March 13, 2025 • 38 mins
D'Arcy Waldegrave returned to wrap another day of sports news! Highlights for tonight include:
Jared Lawson - Father of F1 driver Liam Lawson
Ryan Fox - Ahead of 'The Players Championship'
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with Ryan Fox, the PGA pro from New Zealand, just
about get go w I say, just about it's early
tomorrow morning, well five forty five card to sex. He'll
tee it off in the fifth major, the Players Championship,
(01:23):
Craig Perk Memorial, Craig Perk's memorial event. Excuse me, can't
help myself? What a morning that was, Craig Craig. Ryan
joins us to talk about that, about his form currently
to boots and what happens next up first, so we
talk with Jared Lawson. He's the father of Formula one
Red Bull Racing driver Liam Lawson. It's his first drive
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gets underway tomorrow practice one full time seat twenty twenty
five for Red Bull Racing. Wow, How's that affected him?
How's it affected his family? What is the vibration like
amongst the crew? More importantly, very importantly, is he bought
his old manor house yet after he sold it to
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prop up his career. All that and more will come shortly.
Jared Lawson that joins the program before that, though, let's
do this today and a sport today. Voden Barrett might
not be out of the Blues selection frame as long
as first thought. He's got a broken poor but coach
vern Cotton isn't catastrophying about the length of time body
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will spend in a sick bait. Some say six weeks.
Not Vernon. I think it's pretty positive for most players
to get back in for their first game back after that. Yeah,
I think so.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yeah, I think we're looking out three to four weeks.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Harry ball playing man tree Steven Adams has been ejected
from the NBA Rockets Sons game after getting into a
buster with opposing center Mason Plumbley.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Get locked up.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
The one of the players proper technical files, both Prombly
and Adams. He let Jack bye bye F one pilot.
Liam Lawson has laid down his thoughts on being judged
against Max vers Step and his four time world champion
teammate like it's a poisons jealous to some, but for
Liam it's exactly what he needs judgment.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
That you can't look at it in that way. It's
more the opportunity to have him as a teammate to
learn off for me for my growth and Formula one
where he's learning. There's really nobody better to have to
learn off. He's literally the best at the moment in the.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Sport, winning or learning. Winning or learning the only outcomes.
And Martin Gapdeal the cricket had told me once after
a string of very low scores for the black Caps,
and he wasn't in poor form, he just wasn't scoring runs.
A bit like this from Ryan Fox.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
I suppose Phoenix, I've played pretty solid, just made nothing
on the weekends and it was kind of the same
Mexico and Palm Beach a couple of weeks ago, some
pretty good ball striking and was pretty slow with Sparta
and made a couple of Salim mistakes. And you know
miss boscasts by one.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Yeah, well from my later on the show, and.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
That's Sport Today.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Alvin passed to seven Sports Talk on News Talk Zeb
Jared Dot Laws and doings us Now he's the Pop's
Almighty of Formula one Red Bull racing driver Liam Laws
and Jared Good evening.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
Mate, Hey, Darcy, how are you doing.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I'm doing well. I'm very very excited, but probably not
as excited as you and the family. Your boy gets
the start off as Formula one career, starting in Melbourne.
We know he's had eleven races, but now it's bona fide,
he's in Red Ball. It's all go from now. A
talk about excitement, talk about pressure though, how's that working?
Speaker 7 (04:56):
Uh yeah, Well the pressures are given, it's always there,
I guess. But the excitement, yeah, I think everyone's awaited
a long time for it to happen, so and it's
come I mean, the first race has come around pretty quick.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
So he's excited.
Speaker 7 (05:11):
I think the whole family, all the supporters, so there's
a hell of a continent of people. There's a lot
of people who have come across for it, so that's
really cool.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
You've had him at home though, recently, right, So he's
had a bit of like you know, down home cooking
and a bit of relaxation. How important is that for
him to actually feel that?
Speaker 6 (05:28):
I think for him it's very important because.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
He he kind of his family is quite it was
a close family, so when he's home, he enjoys that,
you know, the home cooking, the you know they're sitting
around playing guitars but laughing, you know, that sort of stuff.
So I think it was a really nice way for
him just to recharge before he came across.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
A massive decompress for him. What it's been like for
him since he's been given the seat and the intense
engagement with him from the media, from Formula One, from
the fans, that that could be overwhelming. How's he coping
with that?
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Yeah? Look, I can't even imagine what his phone is doing.
My phone has gone ballistic over.
Speaker 7 (06:10):
The last week and a half, sorry, which is which
is great, Like the messages of support have been just overwhelming,
to be honest, But no, I think I mean he's
he's well used to it now. And you know, because
he stepped into the into the red Bull role in
terms of full time late last year. You know, it's
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just a I guess, a progression and he's had a
couple of months to adjust, and certainly it's a lot busier.
His media commitments, everything are a hell of a lot
busier now than what they were last year, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Have you noticed anything different in the way he is
leading into this event.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
No, I have been looking for for anything like that,
but no, he's no different, to be honest. He's approaching
in the same way I think, and which is probably.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
A good thing. And no, not seeing anything different about him. Really,
he seems pretty relaxed.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Well, and that's why he's got there in the first place.
Very farocus. I was talking on yesterday editorial piece about
the idea of him actually locking in and forgetting all
the outside noise and just doing what he does best,
and I from what we've seen of his career so far,
is a depth at doing that.
Speaker 8 (07:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (07:22):
Again, it's just I guess it's just a year on
you I mean, the pressure ramps up, the you know,
the stakes get higher, a bit higher, you know, and
now it's just continue to do that. I mean performance
on track is crucial, obviously, but I think these first
few rounds is Melbourne has never done the track. In fact,
I think he's the only drivers then never actually drew
on the track, and the Shanghai is never done. So
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for him, it's just about getting up to speed and
trying to trying to pull some some valuable points out.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Of those first few races and just build on that
from there.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Really, we just wondering about the expectation on results we
can weak out has he been that been laid down
to what the expectations are or what he expects himself,
because he's not going to shake up the world in
the first couple of rounds, but he must have an
idea about where he'd be comfortable for there's such a
thing in Formula one result wise.
Speaker 7 (08:12):
Well, it's interesting thing about Formula One as they do
the preseason testing and then we all wait to see
the first round and see where, you know, where the
cars shake out in terms of performance. So I don't
think anyone's fully aware yet as to the pecking order,
although you know, I think everyone's reasonably confident McLaren on,
mclarener on top. But and this track is a bit
of an outlier anyway, being a street secker, so I think,
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you know, in terms of his expectation. He's always got
high expectations, but I think the team aren't putting too
much expectation, and I think really it's just about learning
and trying to get him up to speed as quickly
as possible.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
Bearing in mind he's you know, he's got a fairly.
Speaker 7 (08:50):
Big mountain, just one, considering he's never done the track and.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
The way he's developed his craft, coming from pretty much
nothing up to the top of the tree with the
help from his family. So he brought you a new house.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
Yet, Jared, afraid that's a long way away. He's still
in debt.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I shouldn't laugh about that. But that's the n h R.
The top of Formula one. You're making, you know, millions
and millions of dollars a year. You just get in.
It's not so big. How I'm stunned that he's never
actually driven around Albert Park before that. It's just over
the road. It's bizarre.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
Well, the thing is because F two and F three
only came here the last last couple of years and
he was course doing super Formula, so he he's He
took James Courtney around in James's VA.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
Last year for a lap for a hot lab and.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
That was that's about the sum total of the track
time he's had around this round the circuit.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
And he's spent plenty of time stuck stuck in the
sim You've got a simulator at home, he's been on
the PlayStation. He would have done a lap after lap
after lap. Surely you'd like to think he knows it
like the back of his hand.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Ah, I'm sure.
Speaker 7 (09:56):
I'm sure he's done a lot of summer in the
UK before he left them, and they have all there
some days, so yeah, he would have done a heck
of a lot of some work. But yeah, at home,
I mean he's still got a s set up. But
I'm not sure if he went around ow with park,
but it was home. I must ask him, actually.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
And he just was Liam Lawson when he was at home.
He's just your son doing what the son did yet
to tell him to clean his room, to bring his
distance out of his bedroom and all that kind of
regular stuff. And nothing's changed there, right, Jared.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
I didn't. Absolutely nothing has changed there. I can tell
you it's still the same as it was ten years ago.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
As he said, anything around the differences, you said, you
haven't noticed anything like I know how reserved he is
or empties everything out to you. But has anything struck
him in the last couple of months that maybe he
didn't see coming?
Speaker 6 (10:43):
Not really as a samon. I think it's because it's
been a.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
You know, a gradual build and the way things have
worked out.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
I think he knew that the seat was coming.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
It's like, well, a little bit of ahead of time
before he actually finally got her. So he's had time
to ease, you know, or ease into it in terms
of our mental approach. So I don't think I haven't
certainly haven't seen any any change, and he hasn't mentioned anything,
although it's just the media attention has just gone. You know,
it's a lot more there's a lot more attention on him,
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that's for sure. I mean, when you're in a front
running team, it's quite different to being in a midfield
team in terms of the attention.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
You can trust me, I know, I can't get anywhere
near him. I'm sorry, not bigging up, but that's okay,
that's what happened. When you get up to that level.
What about what you and the family are doing. How
much connection will you have with Liam over practice, over
the qualifying day, and race day itself. Are you keeping
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well away from this? Loud to them? What's the deal there?
Speaker 7 (11:49):
Well, we flew over with him on the same flight,
but we we haven't seen him since he's basically been
been the head down, fum up doing what he needs
to do. So but we will will be in the
garage at times over the weekend, and we'll also be
over the other side of the paddic watching the.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
Race as well.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
But in terms of actual time to see him, his
day is planned out until a minute, essentially from the
time he gets the track till the time he gets
back to the hotel, so it's full on.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
So yeah, we hopefully might get to.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
Have a dinner with him at some stage, but it
may not be until after the Grand Prix.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
And when you do have a dinner with him, tell
him if he's going to be in g Q again,
don't wear those horrendous clothes. I mean, I saw the
pain in his face with what he had to do,
but that's the nature of his job now, right, He
just got to do that.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
Yeah, yeah, you know what they're like.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
Some of them follow fashion and some of them don't.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
You know, Well, he's a fashionable man. I've seen he's
changed his hair. He's got rid of that big old
slippy haircut. He's got a bit of a ruffled every man.
Look now, how deliberate.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
It's that.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
Every time I see he looks different, so I just
could go with the flow.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Well, we're really looking forward to this and that is
the understatement of the year for me.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Jared.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Thanks for making yourself available. Male, it's super super busy
for you. All there are wishing you the best. Ibi
drives it like he stole it, just like a South
Auckland kid. And thanks for your time mate, enjoy it.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
No worries, just thanks everybody for all all the support
messages and so forth. He he's been he's been overwhelmed
by all so that's great.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
You hear it from the biggest names in sports and men.
Have your say on eighty Sports Talk more on your
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Speaker 2 (13:28):
Jared Lawson there, dad of Liam. Still hasn't got his
house back limb, but to do well, he owes them away.
Bit of money are great to have Jared on air.
Plainly he's over there. It's son, Liam's the start of
his career. Yet we know he's raced before. We know,
he's sat in the car for from time to time
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to cover, but now he is the full time seat
holder of the number two seat in the Red Bull
Racing car. This is a huge weekend, so looking forward
to this, there's the understatement of the decade. What about you?
This has captured your interest. It's hard for me to
gauge it because I'm addicted to motorsport, especially Formula one,
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so plainly it's absolutely pinging me. And I've followed this
guy Lawson for quite a long time now, first in
the radio sports studio. It is like sixteen or seventeen,
so it's got me without a doubt. But this guy
is now becoming one of our biggest sports stars globally.
I could say, bigger than Steven Adams, bigger than Scott Dixon,
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bigger than Israel Dussigne turning himself into a superstar and
he hasn't even raced yet. Producer Duff poured out some
interesting stats. Gen Z and millennials make up sixty percent
of Formula One's US fan base. It's got at all.
It's got money and jeopardy and action and drama and
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controversy and fast cars, and it's got a lot and
of co has got drive to survive, to pump it's
tires up as well, so aside my obviously addiction. And
this is a day out from when Liam Lawson gets
out there in Australia in our own backyard to surprise
think at track he's never raced on. How much traction
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has this got in your sporting mind? Has this captured
your interest? Liam Lawson on the verge of Formula one
oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty. As you know, it
got my attention years and years ago, Ever since my
old man set me down in front of the TV
and said watch the red cars. When was that in
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nineteen seventy four?
Speaker 8 (15:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
But has it got you? Has this actually got you
up and engaged? Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty Looking
forward to your thoughts seven to twenty two. Ryan Fox
joins us later on the program as we talk about
the fifth major tipc it te'z off tomorrow morning at
a quarter to six, This News Talk's abed fell fall you.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
The right call is your call on eight hundred eighty
Sports Talk call on your home of Sports News Talk.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
ZBB in Pray six Sports Talk on News Talks ABB.
If you're a fan of Sales NBA, here's the turn
up for you. Fire are beating the Rams. The Rams
have won the last two titles. On the bounce. There's
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fifty seconds to go in the first quarter and Fire
are beating them twenty sixteen yocks are There's Fire from
tod by the way, the Rams are from Canterbury. That's
that's interesting. So far early doors, right, let's get back
to the phones. I want to know if this captured
your interest. It's arguably one of the biggest sports in
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the world. It is global, It's worth millions and millions
and millions of dollars. He's a superstars. We've got a
Kiwi write and think of it. Has this got you?
Steve has got you?
Speaker 9 (17:18):
Yeah, I've just listened to it. I'm going to bring
it up to talk about Liam Mawson, but I just
said about the FI I'm from Tarana, got on them.
Let's go the Fire. But yeah, I'm not a petrol head.
But for the last since Lian Mawson governor FORMUIA one,
I have just been glued to it and I love
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what he's doing in formula and what he's doing for
New Zealand. It's just awesome to watch a young kiwi
doing what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
And excuse the pun, the drive behind this though you
didn't watch Formula one there was a New Zealand or
is it purely because there is now a kiwi at
the highest echelon or.
Speaker 9 (18:00):
As never watched Formula One until Phase six eight months
ago when Liam Molson got into it. Never been interested
in it, but now I love it and I can't
wait for this weekend to watch them go.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Do you watch much of Dry to Survive, which has
basically been an entry point for a lot of people.
Speaker 9 (18:20):
No, No, I'm awesome. I'm not a picture here at all.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Well the reason I'm.
Speaker 9 (18:26):
A rugby sort of guy and all that, but I've
never been into this sort of motorsport. But yeah, I'm
just loving watching what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
I'm fascinated about what appeals the most to you. You
don't like motorsport, you're you're a rugby man, so you've
got these standing thoughts. Is there anything specifically about what
you see or hear or read about that really appeals
to you, like sit there and go see hold on,
that's really cool?
Speaker 9 (18:53):
What I find calll is a young Kiwi doing it
on the big stage at the world stage, and just
ye make it the name and do this thing. That's
why I don't find it's cool.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
That's brilliant, Steve. Thanks very much for your call I
one hundred and eighty. If you made like Steve, if
you suddenly turned on the TV and going, I can
do this. I can climb into this. And it's not
the easiest of sports to climb into, but with vehicles
like Drive to Survive, it does help people climb into
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the sport and feel like they have some knowledge. That's
stat that I rolled out before gen Z and Millennials
make up sixty percent of Formula one's US fan base,
so it's got this appeal to that generation coming through
a lot of Formula one fans slightly older. I was
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going to say elderly, but I won't describe himself as
that just yet. Has it got you? Why has it
got you? Run through a couple of texts now about
the same subject. Good evening. Darcy. Liam has such a
great attitude. This is from shame. He'll be a world champ.
I loved how he said Max is the best at
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the moment thank you for that, Shane Darcy. I can't
believe I'm saying this about car racing, but I'm looking
forward to the race this weekend. So this is what
happens when you get a kiwi in a sport that
only a few people like myself don't really follow. But
it's created a whole lot of new fans. And exactly
what our first callers said, Darcy, a mate, I haven't
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been this pumped about Formula One in the years. I
can't wait to finish early tomorrow, get home, watch his
first practice and I can't remember when I last watched
Formula Formula one practice one. I get that, I watch
all the time of the tragic but yeah, hey still
doesn't quite not enough passing for him yet, but he's
still loving it. That's great to see, Hamish, thanks very
(20:50):
much for your call. Hey, Conrad, what's on your mind?
Speaker 10 (20:55):
Yeah, yeah, hey, Darcy hate mine is kind of a
reverse thing. I've always kept an eye on the Formula one,
you know, remember you know the teddor or the teenager
you'd always have on the news every second week or
something on the Monday. It would have you know, Schumacher
or Prost or whoever on the podium, you know, firing
off Champaign, right, and those are those memories and so forth.
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There's not any Zionder there. You've got to remember that
in the Formula one coverage, you know, it's kind of
like they're always from other countries to that extent, and
unless you get way back to the sixties and seventies
with aim On and Holm and all the rest of it.
But my memories have always been a so called news
on it will be involved, right, I mean for this
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is for example, from Corington, someone who's watched Rush the
movie and all the rest of it and kind of
keep the nine everything a.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Kind of result of involved because the mclarenantine upon him
as team it was that man Bruce started off. So
there's always been an attachment, hasn't there.
Speaker 10 (21:54):
Well that's right with McLaren. Yeah, But I'm taking example
of say Nick Hacken, and he came from Finland, right,
and he's kind of like you knows someone to say, oh,
we'll name someone famous sports fan of sportsman from Well
he's the guy that comes straight to.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Mine and now you go straight to Liam Lawson.
Speaker 10 (22:14):
Well, yeah, because you're going to remember this is exposure
in Europe. You know, it'll be be racing in Germany
and Spain.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
And he is racing all through, as is racing in America,
is racing in South America's raising in austral As, he's
racing in Japan. It's everywhere except Africa. Hopefully they get
back to kylel Aine at some stage.
Speaker 10 (22:32):
Okay, cheers out.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Involved Conrad, and thanks very much for calling through. Of course,
he's the tenth driver from New Zealand to run in
Formula One. The last one before this was Brendan Hartley's
World Endurance champion, now Lamon winner. I think he's still
the World Endurance champ. I think he seated that last year,
but that was the last. And there's a few of
recent times that it never really got March. Mike thack
(22:59):
Will springs to mind. Is a few more? Anyway, back
to the phones we go today.
Speaker 8 (23:02):
Murray, Yet Mike tele was the one I always remember
I grew up with al.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
I'm sorry, sorry, Murray, you're very very quiet. Is there
any chance you get the phone to your mouth?
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Okay, that's all right.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
It's just like I can I can just hear if
I can only just hear you. The people can't hear
you at all. How's that sound? Yeah, that sounds heater.
Thanks mate. So what you're saying about fackle?
Speaker 8 (23:37):
Yeah, no, no, I was just saying Mike Tackle was
where I sort of grew up. But my favorites were
Renwnw and Alam Prost when they were driving Renault and
there was the.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Era no an alarmingly dangerous.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
Eraror yes, definitely definitely but yeah no. I actually had
the chance to meet quite a few of the Formula
One stars on a TV show back in the day
with Paul Allen, and I've always been a fan of
Woman of One and everything like that from that stage,
and I've taken a big interest as soon as we've
got Lim there, Mitch Evans, I actually know his dad.
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This guy's basically riddled all through Formula and you know,
the likes of over in America doing the Indy cars. Now,
I just love the fact that we're actually represented. I
believe now at the moment we're overrepresented, and I'm really
excited to see what Lim actually comes up with. I mean,
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he's on the HI nothing and I really hope he
has the goods to actually stick around and make an
impact because Max isn't getting any younger, and he could
easily step into the number one role if he actually
goes well.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
But if you've watched him race and you've watched his
development under the last five six years or so, you
know how he drives and what he brings to the competition.
So you have to have faith and what he can do.
I think that's really underlined.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Murray.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Did you see him when he raced at Zandfort when
he came in for a replacement ricat the conditions were appalling? Wow,
there was something else.
Speaker 8 (25:16):
Yeah, I mean even when he was actually competing over
un I watched the super Formula. I can't remember the streams.
I had to get to that, but I watched the
super Formula and yeah, no, no, I mean he was
still he was still young, and they were they were
hardened races. And you know he didn't him on the
playdough and he came second in the championship in the end,
but he knew what he was doing and he you know,
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if if one was a stream and Red Bull was
providing that in put to actually race over him the
super Formula and yeah, he did it.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Did he?
Speaker 8 (25:46):
I'm start I should have thought about it early. I
shouldn't be over this, to be honest and annoyed.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
I kind of feel the same way, but you know,
I've only got so much leave and maasically it's like
vacuumed up over Christmas. Not all I can do about that,
but I'm excited where he actually struck me marrying Thanks
for your call that he's never raced in Shanghai and
he's never raced in Melbourne either Albert Park, so I've
had more experience at those two race tracks than he has,
just because I've been to the Grand brit and Changi
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and being to the Grand Prix in Melbourne. And the
big thing around is he's not with a lesser team.
He's not circling around the back markers. He's with one
of the top teams in the entire formula. And that
is just crazy drive to survive for me, writes another
hook Line and Sinker. I've been an avid follower of
(26:33):
the last few years. Having a Kiwi in there has
got me frothing. I can't wait for the weekend. Thank
you very much. Dave Darcy, he was the other guy
a couple of years ago. They've got a ride in
a formula one. He's a KI he's still racing. That's
Brendan Hartley. He's now racing Insurance Champs and doing very
very well. I might have you say, well, that's getting harder.
That competition is more and more. Marx climb into the
(26:56):
FEC the Formula Endurance, which is good to see. Thanks
for that text, Maus Darcy is saying for me, I've
just paid for a Formula one and one subscription so
i can follow Liam. Well, you can you pay for that?
Can climb in the carnless Nords comms. Listen to him
talking back to his teammates and what he's doing. Oh no,
(27:17):
I'm gonna have to do that too.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Rats.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
And finally, Darcy Ian Lawson getting into rebulls like us
winning the Rugby World Cup or America's Cup. It's really
that big for New Zealand sports. Don't invite me out
the Sunday afternoon. The answer is no, I can't wait. Cray,
You're right, hey, it's bigger than us and winning the
Rugby World Cup or the America's Cup. More people care
about Formula one than either of those two games. I'm
(27:41):
sorry to break it to you, but this is global
rugby I'd like it to be seven thirty seven as
a sports sock on news talk zeb b Ryan Fox,
there's moments away.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
After mile after mile, after my turn after I like
the radio down.
Speaker 10 (28:04):
To break up.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Tack on the rams. Five minutes to go in the
second quarter. It's still trailing, but not quite as much.
The fight out of Tod Hunger thirty seven can be
Rams twenty two nineteen away from eight. Time for some
golf now. The fifth Major gets under way, gets under
(28:28):
way for Ryan Fox at five forty five tomorrow morning,
and he joins us now to discuss Dad and his
form and so on and so forth. So let's get
amongst Ryan Fox. Welcome mate, Hey Darcy, I trust you
well and a're looking forward to actually heading a cartline
this time around at the TPC. She's been a pretty
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rough last couple of tournaments for you.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Yeah, I mean rough in terms of not playing the weekend.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
The golf's actually been okay, to be honest, a little
frustrating more than anything else.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
You know.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
I missed the last two cuts by one. At two
I've been two under and four under, which is certainly
not bad golf by any stretch, just not quite good enough,
and you know the PG two is tough in that regard,
and yeah, hoping, you know, just to score a little
better this week.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
The golf game feels like it's in pretty good shape.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
When you get home after missing by one shot, do
you just go back over the previous thirty six holes,
going if only, if only and identify it maybe where
it fell apartment? Is that even helpful?
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (29:31):
And no, I mean, look, it's it's pretty easy to
find a shot, that's for sure. And to be honest,
the last couple of weeks for me have been purely
the putter. You know, maybe not quite hit the ball
as close as I would have liked in this and
that impacted the scoring a little bit.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
But you know, you know, both weeks I sort of
I look down the.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
Stretch and go, well, you know, there's there's three or
four parts inside ten feet there and one of those
goes in. And I'm playing the weekend, and you know,
the week at Cognizant, a guy shot ahead and me
made the cut on the number and then won the tournament.
So the margins are pretty small in this game, and
you know, just got to use the old cliche of
stay patient, let it come and you know the golf
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games there just kind of need to put it together.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
We all know all about what goes on TPC to
massive event. It's the Craig Perks, especially if you will.
I don't know where you were when that happened, but
I know I was watching it. It blew me away. Do
you still carry that around with you? That that fantastic
time that Perks had there?
Speaker 5 (30:28):
Yeah, I remember watching it live back at home. Was
it two thousand and two? I think for memory? Yeah,
Like one of the most incredible finishes in history, wasn't it?
Three chippins in a row to finish, to finish and
one of probably them, well, if not the most iconic
finish in golf with sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, there, especially seventeen.
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So it'd be nice to replicate that this year. There's
just one hundred and forty three other pretty good golfers
trying to do the same thing.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Yeah, finishing, just look that up. Actually, my memory's not good.
Eagle Birdie win by two shots. I mean that it's
stunning that as nerves of steel, isn't it. If you
found yourself a position like that before, you just got
to hang on there and what you've applied to actually
make that work right.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
Not at saw Grass specifically, but like you know, like
went With a couple of years ago, it was kind
of like that that, you know, I had to do
some something pretty good coming down the stretch and birdied
your few holes coming down and birdied eighteen to win,
which is kind of a nice thing to be able
to do. It was certainly a little probably a little
(31:40):
easier finish at Wentworth than it is at saw Grass,
a whole a little less water involved.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
But yeah, it's you know, that's what you kind of
dream of doing.
Speaker 6 (31:49):
You know.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
It's it's pretty hard to finish eagle birdy part or
win a golf tournament, but you know, just getting a
chance to do that down the stretch is what you
what you want to do. And yeah, it's it's it's
a pretty crazy finish, especially in such an event like
that to get it done. So, as I said, I'd
quite like to try to replicate something like that this week.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
You're teeing off what I think five point five tomorrow morning,
New Zealand time. Who are your group to ethan? What
about the strength of this field? It's not a weak point,
is there.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
No it's it's regarded as the fifth Major for a reason. It's,
you know, probably the strongest field in golf. You know,
it's the top fifty in the world and and the
PGA Tour basically, so you know, it's it's as strong
as any major field. It's yeah, you've there's there's no
hiding out there. You've got to got to had a
(32:40):
lot of good shots. It's a tough golf course. Yeah,
it's just you've they set it up like a major.
The roughs up this week, Yeah, it's good. I'm playing
with Sammy Valamaki who played on the DP World Tour
over the last couple of years. I know Sammy well
and the guy Doug gim who I've I've met a
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couple of times and he's got an assy guy on
the bag. So it should be a nice group for
the first couple of days where first off in the
afternoon on Friday, which pace of play should be quite nice.
Obviously I like playing fast, so you're not having anyone
in front of us for nine holes will be nice.
And we're putting the pins out on Friday morning and
hopefully it's not too cold when we're out there. But
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it's a forecast looks really really good for the weekend.
You're looking forward to getting out there and giving it
a crack.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Playing partners, you can't choose who you play with, but
now instrumental is the crew. The obviously the caddies and
the golfers that you play with. It's you against the course.
It's not you versus them, but they must have some
influence on what you do.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
Or yeah, look it's it's some guys that doesn't really
matter either way. Some guy, like probably me, I like
having a chat on the golf course. So having someone
I know or having someone I can I can talk to,
it's certainly helpful. And I think probably the biggest thing
is you just you just want a nice vibe in
(34:06):
the group, and that's generally guys you know, playing good
and like it sounds weird because you're competing against them,
but you know, also, yeah, you're kind of only directly
competing on a Sunday afternoon trying to win the tournament.
That the first few days you're just kind of putting
yourself in position, and it's it's nice to have a
(34:27):
group where everyone's hitting good shots and you can kind
of feed off each other, So you know, hopefully that's
the case for us over the over the first couple
of days and we can be towards that point end
of the field on Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Familiarity breeds content, but possibly not at major events like this.
The more you've been there, the more comfortable you feel.
How many times you actually hit balls around their.
Speaker 5 (34:49):
Own This is my third time at the Players, so
I missed the cut last year. So I think I've
played six tournament rounds around there and probably another like
three or four, maybe four or five more. In practice.
The good thing about the golf course is not it's
right in front of you. You've got to hit really
(35:09):
good shots. But I think the whole idea behind the
golf course, when Pete Died designed it was to make
you hit every club in your bag, and it certainly
does that. You know, there is some birdie chances out there,
there is some wedges you can hit in the par
fives are gettable, although they seem to have pushed a
few te's back this year, especially on the par fives,
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and it's just a great test of golf. You can
see how someone goes out there and shoots eight under
and you can also see with all the trouble and
the long rough and the firm and fast greens, he
someone can go up there and shoot eighty. And I
think it's one of the purest tests of golf. In
the tournament you can get.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
You said your pata hasn't been doing you many favors,
but maybe your short game have not been getting close
enough to the pin. But out of all the clubs
that you're going to have to use across the weekend
because you are going to hit the cart, trust me
on this one. Is there a club that you're particularly
looking forward to or one that maybe you're a bit like,
I really want to play this shot.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
I don't want to use the stick.
Speaker 5 (36:13):
No, Like I've made a couple of changes going into
this week. I've had a new drive in the bag
for a couple of weeks and that's going really well.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
So I'm quite looking forward to that.
Speaker 5 (36:24):
Tweaked a couple of things on my eyes lying or
wise and loft wise, just to try to help out
with that proximity to hold, and it's that's been going
really good in practice. I'm kind of looking forward to
testing that that out in the tournament over the next
few days, and I went back to an old partter
that I've had a lot of success with, the one
(36:44):
I want to went with with and the one I
wanted done hill Worth a couple of years ago. So
you know, just sometimes with the part of changes as
good as a holiday, you know, just looking down at
something different just just kind of makes you feel a
little different, maybe get some confidence back in it. And
you know, I figured going back to something that I've
(37:04):
had success with you might might change the vibes.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
A little bit in that regard.
Speaker 5 (37:08):
And again that's gone really well in practice, so I
kind of looking forward to tow seeing how that goes
in the tournament. And you know, to be honest, everything's
felt really good. The last couple of days and tournament
golf was a little bit different, but yeah, it's been
close to the last couple of weeks. It's certainly not
you know, missing a couple of cuts by shots, nothing
(37:29):
to be too worried about. It's not like the golf
games miles away. So hopefully this is the week that
it all kind of clicks and you can put four
good rounds together.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
And whatever you do, don't call your driver Darcy. That's
just a recipe for disaster. Looking forward to watching you
compete this weekend. Ryan Fox, thanks so much for your time.
Really enjoy the fact you join us here on News
Talk CB. You got on your pal Cheers, Darcy, thanks
for having me.
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with Ryan Fox, the PGA pro from New Zealand, just
about get go w I say, just about it's early
tomorrow morning, well five forty five card to sex. He'll
tee it off in the fifth major, the Players Championship,
(01:23):
Craig Perk Memorial, Craig Perk's memorial event. Excuse me, can't
help myself? What a morning that was, Craig Craig. Ryan
joins us to talk about that, about his form currently
to boots and what happens next up first, so we
talk with Jared Lawson. He's the father of Formula one
Red Bull Racing driver Liam Lawson. It's his first drive
(01:46):
gets underway tomorrow practice one full time seat twenty twenty
five for Red Bull Racing. Wow, How's that affected him?
How's it affected his family? What is the vibration like
amongst the crew? More importantly, very importantly, is he bought
his old manor house yet after he sold it to
(02:07):
prop up his career. All that and more will come shortly.
Jared Lawson that joins the program before that, though, let's
do this today and a sport today. Voden Barrett might
not be out of the Blues selection frame as long
as first thought. He's got a broken poor but coach
vern Cotton isn't catastrophying about the length of time body
(02:29):
will spend in a sick bait. Some say six weeks.
Not Vernon. I think it's pretty positive for most players
to get back in for their first game back after that. Yeah,
I think so.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yeah, I think we're looking out three to four weeks.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Harry ball playing man tree Steven Adams has been ejected
from the NBA Rockets Sons game after getting into a
buster with opposing center Mason Plumbley.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Get locked up.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
The one of the players proper technical files, both Prombly
and Adams. He let Jack bye bye F one pilot.
Liam Lawson has laid down his thoughts on being judged
against Max vers Step and his four time world champion
teammate like it's a poisons jealous to some, but for
Liam it's exactly what he needs judgment.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
That you can't look at it in that way. It's
more the opportunity to have him as a teammate to
learn off for me for my growth and Formula one
where he's learning. There's really nobody better to have to
learn off. He's literally the best at the moment in the.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
Sport, winning or learning. Winning or learning the only outcomes.
And Martin Gapdeal the cricket had told me once after
a string of very low scores for the black Caps,
and he wasn't in poor form, he just wasn't scoring runs.
A bit like this from Ryan Fox.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
I suppose Phoenix, I've played pretty solid, just made nothing
on the weekends and it was kind of the same
Mexico and Palm Beach a couple of weeks ago, some
pretty good ball striking and was pretty slow with Sparta
and made a couple of Salim mistakes. And you know
miss boscasts by one.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Yeah, well from my later on the show, and.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
That's Sport Today.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Alvin passed to seven Sports Talk on News Talk Zeb
Jared Dot Laws and doings us Now he's the Pop's
Almighty of Formula one Red Bull racing driver Liam Laws
and Jared Good evening.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
Mate, Hey, Darcy, how are you doing.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
I'm doing well. I'm very very excited, but probably not
as excited as you and the family. Your boy gets
the start off as Formula one career, starting in Melbourne.
We know he's had eleven races, but now it's bona fide,
he's in Red Ball. It's all go from now. A
talk about excitement, talk about pressure though, how's that working?
Speaker 7 (04:56):
Uh yeah, Well the pressures are given, it's always there,
I guess. But the excitement, yeah, I think everyone's awaited
a long time for it to happen, so and it's
come I mean, the first race has come around pretty quick.
Speaker 6 (05:09):
So he's excited.
Speaker 7 (05:11):
I think the whole family, all the supporters, so there's
a hell of a continent of people. There's a lot
of people who have come across for it, so that's
really cool.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
You've had him at home though, recently, right, So he's
had a bit of like you know, down home cooking
and a bit of relaxation. How important is that for
him to actually feel that?
Speaker 6 (05:28):
I think for him it's very important because.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
He he kind of his family is quite it was
a close family, so when he's home, he enjoys that,
you know, the home cooking, the you know they're sitting
around playing guitars but laughing, you know, that sort of stuff.
So I think it was a really nice way for
him just to recharge before he came across.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
A massive decompress for him. What it's been like for
him since he's been given the seat and the intense
engagement with him from the media, from Formula One, from
the fans, that that could be overwhelming. How's he coping
with that?
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Yeah? Look, I can't even imagine what his phone is doing.
My phone has gone ballistic over.
Speaker 7 (06:10):
The last week and a half, sorry, which is which
is great, Like the messages of support have been just overwhelming,
to be honest, But no, I think I mean he's
he's well used to it now. And you know, because
he stepped into the into the red Bull role in
terms of full time late last year. You know, it's
(06:31):
just a I guess, a progression and he's had a
couple of months to adjust, and certainly it's a lot busier.
His media commitments, everything are a hell of a lot
busier now than what they were last year, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Have you noticed anything different in the way he is
leading into this event.
Speaker 7 (06:49):
No, I have been looking for for anything like that,
but no, he's no different, to be honest. He's approaching
in the same way I think, and which is probably.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
A good thing. And no, not seeing anything different about him. Really,
he seems pretty relaxed.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Well, and that's why he's got there in the first place.
Very farocus. I was talking on yesterday editorial piece about
the idea of him actually locking in and forgetting all
the outside noise and just doing what he does best,
and I from what we've seen of his career so far,
is a depth at doing that.
Speaker 8 (07:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (07:22):
Again, it's just I guess it's just a year on
you I mean, the pressure ramps up, the you know,
the stakes get higher, a bit higher, you know, and
now it's just continue to do that. I mean performance
on track is crucial, obviously, but I think these first
few rounds is Melbourne has never done the track. In fact,
I think he's the only drivers then never actually drew
on the track, and the Shanghai is never done. So
(07:45):
for him, it's just about getting up to speed and
trying to trying to pull some some valuable points out.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Of those first few races and just build on that
from there.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Really, we just wondering about the expectation on results we
can weak out has he been that been laid down
to what the expectations are or what he expects himself,
because he's not going to shake up the world in
the first couple of rounds, but he must have an
idea about where he'd be comfortable for there's such a
thing in Formula one result wise.
Speaker 7 (08:12):
Well, it's interesting thing about Formula One as they do
the preseason testing and then we all wait to see
the first round and see where, you know, where the
cars shake out in terms of performance. So I don't
think anyone's fully aware yet as to the pecking order,
although you know, I think everyone's reasonably confident McLaren on,
mclarener on top. But and this track is a bit
of an outlier anyway, being a street secker, so I think,
(08:36):
you know, in terms of his expectation. He's always got
high expectations, but I think the team aren't putting too
much expectation, and I think really it's just about learning
and trying to get him up to speed as quickly
as possible.
Speaker 6 (08:48):
Bearing in mind he's you know, he's got a fairly.
Speaker 7 (08:50):
Big mountain, just one, considering he's never done the track and.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
The way he's developed his craft, coming from pretty much
nothing up to the top of the tree with the
help from his family. So he brought you a new house.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
Yet, Jared, afraid that's a long way away. He's still
in debt.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
I shouldn't laugh about that. But that's the n h R.
The top of Formula one. You're making, you know, millions
and millions of dollars a year. You just get in.
It's not so big. How I'm stunned that he's never
actually driven around Albert Park before that. It's just over
the road. It's bizarre.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
Well, the thing is because F two and F three
only came here the last last couple of years and
he was course doing super Formula, so he he's He
took James Courtney around in James's VA.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
Last year for a lap for a hot lab and.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
That was that's about the sum total of the track
time he's had around this round the circuit.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
And he's spent plenty of time stuck stuck in the
sim You've got a simulator at home, he's been on
the PlayStation. He would have done a lap after lap
after lap. Surely you'd like to think he knows it
like the back of his hand.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Ah, I'm sure.
Speaker 7 (09:56):
I'm sure he's done a lot of summer in the
UK before he left them, and they have all there
some days, so yeah, he would have done a heck
of a lot of some work. But yeah, at home,
I mean he's still got a s set up. But
I'm not sure if he went around ow with park,
but it was home. I must ask him, actually.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
And he just was Liam Lawson when he was at home.
He's just your son doing what the son did yet
to tell him to clean his room, to bring his
distance out of his bedroom and all that kind of
regular stuff. And nothing's changed there, right, Jared.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
I didn't. Absolutely nothing has changed there. I can tell
you it's still the same as it was ten years ago.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
As he said, anything around the differences, you said, you
haven't noticed anything like I know how reserved he is
or empties everything out to you. But has anything struck
him in the last couple of months that maybe he
didn't see coming?
Speaker 6 (10:43):
Not really as a samon. I think it's because it's
been a.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
You know, a gradual build and the way things have
worked out.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
I think he knew that the seat was coming.
Speaker 7 (10:55):
It's like, well, a little bit of ahead of time
before he actually finally got her. So he's had time
to ease, you know, or ease into it in terms
of our mental approach. So I don't think I haven't
certainly haven't seen any any change, and he hasn't mentioned anything,
although it's just the media attention has just gone. You know,
it's a lot more there's a lot more attention on him,
(11:18):
that's for sure. I mean, when you're in a front
running team, it's quite different to being in a midfield
team in terms of the attention.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
You can trust me, I know, I can't get anywhere
near him. I'm sorry, not bigging up, but that's okay,
that's what happened. When you get up to that level.
What about what you and the family are doing. How
much connection will you have with Liam over practice, over
the qualifying day, and race day itself. Are you keeping
(11:45):
well away from this? Loud to them? What's the deal there?
Speaker 7 (11:49):
Well, we flew over with him on the same flight,
but we we haven't seen him since he's basically been
been the head down, fum up doing what he needs
to do. So but we will will be in the
garage at times over the weekend, and we'll also be
over the other side of the paddic watching the.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
Race as well.
Speaker 7 (12:07):
But in terms of actual time to see him, his
day is planned out until a minute, essentially from the
time he gets the track till the time he gets
back to the hotel, so it's full on.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
So yeah, we hopefully might get to.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
Have a dinner with him at some stage, but it
may not be until after the Grand Prix.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
And when you do have a dinner with him, tell
him if he's going to be in g Q again,
don't wear those horrendous clothes. I mean, I saw the
pain in his face with what he had to do,
but that's the nature of his job now, right, He
just got to do that.
Speaker 7 (12:36):
Yeah, yeah, you know what they're like.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
Some of them follow fashion and some of them don't.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
You know, Well, he's a fashionable man. I've seen he's
changed his hair. He's got rid of that big old
slippy haircut. He's got a bit of a ruffled every man.
Look now, how deliberate.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
It's that.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
Every time I see he looks different, so I just
could go with the flow.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Well, we're really looking forward to this and that is
the understatement of the year for me.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Jared.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Thanks for making yourself available. Male, it's super super busy
for you. All there are wishing you the best. Ibi
drives it like he stole it, just like a South
Auckland kid. And thanks for your time mate, enjoy it.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
No worries, just thanks everybody for all all the support
messages and so forth. He he's been he's been overwhelmed
by all so that's great.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
Thank you very much.
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Speaker 2 (13:28):
Jared Lawson there, dad of Liam. Still hasn't got his
house back limb, but to do well, he owes them away.
Bit of money are great to have Jared on air.
Plainly he's over there. It's son, Liam's the start of
his career. Yet we know he's raced before. We know,
he's sat in the car for from time to time
(13:49):
to cover, but now he is the full time seat
holder of the number two seat in the Red Bull
Racing car. This is a huge weekend, so looking forward
to this, there's the understatement of the decade. What about you?
This has captured your interest. It's hard for me to
gauge it because I'm addicted to motorsport, especially Formula one,
(14:14):
so plainly it's absolutely pinging me. And I've followed this
guy Lawson for quite a long time now, first in
the radio sports studio. It is like sixteen or seventeen,
so it's got me without a doubt. But this guy
is now becoming one of our biggest sports stars globally.
I could say, bigger than Steven Adams, bigger than Scott Dixon,
(14:38):
bigger than Israel Dussigne turning himself into a superstar and
he hasn't even raced yet. Producer Duff poured out some
interesting stats. Gen Z and millennials make up sixty percent
of Formula One's US fan base. It's got at all.
It's got money and jeopardy and action and drama and
(15:00):
controversy and fast cars, and it's got a lot and
of co has got drive to survive, to pump it's
tires up as well, so aside my obviously addiction. And
this is a day out from when Liam Lawson gets
out there in Australia in our own backyard to surprise
think at track he's never raced on. How much traction
(15:23):
has this got in your sporting mind? Has this captured
your interest? Liam Lawson on the verge of Formula one
oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty. As you know, it
got my attention years and years ago, Ever since my
old man set me down in front of the TV
and said watch the red cars. When was that in
(15:44):
nineteen seventy four?
Speaker 8 (15:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
But has it got you? Has this actually got you
up and engaged? Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty Looking
forward to your thoughts seven to twenty two. Ryan Fox
joins us later on the program as we talk about
the fifth major tipc it te'z off tomorrow morning at
a quarter to six, This News Talk's abed fell fall you.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
The right call is your call on eight hundred eighty
Sports Talk call on your home of Sports News Talk.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
ZBB in Pray six Sports Talk on News Talks ABB.
If you're a fan of Sales NBA, here's the turn
up for you. Fire are beating the Rams. The Rams
have won the last two titles. On the bounce. There's
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fifty seconds to go in the first quarter and Fire
are beating them twenty sixteen yocks are There's Fire from
tod by the way, the Rams are from Canterbury. That's
that's interesting. So far early doors, right, let's get back
to the phones. I want to know if this captured
your interest. It's arguably one of the biggest sports in
(17:06):
the world. It is global, It's worth millions and millions
and millions of dollars. He's a superstars. We've got a
Kiwi write and think of it. Has this got you?
Steve has got you?
Speaker 9 (17:18):
Yeah, I've just listened to it. I'm going to bring
it up to talk about Liam Mawson, but I just
said about the FI I'm from Tarana, got on them.
Let's go the Fire. But yeah, I'm not a petrol head.
But for the last since Lian Mawson governor FORMUIA one,
I have just been glued to it and I love
(17:40):
what he's doing in formula and what he's doing for
New Zealand. It's just awesome to watch a young kiwi
doing what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
And excuse the pun, the drive behind this though you
didn't watch Formula one there was a New Zealand or
is it purely because there is now a kiwi at
the highest echelon or.
Speaker 9 (18:00):
As never watched Formula One until Phase six eight months
ago when Liam Molson got into it. Never been interested
in it, but now I love it and I can't
wait for this weekend to watch them go.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Do you watch much of Dry to Survive, which has
basically been an entry point for a lot of people.
Speaker 9 (18:20):
No, No, I'm awesome. I'm not a picture here at all.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Well the reason I'm.
Speaker 9 (18:26):
A rugby sort of guy and all that, but I've
never been into this sort of motorsport. But yeah, I'm
just loving watching what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
I'm fascinated about what appeals the most to you. You
don't like motorsport, you're you're a rugby man, so you've
got these standing thoughts. Is there anything specifically about what
you see or hear or read about that really appeals
to you, like sit there and go see hold on,
that's really cool?
Speaker 9 (18:53):
What I find calll is a young Kiwi doing it
on the big stage at the world stage, and just
ye make it the name and do this thing. That's
why I don't find it's cool.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
That's brilliant, Steve. Thanks very much for your call I
one hundred and eighty. If you made like Steve, if
you suddenly turned on the TV and going, I can
do this. I can climb into this. And it's not
the easiest of sports to climb into, but with vehicles
like Drive to Survive, it does help people climb into
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the sport and feel like they have some knowledge. That's
stat that I rolled out before gen Z and Millennials
make up sixty percent of Formula one's US fan base,
so it's got this appeal to that generation coming through
a lot of Formula one fans slightly older. I was
(19:44):
going to say elderly, but I won't describe himself as
that just yet. Has it got you? Why has it
got you? Run through a couple of texts now about
the same subject. Good evening. Darcy. Liam has such a
great attitude. This is from shame. He'll be a world champ.
I loved how he said Max is the best at
(20:05):
the moment thank you for that, Shane Darcy. I can't
believe I'm saying this about car racing, but I'm looking
forward to the race this weekend. So this is what
happens when you get a kiwi in a sport that
only a few people like myself don't really follow. But
it's created a whole lot of new fans. And exactly
what our first callers said, Darcy, a mate, I haven't
(20:28):
been this pumped about Formula One in the years. I
can't wait to finish early tomorrow, get home, watch his
first practice and I can't remember when I last watched
Formula Formula one practice one. I get that, I watch
all the time of the tragic but yeah, hey still
doesn't quite not enough passing for him yet, but he's
still loving it. That's great to see, Hamish, thanks very
(20:50):
much for your call. Hey, Conrad, what's on your mind?
Speaker 10 (20:55):
Yeah, yeah, hey, Darcy hate mine is kind of a
reverse thing. I've always kept an eye on the Formula one,
you know, remember you know the teddor or the teenager
you'd always have on the news every second week or
something on the Monday. It would have you know, Schumacher
or Prost or whoever on the podium, you know, firing
off Champaign, right, and those are those memories and so forth.
(21:16):
There's not any Zionder there. You've got to remember that
in the Formula one coverage, you know, it's kind of
like they're always from other countries to that extent, and
unless you get way back to the sixties and seventies
with aim On and Holm and all the rest of it.
But my memories have always been a so called news
on it will be involved, right, I mean for this
(21:39):
is for example, from Corington, someone who's watched Rush the
movie and all the rest of it and kind of
keep the nine everything a.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Kind of result of involved because the mclarenantine upon him
as team it was that man Bruce started off. So
there's always been an attachment, hasn't there.
Speaker 10 (21:54):
Well that's right with McLaren. Yeah, But I'm taking example
of say Nick Hacken, and he came from Finland, right,
and he's kind of like you knows someone to say, oh,
we'll name someone famous sports fan of sportsman from Well
he's the guy that comes straight to.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Mine and now you go straight to Liam Lawson.
Speaker 10 (22:14):
Well, yeah, because you're going to remember this is exposure
in Europe. You know, it'll be be racing in Germany
and Spain.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
And he is racing all through, as is racing in America,
is racing in South America's raising in austral As, he's
racing in Japan. It's everywhere except Africa. Hopefully they get
back to kylel Aine at some stage.
Speaker 10 (22:32):
Okay, cheers out.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Involved Conrad, and thanks very much for calling through. Of course,
he's the tenth driver from New Zealand to run in
Formula One. The last one before this was Brendan Hartley's
World Endurance champion, now Lamon winner. I think he's still
the World Endurance champ. I think he seated that last year,
but that was the last. And there's a few of
recent times that it never really got March. Mike thack
(22:59):
Will springs to mind. Is a few more? Anyway, back
to the phones we go today.
Speaker 8 (23:02):
Murray, Yet Mike tele was the one I always remember
I grew up with al.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
I'm sorry, sorry, Murray, you're very very quiet. Is there
any chance you get the phone to your mouth?
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Okay, that's all right.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
It's just like I can I can just hear if
I can only just hear you. The people can't hear
you at all. How's that sound? Yeah, that sounds heater.
Thanks mate. So what you're saying about fackle?
Speaker 8 (23:37):
Yeah, no, no, I was just saying Mike Tackle was
where I sort of grew up. But my favorites were
Renwnw and Alam Prost when they were driving Renault and
there was the.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Era no an alarmingly dangerous.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
Eraror yes, definitely definitely but yeah no. I actually had
the chance to meet quite a few of the Formula
One stars on a TV show back in the day
with Paul Allen, and I've always been a fan of
Woman of One and everything like that from that stage,
and I've taken a big interest as soon as we've
got Lim there, Mitch Evans, I actually know his dad.
(24:15):
This guy's basically riddled all through Formula and you know,
the likes of over in America doing the Indy cars. Now,
I just love the fact that we're actually represented. I
believe now at the moment we're overrepresented, and I'm really
excited to see what Lim actually comes up with. I mean,
(24:37):
he's on the HI nothing and I really hope he
has the goods to actually stick around and make an
impact because Max isn't getting any younger, and he could
easily step into the number one role if he actually
goes well.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
But if you've watched him race and you've watched his
development under the last five six years or so, you
know how he drives and what he brings to the competition.
So you have to have faith and what he can do.
I think that's really underlined.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Murray.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Did you see him when he raced at Zandfort when
he came in for a replacement ricat the conditions were appalling? Wow,
there was something else.
Speaker 8 (25:16):
Yeah, I mean even when he was actually competing over
un I watched the super Formula. I can't remember the streams.
I had to get to that, but I watched the
super Formula and yeah, no, no, I mean he was
still he was still young, and they were they were
hardened races. And you know he didn't him on the
playdough and he came second in the championship in the end,
but he knew what he was doing and he you know,
(25:38):
if if one was a stream and Red Bull was
providing that in put to actually race over him the
super Formula and yeah, he did it.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Did he?
Speaker 8 (25:46):
I'm start I should have thought about it early. I
shouldn't be over this, to be honest and annoyed.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
I kind of feel the same way, but you know,
I've only got so much leave and maasically it's like
vacuumed up over Christmas. Not all I can do about that,
but I'm excited where he actually struck me marrying Thanks
for your call that he's never raced in Shanghai and
he's never raced in Melbourne either Albert Park, so I've
had more experience at those two race tracks than he has,
just because I've been to the Grand brit and Changi
(26:11):
and being to the Grand Prix in Melbourne. And the
big thing around is he's not with a lesser team.
He's not circling around the back markers. He's with one
of the top teams in the entire formula. And that
is just crazy drive to survive for me, writes another
hook Line and Sinker. I've been an avid follower of
(26:33):
the last few years. Having a Kiwi in there has
got me frothing. I can't wait for the weekend. Thank
you very much. Dave Darcy, he was the other guy
a couple of years ago. They've got a ride in
a formula one. He's a KI he's still racing. That's
Brendan Hartley. He's now racing Insurance Champs and doing very
very well. I might have you say, well, that's getting harder.
That competition is more and more. Marx climb into the
(26:56):
FEC the Formula Endurance, which is good to see. Thanks
for that text, Maus Darcy is saying for me, I've
just paid for a Formula one and one subscription so
i can follow Liam. Well, you can you pay for that?
Can climb in the carnless Nords comms. Listen to him
talking back to his teammates and what he's doing. Oh no,
(27:17):
I'm gonna have to do that too.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
Rats.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
And finally, Darcy Ian Lawson getting into rebulls like us
winning the Rugby World Cup or America's Cup. It's really
that big for New Zealand sports. Don't invite me out
the Sunday afternoon. The answer is no, I can't wait. Cray,
You're right, hey, it's bigger than us and winning the
Rugby World Cup or the America's Cup. More people care
about Formula one than either of those two games. I'm
(27:41):
sorry to break it to you, but this is global
rugby I'd like it to be seven thirty seven as
a sports sock on news talk zeb b Ryan Fox,
there's moments away.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
After mile after mile, after my turn after I like
the radio down.
Speaker 10 (28:04):
To break up.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Tack on the rams. Five minutes to go in the
second quarter. It's still trailing, but not quite as much.
The fight out of Tod Hunger thirty seven can be
Rams twenty two nineteen away from eight. Time for some
golf now. The fifth Major gets under way, gets under
(28:28):
way for Ryan Fox at five forty five tomorrow morning,
and he joins us now to discuss Dad and his
form and so on and so forth. So let's get
amongst Ryan Fox. Welcome mate, Hey Darcy, I trust you
well and a're looking forward to actually heading a cartline
this time around at the TPC. She's been a pretty
(28:49):
rough last couple of tournaments for you.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
Yeah, I mean rough in terms of not playing the weekend.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
The golf's actually been okay, to be honest, a little
frustrating more than anything else.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
You know.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
I missed the last two cuts by one. At two
I've been two under and four under, which is certainly
not bad golf by any stretch, just not quite good enough,
and you know the PG two is tough in that regard,
and yeah, hoping, you know, just to score a little
better this week.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
The golf game feels like it's in pretty good shape.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
When you get home after missing by one shot, do
you just go back over the previous thirty six holes,
going if only, if only and identify it maybe where
it fell apartment? Is that even helpful?
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (29:31):
And no, I mean, look, it's it's pretty easy to
find a shot, that's for sure. And to be honest,
the last couple of weeks for me have been purely
the putter. You know, maybe not quite hit the ball
as close as I would have liked in this and
that impacted the scoring a little bit.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
But you know, you know, both weeks I sort of
I look down the.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
Stretch and go, well, you know, there's there's three or
four parts inside ten feet there and one of those
goes in. And I'm playing the weekend, and you know,
the week at Cognizant, a guy shot ahead and me
made the cut on the number and then won the tournament.
So the margins are pretty small in this game, and
you know, just got to use the old cliche of
stay patient, let it come and you know the golf
(30:11):
games there just kind of need to put it together.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
We all know all about what goes on TPC to
massive event. It's the Craig Perks, especially if you will.
I don't know where you were when that happened, but
I know I was watching it. It blew me away. Do
you still carry that around with you? That that fantastic
time that Perks had there?
Speaker 5 (30:28):
Yeah, I remember watching it live back at home. Was
it two thousand and two? I think for memory? Yeah,
Like one of the most incredible finishes in history, wasn't it?
Three chippins in a row to finish, to finish and
one of probably them, well, if not the most iconic
finish in golf with sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, there, especially seventeen.
(30:53):
So it'd be nice to replicate that this year. There's
just one hundred and forty three other pretty good golfers
trying to do the same thing.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Yeah, finishing, just look that up. Actually, my memory's not good.
Eagle Birdie win by two shots. I mean that it's
stunning that as nerves of steel, isn't it. If you
found yourself a position like that before, you just got
to hang on there and what you've applied to actually
make that work right.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
Not at saw Grass specifically, but like you know, like
went With a couple of years ago, it was kind
of like that that, you know, I had to do
some something pretty good coming down the stretch and birdied
your few holes coming down and birdied eighteen to win,
which is kind of a nice thing to be able
to do. It was certainly a little probably a little
(31:40):
easier finish at Wentworth than it is at saw Grass,
a whole a little less water involved.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
But yeah, it's you know, that's what you kind of
dream of doing.
Speaker 6 (31:49):
You know.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
It's it's pretty hard to finish eagle birdy part or
win a golf tournament, but you know, just getting a
chance to do that down the stretch is what you
what you want to do. And yeah, it's it's it's
a pretty crazy finish, especially in such an event like
that to get it done. So, as I said, I'd
quite like to try to replicate something like that this week.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
You're teeing off what I think five point five tomorrow morning,
New Zealand time. Who are your group to ethan? What
about the strength of this field? It's not a weak point,
is there.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
No it's it's regarded as the fifth Major for a reason. It's,
you know, probably the strongest field in golf. You know,
it's the top fifty in the world and and the
PGA Tour basically, so you know, it's it's as strong
as any major field. It's yeah, you've there's there's no
hiding out there. You've got to got to had a
(32:40):
lot of good shots. It's a tough golf course. Yeah,
it's just you've they set it up like a major.
The roughs up this week, Yeah, it's good. I'm playing
with Sammy Valamaki who played on the DP World Tour
over the last couple of years. I know Sammy well
and the guy Doug gim who I've I've met a
(33:02):
couple of times and he's got an assy guy on
the bag. So it should be a nice group for
the first couple of days where first off in the
afternoon on Friday, which pace of play should be quite nice.
Obviously I like playing fast, so you're not having anyone
in front of us for nine holes will be nice.
And we're putting the pins out on Friday morning and
hopefully it's not too cold when we're out there. But
(33:23):
it's a forecast looks really really good for the weekend.
You're looking forward to getting out there and giving it
a crack.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Playing partners, you can't choose who you play with, but
now instrumental is the crew. The obviously the caddies and
the golfers that you play with. It's you against the course.
It's not you versus them, but they must have some
influence on what you do.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
Or yeah, look it's it's some guys that doesn't really
matter either way. Some guy, like probably me, I like
having a chat on the golf course. So having someone
I know or having someone I can I can talk to,
it's certainly helpful. And I think probably the biggest thing
is you just you just want a nice vibe in
(34:06):
the group, and that's generally guys you know, playing good
and like it sounds weird because you're competing against them,
but you know, also, yeah, you're kind of only directly
competing on a Sunday afternoon trying to win the tournament.
That the first few days you're just kind of putting
yourself in position, and it's it's nice to have a
(34:27):
group where everyone's hitting good shots and you can kind
of feed off each other, So you know, hopefully that's
the case for us over the over the first couple
of days and we can be towards that point end
of the field on Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Familiarity breeds content, but possibly not at major events like this.
The more you've been there, the more comfortable you feel.
How many times you actually hit balls around their.
Speaker 5 (34:49):
Own This is my third time at the Players, so
I missed the cut last year. So I think I've
played six tournament rounds around there and probably another like
three or four, maybe four or five more. In practice.
The good thing about the golf course is not it's
right in front of you. You've got to hit really
(35:09):
good shots. But I think the whole idea behind the
golf course, when Pete Died designed it was to make
you hit every club in your bag, and it certainly
does that. You know, there is some birdie chances out there,
there is some wedges you can hit in the par
fives are gettable, although they seem to have pushed a
few te's back this year, especially on the par fives,
(35:34):
and it's just a great test of golf. You can
see how someone goes out there and shoots eight under
and you can also see with all the trouble and
the long rough and the firm and fast greens, he
someone can go up there and shoot eighty. And I
think it's one of the purest tests of golf. In
the tournament you can get.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
You said your pata hasn't been doing you many favors,
but maybe your short game have not been getting close
enough to the pin. But out of all the clubs
that you're going to have to use across the weekend
because you are going to hit the cart, trust me
on this one. Is there a club that you're particularly
looking forward to or one that maybe you're a bit like,
I really want to play this shot.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
I don't want to use the stick.
Speaker 5 (36:13):
No, Like I've made a couple of changes going into
this week. I've had a new drive in the bag
for a couple of weeks and that's going really well.
Speaker 3 (36:21):
So I'm quite looking forward to that.
Speaker 5 (36:24):
Tweaked a couple of things on my eyes lying or
wise and loft wise, just to try to help out
with that proximity to hold, and it's that's been going
really good in practice. I'm kind of looking forward to
testing that that out in the tournament over the next
few days, and I went back to an old partter
that I've had a lot of success with, the one
(36:44):
I want to went with with and the one I
wanted done hill Worth a couple of years ago. So
you know, just sometimes with the part of changes as
good as a holiday, you know, just looking down at
something different just just kind of makes you feel a
little different, maybe get some confidence back in it. And
you know, I figured going back to something that I've
(37:04):
had success with you might might change the vibes.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
A little bit in that regard.
Speaker 5 (37:08):
And again that's gone really well in practice, so I
kind of looking forward to tow seeing how that goes
in the tournament. And you know, to be honest, everything's
felt really good. The last couple of days and tournament
golf was a little bit different, but yeah, it's been
close to the last couple of weeks. It's certainly not
you know, missing a couple of cuts by shots, nothing
(37:29):
to be too worried about. It's not like the golf
games miles away. So hopefully this is the week that
it all kind of clicks and you can put four
good rounds together.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
And whatever you do, don't call your driver Darcy. That's
just a recipe for disaster. Looking forward to watching you
compete this weekend. Ryan Fox, thanks so much for your time.
Really enjoy the fact you join us here on News
Talk CB. You got on your pal Cheers, Darcy, thanks
for having me.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
No need for the DMO.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
We've got the breakdown on Sports Talk Colight.
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