F1 Singapore GP Race Review | Russell Triumphs as McLaren Secure Constructors Title Amid Drama - Why Are You Yelling?

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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I'm not gonna edit it out.

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Speaker 1 (00:19):
It's pretty great suck. Why are you saying with a
question mark clap bitch? All right? Three? Two?

Speaker 3 (00:27):
What?

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Actually?

Speaker 1 (00:34):
And we're live.

Speaker 4 (00:35):
I'm Anna and I'm Jessica. This is where you're yelling.
Welcome back to another F one race review. Today we
are talking about round eighteen of the twenty twenty five
Formula One season. The Singapore Airlines Singapore GIRWL pre Who
at the track is.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
The Marina Bay Street circuit?

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yes, Jessica hate street circuits and I'm not a fan,
not a fan.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
That's all I've heard. The last couple of days.

Speaker 4 (00:57):
Is like, take all the street circuits of the calendar, no.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
More, don't need them, honestly, like we don't, like, we
definitely didn't need any more added for sure, should not
be like cycling tracks that are fun to watch and
fun to drive, like spa, Like, what do you.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Mean we're getting rid of spot for what?

Speaker 2 (01:17):
For?

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Who?

Speaker 2 (01:18):
What?

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Why?

Speaker 2 (01:19):
So we can watch cars not pass each other?

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Yeah? Fun? Fun, fun. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
That was kind of the overriding theme of this race
was that, like there were overtakes happening apparently at some
part of the on the track, but we didn't see them.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Only one I remember seeing besides like the first like
lap was Allie Berman had a really sick overtake and
that was pretty palsy. And other than that, though I
couldn't tell you. Yeah, it was pretty like snoozer of
a race. I just feel like who they chose to
keep the camera on all the time.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
I'm like what?

Speaker 2 (01:54):
But anyway, so our race podium, we have George Russell,
a Max first happened and Lando Norris Anna had to
eat her words hard.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
I retract my previous statement.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
I definitely said Mercedes was not gonna do well here. However,
I would like to point out I was going based
off of the information I had at the time, and
even George after qualifying was like they were like, how
are you doing so good at this circuit?

Speaker 1 (02:24):
And he was like, I don't know. He had some guesses,
like he talked about it a little York. I'm not sure.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
Yeah, uh Raggy, that was the SCOOBYI.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Reference in case you didn't know, Yeah, the whole time,
because I was.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
I didn't.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
I did get our reels posted before race day. It
was before qualifying most of it. And then I kept
hearing Anna like we used two or three times, being
like I just don't anticipate Mercedes doing well tell Las Vegas.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
And then I was like, ooh, I will keep my
words again. I didn't. I mean, gredn't.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
I don't think anybody like you said, no one know that,
so I think everybody was like huh, sounds like I
was making some crazy bold prediction. I was going based
off of what everyone else was saying.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Like you said Ferrari was gonna win. We can dream,
A girl can dream. Help.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
So with our constructor standings, there have been no changes.
Everyone is in the same order that they were last time.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
We do have a constructors champion McLaren.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
McLaren secured the constructor's title for this season with their
three four finish or was it yeah, three four finish
with uh Lando and Oscar I forgot their names for
I was like, what are the names?

Speaker 1 (03:40):
Oh my god, what are their names?

Speaker 2 (03:42):
You're like, who what McLaren drivers, Alan Proston, Senna? Right, Yeah,
which is the last time they got like back to
back pote or back to back Constructor Championship So pretty cool. Yeah,
And we only have one driver who moved in the
driver standings and it is our favorite rookie, Fernando Alonso
went fourteenth to eleventh, so he had I mean, he

(04:03):
wasn't happy, but he can be happy about this. Yeah,
we'll get into him.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
A little bit later though. Yeah, so let's jump into
We're gonna.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Jump in hop in, hop in, dive in to ourn
anytime you guys feel the need to be like, let
me help them, like with their vocabulary. Do that instead
of just asking why we're women and why we're talking
in the first place, Like, give us pointers.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Yeah, Like I'm willing to learn, I'm willing to grow.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
Yeah, if there are better transitionary phrases that we could use.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
I'm trying really hard to not say a like because
after editing us, it's at actually not it's crazy. And
I'm getting you a shock collar for the word.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
I probably need one. I say it too much.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
It's your starting word. You go to a new line,
you go so George Russell, it's always.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
I will try to speak slowly. We're editing. No, it's
not that you're just at the speaking.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
The reason the ums and the likes come through is
because you're trying to talk faster than you're prepared to,
so it's filler words.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
I agree that with this.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
Most of the time, I think, I think it's a
tick yeah, and I will have verbal tan yeah, because
I'm like, you'll be silent, dude, It'll be silent for
like five seconds, and you're like, it's like a trans
I feel like it's like a transition word.

Speaker 4 (05:20):
It's transitioning from silence into speech. I have to have
that like in between buffer. It's getting my bubal cord
warmed up, like.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
And I'm like, shit, I can't say that either, Like
just kidding, we're probably going toes literally stay the exact same.

Speaker 4 (05:38):
It's too much effort. We can try really hard. You're
just kind of put up with me sounding slower. I
don't necessarily a problem though, because I tend to speak
pretty quickly, too quickly.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
Sometimes we both do when we're really lined.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
But that's okay, So we're gonna dive, hop, jump, somersault, cartwheel.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
In into the fun facts. Here's our fun Facts eight,
my favorite segment.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
It'll help us remember what that happened in this snoozer.

Speaker 4 (06:09):
George Russell set pole position the seventh of his Formula
One career, with a new track record at one minute
twenty nine point one five eight seconds, which was also
the first for Mercedes since Lewis Hamilton started from pole
in twenty eighteen.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
Well, good job, George. No one saw that coming.

Speaker 4 (06:27):
Yeah, he claimed victory from his only other poll this
season in Canada, while ten of the previous fifteen Singapore
Grand Prixs have been one from pole.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
I mean, yeah, you can't pass anybody.

Speaker 4 (06:38):
Yeah, it's pretty uh, pretty critical to get pole here.
I mean, like we mentioned earlier, there were some overtakes
happening on track. We had Carlos Signs went from dead
last to p ten, so he was overtaking people somehow,
some way.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
We just didn't get to see any of it.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
No, I mean, and I know there was some like strata.
I guess that maybe some strategy stuff with like how
they did pit stops and Undercus. But yeah, I mean
I feel like we didn't really focus. Sometimes they focus
on the midfield. I feel like they did not get
a lot of attention.

Speaker 4 (07:06):
Yeah, they were very concerned with making sure that we
were following Lando, chasing down Max. And Lando was within
a second of Max for a lot of the race,
could never pass him.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
No, there was literally once one time Alex j.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
Goes, oh, very goalzy, you had to get on the
deef if that was it.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
It was one time. We did not need to stay
there the entire time.

Speaker 4 (07:28):
I guess they were wanting to be there in case
something did happen.

Speaker 1 (07:32):
But it's it's like, come on.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
There's a slight delay, like that's what those are four
So like you have somebody going cut the camera to
blahlah blah, cut the camera blah blah blah.

Speaker 4 (07:40):
So I'm like, like we mentioned it was a bit
of a snoozer race.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
What did you all want to say? Yes, You're like, yes,
it did.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
Yes.

Speaker 4 (07:54):
Max verstaffen secured his fourth front row start in Singapore,
all of which have been achieved by never taking a
pole position.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
He's never won here. He loves to.

Speaker 4 (08:04):
Be reminded as he has been reminded the entire weekend
that he's never gotten pole here and he's never won.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
Here, and he's like, thanks for that reminder.

Speaker 4 (08:11):
I didn't know that, And then he said it was
in the post race interview or press conference I believe,
where he basically was like, you can say that about
any other driver at any track pretty much, but I
guess this is just the one you really gotta keep
reminding me about.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
So thanks for that. I mean, I get that it's interesting.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
It's more or less like it's crazy to think he's
won in every current track, and like something about Singapore.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
He's like, you don't fuck with Singapore.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Honestly me either, Bro could live without, could literally never
watch again. I mean it's cool that it's at night
or whatever, but other than that, I'm like, what's the point.

Speaker 4 (08:50):
Yeah, So with qualifying P two, Max has outqualified both
McLaren drivers at the last three Grand Prix.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
He said, championship is not over, honey.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
I mean, give Max an inch and he takes a mile.

Speaker 4 (09:06):
Even though he bitched about this car the entire race,
he was just like, this car is shit.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
I can't drive it. It's no good, it's garbage.

Speaker 4 (09:16):
And then he still came. He qualified P two and
stayed P two and held I mean he held off
Lando the entire race.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
Max.

Speaker 4 (09:25):
If there's something else, Max knows how to defend his
position even with a shipbox car.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
Yeah, he's a great I mean, especially here, it's not
that hard just because it's like, where are You're gonna
go to the wall. He ain't getting around me, Holdie,
you're gonna take us both out?

Speaker 1 (09:41):
All right?

Speaker 2 (09:41):
So we have come back from our break that we
did not announce. Turned out all of Anna's fun facts
were from qualifying, so they're still fun facts from qualifying.
There's just not from the race, even though we knew
more than we thought, yeah, because I was like, well no,
because then this happened.

Speaker 4 (09:59):
Yeah, So we both were kind of going end of
this episode being like, what are we going to talk about?
Because there was there's a couple of things that happened
during the race, but not like and we were like,
what did happen?

Speaker 1 (10:10):
So apparently we know more than we thought we did.

Speaker 4 (10:12):
But let's actually get into the real fun facts now,
the real ones, the real ones that I have here.
McLaren have won back to back team championships for the
first time. Since nineteen eighty eight slash nineteen ninety one?

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Do you And I said that, Yes, you did. I
said that, I didn't say the years. No, that's the
pros Sena era. Yeah, and I'm We're like, I knew that.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
I knew that you had fun facts for my fun facts.
Then I was ready for it, locked and loaded.

Speaker 4 (10:39):
McLaren have won the Team's championship with six Grand Prix remaining,
tying Red Bulls twenty twenty three record, which I thought.
On the fe TV post race broadcast they said that
they beat Red Bulls record from twenty twenty three because
Red bull had five races remaining and McLaren did it
with six. So I don't know how accurate this fun

(11:02):
fact is. Could they either tied it or beat it.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
I would hope that that's more accurate, just because whoever
wrote that hopefully fact chucked themselves versus like, it's really
easy to maybe be a little bit wrong, like on
air in the moment.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
So somebody's right, somebody's wrong. That is a fact. This
is a fun fact.

Speaker 4 (11:19):
The top four in the Driver's Championship finished in the
top four tonight, but in reverse order of their championship positions.
So Oscar is in the driver's championship, it's Oscar Lando
Max George and they finished flipped in this race, so
it was reverse grid George Max Lando Oscar.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
You know they are pulling for a fun fact when
they say fun fact on the top four. If you
reverse it, it's like national treasure. They're like, if you
look at all this, it's a fact.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
We need to have a very convoluted.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
Yes, we need a fund, but I don't want to
do like the Jordan facts or whatever.

Speaker 4 (11:57):
Who noticed that though, because for it to be like
a fun fact like that, like somebody had to look.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
I guess it was just they probably noticed it.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
They're like, wait a minute, that's funny.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
So there were no safety car interventions for the second
consecutive year in Singapore.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
I know it.

Speaker 4 (12:12):
And it was the first ever Singapore Grand Prix without
a retirement.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
I let me tell you. Nico Holkenberg had me going.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Something's gonna happen, even though not great for Nico because
he spun out.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
But I was like, well, we're fixing the ship.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
No.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
He just pulled up a.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
Cup on going yellow flag for five seconds and I'm like, bruh,
anything right now.

Speaker 4 (12:31):
You know, you never want for drivers stand up in
the wall and people to get hurt. Oh no, But
sometimes you're like safety car, safety car, safe something thing
like maybe you just clip a wing and there's debris
on track, and then we get a safety car so
they can clean up the debris something.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (12:47):
I just am like, if I can't if people can't pass,
what's the point.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
I don't get it. I want to see racecraft. My
guys like, I just think.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yeah. I'm like, street circuits are just lame.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
They're just this particular way the cars are too big.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
If the cars were like what they were in the
nineties or eighties, then you know what, whatever, bro cool.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
They're gigatonic.

Speaker 4 (13:11):
But I'm also like the streets circuits are put up
and taken down every time they have a race. They're
not permanent track specific like circuits. So are they limited
to the width of the actual street. I'm like, is
there more pavement we could expand the width of the track.

(13:31):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
Man or in a couple places make something.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
You build a track. You were thinking about that. The
only place that gets away with it is Monaco, and
that's because it's historical and if the cars were smaller,
it'd be a little more fun for everybody to watch.
So I'm a fan of Monica because that's iconic, but
everything else was to pint, even Miami Way.

Speaker 4 (13:48):
Monico just looks cool visually, especially even with the cameras
on the car. You just get such an idea of
like how fast the cars are actually moving with the
walls being so close to them.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
It's crazy.

Speaker 4 (14:01):
And there are some very cool shots that you get
with the tunnel, and then there's like that hill and.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
Leagues are like there, so like seeing the portions there,
that's fun. Like there's other things to watch with as
like a one host of the time.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
But AnyWho, in the last six.

Speaker 4 (14:15):
Races in Singapore there have been six different winners. So
George Russell is the sixth different winner.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
Wow, it does not have favorites.

Speaker 1 (14:23):
No, it does not.

Speaker 4 (14:24):
It has a least favorite and that is my vers
staff in because he has never qualified first and never won,
and it is the only track on the current race
calendar that he has never qualified first or finished or finished.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
And he when he really loved everybody telling you about it. Yeah,
he was all about it. He was like, okay, next
He's like, I just.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
Really love that y'all keep reminding me.

Speaker 4 (14:45):
And he even made a point to say, you could
say that fact about any other driver at any other
race and be like, you've never won.

Speaker 3 (14:53):
Here every But then the journalist goes, could we really though,
because like the you're missing.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
Half the fact. The other half is you've won everywhere else.

Speaker 4 (15:02):
You've won at ninety nine percent of the other tracks.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
This is the only one that's just like, shot the
hell up.

Speaker 4 (15:10):
So George Russell started from pole, meaning the pulseitter won
for the eleventh time in sixteen Singapore Grand Prix.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
Wow, that shocks me. That's so so surprising.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
Especially because you can't pass. Yeah, suprise.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
So much racecraft goes on at Singapore that I'm shocked
that the person who got pole normally wins.

Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
Not anything towards George, by the way, Like literally he's
a great driver. I' that's I mean, he still had
to put out an awesome lap to get poll, but
no one expected. It's just like, I'm a street circuit hater. Dude,
Come for me. Tell me, I don't know what I'm
talking about it I really don't care because I'm still
not gonna like them. So next.

Speaker 4 (15:45):
This was George Russell's fifth career race win. It was
his eighth podium finish of the season and ties his
career best tally, which was set in twenty twenty two.
He has never previously finished on the podium in Singapore.
It was his second win of the season after Canada.
There's lots of fun facts for him. For Mercedes, it

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was their first win in Singapore since twenty eighteen, which
would have been with Lewis. Mercedes are currently second in
the team's championship behind winners McLaren, who use Mercedes engines.
Mercedes powered teams have never finished one two in the championship.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
It ain't over yet, honey, it ain't over.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
It ain't over.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
Yup, that's what that'll used to say.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
It ain't over till it's over. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (16:28):
Max Verstappin, as we mentioned, took P two for Red Bull,
meaning Marina Bay remains the only current circuit on which
he is.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
He does immediately turns us off. I mean he would
never watch it to begin with, but he goes next.

Speaker 4 (16:39):
It's not really that's not really like a fun fact.
It's not just an annoying fact for him.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
Yeah, it's like I did it.

Speaker 3 (16:45):
I wonder, I like it makes him human. I wonder
it'd be good at every single track. I like knowing that,
like there's something in him that's like this one is
just it says, isn't the kryptonite the bad thing? Yes,
it's kryptonized something about it. He just not I mean,
he finished second place.

Speaker 4 (17:01):
Do you think he really cares that this is the
one track he like just can't conquer or do you
think he just doesn't give a fuck?

Speaker 2 (17:09):
I could see it either way. Yeah, I could literally
see him not caring at all. I could see him
secretly going this son.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
Of a bitch, like fifty to fifty.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yeah, it's it's either or, but he will. But outwardly
it's I don't care. But inside I.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
Could see you caring, just not, like just a little bit.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
He also isn't a huge fan of street circuits really,
so he might not really care because he doesn't really
care about the track, So that could be a thing.

Speaker 4 (17:36):
So Max Erstappen, now Trail's championship leader, ask for Piastreet
by sixty three points in the title race.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
Is that a fight fact? Do you think he can
catch him?

Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yeah? I know, statistically it is pro George Russell George
rus Our divorced parents are talking again.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (17:54):
I love their on again off again friendship, like not
even really friendship, it's like acquaintanceship.

Speaker 1 (17:59):
Well, they has known each other a long time.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
I mean, oh, so many of these guys carted together,
so they all like grew literally grew. It's like a
high school that went to college together.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
So it's like, I.

Speaker 4 (18:08):
Feel like Max and George like blow up at each other.
Everything comes to a head. It's like tension builds, they
blow up, and then they cool down and they're fine
and they just move on.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
I feel like too, because Charles doesn't really blow up
at Max. Charles is just like, why are you so
obsessed with me? And then Lando and Max are like
buddy buddies, but like they sometimes one or the other
may be a little more emotional towards the other. I
feel like George Russell's like, I said what I said
and I'm not sorry for it and you can suck it,

(18:37):
And Max is like is.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
That so matching energy? Yeah? They had they.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
I don't feel like even though people make fun of
George myself included, because he's just he reminds me of
a cousin I would make fun of at the barbecue,
and it looks like his family for fun sales as
a sport. Like that's that's just what I get. That's
but at the same time, I feel like he's not
like backing down from what he said.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
No, he said, I said it with my whole chest.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
And then we made them put on their friendships. He's
trying to take the picture of that time last year.
They're secretly besties, you know what? They might be those
two friends that are too similar, like for their own good.
I would in that way maybe maybe like mindset was

(19:24):
of just like I said what I said. Yeah, I
don't regret what I said. I'm not Oh, you know,
their personalities are rich from mindset wise of like I'm
not sorry.

Speaker 4 (19:31):
Their whole their vibes and energies are very different. But
in that particular regard, they just do not back down.

Speaker 1 (19:38):
And it's just the when no one backs down, I mean,
things happen. Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
AnyWho, they're best friends.

Speaker 4 (19:48):
Landa Norris took P three from McLaren and has now
finished first, second, third and fourth across the last four
Singapore Girl Prix.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
Dang. He's just like every position.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
I'm fixing the good Yep.

Speaker 4 (19:59):
He now trailed teammate Oscar Pastry by twenty two points,
which is less than a less than one.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
Grand Prix win in the Jarvish Championship.

Speaker 4 (20:06):
So, for instance, if at the next race, Oscar had
a DNF and Lando finished first, he would overtake Oscar
in the championship exactly. And this is also the third
consecutive race in which Lando reduced the championship gap to Oscar.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
So he's loadly closing it, closing it, closing it. I
don't know if he can overtake him.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
I don't know. We'll say everybody in these papaya things.
The internet's annoying me right now.

Speaker 4 (20:32):
Yeah, let me have one little fun fact for Oscar
and then we can get into.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
The papaya of it all. Pi it all.

Speaker 4 (20:38):
Oscar Piastre, who took P four, has missed the podium
in consecutive races for the first time this season.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
Dude, the internet needs like to chill go to the sauna,
do like an take an ice bath. I don't know
what you need, but chill out, dude. It's crazy. I'm like,
it's racing that's the most will to wheel action we
got the whole time.

Speaker 4 (21:05):
Yeah, I don't think that Lando did anything wrong in
the race. And if you are unaware of what we're
talking about.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
Hey watch it clicks. No low key, why are you
even watching? But we're referring to.

Speaker 4 (21:17):
In the first lap, Lando makes a move to launch
himself up the inside, and in doing so, he misjudged
his distance to Max. He tapped Max, got a little
damage to his front wing, but he tapped Max's rear tire.
But in where he was placed, Oscar on the outside

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had to go a little bit wide. He didn't hit
the wall, he didn't crash, he didn't wreck. He just
had to lead go a little wider. And Lando just
went up the inside and took the position.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
He did hit Oscar, but by I mean they touched wheels.
It had rained earlier, so the track was slippery. So
he hits Max. You can see him like correct and
try to do whatever and doing that, the car kind
of snaps and then his like I guess it was
the front right tire. I believe it could have been
the anyway, one of his right tires hits Oscar because
it's those are his left tires.

Speaker 4 (22:08):
Landa said he didn't hit his teammate. It really yeah.
In the post race press, Coote, I.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
Thought he I literally thought he touched Oscar.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
He hit Max.

Speaker 4 (22:18):
You no, I know he hit Max, but l he
tapped Max and then when that happened, when he goes
toward Oscar, Oscar then has to go wide to avoid
getting hit. But uh Lando said he didn't hit his teammate.
He hit Max, so he.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
Definitely hit that.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
Yeah, but I'm like, I'm like, I'm one hundred per okay,
I'm ninety five percent.

Speaker 4 (22:37):
It looks like it definitely looked like he hit Oscar initially,
but then they show they showed a different angle pause.

Speaker 1 (22:44):
A few moments later, he literally hits off, what are
you talking about?

Speaker 3 (22:49):
Bro?

Speaker 2 (22:49):
Not you him like he said it? No, he one
hundred thousand percent. I don't think Lando did anything wrong.
I'm not crazy. Hold up, I'm like no, You're like no,
you have to like no, I'm like literally not nuts,
I'm like, what are you?

Speaker 1 (23:03):
He did he really say that? Yeah? Girl? What both
of them? Yeah, well he hit Max and it led
him to hit Oscar. Yeah, they tap wheels. Yeah, yeah,
it's very minimal.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
But I'm like you did do that though, Yeah, so
to say you did it's crazy.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
He said that, to be fair, he did say that.

Speaker 4 (23:27):
They asked him about the beginning of the race and
he's like, Oh, I don't really remember, and then I
feel like that's the standard party line though he goes home.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
It all happened so fast.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
So anyway, so yes, first lap. There's normally a lot
of exceptions for the first lap because it's the start
us when everybody's the closest that they're really ever going
to be. Lando goes up on the inside taps Max,
which then leads him because one the track is slipperty too.
Just when you hit something, your car reacts to it.
He broke the end plate of his front wing or whatever,

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and then the car kind of snapped and then his tire,
his front right tire hits Oscar's front left tire. That's it,
and then Oscar did go a little bit wide or
but that's it. Yeah, And so then Oscar's very upset
over the radio. He's like, excuse me, are we just
gonna let people hit people? Know?

Speaker 1 (24:17):
And we're just gonna let.

Speaker 4 (24:18):
Teammate's gonna that wasn't very teammate like he's gonna just
they're gonna let him lunge on me. And yeah, he
was like he felt a ways about it on the
radio at the time.

Speaker 1 (24:27):
He did feel a ways about it. I feel like.

Speaker 4 (24:29):
Though it's residual feelings from previous races when orders have
been given or team orders have been given. In his
frustration with that, I think, to me, it feels like
it is carried over into this.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
Oh yeah, yeah. McLaren was like, just keep going, bro,
and he was like, oh really really, So anyway, everybody
has opinions about that, and I'm like, whatever. To be honest,
I think that was just racing.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
I agree.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
I don't think it was any and maybe if Oscar
at the watch back, maybe he'll a great disagree.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
It's whatever.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
At the same at the end of the day, when
you're a driver, you're going to feel type of way
about it, just because it's way harder for you to
It would be harder for me to see that and
not be mad. But you know, looking at it from us,
but then there was.

Speaker 1 (25:16):
You would think you would think that's all that happened.
There's no more McLaren drama. Well, honey, the internet loves
so McLaren. They like ya drama. They like to insinuate
the manufacturer.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
To manufacture and create narratives that have not been confirmed,
but they blow up so fast that so many people
get the false idea of what happened, and at that
point you can't tell them anything else. At this point, unfortunately,
there are probably so many people that believe that McLaren
just purposely didn't have Oscar at the little celebration thanks so.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
The more that Oscar didn't want to take part because
he was mad.

Speaker 4 (25:55):
So after the race, because McLaren secured the constructor's title,
they had a lot of the McLaren team up on
a stage and they're spring Champagne, taking photos celebrating. Lando
was there, Zach Brown was there, Andreastello was there. Oscar
was notably absent, however, and people are then coming up
with this narrative Oscar refused to take part and he

(26:17):
couldn't even suck it up to go and celebrate with
the team and be happy for them, and he's pouting,
and it's like this whole thing right in.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
That one, But then it became McLaren excluded him.

Speaker 4 (26:26):
Yeah, and then the reverse side they intentionally didn't have
him up there will What happened was that Oscar got
pulled to go do his media duties. I don't know
why they timed it specifically.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
Then well, apparently it wasn't even McLaren's idea. So they
did the driver one because I sent you something earlier
that apparently it's from the race dot com that is
verifying this information. So they arranged a special podium celebration
immediately after the podium ceremony of the top three drivers.
As supposedly McLaren was not aware of that they were

(26:59):
going to be doing. At that point, Oscar's already in
the media pin.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
The reason that Lando was on that at all was
he was already there. He was already, but he was
walking away. It wasn't supposed to be the drivers. It
was literally supposed to just be team members from McLaren
up there doing it. And then when the team saw
Lindo walking away, they were like they pulled them on
to their because they're like, wow, well come on, man,
Like it wasn't like a planned thing. And then after

(27:23):
everything they have their own celebration that they had planned
to have with both drivers. Yeah, it was just a
timing thing. But then there's a picture of Oscar in
the media pen with the celebration.

Speaker 4 (27:35):
You see behind him, there's a TV screen behind that
you can see in the background blurt out and it's
very funny.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
Oh, it's very funny.

Speaker 4 (27:45):
In the moment you see everyone, everyone in McLaren's celebrating
except for him. And then again that then it's these
poorly timed moments and images or like seconds of video
that are captured that then help reinforce the narrative that
McLaren intentionally excluded Oscar. And look at poor Oscar. He's

(28:05):
all sweaty and tired and frustrated giving media interviews. They're
asking him about the contact with Lando, and then in
the background you just see McLaren celebrating without him.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
And it's like, oh, poor baby. Yeah. So that's basically like.

Speaker 4 (28:20):
It's just a coincidence and poorly timed stuff, like all
of its coincidence.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
It's not like a thing.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
No, And then everybody tried to act like I say, everybody,
it's just people on the internet. When Oscar was like
parking the car, you know, turning the car off or whatever.
Zach Brown comes over the radio and it's talking to
Oscar and then they're like Oscar disconnected his radio. Not
he didn't even know Zach was talking. He had already
turned the car off, so he cannot hear that anymore.

(28:48):
And then I guess there's like a delay in the system,
so the broadcast could hear some of the stuff that
Oscar could not hear. And then that's why it cuts
out suddenly. It is because finally it catches up and
everything's cut off. Oscar didn't even know because Zach was
talking to him because he It is so funny though,
and I love this, this whole thing that's been this
picture that's been painted at this moment because Zach Brown

(29:10):
is just on the radio, like, you know, Oscar a
great job today, secured our second world our Constructor's title
and second consecutive year.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
You know, we're so proud of the whole team.

Speaker 4 (29:22):
And he's like in the midst of saying, like saying this,
and then it looks like Oscar just went plugged him
because like I don't want to hear his bullshit. I'm pissed,
That's what it looks like. And it's very funny and
I'm like ken like I don't care goodbye, but uh no,
it was all again just poorly timed coincidence and then
people manufacturing.

Speaker 2 (29:42):
Yeah, because that's they're manufacturing and native that they think
just fits. Sometimes there doesn't have to be a villain, dude.
Like the fact of the matter is Lando was aggressive
as much as he could be and he got he
got the better of Oscar. That doesn't That doesn't mean
that Oscar's a bad It doesn't mean he won't be
world champion. It just means that in that moment, Lando

(30:06):
got the better of him.

Speaker 4 (30:07):
If I recall correctly, was there not a race at
some point this season or last season where Oscar got
the jump on Lando at the start?

Speaker 2 (30:15):
Pretty sure?

Speaker 1 (30:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (30:16):
And then there was I mean I don't there wasn't contact,
I don't think.

Speaker 4 (30:19):
No, But he still was aggressive, lunched and got the position.
So it's like they're driving like bruh.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
Yeah, It's like it's not like they haven't done it
to each other. This is just the first time that
Lando's done it and it worked that I can recall,
top of my.

Speaker 4 (30:33):
Hard, Lando got a good start. What color me's shocked?

Speaker 2 (30:40):
No, literally, and it's just it just really doesn't Why
are we arguing, like why is that even a thing
like who.

Speaker 1 (30:49):
Cares clicks drama narrative because everyone's like oscar news a
better team? Who who? Who's he gonna go to?

Speaker 2 (30:56):
Like who are y all talking about? Like what car
he still is in? Like the champion winning car unless something?

Speaker 4 (31:02):
So who else is gonna give him the best shot
at winning a driver's title right now?

Speaker 1 (31:09):
Yeah? So I'm like, what are y'all talking about? Like
what do you even like? Boo? Who for?

Speaker 2 (31:14):
What? Get over it? It makes no sense to me.
It's crazy to me that Lando Norris has went from
being like before he won Miami last year. Before that,
he was this character that everybody on the internet loved.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
He's like this.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
Golden Retriever energy that everybody loves and they think is funny.
And then because he won, and then he got thrust
it into the whole. Hey, you might have a shot
at the Driver's Championship, which probably he didn't expect. All
of a sudden, people hate him because of what Because
now he hit all the questions framed to him are
different than they were before and he has to figure
out how to answer them in real time. Like what

(31:55):
It's crazy to see it flip so much And I'm like,
you know, you guys can like Oscar and that doesn't
mean you have to be like an asshole to Lando
Norris and vice versa.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
It's just.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
You can justlike your person. You don't have to like
put other people down to like them, Like, are you
like twelve years old?

Speaker 1 (32:18):
Most of these people are.

Speaker 4 (32:20):
I'm convinced because they behave like twelve year olds like
who don't have no reading comprehension or media literacy or
don't know how to verify in fact check.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
It's insane.

Speaker 4 (32:30):
Oh so, speaking of Lando being asked the same questions
in a post race press conference, the guy who hosts
those the same guy every time. He asked Lando about
the title fight and Papaya rules and that kind of
whole thing again. And Lando was not having it. Like
Lando literally said, you ask me this every time. My

(32:55):
answer is the same every time. And the guys like,
remind me, like trying to coax him to answer it out.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
And just take it with them here and then hold
it up.

Speaker 1 (33:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (33:04):
Literally, And so the guys like, remind me what your answered, like,
trying to get him to say something, and Linda said,
roll the clip from last time.

Speaker 1 (33:11):
Good, and the guy said, all right, then I'm being one.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
He's probably like Max I'm sick of this in Maxico's
you need to just do this, and then like it's
in the same questions all the time.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
Control control, see control V.

Speaker 2 (33:23):
Done, I'm command see Commandy, I am too. But copy
paste is.

Speaker 4 (33:31):
The point with P five for Mercedes, Oh yeah, kim me,
gim me give me Intonelli has scored consecutive top five
finishes for the first time in his F one career.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
He did good because they got the jump on him
and he lost two places at the start, and then
he overtook Charles, which is a hard person to overtake,
and to do it in Singapore. So good on, Kimmy,
Kimmy did a good job. Kimmey after Toto was.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
Like me, me me, me, me, me, me, me me
be nice.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
Total he just a baby.

Speaker 4 (34:00):
Pacigs for Ferrari means Charles Leclaire has gone five races
without a podium finish.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
That's not fun, not a fun fact. No, I honestly,
we can just skip Ferrari. I won't talk about them again.
I hate this team, like no hate, but I hate them.
I don't okay. I felt bad saying that because then
I read Lewis's Instagram post or whatever, and I was like, Okay,
I this is so hard.

Speaker 1 (34:22):
It's hard. Being a Ferrari fan is not for the week.

Speaker 4 (34:26):
You have to have strong belief, delusion, fortitude.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
It is the most unhealthy relationship in my life right now.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
Correct.

Speaker 4 (34:36):
Teammate Lewis Hamilton was finally classified p eight after he
suffered break problems while running in fifth place. Hamilton is
not finished on the podium in eighteen starts for Ferrari,
which is a team record. That does a mean fact.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
You know, if you have nothing nice to say, you
don't have to fucking make a fact out of all
the fac I mean all the bullshit facts that we
come up with, the top four.

Speaker 1 (35:02):
The drivers Championship, they finished in the opposite order. You
couldn't come up with anything else.

Speaker 2 (35:08):
Yep. Rude, it's rude. This person hates Lewis Hamilton at
least every time. This person who was this, who wrote this.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
At least he's not pointless to Alonzo. That was that
was crazy.

Speaker 2 (35:20):
Yeah, Lewis, I feel like I didn't hear that much
from Charles and Louis. We heard a little bit from
he did a really late pit stop, switched this offs
and actually was making some like you know, I think
him and Charles they swapped or whatever. He was gaining
on Kimmy, but you know, never know. I mean, well
it's just you know, if if if what if?

Speaker 1 (35:41):
We'll never know.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
But then as that's happening, his breaks go out and
I'm like what and he goes, I've got no breaks.

Speaker 4 (35:46):
So Lewis took an extra pit stop and was able
to because there were weirdly a couple like three I think,
different spots within like the drivers where their timing was
on like the leaderboard, that were like thirty plus second
gaps between people, and I was just like, what happened?
We got some slow people holding everybody up because you

(36:07):
can't pass. That must be what it is, Okay, yeah,
that's what.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
And that's the other thing that was really confusing is,
like we were saying earlier, nobody was talking about this,
Like I will say, I love F one TV. This
was not great at painting the picture of what was
going on on the whole track this time, because it
was just like I don't need to see I know
who's upfront, dog, and unless something's happening, I truly don't
care anymore, like unless something crazy is happening, like paint

(36:33):
the picture, so we understand why there's a thirty second gap,
like paint the picture of like oh, Lewis Hamilton's pitty,
Like I saw Louis pitt. I don't even I think
from the small thing, from the small little screen, they'll
have to the left where they have the main one,
like where the board is or whatever. And I'm like,
that's more interesting at this point talking about why or
something versus just.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
Like Londo's still following Max Bro nothing's changed.

Speaker 4 (36:58):
Yeah, basically Kimmy and back the pack up up enough
that Lewis there was a big enough gap that Louis
was able to take that extra pit stop and not
lose track position. He lost some time, but not track position.
I guess there was also a gap behind him too.

Speaker 2 (37:11):
I was gonna say, Kimmy's gap wouldn't have mattered. It
would have been Lewis's gap.

Speaker 4 (37:15):
Well, so the it's hard for me to say because
where Lewis finished is not where they have the final
result at, because they have him at his P eight.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
He finished P seven, Yeah, well he finished P seven
across the line of piece seven and then he finished Pete
he got pated.

Speaker 1 (37:31):
Yeah, so it's showing.

Speaker 4 (37:33):
There was a thirty three second gap between Oscar and Kimmy,
and then there's a forty five almost forty six second
gap between Kimmy and Charles, and then there is an
eighty second gap between Charles and Fernando. Yeah, so that
would have been in that window. But basically there was
just such a huge gap, like that must have been
a boring race, though.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
A lot of people were like over it because you're
just kind of virus out and you're hot and dying.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
You can't pass. You're hot and dying and.

Speaker 4 (38:01):
There's no one to pass because they're all thirty seconds
ahead and behind now and by yourself.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
Yeah, and so Lewis, you know, they were just like
whatever at this point, why not throw the softs on?

Speaker 1 (38:12):
And actually was doing really well.

Speaker 4 (38:15):
He was making places and he was gaining time and.

Speaker 2 (38:19):
Then almost drs of Kimmy and then all of a sudden,
I'm like, that was just a second and a half.
Why is it three seconds?

Speaker 1 (38:25):
Why is it four? Why is it?

Speaker 2 (38:27):
What is happening? And then I just you just hear
I've got no breaks.

Speaker 4 (38:31):
Just cut out and then he's because he has no brakes,
he has to cut all the corners because he's still
trying to finish the race because he's in the points. Yeah,
he doesn't want to have to stop. Nobody called him in, no,
nobody called him it. So he's like, I'm still going,
but he's having to go a little bit slower and
then cut literally all four wheels off the corner the
truck limits at every single.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
Corner, sure, and then Fernando Alonso behind him is like,
what the what's happened? What is he doing?

Speaker 2 (38:57):
And we didn't even find out about this after the
race because not broadcasting, Not a single time did I
even know that there was a battle between Louis and Alonso,
not one because it wasn't.

Speaker 1 (39:09):
I mean, they were like battling, battling. What are y'all doing?

Speaker 2 (39:14):
Broadcasters like, I want to see that that? I want
to see that.

Speaker 4 (39:17):
Can you imagine being Fernando just seeing Louis, You're coming
up behind him, starting to battle him, and then he's
just blatantly all four wheels, cutting all these corners, and
you're he says, I cannot fucking believe it.

Speaker 2 (39:29):
Once they crossed the line, because apparently it was within
like three tenths of each other. I mean it was
like it was too of the line. Fernando was pissed
and he's he's going off. He's like I should have
P seven, which he eventually did. They did penalize Lewis
and he ended up finished.

Speaker 4 (39:43):
Obviously they were gonna panalize him, like you, I get
the heat of the moment. You're not thinking super clearly
about all of that.

Speaker 2 (39:51):
It's also not like it's not like Lewis let him
pass him either.

Speaker 1 (39:54):
Yeah, Louis is like no, He's like, you're gonna fight
me for it, Fight me, bitch.

Speaker 2 (39:58):
That's that is just that's my old teammate. I'm fixing
to give him a hard time.

Speaker 4 (40:04):
But yeah, Fredana is just so hot and it's like, bro,
chill out, don't worry.

Speaker 1 (40:09):
He's gonna get the penalty now.

Speaker 2 (40:11):
Lewis though, let me tell you he Lewis always comes
across is like, I'm so nice and well spoken.

Speaker 1 (40:18):
Calm Eddy. He went Eddy Betty.

Speaker 2 (40:21):
He went on Instagram and he said, and he literally
shared a montage. I don't know who this old white
guy is. It sounds like it might be some British
TV show situation. It's just this guy going, I can't
believe it. I cannot believe this. It's like a compilation
of the same guy. And then Lewis put eighteen years
dot dot dot and I'm like, huh, I wonder who.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
That's point out towards. I wonder.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
I cannot believe it.

Speaker 1 (40:48):
It was just super funny. I was like, Wow, Louis
Is like, uh, huh, you can't. You can't believe it?

Speaker 2 (40:54):
Really, how much can't you? How many more times are
you gonna say you can't. I feel like they definitely
bring out because they're like the Olderish people. They're it's
the oldest drivers on the grid, and it's like, you know,
they're the mature ones on the grid.

Speaker 1 (41:09):
And then I feel like they bring it out in
each other because.

Speaker 2 (41:12):
You got to remember when Lewis came on the scene,
he ruined Alonzo's life.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
You don't forget that long standing rivalry there.

Speaker 2 (41:22):
Oh my, if I was Alonzo, I would have hated Lewis.
I love Lewis, but I would have hated him. I'm like,
this rookie just showed up and.

Speaker 4 (41:31):
Ruined everything with P seven for Aston Martin, Fernando Alonso
has moved ahead of teammate Lance Stroll in the championship.

Speaker 1 (41:39):
Yeah. He jumped fourteenth to eleventh. Yeah, which I mean
good for him.

Speaker 4 (41:44):
He had a very slow start to the season and
we were like, when is he gonna get a boy?

Speaker 1 (41:49):
Now, where's his podium? I cannot believe it.

Speaker 2 (41:52):
I can. I want to see a long I mean.

Speaker 4 (41:55):
He's he finished up there. I mean he's not so
far you can do it. He gets got that more away.

Speaker 1 (42:05):
You just need for one of.

Speaker 4 (42:07):
The McLaren's to wreck each other out and Max, oh
my god, we need the Mercedes and the Ferraris.

Speaker 1 (42:13):
No, no, this is my podium.

Speaker 2 (42:16):
I just want I want a Max Lewis Fernando podium.
I don't care what order. I want the three champions
up there. How fun would that be? I mean that's
been it, that's been a podium before, but I'm like,
I want it again. Now, that'd be fun. I said,
I want it, Okay. I don't always get what I want.

(42:37):
I often don't get what I want.

Speaker 1 (42:39):
But if you try, sometimes you'll find.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
I'm putting it out into the universe because maybe the
universe will go you know, I think I want to
see that too.

Speaker 1 (42:47):
Someone said it.

Speaker 4 (42:48):
I mean we got a Hulkeenburg podium. We manifested that
we did so.

Speaker 1 (42:53):
So you never know. The universe owes us. It really
does it owes us something. It really really and I'm
claiming this, this is this is what I want. This
is what I want.

Speaker 2 (43:03):
I don't really care what order like, just up there,
just up all three, just gonna be up there.

Speaker 1 (43:08):
That'd be fun.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
Yeah, that'd be a fun podium.

Speaker 1 (43:09):
Yeah, okay.

Speaker 4 (43:10):
With P nine for has Oliver Bearman scored his fifth
Grand pre Points finish of the season.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
Alli Ali had a really stick overtake. I don't remember
who it was on, but it was so unconventional and
I was like, excuse me.

Speaker 4 (43:20):
I feel like it was a steak sober or or
it might have been an Alpine but I feel like
it was green.

Speaker 1 (43:29):
I remember. Or it could have been a racing balls
could have been a loss in no way. Hold on,
boss Zachs went pass him? Hold on?

Speaker 2 (43:36):
Where did I thought it was a Williams. I think
it was Alex Alban Maybe I don't know. I was
completely wrong. Yeah, it was like it was green. This
was not I fel like I think it was every
other team. It could have been any other blue ones.
You're like, yeah, I think it was Alex Albann.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
I'm pretty sure. Okay, that was pretty cool.

Speaker 4 (43:56):
Speaking of Williams in petin Carlo Science scored a point
from the back of the grid.

Speaker 1 (44:02):
Here we go.

Speaker 4 (44:02):
Yeah, he and Alex both they apparently it's a well
in qualifying and then we're both disqualified because the cars
did not pass a rear wing flex test.

Speaker 1 (44:13):
Is that what it was or was it the drs.

Speaker 2 (44:14):
They failed post qualifying checks on their rear wings. It
just says that. I think there's more details of it later,
but they had it was a rear wing test. I
don't think it was a flex test, but it failed.
They said they whatever measurements they had they passed, like
for Williams. But then they were like, oops, it wasn't
on purpose.

Speaker 4 (44:32):
Yeah, So they were like James Valles put out a
statement basically saying we weren't trying to gain some advantage
by doing something that was illegal or not to the rules.

Speaker 2 (44:43):
The car is going to be measured, so why would
you do anything on purpose anyway?

Speaker 4 (44:46):
Yeah, So and he was like, we it passed our
test and it was within the limits of the rules.
But then when the f I had their test, it
was not. And so he's like, we're putting measure trying
to figure out how and why this happened so that
we can make sure it doesn't happen again. But yeah,
that was really unfortunate that with them got disqualified from
qualifying and had to start P.

Speaker 1 (45:05):
Nineteen and P. Twenty.

Speaker 4 (45:07):
But Carlo Science did make his way up the field
and was able to get the final point.

Speaker 2 (45:11):
Which I wonder, Like, I feel like, one second, this
I just blame the broadcast. I'm like, oh, he didn't
even know that, didn't even realize that.

Speaker 4 (45:21):
That Carlos was making his way downtown walkeet face.

Speaker 2 (45:25):
Yeah, like hello, because I'm like, I don't I doubt
there was a bunch of overtakes to do that. But
even then, like, how did it happen?

Speaker 1 (45:33):
What was the strategy called that?

Speaker 4 (45:35):
I mean he made up ten places like what was
going on in his race that we didn't get to see.

Speaker 1 (45:39):
It's just because you were following freakin' I do not need.

Speaker 2 (45:42):
To see anymore unless something's happening. And guess what that's
what a replay is for. And I and it's not
like it's actually live live, it's a few seconds behind.
That's how any sports broadcast is, so they cut to
the right camera.

Speaker 4 (45:58):
AnyWho, Carlos Carlos since has scored in consecutive races for
the first time since Emmila Monico.

Speaker 2 (46:06):
Helloyah, and that is the end of our fun facts,
no more fun that Honestly, that's pretty much it. We
really had to dig deep to even talk about anybody
else besides McLaren because of one TV. They won't talk
about anybody else. That's a criticism for them. This time
they get a little creative. I'm tired of I don't
need all that unless something's happening, I don't care.

Speaker 4 (46:27):
The only two things add two other things to talk about,
which they kind of relate to each other.

Speaker 2 (46:33):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 4 (46:33):
Max and George were both asked about the start to
the race, how they did with their launches, if they
could have done anything else, and do they think there
was anything more they could have done to win, like
for on Max's side anyway, and Max basically said that
he got a good launch, but his side of the track,

(46:54):
So all the people lined up on Max's side behind
him on the grid got a good launch because that
part of the track for whatever reason was better.

Speaker 2 (47:04):
I Yeah, well I think I had to do with
maybe the moisture on the track, because I think I
think I heard one of the commentators mentioned that everybody
on that side did not get great launches.

Speaker 4 (47:13):
Yeah, so Max's side got uh oh it said his
side of the track was worse was the world, which
is why he didn't get a good start. George got
a great start. That's also why Orlando got a great start.
Oscar start sucked ass like it was Uh, it was
a case of it. Sometimes that just happens at races,
and sometimes your side of the track is not the
optimal one.

Speaker 1 (47:33):
Yeah, the way he crumbles bre that's just how it goes.

Speaker 4 (47:36):
And George said that if Max had taken the lead
at the start, he probably would have won the race
because it was so hard to pass, and Max agreed
with him and was like, yeah, pretty much can't pass nobody.
But but Max was like, but I didn't.

Speaker 1 (47:51):
So he's like.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
If if if my mom had balls, she'd be my
dad basically yeah.

Speaker 4 (47:59):
And then when they asked George about his improved performance
at this particular track, because again I and everybody else
was incorrect when we thought Mercedes would.

Speaker 1 (48:11):
Not do well to Montator's curse.

Speaker 2 (48:13):
But in the opposite, it's a blessing because you were wrong.
But we all saw everybody was.

Speaker 4 (48:18):
Wrong because Mercedes has been doing really well where the
weather's cooler and the track temperatures are cooler, like for
a while, yes, for the last like two seasons. And
then they asked, George, you know what's with this weird thing?
Because Singapore is hot, it's notoriously like one of the
hottest races of.

Speaker 2 (48:34):
There was a heat advice for y'all, and they were
going to allow the drivers to have the cooling best
on if they wanted them.

Speaker 4 (48:40):
They were going to require it at one point, and
then I think it was optional. So they had asked
George in the post qualifying press conference about improved performance,
and George was pretty much like, I don't really know,
I don't know, I'm not really sure, but it's great.
Fortunate didn't anticipate it, but okay, we'll take it. And

(49:03):
then they asked him the same question again at the
post race press conference and they're like, so, do you
have any better of an idea of where that improvement
would have come from? And he had a couple of
ideas of what could have impacted it. One of the
things he said was it could have been due to
the resurface track, meaning that the track wasn't heating up
as much because it had been recently resurfaced, so it

(49:25):
was cooler, more robust tires. He said that this year
the Pari tires seemed to not be as sensitive to overheating,
and then he said just in general, less overheating on
the tires. He did say that Mercedes had made some
changes to their car set up to help with the
overheating issue because again they were doing so well in

(49:46):
the cooler temperatures because the car was too freaking hot,
and so he said they moved some things around internal
components within the car. So he's like, you know, we
had some some like cables and stuff that were getting
you know, one hundred and twenty degrees running back my
feet that we yeah, and there was some like gearboxes
or electrical boxes, different components that were like close to
the seat of the car that they were able to
move to help disburse some of the heat. And he

(50:09):
said that seemed to help. Yeah, So basically that was that, yeah,
and that's kind.

Speaker 1 (50:15):
Of all the two things I wanted to mention.

Speaker 2 (50:17):
Yeah, no, nothing that makes sense. I mean too, I
mean with the rain, I'm sure that maybe helped at
least for a little bit cooling down the track so
we can get into our rookie report. Kimmi Antonelli he
qualified fourth. He finished fifth, so ten points.

Speaker 1 (50:31):
Yay go Kimmy.

Speaker 2 (50:33):
So Kimmy dropped two spots off the start, but he
fought back strongly, overtaking Charles Leclaire late to secure P. Five.
He admitted it was one of the toughest races physically,
but Mercedes prayed his aggressive move at turned sixteen that
kept Ferrari behind, which was really critical that both Mercedes
cars finished ahead of the Ferrari cars for the constructor

(50:54):
battle at the moment. So Kimmy did his part. He
made up for his mistake at the start. Isaac Hjar
he qualified eighth. He finished eleventh, so no point. Isaac
Kajar tangled with Barman at turn one and later battled
through a power issue that cost him half a second
per lap despite good corner speed. He slipped back to

(51:15):
P eleven, just outside the points and voiced frustration over
losing out on the straits. So he pretty much. I
guess it's been an ongoing issue because he was very
upset over the team radio and was like, how why
this engine? I am sick of it? Like lower formula, Isaac.
He came out to play and he was very not happy.

Speaker 4 (51:34):
He gets very French when he gets upset, like the
accent gets thicker and he's just like like just like
so over it.

Speaker 2 (51:43):
Yeah, he was not happy, but again he was half
of the I mean even to finish eleventh, when you're
having a power unit issue that you're losing like half
a second per lap, you know, finishing eleventh, it's okay.
It's not reflect on his performance at all. Isaac is still,
in my opinion, our rookie of the year. Right now,

(52:05):
there are six more races. Franco Colopinto. He qualified sixteenth.
He finished sixteenth, so no points. Franco Calopinto had a
strong launch and tried an early undercut strategy, but tired,
degradation and traffic left him vulnerable. He fell back to p. Sixteen,
reflecting that while the battles were fine, the pace just

(52:27):
wasn't there to hold position. Because at the start he
did gain a few positions, tried to do the undercut
wasn't happening, which, like we've talked about multiple times, the
Alpine is just the worst car on the grid, no contest.

Speaker 4 (52:41):
I mean just I feel so bad for Pierre and
for uh Franco, you know too, because it's really hard when,
like when you've seen them drive by their cars and
be decent and be able to pull something off and
they just can't do anything.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
Yeah, I mean, Pierre should be up there with the
rest of his buddies. Ollie Barman, he qualified ninth, He
finished ninth, so two points. Ollie Barman. Well, like we
said earlier, Isaac had jar and him had a moment.
So Alli had a moment with Isaac att turned one,
but he escaped with minimal damage and he dropped just
one spot from there. He ran a composed race, pitting

(53:20):
early and managing his tires superbly to climb back into
the points. He finished p nine, delivering haas their first
score since Sandport.

Speaker 1 (53:27):
Ollie did really good.

Speaker 2 (53:28):
He also had a really probably the most exciting overtake
on I believe it was Alex's album, which he just
like outbreaked him and it was kind of crazy because
we said we don't really pass in Singapore, so that
was I'm glad the broadcast let us see that, because
they didn't let us see a lot. Gabrielle Bordoletto. He
qualified fourteenth. He finished seventeenth, so no points. Gabrielle Bordoletto

(53:53):
needed a new front wing after early contact, and his
stop turned chaotic when a tire rolled away from the
pit crew, costing the valuable time. Uh huh did you
just die? I did see that tiresard to roll away
and one of the pick crew members was they were
like no, no, no, and yeah, and they grabbed it.
So that wasn't great. He spent much of the race
stuck behind Colibinto and eventually finished p. Seventeen, calling it
a day to forget because you can't pass Liam Lawson.

(54:17):
He qualified twelfth, He finished fifteenth, so no points. Driver
of the day, the no points yeah, personal driver of
the day last time yeah. Liam Lawson ran inside the
top ten thanks to a long first stint, but with
no safety car to help his strategy, he dropped down
the order.

Speaker 1 (54:36):
He finished p.

Speaker 2 (54:37):
Fifteen and admitted they stayed out too long and never
he never quite found the grip or balance he needed
in the car, so they were just fingers crossed for
a safety car and it never happened. And then by
the time they decided to pit, it was just too
late to really do anything from there. And last, but
not least, our favorite rookie, Fernando Alonso. He qualified tenth.

(54:58):
He finished sixth points. Fernando gained two places at the
start and looked set for solid points before a painfully
slow pit stop dropped him down the order. I I
do remember that that was horrible. It was like, what
is happening? There were multiple not great pit stops, though,
I feel like, but anyway, was everyone else hot?

Speaker 1 (55:20):
Like all this career? I was like, is.

Speaker 2 (55:21):
Something happening to like the mechanics of the like of
the guns, Like what's going on?

Speaker 4 (55:26):
Were they overheated or were like the actual because sometimes
if machinery gets.

Speaker 2 (55:31):
Too I was wondering something like this. I feel like
there was another pistop that was really bad.

Speaker 4 (55:36):
Yeah, and it had Maybe they rolled the way the
rolling away tire was because their fingers were sweating, That's
what it was.

Speaker 1 (55:42):
But don't they wear gloves? Do they wear gloves? It's
so hot it sweats through them.

Speaker 4 (55:46):
Maybe they were dripping sweat through their helmets onto the
tires and that caused it to slip from their gloved fingers.

Speaker 1 (55:52):
Guess what happened for sure, yeap, glad we figured that out.
Yep so.

Speaker 2 (55:59):
But despite a whole rrible pit stop, he fought back
with strong overtakes and trademark fiery radio messages for us
to enjoy. At one point he told his engineer, if
you're going to talk to me every lap, I'm going
to disconnect the radio. That was hysterical, but he managed
to climb back to P eight and finished just behind Hamilton,
which he was. Then he inherited P seven because Hamilton

(56:21):
was given a five second penalty because he had no
breaks and is cutting corners, just trying to survive. Frando
wasn't happy during it because at the time nobody knew
if or when Hamilton would be given a penalty. But
either way, it's good and like we said, he moved
up from fourteenth to eleventh in the Driver's Championship. So
go Alonzo, maybe we'll get that podium. I think we

(56:43):
will so now best and worst segment. My driver of
the day is Lando Norris. I'm good, I'm my good
on him for being aggressive and just there that's it.

Speaker 1 (56:55):
Be aggressive, be be aggressive.

Speaker 2 (56:59):
So yeah, that was pretty much. I just think he
had a good start and he was aggressive, But I
don't think he's anything wrong. That's it.

Speaker 1 (57:07):
Other than that, I'm like, I don't.

Speaker 2 (57:11):
And who's yours.

Speaker 4 (57:14):
My driver of the day is Carla Signs first, starting
in the literal back of the grid, moving up to
P ten to take the final point.

Speaker 1 (57:21):
There you go, way to go, Carlos, he got it.

Speaker 2 (57:24):
Biggest leadown is for me is Williams, because it could
have been a way different race if they regular, or
if they the measurement would have been right. Yep. Something
that tiny just ruins it for everybody.

Speaker 4 (57:35):
Because clearly Carlos had the pace. If he started dead
last to P ten, imagine if he could have made
up ten points starting where he actually qualified. Imagine imagine.
My biggest let down is Oscar Piastree. He qualified P three,
finished before he let Lando get the jump on him.
I know, maybe it probably wasn't his fault because his
side of the track was a little wonky, but come on, man.

Speaker 2 (57:56):
McLaren clearly has it out for him. They obviously hate
Oscar Piastre, That's why they poached him from Alpine. They
hate him so much.

Speaker 4 (58:03):
And they're determined to sabotage and they don't want him
shut They intended for him to qualify where he did,
so he would have a bad launch.

Speaker 2 (58:12):
That's exactly what happened. Yeah, that's what it was.

Speaker 1 (58:14):
I agree.

Speaker 2 (58:15):
So yeah, well now we can talk about Austin, which
is the next race. So our next race teaser it
is going to be round nineteen at the Formula one
MSc cruises the United States Grand Prix, Circuit of the Americas,
Kota Cota, yep. So something to consider Kota. I don't

(58:36):
like saying it Circut of the Americas. It was a
sprint race last season, it's a sprint race this season.
If you're unfamiliar with sprint races, just imagine that these
are the things you need to remember. We don't have
to get into the all the nitty gritty of it,
but basically, when there's a sprint race, they get one
practice session.

Speaker 1 (58:51):
That is it.

Speaker 2 (58:52):
They don't get three sessions to get their car how
they need, whether it's figuring out your break bias or
figuring out where are you how much down, or how
you need to address your car to whatever. You get
one which I mean, you're gonna have to decide do
I want to know what my qualifying pace is going
to be? Do I want to know what my race
pace is going to be with all the fuel in
the car, what tires do I want to test? How
much fuel? It's a lot that you don't get to do,

(59:14):
so you have to be very intentional with your practice session.
The same day, a few hours later, they will qualify
for the sprint race the next day on Saturday. So
this that's all on Friday, Saturday, they will have the
sprint race. It's only the top eight they get points.

Speaker 1 (59:29):
And it's a lot fewer points than obviously the main race.

Speaker 2 (59:32):
The number one gets eight points and then go down
to one point in eighth and then a few hours
after that they will qualify for the main race. So
we have not had a sprint race in a minute.

Speaker 1 (59:44):
I was Sehi.

Speaker 2 (59:45):
So if you need a little refresher, it's going to
be a very different weekend format in like two weeks
times when we come.

Speaker 4 (59:51):
Yeah, and you may you may see some teams utilizing
the sprint qualifying and the sprint race itself as sort
of a preparation because they don't get those two other
practice sessions. They'll use it as a preparation for the
main race, qualifying and the main race itself. Some people
just consider some teams will consider the sprint race awash
and sort of use it to collect data so they

(01:00:14):
can do better for the Maine race.

Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
And so with that being said, we will get into
what our last year's podiums were. So for the main
race we had Charles Leclair, Carlo Science and Max Verstappen,
and then the sprint race podium from last year was
Max Verstaffen, Carlo Science and Lando Norris. So Carlo Science
and Max did very well here last year. So some

(01:00:39):
track stats. The first GP was in twenty twelve. It
is fifty six laps long. The circuit length is a
little longer than the last few we've had. It is
five point five one three kilometers, which is about three
point four miles versus like the three point one or
so miles we've had. The race distance is three hundred
and eight point seven two eight kilometers, which is about

(01:01:00):
one hundred and ninety one point eight miles. The race
lap record is held by Charles Leclair, which was set
in twenty nineteen at a minute in thirty six point
one six nine seconds. The qualifying luff record was set
by Landa Norris last year twenty twenty four at a
minute in thirty two point three three zero seconds and

(01:01:22):
has two drs zoms. So this is a very unique
track because well, some would argue it's not unique actually,
because it's basically taken really great parts of other tracks
people love and just put it in there.

Speaker 1 (01:01:36):
A lot of drivers really like this track.

Speaker 4 (01:01:39):
I remember liking this track yeah when we watched it
last year because I was like, oh, this is entertaining,
it's fun to watch. Apparently it is actually not the
greatest track for live spectators because they said that the
speaker system really sucks, so it's hard to hear anybody
commentating both and yeah, what's actually going on in the

(01:01:59):
race and stuff, And they said maybe there just weren't
great positions.

Speaker 1 (01:02:03):
Like to watch from.

Speaker 4 (01:02:05):
But they said the vibes are immaculate. Everything else going
on in the city is great.

Speaker 2 (01:02:09):
I'm looking forward to all the cowboy hats.

Speaker 1 (01:02:11):
Yeah, what do you mean?

Speaker 4 (01:02:13):
But I do remember really enjoying watching the race last
year and saying this is one of my favorite tracks.

Speaker 2 (01:02:19):
So the circuit of the Americas blends the best of
other legendary tracks, fast flowing s's like Suzuka and Silverstone,
a technical stadium style section, and the steep climb into
turn one that always sparks overtakes. So there's a lot
of portions of this track that are definitely inspired by
other tracks that people really like. It is really wide,

(01:02:40):
so we're going to have great overtaking opportunities, especially into
turn one and a heavy braking zone at turned twelve,
so there will be opportunity to overtake. And it is
normally a two stop race, so it's a very action
packed race. So I'm very excited for it. After the Snoozer.

Speaker 4 (01:02:57):
It's got everything we love. It's a purpose built track.
We've got a wide track, we've got two drs zones,
we've got places where we can overtake, we've got we've
got s's and all the stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:03:12):
Yeah, America two pit stops, bigger and better in Texas
m h. But anyway, Yeah, so that's in two weeks time,
and we're very excited for it. So with that being said, well,
oh well we'll decorate next time. I know they the
whole time, everyone's like, where's the Halloween decorations. They're not here,

(01:03:34):
They're under They're under there, somewhere.

Speaker 4 (01:03:36):
Somewhere over there, I see a pumpkin.

Speaker 2 (01:03:39):
Yep, I see something. But with all that being said,
we will talk at you next time. Bye.

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