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F1 2025 Japanese GP Recap & Bahrain GP Preview - Fast Laps with the Boys · Banter with the Boys

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  get laced up let's go it's time for banter with
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  the boys yo yo yo welcome back to banter with
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  the boys fast laughs the japan recap bahrain
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  preview it is according to our notes here it
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  is april 8th 7 .30 p .m. is the start. It's actually
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  8 .03 p .m. because Smelty's late today. But
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  we're here. And it looks like everybody's here.
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  So let's play. Let's play. Mike, welcome back.
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  I've been here the whole time. You have. Oh,
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  you were here last week when we were not here.
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  Kevin didn't let me leave. Oh. Did he feed you?
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  No. He gave me some water. I don't know how we
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  get on this subject every week. Last week it
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  was me living in Kevin's basement and we were
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  wondering if he was feeding me and now Mike's
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  apparently living here. We were worried that
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  I wouldn't come back so he's just like, I won't
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  let you leave. So you're going to be here next
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  week is all we know. Joe, welcome back. Thank
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  you for welcoming me back. You know, I listened
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  back to our... episode from two weeks ago now
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  which feels too long actually while we're in
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  season but i listened to that episode today and
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  in the ending i forgot that i was totally like
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  uh and joe thanks for being here awesome and
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  then i like moved on or something i feel i felt
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  really bad about it so sorry about that that
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  was that was gold i can't i said something along
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  those lines but it was joe you were here Anywhere.
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  Yeah, yeah. Just rubbish. But anyway, yeah. So
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  with that, I don't think we got anything that's
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  crazy that should be mentioned now. I don't know.
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  I'm going to try to come up with something fun
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  to put right here instead of what I'm doing right
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  now. Right before we go into the recap. But I
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  don't know what it's going to be. Heck yeah.
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  But anyway, yeah, Kev, let's just go right into
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  the Japanese GP recap. So just like any good
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  host of any podcast out there, I didn't really
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  catch too much of the pre -race stuff. So did
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  you guys catch that? Yeah. I watch highlights
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  for every practice. The biggest. Biggest notes,
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  Jack Duane misses FP1 while they give their reserve
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  driver a chance to drive. And then FP2, he crashes
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  the car at the start of it. Okay, yeah, I knew
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  that. He only gets a single practice session.
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  The noose tightens around his neck. Flavio is
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  coming. Just wait to the GP. Flavio giveth, Flavio
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  taketh. Lots of fires, per usual. Winter in Japan,
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  very, very dry. If it weren't for the rain pre
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  -race, probably would have seen it a couple of
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  times again. But lots of fires, many, many red
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  flags. I think I have a note somewhere. I want
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  to say we had like, at one point, like five red
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  flags in one of the sessions. It was just like
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  one after the other. It just kept on happening.
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  And then into quali, Max complaining the car
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  didn't have grip, obviously not really an issue.
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  Hadjar having bad seatbelt issues, complaining
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  a lot about them. Another red flag in Q2. You
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  know, a seatbelt issue would be very annoying.
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  Yes. That is the last thing you want to be worrying
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  about while driving a literal rocket ship. uh
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  risking your life you know what i mean and that
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  little minor inconvenience could actually be
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  like you said he's in pain yeah you know so yeah
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  yeah i don't know if we got any big specifics
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  but it was happening throughout practice and
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  they got into qualifying thinking they fixed
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  it was not fixed i don't think they fixed it
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  at the end of quality but they did find a way
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  to negate it remedy it yeah make it easier for
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  him sure um the biggest i mean the biggest thing
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  we were watching especially in qualifying was
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  Sonoda now in the Red Bull, Liam now in the V
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  -Carb. Sonoda qualifying one position below Liam
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  at the end of the day. His first race in a Red
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  Bull, can't really say I expected him to be P2,
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  right? I expected him to probably be out of the
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  10, which he was. Did I expect him to be lower
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  than Liam? I guess I would have given it fair
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  either way. One more week. But it needs to be
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  a drastic difference, I think. He has proved
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  himself already. That they made the move to put
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  him in the car. Exactly. And that's just it.
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  He's already proved that he's better in the car.
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  He qualified higher than Liam did by a landslide.
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  So yeah, that's really all we got for pre -race.
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  Fourth consecutive Japan poll for Max. Top three,
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  by the way, separated by less than a tenth of
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  a second. I did also want to point out, I just
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  jotted this down, that Liam made it into Q2 by
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  .016. And I think that was Hulkenberg. Like,
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  he was just... just a hair ahead. And so I just
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  noticed that and I'm like, that was brought up
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  and I was like, oh, let's bring that up. That's
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  a fun little fact. He actually made it into Q2
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  his first time, first time all season. Yep. Narrowly.
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  I think, I think you'll find more success in
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  that car than in the Red Bull. I agree. I agree
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  a hundred percent. And I like, we'll get into
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  the GP, but I don't think we need to worry about
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  too, too much yet about his performance, even
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  in the GP. But Kev has a question. I think. Yes.
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  Oh, yeah. Kev. So when Yuki goes to the Red Bull
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  seat. When Yuki goes to the Red Bull seat. They
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  just leave the car as it is and say, good luck.
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  Do they tailor it to him a bit? Do they copy
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  -paste his settings from the V -car to the new
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  Red Bull? How do they tailor his car to him?
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  So Kev's wondering if they change the car up,
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  you know, to suit Yuki a little bit better, or
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  do they just slap him into the exact same car
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  that Liam was in and just say, you know, go for
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  it. I would imagine. They would have to change
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  something. Like, for sure, the seat changes,
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  right? The seat has to change. But outside of
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  that, like, tech stuff, I'm not sure. I would
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  imagine. I don't know. I don't know. I'd be curious.
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  You look like you have something more important.
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  I'll just say my piece first. I think it's probably
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  more of the latter. I think he just kind of jumps
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  into the car that's already made, especially
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  since they had a week, two weeks to really do
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  anything to it. So I don't think I definitely
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  think, you know, minor like setting changes that
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  would fit him well. Obviously, they got him in
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  practice and then they did like, you know, slight
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  wing adjustments, the things that were within
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  that aren't huge, like part upgrades. And then.
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  down the line they will i mean the car is broken
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  currently it's a bad car um max had to he has
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  to drive really hard to get it to do what he
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  wants it to do he has to drive like a wdc champion
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  he does and he does um so i think but naturally
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  the car will you know kind of form to both of
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  the drivers a little bit better especially now
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  that they've seen that drivers can't drive the
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  car right unless they're max verstappen so are
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  we in agreeance that we would give yuki a little
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  bit more grace in the red bull car than we would
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  liam or not so much like like it like like if
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  yuki doesn't get into points next week then arguably
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  it's not a ton different than what liam's shown
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  i you know what i mean i like and i'm and i'm
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  on the hater of liam train not as much as duane
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  and i'll get into that later but like i just
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  i don't know i think the racing bull is a good
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  spot for liam and we'll see but Does Yuki only
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  get two races? I would give Yuki more time. I
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  think part of the reason why I'm not upset that
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  they moved Liam as fast as they did is because
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  Liam never should have had that seat to begin
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  with. It should have gone to Yuki to begin with.
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  If they didn't before, they do now for sure.
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  And so that was part of the reason I was so against
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  Liam being in that seat is because he didn't
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  deserve that. seat he didn't earn that seat and
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  yuki did and so now yuki's in that seat and he
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  needs time to acclimate to it the car is very
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  different from the v -carb so he does need some
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  some races to uh adjust to the changes in the
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  way that this car is just more on edge than the
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  v -carb is and we've seen the fact that he can
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  make those changes at least better than liam
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  could have in a shorter time frame and i think
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  that giving him some more time more than two
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  races is probably fine Um, I definitely agree
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  that he should have been the one they picked
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  first for that reason. He should not be given
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  more time. He should be expected to perform already
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  better than Liam. And he has been one race in,
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  but we, he, we shouldn't like two races is, is
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  the max I'm giving him. Um, and he's already,
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  he's already proved himself that he's better
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  in the car. I'm not saying to be specific. I'm
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  not expecting to be at the level of Max Verstappen
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  because I think the car's flawed. Yep. Um, uh,
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  But he has more experience in F1. He should be
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  able to drive the car better just in general.
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  For that reason, I am not going to give him,
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  like, five races to, like, get into points. He
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  needs to get into points in the next two races,
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  in my opinion. Low points. It doesn't even need
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  to be high points. Honestly, in Bahrain, he needs
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  to get in points, and I think he will. I think
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  I just want to see, like, we've seen what Checo
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  was doing with the car last year. Checo was struggling
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  to get into points, and that was Checo who had
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  years in that car. and experience in that car.
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  And the year prior had a pretty good year. Right.
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  And so if he struggled that much, how can we,
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  and Checo was struggling to get one or two points,
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  four points a race, then how can I expect Yuki
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  to do that in a brand new car in two races? How
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  can we expect Liam then? Him expecting, because
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  Liam should have never been in that seat. Liam,
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  I agree, technically you should be giving Liam
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  more time, but Liam should never have been in
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  that seat. He's still too new to Formula One.
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  He's only driven 11 races to Yuki is about to
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  hit his. 100th race this season. Yuki has that
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  time. They did Liam a disservice. It hurts his
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  image if we really care about that right now
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  in his career. At some point, it does become
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  a factor a little bit. We've seen with your boy,
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  Pierre, at this point, I don't think he ever
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  gets another chance to get put back in that Red
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  Bull seat. He had his chance. They gave him two
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  races. They're like, look, buddy. yeah you messed
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  up you didn't max for stappin it and so i think
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  because of that like his career is damaged permanently
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  for that and if i'm liam that's a good point
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  probably i'm looking at sometime in the next
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  few years maybe looking at moving outside of
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  red bull because there's clearly not going to
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  be any more future in v carb probably not yeah
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  i I definitely see where, what you're saying.
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  I think if he were to be picked right off the,
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  right off the bat, start of the season, he probably
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  would have. Well, no, I think he probably could
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  have very well been kicked out. If he gave the
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  same performance as Liam, like he could have
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  just been kicked out and Liam could have swapped
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  in. Sure. I think it's good. I just don't see
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  that happening. It's, it's good that Liam had
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  the car for two races because now he's a benchmark
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  and he's already, he's already surpassing it.
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  So I don't think he's in trouble. I don't think
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  he's in much. of losing the seat. Not this season.
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  I don't think this season he would lose the seat
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  at all. No, God, no. His 100th race is coming
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  up this season. He needs to drive like it. Yep.
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  So that's why I'm giving him like, you got the
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  seat that you deserve, now you have to drive
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  like it. It's, again, obvious that the Red Bull's
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  broken at the moment, but... low points is what
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  they're expecting yeah and i i agree i want to
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  see him in low low points i think that's an expectation
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  too i think i'm just giving him a little bit
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  more than two races and as long as he's finishing
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  close to the points if he's finishing way in
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  the back p18 like liam was that's damning that's
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  bad like don't we can't we can't have that but
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  like it like Finishing 12th is pretty close to
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  the points. Finishing 11th is pretty close to
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  the points. If he's doing that for the first
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  couple races, I'm okay with that because he's
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  acclimating to a new car. I don't know. I feel
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  like I need to see him P8 to P10 at least. You
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  at least need to be getting something every race
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  in the Red Bull number two car. Yes, with flaws.
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  But Ferrari's not perfect either right now, you
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  know. Isaac drove a heck of a race putting a
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  V -carb up there. But, like, I feel like you
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  can't. Yeah, first race, again, in the Red Bull.
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  But I think definitely in Bahrain, Isaac can't
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  be beating you. I agree. You can't be getting
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  beat by your sister team. At all. I don't think
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  it can even be a question. And, again, Hadnar
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  had a great race. I'm not taking anything away
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  from him. What do they do? At that point, it's
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  like, okay, well, Yuki isn't working in this
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  car, so what are we going to do? Are we going
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  to put Isaac in the car next? No. No, that's
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  why I think... You can only put so much on the
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  driver, because at a certain point... That's
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  why I think his seat's safe for the season. You
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  don't need a fast... You don't need a WDC in
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  the... I mean, it helps, obviously. You need
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  a driver with a lot of experience that knows
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  how to mold themselves to a car. It's unfortunate
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  Yuki's been in one car for his entire tenure,
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  but... That much experience, being able to learn
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  the car and having driven for so long, that's
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  what they need in that second spot right now
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  to get them even close to constructors, which
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  is obviously what they want. Well, and that's
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  my point. That's why he's just got to be in points.
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  If they want to battle for constructors... He
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  has to. Max cannot. Max isn't going to be able
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  to win every race this year. We know that. You
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  know what I mean? Man, I can't wait to talk about
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  McLaren, too. Last quick note. I forgot to write
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  this down in my notes on the Yuki thing. I don't
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  know if you guys heard this, but Helmet Watch...
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  Helmet came out and made another stupid comment.
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  What did he say this time? This time, he talked
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  about Yuki and his performance in Japan and talked
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  about the fact that he did good and said that
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  he tried to deflect blame for why Yuki didn't
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  move up to Red Bull on Adrian Nui. And said that
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  Adrian Newey was preventing Yuki from moving
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  up to the residency for some incident that Yuki
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  had back like two and a half years ago. I don't
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  buy that garbage at all. And Adrian Newey's wife,
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  I forget her name, she came out and was like,
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  no, he was on gardening leave. He was out gardening
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  at this time. There's no way that he prevented
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  this from happening. Yeah, I don't buy that at
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  all. And she never puts her face out in front
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  of the media. But she's like, leave my husband
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  alone. He has nothing to do with you guys right
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  now. He's just opening his gums. He's just flapping
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  his gums right now. Old man yells at clowns.
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  Yeah. Literally, literally. Okay, let's get into
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  this here. First off, before you even start,
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  I thought there were some pretty cool liveries
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  this weekend between Red Bull. Haas had a really
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  great one, honestly. Would love to have a picture
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  of that. Right. But Red Bull, I mean, we've already
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  talked about Yuki, but Max. Max won the race?
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  Max won the race. Who won the race? Who won the
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  race? Oh, my gosh. He's wearing his Max Verstappen
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  shirt. That's right, baby. It's back. Four -time
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  WDC. Unbelievable. No! No! I can't believe it.
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  Oh, my God. For our Spotify listeners, I'm so
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  sorry. You got to go see this on YouTube. You
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  just missed. Oh, my God, that was awesome. Oh,
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  I can't believe he just did that. If you want
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  to see Joe doing his best viral video mimic.
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  I'm tweaking after that Max win, baby. You know
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  what? I'm on the train now. I'm a fan now. Thug
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  life. Thug life. Oh, my gosh. Oh, God. That was
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  perfect. But in all seriousness. Wow, where are
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  we? That was a pretty good drive from Max. Wow.
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  That was a great drive from Max. A comment that
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  I heard from the commentators during the race
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  kind of put it perfectly. It's like qualifying
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  was almost better than the race, right? Yeah.
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  I mean, like, that's where, like, he really,
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  like, that's where, like, all the hype came from.
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  He just, like, again, top three within a tenth
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  of a second. Crazy work from Max. No, for sure.
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  At the end of the race, you could hear him, like,
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  he sounded, like, actually excited, like, in
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  the car. Yeah, it was awesome. Which is weird.
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  Like, I feel like you don't hear excitement.
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  We're not used to hearing excitement out of Max
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  after a win because it's just, like, expected.
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  Yeah. You know, but, like, hearing that excitement,
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  like, oh, my God. Like, it just confirms, like,
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  yeah, I drove the absolute piss out of that car,
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  and I'm real happy I got the tub today. So that
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  was just fun to see, other than him being able
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  to. keep the mclarens behind him uh he shouldn't
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  have been able to in my opinion uh oh god mclarens
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  really pissed me off this weekend the team and
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  i'm not even a fan of them but they pissed me
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  off um do we want to say anything else about
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  max real quick before we get into mclaren it's
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  just he proves once and again obviously so sorry
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  i was just gonna say for our points you know
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  that we're that we're doing max winning in japan
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  really puts a wrench in things because like i
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  think so because we're all you know talking you
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  know max is in some of our podiums you know last
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  week you said this is the last week max might
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  be in your podium i'm not gonna hold you to it
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  obviously thank you but that's what i mean it
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  puts a wrench in it i might though three weeks
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  ago we weren't even like three weeks ago we were
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  like you know maybe but now it Who knows? I mean,
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  you can literally get points. They can climb
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  up in the constructors. You could put them at,
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  I mean, it's crazy to say this. You could put
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  them in a Haas at this point and you can't count
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  them out. I know. It's insane. I would like to
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  formally apologize for putting Red Bull at, what
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  did I say? Fourth? Fifth or fifth? I can check
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  really quick. Oh, no. I got it right here. I
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  put Max at fifth. I put Max at fifth. I apologize
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  for putting Max at fifth. I did not account for
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  the Max Verstappen factor. Lewis Hamilton is
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  in fourth in Mike's WDC. One spot above. Max
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  Verstappen. Yeah, I did not account for the Max
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  factor. I was like, this car is going to be bad.
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  And then Max Verstappen was like, so what? What
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  if I just won anyways? Max Verstappen is like,
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  gotcha. The car's always been bad. Yeah, right?
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  Oh, my God. All right, let's just get into it.
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  McLaren. Somebody else can go first. I mean,
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  we have a lot. I mean, probably the most to talk
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  about for McLaren. For sure. I guess like the
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  one thing. Number one thing, two and three. Two
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  and three, yeah. On the podium. Really good,
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  really good finish. Obviously not where they
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  want to be or where they need to be. Broke 100
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  points. Uh -huh. Broke 100 points in constructors.
• 19:34
  They did. That's good. That's a big threshold.
• 19:36
  Yeah, it's going to be hard to overtake them
• 19:38
  in constructors if they keep having the races
• 19:41
  that they're having. So I guess just an easy
• 19:46
  one to start out with, the pit lane incident
• 19:48
  between... Max and Lando. Oh, yeah. Lando calling
• 19:52
  for him pushing him off. Max semi calling for
• 19:57
  him unsafe release. I don't think either of them
• 20:00
  are really that easy to argue for. So I'm happy
• 20:04
  with, you know, just a racing incident at the
• 20:06
  end of the day. Yeah. And that's not me. Like,
• 20:08
  I honestly don't think it was an unsafe release
• 20:11
  because he obviously had room to be in the pit
• 20:13
  lane with him. Like, if I think. If anything,
• 20:17
  it would have been more of like a contention
• 20:20
  by the end of the pit lane, but obviously the
• 20:22
  rules aren't too specific against it. This is
• 20:25
  one where I'm siding with Max on this one. There's
• 20:29
  not really a side. You know what I mean? I kind
• 20:31
  of agree. I'm glad it was just a racing incident
• 20:33
  just because, like, I don't know. I don't think
• 20:36
  it was anybody's fault. But if there was fault,
• 20:40
  Lando maybe tried to sneak in there. technically
• 20:44
  he has the right to do that so it's just i don't
• 20:46
  know i'm again i'm glad it wasn't i'm glad nothing
• 20:48
  happened to lando's car yeah like severely in
• 20:52
  that yeah uh because i could have ruined the
• 20:54
  whole whole weekend for mcclain he almost hit
• 20:56
  the barrier as he went out yeah he it was definitely
• 20:59
  a bad call from lando obviously the best move
• 21:02
  there is just a slot in right behind him hard
• 21:04
  to do that hard to just accept that in the moment
• 21:07
  it is but Definitely the best move. Had he done
• 21:11
  it too, there's a world that he could have caught
• 21:14
  Max and gone for an overtake on Max. But because
• 21:17
  he did that mistake, it put him two full seconds
• 21:20
  behind Max. And then he's just spending the rest
• 21:23
  of the race trying to chase him. And that's just
• 21:25
  too hard to do, especially on a track like Suzuka
• 21:27
  with dirty air. Okay, so that leads me to my
• 21:31
  next question for McLaren. In the last 20 laps.
• 21:36
  Would Oscar have had a better opportunity, better
• 21:38
  chance? Do you think he would have had... Do
• 21:41
  you think he could have caught Max and at least
• 21:43
  made it more interesting than Lando did? No,
• 21:46
  simply because he stayed behind Lando. He couldn't
• 21:50
  fully catch and overtake Lando. And even if he
• 21:54
  could, he would be stuck behind Max, still getting
• 21:56
  dirty air. So, yeah, I don't think so. I think
• 22:01
  part of it, too, was that I think they could
• 22:04
  have let... oscar passed and oscar would have
• 22:07
  had a better chance than lando would have not
• 22:09
  by a lot i don't think he would have caught him
• 22:10
  but he would have had a better chance i think
• 22:13
  the other thing is that they had um the radios
• 22:16
  were like we're saying like oscar had put the
• 22:19
  thing on it was like hey can can we try and see
• 22:21
  if i can take a crack uh take a crack at max
• 22:24
  and they're like okay we're gonna check with
• 22:26
  lando quick and they came back to like uh we
• 22:29
  uh we checked with lando and it looks like uh
• 22:31
  he's giving his full pace And that was kind of
• 22:35
  like a call to Oscar that's like, hey, look,
• 22:37
  he's pushing as hard as he can. So if we do let
• 22:41
  him pass, then there's not going to be a great
• 22:44
  chance that, you know, if you can't catch Max,
• 22:46
  that he's going to catch up to you and you guys
• 22:49
  can swap positions back. There's also the threat
• 22:51
  of George Russell behind you guys. And if we
• 22:54
  don't have somebody fast in that third position,
• 22:56
  there's a chance that George Russell could catch
• 22:59
  and potentially take the spot away from him.
• 23:02
  Because, obviously, McLaren cares more about
• 23:03
  their constructor standings. Oh, and it's, I
• 23:06
  mean, they do. They do. I think they really want
• 23:10
  to get Lando at WDC, though, too. Oh, of course.
• 23:12
  And, like, that's why I think they just also
• 23:14
  didn't decide. And, again, the dirty air. You
• 23:16
  know, I get it. But I think that's another reason
• 23:19
  why, low -key, they didn't decide to, like, let
• 23:22
  Pastry take a chance and try to pass at, again,
• 23:25
  a track that's harder to overtake. risk losing
• 23:29
  both cars, and now your weekend's really messed
• 23:30
  up. But I don't know. Again, that's what I'm
• 23:35
  keying on for the whole season is how they treat
• 23:38
  both drivers, you know, because I think it's
• 23:40
  going to change, and I think it's going to lean
• 23:42
  Lando, and I don't think Piastri's going to be
• 23:44
  happy about it. Now, post -race, Piastri seemed
• 23:47
  fine, you know, happy the team got two and three,
• 23:49
  you know. It was funny, though, and I think this
• 23:54
  is just emotion, you know, probably, and, you
• 23:57
  know, during the race, Again, the final laps,
• 23:59
  thinking that, you know, he can do a better job
• 24:02
  than what Lando's doing. But Lando, like, locks
• 24:05
  up the brakes, to which, you know, Oscar just
• 24:09
  says cheeky on the comms. I thought that was
• 24:12
  hilarious. Just for the moment in time and, like,
• 24:15
  probably a little bit of frustration, just like,
• 24:18
  yeah, see, you know, but I don't know. That's
• 24:20
  funny. I don't know. I think it's just going
• 24:23
  to be a problem. But, again, like you guys are
• 24:26
  saying, no reason. they should lose the constructors
• 24:29
  right now with the way they're performing. As
• 24:31
  long as they don't get to that point of wrecking
• 24:33
  each other. It was Charles in fourth. Sorry,
• 24:36
  I said George earlier. It was Charles. I'm correcting
• 24:38
  myself. You're definitely right. It's definitely
• 24:40
  not the last race that they're going to run into
• 24:43
  this issue. They have two really good drivers
• 24:45
  and it's going to be a problem the entire season
• 24:47
  where they have to pick one or the other or they
• 24:50
  have to strategize differently. Which brings
• 24:53
  me, I think, to the biggest McLaren problem this
• 24:55
  weekend is that their strategy, especially in
• 24:57
  the pits, was not good. Commentators are saying
• 25:01
  this. I didn't quite agree in the moment, but
• 25:02
  looking back, I do see. where they at least even
• 25:07
  if it wasn't the right call it was a call to
• 25:09
  do something slightly different to see if it
• 25:11
  worked they pit lando the exact same time max
• 25:14
  did when they could have held him onto the track
• 25:16
  because no one was really doing undercuts very
• 25:19
  well no they could have held him on the track
• 25:22
  let him just have clean air for a little bit
• 25:24
  um you know drive that mclaren's mclaren with
• 25:28
  really good deg kind of management and then maybe
• 25:31
  come out closer to max because he's now in traffic
• 25:34
  um and you aren't or potentially even ahead of
• 25:37
  max it's potentially hearing in clean air we
• 25:40
  see how dominant those mclarens are in clean
• 25:42
  air yeah like they just tell them they're like
• 25:44
  hey max is pushing or max is pitting push 100
• 25:48
  the slap and then pit at the end of the slap
• 25:50
  like do that you can have a chance of overcutting
• 25:54
  again may not have been the right strategy decision
• 25:57
  but i agree with the commentators in saying that
• 25:59
  it would have been a better choice than doing
• 26:02
  nothing agreed so more to look out for that um
• 26:06
  unfortunately again two three still a really
• 26:09
  good placing yep for mclaren but great could
• 26:12
  have been more Can they repeat, you think, this
• 26:16
  weekend in Bahrain? I think one of them could
• 26:21
  probably get the win, actually, in my opinion.
• 26:23
  Their cars have not been good at Bahrain because
• 26:27
  they're usually not good at the start of the
• 26:29
  season. So we haven't really seen a decent McLaren
• 26:33
  car at Bahrain yet. They were doing really well
• 26:36
  in testing. They looked really dominant during
• 26:39
  the testing. I think they'll be able to compete,
• 26:44
  no problem. And I think they will sweep, if we
• 26:48
  do dare say that, sweep the podium, being both
• 26:51
  cars on the podium. And I think one of them could
• 26:55
  win it this weekend. Let's see. We talked about
• 26:59
  McLaren, Ferrari, finishing four in P4, P7, whatever.
• 27:04
  I mean, the rest of the race is really kind of,
• 27:07
  to me, a little bit of whatever. I mean, P4,
• 27:11
  P7 for Ferrari isn't horrible. Not bad. You got
• 27:14
  split by Mercedes, who's having an interesting
• 27:17
  year. They're a little bit of a dark horse for
• 27:20
  me to climb up the constructors because Anthony
• 27:23
  had a great weekend. But, again, Ferrari, sorry,
• 27:25
  getting off track here. I think it's a matter
• 27:28
  of time before Charles is challenging for these
• 27:31
  podiums a little bit harder. It's just a matter
• 27:34
  of who he's challenging, and I don't think it's
• 27:36
  going to be McLaren. I think it'll be like Charles
• 27:38
  and Max fighting for third. I mean, you got to
• 27:42
  throw George in there, too. He's consistently
• 27:44
  already fighting George. Yeah, for sure. And
• 27:47
  I mean, I don't know. I don't have anything to
• 27:49
  say about Hamilton. He said it was a lonely P7
• 27:52
  is what he came out and said. Just uneventful.
• 27:56
  Lonely. He got past Isaac Hadjar. You know, that's
• 27:59
  good. It's weird seeing Isaac Hadjar fighting
• 28:02
  Lewis Hamilton. Right? Like, that's insanity.
• 28:07
  Isaac had a great, what pass? I think it was
• 28:10
  the pass on Carlos at one point earlier in the
• 28:14
  race. Great pass on the outside. I think that
• 28:17
  was on turn one even. Yeah. Like, just, I mean.
• 28:20
  Which is a crazy place to overtake. The balls.
• 28:22
  Yeah. The commentator. Oh, I'll save it for comms,
• 28:25
  actually. The commentator said something wild
• 28:27
  that I like that I'm going to use instead of
• 28:28
  saying the balls. You know what I mean? It was
• 28:31
  just funny. Anyway. Yeah. That was funny. Let's
• 28:33
  see. I don't know. You guys got anything on Ferrari?
• 28:37
  No. No. A little. Obviously, no. Do you think
• 28:40
  this race, like drivers are even comparing it.
• 28:44
  I don't have names. Allegedly. We'll go allegedly
• 28:47
  here. that drivers are comparing it to Monaco,
• 28:50
  just as far as eventful. Okay, I've been hearing
• 28:53
  about that, too. And I don't know how I feel
• 28:55
  about that, to be honest. The problem is that
• 28:57
  Monaco and this, I guess, they're the same problem,
• 29:01
  but different reasons for the problem. Monaco
• 29:05
  is really, really thin, so it's really hard to
• 29:08
  overtake anywhere. Suzuka just doesn't have very
• 29:11
  good overtaking spots, just in general. And I
• 29:16
  don't think a lot of tracks have very good overtaking
• 29:18
  spots nowadays. I think Bahrain will be good
• 29:21
  because we have a very long straight. Vegas,
• 29:24
  you know, is meant for overtaking. And that's
• 29:27
  where Oscar thought that if he had a little bit
• 29:29
  longer straight, he would have made the move
• 29:31
  on Lando outside of team orders. So it's, I think
• 29:35
  we're going to see, we're unfortunately going
• 29:36
  to see. races that are boring, and unfortunately
• 29:40
  it might be more than we'd like to see. Because
• 29:43
  the top three are so aggressive, I'm hoping we
• 29:45
  won't see one person idling in first the entire
• 29:50
  time, but it's possible. I think what we've seen,
• 29:55
  you're right that it's not the same as Monaco
• 29:57
  in the fact that Monaco is small. I think the
• 30:00
  issue isn't the fact that Suzuka doesn't have
• 30:02
  good overtaking. Because it actually does have
• 30:04
  good places to overtake. I think the biggest
• 30:06
  issue is in like how windy some of these corners
• 30:10
  are and how fragile some of these cars are in
• 30:14
  dirty air. It becomes really hard when you're
• 30:16
  in the turbulent air to keep your car on the
• 30:19
  line and really pushing. And that's very different
• 30:22
  from where the cars were. And because of that,
• 30:25
  it makes it hard where like you watch like sector
• 30:28
  one, we would watch Lando always like get right
• 30:30
  up onto the back of Max and then he'd start losing
• 30:32
  him in sector one because he's trying to fight
• 30:35
  through that dirty air and through those S's.
• 30:36
  And so Max would just crawl away. And then when
• 30:38
  we get to the big straights, like 139R and the
• 30:41
  pit straight, then we'd see them like come back
• 30:44
  together because those are the straight lines
• 30:46
  where he's able to find that speed. But I think
• 30:49
  the biggest issue is actually in the turbulent
• 30:51
  air. And because of that, there are people who
• 30:53
  are... instead calling that what we should do
• 30:55
  is we should add a second DRS zone right after
• 30:59
  Spoon that leads into 139R. Yeah, I agree with
• 31:04
  that. I don't hate that. It would be a short
• 31:05
  DRS. Yeah, they need to like... I wonder what
• 31:08
  the process is to do that. Is that just like...
• 31:10
  So... Yeah, because, I mean, we saw what happened
• 31:13
  when you don't disable DRS on a turn with Doohan
• 31:15
  during practice. You go into the wallet, as you
• 31:20
  said to me, at Mock Jesus. At Mock Jesus. That's
• 31:23
  funny. You said Mock Jesus? I said Mock Jesus.
• 31:25
  God, I just said that the other day about something.
• 31:27
  And that is, like, basically it's, like, the
• 31:30
  exact same scenario there. You're going incredibly
• 31:32
  fast, and if I'm not mistaken, you may let off,
• 31:37
  but you definitely don't break. Yep. And that's
• 31:39
  what activates the DRS without pressing the buttons.
• 31:41
  So they probably need a better way of regulating
• 31:42
  it. Yeah. Um, because I don't think the DRS,
• 31:45
  I don't, I could be wrong here. I'm going to
• 31:49
  fact check myself. I don't think there's like
• 31:51
  a DRS end zone. It's just when you break. Correct.
• 31:54
  And then it's done. Well, I mean, there is, you
• 31:57
  have, like you have, you have the, you have the
• 31:59
  line where your DRS can start. Yeah. But you
• 32:03
  don't have. I don't think you have an end line.
• 32:06
  I could be 100 % incorrect about that, but that's
• 32:12
  how I see it. I don't think they have a spot
• 32:14
  where you need to close your DRS by this zone.
• 32:18
  It's just there's a zone on the track where you
• 32:21
  can open your DRS at any point during this, but
• 32:24
  at a certain point, it's not worth opening your
• 32:26
  DRS because if you do, then like... you're coming
• 32:31
  up on a corner and you're just gonna go into
• 32:32
  the yeah but what but what but what we're saying
• 32:34
  is it should shut though like it shuts when you
• 32:37
  break right it does yeah yeah or when you press
• 32:40
  the button on your steering wheel So you do have
• 32:42
  a button that you can just shut it when you want
• 32:43
  to, too. Yeah, of course. That was kind of the.
• 32:45
  I just wonder if you do have to press the button
• 32:47
  then and then break or simultaneously do it.
• 32:50
  Or if you break it, it automatically is like,
• 32:52
  oh, you probably want to slow down. That's that's
• 32:54
  the issue with doing and why he crashes, because
• 32:56
  like a lot of drivers in turn one in Suzuka,
• 32:58
  they will take their DRS down the pit straight.
• 33:01
  Right. And then they'll manually close it and
• 33:03
  and just let off. the gas as they come into that
• 33:07
  corner because you're able to take that corner
• 33:09
  very fast sure for sure and then as you come
• 33:11
  around the back end of that corner that's where
• 33:13
  you start laying onto the brakes and as you're
• 33:16
  exiting the corner is where you get back on the
• 33:18
  power to take you through the rest of the corner
• 33:19
  right and so because of that a lot of drivers
• 33:21
  will manually close their drs as they go into
• 33:24
  that straight but jack doing was like watch my
• 33:27
  pro gamer move and tried to keep his drs open
• 33:29
  yeah and not go well yeah um I'm reading a couple.
• 33:33
  I don't know if this is, again, true. There might
• 33:36
  also be options for the DRS to deactivate if
• 33:41
  you lift. And if that's the case, that kind of
• 33:42
  fixes that issue a little bit. I think it's a
• 33:45
  little dangerous. Okay, you said DRS would deactivate
• 33:48
  when you lift? Lift off throttle. Okay, okay.
• 33:50
  So you're going full throttle, and once you lift,
• 33:52
  DRS will. God, I would rather it do it when you
• 33:54
  go to brake. I mean, it does. It does. It does.
• 33:57
  I'm saying it should be both, probably. Yeah,
• 33:59
  yeah, yeah. It should be in scenarios like this.
• 34:00
  Because that would have prevented the do -hand
• 34:02
  thing. Exactly. When you want to lift it when
• 34:04
  it closes. Because if you're lifting, you're
• 34:05
  obviously turning, and you need downforce when
• 34:07
  you're turning. Yeah, yeah. Exactly. Yep, all
• 34:09
  right. Good thing the FIA listens to our pod
• 34:14
  and they're going to take all this to heart and
• 34:16
  figure it out. Thank you, MBS. Real quick, let's
• 34:22
  fly through these here. Mercedes, again, having
• 34:23
  a solid weekend. Antonelli, I believe he got
• 34:28
  fastest lap, no? I think so. I think he even
• 34:31
  got fastest lap, so Antonelli really coming into
• 34:33
  his own here. Again, I think if Mercedes can
• 34:37
  stay consistent, they need... Like, George needs
• 34:41
  to start beating Oscar or something for them
• 34:43
  to start gaining any sort of ground on McLaren.
• 34:48
  I mean, the same goes for a Ferrari, and I just
• 34:51
  don't think that's going to happen. I mean, who
• 34:54
  do you think can get second at this point right
• 34:55
  now, today? Second at Constructors? Yeah. Who's
• 34:59
  most set up best to get second right now? And
• 35:02
  it might, like, low -key, it might be frickin'
• 35:04
  Mercedes. If Hamilton cannot get past Antonelli.
• 35:09
  Or get up to George. I could give you kind of
• 35:12
  a crazy take. Do you need the hat? Or is it not
• 35:16
  that crazy? I don't know. Do we need a mid -tier
• 35:19
  hat? Let's say Max continuously hits podiums,
• 35:24
  and Mercedes and Ferrari are continuously fighting
• 35:26
  for that fourth, fifth position. Yes. Red Bull
• 35:29
  could still maybe get second. It'll be really
• 35:33
  difficult. That'd be really hard. Really difficult.
• 35:35
  What if Max is at least getting second and third?
• 35:38
  Or do you think he has to win consistently? Winning
• 35:41
  would help. Well, yeah. Winning helps a lot of
• 35:44
  things. Yeah, consistently second or third, probably
• 35:46
  not. So, yeah, maybe not. I think, man. But Ferrari
• 35:51
  and Mercedes are swapping for every other race.
• 35:54
  George has been super consistent, and Antonelli
• 35:56
  has surprised me. I feel like it's got to be
• 35:58
  Mercedes, right? He's surprising me a little
• 35:59
  bit. I'm on the Mercedes train, too. I think
• 36:01
  Mercedes looks really good. I think Ferrari will
• 36:03
  have a comeback eventually. They will. They will.
• 36:06
  I think. I mean, P4 and 7 is not horrible, right?
• 36:10
  You're still fighting with the rest of them,
• 36:12
  with McLaren. P4, obviously, P4 is where you
• 36:14
  want to be. With Mercedes, you know. P4 is where
• 36:16
  you want to be right now. So it's not the end
• 36:19
  of the world. Okay, Mercedes, racing bulls, Isaac
• 36:23
  Hajar. Yeah, outstanding. Crazy race for him.
• 36:26
  Maybe we do need to put him in a red bull. No,
• 36:29
  stop, stop, no. Let's put Max in the V -Carb.
• 36:33
  And he'll still get a win. No, Isaac having a
• 36:38
  great race. I mean, he's proven that the V -Carb
• 36:41
  is not a bad car, right? And he's got a lot of
• 36:45
  pace in him, too. Which Yuki did, too. Yeah.
• 36:48
  So... Yeah. Did they put... So the V -Carb, you
• 36:54
  know, we know within the teams, the two cars
• 36:56
  are usually slightly different. One's usually
• 36:58
  slightly behind in upgrades than the other. Yeah,
• 37:01
  just depending on upgrade schedule. Yeah. So...
• 37:04
  When they took Yuki out of the racing bowls,
• 37:07
  did they put then Isaac into Yuki's car and then
• 37:10
  put Liam into the car? I know. No chance. No.
• 37:14
  Just too much messing around to try to get it
• 37:16
  right. It's possible. It's not all the time that
• 37:20
  they have to stagger upgrades. Sometimes they
• 37:22
  just do because of build schedules and stuff
• 37:24
  like that or money. I was going to say more money.
• 37:27
  It's possible that they didn't have to do that
• 37:29
  for the V -Carbs yet. So, no, I don't think they
• 37:32
  would have swapped cars. Fair enough. I was just
• 37:34
  curious because, I mean, Yuki was finishing top
• 37:37
  10 in VCarbs and competing, you know, no problem.
• 37:41
  So now we're seeing Isaac do it, so that's fun.
• 37:45
  Lawson, right, I think, where I would expect
• 37:47
  him to be. I think between P15 and worse is where
• 37:52
  I'm kind of expecting Liam to be the rest of
• 37:54
  the season, honestly. It would be nice to see
• 37:57
  him compete. It would hurt my soul to say that
• 38:00
  he should be beating Jack Duann and Pierre Gasly
• 38:04
  right now, but Alpine doesn't look that great.
• 38:06
  Williams is... Should he be beating his teammate,
• 38:08
  though? Isaac Hadjian. Absolutely. I mean, I
• 38:11
  would think so. You have a little bit more F1
• 38:13
  experience in Isaac, obviously. You've had more
• 38:15
  time in the car and around the F1 car. Especially
• 38:20
  if he was promoted to a Red Bull, you would expect
• 38:23
  him to be above Isaac. Especially for someone
• 38:26
  who Helmut said was... on par with yuki but this
• 38:29
  is right right well obviously we found out that
• 38:32
  helmet talks out of his gums um yeah oh my god
• 38:38
  um yeah no that's a good that's a good point
• 38:43
  but i think if we're gonna give yuki a race we
• 38:45
  gotta give lawson a race too you know uh it does
• 38:48
  hurt me a little bit um but it's just i don't
• 38:51
  know we gotta give him at least a race maybe
• 38:53
  to get used to the v car begin yeah although
• 38:55
  you've already been there but And then and then
• 38:58
  see, you know, and then if he's still getting
• 39:00
  beat, especially this this bad by Isaac, that's
• 39:05
  that's a huge red flag. And then whatever his
• 39:07
  name is, Schmuck, something Schmuckle, Schmeckle.
• 39:12
  What? Arvin Lindblad? Arvin Lindblad. I always
• 39:16
  forget his name. That's not who you were trying
• 39:18
  to say. He wasn't even close. No. No, you said
• 39:21
  Schmeckle. Yeah, Schmeckle or Schmeckle. Yeah,
• 39:24
  that guy. Arvin Lindblad. Lindblad. That's not
• 39:28
  even close to Schmuckle. I keep saying Lindblad.
• 39:31
  I think he was saying Schmeckle. Arvin Lindblad.
• 39:33
  Wait, are you Jewish? Schmeckle. Schmeckle. A
• 39:36
  couple of Schmeckles. Schumacher. Nick! Oh, my
• 39:44
  God. That's truly where I was going with it,
• 39:46
  obviously. Schumacher. That makes sense. Clearly.
• 39:49
  What were we talking about? I don't know. Let's
• 39:52
  just go into Williams. Albon getting P9. Solid.
• 39:56
  He's in the points. Can't complain about that.
• 39:58
  Carlos still seems like he's getting used to
• 40:01
  the car. William seems to have hit or miss strategies
• 40:06
  that Albon's not necessarily happy about. I have
• 40:10
  a comm from him that we'll get to. Let's see.
• 40:14
  Haas. I'm just going to turn to you all season
• 40:17
  for Haas. Yeah, Holly Berman's great. I like
• 40:19
  this kid. He outperformed Esteban. Shocker. Sorry.
• 40:25
  And yeah, he drove good. He held his position.
• 40:28
  He qualified 10th. He held 10th. Kept a lot of
• 40:32
  good cars behind him. You know, I will say we're
• 40:36
  seeing a lot of the Red Bull effect happening
• 40:38
  where we have one driver getting points and the
• 40:41
  other driver all the way down on the grid. which
• 40:44
  is not helping their team, you know? To be fair,
• 40:47
  Alpine has more points. You're right, Alpine
• 40:49
  is consistently bad. They're pretty close to
• 40:50
  each other. Consistently not good. You know what's
• 40:52
  the wicked part about that is that Aston's Max
• 40:56
  Verstappen right now is Lance Stroll. Just let
• 40:59
  that sink in. Lance got all the points. Yeah,
• 41:04
  but Lance so far. Lance got all the points. That's
• 41:07
  true. But he really showed his true colors this
• 41:10
  last race. I'm hoping it was just a bad race
• 41:12
  for him, honestly. For Lance. Lance a lot. Yeah.
• 41:15
  Well, we'll see next week. We'll see. We'll see.
• 41:20
  But no, Bierman getting P10. I mean, three rookies
• 41:22
  in the top 10 is. I did not see that coming really
• 41:26
  in any race this season. So the fact that that's
• 41:28
  happening is kind of fun. You know, we're getting
• 41:33
  comments. Rookie's good. I'm very happy with
• 41:35
  rookies. Rookie's good. Rookie's good. Veteran's
• 41:39
  bad. I mean, he's in a kickstand. He's in a kickstand.
• 41:42
  But, like, usually, you know, when some of these
• 41:45
  vets aren't doing so well, let's say Gasly, let's
• 41:48
  say Carlos Sainz, maybe even Hulkenberg, even
• 41:50
  though he's in a crap car, you know, usually
• 41:52
  when teams aren't doing well, they're kind of
• 41:54
  like, quote, unquote. sub -tweeting in their
• 41:59
  interviews about the car being bad or somewhere
• 42:01
  in the team something being bad and something
• 42:05
  else. We're not seeing that right now. Gasly,
• 42:08
  Carlos, these guys are still saying, oh no, we're
• 42:12
  going to be fighting for points. Good things
• 42:14
  are still to come this season. Even this early
• 42:17
  in the season, sometimes you're seeing guys...
• 42:22
  yeah cars just not good you know yeah but so
• 42:25
  hard to hard to do when you have the max verstappen
• 42:28
  effect happening yeah right oh for sure um let's
• 42:31
  see aston uh we've kind of already briefly mentioned
• 42:35
  them alonzo finishing p11 i mean that's his best
• 42:38
  finish of the year he finished he finished the
• 42:40
  race that's true yeah he finished uh there's
• 42:43
  that uh step one for the champ uh lance Yep.
• 42:52
  Alpine. Honestly, I really want to yep Alpine,
• 42:55
  too, because it's just not. Got to get a new
• 42:59
  hat because this is just not fun. I'm still looking
• 43:01
  at you. You both were calling me crazy for Haas
• 43:05
  in fifth, and you put Alpine in fifth. And here
• 43:08
  they are with zero points. It's coming. It's
• 43:12
  coming. Aston. Oh, shoot, I did. But who did
• 43:15
  I put above Haas? Williams. Basically everyone.
• 43:18
  V -Carb, Alpine, Williams. Yeah, Alpine was a
• 43:22
  bad car. But I had Haas in 9, too. I also very
• 43:26
  much regret putting Aston so high, too. That's
• 43:28
  like the biggest regret I have. Yeah, I got Aston
• 43:30
  in 6. I looked into the future and saw Aston
• 43:33
  having a bad car. We both put V -Carb at 8. That's
• 43:35
  dumb. I put V -Carb low, too. V -Carb is in 8
• 43:38
  right now. At the moment, but I don't think that's...
• 43:41
  I don't know. They are. No way. Aston Martin's
• 43:44
  beating them. What? Yeah. You're beating V -Carp?
• 43:47
  Really? That's Lance, bro. Aspen Arden's making
• 43:49
  it all the way to fifth, baby. That's our champ
• 43:50
  right there. That's what I'm saying. That's our
• 43:52
  champ. That's our man. That is Banter with the
• 43:53
  boys champion. That's our nepo, baby. That's
• 43:56
  our guy. Oh, my God. Yeah, anyway, Alpine dumpster
• 43:59
  fire right now. Gasly still feels confident that
• 44:03
  there's speed in the car and he's going to find
• 44:04
  it. Jack Doohan, Logan Sargent. I mean, Jack
• 44:09
  Doohan. It's just, I don't know. We'll see. Give
• 44:13
  him a few more races. I'm not feeling confident
• 44:16
  in Doohan right now. Sauber. Yep. Nico Hulkenberg.
• 44:23
  Yep. Solid 16th. You know what? Better than I
• 44:26
  would have expected out of the car. Did Bortoletto
• 44:28
  crash in practice at all this week? No. No, he
• 44:31
  kept it up. Thinking of something else. Okay.
• 44:33
  Good. Good. I don't know. See, that's how much
• 44:36
  I pay attention to Sauber right now. Wait till
• 44:38
  next year. Well, I won't even need to pay attention
• 44:40
  to him next year because he will be. Hello. I'm
• 44:42
  watching them right now. It's okay. That's true.
• 44:44
  Yeah. You're getting excited for next season?
• 44:45
  I'm still watching Sauber. I'm so excited. Yeah.
• 44:48
  All right. Okay, we don't have a transition for
• 44:51
  this, but the comms. Did you guys have any good
• 44:54
  comms this week? We'll start with you, Mike.
• 44:56
  Oh, crap. I think I did, but I'm not. Unbelievable.
• 44:59
  You didn't even put it in your notes. It was
• 45:01
  like 2 a .m. I mean, to be fair. I was so tired.
• 45:06
  To be fair. Yeah, it was 2 a .m. Joe, any good
• 45:11
  ones? So the one that I. It was sad in the moment
• 45:15
  because it was happening to him, but the commentator
• 45:16
  said it, and I thought it was hilarious. He called
• 45:18
  it Beltgate, the issues that Hajar was having.
• 45:22
  They had no idea what was happening. They just
• 45:25
  had assumptions that it was the belt. They just
• 45:28
  kept having them. They knew he was complaining
• 45:30
  about it. uh crofty said at once he was like
• 45:34
  he's like yeah and the belt gate and you know
• 45:35
  i just thought that was really funny that's so
• 45:37
  funny i didn't even hear him say that yeah so
• 45:38
  that that's like the one note i had and then
• 45:40
  i have a couple like rummaging around there but
• 45:43
  i think you'll cover off on them and the ones
• 45:44
  you have well i only have a couple here um albon
• 45:48
  had one uh he just kind of came on uh albon was
• 45:53
  the team and he was the one that the one i have
• 45:56
  down is honestly you guys make absolutely no
• 45:58
  sense to which they responded okay And then he
• 46:02
  said, like, ridiculous. And then they went on
• 46:07
  about something else. They were telling him about
• 46:09
  Biermann, I'm pretty sure. Yeah, that was about
• 46:12
  Biermann pitting before him. So Albon was upset
• 46:15
  about that. And I think Albon is a little spicy
• 46:20
  so far to start the season. So dare I say, like,
• 46:23
  Albon could end up being our comm -meister of
• 46:27
  the year at the moment. Maybe. But. What do you
• 46:31
  got over there? I got one from one of the commentators,
• 46:34
  too, that I really loved. The album one was the
• 46:36
  biggest one that I had on my on my mind. I don't
• 46:38
  know if I have any that I definitely didn't know
• 46:40
  many of them, but the album one was one that
• 46:43
  stuck out. OK, I think they're just like, OK,
• 46:48
  me going on a rant on the Internet. The guy who
• 46:53
  I'm ranting to giving me just K. Yeah. Right.
• 46:57
  The one that one of the commentators said that
• 47:00
  had me rolling, and it's really not funny to
• 47:03
  everybody, probably. I don't know. I thought
• 47:05
  it was hilarious. But you know how, like, oh,
• 47:07
  you had to have the balls or the cojones for
• 47:09
  that. You know what I mean? Yeah. This dude was
• 47:11
  like, didn't know if he'd have the minerals to
• 47:14
  go through with it. And I really love the usage
• 47:16
  of the word minerals in that situation. So I
• 47:20
  thought it was hilarious. I'm definitely going
• 47:21
  to use the minerals. But, yeah, anyway. I guess
• 47:26
  that's a nerd joke because you guys aren't laughing.
• 47:28
  No, I mean, it's funny. Apparently, my IQ is
• 47:31
  low. Okay, I thought it was hilarious. You're
• 47:33
  projecting. Something crazy right now. Oh, my
• 47:38
  God. Anyway, any new, any other comms before
• 47:42
  we move on? Apparently, Yuki had one. Yuki usually
• 47:46
  has one. He's another spicy one. I love Yuki.
• 47:49
  Yuki gets fired up. It was actually, he was just
• 47:52
  like, the car's messy, but I'll give you feedback.
• 47:55
  Car's interesting. It's okay, I guess. I think
• 47:58
  that was literally his words. He said the car
• 48:00
  is interesting. Yuki, that gives us nothing.
• 48:03
  You realize that, right? I don't think he wants
• 48:05
  to. I imagine he doesn't want to say anything
• 48:08
  else. Yeah, I just looked up really quick. Well,
• 48:11
  considering other teams are listening to the
• 48:13
  comm channels too, you know. Yeah, I looked.
• 48:18
  Because there was one where another team brought
• 48:20
  that up this race, and I can't remember who that
• 48:22
  was. For what? I feel like it was Williams. Like,
• 48:24
  oh, Haas is doing this or whatever. Oh. You know,
• 48:27
  trying to, like, let the driver know. And it
• 48:30
  was probably Albon to which he was probably like,
• 48:31
  whatever, you know. I don't know. I can't remember.
• 48:34
  But I think it was Williams. Gotcha. I can't
• 48:37
  remember what that comment was. I didn't put
• 48:38
  it down. Yeah. Albon was, yeah, Albon was, like,
• 48:40
  the man, I think, just looking at it. He had,
• 48:43
  like, gear shift issues or something, so. Mm
• 48:45
  -hmm. I remember that. With that, Kev, let's
• 48:50
  head into our news. So to fly through this news,
• 49:06
  Mercedes Fred Vesti, Aston Martins, Felipe Drogovic.
• 49:13
  And Williams, Luke Browning will drive in FP1
• 49:17
  at the Bahrain GP, replacing George Russell,
• 49:20
  Fernando Alonso, and Carlos Sainz. I know we
• 49:25
  covered it in the first episode of the season,
• 49:27
  but I believe drivers have to give up two practices
• 49:30
  in the calendar now. Yep. So that's just all
• 49:33
  this is, getting some testing done. Let's see.
• 49:38
  I saw this in a couple articles. I don't know
• 49:41
  how true this is. They were kind of weird articles.
• 49:46
  Cadillac team principal Graham Loudon may have
• 49:50
  let out that Colin Hurta Indy car, which has
• 49:54
  already been mentioned by Mike on the show here.
• 49:57
  Got it here first. And Jack Crawford, who is
• 50:00
  currently an F2 driver, and he's currently Aston's
• 50:03
  reserve driver for F1, are a couple names that
• 50:05
  have been dropped. But Cadillac has allegedly
• 50:09
  talked to seven or eight drivers, quote, end
• 50:11
  quote. Also preliminary talk. So how do we feel
• 50:16
  about Colin Hurta and Jack Crawford, if those
• 50:19
  were the two? Or do you think neither one is,
• 50:22
  and this is smoke and mirrors, and it's going
• 50:24
  to be Sergio Perez and Danny Rick? Or Botas.
• 50:28
  Botas is another one that's been tied to them
• 50:30
  as well. I mentioned before the pod that I had
• 50:32
  some conflicting news, and this was it. I figured.
• 50:35
  I had heard. Because there's nothing on here.
• 50:37
  Right. So first off, Andretti had said that it
• 50:46
  would be hard to get an American driver into
• 50:47
  Formula One right now, which was just like a
• 50:50
  very small thing that they had brought up. But
• 50:52
  in that same bit that they were talking, Mario
• 50:55
  Andretti had said that Liam's performance actually
• 50:58
  makes Checo look very good. Which was like a
• 51:02
  very small thing that like somebody who's pretty
• 51:05
  high up in the Cadillac division is talking about
• 51:09
  another driver and is praising him like that.
• 51:12
  It's like a big look that a lot of people are
• 51:13
  like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Checo might
• 51:15
  not really be out of this. And so that was kind
• 51:19
  of like a thing that I saw news I think last
• 51:22
  week that was saying Andretti was like, yeah,
• 51:25
  we don't see Americans. And then you came up
• 51:28
  and you were like, maybe we do. Hey, I called
• 51:32
  it what? Episode two or whatever. Checo's going
• 51:35
  to be back. Checo's, I'm with it. He's going
• 51:37
  to be back. Checo's going to come back. You guys
• 51:40
  are delusional. Who's the two drivers? I honestly
• 51:43
  think they'll probably go with, like, I honestly
• 51:46
  think one of their drivers is going to be new
• 51:48
  -ish. It's going to be probably a rookie. I would
• 51:50
  not be surprised if the other one is a rookie,
• 51:52
  too. I think it's probably better if they get
• 51:54
  a vet. I don't think it's going to be Checo,
• 51:55
  though. Is Botas a good fit? Oh, yeah, definitely.
• 52:00
  Botas is a great pit. I don't think he's going
• 52:01
  to do it, but I think Botas would be a great
• 52:03
  pit. Do you think he doesn't do it, or do you
• 52:04
  think they don't want him, per se? I think Mercedes
• 52:07
  could offer more money, probably. But what does
• 52:10
  Mercedes... I mean, Botas wants to drive. I could
• 52:14
  also see Mercedes giving him to them. Even if
• 52:18
  he had a long contract, I could see them ending
• 52:20
  it if he wants to drive because they like him
• 52:22
  so much. I think he wants to drive a car, and
• 52:26
  if he's given the opportunity to, he'll go. Do
• 52:28
  I think they're looking at him? Probably not.
• 52:31
  But I don't think they're looking at Checo. God,
• 52:33
  if they're two vets, though, think about it.
• 52:35
  Sergio, Checo, and Valtteri. That'd be funny.
• 52:38
  Be a funny way to start your day. Two second
• 52:41
  seat drivers for two different WDCs. Joe's not
• 52:45
  on board. I just don't see it happening. I don't
• 52:47
  know. Do you see Chaco return to F1 at all? Or
• 52:49
  do you think that's it? I think it's interesting
• 52:51
  that he's come out saying that he's looking at
• 52:56
  his options for it. But that's all we've heard
• 52:59
  so far. You know, he also. He also confirmed
• 53:03
  that he was staying around Red Bull for a long
• 53:05
  time, but then he got kicked. He can't say that,
• 53:09
  though. Honestly, he can't say that I'm going
• 53:12
  to get kicked. Obviously, he's not going to say
• 53:13
  that. I just don't see him. I just don't see
• 53:17
  Caddy taking him. I think they're going to take
• 53:18
  someone else. I just don't see it happening.
• 53:20
  I will happily eat my hat. If it happens, my
• 53:23
  whole hat. We will have a video of that on Facebook
• 53:27
  next year when Checo signs with Cadillac this
• 53:30
  offseason. I don't have any good alternatives
• 53:32
  either. I don't have any good reasons. I just
• 53:34
  don't think it's going to happen. I think if
• 53:36
  I were to just take a shot at the dark for my
• 53:38
  two picks, I think I'm picking Checo Perez as
• 53:41
  the lead driver with Colin Hurta. Because I think
• 53:46
  if they can have an American driver, they won't.
• 53:48
  I'm kind of on board with Mike here. I also don't
• 53:50
  think Colin Hurta will get in because he has
• 53:54
  not driven in F1. Or he has not driven in the
• 53:57
  discipline. He does have enough super point or
• 53:59
  super license points to drive in Formula 1. That's
• 54:02
  great. He hasn't. You are correct. It is unheard
• 54:05
  of. I know they're both open wheel. I know IndyCar
• 54:07
  is not a Formula 1 car. I don't know if it's
• 54:09
  unheard of. I just don't think it's a smart move.
• 54:11
  Well, I mean, it's unheard of in the fact that
• 54:13
  it's never happened before. Has it? Have we confirmed?
• 54:15
  Okay. I've never been an IndyCar driver. We haven't
• 54:17
  seen somebody move from Indy to - Move from a
• 54:20
  different discipline right into F1. Right into
• 54:22
  F1, yeah. We've seen drivers move from other
• 54:24
  disciplines into Formula 2 and then - We've seen
• 54:29
  plenty of F1 drivers go into different disciplines.
• 54:32
  I watched Kimi race NASCAR. Exactly. That lasted
• 54:38
  a day. Max has a sponsorship with Aston Martin
• 54:42
  to drive their supercars. Which is sick. Jack
• 54:47
  Crawford was more of a reasonable option. It
• 54:52
  makes more sense than taking an IndyCar driver.
• 54:57
  But if you're Cadillac, I mean, you want performance
• 55:02
  on the track, right? But you need PR to get the
• 55:05
  team kicking and to just get people interested
• 55:08
  in it first. You're not going to be competing
• 55:10
  for anything right at the beginning. Do they
• 55:16
  want to go in with PR to get already F1 fans,
• 55:23
  or do they want to bring a lot of... just American
• 55:26
  or Cadillac fans with them. That. They want to
• 55:29
  tap the American market, but they want to get
• 55:33
  more fans in America, and that's why I think
• 55:34
  that's where Colin Hurta might either Colin Hurta
• 55:38
  or in Botas' contract, he has to have a mullet.
• 55:44
  And then it's fine. To be with Cadillac, you
• 55:48
  need to keep the mullet and the mustache. That's
• 55:51
  a good point. If you don't look like a NASCAR
• 55:53
  driver, we don't want you. That's a great point.
• 55:55
  So that's it. We figured it out. So Botas, number
• 55:59
  one driver at Cadillac with a mullet, and then
• 56:02
  a pick between Colin Hurta and Jack Crawford.
• 56:05
  Okay, perfect. And then Checo. Checo. Yeah, Checo.
• 56:09
  Very looking forward to seeing what they do.
• 56:11
  Yeah, for sure. Summer break. Let's see. Haas
• 56:13
  has been driving with a flawed underbody. Yeah,
• 56:17
  so I guess this is me. Yeah, so I did look into
• 56:20
  this. Yeah, I guess they were in Bahrain testing.
• 56:23
  They were seeing some issues with turns 9 and
• 56:25
  10 in Bahrain with struggles with the car. And
• 56:28
  they were kind of uncertain what was going on.
• 56:31
  They thought it might have just been something
• 56:32
  specific to Bahrain. So they were doing little
• 56:34
  minor tweaks here and there, but couldn't figure
• 56:37
  it out. And then they got to Melbourne and were
• 56:38
  like, oh, crap, we just can't turn in high corners.
• 56:41
  And I guess it's because their underbody got
• 56:45
  a major flaw in it. not able to get enough air
• 56:47
  underneath the car and so that's creating problems
• 56:50
  with you know with all of their downforce and
• 56:52
  everything so high speed corners are a problem
• 56:54
  and um a quote from ayau had stated uh the main
• 56:59
  issue appears to be the vf25 at low ride heights
• 57:04
  and so the lower they drop that car the more
• 57:07
  problems they're going to have and so he had
• 57:10
  also stated the fact that this is something that
• 57:12
  they don't think they can fix quick because they're
• 57:14
  going to need to spend time in the wind tunnel,
• 57:17
  trying to figure out what is going on and how
• 57:19
  to resolve it. So this could be multiple races
• 57:21
  before we start to see a change. That sucks.
• 57:24
  That sucks your ass. But we're still getting
• 57:26
  points. But Bierman got a point. We're still
• 57:28
  putting up multiple points, so I'm like, how
• 57:30
  much pace do we have if we fix this? What's this
• 57:31
  we stuff? Bierman. Well, Ocon had a great race.
• 57:35
  Ocon had a great race. He's in eighth in constructors
• 57:37
  or in WDC right now. Well, give us another week.
• 57:40
  Okay. Well, okay. Okay, buddy. Okay, buddy. Okay,
• 57:45
  buddy. Yeah, that's all I have. Fair enough.
• 57:50
  He's in ninth. Ninth. Okay, whatever. One point
• 57:53
  off. How many points until he's in 11th? He's
• 57:57
  competing, or he is currently matching points
• 57:59
  with Stroll. Correct. Lance. Which is our champion.
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  Yeah, Banter of the Boys champion. Kev, let's
• 58:06
  move right into our Bahrain preview. And. Per
• 58:21
  usual, we are going to get up to speed for Bahrain.
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  This year's race is called the Formula One Golf
• 58:28
  Air Bahrain Grand Prix 2025. The first F1 race
• 58:34
  to be held in the Middle East in 2004. And turn
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  one, named Michael Schumacher, is the only turn
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  with a name on this track. Just a couple of fun
• 58:43
  facts to get you ready for the Bahrain Grand
• 58:45
  Prix. Looking back, last year's race. Mike. The
• 58:51
  starting grid was Max Verstappen to Charles to
• 58:55
  George Russell to Carlos Sainz. The 2024 season
• 58:59
  starts with Max leading the pack. Charles getting
• 59:02
  alongside him into turn one, but maintaining
• 59:04
  pace. Places, rather. Down the road, Lance Stroll
• 59:08
  taking the corner a bit too much and getting
• 59:10
  pit by the Haas of Hulkenberg to the side of
• 59:13
  the track where he falls to last place. Botas
• 59:16
  ends up running into the rear of Hulkenberg at
• 59:19
  the same time of the squirrel, picking up a little
• 59:21
  bit of damage on the first lap. All the meanwhile,
• 59:24
  Perez makes the move up to fourth in a still
• 59:26
  -dominant Red Bull. Our current WBC contender
• 59:29
  Lando Norris makes the move on Alonso for sixth
• 59:32
  place, while Russell makes a similar move on
• 59:34
  Leclerc for the second podium position. The start
• 59:37
  of the race proving quite competitive as Oscar
• 59:39
  makes the move shortly after Lando to overtake
• 59:41
  Alonso. Lap 7, Perez improves his ranking as
• 59:44
  he takes the final podium position from Leclerc
• 59:46
  after Charles had a lockup going into the back
• 59:48
  half DRS straight. In lap 11, Russell is already
• 59:51
  8 seconds away from Verstappen, under pressure
• 59:53
  from Perez, while right behind the Ferraris begin
• 59:56
  to battle each other for position. Three laps
• 59:59
  later, the move is made on Russell, promoting
• 1:00:00
  Red Bull to a 1 -2 early on in the race. We see
• 1:00:03
  more fighting between the Ferraris a few laps
• 1:00:05
  later, Carlos taking position from Charles, and
• 1:00:07
  then fighting George for the final podium position
• 1:00:09
  only a lap later. He takes the position before
• 1:00:13
  the end of the lap. Get this man's back in the
• 1:00:15
  Ferrari or in a Williams or in a Red Bull or
• 1:00:18
  in an Audi. I don't know. We witnessed the infamous
• 1:00:22
  minute pit stop from our boy Botas as the crew
• 1:00:25
  brings out the wrong tire and he has to sit there
• 1:00:28
  for what feels like an eternity. He still makes
• 1:00:31
  it back on track. Here's the kicker. He still
• 1:00:34
  makes it back on track in front of Logan Sargent.
• 1:00:38
  The Ferrari of Leclerc fights the Mercedes of
• 1:00:41
  Russell for fourth place on lap 47. Makes the
• 1:00:44
  move and finds Ferrari in a 3 -4. Ten laps later,
• 1:00:47
  our 2025 Japan GP winner takes the Bahrain Grand
• 1:00:50
  Prix winner's trophy a year ago. Max crossed
• 1:00:53
  the line about 23 seconds ahead of Perez in second.
• 1:00:56
  Our final is Verstappen, Perez, Sainz, Leclerc,
• 1:01:00
  Russell, Norris, Hamilton, Piastri, Alonso, and
• 1:01:05
  Stroll. Boom. Dang. If that would have came over
• 1:01:12
  here and paper cut me in the neck, that would
• 1:01:14
  have been really unfortunate. I'm going to start
• 1:01:15
  doing that, but I've got to throw it behind me.
• 1:01:17
  Yeah, that would be good. I just messed up the
• 1:01:18
  set. Broke everything. You know what? It's a
• 1:01:23
  work in progress. There you go. Boom. Just like
• 1:01:25
  that. Let's see. So to recap our points, none
• 1:01:30
  of us chose Max winning because we're all idiots.
• 1:01:34
  Yeah, that's on me. It's all on you. But two
• 1:01:38
  of us at least had him on our podiums. Anyway,
• 1:01:43
  long story short, Joe ended up with three points.
• 1:01:46
  Mike ended up with three points. Smelty ended
• 1:01:48
  up with two points. That brings our total to
• 1:01:52
  Smelty leading with ten. All right. I've been
• 1:01:56
  rarely in the lead of anything on any of the
• 1:01:58
  Banter with the Boys shows. Awesome. And I host
• 1:02:02
  all of them. Let's see. And Joe and Mike are
• 1:02:07
  Joe and Mike are tight at seven. So that's that's
• 1:02:09
  fun. We're coming for you very slowly, but you're
• 1:02:13
  getting there. Yeah, you're getting there. You
• 1:02:15
  almost had it. So wait. So I got to go first.
• 1:02:19
  You got to go first. And we still have to figure
• 1:02:20
  out who went first last week. You did. I did.
• 1:02:23
  OK, you go first. So, yeah, you're going first.
• 1:02:25
  So, yeah, you guys go first. No, no, you go first.
• 1:02:28
  You go first. No, no, no, no, no. Don't you try
• 1:02:30
  and put this off on us. Yeah, I thought I had
• 1:02:32
  it. Winning this week on Bahrain. Yeah, I mean,
• 1:02:37
  if I can, you know, give you a little bit of
• 1:02:40
  historical advice, Red Bull has won two at the
• 1:02:43
  last, like, three years. Maybe two years, actually.
• 1:02:47
  That is true. That is true. Flip side, our goat
• 1:02:50
  Lance Stroll. He's notoriously bad At this track
• 1:02:53
  He got He got 9th place last year He got 9th
• 1:02:56
  place? Yeah that wasn't too bad That's incredible
• 1:02:58
  Oh sorry 10th Still points What's after Bahrain?
• 1:03:01
  Jeddah Oh I love Jeddah I love I love Botford
• 1:03:05
  If we can just I love Bahrain And I love Jeddah
• 1:03:07
  They're so much fun dude I feel like Max is really
• 1:03:10
  good In the Middle East in general I feel like
• 1:03:13
  Max is just really good in general. He's just
• 1:03:14
  really good in general. He's just a champion.
• 1:03:17
  He's a four -time champion. I feel like Max is
• 1:03:19
  just really good. All right. All right. Here
• 1:03:23
  it is. Here it is. Here it is. It's going to
• 1:03:26
  be in this order. Max, Lando, George. Whoa. No
• 1:03:33
  Oscar? What's wrong with you? No. Wait, wait,
• 1:03:35
  wait. I'm sorry. No. Oscar, not Lando. Max, Oscar,
• 1:03:38
  George. No Lando? Lando's in fourth. Lando's
• 1:03:45
  in fourth. Kimmy, maybe fifth or sixth, and then
• 1:03:48
  Charles is in there somewhere. Okay, we don't
• 1:03:50
  care. Hamilton lives in pizza. Didn't ask. No,
• 1:03:53
  we did not ask. That's fine. All right. You go
• 1:03:54
  second. You said, what was it? You said Max,
• 1:03:58
  Oscar, George. Crazy work. Which is kind of crazy.
• 1:04:01
  So here's the thing. I'm putting Faith in Lando
• 1:04:04
  one more time. I'm putting Lando in first. Okay.
• 1:04:08
  I'm putting Oscar in second. Jesus. Yeah. Let
• 1:04:11
  me guess. Max Verstappen. Max Verstappen in third.
• 1:04:15
  All right. He's on the podium. He's got to be
• 1:04:17
  on the podium. And you know what? And you know
• 1:04:19
  what? I will say. I will say. Yeah, fair, fair.
• 1:04:22
  I will say I've been a little unimpressed with
• 1:04:25
  Lando the last couple races. But you put him
• 1:04:28
  first. Yeah, this is kind of his... Your last
• 1:04:31
  hurrah. Yeah, like, don't let me down. This is
• 1:04:33
  his prove -it race. So then when he doesn't win
• 1:04:35
  in Bahrain and you change it up at Jetta... He's
• 1:04:38
  never touching the podium again. He's getting
• 1:04:40
  the dub in Jetta. Yeah. Confirmed. In 2024, Oscar
• 1:04:48
  was not even in... Oh, he was. He was low. He
• 1:04:51
  was like P8, right? You said P7. He was low.
• 1:04:53
  He was low. I'm taking a chance. But I'm taking
• 1:04:56
  a chance. Based on what I've seen this season,
• 1:04:59
  I think Oscar has better pace than Lando. Max
• 1:05:02
  is typically very good. This track, though, is
• 1:05:05
  also good for overtaking. I think it's a really
• 1:05:09
  good shot. Even if the McLarens don't qualify
• 1:05:12
  well, they catch up. He's won here before. Man,
• 1:05:17
  I feel like I've been so boring. The last three
• 1:05:21
  races, I've done the exact same thing. Dude,
• 1:05:24
  I've put Lando Oscar one, two. But you're tied
• 1:05:27
  for second by doing the same thing. Yeah, I can't
• 1:05:29
  put something crazy because I don't think Bahrain
• 1:05:32
  is typically a crazy race. Put Kimmy on the podium.
• 1:05:36
  It's a new year. Put Kimmy on the podium. You
• 1:05:40
  won't. You're right, I won't. No minerals. No
• 1:05:43
  minerals. Just so I can be different from you.
• 1:05:45
  Just so I can be different, we're going to go.
• 1:05:48
  oscar lando max yeah actually oscar lando okay
• 1:05:55
  though so we have we've predicted three different
• 1:05:58
  race winners so that's kind of nice somebody's
• 1:06:01
  getting two points this weekend probably based
• 1:06:06
  on i hope so somebody's getting at well Two points
• 1:06:10
  based on picking the race winner. Unless it's
• 1:06:13
  George. None of us are getting a point. I'm more
• 1:06:16
  shocked that... I'm still getting a point if
• 1:06:17
  George gets a point. I'm so shocked that Smelty
• 1:06:19
  is only going to get one point this weekend.
• 1:06:21
  That's crazy. What are you talking about? Oh,
• 1:06:24
  you put Max to win, didn't you? Sure did. Oh,
• 1:06:27
  okay. He's probably getting like three points.
• 1:06:28
  He'll get two points. Two or three points. He'll
• 1:06:30
  get two points. Okay. I'm getting three at least.
• 1:06:34
  Because of Max or because of George? You're so
• 1:06:40
  confident George is in third. Yes. George is
• 1:06:43
  going to. Honestly, Mercedes is going to have
• 1:06:45
  an interesting year. Honestly, George in third
• 1:06:47
  isn't a hot take at all. No, it's definitely
• 1:06:49
  not. It's not a hot take. That's the thing. But
• 1:06:51
  nobody wants to talk about that. It's McLaren
• 1:06:54
  or, you know, obviously Max. If we're looking
• 1:06:56
  at history and stats, Lando needs to be in your
• 1:07:00
  podium. because he's been in the podium every
• 1:07:02
  single race so far. You're talking to the leader,
• 1:07:04
  buddy. I'm just kidding. Oh, my God. The eagle.
• 1:07:09
  I'm just kidding. How do you fit in that hat?
• 1:07:12
  You know what? The funny part is I don't, actually.
• 1:07:14
  I wish it was. You know what? I didn't think
• 1:07:16
  about that. That's a good point. I will stop
• 1:07:20
  talking. Not bad. Not bad. No, no, no, no. I
• 1:07:23
  basically said what I wanted to. Historically,
• 1:07:26
  Lando's the only one that's gotten into the podium
• 1:07:27
  each time. max has been and then it's like between
• 1:07:30
  max and george for like who's the most kids and
• 1:07:32
  oscar actually who's the most consistent just
• 1:07:34
  wait george will be in my number one slot at
• 1:07:36
  some i didn't even take this into account i wrote
• 1:07:38
  this down i didn't take this into account when
• 1:07:40
  making my own podium i'm not changing anything
• 1:07:42
  so it doesn't matter um yeah i mean ferrari was
• 1:07:45
  struggling in um in barring testing uh with understeer
• 1:07:51
  In Bahrain, while Mercedes looked to be in tip
• 1:07:55
  -top form and were super dominant in Bahrain.
• 1:07:58
  So you might actually be cooking with George
• 1:08:00
  in the podium. But we all still picked Ferrari
• 1:08:04
  to be second in constructors, and right now it
• 1:08:07
  is not looking awesome for that. At least I'm
• 1:08:11
  not alone. We didn't expect Kimi to be so good.
• 1:08:14
  We can all suffer together. I didn't. Yeah, we
• 1:08:17
  won't get into it. We'll table it because we're
• 1:08:19
  already over. But, like, no, none of us. I didn't
• 1:08:21
  either. And with the two veteran drivers at Ferrari,
• 1:08:25
  there's a lot of hype. I felt like they were
• 1:08:27
  coming in with a fast car. I do have to give
• 1:08:30
  it to you, though. They ended last season okay.
• 1:08:32
  The first race was like a cluster, and I kept
• 1:08:35
  on saying, you know, Kimi got that high up because
• 1:08:37
  it was a cluster, but he's consistently gotten
• 1:08:40
  points every single race. Japan with the little
• 1:08:43
  overtaking, I mean, you've just got to be fast.
• 1:08:45
  You've just got to be fast, and he was fast,
• 1:08:47
  and he had the fastest lap. I feel bad. I don't
• 1:08:49
  know. It's really interesting. I feel bad that
• 1:08:51
  the race for the podium is so close between three,
• 1:08:56
  four people that I'm not paying attention to.
• 1:08:58
  paying attention to the rookies as much as I
• 1:09:00
  feel like I wanted to because we're just so close
• 1:09:02
  up there. Yeah, there's a lot of battling going
• 1:09:06
  on all over the grid. I mean, between those and
• 1:09:09
  then, like, 12 through 15, 16, 17 is kind of
• 1:09:14
  a battle sometimes, too. Yep. Yeah, no. Yeah,
• 1:09:20
  Mike, well, thanks for being here, brother. Thanks,
• 1:09:22
  Mike. Thanks, Mike. You were here. It was great.
• 1:09:24
  Mike was here. It was good. I was here. I'll
• 1:09:27
  have to give you my hot take later because we
• 1:09:29
  don't have time for it. I'm going to gray your
• 1:09:32
  hairs. Do you want to just give it real quick?
• 1:09:35
  It's not going to be quick. You will not let
• 1:09:38
  it be quick. Fair enough. Fair enough. Next week.
• 1:09:44
  Should we start with this hot take next week?
• 1:09:46
  Just rip the band -aid off. Hot take. Depends
• 1:09:49
  on how crazy Bahrain is. Anything like Japan.
• 1:09:52
  We'll have all the time in the world. I say that.
• 1:09:55
  Good call. Good call. Good call. Joe, good job.
• 1:09:59
  Thank you so much. I tried really hard. Yeah.
• 1:10:02
  Thank you. Good. Happy to be here. Good. Good,
• 1:10:05
  good. I'm glad you're happy to be here. Not calling
• 1:10:07
  your mom this week to come pick you up. She's
• 1:10:11
  already here. She's already here. She's been
• 1:10:13
  here for a while. She's actually texting him
• 1:10:15
  right now. Yeah. Yeah. With that, don't forget
• 1:10:19
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• 1:10:29
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• 1:10:31
  have looked that up. Yep. We're here next week.
• 1:10:32
  Sounds good. Sounds good. Yep. We're here. Why
• 1:10:37
  do you keep looking at me? Dead silence. All
• 1:10:40
  right. Peace. We're out of here. Don't forget
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