In this episode, we break down all the biggest headlines from the 2025 Formula 1 Austrian Grand Prix! We discuss Lando Norris’s win, Kimi Antonelli’s first-lap crash that took out Max Verstappen, Ferrari’s ongoing communication issues with Lewis Hamilton, and what the heck is going on with Williams after Alex Albon’s third consecutive DNF.
Plus, we preview the British Grand Prix at Silverstone and what to expect from one of F1’s most iconic circuits.
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Why Are You Yelling? is a podcast for people who get a little too loud about the things that matter and the things that don’t. Join Anna and Jessica every episode as they talk pop culture, current events, and more.
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Plus, we preview the British Grand Prix at Silverstone and what to expect from one of F1’s most iconic circuits.
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Submit your “Why Were You Yelling?” story to be read on the podcast! Send us an email at wayypod.storytime@gmail.com and tell us all about it!
Why Are You Yelling? is a podcast for people who get a little too loud about the things that matter and the things that don’t. Join Anna and Jessica every episode as they talk pop culture, current events, and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
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leave it, do.
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or underwear. You just yeah, Lisa lights the dar Jar beats.
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All right?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Three two one, ash.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
And we're live. I'm in and I'm Jessica, And this
is why are you yelling? Welcome back to another F
one race review. We are going to do a recap
and a review in an analysis, very in depth, very technical,
very professional YEP of round eleven of the twenty twenty
five Formula One season. We're gonna be talking about the
MSc Cruises Austrian Grand pre She's very excited.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Also, if you need a refresher at all, you can
see our sign. Lewis Hamilton I don't want to stop.
His engineer box pretty much sums it up like the
whole vibe of the year. But bless, so we can
jump into the race podium, the constructor standings and some
(01:17):
of the drivers before we get into fun facts. So
our race podium we have Lando Norris, Oscar Piastre and
Charles Leclair. Woo pretty much finished where we started for
the most part.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
For the most part, let me tell you that by
the time we got to the end of the race,
I completely forgot that Ferrari was even in P three
and P four. Yeah, just was like I because so
much of the focus was they were just in no
man's land. We'll get there, We'll get to that later.
But I just completely I forgot Charles was even in
P three for a minute and then it was like
(01:51):
like the McLaren's crossed the finish line and then twenty
seconds later and then there rounds out our podium and
I was like, oh.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah, yeah, I mean Karls started second, finishes third. You know,
Lewis just stayed there. He's fourth, bless. So we will
hop into our constructor standings. McLaren is still leading with
four hundred and seventeen points. Ferrari has now jumped back
to second place with two hundred and ten points. Thank you,
(02:18):
Kimmy Antonelli Love Yeah. Mercedes is only one point away though,
in third at two hundred and nine points. Red Bull
is fourth with one hundred and sixty two points. Williams
is fifth with fifty five points. Racing Bulls is sixth
with thirty six points. Has is seventh with twenty nine points.
Aston Martin is eighth with twenty eight points. Kicksalper is
(02:40):
ninth with twenty six points, and Alpine is tenth with
eleven points. So yeah, and our driver standings. The biggest
change now is Lando is closing the gap in on Pstree.
Pstre has two hundred and sixteen points. Lando has two
hundred and one points, So first and second is still
the McLaren boys, and we're still like what's gonna happen,
(03:04):
feeling like.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
It's gonna be a battle to between them until the
end of the season. I think it's gonna go back
and forth because it feels like and Orlando's talked about
trying to find this consistency where you know the weekends
that he's on it, he's just on it. Everything is clicking,
he's qualifying well, the race performance is good, but he
(03:26):
hasn't been able to do like repeatedly do it race
after race, So it's been a little hit or miss. Yeah,
so I think it's gonna be kind of I feel
like it's gonna be like that through through the end
of the season. Oh yeah, it's we shall see. Yeah,
so we can hop into our fun facts. Starting with McLaren,
(03:48):
they scored their fourth one two finish of the season,
so this is the team's most won two finishes since
two thousand and seven, and for Orlando Norris it was
his seventh career victory. The last claren driver to win
at the Red Bull Ring was Davidtard in two thousand.
What I heard that I love DC. Only two drivers
(04:09):
have won exactly seven Grand Prix for McLaren, Landa Norris
and Oscar Piastre. Wow. And speaking of mister Pastre, he
finished second in Austria for the second year in a row,
which I found. I thought it was interesting going into
this weekend that a lot of people were mentioning that
(04:29):
Lando is this is almost like a specialist track for him.
There's certain drivers will they'll say they're a specialist at
this track, meaning that for whatever reason they just click
really well, they're driving style just vibes with it, and
people were saying, they're like, oh, Lando is kind of
a specialist at this track usually does really well at Austria,
but apparently Max is also in Austria. I feel like
(04:53):
he's just a specialist everywhere.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
But everybody was I think everybody just likes the Red
Bull Ring. Yeah, and it's a lot of people's favorite track.
They've described it as very flowy. I think that a
lot of people. We saw a lot of people do
really well here that otherwise haven't really performed that well yet.
So I'm like, I think this is just one of
those tracks that a lot of people look sell at.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I mean, people were even saying, you know, Charles Leclaire,
does I think he's won here? I think he won
here before we're back from the fact check. Charles the
Claire has won in Austria before in twenty twenty two.
So yeah, And I thought I had remembered someone mentioning
that on the broadcast. But apparently a lot of people
are specialists at Austria and do really well here.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Well, they've extended it to like what twenty forty one
they said, So Jesus Christ, they yeah, they extended it.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah, twenty forty one. Moving on to mister Charles de Claire.
Speaking of him, he finished P three for his third podium,
finished in the last four Grand Prix. So even though
we've been having issues, Ferrari's been having issues, we're still
somehow pulling it, pulling these podiums out of somewhere somewhere,
who knows where it's coming from. But this was Leclaire's
(06:03):
fifth podium finished at the Red Bull Ring, his most
to any circuit. See, he's a specialist, everyone's specialist. So
teammate Lewis Hamilton tied his best Grand Peer result of
the season, finishing in P four. He also finished P
four at EMMLA earlier this year. Lewis Poor, Lewis Hamilton.
(06:26):
The communication issues persist with Ferrari, and I don't know
if it's at this point, I'm starting to wonder if
it's specifically with this engineer that we're having the communication
problems with, or if it's just Ferrari as a whole,
Because it's the engineer can only relate to the driver
(06:49):
what they're being instructed by the person ultimately responsible for
the team stretch.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I don't want to stop box Box, I like, hello.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah, and it wasn't a simple like box, I don't
want to box, you're boxing anyways, far too long, multiple
back and forths. It was you need to It was
almost Lewis saying like, you need to explain to me
why we're doing this. What is this strategy? Doesn't make
(07:21):
any sense? What are we doing? And it was multiple
back and forth in the questioning, and I'm just like,
there is no trust at all, it seems between this
driver and this engineer, or just the driver and the
whoever's calling the strategy at this point. Yeah, it's uh,
I don't know. It's bizarre and it could still be. Again,
(07:43):
We've said it before, growing pains were almost halfway through
this season. It's still not that much time to develop
a relationship with your engineer. I feel like it's been
eleven races. It's still not a ton of time. Like
it's like they refer to another sports as like meaningful
(08:03):
like playing time, you know, when it's like you're actually
getting the experience in the moment of like a game
time situation. Yeah, there hasn't. There's only been eleven rounds
of that, and to be fair, it has been it's
like for an hour and a half a time, but
like in race scenarios and communication is strategy.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I mean, but it's also it's not like it's his
first rodeo either. It's kind of like we don't see
this issue happening with Bono and Kimmy and there in
the exact same scenario right now, and that's probably due
to the communication style. One style is better received than
another style, it seems, And I just am like, I
don't know if that's because you know, if you're a Bono,
(08:44):
you've been the race engineer, You've won six driver championships
with a driver, and maybe like nobody really needs to
criticize your communication skills. You've been communicating with a world
champion and helped him win six titles. So it's kind
of like at that point, his kid like that also
(09:04):
goes into the communication skills, like that driver can only
do so much if they're engineer is not well versed
in how to communicate with them. So it's like at
this point, I.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Would argue it's a little different with Kimmy and Bono
because Kimmy is a rookie. He's a very young rookie.
He's only eighteen. Yes, it is a new driver and
engineer pairing with them, But there is a power dynamic
there when you're eighteen, brand new to this level of
the sport, to this team.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Kimmy, Like Kimmy has no reason to question Bono exactly,
Ricky has no reason to question Lewis. And it's like
it's like the exact opposite scenario, Like if you have
a driver who is as successful as Lewis's, then why
are you questioning him so often all the time, And like,
(09:53):
of course, it's that's to me, that's how I see it, Like,
of course Kimmy's not questioning Bono. Why would he look
at his look at his track RCK look at track records.
So it's like the and they y'all look at if
y'all look at it. For Lewis and his engineer, it's like.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
You look at Ferrari's track record or lack thereof.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
And it's like, why are you questioning the only person
here who's been winning in the past decade. Why he's
the only one on the team at this point that
has won as a world championship or and helped his
like constructor when they're constructed, So what are we arguing about?
He's the only one that's done it that's on the
team right now. At least you know that that we're
aware that we're aware of. I don't be nitpicky, but
(10:27):
like so, I.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Don't know that there's one communications person at Ferrari that
was a part of Mercedes, you know, four years ago.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I don't know. I'm just saying the main players here.
He's the one that's been winning in the past decade,
So what are we questioning him so much?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
That's how I see it.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I see it as why are we questioning the one
person here at face valuating that we're aware of that
has actually one things recently recently.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I don't mention it. I don't just mean a race,
you know the titles it's to I don't know, and
that has consistently won because Farrari's got some here and there.
But yes, yeah, the communication issues and the lack of
trust in the strategy are very telling. Moving on to
George Russell racing for Mercedes, took P five and has
(11:18):
only failed to score once this season, which was in Monaco,
so he scored in every other round this season so far.
Liam Lawson driving for Racing Bulls, finished P six and
it is his best career finished. He had a very
good week and he did.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
He was one of the ones that just I guess
because he has experienced there as I guess, or whenever
he like during his rookie stuff or whatever, or I
guess his feeder series stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
But he just was killing it. And I'm like, Okay,
that was an observation I heard someone make was that
this particular track and as we get this kind of
opens this is the beginning of like the europe your
European leg of the season. Is that as this is
one of the first tracks where a lot of the
(12:01):
rookies will have had experience here and so that can
be a little bit of a contributing factor to why
some of the rookies did so well. Yeah, at this
particular track, which good on Liam. I think that it
was a much needed sort of boost for him. It
is like confidence and for the team and for sure.
Then moving on to our P seven finisher, mister Fernando
(12:24):
Alonso racing for Aston Martin. He now has back to
back seventh place finishes, so it's like his third weekend
in a row. Yeah, scoring points. Yeah, I was very heavy.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
That was like there are just times where I'm like,
you know, this is what I'm concentrating on, and Alonso
has become the person where I'm like, where's Lewis, Where's Max,
Where's Charles, and where's Alonso.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
It's like every once in a while during the race,
you got to kind of like check in and see
where all the faves are. Yeah. Yeah, So full disclosure,
I did fall asleep during this race. I was so
tied and I held on not strong at all. I
was dozing kind of in and out at the beginning
the first thirty five laps or so, and then at
lap thirty five I was full on knocked out and
(13:11):
then I woke up around lap sixty. So saying that
to say what happened with Alonso's race, But see, I
feel like I heard people talking about it after and
basically he was behind Liam. He was pretty much and
just rode his He was a DRS range. Yeah, he
(13:31):
he just had to stay with Liam the whole time
because he was he didn't think he had the pace
to keep that position unless he had the boost from
DRS uh and so I think at one point they
were trying to figure out like when they want to box,
and Alonzo's like we box when he boxes, because I
need to be on that ass.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Yeah. They both did one stops like literally, Alonzo's like,
where's he got him?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Because he's like, I can't not be on him the
whole time. And Liam mentioned that in the after race
interviews and he was like, I'm mean, Alonzo was just
I'm sure he got real sick of see in my
rear wing. I was just like, no, I was fine.
I was fine. I was good right there. That was good. Yeah,
But apparently Fernando had a couple of moments where he
(14:15):
was getting his elbows out a little bit being defensive,
and it's kind of one of those things where it
reminds you, like how good of a defensive driver he is.
I think sometimes people he doesn't he doesn't often get
to show off those skills because the car has not
been the greatest so far this season.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Newer people who aren't familiar with Alonso, even even from
last year, Like, if you watched last year, you would
be familiar with this because he had a lot of
moments like this last season as well. But if you're
like newer, you wouldn't know that. But like the people
that do know, everyone's like.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Watch out They're like, you do not want to get
stuck behind him. He's one of the best defensive drivers
and it is very hard to pass him. So good
on him. We love our o, We love our veteran room. Yeah.
So moving on to P. Eight, we have Gabrielle bordel
Letto for Sober. He got his first career points finish
(15:10):
of the well of his career. I was gonna say
of the year, but it's his first points finished show.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
We just we literally just said, like last episode, I
think I said something along the lines of he's supposed
to be a prodigy, so he better gets a prodigy.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
There he is, he got the prodigy. There he goes.
I think Sober had some upgrades. May last was last weekend.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
That they may have their I think the big upgrades
were last weekend. I'm not sure if they brought any
small ones or not. Yes, but I know that the
big one that everybody was like, oh shit, it was
last weekend.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Yeah, and uh so fine, you know, And it was
obvious then with Nicol Holkemberg's performance last weekend that the
upgrades helped tremendously And if I remember correctly, Nico was
surprised at how well, the upgrades worked, and so now
we see that Gabrielle Bordelletto gets to benefit from some
of those upgrades. And good on him. I'm very excited
(16:02):
to know a lot of people were very happy for him. Yeah,
but he finally got those points much needed again for
you know, it's one of those things where it's like
your rookies or you know, you want you want them
to have something to like hang their hat on kind
of thing.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Yeah, three rookies in a row. I'm our rookies. We
have Liam Alonso and Gabrielle is right there with each other.
It was also interesting because for those who don't know,
Alonso is a part of Gabrielle's management team, and it
was very interesting to see them battle. And there was
a point where Gabrielle like does get past Alonzo and
then Alonzo very quickly and very like clever. It's a
(16:36):
clever part of the track, Like he kind of took
advantage of the fact that the leaders were coming through
and then he just immediately stole the place back.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
And I'm like that right there, that right there, Alonzo
was like, good job, kid, But uh, I don't think so.
So this was Souber's best result at the Red Bull
Ring since Kimmy Reichenan finished fourth in two thousand and one.
Nico Holkenberg scored points in P nine from last on
the starting grid. Wow, I did not realize that. I
(17:04):
didn't either till I just read that way to go, hunk.
Good job. Yeah, look at Sober, look at them yea
so Hulkeenberg is the first Sober driver to score in
three consecutive races since Val Thrie Botas in twenty twenty two,
and this was the first double points finished for Sober
since Qatar twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Niko Holkenberg is just he You look at him and
you're like, that guy, probably something has went awry in
his career because he just gives the impression that he
has the talent to have a championship like that. It's
just like whether it was just never the right team,
right time in the car and him never he never.
I'm like, I feel like, if you put him in
the right car, you've got like a number one driver
(17:47):
that's going to get you a championship, which is probably
why he's you know, he's been around for as long
as he has been so.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Yeah, my first introduction to Hulkeenberg was in Drive to Survive.
I believe it was in season one Will Buxton made
the observation and that Hulkeenberg was one of those like
could have been and should have been a world champion,
but for whatever reason, bad timing, not making the right
(18:16):
choices for the right teams, that direct for the right
teams at the right times, for whatever reason, he's just
never gotten it. I don't think he's even gotten a
podium ever in his career.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
He holds the records for most race starts with out
a podium and withho to win.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
He's one of the only drivers among the top fifty
six most experienced in F one history to have never
finished on the podium. He's achieved a whole position and
two fastest laps. I would love to say that. I
would love to see that for him too. I want
to see that.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
But I also so about some of these things. I
want to say. I want to see Alonso win a race,
oh and or on a podium. Basically like I would
have loved to want to see a win, I want
to see one of podium. I would love to see
his hulk the same thing. I just don't like I
want to see that.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I want me to see people crazy things happen. If
you recall last year, I believe it was was it
Brazil where it rained like crazy and yeah and Max
got that crazy uh P one finish, but then both Alpines,
which were very bad last year, Yeah, both Alpines came
in second third and for like craziness where they're like,
(19:21):
how did this happen? We don't know, but we'll take it.
So I'm just like fingers crossed. We have just another
crazy race and we get a Hulkeenberg or Alonzo podium,
that would just I would die.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
I'm calling Silverstone, it's gonna rain. It's gonna be a
Lewis Hamilton, Alonzo and Hulkeenburg and that's gonna be our
That is a bold prediction. If it happens, like I
actually need to play.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
The lottery for real. You heard it here first. So
moving on to P ten, we have Esteban Ocon racing
for has. This was his fifth points finish of the season.
So yeah, I haven't. I feel like hass has been
kind of anonymous outside of the first maybe couple of races. Yeah,
this year, I haven't really I feel the same way.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I feel like they did like they were really hot
and then they were just kind of like quiet, and
now they're starting to like get up there a little noise, Yeah,
And I feel like Oliver Barman was making a lot
more like more noise at the start, and he's been
a little I don't want to say the word forgetful,
but just like anonymous is a good way to put it.
Where it's like he's just or he's like been finishing
(20:25):
right outside the points or something. I don't know, it's
just he did really well and then I just feel
like he's kind of fallen with it.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Yeah, And I don't I definitely think it's the car.
I don't think it's necessarily him. He and Estabon are
both good drivers.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Yeah, I mean I think some of it is it's
when you're dealing with a rookie, it's gonna be part
of it. Could be the car where it's some of
it's gonna be experienced, and has he been at this
track before?
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Has he not?
Speaker 2 (20:51):
You know, dealing with situations that you don't deal with
in the Feeder series. So I don't think it's any
skill thing. If anything, it's the car or like a
learning thing probably, but Okon's been doing fairly decent. Yeah,
I feel like I feel like when the when you're
when he's able to extract from the car, he does
it when there's something too extra, you know, and there's something.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Too extract, he's able to do that. So now we'll
move on to our DNFs. And there were several This
race was insane. It was a lot, especially right at
the start, so at the very beginning of the race.
So it's very funny. Uh So, we just went and
saw the F one movie the day before the race. Yes,
(21:34):
and we will be doing a review of the movie,
so look out for that. Hopefully it'll come out. We're
aiming for within less than a week from when this
episode airs. Yeah, uh so we in that particular movie.
And this is spoiler alert in case you haven't seen it.
There's one small part where the main character, Sonny Hayes,
Brad Pitt, pretends like he doesn't know how to get
(21:57):
his car to start on the grid. So all the
other cars they're doing the formation lap warming up their tires,
they're like half a circuit away. Brad Pitt's just sitting
there on the track. I don't know how to start
the car, and then eventually he gets it going, and
so he pulls up into his spot on the grid
right before the lights go out and they actually start
(22:18):
the race. And so in the movie they comment that, oh,
they're like, oh, he did that on purpose, because now
his tires are warmer. He'll have a you know, a
couple of It's like a marginal advantage should the people
around him, but his tires are a little bit warmer
than everyone else, instead of having to sit in the
grid waiting for him to get to his spot. And
(22:40):
so keep that in mind. We then get to watching
our Sunday race at Austria and formation lap starts and
who do we have but Carlos signs at the back
of the grid, not moving from his grid box. Not
He's like not moving, his car won't start, and he's
like on the radio asking the engineer what do I
(23:01):
need to do? Like I can't get the car to
start and just won't move. And then everyone and their
mother is like, he's pulling a brad Pit, He's pulling
a Sonny Hayes. It was just very funny and sort
of ironic that the coincidental maybe that that happened. Yeah, so,
but but he was not pulling a Sonny Haze. No,
he was having issues. So neither Williams cars finished the race.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Carlos didn't even start, like he was going to have
to start from the pit lane because of what happened,
I think, And so whenever they finished, the formation left
he had to go through the pits. But then his
brakes were on fire. He didn't even get to race
at all.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Yeah, they just had to retire the car. So I
guess he has a DNS so it did not start
because he didn't. They didn't even get to start the race.
And we also had Alex Alban who had a DNF.
It was his third consecutive race retirement. Williams, What is
going on? Man?
Speaker 2 (23:56):
I think this was the first weekend I saw where
somebody this was the first weekend the car those science
had said that the Williams was undrivable, and I'm like,
fuck because they were looking so strong.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
I just don't know what happened.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
It makes you wonder, like because we're about to we're
new regulations, so much of that team is focused and
has been focused on twenty twenty six, and like now
we're halfway through the season. Just technically Silverstone, we had
the halfway mark where we're essentially at the halfway mark.
I'm like, are people just not like concentrating as hard anymore?
(24:28):
Like I don't or like it's something was just with
this car on this track.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Just I don't know. I'm like, why wouldn't you though,
because if you're no, I mean because the higher up
you finished in the constructor standings, the more reward money
you get. Yeah, Like that's the way it works. So
that's why the constructor standings matter so much to everyone,
to the teams in particular, because think of the constructors
like all putting money like almost like an entry feet
into like a pot at the beginning of the season, right,
(24:54):
So there's this sort of like this pool of money
that then at the end of the season, depending on
where all ten constructors finish. If you come in first,
you get the biggest portion, like the biggest chunk of
reward money, and then it just goes down from there
all the way to ten. So you get some money
depending on where you finish. But we're talking like a
(25:14):
one one place finish different like difference in where you
finish as a constructor. So finishing in tenth as a
Constructors versus finishing eighth. I mean, we're talking millions of
dollars difference in what you're gonna get.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
As will Buxton said, finishing fifth is better than finishing
sixth in the Constructor. I don't know that that's a
direct code, but it feels like it could have been.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
It feels like if something in the realm of what
he might have said, seeing all that, all the stuff
about the pot and the constructor's money you get at
the end of the season, all that to say we're
only we're not even halfway through this season. It still
matters where you finish in the Constructors Or. It should
still matter. So you shouldn't be giving up because again,
(25:59):
the the higher up you place, the more money you
get to put back toward your The next the new regulation.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Yeah, they need to start Williams as fifth so that
they're never going to be higher than that because the
next is Red Bull. But Red Bull is fourth with
one hundred and sixty two, Williams is fifth with fifty five,
Racing Bulls is sixth with thirty six, So I mean,
honest to god, they really need.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
They They shouled to hold onto their lead.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
They need to hold onto the lead. But I mean,
if they have another two races like this, I mean,
racing bull is going to get them. Because for them
it was a really weird thing that Isaac wasn't in
the points. That's not yah hit a characteristic of him.
So now if we can have Lee normally he's the
one in the points and Liam is the one not
in the point. So if Liam is in the points,
now if we can if double two double points, I
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mean it kiss fifth, goodbye if you don't like figure
it out.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
So yeah, I don't. I don't know what's going on
with Williams. I don't know if maybe they took a
wrong direction in the I don't know if they had
any upgrades that didn't work effectively this season or what.
Because for Carlos to say that the car was undry,
something is wrong. Yeah, something's very wrong. And I don't
know that that's just like a setup problem. Yeah, that
(27:06):
to me seems to indicate it's a larger problem.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yeah, I don't know what upgrades they did or did
not bring. We have to look and see if there's
been anything that's worth a.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Not investigate the Williams problem. Because they've just fallen off
a cliff.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
I don't know why Alex DNF. By the way, he
just pitted and then didn't come out again. I thought
like Yuki had wrecked him. Yuki was on a roll.
Yuki was like angry, but yeah, I didn't. I don't
actually know the cause of Alex's DNF. It's just like
he literally pitted and didn't come out and I was
like hello, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
So after Alex got out, so he was forced to
retire after fifteen laps, and after getting out of the car,
he said he did not yet know the root cause,
but suggested that there were similarities to his previous DNF
in Montreal. Yeah, he said, it felt inside the cockpit
a bit like Canada. We need to review it. We
seem to be struggling a little bit with I'm not
(28:01):
sure if it's temperature related, but we've had a few
DNFs now in a Rose. It's a bit annoying, especially
when we're in the fight for points. Yeah, that's oh yeah.
So Max were stapping and Kimy Antonelli had a moment
in the opening lap of the race. Was it deemed
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a racing incident. So Kimmy got penalties. Okay, okay, Yeah,
so there was an incident where something happened. Kimmy I
think locked up or all of it, like t bones Max.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was disappointing, especially with this being
Red Bulls Home race.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
There were a lot of Max fans in attendance. Yeah. Yeah,
(29:31):
Max gets a lot of support in Austria, and I
feel bad for them that they didn't get to to
really see him do anything.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Imagine going to a race to see like a very
particular person because of this person in their relationship with
the track, and then they're literally out the first lap.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Yeah, traumatizing. That was really unfortunate. But yeah, that was
not great.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
But Max, he was very nice to Kimmy and the
memes from it are hysterical, like they are so funny
because that is but you know, Max, he's mom a
hen with those rookies.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
He loves gonna say that they're like his little baby
ducklings and he is. I think he gives them sort
of like the grace that he may not have been given. Yeah,
he was a rookie. I've heard people say that, and
he's just so nice to them and very understanding, and
he's like basically like it's really unfortunate, but these things happen.
It just it's part of it is experienced. They're young,
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like they'll figure it out and it just is what
it is.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Max has this reputation where he's just like, oh, Max
is so mean and he's so this, he's always angry.
I'm like, no, literally, his qualifying lap in Q three
was messed up because of a yellow flag. So that's
why he was seven is because of the he It
was just really he should have probably he probably would
have been on the first or second row, but his
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lap got messed up due to the yellow flag. So
he knew his lap was messed up and then saw
gabriel Bordoletto behind him gave him a slipstream on purpose
and said that's exactly what he did. And Gabrielle later
was like, yeah, that's just Max did that, and.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
He done that. He helps me out a lot.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
He goes because they're friends, and I'm like, yeah, because
he's so mean. He's so mean, and I think.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
It's easier to do that when you know that, like
when you know that that driver and that team they're
not your like your fight isn't with them in terms
of competition. So it's you know, Max is friends with
Charles Leclaire. He's not giving Charles the slipstream and qualifying
that's his like direct competition. Sober and Gabrielle Bordoletto are
not Max's direct competition. So he's like, you know what, Yeah,
(31:31):
I'll give the kid a break, I'll give him a
slipstream during qualifying because my race isn't with him. Yeah,
and his race ended up not being with anybody because
he got taken out. But uh, kind of is what
it is. Yeah. So with Max dnfing and lap one
and then we get Yuki Sonoda. He was the last
classified finisher in P sixteen, So there were four cars
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that just didn't finish the race or didn't start the race. Yeah,
So that means that Red Bulls did not score a
point a single point in this race, and their seventy
seven race scoring streak ended today. Oh that's right. They
were for short of the all time record that was
set by Ferrari of the most consecutive races scoring a
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point for a team. Wow. So this was the end
of Max's thirty one race point streak. Okay, so he
had a point scoring streak going thirty one races strong.
So that was the end of that, and he had
scored points in seventy four or the last seventy five races. Apparently,
his last two retirements that happened during the first lap
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of a race have been when he was hit by
a Mercedes. So we had this one and then the
previous one was Silverstone in twenty twenty one. Oh, the
bad one. Yeah. So Kimmy Antonelli, who took out Max
had never retired on the first lap before today. The
last Mercedes lap one retirement was Lewis Hamilton at Qatar
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in twenty twenty three. Antonelli's only points finished in the
last five races was his podium finish in Canada. So
the struggle continues for Kimmy. It's okay, Kimmy, we'll bounce back.
It's all right, Kimmy. Yeah. I felt really bad for him.
You could tell that he was. He didn't take that
helmet off, No, kept it on the whole way back.
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I said, fine, Anthony Hamilton could send him to Kimmy
immediately if he's there. We need the emotional support. Dad.
What is he?
Speaker 3 (33:24):
So?
Speaker 1 (33:25):
I think that ends our fun?
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Fat?
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Well, we did get some fun McLaren racing. That was
something we had said, Oh.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
We're ready for it, we are ready for it, and
we got it.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
I mean the battle between Oscar and Lando was really
it was fun.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
And so what's really interesting is I think I've talked
about before. Every now and then I'll put on like
really old races and I'll just watch them because it's
just interesting to me. But because of the technology back then,
they really focus like a lot of times in the
front or like the most interesting thing. So even if
like Sinna at the time wasn't really battling, but he
was in the battle, or like if he was second,
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like that's who they focused on. They didn't always go
and focus on the back or this or that the
midfield just because they're like, we know why y'all are
watching and it That's how it reminded me somewhat for
a long time during this race where for the longest
time the camera just never left the mclarence. And I
didn't even hate it because I liked being able to
see the build up to what Oscar was going to
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try to do rather than just see the attack. I
liked seeing the build up. I like seeing him, set
up for it, set it up, and really like that
was I really enjoyed that. And Landa just did a
good job. Like he was what half a second away
from everybody within in qualifying and so that was already
very impressive because I.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Think the largest margin in qualifying that they've had that
they've had this season.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Yeah, and so he just did a really good job.
He was calm, collected, at exact flow state, he was
on it, and so I think he he just did
it really good. I mean, Oscar him, they race, they race,
They kept it clean. They kept it clean, but not
boring by any means. You know, they were going for it,
and I just was.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Like, you know, that's what we want to see. I
agree with the keeping I don't mind keeping the camera
on sort of the bat and follow on the tow
McLarens and following them for a significant amount of time
because we don't really get to see all that. We
don't get to do that all that often, yeah, because
there is so much usually happening elsewhere on the track,
(35:34):
and because the cars are moving so fast and the
cameras don't like we're all it's like you're cutting two
different shots. Like every couple of seconds because they're just zooming.
I think that it was nice to be able to
see some of that side by side action. And like
you say, yeah, because a lot of figure out when
you're going to overtake somebody, like it's planning. It's the
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drivers observing what the person in front of them is
to do. It's noting how the lines that they take
in certain corners and then trying to figure out, Okay,
what's my best position. Like, so seeing the build up
to it, seeing the setup to the moves and when
they're going to try to pull something that is interesting
because we don't get to see it hardly.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Ever, No, we don't ever get to see it half
the time. We just see it right when it's about
to happen.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Or or it's a quick cut to like oh my god,
he goes, oh this just happened.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Yeah, here's a replay, and I'm like, I mean, I'm
fine with the replay, but I really enjoyed that.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
I don't know, I like that. I think McLaren last season,
and I think, you know, I was probably guilty of
saying some things of it too, because at the time,
you know, we're like, just pick a driver.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
But who should be like your number one.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
I'm really I like how that's been handled. I like
that Zach Brown, and I'm well aware he's not the
team principal, but he's very involved. He's the CEO of
McLaren Racing, but he has not you know, he It
doesn't seem that him and Andrea Stella, So I won't
to sure. I said the first I know his name
(37:02):
is Andrea, but I'm like, it's it Andrea.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Is it Andrea? Andrea Stella? Andrea Stella.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Yeah, Like it doesn't seem that they've had any sort
of discussions of being like here's the pure like who
here is the number one and here is the number two.
It feels like they're just like, no, we're just gonna
let them race and we're not saying who number one
or who number two is. And I just like that
Zach has just really stood by that versus letting everybody
else be like, no, just pick your person, just do it,
(37:27):
just do it. And he's like no, And I feel
like that's just a very to me. I'm like, it
would be very easy to pick a number one and
a number two, and I feel like almost every other
team probably would and I'm like, it's very American to me.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
It's for me beath Man win well, yeah, to be.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Like y'ak both can work for it then within reason
and until you you really give me a reason and
not let you You're going to do that.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Until you it's like, I'm gonna trust you too to
handle it and to race and not cause part problems.
And I'm not gonna step in unless you prove to
me that you can't handle it. It's kind of like
you give them an inch and see if they take
the mile like you you you just let them do
what they're gonna do. And unless it becomes a problem
(38:13):
to where they're constantly unless it's causing issues within the team,
it's causing hostility, it's causing one or both cars to
crash out or get in accidents or not finish a race,
severely costing the team points and like the constructors, unless
we're getting to that point, I mean, let them, let
them race, let them do what that. Yeah, well, I
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also think too, it's like how do I put it?
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Zach has like two of the best drivers on his team,
and he's showing it off and he's letting them show
everybody else he's letting everybody know and that constructors. He's like,
I have the two most consistent and arguably the best
on my.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Best driver lineup.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Yeah, and they're they get to push each other to
be better. Y'all got to worry about yourselves and everybody else,
Like I just gotta worry about me, Yeah, and I
just And it.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Is different from last year when this year it's obviously
a battle between the two McClaren drivers of who's gonna
be the Driver's champion at the end of the year,
versus last year it was you know, Max in holding
the lead and maintaining the lead, and then you have
kind of Oscar and Lando sort of taking points off
(39:30):
each other almost Like that's a different scenario when you
have another driver from another team at play where there
may come a time sooner in that sort of scenario
where you kind of have to throw your support behind
one driver or the other. So I think that calling
for McLaren to choose the number one driver last season,
I think that that's fair. Yeah, but compared to this
season when it's just your two drivers are in the
(39:52):
one two spot, like, let him raise, let them figure
it out. May the best man win.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
That was just Yeah, that was fun and then it
just kind of done. It was kind of just was
what it was. But it was interesting to hear the
team's race against each other and to have strategy against
each other because they don't have I mean, it's the
it's the pit wall, but they're into different garages, and
so I thought that was very interesting.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Yeah, because usually you have there's when you have your
two drivers. For the most part, it's like the you know,
the wall in between the two sides of the garage
and the two strategies where for the most part you're
both running your own race. But there is a level
of collaboration involved when it's trying to time your pit
(40:36):
stops and stuff, because a lot of times it's not
necessarily the teammates trying to get one over on each other.
It's they're trying to figure out how to get over
on the cars around them, right, and so it's and
it's it's making sure that your strategies don't conflict when
you're and you're not trying to basically box both cars
at the same time. Yeah, you know, so that's pretty
(40:56):
much the extent of the collaboration outside of if you
have a very clear number one and number two driver,
and it's like a you know, a maxiver stap in
who's qualifying in the top three or four, and then
you have, like you to note who's qualifying who's not
making it out of Q one. Then there's a little
more information exchange because then you're getting data on tire usage.
(41:17):
You might do offset strategies, and then the driver who
qualified and probably won't the driver who qualified lower and
probably won't score points can then help their teammate to
get some information to help their race and maximize their results.
That's all fine, but that is not what this is
between the McLaren's and I think, I think it's great
(41:38):
and interesting. Yeah, and I love like I'm here for
it to see the two sides of the garage, like
plotting their own strategy against each other, to be like, okay, boys,
let's see what we can cook up and see who's
really like who's got what it takes to come out
on top. Like it's like a like a it's almost
like an inter interes squad squad scrimmage, like when your
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team plays against itself to see where we're at and
where we stack up.
Speaker 2 (42:05):
Like I dig that I thought that was very interesting
and we'll be fun to see how he's playing out
all right. Well, with that all being said, we can
hop into our rookie report. So Kimmy Andtonelli. He qualified
ninth he has He had a DNF so no points.
So on the first lap Kimmy spotted a gap down
the inside into turn three and went in a bit
(42:27):
too hot. He narrowly avoided Liam Lawson, but locked up
and hit Max verstap and ending both of their races.
He did take full responsibility immediately. He was like I'm sorry,
I'm sorry, and Max is like it's cool. But he
was handed a three place grid penalty going into Silverstone.
Isaacahjar he qualified thirteenth. He finished twelfth, so zero points.
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Isaac was pushed wide at both turn one and turn
three on the opening lap, and he picked up some
floor damage that cost him over a second per lap.
An early pit stop committed him to a long final
stint on hard tires. Despite strong pace early on and
a well executed strategy that had him running comfortably in
the points, the combination of damage and aging tires saw
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him dropping back through the field late in the race.
So that's Okay, we'll get him next time. Isaac Franco Colopinto.
He qualified fourteenth, He finished fifteenth, so zero points.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
Franco, Franco, Franco man, what is going on? My guy?
Speaker 2 (43:27):
Race by race basis now? So Franco Colopinto's race unraveled
after contact with Yuki Sonoda at turn four and it
sent him into a spin, potentially causing damage that affected
the car's handling. He later forced piastre wide during a
rejoin and received a five second time penalty as well.
And despite a strong start, Colopinto struggled with balance and
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high tire degradation, leaving him without any pace to recover.
So yeah, apparently Colopinto was on a race by race
review base right now. So if he gets on, if
he gets to keep his seat, which seems very insane
and a lot of pressure for anybody to even like it,
for anybody to deal with, But that is what how
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they were choosing to handle it at the moment.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
Who have there been any talks of who would even
be waiting in the wings to get out dating.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
Jack doing I would assume handing him his spot back.
Ali Bharman He qualified fifteenth, He finished eleventh, so zero points.
Bahman started on soft and made solid progress early on,
but a tough middle stint on his second set of
tires hurt his race. He was forced to go long
on his final stint with mediums, which limited his ability
to fight back after his second stop dropped him down
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the order. Despite the challenges, he climbed to P eleven
and showed encouraging pace throughout. They had said that this
was that Haas has normally performed pretty well at this track,
and like we said, Okonday finished in the points, so
it just sounds like it kind of was what it was.
Gabrielle bordolet owe. He qualified eighth and he finished eighth,
so he got four points.
Speaker 3 (45:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (45:02):
Bortoledo had a clean start and ran strongly throughout the race,
making the most of Sauber's upgrades. He praised the team's
pace and strategy, calling the race super intense from start
to finish. After a strong drive, he scored his first
F one points with a P eight finish, just behind
the one stopping Alonzo and Lawson, and despite a late push,
(45:24):
including a hard fought battle with Alonzo, he ran out
of time to get passed. He did really well, so
wait a prodigy.
Speaker 1 (45:31):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (45:32):
William Lawson. He qualified six and he finished sixth, so
he got eight points.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
Yeah woooo.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
Lawson narrowly avoided contact with Antonelli on the opening lap,
but still picked up some damage after squeezing past the Mercedes.
The team committed to a one stop strategy, which paid
off despite heavy pressure from Alonzo for much of the race,
Laws and stayed composed and secured a career best P six,
So good job Liam. Fernando Alonso he qualified eleventh, he
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finished seventh, so he got six points. Alonso finished seventh
in Austria after starting P eleven, making a one stop
strategy work despite concerns about the heat. He stayed in
DRS range throughout and showed clever racecraft late on, reclaiming
a lost position position from Bordoletto while both were being
lapped by the leaders. A composed and tactical drive from
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the veteran rookie. I'm happy to see Alonso get more points.
This is his third consecutive points finish, Thank god. Yeah,
so we can move on to our best and worst segment.
Who is your driver of the day.
Speaker 1 (46:39):
My Driver the day is Gabrielle Bordoletto. Thank god it's
not mine. Okay, I'm always nervous. Now I'm like, who was? Uh? Yeah,
Gabby just did a really good job. Got his first
points career points in F one. Just good on him,
Very happy for him. Salberg got their first consecutive point
scorer of the year, so very happy for them. Double points.
Speaker 2 (47:01):
Yeah, my driver of the day I'm giving to Liam Lawson.
I'm like, you had a great weekend, my guy, you
had a good day. Good on you you. I mean
doing a one stop with Alonzo behind you as well,
like you don't want to see him in your mirror,
so leaving down his neck I think he did. And
then then to avoid you know, good on him for
avoiding contact with Antonelli. I mean that could have just
(47:22):
ended things as well. And then to me, I don't
know what it did damage on the car, but knowing
that it did and he managed that for seventy laps,
good on him.
Speaker 1 (47:31):
Yeah, I could tell he looked very tired after the race.
He was like basically and mentally like exhausted. Have been
a drive with Alonzo breathing down his neck for seventies Like.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
I'm tired, So now we move on to our biggest letdown?
Who is your biggest let down?
Speaker 1 (47:47):
My biggest letdown was redda Bull just as a whole.
This was their home race for the team. We had
a Max DNF and Lap one, we had a uk
P sixteen. In the last three races, Sober has scored
more points than Red Bull. So I just want to
I want you all to let that sink in for
a second that in the last three races Sober has
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outscored Red Bull. This is a truly like just call
the police, like what is going on with Red Bull?
I just don't call the authorities. I just don't understand.
Speaker 2 (48:21):
No, my biggest letdown is Kimmie Antonelli because he ruined
his race. He ruined Max's race, and just the whole
thing was I mean, it's a rookie mistake. It happens,
it's a learning curve for him. It just sucked that
it had to affect Max for step and not saying
(48:41):
that I would have preferred to affect anybody else, but
I definitely wish it wasn't Max. So you know, it
is what it is. I'm sure he's beating himself up
about it, and hopefully he can just take that and
go into it. But yeah, that was that was a
hard pill to swallow on the very first lap. Yeah,
so let us know who your biggest letdown is and
(49:05):
your driver of the day.
Speaker 1 (49:06):
Yeah. Oh, I didn't want to mention, and we may
keep this in or out. But did you see this
quote from Christian Horner abal the McLaren's no what he
saying now? He said, What's truly impressive and for me,
I can't see any other team being able to do it.
Is when you look at how close Oscar is able
to run behind Lando with a car fat on fuel
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at the beginning of the race, He's basically making love
to his exhaust pipe for a lap after lap and
the tires are not dying. I mean that to me,
is you know that is their advantage. They've managed to
create a car that really protects its tires very well
and obviously has a good balance. I can't see any
other car that would be able to follow that closely
and not grain the front tires or the rear tires.
I don't really understand making love to his tailed pipe.
Speaker 2 (49:52):
He's I would like to hear how he said that
in his tone, because I bet you he's insinuating they cheating,
and he he Christians coming across as like I can't
prove it, but I know that's what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (50:06):
Like that's how that feels. Oh. Another great quote from
this race was Oscar on the radio saying Alpine still
managed to find a way to fuck me over all
these years later, referring to when cola fan did he
really say that? Though? Like, I don't. I never I
saw somebody. It's a post from ESPN F one, Okay.
Speaker 2 (50:29):
I have beef with that page though, because they posted
something that George Russell supposedly said and I could never
find it, Like I could never find where he said it.
And that's why I have beef with ESPNF one because
it was it was supposedly something that George Russell said
about Josper Stappin about and being the boss or something.
(50:51):
But the quote was like I was like, wow, he
really said that, And then I couldn't find it anywhere
could I could not verify it?
Speaker 1 (50:57):
And I mean tends to be beautable source, so that's
what I thought.
Speaker 2 (51:02):
I literally couldn't find it anywhere and it was ESPNF one,
and I was like, what the fuck?
Speaker 1 (51:07):
So that's what I'm like, hmm, yeah, I just wanted
to mention those two quotes because I thought they were hysterical. Yeah.
So with that being said, we can go into our
next race teaser.
Speaker 2 (51:17):
Yes, so we move on to round twelve the Qatar
Airways British Grand Prix also known as Silverstone Circuit. So
last year's main race results we had Lewis Hamilton, Max Verse, Staffen,
and Lando Norris. If you all did not watch last season,
it was very emotional and the highlights of me to
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me of the entire season seeing Lewis win that race and.
Speaker 1 (51:44):
It is a crime that drivers survive did not reference
it and mention it. They could have had a whole
episode devoted just to that storyline, because it is a
good storyline. It's like phenomenal. It is the stuff that
like directors and movie writers wish that they could come
up with and have at their fingertips to it, like
it was a cinema.
Speaker 2 (52:03):
It was cinema and it was a crime. So add
that to the list of beef I have with drive
to survive.
Speaker 1 (52:10):
So that is.
Speaker 2 (52:13):
Why, like, why wouldn't you put that in there? The
most decorated Formula One driver of all time has not
won in nine hundred something days and then wins his
home race with Mercedes the team he's leaving, are you
kidding me?
Speaker 1 (52:31):
And he has won at that track I think more
than any other driver, or he may have like tied
with like Shoemaker or something like that. Like it's just
but it's truly criminal anything.
Speaker 2 (52:44):
They didn't. They didn't consult us when they were pretty
clearly obviously. So some facts about Silverstone. The first GP
was held in nineteen fifty and it was also the
very first Grand Prix.
Speaker 1 (52:57):
Wasn't just the first Silverstone Grand Prix or British conper
it was the first ever Formula one race grown forever ever.
It was the the og the OGGGG. Yeah, nineteen fifty.
So yeah, this is the seventy five year anniversary for
Formula One. It's gonna be live. Yeah. Oh, they better
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do something cool, like for their opening ceremonies and all
that jazz like we had interpreted dance at Austria. Yeah,
that was that was interesting. Yes, so I want something cool.
It should be. It should be.
Speaker 2 (53:33):
So we have fifty two laps. The circuit length is
five point nine kilometers, which is about three point six miles,
and the race distance is three hundred and six point
two kilometers, which is about one hundred and ninety point
three miles.
Speaker 1 (53:47):
These are all approximations. Yah, please don't come for us. No,
I've rounded up. Otherwise I'd be saying three decimal places. Yeah,
they love a three decimal place measurement.
Speaker 2 (53:56):
We're like, yeah, So the lap record is held by
Max first stap In, which was set in twenty twenty
at a minute and twenty seven point zero nine seven seconds.
So we'll see if that gets beaten.
Speaker 1 (54:11):
That's very close to a sub minute twenty seven. Let's
see if we can break it. I'm about like, I'm like,
let's break some records.
Speaker 2 (54:18):
Good, But also I don't know because sometimes the lap records,
I think that like it is that the fastest in race,
is that the fastest qualifying because a lot oftentimes the
qualifying lap is different than so I'm assuming most of
these are like the lap record that he's from a
race from a because it doesn't actually say whenever I
find that stat.
Speaker 1 (54:36):
Lap records at Formula one circuits set during a Grand
Prix and for the British GP, yeah, it was Max.
Speaker 2 (54:45):
Yes, and then for a qualifying lap. The fastest lap
is Lewis Hamilton in twenty twenty at like one twenty four.
Speaker 1 (54:53):
Yeah. Okay, so there's time to be found in Yeah,
the race at least it's good to know. Yeah for
going forward.
Speaker 2 (54:59):
Yeah, there are two drs zones at Silverstone and Silverstone
is one of the fastest tracks on the calendar. It
is known for its high speed layout and iconic corners
like Maggots and Becketts and Abby. Despite several changes over
the years, it keeps its challenging character. Lewis Hamilton once
described a lap around Silverstone as feeling like flying on
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a fighter jet. Silverstone is also widely regarded as a
strong circuit to overtake on. That's my biggest thing I
always want to know, like can we overtake here? Yes,
we can it. It has a wide layout combined with
a lot of key features like the wellington and handguar
straits provide multiple opportunities for drivers to make passing moves
throughout the lap. It is also considered generally a high
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degradation track and something to keep in mind this race.
So last year the tires they had it was the
C one, the C two and the C three. They
have moved it one over to a softer compound, so
now they're doing the C two, the C three, and
the C four, So it'll be interesting to see how
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that affects strategy. Some people do a one stop here,
some people go for the two stop. Last year we
had like we had a two stop, but that was
also because it rained and some people changed the inters.
So it'll be interesting to see how that affects things,
considering it's already a high dead track and that's on
the hardest of compounds last year and now it is
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a step softer, so it'll be interesting to see how
that affects the weekend.
Speaker 1 (56:30):
Doesn't Hamilton have a portion of the track named after
him here? Yeah, he does, and I think at the
Hamilton Street I think it is, Yes, I think is
the Hamilton Straight.
Speaker 2 (56:40):
So that is pretty cool because hello, he's that guy Ferrari.
Get it together. But well, guys, that about wraps things
up for us. We will hauler at you next week
after Silverstone. Let us know your best and worst and
any race prediction is going into the weekend.
Speaker 1 (57:01):
Yeah yeah, bye bye
Speaker 2 (57:13):
Hmm.
Let's talk about Hitler. That'll make sense later. I'm immaculately conceived.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I don't know what to do.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
I swear I'm not stupid.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Take it or lead that. Sometimes you just want to
leave it, do.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
I got to bar my mom's underwear. I'm bar wing
or underwear. You just yeah, Lisa lights the dar Jar beats.
I'm not gonna edit it out. No, no, no, I
don't know like I I got. It's pretty great suck.
Why are you saying with a question mark clap bitch?
All right?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Three two one, ash.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
And we're live. I'm in and I'm Jessica, And this
is why are you yelling? Welcome back to another F
one race review. We are going to do a recap
and a review in an analysis, very in depth, very technical,
very professional YEP of round eleven of the twenty twenty
five Formula One season. We're gonna be talking about the
MSc Cruises Austrian Grand pre She's very excited.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Also, if you need a refresher at all, you can
see our sign. Lewis Hamilton I don't want to stop.
His engineer box pretty much sums it up like the
whole vibe of the year. But bless, so we can
jump into the race podium, the constructor standings and some
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of the drivers before we get into fun facts. So
our race podium we have Lando Norris, Oscar Piastre and
Charles Leclair. Woo pretty much finished where we started for
the most part.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
For the most part, let me tell you that by
the time we got to the end of the race,
I completely forgot that Ferrari was even in P three
and P four. Yeah, just was like I because so
much of the focus was they were just in no
man's land. We'll get there, We'll get to that later.
But I just completely I forgot Charles was even in
P three for a minute and then it was like
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like the McLaren's crossed the finish line and then twenty
seconds later and then there rounds out our podium and
I was like, oh.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah, yeah, I mean Karls started second, finishes third. You know,
Lewis just stayed there. He's fourth, bless. So we will
hop into our constructor standings. McLaren is still leading with
four hundred and seventeen points. Ferrari has now jumped back
to second place with two hundred and ten points. Thank you,
(02:18):
Kimmy Antonelli Love Yeah. Mercedes is only one point away though,
in third at two hundred and nine points. Red Bull
is fourth with one hundred and sixty two points. Williams
is fifth with fifty five points. Racing Bulls is sixth
with thirty six points. Has is seventh with twenty nine points.
Aston Martin is eighth with twenty eight points. Kicksalper is
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ninth with twenty six points, and Alpine is tenth with
eleven points. So yeah, and our driver standings. The biggest
change now is Lando is closing the gap in on Pstree.
Pstre has two hundred and sixteen points. Lando has two
hundred and one points, So first and second is still
the McLaren boys, and we're still like what's gonna happen,
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feeling like.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
It's gonna be a battle to between them until the
end of the season. I think it's gonna go back
and forth because it feels like and Orlando's talked about
trying to find this consistency where you know the weekends
that he's on it, he's just on it. Everything is clicking,
he's qualifying well, the race performance is good, but he
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hasn't been able to do like repeatedly do it race
after race, So it's been a little hit or miss. Yeah,
so I think it's gonna be kind of I feel
like it's gonna be like that through through the end
of the season. Oh yeah, it's we shall see. Yeah,
so we can hop into our fun facts. Starting with McLaren,
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they scored their fourth one two finish of the season,
so this is the team's most won two finishes since
two thousand and seven, and for Orlando Norris it was
his seventh career victory. The last claren driver to win
at the Red Bull Ring was Davidtard in two thousand.
What I heard that I love DC. Only two drivers
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have won exactly seven Grand Prix for McLaren, Landa Norris
and Oscar Piastre. Wow. And speaking of mister Pastre, he
finished second in Austria for the second year in a row,
which I found. I thought it was interesting going into
this weekend that a lot of people were mentioning that
(04:29):
Lando is this is almost like a specialist track for him.
There's certain drivers will they'll say they're a specialist at
this track, meaning that for whatever reason they just click
really well, they're driving style just vibes with it, and
people were saying, they're like, oh, Lando is kind of
a specialist at this track usually does really well at Austria,
but apparently Max is also in Austria. I feel like
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he's just a specialist everywhere.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
But everybody was I think everybody just likes the Red
Bull Ring. Yeah, and it's a lot of people's favorite track.
They've described it as very flowy. I think that a
lot of people. We saw a lot of people do
really well here that otherwise haven't really performed that well yet.
So I'm like, I think this is just one of
those tracks that a lot of people look sell at.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
I mean, people were even saying, you know, Charles Leclaire,
does I think he's won here? I think he won
here before we're back from the fact check. Charles the
Claire has won in Austria before in twenty twenty two.
So yeah, And I thought I had remembered someone mentioning
that on the broadcast. But apparently a lot of people
are specialists at Austria and do really well here.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Well, they've extended it to like what twenty forty one
they said, So Jesus Christ, they yeah, they extended it.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah, twenty forty one. Moving on to mister Charles de Claire.
Speaking of him, he finished P three for his third podium,
finished in the last four Grand Prix. So even though
we've been having issues, Ferrari's been having issues, we're still
somehow pulling it, pulling these podiums out of somewhere somewhere,
who knows where it's coming from. But this was Leclaire's
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fifth podium finished at the Red Bull Ring, his most
to any circuit. See, he's a specialist, everyone's specialist. So
teammate Lewis Hamilton tied his best Grand Peer result of
the season, finishing in P four. He also finished P
four at EMMLA earlier this year. Lewis Poor, Lewis Hamilton.
(06:26):
The communication issues persist with Ferrari, and I don't know
if it's at this point, I'm starting to wonder if
it's specifically with this engineer that we're having the communication
problems with, or if it's just Ferrari as a whole,
Because it's the engineer can only relate to the driver
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what they're being instructed by the person ultimately responsible for
the team stretch.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I don't want to stop box Box, I like, hello.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Yeah, and it wasn't a simple like box, I don't
want to box, you're boxing anyways, far too long, multiple
back and forths. It was you need to It was
almost Lewis saying like, you need to explain to me
why we're doing this. What is this strategy? Doesn't make
(07:21):
any sense? What are we doing? And it was multiple
back and forth in the questioning, and I'm just like,
there is no trust at all, it seems between this
driver and this engineer, or just the driver and the
whoever's calling the strategy at this point. Yeah, it's uh,
I don't know. It's bizarre and it could still be. Again,
(07:43):
We've said it before, growing pains were almost halfway through
this season. It's still not that much time to develop
a relationship with your engineer. I feel like it's been
eleven races. It's still not a ton of time. Like
it's like they refer to another sports as like meaningful
(08:03):
like playing time, you know, when it's like you're actually
getting the experience in the moment of like a game
time situation. Yeah, there hasn't. There's only been eleven rounds
of that, and to be fair, it has been it's
like for an hour and a half a time, but
like in race scenarios and communication is strategy.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I mean, but it's also it's not like it's his
first rodeo either. It's kind of like we don't see
this issue happening with Bono and Kimmy and there in
the exact same scenario right now, and that's probably due
to the communication style. One style is better received than
another style, it seems, And I just am like, I
don't know if that's because you know, if you're a Bono,
(08:44):
you've been the race engineer, You've won six driver championships
with a driver, and maybe like nobody really needs to
criticize your communication skills. You've been communicating with a world
champion and helped him win six titles. So it's kind
of like at that point, his kid like that also
(09:04):
goes into the communication skills, like that driver can only
do so much if they're engineer is not well versed
in how to communicate with them. So it's like at
this point, I.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Would argue it's a little different with Kimmy and Bono
because Kimmy is a rookie. He's a very young rookie.
He's only eighteen. Yes, it is a new driver and
engineer pairing with them, But there is a power dynamic
there when you're eighteen, brand new to this level of
the sport, to this team.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Kimmy, Like Kimmy has no reason to question Bono exactly,
Ricky has no reason to question Lewis. And it's like
it's like the exact opposite scenario, Like if you have
a driver who is as successful as Lewis's, then why
are you questioning him so often all the time, And like,
(09:53):
of course, it's that's to me, that's how I see it, Like,
of course Kimmy's not questioning Bono. Why would he look
at his look at his track RCK look at track records.
So it's like the and they y'all look at if
y'all look at it. For Lewis and his engineer, it's like.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
You look at Ferrari's track record or lack thereof.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
And it's like, why are you questioning the only person
here who's been winning in the past decade. Why he's
the only one on the team at this point that
has won as a world championship or and helped his
like constructor when they're constructed, So what are we arguing about?
He's the only one that's done it that's on the
team right now. At least you know that that we're
aware that we're aware of. I don't be nitpicky, but
(10:27):
like so, I.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Don't know that there's one communications person at Ferrari that
was a part of Mercedes, you know, four years ago.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I don't know. I'm just saying the main players here.
He's the one that's been winning in the past decade,
So what are we questioning him so much?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
That's how I see it.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I see it as why are we questioning the one
person here at face valuating that we're aware of that
has actually one things recently recently.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I don't mention it. I don't just mean a race,
you know the titles it's to I don't know, and
that has consistently won because Farrari's got some here and there.
But yes, yeah, the communication issues and the lack of
trust in the strategy are very telling. Moving on to
George Russell racing for Mercedes, took P five and has
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only failed to score once this season, which was in Monaco,
so he scored in every other round this season so far.
Liam Lawson driving for Racing Bulls, finished P six and
it is his best career finished. He had a very
good week and he did.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
He was one of the ones that just I guess
because he has experienced there as I guess, or whenever
he like during his rookie stuff or whatever, or I
guess his feeder series stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
But he just was killing it. And I'm like, Okay,
that was an observation I heard someone make was that
this particular track and as we get this kind of
opens this is the beginning of like the europe your
European leg of the season. Is that as this is
one of the first tracks where a lot of the
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rookies will have had experience here and so that can
be a little bit of a contributing factor to why
some of the rookies did so well. Yeah, at this
particular track, which good on Liam. I think that it
was a much needed sort of boost for him. It
is like confidence and for the team and for sure.
Then moving on to our P seven finisher, mister Fernando
(12:24):
Alonso racing for Aston Martin. He now has back to
back seventh place finishes, so it's like his third weekend
in a row. Yeah, scoring points. Yeah, I was very heavy.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
That was like there are just times where I'm like,
you know, this is what I'm concentrating on, and Alonso
has become the person where I'm like, where's Lewis, Where's Max,
Where's Charles, and where's Alonso.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
It's like every once in a while during the race,
you got to kind of like check in and see
where all the faves are. Yeah. Yeah, So full disclosure,
I did fall asleep during this race. I was so
tied and I held on not strong at all. I
was dozing kind of in and out at the beginning
the first thirty five laps or so, and then at
lap thirty five I was full on knocked out and
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then I woke up around lap sixty. So saying that
to say what happened with Alonso's race, But see, I
feel like I heard people talking about it after and
basically he was behind Liam. He was pretty much and
just rode his He was a DRS range. Yeah, he
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he just had to stay with Liam the whole time
because he was he didn't think he had the pace
to keep that position unless he had the boost from
DRS uh and so I think at one point they
were trying to figure out like when they want to box,
and Alonzo's like we box when he boxes, because I
need to be on that ass.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Yeah. They both did one stops like literally, Alonzo's like,
where's he got him?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Because he's like, I can't not be on him the
whole time. And Liam mentioned that in the after race
interviews and he was like, I'm mean, Alonzo was just
I'm sure he got real sick of see in my
rear wing. I was just like, no, I was fine.
I was fine. I was good right there. That was good. Yeah,
But apparently Fernando had a couple of moments where he
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was getting his elbows out a little bit being defensive,
and it's kind of one of those things where it
reminds you, like how good of a defensive driver he is.
I think sometimes people he doesn't he doesn't often get
to show off those skills because the car has not
been the greatest so far this season.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Newer people who aren't familiar with Alonso, even even from
last year, Like, if you watched last year, you would
be familiar with this because he had a lot of
moments like this last season as well. But if you're
like newer, you wouldn't know that. But like the people
that do know, everyone's like.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Watch out They're like, you do not want to get
stuck behind him. He's one of the best defensive drivers
and it is very hard to pass him. So good
on him. We love our o, We love our veteran room. Yeah.
So moving on to P. Eight, we have Gabrielle bordel
Letto for Sober. He got his first career points finish
(15:10):
of the well of his career. I was gonna say
of the year, but it's his first points finished show.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
We just we literally just said, like last episode, I
think I said something along the lines of he's supposed
to be a prodigy, so he better gets a prodigy.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
There he is, he got the prodigy. There he goes.
I think Sober had some upgrades. May last was last weekend.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
That they may have their I think the big upgrades
were last weekend. I'm not sure if they brought any
small ones or not. Yes, but I know that the
big one that everybody was like, oh shit, it was
last weekend.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Yeah, and uh so fine, you know, And it was
obvious then with Nicol Holkemberg's performance last weekend that the
upgrades helped tremendously And if I remember correctly, Nico was
surprised at how well, the upgrades worked, and so now
we see that Gabrielle Bordelletto gets to benefit from some
of those upgrades. And good on him. I'm very excited
(16:02):
to know a lot of people were very happy for him. Yeah,
but he finally got those points much needed again for
you know, it's one of those things where it's like
your rookies or you know, you want you want them
to have something to like hang their hat on kind
of thing.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Yeah, three rookies in a row. I'm our rookies. We
have Liam Alonso and Gabrielle is right there with each other.
It was also interesting because for those who don't know,
Alonso is a part of Gabrielle's management team, and it
was very interesting to see them battle. And there was
a point where Gabrielle like does get past Alonzo and
then Alonzo very quickly and very like clever. It's a
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clever part of the track, Like he kind of took
advantage of the fact that the leaders were coming through
and then he just immediately stole the place back.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
And I'm like that right there, that right there, Alonzo
was like, good job, kid, But uh, I don't think so.
So this was Souber's best result at the Red Bull
Ring since Kimmy Reichenan finished fourth in two thousand and one.
Nico Holkenberg scored points in P nine from last on
the starting grid. Wow, I did not realize that. I
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didn't either till I just read that way to go, hunk.
Good job. Yeah, look at Sober, look at them yea
so Hulkeenberg is the first Sober driver to score in
three consecutive races since Val Thrie Botas in twenty twenty two,
and this was the first double points finished for Sober
since Qatar twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Niko Holkenberg is just he You look at him and
you're like, that guy, probably something has went awry in
his career because he just gives the impression that he
has the talent to have a championship like that. It's
just like whether it was just never the right team,
right time in the car and him never he never.
I'm like, I feel like, if you put him in
the right car, you've got like a number one driver
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that's going to get you a championship, which is probably
why he's you know, he's been around for as long
as he has been so.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Yeah, my first introduction to Hulkeenberg was in Drive to Survive.
I believe it was in season one Will Buxton made
the observation and that Hulkeenberg was one of those like
could have been and should have been a world champion,
but for whatever reason, bad timing, not making the right
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choices for the right teams, that direct for the right
teams at the right times, for whatever reason, he's just
never gotten it. I don't think he's even gotten a
podium ever in his career.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
He holds the records for most race starts with out
a podium and withho to win.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
He's one of the only drivers among the top fifty
six most experienced in F one history to have never
finished on the podium. He's achieved a whole position and
two fastest laps. I would love to say that. I
would love to see that for him too. I want
to see that.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
But I also so about some of these things. I
want to say. I want to see Alonso win a race,
oh and or on a podium. Basically like I would
have loved to want to see a win, I want
to see one of podium. I would love to see
his hulk the same thing. I just don't like I
want to see that.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
I want me to see people crazy things happen. If
you recall last year, I believe it was was it
Brazil where it rained like crazy and yeah and Max
got that crazy uh P one finish, but then both Alpines,
which were very bad last year, Yeah, both Alpines came
in second third and for like craziness where they're like,
(19:21):
how did this happen? We don't know, but we'll take it.
So I'm just like fingers crossed. We have just another
crazy race and we get a Hulkeenberg or Alonzo podium,
that would just I would die.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
I'm calling Silverstone, it's gonna rain. It's gonna be a
Lewis Hamilton, Alonzo and Hulkeenburg and that's gonna be our
That is a bold prediction. If it happens, like I
actually need to play.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
The lottery for real. You heard it here first. So
moving on to P ten, we have Esteban Ocon racing
for has. This was his fifth points finish of the season.
So yeah, I haven't. I feel like hass has been
kind of anonymous outside of the first maybe couple of races. Yeah,
this year, I haven't really I feel the same way.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I feel like they did like they were really hot
and then they were just kind of like quiet, and
now they're starting to like get up there a little noise, Yeah,
And I feel like Oliver Barman was making a lot
more like more noise at the start, and he's been
a little I don't want to say the word forgetful,
but just like anonymous is a good way to put it.
Where it's like he's just or he's like been finishing
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right outside the points or something. I don't know, it's
just he did really well and then I just feel
like he's kind of fallen with it.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Yeah, And I don't I definitely think it's the car.
I don't think it's necessarily him. He and Estabon are
both good drivers.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Yeah, I mean I think some of it is it's
when you're dealing with a rookie, it's gonna be part
of it. Could be the car where it's some of
it's gonna be experienced, and has he been at this
track before?
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Has he not?
Speaker 2 (20:51):
You know, dealing with situations that you don't deal with
in the Feeder series. So I don't think it's any
skill thing. If anything, it's the car or like a
learning thing probably, but Okon's been doing fairly decent. Yeah,
I feel like I feel like when the when you're
when he's able to extract from the car, he does
it when there's something too extra, you know, and there's something.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Too extract, he's able to do that. So now we'll
move on to our DNFs. And there were several This
race was insane. It was a lot, especially right at
the start, so at the very beginning of the race.
So it's very funny. Uh So, we just went and
saw the F one movie the day before the race. Yes,
(21:34):
and we will be doing a review of the movie,
so look out for that. Hopefully it'll come out. We're
aiming for within less than a week from when this
episode airs. Yeah, uh so we in that particular movie.
And this is spoiler alert in case you haven't seen it.
There's one small part where the main character, Sonny Hayes,
Brad Pitt, pretends like he doesn't know how to get
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his car to start on the grid. So all the
other cars they're doing the formation lap warming up their tires,
they're like half a circuit away. Brad Pitt's just sitting
there on the track. I don't know how to start
the car, and then eventually he gets it going, and
so he pulls up into his spot on the grid
right before the lights go out and they actually start
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the race. And so in the movie they comment that, oh,
they're like, oh, he did that on purpose, because now
his tires are warmer. He'll have a you know, a
couple of It's like a marginal advantage should the people
around him, but his tires are a little bit warmer
than everyone else, instead of having to sit in the
grid waiting for him to get to his spot. And
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so keep that in mind. We then get to watching
our Sunday race at Austria and formation lap starts and
who do we have but Carlos signs at the back
of the grid, not moving from his grid box. Not
He's like not moving, his car won't start, and he's
like on the radio asking the engineer what do I
(23:01):
need to do? Like I can't get the car to
start and just won't move. And then everyone and their
mother is like, he's pulling a brad Pit, He's pulling
a Sonny Hayes. It was just very funny and sort
of ironic that the coincidental maybe that that happened. Yeah, so,
but but he was not pulling a Sonny Haze. No,
he was having issues. So neither Williams cars finished the race.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Carlos didn't even start, like he was going to have
to start from the pit lane because of what happened,
I think, And so whenever they finished, the formation left
he had to go through the pits. But then his
brakes were on fire. He didn't even get to race
at all.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Yeah, they just had to retire the car. So I
guess he has a DNS so it did not start
because he didn't. They didn't even get to start the race.
And we also had Alex Alban who had a DNF.
It was his third consecutive race retirement. Williams, What is
going on? Man?
Speaker 2 (23:56):
I think this was the first weekend I saw where
somebody this was the first weekend the car those science
had said that the Williams was undrivable, and I'm like,
fuck because they were looking so strong.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
I just don't know what happened.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
It makes you wonder, like because we're about to we're
new regulations, so much of that team is focused and
has been focused on twenty twenty six, and like now
we're halfway through the season. Just technically Silverstone, we had
the halfway mark where we're essentially at the halfway mark.
I'm like, are people just not like concentrating as hard anymore?
(24:28):
Like I don't or like it's something was just with
this car on this track.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Just I don't know. I'm like, why wouldn't you though,
because if you're no, I mean because the higher up
you finished in the constructor standings, the more reward money
you get. Yeah, Like that's the way it works. So
that's why the constructor standings matter so much to everyone,
to the teams in particular, because think of the constructors
like all putting money like almost like an entry feet
into like a pot at the beginning of the season, right,
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So there's this sort of like this pool of money
that then at the end of the season, depending on
where all ten constructors finish. If you come in first,
you get the biggest portion, like the biggest chunk of
reward money, and then it just goes down from there
all the way to ten. So you get some money
depending on where you finish. But we're talking like a
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one one place finish different like difference in where you
finish as a constructor. So finishing in tenth as a
Constructors versus finishing eighth. I mean, we're talking millions of
dollars difference in what you're gonna get.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
As will Buxton said, finishing fifth is better than finishing
sixth in the Constructor. I don't know that that's a
direct code, but it feels like it could have been.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
It feels like if something in the realm of what
he might have said, seeing all that, all the stuff
about the pot and the constructor's money you get at
the end of the season, all that to say we're
only we're not even halfway through this season. It still
matters where you finish in the Constructors Or. It should
still matter. So you shouldn't be giving up because again,
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the the higher up you place, the more money you
get to put back toward your The next the new regulation.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
Yeah, they need to start Williams as fifth so that
they're never going to be higher than that because the
next is Red Bull. But Red Bull is fourth with
one hundred and sixty two, Williams is fifth with fifty five,
Racing Bulls is sixth with thirty six, So I mean,
honest to god, they really need.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
They They shouled to hold onto their lead.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
They need to hold onto the lead. But I mean,
if they have another two races like this, I mean,
racing bull is going to get them. Because for them
it was a really weird thing that Isaac wasn't in
the points. That's not yah hit a characteristic of him.
So now if we can have Lee normally he's the
one in the points and Liam is the one not
in the point. So if Liam is in the points,
now if we can if double two double points, I
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mean it kiss fifth, goodbye if you don't like figure
it out.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
So yeah, I don't. I don't know what's going on
with Williams. I don't know if maybe they took a
wrong direction in the I don't know if they had
any upgrades that didn't work effectively this season or what.
Because for Carlos to say that the car was undry,
something is wrong. Yeah, something's very wrong. And I don't
know that that's just like a setup problem. Yeah, that
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to me seems to indicate it's a larger problem.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Yeah, I don't know what upgrades they did or did
not bring. We have to look and see if there's
been anything that's worth a.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Not investigate the Williams problem. Because they've just fallen off
a cliff.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
I don't know why Alex DNF. By the way, he
just pitted and then didn't come out again. I thought
like Yuki had wrecked him. Yuki was on a roll.
Yuki was like angry, but yeah, I didn't. I don't
actually know the cause of Alex's DNF. It's just like
he literally pitted and didn't come out and I was
like hello, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
So after Alex got out, so he was forced to
retire after fifteen laps, and after getting out of the car,
he said he did not yet know the root cause,
but suggested that there were similarities to his previous DNF
in Montreal. Yeah, he said, it felt inside the cockpit
a bit like Canada. We need to review it. We
seem to be struggling a little bit with I'm not
(28:01):
sure if it's temperature related, but we've had a few
DNFs now in a Rose. It's a bit annoying, especially
when we're in the fight for points. Yeah, that's oh yeah.
So Max were stapping and Kimy Antonelli had a moment
in the opening lap of the race. Was it deemed
(28:21):
a racing incident. So Kimmy got penalties. Okay, okay, Yeah,
so there was an incident where something happened. Kimmy I
think locked up or all of it, like t bones Max.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was disappointing, especially with this being
Red Bulls Home race.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
There were a lot of Max fans in attendance. Yeah. Yeah,
(29:31):
Max gets a lot of support in Austria, and I
feel bad for them that they didn't get to to
really see him do anything.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Imagine going to a race to see like a very
particular person because of this person in their relationship with
the track, and then they're literally out the first lap.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Yeah, traumatizing. That was really unfortunate. But yeah, that was
not great.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
But Max, he was very nice to Kimmy and the
memes from it are hysterical, like they are so funny
because that is but you know, Max, he's mom a
hen with those rookies.
Speaker 1 (30:05):
He loves gonna say that they're like his little baby
ducklings and he is. I think he gives them sort
of like the grace that he may not have been given. Yeah,
he was a rookie. I've heard people say that, and
he's just so nice to them and very understanding, and
he's like basically like it's really unfortunate, but these things happen.
It just it's part of it is experienced. They're young,
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like they'll figure it out and it just is what
it is.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Max has this reputation where he's just like, oh, Max
is so mean and he's so this, he's always angry.
I'm like, no, literally, his qualifying lap in Q three
was messed up because of a yellow flag. So that's
why he was seven is because of the he It
was just really he should have probably he probably would
have been on the first or second row, but his
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lap got messed up due to the yellow flag. So
he knew his lap was messed up and then saw
gabriel Bordoletto behind him gave him a slipstream on purpose
and said that's exactly what he did. And Gabrielle later
was like, yeah, that's just Max did that, and.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
He done that. He helps me out a lot.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
He goes because they're friends, and I'm like, yeah, because
he's so mean. He's so mean, and I think.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
It's easier to do that when you know that, like
when you know that that driver and that team they're
not your like your fight isn't with them in terms
of competition. So it's you know, Max is friends with
Charles Leclaire. He's not giving Charles the slipstream and qualifying
that's his like direct competition. Sober and Gabrielle Bordoletto are
not Max's direct competition. So he's like, you know what, Yeah,
(31:31):
I'll give the kid a break, I'll give him a
slipstream during qualifying because my race isn't with him. Yeah,
and his race ended up not being with anybody because
he got taken out. But uh, kind of is what
it is. Yeah. So with Max dnfing and lap one
and then we get Yuki Sonoda. He was the last
classified finisher in P sixteen, So there were four cars
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that just didn't finish the race or didn't start the race. Yeah,
So that means that Red Bulls did not score a
point a single point in this race, and their seventy
seven race scoring streak ended today. Oh that's right. They
were for short of the all time record that was
set by Ferrari of the most consecutive races scoring a
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point for a team. Wow. So this was the end
of Max's thirty one race point streak. Okay, so he
had a point scoring streak going thirty one races strong.
So that was the end of that, and he had
scored points in seventy four or the last seventy five races. Apparently,
his last two retirements that happened during the first lap
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of a race have been when he was hit by
a Mercedes. So we had this one and then the
previous one was Silverstone in twenty twenty one. Oh, the
bad one. Yeah. So Kimmy Antonelli, who took out Max
had never retired on the first lap before today. The
last Mercedes lap one retirement was Lewis Hamilton at Qatar
(32:57):
in twenty twenty three. Antonelli's only points finished in the
last five races was his podium finish in Canada. So
the struggle continues for Kimmy. It's okay, Kimmy, we'll bounce back.
It's all right, Kimmy. Yeah. I felt really bad for him.
You could tell that he was. He didn't take that
helmet off, No, kept it on the whole way back.
(33:17):
I said, fine, Anthony Hamilton could send him to Kimmy
immediately if he's there. We need the emotional support. Dad.
What is he?
Speaker 3 (33:24):
So?
Speaker 1 (33:25):
I think that ends our fun?
Speaker 3 (33:26):
Fat?
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Well, we did get some fun McLaren racing. That was
something we had said, Oh.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
We're ready for it, we are ready for it, and
we got it.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
I mean the battle between Oscar and Lando was really
it was fun.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
And so what's really interesting is I think I've talked
about before. Every now and then I'll put on like
really old races and I'll just watch them because it's
just interesting to me. But because of the technology back then,
they really focus like a lot of times in the
front or like the most interesting thing. So even if
like Sinna at the time wasn't really battling, but he
was in the battle, or like if he was second,
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like that's who they focused on. They didn't always go
and focus on the back or this or that the
midfield just because they're like, we know why y'all are
watching and it That's how it reminded me somewhat for
a long time during this race where for the longest
time the camera just never left the mclarence. And I
didn't even hate it because I liked being able to
see the build up to what Oscar was going to
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try to do rather than just see the attack. I
liked seeing the build up. I like seeing him, set
up for it, set it up, and really like that
was I really enjoyed that. And Landa just did a
good job. Like he was what half a second away
from everybody within in qualifying and so that was already
very impressive because I.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Think the largest margin in qualifying that they've had that
they've had this season.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Yeah, and so he just did a really good job.
He was calm, collected, at exact flow state, he was
on it, and so I think he he just did
it really good. I mean, Oscar him, they race, they race,
They kept it clean. They kept it clean, but not
boring by any means. You know, they were going for it,
and I just was.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Like, you know, that's what we want to see. I
agree with the keeping I don't mind keeping the camera
on sort of the bat and follow on the tow
McLarens and following them for a significant amount of time
because we don't really get to see all that. We
don't get to do that all that often, yeah, because
there is so much usually happening elsewhere on the track,
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and because the cars are moving so fast and the
cameras don't like we're all it's like you're cutting two
different shots. Like every couple of seconds because they're just zooming.
I think that it was nice to be able to
see some of that side by side action. And like
you say, yeah, because a lot of figure out when
you're going to overtake somebody, like it's planning. It's the
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drivers observing what the person in front of them is
to do. It's noting how the lines that they take
in certain corners and then trying to figure out, Okay,
what's my best position. Like, so seeing the build up
to it, seeing the setup to the moves and when
they're going to try to pull something that is interesting
because we don't get to see it hardly.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Ever, No, we don't ever get to see it half
the time. We just see it right when it's about
to happen.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Or or it's a quick cut to like oh my god,
he goes, oh this just happened.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
Yeah, here's a replay, and I'm like, I mean, I'm
fine with the replay, but I really enjoyed that.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
I don't know, I like that. I think McLaren last season,
and I think, you know, I was probably guilty of
saying some things of it too, because at the time,
you know, we're like, just pick a driver.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
But who should be like your number one.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
I'm really I like how that's been handled. I like
that Zach Brown, and I'm well aware he's not the
team principal, but he's very involved. He's the CEO of
McLaren Racing, but he has not you know, he It
doesn't seem that him and Andrea Stella, So I won't
to sure. I said the first I know his name
(37:02):
is Andrea, but I'm like, it's it Andrea.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Is it Andrea? Andrea Stella? Andrea Stella.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Yeah, Like it doesn't seem that they've had any sort
of discussions of being like here's the pure like who
here is the number one and here is the number two.
It feels like they're just like, no, we're just gonna
let them race and we're not saying who number one
or who number two is. And I just like that
Zach has just really stood by that versus letting everybody
else be like, no, just pick your person, just do it,
(37:27):
just do it. And he's like no, And I feel
like that's just a very to me. I'm like, it
would be very easy to pick a number one and
a number two, and I feel like almost every other
team probably would and I'm like, it's very American to me.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
It's for me beath Man win well, yeah, to be.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Like y'ak both can work for it then within reason
and until you you really give me a reason and
not let you You're going to do that.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Until you it's like, I'm gonna trust you too to
handle it and to race and not cause part problems.
And I'm not gonna step in unless you prove to
me that you can't handle it. It's kind of like
you give them an inch and see if they take
the mile like you you you just let them do
what they're gonna do. And unless it becomes a problem
(38:13):
to where they're constantly unless it's causing issues within the team,
it's causing hostility, it's causing one or both cars to
crash out or get in accidents or not finish a race,
severely costing the team points and like the constructors, unless
we're getting to that point, I mean, let them, let
them race, let them do what that. Yeah, well, I
(38:35):
also think too, it's like how do I put it?
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Zach has like two of the best drivers on his team,
and he's showing it off and he's letting them show
everybody else he's letting everybody know and that constructors. He's like,
I have the two most consistent and arguably the best
on my.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Best driver lineup.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
Yeah, and they're they get to push each other to
be better. Y'all got to worry about yourselves and everybody else,
Like I just gotta worry about me, Yeah, and I
just And it.
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Is different from last year when this year it's obviously
a battle between the two McClaren drivers of who's gonna
be the Driver's champion at the end of the year,
versus last year it was you know, Max in holding
the lead and maintaining the lead, and then you have
kind of Oscar and Lando sort of taking points off
(39:30):
each other almost Like that's a different scenario when you
have another driver from another team at play where there
may come a time sooner in that sort of scenario
where you kind of have to throw your support behind
one driver or the other. So I think that calling
for McLaren to choose the number one driver last season,
I think that that's fair. Yeah, but compared to this
season when it's just your two drivers are in the
(39:52):
one two spot, like, let him raise, let them figure
it out. May the best man win.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
That was just Yeah, that was fun and then it
just kind of done. It was kind of just was
what it was. But it was interesting to hear the
team's race against each other and to have strategy against
each other because they don't have I mean, it's the
it's the pit wall, but they're into different garages, and
so I thought that was very interesting.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Yeah, because usually you have there's when you have your
two drivers. For the most part, it's like the you know,
the wall in between the two sides of the garage
and the two strategies where for the most part you're
both running your own race. But there is a level
of collaboration involved when it's trying to time your pit
(40:36):
stops and stuff, because a lot of times it's not
necessarily the teammates trying to get one over on each other.
It's they're trying to figure out how to get over
on the cars around them, right, and so it's and
it's it's making sure that your strategies don't conflict when
you're and you're not trying to basically box both cars
at the same time. Yeah, you know, so that's pretty
(40:56):
much the extent of the collaboration outside of if you
have a very clear number one and number two driver,
and it's like a you know, a maxiver stap in
who's qualifying in the top three or four, and then
you have, like you to note who's qualifying who's not
making it out of Q one. Then there's a little
more information exchange because then you're getting data on tire usage.
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You might do offset strategies, and then the driver who
qualified and probably won't the driver who qualified lower and
probably won't score points can then help their teammate to
get some information to help their race and maximize their results.
That's all fine, but that is not what this is
between the McLaren's and I think, I think it's great
(41:38):
and interesting. Yeah, and I love like I'm here for
it to see the two sides of the garage, like
plotting their own strategy against each other, to be like, okay, boys,
let's see what we can cook up and see who's
really like who's got what it takes to come out
on top. Like it's like a like a it's almost
like an inter interes squad squad scrimmage, like when your
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team plays against itself to see where we're at and
where we stack up.
Speaker 2 (42:05):
Like I dig that I thought that was very interesting
and we'll be fun to see how he's playing out
all right. Well, with that all being said, we can
hop into our rookie report. So Kimmy Andtonelli. He qualified
ninth he has He had a DNF so no points.
So on the first lap Kimmy spotted a gap down
the inside into turn three and went in a bit
(42:27):
too hot. He narrowly avoided Liam Lawson, but locked up
and hit Max verstap and ending both of their races.
He did take full responsibility immediately. He was like I'm sorry,
I'm sorry, and Max is like it's cool. But he
was handed a three place grid penalty going into Silverstone.
Isaacahjar he qualified thirteenth. He finished twelfth, so zero points.
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Isaac was pushed wide at both turn one and turn
three on the opening lap, and he picked up some
floor damage that cost him over a second per lap.
An early pit stop committed him to a long final
stint on hard tires. Despite strong pace early on and
a well executed strategy that had him running comfortably in
the points, the combination of damage and aging tires saw
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him dropping back through the field late in the race.
So that's Okay, we'll get him next time. Isaac Franco Colopinto.
He qualified fourteenth, He finished fifteenth, so zero points.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
Franco, Franco, Franco man, what is going on? My guy?
Speaker 2 (43:27):
Race by race basis now? So Franco Colopinto's race unraveled
after contact with Yuki Sonoda at turn four and it
sent him into a spin, potentially causing damage that affected
the car's handling. He later forced piastre wide during a
rejoin and received a five second time penalty as well.
And despite a strong start, Colopinto struggled with balance and
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high tire degradation, leaving him without any pace to recover.
So yeah, apparently Colopinto was on a race by race
review base right now. So if he gets on, if
he gets to keep his seat, which seems very insane
and a lot of pressure for anybody to even like it,
for anybody to deal with, But that is what how
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they were choosing to handle it at the moment.
Speaker 1 (44:13):
Who have there been any talks of who would even
be waiting in the wings to get out dating.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
Jack doing I would assume handing him his spot back.
Ali Bharman He qualified fifteenth, He finished eleventh, so zero points.
Bahman started on soft and made solid progress early on,
but a tough middle stint on his second set of
tires hurt his race. He was forced to go long
on his final stint with mediums, which limited his ability
to fight back after his second stop dropped him down
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the order. Despite the challenges, he climbed to P eleven
and showed encouraging pace throughout. They had said that this
was that Haas has normally performed pretty well at this track,
and like we said, Okonday finished in the points, so
it just sounds like it kind of was what it was.
Gabrielle bordolet owe. He qualified eighth and he finished eighth,
so he got four points.
Speaker 3 (45:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (45:02):
Bortoledo had a clean start and ran strongly throughout the race,
making the most of Sauber's upgrades. He praised the team's
pace and strategy, calling the race super intense from start
to finish. After a strong drive, he scored his first
F one points with a P eight finish, just behind
the one stopping Alonzo and Lawson, and despite a late push,
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including a hard fought battle with Alonzo, he ran out
of time to get passed. He did really well, so
wait a prodigy.
Speaker 1 (45:31):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (45:32):
William Lawson. He qualified six and he finished sixth, so
he got eight points.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
Yeah woooo.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
Lawson narrowly avoided contact with Antonelli on the opening lap,
but still picked up some damage after squeezing past the Mercedes.
The team committed to a one stop strategy, which paid
off despite heavy pressure from Alonzo for much of the race,
Laws and stayed composed and secured a career best P six,
So good job Liam. Fernando Alonso he qualified eleventh, he
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finished seventh, so he got six points. Alonso finished seventh
in Austria after starting P eleven, making a one stop
strategy work despite concerns about the heat. He stayed in
DRS range throughout and showed clever racecraft late on, reclaiming
a lost position position from Bordoletto while both were being
lapped by the leaders. A composed and tactical drive from
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the veteran rookie. I'm happy to see Alonso get more points.
This is his third consecutive points finish, Thank god. Yeah,
so we can move on to our best and worst segment.
Who is your driver of the day.
Speaker 1 (46:39):
My Driver the day is Gabrielle Bordoletto. Thank god it's
not mine. Okay, I'm always nervous. Now I'm like, who was? Uh? Yeah,
Gabby just did a really good job. Got his first
points career points in F one. Just good on him,
Very happy for him. Salberg got their first consecutive point
scorer of the year, so very happy for them. Double points.
Speaker 2 (47:01):
Yeah, my driver of the day I'm giving to Liam Lawson.
I'm like, you had a great weekend, my guy, you
had a good day. Good on you you. I mean
doing a one stop with Alonzo behind you as well,
like you don't want to see him in your mirror,
so leaving down his neck I think he did. And
then then to avoid you know, good on him for
avoiding contact with Antonelli. I mean that could have just
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ended things as well. And then to me, I don't
know what it did damage on the car, but knowing
that it did and he managed that for seventy laps,
good on him.
Speaker 1 (47:31):
Yeah, I could tell he looked very tired after the race.
He was like basically and mentally like exhausted. Have been
a drive with Alonzo breathing down his neck for seventies Like.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
I'm tired, So now we move on to our biggest letdown?
Who is your biggest let down?
Speaker 1 (47:47):
My biggest letdown was redda Bull just as a whole.
This was their home race for the team. We had
a Max DNF and Lap one, we had a uk
P sixteen. In the last three races, Sober has scored
more points than Red Bull. So I just want to
I want you all to let that sink in for
a second that in the last three races Sober has
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outscored Red Bull. This is a truly like just call
the police, like what is going on with Red Bull?
I just don't call the authorities. I just don't understand.
Speaker 2 (48:21):
No, my biggest letdown is Kimmie Antonelli because he ruined
his race. He ruined Max's race, and just the whole
thing was I mean, it's a rookie mistake. It happens,
it's a learning curve for him. It just sucked that
it had to affect Max for step and not saying
(48:41):
that I would have preferred to affect anybody else, but
I definitely wish it wasn't Max. So you know, it
is what it is. I'm sure he's beating himself up
about it, and hopefully he can just take that and
go into it. But yeah, that was that was a
hard pill to swallow on the very first lap. Yeah,
so let us know who your biggest letdown is and
(49:05):
your driver of the day.
Speaker 1 (49:06):
Yeah. Oh, I didn't want to mention, and we may
keep this in or out. But did you see this
quote from Christian Horner abal the McLaren's no what he
saying now? He said, What's truly impressive and for me,
I can't see any other team being able to do it.
Is when you look at how close Oscar is able
to run behind Lando with a car fat on fuel
(49:27):
at the beginning of the race, He's basically making love
to his exhaust pipe for a lap after lap and
the tires are not dying. I mean that to me,
is you know that is their advantage. They've managed to
create a car that really protects its tires very well
and obviously has a good balance. I can't see any
other car that would be able to follow that closely
and not grain the front tires or the rear tires.
I don't really understand making love to his tailed pipe.
Speaker 2 (49:52):
He's I would like to hear how he said that
in his tone, because I bet you he's insinuating they cheating,
and he he Christians coming across as like I can't
prove it, but I know that's what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (50:06):
Like that's how that feels. Oh. Another great quote from
this race was Oscar on the radio saying Alpine still
managed to find a way to fuck me over all
these years later, referring to when cola fan did he
really say that? Though? Like, I don't. I never I
saw somebody. It's a post from ESPN F one, Okay.
Speaker 2 (50:29):
I have beef with that page though, because they posted
something that George Russell supposedly said and I could never
find it, Like I could never find where he said it.
And that's why I have beef with ESPNF one because
it was it was supposedly something that George Russell said
about Josper Stappin about and being the boss or something.
(50:51):
But the quote was like I was like, wow, he
really said that, And then I couldn't find it anywhere
could I could not verify it?
Speaker 1 (50:57):
And I mean tends to be beautable source, so that's
what I thought.
Speaker 2 (51:02):
I literally couldn't find it anywhere and it was ESPNF one,
and I was like, what the fuck?
Speaker 1 (51:07):
So that's what I'm like, hmm, yeah, I just wanted
to mention those two quotes because I thought they were hysterical. Yeah.
So with that being said, we can go into our
next race teaser.
Speaker 2 (51:17):
Yes, so we move on to round twelve the Qatar
Airways British Grand Prix also known as Silverstone Circuit. So
last year's main race results we had Lewis Hamilton, Max Verse, Staffen,
and Lando Norris. If you all did not watch last season,
it was very emotional and the highlights of me to
(51:40):
me of the entire season seeing Lewis win that race and.
Speaker 1 (51:44):
It is a crime that drivers survive did not reference
it and mention it. They could have had a whole
episode devoted just to that storyline, because it is a
good storyline. It's like phenomenal. It is the stuff that
like directors and movie writers wish that they could come
up with and have at their fingertips to it, like
it was a cinema.
Speaker 2 (52:03):
It was cinema and it was a crime. So add
that to the list of beef I have with drive
to survive.
Speaker 1 (52:10):
So that is.
Speaker 2 (52:13):
Why, like, why wouldn't you put that in there? The
most decorated Formula One driver of all time has not
won in nine hundred something days and then wins his
home race with Mercedes the team he's leaving, are you
kidding me?
Speaker 1 (52:31):
And he has won at that track I think more
than any other driver, or he may have like tied
with like Shoemaker or something like that. Like it's just
but it's truly criminal anything.
Speaker 2 (52:44):
They didn't. They didn't consult us when they were pretty
clearly obviously. So some facts about Silverstone. The first GP
was held in nineteen fifty and it was also the
very first Grand Prix.
Speaker 1 (52:57):
Wasn't just the first Silverstone Grand Prix or British conper
it was the first ever Formula one race grown forever ever.
It was the the og the OGGGG. Yeah, nineteen fifty.
So yeah, this is the seventy five year anniversary for
Formula One. It's gonna be live. Yeah. Oh, they better
(53:19):
do something cool, like for their opening ceremonies and all
that jazz like we had interpreted dance at Austria. Yeah,
that was that was interesting. Yes, so I want something cool.
It should be. It should be.
Speaker 2 (53:33):
So we have fifty two laps. The circuit length is
five point nine kilometers, which is about three point six miles,
and the race distance is three hundred and six point
two kilometers, which is about one hundred and ninety point
three miles.
Speaker 1 (53:47):
These are all approximations. Yah, please don't come for us. No,
I've rounded up. Otherwise I'd be saying three decimal places. Yeah,
they love a three decimal place measurement.
Speaker 2 (53:56):
We're like, yeah, So the lap record is held by
Max first stap In, which was set in twenty twenty
at a minute and twenty seven point zero nine seven seconds.
So we'll see if that gets beaten.
Speaker 1 (54:11):
That's very close to a sub minute twenty seven. Let's
see if we can break it. I'm about like, I'm like,
let's break some records.
Speaker 2 (54:18):
Good, But also I don't know because sometimes the lap records,
I think that like it is that the fastest in race,
is that the fastest qualifying because a lot oftentimes the
qualifying lap is different than so I'm assuming most of
these are like the lap record that he's from a
race from a because it doesn't actually say whenever I
find that stat.
Speaker 1 (54:36):
Lap records at Formula one circuits set during a Grand
Prix and for the British GP, yeah, it was Max.
Speaker 2 (54:45):
Yes, and then for a qualifying lap. The fastest lap
is Lewis Hamilton in twenty twenty at like one twenty four.
Speaker 1 (54:53):
Yeah. Okay, so there's time to be found in Yeah,
the race at least it's good to know. Yeah for
going forward.
Speaker 2 (54:59):
Yeah, there are two drs zones at Silverstone and Silverstone
is one of the fastest tracks on the calendar. It
is known for its high speed layout and iconic corners
like Maggots and Becketts and Abby. Despite several changes over
the years, it keeps its challenging character. Lewis Hamilton once
described a lap around Silverstone as feeling like flying on
(55:21):
a fighter jet. Silverstone is also widely regarded as a
strong circuit to overtake on. That's my biggest thing I
always want to know, like can we overtake here? Yes,
we can it. It has a wide layout combined with
a lot of key features like the wellington and handguar
straits provide multiple opportunities for drivers to make passing moves
throughout the lap. It is also considered generally a high
(55:43):
degradation track and something to keep in mind this race.
So last year the tires they had it was the
C one, the C two and the C three. They
have moved it one over to a softer compound, so
now they're doing the C two, the C three, and
the C four, So it'll be interesting to see how
(56:03):
that affects strategy. Some people do a one stop here,
some people go for the two stop. Last year we
had like we had a two stop, but that was
also because it rained and some people changed the inters.
So it'll be interesting to see how that affects things,
considering it's already a high dead track and that's on
the hardest of compounds last year and now it is
(56:26):
a step softer, so it'll be interesting to see how
that affects the weekend.
Speaker 1 (56:30):
Doesn't Hamilton have a portion of the track named after
him here? Yeah, he does, and I think at the
Hamilton Street I think it is, Yes, I think is
the Hamilton Straight.
Speaker 2 (56:40):
So that is pretty cool because hello, he's that guy Ferrari.
Get it together. But well, guys, that about wraps things
up for us. We will hauler at you next week
after Silverstone. Let us know your best and worst and
any race prediction is going into the weekend.
Speaker 1 (57:01):
Yeah yeah, bye bye
Speaker 2 (57:13):
Hmm.
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