.
[28:45.920 -> 28:54.880] So well at least one quote-unquote Ferrari is ahead of the other. Yeah
[28:54.880 -> 28:59.680] interesting so by the way both customer teams are ahead of their
[28:59.680 -> 29:06.480] manufacturer teams. Aston Martin is ahead of most of these and Haas. Aston Martin is ahead of most of these and Haas is ahead of most of these.
[29:06.480 -> 29:10.760] Aston Martin is also living in some sort of a dream right now that dude forget
[29:10.760 -> 29:16.560] Alonso being P3 we are actually in title contention with Red Bull at this point.
[29:16.560 -> 29:22.960] Yeah, again as we are gonna keep this theme through the season that we are
[29:22.960 -> 29:27.800] not going to talk about Ferrari. Yeah, just one line is good enough.
[29:27.800 -> 29:30.680] Anyways, but I think there was some really good battles, right?
[29:30.680 -> 29:32.800] In yesterday's race.
[29:32.800 -> 29:38.680] What stuck out to me was PS3 all weekend to be honest.
[29:38.680 -> 29:42.000] I think there was some mojo going on with homeboy.
[29:42.000 -> 29:48.880] Which somehow, Ricardo seemed to have a homeboy curse for himself for the past few years
[29:48.880 -> 29:56.280] which PST doesn't seem to have. He is having some good pull through energy from this McLaren which is not been doing good
[29:56.280 -> 30:03.760] for the past two races. But he has had some brilliant drive. Yeah, first points. P8, 4 points.
[30:03.760 -> 30:04.940] And where was Lando?
[30:04.940 -> 30:05.060] Lando is up P6. Yeah, P6, first points. P8, 4 points. And where was Lando?
[30:05.060 -> 30:08.500] Lando was up. P6. Yeah, P6. 8 points.
[30:08.500 -> 30:12.300] Okay, McLaren, not bad. I mean, it took 8 cars to retire for them.
[30:12.300 -> 30:17.640] But still, they are not one of them. So, that's a positive.
[30:17.640 -> 30:19.080] Yeah.
[30:19.080 -> 30:38.000] Nonetheless, points are points. So, you know, that but but bro, I feel like with the 4DRS situation, at least the cars have closed in and and drivers are taking advantage of that turn 8, 9, 10 situation.
[30:38.000 -> 30:43.840] So, no, that at one point did feel like he was going to hold on to that P10.
[30:43.840 -> 30:47.680] But unfortunately, that didn't end up happening for him.
[30:47.680 -> 30:52.360] Nonetheless, he ended the race there with like eight cars retired.
[30:52.360 -> 30:56.360] But it was some well-fought situation for him.
[30:56.360 -> 31:03.320] One of the battles that stood out for me, though, was Lando versus Hulkenberg.
[31:03.320 -> 31:07.360] So, Lando was breathing down Hulk's neck.
[31:07.440 -> 31:09.680] I don't know how much of it you caught on to.
[31:10.480 -> 31:14.080] He did waver twice to keep Lando off bay.
[31:14.680 -> 31:19.920] But karma's a bitch. Eventually, Lando did overtake Hulkenberg.
[31:20.200 -> 31:27.320] But that was some brilliant, brilliant fight between Norris and Hulkenberg out there.
[31:27.320 -> 31:32.920] And eventually, that reflected on the table with P6, P7, Norris and Hulkenberg.
[31:32.920 -> 31:33.720] Yeah, that's true.
[31:33.720 -> 31:38.600] Yeah, I think overall, I was a little concerned with the four DRSs.
[31:38.600 -> 31:41.440] I'm still not 100% sure.
[31:41.440 -> 31:42.600] Yeah, I'm with you.
[31:42.600 -> 31:43.200] I'm with you.
[31:43.200 -> 31:46.400] I still would probably want three and not four.
[31:46.400 -> 31:50.040] Because at that point, just keep the DRS on through the track, right?
[31:50.040 -> 31:51.520] Like, why even have...
[31:52.400 -> 31:57.240] Yeah, dude, but at this point, like, we can just be frustrated.
[31:57.240 -> 32:03.640] Because at this point, I think Stefano yesterday came out, or the day before yesterday came out and said, like, there could be 32 races.
[32:04.560 -> 32:05.980] Because there's so What? No.
[32:05.980 -> 32:11.220] Yeah. And I am at this point, I am like, dude, don't you know there are 52 weekends in a year?
[32:11.220 -> 32:13.860] Take all 52. Why just 32?
[32:13.860 -> 32:15.100] Exactly. Why just 32?
[32:15.100 -> 32:16.780] I am like, f**k you.
[32:16.780 -> 32:22.260] Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah, that's scaring me a little.
[32:22.260 -> 32:28.040] Right. I mean, we are fans. We've been seeing the race for years now.
[32:28.040 -> 32:31.160] But even I'm not going to watch all 32 if they're going to do 32.
[32:31.160 -> 32:32.680] Yeah, that's right, man.
[32:32.680 -> 32:36.320] Well, let's see. I hope not.
[32:36.320 -> 32:42.200] I mean, the direction overall that F1 is going is towards money.
[32:42.200 -> 32:46.100] I get it. But at the same same time like what we saw today even
[32:46.100 -> 32:50.380] what we discussed like the amount of red flags and everything that they had today
[32:50.380 -> 32:55.820] which seemed unnecessary seemed like manufactured drama yeah I mean I think
[32:55.820 -> 33:01.660] their understanding is more drama is yeah was more views always it's not
[33:01.660 -> 33:08.400] exactly true I mean we'd have to see the financials. It's definitely not working for us for sure.
[33:09.840 -> 33:12.520] What was interesting to me, and we've,
[33:12.520 -> 33:17.520] we've spoken about this offline is going through some of the nerdy stuff where
[33:18.600 -> 33:23.600] we saw quite a lot of rear wings being more bulkier and heavier to address the
[33:24.880 -> 33:26.160] four DRS zones,
[33:27.080 -> 33:33.120] people going more wider than they should on their rear wing to accommodate for
[33:33.120 -> 33:34.320] those four DRS zones.
[33:36.400 -> 33:42.920] What I want to see more and more is if F1 can sort of like even address to people
[33:47.660 -> 33:52.840] if F1 can sort of like even address to people who are more geeky, like bring out that technical changes side of the race where, you know, this is what's different on this track.
[33:52.840 -> 33:56.540] And you know, them sort of start addressing.
[33:56.540 -> 34:00.560] They do that with like the grid walk, the garage walk and blah, blah, blah.
[34:00.560 -> 34:02.420] But I want to see more of it.
[34:02.420 -> 34:05.880] You know, this is how these teams have changed their front wing, the arrows,
[34:07.200 -> 34:08.680] what, what and whatnot. Right.
[34:08.680 -> 34:13.040] Like one thing I know for sure is Mercedes changed their
[34:13.040 -> 34:16.440] suspensions, their brake ducts for the weekend.
[34:16.440 -> 34:20.200] And I'm having fun with all of this. I don't know how many people are,
[34:20.240 -> 34:24.040] probably they just want a Bollywood movie out of the weekend.
[34:24.680 -> 34:28.000] And that's why they're also talking about scrapping up practice watch.
[34:28.000 -> 34:31.000] Yeah, they're talking about that right. I heard that.
[34:31.000 -> 34:39.000] I hate for it to go away but sure. Max even said like he's not gonna stick around if they make those changes.
[34:39.000 -> 34:48.120] He's happy with the sim racing. Yeah. Make people happy with just vanity of things like,
[34:48.120 -> 34:53.160] oh, Williams has a white delivery under their hood which could show up
[34:53.160 -> 34:55.600] because they have a gulf sponsor shirt.
[34:55.600 -> 34:56.320] Yeah, whatever.
[34:56.320 -> 34:58.560] It's going to look good. I don't deny it.
[34:58.560 -> 35:01.640] But vanity of uniform and shirt.
[35:01.640 -> 35:03.840] That's the end of my rant.
[35:03.840 -> 35:06.000] Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan, right? Yeah. That's the end of my rant. Azerbaijan.
[35:06.000 -> 35:08.000] Azerbaijan right? Yeah. That's usually a good race.
[35:08.000 -> 35:10.000] Usually a good race.
[35:10.000 -> 35:12.000] Unless we see more of I am stupid.
[35:12.000 -> 35:14.000] Running to
[35:14.000 -> 35:16.000] castle section again.
[35:16.000 -> 35:18.000] We'll see where that is.
[35:18.000 -> 35:20.000] Or, or, or
[35:20.000 -> 35:22.000] Hamilton pressing the magic buttons.
[35:22.000 -> 35:24.000] Again,
[35:24.000 -> 35:29.000] right? Like red flag at the penultimate two laps of the situation.
[35:29.000 -> 35:33.000] But dude, it's at the end of the month. We've got such a huge gap again.
[35:33.000 -> 35:38.000] And then if everything's going to come down to a crunch-based situation towards the end of the season.
[35:38.000 -> 35:49.760] Whatever. We've ranted too much about this. Let's not go there. That's the end of our rant. Be on the lookout for memes, some technical brain
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[36:15.000 -> 36:20.000] Until the next race, this is F1 Fan Fiction signing off.
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