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In the latest episode of F1 FanFiction, we discuss the eventful weekend in Austria. We address the tragic death of the Dutch driver Dilano Van’t Hoff on the Kimmel Strait, emphasizing the dangers of the sport. Moving on to the F1 race, we highlight the exciting sprint race in wet conditions, with Max's expected win. We analyze strategic decisions, penalties, and standout performances while mentioning the impact of the Virtual Safety Car on Ferrari and Red Bull's results.
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# F1 Fan Fiction: Austrian Grand Prix Review
## Introduction
- The episode begins with a discussion about the tragic death of Dutch driver Dilano Van't Hoff, emphasizing the dangers of the sport.
- The hosts move on to the F1 race, highlighting the excitement of the sprint race in wet conditions and Max Verstappen's expected win.
## Race Analysis
- The hosts analyze strategic decisions, penalties, and standout performances during the race.
- They mention the impact of the Virtual Safety Car (VSC) on Ferrari and Red Bull's results.
## Notable Moments
- The hosts discuss several notable moments from the race, including:
- The "jetpack man" incident during qualifying.
- Sarang finally figuring out the sprint schedule.
- Nico Hulkenberg's visible pores during the formation lap.
- Max Verstappen's dominance and mastery of restarts.
- The four-way battle for position between several drivers.
- The controversy surrounding the black and white flag shown to Lewis Hamilton.
- Sergio Perez's intimidating tactics against Carlos Sainz.
- The suggestion that ChatGPT could be Ferrari's new strategist.
- The high number of track limit violations (1200) during the race.
## Controversies and Insights
- The hosts discuss controversies and insights related to the race, including:
- The potential racism of the black and white flag.
- Sergio Perez's perceived intimidation of Carlos Sainz.
- The use of ChatGPT as a potential Ferrari strategist.
## Conclusion
- The hosts wrap up the episode with a brief statement encapsulating the overall message or takeaway from the podcast: that Max Verstappen's dominance continues, and he is in a league of his own this season. **Introduction:**
* The latest episode of the F1 FanFiction podcast delves into the eventful weekend in Austria, addressing the tragic death of Dilano Van't Hoff and highlighting the dangers of the sport.
* The podcast then shifts focus to the exciting sprint race in wet conditions, with Max Verstappen securing a dominant victory.
**Race Analysis:**
* The podcast analyzes strategic decisions, penalties, and standout performances during the race.
* The impact of the Virtual Safety Car on Ferrari and Red Bull's strategies is discussed.
**Key Moments and Controversies:**
* Notable moments include Max Verstappen's masterful restart after the Virtual Safety Car period and the four-way battle for positions.
* The podcast raises questions about the potential racial implications of the black and white flag used for track limit violations.
* Sergio Perez's aggressive defense against Carlos Sainz is highlighted.
**Aston Martin's Rise:**
* The podcast acknowledges Aston Martin's impressive performance, with Fernando Alonso leading the charge and challenging for podium positions.
* The team's resurgence brings excitement to the Constructors' Championship.
**Track Limit Violations:**
* The podcast addresses the staggering number of track limit violations during the race, emphasizing the challenges drivers faced in staying within the boundaries.
* The need for clearer regulations and potential solutions to reduce violations is discussed.
**Conclusion:**
* The podcast wraps up with a discussion of the upcoming British Grand Prix at Silverstone, expressing relief that Max Verstappen will not face the same safety concerns as in previous races.
[00:00.000 -> 00:05.080] Crosses curves are a bit dangerous, you know, like cars can kind of go flying off of them.
[00:05.120 -> 00:09.440] So, you know, we don't generally want cars flying, like that's not the goal here.
[00:09.800 -> 00:13.800] So if the cars do fly, they'll end up hitting the jetpack guy.
[00:17.920 -> 00:21.400] So we want to be safety for jetpack guy.
[00:21.480 -> 00:21.840] Yeah.
[00:22.280 -> 00:32.200] Respectful to all jetpack guy. Yeah, respectful to all jetpackers.
[00:39.200 -> 00:39.800] Hello and welcome back to F1 Fan Fiction, a show about race weekend reviews and racing community interviews.
[00:41.840 -> 00:42.000] Today, we are in Australia.
[00:46.000 -> 00:55.500] But before getting into it, this weekend was not a trivial one. I mean, the whole motorsporting community was running into snafu issues. Some gruesome, some not so much, luckily.
[00:55.500 -> 01:11.000] We cannot start this episode without addressing the death of Van't Hoff. I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly, a four-year-old Dutch teenager on the Kimmel Strait, just sad.
[01:11.000 -> 01:17.000] We take this sport for granted at times for the safety that it has over the years.
[01:17.000 -> 01:28.400] But it still remains one of the most dangerous sports as we've seen over the past decade. The other one that wasn't
[01:28.400 -> 01:37.020] that unlucky was Simon Paganod at the IndyCar, Mid Ohio. It was a serious
[01:37.020 -> 01:41.720] tumble but lucky to see he walked off on that one without any serious injuries.
[01:41.720 -> 01:47.780] And then lastly, on a lighter note, F1 had its very own incident as well.
[01:48.140 -> 01:51.860] With the jetpack guy falling off the skies.
[01:52.180 -> 01:53.580] It's a bird, it's a plane.
[01:53.580 -> 01:56.100] Now it's a jetpack guy crashing down on the road.
[01:56.420 -> 01:59.980] The good part was like, he sort of like waved it off as nothing happened, but
[01:59.980 -> 02:03.220] I was fucking limping his way back to the sides.
[02:03.540 -> 02:07.680] And then we see like a cut short of a P. Astley sipping tea,
[02:07.960 -> 02:09.360] just nodding things off.
[02:10.680 -> 02:15.160] You know, one thing I just want to point out is one of those three was not like
[02:15.160 -> 02:16.000] the others.
[02:16.120 -> 02:16.560] Just
[02:20.200 -> 02:21.520] those people who are shocked,
[02:21.600 -> 02:26.080] like we are going from such a serious topic to just joking about it.
[02:26.080 -> 02:28.880] Yeah, tough luck. Sorry, this is what you'll get here.
[02:28.880 -> 02:32.440] But anyway, yeah, but it's really sad. I totally agree to what you said.
[02:32.440 -> 02:36.280] Like, you know, even when we say that, you know, sport has become a lot safer.
[02:37.480 -> 02:42.400] We do keep saying these, talking about these things again and again, you know, month after month.
[02:42.400 -> 02:45.200] Like, it's not like, it's been a long before
[02:49.680 -> 02:57.360] that like happened in the sport. But yeah, we should always be mindful of, you know, how dangerous a sport this is. It's pretty sad. But that jet-packed guy, man, is too funny.
[02:57.360 -> 03:05.880] One of the beasters falling off. Yeah. But how was the weekend for you, Sarang?
[03:05.880 -> 03:10.360] It was one of those confusing weekends with so much happening.
[03:10.360 -> 03:10.880] But how was it?
[03:11.160 -> 03:16.160] Exactly. Totally feel like a boomer every time there's a sprint happening.
[03:18.960 -> 03:23.120] But yeah, regardless, I think, yeah, again, I was pretty confused about what the
[03:23.120 -> 03:27.560] schedule is and everything. You know, finally, I was able to actually figure it out.
[03:27.560 -> 03:31.800] So this time, at least I understood what is the shootout qualification, what is the actual qualification.
[03:32.880 -> 03:46.600] But anyways, I think I came into the weekend being a bit skeptical, kind of pessimistic, you know, that it'll be like, too much racing might be boring considering Austria. And it's just a straight track pretty much.
[03:47.040 -> 03:47.240] Yeah.
[03:47.240 -> 03:53.840] You have four straight lines, but man, I'm happy to be proven wrong.
[03:53.920 -> 03:55.760] Like it was a pretty good weekend.
[03:55.760 -> 03:56.960] The sprint race was amazing.
[03:56.960 -> 04:00.640] The wet weather like added just the right amount of spice.
[04:01.200 -> 04:02.360] The race was also pretty good.
[04:02.400 -> 04:08.480] I mean, yeah, there was no race at the start, like at the lead, but regardless, a good overtaking. Overall, a nice weekend.
[04:08.480 -> 04:14.640] Right. Yeah, I agree with you. Like, sure, like, Max fucks up and wins the race. It's the trivial stuff.
[04:14.640 -> 04:26.000] But other than that, I think like this weekend, after a long time, at least for me, was quite entertaining because something or the other was happening through the weekend.
[04:26.000 -> 04:29.160] I mean, discarding, qualifying and the shootout.
[04:29.160 -> 04:37.120] Yeah, there's so much to unpack. I don't think we're probably going to get into each and everything that did happen over the weekend, folks.
[04:37.120 -> 04:39.680] But we'll try to sort of like summarize as much as we can.
[04:39.680 -> 04:47.920] To start off, at least for me, a bit disturbing was to see how many pores Nico Hulkenberg
[04:47.920 -> 04:53.080] has on his nose. And I don't know why, I don't know why the cameraman chose to
[04:53.080 -> 04:55.880] sort of like zoom in so much into his nose.
[04:57.800 -> 05:01.640] Oh man. Yeah. I've, you know, you know what, I've actually noticed this a couple
[05:01.640 -> 05:05.300] of times and I, I've never been able to understand why they do this.
[05:05.760 -> 05:13.040] Every time before the formation lab, for some reason, the cameraman has a very big urge to zoom into people's faces.
[05:13.040 -> 05:18.680] And that too while they're wearing the helmet, like this is just this much section of their face visible anyways.
[05:19.080 -> 05:20.560] So I don't know what they're zooming into.
[05:20.560 -> 05:21.280] Seriously.
[05:21.560 -> 05:24.240] Felt like I'm looking at the craters in the moon today.
[05:24.520 -> 05:29.380] Poor Neep, I mean, he's old, he's old. At least from that zoom in, I can vouch he is old.
[05:29.380 -> 05:32.840] But he was having more than a decent sprint race, man.
[05:32.840 -> 05:40.600] Like, he gained good two positions from folks on inters in that final lap, finishing at P6.
[05:40.600 -> 05:44.860] Sort of like, did kind of lose out to that Pitt Gamble.
[05:44.860 -> 05:45.000] Yeah. Yeah. P6, sort of like did kind of lose out to that Pitt Gamble.
[05:45.000 -> 05:46.000] Yeah.
[05:46.000 -> 05:50.760] But overall, I mean, he held on to that P2 for a long, long time.
[05:50.760 -> 05:51.760] I loved watching.
[05:51.760 -> 05:57.400] Yeah, I mean, a wildly kind of, I too kind of feel that he lost out on the Pitt Gamble,
[05:57.400 -> 06:00.520] but honestly, like, I think he would have ended the same place anyways.
[06:00.520 -> 06:10.720] Like, I don't think there was a better position than P6 for him in that race because I'm pretty sure whoever was P5, was it Hamilton I think? He would have overtaken
[06:10.720 -> 06:14.600] him anyways. But yeah, amazing performance by Hulk. I'm super impressed by how well
[06:14.600 -> 06:20.640] he's doing in Haas very honestly. He's qualifying so well. Of course, it's Haas, they can't
[06:20.640 -> 06:26.000] maintain the same pace through the race, but at least he tries to milk something out of it.
[06:26.000 -> 06:29.000] So, kudos to him. It's pretty awesome.
[06:29.000 -> 06:35.000] One thing I wanted to talk about was the start of the race. Perez and Max going at it.
[06:35.000 -> 06:37.000] It was pretty intense when it started.
[06:37.000 -> 06:45.040] It was. And they were going at it. Tires were young. So there was some under braking from Perez.
[06:49.040 -> 06:49.680] Nothing sort of like out of force onto Max.
[06:50.840 -> 06:50.860] And then obviously Max,
[06:55.080 -> 06:55.100] I feel like at that point was being a cry baby of sorts, not as much,
[06:58.480 -> 07:00.280] but sure. And then we hear this message from Perez saying, what is wrong with Max? So,
[07:02.080 -> 07:07.800] You know, but I, for once, I feel that today, this time Max was in the right, you know, but I, for once, I, I feel that today this time Max was in the right, very honestly.
[07:08.680 -> 07:11.520] Especially if you saw the start of the race,
[07:12.080 -> 07:16.320] when Perez was squeezing Max into his, onto the grass.
[07:16.760 -> 07:20.320] That was a little dirty. I think considering he is his teammate,
[07:20.320 -> 07:23.160] I think going, pushing your teammate onto the grass is not cool.
[07:23.000 -> 07:24.720] I think pushing your teammate under the grass was not cool. The grass wasn't required. Yeah.
[07:26.440 -> 07:30.000] So I think the counter that Max did actually was very brilliant.
[07:30.000 -> 07:33.920] I don't know if you caught that, but like the turn three blocks that he created,
[07:33.920 -> 07:37.640] he just shoved his car into the corner, blocked everybody.
[07:37.640 -> 07:39.200] You know, there was a complete...
[07:39.400 -> 07:43.600] He blocked everybody so much that I think at that point,
[07:43.640 -> 07:47.080] Norris was P3. This car went into
[07:47.080 -> 08:01.240] anti stall and he ended up being like P10. Exactly. I was like, f**k you to everyone. That was a sight to see. I don't know. I mean I agree it was kind of like a
[08:01.240 -> 08:06.000] you know spoil sport kind of a move but it was very funny and very awesome at the same time.
[08:06.000 -> 08:13.000] It was like flexing as well. Not just that I'm so fast, I can just block the entire field at one turn.
[08:13.000 -> 08:29.560] Right. And one person's pain was other person's glory. Because Hulk eventually, that whole situation put him off into P3 and yeah, eventually P2. One of the things that I noticed and the commentators pointed this out a couple of times too was
[08:29.560 -> 08:36.080] the fact that everyone was on inters and as the race progressed, you could see people
[08:36.080 -> 08:43.840] going off, off the race line and then into, into the wet side. Yeah. So for folks like
[08:43.840 -> 08:46.240] this is, this is usually done to cool down the tires
[08:46.240 -> 08:49.440] The inters are usually or better condition tires
[08:49.440 -> 08:52.920] Which don't need to be warmed up as much as your hearts and you know
[08:53.320 -> 08:58.600] Just just some conditions in which those tires need to be driven. But as that track starts drying up
[08:59.000 -> 09:05.200] the temperatures on those tires start going up which is not not ideal to get the maximum out of those.
[09:05.200 -> 09:10.960] And so these drivers go off track to pull those tires down and do what they need.
[09:10.960 -> 09:15.840] But having said that, on to some brilliant battling to Charles and Okon, dude.
[09:15.840 -> 09:27.040] Oh yes, it was amazing. Okon, again, man, I'm so impressed by his defense skills. It's unreal how he is driving this season, almost to me.
[09:27.040 -> 09:32.720] I mean, he has been pretty good at defense through the years I've seen him.
[09:32.720 -> 09:36.880] But this year, especially, I think he is doing exceptionally well.
[09:36.880 -> 09:50.160] Yeah. I mean, eventually, Charles did get around him. But it wasn't easy. He made him fight for it. Inside lines, outside lines, around the corners, switcheroos.
[09:50.160 -> 09:54.880] Say what you will and Ocon is not letting him.
[09:54.880 -> 10:02.280] The other last, one of the last things that at least for me stood out was Russell making this early move into the pits
[10:02.280 -> 10:06.240] to sort of get his tires changed out of of his enters. And then everyone was like,
[10:06.240 -> 10:08.780] yes, it's eight laps to go.
[10:09.220 -> 10:12.240] Did he really need to do that? Does he really need to do that?
[10:12.240 -> 10:19.140] Or is he gonna start a domino chain and like make everyone else start thinking like, hey, this one's done it.
[10:19.220 -> 10:26.840] Should we start doing it? So he enters the pits, comes out P20,Aster is somewhat happy. Sorry, both are. One of those two.
[10:26.840 -> 10:30.240] He is surely happy because they are not going to be last at this point.
[10:30.240 -> 10:31.240] Yeah, yeah.
[10:31.240 -> 10:34.240] But then everyone falls for it, dude.
[10:34.240 -> 10:36.240] Everybody fell for it, exactly.
[10:36.240 -> 10:39.480] Hindsight, Russell is the winner in this case, right?
[10:39.480 -> 10:44.520] Yeah, definitely. Because I think before the pit, was he in the points?
[10:44.520 -> 10:46.240] I am not sure. I didn't think so. He was out.
[10:46.240 -> 10:48.240] Before the pits, yeah, he was.
[10:48.240 -> 10:56.880] Yeah, right. So, yeah, totally awesome move. And we got like an ultimate photo finish, right, between him and Okon.
[10:56.880 -> 11:01.920] Wow. It was so awesome. 7,000th of a second. That's all the margin that was.
[11:01.920 -> 11:07.200] It was overall a pretty good sprint race. I'm like quite surprised how well it went.
[11:07.760 -> 11:08.160] Yeah.
[11:08.320 -> 11:12.120] Honestly, I didn't have a lot of expectations, but yeah.
[11:12.480 -> 11:12.680] Yeah.
[11:12.680 -> 11:16.960] I saw the sprint race after the main race and I messaged you, right?
[11:16.960 -> 11:21.600] Like, can I call myself a fan if I'm not too inclined in even watching the sprint race?
[11:23.400 -> 11:24.560] I'm glad I did it.
[11:26.480 -> 11:37.880] It wasn't as bad. But on to the Sunday. On to the Sunday. Yeah, I mean, I think like we said this, like, this is one of those races which I enjoyed.
[11:37.880 -> 11:46.800] I enjoyed. After some time where there was good stuff happening all through the race. Sure, maybe 5-6 laps were a bit
[11:46.800 -> 11:51.760] dull in the 40s or the 50s, but otherwise this was like a brilliant race all throughout.
[11:52.800 -> 11:59.360] Oh yeah, yeah, totally agree with that. It was a pretty decent weekend, like the race rather. Yes,
[11:59.360 -> 12:09.920] like every race is gonna have some dull moments, but I guess that's like just part and parcel of it other than that pretty awesome. You know what let's talk about the race start a little man
[12:09.920 -> 12:14.080] it was pretty decent actually right like when it started off Charles was actually
[12:14.720 -> 12:19.920] competing Max it felt like you know there was going to be an actual battle at the start
[12:19.920 -> 12:26.400] but of course we got the safety car soon. It's completely nullified everything. And yet again,
[12:26.400 -> 12:33.840] I think Max took all the advantage of the restart. Again, caught Luckluck sleeping kind of and just
[12:33.840 -> 12:37.600] went away. And after that, I didn't think there was any chance of him catching him.
[12:37.600 -> 12:43.200] I mean, but at least the good part was like, it wasn't lap one, Max gets a brilliant start.
[12:43.840 -> 12:46.600] Lap 1, Max gets a brilliant start and then… So, the situation did take… Yeah, right.
[12:46.600 -> 12:51.160] Because it did take a few laps, a safety car, a restart sort of situation.
[12:51.160 -> 12:56.080] For Max to sort of get into his usual element and then drive out.
[12:56.080 -> 13:02.080] But yeah, dude. I think Leclerc was bringing in all that energy from last year's win.
[13:02.080 -> 13:04.920] Charging on all the insides and outsides again.
[13:04.920 -> 13:09.740] He was probably playing the way he was playing Ocon during the sprint.
[13:09.740 -> 13:17.500] Brilliant battle at that front. And for once, I was thinking, maybe it's possible for Lakle to hold on to it.
[13:17.500 -> 13:26.480] But to be honest, I mean, you shared this website that shows the timing chart. and he didn't have the pace like at least for the first
[13:26.480 -> 13:32.480] 12 laps, Max was faster even though like they were battling it out and stuff but Max was faster.
[13:32.480 -> 13:39.440] On the other side with the racetrack, I think like we had Mr. Optimistic yesterday in Yuki
[13:39.440 -> 13:46.840] Sunoda as he was trying to sort of like get his way through the pack. The dude didn't have a front wing, man.
[13:46.840 -> 13:49.840] You get it?
[13:49.840 -> 13:53.680] And he was trying to outbrake other people with that.
[13:53.680 -> 13:55.160] Right.
[13:55.160 -> 13:58.680] That too on a downhill right turner.
[13:58.680 -> 13:59.320] Exactly.
[13:59.320 -> 14:00.400] It was a steep turner.
[14:00.400 -> 14:01.200] So sure.
[14:01.200 -> 14:02.600] Yeah.
[14:02.600 -> 14:04.200] Found the gravel that way.
[14:04.200 -> 14:05.640] And then Zhao caught my attention too. So sure, found the gravel that way.
[14:07.520 -> 14:12.480] And then Zhao caught my attention too. Cause like Zhao gained three positions while all of this drama was
[14:12.480 -> 14:16.320] going on. I don't know why they pitted him at lap eight. I don't know.
[14:16.320 -> 14:20.120] Maybe like, because he, his tires, I don't know.
[14:20.120 -> 14:22.840] Maybe there was, yeah, I'm not clear about that either. Either way,
[14:22.840 -> 14:26.560] it's just, you know, Alfa Romeo things. It doesn't
[14:26.560 -> 14:31.140] really matter. But let's talk about their engine supplier a little. I think we have
[14:31.140 -> 14:36.040] gone past our ban against Ferrari, or so to say.
[14:36.040 -> 14:41.120] Yeah, because this weekend wasn't bad, right? Like front grid lockup. I mean, I call that
[14:41.120 -> 14:46.720] front grid lockup because you can't really count P1, but P2, P3.
[14:46.720 -> 14:48.000] So, right.
[14:48.000 -> 14:52.040] I think science did pretty well this race.
[14:52.040 -> 14:54.000] Let's actually talk about one thing.
[14:54.000 -> 14:57.360] I think there was some controversy here and I think a lot of people were also talking
[14:57.360 -> 15:02.960] about it that where science was asking for a swap with Leclerc before the first pitch
[15:02.960 -> 15:03.960] top.
[15:03.960 -> 15:06.320] Yeah. swap with Lucknow before the first pit stop. And it seemed like science was faster.
[15:07.440 -> 15:10.960] But we saw some data, right? What does the data say?
[15:11.400 -> 15:12.760] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Again,
[15:13.440 -> 15:18.000] f1-tempo.com is where we are seeing all of this.
[15:18.600 -> 15:20.720] Check that out again. You can pick the drivers,
[15:20.720 -> 15:24.280] you can sort of like pick the race and what do you want to see.
[15:24.400 -> 15:25.520] What it looks like is
[15:25.520 -> 15:32.560] sure they've been going back and forth between their lap times overall. But for those initial
[15:32.560 -> 15:41.360] laps, it does look that Leclerc was faster overall, except like lap 10 maybe because
[15:41.360 -> 15:53.040] something happened, he slowed down or maybe he was fighting someone, whatever it was. But overall, he was faster. But again, that's not metadata, that's overall lap
[15:53.040 -> 16:00.800] time. So from that, I don't see why they didn't switch him. Sure. Yeah, fair enough. And I think
[16:00.800 -> 16:05.280] it's also like, you can't switch your drivers on whim like, you know
[16:05.280 -> 16:10.260] Even if like the driver behind is a little faster for say four or five laps. Yeah
[16:10.840 -> 16:16.200] Doesn't really mean that that will be the case through the race. I mean they have predictions they have
[16:16.980 -> 16:21.740] You know a lot more information. So kind of I agree with the team decision on that one
[16:22.440 -> 16:26.200] Are we saying we are agreeing with Ferrari and their strategy?
[16:26.880 -> 16:27.720] Right.
[16:28.640 -> 16:31.880] Are you saying F1 fan fiction stands with Ferrari and their strategy?
[16:31.880 -> 16:32.720] I'm sure.
[16:33.960 -> 16:35.440] Much of the times we live in.
[16:39.960 -> 16:43.320] But regardless, I think Ferrari was, I think the biggest loser, right?
[16:43.800 -> 16:46.720] When like the VSE happened basically
[16:46.720 -> 16:53.840] or rather even Red Bull but I think in fact if it wasn't for the VSE and Red Bull missing out on that
[16:53.840 -> 16:59.120] pit there would have been absolutely no question about who's gonna win the race. At least I think
[16:59.120 -> 17:03.920] I mean I had the feeling that Max would win either ways but still there was some you know there was
[17:03.920 -> 17:07.920] some ray of hope that there might be some battle later on ahead.
[17:07.920 -> 17:11.840] And we did get some kind of like for half a lap maybe, but yeah.
[17:12.440 -> 17:16.720] Yeah. I think the VSC probably could have come out a bit earlier. I don't know.
[17:16.720 -> 17:19.560] And then the safety car and all of that should have, could have,
[17:19.920 -> 17:24.320] could have sort of thing. But they did, they did extend the stint.
[17:24.320 -> 17:26.560] So eventually Ferrari and
[17:26.560 -> 17:32.320] Red Bull did get their window also to come and fit under the safety car situation.
[17:32.320 -> 17:37.840] Didn't look like Red Bull did it but at least Ferrari did. They ended up taking
[17:37.840 -> 17:45.000] that double stack, took some time on Charles's car which sort of like...
[17:45.000 -> 17:47.000] Science proves his short stick.
[17:47.000 -> 17:54.000] Poor science man. Every race he is like fighting with his engineers.
[17:54.000 -> 17:58.000] Always like, guys, why guys?
[17:58.000 -> 18:00.000] Too much was happening in that race start man.
[18:00.000 -> 18:05.000] Like it was only lap 8 and everyone was getting flag waved off.
[18:05.760 -> 18:09.280] Sonoda was going off. Mid pack was battling.
[18:09.640 -> 18:14.640] What train was that? There was like a stroll, Hulk, Ghazali, Albon, Rossi.
[18:14.760 -> 18:18.320] Yeah. So much was happening, dude.
[18:18.320 -> 18:20.240] Like too much, I would say.
[18:20.440 -> 18:23.760] Right. I tried and remembering what all happened and I couldn't.
[18:23.760 -> 18:26.840] Like even when I was watching the race and I was like writing the race notes,
[18:27.300 -> 18:29.740] I lost like, you know,
[18:29.740 -> 18:33.260] I lost out a lot of stuff in the race notes because I couldn't type fast enough
[18:33.660 -> 18:37.380] to write what's happening on the screen. At points,
[18:37.380 -> 18:41.420] there was like chaos. Like there was this four, four way battle, I think, right?
[18:41.420 -> 18:46.880] Between KMAG, Albon, Ocon, Stroll. I don't know what was going on.
[18:46.880 -> 18:50.440] There was like people going in three wide into turns and shit like that.
[18:50.440 -> 18:53.400] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Weirdly, you know what I thought?
[18:54.160 -> 18:58.600] Lab 12 Hamilton got shown the black and white flag
[18:59.720 -> 19:02.360] and he was complaining that the car is not fast enough.
[19:02.640 -> 19:03.680] And he was complaining that the car is not fast enough for us.
[19:05.080 -> 19:06.400] And then I had turning.
[19:09.360 -> 19:12.720] No, but then with the flag shown in my head, I'm thinking, is it racist to show Hamilton a black and white flag?
[19:14.000 -> 19:17.000] We're just coming out of pride month. Should that flag be changed?
[19:17.440 -> 19:21.400] I'm like, my brain has been conditioned so much with the media these days.
[19:21.720 -> 19:24.040] And I'm thinking maybe black and white is racist. And you know,
[19:24.040 -> 19:25.000] we should have like a fight.
[19:25.680 -> 19:31.040] Anyways, anyways, what is interesting after that was like, Hamilton was on the
[19:31.040 -> 19:33.360] radio saying, I can't keep it on tracks.
[19:33.680 -> 19:34.760] The car won't turn.
[19:34.800 -> 19:39.040] So then like he was told that he's, he's going to get a penalty if he doesn't do
[19:39.040 -> 19:39.200] it.
[19:39.680 -> 19:43.160] Um, and then everyone else, I mean, I, at least was like, when we were watching,
[19:43.160 -> 19:47.000] they're like, dude, just go a bit slower on that turn if you can't keep it on the track.
[19:47.000 -> 19:49.400] That's exactly what the commentator said as well.
[19:49.400 -> 19:51.400] You can always go slower, you know.
[19:51.400 -> 20:01.400] And the best part was, later Hamilton was like, taking notes for Perez and complaining every single time when he went off the track.
[20:01.400 -> 20:03.600] He's like, hey, why isn't he getting a penalty?
[20:03.600 -> 20:08.400] And he said that too. Now that everyone's dishing everyone out, you know, Perez is doing this.
[20:08.400 -> 20:15.120] Bring this up. Exactly. At one point, I remember Toto came onto the radio and said, Hamilton,
[20:15.120 -> 20:18.400] that everybody ahead of you has a penalty, so don't worry about it.
[20:18.960 -> 20:25.040] Yeah, he's just driving. But yeah, shuffling back between Mercedes and Ferrari, going back to Ferrari.
[20:30.560 -> 20:31.000] So science with that weight and like the build stack comes behind the McLaren.
[20:37.360 -> 20:37.520] You know, he obviously is again, the frustrated as usual, asking why didn't,
[20:39.760 -> 20:40.720] like, why didn't we just keep going and not stop?
[20:44.560 -> 20:48.160] I think from then on, even before that, but like at least from then on, he was like, I'm going to drive this race and I'm going to be the steward, the engineer.
[20:48.160 -> 20:55.440] Everything is going to be me. So overall, I think he drove well. He drove well. Put himself in a good position in the end.
[20:55.440 -> 21:08.540] Well, anyways, he got more penalties, right? So it didn't really matter. He dropped to what? P6 or something. I think so. Science? Yeah. But it didn't go without that battle, right?
[21:08.540 -> 21:11.180] Because like, who was Science fighting?
[21:11.180 -> 21:18.460] I think he was fighting with Perez. But regardless, I think, even without the fight, he would have still ended up where he ended up
[21:18.460 -> 21:26.640] because of his 5-second penalty or 10-second penalty, I forget. No, he was in a losing position or at a disadvantage for sure.
[21:26.640 -> 21:35.440] But I really felt his brilliance yesterday for the sense that he was thinking way ahead.
[21:35.440 -> 21:39.440] And hear me out, right. So, he was battling, I think, Norris.
[21:39.440 -> 21:47.000] At that point, Norris was behind him. And he wasn't sort of like going way away from Norris,
[21:47.000 -> 21:53.720] which he could have, because he was trying to build that DRS train because he knew Perez was on fresher tires.
[21:53.720 -> 21:57.680] He knew Perez was going to come for him and he knew Perez was going to overtake him.
[21:57.680 -> 21:58.280] But he was trying to build...
[21:58.280 -> 22:00.000] There was some backmarker ahead of him, right?
[22:00.000 -> 22:01.440] He was trying to get the DRS off him.
[22:01.440 -> 22:05.440] Exactly. So he was like planning all those laps ahead already.
[22:05.440 -> 22:12.120] And eventually, he got into a position where he was able to take advantage from two backmarkers
[22:12.120 -> 22:18.760] and hence, like double DRS for a couple of laps to hold Paras off brilliantly.
[22:18.760 -> 22:23.960] I think it just wasn't the battle that happened on the turns.
[22:23.960 -> 22:27.440] But this was a battle that was like a chess move, planned,
[22:29.280 -> 22:30.520] seriously planned like...
[22:32.240 -> 22:35.440] And, and, you know, sprinkling in some, he is intimidating me in there.
[22:38.880 -> 22:42.160] Why, why simp out in a way like this when you know, you're,
[22:42.800 -> 22:46.280] you'll be so masculine at the moment.
[22:48.840 -> 22:52.560] The commentators like the FIA doesn't have any rule against intimidation.
[22:57.000 -> 23:00.280] Oh my God. I, you know, I'm giving him the benefit of doubt.
[23:00.280 -> 23:04.000] And I think that English is probably not his first language and you probably
[23:04.000 -> 23:11.400] meant to say something else, but it was way too funny and it totally felt like it is so hard.
[23:11.400 -> 23:17.440] Oh, another thing about radio messages since we're talking about it. What was the radio
[23:17.440 -> 23:23.400] message that the Ferrari engineer gave to science? I was like, is that a competent generated
[23:23.400 -> 23:30.760] voice? I forget. And the other guy is like, no, he's just as engineer.
[23:30.760 -> 23:33.400] Chat GPT to voice Adam Sitchin.
[23:33.400 -> 23:35.120] Oh, no, exactly.
[23:35.120 -> 23:40.880] Now we know who's Ferrari's started this chat GPT.
[23:40.880 -> 23:46.000] There you have it folks.
[23:50.000 -> 23:56.000] So switching back to Mercedes because we were going back and forth between Mercedes and Ferrari. I don't know man, Mercedes seemed not too much in their element to be honest.
[23:56.000 -> 24:00.000] Sprint race, Russell, Shirley did shine.
[24:02.000 -> 24:05.800] But that too was kind of a strategy brilliance rather than being a performance
[24:05.800 -> 24:07.040] thing, I feel kind of.
[24:07.040 -> 24:09.280] Yeah, but then it's an overall package, right?
[24:09.280 -> 24:11.600] Like overall package, it did work out for them.
[24:11.600 -> 24:15.760] And it was the driver's call, at least from the looks of it, by watching the sprints.
[24:15.760 -> 24:21.920] So Russell shining during the sprint, but then both the drivers not as much during the
[24:21.920 -> 24:22.920] race.
[24:22.920 -> 24:25.120] Overall, I think like still getting into a better position
[24:25.120 -> 24:30.880] with like all the reshuffling and the re-penalties and everything that's happened. But I don't
[24:30.880 -> 24:34.920] think this is one of those ideal weekend. Like Mercedes wanna forget this weekend for
[24:34.920 -> 24:39.480] sure. For sure yeah. I think overall most Ferrari
[24:39.480 -> 24:43.680] power cars seem to be doing good yesterday to me at least.
[24:43.680 -> 24:47.440] And the most recent cars. Except the McLaren of Norris.
[24:47.440 -> 24:48.740] Oh yeah, actually. Yeah, yeah.
[24:48.740 -> 24:50.140] Actually, McLaren of Norris.
[24:50.140 -> 24:51.720] And even actually the Williams.
[24:51.720 -> 24:53.420] So yeah, probably I am not correct about it.
[24:53.420 -> 24:53.920] Right?
[24:53.920 -> 24:54.420] Yeah.
[24:54.420 -> 24:57.460] Al Bourne. Al Bourne was having a brilliant weekend.
[24:57.460 -> 24:57.960] Yeah.
[24:57.960 -> 25:00.360] Dude, he is such a wild card.
[25:00.360 -> 25:02.460] I don't understand him at all at times.
[25:02.460 -> 25:02.960] Seriously.
[25:02.960 -> 25:03.460] Yeah.
[25:03.460 -> 25:09.000] And so, because you bring this up, I felt Albon yesterday was the Russell of Williams.
[25:09.000 -> 25:11.000] Oh yeah.
[25:11.000 -> 25:13.000] He was like shining in Williams. Super driving man.
[25:13.000 -> 25:15.000] Yeah man.
[25:15.000 -> 25:17.000] And he is like casually walking into Q3 these days.
[25:17.000 -> 25:19.000] Like he has no business doing anything there.
[25:19.000 -> 25:21.000] Back to back Q3s.
[25:21.000 -> 25:23.000] Yeah.
[25:23.000 -> 25:25.400] Where did he end up? P11. Just missed out on the points, I think.
[25:25.400 -> 25:26.400] Yeah.
[25:26.400 -> 25:30.120] No worries, dude. Brilliant driven race in that Williams. It's fine.
[25:30.120 -> 25:35.560] Yeah. And his counterpart that we were talking about, Russell, was I think doing okay.
[25:35.560 -> 25:39.800] Wasn't a great weekend for him, I think. He was kind of on his back foot yesterday.
[25:39.800 -> 25:42.280] Did he get into the points, Russell? I don't know.
[25:42.280 -> 25:45.600] I think not. Let's see.
[25:45.600 -> 25:48.880] Actually, he did. He got P7, I think.
[25:48.880 -> 25:50.880] And Hamilton was P8.
[25:50.880 -> 25:54.800] So, yeah, regardless, not a bad result, I guess.
[25:54.800 -> 26:00.240] But then, it kind of puts them on the bottom of the top, kind of.
[26:00.240 -> 26:02.560] Which is not a great place to be at, anyways.
[26:02.560 -> 26:05.720] But, let's see how it goes. You know uh, let's see, uh, how it goes.
[26:06.640 -> 26:09.880] You know what, let's talk about Red Bull a little, especially Max.
[26:10.120 -> 26:13.020] One thing I kind of felt like, and I want to check this.
[26:13.020 -> 26:14.320] I'm not sure about this.
[26:14.760 -> 26:19.200] Uh, and I probably want to go through this data and see, it feels to me that
[26:19.280 -> 26:27.800] this season for Max is even more dominant than what Hamilton had in 2020. It feels like
[26:27.800 -> 26:34.640] there's absolutely no one who is giving him any competition. At the start it
[26:34.640 -> 26:38.840] felt like Perez was kind of giving him a competition but we can clearly see what
[26:38.840 -> 26:42.760] happened. The other teams are nowhere there so I don't know I think this
[26:42.760 -> 26:46.440] might probably be the most dominant season by a driver possibly,
[26:46.440 -> 26:48.120] I think if this keeps continuing.
[26:49.760 -> 26:54.640] True dude, cause it's like he genuinely just fucks off and like is on another
[26:54.640 -> 26:57.880] planet. To put things into perspective, right?
[26:57.880 -> 27:01.320] Like for folks who still doubt the way he drives and whatever, right?
[27:02.920 -> 27:06.800] Hamilton was Mr. Consistent and I feel like so is Max as well
[27:08.080 -> 27:15.360] and yesterday was a brilliant example of that because penalties were going right left and
[27:15.360 -> 27:23.920] center yes and one of the few drivers that didn't get was Max. Sure everyone was pushing and you
[27:23.920 -> 27:26.680] can't discount the backmarkers who are trying
[27:26.680 -> 27:32.360] to extract maximum for their cars as well, but they have lesser to lose, so they probably
[27:32.360 -> 27:38.480] are playing it safe. But Max is going for that fastest lap as well, lap after lap at
[27:38.480 -> 27:45.040] least. Pushing even when he's P1 and has a good Delta and then still sort of like is able to avoid
[27:45.040 -> 27:50.520] those black and white flags and stay within the building. So yeah I think like yesterday was
[27:50.520 -> 27:56.320] was Mr. Consistence from him when everyone got a penalty.
[27:56.320 -> 28:01.520] To what you say, I was just looking at the data, lab data from the
[28:01.520 -> 28:08.440] same site that we were talking about. And I am looking at Max's performance, right?
[28:08.960 -> 28:12.240] And if you see his lap chart timing for each stint,
[28:12.260 -> 28:17.200] it's basically a straight line between each of his pit stops,
[28:17.220 -> 28:21.620] which is like a very large Delta. And then it's basically just a straight line.
[28:21.620 -> 28:24.480] So that's how consistent he is. Like it's insane, man.
[28:24.720 -> 28:37.360] And then, this is a straight line. So that's how consistent he is. Like, it's insane, man. And then, I mean, we took a poll on Instagram too for him trying to convince his team, rather demanding his team that he's going to come in at lap 70 to take that fastest lap.
[28:37.360 -> 28:45.120] At this point, the delta with Leclerc behind is 23 seconds. Pit stops around here are roughly 20 seconds. So, one or two seconds
[28:45.120 -> 28:49.480] here and they've lost the race. Forget that extra point, they're losing like seven or
[28:49.480 -> 28:53.760] eight points there. And then I didn't observe this, but Ravi Shah, one of our followers
[28:53.760 -> 29:00.520] pointed this out to me after the race, saying that he's basically driving as if he's driving
[29:00.520 -> 29:05.240] a formation lap, even after getting like that, you know, tyres in because like he's driving a formation lap even after getting like the tires in because like
[29:05.240 -> 29:09.840] he's waving everyone around and then Leclerc behind is sort of like hoping
[29:09.840 -> 29:16.520] Max makes a mistake or at least goes out but yeah Max was on another lap.
[29:16.520 -> 29:21.480] Yeah man, I have to give it up to him. I totally agree that it's very
[29:21.480 -> 29:28.000] difficult and very irritating to see one person winning, but I can't flaw him because he's like really doing flawlessly.
[29:28.520 -> 29:31.080] When you give results, you can't complain, right?
[29:31.080 -> 29:34.360] Like he's being a smug. So like we took this poll,
[29:34.520 -> 29:38.760] was he being a smug or just perfectionism coming out?
[29:39.360 -> 29:41.280] Sure. Perfectionism is winning.
[29:41.800 -> 29:46.840] The original raw sentiment that does come out is smugness,
[29:46.840 -> 29:48.880] but the results speak for itself.
[29:48.880 -> 29:56.800] Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, I mean, I'm only think about Red Bull that I think is the second
[29:56.800 -> 30:02.380] driver that's in the seat, which has always been a question mark ever since Max has been
[30:02.380 -> 30:05.160] the first driver in the team because every teammate
[30:05.160 -> 30:09.760] that he has had, he has outclassed him by, you know, like miles. It's not, there's no
[30:09.760 -> 30:15.920] comparison between both the drivers. I think Ricardo was the last person who you can kind
[30:15.920 -> 30:23.160] of compare to Max in the same vehicle. I don't think Ricardo would actually be comparable
[30:23.160 -> 30:26.880] in the same machinery, given a chance with Max either.
[30:26.880 -> 30:32.320] So, you go off the track once. Like, okay, sure, that happens. Let's go.
[30:32.320 -> 30:38.320] You go off the track twice. Okay, dude, be cautious. Third time, don't do it.
[30:38.320 -> 30:40.800] Because that's your last chance. Because you don't have much time.
[30:40.800 -> 30:47.280] He goes off the track again. Like, he just can't keep it within the tracks. Seriously.
[30:47.280 -> 31:05.200] Yeah, man. Yeah, I think Perez might be in danger this way, man. Because I think, from what I hear, Max, if we count only Max's points for the team championship, Red Bull is still ahead by 41 points than whoever is next.
[31:05.200 -> 31:09.200] I think it's Aston Martin or Mercedes.
[31:09.200 -> 31:14.600] So, it's very clear that the difference is astounding.
[31:14.600 -> 31:20.800] And I really fear that Perez might not get a contract renewal next season.
[31:20.800 -> 31:30.000] Yeah, you're right. Because I feel like, sure, on paper, it looks like Perez is P2 and then, you know, he's still leading the Drivers' Championship.
[31:30.000 -> 31:36.000] But it's only because the other drivers are not probably able to perform as much as we would have hoped.
[31:36.000 -> 31:44.000] And again, like Aston Martin is sitting P3 in Constructors, three points behind Mercedes. Because again, that's just one person lifting all the weight.
[31:44.000 -> 31:47.680] Yeah. Same case for Aston Martin, right? Yeah, totally.
[31:49.600 -> 31:52.560] But he wasn't on. So speaking of Aston Martin,
[31:52.560 -> 31:56.960] like Alonso wasn't on camera much yesterday. I mean,
[31:56.960 -> 32:01.480] and besides the last three to four laps that I did see him fighting out
[32:01.480 -> 32:03.680] Stroll, and I don't know why and what he was doing,
[32:04.200 -> 32:06.000] but Stroll came onto to the radio saying,
[32:06.000 -> 32:09.360] like, hey, tell Alonso, let's not battle this out between us.
[32:09.360 -> 32:14.480] Basically saying, can you pull a Barcelona-Catalunya again?
[32:14.480 -> 32:18.480] Be happy with the P6, give me P5 and let's just end this together.
[32:18.480 -> 32:21.920] Poor guy receives that 10-second penalty.
[32:21.920 -> 32:25.280] Stroll eventually ends up dropping.
[32:25.320 -> 32:28.320] But credit to him, man. He did maintain the position regardless.
[32:28.320 -> 32:32.640] Like I thought that Alonso might overtake him easily, but that didn't happen.
[32:32.640 -> 32:35.240] Yeah. Of course, like penalty, blah, blah, blah, everything.
[32:35.640 -> 32:39.800] But I don't know, was Alonso even going for it or was he just toying with him?
[32:39.840 -> 32:43.120] Just toying with him. I hope he wasn't toying with him.
[32:43.120 -> 32:47.320] And that must be such a like an attack on his
[32:50.320 -> 32:51.960] With Alonzo, like you never know.
[32:51.960 -> 32:54.080] He was probably just having fun because yeah,
[32:54.080 -> 32:57.480] I'm bored driving 65 laps doing nothing.
[32:57.480 -> 32:59.160] Let's just play with my own teammate.
[33:00.760 -> 33:01.600] Maybe, maybe.
[33:02.520 -> 33:07.520] There's this other interesting battle with, Because we're speaking of Alonzo.
[33:07.520 -> 33:11.720] Around lap 45, I saw Botas and Alonzo fighting a lot.
[33:11.720 -> 33:18.560] And then Botas got the better out of it for a few times before Alonzo sort of took it away.
[33:18.560 -> 33:22.280] But then I was like, I just missed something out.
[33:22.280 -> 33:25.080] Like, how is Botas up so high?
[33:25.640 -> 33:32.960] And then only to realize Alonso was P5 and Botas was basically fighting to unlap himself.
[33:35.160 -> 33:35.880] Oh man.
[33:39.440 -> 33:39.920] Yeah.
[33:40.000 -> 33:40.500] Yeah.
[33:41.000 -> 33:46.960] I feel Alpha Romeo is pretty much a retirement home for like old drivers now.
[33:47.720 -> 33:53.160] Kimi when they retired, Votas when they're, will he retire? I don't know. Let's see.
[33:54.960 -> 34:07.920] They just somehow are not able to get their shit together for years that to like, it's not like there hasn't been a season where they have like made a sudden jump even for a single race. It's always been pretty weird for them.
[34:07.960 -> 34:09.440] I don't get it. Anyways.
[34:09.440 -> 34:10.800] On that note, right on that note,
[34:10.800 -> 34:14.680] we do say like the season's getting probably boring because it's just one person
[34:14.680 -> 34:18.200] winning. I think for me, the tournament sort of like getting boring,
[34:18.200 -> 34:20.400] because it's always for over a decade now,
[34:20.400 -> 34:23.280] it's always been these three teams who've been leading the top.
[34:23.600 -> 34:27.240] What's making me exciting finally is that Aston Martin,
[34:27.240 -> 34:32.160] an absolutely unknown, unknown top three team is getting into that mix
[34:32.160 -> 34:36.880] and bringing on that challenge and taking advantage of other people's weaknesses.
[34:36.880 -> 34:37.720] So, yeah.
[34:38.160 -> 34:42.440] And I think after a while it's been that there's this team which was on the
[34:42.440 -> 34:45.580] lower half of the standings through the last
[34:45.580 -> 34:51.600] previous few seasons and has suddenly gotten to the top four, which is really awesome to
[34:51.600 -> 34:56.140] see. Yeah, definitely. I think pretty much I think most fans would agree that Aston Martin
[34:56.140 -> 35:05.040] single handedly is like making the sport more interesting this year. And by Aston Martin, by extension, of course Alonso is doing that.
[35:07.600 -> 35:13.760] But I guess even without Alonso being on the screen, we saw many overtakes. We talked about
[35:13.760 -> 35:19.760] a few and I think like all drivers had decided that T3 is the place that's where like each and
[35:19.760 -> 35:26.240] every overtake is going to be executed. Because I think that T3 was the hottest place for overtakes. Isn't it?
[35:26.240 -> 35:28.880] Yeah. For sure. I love it too, man.
[35:28.880 -> 35:32.120] Like the way it goes uphill and turning, you know,
[35:32.120 -> 35:35.800] and you can go like three wide, four wide, four wide is a bit squeezed,
[35:35.800 -> 35:39.200] but you can go three wide into that turn and it makes a good battling point.
[35:39.440 -> 35:42.840] That's one thing which I really appreciate about Austria that like, yeah,
[35:42.880 -> 35:45.040] I agree that a lot of people were
[35:45.040 -> 35:49.600] complaining about, you know, and we'll get to the track limit issue overall, but a lot of people
[35:49.600 -> 35:53.680] are complaining about, yeah, there are so many runoffs and blah, blah, blah. But only because
[35:53.680 -> 35:59.360] there are so many runoffs and we have these wide sections on the track, we are seeing these, you
[35:59.360 -> 36:03.280] know, three wide going into a turn because otherwise it's not possible. You can't risk it at
[36:03.280 -> 36:06.160] all. And people are going to be more conservative and not do it at all.
[36:06.320 -> 36:09.200] And I think like that's also a beauty of European tracks,
[36:09.200 -> 36:11.000] because these are older tracks.
[36:11.000 -> 36:15.640] They aren't like the new city tracks, which are narrower,
[36:15.640 -> 36:19.720] lesser than also the, so yeah, you do end up seeing that when you're racing
[36:20.320 -> 36:22.160] out there in India.
[36:22.520 -> 36:25.200] Bring it on dude, bring it on to your track limit.
[36:25.200 -> 36:36.600] Yeah, to the 1200 violations that FIA had to sit through and comb through and give a final classification
[36:36.600 -> 36:47.840] 4 or 5 years after the race finished. What a chaos. What was going on, man? Like, why was nobody able to keep it within the tracks?
[36:47.840 -> 36:54.360] So on a technical and a serious note, the answer to that is Austria is a high speed
[36:54.360 -> 37:01.440] track. Most of these turns are super high G turns, corners. And if you do end up seeing
[37:01.440 -> 37:05.040] those dashboards, they are like 3, 4 G corners going in at like
[37:05.040 -> 37:10.760] 100, 150 kmph sort of thing, except like the turn 3 or 4, whichever is like that almost
[37:10.760 -> 37:13.880] air finish turn, which is also at an 80 kmph.
[37:13.880 -> 37:20.760] Having said all of that, the whole track is a mix of sausage versus gravel, except like
[37:20.760 -> 37:29.440] turn 9 and 10, where at least FIA for now is saying that it's not possible to put a sausage and a gravel at turn 9 and 10,
[37:29.440 -> 37:33.200] which ends up enabling drivers to go a bit more faster.
[37:33.200 -> 37:46.520] When you're faster, it's difficult to hold that car and you eventually sort of like start running a bit wider than usual. Now, because I think like they had to hire a few interns yesterday to
[37:46.520 -> 37:52.480] see through the 1200 labs, 1200 infringements, I think they are sort of like putting pressure
[37:52.480 -> 37:59.000] that hey, fix this, we're not gonna put 1200 lab watch time again, doing this
[37:59.000 -> 38:05.000] nonsense next year. Right, you know to add on to something that you said earlier,
[38:05.000 -> 38:09.720] and it's not always the best thing to add a sausage curb as well.
[38:10.160 -> 38:13.920] I think at some point this track did have a sausage curb at turn nine. I think so.
[38:13.920 -> 38:15.600] One of those turns did have it,
[38:15.960 -> 38:20.560] but I think they chose to remove it because A sausage curbs are a bit dangerous,
[38:20.560 -> 38:24.840] you know, like especially cars can kind of go flying off of them.
[38:24.840 -> 38:27.000] Especially cars can kind of go flying off of them.
[38:30.960 -> 38:33.200] Wasn't it, wasn't it a Mola where we saw Max landed on top of Hamilton?
[38:37.440 -> 38:37.840] So, you know, we don't generally want cars flying. Like that's not the goal here.
[38:40.680 -> 38:40.840] So I kind of agree with that.
[38:43.640 -> 38:49.720] If the cars do fly, they'll end up hitting the jetpack guy.
[38:53.160 -> 38:54.080] So we want to be safe for jetpack guy.
[38:55.960 -> 38:57.880] Respectful to all jetpackers.
[39:02.880 -> 39:03.560] And think about their safety. So it makes sense.
[39:07.320 -> 39:07.520] But I think either way, it was very confusing to me.
[39:09.120 -> 39:11.920] I think according to me, it's a mix of what you said that you know,
[39:11.940 -> 39:16.940] there was so much time to gain in the turn nine turn 10 complex and in general,
[39:17.560 -> 39:21.080] the track by going wide, that even if you get a penalty,
[39:21.080 -> 39:23.000] you still gain a lot of time, you know,
[39:23.000 -> 39:28.040] because even if you get like a half a second, every lap over 70 laps,
[39:28.040 -> 39:31.960] that adds up and it probably like even, you know,
[39:31.960 -> 39:35.360] kind of compensates for a 10 second penalty through the 70 laps.
[39:35.720 -> 39:38.560] So I think it was a mix of, you know, drivers being greedy, you know,
[39:38.560 -> 39:42.440] trying to get every advantage that they can get. And it's like, you know,
[39:42.440 -> 39:44.080] if everybody gets a five second penalty,
[39:44.080 -> 39:46.220] nobody gets a five second penalty kind of a situation.
[39:46.220 -> 39:48.060] Yeah. Except Max never got that memo.
[39:48.220 -> 39:51.020] Yeah. But then he anyways, doesn't matter for him either way.
[39:52.740 -> 39:55.780] Not like it would have mattered, man. He was what, 20 seconds ahead of him.
[39:56.060 -> 39:58.860] So formula Max is fine, but formula one.
[40:01.100 -> 40:06.840] Exactly. But yeah, it was, it was kind of funny, like, you know, to see like penalties
[40:06.840 -> 40:12.200] being handed off. It seemed like they were like somebody had sat on the penalty button
[40:12.200 -> 40:15.980] or something like that. And it was just, you know, constantly going through the list, giving
[40:15.980 -> 40:23.600] penalties randomly to people. But yeah, pretty weird to see everybody, you know, completely
[40:23.600 -> 40:26.800] violating the track limits to the extent that they could.
[40:27.760 -> 40:35.040] Yeah, we headed to Silverstone next weekend. The good part here is Max is not going to have PTSD
[40:35.040 -> 40:39.680] because he's going to get f**ked off and then not be worried about someone hitting him
[40:39.680 -> 40:49.760] into a C1G crash. So Silverstone happening in the week's time on that bombshell. This is F1
[40:49.760 -> 40:51.600] Fan Fiction signing off. Bye-bye.