How did Alex Albon DO THAT!

Welcome to Episode 15 of the Pitstop Podcast. Today we’re discussing the Australian Grand Prix… How did Alex Albon do that? First Mercedes podium for Russell, amazing to see the McLarens back, and a nightmare for Carlos Sainz. We’re here every Monday & Thursday for Q&A’s, guests, race predictions, and a whole load of laughter. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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## Australian Grand Prix Recap and Discussion

**Hosts:** Jake Boys and Fabio Bocca

**Key Points:**

- Charles Leclerc secured a dominant victory in the Australian Grand Prix, achieving a Grand Slam by winning the race, securing pole position, setting the fastest lap, and leading every lap.

- Ferrari's strategic blunder cost Carlos Sainz a potential podium finish, as he faced issues with his steering and anti-stall system.

- Max Verstappen's retirement from the race marked his second DNF in three races, raising concerns for Red Bull's title hopes.

- George Russell's impressive performance secured him second place and moved him up to second in the driver's standings, making him the highest-ranked Mercedes driver.

- Fernando Alonso's disappointing race saw him finish last, despite showing strong pace earlier in the weekend.

- Alex Albon's remarkable 57-lap stint on a single set of hard tires earned him a point for Williams, highlighting his impressive racecraft.

- The midfield battle was characterized by strategic decisions, with teams prioritizing track position and points rather than pushing for overtakes.

- The Australian Grand Prix attracted a record-breaking crowd of over 400,000 people, showcasing the growing popularity of Formula One in the country.

- Jake and Fabio discussed the percentage of influence that drivers and cars have on race outcomes, acknowledging the significant impact of the new regulations in creating closer competition.

- Predictions for the upcoming Imola Grand Prix were made, with both hosts expressing uncertainty about the potential performance of the cars on the different track layout.

- Jake revealed his newfound gray hairs, attributing them to the stress of following Formula One and Arsenal.

- The hosts reviewed their predictions for the Australian Grand Prix, acknowledging that Lissi, a guest predictor, had outperformed them in terms of accuracy.

- Jake shared a quote from David Coulthard about Max Verstappen's early potential, highlighting the high expectations placed on the young driver when he joined Red Bull.

**Overall Message:**

The Australian Grand Prix provided exciting racing and strategic battles, showcasing the growing competitiveness of the field under the new regulations. The race also highlighted the importance of reliability and consistency in the title fight, as Red Bull and Ferrari continue to vie for supremacy. ## Formula One Podcast Episode Summary: Australian Grand Prix Aftermath and Future Episode Ideas

**Key Points:**

* Discussion of the Australian Grand Prix results, with Charles Leclerc's dominant performance taking center stage.
* Speculation about whether Leclerc can maintain his dominance throughout the season, given the strength of Red Bull and Mercedes.
* Debate on whether Ferrari has genuinely closed the gap to the top teams or if their strong start is a temporary advantage.
* Predictions for upcoming races, with a focus on Imola and Monaco as crucial tracks for Ferrari and Leclerc.
* Consideration of Alonso's potential for podium finishes and which tracks might suit his driving style.
* Analysis of Latifi's improved performance and Alex Albon's strong drive, despite Williams' struggles.
* Discussion of the curse of having a consistently underperforming driver in Formula One and the impact it has on the sport.
* Exploration of creative ideas for future episodes, including incorporating non-Formula One topics during race-free weekends.
* Reflection on a recent incident where Fabio accidentally killed a bird with his car, highlighting the unpredictable nature of life.

**Insights and Perspectives:**

* The hosts acknowledge the impressive start of the season for Ferrari and Leclerc but remain cautious about predicting their continued dominance, given the strength of Red Bull and Mercedes.
* They emphasize the importance of upcoming races like Imola and Monaco for Ferrari and Leclerc to solidify their position as title contenders.
* The hosts speculate on Alonso's potential for podium finishes, suggesting that tracks that suit his driving style could provide opportunities for success.
* They discuss the curse of having a consistently underperforming driver in Formula One, acknowledging that it adds an element of unpredictability and excitement to the sport.
* The hosts propose creative ideas for future episodes, including incorporating non-Formula One topics during race-free weekends, to maintain engagement with their audience.

**Controversies and Noteworthy Moments:**

* The hosts engage in a lighthearted debate about whether Leclerc's early success is a sign of Ferrari's resurgence or a temporary advantage.
* They express differing opinions on whether Latifi's improved performance is a genuine sign of progress or a result of specific circumstances.
* The hosts jokingly discuss the curse of having a consistently underperforming driver in Formula One, acknowledging that it is a topic that generates interest among fans.

**Overall Message:**

The podcast provides an engaging and informative discussion of the Australian Grand Prix results, with analysis, predictions, and creative ideas for future episodes. The hosts offer their perspectives on key talking points while also injecting humor and personal anecdotes into the conversation.

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[00:56.560 -> 00:58.440] What happened to you the other day, by the way?
[00:58.440 -> 01:00.440] Oh, no. Oh my God.
[01:00.440 -> 01:01.760] Murderer, I'm a murderer.
[01:01.760 -> 01:05.360] Yeah, this, he's been, Fab has done a naughty again.
[01:14.720 -> 01:18.880] Welcome back to the Pit Stop podcast.
[01:18.880 -> 01:21.360] We are here with episode 15.
[01:21.360 -> 01:23.760] It was the Australian Grand Prix today.
[01:23.760 -> 01:27.100] I don't have the energy that I'm pretending to have I'm absolutely knackered
[01:27.100 -> 01:29.320] Yeah, I know I'm really gonna have to try and pull it out of the bag
[01:29.320 -> 01:31.780] I need to give it some energy mate because I'm fucked
[01:31.780 -> 01:37.220] We didn't even get a clip at the beginning that we usually get before before the race where we give our overview from qualifying
[01:37.220 -> 01:41.220] You know, we've done it in the last two races. Oh, really? Yeah, we've done that bit before the race
[01:41.460 -> 01:45.480] We were up at half five this morning. We got home from Goodwood yesterday.
[01:45.480 -> 01:48.040] We'll talk a little bit about that in this episode.
[01:48.040 -> 01:49.840] And we didn't set up last night.
[01:49.840 -> 01:52.400] So we were setting up at like 5 a.m. this morning,
[01:52.400 -> 01:53.920] got a McDonald's breakfast.
[01:53.920 -> 01:54.760] Brutal.
[01:54.760 -> 01:57.240] But we have a winner, and it's Charles Leclerc.
[01:57.240 -> 01:58.080] Again.
[01:58.080 -> 01:59.240] I bet you're happy about that.
[01:59.240 -> 02:01.640] Joe, I'm happy, but just expected it.
[02:01.640 -> 02:03.280] Not, yeah, it's not a surprise.
[02:03.280 -> 02:04.880] They're just, the car is so good, mate.
[02:04.880 -> 02:05.800] Interestingly you say that, because what about the other Ferrari driver then? Yeah, expected it. Not, yeah, it's not a surprise. They're just, the car is so good, mate. Interestingly you say that,
[02:05.800 -> 02:07.660] because what about the other Ferrari driver then?
[02:07.660 -> 02:08.680] Yeah, fucked it.
[02:08.680 -> 02:10.200] Maybe we should get straight into that.
[02:10.200 -> 02:11.660] I mean, if we're talking Ferrari,
[02:11.660 -> 02:12.960] we're saying their car's so good.
[02:12.960 -> 02:16.280] He didn't have a great day in qualifying, qualified P9.
[02:16.280 -> 02:18.320] And then what actually happened today?
[02:19.720 -> 02:22.640] I think he did, it was his fault, he pushed it, right?
[02:22.640 -> 02:23.960] There wasn't a problem with the car, I don't think.
[02:23.960 -> 02:29.520] Let me check my notes here. Yeah, oh no, the car did fuck up when he was um on the grid starting
[02:29.520 -> 02:34.400] the car went into anti-stall ah because he after the uh race he did an interview with sky sports
[02:34.400 -> 02:38.240] and he shared he said i shouldn't have done the mistake i did and we shouldn't have the problems
[02:38.240 -> 02:42.720] with the steering that we have steering so it seems like there could be a few issues maybe
[02:42.720 -> 02:49.640] he's just fishing i don't know i've heard a lot of people talking about the cars being balanced right and I guess that means I balanced in all areas and and
[02:49.880 -> 02:52.880] Signs are saying that that his Ferrari is not balanced at a minute
[02:52.880 -> 02:57.720] It made it interesting him not getting the points because Ferrari is still top of the driver's standings
[02:57.880 -> 03:01.880] But Mercedes a second Red Bull a third McLaren a fourth
[03:01.880 -> 03:05.040] But Red Bull have had you know max DNF in twice Red Bull have had, you know, max DNFing twice
[03:05.040 -> 03:10.080] in a row. The fact you called that, by the way, we just put a TikTok up from race reactions
[03:10.080 -> 03:14.880] of yesterday at Pitstop. Fab literally halfway through was like, Verstappen's just not going
[03:14.880 -> 03:18.880] to finish his race. And I'm like, no way. And out of no way, just DNFs.
[03:18.880 -> 03:21.520] Starting to get a bit weird, isn't it? Some of our predictions are weirdly close.
[03:21.520 -> 03:24.320] Some of them are getting very, very strange. Yeah.
[03:24.320 -> 03:28.600] It is a shame though for Max, two DNFs in three races is not what the world
[03:28.600 -> 03:32.280] champion wants it's a shame for Red Bull but it's kind of what Mercedes needed
[03:32.280 -> 03:35.520] to now kind of be back in the game even though their drivers aren't competing
[03:35.520 -> 03:39.320] for first place yet if they're second in the constructors that's banging
[03:39.320 -> 03:44.560] unbelievable George Russell second in the driver's standings oh that is crazy
[03:44.560 -> 03:45.080] in it fucking you right out the Mercedes you say it's not quite there yet but George Russell second in the driver's standings. Posh! That is crazy, isn't it?
[03:45.080 -> 03:46.080] That's fucking general.
[03:46.080 -> 03:50.200] You write out the Mercedes, you say it's not quite there yet, but with luck of the draw on DNFs everywhere,
[03:50.200 -> 03:53.780] George Russell is currently second in the driver's standings with 37 points,
[03:53.780 -> 03:56.880] Carlos Sainz third with 33 points.
[03:56.880 -> 03:59.520] What a day for Leclerc, though. A historic day.
[03:59.520 -> 04:00.020] Historic day.
[04:00.020 -> 04:04.520] He is the first Ferrari driver since 2010 to get a Grand Slam.
[04:04.520 -> 04:05.920] Do you know what a Grand Slam is?
[04:05.920 -> 04:07.400] Can you tell me all the things in a Grand Slam?
[04:07.400 -> 04:08.800] Fuck, I know, I made a graphic about it.
[04:08.800 -> 04:10.960] Go on, tell me all the bad boys in a Grand Slam.
[04:10.960 -> 04:14.840] A Grand Slam is a win, a pole in quali,
[04:14.840 -> 04:17.720] a win in the race and the fastest lap, right?
[04:17.720 -> 04:18.560] And?
[04:18.560 -> 04:19.380] Is there a fourth one?
[04:19.380 -> 04:20.220] Yeah.
[04:21.640 -> 04:23.000] You know it.
[04:23.000 -> 04:23.840] You know it.
[04:23.840 -> 04:25.120] Come on, dig deep. Fastest pit? Nah, lead in the race for the whole time. Oh, fuck. You know it. Come on, dig deep.
[04:25.120 -> 04:25.960] Fastest pit?
[04:25.960 -> 04:28.000] Nah, leading the race for the whole time.
[04:28.000 -> 04:28.820] Oh fuck.
[04:28.820 -> 04:29.660] Which he did.
[04:29.660 -> 04:30.500] Yeah.
[04:30.500 -> 04:31.320] First since 2010 for Ferrari.
[04:31.320 -> 04:32.240] We saw him though, he was like eight seconds
[04:32.240 -> 04:33.880] ahead of Hamilton.
[04:33.880 -> 04:35.520] If it was their first since 2010,
[04:35.520 -> 04:36.360] not Hamilton, it must have been.
[04:36.360 -> 04:38.280] Any idea who that driver in 2010 would have been
[04:38.280 -> 04:40.360] for Ferrari who got the last one?
[04:40.360 -> 04:41.280] In Singapore?
[04:42.960 -> 04:44.040] Fernando Alonso!
[04:44.040 -> 04:44.880] It's Alonso.
[04:44.880 -> 04:45.500] Fernando Alonso. What happened to Alonso! Fernando Alonso! Fernando Alonso!
[04:45.500 -> 04:47.480] What happened to Alonso today?
[04:48.940 -> 04:50.160] It was not good for Alonso.
[04:50.160 -> 04:51.820] It was a shame for Alonso.
[04:51.820 -> 04:53.660] At one point, he was like right up there.
[04:53.660 -> 04:54.980] He was doing great, wasn't he?
[04:54.980 -> 04:56.020] In an interview after a race,
[04:56.020 -> 04:57.420] he said they had Mercedes pace.
[04:57.420 -> 04:59.060] He said they were faster than Mercedes.
[04:59.060 -> 05:01.180] They had a weird tactic today, weird strategy.
[05:01.180 -> 05:02.100] They had him on hards
[05:02.100 -> 05:03.620] and then they switched him to mediums,
[05:03.620 -> 05:07.960] which you would have thought mediums, fresher tyres, more grip, but he just couldn't overtake.
[05:07.960 -> 05:13.400] At one point he was like 6th and he finished last. Alonso finished last, Ocon finished
[05:13.400 -> 05:17.840] 6th. Today? Yeah. F**k off. Alonso came last, he dropped all the way back. Alonso couldn't
[05:17.840 -> 05:22.120] have been last. He did, and Ocon finished 7th, so Alpine did get points. That's good
[05:22.120 -> 05:25.560] news. But honestly, Alonso came last. I don't know how he managed that,
[05:25.560 -> 05:27.000] but yeah, he did come last.
[05:27.000 -> 05:29.840] I wrote a load of notes down at like seven o'clock
[05:29.840 -> 05:31.840] this morning after the race, whenever it was.
[05:31.840 -> 05:33.840] I went back to sleep and Fab edited the video.
[05:33.840 -> 05:36.440] I absolutely crashed and was asleep for about five hours.
[05:36.440 -> 05:37.640] Oh yeah, I haven't slept.
[05:37.640 -> 05:39.160] Yeah, Fab hasn't had any sleep.
[05:39.160 -> 05:41.040] So I'm really, really trying my hardest
[05:41.040 -> 05:42.560] to sound enthusiastic today.
[05:42.560 -> 05:44.840] I was so excited to film that clip before the race
[05:44.840 -> 05:46.000] because I had a great start.
[05:46.000 -> 05:49.160] It was only one out of the last eight races
[05:49.160 -> 05:51.280] in the Australian Grand Prix have been won
[05:51.280 -> 05:52.480] by the pole sitter.
[05:52.480 -> 05:54.280] So I was gonna bring that to the table and be like,
[05:54.280 -> 05:57.880] oh, look, the pole doesn't usually win in Australia.
[05:57.880 -> 06:00.260] But then Leclerc goes and absolutely smashes it
[06:00.260 -> 06:01.320] from the start.
[06:01.320 -> 06:03.520] One by 20 seconds to Paris.
[06:03.520 -> 06:04.720] 20 seconds.
[06:04.720 -> 06:06.360] That is a long way, mate.
[06:06.360 -> 06:07.520] That's fucking madness.
[06:07.520 -> 06:09.800] I love the way he had fastest lap, like the whole race.
[06:09.800 -> 06:10.960] And then he radioed in and was like,
[06:10.960 -> 06:13.480] I'm gonna try for the fastest lap on the final lap.
[06:13.480 -> 06:14.320] It was like, huh?
[06:14.320 -> 06:15.140] You already have it.
[06:15.140 -> 06:16.880] You already have the fastest lap, don't go for it.
[06:16.880 -> 06:17.720] You're already good.
[06:17.720 -> 06:19.520] Imagine that though, you do go do that
[06:19.520 -> 06:21.000] and then you crash out at the end.
[06:21.000 -> 06:23.280] Yeah, it's a shame Verstappen went out to be fair.
[06:23.280 -> 06:24.520] Big shame.
[06:24.520 -> 06:28.240] As signs DNF, it would have helped Red Bull close the gap on Ferrari if Verstappen had
[06:28.240 -> 06:29.240] stayed in.
[06:29.240 -> 06:30.240] Yeah.
[06:30.240 -> 06:31.240] Do you know what I mean?
[06:31.240 -> 06:34.840] So, but hey ho, that's the way it goes with motorsports.
[06:34.840 -> 06:40.000] Well we did find out yesterday at Goodwood that we're not necessarily into old cars,
[06:40.000 -> 06:41.000] historic cars.
[06:41.000 -> 06:46.240] Goodwood was amazing because we saw some Ferrari, no, saw a Ferrari you saw Schumacher's car Senna's car
[06:46.240 -> 06:49.440] That's car. We saw some Formula One cars going around McLaren
[06:49.600 -> 06:54.020] Yeah, no, it was sick seeing all the f1 stuff, but I don't know about you guys
[06:54.020 -> 06:59.700] But we're not necessarily into like old school style cars watching them run race around a track
[07:00.080 -> 07:05.200] But we had a few beers so very loud. Yeah, very bl very. Blimey, how loud were them F1 cars?
[07:05.200 -> 07:06.040] Super loud.
[07:06.040 -> 07:07.160] Is that how loud they used to be then?
[07:07.160 -> 07:08.360] Are they quieter now?
[07:08.360 -> 07:09.360] They're quieter now, yeah.
[07:09.360 -> 07:10.200] I think they were,
[07:10.200 -> 07:11.280] because they were really old, those ones.
[07:11.280 -> 07:12.960] They were like, they looked like go-carts, didn't they?
[07:12.960 -> 07:15.600] They're the ones that I've got in mini champs.
[07:15.600 -> 07:17.120] We're going to have to show them the mini champs.
[07:17.120 -> 07:19.200] Yeah, one day you'll get a reveal of the mini champs.
[07:19.200 -> 07:20.600] We'll do a TikTok reveal.
[07:20.600 -> 07:22.120] Imagine that, I'd love to do that one,
[07:22.120 -> 07:24.120] but I'd look so sad if I sat there
[07:24.120 -> 07:27.820] and got all about the wardrobe, box by box. But I think that's sick.
[07:27.820 -> 07:31.780] That would be sick. Do you know what else is sick? Alex Albon's first points with Williams
[07:31.780 -> 07:32.780] today. I know.
[07:32.780 -> 07:36.660] Amazing. I wasn't expecting him to do that. 57 laps
[07:36.660 -> 07:39.580] on one pair of hearts and pitting right at the end.
[07:39.580 -> 07:44.300] Mate, today has just been, or yesterday should I say, has been a day just full of weird strategies.
[07:44.300 -> 07:45.960] I can't get my head around it.
[07:45.960 -> 07:47.200] What some of these teams were thinking.
[07:47.200 -> 07:48.760] It was today though.
[07:48.760 -> 07:50.080] I know, but this goes out to-
[07:50.080 -> 07:52.200] Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right, you're right.
[07:52.200 -> 07:53.040] Today's Monday.
[07:53.040 -> 07:54.480] No, it was a race full of weird strategies,
[07:54.480 -> 07:57.560] but how on earth do you do 57 laps on one pair of hearts?
[07:57.560 -> 08:00.440] Pirelli would say that their tyres don't do that.
[08:00.440 -> 08:02.520] So how did he do it?
[08:02.520 -> 08:04.200] At one point I said to Fab, I was like,
[08:04.200 -> 08:06.200] is he going to try and just do it because you have to pit right?
[08:06.200 -> 08:09.320] That was you get a penalty. What is the penalty? Didn't you say it's a qualification?
[08:09.320 -> 08:14.480] Yeah, if you do it in the rain, then you just get like a time penalty, I think. Got you. But in the draw
[08:14.480 -> 08:18.360] Yeah, you get disqualified. Wow, bro. Yeah, cuz I was thinking he was just gonna do that
[08:18.360 -> 08:23.240] Take the penalty and hope to stay 10th, but then he did pit right at the end. Yeah, and managed to stay 10th
[08:23.240 -> 08:25.080] He said something funny about the pit
[08:26.760 -> 08:30.160] He said the pit was slow But it actually worked in their favor because he came out just behind Joe
[08:30.240 -> 08:32.760] Which meant that Joe couldn't get a good run to like overtake him
[08:32.800 -> 08:36.360] Yeah, I like that because he could have the DRS. Yeah, then he just took Joe back over
[08:36.360 -> 08:41.240] I think yeah is amazing though 57 laps on one set of hearts was was crazy
[08:41.240 -> 08:47.200] I wasn't expecting that halfway through the video we filmed for YouTube when we filmed the race reaction, I said to Fab,
[08:47.200 -> 08:49.040] I'm gonna ask you again on the podcast,
[08:49.040 -> 08:52.320] I want your true answer, but if you did put,
[08:52.320 -> 08:54.520] we don't know much about Alex Albon,
[08:54.520 -> 08:59.520] but if you put Alex Albon in the Ferrari this season,
[08:59.560 -> 09:01.320] and he was Leclerc's teammate,
[09:01.320 -> 09:03.640] take a guess on where do you think Alex Albon
[09:03.640 -> 09:05.320] would finish in the driver's standings?
[09:05.320 -> 09:06.320] Midfield.
[09:06.320 -> 09:07.320] Really?
[09:07.320 -> 09:08.320] Yeah.
[09:08.320 -> 09:11.800] See, this brings us back to the conversation we had in the first ever podcast.
[09:11.800 -> 09:13.800] I'm talking like in the points, but not very high up.
[09:13.800 -> 09:14.800] Really?
[09:14.800 -> 09:15.800] But in a Ferrari, yeah.
[09:15.800 -> 09:16.800] Would he win a race?
[09:16.800 -> 09:17.800] Why not?
[09:17.800 -> 09:18.800] The car.
[09:18.800 -> 09:22.800] I always think, I think they're like football players, you know what I mean?
[09:22.800 -> 09:23.800] If you sent a...
[09:23.800 -> 09:24.800] Actually, no, maybe it's not the same.
[09:24.800 -> 09:25.200] Yeah, because a football player joins a team full of other good players and they help him be good. Yeah. I think they're like football players, you know what I mean? It's like if you sent a, actually no, maybe it's not the same.
[09:25.200 -> 09:26.600] Yeah, because a football player joins a team
[09:26.600 -> 09:28.840] full of other good players and they help him be good.
[09:28.840 -> 09:31.120] Pass the ball to him, no one's passing the car to them.
[09:31.120 -> 09:31.960] Maybe that wouldn't work then,
[09:31.960 -> 09:33.560] but basically what I'm trying to say
[09:33.560 -> 09:35.920] is all these drivers are fucking unbelievable.
[09:35.920 -> 09:38.000] So like a lot of it is down to the car.
[09:38.000 -> 09:39.760] It brings me back to the conversation we had though
[09:39.760 -> 09:41.080] in our first episode when I was like,
[09:41.080 -> 09:42.440] what percentage is it?
[09:42.440 -> 09:44.960] And I remember saying at the very beginning
[09:44.960 -> 09:46.280] when I didn't know anything about F1,
[09:46.280 -> 09:48.640] I said it was 90% driver, didn't I?
[09:48.640 -> 09:49.480] 10% car.
[09:49.480 -> 09:51.320] And obviously now I know that was wrong.
[09:51.320 -> 09:55.400] I do think that's wrong, but I still do think it's like-
[09:55.400 -> 09:56.680] But this is amazing.
[09:56.680 -> 09:59.440] This is amazing because this is like,
[09:59.440 -> 10:01.360] we've turned a page now, we've turned a leaf.
[10:01.360 -> 10:02.200] Do you know what I mean?
[10:02.200 -> 10:03.020] We definitely know more.
[10:03.020 -> 10:04.280] And this is what people I think wanna hear
[10:04.280 -> 10:06.600] because we're learning now, we've taken a step. We have, we've taken that leaf do you know what I mean? We definitely know more. And this is what people I think want to hear because we're learning now we've taken a step.
[10:06.600 -> 10:09.720] We have we've taken that step to the greater land.
[10:09.720 -> 10:12.840] It's cool everyone's gonna fucking respect us so much now.
[10:12.840 -> 10:14.960] I still don't think it's 70% car.
[10:14.960 -> 10:16.960] 70% driver 30% car.
[10:16.960 -> 10:17.960] Interesting.
[10:17.960 -> 10:22.280] 100% and I think that's proven by certain cars on the grid.
[10:22.280 -> 10:23.280] I'd say 60-40.
[10:23.280 -> 10:25.600] Okay so 70-30 can work as well. I'd say 60-40. Okay, so 70-30 can work as well.
[10:25.600 -> 10:27.720] I would say 65-35.
[10:27.720 -> 10:29.600] I would say 50-50 is the low end,
[10:29.600 -> 10:30.680] 60-40 is about right.
[10:30.680 -> 10:33.680] I would say 62.5 and 37.5.
[10:33.680 -> 10:35.080] I like it.
[10:35.080 -> 10:37.160] 0.333 recurring both ends.
[10:37.160 -> 10:39.400] Well, maybe we see Albin in a Ferrari one day then.
[10:39.400 -> 10:40.280] Or what did we say?
[10:40.280 -> 10:41.120] We were talking about the T-Fias today.
[10:41.120 -> 10:42.320] I think he'd be back in a Red Bull.
[10:42.320 -> 10:43.520] I reckon he'd go Red Bull again.
[10:43.520 -> 10:44.360] Do you reckon?
[10:44.360 -> 10:45.200] If he got the chance.
[10:45.200 -> 10:46.480] What about Gasly?
[10:46.480 -> 10:48.380] Gasly's got more of a chance, I'd say.
[10:48.380 -> 10:50.260] But I think if you were to put it to Albin,
[10:50.260 -> 10:51.100] where would you want to go?
[10:51.100 -> 10:52.460] He'd say red ball every time.
[10:52.460 -> 10:54.260] Yeah, when he's still got the red ball on his helmet,
[10:54.260 -> 10:55.100] hasn't he?
[10:55.100 -> 10:55.940] So he clearly loves red ball.
[10:55.940 -> 10:56.760] Bit weird.
[10:56.760 -> 10:58.540] That's like when you get a tattoo of your girlfriend
[10:58.540 -> 11:00.380] and then you split up with her and you get a new girl.
[11:00.380 -> 11:01.220] You just keep it.
[11:01.220 -> 11:02.140] You start a new tattoo.
[11:02.140 -> 11:03.660] Hey, yeah, look at my new tattoo.
[11:03.660 -> 11:05.240] Not that either of us have ever done that.
[11:05.240 -> 11:07.500] No, I don't know why he's got that red bull thing
[11:07.500 -> 11:09.000] on the helmet, someone enlighten us.
[11:09.000 -> 11:10.480] There must be, maybe he's still,
[11:10.480 -> 11:12.040] well, he was in the junior driving academy.
[11:12.040 -> 11:13.480] So maybe it's like out of respect.
[11:13.480 -> 11:14.720] So this is where I started,
[11:14.720 -> 11:17.180] which is quite cool if that's the case.
[11:17.180 -> 11:18.480] Yeah, why not?
[11:18.480 -> 11:19.600] I don't know, or maybe like you said,
[11:19.600 -> 11:21.360] he's just completely hoping that he goes back.
[11:21.360 -> 11:24.000] Yeah, he's just butt hurt about the whole situation.
[11:24.000 -> 11:26.720] Great result for Mercedes today, three and four.
[11:26.720 -> 11:27.540] Amazing.
[11:27.540 -> 11:30.100] I found it interesting, that one moment
[11:30.100 -> 11:32.040] when Hamilton was on the radio and he said,
[11:32.040 -> 11:34.280] you're making things really difficult to me,
[11:34.280 -> 11:36.040] because Hamilton had closed up
[11:36.040 -> 11:38.240] into under a second of Russell.
[11:38.240 -> 11:39.960] And at that point, I thought he could easily
[11:39.960 -> 11:41.160] get the overtake on Russell.
[11:41.160 -> 11:43.640] Well, that's interesting, because apparently from Lewis,
[11:43.640 -> 11:45.440] he said his engine was overheating
[11:45.440 -> 11:46.440] and that's why he couldn't.
[11:46.440 -> 11:47.280] Well, and that's why he said
[11:47.280 -> 11:48.960] you're making things really difficult for me.
[11:48.960 -> 11:49.800] I don't believe that.
[11:49.800 -> 11:50.640] A bit fishy, innit?
[11:50.640 -> 11:51.460] I don't believe that.
[11:51.460 -> 11:52.500] I think in the race,
[11:52.500 -> 11:53.840] because Hamilton was closing up,
[11:53.840 -> 11:57.160] there was a gap between Hamilton and who was behind him.
[11:58.400 -> 11:59.400] Probably Norris.
[11:59.400 -> 12:01.600] I can't remember the exact order at the time.
[12:01.600 -> 12:02.720] But yeah, there was a gap
[12:02.720 -> 12:03.960] between Hamilton and the car behind
[12:03.960 -> 12:06.180] and Hamilton had closed up on Russell
[12:06.180 -> 12:07.360] and was in DRS.
[12:07.360 -> 12:09.160] And then their radio message comes through
[12:09.160 -> 12:11.520] with him saying, you're making things really hard for me.
[12:11.520 -> 12:13.040] That isn't about the engine.
[12:13.040 -> 12:16.560] This is Hamilton saying, I need to overtake George,
[12:16.560 -> 12:18.240] I could chase down Checo.
[12:18.240 -> 12:20.280] And that's Mercedes going, no,
[12:20.280 -> 12:23.400] this is George's first podium for Mercedes, I think.
[12:23.400 -> 12:24.240] Which is fair enough.
[12:24.240 -> 12:25.580] Hamilton's got more than enough
[12:25.580 -> 12:28.060] third places, you know, it's nothing.
[12:28.060 -> 12:31.100] Same thing happened with Ricciardo and Lando.
[12:31.100 -> 12:32.300] Well, we saw that today, didn't we?
[12:32.300 -> 12:34.060] They literally, for about 40 laps,
[12:34.060 -> 12:36.060] were just sat in each other's DRS.
[12:36.060 -> 12:39.700] This race seemed to be a lot more orchestrated than usual.
[12:39.700 -> 12:43.300] I feel like there was a lot more going on.
[12:43.300 -> 12:45.360] I don't know why, I just felt like I was picking up on it.
[12:45.360 -> 12:46.200] And I knew I was.
[12:46.200 -> 12:47.040] Maybe because we were tired,
[12:47.040 -> 12:48.400] that we weren't so energetic.
[12:48.400 -> 12:50.000] Usually we have all day being pumped,
[12:50.000 -> 12:52.720] watching everything, seeing all the things happen in F2,
[12:52.720 -> 12:53.720] we see everything happen.
[12:53.720 -> 12:56.680] But today we've just woken up and watched a race.
[12:56.680 -> 12:58.360] And kind of today for me,
[12:58.360 -> 13:00.040] I've seen a lot more of the strategies
[13:00.040 -> 13:01.600] and the way people have done things
[13:01.600 -> 13:04.280] and the way that they've raced to get it.
[13:04.280 -> 13:05.640] Because it was clear that Mercedes
[13:05.640 -> 13:06.920] did the same as McLaren today.
[13:06.920 -> 13:09.880] It was hold track position, just get the points.
[13:09.880 -> 13:11.400] Everyone just needs points.
[13:11.400 -> 13:14.720] I think our mindset, because we started watching
[13:14.720 -> 13:17.640] in a championship battle, has always been that
[13:17.640 -> 13:19.520] it's a battle to win, it's a battle to win.
[13:19.520 -> 13:21.040] You know, it's like, you need to win now.
[13:21.040 -> 13:23.920] But what I need to remember is it's 22 races.
[13:23.920 -> 13:24.760] It's a marathon, it's not a sprint.
[13:24.760 -> 13:25.200] It's like a league, right? It's the same as like it's 22 races, it's a marathon, it's not a sprint.
[13:25.200 -> 13:29.120] It's like a league right? Yeah. It's the same as like in football if you play for a draw it's
[13:29.120 -> 13:34.080] almost like playing for position points. Yeah. And I didn't really expect that. Strategicness.
[13:34.640 -> 13:38.960] But I like it, I like it, it's just it's mad that Russell's second in the driver's standings,
[13:38.960 -> 13:43.040] love to see it. It was for me it was just nice to see McLaren up there again considering they
[13:43.040 -> 13:45.420] finished so bad. So glad they're bad I'll see races
[13:45.420 -> 13:49.120] But it's funny because a lot of people actually think that maybe the car took a step forward
[13:49.360 -> 13:54.520] This weekend it would seem like that it had right considering both drivers fit. They take a step forward didn't it?
[13:54.600 -> 13:58.600] Well, I mean, yeah, you would so atlanta seems to think that the car is exactly the same as it was
[13:58.600 -> 14:04.860] Yeah, because in Bahrain didn't he say that the car is the same which it's just better for this circuit
[14:04.860 -> 14:08.040] Yeah, I car works better on this track.
[14:08.040 -> 14:11.720] That's interesting, so I wonder when they're going to make some major changes then?
[14:11.720 -> 14:16.600] Because if Red Bull have taken off the 8kg by Imola, well to be fair, Red Bull don't
[14:16.600 -> 14:20.600] need to get faster, Red Bull just need to get a car that can finish the bloody race.
[14:20.600 -> 14:24.240] It's an interesting thing though, like you say, how will the cars perform in the next
[14:24.240 -> 14:27.360] race? Is Imola anything like Australia?
[14:27.920 -> 14:32.160] Hmm, I get I would say it's quite tight. Like both tracks are quite tight, but
[14:32.800 -> 14:35.520] Australia is a street track and Imola's got hills and shit. So
[14:36.080 -> 14:39.120] I don't know. We definitely have people listening to the podcast that have like
[14:39.680 -> 14:44.640] watched races for years and they know all the tracks and they're able ahead of time to be like
[14:44.880 -> 14:47.440] Red Bull will be better at that track or Mercedes would be better at that
[14:47.440 -> 14:51.920] track but we don't know like obviously we can watch highlights of Australia but
[14:51.920 -> 14:55.200] I haven't seen it year in year out so I don't know anything about the track.
[14:55.200 -> 15:00.000] Did you know the Austrian track is called the Red Bull Ring? No. Do they race there?
[15:00.000 -> 15:03.120] I didn't know I don't know anything about it. Do they race there? I was told.
[15:03.120 -> 15:06.000] That's where they were doing that, um, giveaway.
[15:06.000 -> 15:07.000] No, not giveaway.
[15:07.000 -> 15:11.120] When, you know, we were at that charity auction and they were selling the David Coulthard
[15:11.120 -> 15:14.480] race, whatever it was, round Red Bull ring.
[15:14.480 -> 15:15.480] Wow.
[15:15.480 -> 15:17.680] Shame I didn't have 25 grand or I might have got it.
[15:17.680 -> 15:20.680] I know, everything in that fucking auction was so expensive.
[15:20.680 -> 15:21.680] Next year we're going back.
[15:21.680 -> 15:22.680] Next year we're going back.
[15:22.680 -> 15:25.180] The reason there's ads in the podcast is because we're saving up to go back
[15:25.180 -> 15:27.380] and win one of these charity auctions
[15:27.380 -> 15:29.300] so we can go round in an F1 car.
[15:29.300 -> 15:30.700] Everyone put their fivers in.
[15:31.900 -> 15:34.100] Vettel crashed again.
[15:34.100 -> 15:35.540] Shame, first race back.
[15:35.540 -> 15:36.700] He didn't have a great weekend.
[15:36.700 -> 15:38.580] You kind of hoped he would have a good one,
[15:38.580 -> 15:40.180] but no, it wasn't qualifying shit for him too.
[15:40.180 -> 15:41.100] He crashed in qualifying.
[15:41.100 -> 15:41.940] Fuck.
[15:41.940 -> 15:42.940] Or it might've been in practice.
[15:42.940 -> 15:43.940] No, yeah, no.
[15:43.940 -> 15:48.100] He crashed in practice and then didn't get out in qualifying. Fuck. Or it might have been in practice. No, yeah, no. He crashed in practice and then didn't get out in qualifying,
[15:48.100 -> 15:50.700] but his team did amazing to get him out right at the end.
[15:50.700 -> 15:53.700] And he had like two minutes and he just didn't get a fast enough lap.
[15:53.700 -> 15:55.900] Came in like 17 straight out in Q1.
[15:55.900 -> 15:57.800] But he got a chance at a lap.
[15:57.800 -> 16:01.300] But yeah, for Vettel, this weekend definitely didn't go to plan.
[16:01.300 -> 16:03.300] He reckons the car is like undriveable.
[16:03.300 -> 16:04.500] Completely undriveable.
[16:04.500 -> 16:08.160] But it's weird because, I don't know, Aston Martin haven't been doing too well, but Stroll
[16:08.160 -> 16:12.320] actually was doing all right today. He was in some battles, wasn't he? He was like looking like he was
[16:12.320 -> 16:16.000] going to finish 10th and then he just dropped two places right at the very end. Did he? Where did
[16:16.000 -> 16:22.320] he finish? I think 12th. But he actually put up a good fight. I don't really watch Stroll that much
[16:22.320 -> 16:25.800] but no, he done okay. Yeah, Stroll finished 12th.
[16:25.800 -> 16:26.640] That's not bad.
[16:26.640 -> 16:29.520] In the points today, we had Albon 10th, Gasly 9th,
[16:29.520 -> 16:30.640] Bottas 8th.
[16:30.640 -> 16:32.700] Bottas had a difficult race
[16:32.700 -> 16:34.960] because he kept dropping back to like 13th,
[16:34.960 -> 16:37.960] and then he had a pit that took him back to like 12th.
[16:37.960 -> 16:39.640] And then he got down and then went back again.
[16:39.640 -> 16:42.080] He was like 9th, and then he was back to like 12th.
[16:42.080 -> 16:47.840] He was battling for them points, but he did finish 8th. There's a lot more movement up the grid this season isn't
[16:47.840 -> 16:50.800] there? Yeah. Like you say like normally I don't know I don't feel like there's as
[16:50.800 -> 16:53.560] much going on like in the midfield of the race as always you're always watching
[16:53.560 -> 16:56.800] the front of it. Yeah. But there's more movement but it's funny because I heard
[16:56.800 -> 17:01.280] a comment from someone I don't know who it was because I was delirious out of my
[17:01.280 -> 17:05.400] mind this morning but someone said um I mean the new rules are amazing
[17:05.400 -> 17:11.560] but you kind of, we might end up seeing people like falling into the trap of just lining up for a DRS overtake
[17:12.040 -> 17:17.240] And you're not gonna, maybe people like they're not gonna overtake and be as ruthless on corners anymore
[17:17.520 -> 17:19.520] Because they're just gonna wait for the DRS straight
[17:19.520 -> 17:22.940] Well I saw that a little bit today because you know when the camera panned out, exactly like you say
[17:22.940 -> 17:28.640] I remember the camera p pan down today from the straight where the grid is and when it comes back that
[17:28.640 -> 17:33.520] midfield is so grouped that there's like six of them and all six of them are in everyone's
[17:33.520 -> 17:40.320] DRS. So one that could be quite dangerous if everyone learns how to perfectly use these
[17:40.320 -> 17:45.680] cars, these new regulations, I don't know, and perfectly uses DRS, because we saw it earlier.
[17:45.680 -> 17:49.200] There was an overtake, and then, I can't remember who it was,
[17:49.200 -> 17:51.960] I think it was Magnuson, and there was so many cars,
[17:51.960 -> 17:54.280] there was three cars going for one DRS,
[17:54.280 -> 17:57.040] and then they went out like that, three side by side,
[17:57.040 -> 17:59.520] and you can, I love that, this is exactly what they wanted.
[17:59.520 -> 18:02.280] This is exactly, you know, what they wanted,
[18:02.280 -> 18:05.720] but I always thought there was more lapping and stuff.
[18:05.720 -> 18:07.280] And the fact we're not seeing that, for me,
[18:07.280 -> 18:10.200] does show that the whole grid is more bunched,
[18:10.200 -> 18:11.960] which ideally is the reason
[18:11.960 -> 18:13.400] they've done everything they've done.
[18:13.400 -> 18:16.080] Yeah, no, it's great.
[18:16.080 -> 18:18.800] And yeah, fucking hell,
[18:18.800 -> 18:20.960] did you see how many people turned up today?
[18:20.960 -> 18:21.780] No.
[18:21.780 -> 18:22.620] Do you not know how many people?
[18:22.620 -> 18:23.960] Take a wild guess how many people
[18:23.960 -> 18:27.680] you think were there today watching. Well Silverstone's got the record
[18:27.680 -> 18:32.480] for the most ever attended Grand Prix. Oh I forget about Silverstone. That's 250,000.
[18:32.480 -> 18:37.360] There was over 400,000 people there today. Just today? That would mean it
[18:37.360 -> 18:41.720] broke the record? Yeah. Nah I can't be right that must be over the weekend. Mate
[18:41.720 -> 18:47.400] it broke the record for the most viewed sports thing in Australia.
[18:47.400 -> 18:48.400] Wow.
[18:48.400 -> 18:49.400] Yeah.
[18:49.400 -> 18:50.400] Wow.
[18:50.400 -> 18:53.680] Yeah, and the most attended F1 race in Australia.
[18:53.680 -> 18:55.120] It did look amazing.
[18:55.120 -> 18:56.920] It did everything there.
[18:56.920 -> 19:13.000] I want to go to one just so we can go to the festival after and do all the cool stuff. So not only am I really, really tired, but it's also a bad day for me today.
[19:13.000 -> 19:15.840] Not only did my predictions do tell- Oh, that reminds me.
[19:15.840 -> 19:16.840] Can you see this?
[19:16.840 -> 19:17.840] I've got grey bloody hair.
[19:17.840 -> 19:21.240] I looked in the mirror earlier and I've got a really obvious grey hair.
[19:21.240 -> 19:22.240] Can you see it?
[19:22.240 -> 19:23.240] You've got a couple.
[19:23.240 -> 19:24.240] You've got one.
[19:24.240 -> 19:25.200] I've literally got gray hairs coming in.
[19:25.200 -> 19:26.720] And on the other side, yeah, but I've got one too.
[19:26.720 -> 19:28.880] I feel, I don't know whether it's Max Verstappen
[19:28.880 -> 19:30.480] giving me the gray hairs or Arsenal,
[19:30.480 -> 19:33.400] but I'm gonna be gray in a couple,
[19:33.400 -> 19:35.560] imagine like we do this podcast,
[19:35.560 -> 19:38.560] and in a couple of months, I'm just completely gray.
[19:38.560 -> 19:39.680] Yeah, but it doesn't matter,
[19:39.680 -> 19:41.960] because being gray isn't a bad fucking thing.
[19:41.960 -> 19:44.280] Silver Fox, sexy as fuck,
[19:44.280 -> 19:46.040] and I've seen photos of your granddad.
[19:46.040 -> 19:47.600] He is the most handsome, how old is he?
[19:47.600 -> 19:48.440] Like 70 odd?
[19:48.440 -> 19:49.280] Yeah.
[19:49.280 -> 19:50.960] He's the most handsome old man I've seen in my life.
[19:50.960 -> 19:51.800] Really?
[19:51.800 -> 19:53.560] He looks like he was James Bond at some point.
[19:53.560 -> 19:54.960] Ha ha ha ha.
[19:54.960 -> 19:55.800] It's crazy.
[19:55.800 -> 19:57.280] So if you look anything like him,
[19:57.280 -> 19:58.840] or I'll come to the conclusion that you look like
[19:58.840 -> 19:59.680] Vitali Klitschko.
[19:59.680 -> 20:00.520] Ha ha ha ha.
[20:00.520 -> 20:02.880] Yeah, fam was scared up bitches of Klitschko earlier.
[20:02.880 -> 20:04.840] Apparently, I'm his spitting image.
[20:04.840 -> 20:06.780] Not Vladimir though, the the brother the older brother
[20:06.780 -> 20:12.140] I fight. Oh, I thought you actually meant the fighter. No, no, they're both boxers. I'm more of a Khabib
[20:12.140 -> 20:17.900] I like to wrap my opponents up. I don't do much fist-to-fist fighting. I'm like a straddler
[20:17.900 -> 20:20.420] You like an anaconda like straddling men on the floor
[20:21.300 -> 20:22.780] Strangle them to death
[20:22.780 -> 20:25.400] Let's look at our predictions then. So for this
[20:25.400 -> 20:30.240] weekend you predicted Leclerc first. You got points for that. Let's go. You predicted Verstappen
[20:30.240 -> 20:33.740] second. You would have had points for that if his car didn't break. And Carlos Sainz
[20:33.740 -> 20:38.120] third which didn't happen. Wail for him. I predicted Verstappen to win, Leclerc second,
[20:38.120 -> 20:43.360] Hamilton third. Which everyone laughed at me for putting Mercedes third. And I did have
[20:43.360 -> 20:45.360] Mercedes third but I said Hamilton,
[20:45.360 -> 20:47.760] and I wish I'd put Russell.
[20:47.760 -> 20:51.960] Lissi had Carlos Sainz to win, didn't happen.
[20:51.960 -> 20:54.240] Leclerc second, but Russell third.
[20:54.240 -> 20:56.360] Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold your horses.
[20:56.360 -> 20:57.520] Yeah. What?
[20:57.520 -> 20:58.360] Say it again.
[20:58.360 -> 21:00.040] And we give out more points for third.
[21:00.040 -> 21:00.880] Wow.
[21:00.880 -> 21:02.680] So actually in our competition right now,
[21:02.680 -> 21:03.520] Lissi's beating us at our own game.
[21:03.520 -> 21:10.000] Lissi's winning, and Will Buxton didn't do very well this week but might do better next week. It was cool that Will wanted to do it by the way.
[21:10.000 -> 21:15.000] I thought that was really cool. Yeah, well that's what happens when you have people making predictions you don't really know anything about sport, you know.
[21:15.000 -> 21:17.000] They get things wrong.
[21:17.000 -> 21:27.200] We're gonna try and get Will on another episode halfway through the season and then before we do we'll tell you so you can send in some questions for us to ask him. I wanted to go through
[21:27.200 -> 21:29.860] something I found on Twitter just now when I was getting all these notes
[21:29.860 -> 21:35.100] before this episode. I saw something from signs about when Red when Verstappen
[21:35.100 -> 21:39.100] joined Red Bull and I thought it was really cool when he joined Toro Rosso
[21:39.100 -> 21:44.140] like when he was young because he was really young right it was he was the
[21:44.140 -> 21:46.000] youngest driver to win a race, I think it was.
[21:46.960 -> 21:50.000] Sign said, Red Bull saw something special in him.
[21:50.000 -> 21:51.440] I've heard really good things about him,
[21:51.440 -> 21:53.520] so it'd be nice to see how such a nice kid
[21:53.520 -> 21:54.640] deals with the pressure.
[21:54.640 -> 21:56.280] He is making history.
[21:56.280 -> 21:57.880] This kid has to be very special
[21:57.880 -> 21:59.960] because he's breaking the record big time.
[21:59.960 -> 22:02.840] If you're good enough and Red Bull put the faith in you,
[22:02.840 -> 22:04.480] go and race, why not?
[22:04.480 -> 22:06.600] It's good for the sport and good for the fans.
[22:06.600 -> 22:09.060] And I loved that because I read it like,
[22:09.060 -> 22:11.800] that was when they weren't battling each other.
[22:11.800 -> 22:13.760] Like that, he said that before Verstappen
[22:13.760 -> 22:14.960] had even stepped into the car.
[22:14.960 -> 22:15.800] Signs.
[22:15.800 -> 22:17.120] Yeah, Signs said that about Verstappen.
[22:17.120 -> 22:19.820] I wonder how Signs feels about Verstappen now.
[22:19.820 -> 22:21.540] Now they're like in a proper battle.
[22:21.540 -> 22:23.040] Signs not, you mean Leclerc?
[22:23.040 -> 22:24.920] No, that's Signs who said that.
[22:24.920 -> 22:28.280] Obviously the big battles are Leclerc and Verstappen,
[22:28.280 -> 22:29.760] but you got Ferrari Red Bull as well.
[22:29.760 -> 22:30.920] When did he write that?
[22:30.920 -> 22:32.960] That was when he started, so I'm guessing 2017.
[22:32.960 -> 22:34.040] Wow.
[22:34.040 -> 22:35.560] But it's really interesting because he's,
[22:35.560 -> 22:37.640] Verstappen's just turned into this figure, hasn't he?
[22:37.640 -> 22:40.560] And he's like this season's Hamilton,
[22:40.560 -> 22:42.440] unless Hamilton goes and wins everything,
[22:42.440 -> 22:45.320] you've got the world champion who is holding
[22:45.320 -> 22:46.320] it.
[22:46.320 -> 22:47.320] And Leclerc's-
[22:47.320 -> 22:49.520] As we know though, at the same time, that can be very short-lived.
[22:49.520 -> 22:53.560] Like, amazing that Verstappen won the world championship last year, but I mean, if he
[22:53.560 -> 22:58.600] doesn't follow through this year with another win, and then following the year after, gone.
[22:58.600 -> 22:59.600] Do you know what I mean?
[22:59.600 -> 23:00.600] You do see a few-
[23:00.600 -> 23:02.560] You need to hold on to that to keep your legacy.
[23:02.560 -> 23:05.920] That's why Hamilton's such a big name, because he did get seven or eight of them, whatever it is.
[23:05.920 -> 23:07.200] You do see a few drivers, don't you,
[23:07.200 -> 23:08.560] get that one championship and they're like,
[23:08.560 -> 23:09.960] never come back again.
[23:09.960 -> 23:13.600] And maybe that is just that year they had a perfect car.
[23:13.600 -> 23:15.280] And that's where it brings us back to the percentage
[23:15.280 -> 23:16.480] of the driver to the car.
[23:16.480 -> 23:19.920] But yeah, do you think three races in
[23:21.360 -> 23:24.160] that Leclerc is going to dominate this season?
[23:24.160 -> 23:26.000] I mean, he looks unbelievable.
[23:26.000 -> 23:28.280] Like I always said, it's too hard to say,
[23:28.280 -> 23:33.280] but Leclerc needs to just hang on for as long as he can
[23:33.540 -> 23:36.360] because undoubtedly Mercedes and Red Bull
[23:36.360 -> 23:37.880] are gonna get better.
[23:37.880 -> 23:38.720] Yeah.
[23:38.720 -> 23:40.080] And Ferrari need to check themselves
[23:40.080 -> 23:41.920] and make sure that they're still progressing
[23:41.920 -> 23:43.040] and making their car,
[23:43.040 -> 23:45.420] but I don't get comfortable with basically what I'm saying.
[23:45.420 -> 23:47.000] There's also a rumor going around that,
[23:47.000 -> 23:48.980] well, not a rumor, but there's like a myth.
[23:48.980 -> 23:52.060] Apparently, Merced Ferrari had started the seasons
[23:52.060 -> 23:56.480] really well in 2017 and 2018, but done the same thing.
[23:56.480 -> 23:57.980] Apparently they started amazing
[23:57.980 -> 24:00.000] and then just completely dropped out.
[24:00.000 -> 24:02.160] I'm so jumped up at the minute.
[24:02.160 -> 24:03.400] No, don't get me wrong.
[24:03.400 -> 24:05.400] I want Ferrari to do amazing.
[24:05.400 -> 24:06.920] It's just the best thing that could have happened,
[24:06.920 -> 24:07.760] didn't it?
[24:07.760 -> 24:09.320] When you have the fact that Russell sat second
[24:09.320 -> 24:10.480] in the driver's standings
[24:10.480 -> 24:13.240] and the fact Verstappen is fifth in the driver's standings
[24:13.240 -> 24:14.080] is crazy.
[24:14.080 -> 24:15.080] It's what you want.
[24:15.080 -> 24:16.800] You want, we've said from the beginning,
[24:16.800 -> 24:18.800] we want different cars battling for every week.
[24:18.800 -> 24:20.040] I want to see more from Alpine
[24:20.040 -> 24:21.640] because according to the internet,
[24:21.640 -> 24:24.800] Mercedes are the fifth fastest team
[24:24.800 -> 24:26.120] behind McLaren and Alpine.
[24:26.120 -> 24:27.240] So Alpine are up there.
[24:27.240 -> 24:28.680] Yeah, yeah, Alonso said in his interview,
[24:28.680 -> 24:30.560] he said that we're faster than Mercedes.
[24:30.560 -> 24:32.480] Yeah, so I wanna fucking see a bit more from them.
[24:32.480 -> 24:34.080] They just need that grid position.
[24:34.080 -> 24:34.960] That's it.
[24:34.960 -> 24:37.360] I mean, they're starting so far back sometimes
[24:37.360 -> 24:38.720] that they've got a battle through.
[24:38.720 -> 24:40.320] I think if they get their strategy right.
[24:40.320 -> 24:41.720] They need a good qualifying.
[24:42.880 -> 24:44.720] Well, next week we've got a sprint.
[24:44.720 -> 24:46.760] And I like sprints.
[24:46.760 -> 24:48.280] Sprints are great.
[24:48.280 -> 24:49.400] So that's on the Saturday.
[24:49.400 -> 24:50.240] Yeah, I love it.
[24:50.240 -> 24:51.480] Cause you qualify for the sprint
[24:51.480 -> 24:53.480] and then wherever you finish after the sprint,
[24:53.480 -> 24:54.620] that's where you start on the grid.
[24:54.620 -> 24:56.720] And I like that cause you get like 22 laps
[24:56.720 -> 24:59.940] or whatever it is to battle for your own position.
[24:59.940 -> 25:01.440] I think it's great.
[25:01.440 -> 25:03.400] Some people don't like sprints, we've been through it,
[25:03.400 -> 25:04.520] but I think it's great.
[25:04.520 -> 25:07.080] Yeah, I'm just so gassed that it's Imola.
[25:07.080 -> 25:09.980] I love that track and also Ferrari, right?
[25:09.980 -> 25:10.940] They're dominating the minute
[25:10.940 -> 25:12.380] and it's their fucking home track.
[25:12.380 -> 25:14.100] So Leclerc needs to like make sure
[25:14.100 -> 25:15.540] the pressure doesn't get to him
[25:15.540 -> 25:17.620] because there's going to be every single Italian fan
[25:17.620 -> 25:18.780] is going to be there rooting for him.
[25:18.780 -> 25:19.860] If they're going to win any race,
[25:19.860 -> 25:21.220] it has to be Imola really.
[25:21.220 -> 25:25.200] If they don't win Imola, that will be gutting for them.
[25:25.200 -> 25:28.480] For Leclerc personally, he needs to win Monaco, right? Because that's where he's from.
[25:28.480 -> 25:29.480] Oh yeah, I suppose.
[25:29.480 -> 25:31.200] If he won Monaco in a Ferrari.
[25:31.200 -> 25:36.040] That was my prediction that he wins Monaco. So, yeah, that was one of my predictions.
[25:36.040 -> 25:37.040] I'm happy with that.
[25:37.040 -> 25:38.560] I think you got a good chance of getting that.
[25:38.560 -> 25:42.720] Well, I needed as much as I can after you got your Haas one, right? You needed points
[25:42.720 -> 25:44.640] in the first few races, they got points in the first two.
[25:44.640 -> 25:45.520] What else? I want to go back to my predictions because I don first few races. They got points in the first two. What else?
[25:45.520 -> 25:46.360] I want to go back to my predictions
[25:46.360 -> 25:47.280] because I don't remember them.
[25:47.280 -> 25:49.240] My five predictions from the start of the year.
[25:49.240 -> 25:50.560] Haas didn't get any points today
[25:50.560 -> 25:52.600] for the first time in this season.
[25:52.600 -> 25:55.680] They finished 12th and 13th, I believe.
[25:55.680 -> 25:56.960] Alonso's not made a podium yet,
[25:56.960 -> 25:58.400] but he's come fucking close.
[25:58.400 -> 25:59.840] That is a good prediction.
[25:59.840 -> 26:01.600] Alonso to get a podium is an amazing-
[26:01.600 -> 26:02.440] At least twice.
[26:02.440 -> 26:03.260] Yeah.
[26:07.280 -> 26:11.360] No, it is a good prediction. I feel like it could happen. After you saying that Verstappen's going out, I feel like he has a weird aura by the way.
[26:11.360 -> 26:13.400] Fab has this weird aura around him.
[26:13.400 -> 26:19.360] If you're going to trust anyone's predictions or anything he says, this is the guy, okay?
[26:19.360 -> 26:23.840] Everywhere we go out in public, he bumps into someone he knows.
[26:23.840 -> 26:27.760] It's ridiculous to the point of, we an uber to the Emirates football stadium
[26:27.760 -> 26:31.400] To go and watch Arsenal play we pull over on the side in a random place
[26:31.400 -> 26:33.360] We could have pulled over anywhere because there's traffic
[26:33.360 -> 26:36.700] We just got out there to walk to a stadium as soon as we get out the car
[26:36.920 -> 26:39.560] He steps out turns around and he was standing there
[26:39.560 -> 26:44.100] So my second cousin my dad's cousin who I haven't seen since I was a kid that is ridiculous
[26:44.100 -> 26:46.360] I couldn't even really have told you what he looked like anymore.
[26:46.360 -> 26:48.600] I just got out the car and I was like, boom, it's him.
[26:48.680 -> 26:51.560] And then the other day we were out at Shoreditch or a couple of months ago
[26:51.560 -> 26:53.880] and we were walking around at like 2am.
[26:53.920 -> 26:57.440] We were going to go home and we found this random bar that looked pretty bad.
[26:57.600 -> 27:00.200] It was blacked out at the front and we walked straight in it.
[27:00.200 -> 27:01.560] Then we just stand at the bar.
[27:01.560 -> 27:02.840] You're like, I'm going to go to a toilet.
[27:02.840 -> 27:03.960] Fab's gone for 20 minutes.
[27:03.960 -> 27:04.520] Who did you meet?
[27:05.740 -> 27:07.900] Rax, my friend Rax from Spotify.
[27:07.900 -> 27:09.460] Yeah, fucking absolute legend.
[27:09.460 -> 27:10.300] It happens everywhere we go.
[27:10.300 -> 27:11.820] And do you know what's really weird as well?
[27:11.820 -> 27:13.340] Cause we went out in Brighton recently.
[27:13.340 -> 27:14.820] Yeah, who did you bump into there?
[27:14.820 -> 27:16.140] I remember saying to you at the start of the night,
[27:16.140 -> 27:17.980] I was like, I bet I bump into someone I know.
[27:17.980 -> 27:19.220] But in the back of my mind, I was thinking,
[27:19.220 -> 27:20.740] nah, it's happened too many times recently.
[27:20.740 -> 27:21.580] It probably won't happen.
[27:21.580 -> 27:23.140] And I fucking bumped into someone I knew.
[27:23.140 -> 27:24.380] It happens every time.
[27:24.380 -> 27:27.280] They just, honestly, if you're gonna trust anyone's predictions
[27:27.280 -> 27:32.320] just this man what he says is probably gonna happen. It's weird. So Alonso two podiums.
[27:33.280 -> 27:38.320] Yeah at least. Any ideas of where they where he might get them? It'd be good to look at what
[27:38.320 -> 27:42.800] tracks Alonso likes. I think it would be like a classic track like one that's been around for a
[27:42.800 -> 27:45.880] while that he's raced a lot and And like not one of the newer ones,
[27:45.880 -> 27:47.240] the one that he just feels at home.
[27:47.240 -> 27:49.200] Yeah, Joe did amazing today
[27:49.200 -> 27:50.160] because that would be the first time
[27:50.160 -> 27:51.680] he's raced at Australia.
[27:51.680 -> 27:53.680] Well, he might have been F2 to be fair.
[27:53.680 -> 27:55.040] Maybe that's completely wrong.
[27:55.040 -> 27:57.560] But I know they didn't race in Australia since 2019.
[27:57.560 -> 28:00.460] So some of the rookies might have never raced there before.
[28:00.460 -> 28:02.280] Could be wrong, they might have been F2.
[28:02.280 -> 28:04.840] But yeah, it's a completely different cat of fish.
[28:04.840 -> 28:05.740] F2 and F1.
[28:05.740 -> 28:06.940] We didn't see any of the F2
[28:06.940 -> 28:09.140] cause I was not getting up at 3 a.m.
[28:09.140 -> 28:11.300] I think the, do you know what, it's like the mind games.
[28:11.300 -> 28:13.380] Like you and me have been talking a lot
[28:13.380 -> 28:15.940] about the SAS recently and like SAS training
[28:15.940 -> 28:17.940] and the new series of SAS Who Dares Wins
[28:17.940 -> 28:19.420] on channel four tonight, if anyone's wondering.
[28:19.420 -> 28:20.580] Not sponsored, wish it was.
[28:20.580 -> 28:21.400] Yeah, not sponsored.
[28:21.400 -> 28:22.660] Actually, it would have been last night
[28:22.660 -> 28:25.840] because today's Monday, Sunday night, nine o'clock. Get it.
[28:25.840 -> 28:27.720] Sam's really sponsored now.
[28:27.720 -> 28:31.200] China 4 just paid us half a million pence.
[28:31.200 -> 28:34.960] Honestly, if they did, we'd be getting a yacht for the Monaco Grand Prix.
[28:34.960 -> 28:39.000] Five or each. But no, they talk, they always talk a lot about mindset and how like in a
[28:39.000 -> 28:42.960] stressful situation, you have to like remain calm and focused. And that's what all these
[28:42.960 -> 28:46.440] drivers will have to do. Like, and especially for someone like a rookie,
[28:46.440 -> 28:48.640] like Joe, stepping up into F1,
[28:48.640 -> 28:52.240] it's like, this is the world stage for motorsports now.
[28:52.240 -> 28:54.480] Like, even though you were in an F2 car
[28:54.480 -> 28:56.320] and they're still fucking quick
[28:56.320 -> 28:58.320] and there's a lot of similarities
[28:58.320 -> 29:01.120] and you do all the same tracks roughly,
[29:01.120 -> 29:04.800] I think stepping into F1, it's like a big, big step up.
[29:04.800 -> 29:05.880] You can't even compare them.
[29:05.880 -> 29:08.160] The whole world is watching you.
[29:08.160 -> 29:09.040] It's just the cameras.
[29:09.040 -> 29:10.560] A lot of it would be just turning up,
[29:10.560 -> 29:12.960] waking up in the morning, leaving your room,
[29:12.960 -> 29:14.000] and the second you leave your room,
[29:14.000 -> 29:15.480] you've probably got five cameras in your face
[29:15.480 -> 29:16.960] because Netflix are following every driver
[29:16.960 -> 29:19.280] of where they go, Sky film and everything.
[29:19.280 -> 29:21.760] The cameras being there adds so much pressure
[29:21.760 -> 29:23.520] and you feel like you have to hide emotion more
[29:23.520 -> 29:24.360] when there's cameras on.
[29:24.360 -> 29:29.400] So it's a difficult one to juggle.
[29:29.760 -> 29:33.520] We had a great weekend from Latifi, he finished the race.
[29:33.520 -> 29:34.360] Latifi finished the race.
[29:34.360 -> 29:37.400] Wow, fucking hell Latifi, let's go.
[29:37.400 -> 29:38.840] After qualifying yesterday,
[29:38.840 -> 29:41.520] well, he managed to crash with Stro in,
[29:41.520 -> 29:42.360] that was an interesting one, wasn't it?
[29:42.360 -> 29:45.000] It was interesting because initially you would think it was Latifi's fault, but then I was thinking maybe it was actually a bit of Stro's fault. Yeah, that was an interesting one, wasn't it? It was interesting because initially you would think
[29:45.000 -> 29:47.000] it was Latifi's fault, but then I was thinking
[29:47.000 -> 29:48.080] maybe it was actually-
[29:48.080 -> 29:50.160] Yeah, that was a difficult one of how you judge it
[29:50.160 -> 29:52.800] because Latifi let him go,
[29:52.800 -> 29:55.360] and then Stroh also was kind of letting him go,
[29:55.360 -> 29:56.640] and then he didn't check his suit.
[29:56.640 -> 29:58.000] That wasn't really anyone's fault,
[29:58.000 -> 30:00.960] but I'm not sure about Latifi.
[30:00.960 -> 30:03.040] I did think Williams would struggle this season.
[30:03.040 -> 30:05.360] To be fair, Alex had an amazing drive today,
[30:05.360 -> 30:06.200] not taking anything away from him.
[30:06.200 -> 30:08.300] But he probably will be the one
[30:08.300 -> 30:10.080] to bring in the points for sure.
[30:10.080 -> 30:11.800] And if he does, like good on him.
[30:11.800 -> 30:13.560] Everyone on Twitter seems to think Latifi
[30:13.560 -> 30:14.860] is this year's Mazepin.
[30:15.800 -> 30:18.000] So we could see quite a few more DNFs and crashes.
[30:18.000 -> 30:20.560] Maybe there's just like a curse, yeah, on Formula One.
[30:20.560 -> 30:23.080] It's you, you're the one setting the curse on people.
[30:23.080 -> 30:25.840] One driver is just gonna be fucking terrible.
[30:25.840 -> 30:27.080] And because Mazepin's gone,
[30:27.080 -> 30:28.960] his curse has moved onto the TV instead.
[30:28.960 -> 30:31.040] I think there has to be someone on the grid.
[30:31.040 -> 30:32.440] Terrible, it makes it interesting.
[30:32.440 -> 30:35.360] There has to be someone to cause the safety car,
[30:35.360 -> 30:36.200] cause the flags.
[30:36.200 -> 30:37.960] I think every race, every other race,
[30:37.960 -> 30:39.640] they should allow one member of the public
[30:39.640 -> 30:40.960] to just join at the back of the grid
[30:40.960 -> 30:42.640] and see how well they do.
[30:42.640 -> 30:43.480] Imagine that.
[30:43.480 -> 30:45.600] Fab's pitching new rules to the FIA.
[30:45.600 -> 30:46.440] Yeah, I'd love it.
[30:46.440 -> 30:48.960] When did someone tag us in earlier about the golf?
[30:48.960 -> 30:50.920] I don't know, but I've got a bone to pick with our fans
[30:50.920 -> 30:53.080] because you put a thing up from Goodwood saying
[30:53.080 -> 30:54.720] who would win in a race in this F1 car
[30:54.720 -> 30:56.880] and you've got like so many more fucking quotes than me.
[30:56.880 -> 30:59.480] Of course mate, because you're the one who's always like,
[30:59.480 -> 31:01.320] I'd beat you in a race, I'm so quick.
[31:01.320 -> 31:03.280] Put me in a F1 car and I'd win.
[31:03.280 -> 31:07.160] Put me in an F1 car, I'd be faster than the driver. I just sit here quietly.
[31:07.160 -> 31:09.800] You're the one who just said that all my predictions are true.
[31:09.800 -> 31:13.920] Yeah, the predictions are true. If you're going to, let's put it this way, if you're
[31:13.920 -> 31:17.800] going to pick a driver to win a race, even though I cannot drive a manual car, you're
[31:17.800 -> 31:21.040] going to pick the one who's drove for the longest, probably. So that might be another
[31:21.040 -> 31:22.440] reason people are voting for me.
[31:22.440 -> 31:27.360] Yeah, that's funny though, because you've probably been driving longer than Joe and Yuki Tsunoda.
[31:27.360 -> 31:28.360] Probably, yeah.
[31:28.360 -> 31:30.560] But they're definitely better drivers than me.
[31:30.560 -> 31:31.840] We're gonna settle it anyway.
[31:31.840 -> 31:32.840] I reckon I'm better than them.
[31:32.840 -> 31:35.200] We're gonna... this is why people vote for me!
[31:35.200 -> 31:36.680] We're gonna settle it.
[31:36.680 -> 31:41.640] We're gonna settle it, even with a go-kart race or some kind of race, we will settle it.
[31:41.640 -> 31:44.360] Don't worry about it. We're gonna have our own little competition.
[31:44.360 -> 31:48.640] We've got loads of things coming. What we need to need to do yeah is we need to buy a plot of land
[31:49.360 -> 31:55.120] and then we just we build every single racetrack on it like from the f1 calendar but like miniature
[31:55.120 -> 32:00.320] size and we do it in go-karts so we have like a miniature baray in a miniature monaco that would
[32:00.320 -> 32:05.360] be fucking unbelievable if there's any brands listening or anyone with a spare fuel,
[32:05.360 -> 32:06.520] any farmer out there.
[32:06.520 -> 32:10.120] Yeah, who wants to be involved in an incredible series.
[32:10.120 -> 32:11.720] That would be amazing.
[32:11.720 -> 32:13.680] Imagine we like spent like months
[32:13.680 -> 32:15.080] just cutting out these tracks,
[32:15.080 -> 32:16.960] maybe all your mates to come.
[32:16.960 -> 32:18.280] And you could do, the best bit was,
[32:18.280 -> 32:20.760] if it was short, you could do like the amount of laps it is.
[32:20.760 -> 32:23.560] You could do like 60, 57 laps or something.
[32:23.560 -> 32:25.280] And like two pits.
[32:25.280 -> 32:27.160] You have to pit, yeah, you have to pit.
[32:27.160 -> 32:28.720] We can get our mates to put the tyres on.
[32:28.720 -> 32:29.560] Oh my.
[32:29.560 -> 32:31.880] That would be so funny.
[32:31.880 -> 32:32.720] Let's do it.
[32:32.720 -> 32:34.240] If the people want to see it, we'll do it.
[32:34.240 -> 32:35.320] Do you know what, it's dangerous
[32:35.320 -> 32:38.280] because we both have such fucking weird,
[32:38.280 -> 32:41.040] creative, explosive minds that we come up with ideas
[32:41.040 -> 32:42.520] and we're like, fuck, we need to do it now.
[32:42.520 -> 32:44.120] But we just don't have the resources for it.
[32:44.120 -> 32:45.240] Yeah, we come up with so many.
[32:45.240 -> 32:47.520] We wanted to start filming the F1 game.
[32:47.520 -> 32:49.560] And then we ordered these Dazzle capture cards.
[32:49.560 -> 32:51.360] They're not actually Dazzles, they're Elgato's.
[32:51.360 -> 32:53.880] But I call them Dazzles because back in the day,
[32:53.880 -> 32:55.000] we used to make Call of Duty vids.
[32:55.000 -> 32:55.840] Call of Duty.
[32:55.840 -> 32:57.560] Call of Duty vids with my Dazzle.
[32:57.560 -> 32:59.280] This probably won't mean anything to anyone.
[32:59.280 -> 33:01.720] HP Hopage, if anyone out there knows this shit.
[33:01.720 -> 33:04.160] You needed a SCAR plug and like five wires.
[33:04.160 -> 33:06.160] And yeah, that's how you did it with a dazzle.
[33:06.160 -> 33:08.520] But yeah, we got these Elgato's, they didn't even work.
[33:08.520 -> 33:10.360] So we're waiting for new ones.
[33:10.360 -> 33:12.560] And then we're going to get our full race on, on the game.
[33:12.560 -> 33:14.400] Yeah, there's going to be a serious fucking show now.
[33:14.400 -> 33:15.640] Serious battle going on.
[33:15.640 -> 33:16.840] That'll be on our YouTube and TikTok.
[33:16.840 -> 33:19.720] We wanted to get it done ASAP, but then we had the issue.
[33:19.720 -> 33:21.560] But we're also aware that the new game
[33:21.560 -> 33:22.640] is going to be coming out.
[33:22.640 -> 33:24.600] So maybe, I don't know, depends,
[33:24.600 -> 33:30.360] but maybe we just wait till the actual game yeah and all the same cars as
[33:30.360 -> 33:34.760] well you know yeah but yeah there we go that is the end of Australia now we're
[33:34.760 -> 33:38.520] looking forward towards Imola we got a weekend off which I'm pretty sad about
[33:38.520 -> 33:42.400] me and Fab we're actually speaking about and I'm gonna just quickly say it because
[33:42.400 -> 33:49.840] it'd be interesting to get people's reactions. Send us a message on Pitstop what you feel about this. But we were thinking,
[33:49.840 -> 33:54.080] like when there's big gaps in race weekends, because you know like the other F1 podcasts
[33:54.080 -> 33:57.840] you may listen to, they might not upload when there's nothing on. We want to keep uploading,
[33:57.840 -> 34:02.160] but how would you guys feel if like in that Thursday ep, or when there's nothing on in
[34:02.160 -> 34:06.120] the Sunday ep, like maybe a weekend off. If the episode was on something different,
[34:06.120 -> 34:07.880] like it would still be us talking about,
[34:07.880 -> 34:09.640] it would, you know, come back to Formula One
[34:09.640 -> 34:11.600] and we're talking about sports or whatever.
[34:11.600 -> 34:13.640] But maybe we just have a different focus.
[34:13.640 -> 34:14.800] I don't know.
[34:14.800 -> 34:15.760] We could talk about anything,
[34:15.760 -> 34:16.600] because we have some of the most
[34:16.600 -> 34:18.040] in-depth conversations sometimes.
[34:18.040 -> 34:20.520] And we're like, we wish we were just podcasting about this.
[34:20.520 -> 34:21.360] You know what I mean?
[34:21.360 -> 34:22.180] Yeah, we did it.
[34:22.180 -> 34:23.020] We did it once.
[34:23.020 -> 34:23.920] We were like sat on the sofa having like a,
[34:23.920 -> 34:45.120] I think all the mics were set up from a podcast like we did before and then we ended up getting on this long ass chat and then we were just like, let's just let me talk about would you rather we did stuff like that?
[34:47.560 -> 34:49.280] And it was like interesting and- I guess as long as it's not too personal.
[34:49.280 -> 34:50.920] So like, not in that way,
[34:50.920 -> 34:52.760] but as in like, I don't think people would wanna hear us
[34:52.760 -> 34:54.080] just talk about us the whole time.
[34:54.080 -> 34:55.600] But if we had like certain topics that we could dive into.
[34:55.600 -> 34:57.120] Yeah, if we top it then.
[34:57.120 -> 34:59.160] Yeah, if one was just, yeah, I agree with that.
[34:59.160 -> 35:00.000] But let us know,
[35:00.000 -> 35:01.400] because if you want it to stay completely Formula One,
[35:01.400 -> 35:02.220] that's not a problem,
[35:02.220 -> 35:03.920] because we love doing the quizzes and the games
[35:03.920 -> 35:06.240] and recapping and talking about things like that.
[35:06.240 -> 35:08.580] I'm just saying for when there's no race on.
[35:08.580 -> 35:11.520] And I say that because we know is we got less listens
[35:11.520 -> 35:13.240] when there's no race on, which makes sense.
[35:13.240 -> 35:15.080] Like there's no, you don't need to listen to,
[35:15.080 -> 35:16.840] maybe you're not interested when there's not a race on.
[35:16.840 -> 35:17.680] Yeah.
[35:17.680 -> 35:18.880] But we want to try and make it as interesting for you.
[35:18.880 -> 35:21.360] So send us a message on app pitstop on Instagram.
[35:21.360 -> 35:23.480] Let us know if you think that'd be a good idea.
[35:23.480 -> 35:28.120] Or, or like pigeon, write a note, strap it to a pigeon.
[35:28.120 -> 35:30.040] What happened to you the other day, by the way?
[35:30.040 -> 35:30.880] Oh no.
[35:30.880 -> 35:31.720] Oh my God.
[35:31.720 -> 35:33.360] Murderer, I'm a murderer.
[35:33.360 -> 35:37.400] Yeah, he's been, Fab has done a naughty again.
[35:37.400 -> 35:39.200] It wasn't even my fault though.
[35:39.200 -> 35:40.600] You killed a bird.
[35:40.600 -> 35:41.440] A pigeon.
[35:41.440 -> 35:43.520] It wasn't a pigeon, mate, it was a pheasant.
[35:43.520 -> 35:44.360] It was like brown.
[35:44.360 -> 35:45.920] It wasn't a pheasant. It wasn't a pigeon, I It was a pheasant. It was like it wasn't a it wasn't a pigeon
[35:45.920 -> 35:51.160] I saw it out my window. It was like brown with like red feathers on it. It was a big bird
[35:51.160 -> 35:54.200] Well, I'm not fucking surprised because the noise it made when I hit my window
[35:54.200 -> 35:59.320] We were just rolling through the car park. We were cruising like five miles per hour max
[35:59.520 -> 36:03.660] Just sat there sat back and you know like in the horror movies like when you know
[36:03.660 -> 36:05.920] Someone's gonna get t-boned by a lorry
[36:05.920 -> 36:08.280] and there's like a side profile shot of them driving
[36:08.280 -> 36:10.520] and you see the lorry coming in the side window.
[36:10.520 -> 36:11.560] That's what it was like for me.
[36:11.560 -> 36:13.760] I just see this fucking bird in the corner of my eye
[36:13.760 -> 36:14.600] and then bam!
[36:14.600 -> 36:17.160] I was like, oh my God.
[36:17.160 -> 36:18.920] It fucking rolled across my roof.
[36:18.920 -> 36:19.760] And then I don't know what happened to me.
[36:19.760 -> 36:20.840] I had no idea what was going on.
[36:20.840 -> 36:23.120] I sat in the seat next to him and I just hear a bang.
[36:23.120 -> 36:25.140] And I'm looking around, but I couldn't see a bird.
[36:25.140 -> 36:27.440] I thought like you'd hit your wing mirror on another car
[36:27.440 -> 36:29.880] or someone had like bang, crashed into the car.
[36:29.880 -> 36:31.360] It was so loud, I couldn't see anything.
[36:31.360 -> 36:32.560] But then I looked out the left window
[36:32.560 -> 36:35.440] and I just saw this bird like rolling into the bush.
[36:35.440 -> 36:37.800] And I think birds do the same as a lot of animals.
[36:37.800 -> 36:40.040] Like when they know they're gonna die, they hide.
[36:40.040 -> 36:40.880] Yeah.
[36:40.880 -> 36:41.700] So.
[36:41.700 -> 36:43.520] Or maybe he was just dazzled and a bit dazed.
[36:43.520 -> 36:46.640] But that's a, mate, it It just got full power into your window.
[36:46.640 -> 36:47.640] Imagine that we were saying,
[36:47.640 -> 36:49.120] imagine the window was open.
[36:49.120 -> 36:49.960] Oh my God.
[36:49.960 -> 36:51.960] If the window had been open mate.
[36:51.960 -> 36:53.560] I would have landed straight on my lap.
[36:53.560 -> 36:56.200] I would have been out of that car quicker than Usain Bolt.
[36:56.200 -> 36:57.040] You would not believe it.
[36:57.040 -> 36:57.860] That thing flapping around
[36:57.860 -> 36:59.280] would have scared the shit out of me.
[36:59.280 -> 37:00.960] No way mate.
[37:00.960 -> 37:01.920] That would have been so funny.
[37:01.920 -> 37:02.880] I don't like moths.
[37:02.880 -> 37:05.840] So let alone having a fucking bird like in a spine you know confined
[37:05.840 -> 37:12.480] space. Fab is petrified of moths. That's for another podcast let's wrap this up. Let's wrap
[37:12.480 -> 37:18.080] this one up. I could make a whole podcast about moths. Yeah let us know on Instagram at pitstop
[37:18.080 -> 37:21.520] if you want us to do different things on the episodes when there's not race week we're happy
[37:21.520 -> 37:25.600] to do either we love doing both. Our. Our TikTok is at Pitstop as well.
[37:25.600 -> 37:27.120] We upload loads of cutdowns on there.
[37:27.120 -> 37:28.880] So follow that if you haven't already.
[37:28.880 -> 37:31.280] And yeah, give the podcast a five-star review,
[37:31.280 -> 37:32.920] hit the follow button if you haven't,
[37:32.920 -> 37:35.400] and we'll be back on Thursday
[37:35.400 -> 37:37.860] for a brand new podcast episode.
[37:39.280 -> 37:40.120] Poddy.
[37:41.280 -> 37:42.120] Nice.
[37:42.120 -> 37:42.960] Yo.
[37:42.960 -> 37:43.780] Nice, see you guys on Thursday.
[37:43.780 -> 37:45.000] Insane! Later!
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