F1 Azerbaijan GP Race Review | Max Dominates as Carlos Puts Williams Back on the Podium - Why Are You Yelling?

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Speaker 3 (00:25):
All right?

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Three two one, actually, and we're live. I'm Anna and
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Speaker 3 (00:37):
Welcome back to another F one race review today. We
were talking about round seventeen of the twenty twenty five
Formula One season.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
The guitar areas Isazerba John grand pre woo.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Well he said guitar and guar. I was like, that's
not what she's saying.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Guitar cutter, however you say it.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
Yeah, we were at the Baku City Circuit. Yes, uh,
this track just overall thoughts about this trap?

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Okay, during qualifying, I was done. It was the devil,
it was satan. It took to it was longer than
the race ended up being two hours of my life
just watching everybody the red flag, red flag, red flag.
And I was like, oh my god, got.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
So many chores done during that two hour qualifying Because
you're usually qualifying, it's really the last two minutes of
each qualifying session that you really want to like be
focused in on and sit down pay attention.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
So like normally I can do other stuff while it's going.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
I'll like cook breakfast or you know, do some like
chores or what fuld laundry. Yeah, I did so many.
I did laundry, several loads. I did dishes, I fed
the cat.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
I was just.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
You know whatever. I think they said like it was
a record, it's the most red flags they've had during
a qualifying session, I guess.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Ever, and I was like, it either be or tied
the record.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah, I was just like, and it set the record
for the longest qualifying session by I think they said
twenty minutes.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
I mean, it just crazy.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
So but the race itself, I liked it.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
I mean it's fine.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yeah, I mean it was. I mean, obviously talk we'll
talk about the podium in a second, but.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
Begin it's one of those we're beginning and end great.
The middle was kind of I.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Mean, there was always something, but we had so many
DRS trains and so honestly a lot less red flags
during the race that I thought we went to have
the man spice things up a little bit. Yeah, I
guess everybody got all their crashing done and qualifying and
so it was a pretty tame race. Besides, you know,
we had some incidents, but nothing that really nothing that red.

(02:47):
There was no red flag, So I mean it was
I fell asleep during the last two laps because I
watched it live and I was tired because at seven
am our time when it started, and but I mean
at that point it was nothing was gonna happen. I mean,
so it was fine.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
The track itself, I think was Okay, I guess.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
One corner so narrow, it's crazy, that's freaky.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
I did like there was a couple of shots where
I could see where you could there were like three
cars wide going into some of the corners, and especially
at the beginning, which I was like, Okay, that's cool,
Like we like to see close action and stuff like that,
so that was nice.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
But yeah, I mean, overall, like it's it was a.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
Fine okay in terms of like your fate, because I
think we have certain favorite tracks that we are like
it slaps here every time, like I know it's gonna
be a good race, or even just the track is
interesting itself and provides cool moments. But in terms of
like the ranking of the circuits that they have been
to so far, this is probably middle or close to

(03:53):
the bottom.

Speaker 4 (03:53):
For me, I was yeah, it was just like, okay,
it's like whatever, you're like, meth It's fine. Yeah, it's
I know certain drivers hated I'm sure this track.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
A lot of people. A lot of drivers don't love
street circuits. Yeah, I wouldn't love a street circuit if
I was a driver, I would hate it because you're
no room for air whatsoever. And it's not even that
it's like a precision thing. It's just like sometimes you know,
using the curves observer or places you could have done that,
I guess, but it's just kind of like there's not
a lot of development in the trap because it's a
street circuits and people aren't on it all the time,

(04:25):
so it's like slippery. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
I understand that street circuits can be more challenging to
drive on because they are not purpose built tracks. They
are not made for racing, so it presents challenges and
you could argue, I mean that you get it, they're
not because they're not made for race cars, that the
cars aren't able to perform at their peak level. But

(04:51):
you know, I don't want to just just watch cars
go fast. I want to see stuff happen.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
I mean, and they want to see cars go fast
and pass each other and fight each other and have
the chance to fight each other. I think that's what
it is. I like, I don't like trucks, and I
know this truck was supposed to be a track that
you know, can overtake on it, and there were overtakes. It's
just I enjoy a track that like it's inviting racecraft,
and some tracks don't invite that. And that's where I'm like,

(05:17):
I'm bored, like Monico at this point. Bored.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
So well, with that being said, our race podium we
have once again Max verstaffen A and then his best
friend George Russell and Carlos Site. Let's go. That was crazy.

Speaker 3 (05:39):
Yeah, the qualifying results were nuts, the final podium and
race order race results were nuts. That was just sing
I mean I know that we kind of expected Mercedes
to be better because of the cooler temperatures. For whatever reason,
that car just yeah does better for a while. Now
yeah it does better and cooler temperatures. I think McLaren

(06:00):
expected to struggle at this track a little bit, but
not to the degree that they did.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
Like, I mean, it was rough.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
It was I don't know who this McLaren team was
this weekend, but that is not the McLaren of this
year so far.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
I feel like the racing gods themselves were just like, oh,
you thought it was over because during like the pre
race show with FE TV, they're like, hey, if they
finish basically what one three the driver's champion, not drivers,
the constructors championship is over done. Well, that didn't happen,

(06:35):
sure did not know. We did have some changes in
the constructor standings. Mercedes has surpassed Ferrari for second place
and Racing Bulls has to pass Aston Martin for six
So hallelojah for them. That's fun. Normally you have to
I feel like half the time we're always like no change,
everything is the same. And in the driver's standings, Kimmy

(06:56):
Antonelli has went from eighth to seventh. Carlos Science has
I went from eighteenth to twelfth.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
Wow, huge jump.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yeah, Liam Lawson has went from fifteenth to thirteenth, and
Yuki Sonoda went from nineteenth to seventeenth.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
Ok.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
Yeah, that Carlos Science jump was like the biggest one, Like, yeah,
eighteenth to twelfth.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
Yeah, that was a significant points haul for him and
for the team, and you know, I know that we'll
talk more about it a little later, but that was
just great for him. I was so happy for him
and for just the Williams team as a whole. Yeah,
that was awesome to see. That was it was really fun.
I was like, oh yay, Yeah, so getting into our
fun facts yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
Which we all know is my favorite part. I love
a fun fact.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yeah, I remember them. I'll spit them out, random milbick
did you know? And I'm like, oh, I retain a
lot more than I think I do.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
Did you know all these fun facts?

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Exactly?

Speaker 3 (07:48):
So Max Verstappen coming in first place this round recorded
a second consecutive Grand Slam result. So that is getting
pole position, that is leading every lap of the race,
getting fastest lap and finishing P one. So that is
a Grand slam second and I'm just like, okay, Max,

(08:09):
calm down.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
Now built different.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
He's like, listen, we made the change that I wanted
to make to the car. We made some some decisions
and went in a direction that I had been pushing for.
And he's like, look what happened and you key performed
utter too, yeah, which is like huh okay, which Max?

Speaker 1 (08:29):
Uh or sorry.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yuki did say that he and Max are not running
the same exact spects on their car.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yeah I don't know.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
Yeah yeah, so uh.

Speaker 3 (08:35):
Yuki said that the the there's some tweaks to his
that are more suited to his driving style, which makes sense.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
Yeah, which I'm like, you should do that? Yeah that
why wouldn't you? Yes, Oh my gosh, I was so
happy to see me, And I'm just like, okay, this
championship ain't over. Sorry, I had made that joke a
while ago. I'm like, I don't know, I still think
about smoke went and I there's Hilla Parny.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
That's like he could.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
If McLaren does this every time, he really could, like
a DNF and like Lando not making up that many
places really at all, like bruh.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
So this was Max's sixth Grand Slam of his f
one career, and he's now tied with Lewis Hamilton for
second on the all time list for Grand slams, behind
Jimmy Clark, who had eight. So Max Erstappen is only
the third driver to win from pole in Baku, and
with his victory last time out at Monza, he has
won consecutive races for the first time since Canada and

(09:37):
Spain in twenty twenty four.

Speaker 1 (09:40):
So over a year like a year and some change.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
So Max has reduced his championship deficit to sixty nine
points behind leader Oscar Piastre. And Max has now led
more laps this season than Lando Norris. So Max has
led two hundred and eighty two laps and Lando has
led for two hundred and forty one.

Speaker 5 (09:59):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
Yeah, So Max.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
Has won the last two races. Now, the race before
his win at Manza in Hungary, he finished a minute
in twelve seconds behind the race winner. So like to
go from finishing a minute in twelve seconds after the
race is technically like done, done to winning two in
a row. I'm like that jump is huge. It's like
what happened three races ago? Why did he I'm sitting here,

(10:24):
I don't even remember. I'm like what, Yeah, okay, dang
well he said not again. This win for Max is
the second one for Red Bull under team principal Laurent
Mechis Mechi's Mechi's.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
He's killing it. Yeah, that's impressive, though, Yeah, I don't. Like,
it'd be interesting to know, like what has changed for
the turnaround to happen and turnaround, And it'd be interesting to
see like what, like even just to hear like the
people who work at Red Bull, like what are the
changes you've seen since Christian Horner has been gone versus now,

(10:56):
Like what are the differences? So that'd be something I'd
be curious to know because I just don't know what
that would be because I've never worked within a team.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
Because the way that it's been framed is that Max
was wanting to develop the car a certain direction and
they were not either listening to his input or for
whatever reason.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
Weren't going that way when Horner was there.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
And since Horner's left, they have now started to implement
some of the changes, and I don't that Max wanted
and now the car seems to be doing better obviously
because Max is winning again, So I wonder if that's
just a coincidence of timing that they were like, no,
we're gonna because it could have been they were going
to stick out trying out the way they wanted to
develop the car up to a certain point, and then

(11:37):
if it clearly still wasn't working, revert back to a
different spec or go in a different direction.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
So it could be.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
That that it's just a coincidence that the timing worked
out that way. But it could also just be that
Laurent was like, well, Max is driving the car. He
knows the car better than any of us.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
I just don't see why. I just don't see a
world where Christian Horner wouldn't have listened to Max, Like
why wouldn't you? Like that's where That's what I don't like.
It's not translating to me, like why wouldn't he have
listened to Max?

Speaker 1 (12:05):
I got all who knows? Yeah, So I don't know
all speculation. Just would be curious to know.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
So moving on to George Russell finishing p two for Mercedes.
This was his seventh podium finish this season. It was
Mercedes' best finish in Baku since twenty nineteen. George Russell
previously finished third in the twenty twenty two and twenty
twenty four aser by John Gromd Prix.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
You know, like they were saying he had like a
upper respiratory infection or something, and he.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
Was still out there he was sick, like to be
excused from like media duties and stuff like that, and
to not have to because that's a very important part
of their role within the team. Like and it's not
even just like the team requires it. It's part of
like F one's requirements that the drivers have to talk
to media. But it's like that across most sports organizations

(12:59):
and franchises, like that thing exactly. But yeah, so he,
I mean he was not feeling great, he didn't sound great,
he sounded tired, he sounded ill, and he still.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
Pulled out a P two.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yeah he did good.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
Yeah, and you know, kudos to him for being able
to do that. But then it comes back to you know,
the car. The Mercedes car, as we all know, just
does well in cooler weather. I mean it's been like
that for the last.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
Two three years. Jimmy did really well too.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
Yeah, and Kimmy had been struggling even with Toto, you know,
Wolf giving some comments to the press, basically being like
that wasn't good enough and he needs to do better.
The kind of like the first time we've heard him
be anything other than positive or optimistic or toward Kimmy.
So I was, all right, it's like a tonal it's

(13:48):
an interesting tonal shift, but I mean it makes sense.
We're seventeen races in, so it's like, Kimmy's got to
do better.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
He can't keep it. But he's so young, he's a baby.
He just turned eighty. Human known, dodo be nice to him.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
Don't lack like Christian, don't do it.

Speaker 3 (14:07):
But yeah, I mean, even like you said, even Kimmy
did really well qualified P four, finished P four so
uh yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
Carlos signs driving for Williams. Finished P. Three.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
He becomes a second driver after Alan Pross to finish
on the podium for three different teams, being McLaren, Ferrari
and Williams.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
Yeah the top ones really that have been the big boys.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:30):
William's last podium in a full length race was Azer
by John twenty seventeen, with Lance Stroll coming in P three.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
Wow, okay, okay, I knew, I know Williams has sucked
for a long time.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
Ouch.

Speaker 3 (14:47):
Yeah, I mean they have, but yeah, that's that's pre
drive to survive.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
Wow. Pretty historic.

Speaker 3 (14:58):
Yeah, I mean because that's my only frame of reference
for like Williams and their history as a team in
terms of what I've seen.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
That's so crazy too, because it's like Williams was that
team like Sint Williams was that big, No, like they
were like Senna left McLaren after winning three titles with
them and went to Williams. Like that's crazy.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
So yeah, williams last podium in a full length race
was with Lancetroll in twenty seventeen, and Azerbaijohn George Russell
finished second for the team in the one lap Belgian
Grand Prix in twenty twenty one. So that's like a
technicality sort of thing where they only raced for one lap.

Speaker 1 (15:36):
Okay, Yeah, so Carlo.

Speaker 3 (15:38):
Sin scored fifteen points and he had only scored sixteen
points all season before today or before the yeah race,
he gained six.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
Positions in the driver's championship.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
Yeah, that's not this crazy.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
Oh that was happy for him and I loved his
radio message.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
It just so fun.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
Yeah, he was so excited. James vows is so like happy,
like over the moon. Even Alex Alban who like went
to the podium ceremony with to be part.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
Of the team.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
I'm like, Okay, Williams, I get it, Like I'm buying
into the whole.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
Like we're all bought in toward a common goal.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
I think too, So like Williams, for a long time,
it was a family team. It was owned by Frank
Williams and so and then runten by his daughter and
his daughter. But like so it was always like that
sort of family vibe. And I think, you know, James
VAL's like kind of reviving that is probably going to

(16:36):
be the saving grace to Williams because it's kind of
like why people really liked it. I mean, not to
mention they just Frank knew how to run it. Yeah,
and I think it just finding somebody who's going to
know how to run it, And so I think they've
found him.

Speaker 1 (16:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (16:47):
And Toto Wolf sent a congratulations gift to James Valves
because James Valves was like Toto's right hand man at
Mercedes for a long time. Yeah, and went to the
Toto Wolf school of becoming a team principal and so
you know, I gotta imagine, like for Toto, even though
that's now like your rival, there's still a sense of
pride being like that's my like I taught him what

(17:08):
he knows, like my my, my underling.

Speaker 6 (17:11):
My.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
Oh he was nice in a way. He's like my student. Yeah,
now he's my peer.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yeah, and he's gone on to run his own team
and achieve his first podium as a team principal. Like
it's gotta be like a proud sort of moment.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
Oh yeah, I think that is really cool. Yeah, they
have a funny relationship, Like I like seeing them interact
with each other. It's still funny.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
So the other Mercedes driver, Kimi Antonelli, and we already mentioned,
finished in p.

Speaker 5 (17:37):
Four.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
He has only scored three points in the previous six
Grand Prixs, so this was a great points haul for him,
a great finish after struggling for a while. I don't
anticipate this run of this particular success at this track
for Mercedes to be replicated until maybe Vegas, because Vegas

(18:01):
tends to be a bit cooler when they go there.
So but the next racist Singapore, how does the mother
freaker like if I expect Mercedes to struggle quite a bit.
So you know, some of I wonder how much of
Kimmy's like lackluster performance in the like the middle kind

(18:21):
of portion of the season. I wonder how much of
that is the car and how much of that is
just him. But then the only way really to it's
hard to determine because I would almost say the only
way you could kind of judge it is compare his
performance to his teammate George Russell. But George is also
several years into his career and has a lot more experience.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
Yeah, some of the mistakes Kimmy made, like he wrecked
Charles in Zanbort, you know, that was a mistake he
made because of just kind of lack of experience. And
I think some of his issues, I mean I think
he did. There were there was like ADNF I think
he had that wasn't really his fault thing. He had
an engine failure. But some of the mistake he's not

(19:00):
in some penalties for racing procedure stuff. Yeah, like he
had one from the pit lane. You know, I just
think there's some things that they are rookie mistakes, and
maybe half and half, maybe half of it is just
like that is the car and the other half is
just kind of not him being a rookie and you know,

(19:20):
learning from that.

Speaker 3 (19:21):
But yeah, if your car, I think it might be
a case of if the car isn't excellent, you can't
then also be making these sorts of mistakes. Yeah, like
if your car is mediocre or moderate, like, okay, you
have to be one hundred.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
Percent on your game.

Speaker 3 (19:38):
You can't be making these little mistakes because every little
thing is going.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
To just bring you down, down, down.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
Yeah, you don't have that grace, you don't have that buffer.

Speaker 3 (19:46):
So Mercedes got a thirty point haul from Baku between
George and Kimmy finishing P two and P four, So
that means they've remain alive in the Team Constructors Championship,
and I think you mentioned they overtook for our so.

Speaker 6 (20:02):
Yeah, yeah, now for now, again, I don't I don't
anticipate Mercedes being able to replicate this level of success
finishing P two and P four again except maybe Las
Vegas where it gets colder, so we'll see.

Speaker 3 (20:18):
Moving on to P five, we had Liam Lawson. This
was crazy, a career best finished for him and it
moved Racing Bowls into sixth in the Constructors champions Championship,
like you mentioned earlier.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
So I mean kudos to Liam just for to pass. Yeah,
he does not make it easy. They were talking about that.
I mean, he was scrappy. He had he had his
elbows out, he had his teeth out. Anything he could
have out, he had out.

Speaker 1 (20:43):
Uh huh.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
And I found that impressive. And I'm like, you know,
I think if he could just stay at a team
where he's comfortable, he's got a car that he has
confidence in, he might be a problem, might be a
problem for some people.

Speaker 3 (20:55):
It's one of those situations where you look at when
he was in Red Bull at the start of the season.
He only got two races with that team, never got
to come to grips with that car.

Speaker 1 (21:06):
And it's a case of.

Speaker 3 (21:08):
Just another example that underscores promoting athlete or promoting drivers
too soon one and then two also not giving them
the time to develop and to get comfortable, which I mean,
you know, we did a whole episode talking about the
problem with Red Bulls driver pipeline and they're sort of

(21:31):
way of cut throat, cutting drivers too soon, not giving
them enough time to adjust that sort of thing. So
kudos to Liam, I mean, great finish. Great job, showed
a lot of like spunk, you know, like like and
that he was displaying when he had that like half
season or you know, the handful of races that he
did prior to this season.

Speaker 1 (21:53):
You know, like you said, Elbow's out showing what he's got.

Speaker 3 (21:56):
And it wasn't just that he had to qualify, And
I know there was some things with qualifying where it
was like a timing thing.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yeah, the hpple got also rain. Yeah, so that really
messed a lot of people up.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
Yeah, so I know he had a little bit of
good luck in qualifying, but it's not all about your
starting position on the grid. He like you said, he
had to then hold on to that position and defend it.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
He was around like the best of the best drivers,
so which he's not used to being up there fighting
those particular people because you kind of I think as
a driver, you kind of get used to where you
fall within the pack and you get used to driving
around you know, five or six drivers, like a handful of.

Speaker 3 (22:33):
Them being near you, especially when you're a midfield team. Yeah,
and uh yeah, I mean he was holding his own so.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
Great job for him.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
Yeah, no, he was. He impressed me a lot. I
was like, okay, good job.

Speaker 3 (22:45):
So another driver who impressed us this weekend Yuki Sanoda,
Oh my god, finished P six. That his result in
P six was the first top eight finish for the
second Red Bull driver since Austin twenty twenty four. So
it's been almost a full year since the last time
the second Rebel driver finished in the top eight. Go,

(23:06):
So that would have been Perez, Sergio Perez, Liam Lawson
and now Yuki, right, or was anybody else in the seat?

Speaker 1 (23:13):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (23:13):
Yeah, so yeah, awesome for Yuki. We mentioned, you know,
he talked about they've made tweaks and some upgrades and
adjusted the setup to match his driving style a little
bit more. And I mean he just did awesome and
showed kind of he's starting to show and finish where
like he's showing the performance that the second Rebel driver

(23:36):
should have been showing the whole time.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
Yeah, I mean, he's also showing like he always performed
well at racing bowls and now he's like showing that
he didn't just lose it. He didn't just lose it.
Now he's able to show like, no, the with the
skill that I have, I can do this and better yeah,
if the car, if we can make adjustments to the
car that actually suit me versus like you need to
learn how to drive this how it is.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
Like no, honey, no, no.

Speaker 3 (24:02):
And in one of his post race interviews, they were
asking him if he could have been a little more
aggressive and trying to like overtake Liam or.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
Stuff like that, and I thought his answer was interesting.

Speaker 3 (24:16):
He basically said, look, could I have been more aggressive
and tried to overtake Liam. Yes, But he's like, I'm
also weighing that with the risk of if something happens
and me being too aggressive or trying to go for
that move, then you know, I'm not doing my job
as a teammate to support Max and the team as

(24:36):
a whole, because then you're potentially running the risk of
like the McLaren driver, you know, finishing higher or you know,
you don't know what they're gonna do. And so he
was like, I'm playing kind of the support role that
I'm supposed to play. It's not just about me and
what I'm trying to do. It's about the team as
a whole and especially supporting Max at this point, Like

(24:57):
that's what his role is at that team.

Speaker 2 (24:59):
Yeah, I mean I think knowing that and accepting that
will do you better, and you know you can weigh
those choices like, Okay, how can I best support Max? Okay?
The best thing I can do is race my race.
Don't mate if I don't if I'm not one hundred
percent that I can do this. But I'm not going
to do it because the McLaren is behind me and

(25:20):
I can stay where I am and if they start
to do something, I can make it my mission to
make their race harder. I mean that makes sense.

Speaker 3 (25:26):
Yeah, And he even said he wasn't confident that he
had the pace that even if he were to overtake Liam,
that he could keep it, and so it wasn't worth
the risk basically of trying to pull a move.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
Yeah, no, I think that makes sense.

Speaker 1 (25:41):
So Lando Norris finished p seven for McLaren.

Speaker 2 (25:44):
Whah, and.

Speaker 3 (25:48):
With Oscar Piastre failing to finish, h McLaren scored their
fewest points in a race, so six points since Las
Vegas twenty twenty three, when they scored two points. That
was really bad, Like that was so bad? Yeah, so
we can talk about Oscar. His retirement ended a thirty
four race scoring streak and forty four consecutive race finishes,

(26:12):
which was the second longest streak in history of Formula One.
So his only previous first lap retirement was Belgium twenty three. Yeah,
so Oscar had the roughest weekend of it like I've
ever seen, I think, like out of him for sure.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
So he just the qualifying was rough.

Speaker 2 (26:35):
Yeah, Oscar didn't have a good weekend. That was I
feel like it was commentator's curse. I'm kind of blaming
the commentators because there was like it was locked in
for them, honey. They were like all their predictions, it
was Oscar this and Oscar that, and I think they
cursed him, and they the racing gods were like, no,
out of spite, I did not expect that.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
That's the by far, the worst performance I've seen from him.
Very uncharacteristic of him in terms of he's pretty like
on it in terms of reaction times to things. He's
on it in terms of procedure, like he rarely puts
a foot wrong, but when he does, he can usually
recover it, or if it's something goes wrong, it's not

(27:14):
his fault. He backed up the grass literally in Australia
the first race of this year was crazy, Like he's
not And he's also not one to like throw in
the towel and give up. Because that happened in Australia.
He took the time to back his butt up out
the grass, got back on track and ended up finishing
in the point. So he's not one to give up.
It's not done till it's done. Yeah, right, So he

(27:37):
had the worst start. I don't know what happened or
why he reacted the way he did, but he basically
had a false start. He started before the lights went out, uh,
and but he like caught himself. But as soon as
he like hit the brake because basically what they're doing
before the lights go out, my understanding is they have

(28:00):
they're pressing on the gas and they haven't engaged the
clutch yet to shift into gear. So they're pressing on
the gas, revving up building ourpms, like building building millions.
Lights go out, they have to shift the clutch, go
into gear and then they're going right. But he did that,
but then like immediately hit the brake to stop because

(28:20):
he realized it was a false start. So you see
him start to go uh, and then he went you
can tell he like goes to As soon as he
does that, hits the brake. The lights go out, so
everyone else is moving. He's just hit the brake, has
to figure out how to in his like moment of
like oh shit, what did I just do?

Speaker 2 (28:38):
You've even seen on his steering wheel the anti stall. Yeah,
the feature was like happened, and he was all jet
it was bad.

Speaker 3 (28:43):
So he basically had to re do and it takes
a second second and half At that point when we're
talking about these cars are reacting and these drivers are
reacting in tents of seconds, hundreds of seconds. A minute
or a second to a second and a half is
a lot of time, and so he just lets His
starting position on the grid was ninth, and he ended

(29:07):
up by the first turn down to the first turn,
he was dead last at the back of the pack.
And what's funny is that poor Fernando Alonso was behind
Oscar on the grid and he saw Oscar move and
he's just reacting to the movement, not even to the lights, right,
He's just reacting to the car moving in front of him,

(29:28):
and so he also gets a false start, but then
has to like avoid Oscar, who stopped in his grid
box because he's trying to figure out his anti stall
and get going again.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
It was a whole mess.

Speaker 3 (29:37):
And so then Oscar's at the back of the pack
with the false start, the anti stall, dead last, and
then we get into one of the turns and he
basically hits the corner in such a way that he
takes the the a part of the track that hasn't
been developed over the course of the weekend. So it
hasn't there's like not rubber laid down there. It's dusty,

(29:59):
like it's sliw. So he basically his tires don't grip
onto it.

Speaker 2 (30:03):
It's like just super understare nothing that's happening, just wrecking
in the.

Speaker 3 (30:06):
Wall, straight into the wall, and he was out before
the end of lap one, and it's just like it.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
Was bad because I mean he wrecked her and qualifying, Yeah,
that's why he qualified so low because he wrecked in
Q three and it was bad and that was why
though that happened, and I was like, Lando, the pressure
of having Oscar even in the race now getting points
is gone. Last year at this track, you.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
Were fighting for your life, like.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
You literally went from we just said it saw a
second ago that he went through the package and he's
sixteen to fourth. Yeah, people like I was expecting he
wasn't even that far back. Now he's in the top
ten at this point, and I'm like, what happened? What happened?

Speaker 3 (30:53):
Like, I don't know if it was the driver's off
this weekend being off, I don't know, if it was
the cars being weird because of the cooler temperature.

Speaker 2 (31:01):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (31:02):
I don't know if it was this particular track layout.
I do know that they mentioned that. Sorry, the McLaren
cars do usually have an advantage because of the way
that their tire management. So at other tracks when it's
so hot, the McLaren cars, for whatever reason, are able

(31:23):
to cool their tires in a way.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
Water and their tires and what Christian says, that's something.

Speaker 3 (31:29):
They're able to cool their tires in a way that
and manage their tires in a way that the other
teams can't. So that's part of what their advantage is
is because they're able to manage their tires, get them
in the proper operating window, they get them hotter faster,
they can cool them down faster.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
They're just really into the tires. So that's their advantage and.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
Why they're so fast at other tracks or part of
it anyway, and when you're in the cooler weather, that
advantage disappears.

Speaker 2 (31:54):
Yeah, but they've performed well though at other tracks that
Mercedes has performed well out So I just am like,
I don't know, I just I don't know that was
that was a disappointment.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
That was they were just not on it.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
I don't know if Lando was like shaken up by
the qualifying I don't that if that impacted his mentality
going into the race.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
I don't know. I haven't. I mean, I haven't looked
at any other interviews really either to see what they've
said about it. But that was not what I was expecting.
But I was definitely happy with the result that we
got because, like we said, Leslie and Max up there.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
I mean, it shook it up.

Speaker 3 (32:33):
So you know, those two McLaren's not being in the
top ten meant that there was room for other teams
and drivers to be in the top ten and even
finishing on the podium.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
So I'm playing the I'm blaming commentator's curse. Y'all have
been hyping up McLaren way too much, got too big
for your breches and you angered the racing gods from
how for sure you all were? And you, oh, McLaren
an apology because it's y all's fault.

Speaker 3 (32:56):
Probably all well, they're ones that were all. If McLaren
finishes one, two, one three, they sue the team championship and.

Speaker 2 (33:04):
They're just like hyping them up like it's a for
sure thing. And then the racing god said, nothing's for
sure around here, honey.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
M And with Max Verstappins turnaround and we're seeing the
Max Verstappen that we're used to, Oh the last races,
takes him to be nasty son championship back, Let's go
and not just.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
Throw Max in there.

Speaker 1 (33:25):
I'm ready. So moving on to Saturn news. Uh, our
Ferrari boys.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
It could have been worse, Okay, so.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
That's the best that we can say.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
No, I'm saying, compared to the team that's supposed to
be the best on the grid, it could have been worse.
So we'll go ahead, say yourself.

Speaker 1 (33:46):
So uh.

Speaker 3 (33:46):
Lewis Hamilton finished p eight and with that he beat
Ferrari teammate Charles Leclair in a race for the first
time since Silverstone. And with Charles the Clair, finishing in
P nine behind Hamilton. Ferrari remains alive in the Team Champion.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
Oh, I anticipate they'll be second in the next two races.
I don't think that's gonna be something that I don't
see them finish. I see them finishing second. Yeah, so
with Charles right, let me just put this into perspective.
Me and Anna like to if we're watching things at
the same time. We talked during it. Yeah, we text
each other, send a voice note. Let me tell you

(34:20):
during qualifying, let me tell you this. I was already
furious because I am a Lewis girl. I love Lewis Hamilton.
He is my favorite I am he is my number one.
But when he got knocked out in Q two, I
was obviously angry because that was a circumstantial thing that

(34:41):
was really like you left him out there. We're like,
what five six labs on these soft times, like the
what did you want him to do?

Speaker 3 (34:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (34:47):
It was the team Yeah, it was a team thing.

Speaker 2 (34:49):
It was not great. So anyway, voice noting Anna, I'm
sending her a voice note and I'm like, I'm so annoyed,
blah blah blah. The only thing I'm swear to God,
I said, the only thing I have left to I'll
even put it in here. The only thing I have
left is if Max or Charles does does something like
they get Paul and with Charlie, Charles, I'm living through you,

(35:11):
he as I said, Charles, like I meant. What I
meant was, I'm living through you for Charles. But anyway,
after I.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
Saw a thing I have left to root for is basically.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
As I said that Charles Rex into the wall, into
the wall, and I'm going no, no, like it's my actual
live rea. I said no, no, no, my god.

Speaker 5 (35:33):
No.

Speaker 1 (35:33):
When I said okay, bye, like.

Speaker 5 (35:38):
Now, if Charles or we're stopping end up on pole,
I'll be happy. But honestly, other than that, there's nothing
left for me now and Charles, I'm living through you.
Oh okay, well, okay bye.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
I was like, I'm so glad that that was so funny.
I could not but and then I was just I
was like, I got this. That was my actual reaction.

Speaker 1 (36:17):
Irl, It's like I was sitting right beside her.

Speaker 2 (36:19):
It was too funny. But then it wasn't. After I
was like, wait, but why and is that the place
he's wrecked before? I didn't know because that's that's the
place where I am stupid. I'm so stupid. I am
stupid that this is the track that comes from. And
so yeah, that was not great.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
Yeah that was rough.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
That was hard. But then you know what Max pulled.
He came through for me, so I had that. It
was it was too It was like scrolling when you
see like a really horrendous video and then you see
something funny. It was like that just low. Yeah, not
made to process. So that was rough.

Speaker 3 (36:53):
Yeah, so Ferrari just they pulled a Ferrari where they
just kind of shot themselves in the foot.

Speaker 2 (37:01):
I wish I could express the anger that I had properly,
but I can't do that on this platform or no
one will want to watch anymore.

Speaker 3 (37:11):
Yeah, the strategy and the calls that they were making
for the qualifying sessions just didn't make sense.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
Like what was so frustrating to me is that like
that happened to Lewis and then when they get into
Q three, we're dealing with a wet track now and
then of course you know Max is he finds the
grip and he excels it, I know, and then I'm
living in like what if Land, but I can't help
it because I'm like, I know that Lewis could have

(37:38):
qualified better because he is a driver, like what along
with Alonso, Like I would I would argue that like Max,
Lewis and Alonzo were the best in the rain, and
I'm like, oh my god, all because of like strategy,
all because of it was so annoying. And then I
mean he had pretty good race pace though, I mean

(37:59):
he was like once he like they swapted positions because
the Frari had them swap. I mean Lewis did gain
for a like pretty quickly, but it just was not it.
It was pretty just not. I meaning he did gain
some plays a Charles did too. I mean they were
they were battling in the beginning. It was like interesting,
they were overtaking people, but it just was very disappointing

(38:20):
in the long run.

Speaker 3 (38:22):
So moving on to Isaac Hadjar for racing Bulls, he
finished tenth for the second consecutive race.

Speaker 2 (38:29):
Yeah, he's up in the points.

Speaker 3 (38:31):
It's all we could ask for. Yeah, I mean, good
on him. He's still i think in the running for
our Rookie of the year.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
So it between him and ra Alonzo, you know, it's
between them for us, So yeah, no, I think Isaac
did good.

Speaker 3 (38:46):
And then we had Oliver Bearman driving for Has finished
twelfth for the second consecutive race.

Speaker 1 (38:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (38:52):
I don't remember them talking much about all these drive
It was a little Yeah, he'd anonymous, not much going on.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
He didn't really have anything exciting. Yeah, which was like
a I think a shame because I think he performed well.
This was Was this not the track he had to
take over for Kevin Magnuson last year?

Speaker 3 (39:10):
Yeah, this was his like F one debut with a
with Has, so yeah, that was Oh, that's right, because
he drove for Ferrari before that.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
Yes, he subbed for Ferrari. He subbed for Carlos.

Speaker 3 (39:20):
This was his first sorry, this was his first last
year full weekend in F one because when he subbed
in for Carlos with Ferrari the previous before that, it
was just like the qualifying I think in the day
of the race, or maybe it was just the I
don't remember AnyWho he subb when he subbed in for Carlos,

(39:41):
it wasn't like the full weekend, but he had enough
notice when he subbed in for Kevin Magnuson. After that,
subbing in for has that he got to do the
full weekend.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
Oh yeahs co up suspended, yes for that race, but yeah, didn't.

Speaker 3 (39:54):
He have a Was it him that had a contact
or was it Estebon that had contact?

Speaker 2 (40:00):
Con Did I think it was with Hulgenberg.

Speaker 3 (40:01):
Yeah, there was like a tire touching, but they got
out of it, like they both drove.

Speaker 2 (40:06):
On and yeah, fine, yeah that was Hlgenberg and o'conn
And then later on the other contact that I noticed
was Alvin and Calpentto.

Speaker 1 (40:14):
Oh yeah, because Franco like got spun out.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
That was Yeah, that was Alice's fault one hundred percent
and he got I mean, he got penalized for it.
So I'm like that was I was like, dude, that
was a little that was over ambitious, Like you're on
a street circuit, what do we do?

Speaker 3 (40:27):
Yeah, So Alex finished. Alex Albin driving for Williams, finished
eleventh on the road before a ten second time penalty
for causing that collision with Colo Pinto dropped him down
to thirteen. So yeah, and we already mentioned Alex was
at the podium celebration and the award trophy giving for Carlos.

Speaker 1 (40:46):
Finishing p three. So yeah, just just nice to see.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
I think their attitudes will change once they are more competitive,
so they had if they have a car next year
that is competitive, you're gonna see that. Good job buddy.
Alex and Carlos both come across very nice, but every
single one of these drivers is competitive, cut throat, cut throat,
and if you if they have the car that's going
to compete. And I think they're one of the teams.

(41:11):
Like we've said there, I don't think there's a clear
one too, yes, and I agree that's going to be
a very.

Speaker 3 (41:18):
I think that they're close enough in ability and skill
level that they can challenge and push each other, but
I don't know. It'd be interesting to see if they
can maintain like McLaren their two drivers or in similar
positions where there's there's a similar level of skill and ability,
but they've been able to maintain a level of friendly competition,

(41:43):
or so it seems so far they are striving really
hard to do that, So it'd be interesting interesting to
see if Williams is able to do that with Carlos
and Alex and how they kind of approach managing their drivers,
but then how the drivers approach interacting with each other
because it's all about you know, the family atmosphere or
all a team working toward a common goal. But like

(42:03):
you said, once the car is more competitive and we're
racing for wins and podiums like consistently. Yeah, I don't
I know that right now, they're really collaborative, and they
both talked about that how they're both very open, especially
even Carlo is open about giving feedback to each other
and to the team because they're trying I think part

(42:24):
of this season the goal has always been we're trying
to get the team as a whole up to speed
and up to the level that it needs to be.
And you kind of have to have from both your
drivers that open collaborative communication and process. But once once
we've kind of got that established and figured out, I
think they both have that that they got that dog

(42:48):
in them. You know, they got that shark mentality of
we can be friendly and nice but to a certain point,
and then it'll reach a point where it's the wall
they build the wall between both sides of the garages,
similar to McLaren where it's like, you know, we're not
gonna do anything to necessarily hurt each other. When it

(43:08):
comes to our performances. But we're not gonna help each
other unnecessarily. We're gonna race. I feel like they're gonna
adopt that sort of mentality.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
Yeah, I think I think so too. I think that'll
be more Papaya rules, but now they're Williams rules.

Speaker 3 (43:26):
Yeah, what are we gonna call Williams's uh driver code
of conduct, rules of engagement?

Speaker 2 (43:32):
I don't know what are we gonna call that. We'll
figure that out.

Speaker 1 (43:34):
We need a name.

Speaker 3 (43:36):
So the last team we're gonna talk about Alpine. Pierre
Gaslely finished P eighteen. Franco Colopinto finished P.

Speaker 1 (43:45):
Nineteen.

Speaker 3 (43:46):
So Alpine or the last two classified cars to finish
for the second time this season.

Speaker 2 (43:52):
The other time was in Hungary. Yeah, that was not great.
They were just pretty I don't know. Well that was
that they wrecked during qualifying. That was crazy, both of them,
which I.

Speaker 1 (44:05):
Mean like with they really beckonds of each other.

Speaker 2 (44:08):
Was like, well, Pierre basically was like oh shoot, and
then he was he could he was going to be
able to kind of continue on, I think, but then
Franco sort of reacted to seeing him lost kind of
control of the car. Then it completely wreck calls it
red flag.

Speaker 1 (44:20):
It was not great. Yeah, that's all I got to
say about Alpine.

Speaker 2 (44:25):
Yeah, not great, no really, I mean yeah, And like
we said, I mean, Colopinto was spun out by Alex
Alban but I mean that's not why he finished that.
I don't they were going to finish that low regardless. Really.

Speaker 6 (44:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (44:37):
And I think with Alpine, this is a case of
the car just sucks ass.

Speaker 2 (44:41):
Yeah, as like as uh Nikki Lauda called the Ferrari
and Rush it's a shipbox.

Speaker 3 (44:48):
Yeah, I mean, and I can say that with confidence
that it's not the driver, it's the car because I
know what Pierre can do. I know what Franco can do.
I've seen them both in better cars, other cars, driving
for other teams. I've seen what Pierre can do in
this car last year or at the very beginning of
this year.

Speaker 1 (45:05):
It's not like they're crappy drivers. This car just sucks.

Speaker 5 (45:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (45:08):
That's not great, it's not good. Yeah. So that is
the end of our fun facts. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (45:13):
The only other thing I wanted to talk about was
the concept of negative deg or degradation. So this is
something that Yuki so Nooda mentioned in one of his
post race interviews where basically they were talking about like
typically in a race, as the tires get worn on

(45:36):
the track and they heat up, they will get faster
for a bit, and then they reach a point where
it's diminishing returns, so the tires the rubber starts to
fall away, you get grooves and blisters and whatnot, and
so the tires then start to become slower after they
reach the peak of being fast, and eventually you have
to obviously change the tire. So basically for whatever reason,

(46:00):
and on this particular track, they were calling it negative
deg which means that the longer they were on the tires,
the better they got and they never got worse. So
it was a case of like as the tires heat up,
they didn't wear out, and so you just got faster
because you were burning more fuel in the car, the
car gets lighter, and the tires just never wear out,

(46:22):
and so you're getting faster and faster instead of eventually
getting slower because of the degradation. So they referred to
it as negative deg and that was a concept I
had not heard of, and they were like, yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
Great, Yeah, I don't think I've I don't think i've
heard of that, well, I think, I mean I did
hear them. I didn't. I heard negative deck, but then
I didn't like actually listen to what they were saying,
because I think it went again at this point. I
was like, I've been up since like six I'm done now.

Speaker 3 (46:46):
Yeah, I just thought it was an interesting concept and
like I'd never heard it before. M hmm, because it
kind of goes against what you've learned about tires and
how they typically behave.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
So that is interesting. Well, now we will get it
to our rookie report. Kimmy Antonelli. He qualified fourth, he
finished fourth, so twelve points.

Speaker 1 (47:06):
Hey Kimmy.

Speaker 2 (47:08):
So Kimmy was sharp from the start, pressuring Lawson and
making the pass after his early stop. He kept pushing
late but couldn't quite catch signs for the podium still
though p four is his best finished since Canada and
a strong sign of progress after some tough weekends. So
good on you, Kimmy. Isaac Khajar he qualified eighth and

(47:29):
he finished tenth, so one point.

Speaker 1 (47:31):
We'll take it.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
Yes, we like that. Hajar's ray started well, but a
mistake at the restart cost him ground. He showed solid
pace on the hard tires, though the mediums held him back.
In the end, he fought through to take P ten,
adding another point to his total, so still doing well.
Not necessarily his best performance, but still in the points nonetheless.

(47:52):
Franco Calopinto he qualified sixteenth. He finished nineteenth, so no points.

Speaker 1 (48:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (48:01):
Colipinto rolled the dice on strategy, but his afternoon unraveled
after contact with Alex Album spun him around. From there,
he struggled with possible damage and couldn't recover, so finishing
a disappointing nineteenth. Ooh yeah. Ali Bharman he qualified fifteenth
and he finished twelfth, so no points.

Speaker 1 (48:24):
He moved up a couple places. I guess there we
go silverlining.

Speaker 2 (48:28):
Yeah. Beharman's race never really opened up. He started fifteenth,
He got stuck in traffic and in DRS trains and
wasn't really unable to unlock the car space. It's pretty
much unfortunately, but that's all right, OLLI will he'll bounce back.

Speaker 1 (48:43):
We say that everything.

Speaker 2 (48:44):
We always say. We're like, they're bounce back. We're just
we're positive people. Yeah, so are we sometimes?

Speaker 1 (48:51):
Is it toxic positivity?

Speaker 2 (48:53):
Maybe? Gabrielle Bortoletto. He qualified thirteenth and he finished eleventh,
so no points.

Speaker 1 (49:00):
The first time we've mentioned him.

Speaker 2 (49:02):
Mm hmm. Well, you know, sometimes it's just how the
cookie crubbles. Bortolatto worked his way into the top ten
with a long opening stint and briefly mixed it in
with the front runners after pitting, though, the points slipped
away and he finished eleventh.

Speaker 1 (49:16):
So you know, oh, well, we'll get him next time.

Speaker 3 (49:23):
We'll you'll get him next time, buddy, all the platitudes, Yeah,
you'll bounce back, You'll get him next time.

Speaker 2 (49:28):
It's okay. Liam Lawson he qualified third and he finished fifth,
so ten points.

Speaker 5 (49:35):
Whoa.

Speaker 2 (49:37):
Lawson showed grit, that's a good word for it. He
showed grit in Baku, defending relentlessly against the faster cars
all race long. Even though Antonelli and Russell they did
get by him, he held firm under the late pressure
to bring home P five. Like we said, he was
elbows out. He was very aggressive, and I think grit
is the right word to describe that. So good on Liam.

(50:00):
And last, but definitely not least, our favorite rookie Fernando Alonso.
He qualified eleventh, he finished fifteenth, so no points. Alonzo's
race was compromised from the start by a false start penalty.
After serving it in the pits, he found himself out

(50:20):
of the points with a little chance to recover. So,
like we said, he reacted to Oscar Piastre who had
a false start, and from there, you know, he had
to serve it in the pits and it just kind
of fell away from him. But you know what, like
we always say, you'll get him next time, And I
just know I'm gonna have an Alonzo podium this year.
I don't know what race, but we will have it.

Speaker 1 (50:41):
Not too many left.

Speaker 2 (50:43):
I'm just saying we will have it.

Speaker 3 (50:45):
Did you hear he said that for his like F
one career that he's definitely gonna be with Aston Martin
for twenty twenty six, And he said, depending on how
that season goes, he's either gonna If it goes well,
he'll retire so we can end on the high note.
And it goes not well, he'll probably stick it out
another year for twenty twenty seven.

Speaker 2 (51:05):
I don't want him to go nowhere, Yeah, I want
him to stay.

Speaker 3 (51:09):
I mean, but he'll always be a fixture in the
Formula one world.

Speaker 1 (51:15):
Like, yeah, he's already a manager for other drivers. I
want to see active.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
Though on the podium, and I want to see him
do his dance again.

Speaker 1 (51:23):
He's active as a mentor.

Speaker 3 (51:24):
He also has expressed interest in committing to the Aston
Martin project, like longer term, so I wouldn't be surprised
to see him move into a different role within the
organization or the team.

Speaker 2 (51:36):
I don't know, Maybe he'll just move to a different
racingly maybe him in Mathidos Go GT.

Speaker 1 (51:39):
I No, he's really into karting, like supporting karting.

Speaker 2 (51:42):
He has his own he has his own.

Speaker 3 (51:45):
Kart Series league thing because Oscar Piastre. He got his
start karting in Fernando that too.

Speaker 1 (51:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
Yeah, Well, with that being E said, we can move
on to our best and worst segment. I'm giving my
driver of the day to Liam Lawson. I think that
was that thing. He just he was oppressive. He did
a really good job, I mean, stayed up there. The
qualifying worked out, but like we said, I mean he
still had to like really work to stay in the

(52:14):
top five. And I just think he showed why Red
Bull looked at him in the first place, and why
that he's been on their radar, so he did a
good job.

Speaker 3 (52:23):
I was originally going to do George Russell as my
driver of the day because even with a respiratory infection
he was still able to qualify.

Speaker 2 (52:30):
Well and finish one driver.

Speaker 3 (52:33):
Man, I was gonna choose him, but now you change doors,
so I'm changing mine and I'm picking Carlos Signs as
my drop of the day lord, because he is as
radar like.

Speaker 1 (52:45):
He just killed it this weekend.

Speaker 3 (52:46):
He had a great weekend after a lot of bad
luck and things not going his way. Finally the luck
broke in his favor. So I was just very happy
to see that. And he even said over the radio,
this is the best pody of his career, keeping in
mind that he drove for Ferrari for several years, got
podiums and won races with them, and this is his

(53:10):
most like his favorite podium that he's gotten so far,
like the best one because he had a fight for
it and it tastes so much sweeter when you have
to work.

Speaker 1 (53:19):
That hard for it.

Speaker 2 (53:19):
So yeah, yeah, yeah, I could see that. My biggest
letdown is Lando Norris because I just truly expected a
lot more from him, especially once Oscar was not even
in the formula. He wasn't even in the equation anymore.
I really expected more from Lando to fight his way
through the field to maximize the amount of points he could,

(53:41):
knowing Oscar was not going to get any and I
just he didn't, And that just doesn't reflect the performance
he had last year that he has shown he can
do with this track, and so that was just disappointing.

Speaker 3 (53:53):
My biggest let down it was Oscar Piastri Just awful
weekend for him, very uncharacteristic, all of his issues that
he had with the crashing and qualifying, the false start,
the crashing again in the first lap of the race,
just all around terrible weekend.

Speaker 1 (54:12):
And expected more.

Speaker 2 (54:13):
Yeah, And it felt it felt like it was something
with him, like it just I don't know, like whether
maybe he just didn't have his head on right, whether
he I don't know. Normally he is cool as a cucumber,
and I feel like this is the first time something
changed it rattled him. Yeah, something like yeah.

Speaker 3 (54:31):
And he just and even when, like we mentioned earlier,
even when things have not gone his way or if
he's made a mistake or he can usually recover, he
can keep that cool head and recover from it and
manage to pull something out and it just he was rattled.

Speaker 1 (54:46):
I think it. I mean just awful, awful weekend.

Speaker 3 (54:50):
Cannot state that enough awful, Oscar, this was bad.

Speaker 1 (54:56):
I know you're well, but yeah, so we can get
it's our next race teaser.

Speaker 2 (55:01):
So our next race teaser. It will be round eighteen
the Formula one Singapore Airlines the AKA the Singapore Grand
Prix at the Marina Bay Street Circuit. Who it's a
mouthful our podium. Last year it was Lando Norris, Max
Verstappen and Oscar Piastree. Hmmm interesting. We'll see how it

(55:23):
goes in two weeks time. So here are some tracks stats.
The first GP was held in two thousand and eight.
It is sixty two laps long. The circuit length is
four point nine four kilometers, which is about three point
zero six miles. The race distance is three hundred and
six point one four three kilometers, which is about one

(55:44):
hundred and ninety point two miles, which again, most of
the time when I say this, it's almost exactly the same,
because that's just how long the races will be. The
race lap record is a minute and thirty four point
four eight six seconds and it is by Daniel Ricardo
who said it last year.

Speaker 3 (56:03):
Oh yeah, on the last rap of last rap of
the race, last lap of the race, and it was
his last race. Oh oh yeah, that was Singapore was
rough last year, like all the emotions and he like
that was basically the last race, but he wasn't really
like allowed to say or officially confirmed that it was,
but he pretty much gave all indicators that it was.

(56:25):
And then he like stuck around like until like the
last part, like everyone else is packed up and left,
and he's still sticking around and the media people are
leaving and they're like he's still here talking to everybody,
like all the people left in the paddock, like people
like on other teams that he's been part of.

Speaker 1 (56:40):
That like's in the garages and depressing.

Speaker 3 (56:43):
Yeah, and he just like, oh god, he had that
moment at the end of the race where they were
in part from it and then he just sat in
the car and had to take a minute to just
like I'm gonna cry absorb this is the last moment.

Speaker 2 (56:56):
Funny enough, when I was typing this, I got like
emotions because I was like I love Daniel Ricardo, which
everybody loves Daniel Ricardo, let's be very clear, but that
we talked about it before. He was like that driver
that I liked by myself first, because like my I
obviously I love Lewis Hamilton, but like my boyfriend influenced
me to like Lewis Hamilton, and now obviously I love him.

(57:18):
He could say he hated Lewis and I would be
like York nuts now, But like Daniel was the first
driver I found on my own that I was like, yeah,
I love Daniel and then he's gone. So anyway, the
qualifying flap record is a minute in twenty nine point
five two five seconds, set by Lando Norris in twenty

(57:39):
twenty four as well. So the qualifying lap record and
the race lap record were both set last year and
it has three drs zones. Okay, and so let's talk
about what this track is like just a bit. The
Marina Bay Circuit is a tough track. It's hot, it
is humid, and it is bumpy. Drivers can lose around
six to seven pounds during the race with how much

(58:01):
they are going to be sweating. And the twenty twenty
three layout did change things up a bit and it
made the lap faster with nineteen corners instead of twenty three,
so it is a truck they have altered since it's genesis.
So what are the tire compounds and the strategies. I
believe Perelli has put out a statement that basically the
rest of the year it's going to be the same

(58:21):
tire compounds that they were last year. I always try
to find what the tire compounds are going to be
if they've changed. Sometimes I have problems finding it. So
if this is not accurate, I tried them my best.
So it should be the C three, the C four,
and the C five, and normally it's a one stop,
but safety cars often shake things up, so we will see.

(58:42):
And the biggest thing that we care about is can
we overtake guys. It's tricky. It's not easy to do here.
The new long straight and the extra DRS zone help,
but most positions changes they come from a pit strategy
or a safety car, so we'll see. You never know,
but yeah, that's pretty much what we can expect. So
we can expect a hot, humid race and the girls

(59:05):
will be back too, So we'll have f one academy
as well next time, and that will be like two
weeks from now, because it's October second. Yes, yeah, so
yeah that is.

Speaker 1 (59:15):
Can we put up our Halloween decor?

Speaker 2 (59:17):
Yeah, so next time you see us, we'll have our
Halloween stuff. Spooky, yes, nice and spooky. But yeah, that
about wraps it up though. So we will talk at
you in two weeks time, and hopefully I'll have the
reels up before the day before. Hopefully I'll have the
reels up for this episode actually this coming week and
not the day before Singapore.

Speaker 1 (59:38):
We'll see, we'll see, but anyway, bye bye,

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