Podcast: Grid Walk
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Thu, 27 Jul 2023 07:00:31 GMT
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It is nearing summer shutdown but not before Episode 27 of Grid Walk! It is the final F1 race week before the summer shutdown and there is A LOT to discuss.
Before jumping into the usual F1 fun, Briana and Nicole felt it was important to discuss Danica Patrick’s comment from this past weekend during the Hungarian Grand Prix Broadcast with F1 Juniors.
Grid Walk talks about everything that happened in Hungary! It felt that there was a lot of Mercedes Mania going on. Let’s relive Saturday over and over again with Lewis Hamilton qualifying for pole! What seemed to keep Lewis Hamilton from finishing on the podium at the Hungarian Grand Prix? Where was Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team losing time? Get an insight of the results of the Grid Walk Instagram Poll from the Hungarian Grand Prix?
Of course Briana and Nicole have a few podium moments from the Hungarian Grand Prix! The one of a kind F1 Juniors Broadcast had to make an appearance! What were the best F1 Juniors Graphics from the Hungarian Grand Prix? Who had the best F1 Juniors F1 driver avatar? Briana shares things that happened at the Hungarian Grand Prix that she has zero explanation for. As a dedicated Daniel Ricciardo fan, Nicole delivers her favorite Daniel Ricciardo moments of the weekend. Finally, a short list of things that Briana likes more than Spa.
Daniel Ricciardo officially made his return to the grid at the Hungarian Grand Prix! Nicole is struggling to process the Honey Badger’s return to the F1 grid. Briana attempts to provide data from the Hungarian Grand Prix to get Nicole to fangirl over Daniel Ricciardo’s race performance and potential.
The Belgian Grand Prix Preview is the last F1 race preview before the summer shutdown! Spoiler Alert: Grid Walk is not a fan of the Spa Circuit. However, Grid Walk is a fan of the Pirelli Tire Graphic which makes its traditional appearance! Why is Pirelli selecting harder tire compounds? Which Formula 1 teams are bringing upgrades? Will we see something from Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant F1 Team at the Belgian Grand Prix or post summer shutdown?
Briana and Nicole give their Belgian Grand Prix Predictions! This is the final F1 race predictions before Grid Walk resets its competition! Briana gets to go wild with her Belgian Grand Prix picks since she has such a lead! Nicole attempts a to predict a perfect weekend at Belgian Grand Prix.
F1 Academy is racing at Le Castellet this weekend! Briana and Nicole share their predictions for F1 Academy racing. Nicole scored a bunch of points at the last F1 Academy race weekend in Monza. Will Briana score big this weekend?
Grid Walk is a weekly Formula 1 show that releases every Thursday. For daily F1 content follow @gridwalkshow on all social media platforms.
00:00 Grid Walk Formation Lap
03:17 Danica Patrick
08:04 PODIUM: Best Graphics from F1 Juniors
10:23 Lewis Hamilton on Pole
17:39 PODIUM: Best F1 Juniors Driver Avatars
21:06 Hungarian Grand Prix Poll Results
23:36 What F1 Team is Closest to Red Bull
33:15 PODIUM: Things I Cannot Explain
34:08 Daniel Ricciardo Can Drive
38:16 PODIUM: Danny Ric Moments
41:27 Formula 1 Belgian GP Preview
46:53 Teams Bringing Upgrades to Spa
51:57 PODIUM: F1 Things I Like More Than Spa
53:19 F1 Belgian GP Predictions
01:01:18 F1 Academy Round 6 Predictions
01:06:18 Yellow Sector Notes
**Gridlock**
* Danica Patrick's recent comments about female presence in motorsports were scientifically inaccurate and disheartening, especially considering her role as a major female figure in the sport.
* The F1 Juniors broadcast featured impressive graphics that should be brought over to the main feed, including augmented reality overlays, time gap graphics, information graphics, and radio overlays with driver photos.
**Podiums of the Weekend**
* Graphics from the F1 Juniors broadcast that need to be brought over to the main feed immediately.
* Information graphics on the goal of the drivers at that moment.
* Radio overlay with a photo of the driver.
**Race Preview: Belgian Grand Prix**
* Lewis Hamilton's pole position at the Hungarian Grand Prix was a joyous moment for fans, despite the disappointing race result.
* Mercedes needs to improve its pit stop performance to compete with Red Bull and McLaren.
* Daniel Ricciardo's pace at the Hungarian Grand Prix was encouraging, showing signs of a return to form.
* The Belgian Grand Prix at Spa is a track that favors Red Bull and may pose challenges for Mercedes.
* Tire strategy will be crucial at Spa, with the possibility of rain affecting the race.
* Williams may struggle at Spa due to the track's characteristics, while Mercedes may face difficulties due to engine cooling issues.
**Yellow Sector Notes**
* F1 Academy's race weekend will feature several talented young female drivers, including Chloe Chambers, Lena Buhler, and Tereza Babickova.
* The Belgian Grand Prix will mark the return of the iconic Eau Rouge and Raidillon corners after modifications were made to improve safety.
* Aston Martin is bringing upgrades to the Belgian Grand Prix, aiming to improve the car's performance and close the gap to the top teams.
* McLaren is also introducing upgrades, focusing on improving the car's straight-line speed and overall balance.
* Alpine is hoping to bounce back from a disappointing Hungarian Grand Prix with a strong performance at Spa, where the team has historically performed well.
**Gridwalk: Post-Hungarian GP & Belgian GP Preview**
* **Data-Driven Analysis:** Brianna Klein emphasizes the importance of data in understanding Formula One races, using Lewis Hamilton's performance as an example.
* **Alvaro Romeo's Unexplained Pace:** Nicole Katz expresses perplexity at Alfa Romeo's sudden surge in pace, calling it "sick" and acknowledging that there is no clear explanation for it.
* **Daniel Ricciardo's Return to Form:** Klein and Katz discuss Ricciardo's improved performance at the Hungarian Grand Prix, with Klein presenting data to support her analysis. Katz remains cautiously optimistic about Ricciardo's long-term prospects.
* **The Dangers of Spa-Francorchamps:** Both Klein and Katz express concerns about the safety of the Spa-Francorchamps circuit, particularly in its current configuration. They highlight a recent fatal accident in F4 and the high-speed nature of the track as reasons for their apprehension.
* **Pirelli Tire Strategy:** The hosts analyze Pirelli's tire selection for the Belgian Grand Prix, noting that it is the same as last year's race, which resulted in a two-stop strategy. They speculate that this choice may lead to similar tire degradation issues and predict that teams will likely start on the medium tires and switch to the softs towards the end of the race.
* **Mercedes' Struggles:** Klein and Katz discuss Mercedes' ongoing struggles, particularly with the car's drag, which they believe will be exacerbated at Spa-Francorchamps. They also mention rumors of a potential upgrade for the Mercedes car but remain skeptical about its impact.
* **Sergio Perez's Performance:** The hosts debate Sergio Perez's recent performances, with Klein expressing disappointment and Katz defending him. They discuss his qualifying struggles and speculate on whether he will be able to improve his performance at Spa.
* **Controversial Things Preferred Over Spa's Current Configuration:** In a lighthearted segment, Klein and Katz list things they prefer over the current layout of the Spa track, including Red Bull winning every race in 2023, watching Ferrari's strategic blunders, and even a Monaco Grand Prix with no on-track overtakes.
* **Predictions for the Belgian Grand Prix:** The hosts make their predictions for the Belgian Grand Prix, with Katz playfully making unconventional choices to increase her chances of winning their ongoing prediction competition. Klein maintains a more serious approach, predicting Lewis Hamilton's victory and Daniel Ricciardo finishing in the points.
* **F1 Academy Predictions:** Klein and Katz briefly discuss the upcoming penultimate round of the F1 Academy, where they will draft drivers and earn points based on their performances.
## F1 Academy Picks:
- Nicole and Briana reveal their picks for the top six drivers in the upcoming F1 Academy race.
- They analyze the drivers' performances and discuss their expectations for the race.
## F1 News and Updates:
- The hosts discuss various news and updates from the Formula One world, including:
- A documentary about Alfa Romeo's 2021 and 2022 seasons.
- Max Verstappen's appearance in a Heineken commercial.
- Sergio Perez's new program to support Mexican drivers and engineers.
- Alfa Romeo's special livery highlighting their title sponsor KICK.
- The F1 Commission meeting to discuss engine equalization and Williams' cost cap adjustment.
- Christian Horner's support for engine equalization.
- Pirelli's upcoming tire test at Spa.
- Ferrari hiring a top Mercedes engineer.
- Rumors about contract extensions for Lewis Hamilton and Nico Hulkenberg.
- Toto Wolff's possible leak of Lewis Hamilton's contract length to F1 Juniors.
## Spa as a Track:
- The hosts share their opinions on Spa as a Formula One track.
- They discuss the challenges and excitement of racing at Spa and invite listeners to share their thoughts on the track.
## Conclusion:
- Briana and Nicole wrap up the episode by thanking their team and encouraging listeners to rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast.
- They also invite listeners to join them for daily gridwalks on social media and express their hope that listeners will join them for the next episode.
[00:00.000 -> 00:04.080] Nicole, this is a huge, huge week. Do you know why?
[00:05.680 -> 00:06.180] Why?
[00:06.960 -> 00:09.520] You wanna guess? You don't have to.
[00:12.000 -> 00:16.160] Oh! I might be able to take a guess, but only- oh my god, if I'm right about this,
[00:16.160 -> 00:20.800] I'm gonna be so unbelievably proud of myself. Did the Eagles start their training camp this week?
[00:21.680 -> 00:22.640] They did!
[00:22.640 -> 00:28.200] I only know because Isaac Rochelle went to Las Vegas Raiders training camp, so I was
[00:28.200 -> 00:32.600] like, wait a second, she's wearing an Eagles hat, the Eagles must have obviously, it's
[00:32.600 -> 00:38.920] like, it's about to be the training camp time, training camp season, all of the times.
[00:38.920 -> 00:42.880] So behind the scenes, I write out my formation lap before this, and I didn't think there
[00:42.880 -> 00:45.600] was any option of you getting that
[00:45.600 -> 00:49.760] so what I did actually write down was like that's a very smart relevant guess considering
[00:49.760 -> 00:57.440] we're recording an F1 podcast so I thought you would go F1. But yes today which is Tuesday
[00:57.440 -> 01:05.000] so when everyone's listening to this which was two days ago the Eagles recorded to training camp today and the entire offensive line wore overalls.
[01:05.000 -> 01:07.000] Because they're the best.
[01:07.000 -> 01:08.000] Yeah!
[01:08.000 -> 01:15.040] So, as football season rams up, F1 is slowing down because it's our final race before the
[01:15.040 -> 01:20.000] summer shutdown and there's a lot to get into because there was a race last week, there's
[01:20.000 -> 01:21.120] a race next week.
[01:21.120 -> 01:26.960] Lewis Hamilton was on pole this week and that just felt great and nothing else
[01:26.960 -> 01:32.000] happened after that. Daniel Ricciardo looked like a competent F1 driver in his first race back
[01:32.000 -> 01:36.800] so I will attempt to make Nicole break and become hopeful again by discussing his pace compared to
[01:36.800 -> 01:42.080] Yuki Tsunoda. Like every post-race show, look out for our podiums of the weekend which will be
[01:42.080 -> 01:50.800] dispersed between all of the segments. Then we will reluctantly turn our attention to the Belgian GP this weekend in an effort to
[01:51.840 -> 01:57.680] in an effort to improve my mood due to my general distaste for Spa, we will be talking all things
[01:57.680 -> 02:04.400] tires to preview the race because tires are always fun. And wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on. I'm sure
[02:04.400 -> 02:05.560] you're already fuming
[02:05.560 -> 02:07.280] because I said I don't like Spa.
[02:07.280 -> 02:09.680] So before you click off this podcast,
[02:09.680 -> 02:12.360] just know I will explain why in our race preview.
[02:12.360 -> 02:14.680] And if you all get to complain about Monaco,
[02:14.680 -> 02:16.000] which you're wrong about,
[02:16.000 -> 02:18.880] then I get to complain about Spa, which I am right about.
[02:19.820 -> 02:22.120] We're also gonna break down which car's Williams
[02:22.120 -> 02:23.420] this track will likely favor
[02:23.420 -> 02:26.200] and which car's Mercedes will really struggle this weekend.
[02:26.200 -> 02:31.240] We'll also make a guess on if we're going to see any on-track running at all, and if
[02:31.240 -> 02:37.640] so will that track running be safe because there's a lot of rain predicted for this weekend.
[02:37.640 -> 02:40.360] And finally, make sure to stick around for Yellow Sector Notes at the end of the show
[02:40.360 -> 02:42.200] for one story about every team.
[02:42.200 -> 02:45.200] There's a lot going on this week across the entire grid,
[02:45.200 -> 02:48.960] so some of the best stories and news are going to be in our yellow sector notes because we can't get
[02:48.960 -> 02:54.880] to all of it. That wraps up the Formation Lab for episode 27 of Gridwalk, a weekly Formula 1 podcast
[02:54.880 -> 02:59.440] that believes there are fascinating stories to discuss across the entire F1 grid. Don't forget
[02:59.440 -> 03:04.240] to like and subscribe if you're watching on YouTube, follow Turn On Auto Downloads, and leave
[03:04.240 -> 03:09.520] us a review if you're listening on any audio platform. All of these things greatly help support the show.
[03:10.240 -> 03:16.160] Cold ground, we're lined up on the grid, it's lights out, and away we go this week's Gridlock.
[03:18.000 -> 03:28.780] So Danica Patrick has had some very upsetting comments recently about female presence in motorsports and of course this actually took place during the
[03:29.520 -> 03:33.920] Special really fun incredible which we'll talk about later f1 juniors
[03:34.760 -> 03:37.240] broadcast of the Hungarian Grand Prix a
[03:38.080 -> 03:43.100] young female Carter Scarlett was interviewing Danica Patrick and they were having an entire discussion about
[03:43.340 -> 03:44.180] was interviewing Danica Patrick and they were having an entire discussion about
[03:48.840 -> 03:56.020] females presence in motor sports and just, you know, why do you want to see some change in all of this? And why Scarlett would love to see more role models in the sport because she's always been told that's just not something that she can do.
[03:56.940 -> 03:59.140] While talking to the role model.
[04:00.980 -> 04:28.880] And Danica Patrick took that time and instead of seeing it as a moment that she can continue to inspire not only young female Carters, but speaking to all of the young females, young males, anyone watching that program at all, and can deliver some type of inspiring message that if someone's determined about being in motorsports, they can be in motor sports or that motor sports can be a successful place for anyone, basically did
[04:28.880 -> 04:35.040] the opposite. And it just came across as just a discussion, basically a point of motor sports
[04:35.040 -> 04:40.960] isn't a place that, you know, really females could be. I really was struggling to figure out
[04:43.400 -> 04:46.160] to figure out what her goal was. Again, as you had said, she was,
[04:46.160 -> 04:51.000] she is the major female figure of motorsports.
[04:51.000 -> 04:53.640] So to hear these comments coming from her,
[04:53.640 -> 04:57.160] I'm just really struggling of what she saw
[04:57.160 -> 05:00.360] would be the positive outcome from these comments.
[05:00.360 -> 05:03.120] And especially in the conversation
[05:03.120 -> 05:05.000] to who she was exactly speaking to.
[05:05.000 -> 05:12.000] And she was spreading incorrect information. What she said was scientifically inaccurate.
[05:12.000 -> 05:20.000] So, gosh, like, I just I'm trying to place this in like a real world situation.
[05:20.000 -> 05:27.200] Like, imagine a I believe Scarlet was was like between the ages of 10 and 12.
[05:27.200 -> 05:29.280] I can't remember exactly what her age is.
[05:29.280 -> 05:33.080] She comes up to you and says, when I grow up, I want to be just like you.
[05:33.080 -> 05:36.380] And I can't wait for there to be more people just like you.
[05:36.380 -> 05:41.160] And for you to look at her and say, incorrect scientific facts?
[05:41.160 -> 05:50.000] Like, just outside of the fact that this was put on a broadcast? Like, how can you look a young girl in the eye and say, basically, F off?
[05:51.280 -> 05:59.520] Or in like any context of having this conversation of having a young female in this broadcast,
[05:59.520 -> 06:05.580] this wonderful opportunity to be recognizing the role that Danica plays in like probably her
[06:05.580 -> 06:10.320] life. For her to be responding to her be like hmm is that what you think? Oh okay.
[06:10.320 -> 06:13.820] And it just it just felt like there to be little in conversation. It was very
[06:13.820 -> 06:18.180] disheartening as a female's fan of motorsports who sees Danica Patrick as
[06:18.180 -> 06:22.380] someone that could vocalize the importance of access and opportunity and
[06:22.380 -> 06:25.040] the presence of females in motorsports and
[06:25.040 -> 06:32.520] that it should be possible, could be possible, and like, and just did the opposite.
[06:32.520 -> 06:33.520] It just really hurt.
[06:33.520 -> 06:34.520] Seeing it all happen.
[06:34.520 -> 06:39.360] And if anyone's paying attention to Danica Patrick lately, like she has had a lot, a
[06:39.360 -> 06:43.280] recent string of not being a great person.
[06:43.280 -> 06:48.680] And that sucks. Because to what you're saying, like this is
[06:48.680 -> 06:56.000] a woman who should be champing getting more women involved and instead she's doing the
[06:56.000 -> 07:10.000] exact opposite. Like I don't, um, yeah, I think what really hurt isn't that this is Danica's belief and that she has these skewed incorrect scientific beliefs.
[07:10.000 -> 07:25.000] It's that she was on a broadcast that was broadcasting specifically to young children and was reinforcing this awful, awful stereotypeingly, not true.
[07:25.920 -> 07:30.920] We, not shockingly, we vehemently disagree
[07:31.120 -> 07:34.220] with everything Danica said there.
[07:34.220 -> 07:37.600] We feel really awful for Scarlet for having to sit there.
[07:37.600 -> 07:40.580] And wow, did she show so much poise
[07:40.580 -> 07:42.780] because I probably would have ran off crying.
[07:43.920 -> 07:44.760] And-
[07:44.760 -> 07:46.840] Yeah, that was definitely a really mature moment.
[07:46.840 -> 07:53.760] So how I will choose to wrap up this conversation is to not continue to highlight the horrible
[07:53.760 -> 07:58.380] and belittling comments made by Danica Patrick, but to encourage you to stay tuned for later
[07:58.380 -> 08:04.920] on in our episode where we have our predictions for F1 Academy's race weekend this weekend.
[08:04.920 -> 08:07.000] My first podium was the weekend.
[08:07.000 -> 08:13.000] Graphics from the F1 Juniors broadcast that need to be brought over to the main feed immediately.
[08:13.000 -> 08:19.000] They can be reskinned, but they are better than what we currently have on the main feed.
[08:19.000 -> 08:21.000] I don't know how you're going to decide this.
[08:21.000 -> 08:25.200] Well, yeah, so many of them were great. I think the use of just
[08:25.200 -> 08:32.000] general like augmented reality and like was really cool. But honorable mention is
[08:32.000 -> 08:39.240] all of those augmented reality overlays. So basically like they kept like putting
[08:39.240 -> 08:42.360] the current standings and it was just in the middle of the track. There was a
[08:42.360 -> 08:45.360] really cool one when they were focusing on a pit stop,
[08:45.360 -> 08:47.480] they like put the car with the driver.
[08:47.480 -> 08:50.360] It was just very dynamic and really well done.
[08:50.360 -> 08:52.860] Like for a first go, very impressed.
[08:54.240 -> 08:59.240] P3, the time gap graphic with gaining and dropping.
[08:59.440 -> 09:04.440] So not that they don't put time gap graphics up on the screen
[09:07.080 -> 09:14.280] on the normal feed, but I find them, they have like a very steep barrier to entry, and I think even like a normal non-12
[09:14.280 -> 09:22.720] year old would appreciate just the call out of Lewis Hamilton gaining on Sergio Perez.
[09:22.720 -> 09:26.720] And if our broadcasters on the maid feed aren't going to verbally say that,
[09:26.720 -> 09:28.200] I think having it on the graphic
[09:28.200 -> 09:30.600] would just help everyone overall.
[09:30.600 -> 09:33.160] Like I know that like my mom,
[09:33.160 -> 09:36.800] who I watch most F1 races with, would love that.
[09:37.640 -> 09:39.640] And she's a pretty informed viewer.
[09:39.640 -> 09:41.200] All right, P2,
[09:42.680 -> 09:44.680] information graphics on the goal of the drivers
[09:44.680 -> 09:46.940] at that moment.
[09:46.940 -> 09:52.780] So similarly, versus like gaining or falling away, multiple times they put up on the screen
[09:52.780 -> 09:55.660] Lewis Hamilton chasing Sergio Perez.
[09:55.660 -> 09:59.420] Like that literally just is like, this is the goal.
[09:59.420 -> 10:05.000] And I think that's helpful for everyone, telling the story of the race.
[10:09.500 -> 10:12.300] And last but not least, P1, the radio overlay.
[10:16.600 -> 10:19.000] They need to have a photo of the driver in the radio overlay from now on. It makes it so much more personable.
[10:19.000 -> 10:20.200] I really love it.
[10:20.900 -> 10:23.700] It brings it to life, really personifies the radio.
[10:24.880 -> 10:31.080] It brings it to life, really personifies the radio. Saturday felt like a cleansing of my soul.
[10:31.080 -> 10:32.440] It felt like Christmas.
[10:32.440 -> 10:33.560] It was beautiful.
[10:33.560 -> 10:34.760] What a beautiful Saturday.
[10:34.760 -> 10:39.800] I've never felt such like, it's been so long to feel such pure joy.
[10:39.800 -> 10:41.640] Joy!
[10:41.640 -> 10:49.120] And I didn't expect it and I was watching qualifying by myself at 7 30 in the morning
[10:49.120 -> 10:57.280] because you know f1 in Europe and and I'm in California and I screamed I'm sure I woke up
[10:57.280 -> 11:05.120] all of my neighbors it was I I it's hard because it's been days and I just wish we could be here like having a party right now
[11:05.120 -> 11:13.280] but other things have happened but I I think I was on cloud nine until black one yeah I could not
[11:13.280 -> 11:17.840] process literally the rest of the day like we could not even have a conversation it was just
[11:17.840 -> 11:23.040] like and the moment of it was one of those qualifyings where it was just like that last
[11:23.040 -> 11:28.600] second I felt myself like looking in every single direction of like, oh my god, oh, this is and watching
[11:28.600 -> 11:33.760] all the lap times and the sector times and I'm just like, I have never held I feel like
[11:33.760 -> 11:38.720] I held my breath for so very long the entire lap as Lewis did. He said he was also holding
[11:38.720 -> 11:41.480] his breath. So at the same time we were not breathing.
[11:41.480 -> 11:46.800] Oh, and I knew like, it was never about him winning the race the
[11:46.800 -> 11:51.600] next day. Like, but even just the act of him being on pole,
[11:51.800 -> 11:54.300] just like made everything better. And I still feel that
[11:54.300 -> 11:56.300] way, where I was like, Okay, I never thought he was gonna win
[11:56.300 -> 12:00.800] that race. But it just still felt so good for him to be on
[12:00.800 -> 12:05.480] pole. Yep, yep, yep. It was really a new all time pole
[12:05.480 -> 12:12.540] leader. Lewis Hamilton passed it off to Lewis Hamilton, you know, with 104 poles. Now, you
[12:12.540 -> 12:19.440] know, the entire current grid of Formula One only has 102 poles. And Lewis Hamilton has
[12:19.440 -> 12:25.280] 104. That is I love that math math. Those are always my favorite Lewis
[12:25.280 -> 12:29.440] Hamilton math equations. How many drivers do we need to put
[12:29.440 -> 12:32.720] together to get what Lewis has accomplished?
[12:33.440 -> 12:37.120] Seb leaving the grid really helped, giving us more of an
[12:37.120 -> 12:37.480] easy button.
[12:37.480 -> 12:38.600] Three, that's it now.
[12:40.160 -> 12:43.160] And people like to talk about Fernando, but it's been a while.
[12:43.440 -> 12:45.320] Right, exactly.
[12:45.320 -> 12:50.400] But gosh, Lewis, every single- I could rewatch every single interview that Lewis gave post
[12:50.400 -> 12:51.960] that qualifying forever.
[12:51.960 -> 12:53.280] It was just the wow.
[12:53.280 -> 12:56.220] He was- it was just so great.
[12:56.220 -> 12:59.880] And I will go back to it later to watch when I'm feeling down.
[12:59.880 -> 13:03.960] Notice how I'm not saying we're talking about Sunday, because Sunday obviously was a different
[13:03.960 -> 13:04.960] story.
[13:04.960 -> 13:05.260] But Saturday. I'm not saying we're talking about Sunday because Sunday obviously was a different story, but
[13:11.680 -> 13:13.220] Saturday, Saturday felt great and sparkly and a beautiful time to be a Mercedes and an F1 fan.
[13:20.000 -> 13:20.100] Yeah, yeah, yeah! My immediate thought when that poll happened though was like, this is what makes sports so great.
[13:28.880 -> 13:32.920] Like through every weekend that's frustrating or something goes wrong or like every moment last year where the DRS stopped working when he should have been on pole, twice, having that moment and that release and that celebration just was so much fun.
[13:32.920 -> 13:36.840] Like, and it just, it, when something really good like that happens, it always just reminds
[13:36.840 -> 13:38.560] me why I'm a sports fan.
[13:38.560 -> 13:44.320] Yeah, it gave a lot of, like, that last six minutes of a Friday Night Lights episode,
[13:44.320 -> 13:45.440] or like, any sports movie
[13:45.440 -> 13:52.000] ever where you're just like edge of your seat like you feel good the good guy wins like yes
[13:52.000 -> 13:56.240] so while we're bursting that bubble because we're really just trying to not get there let's talk
[13:56.240 -> 14:08.560] about Sunday please so I have a question to start this out. Lewis ended P4. If he ended P3, would you have felt less depressed on Sunday?
[14:09.840 -> 14:11.200] Same.
[14:11.200 -> 14:12.040] Right.
[14:12.040 -> 14:14.440] Well, you also then would have had probably Checo in P4
[14:14.440 -> 14:16.440] and that would have given you like a lot of, whatever.
[14:16.440 -> 14:17.800] We're not getting into our prediction points right now.
[14:17.800 -> 14:21.600] I had a crazy good amount of predictions last week.
[14:21.600 -> 14:23.120] So obviously Albion double DNF'd
[14:23.120 -> 14:28.720] and we both picked Albion for best of the bottom. But I got P7 and P10 and obviously P1 because we picked Max right.
[14:28.720 -> 14:35.680] And if I got P4 right on top of that, I would not, this entire podcast would be me gloating
[14:35.680 -> 14:43.120] pretty much. Right, right, right. But yeah, so, but beyond that, like, it's crazy that P4 feels
[14:43.120 -> 14:45.360] so much worse than P3.
[14:45.360 -> 14:48.200] The act of being on the podium would have felt good.
[14:48.200 -> 14:56.740] And in polling the data, the most annoying part of this is that the difference between
[14:56.740 -> 15:03.880] Lewis Hamilton being in P3 and Sergio Perez being in P3 is the time lost in the pits.
[15:03.880 -> 15:11.080] No! How about not that? What if we said it was anything else we
[15:11.080 -> 15:13.720] could I don't a bird? I don't know.
[15:15.320 -> 15:20.800] Why? No, what is this Ferrari? Hello. Okay, fine.
[15:21.200 -> 15:26.640] So of course, like, yes, it's probably like 700 other things, because every F1 race is
[15:26.640 -> 15:29.320] a series of a bunch of decisions.
[15:29.320 -> 15:36.860] But Lewis spent a second longer in the pits than Checo, and Lewis was behind Checo by
[15:36.860 -> 15:38.880] a second at the end of the race.
[15:38.880 -> 15:44.080] And the worst part is this was a good pit stop weekend for Mercedes.
[15:44.080 -> 15:46.240] I just don't want that. I don't
[15:46.240 -> 15:51.080] know. I feel irate. Wow, I'm so glad you're on the other side of the country
[15:51.080 -> 15:55.720] because I'm just angry. And it's not your fault, but you're delivering. Yeah, you're
[15:55.720 -> 16:00.520] the messenger and I don't want this message. Deny. Thanks. Anyway, not
[16:00.520 -> 16:09.720] home. It actually makes me feel better in a weird way because if I after
[16:09.720 -> 16:12.520] looking through all the data and we can talk about this in more detail when we
[16:12.520 -> 16:16.940] get to like the development race and McLaren of it all like Mercedes to me
[16:16.940 -> 16:23.080] feels like the second strongest package behind Red Bull. It won't feel that way
[16:23.080 -> 16:26.800] this weekend at Spa but but overall, collectively,
[16:26.800 -> 16:33.580] they are the second strongest package. And that, like the fact that McLaren hasn't like
[16:33.580 -> 16:39.640] jumped them, it makes me feel better. It as a whole, like Lewis should have beaten the
[16:39.640 -> 16:48.480] second Red Bull to the podium this week. It was other strategy decisions, it was engine cooling,
[16:48.480 -> 16:54.760] and it was pit stop time that prevented that from happening. And those aren't things that
[16:54.760 -> 17:01.860] are Lewis Hamilton or the fundamental pace of the car. So I think we just hold Mercedes
[17:01.860 -> 17:06.000] to this standard that we should hold them to that they should be competing with Red Bull
[17:06.000 -> 17:12.080] But the reality is they are the second fastest car and they could have done a Ferrari and just completely slid back and they didn't
[17:12.240 -> 17:14.660] So, I don't know. There's my positive spin
[17:14.660 -> 17:15.480] But yeah
[17:15.480 -> 17:20.920] We're talking like Mercedes needs to get the pit stops together because I'm sorry when you don't have a giant pace advantage in your car
[17:21.000 -> 17:27.000] Like you can't be losing this much time to Red Bull and McLaren in the pits.
[17:27.000 -> 17:33.000] Okay, I'm going to focus on the optimistic viewpoint that you provided.
[17:33.000 -> 17:34.000] Thank you.
[17:34.000 -> 17:40.000] It'll be very difficult, and I will start it later because right now I'm still upset.
[17:40.000 -> 17:46.480] For a broadcast that I completely was not able to fully watch at all because of where I live in the world,
[17:46.480 -> 17:49.760] I loved the F1 Juniors broadcast.
[17:49.760 -> 17:58.180] One of the major pieces that I thoroughly enjoyed the use throughout the entire weekend was the individual avatars
[17:58.180 -> 18:00.180] they made for every single driver.
[18:00.420 -> 18:01.680] So,
[18:01.680 -> 18:07.320] I'm here to basically tell- oh my gosh, hello tripod that just wants to just not tripod.
[18:07.320 -> 18:10.920] You're for tripod. It's fine, I don't know why I thought I'd fix it.
[18:10.920 -> 18:18.080] Okay, so I am here with a podium of my favorite F1 driver avatars from the F1
[18:18.080 -> 18:26.720] Junior broadcast. I have an honorable mention, which I guess it's an honorable mention, but I just kind
[18:26.720 -> 18:31.360] of need to discuss the elephant in the room of Daniel Riccardo.
[18:31.360 -> 18:36.320] Oh, wait, sorry, that was the wrong sounder.
[18:36.320 -> 18:43.040] I don't think it's an honorable mention, I think it's a we have to talk about it.
[18:43.040 -> 18:47.800] Oh my god, the sounds sounds like a personal attack. Um, I was just
[18:47.800 -> 18:52.000] gonna point out, you know, Danny Ricks, you know, if you told me
[18:52.000 -> 18:55.680] if all of the things did not happen in the last like week and
[18:55.680 -> 18:59.240] two weeks that have happened, and if Nick was still at Alpha
[18:59.240 -> 19:03.040] Tari, and if that was the same graphic, I'd be like, yeah,
[19:03.240 -> 19:06.000] that's Nick DeVries.
[19:06.960 -> 19:07.080] Did they change it?
[19:08.080 -> 19:08.100] Who really knows?
[19:12.000 -> 19:13.040] It kind of feels like someone was like, sure, close enough.
[19:16.200 -> 19:16.320] It really felt like they were at a severe crunch for time because that,
[19:21.280 -> 19:21.520] that was Nick DeVries and they went, so if we always use the smiling option,
[19:23.600 -> 19:24.320] do you think everyone will buy it?
[19:26.120 -> 19:31.280] Because every other driver had different variations where they weren't smiling, but not the Dani Rick that was definitely Nick
[19:31.280 -> 19:34.920] DeVries that by the time they do this again will definitely have a different, different
[19:34.920 -> 19:40.320] version. Not enough nose. And I mean that in the most loving way possible, not enough
[19:40.320 -> 19:49.120] nose for that to be Daniel Riccardo. But not the right hair and not even no no just it wasn't Daniel Riccardo that was Nick DeVries.
[19:49.120 -> 19:54.560] That was Nick DeVries. Okay now on to the actual podium of my favorite avatars and really the
[19:54.560 -> 19:59.920] things that made them different and why I enjoyed them more than the others. P3 Alex Albon.
[20:01.600 -> 20:06.400] A perfect embodiment of blonde Alex. He has blonde hair, he looks fun, he looks sassy.
[20:06.400 -> 20:12.480] Blonde Alex basically in a Pixar format. I enjoy it. Wonderful. Always. Blonde Alex.
[20:12.480 -> 20:16.440] P2. Valtteri Botez.
[20:16.440 -> 20:31.120] No way that's not P1. I was so sure when you said you were doing this podium that that was gonna be P1. Well, also I am letting a lot of my fan bias infiltrate all of this, but the P2 of an animated
[20:31.120 -> 20:34.200] mullet is spot on.
[20:34.200 -> 20:40.760] It really nailed it, perfect VB energy, and I'm convinced that he probably now has that
[20:40.760 -> 20:45.000] as his paddock photo for the rest of forever.
[20:45.000 -> 20:48.200] And my P1, a.k.a.
[20:48.200 -> 20:50.560] what I found the most enjoyable and my favorite avatar
[20:50.560 -> 20:52.920] of the entire weekend, no surprise to anyone at all,
[20:52.920 -> 20:57.160] is Lewis Hamilton.
[20:57.160 -> 20:58.800] It was so cute.
[20:58.800 -> 21:00.120] I loved his braids.
[21:00.120 -> 21:01.400] It was such Lewis vibes.
[21:01.400 -> 21:02.840] It had such Lewis energy.
[21:02.840 -> 21:03.680] And guess what?
[21:03.680 -> 21:07.280] Yeah, my favorite driver, so what would be my favorite avatar? Lewis Hamilton.
[21:08.080 -> 21:12.800] But I did pull together. I aggregated all the polls that we did on Instagram and Twitter and
[21:12.800 -> 21:20.000] like got the percentages. So 54% of people who responded to our polls thought that the race
[21:20.000 -> 21:27.920] highlight was McLaren's pace being like a real thing. 23% agreed that it was strategy and
[21:27.920 -> 21:35.680] the fact that there were two stops, and then 15% said Red Bull making history. My brain
[21:35.680 -> 21:43.440] sputtered. 60% of people thought that the Sad Trumpet Award goes to Alpine over Alpha
[21:43.440 -> 21:45.440] No Points and LeClaire's Pit Stop.
[21:45.440 -> 21:48.320] Yeah, that's where I voted. I was like, yeah, just had to.
[21:49.920 -> 21:56.720] Frustration Station, like who deserves the VIP ticket, was pretty divided. LeClaire won out
[21:56.720 -> 22:04.080] with 33%, followed by Alpine and Joe tied with 25% each, and then there were 17% to other.
[22:04.240 -> 22:10.000] tied with 25% each and then there were 17% to other. But the reason I brought this up right now is because we're about to talk about
[22:10.000 -> 22:14.080] like development and people catching Red Bull and like what's the state of the
[22:14.080 -> 22:19.200] Union like how fast really is McLaren etc etc and I did ask the question after
[22:19.200 -> 22:27.540] the race this weekend when will someone else win a race? 9% of people said this week at spa and to
[22:27.540 -> 22:31.780] those people, congratulations, I hope you have fun.
[22:31.780 -> 22:36.520] I love living in that kind of realm. I mean, I did not vote that way.
[22:36.520 -> 22:37.520] No me neither.
[22:37.520 -> 22:50.600] Like, you know what, more power to them sometimes, I guess, depending on who is winning. Yeah, 9% of people also said within five races and to those people I also am excited for
[22:50.600 -> 22:55.560] their thought process but that to me seems much more statistically likely than this week
[22:55.560 -> 22:57.640] at Spa.
[22:57.640 -> 23:01.000] But then 27% of people said before the end of the season.
[23:01.000 -> 23:06.200] Oh no, I didn't say that one either. And 55% said, over half the
[23:06.200 -> 23:12.680] people said that Red Bull will win every single race this year. I think before the end of
[23:12.680 -> 23:16.800] the season, just statistically unlikely that they're going to win every single race. Like
[23:16.800 -> 23:27.000] a DNF will happen eventually, right? I don't know. So. She says it so confidently, and I'm like, what do you know?
[23:27.000 -> 23:29.000] Because we have... I have not...
[23:29.000 -> 23:31.000] I don't know anything. I just know that in...
[23:31.000 -> 23:34.000] They literally passed the record right now
[23:34.000 -> 23:38.000] that was held since the 80s for most consecutive wins.
[23:38.000 -> 23:41.000] We're going to look at something from FData Analysis.
[23:41.000 -> 23:43.000] Woop woop!
[23:43.000 -> 23:49.040] Because they did... They put together really great visualizations every week, so
[23:49.040 -> 23:51.760] I highly recommend checking them out.
[23:51.760 -> 23:54.720] But I thought it was relevant to talk about this week.
[23:54.720 -> 23:59.640] They took every driver, except the Alpines, because they didn't have any data.
[23:59.640 -> 24:07.440] And basically, this is a graph, if you're not looking on YouTube, of the average lap time
[24:07.440 -> 24:12.040] that every driver did over the course of the Grand Prix.
[24:12.040 -> 24:17.120] And you'll notice that Max is a half a second ahead of the entire field.
[24:17.120 -> 24:22.480] The second fastest driver is Perez, a half a second behind him.
[24:22.480 -> 24:28.120] But then you'll notice that the third fastest driver is Lewis. And so Perez
[24:28.120 -> 24:37.700] is .51 to max, and Lewis is also .51 to max. And then Norris is .53 to max. And then after
[24:37.700 -> 24:46.000] those three drivers, you get Leclerc at .88. So there's a pretty steep drop off after the second Red Bull, Lewis, and
[24:46.000 -> 24:49.960] Norris for their lap times during this Grand Prix.
[24:49.960 -> 24:54.240] Which probably leads you to ask, how the hell did Lewis not end up on this podium?
[24:54.240 -> 24:57.380] So we'll talk about that in a moment.
[24:57.380 -> 25:07.440] But I do think that this is worth looking at, like, as a general state of the Union that like at the Hungaro ring like it was Max then it was
[25:07.440 -> 25:14.840] Lando and Lewis and then this like muddled group of the second drivers for
[25:14.840 -> 25:20.120] Mercedes and McLaren and the Ferraris then very clearly the Aston Martin and
[25:20.120 -> 25:30.200] then the back of the pack so what scares me the most is that if this is Red Bull not fully
[25:30.200 -> 25:33.800] understanding their upgrade and Max is half a second ahead of everyone,
[25:34.160 -> 25:36.080] it's going to be a rough week at Spa.
[25:36.560 -> 25:37.120] It's great.
[25:37.120 -> 25:37.640] This week.
[25:38.160 -> 25:38.640] I love that.
[25:38.640 -> 25:39.000] Yeah.
[25:39.040 -> 25:43.640] Um, yeah, there were points on Sunday where listening to Max's radio just
[25:43.640 -> 25:47.600] sounded like this was a Pirelli tire test and not a race.
[25:47.600 -> 25:49.600] Oh my gosh.
[25:49.600 -> 25:50.600] Yeah.
[25:50.600 -> 25:54.440] And then this is, again, if you're not watching on YouTube, head over.
[25:54.440 -> 26:00.720] But there's a visualized graph of everyone's lap time over the entire Grand Prix.
[26:00.720 -> 26:07.480] And I'm going to point out that in the non-max for staffing category, for laps 50 to 70, Lewis
[26:07.480 -> 26:11.840] Hamilton was the fastest man on track by a considerable margin.
[26:11.840 -> 26:15.920] So if you were watching the flow of the race from the perspective we watched it, you probably
[26:15.920 -> 26:18.480] saw that in real time.
[26:18.480 -> 26:24.000] But something about the Mercedes, and you'll notice that George was not as fast as Lewis,
[26:24.000 -> 26:26.960] but was definitely there and fast during that time too.
[26:26.960 -> 26:32.040] So something about this Mercedes really liked low fuel this weekend with the setup they
[26:32.040 -> 26:33.200] did.
[26:33.200 -> 26:38.280] So my general takeaway from Mercedes this weekend is that for the first time in about
[26:38.280 -> 26:42.160] a year and a half, Mercedes, and probably longer than that, but I'm looking at just
[26:42.160 -> 26:47.440] this regulation set, Mercedes decided to set their car up more for quality than the race.
[26:49.800 -> 26:51.480] Which never happens.
[26:51.480 -> 26:51.980] Yeah.
[26:51.980 -> 26:53.820] And Red Bull did the exact opposite.
[26:53.820 -> 26:55.820] And I'm not saying, like...
[26:56.780 -> 26:58.780] Also, Max messed up his pole lap.
[26:58.780 -> 27:02.780] So, like, it was also driver error, but...
[27:03.780 -> 27:04.980] The...
[27:04.980 -> 27:07.440] Like, Mercedes is the second fastest car
[27:07.920 -> 27:14.200] Like they just they just are the numbers. We see it. The data's here. Look at it. Look at it right now
[27:15.720 -> 27:19.280] That doesn't always mean that that's gonna like it's gonna bear fruit in
[27:20.320 -> 27:27.340] Like every race situation. So let's look at why Lando Norris was able to beat Lewis.
[27:27.340 -> 27:32.740] We already talked about the whole Lewis vs. Perez situation, but like, I'm sorry, Perez,
[27:32.740 -> 27:36.800] you are in a rocket ship, you should be beating everyone right now.
[27:36.800 -> 27:39.240] You not being in P2 is embarrassing, so moving on.
[27:39.240 -> 27:42.200] We're going to look at Hamilton vs. Norris.
[27:42.200 -> 27:46.960] So stint one, Lewis's lap times were two tenths
[27:46.960 -> 27:57.760] a lap slower than Lando at the beginning. Stint two, Lewis's lap times were a tenth and a half
[27:57.760 -> 28:09.040] slower than Lando. Stint three, Lewis's laps were nearly seven tenths a lap faster than Landau. Where? Like in what?
[28:09.040 -> 28:16.680] Which averages out all of their over the entire race pit in laps and out laps
[28:16.680 -> 28:22.480] excluded. They had nearly identical averages over the course of the entire
[28:22.480 -> 28:28.200] race. So from a bird's-eye, it's actually really interesting to see two cars that are set up
[28:28.200 -> 28:31.600] with different strengths in different ways that were going to get their lap times at
[28:31.600 -> 28:33.680] different parts of the race.
[28:33.680 -> 28:38.480] So if you look at this and you go, wow, so over the entire course of the race, Lewis
[28:38.480 -> 28:41.720] averaged out to be faster than Lando.
[28:41.720 -> 28:45.760] At worst you would say they averaged out to be the same time. How in the world
[28:45.760 -> 28:55.000] did Lando end up finishing the race 5.4 tenths ahead of Lewis? They were the same speed over
[28:55.000 -> 28:56.400] the course of the race.
[28:56.400 -> 29:00.080] Tell us! Tell us why!
[29:00.080 -> 29:02.640] It all goes back to pit stops.
[29:02.640 -> 29:08.600] What is this, Ferrari? Yes, this is incredibly frustrating.
[29:08.600 -> 29:13.360] So at the finish line, the gap was 5.4 seconds.
[29:13.360 -> 29:15.200] Keep that number in your head.
[29:15.200 -> 29:17.760] 5.4 seconds, keep it in your head.
[29:17.760 -> 29:20.120] Both of the drivers did two pit stops.
[29:20.120 -> 29:22.880] I took the lap time from the in lap,
[29:22.880 -> 29:25.120] added it to the lap time from the in lap, added it to the lap time of the out lap,
[29:26.720 -> 29:37.760] and calculated that Lewis spent was 5.7 seconds over the course of the race slower for those for
[29:37.760 -> 29:44.320] in laps and out laps than Lando Norris. So again, gap at the finish 5.4 seconds to Lando Norris.
[29:45.240 -> 29:50.000] So again, gap at the finish, 5.4 seconds to land on Norris. Extra time spent on in-laps and out-laps, 5.7 seconds.
[29:50.000 -> 29:57.600] So if they just spent the same amount of time on in-laps and out-laps over the course of the race,
[29:57.600 -> 30:00.100] Lewis would be P2.
[30:00.100 -> 30:03.000] No thanks. I'm going to not fully process all that.
[30:03.000 -> 30:09.040] I'm going to take that. I'm going to compartmentalize it. Thank you for sharing that with me. It's so kind of you, but I don't want
[30:09.040 -> 30:14.800] to process all that right now. Thanks. I'm sure a lot of people had the same experience I did
[30:14.800 -> 30:19.440] when you're watching the race and they pit Lewis for that first pit stop and then they end up
[30:19.440 -> 30:25.040] pitting Norris and you blink and he's 10 seconds back and And you're like, how did that happen?
[30:25.040 -> 30:26.120] Like, that doesn't make sense.
[30:26.120 -> 30:28.440] That math isn't mathing in my brain.
[30:28.440 -> 30:32.320] Well, what happened is Lewis, the window for Lewis,
[30:32.320 -> 30:34.260] so if the in lap, the out lap,
[30:34.260 -> 30:36.560] and then the next lap he did is what I'm looking at.
[30:36.560 -> 30:39.200] So that's lap 16, 17, and 18.
[30:39.200 -> 30:41.620] And then Lando, his in lap, his out lap,
[30:41.620 -> 30:44.520] and then the next lap is laps 18, 19, and 20,
[30:44.520 -> 30:45.440] just to put your
[30:45.440 -> 30:47.280] brain in the space of the race.
[30:47.280 -> 30:53.920] So Lewis's in lap was 87.8 seconds.
[30:53.920 -> 30:57.200] Lando's in lap was 87.1 seconds.
[30:57.200 -> 31:03.400] Lewis's in lap was 7 tenths slower than Lando's.
[31:03.400 -> 31:07.520] Then out lap, so this is where the bulk of the pit time goes by the way,
[31:09.440 -> 31:16.480] Lewis on his outlap was 4.1 seconds slower than Lando.
[31:18.640 -> 31:23.520] Now some of that, a little little bit of that time was actual physical pit stop time,
[31:23.520 -> 31:26.260] I think it was about a half a second slower
[31:26.260 -> 31:28.140] than Lando's pit stop time.
[31:28.140 -> 31:31.560] But really, whatever strategy Mercedes had
[31:31.560 -> 31:33.860] or delta time they gave Lewis on that out lap,
[31:33.860 -> 31:36.460] they could not get those tires working
[31:36.460 -> 31:38.820] or maybe they needed to like ease them in
[31:38.820 -> 31:42.820] for their strategy, but 4.1 seconds.
[31:42.820 -> 31:48.480] Then on the next lap, so this is going to be like, okay, you've done your out lap,
[31:48.480 -> 31:51.840] and now you're doing your first full lap on these new tires.
[31:51.840 -> 31:58.000] Lewis's first full lap on his tires versus Lando's was 2.2 seconds slower.
[31:58.000 -> 32:01.880] No, not two tenths. Full two seconds.
[32:01.880 -> 32:06.000] Lewis and Lando, they both did, they were both on medium hard mediums, right?
[32:06.000 -> 32:08.000] Yeah, they did the same race strategy.
[32:08.000 -> 32:16.000] So, in that first pit cycle, just looking at these three laps, Lewis lost seven seconds.
[32:16.000 -> 32:30.240] Sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick, sick. Lewis lost out on four tenths in the second window, which is a much more respectable amount
[32:30.240 -> 32:31.240] of time.
[32:31.240 -> 32:32.240] Slightly.
[32:32.240 -> 32:36.000] It melted my brain, looking at this data.
[32:36.000 -> 32:42.440] Every week, you're just able to break down, like, why Lewis isn't where I want him to
[32:42.440 -> 32:46.720] be, like, so just in numbers so easily. And I'm just like,
[32:46.720 -> 32:48.720] eugh!
[32:50.320 -> 32:52.160] Yeah, it's frustrating, but it's also,
[32:54.640 -> 32:59.040] for me, a little bit comforting to like, see what actually went wrong and understand what's
[32:59.040 -> 32:59.840] happening.
[32:59.840 -> 33:00.720] You love logic.
[33:01.360 -> 33:05.520] Yeah, but I hope now everyone listening
[33:05.520 -> 33:08.200] kind of sees what I've been saying about like,
[33:08.200 -> 33:09.680] at least in Lewis Hamilton's hands,
[33:09.680 -> 33:12.240] like that Mercedes is the second strongest package.
[33:12.240 -> 33:17.240] And like, it's not all doom and gloom right now.
[33:17.680 -> 33:20.000] So as the prior segment showed,
[33:20.000 -> 33:22.480] in F1 data explains a lot,
[33:22.480 -> 33:25.160] but there are some things that happen this weekend that
[33:25.160 -> 33:28.160] I have zero explanation for.
[33:28.160 -> 33:30.800] And actually, I only have one thing on this podium.
[33:30.800 -> 33:31.800] So-
[33:31.800 -> 33:35.000] Wait, you have a one-item podium?
[33:35.000 -> 33:36.000] Yes.
[33:36.000 -> 33:40.120] Do I use- I don't know what sound to use for this!
[33:40.120 -> 33:41.120] I think the P1.
[33:41.120 -> 33:42.120] Okay!
[33:42.120 -> 33:43.120] Because it's P1.
[33:43.120 -> 33:46.800] P1, things that happen this weekend that I have zero explanation for, even after looking
[33:46.800 -> 33:50.000] and doing the research and following up and trying to figure it out.
[33:50.000 -> 33:52.000] Alva Romeo's pace.
[33:52.000 -> 33:53.000] Sick.
[33:53.000 -> 33:56.640] Tell us more.
[33:56.640 -> 33:57.920] I don't have anything to say.
[33:57.920 -> 34:01.000] I don't have, I have no explanation for it.
[34:01.000 -> 34:02.000] No explanation.
[34:02.000 -> 34:03.760] Dave, we're just fast.
[34:03.760 -> 34:04.760] All of a sudden.
[34:04.760 -> 34:05.080] Congratulations. But got nothing out of it. They were just fast. All of a sudden. Congratulations.
[34:05.280 -> 34:14.080] But got nothing out of it. Oh, Brianna, Danny Rick raced. And
[34:14.080 -> 34:15.560] it wasn't a DNF.
[34:18.000 -> 34:23.720] All right, I want to bring all of our everyone in the gridwalk
[34:23.720 -> 34:26.320] family into this little thing that's going on,
[34:26.320 -> 34:28.960] which is that Nicole Katz has decided
[34:28.960 -> 34:31.140] that her expectations for Daniel Riccardo
[34:31.140 -> 34:34.400] being back on the grid is that he finishes races
[34:34.400 -> 34:37.120] and that he's not super sad.
[34:37.120 -> 34:37.960] And I'm-
[34:37.960 -> 34:42.960] It's an alfatari, it's a combination of expectations of him,
[34:43.840 -> 34:45.600] which I believe he can drive. Let me make this clear, I'm a Daniel Riccardo fan that I believe he can drive.
[34:45.600 -> 34:49.480] Let me make this clear, I'm a Daniel McCarty fan that also believes he can drive, but also
[34:49.480 -> 34:54.480] understands the expectations of Al Fatahri and the emotional state of everything going
[34:54.480 -> 34:55.480] on.
[34:55.480 -> 34:58.120] So yeah, I feel pretty great after this weekend.
[34:58.120 -> 34:59.840] As you should!
[34:59.840 -> 35:07.080] So as I do, I was running data and trying to see how he did against Yuki, and I sent
[35:07.080 -> 35:12.360] Nicole like three minutes of voice notes explaining how well Daniel Ricciardo did this week, and
[35:12.360 -> 35:17.320] her response was something along the lines of, cool, whatever, can't think about it,
[35:17.320 -> 35:18.320] don't want to think about it.
[35:18.320 -> 35:28.960] And I'm like, this man is currently, has one win to zero losses in the fight for Sergio Perez's Red Bull seat.
[35:28.960 -> 35:31.120] And she just goes, meh.
[35:31.120 -> 35:34.080] So this segment is I'm going to attempt
[35:34.080 -> 35:38.280] to get Nicole to break out of and actually get excited
[35:38.280 -> 35:41.960] and root for her driver to be in the rocket ship.
[35:41.960 -> 35:48.080] I am excited, I'm just nervous. I've been hurt too many times before
[35:48.080 -> 35:56.000] that I just am trying to protect myself. Okay. But that's no fun. But I want to be happy
[35:56.000 -> 36:03.760] in P13. And you should be happy in P13 because Yuki was not in P12, 11, 10 and blah blah
[36:03.760 -> 36:08.280] blah. I'm not saying you should be sitting there expecting him to be in the points, I'm saying
[36:08.280 -> 36:11.900] you should be happy with the stats I'm about to give you.
[36:11.900 -> 36:20.280] Which is that he outqualified Yuki, which I had no expectation of, and then in average
[36:20.280 -> 36:33.980] race pace, in every way I cut up the race pace Daniel Ricardo was faster I mean
[36:33.980 -> 36:41.440] look I want to be so I am so hype and so excited I just again the it also is me
[36:41.440 -> 36:45.200] rooting for and if you're new here not a big Red Bull fan it me rooting for, and if you're new here, not a big Red Bull fan, it's rooting
[36:45.200 -> 36:47.360] for the Red Bull seat.
[36:47.360 -> 36:52.800] It's rooting for the second, which again, if this is the path Daniel Ricciardo chose,
[36:52.800 -> 36:58.920] it's what he's chosen for himself, and it's great whatever, I guess, for him.
[36:58.920 -> 37:09.200] I am still trying to process that the man was in a car, And the fact that, and I will, I put all my predictions of him in the points
[37:09.200 -> 37:13.120] because I could, and I was so unbelievably excited that he out qualified Yuki
[37:13.120 -> 37:16.000] because I believed that he could, and then he did.
[37:16.000 -> 37:18.480] So, look, I am hyped.
[37:18.480 -> 37:24.360] I can't wait to, I mean, I can wait to see what happens because it's spa in general.
[37:24.360 -> 37:25.120] But I'm nervous, but I'm nervous.
[37:25.120 -> 37:31.440] But I do feel not miserable as a Daniel Riccardo fan right now, which is not
[37:31.440 -> 37:36.280] something I've been able to say in a very long time.
[37:38.280 -> 37:41.240] You know, and I'm going to put on the record that I don't want Daniel Riccardo
[37:41.240 -> 37:44.000] to get the Red Bull seat, one, because that means you're going to be a Red Bull
[37:44.000 -> 37:45.700] fan and I can't live with that. And two, because we need to get the Red Bull seat, one, because that means you're going to be a Red Bull fan, and I can't live with that.
[37:45.700 -> 37:48.800] And two, because we need someone in that Red Bull seat
[37:48.800 -> 37:50.200] that can actually compete with Max,
[37:50.200 -> 37:53.120] and Daniel Riccardo is not that.
[37:53.120 -> 37:58.120] But, Nicole, one win to Daniel Riccardo,
[37:58.280 -> 38:00.580] none to Yuki Tsunoda after week one.
[38:01.500 -> 38:03.180] Feeling pretty great, feeling pretty good,
[38:03.180 -> 38:06.240] pretty great for the Honey Badger. And also he was
[38:06.240 -> 38:13.680] just unbelievably happy. We had some like A plus Danny Rick moments from the weekend, which surprise
[38:13.680 -> 38:20.240] I have a podium for. Is that your next podium? It is my next podium. Let's get to that. A collection
[38:20.240 -> 38:24.640] which could be an almost a never ending list because there was just so many wholesome moments.
[38:24.640 -> 38:28.200] I tried to like spice it up to get a little bit of different types of Daniel Rick's,
[38:28.200 -> 38:33.200] but my favorite Daniel Rick moments from the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend.
[38:33.200 -> 38:37.840] And I will start with an honorable mention because it's almost more of a fun fact.
[38:37.840 -> 38:39.000] Okay.
[38:39.000 -> 38:45.000] So my honorable mention of learning Daniel Ricciardo's
[38:45.060 -> 38:46.400] panic pass picture.
[38:48.580 -> 38:51.600] And it's his picture from the Met Gala,
[38:51.600 -> 38:54.000] which is like a interesting flex.
[38:54.000 -> 38:57.180] P3, my favorite Daniel Ricciardo moments.
[38:57.180 -> 38:59.600] Every single morning waking up with some kind of
[38:59.600 -> 39:02.080] buongiorno, buongiorno, buongiorno, buongiorno, buongiorno,
[39:02.080 -> 39:04.900] Daniel Ricciardo, good morning, practicing his Italian.
[39:04.900 -> 39:08.880] And in my opinion, it's the best that Alphatari clothes have ever looked all weekend.
[39:08.880 -> 39:10.640] I was like, huh, this is fashion.
[39:12.320 -> 39:15.280] Okay, those were two things on one podium.
[39:15.280 -> 39:18.800] And I didn't, and you were talking very fast and I didn't know when to hit the button.
[39:19.600 -> 39:26.160] But I'm glad, like, as much as I'm not a Danny Rick fan, I'm a fan of excited Nicole.
[39:26.160 -> 39:29.840] And I can attest that like every morning I got an excited text
[39:29.840 -> 39:31.120] with, look at all the things.
[39:31.120 -> 39:35.200] Yes, but it was just, I think every day I was looking forward
[39:35.200 -> 39:38.240] to like his coming into the paddock because it was like a
[39:38.240 -> 39:40.400] reminder of this actually happening.
[39:40.400 -> 39:44.960] So it was the welcoming greetings in Al Futari clothing.
[39:44.960 -> 39:46.680] So yeah, there you go
[39:48.800 -> 39:51.840] P2 for Daniel Ricciardo moments
[39:52.960 -> 39:55.800] F1 junior interview post quali
[39:57.360 -> 40:01.820] But I guess it was post quali for a Danny Rick just basically when it all happened
[40:01.820 -> 40:08.340] But particularly he was being interviewed at the exact moment that Lewis Hamilton was crossing the finish line and
[40:08.440 -> 40:10.580] confirming for pole and the
[40:11.240 -> 40:14.860] F1 jr. Interviewing him was an unbelievable Lewis Hamilton fan
[40:14.940 -> 40:21.560] so she was unbelievably excited and also as Danny Eric is trying to not be rude of like in the middle of an interview was
[40:21.560 -> 40:27.120] Like every moment of like I'm talking to a family member's talking to me while watching an f1 race and I'm just like
[40:27.120 -> 40:30.800] uh-huh like looking back and forth of the screen because you can just see him
[40:30.800 -> 40:35.440] being like oh this is what's happening and I'm gonna speak to the little girl
[40:35.440 -> 40:39.920] but then she was just like Lewis Hamilton's on pool like it was just iconic.
[40:40.480 -> 40:44.560] I loved the screen cap of his face like someone screenshot the video of him like
[40:44.640 -> 40:46.640] I love the screen cap of his face like someone screenshot the video of him like
[40:49.520 -> 40:50.680] It was I'm sorry to audio listeners I made the face
[40:56.240 -> 41:02.600] Come check it out on YouTube to see what it is. But just the immediate of him processing what's happening It was wonderful. Really wholesome. Absolutely great and my p1 Daniel Ricardo moment
[41:03.520 -> 41:10.400] How big is your smile on a scale of 1 to 10, Daniel?
[41:10.400 -> 41:16.880] And post-Quali his response is 34,769 and if that's not the most Daniel Riccardo answer
[41:16.880 -> 41:22.160] I've ever heard and just felt so serious, so legit, I'm so happy to have him back on
[41:22.160 -> 41:29.000] the grid and I really enjoyed all the content that it was, but Honey Badger is back-ish, baby!
[41:29.000 -> 41:37.000] Belgian GP Week. Disclaimer to all of this, I hate this track. I hate this track. I think it's completely unsafe in its current format.
[41:37.000 -> 41:49.440] A kid died there a month ago in F4. It's supposed to rain all this weekend. I hate this track. Change the corner. I don't feel good going into this race ever. I just
[41:49.440 -> 41:56.640] have like a really uneasy feeling about the track in general. So it's also far from my favorite too.
[41:57.360 -> 42:03.040] I understand to some people the danger of motorsport is fun. Not to me. Nope. It's my
[42:03.040 -> 42:08.220] least favorite part. And I hate that watching this race every weekend, I just sit there with like my
[42:08.220 -> 42:10.360] heart in my mouth, hoping that someone doesn't die.
[42:10.500 -> 42:14.120] That's not a fun activity for me sitting there, hoping someone doesn't die.
[42:14.600 -> 42:16.640] The speed is dangerous enough.
[42:16.640 -> 42:18.880] Like that's, you know, they're going really fast.
[42:18.880 -> 42:21.160] It's not like it's suddenly very safe.
[42:21.200 -> 42:23.920] Like change the corner.
[42:24.440 -> 42:24.760] Yeah.
[42:24.800 -> 42:26.280] And it's supposed to rain all weekend
[42:26.280 -> 42:30.660] and it's a sprint weekend whose bright idea is this so we don't even get the
[42:30.660 -> 42:34.040] like like normally I'm like okay so like we have three practices and they're not
[42:34.040 -> 42:38.160] gonna be going all out and like I don't need to worry during practice no no we
[42:38.160 -> 42:50.560] have two races and two qualifying for me to just so so yay. Normally we're pretty positive we like most things but
[42:50.560 -> 42:56.720] I just this is my one track a year that I'm I really dislike and I am totally
[42:56.720 -> 43:00.880] open if you want to leave me a comment below and try to... like if you think
[43:00.880 -> 43:05.920] you're gonna be the person to convince me that this is a great track, try it! Go ahead!
[43:05.920 -> 43:13.920] Uh, but I'm going to warn you that, uh, I just, until it's safe, I'm gonna feel this
[43:13.920 -> 43:14.920] way.
[43:14.920 -> 43:21.560] Yeah, don't say a historic track as part of your excuse, because that won't work here.
[43:21.560 -> 43:23.200] Cool, yeah, great.
[43:23.200 -> 43:24.560] Congratulations, it's historic.
[43:24.560 -> 43:29.600] It kills people. Cool. Yeah. Great. Congratulations. It's historic. It kills people. All right. But to make me feel better, I thought we'd talk about
[43:29.600 -> 43:35.120] the Pirelli tire graphic because that's always fun. And we can try to predict
[43:35.120 -> 43:49.600] which team is most likely to win in the non-max category of the race. So Pirelli brought almost its hardest range of tires, we're C2 through C4.
[43:49.600 -> 43:55.540] What makes me worried about this choice is that it's the exact same thing they brought
[43:55.540 -> 44:02.160] last year, and last year the race winning strategy from P14 on the grid was soft, medium,
[44:02.160 -> 44:05.840] medium. So essentially, you didn't want to be on the hard tires last
[44:05.840 -> 44:12.240] year and this year's tires are stronger and they brought the same hard tire. It would
[44:12.240 -> 44:18.640] have made a lot more sense for me if they went down a range and did C3, C4, C5. But
[44:18.640 -> 44:22.640] this is a really high tire stress. I understand why they're being conservative and this is
[44:22.640 -> 44:25.000] like 5 on the tire stress.
[44:25.000 -> 44:28.000] If we're looking at the Pirelli graphic, which by the way, we always do.
[44:28.000 -> 44:35.520] So you can check it out on Pirelli's social media channels or head over and watch on YouTube.
[44:35.520 -> 44:39.000] You'll see there's a lot of red in the energy in the tires this week.
[44:39.000 -> 44:50.680] So I get why they went harder, but we're struggling with so muchation this season that I'm just like why like let's not do the conservative choice at this point, especially going into silly season
[44:50.680 -> 44:52.240] I'm just like come on
[44:52.240 -> 44:54.240] Let's go
[44:55.400 -> 44:57.400] Break my camera down
[44:59.560 -> 45:04.640] Nicole's having tripod issues for the second we get a row crazy second we get a row and I thought I fixed it
[45:02.400 -> 45:03.920] I was having tripod issues for the second week in a row. This is crazy, second week in a row,
[45:03.920 -> 45:05.160] and I thought I fixed it.
[45:07.960 -> 45:10.920] Softer tires, so much more fun, come on.
[45:10.920 -> 45:12.880] This is, I feel like we're just gonna end up getting stuck
[45:12.880 -> 45:14.480] with like another race of tires
[45:14.480 -> 45:16.240] that are just not degrading.
[45:16.240 -> 45:19.880] No, and even if it's a two-stop,
[45:19.880 -> 45:22.080] it's probably going to be like,
[45:22.080 -> 45:24.080] you're gonna wanna be on the softs at the end,
[45:24.080 -> 45:25.680] starting on the mediums
[45:25.680 -> 45:32.880] kind of deal. This track is a lot of long straights. So cars that are really draggy are
[45:32.880 -> 45:38.320] going to have an issue. So McLaren and Aston, I am looking at you. Or not McLaren, sorry,
[45:38.320 -> 45:49.320] Mercedes and Aston, I'm looking at you. I'm so used to... brain. I'm used to saying that McLaren's gonna have an issue. Now, I don't think that
[45:49.320 -> 45:52.680] means that all of a sudden, like, Aston Martin's gonna be out of the points, or Mercedes is
[45:52.680 -> 45:56.480] gonna drop down to the fifth fastest car or something. I just don't think Mercedes is
[45:56.480 -> 46:01.560] going to be easily the second fastest car, and they'll probably be behind the McLarens
[46:01.560 -> 46:06.080] this week. Unless they bring an upgrade, which we'll talk about in a second.
[46:06.080 -> 46:12.560] And then look for Williams to be in the points this week. Basically, if you want a good idea of
[46:12.560 -> 46:18.960] what we're going to see, look at Silverstone and then apply upgrades that have happened to
[46:18.960 -> 46:26.480] Silverstone. So likely the Red Bull gap will be even further because they now understand their upgrades in Silverstone.
[46:26.480 -> 46:36.480] And then McLaren might be even better than they were at Silverstone because they understand their upgrades and they brought another one since then.
[46:36.480 -> 46:40.960] But Mercedes also might bring an upgrade.
[46:40.960 -> 46:49.040] But Williams did very well at Silverstone will likely do very well at this track as well. So I'm upset. We're at least hopefully going to see some fun Alex Albon
[46:49.040 -> 46:55.040] moments. I hope so. I'd have been hoping for that already, but it could be very, very interesting.
[46:55.040 -> 47:03.280] So is that, what do we know about upgrades coming in? Like what, what has been confirmed at this
[47:03.280 -> 47:07.240] point? It is Tuesday, July 25th before the race weekend.
[47:07.240 -> 47:09.140] So we haven't gotten all the news just yet.
[47:09.140 -> 47:10.960] So what do we know at this point in time?
[47:11.640 -> 47:16.860] So we know nothing since Hungary, which is interesting.
[47:17.400 -> 47:21.020] Um, about three weeks ago, Alpine said that they were aiming to bring
[47:21.020 -> 47:23.080] an upgraded floor to this race.
[47:23.100 -> 47:26.480] So we don't know if that's actually going to happen. Um, Aston has said that they're going to bring an upgraded floor to this race, so we don't know if that's actually going to happen.
[47:26.480 -> 47:33.060] Aston has said that they're going to bring an upgrade either to this race or post-summer
[47:33.060 -> 47:37.200] shutdown, and we don't know if they're going to end up bringing it to this race or the
[47:37.200 -> 47:39.600] next one.
[47:39.600 -> 47:47.680] McLaren is an interesting case because actually they were supposed to bring upgrades last week to Hungry, but they delayed them.
[47:47.680 -> 47:52.480] Which they're saying it's supply issues or like production issues.
[47:52.480 -> 47:56.400] I think the reality is something didn't perfectly correlate from the upgrades they did bring
[47:56.400 -> 48:03.400] and they probably want to rework this next step of upgrades would be what I am assuming.
[48:03.400 -> 48:05.420] So but that might not be true
[48:05.420 -> 48:07.300] and they might actually just have their upgrades
[48:07.300 -> 48:08.860] done and ready now.
[48:08.860 -> 48:10.460] So maybe McLaren.
[48:10.460 -> 48:14.800] And then I'm hearing murmurings that maybe McLaren,
[48:14.800 -> 48:17.060] sorry, second time I did that today.
[48:17.060 -> 48:20.260] I'm hearing murmurings that maybe Mercedes
[48:20.260 -> 48:22.380] is gonna bring an upgrade.
[48:22.380 -> 48:24.460] And I don't think it's gonna be a big one,
[48:24.460 -> 48:31.320] but Toto did promise us one more upgrade before summer shutdown, and they really need it
[48:31.320 -> 48:37.360] at this track, considering how draggy the car is. So it might be a circuit-specific
[48:37.360 -> 48:42.440] situational, like they might have a less draggy rear wing to bring, or something
[48:42.440 -> 48:46.760] small like that. But murmurings, nothing official.
[48:48.200 -> 48:51.480] I haven't forgiven again, not that I need to forgive Toto for
[48:51.480 -> 48:56.160] Silverstone because whatever, but I haven't. So I know I just
[48:56.160 -> 49:02.200] don't want to I think everyone needs a summer break and I, I
[49:02.200 -> 49:07.520] feel like a tortured Mercedes fan. I don't know what I could be going into this weekend with,
[49:07.520 -> 49:17.520] but I'm just going to go with mid expectations for this and we'll see if any upgrades even happen.
[49:18.080 -> 49:23.440] I would be overjoyed if either Mercedes car is in the top five this week.
[49:24.880 -> 49:25.120] Like that. That'd be nice. Yeah, particularly because Red Bull should take another step forward, if either Mercedes car is in the top five this week.
[49:25.960 -> 49:26.780] Like that. That'd be nice.
[49:26.780 -> 49:27.620] Yeah, particularly because Red Bull
[49:27.620 -> 49:29.600] should take another step forward
[49:29.600 -> 49:31.500] understanding their upgrades.
[49:31.500 -> 49:33.740] And that should put,
[49:34.600 -> 49:38.940] that should put Sergio Perez easily in P2.
[49:38.940 -> 49:41.080] But he should be easily in P2 now.
[49:41.960 -> 49:43.800] But like, if Max was a half a-
[49:43.800 -> 49:49.800] Should have been easily in P2 all season. Yeah, if Max was a half a second faster on them not really understanding their
[49:49.800 -> 49:55.080] upgrades, then you could theoretically assume that Max is now going to be a second faster,
[49:55.080 -> 49:59.420] which might put Sergio Perez half a second faster. I don't know. Do you think he's going
[49:59.420 -> 50:06.800] to be in Q3 this week? Do you think he's going to qualify better this week than he did last week, which was him qualifying p9
[50:07.080 -> 50:12.300] Nope, I think Oh worse. I'm going back to not making the q3
[50:12.820 -> 50:14.620] Yeah, I
[50:14.620 -> 50:16.480] Don't know. I don't I
[50:16.480 -> 50:20.000] Don't think the momentum I don't think he's gonna be able to maintain the momentum
[50:20.000 -> 50:25.600] I think he was on like some different kind of like fire energy. I don't know. We'll see what happens
[50:25.600 -> 50:30.600] It'll be really really interesting because again for all of the reasons we've been saying all season long the Checo Perez should be
[50:31.200 -> 50:33.960] Literally right behind Max that car is a rocket ship
[50:34.920 -> 50:37.680] So I was surprised this weekend
[50:38.440 -> 50:44.220] Which felt weird because it shouldn't be but yeah, no, I'm not I'm not sold in the Checo ship yet
[50:44.220 -> 50:49.580] And you know, that's okay because I'm a Danny Rick fan so hey you listening to this whoever you
[50:49.580 -> 50:56.460] are can we collectively decide to stop voting for Sergio Perez as driver of the
[50:56.460 -> 51:03.700] day when he qualifies awfully in clearly the fastest car barely makes it on the
[51:03.700 -> 51:06.320] podium in clearly the fastest car that was not it on the podium in clearly the fastest car.
[51:06.320 -> 51:09.640] That was not a good performance.
[51:09.640 -> 51:16.760] You could have probably voted for one of the Alfa Romeos whose car wouldn't start for them.
[51:16.760 -> 51:21.040] And I would have thought that that was a better vote than the man in the rocket ship who couldn't
[51:21.040 -> 51:22.760] get it to P2.
[51:22.760 -> 51:23.760] Thank you.
[51:23.760 -> 51:24.760] Agreed.
[51:24.760 -> 51:29.560] Literally no one in a Red Bull, like Red Bull, Bull, not Al Fatari Red Bull, because I did vote for
[51:29.560 -> 51:34.680] Danny Ricotta for driver of the day, but no one driving a Red Bull should be
[51:34.680 -> 51:40.600] driver of the day. It feels like almost, unless you, like, you know, no, whatever,
[51:40.600 -> 51:45.520] I'm not gonna say unless anything. Max! Max should have been driver of the day over Checo.
[51:45.520 -> 51:53.120] Max had an incredible drive that you described as it was like a Pirelli tire test instead of an actual race.
[51:53.120 -> 51:59.520] Like, one of the two Red Bull drivers is doing a good job, and it's not the one who keeps winning driver of the day.
[52:00.480 -> 52:06.080] This is our final podium of the episode today, and it's actually not about the Grand Prix
[52:06.080 -> 52:11.000] last weekend, which is bucking the system, but these are controversial things that I
[52:11.000 -> 52:14.520] like more than Spa in its current dangerous configuration.
[52:14.520 -> 52:18.200] Okay, P3.
[52:18.200 -> 52:24.160] Red Bull ending up winning every race in 2023.
[52:24.160 -> 52:27.280] Better than the current configuration of the spot track.
[52:27.720 -> 52:33.360] That's only p3. Oh, no. I will say that I really like all three
[52:33.360 -> 52:35.880] of these could probably be in any order.
[52:36.120 -> 52:38.840] Okay, yeah, I was gonna say it's gonna be an aggressive podium
[52:38.840 -> 52:39.960] for sure. But fair.
[52:41.680 -> 52:46.880] P2. Watching Ferrari mess up its strategy every week.
[52:46.880 -> 52:50.320] I like that more than the current dangerous configuration of the Spa Track.
[52:50.320 -> 52:52.760] At least that feels familiar.
[52:52.760 -> 52:53.760] Yeah.
[52:53.760 -> 53:01.200] At least it brings entertainment, angry voice notes, data I can run.
[53:01.200 -> 53:02.200] Alright.
[53:02.200 -> 53:03.480] And P1.
[53:03.480 -> 53:05.920] Controversial things that I like more than the current
[53:05.920 -> 53:10.920] spa configuration. A Monaco Grand Prix with no on track overtakes.
[53:12.800 -> 53:18.360] Oh, she said it. Monaco is not bad. It's fun. And I agree with you. This is a
[53:18.360 -> 53:21.760] stacked podium that I 1000% back.
[53:22.920 -> 53:28.000] Right, Nicole, it's the last week of our predictions before they get reset post-summer shutdown.
[53:30.000 -> 53:36.000] Wow, I can't even believe we're already here. That, I feel like the season just started and
[53:36.000 -> 53:42.000] we're somehow at Silly Season, which I think we need to learn and I think as an F1 community,
[53:42.000 -> 53:45.300] we need to collectively rename a different
[53:45.300 -> 53:49.140] name for silly season because F1 season is just silly season.
[53:49.140 -> 53:51.760] There needs to be some kind of other name.
[53:51.760 -> 53:52.760] It's actually the summer shutdown.
[53:52.760 -> 53:53.760] That's what I call it.
[53:53.760 -> 53:58.900] That's what it's called in the regulations.
[53:58.900 -> 54:02.420] So at this point I'm ahead by 22 points.
[54:02.420 -> 54:05.880] So it's looking likely that for our predictions
[54:05.880 -> 54:09.880] for the Dutch Grand Prix Nicole will be doing that from a exercise bike because
[54:09.880 -> 54:14.440] that was the stakes but there are 23 points on the line this week which means
[54:14.440 -> 54:18.320] if Nicole gets all of them correct and I get all of them wrong she will eke out a
[54:18.320 -> 54:22.600] win and we're gonna lean into that this week and we're all gonna be collectively
[54:22.600 -> 54:28.480] rooting for Nicole to get everything right and me to get everything wrong because that sounds fun.
[54:28.480 -> 54:32.520] Yeah you know what keeps it interesting is for the sake of the sport and who
[54:32.520 -> 54:36.640] wants to say that our competition's over when there's an entire race left? Not me!
[54:36.640 -> 54:41.840] There's still points on the line. So starting with our sprint predictions
[54:41.840 -> 54:47.880] because it's a sprint race. Nicole, top team, team that scores the most points
[54:47.880 -> 54:50.560] for you during the sprint race.
[54:50.560 -> 54:53.600] I am going for points here.
[54:53.600 -> 54:55.040] I pick Red Bull.
[54:55.040 -> 54:57.880] OK, I picked Ferrari.
[54:57.880 -> 55:00.000] P3 in the sprint.
[55:00.000 -> 55:01.520] You're going to have such fun picks.
[55:01.520 -> 55:03.160] It's so annoying.
[55:03.160 -> 55:05.280] I'm going to have really fun, really weird pics.
[55:05.480 -> 55:09.720] So P3, who is your last on the podium during the sprint?
[55:11.000 -> 55:12.640] I have Lando Norris.
[55:13.440 -> 55:14.480] I think that's a solid choice.
[55:14.520 -> 55:16.120] I chose Alexander Albon.
[55:16.320 -> 55:17.440] Make it on the podium.
[55:19.360 -> 55:20.200] Who's your P8?
[55:21.960 -> 55:24.600] My P8 is Charles Leclerc.
[55:26.000 -> 55:28.000] Really solid pick. I chose Max Verstappen.
[55:28.000 -> 55:34.000] Alright, moving on to Grand Prix Sunday race predictions.
[55:34.000 -> 55:37.000] Nicole, who do you have winning this Grand Prix?
[55:37.000 -> 55:40.000] Quad twist, I have Max Verstappen!
[55:40.000 -> 55:43.000] I have Lewis Hamilton!
[55:43.000 -> 55:49.160] This is literally like, it's so fun and enjoyable that I have an opportunity to win
[55:49.180 -> 55:54.880] But I almost think it's more fun that you just get to be like I'm gonna just pick all these chaotic race
[55:55.160 -> 55:59.680] Predictions because I can. What Nicole you don't think Lewis Hamilton can win this race?
[55:59.680 -> 56:02.580] We didn't just do a whole segment about how draggy the Mercedes is
[56:09.440 -> 56:10.000] Who's P4? P4 I have Oscar Piastry.
[56:18.240 -> 56:22.720] Oh I'd be really happy if he was P4. I chose Alex Alba. Oh wow. Yeah I'm really going all in on I want to root for Williams this week. I know seriously oh my god and I thought I was like
[56:24.000 -> 56:26.000] I know, seriously, oh my god, and I thought I was like... bold and some...
[56:26.000 -> 56:30.000] If I was doing this for real, I probably would have still put Alex P7.
[56:30.000 -> 56:32.000] I don't think I would have put him P4.
[56:32.000 -> 56:34.000] Yeah, I... okay.
[56:34.000 -> 56:38.000] We'll discuss post-pod this because...
[56:40.000 -> 56:42.000] Nicole, who's your P7?
[56:42.000 -> 56:46.960] My P7 is George Russell my p7 is Max for stopping
[56:50.640 -> 56:55.120] Wow, I can't even I can't even take it seriously
[56:57.040 -> 57:04.080] My p10 guess what my p10 is my p10 is that someone's going to be sick this week and
[57:06.920 -> 57:11.640] My P10 is that someone's going to be sick this week and Sebastian Vettel is going to be back in an F1 car for some team and he's going to be P10.
[57:11.640 -> 57:15.120] Are you literally...
[57:15.120 -> 57:24.000] I'm a losing picks this week and if I do, you have picked Sebastian Vettel who is not
[57:24.000 -> 57:26.000] even a driver currently?
[57:26.000 -> 57:29.000] You told me to have fun!
[57:29.000 -> 57:30.000] I'm having fun!
[57:30.000 -> 57:31.000] You know what?
[57:31.000 -> 57:34.000] I also hope that Seb is in the points this week.
[57:34.000 -> 57:35.000] Yeah!
[57:35.000 -> 57:36.000] That would make me really happy.
[57:36.000 -> 57:40.000] I'm rooting for things that would make me happy if they happened.
[57:40.000 -> 57:41.000] So.
[57:41.000 -> 57:43.000] Did I say my P10?
[57:43.000 -> 57:44.000] I didn't...
[57:44.000 -> 57:45.000] I'm like... Who's my P10? I didn't. I'm like...
[57:45.000 -> 57:46.000] Who's your P10?
[57:46.000 -> 57:52.120] Wow, okay, somehow will be less amazing.
[57:52.120 -> 57:54.120] Alex Albon's my P10.
[57:54.120 -> 57:59.160] By the way, I've been laughing through this whole thing and just pushing through, but
[57:59.160 -> 58:02.160] you've actually made really good predictions through this whole thing.
[58:02.160 -> 58:03.160] Thank you.
[58:03.160 -> 58:04.160] I'm really...
[58:04.160 -> 58:09.080] I tried to provide some variety of other picks. Okay, so now I'm
[58:09.080 -> 58:13.680] also really intrigued of who do you have as your highest point
[58:13.680 -> 58:16.960] scoring team from the back of the pack?
[58:17.360 -> 58:20.160] So this one was hard to be silly about because there's five teams
[58:20.160 -> 58:23.720] to choose from. So I just kind of like pulled out of a hat. And
[58:23.720 -> 58:25.880] I went with Alfa Romeo.
[58:32.440 -> 58:34.000] Because I hope Joe has a good race and VB is fun to root for and like, just of the teams, that's kind of where I landed. What about you?
[58:34.560 -> 58:39.840] That's great. And I'm just keeping it spicy and just trying to avoid potentially some type of
[58:39.840 -> 58:42.080] curse. And I picked Williams.
[58:43.840 -> 58:45.260] Yeah, that's what I would have picked.
[58:45.260 -> 58:46.100] Uh-huh.
[58:46.100 -> 58:46.940] Great.
[58:46.940 -> 58:47.760] All right.
[58:47.760 -> 58:48.860] Last but not least,
[58:48.860 -> 58:51.580] we have two Daniel Ricardos back on the grid predictions
[58:51.580 -> 58:54.980] to add to this that could win a total of six points.
[58:54.980 -> 58:56.940] So I did have to go serious for the first one
[58:56.940 -> 59:00.180] because there's Quali and I could only pick Danny Rick
[59:00.180 -> 59:02.420] or Yuki and I just went with Yuki.
[59:02.420 -> 59:03.260] I flipped Quali.
[59:03.260 -> 59:04.080] That's fair.
[59:04.080 -> 59:06.560] I still went with Danny Rick this week flipped a coin. That's fair. I still went with Danny or Rick this week.
[59:06.560 -> 59:11.240] I figured going opposite to you was important for the giving.
[59:11.240 -> 59:13.200] If we went with the same thing, then there
[59:13.200 -> 59:15.040] would be no chance of you winning this week.
[59:15.040 -> 59:17.240] So my whole goal was to go opposite.
[59:17.240 -> 59:20.000] Make sure none of our picks were the same
[59:20.000 -> 59:23.320] by predicting Lewis Hamilton to win the race and Alex Albon
[59:23.320 -> 59:23.960] on a podium.
[59:23.960 -> 59:27.360] by predicting Lewis Hamilton to win the race and Alex Almon on a podium.
[59:27.800 -> 59:27.880] All right.
[59:31.440 -> 59:31.920] Uh, where do you have Daniel Ricardo finishing the race this week?
[59:37.000 -> 59:39.800] I am maintaining this energy and I would love to, I'm going to say be proven wrong here, but I'm going to stick with a P13 finish.
[59:40.000 -> 59:43.740] 13 is a good number in my life and I will maintain that.
[59:43.740 -> 59:45.680] I'll stick that and give in Spa.
[59:45.920 -> 59:48.960] That feels like it would be another positive place to finish.
[59:49.120 -> 59:50.060] So go ahead.
[59:50.060 -> 59:51.100] Where do you have him finishing?
[59:51.760 -> 59:53.040] P9 in the points.
[59:53.040 -> 59:54.240] Danny Rick in the points.
[59:54.280 -> 59:54.800] She's...
[59:56.160 -> 59:56.760] Okay.
[59:56.800 -> 59:57.720] All right.
[59:57.720 -> 59:58.840] So that's Spa.
[59:58.840 -> 01:00:02.680] If this is your first time listening to Gridwalk, this is very different from
[01:00:02.680 -> 01:00:06.240] Brianna's traditional points and predictions.
[01:00:06.800 -> 01:00:11.840] I mean, there's a reason why I'm off 22 points. I'm normally pretty good at this. I'm also just
[01:00:11.840 -> 01:00:16.320] now realizing the whiplash of people listening to the whole beginning of the podcast and I'm
[01:00:16.320 -> 01:00:20.000] running through data and all this serious analysis and that I just said Sebastian Vettel is gonna
[01:00:20.000 -> 01:00:27.000] pick P10. No, again, we are resetting our competition after this. Yes. We're going to
[01:00:27.000 -> 01:00:32.540] be back to zero. By the way, since we are resetting post-summer shutdown, and Nicole's
[01:00:32.540 -> 01:00:48.080] going to likely pay the tax, the... The consequence? I lost. Yeah, yeah. I had to do something because I lose, maybe. Unless I have
[01:00:48.080 -> 01:00:52.800] the greatest comeback of all time. But if we get some kind of announcement about Seb bracing this
[01:00:52.800 -> 01:00:58.560] weekend, I have officially will no longer participate in any sort of like race predictions
[01:00:58.560 -> 01:01:09.200] game with you ever again. That's fair. That's fair. But get in touch either through social media or leave a comment on our YouTube video.
[01:01:09.200 -> 01:01:14.160] What should be the stakes for the second half of the season when we reset?
[01:01:14.160 -> 01:01:16.300] I'm mostly asking because I have zero idea.
[01:01:16.300 -> 01:01:17.560] So please help out.
[01:01:17.560 -> 01:01:23.200] What would be funny for you to put on the line as the stakes for our prediction?
[01:01:23.200 -> 01:01:25.340] One more thing to do some predictions for.
[01:01:25.340 -> 01:01:26.360] It is round six.
[01:01:26.360 -> 01:01:29.480] It's the second to last round of the F1 Academy.
[01:01:29.480 -> 01:01:33.000] And so quick recap of where we are.
[01:01:33.000 -> 01:01:34.720] I have 190 points.
[01:01:34.720 -> 01:01:36.660] Nicole has 179.
[01:01:36.660 -> 01:01:39.040] She had a really big week in round five
[01:01:39.040 -> 01:01:42.120] where she got 73 to my 45.
[01:01:42.120 -> 01:01:48.560] So really cut that gap that I pulled out after round four. The way we do this one
[01:01:48.560 -> 01:01:52.560] is a little different than our normal predictions. We draft drivers and we get the points that
[01:01:52.560 -> 01:01:59.160] they score during the weekend. I know that the detriment I had is that Hamda had a rough
[01:01:59.160 -> 01:02:06.080] weekend last time out. And I picked her and you got Marta, and they're the two drivers competing for
[01:02:06.080 -> 01:02:10.760] the championship right now at the top of the standings. So it was a rough week for me last
[01:02:10.760 -> 01:02:15.120] week. But Nicole, you said you wanted to go first. So you go first.
[01:02:15.120 -> 01:02:21.600] Yes, it was definitely not an ideal weekend for Amda last weekend. And I had honestly
[01:02:21.600 -> 01:02:25.200] debated going back and forth of who I was going to pick for first
[01:02:25.200 -> 01:02:29.680] pick this time, but I opted to go first as I will remain true.
[01:02:29.680 -> 01:02:33.480] She's been my homie this whole season with F1 Academy picks.
[01:02:33.480 -> 01:02:41.280] I'm going to remain with Marta as my first pick going into this race weekend.
[01:02:41.280 -> 01:02:42.760] I mean, it makes sense.
[01:02:42.760 -> 01:02:46.920] She has won the most races of any F1 Academy driver.
[01:02:46.920 -> 01:02:50.460] It's been really disappointing that we haven't been able to watch any of these races, because
[01:02:50.460 -> 01:02:54.000] it's definitely much more exciting than what's happening in F1 right now.
[01:02:54.000 -> 01:02:55.000] But...
[01:02:55.000 -> 01:03:00.640] It's been a lot of back and forth, and it's been incredibly close, and just to see where
[01:03:00.640 -> 01:03:10.320] people, drivers, have been able to jump around in the points. Also, this is the last round that is not going to be on the F1 circuit, at least for the next
[01:03:10.320 -> 01:03:15.360] year plus, because round seven, the final round in F1 Academy is at the USGP for F1. And then
[01:03:15.360 -> 01:03:20.160] next year, they've already announced that F1 Academy's all their rounds is going to be with F1.
[01:03:20.160 -> 01:03:24.960] And I have heard a little bit of an unconfirmed rumor that we're going to get to watch the F1
[01:03:24.960 -> 01:03:27.000] Academy for the first time in round 7.
[01:03:27.000 -> 01:03:33.500] Because they'll be there with the F1 infrastructure. So fingers crossed that they announce that and that rumor turns out to be true.
[01:03:33.500 -> 01:03:47.720] But I'm stalling. I am going to pick Hamda again. She had an off weekend, but she's had an incredible season so I will back her again for sure and I'm
[01:03:47.720 -> 01:03:54.600] gonna swipe Nicole's probably favorite driver I'm gonna swipe Lena Buehler. I
[01:03:54.600 -> 01:04:01.960] can't believe this I I should have I I can't I have no words I don't have words
[01:04:01.960 -> 01:04:05.520] yeah every week Nicole's picked
[01:04:05.520 -> 01:04:10.160] Lena. She's had a fantastic week. And I would like to have
[01:04:10.160 -> 01:04:15.040] a fantastic week. And she's P3 in the standing. She's been
[01:04:15.040 -> 01:04:18.400] really consistent all season. And I also just wanted to see
[01:04:18.400 -> 01:04:24.240] that reaction. I should have known. I was so, oh, wow. Okay.
[01:04:24.240 -> 01:04:29.260] You wanted Marta. I know I did. I did. I did. I know I should have known I was so oh wow Okay, you wanted Marta. I know I did I did I did I know that is the cost and once again
[01:04:29.260 -> 01:04:35.400] I'm sorry, Lena, whatever we can you're so right whenever I end up not with Lena. It's not a powerful week for me
[01:04:35.840 -> 01:04:37.760] but that is
[01:04:37.760 -> 01:04:47.480] Okay, I don't wish her less success because she's not hanging out with me. Um, alright, well then I will go with...
[01:04:47.480 -> 01:04:49.680] I'm gonna pick Abby for my next pick,
[01:04:49.680 -> 01:04:51.880] which now this kind of makes us a little bit, like, lame
[01:04:51.880 -> 01:04:54.280] for this, these next couple of points,
[01:04:54.280 -> 01:04:57.480] but now we're gonna just really, our competitive selves.
[01:04:57.480 -> 01:05:00.380] But then, of course, after that is when we get to keep things
[01:05:00.380 -> 01:05:04.280] a little bit more interesting.
[01:05:04.280 -> 01:05:08.200] And I'm actually going to pick for my next set of
[01:05:08.200 -> 01:05:13.380] picks that's outside of one through six. That's right. We do six. One through seven is our
[01:05:13.380 -> 01:05:30.560] cut off. Either way, that's okay. I'm going to pick Carrie as my outside the quote unquote quote-unquote top picks. Yeah, Carrie had a really good round four and a decent
[01:05:30.560 -> 01:05:47.360] point scores in round five so that makes a lot of sense. I am going to pick Amelie.
[01:05:47.360 -> 01:05:48.600] All right.
[01:05:48.600 -> 01:05:54.120] She also didn't have the most fantastic round five, but she's
[01:05:54.120 -> 01:05:56.040] had some really high points this season.
[01:05:56.040 -> 01:05:58.560] And picking in the back half of the standings, I'm going to
[01:05:58.560 -> 01:05:59.840] bank on some more high points.
[01:05:59.840 -> 01:06:03.920] I think that is a pretty solid pick.
[01:06:03.920 -> 01:06:08.000] I mean, honestly, every time I do F1 Academy picks, I never feel like I'm picking anything
[01:06:08.000 -> 01:06:09.000] wrong.
[01:06:09.000 -> 01:06:13.880] But then we'll have a little bit of a gap here until Austin, which sounds like worlds
[01:06:13.880 -> 01:06:16.680] away compared to where we are in the F1 world.
[01:06:16.680 -> 01:06:20.940] So next year will be a little bit different, but excited for some F1 Academy racing in
[01:06:20.940 -> 01:06:21.940] France.
[01:06:21.940 -> 01:06:23.320] Welcome back to the L Sector.
[01:06:23.320 -> 01:06:25.440] Now, it's not the fastest walk around F1, but we
[01:06:25.440 -> 01:06:27.280] will complete a full lap around the paddock,
[01:06:27.280 -> 01:06:29.680] hitting every F1 garage.
[01:06:29.680 -> 01:06:31.320] Starting today with Al Fatari, who
[01:06:31.320 -> 01:06:35.360] is releasing a documentary about their 2021 and 2022 seasons.
[01:06:35.360 -> 01:06:37.180] The film will also look back at its history
[01:06:37.180 -> 01:06:38.920] and the origins of the team.
[01:06:38.920 -> 01:06:42.760] The film will be premiering September 6, 2023 in Venice.
[01:06:42.760 -> 01:06:45.860] So they're doing a full premiere for this documentary.
[01:06:46.840 -> 01:06:49.400] Max Verstappen starred in the new Heineken commercial.
[01:06:49.400 -> 01:06:52.160] It actually looked like Max Verstappen
[01:06:52.160 -> 01:06:53.320] is joining One Direction,
[01:06:53.320 -> 01:06:54.680] and this is all deleted footage
[01:06:54.680 -> 01:06:56.440] from the Night Changes music video,
[01:06:56.440 -> 01:06:58.640] which I can not unsee.
[01:07:00.520 -> 01:07:01.720] Yeah, yeah.
[01:07:01.720 -> 01:07:03.600] It just convinced me that,
[01:07:03.600 -> 01:07:06.400] of the obvious connection that we make all the time,
[01:07:06.400 -> 01:07:14.480] that the track from boy band fan to F1 fan is like a singular line and trajectory.
[01:07:16.560 -> 01:07:20.960] Sergio Perez is launching a new program focused on helping both Mexican drivers and
[01:07:20.960 -> 01:07:27.960] engineers get into Formula One. Alfa Romeo has a special livery this week, highlighting their controversial title sponsor
[01:07:27.960 -> 01:07:28.960] KICK.
[01:07:28.960 -> 01:07:33.440] Notably, there are green flames on the front wing, and the streamers working with KICK,
[01:07:33.440 -> 01:07:35.620] their names should be on the halo.
[01:07:35.620 -> 01:07:39.080] The F1 Commission met this week to discuss and vote on many topics.
[01:07:39.080 -> 01:07:44.000] One of these topics is the option of engine equalization, as Alpine believes that its
[01:07:44.000 -> 01:07:47.380] power unit is down 30 horsepower to its rivals.
[01:07:47.380 -> 01:07:49.480] Reminder that we're in an engine performance
[01:07:49.480 -> 01:07:53.640] freeze until 2026, so Alpine cannot simply just upgrade
[01:07:53.640 -> 01:07:56.120] their power unit's performance to catch up.
[01:07:56.120 -> 01:07:58.360] Another item on the agenda to potentially vote on
[01:07:58.360 -> 01:08:01.400] is whether or not Williams is granted the adjustment
[01:08:01.400 -> 01:08:03.480] to the cost cap to be able to invest in better
[01:08:03.480 -> 01:08:04.120] infrastructure.
[01:08:04.120 -> 01:08:07.600] So be on the lookout for some news about both of those topics coming soon.
[01:08:07.600 -> 01:08:12.280] Also, since we didn't get a chance to dig into the engine equalization and that vote
[01:08:12.280 -> 01:08:18.280] as a topic this week, I will throw in that Christian Horner has backed that we should
[01:08:18.280 -> 01:08:23.640] just be looking at engine equalization going forward, which whenever Christian Horner is
[01:08:23.640 -> 01:08:27.880] backing one of his rivals getting faster,
[01:08:27.880 -> 01:08:31.240] I just think it's worth thinking about why that's the case and what's going on with their
[01:08:31.240 -> 01:08:36.560] 2026 power unit that they're really supportive of outpitting right now.
[01:08:36.560 -> 01:08:41.040] Pirelli is going to be doing a tire test next week, August 1st and 2nd at Spa after the
[01:08:41.040 -> 01:08:42.040] Grand Prix.
[01:08:42.040 -> 01:08:45.440] It will at least include the AMR23 driven by Stoffel Van Doorn.
[01:08:45.440 -> 01:08:49.120] Ferrari has hired away a top Mercedes engineer, their performance director,
[01:08:49.120 -> 01:08:54.240] Liok Surera. He will not actually be able to start for the Ferrari team until 2025.
[01:08:55.920 -> 01:08:59.840] Rumors are swirling about both house drivers entering into silly season,
[01:08:59.840 -> 01:09:11.620] K-Max's contract extension seems to be less of a given, and Nico said that his bleach job was quote, I thought a bit of extra PR for me is pretty handy this time of season.
[01:09:11.620 -> 01:09:14.460] Is Nico angling for a different job?
[01:09:14.460 -> 01:09:17.460] Is Nico's contract extension not a given at all?
[01:09:17.460 -> 01:09:20.500] I don't know what's going on.
[01:09:20.500 -> 01:09:25.680] And lastly, Toto may or may not have leaked, on purpose or accidentally, the length of
[01:09:25.680 -> 01:09:29.440] the upcoming Lewis Hamilton contract to the F1 Juniors this week.
[01:09:29.440 -> 01:09:34.080] It may or may not be two years, depending on what you believe we will see, but Lewis
[01:09:34.080 -> 01:09:38.780] did threaten us this week that they will not be announcing it until Abu Dhabi.
[01:09:38.780 -> 01:09:41.920] That is the gridlock for July 27th, 2023 completed.
[01:09:41.920 -> 01:09:48.400] How was my sector time today, Nicole? Faster than we realized that this is our 27th episode being
[01:09:48.400 -> 01:09:50.000] released on the 27th.
[01:09:50.640 -> 01:09:53.080] I can't believe I led with Eagles training camp and not
[01:09:53.080 -> 01:09:53.480] that.
[01:09:53.640 -> 01:09:59.200] Well, I can. Thank you, as always to VoiceOverMan. Huge
[01:09:59.240 -> 01:10:02.760] thank you and shout out to Suzy Wolf for being an actual
[01:10:02.760 -> 01:10:06.240] positive role model to females and young viewers
[01:10:06.240 -> 01:10:07.980] of motorsports.
[01:10:07.980 -> 01:10:11.100] And our four-legged executive producers.
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[01:10:23.920 -> 01:10:28.200] comment, let us know what are your opinions on spa as a track?
[01:10:28.200 -> 01:10:29.960] Cause now you certainly know ours.
[01:10:29.960 -> 01:10:32.320] Maybe I've just given a lot of people
[01:10:32.320 -> 01:10:34.120] who haven't felt comfortable permission
[01:10:34.120 -> 01:10:35.820] to tell us that they agree with us
[01:10:35.820 -> 01:10:37.720] and how much they also dislike spa.
[01:10:37.720 -> 01:10:38.600] You think that's gonna happen?
[01:10:38.600 -> 01:10:40.360] Is that what the comments are gonna look like?
[01:10:40.360 -> 01:10:44.520] I definitely anticipate that and nothing of the opposite.
[01:10:44.520 -> 01:10:50.680] But really any sort of comment that you leave on our podcast or anywhere that you watch
[01:10:50.680 -> 01:10:55.200] our podcast, consume our podcast, any comment that you leave, any feedback you leave really
[01:10:55.200 -> 01:10:56.840] helps other people find our podcast.
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[01:11:19.120 -> 01:11:28.880] Sebastian Vettel P10!
[01:11:24.100 -> 01:11:34.980] Temp!