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Piastri's shot at history in Melbourne: Australian GP Preview · Pit Talk

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  Speaker 1: This is the moment man that we've all been waiting
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  Speaker 1: for for in a romax.
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  Speaker 2: Here comes Oscar Piastree, Lando Norrith.
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  Speaker 3: They aren't playing hardball out there at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: Steve peberchall Moment to twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: Hello and welcome to Pit Talk, brought to you by Shannon's.
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  Speaker 4: On today's episode, we're in Australian Grand Prix week and
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  Speaker 4: McLaren is tipped to be favorite at the start of
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  Speaker 4: this new season. And for our first episode of the season,
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  Speaker 4: we're joined by former has F one team principal Guntha
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  Speaker 4: Steiner to get his take on the season to come
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  Speaker 4: and his new book, Unfiltered. My name is Michael Lomonato,
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  Speaker 4: motorsport writer at Fox Sports Australia. It's great to have
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  Speaker 4: your company and the company of my co host. His
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  Speaker 4: name's Matt Clayton. You can call the team Racing Bulls
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  Speaker 4: if you like, but he's femous always Minadi.
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  Speaker 2: Michael.
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  Speaker 3: Great to join you for another season, very very much,
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  Speaker 3: looking forward to get stuck into the Australian Grand Prier.
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  Speaker 3: What five days away?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? The clock is really to you. It feels like
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  Speaker 2: it keeps up on us every year.
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  Speaker 4: It is going to be a big first round, not
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  Speaker 4: only because it's back in Australia, where personally I've always
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  Speaker 4: felt it should be. Sometimes I disregard the first two
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  Speaker 4: rounds in Barrai and Saudi Arabia. The time zone is
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  Speaker 4: terrible anyway. But we are back in Australia for the
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  Speaker 4: very first round of the season, and for the first
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  Speaker 4: time in a long time, it feels like I've got
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  Speaker 4: a genuine chance of breaking that streak of no Australians
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  Speaker 4: on the podium at Australian Grandfrey. Potentially even a first winner,
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  Speaker 4: an Australian winner at the Stralian Grandbery. Because MacLaren after Prieza,
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  Speaker 4: isn't testing looked really competitive?
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  Speaker 2: That seems to be the vibe.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, look, I think so they've got momentum from last year.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's probably a key thing and I think
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  Speaker 3: an underrated part in this season of so much change elsewhere.
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  Speaker 3: They're one of only two teams with an unchanged driver lineup.
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  Speaker 3: I think when you've got stability there and continuity results.
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  Speaker 3: You look at what they did in preseason testing. They
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  Speaker 3: weren't hogging lap times or really headlining things, but you
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  Speaker 3: could see the inherent pace was there, The long run
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  Speaker 3: pace was good. It looked like it had a good
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  Speaker 3: one lap pace as well. So you mentioned that podium
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  Speaker 3: drought for Australians at Albert Park and goodness, no have
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  Speaker 3: come close enough. So Manys, could this finally be the year?
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  Speaker 3: I think if we're looking at a favorite going into Melbourne,
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  Speaker 3: it's got to be McLaren. But I think it's what's
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  Speaker 3: behind them that's particularly intriguing, because I think it's a
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  Speaker 3: lot murkyer. I think McLaren is pretty clearly a standout.
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  Speaker 3: What happens behind them not.
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  Speaker 4: So sure it just before we look at some of
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  Speaker 4: those other contenders, because there's some great stories in that
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  Speaker 4: front running pack, and at least Lewis Hamilton at Ferrari,
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  Speaker 4: we've got a teenager at Mercedes and or Red Bull Racing,
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  Speaker 4: maybe on the back foot only for twenty four months.
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  Speaker 2: After absolutely dominating the sport.
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  Speaker 4: But McLaren as a championship contender is really interesting because
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  Speaker 4: it's almost easy to forget that they won the Constructor's
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  Speaker 4: title last year.
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  Speaker 2: They came from nowhere two years earlier.
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  Speaker 4: Even at the beginning of last year looked sort of
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  Speaker 4: fourth best thereabouts waiting for these upgrades that did eventually
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  Speaker 4: change the complexion of their season. But we also saw
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  Speaker 4: in the second half of the year this battle between
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  Speaker 4: land and Norris and Oscar Piastrin.
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  Speaker 2: And literally it wasn't on the points.
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  Speaker 4: Table because Norris was quite a bit ahead of Piastri
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  Speaker 4: in the second half of the season by the end
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  Speaker 4: of the year, but we could see sometimes a little
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  Speaker 4: bit of a challenge that bounds of power and the
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  Speaker 4: team couldn't we I think of Monza where Oscar Piastri
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  Speaker 4: got ahead of Landon and I was at the start
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  Speaker 4: Azerbaijan when all the talkers about helping Lando and Nisa
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  Speaker 4: was hum we led the flag and other examples.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, how redid you feel McLaren is to challenge
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  Speaker 2: for the championship in that context?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Look, I don't know if you're ready until you're
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  Speaker 3: thrown into that situation to have to deal with it live,
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  Speaker 3: because last year you're fighting from a position of disadvantage,
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  Speaker 3: the fact they tripped each other up a couple of times.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, realistically, charl Clair one Monza because of what
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  Speaker 3: happened with the McLaren drivers in the open part of
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  Speaker 3: that race. But when you're doing it coming from a
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  Speaker 3: fair way back. I'm not sure it matters as much
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  Speaker 3: because the spotlight isn't as bright. You go into this
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  Speaker 3: season points of reset, everyone expects McLaren to be the
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  Speaker 3: team to be not chasing this red bull that's so
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  Speaker 3: far away like they were last year. So to me,
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  Speaker 3: that's the interesting part. If you've got a live championship
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  Speaker 3: with these two at the front rather than chasing a
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  Speaker 3: vastapen or whoever it was, that's when management's going to
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  Speaker 3: have to really think on their feet here. How do
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  Speaker 3: you deal with this situation where you've got the homegrown
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  Speaker 3: talent like Norris who's been in there the whole time,
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  Speaker 3: McClaren protege rising to a point where he's a championship contender,
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  Speaker 3: and then you've got Piastric who's coming through this side
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  Speaker 3: door and immediately proven that he can win races. It's
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  Speaker 3: a difficult thing to manage, and they don't have the
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  Speaker 3: experience of managing that for big prizes, so that's going
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  Speaker 3: to be super interesting.
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  Speaker 2: I think.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we've talked a lot about in the last two years,
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  Speaker 4: and especially in the last year, this development rate of
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  Speaker 4: Oscar Piastri it's almost raced by race as much as
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  Speaker 4: is in year on year.
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  Speaker 2: But I spoke to him during the offseason.
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  Speaker 4: He was talking about how much McLaren had to do
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  Speaker 4: the learning last year to be, as you said, as
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  Speaker 4: a front running team, and like we've seen from Oscar
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  Speaker 4: as well and Lando, because of course he only won
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  Speaker 4: his first Grand Prix last year.
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  Speaker 2: It's not until you're really in that position.
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  Speaker 4: And this goes for the team as well, that you
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  Speaker 4: understand those pressures, you can have all the processes you like.
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  Speaker 4: McLaren has these Papy rules. I hope a phrase we
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  Speaker 4: don't hear this year, but just don't like team orders,
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  Speaker 4: but come up with a better aim for it and
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  Speaker 4: come please come on, Lyft.
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  Speaker 2: They've got a big marketing department. They can do better.
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  Speaker 4: That's what's going to be interesting is how they handle
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  Speaker 4: that because if we can see who they're up against,
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  Speaker 4: it's not just themselves, it's well, where do we want
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  Speaker 4: to start?
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  Speaker 2: We could start it. Let's start with Ferrari.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, a team that maybe traditionally hasn't posed the greatest
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  Speaker 4: strategic challenge to other teams. No, but he is a
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  Speaker 4: team that has been getting better. Let's be fair in
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  Speaker 4: the last twelve to eighteen months. Certainly under Fred Vass's
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  Speaker 4: Rainers team principal, the team's become much more confident, certainly
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  Speaker 4: much more competitive in the last season and six months
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  Speaker 4: in particular, and they've got this motivation of Lewis Hamilton the.
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  Speaker 2: Story of the year regardless of what happens.
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  Speaker 4: How do you think this relationship is going to start,
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  Speaker 4: because it's really smiley at the moment. Anyone who's seen
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  Speaker 4: Lewis Hamilton recently, I can't remember the last time we
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  Speaker 4: looked this happy.
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  Speaker 3: Can't last, Canna, No, there is a honeymoon period with
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  Speaker 3: these things you mentioned. Ferrari improving strategically, it's from a
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  Speaker 3: fairly low base, like the basement of but it's so
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  Speaker 3: interesting to see. To me, the story of this season
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  Speaker 3: is not so much the intra team dynamic with Piastre
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  Speaker 3: Norris Ferrari. Here you've got Charliklair, who's been the protege
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  Speaker 3: and he's proven that he's probably the best one lap
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  Speaker 3: driver in Formula One and he's been a proven race winner.
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  Speaker 3: Now he's a Ferrari lifer. And then Lewis Hamilton comes
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  Speaker 3: in at forty. This is the team. He said he's
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  Speaker 3: always wanted to drive for everyone's happy. It's all fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: Which one of these two gets the ascendancy is such
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  Speaker 3: an interesting story because of the way it defines legacies
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  Speaker 3: for either. If you're a cleer and you get to
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  Speaker 3: the end of the season, it's like, well, Lewis Hamilton
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  Speaker 3: came into my team and I saw him off. If
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  Speaker 3: you're Hamilton and you come into Laclur's team and as
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  Speaker 3: an outsider into this Ferrari family as a forty year
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  Speaker 3: old and rekindle some of those past glories, it's such
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  Speaker 3: an interesting inflection point for the two of them. So
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  Speaker 3: to me, I think it's the off track story of
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  Speaker 3: the season. But look, everyone's had to be coming to
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  Speaker 3: Melbourne because no one's called a point yet. Yes, but
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  Speaker 3: wait until we get to Saturday afternoon after qualifying and
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  Speaker 3: somebody's aggrieved that they've been sent out at the wrong
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  Speaker 3: time or something. And yes, perhaps the smiles might be
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  Speaker 3: turned down.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit.
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  Speaker 4: It might be a bit harder for Lewis Hamilton to
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  Speaker 4: sound so positively philosophical. Prix, let's talk about red bull Racing,
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  Speaker 4: because well, no longer the rainy Constructors champion, but with
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  Speaker 4: the raining Driver's champion in its ranks. Max Verstappen several
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  Speaker 4: key moments last year in which he was very unhappy
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  Speaker 4: with the state of the car and even the team.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, we go back around about twelve months ago.
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  Speaker 4: He's teaming up with Liam Lawson this year. A veteran
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  Speaker 4: of eleven Grand Prix starts. Can't call him a rookie.
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  Speaker 4: Eleven is way too many, so they say, I still
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  Speaker 4: I think he's a He could give them a little
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  Speaker 4: bit of slack. But there's a lot of pressure on
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  Speaker 4: this team, not only because of all those rumors about
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  Speaker 4: well Max Verstappen, contract break, courses of the team underperforms,
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  Speaker 4: the unhappiness inside the team. I've already lost Adrian Newey.
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  Speaker 4: But this was meant to be the Red Bull era,
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  Speaker 4: wasn't it. Two years ago we forget won every Grand
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  Speaker 4: Prix but one. We were all preparing for another two
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  Speaker 4: or three years.
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  Speaker 2: Of just sadness. Fuss.
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  Speaker 4: Here we are looking genuinely vulnerable, perhaps as the fourth
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  Speaker 4: fastest team.
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  Speaker 3: It's incredible to think this time last year Red Bull
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  Speaker 3: Vastapan could have won ten races in a row for
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  Speaker 3: the second time in a twenty one race span. It's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 3: We came here last year thinking will anyone beat this
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  Speaker 3: car this season after they just about swept the field
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  Speaker 3: the previous year. But to my mind, the Verstappen thing
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  Speaker 3: is a blessing and a curse for that team because
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  Speaker 3: I would suggest maybe that car hasn't been that fantastic
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  Speaker 3: for a couple of years, but he's so good at
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  Speaker 3: taking a really really sharp instrument and say, make this
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  Speaker 3: car as difficult as you possibly can make it. If
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  Speaker 3: it's faster, I will extract the pace out of it.
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  Speaker 3: And it's not so much what Max does in it,
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  Speaker 3: it's what the guy in the other car doesn't do.
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  Speaker 3: And I think you saw last year as that car
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  Speaker 3: got more and more difficult, Sergeia Perez's form flat lined
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  Speaker 3: and then nose dived and it costs them. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: didn't even finish in the top two in the constructors,
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  Speaker 3: which is insane. So to my mind, it's not so
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  Speaker 3: much what Vastappan does with his car, it's what can
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  Speaker 3: Lin Lawson do with this car as a baseline, because
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  Speaker 3: if he's struggling, maybe not to the extent as Perez was.
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  Speaker 3: Like you said, he's done eleven races, so there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of question marks still that he can handle this.
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  Speaker 3: He's the best option they had at the time to
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  Speaker 3: put in that car. They probably should have had car
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  Speaker 3: well sigence, but that's another story. But he's the best
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  Speaker 3: option for now. But it's his baseline to me that
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  Speaker 3: dictates whether Red Bull can fight with McLaren and with
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  Speaker 3: Mistake at the front and possibly and possibly with Redborm.
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  Speaker 3: We have to see, but there's a lot of questions
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  Speaker 3: for the lawson, for me and to me that determines
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  Speaker 3: where Red Bull season goes.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and whether or not points scored in the Constructors
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  Speaker 4: Championship influences contractual decisions, well, that could be really potentially
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  Speaker 4: quite costly for Red Bull Racing. Let's talk briefly about
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  Speaker 4: Mercedes before, of course we talk about Jack doing the
• 9:18
  Speaker 4: other Australian making, not his debut in Australia, his Australian debut.
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  Speaker 4: We can call it that a teenager at Mercedes has
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  Speaker 4: replaced Lewis Hamilton outbound is a foty year old incoming.
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  Speaker 4: He's an eighteen year old. He's though regarded as potentially
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  Speaker 4: the next great thing. I know a lot of teams
• 9:32
  Speaker 4: think that their next drivers are the next great thing,
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  Speaker 4: but the hype around him Israel has been super fast
• 9:37
  Speaker 4: tracked through the junior formula to get to Formula one,
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  Speaker 4: skip Formula three entirely didn't even have a full season
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  Speaker 4: the F two under his belt when he was signed.
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  Speaker 4: In fact, he skipped the last couple of races as
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  Speaker 4: well as he didn't even have the full season under
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  Speaker 4: his belt. He's up against George Russell, alongside George Russe,
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  Speaker 4: who's established now, and I feel like towards the end
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  Speaker 4: of last year we've got a sense that he can
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  Speaker 4: be that real title contender.
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  Speaker 2: He's got a little bit more of an edge about
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  Speaker 2: him now.
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  Speaker 4: But really intriguing because I get the sense that they
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  Speaker 4: didn't think there was going to be anything on the
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  Speaker 4: line this season, but preseason testing kind of suggested there
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  Speaker 4: might be some regular wins here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Look, I think with an asterisk, there's two things for me.
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  Speaker 3: You mentioned very fast and Antonelli in the same sentence.
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  Speaker 3: That's something we're going to say a lot. I also
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  Speaker 3: think he might hit a lot of stationary objects, Michael,
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  Speaker 3: because particularly a track like Albert Park for your first
• 10:20
  Speaker 3: ever Formula one Grand Prix. He is a really difficult
• 10:22
  Speaker 3: street circuit super quick. Walls are super close. If I
• 10:26
  Speaker 3: was putting money on who might be first in the
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  Speaker 3: fence over the course of the weekend, it'd be fairly
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  Speaker 3: strong towards Antonelli, I think. So I don't think he's
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  Speaker 3: going to lack for speed. We saw what he did
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  Speaker 3: in that FP one session at Monza last year where
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  Speaker 3: he was incredibly rapid for one lap and then hit
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  Speaker 3: the fence on the second one, So I think he's
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  Speaker 3: going to be super quick. You mentioned Russell being a
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  Speaker 3: team leader. I think that's something he's really grown into.
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  Speaker 3: It seems to suit him well to my mind. The
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  Speaker 3: asterisk on preseason testing Bahrain was randomly very cool, and
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  Speaker 3: we saw last year that Mercedes were very very good
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  Speaker 3: when it was cold. You think Las Vegas, they looked
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  Speaker 3: like they should have won the Constructors Championship last year.
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  Speaker 3: They were unbelievable that race. It was freezing cold, and
• 11:02
  Speaker 3: so anyone that's been in Melbourne for the past week
• 11:04
  Speaker 3: is roasting for earlier here in Melbourne, and I know
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  Speaker 3: the forecast is temper again a little bit for the weekend,
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  Speaker 3: but to me, that's the question mark is that trait
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  Speaker 3: in Mercedes car is awesome in cold conditions a bit
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  Speaker 3: maybe not so much in the warm weather. That could
• 11:18
  Speaker 3: bring that optimism back a little bit. Nothink.
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  Speaker 4: Before we move on, we've got to talk about Jack
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  Speaker 4: Doo and of course making his full season debut. Let's
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  Speaker 4: call it maybe with an Astris at Alpe this weekend
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  Speaker 4: in Melbourne.
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  Speaker 2: I say with an Astres because really the story.
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  Speaker 4: Around him isn't that he's embarking on this first full
• 11:34
  Speaker 4: time season, and not even that he's the son of
• 11:36
  Speaker 4: a five time five hundred cc motorcycle champion. I guess
• 11:39
  Speaker 4: he's probably happy he's shaken that tag. He's there on
• 11:40
  Speaker 4: his own ride. But the rumor is actually that he's
• 11:43
  Speaker 4: only got a few races, perhaps so as few as
• 11:45
  Speaker 4: a handful of races to prove himself. That takes him
• 11:47
  Speaker 4: to the end of April before the team considers putting
• 11:50
  Speaker 4: reserve driver Franco Colopinto in the car. You will remember
• 11:53
  Speaker 4: Colopinto last year made his debut at Williams just after
• 11:55
  Speaker 4: the mid season break, replacing Logan Sergeant there and scored
• 11:59
  Speaker 4: point and see something that Sargonal wasn't able to do
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  Speaker 4: all season was really impressive. If to take back on
• 12:06
  Speaker 4: that phrase is fast but probably crash prone. It will
• 12:08
  Speaker 4: quite a few crashes towards the end of last season.
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  Speaker 4: The speed's clearly there. There's a lot of pressure on Doing.
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  Speaker 4: The team doesn't really want to say anything, and I
• 12:15
  Speaker 4: mean that they're not even pretending that's not the case.
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  Speaker 4: They're really trying to say as little as possible about
• 12:19
  Speaker 4: this situation. This is the worst way to make your homecoming.
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  Speaker 3: Surely, it's a super tough gig because it feels that
• 12:26
  Speaker 3: there's only one outcome here. It feels that we're all
• 12:29
  Speaker 3: telling variations of the same story, and both of us
• 12:31
  Speaker 3: have written basically the same story for various people over
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  Speaker 3: the past week. But it's incredibly harsh. On someone who
• 12:38
  Speaker 3: has come through the Alpine Academy. It feels like he
• 12:42
  Speaker 3: may not get a chance to prove himself and it
• 12:45
  Speaker 3: may not even matter what he does in these first
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  Speaker 3: few races, because you look at what Alpine's done here,
• 12:49
  Speaker 3: They've hired.
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  Speaker 2: Someone that possibly is as quick.
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  Speaker 3: I think Doing had a better junior career coming into
• 12:53
  Speaker 3: Formula one than Colo Pinto did, But you know I
• 12:56
  Speaker 3: like him that this morning, to imagine having you work
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  Speaker 3: all your life to get your dream job and then
• 13:00
  Speaker 3: the team immediately hires someone who's just as qualified as
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  Speaker 3: you and also has a very large sack of money
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  Speaker 3: that they can bring from sponsors and just sit over
• 13:07
  Speaker 3: there and I know you'll find just carry on, so
• 13:09
  Speaker 3: a huge amount of pressure. I think it would probably
• 13:11
  Speaker 3: be worse for Jack if this was his actually left
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  Speaker 3: one debut. The fact that he got to debut at
• 13:15
  Speaker 3: Abi Dhabi last year sort of in the anonymity of
• 13:18
  Speaker 3: just driving around in the midfield. He's good from a
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  Speaker 3: procedural point of view, but such a such a tough
• 13:23
  Speaker 3: gig and I hope that look he's a pretty switched on,
• 13:26
  Speaker 3: very hard work and determined young guy has got there
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  Speaker 3: on merit. Let's just hope he gets a chance to
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  Speaker 3: prove himself before something else happens.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it feels like the power is probably still in
• 13:36
  Speaker 4: his hands. I mean the end of the day in Tummans,
• 13:37
  Speaker 4: he's so everything. Absolutely he's the one in the car
• 13:40
  Speaker 4: getting results. So hopefully a good debut debut this weekend
• 13:43
  Speaker 4: in Australia and the next couple of races will be
• 13:45
  Speaker 4: enough to get him. Well, I've got to hope at
• 13:47
  Speaker 4: least until the end of the season, so confident and
• 13:49
  Speaker 4: he would have an established career from there.
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: Well, interesting to see.
• 13:52
  Speaker 4: That's this weekend of the Australian Grand Prix and the
• 13:54
  Speaker 4: lead up to this weekend's race. We got up with Gundesteiner,
• 13:58
  Speaker 4: the former Harsh team boss and you know who he is.
• 14:00
  Speaker 4: You're listening to this podcast, you're watching you know Gundesteiner is.
• 14:03
  Speaker 4: He's written his second book.
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: Believe it or not.
• 14:05
  Speaker 4: It's called Unfiltered. In fact, he's taking it on a
• 14:08
  Speaker 4: speaking tour called Unfiltered Live tickets which you can still
• 14:11
  Speaker 4: get for Newcastle, Melbourne, Gold Coast and Brisbane. We had
• 14:13
  Speaker 4: a chat about his expectations with the season to come,
• 14:16
  Speaker 4: also his experience of moving out of the F one
• 14:19
  Speaker 4: paddock and the pressures of always being in Formula one
• 14:21
  Speaker 4: and his expectations again for the season, and of course
• 14:24
  Speaker 4: that swearing band comes up, believe it or not.
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: So let's get into that.
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: It's good to see you, thanks for having me.
• 14:31
  Speaker 4: Now I want to start. Of course, we're leading up
• 14:34
  Speaker 4: to the Australian Grand Prix. Everyone's excited for Formula one
• 14:36
  Speaker 4: to return, and certainly hear everyone's excited for Australia to
• 14:39
  Speaker 4: be the first race again. But tell me what it's
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: like to be running a team with this time of year.
• 14:44
  Speaker 4: Is it excitement? Is a nervousness seeing where teams are
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: going to stack up? Or is it all actually just
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: about bracing for the twenty four hour flight down to Melbourne.
• 14:52
  Speaker 1: It's all effect what you just said, you know, so no, no,
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: the biggest thing is to first rese the year. Obviously the.
• 15:00
  Speaker 5: Was last last week in Bahrain, so people know roughly
• 15:03
  Speaker 5: where they are. But coming to the first races always
• 15:08
  Speaker 5: the hopes hi uh, you know, we have full of
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: energy because you haven't been racing for a while and
• 15:14
  Speaker 5: you just look forward to go to the first race.
• 15:17
  Speaker 5: And this year being Australia again the first race, it's
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: quite good because people like that always. You know, as
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: you said, it's a long flight so but it's good
• 15:28
  Speaker 5: to come here. If you think most of the teams
• 15:30
  Speaker 5: are from the UK, so the weather is normally a
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: lot better here than over there, so you know, it's
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: a people love to come here.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: We're very happy Gunta that it is back in. It's
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: a rightful place on the Formula One calendar. As we
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: like to call it, but you mentioned pre season testing
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: there and on that Australian theme, it does very much
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: look like McClaren is going to start the season as favorite,
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: which you know it means both Mana Noris and Oscar
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: Piastri could very well be title contenders. We know that
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: they're up against some very big recent title winners Stappen, Lewis, Hamilton,
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: Red Bull Mersidies. But in your view, how do you
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: think Landou and more particularly for our audience, Oscar are
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: going to stand up under the pressure of that possible
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: first genuine title fight this season.
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: I mean, I think you're right McLaren is the favorite
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: after Barrain. It is, I mean, everybody's in the opinion.
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: It's that they will be the team to be this year.
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: I think they will be okay, because they got a
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: lot of it last year. You know, when middle in
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: the season, all of a sudden they started to win races,
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: and not only by default but by actually being the
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: best team on the grid. And out of that they
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: learned and they are a lot better prepared this year
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: to go for both world championships, not only one only
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: you know, only one like last year. Uh So I
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: think they go in there ready and well prepared, you know,
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: mentally as an organization, the McLaren know now is that
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: they that they are the favorite that they need to
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: deliver off. So I think they will be pretty happy
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: to go in there with that altitude.
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: It's an incredibly even driver lineup as well. We saw
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: that towards the second half of last year for a time,
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: so you know, you've obviously had the team principals had
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: on yourself. How do you think a team like that
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: is set up to handle a potential rivalry between two drivers,
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: neither of whom have won a World championship. It's been
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: a long time since McLaren won a driver's World Championship.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: Do you think that's going to be a narrative that
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: we see play out within that team this year.
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: I think they're well prepared and what I think they
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: will do, they will be clear, don't don't run into
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: each other, but let's go, let's race, and then at
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: some stage in the season, which normally I think it
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: would be after the summer break, they will say, whoever
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: is in a better position, let's try to win the
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: World championship. If anybody else can contend for it, obviously,
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: if it is just the two of them, I think
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: then they let them raise it to the end, you
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: know so. But they're both drivers with a good head
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: on their shoulders, so I think they've got that. You said,
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: a very strong driver lineup, but also very much you
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: are in death sense, dive a lineup.
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: You're a man who's got I suppose a couple of catchphrases.
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: After your decade in Formula one, where did you rank
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: the phrase Papaya rules in the list of phrases You've heard.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: A lot of budshit.
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: Uh you said that we thought it exactly, yeah, exactly, yeah,
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: because I never found out what it is, said, they asked,
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: zachd Actually you know what is it?
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Then?
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: Our rules?
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know what it was of Yes, yeah, Like.
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: I want to attack a little bit because the other
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: really big story of this year is of course going
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: to be Lewis Hamilton, where he has joined Ferrari now
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: and there's been a lot made about the transition he's
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: going to have to undergo to become a Ferrari driver
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: after so many years at Mercedes and maybe more to
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: the point, so many years with British teams, and you've
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: known Ferrari quite well through the partnership it had with Hears.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: How do you think that's going to go And do
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: you think that I suppose culture with element is a
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: little bit overplayed when we're talking about Lewis Hamilton adjusting
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: to life in Marinello.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: I don't think so.
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: I think you have to just because Ferrari were not
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: adjust to you. You know, Ferrari had a lot of
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: big drivers and the team culture never changed. I would say,
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: But I think Louis is smart enough to know that,
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: and he will try to adjust to the culture. Obviously
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: not always the easiest thing to do, especially if you
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: think that Charles let Clerk speaks fluent Italian is there
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: a long time, grew up in that environment, so he
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: needs to put some work in. But you know, Louis
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: knows that and he just needs to work at it.
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: But I'm sure he's not going to try to change
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: the culture there to his what he's used to, because
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: that's not going to happen.
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: You've been in not just Formula one for all, We've
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: got a big motor sports background, obviously having started in rallying.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: The story with Lewis and Ferrari is a seven time champion,
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: mading the most successful team in Formula One history. If
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: you were to win the title this year or in
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: the next couple of years with Ferrari, where do you
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: think that would rank in terms of more the sport significance?
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Very high?
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: I mean going in there coming from a seven time
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: world champion, and then if he wins at winning eight
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: world championships, which is a record nobody else has done that,
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: I think that would go into history.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: But also Ferrari hasn't won a World.
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: Championship as a team in a long time, so just
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: winning it again in the Ferrari and in Italy would
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: put him at a complete different level.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: Now I want to get you to put you I
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: suppose a man manager had on for one of a
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: better phrase. It is an element of being a team principal.
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: How do you think Charlotteclair, who was previously for our
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: his golden child. You know, the future of the team
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: will be handling being really so comprehensively overshadowed by Lewis
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: Hamilton's arrival. And we've already talked quite a lot about Lewis.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: Everyone's talking about Lewis. No one's talking about the guy
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: that finished last year. Really strongly. What would you have
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: to do to make sure he's not feeling like he's
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: left out of the situation.
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: No, I think Charles that he's the long future for
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: Ferrari because he's so much young, or he has got
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: a long future there. And I think for Charles an
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: opportunity because being in a team with a seven time
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: world champions always good. You can learn something from him,
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: because winning a championship is not only being fast in
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: a rasca, is also being smart and doing a very
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: good job in a long race. So I think Charles
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: will take it, you know. I try to learn as
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: much as possible for the time Louis is there a
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: short term. Obviously, Louis took over the headlines, but Louis
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: hasn't won anything for Ferrari yet, while Charles has won
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: races for them, So I don't think he's downbeat about it.
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: I mean, he knows that Louis is a big name,
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: won seven championships and that the headlight is on him now.
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: But if Child then beats him, for example, that's even
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: better for Charles. So I think he just will take
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: a little bit of time and then he can show
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: what he can do. But I don't think it bumps
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: him out now.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: It's a fascinating story that one, no matter which of
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: those two extremes applies out. As you said, But let's
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: switch to we're talking about Australian drivers before let's talk
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: about the one who's not on the grid this year.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: With Daniel Ricardo being out of the sport for good
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: this time, you would think, and I wanted to ask you, like,
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: what's the adjustment like from being right in the thick
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: of f one like you were and like Daniel was,
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: to being an outsider? And I'm using air quotes here.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: You know you're not in the cut and thrust of
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: the day to day. How is it for you? Because
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: we talked about you being busy, but it's a different
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: sort of busy and a different sort of pressure.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: I guess, yeah, No, I.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Adopted very good. I like what I'm doing.
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: You know, as you said, I went out from one
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: seat into the next seat, so I had no time
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: in between to even think about it. It was it
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: wasn't my plan to do this what they did last year.
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: All the work I did so, but I enjoying it.
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: Otherwise I wouldn't do it. And it keeps the formula on.
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: But everybody's different than Danny after he left last year.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: I don't think he came place yet. I don't know
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: if he's coming to Melbourne or not to the race,
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: but it's different and if he wants to take some
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: time off, because that was my initiative plan to take
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: some time off just to do a little bit of
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: what I wanted to do. And then people ask me
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: to do things and I did them and I enjoy them.
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: But you know, as you say, it's a different pressure.
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: Obviously it's not the high pressure like when you have
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: to when you go out qualifying or racing, but it's
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: still it's still a pressure. But it's good to be
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: around in the puddle. Can just not have to go
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: to all the races. You can go where you want
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: to go. You can decide yourself.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Of course.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: The other thing for you now is you don't get
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: that competitive time every one or two weeks depending on
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: the calendar. You don't get that competitive each to scratch. Now,
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: so how have you replaced that adrenaline side, because obviously
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: you know everything's so busy as a team principle, there
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: is a race every week or two weeks throughout the
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: season where you get to see where you stack up.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: So how do you personally scratch that competitive each now that.
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: You're not involved on the inside, I'm pretty fine with
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: the you know, not having that a bread alain and no,
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: it's nice. The biggest thing is on a race weekend
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: when the cast we out for qualifying. That's the only
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: a few minutes you think are that would be cool.
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: But then it's just like you watch what other people
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: are doing. It's nice to be the spectator sometimes.
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: Well you've spent is an element you touched on your
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: book as well that I sort of thought was interesting.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: The first couple of chapters the latest book, of course, Unfiltered,
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: talking about setting up the Hearts team, which was more
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: than a decade ago. Now you're doing that preparatory work,
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: and you were talking about how different Formula one was
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: then compared to now you've seen it in its current
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: super popular era where everyone wants to talk about Formula one,
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: races are selling out regularly, all that kind of thing.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: But also it's decidedly less culturally relevant, very much less
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: popular era a decade or so ago. I'm interested in
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: your perception of how that's evolved from inside the sport.
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: Obviously you were there for that full decade. And also
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: how important the likes of big characters are to the sport.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: We're talking about Daniel, he was obviously one of them.
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: You obviously made a massive name for yourself as someone
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: who transcends the sport to a little bitter fright. It's
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: how important is it. I have those characters been to
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: formud on becoming the sport we know today.
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: I think they were an element in it, But I
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: think the biggest thing was that the sport was brought
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: to more people, obviously to drive to survive in the pandemic.
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: When Formula one was the first sport again going live again,
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: people was watching it. So as you said, the Formula
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: one has changed quite a bit from ten to fifteen
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: years ago to what it is now. But internally it's
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: just I think it made it better. It's better organized,
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: better structures. The team are normally financially a lot better
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: off now than they were ten years ago than years ago.
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: Very few race teams made money now. I think if
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: they're not profitable, they break even most of them. And
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: what that does it gives secure to the people which
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: worked out that the we'd have a job in the
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: foreseable future, which is always good if people have got security,
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: job security. So it has changed, but it was a
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: lot of elements coming together or to make it what
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: it is.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: Now, and it's amazing what it has become. I mean,
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: I think if we've spoken to you eight years ago,
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: you wouldn't have been thinking, oh, I've written two books
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: by now and you've got this life that you have
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: these days. But I did want to ask you about
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: that because you may remember going to last year, we
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: were doing something at the Australian Grand Prix for one
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: of the corporates and you were just being hounded by
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: everybody so much before we started that, I actually found
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: you hiding in a bathroom. So that was something that
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: you probably wouldn't imagine would have been life about eight
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: or ten years ago. But do you ever look at
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: this sometimes? And I know you don't watch Striveters of
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: ib that's one of your things that you've always said.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: But you never could have believed that life would have
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: turned out like this with the way things have gone
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: over the past ten years. Could you No?
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: No, absolutely, And I think nobody could blunt something like this.
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: This is things just happening. You know, you're just a
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: passenger on these things, you know, so uh, and they
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: come along and that, as you said, I would have
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: never fail to write one book never mind, do you know?
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: So I deem selling them, but maybe writing them, but
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: not selling them. You know, anybody wanted to read them?
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: So No, it's it's it's very as you said, it
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: came out by surprise, you know.
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: I want to ask, and I know you've been getting
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: a lot of questions about this. Can't imagine why, but
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: I fi is contemplating a swearing band in formula one. Now,
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: I was reading your book and I was interested to
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: hear that you already live under a bit of a
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: swearing band at home.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: I can't imagine how that looks out for you.
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: So is there is there a home gunter and at
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: work gunter, and ironically the one at work is swearing more.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: How's that happening?
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: Absolutely? Absolutely that is happening, you know. So yeah, no,
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: But but I think what you see there, it's under
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: when it's under pressure, you know, in just emotions get
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: get told of you you and and you do things
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: which you normally don't do.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: But no, no, it's too different ones. You're absolutely right
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: with that one.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Do you think they're gonna be alple to pull off
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: this swearing band this year?
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: I mean they bullet off and then who wants to
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: spend these amounts of money? You know, just bye bye?
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: But you know it's I hope it doesn't take out,
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: you know, if the emotions what the driver have got,
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: you know, and controlling too much because it's a it's
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: it's it's I mean, is it good if somebody swears no?
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: But this is this bad as as it is made
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: out of the be no as well in my opinion.
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: You know, it's a sport lists from emotions. People want
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: to see emotions, want to see characters and you know,
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: if if there is no there's no emotions in it,
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: you know we can have machines going around the acetrack.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: Certainly we don't want that. Good there.
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: It's been a pleasure if anyone wants to catch you.
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: There's still tickets left to Unfiltered live and the show's
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: coming up or in Newcastle, Melbourne, the Gold Coast and Brisbane.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: Of course, you can buy the book Unfiltered from all
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: good retailers. One question before you go. You mentioned when
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: you got that famous call from Gen you were buying
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: some ham?
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: What was the ham? And did you buy it in
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: the end or did you go home empty handed?
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: No?
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: I bought some and I.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: Thank you God. Enjoy your trip down to Australia and
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: we'll talk it too.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Thank you guys.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: That was former Haas F one team Bosklin the Stegner
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: of course, and again it's unfiltered Live is his book.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: Tour speaking to her.
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: It's hard to believe only a few years ago he'd
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: said that that's what he's up to these days. It's Newcastle, Melbourne,
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: Gold Coast and Brisbane. You can still get some tickets.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: There are only a few available, so if you want
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: to go and see them, I would advise you get
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: online and get those tickets now. But now let's change
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: things up a little bit. So I'm interested in playing
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: a new games, new season.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: The podcast what have you got for me? Interested versus
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: expert is what I'm going to call it. Okay, Now, look,
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: we both know a lot about motorsport.
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: F one obviously is the main situation here on Pittalk,
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: but we do like our supercars and Moto GPE. But
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: maybe the game here is to guess who's interested in
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: who's the expert? I think the experts probably going to
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: be answering questions at this point, right, it's to do
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: it the other way around.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: It's probably a little bit well given, given.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: I'm interested rather than the experts. Shall we start off
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: with some supercars?
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: Perhaps? Okay?
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: And we what we're one round into the season. We
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: already have a driver change.
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: Ye, silly season never stops, does it, regardless of what
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: sport you're involved in. And Darren Love has left the
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: Blanchard Races and according to them, on his terms, he's
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: decided to leave after one round and three races. He's
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: been replaced by Aaron Cameron. This has been building up
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: for a little while. His debut season last season is
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: this is almost the theme of the podcast. Very quick,
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: but sometimes hits start right, Yeah, may be the bottom
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: of the show.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Got to hit some things before the show's finished. Unfortunately.
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: The last thing you hit was his teammate James Cortney
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: in warm up for qualifying. I remember this in Sydney
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: for round one, of course, at Sydney Motorsport Park. Both
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: warming up for qualifying, James Corney tends to go around
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: in he's doing the weaving your ties thing and they
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: make contact and.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: That's not great.
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: It's not a great situation to be and this is
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: off the back again of a season last year where
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: he showed a lot of speed promise. I mean, that's
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: sort of been the even his junior career leading up
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: with the supercars suggested there was this great speed, just
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: couldn't really convert that to that kind of consistency, and
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: the team's decided, particularly after that incident, he's had enough.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: It's a bit unfair on him as well.
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: It felt like this season got to the wrong foot
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: in testing out of brake failure and crashed and hit
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: something and that wasn't his fault, but sometimes things just
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: don't go your way, and he is one of those
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: things that hasn't gone his way. If you think from
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: the team's perspective. The positive element here, I guess is
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: that you know James Cortney's retiring at end of the year,
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: and this means at least if you get someone in
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: the car, in this case Aaron Cameron, you're not going
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: into next season with an all new driver line up,
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: correct and that's usually really quite important for a motorsport team.
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: Particularly one like bart which is trying to move up
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: the grid. You want a little bit of consistency in
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: the engineering through the drivers. So Aaron Cameron, we know
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: his quick carting champions five thousand, multiple champion Super two
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: race winner and runner up in Super two as well,
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: and was co driving last year with Aaron Lavid Battiston Sandown.
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: So he knows the team, he knows the sport deserves
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: to be there, He's got the background to prove that
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: deserves to be there. So and astute change. But after
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: one round you do. It is a little bit rough,
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: isn't it. I guess you might be looking at Alward
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: Park and going, boy, the barriers are pretty close.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: They are a little bit no truth to the room,
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: and you're going to change your name to Aaron just
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: to be the next guy on the list there.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, look, if this doesn't work out, way
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: that I could drive, I could dry. I drive pretty quick.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: So I've heard let's go back to Sydney. First round.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: Just absolutely dominated by cam waders, three poles, three wins,
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: three faster slaps, three very different races in that one
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: in the wet drive one, A close race, absolutely dominated.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: A race is this like he's been this nearly meant
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: he's been what top six in the championship I think
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: five straight years, or maybe it's top five and six
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: years I forget, but he's been right up there for
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: so so long. So is this the year that he
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: can turn that into something bigger?
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: Isn't?
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: It definitely feels promising because like you said, it's the
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: three different races element. I know we talk a lot
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: about this was one round and it was only one circuit.
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: It would be the most ex extreme tire circuit we
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: have on the Supercars calendar. It's a very particular track
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: if you compared to others. Albert Park's also another very
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: particular track. But yeah, like you say, in the cold,
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: in the hot, in the day, in the nighttime, challenged
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: by Triple eight, not challenged by Triple A. Different strategies
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: as well, particularly in that night race when it was
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: closed a bit were dry in that last one to
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: exactly nothing phaced him or the tick for Team A.
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: Team We've got to remember on a couple of years
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: ago decided they've got to reduce back down to two cars.
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: They could focus more thing the most out of the
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: package they had.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: This was I know, it's like it is only one round.
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: And everyone's like, wow, one round. All those caveats were
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: just mentioned, but it was it was absolute.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: That was the word use. It was absolute domination, maximum points.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: I think what's really interesting for me, And there's the
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: context here of in Gen three, you know, Fords felt
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: a little bit down and out and Chevrolet seemed had.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: Things all their own way, was it Ford did really
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: well this weekend as well. Actually backs it up.
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: A little bit, Triple eight was really the only GM
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: representative the top five, certainly in the top ten generally
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: all weekend.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: And also that means if you're a General.
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: Motors fan or Triple eight's switching next year and makes
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: you a little bit worried. But for example, the top
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: five qualifying results over the course of the three races
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: was ten five to Forward. Likewise, in the extended race results,
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: ten top five finishes to Ford over the course of
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: the weekend to just five for General Motors. General motors
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: are still overrepresented on the grid as well, so this
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: is punching way above Ford's weight in this regard. And
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: what I really think is interesting to talk about that
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: we take Triple eight out of the equation. Water's average
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: pole margin over the course of the weekend was more
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: than six tenths of a second over the next year team.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: It's huge and so.
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: It really relies on I mean, Triple eight at the
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: moment seems like the only competitor we can talk about
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: walking through and Dreda united with sort of thereabouts and
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: they are fourteenth. So on the base of one round
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: you said, well, maybe the ceilings are a little bit higher.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: We don't know. We've got to see a few more tracks.
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: But I mean, if you're a cam Orders fan, I
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: don't want to say you've been long suffering, but you
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: know he's been close several times and hasn't managed to
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: get it done. You must be feeling you must be
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: allowing yourself to feel pretty good.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: Last one of my interested but not expert list image
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: in Triple eight before we're going to a race track
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: where they were particularly good last year, three wins of
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: the four between their two drivers. Is this what they
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: need right now to perhaps get on par with Ford,
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: as you were saying, or is last year's result a
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: little bit irrelevant based on what we saw in Sydney.
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: It's sort of it's a little bit hard to say
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: because the Australian Grand pre format is so random really
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: in the context anymore sport really, even the Supercars four
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: races grouped in a funny way, and you don't get
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: a lot of set up time, which could be the
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: really important element. It's all got to be done on
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: Thursday pretty much, and then you're guessing between live sessions.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: It's really quite fast paced despite being a four.
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: Day man and no pit stops exactly, a completely different
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: format of racing, going to have different weather, all that
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: kind of stuff, super far fastest track on the calendar,
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: all that kind of stuff.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: But Triple eight is that team that should be there
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: pretty much everywhere.
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: They, like you said, did so well last year, also
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: missed out on the perfect podium run by in only
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: one race, seven podiums from eight at Temps essentially last year.
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: Team manager Mark doesn't use the word must. I think
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: must bounce back at the Australian Grand Prix. Obviously not
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: from a points perspective because the season is long, but
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: it is just that kind of dire picture that's been
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: painted otherwise that if if what has wins all four races,
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: we're probably going to be having really quite a different,
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: like another different conversation after this about well, this has
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: all gone fairly in one direction, so it's going to
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: be a really fascinating week here you want to talk.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: About Moto GP.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: Are we switching hats here? I'm highly interested, You're highly interested.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: I'm hit a help, Michael, when's Mark market is going
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: to win the title this year? Because remarkable?
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: Has he not already won it?
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think this was the This was the fear.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: I guess you use fear in inverted kormas you put
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: the best rider on the best bike, and expecting other outcomes,
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: particularly early in the season is probably wishful thinking. I
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: think there is a little caveat with what he did
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: in Thailand. They had tested there for two days previously
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: a fortnight earlier, and he was unbelievably strong, Like waited
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: until the fifteen minutes of the second day and said
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: how about this for a qualifying lap there?
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: And everyone went, oh boy.
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: So what he did in Beru Aram was not a
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: massive surprise. So is he the world championship favorite fantastic bike?
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: We know how good Mark is and he's in this
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: sort of last part of his career. Now he's the
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: second oldest rider in Motor GP. It's one of those
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: things that snuck up on this a little bit because
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: he still looks like he's twenty three thirty two now,
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: and the way he won in burram I. Look at
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: the Grand Prix where he cleared off at the front
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: and then realized, oh, my tire pressures are a bit low,
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: I might just pull the handbrake on. Relatively speaking, he
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: had sit behind my brother on the same bike until
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: I've done the minimum sixty percent race distance with the
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: tire pressure and then just breeze past him and gap
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: him by one point three seconds in one lap. It
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: was just an absolute demonstration of the margin that he
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: had now good at this track. He's won there several
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: times before, a lot of data from preseason testing. There
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: are some variables coming up, but it's hard to see
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: how he not the strongest of those decadies, at least
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: for this first part of the season. But I think
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: the biggest challenge is still with his son Garage.
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: Well, so this is the question, right because and you
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: mentioned there's the three next couple of races feel like
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: when the Marquez universe, right, I mean, so we've got
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: Argentina this weekend saying we've got a lot of notice
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: about this weekend. Let's try You're going to need to
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: use your recording devices and so on, and then codat.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: The secret of the Americans.
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: Is there any point even if you Peco Vanyay are
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: turning up to these races or is it all really
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: about looking at not this cutout after that and then
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: the return to Europe for if anyone's going to challenge you.
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: I think Banyaya could not have had a worse weekend
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: in terms of just you know, banana skins that he
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: tripped over pretty much in Thailand because he had a
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: difficult preseason test, didn't get a race simulation in got
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: to Thailand, had to go through a Q one because
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: it was an erroneous yellow flag in that last practice session.
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: He then got borked by Franco Marberdeli, which got Morbidelli
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: a group penalty, had to fight his way through a
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: Q one. He was constantly fighting with an arm behind
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: his back all weekend. Never really looked like he was
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: going to challenge for a win, but more or less
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: had their measure of what was behind. And Picko is
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: one of these guys that he can't just jump on
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: and be volcanic fast like Mark Camp. He's one of
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: these guys. He's a slow build, slow burn and when
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: he can run a weekend on those terms, we saw
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: it last year he won eleven of twenty Grand Prix,
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: but it wasn't so much what he did on Sunday,
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: it was what he was doing on Friday. He's this methodical,
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: slow burn rider that when he gets everything right, he
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: was pretty much unbeatable last year on a Sunday. So
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: I can't imagine a more problematic build up than he
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: had in Thailand. I think the races coming forward should
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: be smoother than this. We'll see the gap reduce. Whether
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: it reduces to a point where we can flip them,
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: I don't know, but I think it's going to be
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: far more competitive once we get to Argentina.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: It's still incredible to me he won eleven Grand Prix
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: last and win well, yeah, it was a championship being lost,
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: wasn't it. Yeah? Wow, yes, yes, but ridiculous really. And
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: we've got to talk about Jack Miller.
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: You know, maybe six eight months ago we were thinking
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: maybe he wasn't going to be in with the ride,
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: and he dropped up with Pramac now in the stable
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: and did well, extremely well, very impressive debut to him,
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: and suddenly it looks like a new lease on life
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: for him.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: Fastest ever lapped by a Yamaha of Burram in six
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: visits by Motor GP. There he'd ridden the bike for
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: two tests. So I think this is consistent with what
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: Jack does, though, because you look at where he's been previously.
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: When he was at Pramac Deucati, he was on Polony
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: second race in Argentina, which is absolutely while lap where
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: the track was still half where he won two of
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: his first five races. When he went to Ducati's factory
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: team in twenty one, his best results at katm were
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: in the fourth Grand Prix. That year at Hareth, finished
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: on the podium in the sprint and the Grand Prix.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: And I think Jack's one of these guys. He's so
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: naturally talented that he hits the ceiling really really quickly.
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: There's that and the ability to just get on the
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: thing and wring its neck. I sometimes wonder with Jack
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: whether he hits his head on that ceiling a little
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: bit early. And so the rate of development is very rapid,
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: and then it flattens out. The key thing for me
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: is he's on a one year contract with Pramak. His
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: teammate Miguel Olivere's got two. But I think Jack is
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: willing to take the bike to place as maybe Yama
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: hasn't seen it for the past few years because they've
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: only had two riders, and Fabio Couaturero's a fantastic rider.
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: Alex Rinz has been injured for the best part of
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: eighteen months, so I'm not sure they know where that
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: bike is. Jack's taking it to places a fourth on
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: the grid in qualifying at Burram unbelievable qualifying performance, and
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: Fabio Couaturero said afterwards Jack disconnected his brain in Q two,
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: which was said in Fabio's accent, it's better than the
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: way I just said it, but it's so true in
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: that Jack's willing to put it all on the line.
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: So I wasn't surprised that he started quickly with Yamaha.
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: I was surprised that it was so good look the
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: race weekend, crashed from a good position in the sprint
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: and then had the bizarre Grand Prix where a bolt
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: came out of the fairing and he was holding it
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: together on the straits with his foe arms on the
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: tank and managed to burn them because it.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: Was so hot.
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: So a weird weekend of results, but I think the
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: pace and the promise is really good there and a
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: couple of good tracks for him coming up to.
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's such a Moto VP thing. Burning your four
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: arms holding your bike together.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: To be fine. It looks in extreme sports and he'll
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: be declared fit. Don't know. Oh yes for the next race.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: Uh that's your wrap up.
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: I guess aware of those two sports so far because
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: as I said, argent Argentine Grand Prix this weekend from
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: OJP the Melbourne Superspoot for supercars, which also happens to
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: be in the same location as the Australian Grand Prix.
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: But just before we leave the last couple of weeks
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: behind by Shannon's we've got, of course the overtake of
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: the month. Now we're gonna look back. Of course we've
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: only had two rounds of anything so far, so the
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: choice is a relatively limited but I think we've got
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: some good ones. I'll kick things off and for me
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: the overtake. Actually it's the sort of the opposite. It's
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: an allowance of an overtake. It's a redress is what
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: it is. I'm picking cam Waters allowing brock Feenie back
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: through into the lead in the closing stages of the
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: Saturday Night Rice Saturday Night Race in Sydney because he
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: punted him off the road. This is battle for the lead,
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: really fraud. It was just a one on one. By
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: punning him off the road. Of course, Pool Brown caught
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: up had to redress to have another crack at him,
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: and of course he eventually won this race in the
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: by the closest march in fifty years or something.
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  Speaker 2: Like that, and did it so expertly by keeping Will
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  Speaker 2: Brown behind him.
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  Speaker 4: Because Brown did have the run loud brockthrough even Will
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: sort of have to regussion and go, oh look I
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: didn't like it, but credit to him. Certain it's not
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: quite It is an overtake. But it's not the guy
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  Speaker 4: who did the overtake that's getting the awards. The guy
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: let him be overtaken.
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  Speaker 3: But it's also the quick thinking. Yeah, pressure like that
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  Speaker 3: with so much on the line, when you're being ganged
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  Speaker 3: up on two against what I think that was absolutely
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  Speaker 3: a great choice.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, and it goes to that great weekend Ward has
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: had as well. Yeah, courage that the management was there
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: every facet.
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  Speaker 3: I'll go two wheels. With the very first lap of
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: the sprint in the Thailand Motor GP, Iyagura on an Aprillia,
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: on his Motor GP debut, qualifies fifth. Unbelievable performance. Best
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: qualifying by rookie in their very first Motor GP race
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  Speaker 3: since Fabio Guadurra in twenty nineteen. Reasonable position to start,
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: and he said afterwards he got the term one couldn't
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: believe how hard Jack Miller and Frankeo Morbidelli breaked in
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  Speaker 3: front of him, So he just took the outside and
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: swept past both of them into the first corner, your
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: first corner in a premier class, in your first lights
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  Speaker 3: out race, and all of a sudden he is right
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  Speaker 3: behind Pekabanyaya and Mark Marquez ahead of him. Unbelievable star,
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: but it was as if he started the way he
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: meant to go on. Finished fifth on an Aprillier in
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: his very first Grand Prix, the first non Decati across
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: the line, best debut stat corner for you, best debut
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: by anyone in Motor GP in a race since Mark
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: Marquez finished third in twenty thirteen Quaitar. So it does
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: show you the level that this guy has got in
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: him ragining Moto two champion. I think people thought that
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: he would be decent in motor GP. The fact he
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: didn't come in on a Honda was interesting. But he's
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: come in for a Prillia. We know a Prillia doesn't
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: have Joe Martin at the moment to see the limit
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: of that bike. But as first impressions go, it was
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: a pretty good one.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: Well, feels like a lot of stuff was saying about
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: Pedro Acosta around this time.
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: Yes, well, but even his debut wasn't as good as that.
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: Yes, remarkable, wisdom, remarkable, very good. I enjoy it.
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: Two good overtakes there. We have so many more this
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: weekend through how much motorsport we've got. Let's look ahead now, Matt,
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: because we've got quite a few big weeks of motorsport
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: coming up for us. I thought we'd have a look
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: in it. We need a prop, a crystal ball, something
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: we can have there maybe in future. Yes, you're not
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: watching it, just imagine we do actually have it. You
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: don't know any better, but you can watch it if
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: you don't know on YouTube. By complete home filtration, the
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: complete home filtration crystal ball.
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: What's a big prediction for the next couple of weeks
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: in motorsport?
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: Am I going first?
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: You go first?
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: Given what we've got coming up in motor GP, we've
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: got Argentina. Doesn't get used for fifty one weeks of
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: the year. Dirty bit of a goat track, very very
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: very slippery. That sounds a bit like a Mark Marquees track,
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: doesn't it.
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: Imagine turn up straight out of the box.
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: And be the guy who indulged in a bit of
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: tarmac motor crossing and be very very good there. Following
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: Argentina we go to the Circuit of the Americas in Texas.
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: Mar Marquees is known as the King of Kosa. So
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: my big prediction is that we'll get through the first
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: three rounds of the motor GP season and Marques will
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: be undefeated. He'll win the sprint in Argentina, the Grand
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: Prix and do likewise it.
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: But will we eat Hamburger afterwards? He will eat many Hamburgers?
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: My prediction, Look, I think it's actually could be could happen,
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: It could be reasonable, O yours I think probably will happen.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: So there's a good prediction.
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: Do I need to touch something wooden't here?
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: No, I don't think there's anything wood in I think
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: this is the weekend Australia finally gets an Australian on
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: the podium with Australian run.
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: So glad you've gone here could be the top step.
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: I think Oscopiastri could be the one to do it.
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: You've had Obviously Daniel cut out his chances, but obviously
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: never coincided perfectly with the car being in its top
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: form at Albert Park, and then he was disquaded by
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: the one time McLaren does feel like it's gonna be
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: the favorite coming into this weekend. Astris very different tractor barrain,
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: et cetera, et cetera. But this feels like our best shot.
• 46:41
  Speaker 4: This genuinely feels like the best shot, and I think
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: it's going.
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: To be at least a podium.
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: Surely four times an Australian has finished fourth of the Australian,
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: there's a synergy there. Can we just put that in
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: the bin. We've come super super close. This has to
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: be the year given McLaren's preseason favoritism, so no pressure Oscar.
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: A country expects.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: Yes, very much.
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: So well tough with how osk and did next week,
• 47:02
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• 47:04
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• 47:06
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  Speaker 4: on behalf of Matt I'll see you next week.