November 21, 2023 • 10 mins
How odd can an F1 Race Weekend get? In typical Las Vegas style, the whole thing felt like a fever dream. This may be the only episode I've ever made that is 20% racing and 80% complaining. F1 Isn't Real sphere ad space incoming 2024...
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(00:09):
The F one Isn't Real podcast promisesto buy ads on the sphere in twenty
twenty four. Hello and welcome backto F one Isn't Real. I am
your host Ben Wevell, recently diagnosedwith perpetual sleep paralysis following this week's GP,
and today I will try and likelyfail to properly analyze this utterly mad
(00:32):
race under the lights in Las Vegas. So, without further ado, let's
sift through the winners and the spinnersof probably the most ludicrous event in recent
F one history. Wow, thiswas a strange weekend, and it looked
(00:56):
like it was going to turn outthat way from the moment the GP was
announced in March of last year.Literally on the day of the announcement,
residents of the Las Vegas Gardens suedF one for noise complaints, claiming that
the volume of the cars would exceedninety seven decibels and thus be heard within
a two point five mile radius.Firstly, no shit there allowed their F
(01:21):
one cars. And secondly, it'sinteresting, isn't it that when the champ
Car series arrived to the streets ofSin City in two thousand and seven,
there was no civil suit from thepeople of Las Vegas Gardens, despite the
average volume of a Champs car regularlyexceeding ninety six decibels and the race occurring
just minutes away from the Vegas Strip, attendance at the two thousand and seven
(01:42):
Las Vegas Grand Prix forty thousand,attendance at the twenty twenty three Las Vegas
Grand Prix three hundred and fifteen thousand. I think the motivations of the Las
Vegas residents was pretty clear cut inthis case, and one of the most
disgusting aspects of the suit, inmy opinion, was their enlightened decision to
(02:02):
claim that F one was promoting racialinequality as the race occurred in seventy percent
African American neighborhoods, even disregarding thegrievous misuse of the term inequality, which
in my opinion, laughs in theface of true social injustice. Surely,
bringing a Grand Prix which was setto gross hundreds of millions of dollars to
(02:25):
an underprivileged area would economically boost it, providing job opportunities for those in such
areas, and pumping funding into thestate of Nevada which could be used to
age such areas in the future.Jeez, stop me before I get too
political. My bad. Okay,listen, that's all before the race.
(02:46):
Who cares? The Las Vegas GrandPrix is happening and there's nothing we can
do to stop it. All right, everybody. We're eight minutes into the
first free practice session in Nevada sincenineteen eighty two. Adult oh dear,
tracks falling to bits, and thekeyboard Warriors have already branded the Race of
Failure. Carlos sites may be thesecond unluckiest driver this season, behind his
(03:09):
teammate My dear, dear char Leclair, with his Ferrari knocked out of action
by a flying manhole cover in FPone. The suction created by the F
one seventy five was so great thatthe concrete surroundings of the drain flew up
into the car, gutting it likea dilapidated fish. I mean, this
(03:30):
really could have been a horrific accident. The average driver is only a barge
board and a race seat away fromthe track, which is why the effect
of the porpoising last year was sogreat on the backs of the racers.
So if this had already been loosenedby another car, Carlos would have been
racing the abb W Grand Prix ina wheelchair. But there were layers and
(03:53):
layers to this manhole mishap, asnot only was the rest of FP one
cant to repair the race track,which cost Liberty Media half a billion dollars
to make, but F one fanswere also turned away from FP two after
waiting hours in the dark for therace to start. And it wasn't even
(04:14):
over any safety precaution. It wasmerely that either the security couldn't be asked
to stay an hour longer or Libertycouldn't be asked to pay for them to
stay an hour longer. Bear inmind, this race was predicted to make
one point three billion dollars, almosttripling the predicted expense of running the race
in the first place, and theycouldn't afford security for an extra hour.
(04:40):
But on top of that, thewallets of these F one fans must have
been pleading for mercy from the Fone gods. With the cheapest tickets going
for upwards of a grand and themost expensive tickets going for I kid you
not one hundred and eighty five thousanddollars. For that much, you could
by Tesla roadster and enter one ofthe support races yourself, and there's even
(05:04):
more. F one has not onlytaken a reputational hit with this one,
but liberty may be set to takeyet another financial hits. And oh yeah,
we're back again, baby lawsuit timethirty five thousand, now partially bankrupted
and severely pissed off. F onefans just weren't satisfied with their two hundred
(05:28):
dollars voucher for the Las Vegas GrandPrix gift shop, and so they got
their better call, saul On andstarted litigating. To be honest with you,
lot, I might never get tothe racing. This was my favorite
part of the weekend by far.Okay, let's get this done with the
final cherry on this third sandwich wasCarlos Science receiving a ten place grid penalty
(05:50):
for replacing parts of his car damagedby the loose manhole cover. That is
absurd. In fact, it's theworst penalty in F one since well since
another Science miss up earlier this year, when he was given a five second
penalty in Melbourne for a racing incidentwith Ferdy Alonso, dropping him from fourth
(06:12):
to twelfth. Yesh I hate beinga Ferrari fan. Okay, it's racing
time finally, and this is whatI would like to call a race of
opposites. Checko Peris, for example, started a dismal eleventh, but he
pitted early on in the race laptwo, in fact, in response to
the safety car brought out to clearNorris out of the way of the circuit
(06:33):
after his horrific crash, and Checkowould do a little rinse and repeat when
the Stappa may contact with Russell wasfighting back after his five second time penalty.
This culminated in a strong podium finishfor Checko, his first since Monza,
only dampened by a monumental move fromLeclaire in the closing stages, with
(06:56):
my tenicious monogasque going for the divebomb on Checko so at turn fourteen.
Oh yeah, what a pass.So even though things didn't go exactly how
check I might have wanted in thisStreet Grand Prix, this podium means that
he's locked up P two in theDriver's Championship, which will be the best
result of his career. But nowlet's look at the driver who started in
(07:21):
p three, George Russell. Ah, it seems like whenever a podium is
forecast for Old Georgie boy. Theweather man was smoking some of that sweet
grass and it starts to rain problems. The real death blow for George was
his contact with the Stappen mid race. I respect the attempt, but if
(07:42):
I have any tips for Old GeorgieHustle, he needs to be more subtle
with his destructive plays. This contactgave him some flow damage and also crossed
the brit a five second time penalty, which dropped him from fifth to eighth,
scuppering his chances of completing the trifleof United States top five finishes.
(08:03):
And another one of these opposing truthswere the races of the two Alpine cars.
I mean, it's a testament tohow mad this weekend was that Ghasly
started in p four but finished outsideof the points, whilst his teammate Okhon
started outside of the top fifteen andended up in fourth himself. It's just
(08:24):
very strange, and honestly, Ican't even say that I know how it
all happened. Unbaffled, this racehas defeated me. Alpine have been the
weirdest little team as well. Theseason. There are one hundred and fifty
three points of fifth place Aston Martinand ninety two points in the clear of
Williams. It's just been a completeno man's land of a season for Alpine,
(08:48):
with the two Frenchmen separated by onlyfour points at eleventh and twelfth.
Truly the perfect placement for them thisseason. Before we jump into the Driver
of the day to pay some specialnotice to Max Forstappen. This man has
won everything that there is to winthis season, but he will never I
attest, never win my heart.This guy is just unbelievable. He wins
(09:13):
my Radio Message Award of the Weekendwith his snide remark of send them my
regards in response to being handed afive second penalty. God, this guy's
got cohorns and I hate it.Retire Max, just bloody retire at this
point. And finally, my biggest, most polite and richest driver of the
weekend is Lance Strong again. Isimply don't understand. He started the race
(09:39):
in p nineteen p nineteen and hemanaged fifth when all was said and done
in the second half of the season, Aston Martin, unbelievable. Right,
I'm off to write a letter tothe FIA pledging for the Las Vegas Grand
(10:01):
Prix to be permanently disbanded because it'sjust too mad and making me lose my
journalistic integrity if in fact I possessedany in the first place. Tune in
next time for the final race ofthe season. God damn it, I'm
gonna miss f one so much.For sorrow is for next week. For
(10:22):
now, we are satisfied.
The F one Isn't Real podcast promisesto buy ads on the sphere in twenty
twenty four. Hello and welcome backto F one Isn't Real. I am
your host Ben Wevell, recently diagnosedwith perpetual sleep paralysis following this week's GP,
and today I will try and likelyfail to properly analyze this utterly mad
(00:32):
race under the lights in Las Vegas. So, without further ado, let's
sift through the winners and the spinnersof probably the most ludicrous event in recent
F one history. Wow, thiswas a strange weekend, and it looked
(00:56):
like it was going to turn outthat way from the moment the GP was
announced in March of last year.Literally on the day of the announcement,
residents of the Las Vegas Gardens suedF one for noise complaints, claiming that
the volume of the cars would exceedninety seven decibels and thus be heard within
a two point five mile radius.Firstly, no shit there allowed their F
(01:21):
one cars. And secondly, it'sinteresting, isn't it that when the champ
Car series arrived to the streets ofSin City in two thousand and seven,
there was no civil suit from thepeople of Las Vegas Gardens, despite the
average volume of a Champs car regularlyexceeding ninety six decibels and the race occurring
just minutes away from the Vegas Strip, attendance at the two thousand and seven
(01:42):
Las Vegas Grand Prix forty thousand,attendance at the twenty twenty three Las Vegas
Grand Prix three hundred and fifteen thousand. I think the motivations of the Las
Vegas residents was pretty clear cut inthis case, and one of the most
disgusting aspects of the suit, inmy opinion, was their enlightened decision to
(02:02):
claim that F one was promoting racialinequality as the race occurred in seventy percent
African American neighborhoods, even disregarding thegrievous misuse of the term inequality, which
in my opinion, laughs in theface of true social injustice. Surely,
bringing a Grand Prix which was setto gross hundreds of millions of dollars to
(02:25):
an underprivileged area would economically boost it, providing job opportunities for those in such
areas, and pumping funding into thestate of Nevada which could be used to
age such areas in the future.Jeez, stop me before I get too
political. My bad. Okay,listen, that's all before the race.
(02:46):
Who cares? The Las Vegas GrandPrix is happening and there's nothing we can
do to stop it. All right, everybody. We're eight minutes into the
first free practice session in Nevada sincenineteen eighty two. Adult oh dear,
tracks falling to bits, and thekeyboard Warriors have already branded the Race of
Failure. Carlos sites may be thesecond unluckiest driver this season, behind his
(03:09):
teammate My dear, dear char Leclair, with his Ferrari knocked out of action
by a flying manhole cover in FPone. The suction created by the F
one seventy five was so great thatthe concrete surroundings of the drain flew up
into the car, gutting it likea dilapidated fish. I mean, this
(03:30):
really could have been a horrific accident. The average driver is only a barge
board and a race seat away fromthe track, which is why the effect
of the porpoising last year was sogreat on the backs of the racers.
So if this had already been loosenedby another car, Carlos would have been
racing the abb W Grand Prix ina wheelchair. But there were layers and
(03:53):
layers to this manhole mishap, asnot only was the rest of FP one
cant to repair the race track,which cost Liberty Media half a billion dollars
to make, but F one fanswere also turned away from FP two after
waiting hours in the dark for therace to start. And it wasn't even
(04:14):
over any safety precaution. It wasmerely that either the security couldn't be asked
to stay an hour longer or Libertycouldn't be asked to pay for them to
stay an hour longer. Bear inmind, this race was predicted to make
one point three billion dollars, almosttripling the predicted expense of running the race
in the first place, and theycouldn't afford security for an extra hour.
(04:40):
But on top of that, thewallets of these F one fans must have
been pleading for mercy from the Fone gods. With the cheapest tickets going
for upwards of a grand and themost expensive tickets going for I kid you
not one hundred and eighty five thousanddollars. For that much, you could
by Tesla roadster and enter one ofthe support races yourself, and there's even
(05:04):
more. F one has not onlytaken a reputational hit with this one,
but liberty may be set to takeyet another financial hits. And oh yeah,
we're back again, baby lawsuit timethirty five thousand, now partially bankrupted
and severely pissed off. F onefans just weren't satisfied with their two hundred
(05:28):
dollars voucher for the Las Vegas GrandPrix gift shop, and so they got
their better call, saul On andstarted litigating. To be honest with you,
lot, I might never get tothe racing. This was my favorite
part of the weekend by far.Okay, let's get this done with the
final cherry on this third sandwich wasCarlos Science receiving a ten place grid penalty
(05:50):
for replacing parts of his car damagedby the loose manhole cover. That is
absurd. In fact, it's theworst penalty in F one since well since
another Science miss up earlier this year, when he was given a five second
penalty in Melbourne for a racing incidentwith Ferdy Alonso, dropping him from fourth
(06:12):
to twelfth. Yesh I hate beinga Ferrari fan. Okay, it's racing
time finally, and this is whatI would like to call a race of
opposites. Checko Peris, for example, started a dismal eleventh, but he
pitted early on in the race laptwo, in fact, in response to
the safety car brought out to clearNorris out of the way of the circuit
(06:33):
after his horrific crash, and Checkowould do a little rinse and repeat when
the Stappa may contact with Russell wasfighting back after his five second time penalty.
This culminated in a strong podium finishfor Checko, his first since Monza,
only dampened by a monumental move fromLeclaire in the closing stages, with
(06:56):
my tenicious monogasque going for the divebomb on Checko so at turn fourteen.
Oh yeah, what a pass.So even though things didn't go exactly how
check I might have wanted in thisStreet Grand Prix, this podium means that
he's locked up P two in theDriver's Championship, which will be the best
result of his career. But nowlet's look at the driver who started in
(07:21):
p three, George Russell. Ah, it seems like whenever a podium is
forecast for Old Georgie boy. Theweather man was smoking some of that sweet
grass and it starts to rain problems. The real death blow for George was
his contact with the Stappen mid race. I respect the attempt, but if
(07:42):
I have any tips for Old GeorgieHustle, he needs to be more subtle
with his destructive plays. This contactgave him some flow damage and also crossed
the brit a five second time penalty, which dropped him from fifth to eighth,
scuppering his chances of completing the trifleof United States top five finishes.
(08:03):
And another one of these opposing truthswere the races of the two Alpine cars.
I mean, it's a testament tohow mad this weekend was that Ghasly
started in p four but finished outsideof the points, whilst his teammate Okhon
started outside of the top fifteen andended up in fourth himself. It's just
(08:24):
very strange, and honestly, Ican't even say that I know how it
all happened. Unbaffled, this racehas defeated me. Alpine have been the
weirdest little team as well. Theseason. There are one hundred and fifty
three points of fifth place Aston Martinand ninety two points in the clear of
Williams. It's just been a completeno man's land of a season for Alpine,
(08:48):
with the two Frenchmen separated by onlyfour points at eleventh and twelfth.
Truly the perfect placement for them thisseason. Before we jump into the Driver
of the day to pay some specialnotice to Max Forstappen. This man has
won everything that there is to winthis season, but he will never I
attest, never win my heart.This guy is just unbelievable. He wins
(09:13):
my Radio Message Award of the Weekendwith his snide remark of send them my
regards in response to being handed afive second penalty. God, this guy's
got cohorns and I hate it.Retire Max, just bloody retire at this
point. And finally, my biggest, most polite and richest driver of the
weekend is Lance Strong again. Isimply don't understand. He started the race
(09:39):
in p nineteen p nineteen and hemanaged fifth when all was said and done
in the second half of the season, Aston Martin, unbelievable. Right,
I'm off to write a letter tothe FIA pledging for the Las Vegas Grand
(10:01):
Prix to be permanently disbanded because it'sjust too mad and making me lose my
journalistic integrity if in fact I possessedany in the first place. Tune in
next time for the final race ofthe season. God damn it, I'm
gonna miss f one so much.For sorrow is for next week. For
(10:22):
now, we are satisfied.
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