May 27, 2025 • 17 mins
The tragic death of a young man engaged in a copycat game of Run it Straight has further strengthened the calls for this type of exchange to be banned. But it’s education first. To talk to us about the incredible threat to health that human collisions bring, we speak with Professor Patria Hume, AUT Prof. of Human Performance.
Like a rapidly deflating balloon in a room full of spectators, AKFC stumbled at the last. Their fluffing of their lines against Melbourne Victory, underlines and puts in italics one of the oldest cliches in sport. D’Arcy expands.
In the Chamber is NZ Herald sport scribe Alex Powell who yarns with D’Arc around Lawson’s great F1 weekend, the Wahs' stumble and the sadness of social media driven combat sports.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
There, Welcome into the Sports Fix podcast for today, Tuesday,
the twenty seventh of May twenty twenty five. You're home
of all your need to know sporting news and information.
My name's Darcy Watergrag. You've got me today. Later on
in the piece, we'll be joined by Patria Hume. She
is the professor of Human Performance at AUNT as we
(00:42):
look at the continuing story of Run It Straight and
the Copycats, which has now resulted in the death of
a young man. We'll be joined in the chamber by
my friend Amuel's Alex Powell as we look at some
of the big sports stories off the week and of
course we indulge in Formula one because we can't help ourselves.
I've got some opinion around the forum on talking AKFC
(01:06):
and what happened over the weekend. It's all coming up
now on the Sports Fixed podcast. Of course, an association
with the fine folk at DJ Gardner Homes, New Zealand's
most trusted home builder. I'm Darcy auder Grave. It's a Tuesday,
so let's get into it in other news. The time
(01:27):
now for some short sports thoughts. The Phoenix football director
Sean Gill thought their team was the best place for
Costa Barbarussa's to keep all whites selection traction striding. He thought,
wrong continuity, His family's here, you know, great training facilities.
You know we've got eastlers of poor stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
We know we're going to.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Rebuild and put a good computer squad together next year,
so you know, we felt like it was the workplace.
But ultimately he decided Blues loosehead prop Joss Fritty Blues
loose head prop Josh fritted Tour thought that old school
all black prop and the guy Josh replaced this year
of Thama Fussy would be a good source of advice
(02:10):
and inspiration. He thought, right, he invests a lot into
his body and stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
And he's kind of told me that the this.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I guess the ability is availability on Saturday. So I
guess I've just taken that on board, and especially being
a young fellow's king to do more than I probably should.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
And Worry's chief executive Cameron George thought that a second
NRL team in New Zealand would be a good idea.
That's what he told NRL three sixty. He thought the
local feeder prospects though we're a bit average.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
The domestic competitions here just on at that elite level
for players who get NR already, and we can implement
really strong comps and inspire kids to come into the
game and stay here. There's certainly room for a second team.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
And there are some short sports thoughts for you news
and opinion.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
It's Sportsfix with Dancie Valdegreve.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
That's an added jety cliche. It's whatever you want to
call it. But these things turn up because generally they're true.
What am I talking about? You've got to lose one
to win one. That's not always the case. Some teams
can reach their panicle, reach their peak, climb their everest
and get it done on the very first attempt. But
(03:26):
how many times do you see teams or individuals finally
getting to the promised land and stumbling over their lines.
They've got that hurdle, they trip and they land face
first in a muddy puddle right in front of them.
This is what happened to Auckland Football Club over the weekend.
Leg two of the aggregate semi final in the A League.
(03:46):
They had a one nil advantage going into that second
game up against Melbourne victory. All they needed was a
clean sheet or to score more or the same as Melbourne.
They couldn't get the job done. Terribly disappointing, hugely disappointing
for the fans, for the players, for the people who
(04:07):
own manage the club. Disappointing for the coaching stuff. Steve
Caricker has a fine history in coaching teams and coaching
them to great success. One asterisk on this though, it's
a real shame that all you rarely remember from the
end of that game is Steve Carricker complaining about a
referees decision. I think we'll forget that in time, but
(04:29):
it was a blot on the copybook, if you will.
At the end of what has been a magnificent season,
an uplifting season and encouraging season, a season that has
seen enormous traction for the sport of football here in
Auckland City. You've got to commend them for what they've done,
the organization, the team, the coaching staff, everybody. But as
(04:52):
they say, you've got to lose one to win one,
so let's lock it in for next year and bring
the A League trophy back home.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Dissecting the sporting agenda, it's Sportsfix with Darcy Waldegrave.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
We'll join now in Sports Effects podcast by Professor Patria Hume,
professor of a Human Performance at the aut We're joined
by Patriya to discuss the tragic death of a young
man over the weekend after playing a copycat version of
the Run It Straight game. His name was Ryan Sattath.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Wait.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
It is a pointless and senseless loss and we must start,
Patria with education. People don't know the danger they're putting
themselves in.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Yes, Ryan's death was preventable, and people do need to
understand the risks because when two people are running at
each other under these run at style conditions, the impact
forces are like jumping off the roof of your house
on your front. So that's the level of trauma that
your body is experiencing, especially the brain. So people need
(06:02):
to understand those risks so they can decide whether they
want to participate.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
That's a massive and I suppose it's the ability to well,
you can't really control the position of the impact and
how you'd react to that. It's not really something you'd
much command over in the middle of that action.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Well, it happens in a very short amount of time,
and you've got unknown circumstances because you don't know how
the other person is going to react. And in these
types of run it style events, people are just running
at each other and there's no guidelines on the type
of tech. And so the work that we've done the
twenty five years in rugby Smart and netle Smart and
(06:42):
trying to reduce impacts on people and minimize the risk
of these severe injuries. That's kind of being ignored by
people in the formal events that are being organized and
these copycat you know, activities where people are playing in
the backyard and they think it's fun, but really the
consequences are immense, and in this case it was devastating
(07:06):
because Ryan has died and has was preventable.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Don't need a situation like this to put an exclamation
mark on the request and not but it has happened.
If there's ever been an underlining of a piece of advice,
that is it. So we'd like to think that his
death wasn't in vain and people will learn from that.
And I suppose that's the only small positive out of this.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Yes, Unfortunately it takes a death or multiple deaths for
people to take action, and so the lessons from Ryan's
death that the forces involved can be deadly, and we've
got to stop glorifying these types of activities and events
where the goal is to hurt someone. We need to
be participating and enjoyable sports and playground activities where we
(07:55):
can improve our social interaction and our cultural engagement and
participate safely.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
You basically can't mitigate, can you in a situation like
this when you're running straight out at each other? Is
there any form of control these semi professional competitions can
put in place because I believe they've got medics on
site and so on and so forth. This was in
someone's backyard, But can we even control these outcomes regardless.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
So with medics being on site, that enables you to
identify the concussions and to deal with the injuries after
they've occurred. But that's like the ambulance at the bottom
of the cliff. We need to stop people falling off
those cliffs or the house analogies I gave before to
ensure that people don't get injured in the first place. Now,
(08:43):
for rugby, for example, there is compulsory tackle technique instruction,
and there's progressive engagement in contact from tag rugby right
through to full professional all blacks. There's nothing like that
in these run it type activities. So that kind of
(09:04):
injury prevention and safety education and development in these types
of events, if they're going to continue, which I hope
they don't, you know, would need to be created.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Hmmm.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Partria home joining us professor of a human performance from
aut in your time, when you looked at how to
beast mitigate their situations in collision sports like rugby and
rugby league over the last quarter of a century, has
it markedly improved. They are less people, fewer people are
getting bad he knocks bad concussion, other steps actually making
(09:40):
a palpable difference.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
They are making a difference. So doctor Ken Quarry, who's
the senior scientist Hiney zelland Rugby, his PhD work was
all about changing scrum engagement and reducing the severe neck
injuries that were resulting. And then Simon Gannotty and others.
There's a whole lot of PhD students who have done
some amazing work who have shown that we can change
(10:04):
technique and introduce things like the identification of concussion and
help and recovery when people are injured. So there's a
lot of research out there. People just need to understand
the risks and know that these type of events or
activities they are not harmless stunts, their high speed impacts
and they can because cause for their brain injuries and death.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
The Chamber is.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Now in session on Sportsfax.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
At end of the Chamber we go and of course
their weekend after race weekend to Tuesday, my first day back.
Of course I'm going to get Alex Powell from the
New Zealand heralden to talk about motorsport. Hi, Alex, how
are you okday mate?
Speaker 4 (10:41):
I'm all right?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Good?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
And a good weekend not so good for IndyCar but
fantastic for Liam Laws and so in Monaco, interesting weekend.
The Pals that Be changed the rules around pit stops.
They required each team to run three different sets of tires,
so it meant to pit stops to try and shake
up the track that you pretty much can't pass on.
(11:04):
It's like racing teen speeds around your living room. Someone
e seed once, so they've adjusted at all to try
and make the racing better, more energized. But the best
brains in Formula one got together and went, we're gonna
use this to our best advantage. What actually happened.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Right, So, as simply as I can, if you had
two teammates starting close together, as what Liam laws In
and Isaac Catgert did, one started fifth, one started ninth.
The driver who was second, which was Liam, drove de
liberally slow to create a big enough gap for his
teammate to pit twice and come out without getting stuck
in the traffic, which I mean, it's genius. It was
(11:42):
incredibly done. Like people are now complaining about it and
saying it's not really in the spirit of things, but
they drove to the rules that were put in front
of them.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Well, what's in the spirit of Formula one last time
I checked? Is one spirit win? That's the way it rolls.
You give us some leeway. You look at Adrian Newey
and what he did with the Red Bull. He was designing.
You rather car is designed. He looks at the rules,
he picks them inside out, he finds the hole and
he benefits from that.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
That's what Winna Zoo Scott Robinson with the Crusaders like
he didn't play you know what you might describe as
the best rugbid. But he looked at the rules and went,
this is how we're going to win this year. You know,
it's what winners do. But on Liam Lawson, that was
incredible to pull that off with the precision and the timing.
Not everyone could have done that. To have a guy
prepared to do that for his team, I think speaks
(12:29):
the volumes. He's had such a good weekend or you know,
the three days. Really can you imagine?
Speaker 2 (12:35):
One thing I noticed about Formula one is that the
drivers are predominantly complaining. That's pressing all they do, and
they're in their non moan. I don't know if many
of the drivers out there would have taken the hit
like Liam did. He didn't qualify ahead of Okay, here's
the laws. You're going to play rear Gunna or the Shielders.
(12:57):
They're calling him now to help out the team now,
and this does a huge amount for him into the
future as far as the team's concerned, does it not.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
I think it's really bought Liam time that he needs.
You know, there's a lot of pressure on him at
the moment from Arvid lidblad who is down on F two,
he'll turn eighteen lad of the share and that will
mean they can put him into F one. From then
the way Red Bull's going, which I mean, we can't
ever claim to know what they're thinking. If they do
want to make a change, once other lamb Ladder's eighteen
(13:24):
and therefore has a Formula one super license, they could
theoretically swap the two out, have Liam out in lim Bladden.
So to have that result then will make Red Bull
think twice about whether or not they do that.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
You know, no mean feet keeping a hole of the
cars behind you, yet it's hard to pass, but when
you're going that slowly, I was watching the timing as well,
going what is going on here? To keep people behind
you that want to get ahead? That's great because you've
got to be a big hones to do that and
not crash with the pressure.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
I tell you what was even better than that though,
once Isaac Hadja had done his second stop, Liam Lawson
cut that gap completely. He caught up so much ground
so quickly. You know that meant that when he pitted it,
he didn't lose anything. Because that was my big worrier
watching the race was that Liam was going to sacrifice himself,
give how your other gap, and then he Liam goes
into the pets and comes out instead of coming out
(14:12):
at ninth, he comes out fourteenth, stuck behind all the
traffic that he's caused. He didn't do that because he
was able to build that or to bridge that gap himself.
And it was an incredible drive. The nuances of motorsport
are quite lost it to a non you know, to
a casual fan, because you think, oh, you get in
the car, you drive as fast as you can, you
shake hands at the end, and that's not what it is.
So I mean, I don't think that weekend could really
(14:34):
have gone any better for him, apart from if he
may be qualified a couple of places higher.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
We'll talk about that, and you control the controllables. What's
the best thing he can do? Qualify as high as
he possibly can, especially at Monaco. His car did and
fall apart. No one drove in until he got that,
and there are the rewards and back again next week
in Spain where it's unlikely people will pass there too.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Right exciting, you've got a couple overtaking signs, but you're right.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Away from that let's go to the Wars. They're not
particularly exciting. But out of that loss, that two plays
three loss to the Raiders, I don't know what you
took out of that. My primary emote sounds that they
got beaten by a better team, but they're still a
good team. They didn't get flushed.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
No, it's kind of like we have that sort of
trape of the loss that you need to have, Like
the Waves had a lot of really close wins that
could have gone either way, and having a loss like
that actually does give you a bit of a wake
up call and go, Okay, we've been very we've done
very well to be where we are, but we cannot
rest in our laurels.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
And that's what it is.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
And you think of like, you know, Jones, Fisher, Harris
is going to come back this week, Mitch Barnett will
probably come back this week after satur orogy you hope,
But I mean if he's not, then he's not. So
I don't think there'll be panic stations by any means.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
No, they performed well. They didn't get rinsed, they didn't
get blown off the park. Tough being at home, tough
for the weather conditions. They didn't get that, but in general,
I'm not too crestfallen about that. And one last thing,
Run It's Straight canceled after the death of someone playing
a similar kind of game in their backyard over the weekend.
(16:02):
It's just tragic.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
It's it's awful, like this is the fair with these
types of things, not that the people doing it aren't
going to be so, but you will create the sort
of copycats that do it in a non control environment,
Like I was at Run It Straight the other night
out in west Auckland, and there were actual serious safety
steps taken, like they know that they have to keep
these guys safe because that is their their bread and butter.
But seeing it, you know, and I don't want you
(16:25):
like he's famed a better word through unofficial channels because
it was hardly official what they did the other night.
But this is always going to happen, and I rarely
hope that the right people take note of this now
and have a good look at it and say, is
this actually the right thing to do.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
It's just awful that it takes a death for this
to happen. Out of the chambel we go now. Alex Powell,
sports writer out of the New Zealand. Hell thank you
for your time and your if one geekery anytime.
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
There, Welcome into the Sports Fix podcast for today, Tuesday,
the twenty seventh of May twenty twenty five. You're home
of all your need to know sporting news and information.
My name's Darcy Watergrag. You've got me today. Later on
in the piece, we'll be joined by Patria Hume. She
is the professor of Human Performance at AUNT as we
(00:42):
look at the continuing story of Run It Straight and
the Copycats, which has now resulted in the death of
a young man. We'll be joined in the chamber by
my friend Amuel's Alex Powell as we look at some
of the big sports stories off the week and of
course we indulge in Formula one because we can't help ourselves.
I've got some opinion around the forum on talking AKFC
(01:06):
and what happened over the weekend. It's all coming up
now on the Sports Fixed podcast. Of course, an association
with the fine folk at DJ Gardner Homes, New Zealand's
most trusted home builder. I'm Darcy auder Grave. It's a Tuesday,
so let's get into it in other news. The time
(01:27):
now for some short sports thoughts. The Phoenix football director
Sean Gill thought their team was the best place for
Costa Barbarussa's to keep all whites selection traction striding. He thought,
wrong continuity, His family's here, you know, great training facilities.
You know we've got eastlers of poor stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
We know we're going to.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Rebuild and put a good computer squad together next year,
so you know, we felt like it was the workplace.
But ultimately he decided Blues loosehead prop Joss Fritty Blues
loose head prop Josh fritted Tour thought that old school
all black prop and the guy Josh replaced this year
of Thama Fussy would be a good source of advice
(02:10):
and inspiration. He thought, right, he invests a lot into
his body and stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
And he's kind of told me that the this.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
I guess the ability is availability on Saturday. So I
guess I've just taken that on board, and especially being
a young fellow's king to do more than I probably should.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
And Worry's chief executive Cameron George thought that a second
NRL team in New Zealand would be a good idea.
That's what he told NRL three sixty. He thought the
local feeder prospects though we're a bit average.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
The domestic competitions here just on at that elite level
for players who get NR already, and we can implement
really strong comps and inspire kids to come into the
game and stay here. There's certainly room for a second team.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
And there are some short sports thoughts for you news
and opinion.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
It's Sportsfix with Dancie Valdegreve.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
That's an added jety cliche. It's whatever you want to
call it. But these things turn up because generally they're true.
What am I talking about? You've got to lose one
to win one. That's not always the case. Some teams
can reach their panicle, reach their peak, climb their everest
and get it done on the very first attempt. But
(03:26):
how many times do you see teams or individuals finally
getting to the promised land and stumbling over their lines.
They've got that hurdle, they trip and they land face
first in a muddy puddle right in front of them.
This is what happened to Auckland Football Club over the weekend.
Leg two of the aggregate semi final in the A League.
(03:46):
They had a one nil advantage going into that second
game up against Melbourne victory. All they needed was a
clean sheet or to score more or the same as Melbourne.
They couldn't get the job done. Terribly disappointing, hugely disappointing
for the fans, for the players, for the people who
(04:07):
own manage the club. Disappointing for the coaching stuff. Steve
Caricker has a fine history in coaching teams and coaching
them to great success. One asterisk on this though, it's
a real shame that all you rarely remember from the
end of that game is Steve Carricker complaining about a
referees decision. I think we'll forget that in time, but
(04:29):
it was a blot on the copybook, if you will.
At the end of what has been a magnificent season,
an uplifting season and encouraging season, a season that has
seen enormous traction for the sport of football here in
Auckland City. You've got to commend them for what they've done,
the organization, the team, the coaching staff, everybody. But as
(04:52):
they say, you've got to lose one to win one,
so let's lock it in for next year and bring
the A League trophy back home.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Dissecting the sporting agenda, it's Sportsfix with Darcy Waldegrave.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
We'll join now in Sports Effects podcast by Professor Patria Hume,
professor of a Human Performance at the aut We're joined
by Patriya to discuss the tragic death of a young
man over the weekend after playing a copycat version of
the Run It Straight game. His name was Ryan Sattath.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Wait.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
It is a pointless and senseless loss and we must start,
Patria with education. People don't know the danger they're putting
themselves in.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Yes, Ryan's death was preventable, and people do need to
understand the risks because when two people are running at
each other under these run at style conditions, the impact
forces are like jumping off the roof of your house
on your front. So that's the level of trauma that
your body is experiencing, especially the brain. So people need
(06:02):
to understand those risks so they can decide whether they
want to participate.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
That's a massive and I suppose it's the ability to well,
you can't really control the position of the impact and
how you'd react to that. It's not really something you'd
much command over in the middle of that action.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
Well, it happens in a very short amount of time,
and you've got unknown circumstances because you don't know how
the other person is going to react. And in these
types of run it style events, people are just running
at each other and there's no guidelines on the type
of tech. And so the work that we've done the
twenty five years in rugby Smart and netle Smart and
(06:42):
trying to reduce impacts on people and minimize the risk
of these severe injuries. That's kind of being ignored by
people in the formal events that are being organized and
these copycat you know, activities where people are playing in
the backyard and they think it's fun, but really the
consequences are immense, and in this case it was devastating
(07:06):
because Ryan has died and has was preventable.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Don't need a situation like this to put an exclamation
mark on the request and not but it has happened.
If there's ever been an underlining of a piece of advice,
that is it. So we'd like to think that his
death wasn't in vain and people will learn from that.
And I suppose that's the only small positive out of this.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Yes, Unfortunately it takes a death or multiple deaths for
people to take action, and so the lessons from Ryan's
death that the forces involved can be deadly, and we've
got to stop glorifying these types of activities and events
where the goal is to hurt someone. We need to
be participating and enjoyable sports and playground activities where we
(07:55):
can improve our social interaction and our cultural engagement and
participate safely.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
You basically can't mitigate, can you in a situation like
this when you're running straight out at each other? Is
there any form of control these semi professional competitions can
put in place because I believe they've got medics on
site and so on and so forth. This was in
someone's backyard, But can we even control these outcomes regardless.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
So with medics being on site, that enables you to
identify the concussions and to deal with the injuries after
they've occurred. But that's like the ambulance at the bottom
of the cliff. We need to stop people falling off
those cliffs or the house analogies I gave before to
ensure that people don't get injured in the first place. Now,
(08:43):
for rugby, for example, there is compulsory tackle technique instruction,
and there's progressive engagement in contact from tag rugby right
through to full professional all blacks. There's nothing like that
in these run it type activities. So that kind of
(09:04):
injury prevention and safety education and development in these types
of events, if they're going to continue, which I hope
they don't, you know, would need to be created.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Hmmm.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Partria home joining us professor of a human performance from
aut in your time, when you looked at how to
beast mitigate their situations in collision sports like rugby and
rugby league over the last quarter of a century, has
it markedly improved. They are less people, fewer people are
getting bad he knocks bad concussion, other steps actually making
(09:40):
a palpable difference.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
They are making a difference. So doctor Ken Quarry, who's
the senior scientist Hiney zelland Rugby, his PhD work was
all about changing scrum engagement and reducing the severe neck
injuries that were resulting. And then Simon Gannotty and others.
There's a whole lot of PhD students who have done
some amazing work who have shown that we can change
(10:04):
technique and introduce things like the identification of concussion and
help and recovery when people are injured. So there's a
lot of research out there. People just need to understand
the risks and know that these type of events or
activities they are not harmless stunts, their high speed impacts
and they can because cause for their brain injuries and death.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
The Chamber is.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Now in session on Sportsfax.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
At end of the Chamber we go and of course
their weekend after race weekend to Tuesday, my first day back.
Of course I'm going to get Alex Powell from the
New Zealand heralden to talk about motorsport. Hi, Alex, how
are you okday mate?
Speaker 4 (10:41):
I'm all right?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Good?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
And a good weekend not so good for IndyCar but
fantastic for Liam Laws and so in Monaco, interesting weekend.
The Pals that Be changed the rules around pit stops.
They required each team to run three different sets of tires,
so it meant to pit stops to try and shake
up the track that you pretty much can't pass on.
(11:04):
It's like racing teen speeds around your living room. Someone
e seed once, so they've adjusted at all to try
and make the racing better, more energized. But the best
brains in Formula one got together and went, we're gonna
use this to our best advantage. What actually happened.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Right, So, as simply as I can, if you had
two teammates starting close together, as what Liam laws In
and Isaac Catgert did, one started fifth, one started ninth.
The driver who was second, which was Liam, drove de
liberally slow to create a big enough gap for his
teammate to pit twice and come out without getting stuck
in the traffic, which I mean, it's genius. It was
(11:42):
incredibly done. Like people are now complaining about it and
saying it's not really in the spirit of things, but
they drove to the rules that were put in front
of them.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Well, what's in the spirit of Formula one last time
I checked? Is one spirit win? That's the way it rolls.
You give us some leeway. You look at Adrian Newey
and what he did with the Red Bull. He was designing.
You rather car is designed. He looks at the rules,
he picks them inside out, he finds the hole and
he benefits from that.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
That's what Winna Zoo Scott Robinson with the Crusaders like
he didn't play you know what you might describe as
the best rugbid. But he looked at the rules and went,
this is how we're going to win this year. You know,
it's what winners do. But on Liam Lawson, that was
incredible to pull that off with the precision and the timing.
Not everyone could have done that. To have a guy
prepared to do that for his team, I think speaks
(12:29):
the volumes. He's had such a good weekend or you know,
the three days. Really can you imagine?
Speaker 2 (12:35):
One thing I noticed about Formula one is that the
drivers are predominantly complaining. That's pressing all they do, and
they're in their non moan. I don't know if many
of the drivers out there would have taken the hit
like Liam did. He didn't qualify ahead of Okay, here's
the laws. You're going to play rear Gunna or the Shielders.
(12:57):
They're calling him now to help out the team now,
and this does a huge amount for him into the
future as far as the team's concerned, does it not.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
I think it's really bought Liam time that he needs.
You know, there's a lot of pressure on him at
the moment from Arvid lidblad who is down on F two,
he'll turn eighteen lad of the share and that will
mean they can put him into F one. From then
the way Red Bull's going, which I mean, we can't
ever claim to know what they're thinking. If they do
want to make a change, once other lamb Ladder's eighteen
(13:24):
and therefore has a Formula one super license, they could
theoretically swap the two out, have Liam out in lim Bladden.
So to have that result then will make Red Bull
think twice about whether or not they do that.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
You know, no mean feet keeping a hole of the
cars behind you, yet it's hard to pass, but when
you're going that slowly, I was watching the timing as well,
going what is going on here? To keep people behind
you that want to get ahead? That's great because you've
got to be a big hones to do that and
not crash with the pressure.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
I tell you what was even better than that though,
once Isaac Hadja had done his second stop, Liam Lawson
cut that gap completely. He caught up so much ground
so quickly. You know that meant that when he pitted it,
he didn't lose anything. Because that was my big worrier
watching the race was that Liam was going to sacrifice himself,
give how your other gap, and then he Liam goes
into the pets and comes out instead of coming out
(14:12):
at ninth, he comes out fourteenth, stuck behind all the
traffic that he's caused. He didn't do that because he
was able to build that or to bridge that gap himself.
And it was an incredible drive. The nuances of motorsport
are quite lost it to a non you know, to
a casual fan, because you think, oh, you get in
the car, you drive as fast as you can, you
shake hands at the end, and that's not what it is.
So I mean, I don't think that weekend could really
(14:34):
have gone any better for him, apart from if he
may be qualified a couple of places higher.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
We'll talk about that, and you control the controllables. What's
the best thing he can do? Qualify as high as
he possibly can, especially at Monaco. His car did and
fall apart. No one drove in until he got that,
and there are the rewards and back again next week
in Spain where it's unlikely people will pass there too.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Right exciting, you've got a couple overtaking signs, but you're right.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Away from that let's go to the Wars. They're not
particularly exciting. But out of that loss, that two plays
three loss to the Raiders, I don't know what you
took out of that. My primary emote sounds that they
got beaten by a better team, but they're still a
good team. They didn't get flushed.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
No, it's kind of like we have that sort of
trape of the loss that you need to have, Like
the Waves had a lot of really close wins that
could have gone either way, and having a loss like
that actually does give you a bit of a wake
up call and go, Okay, we've been very we've done
very well to be where we are, but we cannot
rest in our laurels.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
And that's what it is.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
And you think of like, you know, Jones, Fisher, Harris
is going to come back this week, Mitch Barnett will
probably come back this week after satur orogy you hope,
But I mean if he's not, then he's not. So
I don't think there'll be panic stations by any means.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
No, they performed well. They didn't get rinsed, they didn't
get blown off the park. Tough being at home, tough
for the weather conditions. They didn't get that, but in general,
I'm not too crestfallen about that. And one last thing,
Run It's Straight canceled after the death of someone playing
a similar kind of game in their backyard over the weekend.
(16:02):
It's just tragic.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
It's it's awful, like this is the fair with these
types of things, not that the people doing it aren't
going to be so, but you will create the sort
of copycats that do it in a non control environment,
Like I was at Run It Straight the other night
out in west Auckland, and there were actual serious safety
steps taken, like they know that they have to keep
these guys safe because that is their their bread and butter.
But seeing it, you know, and I don't want you
(16:25):
like he's famed a better word through unofficial channels because
it was hardly official what they did the other night.
But this is always going to happen, and I rarely
hope that the right people take note of this now
and have a good look at it and say, is
this actually the right thing to do.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
It's just awful that it takes a death for this
to happen. Out of the chambel we go now. Alex Powell,
sports writer out of the New Zealand. Hell thank you
for your time and your if one geekery anytime.
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