Piastri Wins Again & Hamilton Shines in the Rain | F1 Belgian GP Race Review

In this episode, we break down all the biggest headlines from the 2025 Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix! We discuss Oscar Piastri’s win, Lewis Hamilton’s brilliant recovery drive from the pit lane, and the drama of a rain-delayed rolling start. Plus, we look ahead to the Hungarian Grand Prix and what to expect at the twisty, technical Hungaroring.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Let's talk about Hitler. That'll make sense later. I'm immaculately conceived.
I don't know what to do. I swear I'm not stupid.
Take it or leave that. Sometimes you just want to
leave it. I got to bar my mom's underwear. I'm
bar winger underwear.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
You just yeah, Misa, lights of dar jar beaks.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
I'm not gonna edit it out. No, No, I don't know,
like guess I got. It's pretty great suck. Why are
you saying with a question mark clap? Bitch? All right? Three? Two?
What ash? And we're live.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
I'm Anna and I'm Jessica, and this is why are
you yelling? Welcome back to another F one race review. Today,
we're going to be doing a recap and analysis of
round thirteen of the twenty twenty five Formula One season,
the Moe and Shandan Shandan Shandan Belgian Grand Prix.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Whoo, that's not what I thought you were going to say.
So I was like, where the fuck what did you watch?
I was like, Spa Francophones.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Bah it is.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
The track is called the Circuit de Spa Frankeschamp and
most people do just call it Spa.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Well, I was like she's gonna saw it and then
you're like all right, And I was like, I was like,
where were we?

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Was this that I missed this threat? Did you say
where we were?

Speaker 3 (01:17):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:18):
I find it interesting how some places are referred to
by the track name and others referred to by like
the city or the country that they're in.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
No, I've noticed that too, and it messes me up
ever since, especially because Formula one has redone their website,
which we have complained about and now we'll complain about again.
And it used to kind of have all that in
there already, and now I'm like, why are you why
they don't like how you did it.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
They hide the name of the circuit so like it
literally it used to say it had all information about
the race, and at the bottom it had information specifically
about the circuit, and it used to say the circuit name.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
They readed their website. The circuit name is like hidden.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Sometimes it's like in the picture and you can't copy
and paste that bitch anymore. It's because I ain't trying
to type all that all the time. So yeah, all right, guys,
before we topped into fun facts, we will talk about
so side note. I didn't even realize it was a
sprint weekend. So I definitely didn't tell you guys the
sprint format or anything like that in our race preview

(02:19):
last time.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
So sorry about that. Yeah. We both were, as they say.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Caught out, yeah, by this being a sprint, because I
was not aware either. I thought I was just gonna
have to catch up on some practices. I made plans
for Saturday, and then lo and behold, I'm like, oh no,
I have to go watch the qualifying for the sprint
and the sprint itself, and I caught up on that,
and then the regular qualifying. All I caught up on

(02:44):
that the morning, like before the nine am for US race.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah, that was a lot.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
And I'm like balancing that while traveling, and I'm in
a hotel and I'm I took my roku and I'm
also like balancing this bridal shower and a wedding, and
I was like, what the fuck, there's the sprint.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Sprints are just a lot more for some reason. It's
just I feel like you have to pay a lot
closer attention, and as opposed to like regular weekend with
a free practice and stuff, you can kind of just
have it on in the background and tune in when
important things happen. But I mean, at the end of
the day, if you miss watching free practice, it's not
that big of a deal. But like with a SPA weekend,
you have to pay attention to sprint again or sorry

(03:25):
at the end of a SPA weekend, at the end
of a sprint weekend, you have to pay attention to
the sprint qualifying, the sprint itself, all before the race,
the regular qualifying, and the main race.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, it's like a mini race, so you have to
pay attention.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
I was like, hello, so, and there's extra press conferences too,
because they do an extra one after sprint qualifying and
after the sprint you.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
Watched them because I completely forgot. I was literally in
the car yesterday for twelve hours driving from where I
was to home, and I'm like, I didn't catch up
on any of that, and Imani had to go to
work this morning. But I know you all were really
thankful for that. So hopping into our sprint race, taking
first was my boy Max verse stappin just beautyful, beautiful,

(04:09):
and then we have Oscar Piastree and Lando Norris and
hopping into our race, our main race, podium, it was Oscar,
Pias Street, Lando Norris and Charles Leclair Let's go. So
that was very exciting. Now the constructors, nothing has changed
that I can see. I mean, the top is still McLaren,

(04:32):
followed by Ferrari, followed by Mercedes, Red Bull, Williams, Sober
Racing Bulls, Aston, Martin has and Alpine.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
So you know, as much as Ferrari has been struggling
as a whole, for them to be second in the
constructor standings, what I'm saying, and I mean, I know
Lewis has struggled a lot more, but I mean Charles
has been doing consistently pretty well, podium here and there.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Louis has been struggling, you know.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
But there is that stat where the only two drivers
to have scored points every weekend that I guess they've
completed has been Lewis and Oscar.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
And so I'm like, if we're excluding the or not
including the disqualification, yeah for Louis, which that's.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
What I assume when I saw the stat I'm assuming
maybe they're saying the races they started, because I mean
they didn't get points then, but yeah, so I'm like,
Louis is struggling, but it's just like Louis's Louis is
struggling for being Lewis Hamilton.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
But anyway, so now you know, nothing really exciting has
happened in the driver's standings. Oscar Piastre is still holding
that lead, and Lando Norris is now sixteen points behind.
Oscar has two hundred and sixty six points. Lando has
two hundred and fifty. I live in Dulululand, and I'm
convinced that somehow, some way, max Verstaffan is going to

(05:52):
hop up from his one hundred and eighty five points
and he's somehow gonna just go y'all thought.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
Listen, it's always possible until it's mathematically impopp That's what.

Speaker 1 (06:01):
Sebastian Battle said. And he's king. So you know, I
kind of.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
Feel like a lot of us, or a lot of
people are still in this thought that maybe it's some
like that maybe at some point Lando is gonna catch
up or he's gonna take over the lead in the
champion It's like this is his championship, like not necessarily meet,
but you know what I mean, it feel like it
feels like that's sort of the thought in the back

(06:27):
of everyone's head is like Oscar has the lead for now,
but eventually Lando's gonna get it together and be consistent
and he's gonna tay.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
And I'm like, but this might be Oscar's championship, y'all.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
I think at this point it's I guess I'm not
one of those. I think it's Oscar's championship and now Lando,
you gotta be more consistent, Like at this point, I
don't know. I mean, in a way, I want it
for Orlando because I feel like if Lando doesn't become
world champion this year, it's gonna be his legacy, unfortunately,

(07:00):
and it's not fair. But I just think that's the
judgment that's been cast on him, and if Oscar doesn't,
it's not going to affect his legacy. It's not going
to affect how people view him. It's not going to
be a main talking point of his career. I just
feel like, Orlando, this is a very pivotal moment, and
I'd hate to see somebody who I think is talented
and it's going to have a long career. I'd hate
to see something derailed or have like darkness surrounding if you.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
Would give it this like develop a complex about it.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
I mean, it's true that, you know, it's not every
season that you find yourself on a top team, in
the top car, in the car that could win it all,
like seriously contending for the championship, like last year, Yeah
he was in the fight for it, but it just
kind of happened. But yeah, and this season, this season though,
McLaren is by far the superior car, h for sure,

(07:48):
and you don't always find yourself in that position to
actually be able to win it.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
And I would hate, like personally.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
If I was on the team and one of two
drivers in a championship winning car and I didn't win it,
that would mess me up. But I would I would
have I feel a kind of way about it, And
then I could see that.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
Being a slippery slope. Also just the media. It's the
it's the narrative. It's like he just couldn't get it done,
he couldn't seal the deal.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
And it's like and that's what would be annoying is
it's like, if Oscar wins, it's gonna be like, yeah,
he did it, but if and if Lando doesn't win,
it's gonna be kind of like a, well, you should
have one like, like people it's like, why didn't you You
should have won?

Speaker 1 (08:33):
That's crazy.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
But if no one has that same expectation for Oscar,
despite him clearly showing great race pace, despite him being
like a chance F two, F three champion and his
rookie seasons there, I mean, he's clearly like a prodigy,
and it's just like, for some reason, it's no one's thinking, well,
Oscar should win win. In reality, Oscar should win. It's

(08:54):
actually probably more on Lando, like impressive wise if he win,
because he is going against kind of a prodigy, But
it's no one's viewing it that way.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
It's almostly And I think we've talked about this earlier
in the season. If if Lando wins, it's, well, he
should be winning. If Oscar wins, it's like a happy accident.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
Even though they're in the exact same car. Yeah, it's
the Lando hate feels sometimes forced.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
I'm like, shut up, yeah, but uh but I love Oscar.

Speaker 1 (09:24):
I love it so much. I just I like, I'm
like rooting for him.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
I just I'm rooting for Lando too, but something about Oscar,
I'm just like, let's do it, dude.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
We even said that last year though we were all
we said last year that Piastre's a future champion, whether
it's this year or a different year, like it's there's
no question.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
And reminder for everyone, this is only his third season
in Formula one m for Oscar. Yeah, the fact that
he's so impressive so early on in his Formula one
career is crazy.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
But it's on par with his other career, like his
Feeder Series career, being so successful so early, but also
Formula One is different. We know, but the you know,
it depends on the car, but I don't know.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
But now we can hop into Anna's fun facts. We're
doing a lot of happen hop and hop. Did I
say hop earlier? We hop? We popped into everything so far.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
Hop.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
Oh, We're gonna hop into our podium and hop into
our constructors and hop into our fun.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
We can slide into We can wait ninety minutes for
this rain to go away, the rain to lay, to
hop into the fun facts.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
We can jump. We don't have the hop jump. We
can walk.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
We can jump, okay, so jumping into our fun hopping,
we're full on jumping.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
Yeah, We're just gonna jump in no hesitation.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
Jumping into our fun facts Oscar pstre extended his lead
in the Driver's Championship by coming in second of the
spent race and by winning the Grand Prix this weekend.
His thirty one race scoring streak is the longest by
any driver in F one, his three other than Max
Verstappen or.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
Lewis Hamilton the Goats.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
Yeah so, this was Piastre's sixth Grand Prix victory of
the season, the most by any Australian in any season
in F one history. Other Australian drivers have taken more
career victories and some have secured world titles, but none
can claim more wins in a single season.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
Than Oscar Pastrey. Yeah Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
This was McLaren's thirteenth Grand Prix win at Spa Frank Keachmp,
their first since Jints and Button in twenty twelve, with
Lando Norris coming in second. This was McLaren's six one
two finish of the season, their most since Alan Prost
and Ayrton Senna scored ten one two finishes in nineteen
eighty eight.

Speaker 3 (11:42):
That would have been a season. Let me tell you,
between those two have to go back and watch it.
That feels like it'd be fun.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
This was lander Norris's first career top four finish in
a Grand Prix at Spa. No, SPA's so great, Like
it is a very.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
Cool track, which I think we talked about at the
in our race preview in the last episode.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
It's very uh.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
The elevation change is crazy oh rugeous nuts. I mean
it literally, it's uh. I would say it's on par
with UH Monico. There's that one bit at Monaco where
basically they're like, it's so steep going up it that
part of the track that you basically when you're in
the driver's seat you can only see the sky like
you can't because they have such limited view, and the

(12:26):
said basically it's the same thing at UH at spot
where that portion of the track like you're kind of
just relying on your muscle memory and your memory of
the track because you literally can't see it.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
You can only see the sky.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
It's the track I have the most experience on out
of all the sim tracks that I've done on Travis's simulator.
It is so fun and it was it was interesting
because it is the track that I have done the most,
and so anywhere they were I was like, I know
where they are, and that was like the first time
I knew what corner at somebody was at. I'm like, oh,
that's like it like must be crazy for people who

(12:58):
are like familiar with that, like just driving it in
some way, shape or form to see people like on
the TV driving it, because it just feels different. Because
that was the first time that I was like, oh
my gosh, that's so crazy and I could like it
was just weird.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
It was a weird thing. But ugh, it's like, what
did I think.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
Alex Jakes at one point said, or even joylnd had said,
like that is the track that sometimes like people go,
I'm gonna become a race car driver because I want
to drive SPA.

Speaker 1 (13:25):
I know it's a lot of drivers.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
It's one of their favorites on the calendar, and they
also it's getting taken off the calendar, isn't it?

Speaker 1 (13:33):
Or is this the one that they're alternating.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
I think it's going to be alternating, and it's like,
why would you do that? There's honestly so many other
tracks that people are like just do by.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
Yeah, Like it is one of the longer, it might
be the longest actual like tracks in terms of like
the actual length of one lap the qualifying time is
around like a minute forty and I remember the number
they said it was around four miles for a single lap,
and I remember thinking, Wow, that's really long, and then

(14:03):
I thought in context of so at Spa, there was
tragically two drivers have died there recently, like in the
past decade, and so like uh, Pierre ghastly has arranged
every year since that happened.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
One of his close friends.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
Antoine Hubert I think is his name, one of his
close friends, is one of the ones who passed and
died of that track. And so since that happened, every
year he arranges like a memorial like walk slash run
around the track. So and he brings flowers and puts
it out the side of the track where the crash
happened and everything like that, and it's always very like
emotional seeing the photos and stuff like that. But I
remember when I heard them say that the track was

(14:40):
over four miles long, I'm like, oh, my goodness, that's
a very long track.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
Walk like to do a run or whatever too.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
Yeah, And then and then they had that steep part
of the souper freaking steep part of it, and I'm
just like, bro, no, way.

Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:56):
I couldn't imagine even trying to walk up O Rouge,
which is like the part that goes up. I think
I would pass out. Someone would have to just carry me.

Speaker 1 (15:06):
That's a struggle for sure.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
Yeah, just and for four miles, just like at a
flat out run like some of them are like straight
up jogging. I would have been more like the Charles vibe.
He was on his bike in jeans.

Speaker 3 (15:17):
I'm gonna do the Lewis us the scooter electric scooter.
I hit the Lewis pose at the wedding that I
want to and then I pregnant, and then I afterwards,
I was like, shit, I'm not pregnant.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
I'm a lady.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
If I do that, people think I'm holding my bell
like they don't know what's the loo. I wasn't doing
the Lewis on purpose. It was just like something later.
I was like, I told Travis, I was like, I
hit the Lewis in that post.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
He goes, what's the Lewis? And I went that.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
Were he always he goes, oh yeah, okay. Back in
two hour fun Facts, Ferrari's Charles Leclaire finished third at
SPA for the third consecutive season.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
He loves a third place. He's nothing but consistent. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
Uh, only Oscar Pastre and Lando Norris have more podium
finishes this season than Charles Leclair. So both Piastre and
Norris have eleven podium finishes and Leclair has five. He's
he's firmly in like the third place sort of vibe overall.

Speaker 3 (16:22):
I feel like, which is crazy to think he's fifth
in the driver's standings.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
Yeah, he's gonna hop up, I think so.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
I feel like he's got a win in him somewhere.
I think he's got to win somewhere this season.

Speaker 3 (16:35):
I feel like, I think both Ferrari boys have a
win in them, and I think when they win, the
other one will be. It's gonna be a joint effort.
It's gonna be a Ferrari podium. Yeah, but I think
we're gonna get I think Lewis will get a win.
I think Charles will get a win or or we're
just delusional. No, I'm not delusional. It's happening. I have
to manifest it.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
I believe it.

Speaker 3 (16:54):
Okay, look at our boys. This was last year. Yeah,
last year, listen, they both got wins and that's what
we're going for.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
Okay. Red Bulls.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
Max Verstaffen finished fourth at SPA for the second consecutive season.
Verstaffen has only scored one podium finish in the last
six Grand Prix.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
Uh. He came in second in Canada.

Speaker 3 (17:20):
Max is that guy, but he did win the sprint race. Yeah,
so let me tell you that was beautiful when he
with that overtake.

Speaker 1 (17:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
The it was like a double overtake vibe, wasn't it.
I remember seeing the clip where it was like we
had the two McLarens and then it was it was
Max and Charles did like a.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
I think, like a side sweep.

Speaker 3 (17:43):
I'm pretty sure I can double check this. I think
Max qualified second, didn't he in the sprint? Yeah, And
so I'm saying I'm saying so it was like a
piastre Max Max.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
Ohkay, I thought you met. I thought I was understood too.
I thought you met. It was Max and ARLs behind
each I was like, no, no, no, there was this
split the McLaren Yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
Yeah, yeah, So we had two McLaren's and then Max
and Charles were behind each of them. And then when
Max did his overtake move, Charles was like sound good
to me, and he did the same basically exact thing and.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
Then shoot, woop woop. Yeah, that was really awesome. I
was like, a.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
It was giving the same vibes as that one move
that Alex Albin did when he overtook two cars in
the same corner and like perfectly like sandwiched in between them.
It was giving that same sort of just like ah vibes,
you know, very satisfying to see.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
It was.

Speaker 3 (18:32):
I just liked the angle of seeing like you have
a single red and a single like navy, like dark blue,
just going at the orange.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
They're like, we shouldn't be up here, but we are.
Damn it, get out the way.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
So someone I didn't hear about at all this weekend,
really surprisingly was George Russell.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
Literally I didn't even know he was there.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
I'm kidding, obviously I knew he was there, but yeah,
I didn't hear about him like at all, as much
as he was in the news and being talked about
so much at the previous race, when there was all
the question about like if he would still be with
Mercedes and who was gonna if the Macedes was going
after Max, like all this stuff. George was talked about
so much, and then this weekend heard nothing about him,
but he quietly took.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
Homa P five finish.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
He does and he does not have a top four
finish since winning in Canada.

Speaker 3 (19:21):
Little do we know, George Russell is the one who
got Christian Horner fired. He said my seat, Oh no,
I don't think so, and he made he made some
calls and now Max is like, I guess I'll stay.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
You know, what's so funny is as much as you know,
before the whole Christian Horner of it all that George
was kind of like, eh, I haven't signed my contract yet.
We'll see what's going on, what's gonna happen. And then
Mercedes Toto Wolf is kind of like and we'll kind
of see what happens. And now Toto is firmly like,
oh no, George and KIMMI are our drivers.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
What are you even talking about.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
He's like, we're committed to them, like they're for sure
going to be our drivers year.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
And then like Toto, d don't gust let us, I know, like, sir,
don't guest let us. Hmmm.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
Interesting, everybody's suddenly very quiet. Remember drosper stapp And said
he's never been loud and he's always quiet, and Nico
Rosberg said, excuse me.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
Nico Rosberg was just on a he was on a
war path. He was like, I'm gonna ask everybody all
the questions that everyone is trying to tiptoe around.

Speaker 1 (20:25):
He straight up asked Josopher Stapp and why are you
so quiet?

Speaker 2 (20:28):
Now?

Speaker 1 (20:28):
What you don't want to talk about? Christian Horner? And
Dross is like, ain't gonna one to say?

Speaker 3 (20:31):
And then Josh said I'm always quiet, and Nico said,
what excuse you?

Speaker 2 (20:34):
And then he asked straight up Valterie Botos. He's like,
so you're going to Cadillac next year. Valerie's like, no comment.

Speaker 1 (20:43):
He was out up bro shut up.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
Uh So moving on to alex Alban came home in
P six for Williams, his fourth top six finish of
the season.

Speaker 3 (20:55):
And yeah, now again now he's like doing really good
after kind of had some he had performance issues, having
a moment.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
Yeah, you know, so it's okay, the figure it out,
It's all good.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
H This was Williams's best result in a full length
Belgian Grand Prix in ten years. The last time they
did well in Belgium was when Philippe Masa took P.

Speaker 1 (21:19):
Six and twenty fifteen. Wow, okay, good for them. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
So Lewis Hamilton finished in p seven for Ferrari, having
started from the pit lane.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
Louis was overtake King, That's my guy.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
He was just making move after a movie. It was
like he was just like John, like Donna, Donna.

Speaker 1 (21:40):
I felt.

Speaker 3 (21:41):
I was like, Louis at this point is the person
that if I see I'm like, oh shit.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
He was like picking them, picking them out and hunting
him down. He was like, okay, your next, and he was.

Speaker 3 (21:49):
Like overtaking in like unconventional like areas of the track
and they were like whoa, okay, yeah he was not
playing and he Louis in the rain though, is a
like same way with Max. You just got two drivers
that are so experienced, that are just so like talented,
Like just put him in a damn box with some

(22:11):
wheels in the rain and they're going to overtake you.
It doesn't matter what it is.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
So Lewis he had like a little spin out moment.
When was that was that in free practice?

Speaker 1 (22:20):
Oh god? No? When was that was that in qualify?
When did that happen sprint qualifying? Okay?

Speaker 3 (22:25):
He spun and then it was just over. Yeah, because
he didn't make it out a cute one.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
That's what it was.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
Because I remember I saw the clip of them interviewing
him like pretty much right after that happened, and he
was very upset. He was like yep, he like did
not want to talk about it, but he basically said like,
that's the first time he's ever spun out like that.
And I know that Ferrari brought some upgrades this weekend,
and I believe in what I was reading is that

(22:53):
the upgrade that Lewis got this weekend, part of it
was affected the breaks and it made the I think
a little bit like harsher and but this is the
same upgrade that Charles has had for.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
He's had it for a couple of weeks or a
couple of races.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
There was that hold on, I can tell you, let
me get that article up.

Speaker 3 (23:15):
See, And that's always interesting because that's rarely like sometimes
they talk about that and then other times like they
don't cover it. So then you're like, well, why is
one person suddenly different than the other person. It's like
because they didn't have enough and I think sometimes they
want to test the upgrade to make sure it's even
worth making two of it's a lot of money wasted
if it doesn't work.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
So the configuration that that Charles has been running with
the new breaks that affected Lewis and had him spent out.
This time, Charles had started testing it in Canada and
he also got caught out by the new breaks and
had a moment. Okay, and he because I remember Charles

(23:56):
had like a spinout moment.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
Yeah. So yeah, basically that he was like, we're figuring
it out.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
So I guess he figured it out between sprint qualifying
and the main race.

Speaker 3 (24:06):
Well, he also just like it rained and he just
told them exactly what he wanted. He said, it's drying out,
I'm pitting now. And he was the first one to
get on slicks and let me tell you what p.
Eighteen to P seven.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
That's my guy. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
And Louis is not only is he very good in
the rain, he's very He's experienced enough to be able
to very quickly and confidently make the call of when
the switchover point is because he's driven in the rain
so much and he's had such a long career.

Speaker 3 (24:36):
Yeah, I thought was just beautiful. I was like yeash God,
and I wish they would have started earlier. I wish
the I think it still could have been a different
race if they would have just let them race in
the rain.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
Yeah, I know that basically they did like a they
did a rolling start because of the rain, but then
they ended up being behind the safety car because the rain,
like the track was still super wet. I think they
were I'm doing like a couple of formation lap type fives.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
Well, basically they sent them out so they red flagged
it and then we waited like what ninety minutes and
then well it might have been not ninety minutes when
the safety car went up, but they started under safety
car because basically they're like can They're trying to see
can we do a standing start or do you have
to do a rolling start. Four laps later, they're like,
let's do a rolling start, and both Lewis and Max

(25:23):
are on the radio going let's get a move on,
because let's go.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
I know Max had set up for a wet race,
so he's like, come on, I need to get as
many laps as I can while it's wet, because I
need to maximize my setup before everything dries up. Exactly
but like our front runners, so that are you know,
two McLaren's and Charles they were not set up for
the wet race, and so they're like, no, let's let's

(25:48):
make sure it's safe.

Speaker 1 (25:49):
Was Charles not set up for a wet race? I
don't think so, Okay, I could be wrong.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
I thought I'd read something where he was and that's
why he was like struggled so hard to keep the
up that beast behind him Max.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
Yeah, Charles said that, But I could be wrong. I
don't know what a setup was.

Speaker 3 (26:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
Charles said that Max was basically matching him lap for
a lap, like they were putting in identical lap times
to where I think there was like less than a
point zero zero one second difference like on average between
their lap paces, which means that Charles that Max was
on that ass.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
And Charles was asked about it.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
In the post race interview and he was basically like,
you know, I was putting in like lap after lap,
like pushing it hard, and then he's like I would
see like the splits and he's like, I would see
my time and then I would see Max had the
same exact time, and he's like, oh, and then I
have to keep going like he was like it was,
it was rough. But I like when people point out that,
like when Max and Charles race each other, and we

(26:51):
say this all the time, every time this happens, Charles
is one of the only drivers that Max is not
gonna pull like a desperate one of us could die
sort of move Charles, take them both out because Charles
is like, well, we're both going to die then because
I'm not. It goes back to the just an incident.

(27:12):
It goes back to Max's like what the he turn,
he pushes me, I push him back, and and then
Charles is just like it just things just happen.

Speaker 3 (27:20):
Oh well, yeah, every time maxis gets close to Charles,
I just imagine ind In inchod In, He's like, back off.

Speaker 1 (27:27):
Never mind.

Speaker 3 (27:29):
Granted, I will say I think somebody was saying that
because of Max's set up, like if he would have
been set up for the dry I would have been
over with yeah. But that being said, he didn't even
try to be sneaky with it. He didn't even try
to do anything like over the top because he was like,
uh uh.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
So going back to Lewis Hamilton real quick. So he
was making a bunch of overtakes in the race and
then he just gets stuck behind Alex Alban And I
remember seeing a graphic come up like it was right
when he had Lewis had make the overtake and gotten
into p seven and there was a graphic that came
up on screen that said it was like estimated time

(28:04):
until like Hamilton is going to battle album for this
for that position, and it said two laps estimated In
two laps, that's when the battle's going to start happening.
He'll be close enough and the next thing I know,
I'll look up and it's like fifteen laps later and
I'm just like, were we going to get a bat?

Speaker 3 (28:22):
Where were we supposed to get a batle I feel
like at that point, and Louis is just like, I'm
staying here.

Speaker 1 (28:26):
Yeah, he's like settling. I'm in the points.

Speaker 3 (28:29):
I'm staying here and everybody else is pitted and I
need this to these to live till we the end
of the race.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
So Lewis killed it. I was like, yeah, it was.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
Nice to see a little bit of fight in him
with the you know how much he's been struggling.

Speaker 3 (28:44):
Ye'ah need to shut your mouths shut your mouths about
my boy, all right, Louis, He's.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
Not washed up, he said about it.

Speaker 3 (28:52):
He's just he's just adjusting to the Ferrari curse, trying
to make it, trying to make it a blessing. He's
just trying.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
He's doing the lords where. Yes, turning a curse into
a blessing.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
Yes, it takes time. So Liam Lawson finished p. Eight
for Racing Bulls. This was his second top eight finish
in the last three Grand Prix. What Liam Lawson was
p eight for Racing Bulls his second top eight finish
in the last three Grand Prix. Has taught his second

(29:25):
There's a lot of numbers.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
There was a lot of numbers because I like the
DNF and Silverstone.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
So basically they're saying he scored points in the race
before Silverstone in this one.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
Yes, okay, there were a lot of numbers in that sentence.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
I was like, what the hell.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
I'm like, he didn't even finish Silverstone, Yes he had.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
It's it's one of those pretty facts.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
Yeah, it's it's they call that a lebron stat It's
where it's very specific numbers and you're like, is that
impressive or are you just being very specific.

Speaker 1 (29:57):
Except moving on to Kicksaubers.

Speaker 2 (29:59):
Gabri Bleto took P nine for his second career points finish.
This was Souber's first points at SPA since twenty eighteen
with Marcus Erickson.

Speaker 3 (30:08):
He cracked me up because he was just all team Nico.
At Silverstone, you know, zoomed past. Lando, didn't have any
time for him, met Nico at the podium, was so
excited for him, and then this race, he goes.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
Get out of my way. Leave if you can't pass him,
move buh. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
There was one point I remember that coming up on
the radio where Gabby's basically like, can you tell him
to get out of the way let me pass.

Speaker 1 (30:33):
I'm faster.

Speaker 3 (30:34):
Well he said, he goes, if Nico can't make the pass,
we need to swap, and I can make I need
to go because I'm faster. So he's like, if he's
not gonna do it, I'm gonna do it. He said
GTFO yep, and then they said swap. So it was
just funny to see that fight in him, because I mean,
we always hear about him being a prodigy and how
successful he's been, so it's nice to see that bite.

Speaker 2 (30:56):
Well, all the drivers say, you know, once the visor
comes down, the helmet song where you're in the car,
all bets are off.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
Yeah we're not friends, no more, no get out of
the way. So uh.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
Pierre Gasley racing for ALP and finished p ten. This
was his second consecutive points finished driving.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
For the last placed team. Good lord, these stats, I'm
like shady. Uh huh.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
Sometimes listen, it's not shade, if it's if it's just
a fact they're in.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
The last place.

Speaker 3 (31:28):
They are, they are that and he is the only
one that scored points out of that team.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
So yeah, Franco Colopinto, we'll we'll talk a little more
about him in our rookie report.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
So I'm a little not much, not much talk about
but uh not right now. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
So at has Oliver Barman finished eleventh for the fourth
consecutive race, tying the longest streak of finishes in the
same position other than first place.

Speaker 1 (31:59):
Wait, that's our share who wrote this.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
So he's finished eleventh four consecutive races and that is
the longest streak of finishing in the same place other
than first place.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
So no one else has finished more in the same
exact position unless they were in first, and he's eleventh, eleventh,
which is just outside the points. Damn, you're almost there, buddy,
I mean you've been consistently almost there for for races.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
No, something's gotta give. He got it. Yeah, he can
do it. He's fine. Well, that is, if he can
stop making mistakes. Like I know that.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
It seems that the last several races he's just had
like and it's it's either he's been unlucky and been
caught out by like yellow flag red flag, or he's
been made a mistake under those conditions that end up
penalizing him way more like.

Speaker 1 (32:55):
I know that that's what's lame.

Speaker 3 (32:57):
Is like, yeah, most of the time he makes a mistake,
gets penalized and he gets a ten place grid penalty
because of red fly.

Speaker 1 (33:02):
Yeah, but some kind of infringement.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
And I'm like, because he made the mistake in the
worst possible moment he could.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
Have made it.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
Finishing p twelve for Kicksauber was Nico Hulkenberg. This was
his best result at SPA since twenty nineteen.

Speaker 1 (33:15):
Niko, Niic, go, we still have to get him up
on the wall.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
He'll be up here next time, So Kimmi Antonelli, racing
for Mercedes, finished P sixteen. He has only one points
finished in the last seven Grand Prixs and the last
one would have been P three in Canada when he
got the podium. Yep, so that was the peak and

(33:40):
it has been a downward sort of slide since that moment.
And mister Kimmy Antonelli is very is struggling a lot.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (33:50):
I think Kimmy will be okay. Yeah, it's just you
gotta have them lows to get them highs.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
Yeah, I mean didn't think we talked about the last race.
Review is so young and he has very I mean,
being that young, you just have less experience and so
I mean it's just a there's a steep learning curve
and to be thrown into a top team like Mercedes
when you're only eighteen.

Speaker 1 (34:14):
Like, that's a lot. Yeah. So, uh, you know, it'll
it'll come. His time will come. It's just not yet.
He's got to.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
Get through the awkward growing pains of adjusting.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
He'll be okay. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (34:26):
Oh our last fun fact, this is the second race
of the season in which every driver was a classified finisher.

Speaker 1 (34:34):
Oh yeah, I did notice that. I was like, oh,
you don't have any d n. Yeah, the last time
this happened was in Japan.

Speaker 3 (34:39):
Oh well that was good because last race was a
rough Yeah, Silverstone was a roof fun. Yeah, and they
were like all rookies, he was I think it was
I think it was all the rookies. But Bearman, who
finished a lot of a lasty finished damn it. So

(35:02):
I guess we kind of we already discussed some of
it because we already said Louis is the man, which
was just chef's kiss.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
No notes.

Speaker 3 (35:10):
Now, the really the most annoying thing to me, or
the thing that stuck out to me the most, was like,
just I know that they said because of Silverstone. They
I guess they had talked about the rain and like
what they would do to delay it, because you know,
Silverstone kind of had like it was raining and it
was like very hard to see and you know all

(35:32):
that and so, but it just felt like you had
people that they were ready. We had two world champions
who were ready, Max and Lewis.

Speaker 1 (35:41):
Were ready, like let's go, And it.

Speaker 3 (35:45):
Was it's frustrating too when like I could understand as
a driver, when basically we knew the whole time it
was going to rain on Sunday, Like we knew going
into the weekend that that was the forecast. So then
you kind of and you have limited practice, so you
literally have one practice session, then you're sprint qualifying, and
then you're in the sprints, So you really have to
make all these decisions fairly quickly without being able to
really test the car see what's going to work best,

(36:07):
and so you kind of have to dedicate yourself to
this setup and then you do that based on the information,
the only information that you can get, and then to
just hold off for an hour and a half just
so the conditions are I mean were more I mean
we're I mean it was wet for like nine laps, y'all. Yeah,
like nine or ten. Other than that, it was basically
a dry race. And it was kind of just like
I could see being a driver, the frustration of feeling

(36:30):
like why did we even bother talking about the weather
at all if we were just going to hold out
for a dry race no matter what.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
Yeah, the they even said, I want to say it
was I watched Joylen Palmer's race analysis, so he talks
about like, uh, and he usually comes out I think
the Monday or Tuesday after a race, he talks about
like the key sort of moments and he breaks it down,
looks at telemetry, all the data, and talks you through
kind of those moments in a very technical way.

Speaker 1 (36:56):
And so he was even talking about how, you know.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
The the F two and F three also raced at
SPA this weekend, and he said, in the F two race,
the rain was worse and they kept going and like
that didn't affect their race at all in terms of
delaying it or not. And he said, so how are
we in Formula one?

Speaker 1 (37:16):
Why are we what was the hold up?

Speaker 2 (37:19):
Basically exactly, and I will say that looking at it
from me, you know, a different perspective. So, like the
our three podium finishers in the were asked about it
in the post race press conference. Basically one of the
journalists asked, you know, would you have preferred for the
restart to happen sooner or you know, kind of what
are your thoughts on that? And Charles and Oscar both

(37:41):
basically said the same thing, which is that you know,
you're kind of always playing those situations by ear and
you're making split second decisions that affect people's lives, and
so especially at SPA, where there have been driver deaths
in at this track in tricky conditions like that. They

(38:02):
both said, taking that especially into consideration, they would rather
be safe than sorry, and so it's better to go
one lap too long and everyone make it out of
the race, okay, versus you know, if you go one
lap too soon, then you're putting someone's life in danger
and it could have very dire consequences. So they're like,

(38:24):
you know, it's if sands and butts, But they're like,
at the end of the day, you know, we're trying
to we have talked about as drivers and consulting with
you know, F one and the FIA, like we have
voiced our opinions and thoughts about this stuff where we
do want safe conditions for driving in the rain, and

(38:45):
you know they are taking that into consideration too when
they're deciding when to restart the race.

Speaker 1 (38:49):
So I think that's a good point.

Speaker 3 (38:50):
But it's interesting to think that the FIA values the
F one driver's lives more than they value F two
if they're going to let them race in the rain
like that. Yeah, I mean that's kind of like it's
one of those things like just pick one then either
that's kind of because then it's kind of like, so
what does that stance say about the decision making, because
it's like, I don't know. I mean I agree that,

(39:12):
I mean one hundred percent agree. I mean we you know,
Formula one, we just getting in a race car. In general,
there's a level of responsibility and that you're acknowledging that
this is dangerous. But I don't think it needs to
be more dangerous for the sake of just to drive
in the rain.

Speaker 1 (39:25):
But I also it should everybody should be.

Speaker 3 (39:29):
Just as valued at that point then, because I mean
you're also dealing with less experienced drivers in Formula two
Formula three that would might not know how to might
not know what to do when the car slide, They
might not know how to correct the car correctly so
they don't get hurt terribly. So it's like if you're
going to pick a stance, pick a stance.

Speaker 2 (39:47):
But on the flip side, F two cars don't go
as fast and so then are not kicking up as
much spray, so the visibility might be better. And it
I mean, they're still going fast enough to hydro plane,
so but they're not going as fast as Form one cars.

Speaker 3 (40:00):
No, But I mean even going up o'rouge to eighty
miles an hour, that's sketchy if you slide the wrong way.
So it's kind it's just like you can get severely
hurt going eighty miles an hour, you can get severely
hurt going one hundred and forty miles an hour. Just
kind of depends where you are, how it happens. So
it's kind of just like and sometimes that lack of experience,
the way that you don't correct it, even if you're

(40:21):
going slower because you make the wrong move to correct
yourself could be the reason that you get injured so horribly.
So it's kind of it's it's an interesting point in
a way because it's like, why did you even allow
them to race? Think, because it's just as dangerous miss
from their lack of experience.

Speaker 2 (40:36):
And ultimately it's up to the race director at each
individual race, so you know, the race director here it's
going to be different than the race director at the
like the British GP, Yeah, where when they were.

Speaker 1 (40:47):
Literally the last race you could see the.

Speaker 2 (40:50):
Onboard cameras when they have the cameras they have at
the on the driver's helmets that are like in their
like eye line. There were some and we talked about
in that race review, there were some moments where you
could it was like a wall of just like white fuzz,
and you could every once in a while barely see
the light from the car in front of you. Yeah,

(41:12):
and if they were to suddenly stop, you wouldn't know
it until you were up their rear end.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
When he was too close to Oscar and he was like, well.

Speaker 2 (41:19):
Yeah, so, I mean, the conditions were much worse than
you know in silver Shone silver Shone, or even in
Brazil last year.

Speaker 3 (41:29):
So that would just be an interesting question because I mean,
I'm sure I'm not saying that they don't care about that.
I was just being kind of funny when I said that.
I mean, I think they value all the driver's lives.
I would it would be an interesting question to ask,
like the race director, like what made you make that
call for F two and not F one? Like it
would just be interesting to see what their answer would be.

(41:51):
But yeah, that was the main thing for our fun
Facts kind of covered it. Do you have anything we
wanted to.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
Talk about some of our sassy radios.

Speaker 3 (42:00):
Ooh, leave me alone? That was like the I think
that was like the sassy. Yeah, that was the one
that was hysterical.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
So Charles had a moment again which with his.

Speaker 2 (42:12):
Uh surprise engineer, where he didn't so his engineer basically
was just giving him too much information and it was
at a critical point in the race where Charles really
needed to focus, and so his engineer, I think, just
tells him how far behind him Max is. But this
is after Max has been up Charles's ass the whole race.

(42:33):
And then Charles just responds with leave me alone. But
he doesn't just leave it at that. He then goes
on like a monologue about how like you always give
me either not enough information or in moments like this,
you give me too much information and I just don't
need it.

Speaker 1 (42:50):
And like he just goes on this little tirade, and.

Speaker 3 (42:52):
Then at one point or he says something like one minute,
I know exactly where he is, the next I don't
know where he is, and then all of a sudden,
it's this and he's like just too much information. And
it was just so funny because you're like, oh, Okay, he's
saying leave me alone.

Speaker 1 (43:03):
He's concentrating. But let me tell the sass. He could
do both.

Speaker 3 (43:06):
He was able to multitask in that moment, he was like,
I gotta get this.

Speaker 1 (43:10):
Out, leave me alone so I can focus back.

Speaker 3 (43:15):
And then when he was asked about it in the
post race interview, was he had like you said he
had that just an acident attitude?

Speaker 2 (43:21):
He was like, eh, he's like you know, I mean
he would. They literally asked him, so, what was that
about that race moment?

Speaker 1 (43:27):
We heard it? And he was like, oh, yeah, you
heard that. Huh.

Speaker 2 (43:30):
And really he's like, you know, he was just giving
me more information than I needed.

Speaker 1 (43:35):
And I let him know that That's basically what he said.

Speaker 3 (43:37):
And he goes and you know what, We're all good. Yeah,
and I was just like, okay, Charles, I hear you.

Speaker 1 (43:42):
He's so funny. Leave me alone.

Speaker 2 (43:44):
So what the last sort of like big thing we
want to talk about from the race was McLaren's tire strategy.

Speaker 3 (43:49):
Oh yeah, that was interesting because, like we talked about
it before, seeing the two garages clearly just battling each
other trying to figure it out.

Speaker 2 (43:57):
And you know what, kudos to Oscar, Yeah, sos Loscar
some of them.

Speaker 1 (44:04):
Oh is that their ship name? Oscar? Oscar?

Speaker 3 (44:08):
It's like Lobster but not Loscar. I don't know, do
you just make a ship name?

Speaker 1 (44:13):
I just know I think they call them land Oscar.
Oscar is so much better than land Oscar. Pretty sure
what kind of late I didn't come up with it?

Speaker 3 (44:22):
Fan fiction people clearly didn't come up with that. Fan
fiction people they know how to make how to make
a ship name? Yeah, and land Oscar land Oscar, Oscar's
his whole name's in the ship name.

Speaker 1 (44:34):
Lando is too. It's the oh that bridges them.

Speaker 3 (44:37):
I don't like it Lando Oscar. I like what you said, Loscar.
That's way funnier.

Speaker 2 (44:41):
So we had you know, uh Lando starting P. One
in the main race, Oscar starting P. Two, and then
Oscar kind of like saw what Max did and the
sprim was like bit and so.

Speaker 1 (44:52):
Pretty much that he literally did what macident.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
He's like yeo, And Oscar was like, I just kept
my foot in it and he made the overtake and
he was like, I was had to be very brave
in that moment, and it was kind of scary. He's like,
I think he even said it was scarier in the
car than it looked, of course looking at the footage
outside of the car here, but he committed he made
the move was laid on the brakes and that kind

(45:16):
of sealed the deal for the race for him.

Speaker 1 (45:18):
And when they.

Speaker 2 (45:21):
They they are still allowed to race, as far as
McClaren has told us and as far as we can see.
So it's interesting when you have one driver starting P one,
the other overtakes, and then it's like at at a
certain point sometimes in the race, both sides of the
garage are working together as a team, trying to figure

(45:41):
out how to maximize points, help each other out. But
then there comes a time like this where both sides
of the garage are like great wall of China, like
m we do not see each other. We do not
because like it's our race versus your race. And you know,
you've got Lando's side that's like we qualified P one,
we're gonna do our best to try and get that back.
And then you've got Oscar side that's like yes, sir, yeah,

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They're like we overtook it and we're going to keep it.
And so then you have the not so much working
together on strategy. And so at one point you get
a Lando's engineer on the radio saying, Lando, if we
pitted now for a hard tire, like, do you think
we could go to the end on that basically? And
would you take that? And Lando's like, let's do it. Yeah,
because they were trying to. Both made good calls. It

(46:24):
just was what it was. Yeah, they were I like that.
Lando's side was like, we got to try something different,
and he would have never been able to. I think
he's the only one that went on to the hard tire,
at least at that point in the race that he
I'm pretty sure he was the only one on the
hard tire. Everyone else was on mediums and he was.
I guess they were trying to commit to making it
just the one stop strategy, but the other people on

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mediums I think ended up making them last to.

Speaker 1 (46:47):
The end of the race. Yeah, it was a little trickier.
I know.

Speaker 2 (46:51):
Lando was talking about how like, you know, toward the
end of the race, he did have the advantage because
the grip on the hearts had finally like started to
heat up, and you know, he was starting to gain
a little on Oscar, and he could see Oscar was
struggling some with the tires, but it just wasn't enough.

Speaker 3 (47:05):
Actually, I mean I I because well, Lando made like
a big, pretty big mistake.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
M M.

Speaker 3 (47:10):
He would and it could have. It could have been
the reason Lando didn't win. Isn't because Oscar overtook him
in lap one, which I mean you could say it is.
He could have gotten that back when he made a
few mistakes, especially one big mistake that cost him like
they think, they said like a second and some change
at the end of the because he was gaining on
him and it was just one of those things that's like,
you know, he went.

Speaker 2 (47:30):
Off track and made that mistake and it slowed him down.
And yeah, I mean he basically lost the ground he
had been making up steadily over several laps.

Speaker 3 (47:37):
And I think he I think there was another mistake,
but that might have been on the last lap, so
it was like that it really matter at the end.

Speaker 2 (47:42):
Ye at that point he had a slow pit stop,
which I think he said that wasn't like the cause
of him not winning or getting the lead back, but
it certainly didn't help.

Speaker 3 (47:54):
But I will say, I think, you know, you reach
a point where you can't say, oh, that pit stop
affected it. When you were first, you lost first, and
it was because you I can't say, because why I'm
not him, I don't know. What his mentality was like.
But he seemed a bit more nervous about the rain
than other people. And I don't think he was nervous game.
I mean maybe a little bit. You're just more hesitant.

(48:14):
It's more hesitant, and that it makes an Oscar wasn't
and he said, say yah.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
But Oscar and Max both showed in the sprint and
in the main race that starting P two at SPA
has its advantages. And again in the post race press conference,
they asked Oscar about that. Is it like, you know,
when you're qualifying for SPA, is there really like two
kind of pole positions, because if you qualify P two,
it seems like, you know, there's one hundred percent chance

(48:39):
this there was one hundred percent you know, conversion rate
of converting P two to the wind this weekend. So
and Oscar was like, well, you know, it kind of
just depends because SPA's been one from both positions, starting
at P one or P two.

Speaker 1 (48:53):
So it's not this.

Speaker 3 (48:53):
Said, it's always from second place because last year George
Russell won it and then he did it because he
was just qualified, and then Lewis won it from second place.

Speaker 1 (49:00):
Oh, we're just saying two years in a row. Se person. Well,
I guess he didn't start from second. I don't know what.

Speaker 3 (49:05):
I don't know where Lewis started as well, but anyway,
I don't think it was second place. Well, with all
that being said, we can get into our rookie report.
Kimmi and Tanelli. In the sprint, he qualified twentieth and
he finished seventeenth, so no points. And in the main
race he qualified eighteenth and he finished sixteenth, so no points,

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for a total of no points. So Kimi and Toanelli
was set to start from the pit lane, but due
to weather conditions, the race began with a rolling start.
His wet weather setup held early on as he gained ground,
but once the track dried, he struggled on the straits
and couldn't overtake. Despite close battles with cars like Ocon,

(49:46):
A switch to a two stop strategy didn't change his
fortunes and he remained stuck behind the has. He hasn't
scored since his podium in Canada and called it a
difficult weekend, but is focused on bouncing back in Budapest.
Isaakha J in the sprint he qualified ninth and he
finished eighth, so one point and In the main race,
he qualified eighth and he finished twentieth, so no points

(50:11):
for a total of one point. Woo, you be eighth
to twentieth?

Speaker 1 (50:18):
Am I right? Yeah, I literally thought I was wrong.
Just now. That's clearly got to be a mistake. That's correct. Okay.

Speaker 3 (50:27):
So Isaac had a frustrate Okay, well, yeah. Isaac had
a frustrating race after a strong start saw him running
in eighth ahead of teammate Liam Lawson. While the team
called Lawson in first and kept him in the points,
Hajar pitted a lap later just as the track dried,
dropping him down the order. He couldn't get the mediums
working and was forced into a second stop. It was

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later revealed that a technical issue had affected his pace
for most of the race. Despite the setback, Hajar said
the car felt good underneath him and believes it could
have been a double points finish. He confident heading into Budapest.
Franco Colopinto had an eventful but ultimately disappointing race, finishing
nineteenth and still chasing his first points for Alpine. Starting fifteenth,

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he made a strong launch in the wet and closed
in on the cars ahead. Alpine had opted for a
low down four setup to gain on the straits as
the track dried, but Colopinto struggled for pace on the
medium tires in traffic. A second stop to cover Carlos
Science didn't help him move forward. He called it a
tough and long race and said the team will keep

(51:33):
working ahead, so mop bomb Ali Bharman. In the sprint,
he qualified seventh and he finished seventh, so two points.
In the main race, he qualified twelfth and he finished eleventh,
so no points, for a total of two points. Ali

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Bhman finished p eleven for the fourth straight race after
a promising but frustrating run at SPA. A slightly late
switch to slicks dropped him just outside the points, and
an engine issue mid race cost him three spots. He
had been ahead of Ghastly and on track for a
P ten with Hulkenberg set to pit again. Though the
car felt great, he lost time, stuck behind Sonoda and

(52:16):
couldn't catch Ghastly before the flag. Bearman remains confident heading
into Hungary, where he expects the car to perform well.
Gabriel Bordoletto in the sprint he qualified tenth and he
finished ninth, so no points. In the main race, he
qualified tenth and he finished ninth, so two points for
a total of two points. Gabriel Bordoletto scored his first

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points since Austria with a solid P nine at Spa.
Although teammate Hulkenberg made the ideal switch to slicks, Bordoletto
had stronger pace, prompting Salbert to swap their positions. He
couldn't catch loss in a head but held his place
comfortably to the end. Bortiletto said the team made the
right call and felt they maximized the cars potential. The
result gives him a confidence boost heading into Hungary. Liam

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Lawson in the sprint he qualified eleventh and he finished tenth,
so no points, and in the main race he qualified
ninth and he finished eighth, so four points for a
total of four points. Liam Lawson finished in the points
at Spa after a well time switched to slicks put
him ahead of teammate Isaac Khajar called in first as

(53:27):
the track dried laws and held position and managed the
race well from there. He said the car felt strong
and clean air and praised the team's execution. So he's
just head down, keep on going in our last in
our favorite rookie Fernando Alonso. In the sprint, he qualified
fourteenth and he finished fourteenth, so zero points. Oddly enough,

(53:50):
that's also his number fourteen. In the main race, he
qualified nineteenth and he finished seventeenth, so zero points, for
a total of eight zero points, which is disappointing because
I think he had consecutive scoring points weekends after not
scoring points for a very long time. Fernando Alonso was
set to start from the pit lane, but the race
began with a rolling start due to weather conditions. He

(54:12):
finished p seventeen after a challenging race where Aston Martin's
what set up didn't suit the mostly dry conditions. Despite
gaining a few spots, Alonzo said the pace wasn't there
and their new upgrade package didn't deliver the expected improvements.
The team will review the data and aim to bounce
back in Hungry. So that wraps up the rookie report.

(54:32):
We can move on to our best and worst segment.
My driver of the day obviously his Lewis Hamilton because
he's the goat, he's the king and get out of
his way.

Speaker 2 (54:44):
My driver of the day is Oscar Pst. I know
that he got overtaken in the sprint. We're not gonna
talk about the sprint. We're gonna talk about the main
race because that's what really matters. When he started P two,
committed to the overtake, got in P one in front
of Lando, and then just never looked back.

Speaker 1 (55:00):
So I'm like, let's go oscar. See. I love the
sprint race because my boy Max said peace o. See y'all.

Speaker 3 (55:08):
My biggest let down, unfortunately, is Lando Norris because I'm like, buddy,
come on, man, if he didn't have a bad weekend,
It's not that it was bad, it was just that
I'm like, quit losing. Don't let this be your reputation
every time you get P one, My guy, come on,
you got this, you can do it for Yeah. That

(55:29):
was my biggest let down is because I'm like, nobody
else really did anything that made me go come on.

Speaker 1 (55:34):
My biggest let down was Isaac Hedjar That yeah, made
me reading I went what yeah?

Speaker 2 (55:40):
And it's mainly I mean, he did okay in this sprint.
He got the last point that was available, finishing P
eight in the sprint, but then in the main race
to qualify P eight and then finish dead last.

Speaker 1 (55:52):
Uh, my guy.

Speaker 3 (55:54):
Well, in his defense. There was a mechanical issue that
they said they talked about afterwards because I'm like, Isaac's
not gonna finish that. He's not a last place No
he's not. He's a point skitter and he is like
may he's the rookie of the year. So yeah, well
that leads us to the next race.

Speaker 1 (56:16):
Teaser.

Speaker 3 (56:17):
So the next race is round fourteen at the Hungaro Ring,
the Hungarian Gone. So last year's main race results it
was Oscar Piastre, Lando Norris and Lewis Hamilton. And here
are some track stats. The first GP was held in
nineteen eighty six. It is seventy laps long.

Speaker 2 (56:40):
Wow, that's it's like half the length of the Belgium
of spa double. Well the track length is like, oh
oh well, I was like, no, it's the number lap
twenty something laps. The number of laps is a little
under double. Yeah, but no the actual like length of

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the track.

Speaker 1 (57:02):
Yeah, yeah, I haven't got to that style. Oh my god.
We went from forty four laps to seventy So my bad.

Speaker 3 (57:09):
She said, I said seventy laps. She went, that's that's
half and I was like what. I was like, no,
it's not not half an oven, Okay, I'm not bad.
So the circuit length, even though Anna wanted to jump
ahead four point about four point four kilometers which is

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about two point seven miles.

Speaker 1 (57:31):
Yoh, it is about half of what SPA is distance wise,
not lap, yes, just the length of the track. God, Okay.

Speaker 3 (57:43):
The race distance is about three hundred and seven kilometers,
which is about one hundred and ninety ninety one miles
or so what it's one hundred and ninety point five,
but I guess you'd round up to one hundred ninety
one miles the lap. So the race lap record is
held by Lewis Hamilton, which he said in twenty twenty
at a minute in sixteen zero point six two seven seconds.

(58:06):
It has one dr us zone. So here's boring.

Speaker 1 (58:10):
Yeah, w wah.

Speaker 3 (58:12):
So about the track, It's often compared to a karting
track thanks to its tight layout and twisty rhythm, with
minimal straits and plenty of corner sequences. Teams run monoco
level downforce, favoring balance and grip overaw power. It's a
technical challenge that rewards precision flow and a well set
up car. So can we overtake? Is the biggest thing, it's.

Speaker 1 (58:39):
Gonna be a little hard here.

Speaker 3 (58:42):
So overtaking at the Hungaro Ring is notoriously difficult due
to the narrow, twisty nature of the circuit. So biggest
things to note as qualifying as going to be key
and turn one is the most likely place to overtake,
So it's gonna be one of those. It's not impossible,
but it's gonna.

Speaker 1 (59:01):
Be a rough one.

Speaker 3 (59:03):
But yeah, that about wraps that up. I don't have
nearly as much to say, like with Spat, I was like, look, I.

Speaker 2 (59:10):
Got all this to say, and I'm like, yeah, it's
worth noting that Hungary was Oscar Piastri's first win ever
in Formula One, but it was the controversial win. Oh yeah,
it was after Lando had already gotten his first win
last year, and basically there was something that happened where
Lando ended up getting.

Speaker 1 (59:30):
In front of Oscar. I think it was at the
pit stops. How that worked out.

Speaker 2 (59:33):
There was something that happened in Hungary last year where
it was basically supposed to be Oscar's win.

Speaker 3 (59:38):
Yes, it was the pit stops, I think I think it. Yeah,
the eight teams, I think it was what they called.
And then Oscar's like hello.

Speaker 1 (59:44):
Yeah, oh yeah, that's what it was.

Speaker 2 (59:46):
It was they they undercut Lando's side of the garage,
undercut Oscar on the pit stop or something happened like that.

Speaker 1 (59:53):
Yeah, so it was all it was all the Clarence fault.

Speaker 2 (59:55):
Yeah, basically they engineered a problem. And basically it was
Lando's engineer on the radio being like, Lando, give the
place back to Oscar, like swap when you can. And
Lando's like, tell him to catch up. He said, no,
if we you got to tell him to speed up
and hurry up and get closer to me if we're
gonna swap places.

Speaker 3 (01:00:15):
And then his engineer's like, well, this is what happened
in Lando said, that's not my problem.

Speaker 2 (01:00:19):
Yeah, and then the engineer basically was like beating him
over the head with like think like trying to guilt
trip him, like think about the team, and think about
every week when we're sitting in these meetings and you're
gonna need Oscar later on to help you secure the
championship if it comes down to it, and all that stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:00:35):
And then finally on the last lap.

Speaker 3 (01:00:37):
I mean it was like was it was it on
the straight or was it? I think so it like
it finish line or was it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:43):
I don't remember.

Speaker 2 (01:00:44):
No, that was a different moment. That was it, I think,
So yeah, I'm trying to remember because there was another
moment too, but basically it was like he kind of
gave it to him, you know, gave the place back
to Oscar at the last minute.

Speaker 1 (01:00:59):
He waited as long as he possibly could do it,
and it was just.

Speaker 2 (01:01:02):
A weird moment that then like kind of soured Oscar's
first win and at one because he's like, you know,
people are expecting him to be excited because you won,
but he's like, I didn't actually win. It was because
my teammate gave it back to me because Mommy said so, like,
and it kind of just.

Speaker 1 (01:01:18):
Sucks, but it was Oscar's race anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:01:20):
It was, and Oscar was much happier the next when
he won his next race because he's like he kind
of got to make up for the lack of excitement
and stuff like that. So but yeah, this is a
scene of drama from last year, so returning to the scene,
returning to the scene of the crime. So yeah, we

(01:01:42):
are in is it a double or a triple header
right now? Yeah, it's just a doubleheader. And then it's
the summer break, like three weeks. Yeah, so we'll have
this race and then we'll have like basically full a
three full weeks off.

Speaker 1 (01:01:53):
Oh god, lots of helpless one, two three, there will be. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:01:58):
So basically we'll have three Sundays with no race, and
then on the fourth Sunday it'll be the before Labor
Day for.

Speaker 1 (01:02:05):
Us, Lord help us.

Speaker 3 (01:02:08):
Well, guys, we will halla at you after Hungry and
we'll figure out what content we're gonna put out during
the summer break because we're going to be bored.

Speaker 1 (01:02:20):
Yeah, there'll be something to talk about.

Speaker 3 (01:02:22):
There'll be something, but okay, well that wraps it up
and we will talk at you next time.

Speaker 1 (01:02:27):
Bye bye.