F1 Mexico City GP Race Review | Norris Back on Top as Mexico Delivers Chaos at Turn 1

The 2025 Mexico City Grand Prix delivered drama, dominance, and a little chaos 🇲🇽🔥

Lando Norris crushed the field with a 30-second win — McLaren’s first Mexico victory since Ayrton Senna in 1989 — to retake the Drivers’ Championship lead. Ferrari jumped Mercedes by a single point in the Constructors’ standings thanks to Charles Leclerc’s back-to-back podiums, while Oliver Bearman made history for Haas with a stunning P4.

Meanwhile, Oscar Piastri lost the championship lead, George Russell kept things spicy on the radio, and Lewis Hamilton’s penalty sparked debate over whether he was the only driver who deserved one.

Join Anna and Jessica as they break down the standout drives, wild opening laps, and what it all means heading into Brazil. 🎙

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Let's talk about Hitler.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
That'll make sense later.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
I don't know what to do.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
I swear I'm not stupid take it or lead that.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Sometimes you just want to leave it.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
I got to bar my mom's underwear and bar Winger underwear.
You just yeah, misas the jar jar beaks.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
I'm not gonna edit it out. No, No, I don't
know like I think got it's pretty great suck. Why
are you saying with a question mark clap bitch?

Speaker 1 (00:25):
All right?

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Three two one?

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Actually, and we're live. I'm Anna and I'm Jessica, and
this is why are yelling? Welcome back to another F
one race a review. Today we are talking about round
twenty or the twenty twenty five F one season, the
Grand Primo Premio de la Cio Dad de Mexico aka
the Mexico City Grown Pretty. I'm butcherd not all the way,

(00:53):
good job, I said, Mexico, right, Mexico. Okay, we get
to our uh podio finishers.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Like I maybe like just go into it, just go
so so our podium. We have Lando Norris, Charles Leclaire
and Max Verse staffing. That was nuts. Lando said goodbye.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
He literally got ahead and just said peace out.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Literally, he literally just left. He said, so, what did
you think of this race before we get into all
the juicy boats, because we normally say that.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Uh, I remember most Okay, So the race, we had
Margarita's and they affected us the next day too.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
It's why we're filming a day late.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yeah. Uh so I remember parts of the race. Some
of it I had to remember after the fact. Yeah,
Like I had to watch some recaps and stuff like that,
like some race highlights and whatnot. I thought it was good.
There were some fun moments. George Russell kept it spicy
on the radio, so I was happy about that.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Oh yeah, that was fun.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
Yeah. And there were some cute little moments happening here
and there, cute cut little moment.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
What was cute?

Speaker 1 (02:04):
They went four wide and like turn one that was nuts.
That was actually and then nuts people were lawnmowers cutting
across the grass.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
And then there was quite a bit of that.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
It was not cute. When Lewis Hamilton dropped from third
to eight.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
You know what, let's get into the our constructor standing.
So Ferrari has overtaken Mercedes for second place in the
constructors by a single.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Point, oh, a single place, which we kind of guessed
that that would happen.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
So Ferrari has three hundred and fifty six points, while
Mercedes has three hundred and fifty five points and has
has overtaken Salber for eighth in the constructors So we
had some movers, you know, thanks to Olie Berman getting
his fourth place has has jumped up. So now in
the driver standings, we do have a new championship leader.

(02:54):
Lando Norris has finally overtaken Oscar Piastre to be the
leader in the driver's championship by a single point. Yes,
he has not led it since April. So Lando has
three hundred and fifty seven points while Oscar has three
hundred and fifty six points, so it's still a nail by.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Eater and Max is still not that far behind.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Now he's thirty points behind. Now this is what they said.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
I think this is again going to be a season
where it goes down to literally the last race.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
It's crazy.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
I mean, it could be a case of like it's
switching back and forth.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
It's two thousand and seven. It is two thousand and seven,
that was the season of Alonso and Lewis this is
Lewis's rookie year and they want in Kimmy Reich. Aden
ended up winning the championship, but it was all on
the line. You had the two McLaren drivers and they
were at each other's head. Who was numbered. It was
a whole I mean literally, I think they compared it
to that when they were doing the pre race show.

(03:49):
They did like, there's a lot of echoes there. It's insane.
Oliver Bearman has also he has went from eighteenth to thirteen,
so don't Frobley. Yeah, I mean he just killed it
this weekend. I mean that was crazy. He he made
me happy again because I was very depressed. I mean
I actually was just kind of like I'm done. I'm

(04:11):
literally done. That was devastating.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yeah, so we can get into it.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yeah, we can't get into the oh god, we'll talk
about our fun facts. I'm just Prina mentally preparing myself
for Oo Dumbleton. That's a fact I hate. It's not
a fun fact that nothing's fun about it. I'm like, Okay,
all this dumb, don't you worry. I've got something for you.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
We'll get into my favorite segment as everyone does, our
fun facts. Yes, Landa Norris's winning margin of thirty point
three two four seconds was the biggest since Hungary twenty
twenty three, when Max for stap In one by thirty
three point seventy three one seconds.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Wow, that's crazy because that's also the race he was
like a minute behind, like at this year.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
That Max was a minute behind the winner.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Uh huh. Yeah, Lando killed it. I mean Lando, he listen,
we can't make fun of us starts at well we
maybe we still can later, but like right now, we
cannot make fun of his starts.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
I mean he, as many people have said, did not
He did not put a foot wrong all weekend. I
mean he did it. He got the job done. And qualifying,
he did what a lot of people were calling his
best career best qualifying lap ever. Yeah, where he was
as close to a perfect lap as he I think
has ever gotten. Yeah. And he even noticed that it
was like really really good.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Oh yeah, because afterwards he goes, I don't even know
how I did it. Yeah, I just did it. It happened.
I don't even know how I got there.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
And you know, that's to me indicates being in the
sort of flow state. It's like when everything is just
going the way it's supposed to go. You almost sort
of like zone out and it like you zone in
and out at the same time, and everything just happens
the way it's supposed to happen.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
You're one, He's one with your car, you are one. Cool.
I was happy for him.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
And yeah, then he took it. The race went home.
I mean it's just gone. Yeah, I mean his race start.
The race start was a little spicy. It was a
little uh, I mean he kept the lead. Yeah, but
we had three wide. We had the two Ferraris and
Max literally side by side in one of the corners,

(06:08):
and it's like seeing like the still shot of that
moment is crazy.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
It's crazy, and I'm like, I'm bitter as hell. I
am so bitter because even people who love Charles, even
people who love Charles, it is no haycar I love Charles.
I don't understand how he didn't have to give the
position back when you look at it, what world. I
think there was just too much going on, and the

(06:33):
stewards were like, oh, if they had to look at
it now, they'd probably go oh, But like it just
was what it was there. It just was what it was.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
Often in the you know, first couple of corners in
the first lap, there's a lot of forgiveness because that
is the closest the drivers are pretty much ever going
to beat to each other, all bunched up together, so
it's just very chaotic.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
That was exceptionally chaotic. I'm like, I get first, like
turn corner, whatever situation. I get that. That was just
that was something I didn't even notice till later when
I was rewatching stuff today. I'm like, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, excuse,
I'm so.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
What you have to like rewind and see who was
where when they went off track, and then it's like
hard to even know where they would have been literally.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Every single person. Yeah, it was nuts.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
I'm like, it's like, okay, wherever you joined back in,
that's where you're at now now.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Georg Russ Storgress was like, okay, I guess y'all just
get to go where you want. Y'all ran off the
damn road.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
He was pissed. He was like, do we just not
have to stay on the track now?

Speaker 2 (07:32):
Andree with him. I actually everything Georgia complained about this weekend,
I'm like, this has made you mean like you more,
You're growing on me, Yeah, because he's like I'm sorry, Oh,
I'm sorry. We can just do whatever we want. Okay,
that's cool. We just whatever.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
Yeah. He made a good point too. He said that
if there was a gravel trap there, it wouldn't happened
instead of just being grass. It's like, oh, you can
just cut the corner with the grass and not be
penalized for it, okay, which I mean Lewis was penalized
for a different in it, in different corner, but.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
The only one, Yeah, the only one who got a penalty,
who got a penalty. I'm not disagreeing with it. I
just don't see how he was the only one and
all the scenarios that happened. But anyway, good job for Lando.
He didn't have any incidents because he just left. Yeah,
he just was like all right, I'm done now and.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
Just stayed ahead. Yeah. And we've talked about before how
it's like you wonder if that being that far ahead
and not seeing anybody else on the track until you
get into like lapping people, Like how boring is that?
Like are you happy? Are you or like are you
just kind of like doing whatever you want? Are you

(08:42):
daydream or are you completely focused on putting like pedal
to the metal and still executing like perfection.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
Oh I think it's that because uh, I think it
was Lewis once that said because they were like, what
do you do when you're up there? Blah blah, and
He's like, I just kind of envisioned my like I'm
chasing something, still going yeah, like I'm still keeping that energy.

Speaker 1 (09:02):
I'm trying to still trying to perfect the lap almost,
I think because if like he's like, I can imagine
him being like, well, in qualifying, that was the best
I've ever done. Can I do better? Yeah? Can I
be better than that? Let's see if we can hit
a perfect lap in the race.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
Or seeing like and it's like, in a way, I
would get so much satisfaction from seeing how much time
I'm gaining on the person behind me every lap, And
that's how I would just stay entertained. Its being like
how how how far can I go? Like how like
I'm going to make a goal? Can I get thirty
three seconds? I did more?

Speaker 1 (09:33):
Can I gain a second per lap? Yeah? A second
per lap? Two seconds per like what are we talking
here in zactly? How far can we push the car?

Speaker 2 (09:39):
That's what I would be doing Yeah, I would not
be bored. I would be like, yeah, yes out.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
I mean, I guess if.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
I'm Lando in this moment, I'm definitely like thank.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
God, Yeah that's true. I guess the satisfaction of the
wind and all that stuff because I'm just I just
know me. I'm competitive, but I need to be like
directly competing against somebody. I'm like, I feel like I
would enjoy more battling against people and like challenging and
trying to get the overtakes and like stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
I think you would. But I do think that if
you had a lot of people doubting you for months
and months and months and kept talking about how horrible
you were at race starts and how like you need
to get it together, I think you would just knowing
you because I would beat this way too, Like I
would mind. Yes, I would get a level of satisfaction
that shut your mouth, because Bye, that was crazy.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
Though the haters fuel you Lando, oh I mean and they.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
Boot him again. Stop it. It's so rude. It is
so crazy. Stop doing that, that's all. That's so rude.
Can you believe people do that in person? That's crazy
and just like, why would you do that that's so mean,
and I'm not even the nicest person. I'm like, I'm
far from the nicest person ever, and that's mean.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
I mean we've when we've been at like formula drift events,
we've booted like the judges, but it wasn't but the
booze were never directed at like the drive, but the
other driver that you know, if they got a decision
over the driver we preferred, it was never directed at
the driver. We may have disagreed with judges.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
To judge to boot one driver. And that was because
in Orlando, I don't remember which year it is, there
was a driver justin Pollock, don't. I mean, no hate
towards him, but in the moment he like went on
on track drifted even though he thought something was wrong
with his engine, and it was and then it bloed
oil everywhere and it fucked everybody else's stuff up. And
then I think, yeah, it was horrible, it was really awful.

(11:28):
So I do remember going, what the he I think
I booted him, but like not like a quiet booty yourself.
You're like, not like an actual screaming one. That's that's
crazy behavior, that's not nice. Yeah, but I think Lando
kind of laughed. That's kind of funny. He's kind of like,
I don't know, it's kind of funny.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
I mean you kind of almost have to brush it
off and be like at.

Speaker 2 (11:47):
That point, I'm just going to go boo louder because
I still went I'm my trophy.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
Yeah, I'm gonna cry tears into my champagne like in
my trophy.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
Well, like me, I don't really care.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
Let me cry while I'm standing up here on the
top step of the odium. As we mentioned, Landon Norris
retook the lead in the Driver's Championship, and he retook
that lead one hundred and eighty nine days after losing
it at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. This was McLaren's
first win in Mexico since nineteen eighty nine. With Ayrton
Senna ail the goat there he is, Yeah, gotta represent

(12:23):
I need a bigger picture. I think, yeah, it's it's pretty.
I'll fix it, but we'll correct it. I'll fix it
all promise.

Speaker 2 (12:29):
I'll fix it before next week or Brazil. Oh, for sure,
fix it before Brazil. Got to get a bigger frame. Yes,
there's a goat.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
This was Landon Norris's sixth win of the twenty twenty
five season, one of behind teammate Oscar Piastre's seven wins.
It's down to the wire, man, I'm so excited for
the rest of this season and we only have this
is twenty and there's twenty four races. We only have
four races left. Then what then?

Speaker 2 (12:57):
What do we do with our lives? Let's just go
watch the old ones. They're just it's crazy. I put
on what was I think twenty ten for you. Yeah,
it's crazy.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
But we you know, we do have other things we
can talk about during the break.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
We have other things.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
Yeah, yeah, for sure.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
But that's gonna suck. But it's it's gonna suck, though,
don't worry.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
We'll supposed to put out content during the break. It'll
just be different.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
It just be a little different.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
Yeah. So moving on with p two for Ferrari, Charles
Leclaire achieved back to back podium finishes for the first
time since Monaco in Spain. It was Leclaire's third consecutive
podium finish in Mexico City, so apparently he goes real
good in Mexico. Ferrari have now gone a full year
without a Grand Prix victory not a fun fact.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
Nobody feels the need to say that about Sober We're
all Paine. I'm just saying, well, we're just or Williams.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
We're used to them not winning though. Yeah, and you know,
you could make the argument we're kind of used to
Ferrari not winning. We have to keep we've already gotten
like we're used to, like sprinkles were used to, like
little sprinkles of Ferrari magic occasionally happening, and usually it's
like the Drive. It's usually Charles Leclaire or like, you know,
the past couple of years of Carlos Science pulling it
out the ass somewhere, you know, just like the.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
End of the year last year, they were like on
it though, and it was very misleading.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
For the rest of us this year terms on that Ferrari.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
I didn't have a choice. I feel, I honestly feel
like Lewis just kidnapped all his fans and he's holding
us hostage to Ferrari because I'm like, go, Ferrari.

Speaker 1 (14:31):
Oh my god, you've joined the circus that is Ferrari.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
The Ferrari fans, like it's just just somebody's just like
I'm being held against my will. It's sad, but Charles
did good. I mean I feel like I did notice
on the start that I thought was like, it's not funny,
but it's interesting because it's like he basically had the choice,
who am I gonna? Am I gonna He gave Lewis
the room and then he Max squeezed himself off track.

Speaker 1 (14:57):
Listen. Max wanted a bitch about like the me off
the track. I'm like, Max, where are you gonna go?

Speaker 2 (15:02):
He to be honest, he didn't complain as much as
he could have because it was Charles.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
Yes. Well. I also think he was like he knows
that he they didn't do anything wrong, but he still
is obliged to complain a little radio wrong. It's part
of the game to bring it to the Stewart's attention.
Like they all overly complained about things they maybe don't
need to. But he was just like, they pushed me
off track. I'm like, Max, come on, where where are

(15:31):
you gonna go?

Speaker 2 (15:32):
I expected everybody to move out the way they saw
me coming. They didn't move.

Speaker 1 (15:39):
Charles is like, I'll give Lewis the room because Max
won't hit me.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yeah, and he honestly Lewis my I don't know him
and Max had a little bit of contact. Lewis was over.
I think he got over and he got a penalty
and was like Mitch, what, Well he got it after
that too, But I just think, I mean, I just
really wish him and never had to be near each
other again. If I'm being honest.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
I love when they're near each other on the track.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
I hate it. I hate it a lot because it's
my two fhaves and in that moment, I'm like, I
one of you's got.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
The go, like one of you have to pick the side,
and it's picked. It just is what it is.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
So but no, Charles said good, and I mean he
you know, once all the drama was over, he was
kind of he was gone.

Speaker 1 (16:29):
So Charles did good. But he is currently winless for
the fourth time in seven seasons with Ferrari.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
Four times, so he's had seven seasons with Ferrari. Yes,
this is his fourth season out of all those seasons
of being winless. So he's had four seasons with Ferrai
where he's never won a raise.

Speaker 1 (16:47):
Yes, that's four out of seven, so that's the majority
of the time he has been with Ferrari. He is
not one.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
Because he's always got podiums though. Yeah, that's good, that's okay, Charles,
it is what it is.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
Well, bounce back. We'll get him next year.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
Hopefully.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
Hopefully moving on to Max. First up, Dodo.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
Max first day, he was kind of like he was
a little nuts this weekend.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
Yeah, so Max for Staffins P three for Red Bull
was his first podium finish in Mexico. That was not
a win. He has five victories there.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
Dang, poor Chucko. Always the teammates, he's always stealing it.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
Always the bridesmaid, never the bride. Yes, this was Max
ver Staffin's sixth consecutive podium finished this season. He only
scored five podium finishes in his first fourteen or Prix Max.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
What did uh Alex Jakes say He's driving it like
a trolley, a.

Speaker 1 (17:49):
Shopping tal It was uh, it was not. It was
an Alex Chase was it Joylyn?

Speaker 2 (17:53):
No, it was Alex Jaxa said it was it.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
One of the announcers said that they were driving he
was driving the car like a shopping trolley, and I
just it was too funny. I love that.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
I remember that. Just like he was like, I have
to go out out the way. It was like the
first time because like Max is always aggressive. Max is
always like an intense driver.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
He's always going to be elbows out aggressive the last
on the breaks if he can help it.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
This was the first time though, I felt like sometimes
he's been kind of relaxed with the whole championship talk.
He hasn't given it much, like he's not really feeding
into it. It is what it is, whatever happens happens
type of a thing. Right, This was the first time
I'm like, oh, he wants I'm not saying he doesn't
want it, but this was the first time you could
tell like he's wanting to fight for like he's.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
Like within his grasp now yeah, and he's like, oh no,
I have a real shot because before, up until the
last several races, it's almost like, okay, that'd be funny.
It's like, yeah, it'd be like, yeah, I'm gonna do
my best to win every race, but like, the driver's
championship may not be my ultimate goal at this point,
because I don't even know if that's realistic with this car.
Because Max is not someone who comes across to me
as overly pessimistic or optimistic. He's very realistic, he's very

(19:06):
sort of neutral, and it just is what it is.
And for sure the car made a turn, they saw
some increase in performance. He's winning races and all of
a sudden he's within thirty points of taking the lead.
So I mean it's not And then the McLaren's drivers
started having some issues. Oscar Piastre has taken a nose
dive off a pier, like, don't know what's going on

(19:27):
with him. And Lando has been doing better, but I
mean still the McLarens are not what they were, but
the you know, they're clear dominance at the start of
the season. The other cars have now caught up to them. Yeah,
so I mean it's I could see the switch of
Max's brain being like flipped and and being like, oh no, no, no,

(19:48):
I want this now. Yeah, it's within my grasp. I'm
gonna do every I'm gonna literally drive people off the
road and become the Max for staffit of old.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
If somebody asked him, they were like, so, how do
you feel about people basically saying he's not the same
as he was in twenty twenty one and of some
of those other things, and he's like, I literally meet
the exact same person, nothing about me has changed. And
he was like, you just stay yourself and people, I
guess accept it because whoever you are is always going
to shine through. And I'm literally am the exact I

(20:20):
think being nothing has changed about me. And I was like, oh,
love and hate that.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
He said, I can't dog it in.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
No, yeah, I just am like love that for just
just not Lewis. Just let it go, just let him pass, like,
don't hit him, no, no, he will never No, it's
just Charles.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
Yeah. Moving on to.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
Oliver Bee Man, Dude, I screamed, literally I actually screamed, screaming,
crying all of it. I couldn't even believe it. I
literally could not believe seeing that host pass Max for stuff.
But I was just sent to another universe all the Oh.
It was just it was so much. It was so
and so much happened at once. It was like, I
think that's around the time Lewis got the penalty, but

(21:06):
yes it was, because it was around Yes, that's where
it happened. And so I'm I see that happen. I'm like,
there's no way, right, And then that Lewis a few
minutes later gets the penalty, but all and then all
all he's passing Max. It was just it was too
much and I was screaming because I was like, that's
a baby, that's what our babies.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
Yeah, I mean, Ali just killed it.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
It was awesome.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
I mean, that is just it's a case of where
when you see it, you're like, he's fourth on the
leaderboard and you're like, wait, has he not done it?
Pit stop yet, like has the other people pit then
their pits and they're like why is he up there?
And you're like, oh no, no, he's up there on pure merit.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
Yeah, because he qualified tenth tenth and he went for it. Baby,
oh my god.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
I mean just great. Love that for him, Love that
for the host team.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
Love it.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
Yeah. So he got P four, tied that, which tied
the Haas team's best ever result in their constructor history.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
Yes, because they've never had a podium.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
Yeah. Uh the so the last P four they got
was Roman Grosjean at the twenty eighteen Austrian Girls Wow. Wow. Yeah,
so that's he tied their best result ever. That's crazy.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
I love it. I was it was so so oh god,
he was almost on that podium. It would we would
have had three.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
We would have had three rookies on the podium in
one season.

Speaker 2 (22:28):
Brazil was crazy last year. You never know, yeah, but
I know who I'm pulling for. But anyway, we'll get there.
We'll get there. Uh where we are? No, but Allie
killed it, and the whole host garage was so happy.
It was so cute. It was just that's when it's
okay to cut to the family. By the way, Oh yeah,
that was fine. His mother was so excited. Oh and
then they did.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
Uh. He was doing the interview in the media pen afterward,
and so then his like family walks up and his
girlfriend is there, and so then the I guess Ollie
didn't see them, and so then the interviewer mentioned, oh, yeah,
your family just walked up your girlfriend over there, and
so he Allie looks at his girlfriend. She's crying like
in Allie's dads are like comforting her, and then Allie's

(23:09):
She's like, I'm just so happy, and then Ali starts
to get like emotional too, and he tells the interviewer,
I wish she wouldn't have told me she was over there,
because now I'm gonna get emotional. And it was just like, oh,
it's so cute, it is. I love that for them.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
I do too.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
I'm just so happy. I love it. So Ali had
never previously completed a lap in the top six of
a Grand Prix until this race. Oh wow, Yeah, he
had never completed a single lap in the top six.
Dang Has had only completed thirty laps in a podium
position in their entire constructor history.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
Okay, so just like holding a position for a while. Okay, yeah, wow,
because he was third for a second.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
Yeah. Oliver Verman's two point three second pit stop was
Has's fastest of the twenty twenty five season. Wow. Good
for them.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
Yeah, I mean that's a really good pit stop. Good
Has just they were like they were.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
On it, at least with bear Men. I don't know.
I guess we'll talk about us about it at some point.
Shady Well, I guess he did come in p nine,
So I don't know if there's any fun facts about him, though,
I mean fur there are maybe. Alver Berman gained five
positions in the Driver's Championship today today.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
He did it today. Just now. Yep, you're hearing it here.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
First on Tuesday, two days after the race.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
Yep, No, we got job. I mean, what's crazy is
how like the midfield is so they're separated just by
like a few points, and how literally just getting finishing
fourth can be the reason you're now closer to the
top ten.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
It's crazy. Oscar Piastre, driving for McLaren, finished P five
and it was his best ever finish in Mexico. He
lost his championship lead by one point, as you mentioned earlier,
and that's the fun facts for Oscar Piastrey.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
I don't know, there's so much to add. It's just
I know he did say something of we need to
figure out, like one car's clearly fast, we need to
figure out why I'm not. And I just am kind.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
Of like, what's I think the most concerning which uh
I think it was James Henchcliff brought up with the
F one TV broadcast, was that Oscar they've tried to
ask him, like, what what's going on? Is it the car?
Is it different? Did you change something?

Speaker 2 (25:20):
Is it you like?

Speaker 1 (25:21):
Is there lack of like what's going on? And Oscar's
like the car feels pretty much the same. I don't.
He like just doesn't know why it's so different and
why his performance has been different, and they said that's
probably the most concerning part is that there if there
is something different happening with the car, he's not able
to understand what it is or.

Speaker 2 (25:40):
Even I feel like it's not enough front end, too
much back or too much over under, like it's not Yeah,
you would think like you would at least go, yeah,
it just doesn't feel the same. But then to say
it feels the same as kind of like, well it's
not the same though.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
Yeah. He said there's nothing that he can tell that's
different about when he's driving it, So then that leads
you to believe the only other option is that it's
him that's different than not the car, and that he's
driving it differently, or maybe he doesn't have as much
confidence in the car or in his own ability, or
I don't know what it is. I mean, he doesn't
strike me as the kind of person that lacks confidence
in what he can do behind the wheel.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
He doesn't strike me as somebody who would be honest either. Yeah,
like not saying he's a liar, I just mean, like
I think anything he feels that's being guardled. Yeah, he's
like this is my business versus like leono Landa's like, yeah,
I just didn't do good enough, and it is what
it is, and I just think there's two different approaches
to it. But yeah, I mean yeah, it's kind of

(26:37):
one of those things where I could see maybe the
car set up, but at the same time, it's weird
to say, I don't even know, it feels the same,
but it's not performing the same, and I'm like, well,
that's that is odd.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
So I mean, yeah, it's anyone's guess. It's all everybody's
giving their opinions on why they think his performance has
dropped so much.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
Oh yeah, I mean everyone the internet just think Zach
Brown's like they're a savage, which is just.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
So literally that everyone is. It's pure conjecture online. They're like, oh,
McLaren sabotaging their own driver for the sake of their
other own driver, and it's just like, what are you
talking about. I just don't see in what world that
would be the case. I mean, it would have that
would be some major conspiracy.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
Like shit's the problem people are online too much. I
guess it's one thing to make a joke about it,
because it is funny because everybody Lando is Zach's favorite. Yes,
they've been they've known each other forever though.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
Yeah, and like Zach is literally the one that was
helping guide in Lando. Yeah, and like shepherd him into
Formula one.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
Yeah, but it's also like it's not like and then
people tried to say that he didn't have anything to
do with the decision of bringing Oscar on and he's like, yes,
I did. What are you talking about?

Speaker 1 (27:46):
The CEO of McLaren Racing exactly, he didn't have an
opinion or want to sign the driver that they signed, Like, yeah,
he has the only opinion that really matters when it
comes to who's gonna have one job on that team.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
Yeah, I don't.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
He's the ultimate end all. Vy'all say so, like, what
are you talking about?

Speaker 2 (28:06):
Yeah, I don't. I think it's harder for people to
accept that sometimes, Oh, what's it called when like gymnastic
people the yups.

Speaker 1 (28:16):
The yips, the yips, golfers get it, to baseball players
get it, it's called the yips all of us. There's something
else for it's a different name for gymnasts because gymnasts
it happens sometimes they Simone Biles talked about it. That's
what you lose your place in the air when you're flipping,
and so you have no perception of where the ground is,

(28:37):
and so you have no confidence in doing the flips
that you're doing because you don't know how you're gonna land.
And so it like sometimes it just happens. And like
with baseball players or golfers, sometimes they just get the
yips for all of a sudden, for no explainable reason,
they start sucking ass.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
He's got the yips.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
It's got the yips.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
If he says the car feels the same, then he's
just Oscar's got a case of the yips.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
Yeah, And I don't see some people have suggested, oh, well,
maybe it's the pressure of leading the championship. It's getting
to him. It's like he's been leading the championship for
one hundred and eighty nine days. Like, you know, if
you would think that if there was gonna be pressure,
he was going to feel it, he would have felt
it when he was first leading the championship and not

(29:20):
after he's been successfully you know, defending that lead for
a good chunk of the season. So it's like, why
now would that happen?

Speaker 2 (29:28):
Well, I could see the pressure mounting when you got
the lead and you were getting kind of a comfortableish lead,
and then Lando has slowly but surely just been creeping up,
and I think that could cause you some pressure where
you're like, oh God, like he's It's almost like maybe
you felt confident that it just was what it was,

(29:51):
that Lando wasn't going to outdrive you because he has
he hadn't been, and then all of a sudden he is,
and you have to figure out how to Then suddenly
you're like not doing as great. So I could see
where maybe this had the pressure did grow if you've
kind of maybe if you felt for sure where it's like,
all right, well I might have this in the bag,

(30:13):
and all of a sudden you don't, especially the closer
Orlando was getting, probably like the past two races.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
Yeah, I'm trying to I was trying to pull up his.
Oh that's Lando's I don't want his. I was trying
to pull up. So I was trying to look up
his his finishes and like his record so far the
season to figure out like where the fallof happened, And
it looks like it happened starting with Azerbaijohn so he
had in all the previous races. The rest of the season.

(30:43):
Very first race he finished ninth, and.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
Yeah, that was because of the rain and he spun
out and all that.

Speaker 1 (30:48):
Yeah, in Canada he finished fourth. Every other race he
has podiumed or won this season so far, and then
and then or up until azerbai John where he and
aft and then we had fourth place in Singapore and
then fifth to fifth place finishes in a row in Austin,

(31:09):
and then New Mexico.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
Are these tracks besides because this is this is only
Oscar's third year.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
Right, Yeah, in Formula.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
I would be curious to know are these all the
tracks that Formula two and three don't frequent?

Speaker 1 (31:26):
Could be?

Speaker 2 (31:28):
And so he has left? I think, I know, I
think one of the I'm pretty sure it's Singapore or
Baku that no, Singapore was the girls if one academy
was at Singapore. When's the last time F two raced?
Do they do any of those that? And that's not
fair to say every other year they didn't, So I
guess that's conjecture.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
F two does race in Azerbaijan.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
Okay, I don't know that they did in Austin, at
least I know they didn't last year.

Speaker 1 (31:54):
They do. Not two does not race in Singapore.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
Because that just this year overall, because I know, I
don't know that their calendar is always the same.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
It's not been a part of the F two calendar
since twenty thirteen.

Speaker 2 (32:06):
Okay, so yeah, and then what about Mexico.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
Uh, I was looking at Austin, Texas. Formula two does
not drive in Austin, Texas.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
So they they did in Bacu. They did not in
Singapore ever. No, but since twenty thirteen thirteen, that's that
Singapore and Austin they have.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
They do not. And then what was this Mexico?

Speaker 2 (32:28):
I bet you they don't because that track's rarely used.

Speaker 1 (32:30):
Yeah, they they'll drive in Mexico, which they did as
part of the mandatory rookie sessions. The testing they do
an FP one they did, so they did that, but it.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
Wouldn't it wouldn't have been like doing any if he
would have if he would have tested enough one card
during that time, he wouldn't have been doing race pay stuff.
He would have just been doing whatever.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
They don't race in Mexico.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
So all the track for the most part, besides like
I guess, Baku being the exception, they don't. He doesn't
have as much experience they're bodyels on because Baku is
the one they raced at.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
What happened in Baku? Why did he didn't have the race?

Speaker 2 (33:05):
That's where he ran into the wall? He qualified, remember
he crashed. Sure, he did really bad, like he got
to Q three and then he messed up qualifying or
whatever and then he ended up. Oh and then he
had the fault or the anti stall. And then why
did I think I didn't think that was Baku. I
thought that was Singapore, but that if he dnf then
it had to be Baku. So then he ran into
the wall. He was messed up. That's when the marshalls

(33:27):
fell back and they gave him like a protein bar
and a banana. They just put him in a corner.
Oh yeah, he crashed out and laughed one on Baku. Yeah,
like like first time, who fucked him up the first turn?
But I'm saying all those besides that track, everything else
he has less experience on than everyone else.

Speaker 1 (33:42):
I mean, it could just be that it's a coincidence
this run of form has happened at these particular tracks. Yeah,
after the Baku thing, Yeah, it could just be coincidence,
could he Who's we'll find out.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
I get We'll see how he does in Brazil, and
I think they raced. I think the well left to
race in Brazil. I bet you they do.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
Yes, Okay, we'll see.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
It'll be interesting to see me if he does well.
I'm like, my theory has been proven.

Speaker 1 (34:07):
Well, it says that they've done Brazil in the past,
but they are not this year.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
I wonder if they did when he was racing anyway,
he doesn't. I don't know. It would just be interesting
to like kind of compare that because I mean, he's
still a relatively new Formula one driver.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
Yeah, he's only to reiterate, he's still only in his
third season of F one.

Speaker 2 (34:24):
Yeah, so, but yeah, I don't know. Hopefully Oscar's form improves, yeah,
for his sake.

Speaker 1 (34:33):
I'm like, I don't know who I want to win
a driver's championship more Oscar Orlando? Like, who would I
root for more?

Speaker 2 (34:39):
I don't know? So is this just the McLaren's, like
matches in the picture.

Speaker 1 (34:42):
I don't Yes, just the McLarens. Who would you root
for more Lando?

Speaker 2 (34:46):
Right now?

Speaker 1 (34:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (34:47):
Okay, I don't like at this point it.

Speaker 1 (34:50):
Would feel a little more I think earned for Lando
because one. He's been in the sport longer he's been
with McLaren in the car.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
Yeah, when the car wasn't good.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
It's been MacLaren through the downtimes, and he's also gotten
so much shift and criticism in the media. Yeah, that
it would feel a little bit like redemption for him.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
Yeah, that's where I'm leaning towards now, because I mean,
I definitely I mean, I think Oscar is a future
world champion, but I just think this particular year, I'm
gonna be happy either way. But I definitely am pulling
Filando a little bit at this point.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
Yeah, I can't help but think that if you're a
Formula One driver, like you know that you're not always
gonna have the car that can win a championship, and
I I think it would almost feel like this was
my only year. This might be my only chance, because
you never know, with you know, contract negotiations and the

(35:47):
way cars are developed and going to new regulations and
the driver market and all this stuff, all these different
things that come into play. You might not be on
the right team at the right time when they have
the car to win it and you be the driver
in it, Like it could be a one season shot
that you have it.

Speaker 2 (36:02):
Yeah, it could be. This could be his, Oscar's only
chance to win it. I think Oscar so talented. If
he realizes it's not McLaren, then he would be He
would find that, he would find the team and they
would sign him.

Speaker 1 (36:16):
Yeah. I mean he was discerning enough to not sign
with Alpine and say fuck that, I'm with McLaren. He
was discerning enough to not just grab the first F
one seat offered to him.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
Yeah. Yeah, It's kind of like Rod gotta do us
best for me man.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
Moving on to Kimmy Antonelli, he finished P six and
beat his Mercedes teammate George Russell in a Grand Prix
for the first time this season.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
Kimmy did good. I mean, I think the Mercedes they
were just both of them really just had to keep
their elbows out and stay where they were as much
as they could. They really didn't have pace to overtake anybody.

Speaker 1 (36:52):
Mm hm.

Speaker 2 (36:53):
So George was is it because it was hot? I
feel like there was just a lot of issues. I mean,
is it hotter here than in Singapore. There's just not
enough air. There's just not enough air. Yeah, Kimmy, I
mean that they were kind of just paralyzed where they were.
Both of them were, honestly, I mean there's really besides

(37:14):
just kind of you know, they swapped positions at one
point when George thought he had the pace, he didn't,
and then they swapped back and that's pretty much as
exciting as it went. Kimmy had a bad pit stop too,
as that suck.

Speaker 1 (37:23):
Yeah, So George Russell finished p seven. It was his
worst Mexico results since joining Mercedes in twenty twenty two,
and his radios were killing me.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
Oh my god, as we as you can tell.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
Yeah, I've got a ething McLaren up myep I.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
Just I mean there were times where I'm like, did
I hear that? Right?

Speaker 1 (37:44):
Yeah? He was sassy. He was giving long, like soliloquies,
like just monologues on the radio, and we're just like,
why are you talking so much?

Speaker 2 (37:54):
Do? He wasn't playing, he was lower. He was his
own lawyer in that moment. He was literally presenting his
case and here's the evidence.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
Let me pass, Kimmy, I've clearly got the pace. Let
me try and make up some positions if we want
to get a podium like, let me try and if
I can't do it. I'm happy to give the place back.

Speaker 2 (38:12):
I love his engineer, though his engineer was like I'm not.
It was like kind of like GP and Max. He's like,
I'm not entertaining this.

Speaker 1 (38:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
He goes, George, you gotta cool the tires down. They're
too hot, and he's like he's like, I get it,
but you literally need to cool the tires down. Like
I'm just gonna say what I said again and then
to be honest, that's why he couldn't never take Allie
because the tires were cooked.

Speaker 1 (38:29):
Lewis Hamilton's just don't even go anymore, Just skip to
the next person. Lewis Hamilton's p eight finished for Ferrari
was his worst Mexico finish since twenty eighteen.

Speaker 2 (38:42):
So basically it's Forest fault because even when he was
in the bad Mercedes, apparently he finished better than that.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (38:48):
I didn't even deal with it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (38:50):
That was probably the low light of the whole race
was that we were so optimistic after qualifying. Lewis qualified
Peecee read beautiful. We were like, we could have a
double Ferrari podium. This is what dreams are made up,
living living our Lizzie McGuire Hillary duff Rome Fantasy and

(39:12):
then that, and then it got crushed because Lewis just
lost the plot and decided that he wanted to be
He decided he wanted to get a ten second penalty
and then.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
Finished pe I'm gonna punch you in the face.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
I'm gonna actually leap across this table.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
I'm going to attack you. Yeah, with the penalty. That
penalty just first screwed him. I'm not saying he didn't
deserve the penalty. I just don't think he was the
only person that deserved penalty. So if you're handing them out,
then hand him out. Yeah, but don't be picking and
choosing who's getting them, because I can think of two

(39:47):
other drivers who probably deserved them. I don't get it.
I don't understand.

Speaker 1 (39:54):
Luis didn't get it either. He was very upset.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
I would be pure, Yeah, like why, Like literally, it's
it's one thing right to get a penalty and now
you're you're mad at it or whatever, blah blah blah.
But it's another thing too when it's like nobody else
got anything. Did you were you watching? Like Hello, maybe
y'all should be paying attention to the road more instead

(40:17):
of sending Marsha's out almost getting hit by Liam Lawson.

Speaker 1 (40:19):
Okay, see, I've seen drivers complain before when in one
race they pull a move and get a penalty, and
then or or a competitor pulls a move and doesn't
and like a different race, that competitor pulls the same
move and doesn't get a penalty, And you're like between
those identical incidents and one race they get a penalty,
in another race they don't. I can understand complaining about that,

(40:41):
because you're like, well, then they're trying to make the
argument for like consistent like stewardship from race to race
and not having different stewards applying the rules differently or
interpreting the rules and incidents differently in every race. I
get that, But this is a clear cut incidence of
same race incidents happening within minutes of each other, and
the same steward's reviewing and seeing what's happening and applying

(41:03):
the rules, and they just decided to apply them differently
in different instances. And I'm like, just like.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
A single person, yeah, it's yeah, yeah, I'm not even
like that's more I think of what I'm like, get
the penalty whatever, Fine.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
Maybe Lewis will get treated better in Brazil.

Speaker 2 (41:21):
Oh they love him, are you kidding? Yeah? I said
he I had said that he should. He's gonna win here. Yeah,
he's gonna get a podium here because he got his
first championship here. Brazil loves him, so he's an honorary citizen.
The spirit of Senna is just gonna wash through whim
and he's got a good podium.

Speaker 1 (41:38):
Yeah, Brazil last year was nuts. So yes, maybe.

Speaker 2 (41:43):
Please God, Senna, you Senna, you, you will lose your
mind if he gets a podium or God forbid he wins.
I will be hysterical tears. I can't.

Speaker 1 (41:55):
Oh my god, I feel like you'll you'll like full
on sob yeah, like break.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
Down, I mean, think you about it makes me want
to cry. It's like I'm literally gonna cry it now,
just like no, I literally please himself. So exhausting to
watch somebody knock get what they deserve every weekend. Just oh,
it's too much. I can't handle it anyway. So when
Lewis gets a podiumer wins, braziliare welcome.

Speaker 1 (42:20):
She manifested that shit, Come on set, just wash over,
got it? Esteban Okhan added to the points haul for
Has with P nine, so he got two points and
the team moved above Kicksauber for eighth in the team's
championship standings. Yeah, good for them. Speaking of kicks Auber,

(42:41):
rookie Gabrielle Bordoletto finished in P ten for his fifth
points finish of the season.

Speaker 2 (42:46):
Yeah, he like, I think it was the last lap
towards the end of the race. He's like, sorry, Isaac
never tooken yep.

Speaker 1 (42:53):
Lass Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso failed to finish in Mexico
for the third consecutive year. Oh wow, that's crazy.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
Actually, yeah, I didn't know that. That's that's nuts.

Speaker 1 (43:04):
He Mexico hates him.

Speaker 2 (43:06):
Mexico hates the acid Martin. Then there's clearly something that's
that's crazy. Adrian knew. He's like, what the heck, better
fix that.

Speaker 1 (43:15):
Nico Holchenberg's DNF for kicks Aubert was his first official
retirement of the season. He did not start in Italy
and was disqualified in Bahrain.

Speaker 2 (43:22):
Oh my god, that was forever ago.

Speaker 1 (43:24):
It feels like is his first official retirement.

Speaker 2 (43:27):
Why is it that we can't we can't We love
Hulgenberg and we're talking how much we love him, and
then this happens, and I'm like, are we cursing people
by accident us?

Speaker 1 (43:35):
Yeah, because you say like us collectively the internet, because
we're like, we love Hulgenberg, he's underrated.

Speaker 2 (43:44):
And then ey DNF Like but then at the same
time I said he was gonna get a podium, he did,
So what's happening?

Speaker 1 (43:50):
You have to pay for every every good thing requires
a sacrifice. So the DNF was what the price you
pay for the podium?

Speaker 2 (43:57):
Okay, so what the what we have to pay for?
We paid the whole year. What do we get help
if we paid the whole year? The whole year. We
have paid our dues. So we're we are owed a
miracle car.

Speaker 1 (44:15):
I don't know which caeron look at.

Speaker 2 (44:17):
Any of them, all of them, we are, oh, look.

Speaker 1 (44:20):
At yours and not of them. Yeah, and that is
the end of our fund.

Speaker 2 (44:24):
Facts. I have two things. That virtual safety car. What
the heck was that about? Like they could have just
kept the double yellow or whatever, Like literally, why did
we bother?

Speaker 1 (44:33):
Yeah? So it was that was when Carlos Signs had
an issue, but he pulled off onto the like there's
a little bit of runoff behind a barrier and so
he mostly got the car behind it, but I think
still a little bit of it was sticking out, and
it was also smoking, and so it was the smoke
that required Marshals like he couldn't just leave the car
parked up until the end of the race, and because

(44:55):
it was also if he had gotten it fully behind
the barrier and no smoke, they would have just carried on.
But it's because marshall intervention was needed due to the
smoke that they were going to have to get out
closer to the track.

Speaker 2 (45:06):
From the way they threw their marshals in the middle
of the road. I didn't think it would matter to them.

Speaker 1 (45:11):
Literally, Liam Lawson, so separate, incident.

Speaker 2 (45:14):
Connected, but separate, actually not connected at all.

Speaker 1 (45:16):
Liam Lawson is he was separated from the main pack
of uh of cars. Yeah, so he So the marshals
run out onto the road to get some.

Speaker 2 (45:26):
Debris and they're on turn like turn one basically, and.

Speaker 1 (45:29):
Liam is coming up and they are like they're run Literally,
it looks like they ran out. They saw him and
ran out in front of him, is what it looks like.
And they weren't running fast and these cars are very fast,
and so Liam's like, what the hell I could have
killed somebody? Like what are they doing? And I'm just
like why why were they in the middle of the road.

Speaker 2 (45:45):
Because they weren't looking at the track. Obviously whoever sent
them out did not realize that Liam had pitted. Yes,
and that's ignorance. If you're gonna send are these the
people giving penalties?

Speaker 1 (45:56):
If you're going to send a person a Marshall owned
the track to clear debris, you had better know where
every single car is on that track. Yeah, Like if
I can have the F one TV app pulled up
with the tracker on it and know where all the
cars are, why can't you? No, literally, like there's no
excuse for that nothing, That's just negligence on their part.

Speaker 2 (46:15):
Like it's no reason for it.

Speaker 1 (46:17):
Was crazy, like that could have been that could have
ended so badly poor Liam. Oh my god, Like could
you imagine if he hit somebody and they were either
injured or died.

Speaker 2 (46:26):
Yeah, that's pretty traumatic, Like that's horrible, Like it was, Yeah,
it was. That was just like it's.

Speaker 1 (46:30):
Gotta be so scary when you're like, why are there people?
There should not be people?

Speaker 2 (46:34):
No, literally, I would also like to point out I'm
well aware that the Marshalls and Stewarts are.

Speaker 1 (46:37):
Not the same.

Speaker 2 (46:38):
Yes, I'm just saying so I know what I said,
but I'm just trying to be funny, okay, And then
it made me something.

Speaker 1 (46:43):
Kind of dumb.

Speaker 2 (46:44):
I know they're different.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
Like I was making a joke.

Speaker 2 (46:46):
I was supposed to have funny and now I can
hear it, now can't I was he he ha ha, Right, yeah,
that was insane. Any kind of safety car on the
last laughs lame.

Speaker 1 (46:56):
Yeah. I was literally was like boom.

Speaker 2 (47:00):
Because that's like you could have just kept the double
yellow situation cause and then they have to slow down
and you'd have to be driving the track backwards basically
to even like where you're You're not going over there, yeah,
in any way, shape or form really, So it's just
like what the heck?

Speaker 1 (47:15):
Yeah, And it really killed the momentum because Max was
for he was gonna get it. He was on the
charge for second place. He was trying to take it
from Charles and we I love to watch them battle
it out.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
He said, your man's up there.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
Yeah. GP gout of the radio and told Max your
man's up there, go get him.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
It's just confirmed all of us that were like, yeah,
like Max is obsessed with him.

Speaker 1 (47:36):
Yeah, and uh. Then they get the double yellow and
apparently there's radio of Charles saying something about Max, and
then he starts laughing when he sees the double yellow
flags and the virtual safety car, where he's like like
Max is gonna get me. It's me, you can't get me.

Speaker 2 (47:59):
That's oh my god. Yeah, Bliss too good. It was
just a really weird race. It was very odd and
as happy as I was, I was also just distraught
being a ferrari lous.

Speaker 1 (48:15):
Hamilton fans really hard.

Speaker 2 (48:16):
Yeah, so we will get into our rookie report. Kimmy Antonelli.
He qualified six he finished sixth, so we got eight points, yeah, Kimmy. So,
Kimmy lost a ground off the start and spent most
of the race stuck in a DRS train behind Bearman,
where dirty air made it difficult to stay close or attack.
Mercedes swapped him and Russell mid race to see if

(48:38):
George could make any progress, but when neither of them
could get through, they swapped back and pretty much was
what it was. A later move to a two stop
didn't help either, with a slow pit stop costing Kimmy
a place in the end, he finished p six, so
it just kind of was what it was. Isaac Hjar
he qualified ninth and he finished thirteenth, so no points.

(48:59):
Oh so Hajar's race was compromised early by a small
mistake on lap one that dropped him into traffic. The
medium to soft strategy initially kept him in the points fight,
but he only had used soft tires available for the
final stint, leaving him without the grip to defend later on.
So Bordoletto's charge on the fresher tires pushed him out

(49:20):
of the points, and he eventually slipped to Pete thirteen
as other drivers on newer rubber also came through. So
interesting to know how you decided to use those allocated
tires throughout the weekend really can like affect your strategy.
I thought that was really interesting. Franco Colapinto, he qualified twentieth,
he finished sixteenth, so no points.

Speaker 1 (49:42):
I don't know what his future in F one is
going to be.

Speaker 2 (49:45):
Oh, I one hundred percent think he'll be there next year.
I saw rumors online about it already, and honestly, it's
been weird because half the time and there's a rumor.
I guess there's truth to it.

Speaker 1 (49:53):
It's weird, yeah, I mean we've mentioned before he came
in swinging last season, but he's in the worst car possible. Yeah,
that's true.

Speaker 2 (49:59):
He is in the actual worsk or they're not developing
it at all anymore. So, I mean maybe there's point.

Speaker 1 (50:06):
Is he just getting experience driving around the circuit.

Speaker 2 (50:09):
Probably, And I'm assuming, like, I don't know simulation wise
what they're able to simulate, if they're able to do
anything with the new car, and if they're able to
kind of see how he's performing in the simulator with
how the new car is supposed to perform, and maybe
that's something they're taking into account as well. But I mean,
i'd actually don't know how their simulators work, but it'd
be interesting to know that. So Colopinto and Gasly spent

(50:31):
most of the afternoon running closely together as both Alpines
lacked the pace to fight in the midfield. Starting on hards,
Colopinto ran long, hoping to benefit from strategy swings with
their performance. Just wasn't there a stronger final stint on
softs brought him back towards his teammate but P sixteen
was the maximum on a tough day.

Speaker 1 (50:49):
That was it. That's just yeah.

Speaker 2 (50:52):
Ali Bearman he qualified tenth and he finished fourth, so
twelve point. Barman delivered his strongest F one drive yet.
He gained places at the start, pulled off a bold
overtake on Verstappen and briefly ran in podium territory. A
second pit stop to protect track position dropped him to

(51:13):
P four, but he held off piastre late to secure
his best career result. Olie killed it no notes ten
out of ten yep Gabrielle Bordoletto. He qualified sixteenth and
he finished tenth, so one point woo. Bordeletto executed an
impressive recovery from P sixteen, running long on mediums and

(51:34):
switching thesafts late to attack. With strong tire management and clean,
decisive overtakes, he climbed into the points and grabbed P ten,
his first score since Manza, by passing Hajjar on the
closing laps. So he's a good Liam Lawson womp wamp
So he qualified fifteenth and he did not finish the race,

(51:57):
so he has a DNF so no points, so and
he you know, bright side. He didn't kill anybody that
you know, glass half full silver lightning. Yeah. So William's
race effectively ended at turn wine when contact caused heavy
car damage. Although he pitted for repairs, the damage was
too extensive to continue, forcing him to retire, a frustrating

(52:19):
end to a weekend where his pace had looked encouraging.
So yeah, now moving on to our no no, no, no, no, last,
but not least, our favorite rookie, Fernando Alonzo said no, no, no no.
I was like, wait, that's not how I say it.
Fernando Alonso. He qualified fourteenth and he also has a DNF,

(52:39):
so no points. Alonso picked up minor front wing damage
in the opening lap chaos and settled into the lower
part of the field. Aston Martin didn't have the pace
to move forward, and midway through the race the team
retired the car due to break overheating issues and they
just did it as a precaution. It marked another difficult
weekend without a chance to fight for points, and it
all marks Alonzo's fifth DNA of the season. But it's

(53:03):
not his fault, so it's kind of like when you
DNF but it's not your fault. It's kind of like well,
what do you want me to do about it?

Speaker 1 (53:09):
That just sucks? You know, if I was a driver
and I DNF like early enough in the race, I'd
probably just go to the like I do my whatever
media because they usually send you like straight to the
media pen to talk about whatever you need to get
it out of the way, and then I just go
like hang out on the pitwall and be like, give
you some head fault, like like Carlos did when he DNF.
And then so Alex was still racing and he went

(53:31):
and just hopped on the pitwall and was like do this. Yeah,
I would at least do it just to observe. I
feel like it would help you. I feel like knowing
what they're seeing in the information they have can only
help you to know what you need to be telling
them as a driver.

Speaker 2 (53:45):
Yeah, if I were to do that, I'm going to
do it. Kimmy rikid ended. If it's at Monaco and
I'm gonna literally walk to my boat and get in
a tub, my hot tub and just drink and not
care anymore because I'm over it. I'm going to walk
there with my helmet on. I'm not talking to anybody.
Leave me alone. Why he says, So now we can
talk about our best and worst. I mean, my best

(54:07):
has to be Ali Berman. I'm super impressed with him.
No one notes just I mean to happy for him.
I mean that's crazy. I mean he just had a
good drive and that's kind of is what it is.

Speaker 1 (54:15):
Yeah, qualified, tenth, finished fourth.

Speaker 2 (54:17):
Yeah, I mean he even Battledmax for staff and then survived.
I think that's very impressive.

Speaker 1 (54:21):
Yeah, the best finish of his career. Tied for the
best finish of Haas's career, like existence as a constructor,
so like, it's just amazing crazy. It just was my
driver of the day. My best moment is Charles Claire
because he's podium. If a ferraris on the podium, there's
no other option, especially what is Charles Leclaire. I can't

(54:45):
go back on that. If I if I were not
to choose Charles, it would have been Lando because he
just I mean, Orlando was my second. He had a
perfect weekend. Basically, I agree, So he's my He's my
p two and driver of the day.

Speaker 2 (54:56):
Yeah, Lando would be mine as well. Yeah, biggest letdown.
So I put the Stewards or Aston Martin and I
think just the whole thing, the marshals running out on track,
the stewards give people penalties, but not only certain people,
not everybody, or just the fact that Aston Martin just
led me down, like again with Alonso, because it's not
like anything Alonso did. But other than that, I can't

(55:18):
really think of somebody who just like did poorly that
I was just like, what the heck? So my.

Speaker 1 (55:30):
Biggest let down was Lewis Hamilton, you know what, because
that's all we have for today. We were poised for
he started P three, we were poised for a double
Ferrari podium, and then what happened happened, and then he
finished PA and that's just the biggest letdown. It may
not necessarily be one hundred percent his fault. It might
a hundred percent be his fault. He got a penalty.

(55:51):
You have said, it's not you don't think that. It's
not that the penalty wasn't deserved. You're not saying he
didn't deserve the penalty, but other people should have got
penalized too. I'm just saying he did what he did,
he got penalized for it, and then ended up P
eight and that was a letdown for me because we
could have had a dream double for our podium and
that did not happen, so I was let down. I'm
not giving you any checkers fries now, so hope you're

(56:13):
gonna starve. I'm gonna starf no food for and I
forgot you winners, never gratua winners.

Speaker 2 (56:18):
Okay, no, okay, all right. So our next race teaser
we have round twenty one is the Formula one MSS
Cruises Grand Premio de sau Paulo at the Auto Dromo.
Jose Carlos Boss say, pace pireman, why don't you just
say it?

Speaker 1 (56:35):
You did great? I thought that's not a good I
don't feel like I did.

Speaker 2 (56:37):
This sounded great. Also, it's known as uh.

Speaker 1 (56:41):
The Brazilian Grand Prix, and the circuit is known as Interlagos.

Speaker 2 (56:44):
Thank you. Yeah, that's where I like. Interlagos is like
pretty much Eyby calls it though.

Speaker 1 (56:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (56:49):
So something to note this was a sprint race last
year and it is going to be a sprint race
this year. So last year sprint race podium we had
Lindo Norris, Oscar Piastre and Charles Leclair. Last year's a
main race podium was nuts. We had Max verst Stappan
who had that amazing drive in the rain, came.

Speaker 1 (57:07):
From all the way behind he like like p eighteen
I think it was or and just charged the whole field,
was like fearless and just did the damn thing.

Speaker 2 (57:17):
And then we had estemont Okonn and Pierre Ghastly so
both Alpines last year on the podium, which was nuts.

Speaker 1 (57:22):
And that was all because it was a rainy race.
I mean it was just terrible, like conditions were super
hard to see. Is this the one where one of
the drivers said I'm not trying to die? Or was
that earlier this year?

Speaker 2 (57:35):
No, that would have been that was not this year.
That was Oliver Barman?

Speaker 1 (57:42):
Was he in Brazil last year?

Speaker 2 (57:44):
Is that? What is that? The rain? No? He had
the takeover for No, but I thought it was Alie
that said that when he said I'm not trying to die,
and I thought that was Oliver Barman, but I thought
he was in a haas was he did? Wasn't? Did vi?
Was Kevin sick one? Yes, you know he had a
race ban, but Brazil's not the race he did that at.

Speaker 1 (58:04):
Kevin Maguson had a race band.

Speaker 2 (58:06):
Yeah he did, but we already had the race that
Ali did for him because it was Ali's because we
already talked about it. I remember us talking about it,
but I remember I swear it was Ali that said
he was a he didn't want to die. I swore
it was him, But I remember Kevin Maguson got sick
later too, I think where he didn't feel good.

Speaker 1 (58:25):
He drove for Hoss at the Sapallo Grand Prix, substituting
for Kevin Magison who fell ill.

Speaker 2 (58:30):
Okay, I'm like, no, that's not the race band one,
but I think.

Speaker 1 (58:33):
Okay, but yes, he was filling in for Kevin Maguson, Yes, and.

Speaker 2 (58:36):
I'm pretty sure Ali's like, I don't want to die? Yeah,
and we were like, yeah, yeah, that was that.

Speaker 1 (58:40):
Okay, I'm not mister, because I was like, why do
I think it's Ali say? I have it in my
head because he sounded terrified for his life and was like,
I'm not trying to die. Because the visibility was so bad,
the rain was so heavy, the spray off the cars,
it was like impossible for them to see. Like you
you see clips of their onboards and you're like, there's
no way I couldn't and that going fifty miles an

(59:01):
hour on you know, a highway, much less going as
fast as they're trying to go on that track in
those cars, Like it's crazy.

Speaker 2 (59:08):
It's crazy. So here's some quick little track stats. The
first GP was held in nineteen seventy three. It is
seventy one laps long. The circuit length is four point
three zero nine kilometers, which is about two point sixty
seven miles. The race distance is three hundred and five
point nine three nine kilometers, which is about one hundred
and ninety point one miles. Let me tell you the

(59:29):
finding out what the race lap record and the qualifying
lap record, although that was really hard just because apparently
the track has renamed itself multiple times. So going off technicalities,
but the race lap record is held by valutri Botas,
which he set in twenty eighteen at a minute and
ten point five four zero seconds, and the qualifying lap

(59:50):
record is held by Lewis Hamilton, which was also set
in twenty eighteen, which is a minute in seven point
two eight one seconds. It has two dres zones. So
what is this track like? It is a historic counterclockwise
roller coaster with big elevation changes in a twisty middle section.

(01:00:12):
The long uphill straight rewards efficiency, but most teams try
to run a compromise toward medium to hide downforce to
stay quick through the infield. Sal Polo's weather is notoriously
just can just change in the blink of an eye,
so rain and mixed conditions are always at play. I
can say I feel like every race I have watched,

(01:00:33):
even the older races, because I've been watching older seasons,
every time they get to Brazil is raining. I'm like,
has it ever been sunny? I couldn't tell you. So
the tire compound in the strategy. So Perelli is bringing
the C two, the C three, in the C four.
It's a step harder than last year because last year
the degradation I guess was pretty rough because they had

(01:00:55):
recently resurfaced it. So they learned their lesson. So they
are doing the C two, the C three and the
C four, And I mean, I guess it's going to
depend on the weather. We can probably expect it to stop,
just depending on the temperatures and what the weather's going
to be like. But you could look at a one stop.
But honestly, I mean, I don't know that we're going

(01:01:15):
to know what we're looking at until the weather happens,
because he's just kind of you just don't know. Now,
all we really care about is kill me overtake, and
the answer is yes. Enter Largos is one of the
best passing tracks. The main moves come into turn one,
which is also known as the Senna s and again
it turned four after the drs run down the back straight.
The short lap also makes traffic and undercuts very powerful,

(01:01:39):
so track position in pit timing matters a lot. So
because the track is smaller, you know, the pack can
kind of stay a little bunched up together better. And
also you're running into traffic, so that's also gonna be
it'll be interesting. I'm still pulling for Lewis, that's just me,
but I mean I say it every time, but this
is this is a special track for him though lots

(01:02:01):
of magical things have happened here. Yeah, so fingers crossed
that this is it. I feel like we've paid our dues.

Speaker 1 (01:02:08):
So with this being a counter clockwise track, does that
mean the pit lane will be like the opposite on
the opposite side for the drivers because normally, like the garages,
when they pull into the pit lane, the garages are
on their right side, so everyone's coming out when they
do the changing the tires, they come out from the
driver's right side. So does that mean now that the

(01:02:30):
pit lane will be and garages will be in the
driver's opposite side and come from the left, Because that
would mess me up because like you're used.

Speaker 2 (01:02:37):
Yeah, it's already like they said, it was really hard
on their bodies just because it's like not really what
they're used to be.

Speaker 1 (01:02:42):
So it's pulling them the opposite way with like the
g forces and what they're Yeah, that would make sense.
I would be used to pulling into the garage a
very particular way going to the right, Like it's almost
automatic that you have to think about it to do
it the opposite way.

Speaker 2 (01:02:55):
Yeah, you're going into the left.

Speaker 1 (01:02:57):
Yeah, so if it's on the opposite side, they'll have
to pull into the left. That's nuts. That would throw
me all the way off.

Speaker 2 (01:03:02):
Oh yeah, so it'll be interesting. I am. I'm like,
this race excited me Mexico but also devastated me. I'm
really ready for Brazil and I'm ready for some magic.
I'm ready for that Cina magic because I mean it,
we've talked about it. Before Senna is a figure that
like it's even thick. Yeah, but it's the it's like

(01:03:25):
even though he's not here, he is here, like he's
his like spirit and essence just breathes life into the sport.
And you can definitely feel that every time they go
to Brazil. So I'm hoping that energy just you know,
I need that for Lewis. But yeah, because I wraps
it up, so uh, why can't I even think? Oh,

(01:03:50):
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(01:04:13):
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