March 11, 2025 • 47 mins
The 2025 Formula 1 season starts this weekend at Albert Park, where Oscar Piastri will be the best-placed Aussie in years to break our home-race podium curse. Can he get it done? Michael and Matt also check in on blockbuster opening rounds of the Supercars and MotoGP seasons.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the moment man that we've all been waiting
for for in a romax.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Here comes Oscar Piastree, Lando Norrith.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
They aren't playing hardball out there at the moment.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Steve peberchall Moment to twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hello and welcome to Pit Talk, brought to you by Shannon's.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
On today's episode, we're in Australian Grand Prix week and
McLaren is tipped to be favorite at the start of
this new season. And for our first episode of the season,
we're joined by former has F one team principal Guntha
Steiner to get his take on the season to come
and his new book, Unfiltered. My name is Michael Lomonato,
motorsport writer at Fox Sports Australia. It's great to have
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your company and the company of my co host. His
name's Matt Clayton. You can call the team Racing Bulls
if you like, but he's femous always Minadi.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Michael.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Great to join you for another season, very very much,
looking forward to get stuck into the Australian Grand Prier.
What five days away?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah? The clock is really to you. It feels like
it keeps up on us every year.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
It is going to be a big first round, not
only because it's back in Australia, where personally I've always
felt it should be. Sometimes I disregard the first two
rounds in Barrai and Saudi Arabia. The time zone is
terrible anyway. But we are back in Australia for the
very first round of the season, and for the first
time in a long time, it feels like I've got
a genuine chance of breaking that streak of no Australians
on the podium at Australian Grandfrey. Potentially even a first winner,
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an Australian winner at the Stralian Grandbery. Because MacLaren after Prieza,
isn't testing looked really competitive?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
That seems to be the vibe.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yeah, look, I think so they've got momentum from last year.
I think that's probably a key thing and I think
an underrated part in this season of so much change elsewhere.
They're one of only two teams with an unchanged driver lineup.
I think when you've got stability there and continuity results.
You look at what they did in preseason testing. They
weren't hogging lap times or really headlining things, but you
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could see the inherent pace was there, The long run
pace was good. It looked like it had a good
one lap pace as well. So you mentioned that podium
drought for Australians at Albert Park and goodness, no have
come close enough. So Manys, could this finally be the year?
I think if we're looking at a favorite going into Melbourne,
it's got to be McLaren. But I think it's what's
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behind them that's particularly intriguing, because I think it's a
lot murkyer. I think McLaren is pretty clearly a standout.
What happens behind them not.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
So sure it just before we look at some of
those other contenders, because there's some great stories in that
front running pack, and at least Lewis Hamilton at Ferrari,
we've got a teenager at Mercedes and or Red Bull Racing,
maybe on the back foot only for twenty four months.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
After absolutely dominating the sport.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
But McLaren as a championship contender is really interesting because
it's almost easy to forget that they won the Constructor's
title last year.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
They came from nowhere two years earlier.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Even at the beginning of last year looked sort of
fourth best thereabouts waiting for these upgrades that did eventually
change the complexion of their season. But we also saw
in the second half of the year this battle between
land and Norris and Oscar Piastrin.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
And literally it wasn't on the points.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Table because Norris was quite a bit ahead of Piastri
in the second half of the season by the end
of the year, but we could see sometimes a little
bit of a challenge that bounds of power and the
team couldn't we I think of Monza where Oscar Piastri
got ahead of Landon and I was at the start
Azerbaijan when all the talkers about helping Lando and Nisa
was hum we led the flag and other examples.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Of course, how redid you feel McLaren is to challenge
for the championship in that context?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Yeah, Look, I don't know if you're ready until you're
thrown into that situation to have to deal with it live,
because last year you're fighting from a position of disadvantage,
the fact they tripped each other up a couple of times.
I mean, realistically, charl Clair one Monza because of what
happened with the McLaren drivers in the open part of
that race. But when you're doing it coming from a
fair way back. I'm not sure it matters as much
because the spotlight isn't as bright. You go into this
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season points of reset, everyone expects McLaren to be the
team to be not chasing this red bull that's so
far away like they were last year. So to me,
that's the interesting part. If you've got a live championship
with these two at the front rather than chasing a
vastapen or whoever it was, that's when management's going to
have to really think on their feet here. How do
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you deal with this situation where you've got the homegrown
talent like Norris who's been in there the whole time,
McClaren protege rising to a point where he's a championship contender,
and then you've got Piastric who's coming through this side
door and immediately proven that he can win races. It's
a difficult thing to manage, and they don't have the
experience of managing that for big prizes, so that's going
to be super interesting.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I think.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Yeah, we've talked a lot about in the last two years,
and especially in the last year, this development rate of
Oscar Piastri it's almost raced by race as much as
is in year on year.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
But I spoke to him during the offseason.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
He was talking about how much McLaren had to do
the learning last year to be, as you said, as
a front running team, and like we've seen from Oscar
as well and Lando, because of course he only won
his first Grand Prix last year.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
It's not until you're really in that position.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
And this goes for the team as well, that you
understand those pressures, you can have all the processes you like.
McLaren has these Papy rules. I hope a phrase we
don't hear this year, but just don't like team orders,
but come up with a better aim for it and
come please come on, Lyft.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
They've got a big marketing department. They can do better.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
That's what's going to be interesting is how they handle
that because if we can see who they're up against,
it's not just themselves, it's well, where do we want
to start?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
We could start it. Let's start with Ferrari.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Okay, a team that maybe traditionally hasn't posed the greatest
strategic challenge to other teams. No, but he is a
team that has been getting better. Let's be fair in
the last twelve to eighteen months. Certainly under Fred Vass's
Rainers team principal, the team's become much more confident, certainly
much more competitive in the last season and six months
in particular, and they've got this motivation of Lewis Hamilton the.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Story of the year regardless of what happens.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
How do you think this relationship is going to start,
because it's really smiley at the moment. Anyone who's seen
Lewis Hamilton recently, I can't remember the last time we
looked this happy.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Can't last, Canna, No, there is a honeymoon period with
these things you mentioned. Ferrari improving strategically, it's from a
fairly low base, like the basement of but it's so
interesting to see. To me, the story of this season
is not so much the intra team dynamic with Piastre
Norris Ferrari. Here you've got Charliklair, who's been the protege
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and he's proven that he's probably the best one lap
driver in Formula One and he's been a proven race winner.
Now he's a Ferrari lifer. And then Lewis Hamilton comes
in at forty. This is the team. He said he's
always wanted to drive for everyone's happy. It's all fantastic.
Which one of these two gets the ascendancy is such
an interesting story because of the way it defines legacies
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for either. If you're a cleer and you get to
the end of the season, it's like, well, Lewis Hamilton
came into my team and I saw him off. If
you're Hamilton and you come into Laclur's team and as
an outsider into this Ferrari family as a forty year
old and rekindle some of those past glories, it's such
an interesting inflection point for the two of them. So
to me, I think it's the off track story of
the season. But look, everyone's had to be coming to
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Melbourne because no one's called a point yet. Yes, but
wait until we get to Saturday afternoon after qualifying and
somebody's aggrieved that they've been sent out at the wrong
time or something. And yes, perhaps the smiles might be
turned down.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
A little bit.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
It might be a bit harder for Lewis Hamilton to
sound so positively philosophical. Prix, let's talk about red bull Racing,
because well, no longer the rainy Constructors champion, but with
the raining Driver's champion in its ranks. Max Verstappen several
key moments last year in which he was very unhappy
with the state of the car and even the team.
Of course, we go back around about twelve months ago.
He's teaming up with Liam Lawson this year. A veteran
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of eleven Grand Prix starts. Can't call him a rookie.
Eleven is way too many, so they say, I still
I think he's a He could give them a little
bit of slack. But there's a lot of pressure on
this team, not only because of all those rumors about
well Max Verstappen, contract break, courses of the team underperforms,
the unhappiness inside the team. I've already lost Adrian Newey.
But this was meant to be the Red Bull era,
wasn't it. Two years ago we forget won every Grand
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Prix but one. We were all preparing for another two
or three years.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Of just sadness. Fuss.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Here we are looking genuinely vulnerable, perhaps as the fourth
fastest team.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
It's incredible to think this time last year Red Bull
Vastapan could have won ten races in a row for
the second time in a twenty one race span. It's unbelievable.
We came here last year thinking will anyone beat this
car this season after they just about swept the field
the previous year. But to my mind, the Verstappen thing
is a blessing and a curse for that team because
I would suggest maybe that car hasn't been that fantastic
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for a couple of years, but he's so good at
taking a really really sharp instrument and say, make this
car as difficult as you possibly can make it. If
it's faster, I will extract the pace out of it.
And it's not so much what Max does in it,
it's what the guy in the other car doesn't do.
And I think you saw last year as that car
got more and more difficult, Sergeia Perez's form flat lined
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and then nose dived and it costs them. I mean,
didn't even finish in the top two in the constructors,
which is insane. So to my mind, it's not so
much what Vastappan does with his car, it's what can
Lin Lawson do with this car as a baseline, because
if he's struggling, maybe not to the extent as Perez was.
Like you said, he's done eleven races, so there's a
lot of question marks still that he can handle this.
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He's the best option they had at the time to
put in that car. They probably should have had car
well sigence, but that's another story. But he's the best
option for now. But it's his baseline to me that
dictates whether Red Bull can fight with McLaren and with
Mistake at the front and possibly and possibly with Redborm.
We have to see, but there's a lot of questions
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for the lawson, for me and to me that determines
where Red Bull season goes.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Yeah, and whether or not points scored in the Constructors
Championship influences contractual decisions, well, that could be really potentially
quite costly for Red Bull Racing. Let's talk briefly about
Mercedes before, of course we talk about Jack doing the
other Australian making, not his debut in Australia, his Australian debut.
We can call it that a teenager at Mercedes has
replaced Lewis Hamilton outbound is a foty year old incoming.
He's an eighteen year old. He's though regarded as potentially
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the next great thing. I know a lot of teams
think that their next drivers are the next great thing,
but the hype around him Israel has been super fast
tracked through the junior formula to get to Formula one,
skip Formula three entirely didn't even have a full season
the F two under his belt when he was signed.
In fact, he skipped the last couple of races as
well as he didn't even have the full season under
his belt. He's up against George Russell, alongside George Russe,
who's established now, and I feel like towards the end
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of last year we've got a sense that he can
be that real title contender.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
He's got a little bit more of an edge about
him now.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
But really intriguing because I get the sense that they
didn't think there was going to be anything on the
line this season, but preseason testing kind of suggested there
might be some regular wins here.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Look, I think with an asterisk, there's two things for me.
You mentioned very fast and Antonelli in the same sentence.
That's something we're going to say a lot. I also
think he might hit a lot of stationary objects, Michael,
because particularly a track like Albert Park for your first
ever Formula one Grand Prix. He is a really difficult
street circuit super quick. Walls are super close. If I
was putting money on who might be first in the
fence over the course of the weekend, it'd be fairly
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strong towards Antonelli, I think. So I don't think he's
going to lack for speed. We saw what he did
in that FP one session at Monza last year where
he was incredibly rapid for one lap and then hit
the fence on the second one, So I think he's
going to be super quick. You mentioned Russell being a
team leader. I think that's something he's really grown into.
It seems to suit him well to my mind. The
asterisk on preseason testing Bahrain was randomly very cool, and
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we saw last year that Mercedes were very very good
when it was cold. You think Las Vegas, they looked
like they should have won the Constructors Championship last year.
They were unbelievable that race. It was freezing cold, and
so anyone that's been in Melbourne for the past week
is roasting for earlier here in Melbourne, and I know
the forecast is temper again a little bit for the weekend,
but to me, that's the question mark is that trait
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in Mercedes car is awesome in cold conditions a bit
maybe not so much in the warm weather. That could
bring that optimism back a little bit. Nothink.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Before we move on, we've got to talk about Jack
Doo and of course making his full season debut. Let's
call it maybe with an Astris at Alpe this weekend
in Melbourne.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I say with an Astres because really the story.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Around him isn't that he's embarking on this first full
time season, and not even that he's the son of
a five time five hundred cc motorcycle champion. I guess
he's probably happy he's shaken that tag. He's there on
his own ride. But the rumor is actually that he's
only got a few races, perhaps so as few as
a handful of races to prove himself. That takes him
to the end of April before the team considers putting
reserve driver Franco Colopinto in the car. You will remember
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Colopinto last year made his debut at Williams just after
the mid season break, replacing Logan Sergeant there and scored
point and see something that Sargonal wasn't able to do
all season was really impressive. If to take back on
that phrase is fast but probably crash prone. It will
quite a few crashes towards the end of last season.
The speed's clearly there. There's a lot of pressure on Doing.
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The team doesn't really want to say anything, and I
mean that they're not even pretending that's not the case.
They're really trying to say as little as possible about
this situation. This is the worst way to make your homecoming.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Surely, it's a super tough gig because it feels that
there's only one outcome here. It feels that we're all
telling variations of the same story, and both of us
have written basically the same story for various people over
the past week. But it's incredibly harsh. On someone who
has come through the Alpine Academy. It feels like he
may not get a chance to prove himself and it
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may not even matter what he does in these first
few races, because you look at what Alpine's done here,
They've hired.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Someone that possibly is as quick.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
I think Doing had a better junior career coming into
Formula one than Colo Pinto did, But you know I
like him that this morning, to imagine having you work
all your life to get your dream job and then
the team immediately hires someone who's just as qualified as
you and also has a very large sack of money
that they can bring from sponsors and just sit over
there and I know you'll find just carry on, so
a huge amount of pressure. I think it would probably
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be worse for Jack if this was his actually left
one debut. The fact that he got to debut at
Abi Dhabi last year sort of in the anonymity of
just driving around in the midfield. He's good from a
procedural point of view, but such a such a tough
gig and I hope that look he's a pretty switched on,
very hard work and determined young guy has got there
on merit. Let's just hope he gets a chance to
prove himself before something else happens.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Yeah, it feels like the power is probably still in
his hands. I mean the end of the day in Tummans,
he's so everything. Absolutely he's the one in the car
getting results. So hopefully a good debut debut this weekend
in Australia and the next couple of races will be
enough to get him. Well, I've got to hope at
least until the end of the season, so confident and
he would have an established career from there.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Well, interesting to see.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
That's this weekend of the Australian Grand Prix and the
lead up to this weekend's race. We got up with Gundesteiner,
the former Harsh team boss and you know who he is.
You're listening to this podcast, you're watching you know Gundesteiner is.
He's written his second book.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Believe it or not.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
It's called Unfiltered. In fact, he's taking it on a
speaking tour called Unfiltered Live tickets which you can still
get for Newcastle, Melbourne, Gold Coast and Brisbane. We had
a chat about his expectations with the season to come,
also his experience of moving out of the F one
paddock and the pressures of always being in Formula one
and his expectations again for the season, and of course
that swearing band comes up, believe it or not.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
So let's get into that.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
It's good to see you, thanks for having me.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Now I want to start. Of course, we're leading up
to the Australian Grand Prix. Everyone's excited for Formula one
to return, and certainly hear everyone's excited for Australia to
be the first race again. But tell me what it's
like to be running a team with this time of year.
Is it excitement? Is a nervousness seeing where teams are
going to stack up? Or is it all actually just
about bracing for the twenty four hour flight down to Melbourne.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
It's all effect what you just said, you know, so no, no,
the biggest thing is to first rese the year. Obviously the.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Was last last week in Bahrain, so people know roughly
where they are. But coming to the first races always
the hopes hi uh, you know, we have full of
energy because you haven't been racing for a while and
you just look forward to go to the first race.
And this year being Australia again the first race, it's
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quite good because people like that always. You know, as
you said, it's a long flight so but it's good
to come here. If you think most of the teams
are from the UK, so the weather is normally a
lot better here than over there, so you know, it's
a people love to come here.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Now.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
We're very happy Gunta that it is back in. It's
a rightful place on the Formula One calendar. As we
like to call it, but you mentioned pre season testing
there and on that Australian theme, it does very much
look like McClaren is going to start the season as favorite,
which you know it means both Mana Noris and Oscar
Piastri could very well be title contenders. We know that
they're up against some very big recent title winners Stappen, Lewis, Hamilton,
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Red Bull Mersidies. But in your view, how do you
think Landou and more particularly for our audience, Oscar are
going to stand up under the pressure of that possible
first genuine title fight this season.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
I mean, I think you're right McLaren is the favorite
after Barrain. It is, I mean, everybody's in the opinion.
It's that they will be the team to be this year.
I think they will be okay, because they got a
lot of it last year. You know, when middle in
the season, all of a sudden they started to win races,
and not only by default but by actually being the
best team on the grid. And out of that they
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learned and they are a lot better prepared this year
to go for both world championships, not only one only
you know, only one like last year. Uh So I
think they go in there ready and well prepared, you know,
mentally as an organization, the McLaren know now is that
they that they are the favorite that they need to
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deliver off. So I think they will be pretty happy
to go in there with that altitude.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
It's an incredibly even driver lineup as well. We saw
that towards the second half of last year for a time,
so you know, you've obviously had the team principals had
on yourself. How do you think a team like that
is set up to handle a potential rivalry between two drivers,
neither of whom have won a World championship. It's been
a long time since McLaren won a driver's World Championship.
Do you think that's going to be a narrative that
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we see play out within that team this year.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
I think they're well prepared and what I think they
will do, they will be clear, don't don't run into
each other, but let's go, let's race, and then at
some stage in the season, which normally I think it
would be after the summer break, they will say, whoever
is in a better position, let's try to win the
World championship. If anybody else can contend for it, obviously,
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if it is just the two of them, I think
then they let them raise it to the end, you
know so. But they're both drivers with a good head
on their shoulders, so I think they've got that. You said,
a very strong driver lineup, but also very much you
are in death sense, dive a lineup.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
You're a man who's got I suppose a couple of catchphrases.
After your decade in Formula one, where did you rank
the phrase Papaya rules in the list of phrases You've heard.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
A lot of budshit.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Uh you said that we thought it exactly, yeah, exactly, yeah,
because I never found out what it is, said, they asked,
zachd Actually you know what is it?
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Then?
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Our rules?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Yeah, yeah, you know what it was of Yes, yeah, Like.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
I want to attack a little bit because the other
really big story of this year is of course going
to be Lewis Hamilton, where he has joined Ferrari now
and there's been a lot made about the transition he's
going to have to undergo to become a Ferrari driver
after so many years at Mercedes and maybe more to
the point, so many years with British teams, and you've
known Ferrari quite well through the partnership it had with Hears.
How do you think that's going to go And do
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you think that I suppose culture with element is a
little bit overplayed when we're talking about Lewis Hamilton adjusting
to life in Marinello.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I don't think so.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
I think you have to just because Ferrari were not
adjust to you. You know, Ferrari had a lot of
big drivers and the team culture never changed. I would say,
But I think Louis is smart enough to know that,
and he will try to adjust to the culture. Obviously
not always the easiest thing to do, especially if you
think that Charles let Clerk speaks fluent Italian is there
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a long time, grew up in that environment, so he
needs to put some work in. But you know, Louis
knows that and he just needs to work at it.
But I'm sure he's not going to try to change
the culture there to his what he's used to, because
that's not going to happen.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
You've been in not just Formula one for all, We've
got a big motor sports background, obviously having started in rallying.
The story with Lewis and Ferrari is a seven time champion,
mading the most successful team in Formula One history. If
you were to win the title this year or in
the next couple of years with Ferrari, where do you
think that would rank in terms of more the sport significance?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Very high?
Speaker 5 (20:03):
I mean going in there coming from a seven time
world champion, and then if he wins at winning eight
world championships, which is a record nobody else has done that,
I think that would go into history.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
But also Ferrari hasn't won a World.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
Championship as a team in a long time, so just
winning it again in the Ferrari and in Italy would
put him at a complete different level.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Now I want to get you to put you I
suppose a man manager had on for one of a
better phrase. It is an element of being a team principal.
How do you think Charlotteclair, who was previously for our
his golden child. You know, the future of the team
will be handling being really so comprehensively overshadowed by Lewis
Hamilton's arrival. And we've already talked quite a lot about Lewis.
Everyone's talking about Lewis. No one's talking about the guy
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that finished last year. Really strongly. What would you have
to do to make sure he's not feeling like he's
left out of the situation.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
No, I think Charles that he's the long future for
Ferrari because he's so much young, or he has got
a long future there. And I think for Charles an
opportunity because being in a team with a seven time
world champions always good. You can learn something from him,
because winning a championship is not only being fast in
a rasca, is also being smart and doing a very
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good job in a long race. So I think Charles
will take it, you know. I try to learn as
much as possible for the time Louis is there a
short term. Obviously, Louis took over the headlines, but Louis
hasn't won anything for Ferrari yet, while Charles has won
races for them, So I don't think he's downbeat about it.
I mean, he knows that Louis is a big name,
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won seven championships and that the headlight is on him now.
But if Child then beats him, for example, that's even
better for Charles. So I think he just will take
a little bit of time and then he can show
what he can do. But I don't think it bumps
him out now.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
It's a fascinating story that one, no matter which of
those two extremes applies out. As you said, But let's
switch to we're talking about Australian drivers before let's talk
about the one who's not on the grid this year.
With Daniel Ricardo being out of the sport for good
this time, you would think, and I wanted to ask you, like,
what's the adjustment like from being right in the thick
of f one like you were and like Daniel was,
(22:18):
to being an outsider? And I'm using air quotes here.
You know you're not in the cut and thrust of
the day to day. How is it for you? Because
we talked about you being busy, but it's a different
sort of busy and a different sort of pressure.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I guess, yeah, No, I.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Adopted very good. I like what I'm doing.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
You know, as you said, I went out from one
seat into the next seat, so I had no time
in between to even think about it. It was it
wasn't my plan to do this what they did last year.
All the work I did so, but I enjoying it.
Otherwise I wouldn't do it. And it keeps the formula on.
But everybody's different than Danny after he left last year.
(22:57):
I don't think he came place yet. I don't know
if he's coming to Melbourne or not to the race,
but it's different and if he wants to take some
time off, because that was my initiative plan to take
some time off just to do a little bit of
what I wanted to do. And then people ask me
to do things and I did them and I enjoy them.
But you know, as you say, it's a different pressure.
(23:18):
Obviously it's not the high pressure like when you have
to when you go out qualifying or racing, but it's
still it's still a pressure. But it's good to be
around in the puddle. Can just not have to go
to all the races. You can go where you want
to go. You can decide yourself.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Of course.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
The other thing for you now is you don't get
that competitive time every one or two weeks depending on
the calendar. You don't get that competitive each to scratch. Now,
so how have you replaced that adrenaline side, because obviously
you know everything's so busy as a team principle, there
is a race every week or two weeks throughout the
season where you get to see where you stack up.
So how do you personally scratch that competitive each now that.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
You're not involved on the inside, I'm pretty fine with
the you know, not having that a bread alain and no,
it's nice. The biggest thing is on a race weekend
when the cast we out for qualifying. That's the only
a few minutes you think are that would be cool.
But then it's just like you watch what other people
are doing. It's nice to be the spectator sometimes.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Well you've spent is an element you touched on your
book as well that I sort of thought was interesting.
The first couple of chapters the latest book, of course, Unfiltered,
talking about setting up the Hearts team, which was more
than a decade ago. Now you're doing that preparatory work,
and you were talking about how different Formula one was
then compared to now you've seen it in its current
super popular era where everyone wants to talk about Formula one,
(24:41):
races are selling out regularly, all that kind of thing.
But also it's decidedly less culturally relevant, very much less
popular era a decade or so ago. I'm interested in
your perception of how that's evolved from inside the sport.
Obviously you were there for that full decade. And also
how important the likes of big characters are to the sport.
We're talking about Daniel, he was obviously one of them.
(25:03):
You obviously made a massive name for yourself as someone
who transcends the sport to a little bitter fright. It's
how important is it. I have those characters been to
formud on becoming the sport we know today.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
I think they were an element in it, But I
think the biggest thing was that the sport was brought
to more people, obviously to drive to survive in the pandemic.
When Formula one was the first sport again going live again,
people was watching it. So as you said, the Formula
one has changed quite a bit from ten to fifteen
(25:37):
years ago to what it is now. But internally it's
just I think it made it better. It's better organized,
better structures. The team are normally financially a lot better
off now than they were ten years ago than years ago.
Very few race teams made money now. I think if
they're not profitable, they break even most of them. And
(25:58):
what that does it gives secure to the people which
worked out that the we'd have a job in the
foreseable future, which is always good if people have got security,
job security. So it has changed, but it was a
lot of elements coming together or to make it what
it is.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Now, and it's amazing what it has become. I mean,
I think if we've spoken to you eight years ago,
you wouldn't have been thinking, oh, I've written two books
by now and you've got this life that you have
these days. But I did want to ask you about
that because you may remember going to last year, we
were doing something at the Australian Grand Prix for one
of the corporates and you were just being hounded by
everybody so much before we started that, I actually found
(26:35):
you hiding in a bathroom. So that was something that
you probably wouldn't imagine would have been life about eight
or ten years ago. But do you ever look at
this sometimes? And I know you don't watch Striveters of
ib that's one of your things that you've always said.
But you never could have believed that life would have
turned out like this with the way things have gone
over the past ten years. Could you No?
Speaker 5 (26:53):
No, absolutely, And I think nobody could blunt something like this.
This is things just happening. You know, you're just a
passenger on these things, you know, so uh, and they
come along and that, as you said, I would have
never fail to write one book never mind, do you know?
So I deem selling them, but maybe writing them, but
not selling them. You know, anybody wanted to read them?
Speaker 2 (27:13):
You know.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
So No, it's it's it's very as you said, it
came out by surprise, you know.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
I want to ask, and I know you've been getting
a lot of questions about this. Can't imagine why, but
I fi is contemplating a swearing band in formula one. Now,
I was reading your book and I was interested to
hear that you already live under a bit of a
swearing band at home.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I can't imagine how that looks out for you.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
So is there is there a home gunter and at
work gunter, and ironically the one at work is swearing more.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
How's that happening?
Speaker 5 (27:41):
Absolutely? Absolutely that is happening, you know. So yeah, no,
But but I think what you see there, it's under
when it's under pressure, you know, in just emotions get
get told of you you and and you do things
which you normally don't do.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
But no, no, it's too different ones. You're absolutely right
with that one.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Do you think they're gonna be alple to pull off
this swearing band this year?
Speaker 1 (28:07):
I mean they bullet off and then who wants to
spend these amounts of money? You know, just bye bye?
Speaker 5 (28:14):
But you know it's I hope it doesn't take out,
you know, if the emotions what the driver have got,
you know, and controlling too much because it's a it's
it's it's I mean, is it good if somebody swears no?
But this is this bad as as it is made
out of the be no as well in my opinion.
You know, it's a sport lists from emotions. People want
(28:36):
to see emotions, want to see characters and you know,
if if there is no there's no emotions in it,
you know we can have machines going around the acetrack.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Certainly we don't want that. Good there.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
It's been a pleasure if anyone wants to catch you.
There's still tickets left to Unfiltered live and the show's
coming up or in Newcastle, Melbourne, the Gold Coast and Brisbane.
Of course, you can buy the book Unfiltered from all
good retailers. One question before you go. You mentioned when
you got that famous call from Gen you were buying
some ham?
Speaker 2 (29:04):
What was the ham? And did you buy it in
the end or did you go home empty handed?
Speaker 4 (29:08):
No?
Speaker 1 (29:08):
I bought some and I.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Thank you God. Enjoy your trip down to Australia and
we'll talk it too.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Thank you guys.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
That was former Haas F one team Bosklin the Stegner
of course, and again it's unfiltered Live is his book.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Tour speaking to her.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
It's hard to believe only a few years ago he'd
said that that's what he's up to these days. It's Newcastle, Melbourne,
Gold Coast and Brisbane. You can still get some tickets.
There are only a few available, so if you want
to go and see them, I would advise you get
online and get those tickets now. But now let's change
things up a little bit. So I'm interested in playing
a new games, new season.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
The podcast what have you got for me? Interested versus
expert is what I'm going to call it. Okay, Now, look,
we both know a lot about motorsport.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
F one obviously is the main situation here on Pittalk,
but we do like our supercars and Moto GPE. But
maybe the game here is to guess who's interested in
who's the expert? I think the experts probably going to
be answering questions at this point, right, it's to do
it the other way around.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
It's probably a little bit well given, given.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
I'm interested rather than the experts. Shall we start off
with some supercars?
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Perhaps? Okay?
Speaker 3 (30:06):
And we what we're one round into the season. We
already have a driver change.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Ye, silly season never stops, does it, regardless of what
sport you're involved in. And Darren Love has left the
Blanchard Races and according to them, on his terms, he's
decided to leave after one round and three races. He's
been replaced by Aaron Cameron. This has been building up
for a little while. His debut season last season is
this is almost the theme of the podcast. Very quick,
but sometimes hits start right, Yeah, may be the bottom
(30:36):
of the show.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Got to hit some things before the show's finished. Unfortunately.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
The last thing you hit was his teammate James Cortney
in warm up for qualifying. I remember this in Sydney
for round one, of course, at Sydney Motorsport Park. Both
warming up for qualifying, James Corney tends to go around
in he's doing the weaving your ties thing and they
make contact and.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
That's not great.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
It's not a great situation to be and this is
off the back again of a season last year where
he showed a lot of speed promise. I mean, that's
sort of been the even his junior career leading up
with the supercars suggested there was this great speed, just
couldn't really convert that to that kind of consistency, and
the team's decided, particularly after that incident, he's had enough.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
It's a bit unfair on him as well.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
It felt like this season got to the wrong foot
in testing out of brake failure and crashed and hit
something and that wasn't his fault, but sometimes things just
don't go your way, and he is one of those
things that hasn't gone his way. If you think from
the team's perspective. The positive element here, I guess is
that you know James Cortney's retiring at end of the year,
and this means at least if you get someone in
the car, in this case Aaron Cameron, you're not going
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into next season with an all new driver line up,
correct and that's usually really quite important for a motorsport team.
Particularly one like bart which is trying to move up
the grid. You want a little bit of consistency in
the engineering through the drivers. So Aaron Cameron, we know
his quick carting champions five thousand, multiple champion Super two
race winner and runner up in Super two as well,
and was co driving last year with Aaron Lavid Battiston Sandown.
(31:58):
So he knows the team, he knows the sport deserves
to be there, He's got the background to prove that
deserves to be there. So and astute change. But after
one round you do. It is a little bit rough,
isn't it. I guess you might be looking at Alward
Park and going, boy, the barriers are pretty close.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
They are a little bit no truth to the room,
and you're going to change your name to Aaron just
to be the next guy on the list there.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Well, I mean, look, if this doesn't work out, way
that I could drive, I could dry. I drive pretty quick.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
So I've heard let's go back to Sydney. First round.
Just absolutely dominated by cam waders, three poles, three wins,
three faster slaps, three very different races in that one
in the wet drive one, A close race, absolutely dominated.
A race is this like he's been this nearly meant
he's been what top six in the championship I think
(32:44):
five straight years, or maybe it's top five and six
years I forget, but he's been right up there for
so so long. So is this the year that he
can turn that into something bigger?
Speaker 5 (32:54):
Isn't?
Speaker 4 (32:54):
It definitely feels promising because like you said, it's the
three different races element. I know we talk a lot
about this was one round and it was only one circuit.
It would be the most ex extreme tire circuit we
have on the Supercars calendar. It's a very particular track
if you compared to others. Albert Park's also another very
particular track. But yeah, like you say, in the cold,
in the hot, in the day, in the nighttime, challenged
(33:16):
by Triple eight, not challenged by Triple A. Different strategies
as well, particularly in that night race when it was
closed a bit were dry in that last one to
exactly nothing phaced him or the tick for Team A.
Team We've got to remember on a couple of years
ago decided they've got to reduce back down to two cars.
They could focus more thing the most out of the
package they had.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
This was I know, it's like it is only one round.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
And everyone's like, wow, one round. All those caveats were
just mentioned, but it was it was absolute.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
That was the word use. It was absolute domination, maximum points.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
I think what's really interesting for me, And there's the
context here of in Gen three, you know, Fords felt
a little bit down and out and Chevrolet seemed had.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Things all their own way, was it Ford did really
well this weekend as well. Actually backs it up.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
A little bit, Triple eight was really the only GM
representative the top five, certainly in the top ten generally
all weekend.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
And also that means if you're a General.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
Motors fan or Triple eight's switching next year and makes
you a little bit worried. But for example, the top
five qualifying results over the course of the three races
was ten five to Forward. Likewise, in the extended race results,
ten top five finishes to Ford over the course of
the weekend to just five for General Motors. General motors
are still overrepresented on the grid as well, so this
is punching way above Ford's weight in this regard. And
(34:25):
what I really think is interesting to talk about that
we take Triple eight out of the equation. Water's average
pole margin over the course of the weekend was more
than six tenths of a second over the next year team.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
It's huge and so.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
It really relies on I mean, Triple eight at the
moment seems like the only competitor we can talk about
walking through and Dreda united with sort of thereabouts and
they are fourteenth. So on the base of one round
you said, well, maybe the ceilings are a little bit higher.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
We don't know. We've got to see a few more tracks.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
But I mean, if you're a cam Orders fan, I
don't want to say you've been long suffering, but you
know he's been close several times and hasn't managed to
get it done. You must be feeling you must be
allowing yourself to feel pretty good.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Last one of my interested but not expert list image
in Triple eight before we're going to a race track
where they were particularly good last year, three wins of
the four between their two drivers. Is this what they
need right now to perhaps get on par with Ford,
as you were saying, or is last year's result a
little bit irrelevant based on what we saw in Sydney.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
It's sort of it's a little bit hard to say
because the Australian Grand pre format is so random really
in the context anymore sport really, even the Supercars four
races grouped in a funny way, and you don't get
a lot of set up time, which could be the
really important element. It's all got to be done on
Thursday pretty much, and then you're guessing between live sessions.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
It's really quite fast paced despite being a four.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
Day man and no pit stops exactly, a completely different
format of racing, going to have different weather, all that
kind of stuff, super far fastest track on the calendar,
all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
But Triple eight is that team that should be there
pretty much everywhere.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
They, like you said, did so well last year, also
missed out on the perfect podium run by in only
one race, seven podiums from eight at Temps essentially last year.
Team manager Mark doesn't use the word must. I think
must bounce back at the Australian Grand Prix. Obviously not
from a points perspective because the season is long, but
it is just that kind of dire picture that's been
painted otherwise that if if what has wins all four races,
(36:15):
we're probably going to be having really quite a different,
like another different conversation after this about well, this has
all gone fairly in one direction, so it's going to
be a really fascinating week here you want to talk.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
About Moto GP.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Are we switching hats here? I'm highly interested, You're highly interested.
I'm hit a help, Michael, when's Mark market is going
to win the title this year? Because remarkable?
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Has he not already won it?
Speaker 3 (36:36):
I mean, I think this was the This was the fear.
I guess you use fear in inverted kormas you put
the best rider on the best bike, and expecting other outcomes,
particularly early in the season is probably wishful thinking. I
think there is a little caveat with what he did
in Thailand. They had tested there for two days previously
a fortnight earlier, and he was unbelievably strong, Like waited
(36:59):
until the fifteen minutes of the second day and said
how about this for a qualifying lap there?
Speaker 2 (37:04):
And everyone went, oh boy.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
So what he did in Beru Aram was not a
massive surprise. So is he the world championship favorite fantastic bike?
We know how good Mark is and he's in this
sort of last part of his career. Now he's the
second oldest rider in Motor GP. It's one of those
things that snuck up on this a little bit because
he still looks like he's twenty three thirty two now,
(37:25):
and the way he won in burram I. Look at
the Grand Prix where he cleared off at the front
and then realized, oh, my tire pressures are a bit low,
I might just pull the handbrake on. Relatively speaking, he
had sit behind my brother on the same bike until
I've done the minimum sixty percent race distance with the
tire pressure and then just breeze past him and gap
him by one point three seconds in one lap. It
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was just an absolute demonstration of the margin that he
had now good at this track. He's won there several
times before, a lot of data from preseason testing. There
are some variables coming up, but it's hard to see
how he not the strongest of those decadies, at least
for this first part of the season. But I think
the biggest challenge is still with his son Garage.
Speaker 4 (38:05):
Well, so this is the question, right because and you
mentioned there's the three next couple of races feel like
when the Marquez universe, right, I mean, so we've got
Argentina this weekend saying we've got a lot of notice
about this weekend. Let's try You're going to need to
use your recording devices and so on, and then codat.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
The secret of the Americans.
Speaker 4 (38:23):
Is there any point even if you Peco Vanyay are
turning up to these races or is it all really
about looking at not this cutout after that and then
the return to Europe for if anyone's going to challenge you.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
I think Banyaya could not have had a worse weekend
in terms of just you know, banana skins that he
tripped over pretty much in Thailand because he had a
difficult preseason test, didn't get a race simulation in got
to Thailand, had to go through a Q one because
it was an erroneous yellow flag in that last practice session.
He then got borked by Franco Marberdeli, which got Morbidelli
a group penalty, had to fight his way through a
(38:55):
Q one. He was constantly fighting with an arm behind
his back all weekend. Never really looked like he was
going to challenge for a win, but more or less
had their measure of what was behind. And Picko is
one of these guys that he can't just jump on
and be volcanic fast like Mark Camp. He's one of
these guys. He's a slow build, slow burn and when
he can run a weekend on those terms, we saw
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it last year he won eleven of twenty Grand Prix,
but it wasn't so much what he did on Sunday,
it was what he was doing on Friday. He's this methodical,
slow burn rider that when he gets everything right, he
was pretty much unbeatable last year on a Sunday. So
I can't imagine a more problematic build up than he
had in Thailand. I think the races coming forward should
be smoother than this. We'll see the gap reduce. Whether
(39:37):
it reduces to a point where we can flip them,
I don't know, but I think it's going to be
far more competitive once we get to Argentina.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
It's still incredible to me he won eleven Grand Prix
last and win well, yeah, it was a championship being lost,
wasn't it. Yeah? Wow, yes, yes, but ridiculous really. And
we've got to talk about Jack Miller.
Speaker 4 (39:53):
You know, maybe six eight months ago we were thinking
maybe he wasn't going to be in with the ride,
and he dropped up with Pramac now in the stable
and did well, extremely well, very impressive debut to him,
and suddenly it looks like a new lease on life
for him.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Fastest ever lapped by a Yamaha of Burram in six
visits by Motor GP. There he'd ridden the bike for
two tests. So I think this is consistent with what
Jack does, though, because you look at where he's been previously.
When he was at Pramac Deucati, he was on Polony
second race in Argentina, which is absolutely while lap where
the track was still half where he won two of
his first five races. When he went to Ducati's factory
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team in twenty one, his best results at katm were
in the fourth Grand Prix. That year at Hareth, finished
on the podium in the sprint and the Grand Prix.
And I think Jack's one of these guys. He's so
naturally talented that he hits the ceiling really really quickly.
There's that and the ability to just get on the
thing and wring its neck. I sometimes wonder with Jack
whether he hits his head on that ceiling a little
bit early. And so the rate of development is very rapid,
(40:51):
and then it flattens out. The key thing for me
is he's on a one year contract with Pramak. His
teammate Miguel Olivere's got two. But I think Jack is
willing to take the bike to place as maybe Yama
hasn't seen it for the past few years because they've
only had two riders, and Fabio Couaturero's a fantastic rider.
Alex Rinz has been injured for the best part of
eighteen months, so I'm not sure they know where that
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bike is. Jack's taking it to places a fourth on
the grid in qualifying at Burram unbelievable qualifying performance, and
Fabio Couaturero said afterwards Jack disconnected his brain in Q two,
which was said in Fabio's accent, it's better than the
way I just said it, but it's so true in
that Jack's willing to put it all on the line.
So I wasn't surprised that he started quickly with Yamaha.
(41:34):
I was surprised that it was so good look the
race weekend, crashed from a good position in the sprint
and then had the bizarre Grand Prix where a bolt
came out of the fairing and he was holding it
together on the straits with his foe arms on the
tank and managed to burn them because it.
Speaker 2 (41:48):
Was so hot.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
So a weird weekend of results, but I think the
pace and the promise is really good there and a
couple of good tracks for him coming up to.
Speaker 4 (41:56):
Yeah, that's such a Moto VP thing. Burning your four
arms holding your bike together.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
To be fine. It looks in extreme sports and he'll
be declared fit. Don't know. Oh yes for the next race.
Uh that's your wrap up.
Speaker 4 (42:09):
I guess aware of those two sports so far because
as I said, argent Argentine Grand Prix this weekend from
OJP the Melbourne Superspoot for supercars, which also happens to
be in the same location as the Australian Grand Prix.
But just before we leave the last couple of weeks
behind by Shannon's we've got, of course the overtake of
the month. Now we're gonna look back. Of course we've
only had two rounds of anything so far, so the
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choice is a relatively limited but I think we've got
some good ones. I'll kick things off and for me
the overtake. Actually it's the sort of the opposite. It's
an allowance of an overtake. It's a redress is what
it is. I'm picking cam Waters allowing brock Feenie back
through into the lead in the closing stages of the
Saturday Night Rice Saturday Night Race in Sydney because he
punted him off the road. This is battle for the lead,
(42:51):
really fraud. It was just a one on one. By
punning him off the road. Of course, Pool Brown caught
up had to redress to have another crack at him,
and of course he eventually won this race in the
by the closest march in fifty years or something.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
Like that, and did it so expertly by keeping Will
Brown behind him.
Speaker 4 (43:04):
Because Brown did have the run loud brockthrough even Will
sort of have to regussion and go, oh look I
didn't like it, but credit to him. Certain it's not
quite It is an overtake. But it's not the guy
who did the overtake that's getting the awards. The guy
let him be overtaken.
Speaker 3 (43:16):
But it's also the quick thinking. Yeah, pressure like that
with so much on the line, when you're being ganged
up on two against what I think that was absolutely
a great choice.
Speaker 4 (43:24):
Yes, and it goes to that great weekend Ward has
had as well. Yeah, courage that the management was there
every facet.
Speaker 3 (43:29):
I'll go two wheels. With the very first lap of
the sprint in the Thailand Motor GP, Iyagura on an Aprillia,
on his Motor GP debut, qualifies fifth. Unbelievable performance. Best
qualifying by rookie in their very first Motor GP race
since Fabio Guadurra in twenty nineteen. Reasonable position to start,
(43:49):
and he said afterwards he got the term one couldn't
believe how hard Jack Miller and Frankeo Morbidelli breaked in
front of him, So he just took the outside and
swept past both of them into the first corner, your
first corner in a premier class, in your first lights
out race, and all of a sudden he is right
behind Pekabanyaya and Mark Marquez ahead of him. Unbelievable star,
(44:12):
but it was as if he started the way he
meant to go on. Finished fifth on an Aprillier in
his very first Grand Prix, the first non Decati across
the line, best debut stat corner for you, best debut
by anyone in Motor GP in a race since Mark
Marquez finished third in twenty thirteen Quaitar. So it does
show you the level that this guy has got in
(44:34):
him ragining Moto two champion. I think people thought that
he would be decent in motor GP. The fact he
didn't come in on a Honda was interesting. But he's
come in for a Prillia. We know a Prillia doesn't
have Joe Martin at the moment to see the limit
of that bike. But as first impressions go, it was
a pretty good one.
Speaker 4 (44:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
Well, feels like a lot of stuff was saying about
Pedro Acosta around this time.
Speaker 3 (44:52):
Yes, well, but even his debut wasn't as good as that.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
Yes, remarkable, wisdom, remarkable, very good. I enjoy it.
Speaker 4 (44:57):
Two good overtakes there. We have so many more this
weekend through how much motorsport we've got. Let's look ahead now, Matt,
because we've got quite a few big weeks of motorsport
coming up for us. I thought we'd have a look
in it. We need a prop, a crystal ball, something
we can have there maybe in future. Yes, you're not
watching it, just imagine we do actually have it. You
don't know any better, but you can watch it if
you don't know on YouTube. By complete home filtration, the
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complete home filtration crystal ball.
Speaker 2 (45:22):
What's a big prediction for the next couple of weeks
in motorsport?
Speaker 3 (45:24):
Am I going first?
Speaker 2 (45:25):
You go first?
Speaker 3 (45:27):
Given what we've got coming up in motor GP, we've
got Argentina. Doesn't get used for fifty one weeks of
the year. Dirty bit of a goat track, very very
very slippery. That sounds a bit like a Mark Marquees track,
doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
Imagine turn up straight out of the box.
Speaker 3 (45:41):
And be the guy who indulged in a bit of
tarmac motor crossing and be very very good there. Following
Argentina we go to the Circuit of the Americas in Texas.
Mar Marquees is known as the King of Kosa. So
my big prediction is that we'll get through the first
three rounds of the motor GP season and Marques will
be undefeated. He'll win the sprint in Argentina, the Grand
Prix and do likewise it.
Speaker 2 (46:02):
But will we eat Hamburger afterwards? He will eat many Hamburgers?
All right?
Speaker 4 (46:06):
My prediction, Look, I think it's actually could be could happen,
It could be reasonable, O yours I think probably will happen.
Speaker 2 (46:12):
So there's a good prediction.
Speaker 3 (46:13):
Do I need to touch something wooden't here?
Speaker 4 (46:14):
No, I don't think there's anything wood in I think
this is the weekend Australia finally gets an Australian on
the podium with Australian run.
Speaker 3 (46:21):
So glad you've gone here could be the top step.
I think Oscopiastri could be the one to do it.
Speaker 4 (46:26):
You've had Obviously Daniel cut out his chances, but obviously
never coincided perfectly with the car being in its top
form at Albert Park, and then he was disquaded by
the one time McLaren does feel like it's gonna be
the favorite coming into this weekend. Astris very different tractor barrain,
et cetera, et cetera. But this feels like our best shot.
This genuinely feels like the best shot, and I think
it's going.
Speaker 2 (46:43):
To be at least a podium.
Speaker 3 (46:44):
Surely four times an Australian has finished fourth of the Australian,
there's a synergy there. Can we just put that in
the bin. We've come super super close. This has to
be the year given McLaren's preseason favoritism, so no pressure Oscar.
A country expects.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
Yes, very much.
Speaker 4 (46:59):
So well tough with how osk and did next week,
because that's all the time we've got for Pit Talk today.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
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This is the moment man that we've all been waiting
for for in a romax.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Here comes Oscar Piastree, Lando Norrith.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
They aren't playing hardball out there at the moment.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Hello and welcome to Pit Talk, brought to you by Shannon's.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
On today's episode, we're in Australian Grand Prix week and
McLaren is tipped to be favorite at the start of
this new season. And for our first episode of the season,
we're joined by former has F one team principal Guntha
Steiner to get his take on the season to come
and his new book, Unfiltered. My name is Michael Lomonato,
motorsport writer at Fox Sports Australia. It's great to have
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your company and the company of my co host. His
name's Matt Clayton. You can call the team Racing Bulls
if you like, but he's femous always Minadi.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Michael.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Great to join you for another season, very very much,
looking forward to get stuck into the Australian Grand Prier.
What five days away?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah? The clock is really to you. It feels like
it keeps up on us every year.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
It is going to be a big first round, not
only because it's back in Australia, where personally I've always
felt it should be. Sometimes I disregard the first two
rounds in Barrai and Saudi Arabia. The time zone is
terrible anyway. But we are back in Australia for the
very first round of the season, and for the first
time in a long time, it feels like I've got
a genuine chance of breaking that streak of no Australians
on the podium at Australian Grandfrey. Potentially even a first winner,
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an Australian winner at the Stralian Grandbery. Because MacLaren after Prieza,
isn't testing looked really competitive?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
That seems to be the vibe.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yeah, look, I think so they've got momentum from last year.
I think that's probably a key thing and I think
an underrated part in this season of so much change elsewhere.
They're one of only two teams with an unchanged driver lineup.
I think when you've got stability there and continuity results.
You look at what they did in preseason testing. They
weren't hogging lap times or really headlining things, but you
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could see the inherent pace was there, The long run
pace was good. It looked like it had a good
one lap pace as well. So you mentioned that podium
drought for Australians at Albert Park and goodness, no have
come close enough. So Manys, could this finally be the year?
I think if we're looking at a favorite going into Melbourne,
it's got to be McLaren. But I think it's what's
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behind them that's particularly intriguing, because I think it's a
lot murkyer. I think McLaren is pretty clearly a standout.
What happens behind them not.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
So sure it just before we look at some of
those other contenders, because there's some great stories in that
front running pack, and at least Lewis Hamilton at Ferrari,
we've got a teenager at Mercedes and or Red Bull Racing,
maybe on the back foot only for twenty four months.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
After absolutely dominating the sport.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
But McLaren as a championship contender is really interesting because
it's almost easy to forget that they won the Constructor's
title last year.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
They came from nowhere two years earlier.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Even at the beginning of last year looked sort of
fourth best thereabouts waiting for these upgrades that did eventually
change the complexion of their season. But we also saw
in the second half of the year this battle between
land and Norris and Oscar Piastrin.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
And literally it wasn't on the points.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Table because Norris was quite a bit ahead of Piastri
in the second half of the season by the end
of the year, but we could see sometimes a little
bit of a challenge that bounds of power and the
team couldn't we I think of Monza where Oscar Piastri
got ahead of Landon and I was at the start
Azerbaijan when all the talkers about helping Lando and Nisa
was hum we led the flag and other examples.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Of course, how redid you feel McLaren is to challenge
for the championship in that context?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Yeah, Look, I don't know if you're ready until you're
thrown into that situation to have to deal with it live,
because last year you're fighting from a position of disadvantage,
the fact they tripped each other up a couple of times.
I mean, realistically, charl Clair one Monza because of what
happened with the McLaren drivers in the open part of
that race. But when you're doing it coming from a
fair way back. I'm not sure it matters as much
because the spotlight isn't as bright. You go into this
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season points of reset, everyone expects McLaren to be the
team to be not chasing this red bull that's so
far away like they were last year. So to me,
that's the interesting part. If you've got a live championship
with these two at the front rather than chasing a
vastapen or whoever it was, that's when management's going to
have to really think on their feet here. How do
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you deal with this situation where you've got the homegrown
talent like Norris who's been in there the whole time,
McClaren protege rising to a point where he's a championship contender,
and then you've got Piastric who's coming through this side
door and immediately proven that he can win races. It's
a difficult thing to manage, and they don't have the
experience of managing that for big prizes, so that's going
to be super interesting.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I think.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Yeah, we've talked a lot about in the last two years,
and especially in the last year, this development rate of
Oscar Piastri it's almost raced by race as much as
is in year on year.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
But I spoke to him during the offseason.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
He was talking about how much McLaren had to do
the learning last year to be, as you said, as
a front running team, and like we've seen from Oscar
as well and Lando, because of course he only won
his first Grand Prix last year.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
It's not until you're really in that position.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
And this goes for the team as well, that you
understand those pressures, you can have all the processes you like.
McLaren has these Papy rules. I hope a phrase we
don't hear this year, but just don't like team orders,
but come up with a better aim for it and
come please come on, Lyft.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
They've got a big marketing department. They can do better.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
That's what's going to be interesting is how they handle
that because if we can see who they're up against,
it's not just themselves, it's well, where do we want
to start?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
We could start it. Let's start with Ferrari.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Okay, a team that maybe traditionally hasn't posed the greatest
strategic challenge to other teams. No, but he is a
team that has been getting better. Let's be fair in
the last twelve to eighteen months. Certainly under Fred Vass's
Rainers team principal, the team's become much more confident, certainly
much more competitive in the last season and six months
in particular, and they've got this motivation of Lewis Hamilton the.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Story of the year regardless of what happens.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
How do you think this relationship is going to start,
because it's really smiley at the moment. Anyone who's seen
Lewis Hamilton recently, I can't remember the last time we
looked this happy.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Can't last, Canna, No, there is a honeymoon period with
these things you mentioned. Ferrari improving strategically, it's from a
fairly low base, like the basement of but it's so
interesting to see. To me, the story of this season
is not so much the intra team dynamic with Piastre
Norris Ferrari. Here you've got Charliklair, who's been the protege
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and he's proven that he's probably the best one lap
driver in Formula One and he's been a proven race winner.
Now he's a Ferrari lifer. And then Lewis Hamilton comes
in at forty. This is the team. He said he's
always wanted to drive for everyone's happy. It's all fantastic.
Which one of these two gets the ascendancy is such
an interesting story because of the way it defines legacies
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for either. If you're a cleer and you get to
the end of the season, it's like, well, Lewis Hamilton
came into my team and I saw him off. If
you're Hamilton and you come into Laclur's team and as
an outsider into this Ferrari family as a forty year
old and rekindle some of those past glories, it's such
an interesting inflection point for the two of them. So
to me, I think it's the off track story of
the season. But look, everyone's had to be coming to
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Melbourne because no one's called a point yet. Yes, but
wait until we get to Saturday afternoon after qualifying and
somebody's aggrieved that they've been sent out at the wrong
time or something. And yes, perhaps the smiles might be
turned down.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
A little bit.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
It might be a bit harder for Lewis Hamilton to
sound so positively philosophical. Prix, let's talk about red bull Racing,
because well, no longer the rainy Constructors champion, but with
the raining Driver's champion in its ranks. Max Verstappen several
key moments last year in which he was very unhappy
with the state of the car and even the team.
Of course, we go back around about twelve months ago.
He's teaming up with Liam Lawson this year. A veteran
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of eleven Grand Prix starts. Can't call him a rookie.
Eleven is way too many, so they say, I still
I think he's a He could give them a little
bit of slack. But there's a lot of pressure on
this team, not only because of all those rumors about
well Max Verstappen, contract break, courses of the team underperforms,
the unhappiness inside the team. I've already lost Adrian Newey.
But this was meant to be the Red Bull era,
wasn't it. Two years ago we forget won every Grand
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Prix but one. We were all preparing for another two
or three years.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Of just sadness. Fuss.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Here we are looking genuinely vulnerable, perhaps as the fourth
fastest team.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
It's incredible to think this time last year Red Bull
Vastapan could have won ten races in a row for
the second time in a twenty one race span. It's unbelievable.
We came here last year thinking will anyone beat this
car this season after they just about swept the field
the previous year. But to my mind, the Verstappen thing
is a blessing and a curse for that team because
I would suggest maybe that car hasn't been that fantastic
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for a couple of years, but he's so good at
taking a really really sharp instrument and say, make this
car as difficult as you possibly can make it. If
it's faster, I will extract the pace out of it.
And it's not so much what Max does in it,
it's what the guy in the other car doesn't do.
And I think you saw last year as that car
got more and more difficult, Sergeia Perez's form flat lined
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and then nose dived and it costs them. I mean,
didn't even finish in the top two in the constructors,
which is insane. So to my mind, it's not so
much what Vastappan does with his car, it's what can
Lin Lawson do with this car as a baseline, because
if he's struggling, maybe not to the extent as Perez was.
Like you said, he's done eleven races, so there's a
lot of question marks still that he can handle this.
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He's the best option they had at the time to
put in that car. They probably should have had car
well sigence, but that's another story. But he's the best
option for now. But it's his baseline to me that
dictates whether Red Bull can fight with McLaren and with
Mistake at the front and possibly and possibly with Redborm.
We have to see, but there's a lot of questions
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for the lawson, for me and to me that determines
where Red Bull season goes.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Yeah, and whether or not points scored in the Constructors
Championship influences contractual decisions, well, that could be really potentially
quite costly for Red Bull Racing. Let's talk briefly about
Mercedes before, of course we talk about Jack doing the
other Australian making, not his debut in Australia, his Australian debut.
We can call it that a teenager at Mercedes has
replaced Lewis Hamilton outbound is a foty year old incoming.
He's an eighteen year old. He's though regarded as potentially
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the next great thing. I know a lot of teams
think that their next drivers are the next great thing,
but the hype around him Israel has been super fast
tracked through the junior formula to get to Formula one,
skip Formula three entirely didn't even have a full season
the F two under his belt when he was signed.
In fact, he skipped the last couple of races as
well as he didn't even have the full season under
his belt. He's up against George Russell, alongside George Russe,
who's established now, and I feel like towards the end
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of last year we've got a sense that he can
be that real title contender.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
He's got a little bit more of an edge about
him now.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
But really intriguing because I get the sense that they
didn't think there was going to be anything on the
line this season, but preseason testing kind of suggested there
might be some regular wins here.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Look, I think with an asterisk, there's two things for me.
You mentioned very fast and Antonelli in the same sentence.
That's something we're going to say a lot. I also
think he might hit a lot of stationary objects, Michael,
because particularly a track like Albert Park for your first
ever Formula one Grand Prix. He is a really difficult
street circuit super quick. Walls are super close. If I
was putting money on who might be first in the
fence over the course of the weekend, it'd be fairly
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strong towards Antonelli, I think. So I don't think he's
going to lack for speed. We saw what he did
in that FP one session at Monza last year where
he was incredibly rapid for one lap and then hit
the fence on the second one, So I think he's
going to be super quick. You mentioned Russell being a
team leader. I think that's something he's really grown into.
It seems to suit him well to my mind. The
asterisk on preseason testing Bahrain was randomly very cool, and
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we saw last year that Mercedes were very very good
when it was cold. You think Las Vegas, they looked
like they should have won the Constructors Championship last year.
They were unbelievable that race. It was freezing cold, and
so anyone that's been in Melbourne for the past week
is roasting for earlier here in Melbourne, and I know
the forecast is temper again a little bit for the weekend,
but to me, that's the question mark is that trait
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in Mercedes car is awesome in cold conditions a bit
maybe not so much in the warm weather. That could
bring that optimism back a little bit. Nothink.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Before we move on, we've got to talk about Jack
Doo and of course making his full season debut. Let's
call it maybe with an Astris at Alpe this weekend
in Melbourne.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I say with an Astres because really the story.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Around him isn't that he's embarking on this first full
time season, and not even that he's the son of
a five time five hundred cc motorcycle champion. I guess
he's probably happy he's shaken that tag. He's there on
his own ride. But the rumor is actually that he's
only got a few races, perhaps so as few as
a handful of races to prove himself. That takes him
to the end of April before the team considers putting
reserve driver Franco Colopinto in the car. You will remember
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Colopinto last year made his debut at Williams just after
the mid season break, replacing Logan Sergeant there and scored
point and see something that Sargonal wasn't able to do
all season was really impressive. If to take back on
that phrase is fast but probably crash prone. It will
quite a few crashes towards the end of last season.
The speed's clearly there. There's a lot of pressure on Doing.
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The team doesn't really want to say anything, and I
mean that they're not even pretending that's not the case.
They're really trying to say as little as possible about
this situation. This is the worst way to make your homecoming.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Surely, it's a super tough gig because it feels that
there's only one outcome here. It feels that we're all
telling variations of the same story, and both of us
have written basically the same story for various people over
the past week. But it's incredibly harsh. On someone who
has come through the Alpine Academy. It feels like he
may not get a chance to prove himself and it
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may not even matter what he does in these first
few races, because you look at what Alpine's done here,
They've hired.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Someone that possibly is as quick.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
I think Doing had a better junior career coming into
Formula one than Colo Pinto did, But you know I
like him that this morning, to imagine having you work
all your life to get your dream job and then
the team immediately hires someone who's just as qualified as
you and also has a very large sack of money
that they can bring from sponsors and just sit over
there and I know you'll find just carry on, so
a huge amount of pressure. I think it would probably
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be worse for Jack if this was his actually left
one debut. The fact that he got to debut at
Abi Dhabi last year sort of in the anonymity of
just driving around in the midfield. He's good from a
procedural point of view, but such a such a tough
gig and I hope that look he's a pretty switched on,
very hard work and determined young guy has got there
on merit. Let's just hope he gets a chance to
prove himself before something else happens.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Yeah, it feels like the power is probably still in
his hands. I mean the end of the day in Tummans,
he's so everything. Absolutely he's the one in the car
getting results. So hopefully a good debut debut this weekend
in Australia and the next couple of races will be
enough to get him. Well, I've got to hope at
least until the end of the season, so confident and
he would have an established career from there.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Well, interesting to see.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
That's this weekend of the Australian Grand Prix and the
lead up to this weekend's race. We got up with Gundesteiner,
the former Harsh team boss and you know who he is.
You're listening to this podcast, you're watching you know Gundesteiner is.
He's written his second book.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Believe it or not.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
It's called Unfiltered. In fact, he's taking it on a
speaking tour called Unfiltered Live tickets which you can still
get for Newcastle, Melbourne, Gold Coast and Brisbane. We had
a chat about his expectations with the season to come,
also his experience of moving out of the F one
paddock and the pressures of always being in Formula one
and his expectations again for the season, and of course
that swearing band comes up, believe it or not.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
So let's get into that.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
It's good to see you, thanks for having me.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Now I want to start. Of course, we're leading up
to the Australian Grand Prix. Everyone's excited for Formula one
to return, and certainly hear everyone's excited for Australia to
be the first race again. But tell me what it's
like to be running a team with this time of year.
Is it excitement? Is a nervousness seeing where teams are
going to stack up? Or is it all actually just
about bracing for the twenty four hour flight down to Melbourne.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
It's all effect what you just said, you know, so no, no,
the biggest thing is to first rese the year. Obviously the.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Was last last week in Bahrain, so people know roughly
where they are. But coming to the first races always
the hopes hi uh, you know, we have full of
energy because you haven't been racing for a while and
you just look forward to go to the first race.
And this year being Australia again the first race, it's
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quite good because people like that always. You know, as
you said, it's a long flight so but it's good
to come here. If you think most of the teams
are from the UK, so the weather is normally a
lot better here than over there, so you know, it's
a people love to come here.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Now.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
We're very happy Gunta that it is back in. It's
a rightful place on the Formula One calendar. As we
like to call it, but you mentioned pre season testing
there and on that Australian theme, it does very much
look like McClaren is going to start the season as favorite,
which you know it means both Mana Noris and Oscar
Piastri could very well be title contenders. We know that
they're up against some very big recent title winners Stappen, Lewis, Hamilton,
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Red Bull Mersidies. But in your view, how do you
think Landou and more particularly for our audience, Oscar are
going to stand up under the pressure of that possible
first genuine title fight this season.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
I mean, I think you're right McLaren is the favorite
after Barrain. It is, I mean, everybody's in the opinion.
It's that they will be the team to be this year.
I think they will be okay, because they got a
lot of it last year. You know, when middle in
the season, all of a sudden they started to win races,
and not only by default but by actually being the
best team on the grid. And out of that they
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learned and they are a lot better prepared this year
to go for both world championships, not only one only
you know, only one like last year. Uh So I
think they go in there ready and well prepared, you know,
mentally as an organization, the McLaren know now is that
they that they are the favorite that they need to
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deliver off. So I think they will be pretty happy
to go in there with that altitude.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
It's an incredibly even driver lineup as well. We saw
that towards the second half of last year for a time,
so you know, you've obviously had the team principals had
on yourself. How do you think a team like that
is set up to handle a potential rivalry between two drivers,
neither of whom have won a World championship. It's been
a long time since McLaren won a driver's World Championship.
Do you think that's going to be a narrative that
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we see play out within that team this year.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
I think they're well prepared and what I think they
will do, they will be clear, don't don't run into
each other, but let's go, let's race, and then at
some stage in the season, which normally I think it
would be after the summer break, they will say, whoever
is in a better position, let's try to win the
World championship. If anybody else can contend for it, obviously,
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if it is just the two of them, I think
then they let them raise it to the end, you
know so. But they're both drivers with a good head
on their shoulders, so I think they've got that. You said,
a very strong driver lineup, but also very much you
are in death sense, dive a lineup.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
You're a man who's got I suppose a couple of catchphrases.
After your decade in Formula one, where did you rank
the phrase Papaya rules in the list of phrases You've heard.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
A lot of budshit.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
Uh you said that we thought it exactly, yeah, exactly, yeah,
because I never found out what it is, said, they asked,
zachd Actually you know what is it?
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Then?
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Our rules?
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Yeah, yeah, you know what it was of Yes, yeah, Like.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
I want to attack a little bit because the other
really big story of this year is of course going
to be Lewis Hamilton, where he has joined Ferrari now
and there's been a lot made about the transition he's
going to have to undergo to become a Ferrari driver
after so many years at Mercedes and maybe more to
the point, so many years with British teams, and you've
known Ferrari quite well through the partnership it had with Hears.
How do you think that's going to go And do
(18:53):
you think that I suppose culture with element is a
little bit overplayed when we're talking about Lewis Hamilton adjusting
to life in Marinello.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
I don't think so.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
I think you have to just because Ferrari were not
adjust to you. You know, Ferrari had a lot of
big drivers and the team culture never changed. I would say,
But I think Louis is smart enough to know that,
and he will try to adjust to the culture. Obviously
not always the easiest thing to do, especially if you
think that Charles let Clerk speaks fluent Italian is there
(19:24):
a long time, grew up in that environment, so he
needs to put some work in. But you know, Louis
knows that and he just needs to work at it.
But I'm sure he's not going to try to change
the culture there to his what he's used to, because
that's not going to happen.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
You've been in not just Formula one for all, We've
got a big motor sports background, obviously having started in rallying.
The story with Lewis and Ferrari is a seven time champion,
mading the most successful team in Formula One history. If
you were to win the title this year or in
the next couple of years with Ferrari, where do you
think that would rank in terms of more the sport significance?
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Very high?
Speaker 5 (20:03):
I mean going in there coming from a seven time
world champion, and then if he wins at winning eight
world championships, which is a record nobody else has done that,
I think that would go into history.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
But also Ferrari hasn't won a World.
Speaker 5 (20:17):
Championship as a team in a long time, so just
winning it again in the Ferrari and in Italy would
put him at a complete different level.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Now I want to get you to put you I
suppose a man manager had on for one of a
better phrase. It is an element of being a team principal.
How do you think Charlotteclair, who was previously for our
his golden child. You know, the future of the team
will be handling being really so comprehensively overshadowed by Lewis
Hamilton's arrival. And we've already talked quite a lot about Lewis.
Everyone's talking about Lewis. No one's talking about the guy
(20:50):
that finished last year. Really strongly. What would you have
to do to make sure he's not feeling like he's
left out of the situation.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
No, I think Charles that he's the long future for
Ferrari because he's so much young, or he has got
a long future there. And I think for Charles an
opportunity because being in a team with a seven time
world champions always good. You can learn something from him,
because winning a championship is not only being fast in
a rasca, is also being smart and doing a very
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good job in a long race. So I think Charles
will take it, you know. I try to learn as
much as possible for the time Louis is there a
short term. Obviously, Louis took over the headlines, but Louis
hasn't won anything for Ferrari yet, while Charles has won
races for them, So I don't think he's downbeat about it.
I mean, he knows that Louis is a big name,
(21:39):
won seven championships and that the headlight is on him now.
But if Child then beats him, for example, that's even
better for Charles. So I think he just will take
a little bit of time and then he can show
what he can do. But I don't think it bumps
him out now.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
It's a fascinating story that one, no matter which of
those two extremes applies out. As you said, But let's
switch to we're talking about Australian drivers before let's talk
about the one who's not on the grid this year.
With Daniel Ricardo being out of the sport for good
this time, you would think, and I wanted to ask you, like,
what's the adjustment like from being right in the thick
of f one like you were and like Daniel was,
(22:18):
to being an outsider? And I'm using air quotes here.
You know you're not in the cut and thrust of
the day to day. How is it for you? Because
we talked about you being busy, but it's a different
sort of busy and a different sort of pressure.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
I guess, yeah, No, I.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Adopted very good. I like what I'm doing.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
You know, as you said, I went out from one
seat into the next seat, so I had no time
in between to even think about it. It was it
wasn't my plan to do this what they did last year.
All the work I did so, but I enjoying it.
Otherwise I wouldn't do it. And it keeps the formula on.
But everybody's different than Danny after he left last year.
(22:57):
I don't think he came place yet. I don't know
if he's coming to Melbourne or not to the race,
but it's different and if he wants to take some
time off, because that was my initiative plan to take
some time off just to do a little bit of
what I wanted to do. And then people ask me
to do things and I did them and I enjoy them.
But you know, as you say, it's a different pressure.
(23:18):
Obviously it's not the high pressure like when you have
to when you go out qualifying or racing, but it's
still it's still a pressure. But it's good to be
around in the puddle. Can just not have to go
to all the races. You can go where you want
to go. You can decide yourself.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Of course.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
The other thing for you now is you don't get
that competitive time every one or two weeks depending on
the calendar. You don't get that competitive each to scratch. Now,
so how have you replaced that adrenaline side, because obviously
you know everything's so busy as a team principle, there
is a race every week or two weeks throughout the
season where you get to see where you stack up.
So how do you personally scratch that competitive each now that.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
You're not involved on the inside, I'm pretty fine with
the you know, not having that a bread alain and no,
it's nice. The biggest thing is on a race weekend
when the cast we out for qualifying. That's the only
a few minutes you think are that would be cool.
But then it's just like you watch what other people
are doing. It's nice to be the spectator sometimes.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Well you've spent is an element you touched on your
book as well that I sort of thought was interesting.
The first couple of chapters the latest book, of course, Unfiltered,
talking about setting up the Hearts team, which was more
than a decade ago. Now you're doing that preparatory work,
and you were talking about how different Formula one was
then compared to now you've seen it in its current
super popular era where everyone wants to talk about Formula one,
(24:41):
races are selling out regularly, all that kind of thing.
But also it's decidedly less culturally relevant, very much less
popular era a decade or so ago. I'm interested in
your perception of how that's evolved from inside the sport.
Obviously you were there for that full decade. And also
how important the likes of big characters are to the sport.
We're talking about Daniel, he was obviously one of them.
(25:03):
You obviously made a massive name for yourself as someone
who transcends the sport to a little bitter fright. It's
how important is it. I have those characters been to
formud on becoming the sport we know today.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
I think they were an element in it, But I
think the biggest thing was that the sport was brought
to more people, obviously to drive to survive in the pandemic.
When Formula one was the first sport again going live again,
people was watching it. So as you said, the Formula
one has changed quite a bit from ten to fifteen
(25:37):
years ago to what it is now. But internally it's
just I think it made it better. It's better organized,
better structures. The team are normally financially a lot better
off now than they were ten years ago than years ago.
Very few race teams made money now. I think if
they're not profitable, they break even most of them. And
(25:58):
what that does it gives secure to the people which
worked out that the we'd have a job in the
foreseable future, which is always good if people have got security,
job security. So it has changed, but it was a
lot of elements coming together or to make it what
it is.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
Now, and it's amazing what it has become. I mean,
I think if we've spoken to you eight years ago,
you wouldn't have been thinking, oh, I've written two books
by now and you've got this life that you have
these days. But I did want to ask you about
that because you may remember going to last year, we
were doing something at the Australian Grand Prix for one
of the corporates and you were just being hounded by
everybody so much before we started that, I actually found
(26:35):
you hiding in a bathroom. So that was something that
you probably wouldn't imagine would have been life about eight
or ten years ago. But do you ever look at
this sometimes? And I know you don't watch Striveters of
ib that's one of your things that you've always said.
But you never could have believed that life would have
turned out like this with the way things have gone
over the past ten years. Could you No?
Speaker 5 (26:53):
No, absolutely, And I think nobody could blunt something like this.
This is things just happening. You know, you're just a
passenger on these things, you know, so uh, and they
come along and that, as you said, I would have
never fail to write one book never mind, do you know?
So I deem selling them, but maybe writing them, but
not selling them. You know, anybody wanted to read them?
Speaker 2 (27:13):
You know.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
So No, it's it's it's very as you said, it
came out by surprise, you know.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
I want to ask, and I know you've been getting
a lot of questions about this. Can't imagine why, but
I fi is contemplating a swearing band in formula one. Now,
I was reading your book and I was interested to
hear that you already live under a bit of a
swearing band at home.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I can't imagine how that looks out for you.
Speaker 4 (27:34):
So is there is there a home gunter and at
work gunter, and ironically the one at work is swearing more.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
How's that happening?
Speaker 5 (27:41):
Absolutely? Absolutely that is happening, you know. So yeah, no,
But but I think what you see there, it's under
when it's under pressure, you know, in just emotions get
get told of you you and and you do things
which you normally don't do.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
But no, no, it's too different ones. You're absolutely right
with that one.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Do you think they're gonna be alple to pull off
this swearing band this year?
Speaker 1 (28:07):
I mean they bullet off and then who wants to
spend these amounts of money? You know, just bye bye?
Speaker 5 (28:14):
But you know it's I hope it doesn't take out,
you know, if the emotions what the driver have got,
you know, and controlling too much because it's a it's
it's it's I mean, is it good if somebody swears no?
But this is this bad as as it is made
out of the be no as well in my opinion.
You know, it's a sport lists from emotions. People want
(28:36):
to see emotions, want to see characters and you know,
if if there is no there's no emotions in it,
you know we can have machines going around the acetrack.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Certainly we don't want that. Good there.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
It's been a pleasure if anyone wants to catch you.
There's still tickets left to Unfiltered live and the show's
coming up or in Newcastle, Melbourne, the Gold Coast and Brisbane.
Of course, you can buy the book Unfiltered from all
good retailers. One question before you go. You mentioned when
you got that famous call from Gen you were buying
some ham?
Speaker 2 (29:04):
What was the ham? And did you buy it in
the end or did you go home empty handed?
Speaker 4 (29:08):
No?
Speaker 1 (29:08):
I bought some and I.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Thank you God. Enjoy your trip down to Australia and
we'll talk it too.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Thank you guys.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
That was former Haas F one team Bosklin the Stegner
of course, and again it's unfiltered Live is his book.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Tour speaking to her.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
It's hard to believe only a few years ago he'd
said that that's what he's up to these days. It's Newcastle, Melbourne,
Gold Coast and Brisbane. You can still get some tickets.
There are only a few available, so if you want
to go and see them, I would advise you get
online and get those tickets now. But now let's change
things up a little bit. So I'm interested in playing
a new games, new season.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
The podcast what have you got for me? Interested versus
expert is what I'm going to call it. Okay, Now, look,
we both know a lot about motorsport.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
F one obviously is the main situation here on Pittalk,
but we do like our supercars and Moto GPE. But
maybe the game here is to guess who's interested in
who's the expert? I think the experts probably going to
be answering questions at this point, right, it's to do
it the other way around.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
It's probably a little bit well given, given.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
I'm interested rather than the experts. Shall we start off
with some supercars?
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Perhaps? Okay?
Speaker 3 (30:06):
And we what we're one round into the season. We
already have a driver change.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Ye, silly season never stops, does it, regardless of what
sport you're involved in. And Darren Love has left the
Blanchard Races and according to them, on his terms, he's
decided to leave after one round and three races. He's
been replaced by Aaron Cameron. This has been building up
for a little while. His debut season last season is
this is almost the theme of the podcast. Very quick,
but sometimes hits start right, Yeah, may be the bottom
(30:36):
of the show.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Got to hit some things before the show's finished. Unfortunately.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
The last thing you hit was his teammate James Cortney
in warm up for qualifying. I remember this in Sydney
for round one, of course, at Sydney Motorsport Park. Both
warming up for qualifying, James Corney tends to go around
in he's doing the weaving your ties thing and they
make contact and.
Speaker 2 (30:55):
That's not great.
Speaker 4 (30:57):
It's not a great situation to be and this is
off the back again of a season last year where
he showed a lot of speed promise. I mean, that's
sort of been the even his junior career leading up
with the supercars suggested there was this great speed, just
couldn't really convert that to that kind of consistency, and
the team's decided, particularly after that incident, he's had enough.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
It's a bit unfair on him as well.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
It felt like this season got to the wrong foot
in testing out of brake failure and crashed and hit
something and that wasn't his fault, but sometimes things just
don't go your way, and he is one of those
things that hasn't gone his way. If you think from
the team's perspective. The positive element here, I guess is
that you know James Cortney's retiring at end of the year,
and this means at least if you get someone in
the car, in this case Aaron Cameron, you're not going
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into next season with an all new driver line up,
correct and that's usually really quite important for a motorsport team.
Particularly one like bart which is trying to move up
the grid. You want a little bit of consistency in
the engineering through the drivers. So Aaron Cameron, we know
his quick carting champions five thousand, multiple champion Super two
race winner and runner up in Super two as well,
and was co driving last year with Aaron Lavid Battiston Sandown.
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So he knows the team, he knows the sport deserves
to be there, He's got the background to prove that
deserves to be there. So and astute change. But after
one round you do. It is a little bit rough,
isn't it. I guess you might be looking at Alward
Park and going, boy, the barriers are pretty close.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
They are a little bit no truth to the room,
and you're going to change your name to Aaron just
to be the next guy on the list there.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Well, I mean, look, if this doesn't work out, way
that I could drive, I could dry. I drive pretty quick.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
So I've heard let's go back to Sydney. First round.
Just absolutely dominated by cam waders, three poles, three wins,
three faster slaps, three very different races in that one
in the wet drive one, A close race, absolutely dominated.
A race is this like he's been this nearly meant
he's been what top six in the championship I think
(32:44):
five straight years, or maybe it's top five and six
years I forget, but he's been right up there for
so so long. So is this the year that he
can turn that into something bigger?
Speaker 5 (32:54):
Isn't?
Speaker 4 (32:54):
It definitely feels promising because like you said, it's the
three different races element. I know we talk a lot
about this was one round and it was only one circuit.
It would be the most ex extreme tire circuit we
have on the Supercars calendar. It's a very particular track
if you compared to others. Albert Park's also another very
particular track. But yeah, like you say, in the cold,
in the hot, in the day, in the nighttime, challenged
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by Triple eight, not challenged by Triple A. Different strategies
as well, particularly in that night race when it was
closed a bit were dry in that last one to
exactly nothing phaced him or the tick for Team A.
Team We've got to remember on a couple of years
ago decided they've got to reduce back down to two cars.
They could focus more thing the most out of the
package they had.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
This was I know, it's like it is only one round.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
And everyone's like, wow, one round. All those caveats were
just mentioned, but it was it was absolute.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
That was the word use. It was absolute domination, maximum points.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
I think what's really interesting for me, And there's the
context here of in Gen three, you know, Fords felt
a little bit down and out and Chevrolet seemed had.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Things all their own way, was it Ford did really
well this weekend as well. Actually backs it up.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
A little bit, Triple eight was really the only GM
representative the top five, certainly in the top ten generally
all weekend.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
And also that means if you're a General.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
Motors fan or Triple eight's switching next year and makes
you a little bit worried. But for example, the top
five qualifying results over the course of the three races
was ten five to Forward. Likewise, in the extended race results,
ten top five finishes to Ford over the course of
the weekend to just five for General Motors. General motors
are still overrepresented on the grid as well, so this
is punching way above Ford's weight in this regard. And
(34:25):
what I really think is interesting to talk about that
we take Triple eight out of the equation. Water's average
pole margin over the course of the weekend was more
than six tenths of a second over the next year team.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
It's huge and so.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
It really relies on I mean, Triple eight at the
moment seems like the only competitor we can talk about
walking through and Dreda united with sort of thereabouts and
they are fourteenth. So on the base of one round
you said, well, maybe the ceilings are a little bit higher.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
We don't know. We've got to see a few more tracks.
Speaker 4 (34:49):
But I mean, if you're a cam Orders fan, I
don't want to say you've been long suffering, but you
know he's been close several times and hasn't managed to
get it done. You must be feeling you must be
allowing yourself to feel pretty good.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Last one of my interested but not expert list image
in Triple eight before we're going to a race track
where they were particularly good last year, three wins of
the four between their two drivers. Is this what they
need right now to perhaps get on par with Ford,
as you were saying, or is last year's result a
little bit irrelevant based on what we saw in Sydney.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
It's sort of it's a little bit hard to say
because the Australian Grand pre format is so random really
in the context anymore sport really, even the Supercars four
races grouped in a funny way, and you don't get
a lot of set up time, which could be the
really important element. It's all got to be done on
Thursday pretty much, and then you're guessing between live sessions.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
It's really quite fast paced despite being a four.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
Day man and no pit stops exactly, a completely different
format of racing, going to have different weather, all that
kind of stuff, super far fastest track on the calendar,
all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
But Triple eight is that team that should be there
pretty much everywhere.
Speaker 4 (35:52):
They, like you said, did so well last year, also
missed out on the perfect podium run by in only
one race, seven podiums from eight at Temps essentially last year.
Team manager Mark doesn't use the word must. I think
must bounce back at the Australian Grand Prix. Obviously not
from a points perspective because the season is long, but
it is just that kind of dire picture that's been
painted otherwise that if if what has wins all four races,
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we're probably going to be having really quite a different,
like another different conversation after this about well, this has
all gone fairly in one direction, so it's going to
be a really fascinating week here you want to talk.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
About Moto GP.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
Are we switching hats here? I'm highly interested, You're highly interested.
I'm hit a help, Michael, when's Mark market is going
to win the title this year? Because remarkable?
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Has he not already won it?
Speaker 3 (36:36):
I mean, I think this was the This was the fear.
I guess you use fear in inverted kormas you put
the best rider on the best bike, and expecting other outcomes,
particularly early in the season is probably wishful thinking. I
think there is a little caveat with what he did
in Thailand. They had tested there for two days previously
a fortnight earlier, and he was unbelievably strong, Like waited
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until the fifteen minutes of the second day and said
how about this for a qualifying lap there?
Speaker 2 (37:04):
And everyone went, oh boy.
Speaker 3 (37:05):
So what he did in Beru Aram was not a
massive surprise. So is he the world championship favorite fantastic bike?
We know how good Mark is and he's in this
sort of last part of his career. Now he's the
second oldest rider in Motor GP. It's one of those
things that snuck up on this a little bit because
he still looks like he's twenty three thirty two now,
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and the way he won in burram I. Look at
the Grand Prix where he cleared off at the front
and then realized, oh, my tire pressures are a bit low,
I might just pull the handbrake on. Relatively speaking, he
had sit behind my brother on the same bike until
I've done the minimum sixty percent race distance with the
tire pressure and then just breeze past him and gap
him by one point three seconds in one lap. It
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was just an absolute demonstration of the margin that he
had now good at this track. He's won there several
times before, a lot of data from preseason testing. There
are some variables coming up, but it's hard to see
how he not the strongest of those decadies, at least
for this first part of the season. But I think
the biggest challenge is still with his son Garage.
Speaker 4 (38:05):
Well, so this is the question, right because and you
mentioned there's the three next couple of races feel like
when the Marquez universe, right, I mean, so we've got
Argentina this weekend saying we've got a lot of notice
about this weekend. Let's try You're going to need to
use your recording devices and so on, and then codat.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
The secret of the Americans.
Speaker 4 (38:23):
Is there any point even if you Peco Vanyay are
turning up to these races or is it all really
about looking at not this cutout after that and then
the return to Europe for if anyone's going to challenge you.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
I think Banyaya could not have had a worse weekend
in terms of just you know, banana skins that he
tripped over pretty much in Thailand because he had a
difficult preseason test, didn't get a race simulation in got
to Thailand, had to go through a Q one because
it was an erroneous yellow flag in that last practice session.
He then got borked by Franco Marberdeli, which got Morbidelli
a group penalty, had to fight his way through a
(38:55):
Q one. He was constantly fighting with an arm behind
his back all weekend. Never really looked like he was
going to challenge for a win, but more or less
had their measure of what was behind. And Picko is
one of these guys that he can't just jump on
and be volcanic fast like Mark Camp. He's one of
these guys. He's a slow build, slow burn and when
he can run a weekend on those terms, we saw
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it last year he won eleven of twenty Grand Prix,
but it wasn't so much what he did on Sunday,
it was what he was doing on Friday. He's this methodical,
slow burn rider that when he gets everything right, he
was pretty much unbeatable last year on a Sunday. So
I can't imagine a more problematic build up than he
had in Thailand. I think the races coming forward should
be smoother than this. We'll see the gap reduce. Whether
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it reduces to a point where we can flip them,
I don't know, but I think it's going to be
far more competitive once we get to Argentina.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
It's still incredible to me he won eleven Grand Prix
last and win well, yeah, it was a championship being lost,
wasn't it. Yeah? Wow, yes, yes, but ridiculous really. And
we've got to talk about Jack Miller.
Speaker 4 (39:53):
You know, maybe six eight months ago we were thinking
maybe he wasn't going to be in with the ride,
and he dropped up with Pramac now in the stable
and did well, extremely well, very impressive debut to him,
and suddenly it looks like a new lease on life
for him.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Fastest ever lapped by a Yamaha of Burram in six
visits by Motor GP. There he'd ridden the bike for
two tests. So I think this is consistent with what
Jack does, though, because you look at where he's been previously.
When he was at Pramac Deucati, he was on Polony
second race in Argentina, which is absolutely while lap where
the track was still half where he won two of
his first five races. When he went to Ducati's factory
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team in twenty one, his best results at katm were
in the fourth Grand Prix. That year at Hareth, finished
on the podium in the sprint and the Grand Prix.
And I think Jack's one of these guys. He's so
naturally talented that he hits the ceiling really really quickly.
There's that and the ability to just get on the
thing and wring its neck. I sometimes wonder with Jack
whether he hits his head on that ceiling a little
bit early. And so the rate of development is very rapid,
(40:51):
and then it flattens out. The key thing for me
is he's on a one year contract with Pramak. His
teammate Miguel Olivere's got two. But I think Jack is
willing to take the bike to place as maybe Yama
hasn't seen it for the past few years because they've
only had two riders, and Fabio Couaturero's a fantastic rider.
Alex Rinz has been injured for the best part of
eighteen months, so I'm not sure they know where that
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bike is. Jack's taking it to places a fourth on
the grid in qualifying at Burram unbelievable qualifying performance, and
Fabio Couaturero said afterwards Jack disconnected his brain in Q two,
which was said in Fabio's accent, it's better than the
way I just said it, but it's so true in
that Jack's willing to put it all on the line.
So I wasn't surprised that he started quickly with Yamaha.
(41:34):
I was surprised that it was so good look the
race weekend, crashed from a good position in the sprint
and then had the bizarre Grand Prix where a bolt
came out of the fairing and he was holding it
together on the straits with his foe arms on the
tank and managed to burn them because it.
Speaker 2 (41:48):
Was so hot.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
So a weird weekend of results, but I think the
pace and the promise is really good there and a
couple of good tracks for him coming up to.
Speaker 4 (41:56):
Yeah, that's such a Moto VP thing. Burning your four
arms holding your bike together.
Speaker 2 (42:00):
To be fine. It looks in extreme sports and he'll
be declared fit. Don't know. Oh yes for the next race.
Uh that's your wrap up.
Speaker 4 (42:09):
I guess aware of those two sports so far because
as I said, argent Argentine Grand Prix this weekend from
OJP the Melbourne Superspoot for supercars, which also happens to
be in the same location as the Australian Grand Prix.
But just before we leave the last couple of weeks
behind by Shannon's we've got, of course the overtake of
the month. Now we're gonna look back. Of course we've
only had two rounds of anything so far, so the
(42:31):
choice is a relatively limited but I think we've got
some good ones. I'll kick things off and for me
the overtake. Actually it's the sort of the opposite. It's
an allowance of an overtake. It's a redress is what
it is. I'm picking cam Waters allowing brock Feenie back
through into the lead in the closing stages of the
Saturday Night Rice Saturday Night Race in Sydney because he
punted him off the road. This is battle for the lead,
(42:51):
really fraud. It was just a one on one. By
punning him off the road. Of course, Pool Brown caught
up had to redress to have another crack at him,
and of course he eventually won this race in the
by the closest march in fifty years or something.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
Like that, and did it so expertly by keeping Will
Brown behind him.
Speaker 4 (43:04):
Because Brown did have the run loud brockthrough even Will
sort of have to regussion and go, oh look I
didn't like it, but credit to him. Certain it's not
quite It is an overtake. But it's not the guy
who did the overtake that's getting the awards. The guy
let him be overtaken.
Speaker 3 (43:16):
But it's also the quick thinking. Yeah, pressure like that
with so much on the line, when you're being ganged
up on two against what I think that was absolutely
a great choice.
Speaker 4 (43:24):
Yes, and it goes to that great weekend Ward has
had as well. Yeah, courage that the management was there
every facet.
Speaker 3 (43:29):
I'll go two wheels. With the very first lap of
the sprint in the Thailand Motor GP, Iyagura on an Aprillia,
on his Motor GP debut, qualifies fifth. Unbelievable performance. Best
qualifying by rookie in their very first Motor GP race
since Fabio Guadurra in twenty nineteen. Reasonable position to start,
(43:49):
and he said afterwards he got the term one couldn't
believe how hard Jack Miller and Frankeo Morbidelli breaked in
front of him, So he just took the outside and
swept past both of them into the first corner, your
first corner in a premier class, in your first lights
out race, and all of a sudden he is right
behind Pekabanyaya and Mark Marquez ahead of him. Unbelievable star,
(44:12):
but it was as if he started the way he
meant to go on. Finished fifth on an Aprillier in
his very first Grand Prix, the first non Decati across
the line, best debut stat corner for you, best debut
by anyone in Motor GP in a race since Mark
Marquez finished third in twenty thirteen Quaitar. So it does
show you the level that this guy has got in
(44:34):
him ragining Moto two champion. I think people thought that
he would be decent in motor GP. The fact he
didn't come in on a Honda was interesting. But he's
come in for a Prillia. We know a Prillia doesn't
have Joe Martin at the moment to see the limit
of that bike. But as first impressions go, it was
a pretty good one.
Speaker 4 (44:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
Well, feels like a lot of stuff was saying about
Pedro Acosta around this time.
Speaker 3 (44:52):
Yes, well, but even his debut wasn't as good as that.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
Yes, remarkable, wisdom, remarkable, very good. I enjoy it.
Speaker 4 (44:57):
Two good overtakes there. We have so many more this
weekend through how much motorsport we've got. Let's look ahead now, Matt,
because we've got quite a few big weeks of motorsport
coming up for us. I thought we'd have a look
in it. We need a prop, a crystal ball, something
we can have there maybe in future. Yes, you're not
watching it, just imagine we do actually have it. You
don't know any better, but you can watch it if
you don't know on YouTube. By complete home filtration, the
(45:19):
complete home filtration crystal ball.
Speaker 2 (45:22):
What's a big prediction for the next couple of weeks
in motorsport?
Speaker 3 (45:24):
Am I going first?
Speaker 2 (45:25):
You go first?
Speaker 3 (45:27):
Given what we've got coming up in motor GP, we've
got Argentina. Doesn't get used for fifty one weeks of
the year. Dirty bit of a goat track, very very
very slippery. That sounds a bit like a Mark Marquees track,
doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
Imagine turn up straight out of the box.
Speaker 3 (45:41):
And be the guy who indulged in a bit of
tarmac motor crossing and be very very good there. Following
Argentina we go to the Circuit of the Americas in Texas.
Mar Marquees is known as the King of Kosa. So
my big prediction is that we'll get through the first
three rounds of the motor GP season and Marques will
be undefeated. He'll win the sprint in Argentina, the Grand
Prix and do likewise it.
Speaker 2 (46:02):
But will we eat Hamburger afterwards? He will eat many Hamburgers?
All right?
Speaker 4 (46:06):
My prediction, Look, I think it's actually could be could happen,
It could be reasonable, O yours I think probably will happen.
Speaker 2 (46:12):
So there's a good prediction.
Speaker 3 (46:13):
Do I need to touch something wooden't here?
Speaker 4 (46:14):
No, I don't think there's anything wood in I think
this is the weekend Australia finally gets an Australian on
the podium with Australian run.
Speaker 3 (46:21):
So glad you've gone here could be the top step.
I think Oscopiastri could be the one to do it.
Speaker 4 (46:26):
You've had Obviously Daniel cut out his chances, but obviously
never coincided perfectly with the car being in its top
form at Albert Park, and then he was disquaded by
the one time McLaren does feel like it's gonna be
the favorite coming into this weekend. Astris very different tractor barrain,
et cetera, et cetera. But this feels like our best shot.
This genuinely feels like the best shot, and I think
it's going.
Speaker 2 (46:43):
To be at least a podium.
Speaker 3 (46:44):
Surely four times an Australian has finished fourth of the Australian,
there's a synergy there. Can we just put that in
the bin. We've come super super close. This has to
be the year given McLaren's preseason favoritism, so no pressure Oscar.
A country expects.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
Yes, very much.
Speaker 4 (46:59):
So well tough with how osk and did next week,
because that's all the time we've got for Pit Talk today.
Speaker 2 (47:04):
You can subscribe to Picktalk wherever you get your podcast.
Speaker 4 (47:06):
You can also watch it on YouTube and you can
keep you up to date with the latest formula on Supercars,
Mono GP. It's all happening this weekend at Foxsports dot
com dot Au until next week. I've been Michael Lamonado
on behalf of Matt I'll see you next week.
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