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In this episode of F1 FanFiction, we recap the 2023 British Grand Prix at Silverstone. We discuss McLaren's impressive performance, the thrilling battles between Norris, Verstappen, and Piastri, and analyze strategic moves by various teams. We highlight Hamilton's success through well-timed pit stops, touch on Red Bull's dominance, and speculate on potential lineup changes. We also mention some controversial and humorous incidents, such as Lando's podium celebration and Dr. Marco's altercation with a photographer.
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Intro: Howling (Sting) - Gunnar Olsen
Outro: Your Intro by Audionautix
**British Grand Prix - A Thrilling Race at Silverstone**
The 2023 British Grand Prix at Silverstone was a captivating race, filled with excitement, strategic moves, and some controversial moments. McLaren's impressive performance, the battles between Norris, Verstappen, and Piastri, and Hamilton's success through well-timed pit stops were key highlights. Red Bull's dominance continued, with Max Verstappen securing another victory, extending his lead in the championship.
**McLaren's Resurgence:**
McLaren showcased their progress with a strong showing at Silverstone. Lando Norris' stunning start, holding off Verstappen for four laps, was a testament to their improved car. Norris' fierce defense against Hamilton, who was on fresher tires, was another highlight. Piastri's impressive drive to P4, despite an unfortunate pit stop timing, demonstrated his potential.
**Strategic Maneuvers:**
The race featured several strategic decisions that influenced the outcome. McLaren's choice to put Norris on hard tires, despite the data suggesting softs were the better option, raised eyebrows. This strategy ultimately hindered Norris' chances of a podium finish. Red Bull's dominance was further solidified by their strategic calls, with Verstappen able to control the race from the front.
**Hamilton's Success:**
Lewis Hamilton's P3 finish was a result of well-executed pit stops and a stroke of luck. His ability to stay out on track during the safety car period, while others pitted, allowed him to capitalize on the situation and secure a podium position.
**Red Bull's Continued Dominance:**
Red Bull's supremacy was evident once again, with Verstappen taking his 11th consecutive win, equaling McLaren's record. The team's strategic prowess and Verstappen's exceptional driving skills proved to be an unbeatable combination.
**Other Notable Moments:**
- Alex Albon's impressive performance in the Williams, securing a top-10 finish and overtaking both Ferraris, was a highlight.
- Logan Sargent's solid drive in the Williams, despite missing out on points, showed his potential.
- The Haas cars experienced reliability issues, with both Kevin Magnussen and Mick Schumacher retiring from the race.
- Pierre Gasly's race was hampered by a collision with Lance Stroll, resulting in a disappointing finish.
**Controversial Incidents:**
- Lando Norris' post-race celebration, where he sprayed champagne on Hamilton's car, sparked some controversy.
- Dr. Marco's altercation with a photographer during the race also drew attention.
**Overall, the British Grand Prix was an entertaining and unpredictable race, showcasing the ever-changing dynamics of Formula One.** **British Grand Prix 2023 Recap**
The British Grand Prix at Silverstone delivered an entertaining race with thrilling battles, strategic moves, and humorous incidents. McLaren's performance stood out, with Lando Norris delivering an impressive drive to secure a podium finish. His battle with Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri added excitement to the race, while Lewis Hamilton's success through well-timed pit stops showcased his strategic prowess.
Red Bull maintained its dominance, with Verstappen securing another victory and Sergio Perez finishing on the podium. However, the race was not without controversy, as Carlos Sainz's strategic gamble backfired, leading to a disappointing result for Ferrari.
Other notable moments included Alex Albon's impressive performance, beating both Ferraris, and the unfortunate retirement of Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon due to technical issues. The race also witnessed a heated incident between Lance Stroll and Pierre Gasly, resulting in Gasly's retirement and Stroll receiving a black and white flag for his aggressive driving.
The podcast hosts highlighted the amusing podium celebration of Lando Norris, who started celebrating prematurely, and the altercation between Dr. Marco and a photographer in the media pen. These incidents added a touch of humor to the race weekend.
Overall, the British Grand Prix provided a thrilling spectacle with plenty of action and entertainment for Formula One fans. The podcast captured the key moments of the race, offering insightful commentary and analysis.
[00:00.000 -> 00:06.280] Now I'm pretty sure that Science was actually intimidated by Perez because this is the same thing.
[00:06.280 -> 00:13.440] The exact thing happened. Perez came behind him and Science completely shut his pants and let three people go by.
[00:14.640 -> 00:17.920] Yeah. He lost three positions in three turns, man.
[00:17.920 -> 00:23.680] I was like, one goes, Perez goes by, Laclaire goes by and I think like even Albon, like your Williams went by.
[00:23.680 -> 00:32.720] Albon went by, exactly.
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[01:44.880 -> 01:46.160] And I am Sarang. And let's
[01:46.160 -> 01:53.440] get into it. British Grand Prix, Silverstone, birthplace of F1. Too much to unpack here,
[01:53.440 -> 01:57.600] but let's start with Sarang. Sarang, raw thoughts on the weekend. What did you think?
[01:58.640 -> 02:04.720] Oh man, it was a pretty good weekend, honestly. I thought this would be kind of a boring one again.
[02:04.720 -> 02:05.360] If you really
[02:05.360 -> 02:10.080] think about it, if you see how many people lost or gained positions, most people ended up where
[02:10.080 -> 02:15.440] they started but still it was an interesting race. Yes, yes, yes. And I think like the attribute to
[02:15.440 -> 02:28.320] that is a wet qualifying, a dry race and a dry race that was driven around tyre strategies. Because as you said, not much was
[02:28.320 -> 02:33.600] happening. Everyone was probably driving within the deltas in front and back of each other.
[02:34.400 -> 02:42.000] So, not much drama and action per se to unpack in those 52 laps. But some of these tyre strategies
[02:42.000 -> 02:45.800] have been questionable. And obviously, we will also talk about that.
[02:45.800 -> 02:53.560] But I think the highlight and the orgasmic reaction from everyone through the whole weekend has been McLaren.
[02:53.560 -> 02:55.280] Oh, definitely, man.
[02:55.280 -> 02:57.960] First of all, that super surprising qualification.
[02:57.960 -> 03:06.320] And then, that first lap is just amazing. I think the question probably everyone had was,
[03:06.320 -> 03:11.660] will Norris be able to get that jumpstart and stay ahead?
[03:11.660 -> 03:12.840] And boy, he did.
[03:12.840 -> 03:16.880] I think there was a difference of 0.23 versus 0.26
[03:16.880 -> 03:20.360] or something along those lines in terms of reaction time
[03:20.360 -> 03:23.240] between Norris and Max.
[03:23.240 -> 03:25.280] And then, boy, he held it for four laps.
[03:26.800 -> 03:31.120] I mean, it was bound to happen is what I at least feel. It was bound to happen at some point.
[03:31.680 -> 03:37.840] But at that fourth lap, I am not going to kid you, I thought probably Norris will hold on to it.
[03:38.400 -> 03:40.640] No, but he just flew past him, right?
[03:41.200 -> 03:41.700] Yeah.
[03:42.160 -> 03:43.600] All of a sudden.
[03:43.600 -> 03:45.000] Yeah, yeah, yeah. And no a sudden? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[03:45.000 -> 03:50.320] And no bouncing around like what Leclerc was doing last race at Austria.
[03:50.320 -> 03:53.560] This was like a clean sweep off the ground.
[03:53.560 -> 03:59.080] And what was funny on top of that was it felt like Piastri is going to go in for that lunge
[03:59.080 -> 04:01.000] and take P2 as well.
[04:01.000 -> 04:02.000] Exactly.
[04:02.000 -> 04:03.000] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[04:03.000 -> 04:04.000] Oh, totally, man.
[04:04.000 -> 04:12.000] I mean, I totally loved the like start section of the race in general, like the first lap itself, as soon as they got off the line, of course, Lando had a better start.
[04:12.000 -> 04:26.240] Piazzi also like, you know, went on to the right and kind of Vastapan also was trying to push Lando on to the right. And then there was the situation where Piazri was trying to push Max out again. And it was just so amazing, man.
[04:26.240 -> 04:30.000] Like I really loved how the dynamic between all three of them.
[04:30.000 -> 04:34.480] And first of all, I'm pretty sure Max must be like, who's this guy who's coming in from my right?
[04:35.440 -> 04:37.360] Seeing Piyasri for the first time possibly.
[04:37.920 -> 04:41.600] Who's this second tinfoil hat guy next to me right now?
[04:44.000 -> 04:46.840] And Piyasri is also like, maybe, PST is also like, where am I?
[04:46.840 -> 04:49.620] I see a Red Bull.
[04:49.620 -> 04:52.440] No car in front of me.
[04:52.440 -> 04:53.500] Where is this?
[04:53.500 -> 04:55.880] Are we qualifying again?
[04:55.880 -> 04:59.560] Precisely, man.
[04:59.560 -> 05:06.160] But, yeah, I mean, regardless, even though Lando had a great start, he held on to the
[05:06.160 -> 05:07.560] lead for four laps.
[05:07.560 -> 05:15.000] But if we see the data, you can clearly see that Max was much faster than Lando.
[05:15.000 -> 05:19.880] And there's no surprise that he flew past him so easily.
[05:19.880 -> 05:24.840] And you know, honestly, I have a conspiracy theory that Max was just toying with them.
[05:24.840 -> 05:26.800] Just let him go ahead for four laps.
[05:26.800 -> 05:30.000] People are bored watching me ahead.
[05:30.000 -> 05:31.840] Oh, dude.
[05:31.840 -> 05:32.800] Oh, damn, damn.
[05:32.800 -> 05:35.680] Sorry, I have to interrupt because this thought is too raw.
[05:35.680 -> 05:50.240] What if, you know how Manjunath or like Jehan or all of these folks pay to drive into those F1 cars to experience like maybe a few laps in those cars.
[05:50.240 -> 05:56.140] What if Max is taking money from folks to experience what T1 feels like?
[05:56.140 -> 05:59.680] And like, okay, you pay 10 grand, you get five laps of T1.
[05:59.680 -> 06:03.720] My side and toe.
[06:03.720 -> 06:08.760] So, maybe that's why Norris was up there.
[06:08.760 -> 06:10.920] Sure. Sure. Probably.
[06:10.920 -> 06:15.560] You will get this much in this much money. And then, okay, lap 5, I am done.
[06:15.560 -> 06:17.000] Give it back. Give it back.
[06:17.000 -> 06:19.480] That's it.
[06:19.480 -> 06:21.840] Sorry, back to me. You were saying.
[06:21.840 -> 06:27.760] But yeah, regardless, man. Yeah. I mean, he was pretty fast. But McLaren's were doing so good this time, man.
[06:27.760 -> 06:34.040] I mean, I think at this point, pretty much, we all know that, like, you know, it was a pipe dream that Lando is going to hold on to the lead.
[06:34.040 -> 06:36.440] Everybody knew that Max is going to go ahead.
[06:36.440 -> 06:42.680] But still, I feel like even being able to hold it for four laps itself was a pretty good feat for him.
[06:42.680 -> 06:45.280] And it clearly shows that the upgrades that
[06:45.280 -> 06:51.360] McLaren got and I think they are like on their second phase of their upgrades right now. I think
[06:53.360 -> 07:00.240] Zach had said that they have a three-part upgrade. 15, 25, 25. Yeah, exactly. So clearly that's
[07:00.240 -> 07:07.000] working. Their straight-line speed was insane. That too was pretty surprising. And yeah, overall, I think they did a,
[07:07.000 -> 07:08.920] they had a solid weekend overall.
[07:08.920 -> 07:13.000] Yeah, so on that, according to at the rate fastest
[07:13.000 -> 07:17.680] pit stop on Twitter, McLaren's brought in a front wing
[07:17.680 -> 07:20.360] performance upgrade, a nose performance upgrade,
[07:20.360 -> 07:22.840] a rear corner performance upgrade,
[07:22.840 -> 07:24.720] and a rear suspension upgrade.
[07:24.720 -> 07:29.760] So I think this is a big chunk coming in from McLaren.
[07:29.760 -> 07:32.640] And obviously, the results have shown.
[07:32.640 -> 07:36.120] Mercedes have also gotten a front wing end plate
[07:36.120 -> 07:38.880] update and a front wing performance upgrade.
[07:38.880 -> 07:40.640] So that's also been showing in.
[07:40.640 -> 07:43.960] People can dash about Mercedes not performing much well
[07:43.960 -> 07:44.480] this weekend.
[07:44.480 -> 07:45.600] But I think like they've
[07:45.600 -> 07:49.520] they've also done a good job overall. I think they did a pretty decent job. Yeah.
[07:51.040 -> 07:56.160] Let's talk about McLaren a bit. One thing I have to point out is, I don't know if you
[07:56.160 -> 08:00.960] noticed this and I don't know if this was intentional, but I feel it was intentional.
[08:00.960 -> 08:08.200] Right after the safety car, when like Lewis was on softs and Lando was on hards.
[08:08.560 -> 08:12.840] And he was like really breathing down his neck and that move where Lando went
[08:12.840 -> 08:17.600] into that oil sling where they had the dust and sprayed it onto
[08:17.600 -> 08:21.640] the Hamilton. I don't know man, I feel it was intentional all along.
[08:22.520 -> 08:23.360] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
[08:23.680 -> 08:26.000] Maybe a lap before he drove past it and we're like. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe a lap before he drove past it.
[08:26.000 -> 08:28.000] And we were like, he is going to hit it.
[08:28.000 -> 08:30.000] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[08:30.000 -> 08:34.000] He saw that and was like, oh, that's a nice Mario Kart bonus.
[08:34.000 -> 08:36.000] You know how you are driving down the freeway
[08:36.000 -> 08:40.000] and even if your windows and everything is shut
[08:40.000 -> 08:43.000] and if water spills onto the windscreen,
[08:43.000 -> 08:47.000] you still sort of like flinch. I think like Lando was going for that.
[08:47.000 -> 08:49.200] Like, let me just spray water on him.
[08:49.200 -> 08:51.800] If he flinches, I get like a half a second.
[08:51.800 -> 08:53.000] Exactly.
[08:53.000 -> 08:53.400] Yeah.
[08:53.400 -> 08:55.000] Why not?
[08:55.000 -> 08:57.200] Get any advantage that you can.
[08:57.200 -> 08:58.000] Exactly.
[08:58.000 -> 09:00.400] Like, I give him credit for that.
[09:00.400 -> 09:09.120] And also, they had a pretty nice chase for like, I think, like good 2 or 3 laps where they had like close battles.
[09:09.120 -> 09:14.720] They had like very good defenses by Lando. Very good chasing by Hamilton as well.
[09:14.720 -> 09:22.000] There was this one section as well where like, Hamilton had almost gotten him but then Lando came out ahead again.
[09:22.000 -> 09:29.680] Brilliant defending. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember. So, yesterday, I was on this live stream with F1 with Geet.
[09:29.680 -> 09:31.680] At the rate, F1 with Geet.
[09:31.680 -> 09:37.640] So, folks listening to us who don't know about this, go check F1 with Geet out on Instagram, YouTube.
[09:37.640 -> 09:39.640] He does live streamings of the race as well.
[09:39.640 -> 09:43.640] He was kind enough to invite us onto the live stream.
[09:43.640 -> 09:46.440] We were with Shubham, who is F1 aerodynamicist.
[09:46.440 -> 09:48.520] Go check him out as well.
[09:48.520 -> 09:53.400] But yeah, we were talking about this and we were blabbering something.
[09:53.400 -> 09:55.560] And then we saw this come up on the screen.
[09:55.560 -> 09:57.440] And it just went like silent.
[09:57.440 -> 10:02.240] We were like, oh, what brilliant defending by Norris, man.
[10:02.240 -> 10:05.160] So, yeah, that point was superb.
[10:05.160 -> 10:08.760] Also, Piyasri, man. He has done such an amazing job.
[10:08.760 -> 10:11.480] I think a lot of people are not talking about him, I feel.
[10:11.480 -> 10:14.080] He got a damn P4.
[10:14.080 -> 10:15.160] He got a rookie.
[10:15.160 -> 10:17.400] And he maintained that position, man.
[10:17.400 -> 10:20.000] And also, driving on hards after that restart.
[10:20.000 -> 10:21.680] And defending his position.
[10:21.680 -> 10:25.760] I feel, he is very underrated after today's race.
[10:25.760 -> 10:30.760] I mean, his past result is sort of like dishing out on him.
[10:30.760 -> 10:37.720] Because, A, the car wasn't up to the mark. And then obviously, coming into the rookie season, replacing like big weeks.
[10:37.720 -> 10:46.000] Not just replacing, right? Like creating a whole f**king controversy to get a seat into F1 and then not being able to...
[10:46.000 -> 10:47.000] First of all, being super cocky.
[10:47.000 -> 10:53.000] Exactly, right? And then not being able to perform above P15, obviously.
[10:53.000 -> 10:59.000] But I think he shut quite a few mouths, if given a good car and the result he showed yesterday.
[10:59.000 -> 11:04.000] Sure, people are trying to cut him some slack with, like, hey, at least about P4.
[11:04.000 -> 11:16.880] But I think you were right to point out before we started recording this, which is, if it wasn't for that unfortunate timing in the whole safety car situation and his pit stop, he had a P3, man.
[11:16.880 -> 11:22.340] Like, that would just have been the cherry on the top. Both McLarens on the podium. Just brilliant.
[11:22.340 -> 11:25.280] I strongly believe he had it. I think it was just...
[11:25.280 -> 11:26.880] No, I'm with you. I'm with you.
[11:26.880 -> 11:30.160] Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hamilton totally lucked out on that, man.
[11:30.160 -> 11:33.920] Like, I mean, I think it was meant to be like, you know,
[11:34.480 -> 11:38.320] Hamilton getting on the podium for the British GP.
[11:38.320 -> 11:41.920] So I think there isn't much Piyastri could have done.
[11:43.360 -> 11:47.000] And Hamilton, yeah, again, like he drew brilliantly.
[11:47.000 -> 11:50.000] Of course, the timing of it worked out, but at the same time,
[11:50.000 -> 11:52.000] he stayed out on the track as well, right?
[11:52.000 -> 11:57.000] So like, even for people who are kind of saying that Hamilton, you know, lucked out,
[11:57.000 -> 12:01.000] but at the same time, unlike Luckler or somebody like him,
[12:01.000 -> 12:10.300] who like, somebody like him. Hamilton is out there, you know, so he could capitalize on it.
[12:10.300 -> 12:12.300] Sneakily bringing that name in.
[12:18.060 -> 12:21.680] Oh, wait, I have to talk about this. What do you think about the chrome livery, man?
[12:21.680 -> 12:22.380] By McLaren?
[12:22.560 -> 12:25.160] See, people are gonna hate me for it.
[12:25.160 -> 12:27.320] I don't really like it.
[12:27.320 -> 12:28.520] Oh, same here.
[12:28.520 -> 12:29.520] I hated it.
[12:29.520 -> 12:30.520] Oh, OK.
[12:30.520 -> 12:34.320] OK, so I thought the popular opinion probably is everyone likes it.
[12:34.320 -> 12:36.480] OK, no, I don't like it, man.
[12:36.480 -> 12:43.200] I think it reminded me of this alien tinfoil hat meme that's, you know, I don't know if
[12:43.200 -> 12:44.200] you know about this.
[12:44.200 -> 12:46.560] If you're going to put this into a short you're seeing it now
[12:47.120 -> 12:54.800] um but yeah I it's it's too it's too chromey for me man yeah I agree man totally but whatever it
[12:54.800 -> 12:59.920] was it worked for them so I think they might just stick to it yeah yeah yeah the paint weight is
[12:59.920 -> 13:06.720] helping the car somewhere so yeah exactly on, the livery was kind of brilliant.
[13:06.720 -> 13:13.200] Like it was silver for Silverstone and chrome for their sponsors. But I don't know on paper,
[13:13.200 -> 13:19.280] I think it makes sense. In reality, it didn't. First of all, I can't even like McLaren as
[13:19.280 -> 13:26.560] a team has sort of like oversold with sponsors. They could have probably done half and half this season and next season.
[13:26.560 -> 13:29.840] But there are just too many stickers everywhere.
[13:29.840 -> 13:36.160] It's one of those irritating laptops or backpacks which has too many stickers on them.
[13:36.160 -> 13:38.240] Or the cars with their rear-ends.
[13:38.240 -> 13:40.240] It's one of those teams.
[13:40.240 -> 13:43.760] And sure, it works for them.
[13:43.760 -> 13:46.160] But I am not a fan for it.
[13:46.160 -> 13:50.760] I want to sort of take this conversation to somewhat of a serious conversation, which
[13:50.760 -> 13:59.080] people are talking about, which is the fact where, why did they go for hards on these
[13:59.080 -> 14:05.000] McLarens or at least like Norris when they knew Hards weren't the deal,
[14:05.680 -> 14:08.120] weren't cutting it for the other drivers.
[14:09.080 -> 14:13.560] And Norris was at a risk to sort of like fend people like
[14:13.680 -> 14:17.640] Hamilton behind him. Right. So let's, let's,
[14:17.760 -> 14:21.880] let's bring that up and like, what do you think, what was happening there?
[14:22.400 -> 14:26.120] Yeah. I mean, while watching the race, in fact, the first thing,
[14:26.200 -> 14:29.040] as soon as they went into the pits and came out with hards, I tweeted, like,
[14:29.080 -> 14:31.040] I think McClaren has just dropped the ball here.
[14:31.960 -> 14:34.400] There's no way they're coming on top out of this.
[14:35.160 -> 14:37.600] So that was my first reaction, very honestly. And especially,
[14:37.600 -> 14:42.000] I think it was very obvious. Like if you saw the race, if you saw Hulk,
[14:42.000 -> 14:46.640] I think who started on hards and immediately was switched to mediums, I think,
[14:46.640 -> 14:53.520] what eight laps in or something like that. Same goes for this guy, Luckluck as well, of course.
[14:56.240 -> 15:00.640] So it was pretty obvious, hards were not the way to go with, and especially with,
[15:00.640 -> 15:07.280] you know, George Russell, finishing the race on soft and mediums and not even touching the hards.
[15:07.280 -> 15:07.780] Yes.
[15:07.780 -> 15:08.280] You know.
[15:08.280 -> 15:08.780] Yes.
[15:08.780 -> 15:09.780] So it was pretty...
[15:09.780 -> 15:12.780] And going a longer stint on softs than his mediums.
[15:12.780 -> 15:13.280] Yeah.
[15:13.280 -> 15:16.780] He did like half a race or more than half a race on softs.
[15:16.780 -> 15:17.780] So that's ridiculous.
[15:18.780 -> 15:22.280] But I think McLaren probably...
[15:23.280 -> 15:23.780] I don't know.
[15:23.780 -> 15:27.520] I'm not sure whether this was a strategical master,
[15:27.640 -> 15:31.680] a master stroke or it was kind of dumb luck. But I think they,
[15:32.160 -> 15:36.120] first of all, didn't have enough new tires, right?
[15:36.120 -> 15:40.600] For softs from what we can see that the data that Pirelli has
[15:40.600 -> 15:44.400] published. And the second thing is that if you also notice,
[15:44.400 -> 15:48.260] if you also notice, if you see there's another thing that Pirelli had posted
[15:48.260 -> 15:52.180] was the fastest lap times from the practice sessions.
[15:52.180 -> 15:57.300] And McLean had the fastest lap time on hards by PS3.
[15:57.300 -> 16:00.340] So I think they had some enough data with them
[16:00.340 -> 16:03.620] to show that hards were somehow working for them.
[16:03.620 -> 16:06.720] But I don't know. Yeah, exactly. Right?
[16:06.720 -> 16:12.080] So, the rule states that you are supposed to do at least one pit stop.
[16:12.080 -> 16:16.960] And you are supposed to use at least two different compounds during the race.
[16:16.960 -> 16:24.000] Now, because they were already on mediums, the option left was hard or soft.
[16:24.000 -> 16:29.000] At least what data shows is, A, they brought in used softs.
[16:29.000 -> 16:39.000] And because they've driven quite a chunk of FP1, and obviously qualifying an FP3 on those softs,
[16:39.000 -> 16:46.320] they probably like ran through those. And the only option left were those hards. And I also think it possibly was
[16:47.120 -> 16:51.920] them trying to mitigate risk of what if softs don't work but I don't know it doesn't make sense.
[16:51.920 -> 16:59.920] No, the data was against that. The data was in favor of softs. So, speaking of good performances,
[17:00.560 -> 17:06.400] Williams man, 800 GP, I think they had a time of their life this weekend.
[17:06.400 -> 17:13.160] Albon was on another level, man. Like, again, yet again. Is this week 3, back to back?
[17:13.160 -> 17:14.400] Getting into top 10?
[17:14.400 -> 17:15.000] Yeah, I think so.
[17:15.000 -> 17:21.480] So, again, top 10. He is just casually walking into it these days.
[17:21.480 -> 17:26.220] Meeting both the Ferraris. Dude, that was the highlight, right?
[17:26.220 -> 17:29.720] Like, showing that stop sign to both Ferraris.
[17:29.720 -> 17:35.960] Sure, it required major car upgrades and Ferrari strategy in play to defeat both the Ferraris.
[17:35.960 -> 17:37.760] But yeah, he did it.
[17:37.760 -> 17:40.260] But fair game. William is beating both Ferraris.
[17:40.260 -> 17:52.120] Albon is having the time of his life. Was it Helmut Marco also who said, you know, Albon is driving the best race of his life?
[17:52.120 -> 17:59.400] I think he did something after the qualifying or something. Recognizing game sort of thing.
[17:59.400 -> 18:07.840] Yeah, Fair game. Yeah. Albon, yeah, definitely. He, I think he's found the right place for now, at least,
[18:08.160 -> 18:12.360] in a team which believes in him and like, I think is supporting him well enough.
[18:12.400 -> 18:16.480] I think the break that he got was, I mean, he needed it possibly.
[18:16.800 -> 18:18.760] Yeah. And I think he's got better out of it.
[18:18.920 -> 18:20.520] Cashing out of him. He is cashing out.
[18:22.640 -> 18:26.720] And even Logan Sargent, man, like a lot of people have been very critical of him.
[18:26.720 -> 18:29.720] But give him a break, he is literally driving a William.
[18:29.720 -> 18:35.200] And again, missed out on the points.
[18:35.200 -> 18:38.560] But P11, still pretty amazing performance, I feel.
[18:38.560 -> 18:40.040] Regardless.
[18:40.040 -> 18:43.760] He was also having a brilliant qualifying.
[18:43.760 -> 18:49.360] I think he was up there into the top 5 during Q2.
[18:49.360 -> 18:52.600] First of all, Q1 was insane.
[18:52.600 -> 18:54.200] I remember now that you say it.
[18:54.200 -> 18:59.560] Every person who was lapping was putting in the fastest lap out there.
[18:59.560 -> 19:03.240] It was constantly changing in the top 3.
[19:03.240 -> 19:04.840] It was really awesome.
[19:04.840 -> 19:10.000] And Logan Sargent at one point was think P2 or P3 or something. Yeah. Yeah.
[19:11.680 -> 19:17.440] So good, man. Oh, one thing I have to, one thing I have to say, man, like in this race, like
[19:18.160 -> 19:22.480] I went into the race thinking that this is going to be a super boring race. Like it's
[19:22.480 -> 19:30.400] mostly going to be Max and he fucks off and blah, blah. The usual shit. So I went to the race only supporting for Albon and all I cared
[19:30.400 -> 19:35.760] about was Albon getting into the points and I celebrated right after he got into the points.
[19:37.200 -> 19:49.240] Lovely, your weekend was successful. Same as his. Moving on, I think we found who listens to us from the pit lane.
[19:49.240 -> 19:52.720] And unfortunately or fortunately, it's Ferrari.
[19:52.720 -> 19:58.480] Because they have seen our reel, they have heard our podcast, they have seen our content.
[19:58.480 -> 20:04.160] And they know people have caught on to the fact that Chad GPT is their strategist.
[20:04.160 -> 20:06.080] And they switched it around this weekend.
[20:06.080 -> 20:08.440] Yeah, man. See, now we know.
[20:08.440 -> 20:11.320] Like, their strategy was working well for the past few races.
[20:11.320 -> 20:13.280] And we also credited them for it.
[20:13.280 -> 20:16.040] And as soon as we called them out, their strategy went to shit.
[20:16.040 -> 20:18.760] Right. Right. Right.
[20:18.760 -> 20:30.440] So, I don't know. I don't know what to make of it. So, Shubham was saying like Pirelli's came out with four or five strategies
[20:30.480 -> 20:32.760] off tires. But who knows?
[20:32.760 -> 20:34.040] Ferrari might have their own.
[20:34.200 -> 20:37.240] And boy, they actually did.
[20:43.160 -> 20:46.320] As soon as Luckluck went into the pits, you know,
[20:46.320 -> 20:50.040] on his first pit stop, I was like, wait, what the fuck is going on here?
[20:50.400 -> 20:54.200] Like why? And the commentator is like, he's possibly, you know,
[20:54.280 -> 20:58.480] trying to avoid an undercut by Russell. I'm like, wait, what undercut?
[20:58.480 -> 21:01.240] Like it's halfway into his stint right now.
[21:02.400 -> 21:04.320] Like why would you pit right now, man?
[21:04.160 -> 21:09.200] He is into his stint right now. Like, why would you pit right now, man? And that too, when this was right after Hulk came into the pits.
[21:09.200 -> 21:11.200] Two switch from hards to mediums.
[21:11.200 -> 21:16.560] Yeah, I mean, I think like maybe, I don't know what that undercut situation was.
[21:16.560 -> 21:23.200] I think like it was probably that they wanted Russell to sort of like come out behind Leclerc.
[21:23.200 -> 21:26.400] Which did work out in their favor when Russell
[21:26.400 -> 21:32.640] did pit. But I think it was also to sort of like start pressuring folks behind Leclerc into a
[21:32.640 -> 21:38.240] pit stop train. But it did not happen for the next 10 laps. No one came into the pits for the next 10
[21:38.240 -> 21:48.720] laps. Nobody came. It was a flop show for Leclerc getting into the pitch. And also I think even with signs, I don't exactly recall,
[21:48.720 -> 21:53.720] but I recall that he was asked whether he wants to pit at one point and he was
[21:55.220 -> 21:57.680] like, you know, you guys decide. And they said like, no,
[21:57.680 -> 22:00.080] let's hold on later on something like that.
[22:00.680 -> 22:02.920] And then he came out on hards or whatever. Yeah.
[22:02.920 -> 22:09.000] I don't understand what their strategy. Oh, okay. Forget all that. One thing that we have to talk about is,
[22:09.000 -> 22:15.700] now I'm pretty sure that Science was actually intimidated by Perez last race,
[22:15.700 -> 22:18.400] because this race, the same thing, exact thing happened.
[22:18.400 -> 22:28.000] Perez came behind him and Science completely shut his pants and And like 3 people go by. Yeah, he lost 3 positions in 3 turns man.
[22:28.000 -> 22:30.000] I was like, one goes, Pareas goes by,
[22:30.000 -> 22:32.000] Laclerc goes by, and I think even
[22:32.000 -> 22:34.000] Albon, like a Williams went by.
[22:34.000 -> 22:36.000] Yeah dude, Albon went by, exactly.
[22:36.000 -> 22:38.000] Dude, it totally felt like
[22:38.000 -> 22:46.880] Aak Bandh Tapli. For those who don't know what that is.
[22:46.880 -> 22:56.720] It's like you just close somebody's eyes and everybody hits them.
[22:56.720 -> 23:02.940] Just some shit game that we used to play back in childhood.
[23:02.940 -> 23:05.960] Dude, he forgot everything, I think.
[23:05.960 -> 23:08.240] He was asking his engineers, what is plan B?
[23:08.240 -> 23:11.360] When his engineers asked him, could we do plan B?
[23:11.360 -> 23:12.600] He's like, I don't know what that is.
[23:12.600 -> 23:18.320] And then he's expecting the engineer to explain.
[23:18.320 -> 23:21.520] When he said, what is plan B?
[23:21.520 -> 23:37.280] I was so tempted to say contraception. But he is expecting his engineers to explain what plan B is on the radio for all the other 19 drivers to listen in and figure out what plan B strategy is.
[23:37.280 -> 23:49.060] I mean, I guess it doesn't really matter hearing into Ferrari's strategy. Ferrari strategy but sure. No I understand dude this was Ford EHS okay he was
[23:49.060 -> 23:53.360] planning on that he asked this question so that his race engineer reveals the
[23:53.360 -> 23:56.640] strategy and he knows the strategy is going to be so shit and if somebody
[23:56.640 -> 24:07.000] hears it and uses it, that will be an advantage for him. Okay, I see. Reverse, reverse, reverse, reverse psychology.
[24:07.000 -> 24:08.000] Exactly.
[24:08.000 -> 24:12.000] Which eventually went reverse on him. So, shut up.
[24:12.000 -> 24:35.960] Who comes up with a medium-hard, medium strategy when everyone is doing softs and mediums. I think if they would have stuck to a good strategy, Luckluck should have been P4 or P5.
[24:35.960 -> 24:39.380] Yeah, yeah. For sure.
[24:39.380 -> 24:46.280] Who goes P9, P10 or whatever they finish from P4, P5?
[24:46.280 -> 24:52.000] Exactly. I don't even recall where they ended and I am not even interested in seeing where they ended.
[24:52.000 -> 24:54.520] So, let's move on.
[24:54.520 -> 24:55.760] Let's move on to Red Bull.
[24:55.760 -> 24:56.260] Sure.
[24:56.260 -> 24:56.760] Let's just..
[24:56.760 -> 24:58.180] Let's.. Yeah. Let's..
[24:58.180 -> 24:59.660] F**k off from here.
[24:59.660 -> 25:03.020] Well, Red Bull. Yet another day, yet another record broken.
[25:03.020 -> 25:07.280] I think they broke a record of most consecutive wins.
[25:07.280 -> 25:09.960] What number are we at now?
[25:09.960 -> 25:11.200] I think 11.
[25:11.200 -> 25:13.560] Who did they beat?
[25:13.560 -> 25:15.240] So, they have drawn it right now with McLaren.
[25:15.240 -> 25:19.480] So, during 1988, Senna and Prost had together...
[25:19.480 -> 25:21.400] Okay, and that is also important.
[25:21.400 -> 25:22.760] They together did it.
[25:22.760 -> 25:27.960] It took two engineers to figure out how to turn on the fan sort of situation.
[25:27.960 -> 25:28.800] Yeah.
[25:29.560 -> 25:32.400] And here Max is doing it single-handedly. Okay.
[25:32.920 -> 25:33.760] Hold my beer.
[25:34.440 -> 25:39.600] I have another theory. Red Bull, I think can possibly do this from next
[25:39.600 -> 25:40.160] race onwards.
[25:40.160 -> 25:44.440] They can just do one entry of a car and save some money on running the second
[25:44.440 -> 25:50.880] car entirely. Save the money on the salary of the driver. Dude, everything, flights, food, stay.
[25:53.040 -> 25:56.800] They don't need a second driver. Use that to feed hungry kids in Africa.
[25:58.800 -> 26:04.720] Yeah, right. Yeah. Gain some good PR as well. This is an amazing plan, I think. Red will hire us.
[26:03.480 -> 26:05.000] I am getting some good PR as well. This is an amazing plan, I think. Red will hire us.
[26:05.000 -> 26:10.440] No, dude. Seriously, I don't know.
[26:10.440 -> 26:14.080] I think like, Perez is a choker at this point.
[26:14.080 -> 26:30.700] He was getting through those drivers and eventually, I think, ended up gaining 9 positions overall. But I think, sure, it took two safety car sort of situations to bring in that delta gap.
[26:30.700 -> 26:36.800] He struggled to sort of cleanly overtake as sort of Max would have done.
[26:36.800 -> 26:43.300] I don't know at this point if both the cars have not been upgraded to the point they should have.
[26:43.300 -> 26:46.080] But I think that's obviously not the case.
[26:46.080 -> 26:49.520] So, one word, choker.
[26:49.520 -> 26:52.800] I think, yeah, I don't think he's...
[26:52.800 -> 26:56.160] He sort of like cracks under pressure at times.
[26:56.160 -> 26:57.360] Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
[26:57.360 -> 27:03.520] Fifth consecutive time not getting out of Q1 itself.
[27:03.520 -> 27:05.800] Yeah, right. Exactly. Yeah.
[27:05.800 -> 27:12.000] And I think his last good race was what the race before Monaco, whatever that was.
[27:12.000 -> 27:18.600] And I think after Monaco, there is this sudden change where it almost feels like, you know,
[27:18.600 -> 27:21.600] somebody sabotaged him or something, you know, it almost feels that way.
[27:21.600 -> 27:23.000] Yeah, he's Mexican.
[27:23.000 -> 27:27.920] Someone probably did a black magic voodoo on a doll, which is yeah, probably.
[27:27.920 -> 27:28.420] Right?
[27:29.840 -> 27:30.840] Who knows?
[27:32.080 -> 27:34.480] Uh, man, it's, it's just, yeah.
[27:34.880 -> 27:38.480] Anyways, let's talk about Max, the only driver that Red Bull has.
[27:38.880 -> 27:43.840] Uh, what, what, why does he have so much time during the race?
[27:43.880 -> 27:46.600] How did he know that like Lur Luck pitted so early in the race?
[27:46.600 -> 27:51.300] He was on the radio asking his engineer, why is Luck pitting so early in the race?
[27:51.300 -> 28:03.300] Yeah, man, he is up there, right? No fight, he is driving, no one in front of him, behind. There is just too much time in the world.
[28:03.300 -> 28:06.480] I think his screen basically just streams F1 TV on there.
[28:06.480 -> 28:09.280] So, he is just watching the race while driving.
[28:09.280 -> 28:10.280] Once he takes the lead, yeah.
[28:10.280 -> 28:13.880] The clutch disables and then F1 TV comes on.
[28:13.880 -> 28:19.680] Yeah, man. It's just ridiculous.
[28:19.680 -> 28:22.240] Like, every start I hear is just insane.
[28:22.240 -> 28:27.040] I just read this today that he doesn't need to win any race now till the end of the season.
[28:27.040 -> 28:50.140] Even if Perez wins all the races, all the sprints, gets all the fastest lap points and Max only gets a P2 every race, he still wins it by 7 points, by the way. It's somewhat embarrassing when we were at a point in the season where we were thinking Perez is going to give that battle to Max for P1.
[28:50.140 -> 28:55.500] And now, I am like, can he hold on to his pants at this point?
[28:55.500 -> 28:57.920] Oh, now I know.
[28:57.920 -> 29:03.700] Now I know. I mean, obviously, the contracts go into 2025 and it's not changing anytime soon.
[29:03.700 -> 29:07.120] But now I know why Helmut Marko was praising Albon.
[29:07.360 -> 29:12.080] Maybe Peres gets shunned as the contracts change next year.
[29:12.760 -> 29:15.080] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And makes sense. Like, I think,
[29:15.520 -> 29:19.200] I don't think they're keen on putting Ricardo there. Ricardo is kind of, you know,
[29:19.200 -> 29:21.640] on his last leg of his career anyways, pretty much.
[29:23.120 -> 29:25.200] I don't think they want a driver who is in that
[29:25.200 -> 29:30.200] state. I think they might want somebody who is younger like Albon and Albon has
[29:30.200 -> 29:35.840] also worked with them earlier. Yeah and then it's once bitten twice shy sort of
[29:35.840 -> 29:41.440] thing right. Now that he comes back probably he's not gonna you know be like
[29:41.440 -> 29:45.280] a rookie sort of thing. So yeah probably, we will drive better. But anyways, let's see.
[29:46.280 -> 29:48.280] Let's see, man.
[29:48.440 -> 29:50.440] Did we talk about Mercedes? Did we?
[29:50.440 -> 29:52.440] No, I think let's talk about Mercedes a little.
[29:52.440 -> 29:54.440] Alright, go for it.
[29:55.120 -> 29:59.360] Yeah, I think they're doing pretty good, man. I think they're slowly clawing back.
[30:00.360 -> 30:03.920] Again, like this time, even though we didn't see some
[30:06.600 -> 30:09.680] spectacular result, I think still P3 and where did Russell end up?
[30:09.680 -> 30:13.320] I don't recall, but I think still in points, right?
[30:13.320 -> 30:15.880] P5 or P6, something like that.
[30:15.880 -> 30:17.440] Still out there.
[30:17.440 -> 30:19.040] I think they were doing pretty decent.
[30:19.040 -> 30:23.000] They had some upgrades, but again, I don't know.
[30:23.000 -> 30:27.000] I think I'm still not sure if they are the rest of the best
[30:27.000 -> 30:31.280] yacht because you know, if you see all the races till now, there has been a big chunk
[30:31.280 -> 30:35.040] where Aston Martin was there and now they're like nowhere all of a sudden. I don't know.
[30:35.040 -> 30:40.760] I think it's just some tracks that are not suiting them possibly. But Mercedes, I think
[30:40.760 -> 30:45.720] for the last two or three races was doing pretty good. But yeah, this race, it was McLaren.
[30:45.720 -> 30:50.960] So, I don't think there's a clear winner for the rest of the best so far this year.
[30:52.120 -> 30:54.840] Well, at least they are P2 Constructor Championship.
[30:54.880 -> 30:57.400] So, that's at least going on for them.
[30:58.040 -> 31:02.320] Well, RBR at least has more than double the points ahead of them.
[31:02.320 -> 31:05.400] But sure, at least the Mercedes is..
[31:05.400 -> 31:05.900] Yeah.
[31:05.900 -> 31:09.800] Oh, that overtake by Russell on Charles.
[31:09.800 -> 31:11.500] I don't know if you saw that.
[31:11.500 -> 31:13.000] It was so good, man.
[31:13.000 -> 31:18.200] This was right after Russell came out behind Charles after the pitch-stop.
[31:18.200 -> 31:29.760] And I think a few laps down the line, he did an overtake on, I forget what corner it was, but on the outside and he did a switchback.
[31:29.760 -> 31:31.760] It was an amazing overtake.
[31:31.760 -> 31:41.980] Yeah, I mean, Russell sort of like still has it in him. I think like, it's home race magic going on for all of these Britons yesterday.
[31:41.980 -> 31:48.960] Yeah, I mean, if I was to root for someone at Mercedes, I mean, it's still going to be Toto.
[31:48.960 -> 31:49.360] So.
[31:53.920 -> 31:54.720] Toto all the way.
[31:55.760 -> 32:02.440] It doesn't get much spoken about, I feel, but Sunoda was having a brilliant race again.
[32:02.440 -> 32:07.500] I feel like he, so race start, he ended up gaining three positions.
[32:07.500 -> 32:10.940] I think he ended up where he started eventually.
[32:10.940 -> 32:13.540] But he did have a good race start.
[32:13.540 -> 32:18.220] At least one Alpha Tauri is making the most out of it can.
[32:18.220 -> 32:19.700] Yeah.
[32:19.700 -> 32:21.600] I'd really wanna see if..
[32:21.600 -> 32:22.400] Yeah.
[32:22.400 -> 32:31.700] I mean, I'd really wanna see if they do. I don't know if they can sort of like switch drivers just for like free practice or whatever.
[32:31.700 -> 32:39.260] But I want to see like what sort of timings can he set if he was given a seat into that Red Bull.
[32:39.260 -> 32:52.600] Maybe like for an FP1, FP2. Or a pre-weekend hot lap sort of situation. So, I'd love to see at least something come out of Sunoda in the RBR A team.
[32:52.600 -> 32:55.800] Yeah, and I think Sunoda, he is doing good.
[32:55.800 -> 33:04.200] I think this race wasn't his, you know, it didn't work out for him in the sense that he didn't get into the points.
[33:04.200 -> 33:06.880] But I think, yeah, his start was pretty good. But again, I didn't see him for him in the sense that he didn't get into the points, but I think yeah, his start was pretty good.
[33:06.880 -> 33:09.360] But again, I didn't see him much during the race.
[33:09.360 -> 33:10.600] I don't think they showed him much.
[33:10.600 -> 33:11.600] So I don't know.
[33:11.600 -> 33:14.600] Yeah, because nothing much was happening.
[33:14.600 -> 33:22.640] Well, Haas decided to make things interesting because their engine just didn't boom.
[33:22.640 -> 33:26.760] I don't know what's with, again, what is with Haas cars and them breaking apart?
[33:26.760 -> 33:29.200] Like, I don't get what's with that.
[33:29.200 -> 33:30.240] Ferrari engines.
[33:30.240 -> 33:31.920] They can't use the Ferrari strategy,
[33:31.920 -> 33:34.360] so they're using Ferrari engines.
[33:34.360 -> 33:36.520] They tried doing the strategy thing as well, I think,
[33:36.520 -> 33:41.440] with hard to medium thingy, but whatever.
[33:41.440 -> 33:43.720] They probably were like, we should listen to Ferrari
[33:43.720 -> 33:45.280] because they are our A-team supplier
[33:45.280 -> 33:47.280] and whatnot.
[33:47.280 -> 33:53.440] And then like a few laps in like, nope, this is bullshit.
[33:53.440 -> 33:55.480] The car decides to go boom.
[33:55.480 -> 34:02.080] Oh, talking about boom, let's talk about Stroll taking of Gasly, man.
[34:02.080 -> 34:05.000] Very well executed assassination.
[34:06.840 -> 34:09.520] Oh dude, seriously. And Ghazali goes like,
[34:09.960 -> 34:13.840] he should give me the position back and make me feel fuming. Eventually,
[34:13.840 -> 34:17.920] I see him, he's in the pits, retiring. And I'm like, why did he retire?
[34:18.840 -> 34:21.960] And then, his steering wheel was like this. Did you see that?
[34:22.560 -> 34:24.800] Yes, dude, his car was f**ked.
[34:25.000 -> 34:29.500] So apparently his suspension broke during that incident.
[34:29.500 -> 34:38.000] And I'm like, all stroll God was a black and white flag for going out on the track for all this carnage that he was about to cause.
[34:38.000 -> 34:40.000] Exactly.
[34:40.000 -> 34:46.720] Totally, totally got trolled today, man. Ghasly, poor fellow. Even after the race, he was really fuming.
[34:46.720 -> 34:49.920] He was just walking angrily everywhere in the media pen.
[34:49.920 -> 34:51.200] Yeah.
[34:51.200 -> 34:58.320] And on top of that, did you see when media did ask, like, you know, Ghasly is angry and pissed with you.
[34:58.320 -> 35:00.160] What do you have to say about it?
[35:00.160 -> 35:09.440] Stroll goes all Delhi, Noida, Ghaziabad guy saying, like, I will ask him to meet me in the parking lot and we can sort this out.
[35:09.440 -> 35:12.840] I am like, dude, what the f**k is happening? I want to see punches thrown.
[35:12.840 -> 35:16.200] Inspiration being taken from Elon and Zuck.
[35:16.200 -> 35:17.440] Let's box.
[35:17.440 -> 35:31.360] Oh, man. I am like, after the race is done, put up a cage match in the parking lot for people who couldn't get into the garage or couldn't get into the arena.
[35:31.360 -> 35:32.560] Like, fight!
[35:32.560 -> 35:36.400] Yeah, that would be pretty fun to watch.
[35:36.400 -> 35:41.920] Oh, another really good thing that happened, I think, during the race.
[35:41.920 -> 35:45.360] Or rather, after the the race was the podium celebrations
[35:45.360 -> 35:51.840] where Lando was so excited with his P2 that he started celebrating even before all the trophies
[35:51.840 -> 35:57.840] were handed out. So there's this shot where like Ben Sulaiman and whoever that lady was
[35:59.360 -> 36:03.600] she's trying to go in and Ben is like wait please wait just wait wait before you start
[36:04.160 -> 36:10.260] And Ben is like, wait, please wait. Just wait. Wait before you start to play. Yeah, Max never got his trophy, right? But at this point, Max is also like, sure, take this.
[36:10.260 -> 36:13.500] I will take it. Don't worry. I will take it next place.
[36:13.500 -> 36:26.360] But the second Alpine also sort of retired. And I know you were asking, like, why did Ocon retire? So apparently, their telemetry data
[36:26.360 -> 36:29.600] showed that there was a hydraulic leak.
[36:29.600 -> 36:32.560] And the car could have probably caught fire
[36:32.560 -> 36:34.880] if they wouldn't have stopped.
[36:34.880 -> 36:38.040] So yeah, something going on with those Alpines.
[36:38.040 -> 36:39.560] But hey, it's an all-French team.
[36:39.560 -> 36:41.240] So what do you think?
[36:41.240 -> 36:43.120] Yeah, anyways, France is burning right now.
[36:43.120 -> 36:47.000] I don't know what the fuck is going on there. They wanted to bring it to the track as well.
[36:47.000 -> 36:48.080] Yeah, exactly.
[36:48.080 -> 36:56.000] Oh, we have to talk about the main event. We have to talk about the main event of the race.
[36:56.000 -> 37:03.520] That was Dr. Marco getting hassled by a photographer in the media pen.
[37:03.520 -> 37:05.520] What the f**k was going on there?
[37:05.520 -> 37:08.160] Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I f**king love it.
[37:08.160 -> 37:17.420] So, if you see this on loop, it's a better-every-loop sort of situation where you end up seeing the cameraman fighting against Mark Lowe.
[37:17.420 -> 37:25.000] And then you see Zac Brown looking from the corner of his eye, what's happening?
[37:25.000 -> 37:30.500] Then you see Christian Honor and the braided engineer looking like, yeah, someone's fighting Marco.
[37:30.500 -> 37:35.800] And then you see Marco with like his old jacket opened up for folks who are from Mumbai,
[37:35.800 -> 37:41.300] like trying to get down at Goreevali while you've gotten into a Virar fast train sort of situation,
[37:41.300 -> 37:43.300] not being able to get down.
[37:43.300 -> 37:45.280] Brilliant. sort of situation not being able to get down. That was brilliant.
[37:45.280 -> 37:47.280] That was absolutely insane.
[37:47.280 -> 37:51.280] I'm pretty sure the photographer is nowhere getting to any tracks anymore.
[37:51.280 -> 37:55.280] Dude, imagine this man.
[37:55.280 -> 38:01.280] Like, Albert Marco, boss of bosses, like deciding fates of drivers and everything.
[38:01.280 -> 38:14.940] Like looking at the celebration and then like, I mean, right? I saw this and I just straight up was laughing for like five
[38:14.940 -> 38:16.740] continuous minutes after watching this.
[38:16.740 -> 38:19.260] This is a better every loop.
[38:19.260 -> 38:23.500] Like, I can spend hours looking at this and still continue
[38:23.500 -> 38:25.120] laughing like at the end of that hour.
[38:25.120 -> 38:26.880] Totally.
[38:26.880 -> 38:45.000] On another note, so Shubham yesterday mentioned that there is actually a discussion or there was an actual discussion where folks thought that there was a 11th team on track
[38:45.160 -> 38:49.120] and they were gonna race during the main race.
[38:49.120 -> 38:50.320] And I didn't know about this.
[38:50.320 -> 38:51.520] And I was like, wait,
[38:51.520 -> 38:53.640] what the fuck are people talking about?
[38:53.640 -> 38:56.060] Yeah.
[38:56.060 -> 39:00.240] Yeah. That's all the shenanigans for that movie, right?
[39:00.240 -> 39:01.240] Oh my God.
[39:01.240 -> 39:03.280] I've been hearing so much about it.
[39:03.280 -> 39:04.800] I'm tired of it, man.
[39:04.800 -> 39:06.480] Like just make the movie and release it.
[39:06.480 -> 39:11.160] Stop like marketing all the way through it. Uh, yeah,
[39:11.200 -> 39:15.160] I don't know. Apex GP or whatever that was, right. I think they did,
[39:15.320 -> 39:16.600] they did two laps.
[39:17.000 -> 39:21.520] I think one was during the installation lap and one was like half a formation
[39:21.520 -> 39:22.360] lap or something.
[39:22.360 -> 39:30.880] Yeah. Yeah. And, um, uh, I think like even a photo op or a video with the whole crew, sort of like to show that they are
[39:30.880 -> 39:35.600] part of F1 and whatnot, whatever they need for that movie. Circles, everything, everyone. I don't
[39:35.600 -> 39:42.720] know what was happening behind the scenes as well. But yeah, dude, I mean, on another front, if they
[39:42.720 -> 39:48.760] did take part of the race, it would have been fun because both those actors would have been rookies.
[39:48.760 -> 39:52.160] Sort of like side-drifting into everyone.
[39:52.160 -> 39:57.040] Eventually, just being like how an F1 game with no damages on is.
[39:57.040 -> 39:59.680] I would have loved to see it.
[39:59.680 -> 40:01.000] Public lobby, dude.
[40:01.000 -> 40:05.760] That would have totally been an online public lobby for F1.
[40:05.760 -> 40:09.600] Yeah, exactly. Now that's a movie I'd pay to watch.
[40:09.600 -> 40:14.560] Yeah, exactly. See, F1 demolition derby. You know, that's the movie I wanna watch.
[40:14.560 -> 40:25.160] But yeah, let's see. Maybe, I mean, I have some hopes or I don't know, like, they are catching on the details very well.
[40:25.220 -> 40:27.260] Like, so let's see how it turns out.
[40:27.480 -> 40:30.480] But yeah, I think overall a decent race.
[40:30.480 -> 40:37.400] I think even if, again, as we said, even if everyone ended up where they started, pretty much still a lot of action that went by.
[40:37.720 -> 40:44.560] A good qualification, rain, there was just the right amount of rain out there, which made things interesting again.
[40:44.960 -> 40:54.080] And yeah. There was just the right amount of rain out there, which made things interesting again. Some of the best laughs we have had in this episode that were brought from this weekend as well.
[40:54.080 -> 40:55.840] Totally, man. Totally.
[40:55.840 -> 41:02.380] We do have a break next week coming in before we head into Hungary.
[41:02.380 -> 41:05.120] Hockenheim, I think, right?
[41:05.120 -> 41:10.320] So this is another good track, good turns, high speed
[41:10.320 -> 41:15.760] straights, a brilliant weekend is what should be promised.
[41:15.760 -> 41:16.840] So stay tuned.
[41:16.840 -> 41:20.560] Hopefully, we'll probably try to squeeze in a fireside chat
[41:20.560 -> 41:23.120] next week, still working on the details.
[41:23.120 -> 41:32.600] If we do, well, you'll have a brilliant story to hear from a brilliant motorsport team. Until the next weekend, keep laughing,
[41:32.600 -> 41:37.840] stay chill, keep rating us and writing into us at F1 Fan Fiction. These are your hosts
[41:37.840 -> 41:38.840] signing off. Bye.
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