Did you know F1 Teams did THIS at Monaco?! 😳 ft Matt MD

Welcome back to the Pitstop Podcast! WHAT A RACE THAT WAS.. Monaco brought us all the surprises this year with an interesting Quali session, followed by an amazing race which saw tight overtakes, last minute strategies.. and the weather really threw a spanner in the works. In this episode we're joined by our friend and former F2 performance coach, Matt Murray Downing! Matts here to shed some light and perspective on the race from a different point of view, so tune in to this episode and let us know your thoughts by DMing us on Insta - @Pitstop!
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**Navigating the Monaco Grand Prix: A Post-Race Analysis**

*Introduction:*

- Jake Boys and Fabio Bocca welcome listeners to a special audio-only episode of The Pit Stop Podcast, recorded after the Monaco Grand Prix.
- Matt Murray-Downing, a former physiotherapist for Formula 2 driver Oscar Piastri and current consultant for McLaren and British Superbikes, joins the discussion.

**Matt's Career and Expertise:**

- Matt shares his background in motorsports, including working for Kawasaki and his current involvement with Catty, PBM Motorsport in British Superbikes.
- He also mentions his work with McLaren on the Trophy Cup Series.

**Isle of Man TT Discussion:**

- The hosts express their admiration for the Isle of Man TT race and acknowledge its dangers.
- Matt, who has a rider competing in the TT, provides insights into the risks and challenges of the event.

**Monaco Grand Prix Observations:**

- The hosts discuss the unique characteristics of the Monaco Grand Prix, including its narrow streets, lack of overtaking opportunities, and history.
- They praise the improved broadcasting quality of the race, particularly the use of helicopter shots.
- The impact of weather conditions, including rain and sunshine, is highlighted.

**F1 Movie Discussion:**

- The hosts discuss the upcoming F1 movie, which will feature Brad Pitt and Damson Idris as fictional drivers for a team called Apex Racing.
- Lewis Hamilton's involvement as a producer is mentioned, with the expectation that his presence will add realism to the film.
- The challenge of incorporating real race footage and fictional elements is acknowledged.

**Driver Emotions and Incidents:**

- The hosts highlight the importance of capturing raw emotions and interactions among drivers, citing examples from recent races.
- They emphasize the need for authenticity and transparency in F1 media coverage.
- The incident involving Jack Doohan's frustration and his father's intervention is mentioned as an example of the desired level of transparency.

**Formula 2 Race Controversy:**

- Matt shares an incident from the Formula 2 race, where several drivers were significantly disadvantaged due to a restart issue.
- The lack of media coverage for this incident is criticized, highlighting the need for comprehensive reporting.

**F2 Driver Predictions:**

- The hosts discuss potential contenders for the Formula 2 championship, including Olli Caldwell, Logan Sargeant, and Frederik Vesti.
- Matt emphasizes the variability in driver performance due to setup differences and the importance of mental preparation for Monaco.

**Physical and Mental Preparation for Monaco:**

- Matt explains that the Monaco Grand Prix is not physically demanding but requires significant mental preparation.
- He highlights the need for drivers to remain focused and avoid mistakes due to the high stakes and narrow track layout.

**Max Verstappen's Pole Position Lap:**

- The hosts praise Max Verstappen's remarkable pole position lap, achieved by pushing the limits and risking a crash.
- They discuss the significance of the bump in the road after Casino and its impact on driver performance.

**Checo Perez's Struggles:**

- The hosts analyze Sergio Perez's challenging weekend, including his Q1 crash and subsequent experiments with different strategies during the race.
- They speculate on the number of spare front wings available to teams and the potential impact of cost caps on part availability.

**Conclusion:**

- The hosts summarize their key takeaways from the Monaco Grand Prix, emphasizing the importance of authenticity, transparency, and mental preparation in Formula 1.
- They express their excitement for the upcoming races and thank Matt for his insights. # Monaco Grand Prix Debrief: Controversies, Insights, and Driver Performances

## Introduction

The Monaco Grand Prix, a historic and iconic race in the Formula One calendar, took place amidst much anticipation and excitement. In this comprehensive summary, we delve into the key moments, controversies, and insights that shaped the race weekend, providing an informative and engaging analysis for Formula One enthusiasts.

## Controversies and Technical Discussions

### Mercedes' Side Pods and Tyre Management

* Mercedes introduced a significant change to their car's side pods, drawing inspiration from Red Bull's successful design.
* Max Verstappen's remarkable tyre management skills were highlighted, as he managed to extract exceptional longevity from his medium compound tyres, even during the rain.
* Technical experts discussed the impact of brake bias, suspension setup, and driving style on tyre degradation, emphasizing the complexities of optimizing tyre performance.

### Lando Norris' Lap Count Discrepancy

* A curious observation arose from the race results, as Lando Norris was recorded to have completed 77 laps, while the race winner, Max Verstappen, finished in 78 laps.
* The discussion centered around the rules governing lapped drivers and whether they are required to complete the full race distance or can be classified as finished once they cross the checkered flag.

### Aston Martin's Rain Strategy Conundrum

* Aston Martin's strategic decision to keep Fernando Alonso on medium tyres during the rain drew attention and raised questions about the team's communication and decision-making processes.
* Alonso reportedly questioned the team's choice, highlighting the complexities of making split-second decisions in rapidly changing weather conditions.

## Driver Performances and Team Dynamics

### Max Verstappen's Dominance

* Max Verstappen's commanding victory in Monaco further solidified his position as a top contender for the championship.
* His ability to deliver a flawless performance under pressure and maintain composure throughout the race was widely praised.

### Esteban Ocon's Resurgence

* Esteban Ocon's impressive podium finish, securing third place, marked a significant moment for the French driver.
* His consistent performance and ability to challenge for higher positions were recognized as signs of his growing confidence and potential.

### McLaren's Consistent Pace

* McLaren drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri demonstrated solid performances, securing points finishes in ninth and tenth positions, respectively.
* Their consistent pace throughout the race showcased their ability to adapt to the challenging Monaco circuit.

## Speculation and Rumors

### Lewis Hamilton's Potential Move to Ferrari

* Rumors and speculation emerged regarding Lewis Hamilton's possible move to Ferrari in the future.
* The discussion highlighted the potential impact of such a move on both teams and the implications for the championship battle.

## Insights into Monaco's Unique Characteristics

### Consequences of Mistakes

* The unforgiving nature of the Monaco circuit was emphasized, with drivers facing severe consequences for even minor errors due to the lack of runoff areas and tight corners.
* The importance of precision and calculated risk-taking was highlighted as crucial factors for success in Monaco.

### Cameramen's Skill and Dedication

* The cameramen's exceptional skills and dedication were acknowledged, as they captured stunning footage of the race despite the challenging and dangerous conditions.
* Their ability to follow the cars closely and provide immersive shots was praised as an integral part of the race experience.

### Esteban Ocon's Helmet Change

* Esteban Ocon's decision to change his helmet during the race, switching from a plain red design to his usual lively helmet, sparked curiosity and speculation.
* The incident highlighted the attention to detail and personal preferences of drivers, even in the midst of a competitive race.

## Conclusion

The Monaco Grand Prix delivered an exciting and unpredictable race, characterized by strategic decisions, driver performances, and technical intricacies. The controversies and insights discussed in this summary offer a deeper understanding of the complexities of Formula One racing and provide valuable takeaways for fans and enthusiasts alike. **Race Recap and Analysis:**

The episode begins with a discussion of the recent Monaco Grand Prix, with the hosts expressing their surprise at the exciting and unpredictable race. They highlight Esteban Ocon's impressive performance, considering the limitations of the Alpine car, and recognize him as the 'driver of the weekend.' The hosts also discuss the impact of pit stops on the race, noting several instances of mishaps and delays, including a four-and-a-half-second pit stop for Ocon.

**Monaco Grand Prix Track Characteristics:**

The conversation shifts to the unique challenges of the Monaco circuit, particularly the tight and narrow nature of the track. The hosts emphasize the importance of driver skill and precision in navigating the circuit's demanding corners and limited overtaking opportunities. They also discuss the impact of the track layout on pit stops, acknowledging the difficulties faced by mechanics in executing quick and efficient tire changes.

**F2 Pit Stop Incidents:**

The hosts recount some memorable pit stop incidents from the Formula 2 race, including wheels coming off cars and a dropped car. They express sympathy for the mechanics involved, recognizing the pressure and disappointment associated with such mishaps.

**Monaco Grand Prix Recovery Methods:**

The hosts discuss the use of a large individual to physically lift and move a car during a practice session, highlighting the ingenuity and strength required for such a task. They contrast this with the more traditional methods of using cranes or tractors for car recovery, noting the efficiency and practicality of the manual approach in certain situations.

**Upcoming Races and Predictions:**

The hosts preview the upcoming races in Barcelona and Canada, expressing their anticipation for the challenges and excitement each circuit presents. They make predictions for the Spanish Grand Prix, with Matt Murray-Downing suggesting that Red Bull, Mercedes, and Aston Martin will perform well, potentially leading to a mixed grid and podium. The hosts also acknowledge their limited knowledge of the Canadian Grand Prix and plan to conduct a quiz on the circuit in a future episode.

**Conclusion:**

The episode concludes with the hosts thanking Matt Murray-Downing for his insights and contributions to the discussion. They encourage listeners to rate and follow the podcast, and announce their intention to reconvene on Thursday for a pre-Spain Grand Prix discussion.

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[01:00.080 -> 01:06.600] I've always thought Ocon is a bit of a dark horse and stick him in a good car kill it the silence
[01:17.540 -> 01:23.620] Yes, yes, yeah, yeah, welcome back to the pit stop podcast ladies and gents
[01:23.620 -> 01:26.200] We've just had the Monaco Grand Prix.
[01:26.200 -> 01:28.840] And today's a special episode because we're joined by a guest,
[01:28.840 -> 01:31.080] but we're just going to have a casual conversation.
[01:31.080 -> 01:32.920] Yes, a special audio-only episode
[01:32.920 -> 01:34.880] off the back of the Monaco Grand Prix.
[01:34.880 -> 01:36.280] Who are we joined by today, Jake?
[01:36.280 -> 01:37.960] We've got Matt Murray-Downing with us.
[01:37.960 -> 01:39.080] Hello, my friend.
[01:39.080 -> 01:39.920] Yeah!
[01:39.920 -> 01:40.760] Let's go.
[01:42.520 -> 01:43.440] Sat in, Matt, how are you?
[01:43.440 -> 01:44.280] I'm good, thanks, mate.
[01:44.280 -> 01:45.920] It's good to be back here again.
[01:45.920 -> 01:48.480] I know, on the sofa, sun shining outside.
[01:48.480 -> 01:49.980] We need to get out to be fair.
[01:49.980 -> 01:51.640] Yeah, we definitely will go out after this though.
[01:51.640 -> 01:53.160] This is our after race review.
[01:53.160 -> 01:55.800] Yeah, this is our, I want to say post race analysis,
[01:55.800 -> 01:58.200] but I don't know how much analysis we're going to be
[01:58.200 -> 01:59.040] after the race.
[01:59.040 -> 01:59.880] We've got Matt with us.
[01:59.880 -> 02:00.820] I've actually analysed,
[02:00.820 -> 02:02.880] but we've got a bit of a specialist here because Matt,
[02:02.880 -> 02:05.560] if you guys didn't know, we had Matt on the pod before.
[02:05.560 -> 02:10.800] He was the, you were the physio for Owasa in F2.
[02:10.800 -> 02:11.800] But now what are you doing?
[02:11.800 -> 02:12.800] So now a bit of a mix.
[02:12.800 -> 02:18.000] I'm now looking after two riders with the Catty, PBM Motorsport in British Superbikes
[02:18.000 -> 02:21.640] and then also doing a little bit of work with McLaren now on a new project they're doing
[02:21.640 -> 02:23.240] which is called the Trophy Cup Series.
[02:23.240 -> 02:26.120] So a few different motorsports projects alongside some clinics in London.
[02:26.120 -> 02:27.560] So yeah, nice little mix of motorsport bits.
[02:27.560 -> 02:28.400] That's nice, with McLaren.
[02:28.400 -> 02:31.560] And we spoke about the TT in the last episode on the pod.
[02:31.560 -> 02:32.720] Yeah, the Isle of Man TT.
[02:32.720 -> 02:34.480] Yeah, we still very much want to go to that,
[02:34.480 -> 02:36.120] but you were just saying that you,
[02:36.120 -> 02:38.040] what your guy is, might be doing it.
[02:38.040 -> 02:40.080] Yeah, so Glenn is one of my riders
[02:40.080 -> 02:41.360] that I look after, Glenn Irwin.
[02:41.360 -> 02:44.160] So he just come back from a win last week
[02:44.160 -> 02:46.760] over in the Northwest 200,
[02:46.760 -> 02:48.840] which is the Irish equivalent of the TT.
[02:48.840 -> 02:50.600] Bit of a warmup for the TT,
[02:50.600 -> 02:52.200] and then he'll be heading out for the TT race.
[02:52.200 -> 02:54.040] Yeah, so yeah, he's heading out there,
[02:54.040 -> 02:56.280] so good chance of seeing him on the podium again
[02:56.280 -> 02:57.120] with any luck.
[02:57.120 -> 02:59.800] That guy must walk around with his balls in a wheelbarrow,
[02:59.800 -> 03:00.640] because that was not a TT.
[03:00.640 -> 03:01.560] It's different gravy.
[03:01.560 -> 03:03.240] How could anyone do that?
[03:03.240 -> 03:04.680] We watched the BBC doc on it,
[03:04.680 -> 03:05.920] and it's just, that was the first time
[03:05.920 -> 03:07.240] I've ever seen the TT.
[03:07.240 -> 03:10.040] Yeah, it's a crazy race,
[03:10.040 -> 03:12.280] and even when you talk amongst the bike racers,
[03:12.280 -> 03:14.960] who are a pretty crazy bunch of guys anyway,
[03:16.080 -> 03:18.120] they've all got a different level of respect
[03:18.120 -> 03:19.560] for guys that do the road racing,
[03:19.560 -> 03:21.920] because the danger and the consequences
[03:21.920 -> 03:23.880] of getting it wrong go through the roof.
[03:23.880 -> 03:25.660] Is it your first time working in bikes?
[03:25.660 -> 03:28.480] Weirdly not, so actually pre being a physio,
[03:28.480 -> 03:31.140] I actually grew up around bikes and worked in motorsport
[03:31.140 -> 03:34.740] in the bike world, so I used to work for Kawasaki
[03:34.740 -> 03:37.360] from when I was 13 up to about 22,
[03:37.360 -> 03:39.480] so all through university, so I've worked around bikes.
[03:39.480 -> 03:41.560] So weirdly actually going back into the paddock,
[03:41.560 -> 03:43.400] few faces that I already knew.
[03:43.400 -> 03:45.280] Was that like super bikes or was it dirt bikes? Still super bikes, yeah, so a few faces that I already knew. Was that like super bikes or was it still dirt bikes?
[03:45.280 -> 03:49.840] It was still super bikes, yeah. So a few faces that I knew already, but yeah, it's good to be
[03:49.840 -> 03:53.920] back actually, a few familiar faces, but not from a physio performance coaching point of view. Yeah,
[03:53.920 -> 03:57.360] my first time with bikes. Do you sense a danger compared to F2?
[03:57.360 -> 04:00.560] Definitely. I think when it comes to the track stuff, there's definitely,
[04:01.120 -> 04:09.720] the way tracks are designed now, it's definitely saferfer so we you know, you don't see the deaths you compare it to a TT where we you know, unfortunately, you know
[04:09.720 -> 04:12.440] Generally, we see you know some more some more sinister accidents
[04:12.440 -> 04:16.240] But that being said, you know, there's obviously a lot more consequences with bikes when you crash coming off
[04:16.960 -> 04:21.480] How does the TT genuinely like I know it's amazing and I think it's incredible
[04:21.480 -> 04:22.160] I want to go and watch it
[04:22.160 -> 04:25.600] But how are they still doing it when people lose their lives?
[04:25.600 -> 04:27.480] Like surely in any other sport or anything else
[04:27.480 -> 04:28.320] that would have been stopped.
[04:28.320 -> 04:29.880] Yeah, I don't know to be honest.
[04:29.880 -> 04:31.360] I think from what I've read
[04:31.360 -> 04:32.600] and what I've learned about the TT
[04:32.600 -> 04:35.120] is that I think the fact it's a standalone island
[04:35.120 -> 04:37.300] with their own rules is that I think they get away with it
[04:37.300 -> 04:39.120] because of where it is.
[04:39.120 -> 04:40.880] And I think amongst the biking community,
[04:40.880 -> 04:42.600] there's a bit of a,
[04:42.600 -> 04:44.400] trying to put it into a good perspective here,
[04:44.400 -> 04:46.120] maybe a bit of a Monaco Grand Prix kind
[04:46.120 -> 04:49.440] of haze of magic about it where the fans
[04:49.440 -> 04:53.080] just refused to kind of you know get rid
[04:53.080 -> 04:54.600] of it. Is it quite a historic event?
[04:54.600 -> 04:57.080] Hugely. Yeah, see that's the same with Monaco
[04:57.080 -> 04:58.720] like they I think they were Brunda was
[04:58.720 -> 05:00.880] saying on the TV if you introduce a
[05:00.880 -> 05:02.600] Monaco track these days it would never
[05:02.600 -> 05:04.600] ever get past me ever they wouldn't they
[05:04.600 -> 05:07.920] wouldn't allow it but because it's because it has the longevity and the history.
[05:07.920 -> 05:12.560] Whilst you say Brundle on the TV, all credit to Brundle for this weekend.
[05:12.560 -> 05:14.160] He needs a lot of it.
[05:14.160 -> 05:16.880] Brundle, I don't know if you've been keeping up to date with Brundle,
[05:16.880 -> 05:20.160] like the post the pre-race stuff, but the guy's on it, man.
[05:20.160 -> 05:22.480] Yeah, he's been top.
[05:22.480 -> 05:26.280] The practice sessions, my dad's been ringing me like fucking Brundle
[05:26.280 -> 05:27.360] is amazing at the minute.
[05:27.360 -> 05:29.200] He's just got the stats and facts, man.
[05:29.200 -> 05:32.000] Yeah, I saw him interview the lady photographer.
[05:32.000 -> 05:33.320] Did you see the couple of episodes?
[05:33.320 -> 05:34.160] Where she's walking in.
[05:34.160 -> 05:36.800] When she went to get his, she wanted his card, didn't she?
[05:36.800 -> 05:37.640] Yeah, she's walking in and goes,
[05:37.640 -> 05:40.120] I need to get your card, I love it.
[05:40.120 -> 05:41.760] That's jokes.
[05:41.760 -> 05:44.160] Did you know, lads, this year is the first time
[05:44.160 -> 05:46.680] in two decades that the F1 have controlled
[05:46.680 -> 05:48.960] the broadcasting for the Monaco Grand Prix?
[05:48.960 -> 05:49.960] I read that.
[05:49.960 -> 05:51.960] Because Monaco have always had the rights to it, right?
[05:51.960 -> 05:52.960] Is that right?
[05:52.960 -> 05:55.380] Yeah, they always produced it themselves, pretty much.
[05:55.380 -> 05:59.720] They had their own company, but this year was the first one where F1 had the rights
[05:59.720 -> 06:00.720] to produce it.
[06:00.720 -> 06:02.200] So did you see any change?
[06:02.200 -> 06:03.200] They had helicopters.
[06:03.200 -> 06:04.960] Yes, and the shots were amazing.
[06:04.960 -> 06:05.000] Incredible. Unreal. Unreal shots. So did you see any change? They had helicopters. Yes, and the shots were amazing.
[06:05.000 -> 06:07.000] Incredible, unreal, unreal shots.
[06:07.000 -> 06:10.000] My dad again was calling me up saying the heli shots were mad.
[06:10.000 -> 06:12.000] And you don't really realise, it's funny enough you say that,
[06:12.000 -> 06:16.000] we were sat down watching it and one of the guys I was watching the race with
[06:16.000 -> 06:19.000] and he mentioned the shots and we suddenly thought,
[06:19.000 -> 06:20.000] you're right, we haven't had these shots.
[06:20.000 -> 06:24.000] You normally have the kind of wire cam shots and the kind of trackside shots.
[06:24.000 -> 06:26.160] So to get the heli shots were awesome and they followed it really well
[06:26.160 -> 06:26.760] Yeah
[06:26.760 -> 06:30.840] There's no doubt going into Monaco that a lot of people always think Monaco some people don't like it
[06:30.840 -> 06:37.480] Some people do but from qualifying F2 it was a good weekend qualifying in F1 was unbelievable as far as Monaco goes
[06:37.480 -> 06:41.980] Yeah, there was a bit of excitement, but I wonder whether that was a lot because of the way it was produced
[06:42.120 -> 06:45.840] It was produced really well. You have the nice shots of the helicopters.
[06:45.840 -> 06:46.680] Nice to look at.
[06:46.680 -> 06:48.000] Maybe, maybe the weather helped.
[06:48.000 -> 06:48.840] There was a lot of action.
[06:48.840 -> 06:49.680] Yeah, I think you're right.
[06:49.680 -> 06:51.600] I think you normally, going into Monaco,
[06:51.600 -> 06:52.440] you think, well, actually,
[06:52.440 -> 06:53.640] quality is the exciting bit.
[06:53.640 -> 06:54.480] And then from quality,
[06:54.480 -> 06:55.760] we can pretty much predict the race.
[06:55.760 -> 06:57.800] But yeah, I mean, Monaco delivered,
[06:57.800 -> 06:59.400] the mountains delivered some rain and it,
[06:59.400 -> 07:00.680] yeah, for a spanner in the works,
[07:00.680 -> 07:02.520] we're, yeah, it was great.
[07:02.520 -> 07:03.360] It was really exciting.
[07:03.360 -> 07:05.760] It's got its own sort of little climate, don't they, Monaco? I think because it has the mountains and that ground. It's mad that it just rains like that. No yeah it was great. It's its own sort of little climate don't they Monika?
[07:05.760 -> 07:07.680] I think because it has the mountains around it.
[07:07.680 -> 07:08.720] It's mad that it just rains like that.
[07:08.720 -> 07:14.400] Did you know that the team sends someone out like for I don't know whether this is information we
[07:14.400 -> 07:18.240] should be sharing on the pod as well but we've heard this from someone who works at a team
[07:18.240 -> 07:23.920] that there is members of F1 teams that go and stand in fields like one mile, two mile, three
[07:23.920 -> 07:29.440] mile, four miles away to get the rain first to judge how heavy it is and how long it's gonna take
[07:29.440 -> 07:33.120] to come in so they have people standing out around the track. Where did you hear that?
[07:33.120 -> 07:38.540] Should I have not said that? I don't know, who told you? I don't want to name drop the team but yeah
[07:38.540 -> 07:42.080] that is from a team in F1 so if all the teams in F1 don't do that yet then
[07:42.080 -> 07:45.240] there you go. Blimey. Well, before we dive into Monaco,
[07:45.240 -> 07:47.800] I just caught Ted talking a little bit
[07:47.800 -> 07:50.520] about the F1 movie that's coming out.
[07:50.520 -> 07:52.000] So they were spilling some names here.
[07:52.000 -> 07:54.080] I don't know how well known this is.
[07:54.080 -> 07:54.920] I've heard about it.
[07:54.920 -> 07:55.920] I haven't read into it too much,
[07:55.920 -> 07:57.160] but I've caught wind of it, yeah.
[07:57.160 -> 08:01.720] So Brad was going around, Brad Pitt, not Brad Skates.
[08:01.720 -> 08:03.200] Brad Pitt was going around.
[08:03.200 -> 08:08.320] Brad Skates got the mic on. He was going around Silverstone.
[08:08.320 -> 08:11.280] He was going around in an F4 car, basically,
[08:11.280 -> 08:13.120] learning to fucking drive it,
[08:13.120 -> 08:15.800] because I think what they're gonna do for the movie,
[08:15.800 -> 08:17.240] so Ted was saying basically,
[08:17.240 -> 08:19.200] here, I've got my notes here, Fab's notebook,
[08:19.200 -> 08:22.920] Brad Pitt and Damson Idris, who I think's a newer actor,
[08:22.920 -> 08:25.500] they're gonna be driving for a team called Apex Racing.
[08:25.500 -> 08:28.380] So it's like a fictional team called Apex Racing.
[08:28.380 -> 08:31.620] And the F1 grid will feature everyone
[08:31.620 -> 08:33.660] who's currently in F1.
[08:33.660 -> 08:36.120] So they're basically gonna be cutting between shots
[08:36.120 -> 08:39.860] of all of the race footage, real race footage I assume,
[08:39.860 -> 08:44.380] and then cutting back to this fake movie bullshit stuff.
[08:44.380 -> 08:47.440] Which is quite exciting because Brad and everyone else
[08:47.440 -> 08:49.460] is actually gonna have to learn how to drive.
[08:49.460 -> 08:52.040] But the one key thing which I thought was really interesting
[08:52.040 -> 08:54.400] is that Lewis Hamilton is producing it.
[08:54.400 -> 08:55.880] I saw he was very heavily involved.
[08:55.880 -> 08:57.200] Yeah, that's the only bit I'd caught wind of
[08:57.200 -> 08:58.720] that how involved Hamilton was.
[08:58.720 -> 09:01.720] Which I think is key because anytime that Hollywood
[09:01.720 -> 09:03.360] try and make a movie about something
[09:03.360 -> 09:04.640] which they don't really know about,
[09:04.640 -> 09:06.560] it's always gonna be a bit cheesy.
[09:06.560 -> 09:10.320] I think I said this before, when they make a movie about the music industry, it's always
[09:10.320 -> 09:12.440] a bit cheesy and not quite key.
[09:12.440 -> 09:16.920] So I think having Lewis Hamilton there, it will just help make it more realistic.
[09:16.920 -> 09:19.960] It's going to be a lot of editing to incorporate that.
[09:19.960 -> 09:23.400] Because I'm guessing it will be footage from this year, and they said that all the teams
[09:23.400 -> 09:28.280] have agreed to be in it, and all the drivers have agreed to be in it as well. And then they're just gonna edit it all together
[09:28.480 -> 09:31.360] So I have no idea how that's gonna come out be chaotic
[09:31.360 -> 09:36.960] But they've been there filming at the races now so that does that that makes me think has Brad Pitt and the other guy be
[09:36.960 -> 09:41.760] Walking around in like disguise or being filmed in the paddock and stuff like have they been there walking around?
[09:41.920 -> 09:45.320] Thank you. They need the shots of them there. Nose and sunglasses, yeah.
[09:45.320 -> 09:46.160] Yeah, I don't know.
[09:46.160 -> 09:47.000] I don't know.
[09:47.000 -> 09:48.400] I've got no idea to be honest mate.
[09:48.400 -> 09:50.400] Well, I'm an excited one to watch,
[09:50.400 -> 09:51.760] but I mean, you're absolutely right though,
[09:51.760 -> 09:53.320] because the only real close comparison you've got
[09:53.320 -> 09:54.280] is like Rush, right?
[09:54.280 -> 09:56.920] And some of the more recent films that have done,
[09:56.920 -> 09:57.760] you know, versions of that.
[09:57.760 -> 09:59.440] Yeah, we've watched Rush.
[09:59.440 -> 10:02.640] That's about James.
[10:02.640 -> 10:04.080] James Hunt, Nicky Louder.
[10:04.080 -> 10:05.000] James Hunt, Nicky Louder, we've watched Rush, Bubbles Horsley,
[10:05.500 -> 10:07.740] Harpy Puss Away.
[10:07.740 -> 10:08.580] Ken Tyrrell.
[10:08.580 -> 10:12.740] What did you think of the Max Cooper, by the way?
[10:12.740 -> 10:13.780] Good, really good.
[10:13.780 -> 10:15.000] Yeah, I enjoyed it.
[10:15.000 -> 10:16.020] Really, really good.
[10:16.020 -> 10:17.820] It's a, yeah, man.
[10:17.820 -> 10:19.700] Just, yeah, such easy listening.
[10:19.700 -> 10:21.000] Bit of a rogue one for us.
[10:21.000 -> 10:22.780] I don't think a lot of our listeners
[10:22.780 -> 10:24.020] really knew who Max was.
[10:24.020 -> 10:28.000] Well, hopefully some of them did, but yeah. yeah yeah rogue episode. I was saying to Jake earlier like
[10:28.000 -> 10:33.760] as a kid I just the Gumball stuff I was just so obsessed with like it was just
[10:33.760 -> 10:38.800] so out there like that rock star appeal of what they were doing so like to hear
[10:38.800 -> 10:42.640] a little bit the inside of how he did it it's just insane yeah don't know if you
[10:42.640 -> 10:45.520] get away with it these days. No you you just wouldn't. You're right.
[10:45.520 -> 10:47.040] You would never be able to plan an event like that.
[10:47.040 -> 10:47.880] No.
[10:47.880 -> 10:48.720] Jack Dewan, by the way,
[10:48.720 -> 10:51.680] has stepped up to the calling that we put out.
[10:51.680 -> 10:53.600] We said we wanted drivers to start coming out
[10:53.600 -> 10:54.440] when they're pissed off
[10:54.440 -> 10:55.680] and looking like they're pissed off.
[10:55.680 -> 10:56.520] Yeah.
[10:56.520 -> 10:57.600] Jack Dewan looked really pissed off,
[10:57.600 -> 10:58.620] didn't he, in the sprint?
[10:58.620 -> 10:59.460] Yeah, he did.
[10:59.460 -> 11:01.680] He stormed out that, I don't know why.
[11:01.680 -> 11:02.680] Wait, what are you talking about?
[11:02.680 -> 11:04.360] Dewan, when he come out of his car
[11:04.360 -> 11:06.340] and he was really angry and his dad had to put him away
[11:06.340 -> 11:07.600] from the cameras and they went upstairs.
[11:07.600 -> 11:08.600] I miss that bit.
[11:08.600 -> 11:10.260] Oh yeah, I don't know what actually happened
[11:10.260 -> 11:12.000] but I liked seeing it.
[11:12.000 -> 11:14.440] It's that raw, me and Jake were talking about this
[11:14.440 -> 11:15.560] the other day, Matt.
[11:15.560 -> 11:19.040] It was in Miami and Lando was getting interviewed
[11:19.040 -> 11:21.800] and George came over and it was after the George and Max
[11:21.800 -> 11:22.640] bit of beef that they had.
[11:22.640 -> 11:24.080] I think it was in Baku or something like that.
[11:24.080 -> 11:24.920] Yeah.
[11:24.920 -> 11:25.440] And there was like a bit of lighthearted banter that went on and it was after the George and Max bit of beef that I had. I mean, it was in Baku or something like that.
[11:25.440 -> 11:27.160] And there was like a bit of lighthearted banter
[11:27.160 -> 11:28.960] that went on and it was kind of funny.
[11:28.960 -> 11:31.680] And we were just saying how that's kind of the loose,
[11:31.680 -> 11:33.560] the loose banter that we like.
[11:33.560 -> 11:35.080] I want to see more of it in F1.
[11:35.080 -> 11:36.240] I think you get stamped out, doesn't it?
[11:36.240 -> 11:37.080] I think you're right.
[11:37.080 -> 11:39.080] It's that kind of mix between like having such a PR
[11:39.080 -> 11:41.000] dominated world where people have to watch everything
[11:41.000 -> 11:43.520] they say and kind of the culture now,
[11:43.520 -> 11:47.240] maybe a little bit of, you know, trying not to, you know,ig o, rydych chi'n ceisio i ddweud pethau,
[11:47.240 -> 11:47.960] ond rydych chi'n iawn, rwy'n credu,
[11:47.960 -> 11:48.840] mae'n ddiddorol hefyd,
[11:48.840 -> 11:50.640] yw bod, rwy'n gwybod bod rhai drifoeddwyr
[11:50.640 -> 11:51.760] wedi sôn yn eithaf fawr o ran,
[11:51.760 -> 11:53.400] rydych chi'n gwybod, pan fydd pethau'n cael eu cymryd allan o'r cyfrodd,
[11:53.400 -> 11:54.640] ond mae'r syniad o allu cerdded i ddweud
[11:54.640 -> 11:55.360] i'r drifoeddwyr,
[11:55.360 -> 11:56.080] yn y car,
[11:56.080 -> 11:58.440] a'r ffordd y byddai rhywun yn ei gysylltu â chi,
[11:58.440 -> 11:59.640] a'ch gwneud ymlaen at nhw,
[11:59.640 -> 12:00.440] neu'ch ei gynnal iddo,
[12:00.440 -> 12:01.520] rydych chi'n gwybod, pan fyddwch chi'n mynd allan o'r car
[12:01.520 -> 12:02.960] a'ch gwrthdrebu amdano,
[12:02.960 -> 12:03.440] neu beth bynnag,
[12:03.440 -> 12:04.560] byddwch chi'n ei gosod ar ôl chi,
[12:04.560 -> 12:05.320] ond rydych chi'n iawn, rwy'n credu y byddai pobl eisiau gweld ychydig mwy o hynny, rydych chi'n gwybod, mae'n rho about it or whatever that you'll put it behind you, but you're right.
[12:05.320 -> 12:06.740] I think people want to see a little bit more of it,
[12:06.740 -> 12:08.240] you know, it brings some personality to them.
[12:08.240 -> 12:09.600] Otherwise it just seems, you know,
[12:09.600 -> 12:11.120] and it's also not that realistic.
[12:11.120 -> 12:12.760] You know, we'd be lying if we weren't in the pit lane
[12:12.760 -> 12:14.200] and you're hearing drivers, you know,
[12:14.200 -> 12:15.500] who think someone's a little bit messy
[12:15.500 -> 12:16.960] in their driving style, or they think, you know,
[12:16.960 -> 12:18.320] someone's too aggressive or, you know,
[12:18.320 -> 12:20.400] people want to, I think, see it, hear it and understand it.
[12:20.400 -> 12:22.520] Yeah, I just think you want it to be as real as you can.
[12:22.520 -> 12:28.840] And I think you see a lot of how I want it to be or how I would love it all to be in F2 because like it's a lot
[12:28.840 -> 12:33.480] more raw in F2 but then also because we've been following the F2 we need to talk about
[12:33.480 -> 12:39.040] what happened this weekend because Oli Berman got fucked up basically. Big things happened.
[12:39.040 -> 12:42.240] Oli got fucked all weekend which is a shame he didn't do great in the sprint either I
[12:42.240 -> 12:45.640] think he retired. I don't even know if people watching like realised though because they didn't talk about it on the TV. They didn't say a word about it. He didn't do great in the sprint either. I think he retired in the sprint. I don't even know if people watching like, realized though,
[12:45.640 -> 12:47.280] because they didn't talk about it on the TV.
[12:47.280 -> 12:48.720] They didn't say a word about it.
[12:48.720 -> 12:49.760] Like Matt didn't know about it.
[12:49.760 -> 12:52.560] After the red flag in F2,
[12:52.560 -> 12:53.800] coming up towards the end of the race,
[12:53.800 -> 12:58.200] basically they restarted and only eight of the cars
[12:58.200 -> 13:00.000] after the safety car,
[13:00.000 -> 13:00.840] when they restarted,
[13:00.840 -> 13:02.480] were in the same sector.
[13:02.480 -> 13:06.340] So it left basically Oli B Berman down the 12 after.
[13:06.340 -> 13:07.640] Yeah, anyone from like nine down,
[13:07.640 -> 13:09.480] they're about 45 seconds behind the rest of the pack.
[13:09.480 -> 13:11.660] They were about 45 seconds behind after one lap
[13:11.660 -> 13:13.380] after the restart, which was just.
[13:13.380 -> 13:16.540] Which is fucked because after the Dewan crash,
[13:16.540 -> 13:19.780] Victor Martins, he ignored the yellow flag in that sector.
[13:19.780 -> 13:22.500] So he was flying up towards Casino
[13:22.500 -> 13:23.940] and he nearly hit one of the stewards
[13:23.940 -> 13:26.640] that was at the back of Dewan's car trying to get it out.
[13:26.640 -> 13:28.040] Like nearly fucking hit him boys.
[13:28.040 -> 13:29.240] It was really close.
[13:29.240 -> 13:31.480] So he got a time penalty for that.
[13:31.480 -> 13:34.160] Now, if they hadn't have messed up that restart,
[13:34.160 -> 13:35.900] Behrman was in 11th.
[13:35.900 -> 13:37.080] Would that have meant that he would have got
[13:37.080 -> 13:38.160] into the points?
[13:38.160 -> 13:39.200] Yeah, I don't know.
[13:39.200 -> 13:41.120] But it's just crazy.
[13:41.120 -> 13:42.240] The only reason I wanted to raise it
[13:42.240 -> 13:44.680] is because then it wasn't spoken about on TV.
[13:44.680 -> 13:49.040] Crafty. Like when it's not spoken about on TV it's bad. I know yeah absolutely yeah and
[13:49.040 -> 13:54.640] again you go back to it was an f1 broadcast right? Exactly yeah I never ever would have even known
[13:54.640 -> 13:59.360] about that if I wasn't speaking to one of the drivers in f2 about it like that's and when you
[13:59.360 -> 14:04.400] know that they're really pissed off about you're thinking like well should we even talk about this
[14:04.400 -> 14:08.000] on the pod but we've been talking about f2 a lot so yeah that's what happened this
[14:08.000 -> 14:11.720] weekend at F2. It's quite exciting for us I think to follow the F2 grid because I
[14:11.720 -> 14:15.000] don't know a lot of people are saying right now that the F2 is more interesting
[14:15.000 -> 14:21.760] to watch than the F1. Well you were in it. I'm feeling it. Yeah it is and you were in F2 last year. Yeah. So who do you think could win it?
[14:21.760 -> 14:23.840] Do you know what it's interesting I think if you'd have asked me that
[14:23.840 -> 14:25.000] question a couple of rounds ago I think if you'd have asked me that question
[14:25.000 -> 14:26.000] a couple of rounds ago,
[14:26.000 -> 14:27.480] I think I'd have given you a different answer
[14:27.480 -> 14:30.320] because I think, you know, I think coming into this year,
[14:30.320 -> 14:32.080] you had some really strong contenders.
[14:32.080 -> 14:34.400] As you say, obviously, Yumi was picking up the pace.
[14:34.400 -> 14:37.840] We had Dewan doing very well.
[14:37.840 -> 14:39.440] I think Vesti was always one to watch.
[14:39.440 -> 14:41.120] And I think this year, I don't get it wrong,
[14:41.120 -> 14:43.500] I think there's still ones to watch,
[14:43.500 -> 14:46.040] but you know, Biermann, what a rookie season start.
[14:46.040 -> 14:49.880] Unbelievable, incredible, you know, really, really strong.
[14:51.640 -> 14:53.360] You know, that's just some great step ups.
[14:53.360 -> 14:54.680] So I think there's a lot of drivers to watch,
[14:54.680 -> 14:56.200] but I think, yeah, my ones would still be,
[14:56.200 -> 14:57.920] they're definitely doing to watch,
[14:57.920 -> 14:59.040] are you moved to watch?
[14:59.040 -> 15:01.240] And I think Vesti's a good driver.
[15:01.240 -> 15:02.440] He'll be consistent.
[15:02.440 -> 15:03.280] They were saying as well,
[15:03.280 -> 15:05.360] he's obviously the Mercedes program.
[15:05.360 -> 15:07.680] And I think Mercedes are quite like,
[15:07.680 -> 15:09.960] they don't have too many in their like program.
[15:09.960 -> 15:11.760] So, you know, like Mick went for it,
[15:11.760 -> 15:14.040] Russell went for it, well Mick's in it now.
[15:14.040 -> 15:16.260] So you'd assume that they're going to be pretty strong
[15:16.260 -> 15:18.040] and they obviously back him quite a lot.
[15:18.040 -> 15:18.880] Yeah.
[15:18.880 -> 15:20.360] But Vesti is a good driver.
[15:20.360 -> 15:21.960] 100% and it's a great series to watch.
[15:21.960 -> 15:23.960] Ultimately the cars are the same,
[15:23.960 -> 15:27.000] so same components, same aerodynamics.
[15:27.000 -> 15:29.840] We can only really adjust engine mapping,
[15:29.840 -> 15:32.640] a bit of suspension setup, a little bit of aero,
[15:32.640 -> 15:33.840] but we've all got the same parts.
[15:33.840 -> 15:35.640] So it means that really it's just down to the drivers
[15:35.640 -> 15:36.760] and a bit of setup difference.
[15:36.760 -> 15:40.800] So it means you'll often see drivers have a real variability
[15:40.800 -> 15:42.120] in their performance week to week,
[15:42.120 -> 15:45.280] based on how a team set their car up and various bits.
[15:45.280 -> 15:46.120] So it's great.
[15:46.120 -> 15:47.240] And obviously the sprint race format's great.
[15:47.240 -> 15:48.840] So we get that every single round.
[15:48.840 -> 15:51.640] We get the sprint race where we reverse the grid
[15:51.640 -> 15:54.800] from qualifying to enable someone who's perhaps finished
[15:54.800 -> 15:58.120] midfield in the quali to be up the front and have a shot.
[15:58.120 -> 15:58.960] So it's great.
[15:58.960 -> 16:00.480] And you get to see some drivers who perhaps qualied
[16:00.480 -> 16:02.280] really strong to see if they can work their way
[16:02.280 -> 16:04.400] through the pack in the sprint race.
[16:04.400 -> 16:06.240] I'd love to see that in F1.
[16:06.240 -> 16:07.320] It's good, it's exciting.
[16:07.320 -> 16:09.000] Yeah. Yeah.
[16:09.000 -> 16:12.600] So being someone who has done a Monaco weekend,
[16:12.600 -> 16:14.600] how different is it?
[16:14.600 -> 16:16.400] How different are these drivers
[16:16.400 -> 16:18.360] gonna have to prep themselves for another race?
[16:18.360 -> 16:21.000] Because it's nuts out there, man.
[16:21.000 -> 16:23.400] Me and Jake have been doing it on the sim today.
[16:23.400 -> 16:24.360] And it's like- I can't even make it around.
[16:24.360 -> 16:25.120] It's nuts. You're crashing into walls constantly have been doing it on the sim today. And it's like, it's nuts.
[16:25.120 -> 16:27.200] Like you're crashing into walls constantly.
[16:27.200 -> 16:28.080] Joe, it's an interesting one.
[16:28.080 -> 16:30.440] Me and Brad actually covered this on our pod drop,
[16:30.440 -> 16:32.040] mic drop on the, on the podcast.
[16:32.040 -> 16:32.920] What's the name of your podcast?
[16:32.920 -> 16:35.940] So the elite formula PT podcast, which we,
[16:35.940 -> 16:38.240] so we did a little pod last week on the preparation
[16:38.240 -> 16:40.160] for Monaco and actually Monaco is an interesting one
[16:40.160 -> 16:41.480] for us to prep for physically, actually,
[16:41.480 -> 16:42.800] it's not too bad a track to drive.
[16:42.800 -> 16:44.400] So from a physical point of view,
[16:44.400 -> 16:46.640] we've had a nice break before. It's actually not too bad. And we don't have to worry about jet lag. The biggest thing. Physically, actually, it's not too bad a track to drive. So, from a physical point of view, we've had a nice break before. It's actually not too bad. We
[16:46.640 -> 16:50.200] don't have to worry about jet lag. The biggest thing with Monaco, actually, I would say,
[16:50.200 -> 16:56.380] is the mental preparation for Monaco. It's super distracting. You can't make a mistake.
[16:56.380 -> 17:01.160] It's fairly hot. The format's slightly different. So, yeah, I think, actually, it's one where
[17:01.160 -> 17:06.280] we have to, we try and do a lot more mental work with the drivers pre-race rather than necessarily
[17:06.280 -> 17:08.720] so much physical, well, we still do our usual physical prep,
[17:08.720 -> 17:10.600] but it's not one we have to really think about
[17:10.600 -> 17:13.080] in terms of, it's not super high G-forces,
[17:13.080 -> 17:14.560] there's not crazy high braking zones,
[17:14.560 -> 17:16.880] so yeah, that's probably the biggest difference.
[17:16.880 -> 17:18.400] I see Max all ice-packed out
[17:18.400 -> 17:20.120] before he's walking down the grid and that.
[17:20.120 -> 17:21.320] It was hot today, I think.
[17:21.320 -> 17:22.400] Warm, very warm.
[17:22.400 -> 17:23.560] But classic Monaco, I mean,
[17:23.560 -> 17:26.200] went from sunshine to pouring down with rain
[17:26.200 -> 17:28.120] in five minutes.
[17:28.120 -> 17:30.160] Yeah, let's get into the F1 race.
[17:30.160 -> 17:31.480] Let's dive into it.
[17:31.480 -> 17:33.280] Straight into it.
[17:33.280 -> 17:35.720] Fernando Alonso, we thought had pole position yesterday.
[17:35.720 -> 17:37.360] Yeah, the team was celebrating.
[17:38.800 -> 17:40.160] Calvin Red Bull said that's what happens
[17:40.160 -> 17:41.320] when you celebrate too early.
[17:41.320 -> 17:44.200] Yeah, well, I thought Fernando Alonso had his pole
[17:44.200 -> 17:47.760] and then out of nowhere, Max Verstappen is 200ths down.
[17:47.760 -> 17:49.760] Is that two tenths? Is the correct term two tenths?
[17:49.760 -> 17:50.320] Or is it two hundredths?
[17:50.320 -> 17:50.960] No, it's two hundredths.
[17:50.960 -> 17:51.680] Two hundredths, yeah.
[17:51.680 -> 17:53.760] He's 200ths down after the second sector
[17:53.760 -> 17:56.160] and then somehow manages to pull that back over the third.
[17:56.160 -> 17:57.280] We've all seen the on-board.
[17:58.800 -> 18:02.320] I mean, that is pretty remarkable stuff.
[18:02.320 -> 18:03.200] Not very surprising, is it?
[18:03.200 -> 18:04.000] Oh, it's amazing.
[18:04.000 -> 18:05.600] And I think it's one of the races actually,
[18:05.600 -> 18:06.440] it was interesting,
[18:06.440 -> 18:07.880] I was again chatting to someone earlier about this,
[18:07.880 -> 18:10.040] and it's the idea that actually,
[18:10.040 -> 18:10.920] that Red Bull car though,
[18:10.920 -> 18:12.080] it's been really quick at other races,
[18:12.080 -> 18:14.800] it's a harder track to get those benefits from the car.
[18:14.800 -> 18:16.360] So actually, I mean, hats off to Matt,
[18:16.360 -> 18:17.520] I mean, incredible bit of driving.
[18:17.520 -> 18:19.720] You watch that like third sector,
[18:19.720 -> 18:20.560] oh my goodness.
[18:20.560 -> 18:21.400] It's what you were saying though,
[18:21.400 -> 18:23.960] he accepted that if he was gonna crash,
[18:23.960 -> 18:24.800] he was gonna crash.
[18:24.800 -> 18:27.040] Like you have to do that there to get that out of it.
[18:27.040 -> 18:31.040] And you're right, commitment that would have either been, you're right, he nailed that lap and it got on pole.
[18:31.040 -> 18:35.120] If he had gone a smidge more there, that would have been lap over, you know,
[18:35.120 -> 18:39.360] quali done and the team having a good job putting the car back together.
[18:39.360 -> 18:43.520] Do you know what has blown my mind and that's something I didn't realise about Monaco until
[18:43.520 -> 18:45.320] watching it today is,
[18:45.320 -> 18:48.440] or maybe it was the bump, the bump in the road.
[18:48.440 -> 18:49.280] Yes!
[18:49.280 -> 18:51.480] Is it at Casino or just after the Casino?
[18:51.480 -> 18:52.640] Yeah, just after Casino, yeah.
[18:52.640 -> 18:54.240] It doesn't translate on the sim.
[18:54.240 -> 18:55.560] Like when you're driving it on the sim,
[18:55.560 -> 18:56.840] you can just go straight over, it's fine.
[18:56.840 -> 18:58.040] But when you see it in real life,
[18:58.040 -> 18:59.600] how much of a bump there actually is,
[18:59.600 -> 19:02.200] if they went over that full speed, it'd fucking take off.
[19:02.200 -> 19:03.520] Yeah, yeah, it's crazy.
[19:03.520 -> 19:04.680] Why is it still there?
[19:05.920 -> 19:09.520] Street circuit, maybe the difficulties around it, I mean, it Yeah, yeah, it's crazy. Why is it still there? Street circuit, maybe the difficulties around Shedburn, I mean it's Monaco, they could change
[19:09.520 -> 19:12.760] it I'm sure, yeah I don't know, don't know to be honest. It's mad watching them all go
[19:12.760 -> 19:16.800] around it. That's why they swerve so much. Yeah, well when I first started watching it
[19:16.800 -> 19:20.080] I thought they were just swerving, I was like what's going on? I remember last year, Checo
[19:20.080 -> 19:27.960] nearly hit a bird didn't he? In that sector. That was it. Yeah. Checo's weekend was interesting after a Q1 crash,
[19:27.960 -> 19:29.000] which was a shame to see.
[19:29.000 -> 19:30.960] He's meant to be the king of the streets.
[19:30.960 -> 19:31.920] And then in the race,
[19:31.920 -> 19:34.920] he became a trial dummy for everything Red Bull wanted to do.
[19:34.920 -> 19:35.760] Yeah.
[19:35.760 -> 19:36.960] He tried the wits, he tried the enters,
[19:36.960 -> 19:38.160] he tried everything.
[19:38.160 -> 19:39.600] Two new front wings, was that?
[19:39.600 -> 19:40.440] Was it really?
[19:40.440 -> 19:42.440] I think it was, well he had a crash twice,
[19:42.440 -> 19:43.560] so I think he definitely went through one ring.
[19:43.560 -> 19:44.640] I don't know if he had a second wing,
[19:44.640 -> 19:46.080] but I saw he smashed it up again.
[19:46.080 -> 19:48.320] How many wings would they normally have a team?
[19:48.320 -> 19:52.640] Good question. I think we have, it's different in F2 because we only have one spare. We have
[19:52.640 -> 19:55.560] one spare in the truck, so if we went to the race and we went through more than one wing,
[19:55.560 -> 19:59.760] we wouldn't have it on the paddock ready to go. In F1, they definitely have one spare,
[19:59.760 -> 20:03.480] obviously, which they use. Whether they'll have a third one ready to go or not, I don't
[20:03.480 -> 20:06.800] know because they won't be able to put max's on, so that won't be usable.
[20:06.800 -> 20:08.480] They're stacked up in a trolley, aren't they?
[20:08.480 -> 20:09.480] Yeah.
[20:09.480 -> 20:10.720] Isn't there normally three or is it only two?
[20:10.720 -> 20:15.200] So you'd have a spare for Max, a spare for Perez, they will definitely have a spare,
[20:15.200 -> 20:18.600] whether it's ready to go and stick it up to go, I don't know.
[20:18.600 -> 20:22.440] Again, cost caps and parts caps and things like that, I don't know how many you've got
[20:22.440 -> 20:24.240] ready to rumble, so I don't know on that.
[20:24.240 -> 20:25.120] I wonder if they can bring more for Monaco because they know it's more of a dangerous race, you know? cost caps and parts caps and things like that. I don't know how many you've got ready to rumble. So I don't know on that. One way to look into it.
[20:25.120 -> 20:26.280] I wonder if they can bring more for Monaco
[20:26.280 -> 20:29.920] because they know it's more of a dangerous race, you know?
[20:29.920 -> 20:32.080] So many people were like brushing the wall.
[20:32.080 -> 20:33.800] They look like they just hit it
[20:33.800 -> 20:35.520] and then getting away with it, you know?
[20:35.520 -> 20:36.920] Like so close to it,
[20:36.920 -> 20:38.840] but I guess it's just the outside of the tyre
[20:38.840 -> 20:41.000] or even like when you go past something quick it moves.
[20:41.000 -> 20:41.840] Yeah.
[20:41.840 -> 20:42.880] Maybe they weren't actually touching it.
[20:42.880 -> 20:44.880] Like Brundle said, it's like threading a needle
[20:44.880 -> 20:46.080] at 180 miles an hour, whatever they're doing around that track. It's Maybe they weren't actually touching it. Like Brundle said, it's like threading a needle at 180 miles an hour,
[20:46.080 -> 20:47.120] whatever they're doing around that track.
[20:47.120 -> 20:48.760] It's bonkers.
[20:48.760 -> 20:49.600] It's bonkers.
[20:49.600 -> 20:51.840] I went karting a couple of weeks back
[20:51.840 -> 20:54.160] with my mate Stag in France,
[20:54.160 -> 20:55.160] had a mad collision.
[20:55.160 -> 20:59.680] My bum is still to this day in serious pain.
[20:59.680 -> 21:03.460] But you feel like you're going so fast in these karts.
[21:03.460 -> 21:04.300] You feel like you're flying.
[21:04.300 -> 21:05.160] You feel like Lewis Hamilton. You feel like I have going so fast in these cars. You feel like you're flying. You feel like Lewis Hamilton.
[21:05.160 -> 21:08.080] You feel like I have just set the lap record here.
[21:08.080 -> 21:10.280] And then you watch someone else go do it afterwards.
[21:10.280 -> 21:13.080] And they're trundling along at like 10 miles an hour.
[21:13.080 -> 21:16.200] And so if you're racing the car at 180 around Monaco,
[21:16.200 -> 21:18.360] it must feel bonkers.
[21:18.360 -> 21:20.300] I go back to like consequences again, right?
[21:20.300 -> 21:24.040] So, you know, you go to a track where it's a fast track.
[21:24.040 -> 21:28.380] I'm trying to give you a good example here. Let's take like Red Bull Ring or Silverstone, right? And you get it
[21:28.380 -> 21:31.560] wrong and yeah, I don't get it wrong. There's obviously a potential harm here, but you've
[21:31.560 -> 21:35.040] got a huge runoff zone. You've got barriers. Whereas actually, you know, the consequence
[21:35.040 -> 21:39.800] of Monaco, you get it wrong is you've got a metal wall. The consequences are huge. So
[21:39.800 -> 21:43.320] yeah, getting yourself fired up enough to be able to do a lap like Max did at the end
[21:43.320 -> 21:49.280] or most of these guys, to be fair, when you watch them like, be able to do a lap like Max did at the end or most of these guys to be fair when you watch them like do a quality lap is insane.
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[22:47.880 -> 22:51.760] Apparently they still have divers in the water from like years ago.
[22:51.760 -> 22:55.000] They would have divers in the water in case I think a car went in the water at one point.
[22:55.000 -> 22:57.560] Two cars I believe have been in the water in history.
[22:57.560 -> 22:58.560] Yeah.
[22:58.560 -> 22:59.560] So there he is.
[22:59.560 -> 23:01.360] I could not tell you who he is but I like to be Statman.
[23:01.360 -> 23:02.760] Jake Fatman.
[23:02.760 -> 23:04.960] I had another thought today whilst watching the race.
[23:04.960 -> 23:09.260] Yeah. Well a few cars changed deliveries as we said like we were speaking about before but yeah
[23:10.000 -> 23:15.400] I'm not sure on the rules of how much you're allowed to change your livery, but I'll get both your opinions on this
[23:15.840 -> 23:19.040] Why doesn't every driver just have their own?
[23:19.600 -> 23:21.480] livery
[23:21.480 -> 23:23.360] It's a good question. I guess it's a shit, right?
[23:23.360 -> 23:23.800] Yeah
[23:23.800 -> 23:25.960] But you could still have all the same sponsors.
[23:25.960 -> 23:29.440] You'd just have different colours in it or different something this and then you'd actually
[23:29.440 -> 23:30.440] be able to tell who was who.
[23:30.440 -> 23:31.440] Oh then that'd be confusing.
[23:31.440 -> 23:34.880] No, it would be so much easier, you'd actually be able to tell who was who.
[23:34.880 -> 23:36.800] You can kind of tell who's who.
[23:36.800 -> 23:40.840] Okay how about this, say it's McLaren, the back of the McLaren, like the back part of
[23:40.840 -> 23:42.400] the car has to be exactly the same.
[23:42.400 -> 23:44.800] So it's like orange orange, but then the front bit could be a bit different.
[23:44.800 -> 23:46.920] They could just write the name on the car a bit bigger.
[23:46.920 -> 23:50.560] I'm saying it because if you can change a livery for a race,
[23:50.560 -> 23:52.560] I wonder whether two drivers could have two different liverys.
[23:52.560 -> 23:56.160] For me personally, I'd get confused because I'm watching like the F2
[23:56.160 -> 23:59.280] and there's about 10 cars in there with a lot of that Red Bull branded.
[23:59.280 -> 23:59.760] Do you know what I mean?
[23:59.760 -> 24:02.720] Yeah, but that's more like what I'm saying, isn't it?
[24:02.720 -> 24:04.120] There's like loads of Red Bull branded ones,
[24:04.120 -> 24:06.600] but some of them have like the red bit, the yellow bit.
[24:06.600 -> 24:08.360] Are they all Red Bull driving Academy drivers?
[24:08.360 -> 24:09.200] Is that right?
[24:09.200 -> 24:10.020] Yeah, exactly that.
[24:10.020 -> 24:10.860] So we would go,
[24:10.860 -> 24:11.700] in F2 it's slightly different
[24:11.700 -> 24:13.360] because you'd have a team who have a livery.
[24:13.360 -> 24:14.400] And then if a, generally,
[24:14.400 -> 24:16.640] if you think about either a Red Bull driver
[24:16.640 -> 24:18.040] or an Alpine driver,
[24:18.040 -> 24:22.200] they switch the livery of the team to Red Bull or an Alpine.
[24:22.200 -> 24:23.820] So it looks exactly like that.
[24:23.820 -> 24:25.980] So for a great example would be, let's take dams,
[24:25.980 -> 24:29.260] for example, right now with the Uumu and Arthur.
[24:29.260 -> 24:31.180] Arthur's got the traditional dams colors,
[24:31.180 -> 24:33.740] which is like a navy and then a lighter blue.
[24:33.740 -> 24:35.700] And then Uumu's in a full Red Bull branded car.
[24:35.700 -> 24:37.400] Yeah, that's what's confusing the fuck out of me.
[24:37.400 -> 24:38.920] Yeah.
[24:38.920 -> 24:39.800] It's quite interesting.
[24:39.800 -> 24:41.560] Actually interesting, another team that's quite interesting
[24:41.560 -> 24:44.520] is Ceruz this year with Roy Nisseny,
[24:44.520 -> 24:47.120] have got the most, with his his sponsor got the most incredible bronze
[24:47.120 -> 24:51.280] gold wrap looks looks incredible does look really good but you're right it
[24:51.280 -> 24:55.080] does get confusing I just wonder whether they could I mean I wonder what the
[24:55.080 -> 24:57.880] rules are of changing the liveries like how can you just suddenly come with a
[24:57.880 -> 25:02.720] new car could they technically do that every week is where where I'm at
[25:02.720 -> 25:05.040] probably a lot of ag. Do you reckon?
[25:05.040 -> 25:06.040] Yeah, maybe.
[25:06.040 -> 25:12.600] And I guess different liveries, they weigh different amounts.
[25:12.600 -> 25:14.520] Because everything's so precise down to a team.
[25:14.520 -> 25:17.240] We went to the Red Bull factory and we saw about the painting and stuff.
[25:17.240 -> 25:20.440] Well, how many changes are going to be made to people's cars after seeing the bottom of
[25:20.440 -> 25:21.440] that Red Bull?
[25:21.440 -> 25:22.440] Whoa, yeah.
[25:22.440 -> 25:23.440] That is big.
[25:23.440 -> 25:24.440] Did you see what I mean about that?
[25:24.440 -> 25:26.080] Yeah, I saw the photos on the crane.
[25:26.080 -> 25:28.080] So how bad is that for the team?
[25:28.080 -> 25:28.920] Cause I mean shoot.
[25:28.920 -> 25:29.920] Do you know what, I've not worked enough
[25:29.920 -> 25:32.040] in our side of the fence, I guess we don't really get
[25:32.040 -> 25:33.840] to kind of get an in and outs of how detrimental
[25:33.840 -> 25:35.720] that would be in terms of that kind of information
[25:35.720 -> 25:36.560] getting across.
[25:36.560 -> 25:38.400] And I guess it's the concept of Aero.
[25:38.400 -> 25:40.520] A lot of what I've heard is around the idea of like,
[25:40.520 -> 25:42.560] it's not necessarily just seeing how it works.
[25:42.560 -> 25:43.640] It's like understanding.
[25:43.640 -> 25:45.600] But I mean, I'm sure the people that are working
[25:45.600 -> 25:46.840] at F1 can put two and two together
[25:46.840 -> 25:48.280] and figure out what they're doing.
[25:48.280 -> 25:49.120] I don't know.
[25:49.120 -> 25:50.800] So yeah, I guess that's not great.
[25:50.800 -> 25:52.080] Yeah, there would have been a cameraman
[25:52.080 -> 25:53.880] or a camera person from each team standing
[25:53.880 -> 25:56.160] under that crane with a HD camera all weekend.
[25:56.160 -> 25:57.960] Cause we only get a blurry video shot
[25:57.960 -> 26:01.080] that they'll have HD zoom photos of every bolt,
[26:01.080 -> 26:03.480] every bit of carbon fiber, how things are stuck together.
[26:03.480 -> 26:05.160] How's this, how's that.
[26:05.160 -> 26:06.340] I'm glad you brought up cameraman
[26:06.340 -> 26:07.960] because I wanted to give a massive shout out
[26:07.960 -> 26:10.280] to just the cameramen who are on the ground
[26:10.280 -> 26:13.120] at the Monaco Grand Prix because I was watching the quali
[26:13.120 -> 26:14.880] and they showed a shot of a cameraman
[26:14.880 -> 26:16.860] who was filming the track.
[26:16.860 -> 26:18.360] And I think on a track like that,
[26:18.360 -> 26:20.280] and it's so tight and so fast,
[26:20.280 -> 26:21.840] you know, they're track side,
[26:21.840 -> 26:23.200] like you couldn't get any closer.
[26:23.200 -> 26:25.300] And this guy is like standing out of a Top Gun movie.
[26:25.300 -> 26:27.000] He's like filming his car go past.
[26:27.000 -> 26:30.600] And he turns so quick.
[26:30.600 -> 26:32.800] And that's an art form, mate, honestly.
[26:32.800 -> 26:34.400] Did you get the photo or do you not know?
[26:34.400 -> 26:35.200] I don't know.
[26:35.200 -> 26:36.800] To your credit.
[26:36.800 -> 26:38.400] He was filming.
[26:38.400 -> 26:40.000] He was part of the F1 TV crew.
[26:40.000 -> 26:40.400] Yeah.
[26:40.400 -> 26:42.800] So when they go past like that, that's a work of art.
[26:42.800 -> 26:43.900] Yeah, it is, mate.
[26:43.900 -> 26:45.120] Everything that goes into it is a work of art. To turn a camera like that, that's a work of art. Yeah
[26:48.360 -> 26:49.360] Turn a camera like that that quick is special
[26:51.360 -> 26:52.880] also, don't have you boys clock going back to the
[26:55.200 -> 26:55.720] Graphics on the cars this weekend and the camera men
[26:57.720 -> 26:57.960] Ocon when he got out of his car
[27:03.200 -> 27:06.360] For the podium and this this is niche that I spotted this and I was just actually just having a bit of a Google just now to check. Now all the drivers helmets normally are quite lively
[27:06.360 -> 27:10.680] looking designs. Ocon got out of the car with a plain red helmet on. Just plain red?
[27:10.680 -> 27:13.960] Plain red. Really? And I thought I wonder if he always drives with plain red so I've
[27:13.960 -> 27:17.800] just done a bit of Googling. That's really good. And his helmets normally look pretty lively.
[27:17.800 -> 27:21.800] Yeah. But I clocked him getting out of the car for the podium and to the point
[27:21.800 -> 27:26.320] when I noticed, thought, blimey his helmet is just dead plain. I wonder if he was in that the whole race.
[27:26.320 -> 27:27.320] So I was quite baffled.
[27:27.320 -> 27:28.320] Cut!
[27:28.320 -> 27:29.320] Cut!
[27:29.320 -> 27:34.200] No, apparently, yeah, apparently that's why he pitted a second time was to change his
[27:34.200 -> 27:35.200] helmet apparently.
[27:35.200 -> 27:39.080] Ocon needs credit because he put in a lap in qualifying where it looked like he might
[27:39.080 -> 27:41.880] have been poor and then he ended up coming third with Leclerc's grid penalty.
[27:41.880 -> 27:42.880] Ocon spanked him.
[27:42.880 -> 27:45.320] And then he's come third in the race for Alpine, that is huge.
[27:45.320 -> 27:48.080] Yeah, I've always thought Ocon is a bit of a dark horse
[27:48.080 -> 27:52.080] and stick him in a good car, you know, he's kill it.
[27:54.200 -> 27:55.040] The silence.
[27:55.040 -> 27:58.240] I don't know, I don't know anything about Ocon.
[27:58.240 -> 27:59.760] I do, I feel like he has that fire.
[27:59.760 -> 28:02.560] Some drivers have that fire behind their eyes.
[28:02.560 -> 28:03.680] Max is one of them.
[28:03.680 -> 28:06.560] And Brundle was saying, you know, Max and Alonso,
[28:06.560 -> 28:08.080] they're cut from the same cloth.
[28:08.080 -> 28:10.760] They're both those ballsy drivers.
[28:10.760 -> 28:13.460] And I would put Esteban up there as well.
[28:13.460 -> 28:15.240] He's got a soft exterior.
[28:15.240 -> 28:16.200] You want to give him a cuddle.
[28:16.200 -> 28:17.040] You want to stroke his face.
[28:17.040 -> 28:19.380] That's quite a bulge out of that.
[28:19.380 -> 28:20.320] Yeah, I don't know.
[28:20.320 -> 28:22.280] I do think he gets put down
[28:22.280 -> 28:23.700] and I do think there's a bit about him
[28:23.700 -> 28:28.000] that must feel like he doesn't get the recognition that he deserves.
[28:28.000 -> 28:30.000] And something has to be said for someone who's been on the grid that long.
[28:30.000 -> 28:37.000] He's been faster than Pierre most of this year. I've just made that up, but I feel like it's true.
[28:37.000 -> 28:40.000] I feel like that's true.
[28:40.000 -> 28:41.000] Hang on, I've got the laptop here.
[28:41.000 -> 28:43.000] Yeah, get the facts up and I'll carry on talking.
[28:43.000 -> 28:45.380] But you're right, I do think that's true. I've got the laptop here. Yeah, get the facts up, and I'll carry on talking. But you're right, I do think he's right. The other one I thought this weekend,
[28:45.380 -> 28:46.440] I thought who,
[28:47.780 -> 28:49.640] I was, well, was I impressed?
[28:49.640 -> 28:51.560] The Haas, the car didn't look great,
[28:51.560 -> 28:53.280] but again, I was enjoying watching,
[28:53.280 -> 28:54.380] I was enjoying watching- Faster than Gasly.
[28:54.380 -> 28:55.220] Was he right?
[28:55.220 -> 28:56.060] Yeah. For most of this year?
[28:56.060 -> 28:58.380] Well, no, after today's race.
[28:58.380 -> 28:59.520] Well, obviously this race.
[28:59.520 -> 29:01.240] After today's race in the driving standings,
[29:01.240 -> 29:03.360] Orcon is ninth, and Gasly is 10th,
[29:03.360 -> 29:04.880] and there is seven points between them.
[29:04.880 -> 29:10.640] Right, so yeah yeah so he's he's he's majorly majoritally is that even a word?
[29:10.640 -> 29:15.120] I don't know. Marginally quicker and you know Pierre had his time in a red bull.
[29:15.120 -> 29:20.320] He's a good driver yeah yeah absolutely. And Ocon's still young there's still a chance for
[29:20.320 -> 29:23.120] him somewhere else. He just doesn't seem popular I don't know why that is.
[29:26.000 -> 29:32.440] chance for him somewhere else. He just doesn't seem popular. I don't know why that is. What, Ocon? Yeah. It's a... It was interesting that they put two French drivers in that team,
[29:32.440 -> 29:36.880] I think. Who previously have some history. Yeah, I could see how it could be really exciting
[29:36.880 -> 29:41.680] and really good, but I think it would almost be better for the team to have two people
[29:41.680 -> 29:47.040] from different places, in a way. Sometimes it can a bit more bring a bring in a bit more I don't know you
[29:47.040 -> 29:52.000] don't hear that much about I was saying whilst watching today's race all I
[29:52.000 -> 29:55.280] wanted like Max was incredible and you can't take anything away from him he's
[29:55.280 -> 29:59.040] ridiculously good but all I wanted was someone different to win so to see Ocon
[29:59.040 -> 30:04.360] like third yeah it is what you we need to start seeing they need some of these
[30:04.360 -> 30:05.700] other drivers on this grid like we need to start seeing. There needs some of these other drivers on this grid,
[30:05.700 -> 30:07.380] like we need to see it.
[30:07.380 -> 30:09.480] And also I don't understand,
[30:09.480 -> 30:11.740] you might be able to tell me how wrong I am,
[30:11.740 -> 30:14.620] but like in Formula One,
[30:14.620 -> 30:16.420] should people be getting lapped?
[30:17.940 -> 30:18.980] I think it's different in Monaco
[30:18.980 -> 30:20.620] because of the size of the track.
[30:20.620 -> 30:22.220] And I think the fact that it's through the curve
[30:22.220 -> 30:23.060] but of the weather,
[30:23.060 -> 30:24.420] but typically speaking,
[30:24.420 -> 30:26.160] if you look at the way tracks work and the amount of laps
[30:26.160 -> 30:28.280] you've got in F1 now and the marginal differences
[30:28.280 -> 30:29.520] between teams at the top of the bottom,
[30:29.520 -> 30:31.360] you will get cars that are getting lapped.
[30:31.360 -> 30:33.600] Not necessarily that many, a track like Monaco
[30:33.600 -> 30:34.440] happens every year.
[30:34.440 -> 30:35.280] Yeah, no.
[30:35.280 -> 30:36.560] Sergeant struggled today.
[30:36.560 -> 30:37.400] He was getting a lap left.
[30:37.400 -> 30:39.680] And you've only got to look at F2, you'll get lapping in F2
[30:39.680 -> 30:41.120] where we normally wouldn't get that,
[30:41.120 -> 30:44.240] but because of the way that Monaco runs, you do get lapping.
[30:44.240 -> 30:45.680] So Monaco is a track for it.
[30:45.680 -> 30:47.680] I just find it crazy to see lappings.
[30:47.680 -> 30:52.520] Yeah, I don't know, I mean, the Williams just isn't that great.
[30:52.520 -> 30:55.840] Well, it's interesting because Alban's not that bad in it.
[30:55.840 -> 30:58.600] Like, Alban hasn't, he hasn't been doing amazing.
[30:58.600 -> 31:00.080] What happened to Alban today?
[31:00.080 -> 31:01.080] Where was he today?
[31:01.080 -> 31:04.680] Well, Alban's only got one point this season.
[31:04.680 -> 31:05.680] Bit of struggle for them guys.
[31:05.680 -> 31:07.120] Same with Al Fatore though.
[31:07.120 -> 31:08.840] Another team that I think has seemed to be
[31:08.840 -> 31:09.800] really struggling,
[31:09.800 -> 31:13.040] Yuki today was again, not happy on the radio.
[31:13.040 -> 31:13.880] Always delivers bad.
[31:13.880 -> 31:15.280] I love Yuki.
[31:15.280 -> 31:16.120] Yeah, Yuki's a man.
[31:16.120 -> 31:16.940] What was up?
[31:16.940 -> 31:17.780] Was something wrong with his brake pedal
[31:17.780 -> 31:18.620] or something like that?
[31:18.620 -> 31:19.440] That was it.
[31:19.440 -> 31:20.280] And then he was telling his engineer
[31:20.280 -> 31:21.120] he was trying to kill him.
[31:21.120 -> 31:22.920] Yeah, if I push harder, I'm going to fucking kill myself.
[31:22.920 -> 31:24.040] It's like.
[31:24.040 -> 31:27.000] Oscar Piestri and Lando showed serious pace today though.
[31:27.000 -> 31:31.000] I didn't really see them. I wasn't really watching them to be honest mate for a lot of the race.
[31:31.000 -> 31:35.000] Consistent through the race though, you're right. You didn't see a move from that position really.
[31:35.000 -> 31:38.000] They seemed pretty static. They didn't seem to get a lot of air time.
[31:38.000 -> 31:42.000] I saw their position on the track and thought yeah, they seem to be consistent in midfield so I'm sure they're pretty pleased.
[31:42.000 -> 31:43.000] Did they pick up points?
[31:43.000 -> 31:45.000] Yeah, 9th and 10th. 9th and 10th, yeah.
[31:45.000 -> 31:46.500] Oscar had a great race.
[31:46.500 -> 31:48.000] He started in what, 11th didn't he, Oscar?
[31:48.000 -> 31:51.000] Hang on, I've got the qualifying right here.
[31:51.000 -> 31:52.500] So I think they both gained a position.
[31:52.500 -> 31:54.500] Oscar Piastri started in 11th, yeah, and finished 10th.
[31:54.500 -> 31:55.500] They gained a position.
[31:55.500 -> 31:56.000] Yeah, nice.
[31:56.000 -> 31:57.000] Can't complain with that.
[31:57.000 -> 31:58.000] Probably from a DNF.
[31:58.000 -> 32:00.000] Oscar's second points in Formula 1 ever.
[32:00.000 -> 32:01.000] Let's go.
[32:01.000 -> 32:06.160] I feel like Oscar wasn't doing too much in the quality sessions and in the practice sessions.
[32:06.160 -> 32:09.400] He was, I think he was, I think his first year for Oscar
[32:09.400 -> 32:11.040] is kind of proving himself to the team
[32:11.040 -> 32:12.240] that he's a solid driver.
[32:12.240 -> 32:14.280] And if that means, you know,
[32:14.280 -> 32:18.760] not going that extra 5% and crashing, then fair play to him.
[32:18.760 -> 32:19.600] Yeah.
[32:19.600 -> 32:21.240] And I think you have to be, I think when you're in a car
[32:21.240 -> 32:23.000] like McLaren have got at the moment,
[32:24.040 -> 32:25.360] I don't think there's any prizes
[32:25.360 -> 32:28.160] for having a, you know, being a bit of a one-shot hero
[32:28.160 -> 32:30.200] and delivering one result and then crashes.
[32:30.200 -> 32:33.160] I mean, like Mercedes are a great one of looking at that
[32:33.160 -> 32:35.100] in the sense of, you know, when the car's not quite right
[32:35.100 -> 32:36.400] and everyone accepts the car's not right,
[32:36.400 -> 32:40.440] but both George and Lewis just consistently
[32:40.440 -> 32:41.800] like high up in the points.
[32:43.120 -> 32:44.640] It's fun, yeah, it's just a way to do it.
[32:44.640 -> 32:46.280] Yeah, credit to him, he's driving well.
[32:46.280 -> 32:47.400] What was your thoughts around the whole
[32:47.400 -> 32:50.080] Lewis and Ferrari stuff?
[32:50.080 -> 32:50.960] I thought it was nonsense.
[32:50.960 -> 32:51.800] I don't know about you, but I, yeah.
[32:51.800 -> 32:54.200] When I heard it, I thought it was brilliant.
[32:54.200 -> 32:56.880] I'll say it now, because I, fuck it,
[32:56.880 -> 32:59.560] might as well, I did do believe it.
[32:59.560 -> 33:00.400] I fully believe it.
[33:00.400 -> 33:01.480] Come on.
[33:01.480 -> 33:02.880] And I'll tell you why.
[33:02.880 -> 33:04.400] I'll tell you for why.
[33:04.400 -> 33:10.000] I don't know whether this is another thing that should be public but the source is Martin Brandl. And I feel
[33:10.000 -> 33:14.760] like he's a very very trustworthy source. Brandl stirring the pot. Brandl knows everyone
[33:14.760 -> 33:19.400] knows everything like if it's coming from Brandl in my opinion there's something there.
[33:19.400 -> 33:23.120] Yeah but also if you're Brandl and you have that power. No but you've got to also remember
[33:23.120 -> 33:28.520] that they'll be being told to hide this. That hide this, that no one will want this to be public.
[33:28.520 -> 33:30.320] Poker face, maybe it's a fucking Texas switch.
[33:30.320 -> 33:32.720] I can't imagine Lewis and Ferrari merging well.
[33:32.720 -> 33:35.960] I look at like a Vettel at Ferrari in terms of, you know,
[33:35.960 -> 33:37.400] being honest, being open.
[33:37.400 -> 33:38.940] I just don't think it's the Ferrari way.
[33:38.940 -> 33:41.940] I think it's all smiles, make it look like things are okay.
[33:43.560 -> 33:45.320] And if Lewis wants a project, I mean,
[33:45.320 -> 33:46.640] he's probably got a bit of a project
[33:46.640 -> 33:47.680] at Mercedes at the set.
[33:47.680 -> 33:48.520] Yeah.
[33:48.520 -> 33:50.600] I mean, yeah, Lewis did say it's closer to a contract
[33:50.600 -> 33:51.760] than ever, we'll just have to wait and see.
[33:51.760 -> 33:54.080] But it's just because I found out the source was Brundle
[33:54.080 -> 33:55.100] that I was like, well, to me,
[33:55.100 -> 33:56.520] that gives it a bit more credibility
[33:56.520 -> 33:57.760] than it just being anyone.
[33:57.760 -> 33:58.600] That's the thing though,
[33:58.600 -> 34:00.080] because Brundle has that credibility,
[34:00.080 -> 34:03.520] he could have a laugh and troll the whole F1 community
[34:03.520 -> 34:06.840] and just say something for the fuck of it, you know?
[34:06.840 -> 34:07.680] Maybe, maybe not.
[34:07.680 -> 34:08.500] But yeah, like you said,
[34:08.500 -> 34:09.680] the Mercedes isn't doing too bad now
[34:09.680 -> 34:12.320] and they've changed their side pods.
[34:12.320 -> 34:13.680] They have changed their side pods?
[34:13.680 -> 34:15.400] What have they done to their side pods?
[34:15.400 -> 34:17.240] What, do you want the technical review
[34:17.240 -> 34:18.080] or just an outline?
[34:18.080 -> 34:19.700] I want your technical analysis.
[34:19.700 -> 34:20.540] So as you know,
[34:20.540 -> 34:22.560] Mercedes had different side pods, didn't they?
[34:22.560 -> 34:23.400] They did.
[34:23.400 -> 34:24.920] To the rest of the grid up until now.
[34:24.920 -> 34:28.520] But what they did is Adrian Newey from Red Bull
[34:28.520 -> 34:30.520] had a really good design, so Mercedes looked at it.
[34:30.520 -> 34:31.360] Call that was close.
[34:31.360 -> 34:34.440] Nearly said Adrian Newey from Mercedes.
[34:34.440 -> 34:37.940] They've completely changed their side pods, Mercedes have.
[34:37.940 -> 34:38.780] Yep.
[34:38.780 -> 34:40.240] So they're air resistant.
[34:40.240 -> 34:41.680] Would have now got a side pod.
[34:41.680 -> 34:42.520] Yeah, yeah.
[34:42.520 -> 34:44.680] I just gotta say, that was phenomenal by the way.
[34:44.680 -> 34:45.400] Thank you. Yeah, I'll be retsing say, that was phenomenal by the way. Thank you.
[34:45.400 -> 34:46.600] Yeah, I'll be bratsing.
[34:46.600 -> 34:47.440] That was really good.
[34:47.440 -> 34:48.800] So Mercedes might improve,
[34:48.800 -> 34:53.360] but McLaren also will be bringing a whole new car.
[34:53.360 -> 34:55.680] Literally a whole new car.
[34:55.680 -> 34:57.760] They're changing everything in like,
[34:57.760 -> 34:58.920] what, how many races is it?
[34:58.920 -> 35:00.360] Like three races time.
[35:00.360 -> 35:01.200] Oh, don't ask me.
[35:01.200 -> 35:02.600] They were talking about half a race.
[35:02.600 -> 35:06.320] McLaren's upgrades are going to be coming in one big go. It's gonna be a whole new car.
[35:06.320 -> 35:07.440] Oh right, on the R&D.
[35:07.440 -> 35:10.840] Because obviously a lot of cars have made some changes during the break pre-Immoler.
[35:10.840 -> 35:13.600] So that's what we're gonna see a lot of them obviously, but with the race being cancelled
[35:13.600 -> 35:14.720] I guess we didn't get to see a lot of it.
[35:14.720 -> 35:20.720] So I guess this weekend won't really be a fair representation, even for Mercedes, of what those side pods would have done just because you
[35:20.720 -> 35:22.720] don't really get much of the benefits of Monaco.
[35:22.720 -> 35:27.900] I mean, I'm not really sure how much they can change the car. Like, after seeing Red Bull's floor now in Monaco, everyone's seen it,
[35:27.900 -> 35:30.300] how much can the teams change their floor?
[35:30.300 -> 35:32.100] I don't know. I don't know how it works around.
[35:32.100 -> 35:33.600] I guess it all depends around budget.
[35:33.600 -> 35:37.000] I think the biggest thing is time to put these things together
[35:37.000 -> 35:39.700] and then implement it into a car, test it, make sure it works,
[35:39.700 -> 35:40.700] then put it on your car.
[35:40.700 -> 35:41.100] Yeah.
[35:41.100 -> 35:42.100] So, yeah, don't know.
[35:42.100 -> 35:44.900] Well, whatever they're doing to that car, boys, it's witchcraft
[35:44.900 -> 35:46.280] because you and me were
[35:46.280 -> 35:51.120] saying this mid-race, how does he get, what was it, 50-odd, 60-odd laps out of a set of
[35:51.120 -> 35:52.120] mediums?
[35:52.120 -> 35:53.680] Yeah, that is something I won't understand.
[35:53.680 -> 35:56.560] I don't think I'll ever understand that.
[35:56.560 -> 36:03.080] And it even started raining. Max Verstappen was going on tyres that'd be going for 51
[36:03.080 -> 36:09.520] laps round the track where some people were on intermediates. How can you get 50 laps out of mediums when you're
[36:09.520 -> 36:12.760] the quickest guy out there as well? Is he just like the king of tyre management? Who
[36:12.760 -> 36:16.220] knows? You're right, I think there's definitely an advantage to being up front with that lead
[36:16.220 -> 36:21.160] in the sense of you can settle into a pace and not be quite so aggressive on a tyre.
[36:21.160 -> 36:23.960] What because you won't have to be braking behind someone? Yeah, you're not defending,
[36:23.960 -> 36:26.560] you're not attacking, you can kind of set the pace, you can choose
[36:26.560 -> 36:29.600] areas where you're going to go quick and decide where you're going to brake hard, turn hard
[36:29.600 -> 36:31.080] or turn softer etc.
[36:31.080 -> 36:33.960] But I mean you're right, it's still absolutely remarkable.
[36:33.960 -> 36:37.400] I mean if anything, Max has been quite rolling around for me and if anything quite aggressive
[36:37.400 -> 36:41.760] on his tires but I mean yeah he's had some phenomenal spells of time.
[36:41.760 -> 36:46.260] Or you're right, is it just the fact this car's set up in such a way that it's just, who knows?
[36:46.260 -> 36:47.100] Who knows?
[36:47.100 -> 36:48.580] That's what they were saying at Williams,
[36:48.580 -> 36:50.980] because Logan was struggling so hard with his tires,
[36:50.980 -> 36:53.300] and I think Alex was too, and they were saying,
[36:53.300 -> 36:55.700] I think James Vowles was on the mic,
[36:55.700 -> 36:59.540] and he was sort of saying how just changing
[36:59.540 -> 37:01.340] the brake bias or the suspension,
[37:01.340 -> 37:02.740] the setup for that weekend,
[37:02.740 -> 37:05.560] will have a drastic effect on the
[37:05.560 -> 37:08.160] tyre deg. I can't believe we're talking about tyre deg right now.
[37:08.160 -> 37:12.920] Yeah, yeah, it would have a drastic effect. Thanks for clearing that up. And he was like
[37:12.920 -> 37:17.000] the drivers can manage it some sort of way through their driving as well. But if they've
[37:17.000 -> 37:19.600] set the car up wrong for the weekend, then you, that's it.
[37:19.600 -> 37:23.600] Yeah, I mean, we had problems with it. I mean, this is really boring technical chat now.
[37:23.600 -> 37:25.520] But an interesting about Monaco is that obviously
[37:25.520 -> 37:27.100] it's quite a slow track.
[37:27.100 -> 37:29.360] So the problem with tires is we can't get enough heat
[37:29.360 -> 37:30.220] into them.
[37:30.220 -> 37:33.340] So you end up with like a graining on the top of the surface
[37:33.340 -> 37:36.280] because the tire gets hot on the surface, right?
[37:36.280 -> 37:38.800] But we don't get the hot, the tire doesn't get hot
[37:38.800 -> 37:40.860] to the core, we've got a whole, the whole tire
[37:40.860 -> 37:41.700] and rim is warm.
[37:41.700 -> 37:43.000] It's a magma kind of shit.
[37:43.000 -> 37:43.840] Yeah.
[37:43.840 -> 37:44.660] So there you go.
[37:44.660 -> 37:46.120] That's my only, that's my only technical input I'll put in there.
[37:46.120 -> 37:47.080] Magma.
[37:47.080 -> 37:48.080] Wow.
[37:48.080 -> 37:50.680] Like a fricking volcano over there in those tires.
[37:50.680 -> 37:53.160] Well, there you go guys.
[37:53.160 -> 37:54.240] That was the Monaco roundup.
[37:54.240 -> 37:57.120] No, we haven't got anywhere near the Monaco roundup yet.
[37:57.120 -> 37:57.960] All right, give me some more spiel then.
[37:57.960 -> 37:59.880] Hey, I've got so much to go through.
[37:59.880 -> 38:00.720] Give it.
[38:00.720 -> 38:01.800] I'm just, I really need a wee.
[38:01.800 -> 38:03.040] Can I take a quick break?
[38:03.040 -> 38:04.400] You can go to the toilet if you want.
[38:04.400 -> 38:06.360] All right, you boys can carry on.
[38:06.360 -> 38:08.920] Okay, I can't remember I was going to say that.
[38:08.920 -> 38:10.780] We'll put a cut in there.
[38:10.780 -> 38:12.400] I've got the thing in front of me here,
[38:12.400 -> 38:14.120] which is the race standards, right?
[38:14.120 -> 38:14.940] Yeah, of course.
[38:14.940 -> 38:17.760] And it says that Max Verstappen finished 78 laps,
[38:17.760 -> 38:21.760] but it says Lando come ninth, but only did 77 laps.
[38:21.760 -> 38:24.680] If you're lapped, do you not have to complete them
[38:24.680 -> 38:26.200] once the top, once they finish?
[38:26.200 -> 38:29.280] Because it says Lando has finished 77,
[38:29.280 -> 38:30.840] and then if you go down even more, it says-
[38:30.840 -> 38:34.000] No, my understanding is you keep going, you do the laps.
[38:34.000 -> 38:35.360] I don't think you just get finished.
[38:35.360 -> 38:36.680] Mate, that was a big thing for me as well,
[38:36.680 -> 38:38.360] because normally if you finish a lap,
[38:38.360 -> 38:39.720] you're taking it fairly chill
[38:39.720 -> 38:41.720] after you go through the checkered flag.
[38:41.720 -> 38:43.320] But my understanding is then you'd have to just,
[38:43.320 -> 38:44.560] a bit like if you were in,
[38:44.560 -> 38:45.780] you'd have to just make sure you were taking
[38:45.780 -> 38:47.640] the non-racing line allowed those,
[38:47.640 -> 38:48.480] because your argument would be like,
[38:48.480 -> 38:49.880] let's say you're, I don't know, you're right.
[38:49.880 -> 38:53.640] Let's say you're Hulkenberg up the arse of Perez.
[38:53.640 -> 38:55.200] You've got your two laps behind,
[38:55.200 -> 38:56.560] but you've still got two laps of racing to go.
[38:56.560 -> 38:57.400] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[38:57.400 -> 38:59.320] And you can't keep hammering it around Monaco,
[38:59.320 -> 39:00.880] like just to let, and letting other people through.
[39:00.880 -> 39:02.800] Well, no, it says here that they didn't complete him.
[39:02.800 -> 39:05.160] It says he completed 76 laps plus two.
[39:05.160 -> 39:08.560] Now that is something really, really interesting.
[39:08.560 -> 39:10.720] Aren't you glad I raised that?
[39:10.720 -> 39:12.600] I've never ever thought about that in my life.
[39:12.600 -> 39:14.280] I'll tell you what was interesting,
[39:14.280 -> 39:16.500] watching the different ways drivers reacted
[39:16.500 -> 39:18.720] with their teams when it started raining.
[39:18.720 -> 39:20.360] Because obviously the drivers are out on track,
[39:20.360 -> 39:21.800] they want to know if it's gonna,
[39:21.800 -> 39:23.440] they see a bit of spit or whatever.
[39:23.440 -> 39:27.960] Yeah, yeah, yeah, Red Bull nailed it. Red Bull absolutely nailed it I think the
[39:27.960 -> 39:32.280] best thing to do is what they did ask the same acts and say you tell us do you
[39:32.280 -> 39:37.680] think you need them because the problem of Aston it they said that Alonso was
[39:37.680 -> 39:43.480] questioning whether going out on a not an inter was enough. Initially I don't
[39:43.480 -> 39:46.880] know if you're with if you boys are with me or not, but when he went out on the mediums
[39:46.880 -> 39:51.000] again after pitting and it started raining and a few people had gone to inters and Alonso
[39:51.000 -> 39:53.880] has gone to mediums, I would have assumed that that's him saying.
[39:53.880 -> 39:56.320] Yeah, he's the kind of guy that would make that call.
[39:56.320 -> 39:59.040] Yeah, like I'm going to stay out, but apparently it was the team.
[39:59.040 -> 40:01.400] Yeah, he wasn't sure.
[40:01.400 -> 40:02.400] Interesting move.
[40:02.400 -> 40:05.320] It's a tough one though, because in a way it was kind of like a mess up because
[40:05.320 -> 40:09.920] if he'd gone to Inter he potentially could have been in the battle for winning. That's
[40:09.920 -> 40:15.200] it, could he have potentially contested the win? You're still going up against Max for
[40:15.200 -> 40:20.560] schnapples. I was even interested to watch some of the guys on Wets though, I mean they
[40:20.560 -> 40:24.160] were all struggling. I know. I was just, in the Wets, you know, they couldn't get the
[40:24.160 -> 40:26.360] temperature in the tyres, I don't think I've ever seen
[40:26.360 -> 40:29.360] and I could be really wrong here but don't worry you're in the right place
[40:29.360 -> 40:36.240] yeah I don't think I've ever seen so many people in the runoff area corner one
[40:36.240 -> 40:38.720] I know Russell went down it, Stroll went down it
[40:38.720 -> 40:43.720] there was one point I think it was a two cars in there yeah there was two cars and then I backed up and I'm thinking what is going on
[40:43.720 -> 40:47.040] there was like a hassle there was like three laps where it was just ice skating
[40:47.040 -> 40:47.880] wasn't it?
[40:47.880 -> 40:48.720] Because you had Magnussen going around
[40:48.720 -> 40:49.540] or was it Hulkenberg?
[40:49.540 -> 40:52.000] But it was still on hards and it was pissing with rain
[40:52.000 -> 40:55.080] and you can't even go straight.
[40:55.080 -> 40:57.440] It's like me on the game or it just reminds me.
[40:58.480 -> 41:01.760] Also Lance Stroll's crash, I couldn't help but giggle.
[41:01.760 -> 41:03.040] What for?
[41:03.040 -> 41:03.880] Yeah, I know.
[41:03.880 -> 41:06.000] When he came around the hairpin
[41:06.000 -> 41:08.760] and it's all gone wrong and he's crashed, crashed once.
[41:08.760 -> 41:10.880] And then his car's still driving him forward.
[41:10.880 -> 41:12.240] He drives into a second wall
[41:12.240 -> 41:14.040] and I just thought it was comical.
[41:14.040 -> 41:14.880] Yeah, I just-
[41:14.880 -> 41:17.440] It's when you see them crash at that slow speed,
[41:17.440 -> 41:19.160] it just looks kind of funny.
[41:19.160 -> 41:20.000] It just looks funny
[41:20.000 -> 41:21.720] because they're just like kind of slowly drifting
[41:21.720 -> 41:22.720] into a wall.
[41:22.720 -> 41:24.120] Well, especially when they spin,
[41:24.120 -> 41:25.440] like when it's raining.
[41:25.440 -> 41:27.960] But we were saying Senna would have been drifting around then.
[41:27.960 -> 41:28.840] That's what we...
[41:28.840 -> 41:30.360] But also when they go around that...
[41:30.360 -> 41:33.280] What's the most famous corner in Monaco called?
[41:33.280 -> 41:34.520] Well, there's a lot of famous corners.
[41:34.520 -> 41:35.360] What's the main corner?
[41:35.360 -> 41:36.080] Rascals?
[41:36.080 -> 41:37.080] Is it the big one?
[41:37.080 -> 41:38.760] The one where they have to go really slow?
[41:38.760 -> 41:40.200] The hairpin.
[41:40.200 -> 41:42.160] It's interesting watching all of their hands on that.
[41:42.160 -> 41:43.400] At the casino.
[41:43.400 -> 41:43.920] Is that it?
[41:43.920 -> 41:45.060] Yeah. But they go around it, yeah, they literally do the U-turn. Yeah, it's interesting. Because of their hands on that. At the casino. Is that it? Yeah.
[41:45.060 -> 41:46.740] But they go around, yeah, they literally do the U-turn.
[41:46.740 -> 41:47.580] Yeah, it's interesting.
[41:47.580 -> 41:48.400] Because everyone's hands are different.
[41:48.400 -> 41:49.240] A lot of them switch their hands over
[41:49.240 -> 41:50.080] and then turn it in, yeah.
[41:50.080 -> 41:51.040] Alonso doesn't.
[41:51.040 -> 41:53.440] Alonso wasn't doing it.
[41:53.440 -> 41:54.960] Now, this is interesting because you're a boy sim
[41:54.960 -> 41:56.240] and I've actually not had a go in your sim,
[41:56.240 -> 41:58.400] but I have had a go on-
[41:58.400 -> 41:59.240] You've been Brettson.
[41:59.240 -> 42:01.960] Red Bull sim at Monaco and had a go.
[42:01.960 -> 42:03.120] If you get it wrong,
[42:03.120 -> 42:04.960] the power of the hydraulic steering,
[42:04.960 -> 42:06.760] if you get it wrong and you don't flick your hands, the steering wheel comes back really quickly. If you get it wrong, the power of the hydraulic steering, if you get it wrong and you don't flick your hand,
[42:06.760 -> 42:08.560] the steering wheel comes about really quickly.
[42:08.560 -> 42:10.040] So you get it wrong and it's a...
[42:10.040 -> 42:12.040] So you've been practicing Monaco a little bit.
[42:12.040 -> 42:13.800] Well, I know it well.
[42:13.800 -> 42:14.640] All right, yeah, well,
[42:14.640 -> 42:15.760] because we had a bit of a deal going on actually.
[42:15.760 -> 42:17.560] We're going to go to the pub because it's Sunday night.
[42:17.560 -> 42:18.640] But it's bank holiday Sunday.
[42:18.640 -> 42:19.480] It's bank holiday Sunday.
[42:19.480 -> 42:21.040] We're going to go out for a couple of beers after this.
[42:21.040 -> 42:23.640] And Matt decided we're going to all do a lap on the sim.
[42:23.640 -> 42:25.800] And whoever comes last is going to buy the round.
[42:25.800 -> 42:26.640] Okay.
[42:26.640 -> 42:27.460] First round.
[42:27.460 -> 42:28.300] First thoughts, who do you think?
[42:28.300 -> 42:29.140] Jake's buying the first round.
[42:29.140 -> 42:30.720] Yeah, I'll probably be buying the first round.
[42:30.720 -> 42:33.000] I can't even complete a lap on it, mate.
[42:33.000 -> 42:33.840] Can you not?
[42:33.840 -> 42:35.080] Nah, it's impossible.
[42:35.080 -> 42:39.020] I mean, I will put, I've had some fairly skilled coaching
[42:39.020 -> 42:41.360] when I was doing my lap of Monaco.
[42:41.360 -> 42:42.200] So I had a mixture.
[42:42.200 -> 42:44.600] I had obviously a Umu, give me a little bit of coaching
[42:44.600 -> 42:45.120] and Roy Nissen
[42:45.120 -> 42:49.720] He both giving me some coaching on how to drive Monaco securing whatnot and it's stuck in this head. So
[42:53.240 -> 42:56.940] The gearing is a big thing that you don't really realize but yeah
[42:57.560 -> 43:01.120] Absolutely, it's tough track. So and remembering that the breaking points
[43:01.520 -> 43:06.800] It's so quick and again your margin for error so small When you take it for us, obviously we're not great.
[43:06.800 -> 43:08.840] So you have a go and it's, you know,
[43:08.840 -> 43:10.320] there's no forgiveness.
[43:10.320 -> 43:11.160] Yeah.
[43:11.160 -> 43:13.040] You need to get on our leaderboard, Matt, at some point.
[43:13.040 -> 43:15.200] I know, what track is that at?
[43:15.200 -> 43:16.040] Red Bull Ring.
[43:16.040 -> 43:16.920] Red Bull Ring, yeah.
[43:16.920 -> 43:17.880] We are a bit worried though,
[43:17.880 -> 43:20.120] because we do think guests are going to start
[43:20.120 -> 43:22.080] like practicing before they come around.
[43:22.080 -> 43:23.920] I mean, to be fair, you say guests are going to be practicing.
[43:23.920 -> 43:27.000] I mean, most of the people on this thing here are full-time racing drivers.
[43:27.000 -> 43:30.000] That's so true! They should be able to do it anyway.
[43:30.000 -> 43:33.000] It shows how good it is, how close it is.
[43:33.000 -> 43:37.000] I mean, this board basically means right now Oscar Piastri is the best driver in the world.
[43:37.000 -> 43:40.000] I mean, boys, fair play to this, because I remember going around some of the sims
[43:40.000 -> 43:47.000] and having a bit of a laugh with the Yumu, trying to see if get within sort of 15 seconds of his lap time and being pretty buzzing with that.
[43:47.000 -> 43:47.840] And that was with, don't get me wrong,
[43:47.840 -> 43:48.800] that was with all his settings.
[43:48.800 -> 43:50.640] Is this all with like traction control on and stuff?
[43:50.640 -> 43:52.480] Is this all, okay, it's the front of the thing, okay.
[43:52.480 -> 43:53.680] It's everything, yeah.
[43:53.680 -> 43:56.040] Well, the traction's on medium.
[43:56.040 -> 43:57.800] Having said that, me and Jake had traction
[43:57.800 -> 43:58.760] on full for our laps.
[43:58.760 -> 43:59.600] Okay, fine.
[43:59.600 -> 44:00.440] Okay.
[44:00.440 -> 44:01.260] I mean, we'll let you off.
[44:01.260 -> 44:02.100] You've got some stiff competition there.
[44:02.100 -> 44:03.000] Oh yeah.
[44:03.000 -> 44:05.160] But I'm looking forward to the F1 23 game
[44:05.160 -> 44:08.720] because they've kind of remodeled all the steering
[44:08.720 -> 44:09.960] and the aerodynamics and stuff.
[44:09.960 -> 44:11.440] So it's more realistic now apparently.
[44:11.440 -> 44:12.280] There we go.
[44:12.280 -> 44:14.720] So we can't really change our leaderboard game
[44:14.720 -> 44:15.560] mid-season can we?
[44:15.560 -> 44:17.240] No, we'll keep doing it for now.
[44:17.240 -> 44:18.080] Yeah.
[44:18.080 -> 44:20.440] We've got a Thursday pre-Spain pod coming up
[44:20.440 -> 44:21.760] because we've got Barcelona next weekend.
[44:21.760 -> 44:23.960] Yeah, Matt, predictions on Spain.
[44:23.960 -> 44:25.480] Oh yeah, because we won't see you so what
[44:25.480 -> 44:26.880] was your prediction for Spain and we'll
[44:26.880 -> 44:29.040] do ours on Thursday. Oh good question
[44:29.040 -> 44:31.040] I think Red Bull are going to be good there.
[44:31.040 -> 44:33.880] They've changed the circuit yeah they've
[44:33.880 -> 44:36.120] made some alterations. I saw that. Who do I
[44:36.120 -> 44:38.080] think will do well there? I'd really love
[44:38.080 -> 44:40.360] Aston Martin to do well there. I'd like to see it
[44:40.360 -> 44:44.040] yeah I think Alonso is one to watch.
[44:44.040 -> 44:45.360] I think Mercedes could be is one to watch.
[44:46.440 -> 44:48.640] I think Mercedes could be, it'd be interesting to see if their changes have paid off.
[44:48.640 -> 44:50.600] Again, if they, I think if the car's performing better,
[44:50.600 -> 44:52.440] I think they're again, one to watch.
[44:53.320 -> 44:54.360] Yeah, that'd be my prediction.
[44:54.360 -> 44:56.800] I think I'm going to see Alonso on the podium.
[44:56.800 -> 44:58.280] I think we're going to see a Red Bull on the podium
[44:58.280 -> 44:59.600] and I think we'll see a Mercedes on the podium.
[44:59.600 -> 45:01.080] So I think we might see a nice mixed grid, you know?
[45:01.080 -> 45:03.240] A mixed bag, a little mixed grill.
[45:03.240 -> 45:09.120] What about, do you think Ocon a third today is like a fluke? I don't think it's a fluke, I think it's well deserved. Yeah,
[45:09.120 -> 45:14.320] yeah, I get it. It doesn't sound like you agreed with me when I was saying that Ocon is a good
[45:14.320 -> 45:18.400] driver. I just think Monaco, I think Monaco allows, so credit to Ocon because I think Monaco allows
[45:18.400 -> 45:24.320] as a driver to show some of your driver skills. I think tracks, other less circuit based tracks,
[45:24.320 -> 45:25.200] sorry circuit based tracks, city based tracks, so like Barcelona and these I think tracks, other less circuit based tracks, sorry, circuit based
[45:25.200 -> 45:30.120] tracks, city based tracks, so like Barcelona and these sort of tracks, I think they'll
[45:30.120 -> 45:32.200] expose some of the weaknesses in your car.
[45:32.200 -> 45:33.200] Overwhelming.
[45:33.200 -> 45:36.800] Yeah, exactly that. I think Ockel can be as good as he wants in Barcelona. I think he's
[45:36.800 -> 45:41.240] going to, you know, I think they can be top 10 or some top seven, even better, but I think
[45:41.240 -> 45:43.120] getting top three, I don't think it will happen for him.
[45:43.120 -> 45:46.720] I was really surprised you managed to to pull off and qualify and to
[45:46.720 -> 45:51.280] stay on the podium is in the Alpine and do that is mad impressive so Ocon is my
[45:51.280 -> 45:55.640] driver of the weekend all right he's also the driver of the day was he yeah I
[45:55.640 -> 46:00.840] saw he won that yeah he's got to be I think and they had a poor pit stop yeah I
[46:00.840 -> 46:07.680] didn't even see that I think it was a four and a half second pit stop. pit stop. Terrible share had a poor pit stop in F2 when the jacks fell off.
[46:07.680 -> 46:08.680] Oh god.
[46:08.680 -> 46:10.680] That is absolutely chaos.
[46:10.680 -> 46:16.760] I mean, it's such a hard one because the way the pits are set up for us is tight, there's
[46:16.760 -> 46:21.080] less equipment and whatnot, and the boys practice so much and the mechanics are phenomenal,
[46:21.080 -> 46:22.080] don't get me wrong.
[46:22.080 -> 46:26.040] Do you get to go through, can you just go through the F1 garage, or is it like locked off?
[46:26.040 -> 46:27.280] Cause you put all your, in F2,
[46:27.280 -> 46:28.880] all the stuff goes out the front, doesn't it?
[46:28.880 -> 46:32.320] Yeah, so F2, so our actual, our paddock,
[46:32.320 -> 46:33.280] obviously, same with F1,
[46:33.280 -> 46:34.560] obviously they can't put the paddock in the pit lane
[46:34.560 -> 46:35.960] because there's not enough room.
[46:35.960 -> 46:37.960] So we've all got our own little areas outside.
[46:37.960 -> 46:39.960] So we're actually in what is a car park,
[46:39.960 -> 46:40.800] believe it or not.
[46:40.800 -> 46:41.640] That's where they're stored.
[46:41.640 -> 46:42.720] And then when it comes to the race,
[46:42.720 -> 46:44.560] we drive the cars down to the pit lane
[46:44.560 -> 46:46.760] and we take all our stuff outside of the garages,
[46:46.760 -> 46:47.680] but it's so tight.
[46:47.680 -> 46:50.240] So it's hard, but F2 do, I don't know why,
[46:50.240 -> 46:52.720] but we do have a habit of when it goes wrong,
[46:52.720 -> 46:56.000] it does go spectacularly wrong with the pit stops.
[46:56.000 -> 46:57.760] Like, yeah, I mean, last year,
[46:57.760 -> 46:59.460] I think we had a couple of wheels come off,
[46:59.460 -> 47:02.720] like down the pit lane, first corners coming out,
[47:02.720 -> 47:05.400] we've had a real, like dropping a car on the floor.
[47:05.400 -> 47:07.560] Like it's been a couple of ones where you're just like,
[47:07.560 -> 47:08.600] you feel for the guys
[47:08.600 -> 47:10.920] cause your heart must sink when it happens.
[47:10.920 -> 47:13.360] Did you see him, did you, in practice,
[47:13.360 -> 47:16.320] I said this to you that through some tracks this year,
[47:16.320 -> 47:17.360] when they recover cars,
[47:17.360 -> 47:19.760] there has to be a crane or a tractor or something.
[47:19.760 -> 47:23.360] In practice one, they had a geezer that was so big
[47:23.360 -> 47:30.080] that literally he was part of the steward crew. went over to the car picked it up by the halo they
[47:30.080 -> 47:33.520] slid a trolley under it and they just wheeled the car off.
[47:33.520 -> 47:37.680] They didn't have to wait for a tractor, they didn't have to wait for a crane, he just
[47:37.680 -> 47:41.240] picked the car and they put the trolley under it like they do in the pits and
[47:41.240 -> 47:44.760] they just wheeled it off. What a geezer. And then yeah they could they'll be able
[47:44.760 -> 47:45.200] to do that more,
[47:45.200 -> 47:47.680] but usually as runoff areas, so you don't really need to.
[47:47.680 -> 47:50.080] Yeah, big guy, big strong man.
[47:50.080 -> 47:52.080] Big strong man, that's the Monaco Grand Prix for you,
[47:52.080 -> 47:53.520] Pitstop podcast listeners.
[47:53.520 -> 47:54.480] Guys, I hope you enjoyed it.
[47:54.480 -> 47:56.480] I hope you all enjoyed having Matt Murray-Downing
[47:56.480 -> 47:57.280] on the episode.
[47:57.280 -> 47:58.080] Thanks for having me, boys.
[47:58.080 -> 47:58.880] Yeah, it was nice.
[47:58.880 -> 47:59.920] Good to have a little round up,
[47:59.920 -> 48:01.600] someone actually to listen to my ramblings.
[48:01.600 -> 48:03.360] Yeah, it's nice to have a chat about the cameras
[48:03.360 -> 48:03.680] on sometimes.
[48:03.680 -> 48:05.320] I've been telling people it's actually the first time
[48:05.320 -> 48:06.160] we're probably going to have someone
[48:06.160 -> 48:08.040] who can actually talk a little bit of sense.
[48:08.040 -> 48:09.920] Yeah, I listened and probably got a lot of information
[48:09.920 -> 48:10.760] out of this one.
[48:10.760 -> 48:12.080] Yeah, that's good.
[48:12.080 -> 48:13.000] Cheers for joining us, Matt.
[48:13.000 -> 48:14.040] No, thanks for having us, boys.
[48:14.040 -> 48:16.040] It was very good, nice little recap.
[48:16.040 -> 48:18.520] And for once, actually, a really exciting Monaco Grand Prix
[48:18.520 -> 48:19.360] to recap on.
[48:19.360 -> 48:20.600] Yeah, yeah, it was an exciting Monaco Grand Prix.
[48:20.600 -> 48:22.080] Which was nice.
[48:22.080 -> 48:24.040] I am looking forward to Barcelona.
[48:24.040 -> 48:24.880] I think it'll be good, yeah.
[48:24.880 -> 48:26.000] I think Barcelona's a good track, lots of overtaking, it's an iconic circuit forward to Barcelona. I think it'll be good.
[48:26.000 -> 48:30.000] Barcelona's a good track, lots of overtaking, it's an iconic circuit, so I think it's going to be exciting.
[48:30.000 -> 48:33.000] And then Canada, which I don't really know too much about.
[48:33.000 -> 48:36.000] Well we'll have a Canada quiz then, because I also don't know too much about Canada.
[48:36.000 -> 48:38.000] I know that I'm super fast around it on the sim.
[48:38.000 -> 48:41.000] Well let's see how fast you are around Monaco, because we've got to see who's getting the bar tab.
[48:41.000 -> 48:43.000] Alright then, well let's get it guys.
[48:43.000 -> 48:45.200] Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for listening to the Pit Stop Podcast.
[48:45.200 -> 48:48.880] Please rate it 5 stars, hit the follow button, the like button, and we'll see you guys on
[48:48.880 -> 48:49.880] Thursday.
[48:49.880 -> 48:50.880] Matt, thank you for coming.
[48:50.880 -> 48:51.880] Cheers mate.
[48:51.880 -> 48:52.880] Thanks, have a nice day.
[48:52.880 -> 48:53.880] See you later.
[48:53.880 -> 48:54.880] Bye bye!
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