Andrew Alderson: Max Verstappen's Formula 1 dominance, All Blacks haka steals headlines, Black Foils' flying start to SailGP

Max Verstappen has hit the jackpot in Las Vegas with his fourth consecutive Formula 1 Driver’s Championship, but Liam Lawson left Sin City empty-handed after finishing 16th.

The All Blacks beat Italy 29-11 in their final match of the year, but it was TJ Perenara’s haka that stole the headlines.

And the Black Foils are off to a tremendous start in SailGP, winning the opening series in Dubai.

Newstalk ZB Sport reader Andew Alderson joined Ryan Bridge.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Andrew Alison is here was sport good morning greeting's Ryan,
So good news for stup and not so much for
Liam Lawson. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
So the trip to Sin City with the Formula One
drivers as a resulted in Lawson was sixteenth place, so
not in the points this time. Probably understandable that he's
going to just have to work his way in here,
even though he's only got these limited number of races
to work with to establish himself on the circuit. But
really the story probably max with Starpin of the day

(00:30):
for consecutive Formula One drivers championships, joins an A league
Group one, Manuel Fangio, Michael Schumacher, Sebastian Vettel and Sir
Lewis Hamilton. It's a fairly elite.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Crowd, prestigious, we agree, that's right, that's right. I got
up to watch the Well, I didn't get up that early,
did I because it was like nineteen am? But good on,
good on you really myself.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Out of betting the mid morning oil.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yeah to watch that.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yeah, Yeah, patch a.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Convincing. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
It's probably more the off field stuff than anything, isn't that?
With TJ Peda introducing the white hanging into the Haka.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Which has gone well.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
I think I think there's some controversy around there, and
I mean, to me, the Harker is meant to be
a challenge to the opposition, I'm not quite sure. Maybe TJ.
Pedar could explain it better, but yeah, and it's attempted
to but I'm not sure how that comes into challenging
the opposition but bringing in the supposed unity at home,
et cetera that he has mentioned. So yeah, it's politicizing

(01:37):
the situation. But then politics are always in sport in
one way, shape or form, aren't they. So it's yeah,
it's it's a tricky one.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
What about the Black Foils the SGP.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Yeah, tremendous start from there. So winning off the coast
of Dubai, that's the opening series of the season for them.
And now they'll take their their talents and their skills
and their technology to New Zealand, to Auckland for the
first time January eighteen and nineteen, which will be quite
the extravaganza in the White Matar Harbor thought of that. Yeah, yeah,

(02:11):
that should be good fun. So yeah, leading the championship
and defending their title there.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Brilliant Andrew, thank you very much for that. Thanks all right,
So here's always Andrew Lison was Ziby Sport.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
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