2023 Singapore GP - Episode Detail

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[00:00.000 -> 00:08.000] Hello and welcome back to F1 Fan Fiction, a show about race week interviews and racing community interviews.
[00:08.560 -> 00:15.540] For the racing community interviews part, if you've not checked us out yet, we are in collaboration with the IRL podcast.
[00:16.160 -> 00:21.680] A show where we are picking stories for what's happening in Q4 of this year
[00:22.640 -> 00:27.200] in India with FIA being here. That's all I'm gonna say here. If you want to know more,
[00:27.200 -> 00:33.920] head over to the IRL podcast or check us out with our fireside episodes. The third one's coming in
[00:33.920 -> 00:41.840] a few days. With that said, this is the Singapore Grand Prix. We are your hosts. I am Akash.
[00:41.840 -> 00:42.720] And I'm Sarang.
[00:42.720 -> 00:46.000] And let's get into the bonanza that this weekend was.
[00:46.000 -> 00:50.000] Sarang, what are your raw thoughts on, how did you like the weekend?
[00:50.000 -> 00:51.000] I don't know man.
[00:51.000 -> 00:55.000] Like, qualification of course was a lot of fun.
[00:55.000 -> 01:05.580] Like, you know, for a change, not seeing the smug bastard, you know, right in the front was quite a pleasure.
[01:09.060 -> 01:09.100] But I think the race was, I think it fizzled out a little.
[01:13.420 -> 01:13.440] Of course it got interesting towards the end, but I think I texted you like,
[01:15.700 -> 01:16.260] I'm not sure what are we going to talk about today.
[01:19.460 -> 01:19.500] Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. Right. But yeah.
[01:23.860 -> 01:24.060] Yeah, man. I mean like, um, for me, I think it was a fun weekend. I mean,
[01:26.180 -> 01:27.220] I'll give you that. It's exactly right.
[01:27.220 -> 01:28.780] You've seen the same usual winners.
[01:28.780 -> 01:31.060] You've seen now those memes and reels coming up
[01:31.060 -> 01:34.020] where people are taping over P1 and then have,
[01:34.020 -> 01:37.180] this is the new grid order and stuff.
[01:37.180 -> 01:38.940] With all of that said,
[01:38.940 -> 01:41.420] it was such a mixed, shuffled weekend.
[01:41.420 -> 01:44.100] Ferraris were confident through free practice.
[01:44.100 -> 01:47.680] Science was like, we can probably get doubles in the start and you know whatever it was.
[01:47.680 -> 01:53.000] Liam Lawson, Gasly, the Alpines, like it was I think like...
[01:53.000 -> 01:54.000] Haas as well.
[01:54.000 -> 02:00.600] Haas as well right. So like with all the shuffling that happened just because one fucker got out of the way.
[02:00.600 -> 02:08.040] Exactly. It's that one auto rickshaw that's driving on the freeway middle of the
[02:08.040 -> 02:13.240] lane that's holding the traffic back like you know and as soon as he goes away. Except
[02:13.240 -> 02:16.880] this auto rickshaw is like way ahead of everybody else like kilometers ahead. Yeah that's a
[02:16.880 -> 02:23.720] different story. So yeah for me I think I like the weekend. Sure there was that flatness
[02:23.720 -> 02:25.100] mid race and stuff but overall a nice weekend. We usually don't talk about Kauli, I think I like the weekend. Sure, there was that flatness mid-race and stuff.
[02:25.100 -> 02:27.100] But overall, a nice weekend.
[02:27.100 -> 02:33.800] We usually don't talk about quali, but I think a good thing that did happen during the quali part 2,
[02:33.800 -> 02:39.900] at least for me, was... I don't know whatever happened with Max blocking everyone
[02:39.900 -> 02:41.900] and the start of Q2.
[02:41.900 -> 02:44.900] He was under investigation, I think.
[02:44.900 -> 02:46.000] Yeah, I think nothing did.
[02:46.000 -> 02:48.000] I think like FIA
[02:48.000 -> 02:50.000] investigating at this point is
[02:50.000 -> 02:52.000] like
[02:52.000 -> 02:54.000] firing a blank
[02:54.000 -> 02:56.000] air gun made out of plastic.
[02:56.000 -> 02:58.000] As low level as that.
[02:58.000 -> 03:00.000] Yeah man, I just don't get it these days.
[03:00.000 -> 03:02.000] I think they just like roll a die
[03:02.000 -> 03:04.000] and see like whatever
[03:04.000 -> 03:07.000] that shows up, they just give that penalty or not.
[03:07.000 -> 03:13.000] Makes no sense. Overall, like yeah, Koli was very exciting.
[03:13.000 -> 03:22.000] Like I think this Koli, I was actually on the edge of my seat because of course, like most of all, like Q2, the shocker, both the Red Bulls are out.
[03:22.000 -> 03:25.160] They break their streak. Oh, by the way, I don't know if you
[03:25.160 -> 03:33.560] saw this, but Valtri Bhattas, our friend, shared a very awesome tweet, I think, or something,
[03:33.560 -> 03:40.160] somewhere I think on Instagram, actually. But it seems like he has the running record
[03:40.160 -> 03:49.840] for like the most consecutive appearances in Q3 which is 1-0-3 bases and Red Bull fell short by just one at 1-0-2.
[03:49.840 -> 03:58.480] Oh damn. Oh damn. Yeah, Botas taking the streak all by himself. No match for Max.
[03:58.480 -> 04:02.400] Botas streaking, sure. On the track and off the track.
[04:02.400 -> 04:04.400] On the track and off the track.
[04:08.920 -> 04:14.200] sure. On the track and off the track. I think Aston Martin again tried to pull something. You know how we spoke about this in the last trace that there's this image of these four
[04:14.200 -> 04:21.680] guys saying that, hey, it's Singapore next week. And then it's like a crash gate saga.
[04:21.680 -> 04:27.640] Maybe they actually wanted to go for it. But I got to remind everyone what our
[04:27.640 -> 04:34.000] dear friend once said that to win a race you need to first finish a race. To put up a scandal
[04:34.000 -> 04:40.000] you first need a teammate. Nothing ever happened with him. But a big chance.
[04:40.000 -> 04:46.000] Stroll possibly misheard it. He heard crash something something and he just went for it.
[04:46.000 -> 04:52.000] Accelerated into that corner instead of braking. Sure.
[04:52.000 -> 05:05.880] But it was a gnarly crash man. I think his tire broke off. Even with the three tethers that they have, it's surprising that it still came off and I saw like multiple like footage from like
[05:05.880 -> 05:12.000] the grandstands like on TikTok and also on Instagram yeah yeah and it was yeah it
[05:12.000 -> 05:17.360] was really scary and especially like how close Piyasthri was right behind him
[05:17.360 -> 05:26.000] yeah yeah yeah good reflexes by him yeah. Either it's the main Mercedes or the second Mercedes everyone's
[05:26.000 -> 05:32.880] trying to sabotage Piastry man. If you don't get what we're saying go check out the previous
[05:32.880 -> 05:40.420] episode again. Yeah so I heard like the commentators say this where in the recent times whenever
[05:40.420 -> 05:47.600] someone's pulled above some say XGs they've said there should be a way to set auto
[05:47.600 -> 05:53.840] red flag the whole thing rather than wait and see what's happening because usually the safety
[05:53.840 -> 05:58.960] quite concerns this debris on the track and whatnot. It makes sense because you already have
[05:58.960 -> 06:07.720] the data immediately you know what's happening that should just trigger a safety for everyone rather than like a yellow and then a red or whatever.
[06:07.720 -> 06:13.640] So yeah, fair enough. I think it would be awesome to see that. Like, even if not completely
[06:13.640 -> 06:19.520] automated, they can still have like, you know, like a countdown to it and like if the human
[06:19.520 -> 06:25.300] can cancel it if they want to. But yeah be would be good because I think even like of
[06:25.300 -> 06:31.500] course PS3 like really like had to take evasive action to get out of it but even Lando who
[06:31.500 -> 06:37.580] was right behind he too had like he was like at his flying lap and then suddenly had to
[06:37.580 -> 06:49.240] slow down the thing is like he came he bumped off and came back almost on the racing line. That too opposite, facing the other cars. That was scary.
[06:49.240 -> 06:51.480] Anyways, anyways, anyways.
[06:51.480 -> 06:53.560] Let's come to the man of the hour.
[06:53.560 -> 06:58.880] The guy who was the driver, the mechanic, the strategist, the everything.
[06:58.880 -> 07:00.920] Finally paid off.
[07:00.920 -> 07:02.080] Finally paid off.
[07:02.080 -> 07:03.240] Man, awesome.
[07:03.240 -> 07:07.440] Science, Carlos Science is finally there, race winner.
[07:07.440 -> 07:13.320] I had my doubts like I think I even saw this like meme of like somebody had shared like
[07:13.320 -> 07:18.360] the odds like betting odds for like different drivers and I think science had the least
[07:18.360 -> 07:28.000] odds which was weird like considering that he was starting at the first pole position and people didn't have faith in him that he might win the race.
[07:28.000 -> 07:36.000] Yeah and like I mean social media and influencers and like content creators started putting out, everyone I think almost like put out these polls
[07:36.000 -> 07:44.000] like do you think Ferrari is gonna hold it and everything I mean I just voted yes for trying to be the underdog here who knew I'd win.
[07:43.600 -> 07:46.160] as for trying to leave the underdog here, who knew I'd win.
[07:50.000 -> 07:53.560] Yeah, I mean, of course, like it wasn't completely clean for the Ferrari. Of course, like Luckluck kind of got chafed a little,
[07:53.560 -> 07:56.480] like with the pit stop and everything. But yeah, sure.
[07:57.840 -> 08:02.160] I don't think there was much that they could do, very honestly, like in their defense,
[08:02.160 -> 08:07.320] like they had to wait for the track to clear before leaving him, so the pit stop was longer, but.
[08:07.320 -> 08:10.120] No, I mean, it's not just the pit stop dude, right?
[08:10.120 -> 08:12.760] Like it started way before that,
[08:12.760 -> 08:14.520] like even during the race,
[08:14.520 -> 08:17.080] they wanted him to start building gap from.
[08:17.080 -> 08:20.680] Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, actually, I forgot about that.
[08:20.680 -> 08:23.960] Right, so it was like since the beginning,
[08:23.960 -> 08:26.640] they wanted to use him as the sacrifice of
[08:26.640 -> 08:32.520] the lamb and be like hey you offend and he comes on to the radio and says this too right
[08:32.520 -> 08:38.200] like they say delta to science 3 and he says sure I can do that but that's gonna risk my
[08:38.200 -> 08:42.520] race which is eventually what ended up happening.
[08:42.520 -> 08:47.440] Sad timing the pit stop and everything but I still and everything, but I still don't mind it, I still don't mind it.
[08:47.440 -> 08:48.360] Because if you think about it,
[08:48.360 -> 08:52.680] there were like two safety cars, right?
[08:52.680 -> 08:55.680] Pit stop saga based on all of that.
[08:55.680 -> 08:58.760] Faster, faster Mercedes, so you have better competition,
[08:58.760 -> 09:00.640] much better in the competition.
[09:00.640 -> 09:02.460] So there's so many variables, right?
[09:02.460 -> 09:04.840] I mean, at this point, if you've seen Futurama,
[09:04.840 -> 09:07.000] there's this concept of how do you break a robot?
[09:07.000 -> 09:12.000] You ask yourself a self-perplexing question and it goes into an infinite loop and breaks itself, right?
[09:12.000 -> 09:25.040] Unless you exit out of it. Yesterday that exit was science, but otherwise like there were so many variables with Ferrari, they could have easily blown themselves up.
[09:25.540 -> 09:28.040] True that.
[09:29.160 -> 09:31.680] But it's awesome, man. Like the race that he drove was so amazing.
[09:31.680 -> 09:35.200] Especially I like that radio message where like the engineer is like,
[09:35.520 -> 09:38.440] Lando's just 0.8 seconds with DRS behind him.
[09:38.440 -> 09:39.680] Like, yeah, I know dude.
[09:39.680 -> 09:40.880] I'll just shut up.
[09:41.160 -> 09:42.840] It's on purpose.
[09:43.120 -> 09:44.640] I'll teach you what I did after.
[09:44.640 -> 09:44.960] Yeah.
[09:44.960 -> 09:45.000] Don't worry. It's on purpose. I'll teach you what I did after.
[09:45.000 -> 09:47.000] Don't worry.
[09:47.000 -> 09:51.000] It was brilliant.
[09:51.000 -> 09:56.000] The whole strategy of like pushing Lando into their DRS,
[09:56.000 -> 10:00.000] like keeping him busy kind of with them. It was brilliant.
[10:00.000 -> 10:07.000] And I mean I'm sure like he's not the first F1 driver and it's happened way too many times.
[10:07.000 -> 10:13.000] But you don't see this kind of a battle with that rickshaw driver winning all the time.
[10:13.000 -> 10:24.000] So, that made it all the more fun with like a strategy at play.
[10:24.000 -> 10:25.840] I just too brilliant.
[10:25.840 -> 10:26.840] Just too... Anyways,
[10:26.840 -> 10:29.440] I felt like the whole bromance part was again back.
[10:29.440 -> 10:32.440] They made fun of it and did it again.
[10:32.440 -> 10:35.240] But what I liked was like after the race,
[10:35.240 -> 10:37.280] obviously there is this team-mate camaraderie
[10:37.280 -> 10:40.600] and the clerk and science greet each other and all.
[10:40.600 -> 10:44.400] And then the energy just flips.
[10:44.400 -> 10:48.640] Like, the hand is waiting there. And it also then cuts
[10:48.640 -> 10:56.560] to the fact that there is the shot where Zac Brown is talking with Carlos.
[10:57.120 -> 11:05.000] Okay. It takes it for like two seconds and then cuts off. I'm like, what is happening here? I'm saying,
[11:05.000 -> 11:07.000] come back, you have to understand.
[11:07.000 -> 11:11.000] Yeah, totally.
[11:11.000 -> 11:14.000] Or signing him up for a strategist role or whatever, right?
[11:14.000 -> 11:15.000] Yeah.
[11:15.000 -> 11:17.000] Anyways.
[11:17.000 -> 11:23.000] Yeah, I think even this guy, Hamilton was also congratulating the Ferrari team for winning as well.
[11:23.000 -> 11:28.060] I saw him like, yeah, he too must be feeling bad for the team.
[11:28.060 -> 11:33.380] First of all, he gave them a hard time so much during Ferrari vs. Moser these days.
[11:33.380 -> 11:36.660] They have always been on the back foot.
[11:36.660 -> 11:47.440] But he felt too drained man. I gotta ask this. I think DC asked him during the post race presentation sort of thing. He looked drained and dead.
[11:47.440 -> 11:50.240] I don't know if something else is going through his brain.
[11:50.240 -> 11:53.640] But obviously we know Singapore is one of the hardest track to race on.
[11:53.640 -> 11:56.000] The heat, the turns and the night.
[11:56.000 -> 11:57.880] Humidity and everything.
[11:57.880 -> 12:02.640] But Lando goes like, I'm ready. Let's go for it.
[12:02.640 -> 12:04.840] And then comes on Hamilton.
[12:04.840 -> 12:06.360] He's catching up dude.
[12:06.360 -> 12:06.400] He's like, I'm ready. Let's go for it.
[12:06.400 -> 12:06.440] He's catching up dude. He's like, I'm ready. Let's go for it.
[12:06.440 -> 12:30.000] He's catching up dude. He's like, I'm ready even after winning the race nobody is there to celebrate with him.
[12:30.000 -> 12:34.000] Not winning the race like being on the podium but yeah.
[12:34.000 -> 12:43.000] But anyways while we are on Hamilton I mean you sure we are talking about his age but what about his cheekiness yesterday?
[12:43.000 -> 12:44.000] What are you referring to?
[12:44.000 -> 12:46.640] He didn't want to drive on the track right?
[12:46.640 -> 12:49.200] Oh yeah of course yeah totally forgot.
[12:49.200 -> 12:53.200] He never wants to drive on the track and that's what I've seen a lot of times.
[12:53.200 -> 12:54.160] Creating his own track.
[12:54.160 -> 12:56.960] What is the colourful track out there? Let me drive there.
[12:56.960 -> 13:00.320] That's better like this black track is so boring you know.
[13:00.320 -> 13:02.080] He's driving on the blue track.
[13:02.080 -> 13:06.000] Yes he thought it's a pride track.
[13:06.000 -> 13:08.000] So he just went on to it.
[13:08.000 -> 13:10.000] Laughing.
[13:10.000 -> 13:12.000] Laughing.
[13:12.000 -> 13:14.000] Oh God.
[13:14.000 -> 13:16.000] What the f**k was that?
[13:16.000 -> 13:18.000] He just bailed. He didn't even attempt
[13:18.000 -> 13:20.000] taking that corner.
[13:20.000 -> 13:22.000] Right. Like turn 1.
[13:22.000 -> 13:24.000] I think like turn 1, turn 2.
[13:24.000 -> 13:27.080] He's sort of overtaken Norris
[13:27.080 -> 13:29.680] picture, I'll give it to Norris, but whatever, right?
[13:29.680 -> 13:34.040] And then he sees like, there's not going to be much room and like, fuck this shit, I'm
[13:34.040 -> 13:35.040] out.
[13:35.040 -> 13:38.880] I think Norris also came on to the radio and said, yeah, even I can late break, I mean
[13:38.880 -> 13:43.680] break later if I know that I'm not going to make that call.
[13:43.680 -> 13:48.000] I missed you, that as epic.
[13:48.000 -> 13:51.000] But at least he gave it back.
[13:51.000 -> 13:56.000] But I think still he took some time, his own sweet time as well,
[13:56.000 -> 14:01.000] while giving it back because I think it took him like 2 or 3 laps after which.
[14:01.000 -> 14:07.600] And I don't know if he gave it back to Norris or Norris overtook because I missed that but at least Russ he gave it back.
[14:07.600 -> 14:09.600] So I don't know what happened with Norris though.
[14:09.600 -> 14:12.200] But eventually I saw that Norris was ahead.
[14:12.200 -> 14:15.600] So maybe it was a bit of both like, let him pass.
[14:15.600 -> 14:21.000] But man, poor poor poor Mercedes like they did everything right
[14:21.000 -> 14:25.760] strategy wise like they did the right call for the virtual safety car
[14:25.760 -> 14:30.040] they gave them like the medium tires when they wanted to and then Russell just decided
[14:30.040 -> 14:33.680] to fuck the shit up. And they had the energy right but and they also had that energy like
[14:33.680 -> 14:49.000] Russell had been saying this all day long for those two hours that hey I want this win, I want this win, I want this win. And then when it came to it... You've seen... Exactly, right?
[14:49.000 -> 14:56.000] And I don't remember this when, but he's cracked under pressure before too.
[14:56.000 -> 15:04.000] I don't know when. He shows and puts this energy up as like he wants the world, but when it comes to it, I have...
[15:04.000 -> 15:05.560] I'm going to look back and folks listening to this, if you remember when he's done it, but like when it comes to it, I have, I'm going to look back and
[15:05.560 -> 15:09.920] folks listening to this, if you remember when he's done it, like write into us and comment,
[15:09.920 -> 15:16.160] but he's done this before. He does capitalize a lot of times, but at the same time, like
[15:16.160 -> 15:19.840] he falls, like he crumples under pressure, like, and that's exactly what Hamilton was
[15:19.840 -> 15:31.040] doing pretty much. He was right on his tail and that's what happened like he folded like a you know a house of cards pretty much at that last last lap. I'm gonna make this real you know you've seen this
[15:31.040 -> 15:34.640] you might have seen this other Indians listening to this you all might have seen this there's this
[15:34.640 -> 15:41.040] movie called Dhamal where this plane is about to crash and then they are on the ATC tower and the
[15:41.040 -> 15:45.600] ATC tower says you see that red button And then this guy goes and presses it. Like,
[15:45.600 -> 15:48.040] haan dabha diya. Like nahi dabhana tha.
[15:50.880 -> 15:53.920] It's like Norris, cause he said, like Norris said, like he hit that,
[15:53.960 -> 15:58.760] he hit that wall a lot before. And Russell was probably like,
[15:58.760 -> 16:12.000] Oh, I got to do this. And then Norris was like, I don't want to do it.
[16:14.000 -> 16:15.000] A lot of people actually ended up in walls, right? I think, who else?
[16:16.000 -> 16:17.000] Logan Sargent, right?
[16:17.000 -> 16:18.000] Yeah.
[16:18.000 -> 16:19.000] I mean Sargent is the new Latif.
[16:19.000 -> 16:20.000] Yeah, of course.
[16:21.000 -> 16:23.000] I was just waiting for which lap will it happen.
[16:23.000 -> 16:24.000] Which lap? Yeah, sure.
[16:30.500 -> 16:32.500] And I think like even the Red Bulls were counting on it because they never pitted and they were like waiting for another Red Bull. Yeah, waiting. Exactly.
[16:34.500 -> 16:37.000] And that too didn't work out for them. That's the funny thing.
[16:37.000 -> 16:42.500] They waited hard for so long and they pitted and right after that, the same thing happened.
[16:42.000 -> 16:44.000] pitted and right after that the same thing. Yes.
[16:44.000 -> 16:46.000] And I think who else?
[16:46.000 -> 16:48.000] I think somebody else was also like 1 cm
[16:48.000 -> 16:50.000] away from the
[16:50.000 -> 16:52.000] I think was it Stroll?
[16:52.000 -> 16:54.000] Before the crash of course.
[16:54.000 -> 16:56.000] He was already flirting with the wall.
[16:56.000 -> 16:58.000] It could have happened.
[16:58.000 -> 17:00.000] But it's at least better
[17:00.000 -> 17:02.000] than last year. I remember last year
[17:02.000 -> 17:04.000] us making this reel and it's up on our
[17:04.000 -> 17:11.120] Instagram where there were 12 or 13 crashes or something. So it's at least at least better than that.
[17:11.120 -> 17:16.240] But hey, I'll take this. I mean, I'm loving all the Russell memes and all the science
[17:16.240 -> 17:20.720] memes and like people taking their cases and whatnot.
[17:20.720 -> 17:28.000] And you know, I was super confused as well. Like I, unfortunately like, uh, I saw some spoiler, like as soon as I woke up,
[17:28.080 -> 17:29.640] uh, like before watching the race.
[17:30.080 -> 17:34.000] And I saw a spoiler that like Russell crashed and I'm watching while watching
[17:34.000 -> 17:36.440] the race. I'm like, I know this happened, but like,
[17:36.440 -> 17:39.120] this is like literally the last lap. I don't think this is happening.
[17:39.120 -> 17:43.640] Maybe I saw some old thing and I'm like, Oh, and I was still surprised.
[17:43.640 -> 17:45.280] Like when he crashed because I was
[17:45.280 -> 17:51.040] like how how what happened nothing happened and still he's in the wall. There's this meme where
[17:52.080 -> 17:55.920] you know how Americans say it's a roundabout right it's not a corner.
[17:55.920 -> 18:01.440] Right right. Right right so there's this sergeant meme where it says what the f**k is a corner.
[18:26.840 -> 18:32.880] What the f**k is a corner? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha I mean, it's such a roller coaster with this guy. And I'm having second thoughts with Perez, to be honest. Last two weeks, they made this whole saga out of Helmut Marko, making jokes about him being...
[18:32.880 -> 18:38.840] not a joke, but a comment about him being Mexican and whatever, right? Spanish, Mexican, whatever.
[18:38.840 -> 18:41.880] Not being able to concentrate. And he chokes.
[18:41.880 -> 18:50.700] Like, he spun around at a place and then I don't know what, he could have waved away, stayed on the side or done whatever,
[18:50.700 -> 18:56.800] but he chose to spun around and stay facing the wrong way on the track during Q1 end.
[18:56.800 -> 18:59.300] Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think he did all that.
[18:59.300 -> 19:06.000] For a second, I thought that's what f**kedd up Max's race, but gladly that wasn't.
[19:14.440 -> 19:21.440] And then Sunoda was actually clear on ahead of Perez, but Perez just dive bombs into him on the left. And again, I don't know if it was a penalty or anything, like nothing out of it, a racing incident or whatever.
[19:21.440 -> 19:29.280] But again, couldn't even start this. I am getting a feeling that
[19:29.280 -> 19:35.840] Alpha Tauri has a way to cut budgets. The way they are doing this is probably getting
[19:35.840 -> 19:40.000] rid of mechanics because there is no point in having mechanics because they don't drive
[19:40.000 -> 19:50.480] a race. It's insane man. And the amazing thing is that like at one point like before this race
[19:50.480 -> 19:59.840] they had fewer points than drivers that drew for their team. Oh my god.
[20:06.320 -> 20:08.320] Oh, that's an epic start. Yeah, exactly.
[20:08.320 -> 20:13.520] Devereus, Ricardo, Lawson and Sunoda.
[20:13.520 -> 20:16.160] Four drivers, three points. That's what they had.
[20:16.160 -> 20:22.640] And that too, got in by this guy who's only 2 and 3 rated.
[20:22.640 -> 20:29.920] Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Booer Sunona has been coming in 11th for so long, entire season.
[20:29.920 -> 20:33.320] And then Lawson just walks into two points.
[20:33.320 -> 20:36.640] That day at Singapore.
[20:36.640 -> 20:37.640] Yeah, exactly.
[20:37.640 -> 20:39.960] That too at Singapore.
[20:39.960 -> 20:49.280] One of the toughest tracks out there. But honestly like with the updates that I've heard about
[20:49.280 -> 20:54.880] Ricardo's progress like with his hand, I think he has got like 13 stitches or something and
[20:54.880 -> 21:00.880] also like it's that serious. It's a bad one. Yeah. I think he shared a photo on Instagram.
[21:00.880 -> 21:08.000] Check it out if you want to. So he only kicked Nick DeVries out to drive one free practice or quali or whatever that was.
[21:08.000 -> 21:18.000] Exactly. For the rest of the year. Excellent. Exactly. And like it's so funny, right? Like Liam Norson must have never imagined that
[21:18.000 -> 21:26.500] DeVries getting kicked out, like Ricardo coming in is somehow going to result into him getting a drive in F1 all of a sudden.
[21:26.500 -> 21:28.500] Yeah, dude.
[21:28.500 -> 21:35.300] But it's risky for Ricardo. If Lawson keeps performing like this, I mean, why?
[21:35.300 -> 21:40.000] Like, as we said last time, right? Why pay Ricardo when they can get Red Bull?
[21:40.000 -> 21:47.000] Karma, dude. I'm telling you, like, anyways, I mean, Ricardo is a fun guy and all, but I mean I mean somewhere along the road I feel like it's a karma thing too.
[21:47.000 -> 21:50.700] Dreadbull, I think finally the streak is broken.
[21:50.700 -> 21:57.000] All, I think everybody who was wondering what's gonna happen if he like continues winning till the next season.
[21:57.000 -> 21:59.500] But I have a theory about this as well.
[21:59.500 -> 22:05.000] You know what, I think he broke that streak only so that he can break his own record to make it 11.
[22:05.000 -> 22:15.000] But I'm loving some of these other memes.
[22:15.000 -> 22:28.000] That you know how whenever there's like a terrorist attack or a flood or some calamity. Facebook used to have this feature where you can mark yourself safe.
[22:28.000 -> 22:30.000] Right, right, right.
[22:30.000 -> 22:37.000] There is a meme which says, Mark safe from Dutch anthem today.
[22:37.000 -> 22:45.600] Oh yes, oh yes. Thank God man for a change didn't have to listen to that same song.
[22:45.600 -> 22:51.680] I mean these days I've just stopped like I don't watch the like podium ceremony anymore
[22:51.680 -> 22:56.080] because it's so boring like I always have to hear the Dutch anthem and the Austrian anthem
[22:56.080 -> 23:01.600] like I don't want to hear it. Same weekend and week out something different.
[23:02.880 -> 23:06.000] There's this other meme that I love too about Max.
[23:06.000 -> 23:08.000] So Red Bull made some aero changes right?
[23:08.000 -> 23:12.000] and he was asking could it have something to do with the flexi wing?
[23:12.000 -> 23:17.000] I knew this was coming but we will have to see what's happening next week in Suzuka.
[23:17.000 -> 23:19.000] And the caption is what got me.
[23:19.000 -> 23:22.000] Mom, don't pick me up. I am scared.
[23:22.000 -> 23:28.320] Yeah, let's see. In Japan...
[23:28.320 -> 23:31.520] We will again come back to Max and all.
[23:31.520 -> 23:35.360] But the other interesting part because I mentioned Suzuka is
[23:35.360 -> 23:43.280] Bottas was asked, is he hopeful for the race on Sunday after the qualy?
[23:43.280 -> 23:50.000] And he was like, no, he's not not expecting much but I think there are some changes coming and we should be good at Suzuka.
[23:50.000 -> 24:12.400] And the commentator goes, should you be concerned when your lead driver is already thinking about the next weekend rather than the next tomorrow? Oh man, oh man. Yeah, Alfred, I have no idea where they are this season. I haven't seen them at all. They are usually at the bottom somewhere.
[24:12.400 -> 24:31.000] On that note too, right? So, Bottas was mimicking Red Bull strategy. He mimicked the other two Red Bull drivers even that didn't pit. Even after not pitting, he was second last. I'm like how can he not pit and still be second last.
[24:31.000 -> 24:33.000] Precisely.
[24:36.000 -> 24:47.000] I think he was just hoping that the launch drivers, you know, I mean, signs like laps him and somehow people get confused and they think oh he's second or something.
[24:47.000 -> 24:49.000] There's a battle going on. Yeah.
[24:49.000 -> 24:53.000] But coming back to Red Bull and Max right.
[24:53.000 -> 25:09.720] I do, sure he's a great driver and you know he's got a, he's a consistent driver in an awesome car and kudos to him and all but I mean his attitude sometimes still gets to me and like the way he walked off that car
[25:09.720 -> 25:15.560] after not being able to qualify into Q3, missing by seven thousandth of a second
[25:15.560 -> 25:21.680] to Liam Lawson and the way he like stormed off to get himself weighed, I was like
[25:21.680 -> 25:26.000] yeah I mean sure adrenaline and everything is going wild but
[25:26.000 -> 25:30.000] yeah yeah learn to deal with it man it's fine
[25:30.000 -> 25:34.000] you are still the hot headed 2019
[25:34.000 -> 25:36.000] true that
[25:36.000 -> 25:40.000] otherwise he is chill he is good but
[25:40.000 -> 25:44.000] still has some temper tantrums at times
[25:44.000 -> 25:47.580] cursing all weekend.
[25:47.580 -> 25:51.580] I mean, the team's putting quite a lot of effort.
[25:51.580 -> 25:56.580] There's one thing about being vocal about what's missing and what's a gap this weekend.
[25:56.580 -> 26:02.080] And the other thing being just being blatantly about a team that's...
[26:02.080 -> 26:07.760] Everyone has a day off, dude. Anyways team that's you everyone has a day off dude like anyways that's fine but yeah glad
[26:07.760 -> 26:13.920] but he still finished what p6 p5 what was that a brilliant uh stint on the mediums though man like
[26:13.920 -> 26:19.680] i think in fact i feel he could have done even better uh yeah p5 if not for the virtual safety
[26:19.680 -> 26:25.560] car towards the end like as soon as he got under the mediums, his tires were on fire and he was
[26:25.560 -> 26:33.200] just easily overtaking people. I was surprised that he ended up where he ended up because
[26:33.200 -> 26:40.520] I think after the pit stop it seemed like they were far behind right after the pit stop.
[26:40.520 -> 26:45.360] Especially I mean this is a track where overtaking is difficult right like strategy becomes a great play
[26:45.360 -> 26:53.760] and then your strategy also gets questioned when you have safety car sort of situations right so it's a very dynamic track in that sense too and
[26:53.760 -> 26:57.280] P11 to P5
[26:57.280 -> 27:00.240] Yeah sure not bad not bad at all exactly
[27:00.240 -> 27:04.560] and that too with that weird strategy I mean it made sense for them like they were
[27:04.560 -> 27:06.000] at a disadvantage in general. Yeah but it made sense for them like they were at a disadvantage in general.
[27:06.000 -> 27:08.000] Yeah but it made sense against them too right? Like with the Slipstick.
[27:08.000 -> 27:10.000] That's true.
[27:10.000 -> 27:14.000] They got a P5 in a worst case situation possible for themselves.
[27:14.000 -> 27:20.000] Yeah but that's concerning as well right? Like even on the worst case scenario they end up with a P5.
[27:20.000 -> 27:22.000] Right.
[27:22.000 -> 27:30.240] Insane. 5. Oh, one thing we have to talk about man, Perez, we talked about him like finishing
[27:30.240 -> 27:36.440] Sunoda's race. Let's also talk about him finishing Albon's race. Poor fellow. First of all, Albon,
[27:36.440 -> 27:51.120] he lost his streak of getting into Q3 and he somehow still managed to be in points till the end of the race. And then Perez just decides, let me f**k up his race and just like crashes into him.
[27:51.120 -> 27:55.280] I have no recollection of what happened.
[27:55.280 -> 28:00.800] Oh really? Yeah, basically he just like same dive bombed him pretty much same as what he did to Sonoda.
[28:00.800 -> 28:02.240] Oh interesting.
[28:02.240 -> 28:08.000] He got a 5 second penalty for it but didn't matter because he was like 11 seconds ahead of Lawson I think.
[28:08.000 -> 28:11.000] Very interesting. I missed that.
[28:11.000 -> 28:19.000] So, it didn't change the order but he got a 5 second penalty but Albon's race was just ruined because of it.
[28:19.000 -> 28:23.000] Show him where the brakes are man. Like dive off.
[28:23.000 -> 28:28.500] Using other cars as barriers to stop himself into turns.
[28:28.500 -> 28:34.500] That's one way to break a car.
[28:34.500 -> 28:40.500] And specially man, Alpen, like with Williams' Calf livery man, I love it.
[28:40.500 -> 28:42.500] Anytime Calf livery is there.
[28:42.500 -> 28:48.000] That livery is awesome, right? Like That cyan blue sort of colour with the orange.
[28:50.000 -> 28:52.000] The fact what I love about it is that
[28:52.000 -> 28:54.000] since they haven't had
[28:54.000 -> 28:56.000] a permanent livery with any one team
[28:56.000 -> 28:58.000] you don't get bored of it.
[28:58.000 -> 29:00.000] Every year you are surprised with a different team
[29:00.000 -> 29:02.000] carrying the Gulf livery.
[29:02.000 -> 29:04.000] It's always awesome.
[29:04.000 -> 29:07.200] I think last year it was McLaren, I think.
[29:07.200 -> 29:08.720] And before that, somebody else as well.
[29:08.720 -> 29:12.280] So yeah, I like that they kind of play around with it.
[29:12.280 -> 29:14.440] But talking about Perez, the other thing
[29:14.440 -> 29:19.440] that broke my mind was this one turn or one portion
[29:19.760 -> 29:23.360] where Okon, sorry, Alonso and Perez were fighting
[29:23.360 -> 29:25.500] and Okon was right behind Alonso and Perez were fighting and Ocon was right behind Alonso.
[29:25.500 -> 29:31.700] And then the three of them went three wide at Singapore into a turn.
[29:31.700 -> 29:32.700] Unthinkable.
[29:32.700 -> 29:35.700] Ocon overtaking Alonso and eventually both overtaking Perez.
[29:35.700 -> 29:44.000] But I have never seen or at least have a recollection of a three wide into a turn at Singapore.
[29:44.000 -> 29:45.000] Yeah, not possible.
[29:45.000 -> 29:46.000] That is mental.
[29:46.000 -> 29:47.000] Yeah, yeah.
[29:47.000 -> 29:51.000] So unfortunately for Okon, it didn't matter much.
[29:51.000 -> 29:55.000] Like his engine of course just decided like, yeah, let me just turn off.
[29:55.000 -> 30:00.000] That is funny because I was typing this out as notes and I was like, oh wow man, Okon
[30:00.000 -> 30:08.320] driving well, you know Pierre having an awesome weekend, Alpines finally got their mojo and
[30:08.320 -> 30:13.280] you know I type in lag because something's happening I watch it and then I type and by
[30:13.280 -> 30:26.000] the time I finish that sentence I'm hearing on my earphones like hey no no no what the man let me at least finish typing a sentence. True that. Poor guy.
[30:26.000 -> 30:28.000] Yeah man.
[30:28.000 -> 30:30.000] Anyways
[30:30.000 -> 30:32.000] so we have the third person in that
[30:32.000 -> 30:34.000] trio, Nando.
[30:34.000 -> 30:36.000] What is up with
[30:36.000 -> 30:38.000] Nando? Because I know there is this
[30:38.000 -> 30:40.000] radio message when the race started
[30:40.000 -> 30:42.000] saying it's a beautiful
[30:42.000 -> 30:44.000] day or like you know this is so much
[30:44.000 -> 30:46.780] fun or whatever like right
[30:46.780 -> 30:53.080] like something super positive and then towards the end he comes on and says this is end-drivable.
[30:53.080 -> 30:55.080] I'm like what happened?
[30:55.080 -> 31:08.240] First of all I don't know if you heard this but I think he competed like 250,000 miles race distance so that's like two and
[31:08.240 -> 31:16.560] half times the earth's circumference. I'm pretty sure by now he's so bored.
[31:19.520 -> 31:21.520] He's like this is a terrible experience.
[31:23.440 -> 31:26.960] God knows what was going on but But yeah, like Aston Martin has just
[31:26.960 -> 31:34.400] lost their bearing, right? Like it seems like Mercedes has overtaken them with the development.
[31:34.400 -> 31:40.640] The other spot up way before Aston could sort of make something for themselves.
[31:40.640 -> 31:47.140] Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm kind of sad about that, but it's fine. I guess like we are seeing closer racing because of that,
[31:47.200 -> 31:52.380] like, because like it was at the start of the season, it was like very clear.
[31:52.380 -> 31:55.940] As do you know, it's Red Bull and then there's Aston Martin and like, yeah.
[31:56.620 -> 32:00.540] Most cities behind them. But now I think it's kind of all mixing up together.
[32:00.780 -> 32:05.800] The other thing down for Nando also was the fact that Aston Martin has come in
[32:05.800 -> 32:11.560] or had come in with a few aero design changes for themselves, which also sort of led to
[32:11.560 -> 32:18.720] a redesign of their jacks. And I think like probably they didn't get much time to practice
[32:18.720 -> 32:26.720] on it or whatever. They eventually sort of like had a loose front right and when they put on the front right they had a loose rear right and
[32:26.720 -> 32:29.720] Yeah, just, just, okay.
[32:29.720 -> 32:33.560] Show bomb on Alonso. Yeah, at the office.
[32:33.560 -> 32:40.000] I mean, yeah, they anyways didn't have one driver so they thought what's the point of doing anything.
[32:40.000 -> 32:51.000] Let's wrap this up soon and head home. Let's wrap this up soon and go home. Alonso has lost 9 positions yesterday.
[32:51.000 -> 32:56.600] No one is talking about Piast regaining 8 positions but make sure Alonso has lost 9 positions.
[32:56.600 -> 33:02.800] Along with Hamilton having his 196th podium. That's a f**king mental number.
[33:02.800 -> 33:07.200] That's insane man. Insane. Seriously insane. I think there's
[33:07.200 -> 33:15.560] another stat that I saw where like Westphalen missed out on like consecutive podiums, which
[33:15.560 -> 33:21.960] Schumacher has 19 Hamilton has 16 and Westphalen is like currently tied with Alonso on 15.
[33:21.960 -> 33:25.440] So yeah, again, yeah, streak broken.
[33:25.440 -> 33:32.000] One thing I want to talk about is like Haas as well. K-Mag was quite up there all the time yesterday, right?
[33:32.000 -> 33:34.000] Pitching into that battle up there.
[33:34.000 -> 33:39.440] First of all, both cars going into Q3, I think that itself was a first for them this season.
[33:39.440 -> 33:47.680] And like, it's surprising. It's weird though, Haas I've seen I think through the season they somehow
[33:48.440 -> 33:54.120] do well in quali, but then as soon as the race starts they just like disappear somewhere
[33:54.680 -> 33:58.880] But this time this time for a change they were actually fighting it out on the track
[33:59.300 -> 34:04.600] They were actually giving Vostap in a hard time as well right towards the start of the race when he was on hards and these guys
[34:04.600 -> 34:11.360] were on medium. It took him some time to like go through them but overall yeah they were
[34:11.360 -> 34:18.880] doing that good. Probably understandable because I mean at the core they don't have that pace to
[34:18.880 -> 34:30.160] keep up with the pack. So in a standalone situation as a quali, it's best to see that they are consistently
[34:30.160 -> 34:37.880] you know getting into those Q3s. But to maintain that for like the 300-ish odd kilometers is
[34:37.880 -> 34:49.480] not what that house is built for. This is just a speculation. So note for Gunther here would be like, hey, you've taken whatever, I think like five years now.
[34:49.480 -> 34:59.360] Five years to get your team into consistency, into quali. Now, maybe next five years get into the top five and then another five to start winning.
[34:59.360 -> 35:05.140] Like 15 years from now when the sport is off the beat, we'll let this be somewhere. Right.
[35:05.140 -> 35:05.640] Right.
[35:05.640 -> 35:07.320] Ha ha ha.
[35:07.320 -> 35:10.520] Finally, Gene will be happy.
[35:10.520 -> 35:12.480] If he's already not in jail and like.
[35:12.480 -> 35:13.600] Yeah, yeah, of course.
[35:13.600 -> 35:16.880] Ha ha ha.
[35:16.880 -> 35:18.200] Oh, yeah.
[35:18.200 -> 35:20.880] I don't know, man.
[35:20.880 -> 35:21.880] Well, what happened is.
[35:21.880 -> 35:23.040] I have a question, though.
[35:23.040 -> 35:27.760] I mean, go ahead. No, I don't question though. I mean, go ahead.
[35:27.760 -> 35:32.200] So I have this question about street circuits, right? And especially I think I saw something
[35:32.200 -> 35:39.120] yesterday. There's like, because these are road roads, actual roads and tracks and stuff,
[35:39.120 -> 35:43.880] these cars are going way over their speed limit in sections, which are civilian roads.
[35:43.880 -> 35:45.600] Don't speedcams ever pick
[35:46.160 -> 35:50.240] these things up or they shut them off? Like what happens? I want to talk to the ministry of
[35:51.440 -> 35:55.760] roadways and stuff. Is there like a huge bill that shows up and like
[35:56.640 -> 36:08.620] like 57 times going through that speed. The drivers are thinking someone's taking their photo like how you're on a roller. One spot where they
[36:08.620 -> 36:12.800] take a photo. Taking a photo when they get out of the track,
[36:12.800 -> 36:14.200] they'll probably get that photo.
[36:18.120 -> 36:20.820] A cop's waiting right at the podium like as soon as they get
[36:20.820 -> 36:22.200] out like yeah, yeah, you're under
[36:22.920 -> 36:24.400] as soon as they get out, like, yeah, yeah, you're underage.
[36:30.000 -> 36:30.680] Each lap, $500, 62 laps. So that's the amount.
[36:31.680 -> 36:35.240] How much will you give?
[36:37.560 -> 36:40.240] Yeah, it's funny. Good.
[36:40.960 -> 36:42.000] Anyways,
[36:44.520 -> 36:52.800] yeah, I think overall a good weekend. But just, see, we take one name less and like how interesting the weekend gets.
[36:52.800 -> 36:54.800] Exactly.
[36:54.800 -> 36:58.800] Although I wouldn't have mined the same weekend with like him winning,
[36:58.800 -> 37:02.400] but like the drama still being there for P2 or whatever, right?
[37:02.400 -> 37:03.400] Yeah.
[37:03.400 -> 37:05.600] The drama that was interesting um
[37:06.640 -> 37:14.240] I see here's the thing here's the thing him being P1 or P5 it was just him driving by himself right
[37:14.240 -> 37:22.640] exactly it still was the same yeah that's true him last time on the screen other others battling
[37:22.640 -> 37:25.000] this out and right? The same thing.
[37:25.000 -> 37:29.960] True that. Still the same thing. Yeah. Anyways, he has the title pretty much right.
[37:29.960 -> 37:34.000] I think he just needs a few more wins to like completely bag it.
[37:34.440 -> 37:38.680] So just like give it to him anyways. And then like just let others race.
[37:38.960 -> 37:41.880] Do you think his PR is trying to actually make this interesting?
[37:41.880 -> 37:43.520] Like can he win this?
[37:43.560 -> 37:45.280] Yeah, can he win this? Yeah, can he win this?
[37:48.560 -> 37:51.440] Can Red Bull get the constructor's championship?
[37:51.440 -> 37:53.120] Yeah, interesting.
[37:54.320 -> 37:56.840] I think that's it. I think that's exactly it.
[38:01.360 -> 38:15.120] They somehow tried to paint him as an underdog all of a sudden. Anyways folks, I think that's it from us for this brilliant weekend.
[38:15.120 -> 38:17.560] We return back with Suzuka.
[38:17.560 -> 38:23.100] At Sunoda's home track where he might not start the race yet again.
[38:23.100 -> 38:30.520] Catch him during free practice 1, 2 and 3. You never know if he shows up on Saturday.
[38:30.520 -> 38:37.320] But yeah, catch us on the IRL podcast as well.
[38:37.320 -> 38:44.800] Episode 3 drops with the team principal who won the last season in a day or two.
[38:44.800 -> 38:46.560] Hopefully, we get to the editing soon.
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