March 16, 2025 • 6 mins
Audio producer and resident motor head Lachie gives us the rundown of Sunday's events at Albert Park.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Got anything good. Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Big big weekend for Melbourne all over the world. Actually,
obviously there were Footy was back, a proper back where
we all understand it being back, even though some teams
had played in the mysterious round which will forever be
(00:23):
forgotten about but moaned about for the rest of the season.
Now it's good into folklore, this almost mythical. Now round
zero Haporne had already won two games before most teams.
Now the Giants too, They go, no, that Giants, of
course played last weekend. Oh yeah. And then obviously around
the world there would have been formerly one fans tuned
in to watch the Melbourne Grand Prix. Now I don't
(00:43):
know a lot about the Grand Prix and F one,
but I have friends of mine who were there yesterday
and it's like the highlight of the day year that's
right here in Melbourne and Sunday morning. I was texting
them and saying, now, what a nightmare about the rain
and they were going, no, it's even better, and I'm like,
I don't understand your sport. Now Lockee works on the show,
is really into this. So was yesterday a great race?
(01:05):
On why yesterday was a great.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Race because we started back in Melbourn, which we haven't
done for a few years. So it's opened up the
whole season.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Wait, I thought it was in Melbourne.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Every year.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
You're starting the kind of what Grand Slam? What have
they have?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah, it started, we don't usually, well it's always started
in Melbourne, and then for the last couple of years
it hasn't just because they do all the testing over
in Bahrain and that's where they start.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
They've had their own version of Round zero.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yes, they were back in Melbourne, and so we've had
a lot of rookies and then we've had three days
of thirty degree sunny and all of a sudden the
race starts and it's rain. So everything goes out the window.
All the tires strategies go out the window and it's
just chaos.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Do they have then all come back in to have
the tires changed to the slicks or whatever they're called.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Well, that's therein lies the question, Christian, when do you
come in for slicks and do you stay out? And
so you can lose the store as.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Long as he is. My wife has always seems to
me come home now for slicks, I'm like, I'm staying out.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
No, Well, you can lose. You can honestly lose fifteen
seconds per lap. And so if her pit stops takes
you thirty seconds and you stay up for two laps,
so you shouldn't you should have come in. So you're like,
well that I shouldn't come in because it's gonna takes
so long. And so the teams, it honestly becomes like ice.
If they're on the wrong tire at the wrong time,
you're just sliding off the truck.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
There's so much signs to it.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Isn't there, and so you can have the fastest car,
but if you're on the wrong tire, so being on
the right tire at the right time is critical. So
when Ferrari stayed out with Lewis, yeah, it wasn't the
right call. And it's always twenty twenty hind sight, So
whose call is it? I imagine in the movie version,
the team's like, come in, we need you come in
change those tires.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
He's like, I'm not coming in one more lamp and
then the pit boss site throws those headphones out there
go he's out of control and we should have fired
him that season, and then he wins it though.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
They have strategists and they also have huge teams back
over in the UK, so they've got you know, for
every one person there.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
What do you mean with the time difference on blurry
eye is Sunday morning? There some hungover pol Milton Keynes
in some factory tell the millionaire to come in.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah, that happens, but they're iconically Ferrari for the fast
past couple of years have been atrocious with their strategy
calls and Lewis with his first year with Ferrari this year,
he found out pretty quickly what that's like.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
So what happened to the Australian kid? Did he have
a good chance of winning?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
So we had two Australian kids. Jack dilm was also racing,
but he on the first few corners, well he just
hit a bit of line and bit of marker that
was on the road and binder.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Do you think a local lad would know albit part
pretty well?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Well, I know it's local is as Oscar, but yeah,
Oscar unfortunately was on the wrong typet the right time,
wrong time as well. Lando kept it on the road,
Oscar backed it into the grass. He did keep it
going though, which were phenomenal, So the roar of the
crowd when he actually just got it back on and
for him to salvage two points, there is a move on.
(04:08):
I think it's turned nine and ten. If you want
to go back and watch it overtaking Lewis Hamilton, I.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Won't actually any sport. I've got to go and worry
about turn nine fast for three hours an hour? What
is that little progress bar even during a footie game
is two hours though, eighteen hours of racing to get
through to find what turn nine No.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
They're doing one hundred and sixty k is now a
very small corner around Lewis Hamilton, world champion on the
last lap to get two points is phenomenal, but he'll
be very disappointed that he didn't.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
So for race fans, this was an epic opening for
a season.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Chaos and we love it.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, and then tell me this. I saw this really
beautiful clip of Lewis Hamilton's dad, who's been by Lewis's
side since he was like five years old, hugging some
young rookie. What had happened? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Nine again, No, this is before the race, it even
well started. So they're doing the formation lap and Isaac,
what's the formation lap?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Is that whether all cars are stacked up in like
a pyramid, No.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
You're all, we're all grid. Well, everyone's up on the
grid and they go around just to get the tires warm.
So there's not absolutely chaos.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
In the first sport is sport.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
On the first lap they had to come in and
change their tires, so they have to formate again.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
They've got warm the tires.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Now that happens sometimes, Yeah, you have to come in
and do it, just change tires and start again, or it's.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
All this is why the's lost. You then just change
your boots.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
The way is changed how they have a tire warmer
in the pits warmers. But yeah, Isaac hadger lost it
before the race and even started. And as it takes
so much money and luck and skills just to get
into the race, into Formula one. So from Formula three
to two to one first race didn't even get to start,
oh no, and.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
So he was That's why Lewis Hamilton's stands just giving him.
I'm still none the wise about the sport or don't
know is tied. Christian O'Connell Show Podcast
Got anything good. Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Big big weekend for Melbourne all over the world. Actually,
obviously there were Footy was back, a proper back where
we all understand it being back, even though some teams
had played in the mysterious round which will forever be
(00:23):
forgotten about but moaned about for the rest of the season.
Now it's good into folklore, this almost mythical. Now round
zero Haporne had already won two games before most teams.
Now the Giants too, They go, no, that Giants, of
course played last weekend. Oh yeah. And then obviously around
the world there would have been formerly one fans tuned
in to watch the Melbourne Grand Prix. Now I don't
(00:43):
know a lot about the Grand Prix and F one,
but I have friends of mine who were there yesterday
and it's like the highlight of the day year that's
right here in Melbourne and Sunday morning. I was texting
them and saying, now, what a nightmare about the rain
and they were going, no, it's even better, and I'm like,
I don't understand your sport. Now Lockee works on the show,
is really into this. So was yesterday a great race?
(01:05):
On why yesterday was a great.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Race because we started back in Melbourn, which we haven't
done for a few years. So it's opened up the
whole season.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Wait, I thought it was in Melbourne.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Every year.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
You're starting the kind of what Grand Slam? What have
they have?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah, it started, we don't usually, well it's always started
in Melbourne, and then for the last couple of years
it hasn't just because they do all the testing over
in Bahrain and that's where they start.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
They've had their own version of Round zero.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Yes, they were back in Melbourne, and so we've had
a lot of rookies and then we've had three days
of thirty degree sunny and all of a sudden the
race starts and it's rain. So everything goes out the window.
All the tires strategies go out the window and it's
just chaos.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Do they have then all come back in to have
the tires changed to the slicks or whatever they're called.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Well, that's therein lies the question, Christian, when do you
come in for slicks and do you stay out? And
so you can lose the store as.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Long as he is. My wife has always seems to
me come home now for slicks, I'm like, I'm staying out.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
No, Well, you can lose. You can honestly lose fifteen
seconds per lap. And so if her pit stops takes
you thirty seconds and you stay up for two laps,
so you shouldn't you should have come in. So you're like,
well that I shouldn't come in because it's gonna takes
so long. And so the teams, it honestly becomes like ice.
If they're on the wrong tire at the wrong time,
you're just sliding off the truck.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
There's so much signs to it.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Isn't there, and so you can have the fastest car,
but if you're on the wrong tire, so being on
the right tire at the right time is critical. So
when Ferrari stayed out with Lewis, yeah, it wasn't the
right call. And it's always twenty twenty hind sight, So
whose call is it? I imagine in the movie version,
the team's like, come in, we need you come in
change those tires.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
He's like, I'm not coming in one more lamp and
then the pit boss site throws those headphones out there
go he's out of control and we should have fired
him that season, and then he wins it though.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
They have strategists and they also have huge teams back
over in the UK, so they've got you know, for
every one person there.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
What do you mean with the time difference on blurry
eye is Sunday morning? There some hungover pol Milton Keynes
in some factory tell the millionaire to come in.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Yeah, that happens, but they're iconically Ferrari for the fast
past couple of years have been atrocious with their strategy
calls and Lewis with his first year with Ferrari this year,
he found out pretty quickly what that's like.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
So what happened to the Australian kid? Did he have
a good chance of winning?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
So we had two Australian kids. Jack dilm was also racing,
but he on the first few corners, well he just
hit a bit of line and bit of marker that
was on the road and binder.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Do you think a local lad would know albit part
pretty well?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Well, I know it's local is as Oscar, but yeah,
Oscar unfortunately was on the wrong typet the right time,
wrong time as well. Lando kept it on the road,
Oscar backed it into the grass. He did keep it
going though, which were phenomenal, So the roar of the
crowd when he actually just got it back on and
for him to salvage two points, there is a move on.
(04:08):
I think it's turned nine and ten. If you want
to go back and watch it overtaking Lewis Hamilton, I.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Won't actually any sport. I've got to go and worry
about turn nine fast for three hours an hour? What
is that little progress bar even during a footie game
is two hours though, eighteen hours of racing to get
through to find what turn nine No.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
They're doing one hundred and sixty k is now a
very small corner around Lewis Hamilton, world champion on the
last lap to get two points is phenomenal, but he'll
be very disappointed that he didn't.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
So for race fans, this was an epic opening for
a season.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Chaos and we love it.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, and then tell me this. I saw this really
beautiful clip of Lewis Hamilton's dad, who's been by Lewis's
side since he was like five years old, hugging some
young rookie. What had happened? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Nine again, No, this is before the race, it even
well started. So they're doing the formation lap and Isaac,
what's the formation lap?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Is that whether all cars are stacked up in like
a pyramid, No.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
You're all, we're all grid. Well, everyone's up on the
grid and they go around just to get the tires warm.
So there's not absolutely chaos.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
In the first sport is sport.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
On the first lap they had to come in and
change their tires, so they have to formate again.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
They've got warm the tires.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Now that happens sometimes, Yeah, you have to come in
and do it, just change tires and start again, or it's.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
All this is why the's lost. You then just change
your boots.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
The way is changed how they have a tire warmer
in the pits warmers. But yeah, Isaac hadger lost it
before the race and even started. And as it takes
so much money and luck and skills just to get
into the race, into Formula one. So from Formula three
to two to one first race didn't even get to start,
oh no, and.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
So he was That's why Lewis Hamilton's stands just giving him.
I'm still none the wise about the sport or don't
know is tied. Christian O'Connell Show Podcast
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