D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on Christian Horner delivering a response after Liam Lawson saga

An admission out of Red Bull Racing surrounding the premature promotion of their Formula One drivers.

The issue is a hot topic ahead of this weekend's Japanese Grand Prix - after Liam Lawson's demotion in favour of Yuki Tsunoda just two races into the season.

Team boss Christian Horner's told Sky Sports F1 that the Kiwi driver isn't the first driver to be swiftly removed from the seat.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave recaps the interview further.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ryan, The tariffs are completely made up? They are? Or
how nice this one says of Donald Trump to only
set the reciprocal tariffs at half the rate that the
countries are charging the Americans. What a great way to
pay off your deficit without incurring a full reciprocal value. Yeah,
the thing about the calculations is how have they actually

(00:21):
calculated their their tariff rate and what they think we're
charging them? Where do they get twenty percent from New
Zealand from? Tom McLay has words on that. After five
Darcy's here was sport?

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Hey, Darcy, Oh I can add a sporting tip to it.
Have you heard of a dartboard? Well, it does feel
like eighteen percent? Where did thirty eight come from?

Speaker 1 (00:41):
It does feel like that, does it? Because we all
have because everyone's like, oh gst included. But then our
vat is different to in other countries. That doesn't make
any sense anyway. Top McLay after five on that. Christian Horner,
now he's come out and said some stuff about Liam Lawson.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
He's a principle of red bull racing. He was the
guy that was part and parcel of his elevation.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Jerry's husband too.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yet that's right, that's right, halliwill now Horner. So he
was elevated to the top team and then he's constantly
been He's been put down the laundry, shoot, hasn't he?
And he said, we've done this for his mental health.
I know through talks with people outside that this was
going to come up. They had this in their back pocket.

(01:24):
Later on the piece, are going to throw the mental
health card out there? How about this? You give a
guy two races and a car he can't drive, that's
impossible to drive at two tracks he's never driven on before.
After saying would give you three to five to get
used to it, then they throw into the walls after
two races, and that's good for his mental health? Are

(01:46):
you insane?

Speaker 1 (01:47):
I listened to his comments DRC, and he said he
was talking about the engineers a lot, saying they had
come to him with concerns about Liam's mental health, which
I thought was an interesting thing. It's almost like he
was putting it on them like they came to me.
So I had to.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Act, well, that's it, I'm blaming them. These guys who
are and girls who remained nameless. Said to me, it's
just it's all an act. I love this weekend. There's
a very good chance that Red Ball leaned up with
such a big custard pie right in their face. We'll see.
I might be horribly wrong, been had before. But there
was a really cool little video of the Racing Balls

(02:23):
team welcoming back with the pit board when Liam Lawson
rocked into the pits today, welcome back, we missed you.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
That's nice.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
So that's super super good.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Not so nice as the NRL who stopped Porschawoodman Whickcliffe
from joining the Nights. What's the reason.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
But she is an ambassador for the upcoming World Cup
for women. So what that means is that clash with
the season, the WNRL season, And I thought it's understandable.
You don't want her clashing with action miss half the season.
It's one week. I've since been in full and it's
one week. She is the biggest name in women's rugby.

(02:58):
She is an absolute bonafar, superstar, a hero. She would
be so good for their brand, but for one week
they think it's untenable, so they won't let her play shows.
Cut face off?

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Is she fighting at all? What's she doing?

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Just just shrugging her shoulders she's been a cruiser as Porsche.
I don't worry too much about it, but it does.
It's another case of the NRL making a really dumb
decision around his Hell participation. I don't believe they've done it.
This is not just someone out of the backblock. This
is Porsche, a Woodman Wickliffe.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
Really, Darcy, we'll see tonight how you got on.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
I've got Lorie mains on because you know what today
is or today give will take her twenty four hours,
five years in South Africa, left Super Rugby five years.
Have we missed them?

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Are we celebrating that tonight?

Speaker 2 (03:47):
I'm not sure we'll find out from all Have we
missed them? Do we miss them? Do they miss us?
Does it really? Anyway? That goes on? And we're going
live to Suzuka talked to a Formula one. Worry about
what's going on over there.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Brilliant. Look forward to seeing you then, Darcy Waldegrave's sports
talk host on News Talks B. He'll see at seven tonight.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
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