March 23, 2025 • 16 mins
THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Monday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) No, Actually... Good Point/Renewables Still Just an Idea/Be Careful What You Wish For/Keep Being Boring/Poor Little Liam
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
The Rewrap there and welcome to the Rewrap for Monday.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
All the best, but's from the Mic Hosking Breakfast on
Newstalks EDB in a sillier package. I am Glenn Hard
And today there's talk of wind farms. Just a little
hot air doge and Tesla is going an absolute treat
in the States. The warriors are going down to treat
(00:48):
and the Mic Hosking household.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Less so Liam Lawson unfortunately.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
But before any of that, do we trust the media
here in New Zealand?
Speaker 4 (00:57):
He is trust in the media and not particularly high.
This is the trusted barome to thirty five percent of
people think they've got trusted in the New Zealand media
down by once. It hasn't really moved. But the global
averages fifty two, what do you doing? What does tend
to skew the global averages? You get repressed countries where
there's a great deal of government control. In other words,
the press isn't free, and those people tend to believe
(01:18):
in the media more so than in more free, open
societies like New Zealand. It's down from forty one in
twenty twenty two. Competence and ethics in the New Zealand
media well underwater. Negative ratings only matched by government agencies,
which is disturbing. Social media is down eight points to
twenty percent, and I have no idea way which try
social media at all. Sixty seven percent of those believe
(01:40):
reporters and journalists lie. Isn't that amazing? Sixty seven percent?
In other words, the vast majority of people believe reporters
and journalists lie or purposely mislead. For government leaders it's
fifty eight. For business leaders it's fifty nine. In the
media it is sixty seven. Pretty roping, And I can
(02:03):
see how people come to that conclusion. They don't lie.
Journalists do not lie, certainly the ones I know do
not lie. But do they mislead? And the that's is
the vexed and interesting.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Is the real question more? Do they miss knowingly mislead?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Because I don't think many of them knowingly mislead, but
they unknowingly swallow the stuff that they see, read, are
told and then regurgitate it.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Sometimes I think that that can happen. I know I do.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Because I've never had any opinions of my own, so yeah,
I just borrow other people's and sometimes they're terrible opinions,
very uninformed.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
So yeah, I don't know what I'm doing. Don't listen
to me.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Rewrap, you've decided you're still going to listen to me,
all right, then let's talk about renewable energy wind farms.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
It's pretty windy here, isn't it now?
Speaker 4 (02:58):
The swing and I missed I'm afraid to tell you
Contact as an energy as in the Power Company wanted
to build a wind farm in Southland. They've been turned down?
Are they not the first? They will not be the last?
Close to three hundred million end dollars and hundreds of
jobs are now not going to happen. Also, the need
to build fifteen gigawats of additional capacity in the next
twenty five years will not be happening either. So far
we've built three gigawatts. We're entering what's actually less than three.
(03:21):
We're entering yet another winter where it's touch and go
and power supply. The minister's been busy whacking his finger
at the gent tailor's. The climate campaigners bark on about
the role of renewables. We continue to import record amounts
of coal to cover the gap. We've cut a deal
to keep Huntly going ever longer because the renewable dream
is getting further and further away. Renewables may or may
not be the answer to our problem at all. The
simple truth about water, sun and wind is there beyond
(03:43):
our control. Coal and nuclear isn't. But we seem to
insist renewables are what we want to do, and yet
we don't do it. That is nimbiism as far as
I can work out, it's going to kill us. We
seem happy to be shocked every year at the coal pile.
We seem to be happy to be unhappy at the
idea we don't have enough power to get us through winter.
The industry tells us they're investing in wind and solar,
but are they? How many get turned down versus how
(04:05):
many actually get the go ahead? Are we actually probe
dressing or taking a step forward and then a step back?
Here's your ultimate irony. There's been a lot said about
this government's fast track law. Right their fast Track law
is actually just an extension or an amendment of the
old fast Track Law which Labour produced during COVID under
that fast track law. This particular wind project that I
(04:27):
talk of got turned down, So is a no fast
track or no track? He question, if you can't get
a wind farm through under fast track, are we actually
into solving issues or not?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
So a classic example of me, you know, hearing, seeing
reading something and just assuming that it's true and then
regurgitating it is I am one of the best programs
I've watched this year so far as land Man, which
is a Taylor Sheridan joint. So he's the guy who
(05:04):
brought us Yellowstone and its pre qualls, and that's anyway.
Land Man is set in Texas and the oil fields,
and Billy Bob Thornton.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Is the land man of the title of the show,
the titular Landman.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
But at one point he does this fantastic speech about
the process involved in building maintaining a wind turbine and
how much worse for the environment it actually.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Is that and running stuff with oil.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
And I assume that that is all true what he says,
But whether it is or isn't, it sounds so cool
that I've told so many people about it since.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Anyway, watch land Man. I think that was the point
of my story wrap.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Speaking of other weird stuff going on in the States,
how's DOGE tuning up for people?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Are they loving it? Are they loving their Tesla's?
Speaker 4 (06:04):
I mentioned the federal judge a temporary restraining order barring
DOGE from getting access to personally identifiable information at the
Social Security Administration. Then we got associated with doje Elon
Tesler company called Edmunds have put out interesting information over
the weekend in March. They saw the highest ever they
deal with the car industry in America, the highest ever
(06:25):
share of people trading in their tesla's. People can't trade
in tesla's fast enough. Also over the weekend, unfortunately, the
cyber truck has been recalled. Forty six thousand cyber trucks
have been recalled, which is pretty much every cyber truck
that's ever been made has been recalled because those bits
are falling off. I did read also over the weekend. Unfortunately,
there's a cyber truck somewhere in the country at the
(06:47):
moment doing the rounds in the publicity round. So I
don't know if that's one of those cyber trucks is
going to be.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Said, so anyway, it seems to be recalled so often
are they recalling it from the places that they've recalled them.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Time, no idea. I don't know whether you also have
to pick up the bits that fell off to send
them back either. It gets tricky, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
It's the weirdest thing seeing all these the cyber truck,
especially seeing that on fire and melting with the or
the protesting going on, because I seen to recall did
mass shoot it with a bullet or had it with
a golf club or I'm just trying to remember exactly
(07:22):
what he did and then it broke when he demonstrated
it and it wasn't supposed to because he hit the
wrong part or something. Anyway, one thing is for said
that they're not fire proofs, as the last week or those.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Activities have proved.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
The rewrap.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Wow, a lot of sport on on the weekend, wasn't
there the Warriors?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Yes, they played.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I don't know how interesting a game it was, but
the result went the right way.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
If your Warriors fan, I.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Think the calculation will be just thinking about this over
the weekend, I think the calculation will be that if
we win well this weekend against the Tigers, and I'm
anticipating we will then we can officially forget about Las Vegas.
What do you reckon? When you look at the last
two weeks at home? Vegas seems increasingly inexplicable, don't you think?
And within those two victories two very different sorts of victories.
I thought of panting against manly heap of points, pile
of free flowing football versus the roosters, where we battled,
(08:12):
where we see sword, where the points were harder to
come by. By the way the conversions messed by Metcalf.
I don't know what's going on there. That might be
a thing to think about. The Harris de Vita try
wasn't under the posts, I know, but it was hardly
on the sideline and the kick got butchered. In fact,
both kicks got butchered. They barely looked like they were
heading anywhere close and in low scoring games two or
four points can be the difference. And Luke Metcalf looks
(08:34):
good normally, so I'm not sure what happened there. Anyway.
The last try was probably the pick of them, but
Harris Devita might have something to say about that. His
was very individual and showed some style and confidence I
thought anyway, worth noting as well for trained spot as
we don't normally beat the roosters, and I think we
can say we played the roosters at their own game
and found them wanting. So here's the thing. The more
we play like this, like a proper, well drilled, discipline, fit,
(08:57):
agile professional side, the more weird Vegas looks. Two from three.
It's fine. And although round one was a blowout, the
comeback has not been scrappy, it's not been lucky, it's
not been ropy, been a joy to watch high quality
football that of Vegas had never happened, you'd be full
of confidence that all the expectation and faith placed in
the side was very well judged. Indeed, so as I say,
(09:18):
let's look or book a good win in this weekend
and we can put the whole opener to bed and
get on with the season. In totality so far, injuries aside,
and that might actually become a bit of a talking
point going for but injuries aside, this is good stuff.
This is promising. We are competitive and competitive with no
shortage of style. Evidence would suggest this is our year.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
And the interesting thing about that game, as far as
I'm consumed, because I didn't find the game itself very interesting.
Was so I did the screen stacking experiment on Friday
night because the F one was on at the same
flove of practice and qualifying sessions. We're on at the
same time as the twenty twenty matches against Pakistan, which
(10:02):
is on at the same time as the Chiefs playing
Milana Pacifica, which is on at the same time as
the lead So literally four things happening at once.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I set up an iPad.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I was watching the cricket on the big TV and
was swapping around on my phone and on my iPad
with the other so I literally was trying to watch
four things at once, more just as an experiment than
anything else. It did make my brain hurt by the
end of the night. But the thing that became very
clear to me is that the people who claim rugby
league is more exciting than rugby are wrong. I get
(10:35):
why they say that, because there is it's much more fluent,
and there's a lot less stopping and starting and so
as far as that goes, But it's but I found
I find it very one dimensional. It's just the same
thing again and again and again. It's just, you know,
one team bashes up against the other team for a
(10:58):
few tackles, they either you know, make something happen at
the end or they don't, and then the other team
comes back. It's part of the reason why I don't
like NFL, you know, the American football, it's the same.
It's very it's all very one dimensional, whereas at least
with rugby you've got lots of different people doing lots
of different things with different skills and doing it different ways.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
That was my takeaway anyway.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
But the Warriors did that boring thing very well and
well enough to beat the Roosters, and so let's hope
they continue to be that boring for the rest of
the season.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Rerap.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Oh yes, and I didn't have to worry about watching
the F one for very long because, of course, in
terms of the qualifying for the sprint race, which was
going to happen the next day. On that Friday night,
once again, Lean Lawson dipped out in the first round,
and so I immediately last interested in that and could then
just focus on the rugby and the cricket.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Your heart goes out to Liam Lawson at the moment
because he's he's on the booge are getting not sacked
he'll be replaced and put into the racing balls if
things don't improve and improved dramatically. Micah thought he came fifteenth,
not twelfth. If you missed it, he came. A couple
of people got disqualified, So, in other words, did he
work his way up the field, not really. A couple
of cars retired after the end of the race too.
(12:18):
Ferrari's got disqualified, ghastly got disqualified for technical issues, and
so therefore he sort of almost came twelfth by default.
The more important thing, and this is a very good text,
Mike Newby here, If one new be here, can you
give us an insight as to why the red Bull
car is so hard to drive? For a second drive?
But the answer, in really simple terms is to make
(12:39):
a car compliant, you need downforce. These cars operate their
best on downforce, and the more downforce you have, the
more stable the car is. In other words, downforce forces
the car into the ground. If you didn't have downforce,
the car is so light and so powerful it would
simply leave the ground, So you use downforce to give
it traction. Now Max uses less downforce at the front
(13:03):
than he does at the back. So in other words,
if you have the same at the front and the
same at the back, you have it's a balanced car.
The problem with the balance car is doesn't go as fast,
and so you try and unbalance the car to the
point where you can drive it where it's got less
downforce but more speed and the brilliance of a stap
And is he's able to do that in a way
that most other people can't.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Is he one of those guys who sort of leaned
forward over the steering wheel of bit when he drives.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Probably not, But anyway, Liam hasn't been given enough practice.
And that's another weird quirk of the sport. There are
very there is very little time you get to spend
behind the car. So it's not like he sits there
in the car during Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday just driving
it round and round and around and getting really used
to it.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Can you not sneak out in the middle of the No.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
You can't because they hear the engine when you start it.
And so the problem is that Max drives it in
a way that only Max can drive it, and nobody
else seems to now. When they went for the test
at Silverstone last year, Liam, after seven months of not
driving it, jumped in and got within two tenths of
max Withstap and they saw that and then went the
guy can drive. He still can drive. They know he
can drive. They've got the data to show he can drive.
(14:07):
What he can't do it at the moment is bring
the confidence with them to do it. And it's killing them.
And so it's one of those scenarios in which are
the worse it gets, the worse it gets. And so
my guess and gut is they'll give him Japan in
a week and a half's time, and if he doesn't
it because that track he knows and he's been on
China and Australia he hadn't so you've got to give
(14:28):
him that. So if he can't perform in Japan, they're
going to drop them. They'll put him in the Racing
Bulls and they'll probably elevate SNOA or I. Note that
a helmet Marko over the weekend said that look at Hadger,
who's in the racing Bulls team as well. But answer
short answer to your question, it's the balance of the car,
and the car is so unbalanced you need to be
a freak to drive it. And Verstapan's a freak and
(14:50):
Liam unfortunately.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
I don't understand though why. I mean, they're two different cars.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
They set them up the same way that I have
the material, the resources, the money, the time to they
can tweak, which they did. If you notice Liam started
from the pit lane. They did a couple of things
in Melbourne. They had, for example, a different nose, of
different downforce wing, and they tweak little bits and pieces,
but the fundamentals remain the same. It's like driving a
Toyota versus driving a truck. It's still a truck and
(15:18):
it's still a Toyota. You can put mags on it,
you can put a flag on it, you can change
the upholstery, it's still a truck and it's still a Toyota.
And that's what it boils down to. So we're stuck
with the red Bull recipe.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Yeah, I still don't quite get it.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
I mean, given the fact that there is so much
money and resource at stake, why they don't put more
effort into the second driver and setting it up properly
for him. It just seems to be like they just
do it for one driver. By defold, does that happen
in every so many questions. I don't know why I've
got so involved with this, because, as I've said several times,
(15:51):
I do consider this sport, and I use the word
loosely to be very similar to America's cut racing, where
so much stuff happens away from the actual racing that
the racing almost seems incidental to everything else that goes on.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Frankly, I don't have time for that kind of reality TV.
I am, Glen Hard.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
I'm much more interested in aliens and car chases and
explosions and spaceships. That's the TV I'm looking for. I'm
going to go home and find some of that, and
I'll see you back here again with another rereap tomorrow.
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
The Rewrap there and welcome to the Rewrap for Monday.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
All the best, but's from the Mic Hosking Breakfast on
Newstalks EDB in a sillier package. I am Glenn Hard
And today there's talk of wind farms. Just a little
hot air doge and Tesla is going an absolute treat
in the States. The warriors are going down to treat
(00:48):
and the Mic Hosking household.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Less so Liam Lawson unfortunately.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
But before any of that, do we trust the media
here in New Zealand?
Speaker 4 (00:57):
He is trust in the media and not particularly high.
This is the trusted barome to thirty five percent of
people think they've got trusted in the New Zealand media
down by once. It hasn't really moved. But the global
averages fifty two, what do you doing? What does tend
to skew the global averages? You get repressed countries where
there's a great deal of government control. In other words,
the press isn't free, and those people tend to believe
(01:18):
in the media more so than in more free, open
societies like New Zealand. It's down from forty one in
twenty twenty two. Competence and ethics in the New Zealand
media well underwater. Negative ratings only matched by government agencies,
which is disturbing. Social media is down eight points to
twenty percent, and I have no idea way which try
social media at all. Sixty seven percent of those believe
(01:40):
reporters and journalists lie. Isn't that amazing? Sixty seven percent?
In other words, the vast majority of people believe reporters
and journalists lie or purposely mislead. For government leaders it's
fifty eight. For business leaders it's fifty nine. In the
media it is sixty seven. Pretty roping, And I can
(02:03):
see how people come to that conclusion. They don't lie.
Journalists do not lie, certainly the ones I know do
not lie. But do they mislead? And the that's is
the vexed and interesting.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Is the real question more? Do they miss knowingly mislead?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Because I don't think many of them knowingly mislead, but
they unknowingly swallow the stuff that they see, read, are
told and then regurgitate it.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Sometimes I think that that can happen. I know I do.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Because I've never had any opinions of my own, so yeah,
I just borrow other people's and sometimes they're terrible opinions,
very uninformed.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
So yeah, I don't know what I'm doing. Don't listen
to me.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Rewrap, you've decided you're still going to listen to me,
all right, then let's talk about renewable energy wind farms.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
It's pretty windy here, isn't it now?
Speaker 4 (02:58):
The swing and I missed I'm afraid to tell you
Contact as an energy as in the Power Company wanted
to build a wind farm in Southland. They've been turned down?
Are they not the first? They will not be the last?
Close to three hundred million end dollars and hundreds of
jobs are now not going to happen. Also, the need
to build fifteen gigawats of additional capacity in the next
twenty five years will not be happening either. So far
we've built three gigawatts. We're entering what's actually less than three.
(03:21):
We're entering yet another winter where it's touch and go
and power supply. The minister's been busy whacking his finger
at the gent tailor's. The climate campaigners bark on about
the role of renewables. We continue to import record amounts
of coal to cover the gap. We've cut a deal
to keep Huntly going ever longer because the renewable dream
is getting further and further away. Renewables may or may
not be the answer to our problem at all. The
simple truth about water, sun and wind is there beyond
(03:43):
our control. Coal and nuclear isn't. But we seem to
insist renewables are what we want to do, and yet
we don't do it. That is nimbiism as far as
I can work out, it's going to kill us. We
seem happy to be shocked every year at the coal pile.
We seem to be happy to be unhappy at the
idea we don't have enough power to get us through winter.
The industry tells us they're investing in wind and solar,
but are they? How many get turned down versus how
(04:05):
many actually get the go ahead? Are we actually probe
dressing or taking a step forward and then a step back?
Here's your ultimate irony. There's been a lot said about
this government's fast track law. Right their fast Track law
is actually just an extension or an amendment of the
old fast Track Law which Labour produced during COVID under
that fast track law. This particular wind project that I
(04:27):
talk of got turned down, So is a no fast
track or no track? He question, if you can't get
a wind farm through under fast track, are we actually
into solving issues or not?
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
So a classic example of me, you know, hearing, seeing
reading something and just assuming that it's true and then
regurgitating it is I am one of the best programs
I've watched this year so far as land Man, which
is a Taylor Sheridan joint. So he's the guy who
(05:04):
brought us Yellowstone and its pre qualls, and that's anyway.
Land Man is set in Texas and the oil fields,
and Billy Bob Thornton.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Is the land man of the title of the show,
the titular Landman.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
But at one point he does this fantastic speech about
the process involved in building maintaining a wind turbine and
how much worse for the environment it actually.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Is that and running stuff with oil.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
And I assume that that is all true what he says,
But whether it is or isn't, it sounds so cool
that I've told so many people about it since.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Anyway, watch land Man. I think that was the point
of my story wrap.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Speaking of other weird stuff going on in the States,
how's DOGE tuning up for people?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Are they loving it? Are they loving their Tesla's?
Speaker 4 (06:04):
I mentioned the federal judge a temporary restraining order barring
DOGE from getting access to personally identifiable information at the
Social Security Administration. Then we got associated with doje Elon
Tesler company called Edmunds have put out interesting information over
the weekend in March. They saw the highest ever they
deal with the car industry in America, the highest ever
(06:25):
share of people trading in their tesla's. People can't trade
in tesla's fast enough. Also over the weekend, unfortunately, the
cyber truck has been recalled. Forty six thousand cyber trucks
have been recalled, which is pretty much every cyber truck
that's ever been made has been recalled because those bits
are falling off. I did read also over the weekend. Unfortunately,
there's a cyber truck somewhere in the country at the
(06:47):
moment doing the rounds in the publicity round. So I
don't know if that's one of those cyber trucks is
going to be.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Said, so anyway, it seems to be recalled so often
are they recalling it from the places that they've recalled them.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Time, no idea. I don't know whether you also have
to pick up the bits that fell off to send
them back either. It gets tricky, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
It's the weirdest thing seeing all these the cyber truck,
especially seeing that on fire and melting with the or
the protesting going on, because I seen to recall did
mass shoot it with a bullet or had it with
a golf club or I'm just trying to remember exactly
(07:22):
what he did and then it broke when he demonstrated
it and it wasn't supposed to because he hit the
wrong part or something. Anyway, one thing is for said
that they're not fire proofs, as the last week or those.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Activities have proved.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
The rewrap.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Wow, a lot of sport on on the weekend, wasn't
there the Warriors?
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Yes, they played.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I don't know how interesting a game it was, but
the result went the right way.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
If your Warriors fan, I.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Think the calculation will be just thinking about this over
the weekend, I think the calculation will be that if
we win well this weekend against the Tigers, and I'm
anticipating we will then we can officially forget about Las Vegas.
What do you reckon? When you look at the last
two weeks at home? Vegas seems increasingly inexplicable, don't you think?
And within those two victories two very different sorts of victories.
I thought of panting against manly heap of points, pile
of free flowing football versus the roosters, where we battled,
(08:12):
where we see sword, where the points were harder to
come by. By the way the conversions messed by Metcalf.
I don't know what's going on there. That might be
a thing to think about. The Harris de Vita try
wasn't under the posts, I know, but it was hardly
on the sideline and the kick got butchered. In fact,
both kicks got butchered. They barely looked like they were
heading anywhere close and in low scoring games two or
four points can be the difference. And Luke Metcalf looks
(08:34):
good normally, so I'm not sure what happened there. Anyway.
The last try was probably the pick of them, but
Harris Devita might have something to say about that. His
was very individual and showed some style and confidence I
thought anyway, worth noting as well for trained spot as
we don't normally beat the roosters, and I think we
can say we played the roosters at their own game
and found them wanting. So here's the thing. The more
we play like this, like a proper, well drilled, discipline, fit,
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agile professional side, the more weird Vegas looks. Two from three.
It's fine. And although round one was a blowout, the
comeback has not been scrappy, it's not been lucky, it's
not been ropy, been a joy to watch high quality
football that of Vegas had never happened, you'd be full
of confidence that all the expectation and faith placed in
the side was very well judged. Indeed, so as I say,
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let's look or book a good win in this weekend
and we can put the whole opener to bed and
get on with the season. In totality so far, injuries aside,
and that might actually become a bit of a talking
point going for but injuries aside, this is good stuff.
This is promising. We are competitive and competitive with no
shortage of style. Evidence would suggest this is our year.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
And the interesting thing about that game, as far as
I'm consumed, because I didn't find the game itself very interesting.
Was so I did the screen stacking experiment on Friday
night because the F one was on at the same
flove of practice and qualifying sessions. We're on at the
same time as the twenty twenty matches against Pakistan, which
(10:02):
is on at the same time as the Chiefs playing
Milana Pacifica, which is on at the same time as
the lead So literally four things happening at once.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
I set up an iPad.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I was watching the cricket on the big TV and
was swapping around on my phone and on my iPad
with the other so I literally was trying to watch
four things at once, more just as an experiment than
anything else. It did make my brain hurt by the
end of the night. But the thing that became very
clear to me is that the people who claim rugby
league is more exciting than rugby are wrong. I get
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why they say that, because there is it's much more fluent,
and there's a lot less stopping and starting and so
as far as that goes, But it's but I found
I find it very one dimensional. It's just the same
thing again and again and again. It's just, you know,
one team bashes up against the other team for a
(10:58):
few tackles, they either you know, make something happen at
the end or they don't, and then the other team
comes back. It's part of the reason why I don't
like NFL, you know, the American football, it's the same.
It's very it's all very one dimensional, whereas at least
with rugby you've got lots of different people doing lots
of different things with different skills and doing it different ways.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
That was my takeaway anyway.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
But the Warriors did that boring thing very well and
well enough to beat the Roosters, and so let's hope
they continue to be that boring for the rest of
the season.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Rerap.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Oh yes, and I didn't have to worry about watching
the F one for very long because, of course, in
terms of the qualifying for the sprint race, which was
going to happen the next day. On that Friday night,
once again, Lean Lawson dipped out in the first round,
and so I immediately last interested in that and could then
just focus on the rugby and the cricket.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Your heart goes out to Liam Lawson at the moment
because he's he's on the booge are getting not sacked
he'll be replaced and put into the racing balls if
things don't improve and improved dramatically. Micah thought he came fifteenth,
not twelfth. If you missed it, he came. A couple
of people got disqualified, So, in other words, did he
work his way up the field, not really. A couple
of cars retired after the end of the race too.
(12:18):
Ferrari's got disqualified, ghastly got disqualified for technical issues, and
so therefore he sort of almost came twelfth by default.
The more important thing, and this is a very good text,
Mike Newby here, If one new be here, can you
give us an insight as to why the red Bull
car is so hard to drive? For a second drive?
But the answer, in really simple terms is to make
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a car compliant, you need downforce. These cars operate their
best on downforce, and the more downforce you have, the
more stable the car is. In other words, downforce forces
the car into the ground. If you didn't have downforce,
the car is so light and so powerful it would
simply leave the ground, So you use downforce to give
it traction. Now Max uses less downforce at the front
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than he does at the back. So in other words,
if you have the same at the front and the
same at the back, you have it's a balanced car.
The problem with the balance car is doesn't go as fast,
and so you try and unbalance the car to the
point where you can drive it where it's got less
downforce but more speed and the brilliance of a stap
And is he's able to do that in a way
that most other people can't.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Is he one of those guys who sort of leaned
forward over the steering wheel of bit when he drives.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Probably not, But anyway, Liam hasn't been given enough practice.
And that's another weird quirk of the sport. There are
very there is very little time you get to spend
behind the car. So it's not like he sits there
in the car during Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday just driving
it round and round and around and getting really used
to it.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Can you not sneak out in the middle of the No.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
You can't because they hear the engine when you start it.
And so the problem is that Max drives it in
a way that only Max can drive it, and nobody
else seems to now. When they went for the test
at Silverstone last year, Liam, after seven months of not
driving it, jumped in and got within two tenths of
max Withstap and they saw that and then went the
guy can drive. He still can drive. They know he
can drive. They've got the data to show he can drive.
(14:07):
What he can't do it at the moment is bring
the confidence with them to do it. And it's killing them.
And so it's one of those scenarios in which are
the worse it gets, the worse it gets. And so
my guess and gut is they'll give him Japan in
a week and a half's time, and if he doesn't
it because that track he knows and he's been on
China and Australia he hadn't so you've got to give
(14:28):
him that. So if he can't perform in Japan, they're
going to drop them. They'll put him in the Racing
Bulls and they'll probably elevate SNOA or I. Note that
a helmet Marko over the weekend said that look at Hadger,
who's in the racing Bulls team as well. But answer
short answer to your question, it's the balance of the car,
and the car is so unbalanced you need to be
a freak to drive it. And Verstapan's a freak and
(14:50):
Liam unfortunately.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
I don't understand though why. I mean, they're two different cars.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
They set them up the same way that I have
the material, the resources, the money, the time to they
can tweak, which they did. If you notice Liam started
from the pit lane. They did a couple of things
in Melbourne. They had, for example, a different nose, of
different downforce wing, and they tweak little bits and pieces,
but the fundamentals remain the same. It's like driving a
Toyota versus driving a truck. It's still a truck and
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it's still a Toyota. You can put mags on it,
you can put a flag on it, you can change
the upholstery, it's still a truck and it's still a Toyota.
And that's what it boils down to. So we're stuck
with the red Bull recipe.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Yeah, I still don't quite get it.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
I mean, given the fact that there is so much
money and resource at stake, why they don't put more
effort into the second driver and setting it up properly
for him. It just seems to be like they just
do it for one driver. By defold, does that happen
in every so many questions. I don't know why I've
got so involved with this, because, as I've said several times,
(15:51):
I do consider this sport, and I use the word
loosely to be very similar to America's cut racing, where
so much stuff happens away from the actual racing that
the racing almost seems incidental to everything else that goes on.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Frankly, I don't have time for that kind of reality TV.
I am, Glen Hard.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
I'm much more interested in aliens and car chases and
explosions and spaceships. That's the TV I'm looking for. I'm
going to go home and find some of that, and
I'll see you back here again with another rereap tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
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