Bob McMurray: Motorsport expert on Melbourne F1

Chaotic weather didn't get in the way of a great race in motorsport at the Melbourne F1 over the weekend. 

McLaren's Lando Norris was the star of the show coming in first, but Kiwi Liam Lawson had a disappointing run. 

Motorsport expert Bob McMurray talks to Mike Hosking about the event.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
If one was back. Obviously over the weekend one of
the great races I thought of all time. I mean,
there was chaos with the weather which allowed the truly
great to shine. Six of the twenty cows fell off
the track. There were multiple safeties, but McLaren and Lando
Norris showed how it was done. At the end of
the day, LANDA Norris won. Motor Sport expert Bob McMurray, Well,
there's Bob morning.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Good morning.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
You enjoy it.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
I loved it from the anticipation in the last couple
of weeks has been made mostly high and I've got
to admit to being strangely stressed race and d're watching
the race, So yeah, I enjoyed it very much.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Did you worry about Liam and P one and P two?
He was too slow? Is that a car? Or is
it him or both?

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Well, he was too slow. It's basically a combination of everything.
I mean, you know, my enchant natural wish is to
be supportive of Liam and loyal, but that aside. It
was a torrident a weekend for him. But there are
lots of plutus to it and lots of reas for it,
So I don't think he's got to be too upset.

(01:01):
But yeah, it wasn't the good we can was it.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
No, Indeed, would they have put a lot of emphasis
Red Bull. This is on fixing because Max was slow
as well in P one and P two. Would they
put a lot of emphasis on his car? Left Liam
a bit by the wayside? And that's what you saw
because Max did well in the end.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Well, obviously Max is the guy that's going to earn
the points for them, and they've got to make sure
that Max has got what he wants. But it seemed
to me that almost every time Liam went out and okay,
his first time back and he missed the one hour
of practice really really does not help. But it seemed
every time he went out he was given a different
specification car, even to the point where just before the

(01:39):
race they changed the rear wing and I think they
changed their nose again. So he was you know, he
was driving a different car every time he went out,
and that's not a good thing. Plus the the natural
then the Red Bull at the moment is very hard
on tire, very peaky on tires, getting him in the

(02:00):
right situation, and that's not something Liam is used to.
And that was obviously. You know, it came to came
to some sort of conclusion when he went off the
road because he used the ties too much in his
in his previous parts of the lapse. So but even
Max was having all these problems as well. It's just
that Liam was not able to cope with them as

(02:20):
much and with a different specific versification term. What's the
man supposed to do. He's got three to races to
prove himself. He's the China before as far as I'm aware,
which is the next his coming weekend, so he yeah,
he's got to He's going to get his head down
and just do it and hopefully they will not use
him as a test bed for Max's car again, which

(02:42):
I think they were.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Doing very well, so appreciate. Bob McMurray motorsport expert of course.
So yes, China this weekend, so it's a you know,
it's a quick turnover and China's a sprint weekend, which
means there's one less practice which means you go straight
to qualifying and you've got two racests, so no pressure them.
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