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Formula Fanatics #8 - Kimi and Chaos: A Dive into F1's Wild July! · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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  It's time to talk about Formula 1.
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  So where did we leave off last month- I don't know … Tanya?
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  Where did we leave off last month?
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  What was last month?
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  Well, I think we left off with, uh, Ferrari winglets over the
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  exhausts are gonna be banned.
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  I didn't even know they had winglets over the exhaust.
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  Yeah.
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  I don't know.
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  Apparently more winglets are being removed.
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  I don't know what the problem is with all that.
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  What is this?
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  So the, the next race in line was Kimi, or, sorry, was Austria.
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  Yeah.
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  You said you took copious notes on these races this time Not at Austria.
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  No, I didn't- No, no … for Austria.
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  I did for British.
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  Oh, okay.
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  Well, we'll get to Silverstone.
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  So Australia, so Australia.
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  So Austria, we had qualifying shenanigans.
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  Russell was on the pole yet again.
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  So Kimi and George Russell fighting as always.
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  And then it ended up being Russell, Leclerc, Hamilton, Kimi, and Verstappen,
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  and then all the McLarens after that.
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  So that was the qualifying order for Austria.
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  So this is Red Bull's home track.
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  Verstappen should have the home court advantage.
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  Like, you would think they practice here all the time.
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  Aston and Caddy in the back, as we expect, with Williams right in front.
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  I mean, they're all just sucking wind back there.
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  It's terrible.
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  But Kimi goes off.
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  This is the one where he's going off the track all the time.
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  Like, he's widening the track and doing all this stuff, and it's like, what
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  is he do- he's just cooking the turns.
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  He's going in way too fast.
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  This is where the Toto quote comes from, if you remember, Tanya.
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  We laughed about this, because after the race Toto said something to the
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  effect of, "I've said it before, we want a driver to be on full attack all the
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  time. You can't accelerate a donkey, but you can calm down a racehorse." Mm-hmm.
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  I walked away from that going, "Did Toto just call Russell a donkey?" He's an ass?
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  Is that what I understood?
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  Because I don't disagree.
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  Bottas on lap three declares that his brakes are on fire, and he's done.
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  He's in the pits.
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  Extinguishers are putting out, putting out the fire.
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  Did Bottas get out of the car and strip to his underwear and run
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  around screaming he's on fire?
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  I mean, that was not in the shot, but I have a feeling he did that anyway.
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  It sounds like something he would've done.
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  And I, I thought to myself as I was watching this, I was like, "Here's Brad
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  singing, built to last, Duralast." Last.
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  Built to go last.
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  That's what Duralast is.
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  So that's what they're using on that Cadillac.
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  All right.
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  So Hamilton gets around Leclerc.
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  Lawson also claims that his car is on fire, but then he continues driving at
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  full race speed, which made no sense.
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  I don't know if that was editing of the radio stuff.
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  So Perez also complains of smoke in the cockpit.
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  That was lap five.
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  We've made it to lap five, we got three cars that are claiming to be on fire.
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  Well, that was Perez smoking his cigarettes.
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  Does he smoke?
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  I didn't know.
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  I don't know.
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  Camel, like the old days.
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  Like the, like the real racers do.
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  So was doing the math roughly, Tanya and I were going back and forth.
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  Austria is 2.668 miles long.
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  They're doing that in a minute and 11.
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  That is fast.
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  Holy smokes, that is a fast track.
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  That is a fast lap.
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  Hammy and Verstappen have a battle, which was pretty good, and then they
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  pit on lap 13, 'cause the tires suck.
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  By lap 25, Sainz is out.
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  Kimi pits, and he should have waited to pit because there was a VSC, there was all
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  that nonsense, shenanigans that were going on, and he would've maintained position.
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  Tanya asked me during this, "Should Carlos seek other employment?" I
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  don't remember why you made that comment, but you were like, "Carlos
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  Sainz needs to find another job."
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  Uh, let's see.
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  They pit Hamilton and they put him on softs, which put him
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  onto a three-stop strategy.
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  Made zero sense.
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  Ferrari being Ferrari, and taking everything Brad said last time,
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  and flushing it down the toilet.
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  He does not stand a chance.
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  I'm telling you, they're gonna screw him every time they can.
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  Well, what I said last time was, who has a better chance of winning a
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  championship, Hamilton or Verstappen?
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  Well, at this rate, neither of them.
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  But, you know, hey, whatever.
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  That's not true.
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  Well, I'm not talking about just this year.
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  I mean, just who, who g- who gets their next championship first.
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  Yeah.
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  Hamilton or Verstappen.
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  I mean, Hamilton's currently second in points, so.
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  Kimi is gonna get the championship.
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  That's what gonna happen.
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  Still doesn't qualify for my question, but okay.
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  I always have to announce this, Brad.
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  You'll be happy to know that on lap 47, Stroll retired his car.
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  Made it to lap 47.
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  Let's see.
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  Kimi pits once again before a VSC, but the VSC amounted to nothing.
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  So, that was like a wah-wah moment.
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  Wah, wah, wah.
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  And I love the fact, I don't remember which of the announcers it was.
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  Maybe it was Coulthard.
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  I don't know if you can remember, Tanya.
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  But the announcer had said that that Aston is pig slow.
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  Right.
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  And Alonso was holding up Russell on lap 70, which was absolutely amazing.
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  I was like, "Keep doing it, buddy. Keep doing it." And then in the
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  end, the finishing order was Russell, Verstappen, Antonelli,
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  Piastri, and then Hamilton fifth.
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  Hamilton fifth.
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  There you go, Brad.
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  So Tanya, you took copious notes for Silverstone.
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  Let's compare notes.
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  Let's see what you have.
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  Let's see.
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  Let me find said notes.
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  So my first note I wrote down was that Alonso almost
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  retired on the formation lap.
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  Yes, yes.
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  Starts from the pit lane.
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  Yeah.
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  Quality.
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  Aston Martin.
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  I don't remember my note of why Ferrari's jump Antonelli on pole.
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  'Cause he stalled, like always.
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  Or I mean, he didn't stall, but he had a crap start.
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  Mm. So Hamilton got around him.
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  Oh, they got around him?
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  Okay.
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  Yeah.
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  So the starting order was H- Antonelli, Hamilton, Leclerc, and Russell.
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  So it was like- Ah, okay … Ferrari, Mercedes, Ferrari, Mercedes.
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  But then Hamilton ended up with a five-second penalty, 'cause
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  apparently he moved on start.
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  Yes.
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  Whatever.
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  And then we'd made it not 10 laps before we had complaints from
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  Russell- Yes … about his gearbox.
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  Uh-huh.
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  I couldn't find the McLarens, 'cause they changed the color.
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  Piastri got front wing damage.
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  Yep.
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  Cadillac somehow ends up in, like, 15th and 16th position for a lap.
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  For a lap.
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  So at this point, I wrote a note that said, "Did Hülkenberg and
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  Bortleyn, Bortoleto, did they switch cars for this race?"
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  'Cause Bortoleto was 11th, and Hülkenberg was- Mm-hmm … 19th.
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  Yeah.
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  Didn't he podium at Silverstone last year?
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  I don't know.
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  I don't think so.
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  Yeah, but if he did, it was, like, a weird fluke thing.
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  Wasn't it a different car too?
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  Sauber.
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  Still Sauber.
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  No, but w- I, I, I thought he was, like, the backup driver.
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  Like, he was filling in for somebody else who was sick, or
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  was that, like, another year?
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  No, no, Hülkenberg podiumed last year, 'cause I think everybody else
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  wrecked or something like that.
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  But, but he, he was filling in for a driver who was ill and couldn't drive.
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  Yeah, I don't think that's- 'Cause he, I don't think he was actually on the
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  roster last year, which is why Audi picked him up to- No, he drove last year.
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  He 100% drove last year.
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  Oh, he did?
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  Yeah, yeah.
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  Then I'm thinking about an- I, I guess it must've been the year before then.
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  Yeah.
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  All right.
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  So the five-second penalty, and then lap 17, Verstappen passes Russell,
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  and then Max heads to the pits, which I thought was a terrible waste.
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  He spent all that time- Yeah
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  trying to catch Russell, get around him, and then he
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  immediately ducks into the pits.
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  Yeah.
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  That was kinda dumb.
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  That messed him up, basically.
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  That cost him everything.
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  And then lap 22, we had that virtual safety car because of that umbrella.
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  Yes, that was funny.
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  And only one person was able to pit off that.
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  Like, Ocon had great luck to be able to go in.
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  But then this is when Hamilton starts falling back because
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  he had to serve the penalty.
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  Correct.
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  So Russell ends up around him.
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  Correct.
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  And then Leclerc ends up in first at this point.
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  Correct.
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  But Kimi is behind him, and Kim- and he's like on it.
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  He's coming.
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  He's coming for him.
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  S- uh, and then there's a battle between Hamilton and Russell behind Verstappen.
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  That's around lap 30.
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  And then Russell ends up with a puncture- Yes … on lap 35, and he
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  starts dropping back and dropping back.
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  He drops back to, like, seventh.
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  And then there was- Yes … the maneuver because they needed to pit
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  Antonelli, and he almost hits the Audi as he's coming into the pit.
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  He did this, remember he dove inside of him.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  He was, like, in a precarious spot.
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  And then we thought, "Oh, man, they're gonna penalize him," because he came
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  in hot, and the Audi was, like, dropped anchor, like, right in front of him.
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  Yeah.
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  So he was trying not to hit him.
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  And it was Hülkenberg, 'cause he was driving Bortoleto's car.
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  And then he loses 7.7 seconds to Leclerc because of that.
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  Correct.
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  Because he had to avoid the Audi and do all that shenanigans.
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  But if you paid attention, the next lap, he had already gained two seconds.
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  And then Hamilton gets around Verstappen, and then the next lap after that,
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  Hülkenberg's Audi breaks and causes- Yep
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  a virtual safety car because it's so reliable, said no one.
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  And not that anybody cares, but Lance Stroll's getting a
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  five-second track limits penalty.
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  'Cause he violated the track limits five times.
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  That man is not that fast to be violating track limits.
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  Who cares?
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  He's laps down.
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  He's so far behind.
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  Let him drive and do everywhere he wants.
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  It won't make a difference.
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  So then there's the stupidity with yet another Kimi Pitting They changed the
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  nose of the car, which cost him time.
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  Well, he started falling back, and then they thought something
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  was wrong with the car.
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  Yes.
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  So he goes in the pit.
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  They go to replace the wing, and then of course he loses all his positions.
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  But then he's still slow, and he gets passed by Lando, and then he
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  has a controlled off, and he's like, "My suspension's broken." And then
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  there's all this back and forth.
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  About the wheel shield.
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  They kept telling him it was the wheel shields or something.
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  Well, it was, and then they're like, "No, it's the wheel shield thing."
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  And he's like, "But the car's not turning." So then they have him pit
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  again to take that wheel shield off.
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  But then at that point, he's, like, in 10th place, and it's lap 45.
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  And then the FIA penalizes him for going off track even though
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  he couldn't control the car.
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  It was ridiculous.
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  Yeah, he kept having track limits, but he couldn't control the car, and that was
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  a whole big to-do, 'cause it's like in this situation he's not gaining anything,
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  and it's clearly, like, a problem.
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  He's not doing it intentionally.
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  But anyway, he gets that five-second penalty, so he's like
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  a man on a mission, desperate.
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  Oh, man, I felt so bad for him.
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  It was like the old days- Yeah … where it was like,
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  you know, he's trying so hard.
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  He's gonna go out there.
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  He only has one gear, but he's gonna Schumacher this thing to the
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  end, and he's gonna keep going.
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  You know, those kind of things.
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  Despite everything, he was, he was creeping the gap.
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  Yep.
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  That he would've maybe made the five seconds to stay, at least to
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  get the one point of 10th position.
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  But then Max loses it.
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  Yep.
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  Lap 48.
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  Loses it into the gravel, and then we go into this five-lap debacle of yellow
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  flag and getting the car out, and then we gotta wait constantly for the fucking
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  Aston Martins, who are nine laps down, to circle back around to the front.
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  And by that time, everyone got super excited, and, "Oh, we're gonna have
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  a one-lap shootout." And then it was like, "And we're done." It's terrible.
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  So at that point then it was over, 'cause Kimi had no chance of, you know,
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  having that five seconds, at least five-second gap to keep a point, so.
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  So my girls watched Silverstone with me, and as we were getting towards the end
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  and they were in that behind the safety car for all those last four or five laps,
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  my littlest one goes, "Dad, is, is this how the race is actually gonna end?"
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  And I said, "Yeah, honey, this is it. We're gonna watch them putt around
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  the track for the last five laps, 'cause they're not gonna, they're
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  not gonna go green again." So the important thing to note, though,
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  I guess, is the Ferrari strategy.
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  And they were damned if they did and damned if they didn't, and they
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  ended up damned, because they pitted Lewis to go on softs, thinking
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  they were gonna restart the race.
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  Yes.
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  And Russell did not, so Russell ends up second because Hamilton pitted,
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  and they never restarted the race.
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  They should have never done that.
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  He had enough life in those mediums.
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  He should've been fine.
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  That was rather unfortunate, too.
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  So after all that, then Russell's got the puncture, and he falls all the way behind.
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  He, he somehow ends back up on podium.
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  Second.
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  So it ended up being Leclerc for a win, Russell second, Hamilton third.
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  So Hamilton podium.
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  Yay for you, Brad.
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  Hamilton podium.
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  And Kimi ends up ninth, but the penalty forces him back to 16th spot.
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  15th.
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  Yeah.
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  He ends up in 15th.
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  Which gives, like, Audi points for the first time ever or
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  something garbage like that.
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  No, it was their second time having points.
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  Yeah, but they didn't earn them.
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  It's like, whatever.
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  They still would've had the points, because Kimi wasn't in front of them.
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  So whether he was- Oh, yeah … 10th with the five second penalty or
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  not, Bortoleto was still in eighth.
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  He was catching them, though.
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  He was catching them.
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  And even if Kimi was still at the front, Bortoleto would've still had points.
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  He was- But the sad part is I thought Mercedes would've contested
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  the penalty and tried to regain the points for Antonelli, especially
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  with manufacturer's points, too.
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  They didn't even bother to argue about it.
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  They were just, they just let it go.
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  Yeah, well, they probably know better.
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  They were, they probably received guidance that said, "Let it go."
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  Just, I don't, I don't understand.
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  All right.
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  So while all that was going down, Brad, you'll be delighted to know
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  Breaking news.
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  Christian Horner has been in conversation with Aston Martin yet again.
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  The most unhirable person in Formula 1 might end up with a job
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  at the worst team in Formula 1.
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  What do we think?
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  Seems fitting.
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  Although I thought Cadillac was the worst team.
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  Aston's way worse.
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  They gotta be way worse.
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  They just got major upgrades.
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  Oh, God.
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  Major upgrades for Hungary.
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  And
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  the major upgrades were so good that in FP1, Lance Stroll's suspension
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  broke and sent him spinning.
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  He did that to himself.
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  That had nothing to do with the car.
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  That was just him being him.
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  Any rate.
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  All right, so Christian Horner talking to Aston.
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  I think that's a recipe for failure, but whatever.
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  So let's talk about Spa.
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  Classic legacy track, doesn't matter, 24 hours of Spa, Formula 1.
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  Spa is one of the kings, right?
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  It's up there with Le Mans.
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  It's up there with the Nürburgring.
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  Spa is Spa.
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  If you don't know what Spa is, I don't know why you're a motorsport fan.
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  But Kimi on the pole.
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  Yeah.
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  Right where be- he belongs.
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  Going into that terrible turn one, where it's just like straight up
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  Forza chaos going into turn one.
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  But it was a cloudy day on race day.
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  Max Verstappen second place.
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  Look at that.
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  Look at Max is coming back, 'cause of the improvements they've been
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  making to the car and stuff.
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  The Aston started, started the race six seconds behind.
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  With Cadillac only three seconds behind.
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  And Stroll was DFL.
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  Absolutely last.
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  So that's their, their qualifying times, right?
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  Six seconds back, three seconds back, and then Stroll dead last.
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  So the best part of Spa, like I didn't need to watch
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  anything past, what was that?
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  Turn four, Tanya?
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  Mm. Russell in the weeds on the first lap
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  That's right He tried to close the door on Hamilton, and
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  Hamilton showed him the wall.
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  He said, "Grubbing is racing, baby. Bye-bye." DNF.
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  DNF.
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  I don't know why there was so much satisfaction to see Russell plus the word
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  out for, like, the entirety of the race.
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  It was just, like, it was so gratifying to see that on the
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  standings as we were watching.
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  Russell's out.
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  Lewis gets a five-second penalty, but it took them, like, a half an
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  hour to make a decision on whether or not they were gonna penalize it.
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  Like, we, we had all forgotten about it.
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  We're like, "Ah, Russell's in the woods.
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  Who gives a shit?
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  Move on with life.
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  Hamilton's doing his thing." And then the FIA is like, "Oh, yeah, yeah,
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  because of that, five-second penalty." You're like, "Oh, come on, guys.
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  Like, really?
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  We've got nothing else better to do?" So Ocon gets a puncture.
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  Then Piastri and Leclerc collide.
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  That was a whole other thing.
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  Followed by a r- a radio call from Perez in the Cadillac, "I think my suspension is
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  broken." These Cadillacs are hot garbage.
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  Are they being made with, like, advanced auto parts?
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  Like, what are we doing here?
• 18:21
  They're built Ford Tough.
• 18:22
  It's… Oh, is that what it is?
• 18:23
  Yes.
• 18:24
  And then there was a whole virtual safety car pit shenanigans.
• 18:30
  That's what I wrote down at least.
• 18:31
  Then the moment of moments.
• 18:35
  Tanya, you're gonna have to explain this one.
• 18:37
  So Hamilton comes into the pit.
• 18:39
  Mm. This is, like, later in the race.
• 18:40
  This is after all the dust settles- This is at the end, yeah … and the, he serves
• 18:42
  his penalty, blah, blah, blah, they're doing tires, and then what happens?
• 18:47
  So what you see is basically when they go back and they replay it, is it
• 18:52
  didn't make sense where he came out.
• 18:54
  And then they go back and they replay it and you see him,
• 18:56
  like, hitting his pit guy.
• 19:00
  And so then what was revealed at the end was basically he had called
• 19:05
  in, he needed a wing adjustment.
• 19:07
  That didn't get communicated to everybody.
• 19:10
  So when they did the tire change and everything, they green lit him.
• 19:13
  So h- him seeing the green light, he went, because that's
• 19:17
  what they're all trained to do.
• 19:18
  Except the wing guy, the wing adjuster guy, had gotten the message to adjust
• 19:23
  the wing, so he stepped out in front of the car to do the wing adjustment.
• 19:27
  So he got hit a little bit.
• 19:28
  He was fine.
• 19:29
  But then there was a penalty there possibly for Hamilton.
• 19:34
  It didn't, uh, end up being a time penalty, 'cause they found him not
• 19:37
  at fault, but they did fine Ferrari, I think, I think 30,000 something.
• 19:42
  Who gets that money?
• 19:44
  I don't know.
• 19:45
  Ferrari gave $30,000 to who?
• 19:47
  What did the FIA do?
• 19:48
  Did they give it to the guy that got hit by the car?
• 19:51
  Like, it doesn't make any sense.
• 19:52
  Where does that money go?
• 19:53
  Doesn't it go into, like, the pooled, like, prize purse that gets
• 19:57
  distributed amongst the teams at the end of the year based on their points?
• 20:01
  Like, maybe.
• 20:01
  The constructor's stuff.
• 20:03
  No idea.
• 20:04
  Maybe, may- I, I just didn't understand, like, where does that money go?
• 20:07
  I mean, they, they fined drivers in the past too for other things,
• 20:10
  and it's like, you know, for swearing or something like that.
• 20:12
  But I was just like, "I don't know where that money goes." It's very curious.
• 20:14
  Before we move on, when an F1 team is fined, the money is paid directly to
• 20:18
  the FIA, and they then distribute it to, like, grassroots projects, education and
• 20:23
  training, and member clubs and stuff.
• 20:25
  So the short answer is the FIA gets the money directly.
• 20:29
  Charitable donation.
• 20:30
  And they do whatever they want with it.
• 20:31
  And then they, they do whatever they want with it.
• 20:33
  So that's how you lease a Rolls Royce.
• 20:36
  So by the way, Brad, just wanna let you know, Lance Stroll, lap 26.
• 20:41
  Lance Stroll what?
• 20:42
  Lap 26, that's when he retires the car.
• 20:46
  Mm. Our, our reigning champion, Lando Norris.
• 20:50
  You know, they talked about Silverstone, 564,000 fans in the Lando Norris
• 20:56
  fan zone at Maggots and Beckets and all this stuff, blah, blah, blah.
• 21:00
  You know, champion.
• 21:01
  L- Lando has done jack of all this year.
• 21:03
  Yeah, y- you don't hear his name very often at all.
• 21:06
  They don't show him that much either, unless he's dicing with Kimi or
• 21:09
  somebody else that actually matters.
• 21:11
  'Cause they're saying the McLarens aren't competitive
• 21:13
  yet, but they got upgrades also.
• 21:15
  I think Lando is not competitive, and I think last year was rigged, but I'm
• 21:19
  just gonna leave that where it is.
• 21:20
  I've said it before, I'll say it again.
• 21:22
  It's gotta be really hard to be a Lando fan because as a reigning
• 21:26
  champion, it's not coming together.
• 21:28
  I mean, we can make the excuses, but McLaren is all about their preparedness.
• 21:33
  Like, that's their thing is, you know, you win the race before the race starts
• 21:36
  because of all your preparation and your planning and your this and your
• 21:39
  that and the other thing, and it's just, it's not coming together for them.
• 21:42
  So I don't know what's going on, but you're, you're right, Brad.
• 21:45
  There is not a lot of TV coverage when it comes to McLaren.
• 21:47
  Piastri, if you don't think Lando's getting coverage, Piastri, he
• 21:50
  might as well not even be there.
• 21:52
  Barely talk about him.
• 21:53
  And last year was all Piastri, you know, and Lando and all that kind of things.
• 21:57
  So anyway, lap 34, Kimi retakes the lead.
• 22:01
  Takes the lead at Spa for…
• 22:03
  He takes it away from Leclerc.
• 22:04
  There is a little battle between Hamilton and Piastri.
• 22:07
  In lap 40, Hamilton is back up to fourth place, so good for Hammy.
• 22:12
  And then Kimi takes home his sixth victory.
• 22:15
  He wins Spa.
• 22:17
  I mean, that's a feather in your cap to win Spa.
• 22:19
  So it's Kimi, Leclerc, Verstappen, and then Hamilton, you know, somewhere
• 22:23
  down there, fourth and beyond.
• 22:25
  Lando came in seventh.
• 22:27
  Just wanna point that out in case anybody was keeping track.
• 22:29
  And, uh, Audi, exactly where we expect them to be, eighth and 13th.
• 22:35
  Not getting any better, not getting any worse.
• 22:37
  I keep saying they're d- they're gonna be solidly in the middle.
• 22:41
  Well, unless these Aston Martin upgrades and McLaren upgrades.
• 22:45
  I think Aston Martin's goal with their upgrades is just to finish a race.
• 22:49
  Yeah.
• 22:49
  Yeah.
• 22:50
  I, I would agree.
• 22:51
  At this point, yes, I would agree with that wholeheartedly.
• 22:54
  That's the upgrade, they can finish.
• 22:56
  Yeah.
• 22:56
  For sure.
• 22:57
  So I wanted to close out our Formula 1 chat.
• 23:01
  I want to bring this up.
• 23:02
  You know, Brad, we talked about the Crocs in the past.
• 23:05
  Have you seen this Costco Formula 1 merchandise?
• 23:09
  This is amazing.
• 23:11
  Look at this thing.
• 23:12
  Not only is this a pool floaty, it has joysticks and a propeller.
• 23:18
  You can go around your lazy river, your Olympic-sized pool, your buddy-
• 23:22
  wherever it is, the waterpark, with a powered Formula 1 floaty.
• 23:27
  What do you think about that?
• 23:28
  I must have one.
• 23:30
  Feel like I need to get one even though I don't.
• 23:31
  I'll put it in the bathtub and just make vroom-vroom sounds.
• 23:34
  I mean, look at this thing.
• 23:35
  I mean, I was kinda thinking, like, you could just sit in it and watch TV.
• 23:39
  And still make vroom-vroom sounds.
• 23:41
  Like, I, I mean, this is so g- I wonder what it costs.
• 23:44
  $300. Does it really?
• 23:46
  The price was right there.
• 23:47
  It's in the, it's in the video.
• 23:49
  Oh, I missed it.
• 23:50
  I'm too mesmerized by looking at the guy in this thing.
• 23:54
  But, yeah.
• 23:55
  Sorry, I was still trying to find that F1 pool float, but I think it's AI-generated.
• 23:59
  I don't think it's real.
• 24:00
  There's so many pictures of it, though.
• 24:02
  I, I j- I understand, but none of them are motorized.
• 24:05
  Oh.
• 24:05
  You can buy the float.
• 24:07
  I don't see any of them that are actually motorized.
• 24:09
  Oh.
• 24:10
  Hmm.
• 24:11
  I still want one.
• 24:12
  It is popping up all over the place, though.
• 24:15
  I mean, this is going on the holiday shopping guide.
• 24:17
  This is the must-get item of the year, your Formula 1 pool floaty.
• 24:22
  And you know what, Brad?
• 24:23
  In order to go to the pool, you gotta wear Crocs.
• 24:27
  Gotta wear your Crocs to the pool so you can use your Formula 1 pool floaty.
• 24:31
  Boom.
• 24:32
  Solved it.
• 24:34
  Tanya, you brought something else up here, though.
• 24:36
  There's some other Formula 1 merchandise coming to the table.
• 24:39
  Am I wrong?
• 24:39
  This is from Kroger.
• 24:41
  Well, it's Old Spice, but I found it on the Kroger website.
• 24:44
  There's also the red Formula 1 car version sold somewhere else.
• 24:48
  But apparently Old Spice has a deodorant collection.
• 24:52
  It's the F1 collection Redline or Fast Track.
• 24:57
  What do we think this smells like?
• 24:59
  Desperation.
• 25:00
  Oh, so it's the Aston Martin one then.
• 25:06
  Apparently there's three in the Formula 1.
• 25:08
  There's Redline Rodeo, Coastal Curves, which is that one, and then Royal Rush.
• 25:14
  I want to smell these.
• 25:16
  They have soap too.
• 25:18
  Look.
• 25:18
  They have, I was gonna say, they also have body wash and bar soap.
• 25:22
  Wow.
• 25:24
  This is a cool gift.
• 25:25
  Is this all limited production stuff, though, 'cause I
• 25:28
  gotta get it like now then?
• 25:30
  It's probably, I would assume so, 'cause I think they have different collections.
• 25:34
  Can you order from Kroger online?
• 25:36
  I wonder, can you order from Old Spice online?
• 25:38
  Well, I couldn't find it on their website.
• 25:41
  Let's search.
• 25:42
  But I bet you can find it.
• 25:44
  I'm sure you can order it somewhere.
• 25:46
  Well, if they would stop popping up ads everywhere
• 25:49
  trying to get me to buy other…
• 25:50
  I know they changed their branding recently, 'cause I saw that.
• 25:52
  I could not find the, it on their main website, which is
• 25:55
  what I was trying to do earlier.
• 25:57
  Dang.
• 25:58
  I'm gonna have to get me some Old Spice Formula 1 products.
• 26:02
  I did notice that there was a bunch of World Cup.
• 26:06
  Dove is doing a World Cup thing, so it kind of makes sense that Old
• 26:08
  Spice might try to compete with them and do something Formula 1 related.
• 26:11
  So that's super cool.
• 26:12
  You know, if you could get your hands on some, it'd still
• 26:14
  make a good stocking stuffer.
• 26:16
  S- soap doesn't go bad if you buy it now, so you can hang onto it, give
• 26:19
  it to somebody later in the year.
• 26:21
  I think it's a good plan.
• 26:23
  All right.
• 26:24
  There's actually four races in July, but we're gonna cover
• 26:28
  Budapest in the next episode.
• 26:30
  That way we have something to talk about along with the silly season,
• 26:33
  and we look forward to talking about, you know, the second half of
• 26:36
  a very long Formula 1 season, even though we've, we missed two races.
• 26:39
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