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You're listening to banter with the boys talking all things sports
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What's up everybody welcome back to banner with the boys today
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We're gonna throw a different kind of episode at you and we're gonna start our inaugural episode of fast laps with the boys
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We're gonna be talking some f1 today the season just kicked off
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We're gonna do a little recap of last year's season little recap of what we saw last week
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And then what we should expect going forward in the season, but first let's get everybody in here
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We have two familiar faces with us and then one newbie joining us today
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We'll start today with the familiar faces first. We have Nick first episode of fast laps. How we doing today, sir?
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Oh, we are just ready to go off all Ricky Bobby on everybody today
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I'm feeling great and I'm ready for this episode. I
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Love to hear it next my first episode with you, sir. Mr. Smelty
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How you feeling about this f1 season so far boss so far the seasons off to an interesting start to say the least
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We'll just see how things progress from here Nick
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I did want to say that the Ricky Bobby is actually a NASCAR driver
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So I just wanted to go ahead and clarify that this is f1. This is premier here
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I believe if if he ain't first your last is translated in every single language and last but certainly not least
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We have Cole first time on the pod sir. How are you feeling great?
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I've been playing the game online playing some f1 22 watching the series straight through
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Just ready to kick it off this year. The first race was a great one ready to keep it going. I
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I love to hear it man. I'm happy to be here with you all and last but certainly not least we have to
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Introduce Kevin on the ones and twos. We wouldn't be here without your boss. We really do appreciate it
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Let's get this thing started fellas first we're gonna kind of talk about last year's 2022 season
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It was an absolute domination by one team and one driver, but let's get into the nitty-gritty
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Smelty, what was your biggest takeaway of last year?
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So here's the deal. I mean obviously we know first happened ran away with it. Absolutely
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with checko close behind however
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They did not finish one and two and if you believe it or not
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Red Bull has actually never had a one-two finish ever
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Which is crazy to think when Vettel was there that they never had a one-two finish in the driver's championship at the end of the year
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That's just that's just insane for me to believe
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They could have done that for the first time last season
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however
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Verstappen was asked in the second to last race to have
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To let checko by into which he pretty much didn't answer until it was too late and he said oh, you know why
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Does anybody know why or what maybe Verstappen is referring to there?
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Any guesses from anyone?
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So my guess would be is it because they set he set the record for most amount of wins?
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So actually Nick that is not the case earlier in the season. They had a race at Monaco
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Monaco if you don't know since you're kind of newer to it. There's not a lot of passing room there
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Qualifying is very very important
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Checko was running third at the time and Verstappen was also out doing a qualifying lap
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Verstappen was finishing up his last qualifying lap and now to nowhere checko
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Hit a corner that he's been hitting for a lot of his career
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And hit and hit the wall which red flagged the qualifying and ended it. That was it
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So therefore they start the race checko at third for Verstappen at fourth
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It was a big deal because checko still absolutely was involved in the championship race at that point
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So it was kind of a it was kind of a big deal and actually right before coming on today
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I was actually just watching video of onboard video between checko and
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other drivers hitting that same corner and you can hear a little bit of a
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little higher end
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Of his revs there like he hits the corner awkwardly compared to what he was doing all day and other drivers
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I'm not saying anything, but
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That is why that's what everybody's speculating
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Why Verstappen did not let checko pass to finish one two they're saying he was kind of making a statement with that
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Yeah, the one interesting part about monaco as well as it was wet
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You know it was raining the course was just kind of all over the place and checko hit that corner
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and then cyans actually came in and
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Nudged him a little bit and that's what blocked it completely and Verstappen was on a burner
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You know he more than likely wasn't going to take that pole position
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But at the end of the day, this is just max power
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Max power is the drama queen we all know that going into it
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Arguably could go down as the greatest driver of all time when it's all said and done
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Obviously a lot left to play to see if that comes into play here
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He needs five more to even catch Lewis to even be considered in that conversation
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But I definitely think that was a sign of of red bull for one committing to max as the number one driver
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Although that was already established
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But max just being as power hungry as he is and wanting to get every win that he possibly can
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I just don't think that's a team player and for somebody of Verstappen's stature
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Don't think that was the right move on his part, especially when you can get that one, too
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Do you believe that?
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team principal Horner knew
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That checko may or may not have crashed on purpose. Apparently they had a conversation
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I don't know if it's true or not whatever
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And then Verstappen knew that Horner knew so it's a lot of he said
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He said she was going to be the first one to get that one
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Which he he said she said right? You know what I mean? Do you believe that?
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This this was the case or just totally it was wet
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It is what it is. I think a lot of it has to come down to with it being monaco and the rough start that checko had
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Even if it was the case, I mean at the end of the day it started off a great rest of the season for checko
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So it kind of kicks things off. So if you're Horner, you can't be upset
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Can't be upset with that call. Yeah, I don't know about the whole he said she said
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That's the first i've heard of that you would like to think that as much as Horner's
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Invested in Verstappen at this point that he wouldn't do anything to try to even put a damper on that relationship or just hinder it at all
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Um, so yeah, that's the first i've heard of that. That's interesting
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But I just I don't think that like hanner verstappen's horner's boy
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You know, he's he's more than committed to him
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So I just don't think they would do anything to tarnish that relationship speaking of ferrari's relationships
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You got to talk about the president leaving at the end of the year after a rough season
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I mean they start the year strong one two in barane
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Two three then in saudi then race four
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You know, we get a dnf from science
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Leclerc p6 with science starting grid four and the clear grid two then back in miami we go back to a two three
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Then in spain leclerc dnf science p4 when clear had pull this is where the whole tarnish just keeps going downhill week eight
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azerbaijani both racers dnf when a clear had pull and science started grid four
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Then we keep going on the rest of the season there remain in 14 races
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Four dnfs total for the team two starting from grid three and two from pole. This has got to take
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big
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Account on the season for ferrari and it might have been a lot closer of a race
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That collapse was just
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unreal I i just going back and looking at all the
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Uh drama that went down in the good old netflix series and just looking at the stats
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It was it was collapse after collapse. I kind of am wondering as a kind of beginner in f1
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Where do you think it all kind of started to?
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tumble roll because yeah that first mistake in race three
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With the dnf from science. It just seemed like it started to tumble roll, but I feel like
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Where the end result of ferrari?
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ferrari's operator getting uh cut to me was when they had both one two with ferrari and decided to just
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Pit and then there was a miscommunication to science to go and pit and it was just a pure
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Just lapse in judgment on them to me. That's when it just started to just
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Tank hard. I don't know what you guys think about that definitely early in the season
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You're going to get dnfs every race team usually gets them when you deal with
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You know double pitting that was obviously a big point of the netflix show
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But I think what really hurt them is late in the season getting the amount of dnfs they did
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As well as some other struggles with the president
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That's a phenomenal point right there it really just explains
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So much as to why this budget change is very very crucial in the f1 sport series that just came back
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What was that?
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2021 is when they brought in the budget 2022
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All I know is you can just tell that all those dnfs everything it just was a major collapse from ferrari
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So great points
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Yeah, there's no reason ferrari shouldn't have been competing with red bull for the constructors last year
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For stepping had the drivers in the chain in the bag
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But leclerc and science both could have competed with pres for that that second spot there to kind of have to
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Out waver stepping a little bit
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But those dnfs were just brutal for him ferrari just can't seem to get it figured out
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They have the talent the drivers are there for whatever reason they just can't seem to get these engines figured out
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Even with the quote-unquote bad season
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I mean it wasn't as great as they wished it would have been
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But can we say they're trending in the right direction because 2020 they finished sixth in constructors
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2021 they improved to third obviously that was a big battle between red bull and mercedes
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And now they finished second. I mean red bull absolutely destroyed everybody but
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What else you got?
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Yeah, I mean to say they're trending up though. It's like for them to have those down years as ferrari
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They're ferrari at the end of the day. They shouldn't be any such thing as a down year
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So even a down year being third fourth for them to just blow it in their engine
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That's what ferrari is their engines are their engines. That's what's made them great over the years of f1 and their engine just
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Consistently let them down
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They have the talent in place their engines are just failing and failing and failing right now
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And you know you start the year off this year leclerc had second in the bag and engine failure
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Which we'll get to later
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But you know it's it's are they turning upward or are they trending where exactly they should be
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That's kind of the question. I mean if you look at ferrari their track is a manza. It's a fast track to back tyler's point there
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The bigger thing too would have to be that was it you know ferrari going up or was it mercedes going down?
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Right. I mean it's just mercedes had a horrible year last year, especially with the start
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So it has to be looked at from both sides there
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Well, let's see if ferrari can finally get it figured out this year take that last corner of the turn with their engines
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And turn this season around we all want to see that red car doing well
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And we just hate to see ferrari's engines the thing that fails them
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But next I want to talk about a little bit of people leaving last year
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So first we had fernando alonso leaving alpine nobody would have expected that after last year
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They were in a fight for the constructors championship for fourth place
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They ended up edging out mcclaren in that spot, but alonso decided to leave and enter team astin martin
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Nobody would have expected that after alpine's second or with
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Alonso's second run with rennaud
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It just wasn't expected on top of that. They lost their
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junior driver
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In oscar piastri. We all thought he was going to just take that spot into alpine and then that all transpired and he went to mcclaren
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so alpine was just
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Last minute we need to get somebody but alonso finished ninth in the the drivers championship last year
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Not his best finish obviously, but certainly not his worst especially in the car given
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For him to just get up and leave and go to really an unproven commodity in astin martin
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Now granted at 42 years old money certainly does talk and he's probably chasing that bag at this point
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And after barane we're who's to say that wasn't the good move
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Um, but what are you guys's thoughts on alonso leaving alpine? That was big news last year
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Yeah, alonso to me is the bad boy of f1
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He is somebody who is willing to take bets in different areas that most people wouldn't see so going back from his career
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Going to 2019 when he left mcclaren to go to alpine
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That was a pretty big move back then made a whole bunch of headlines
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He did it on a whim before the season was even over
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So that's really what started a whole bunch of seat changes from team to team speaking of doing something on the whim
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I mean how random is
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Going to astin martin like that that does seem weird to me
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Uh for somebody like alonso and when he's asked about it, it is kind of weird. He's just like
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Yeah, it was just a bet
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Like that that's it. Like he's just like yeah, you know, I kind of just went for it, you know
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For sure. So he got paid. So tyler's over here doing the money sign. Absolutely. He definitely got paid on that. Uh,
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Cole you got anything else on that on alonso? Yeah, I mean I think a big thing. I mean you got lauren stroll
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As the owner there buying everything
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And with lauren stroll, it's just a lot of money and it also he's a great businessman
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He's going to convince anybody he convinces tens or twos so he can sleep with them
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He's a great guy there
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He's going to convince anybody to come over you give him another two years
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You're gonna get max for a step and in that car
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Does max for sapping get tens and twos as well max is married so i'm not sure but I mean you can call her a two
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It looks like a nine to me with all that money. I don't think that marriage really plays
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He's probably getting anything from one to nine brother hager woods anyone
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So we'll see how long alonso does in the astin martin started off pretty good. We'll get to that a little bit later
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But the biggest move that was made last year was one of the greatest drivers of all time
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Sebastian vettel hanging up his gloves
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What a career this man has had to put that in perspective
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This man is a four-time driver champion. He has the third most victories and third most podiums of all time
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And he has the fourth most pole positions won what a career this guy has had
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I wish him I wish he would have had a little bit more success with astin martin after leaving ferrari
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But at the end of the day, it was his choice to leave ferrari and he just
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Wasn't at the level of the car that needed he needed to be able to compete with the the red bulls the mercedes and even that ferrari
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But we just have to applaud this man's career. I've only been in the f1 a little bit
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But just his personality even when he's talking in press with the most prestigious brand out there ferrari
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Where he normally wouldn't be able to say anything that final year if you watch drive to survive
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He was a lot more loose with even leclerc next to him
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Saying how the clerk couldn't have his clothing line because of the pumher sponsorship with ferrari
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Like that stuff doesn't get said when you're on team ferrari and his ability just to say kind of fuck it
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I'm sebastian veto. I'll do what I want is just something I commend and uh, it's really gonna
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Gonna be a shame not seeing him on the grid this year and going forward, but do we think he's gone for good?
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Couldn't he be back next year? Maybe I don't think he's hanging up the gloves. I think he might be back for another season
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What do you think?
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No way, I think veto's done for good like I'm looking at it right now
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He's worth 140 million dollars, which might be enough to buy my fossil watch off my wrist right now
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Sebastian veto if you're listening, I'll take a million brother. Please please just a million
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But anyway back on track, uh, I mean the dude's made his money. He's won his championships
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That's it, man. I think he's done time to hang it up time to
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Enjoy the rest of your life even though this is
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Probably the number one thing he loves doing the most
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I mean, I can't believe how hard it would be to leave after being so dominant
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I just think with the sport slowly turning towards younger players
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Slowly turning towards younger and younger talent
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I just think he sees that it's time to go out on top and exactly like he said
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He got just enough money to buy that fossil watch. So um, yeah, uh, it's skeleton face
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100 worth it but for vetal, I mean you got to think of the dominance in red bull
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Right. He hasn't had that with ferrari. He didn't win the players championship
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He's not continuing that he's staying there for a reason. It's not just some money
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Maybe asking martin for the money, but you can definitely see him coming back to a more competitive team to try to get another championship
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I don't know. I don't think uh
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One of the the top three teams that can really put a championship car together would even go after a vetal at this point
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They all have young outside of hamilton and checko
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They all have young guns at the helm that I don't just don't think they would give up on to give that speed
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Seat back to vetal at this point in his career and he's already said he wants to make a commitment to be a part of his kids
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Lives they're in that age where they're growing and he's not going to be able to get that time back
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Especially with how long and strenuous the f1 season is
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Where I would love to see him back in a competitive car
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I would hate to see him come back in a williams or alpha romeo and just to do it just because he loves the race
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If I want to see sebastian vettel
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I want to see him competing and I just don't think think these top three teams that really have a chance would go out
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And get someone like that when they have their young guns or established guns already in place
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Well, I think it's safe to say we would all love to see vetal at the top of the grid again
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But we're gonna have to wait on that for the foreseeable future
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But let's get back over to some 2022
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Recapping and let's be honest the story of the season was the absolute domination by max verstappen
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Nick, why don't you get a little bit more in depth on how verstappen truly did just run away with last year?
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Well before I get into the big max attack
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I like to bring it back to vetal as we would just talked who was the previous record holder of
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13 total wins
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max verstappen decided to come in and blow that number out of the water with
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15 races one setting the record setting the bar showing f1
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what young talent is all about and
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Just to really break down how unbelievable of a career year that was for him
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He he finished a total of 17 podiums
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And 15 of those were wins. So that just kind of speaks as to
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How much of a winning mindset this man has and how he's just able to take this dominance and just
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Run all over the track with it
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Uh, there really wasn't anybody close to him every time he won. It was just
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Peer dominant. So there is nothing else to say about max's performance in my opinion
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Anybody else got anything to add to that biggest thing too?
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I mean, I like a lot of people we have love hate relationships with max, right?
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He's you know all over the place. Some people love him. Some people hate him
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But on top of the the new record with all the wins this year
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He also has the youngest ever win being a driver, which is huge
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I mean he he you know tyler said it before but he could go down as the best racer ever. Hopefully he doesn't
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But it's a huge possibility. Yeah, that's an amazing point. I I
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Completely forgot about that one. I mean it just speaks to the young talent of max for steppin
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So with max, I mean he's got two in a row right right now. Sebastian Vettel had four in a row
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So louis hamilton had six and seven years with four in a row
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Is max gonna get four in a row max with two straight?
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I mean we have to put an asterisk by that. I'm sure a lot of us saw that f1 drive to survive
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Did he really win the first one or did louis?
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You know kind of get screwed over there
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Well, that's that's tough because like I I we were just talking about this off mic
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But I joined into f1 during louis's dominance
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So it I was kind of like hoping louis would lose right and then max won
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Kind of awkwardly and then he absolutely dominated the next year now. I'm kind of marty at the point where I was like
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It'd be cool to see louis drive really well and win another one low-key
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After I was like kind of hating on him, but he is an amazing driver
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Yeah
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And the thing about that asterisks nest to that 2021 season is by the record of the rule book verstappen should have been granted
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That spot he got what the controversy was it was the eight cars behind louis and in front of between verstappen
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And not the cars behind verstappen that got that pass. So that's where the controversy lied
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So if you look at the technicalities of the rule book the rules were followed to get verstappen in his spot
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It just was everything behind him was the wild
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Speculation and I mean the guy lost his job because of it. So obviously it had some effects
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But yeah, the crazy thing about max verstappen is this cat's 25 years old, you know, he's like
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Starting right now if you were to take his career starting this year
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Where's drivers start entering their prime and he's already won two championships from his 23 24 season
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age-wise that is obviously and now he's just
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Going to take it and run with red bull's car that they have projected here going forward
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I mean
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Unbelievable performance, but I think that exactly as you just put for him to be so young I
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Feel like this sport is trending that way
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I mean one of the biggest things I think that makes a driver unbelievably good right now is no
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Fear nothing to think about to lose and that tends to be a very trending thing with younger people in my opinion
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so I feel like there's a difference between
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Alonzo who's got his paper got his money
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I don't think he's gonna be pushing it to that next level compared to max max's dominance of just being able to stay
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Sheer focus and full full on speed. Yeah
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I would disagree with you there because to compete at the level of f1 you have no fear to get to that level
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So to say that verstappen has less fear than say somebody like Alonzo
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I don't know if I could get behind just because of the level that you're at
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I mean you're taking turns at not necessarily turns
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But you're going to 175 mile per hours plus in Monaco
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Which if we've all played any sort of video game Monaco is an impossible race to even qualify in let alone compete in
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So it's I don't know if I could get behind the the more lack of fear for the younger generation
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When Alonzo's had that lack of fear for 20 plus years now racing and then we look at you know
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Obviously we talked about Lewis Hamilton max verstappen. We have to start looking at Charles Leclerc
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He is a racer who's proven to beat max with a good car. He
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Arguably is a better racer. So we have to see how that unfolds going forward
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That is certainly a hot take saying he's arguably a better racer than verstappen
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I mean, obviously the car plays a part in that don't get me wrong
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But I don't think you can say anything over anybody being better than verstappen with the last two years
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He's just put on an absolute show. You're right. I definitely argued better that might have been the wrong terminology
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I think he has a better projectory. I think that is a race that we will see here in the next coming years
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Who might even overshadow max verstappen?
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Like in the past we see all the time. Yeah, I could definitely get behind that, you know, he's young too
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He's the same age as max they grew up playing or not playing but driving against each other in the junior cards and whatnot
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I think Charles is definitely the one that's gonna give max the most run for his money in the next coming years
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Maybe George Russell could enter that conversation if Mercedes can get their car figured out
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But right now I definitely think the sports in good hands with leclerc and verstappen being the faces of it
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I mean, obviously you still have Hamilton. He's not going anywhere for at least
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Well depends on what Ramir listen to but at least two years, but yeah, I mean the
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Leclerc and verstappen going forward is gonna be real fun to watch. Is leclerc gonna do it at Ferrari though?
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Or will he have to go somewhere else to do it? I don't know who like
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Obviously if it's just the big three then Mercedes be the only one only on the other one and I do not see that happening
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But does he do it at Ferrari then? I mean his contracts up in 2024
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That's an interesting take because if you think of what that gives them the best opportunity to win a world championship
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The easy answer is to go to Red Bull and partner with verstappen
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But you go to Red Bull and partner with verstappen
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You're never gonna win a championship because verstappen will always be the number one driver
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The point with Mercedes makes a lot of sense if they can get the car figured out and when Lewis does hang them up
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Leclerc could go into that one spot assuming Russell would be okay with taking the two spot again
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I'm sure that was a part of their agreements or their contracts that when Hamilton hangs them up
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Russell's gonna go into that number one spot, but I don't know
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I mean, it'd just be interesting because he is the number one driver for Ferrari right now, which up until
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Ten years ago, which is a long time in F1 was the most coveted spot
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In Formula One you even look at sabvetto leaving Red Bull after four championships to go drive for that number one car in Ferrari
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Like that says huge things about Ferrari, but you're right
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I mean the performance has to be there for him to stay with Charles too. I mean that that's his dream team
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That's where he wants to be that was his pinnacle, right? So he also signed the longest deal with Ferrari in history
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This is all big news and it you know, it's hard for him to leave
25:45
After all of that and with everything behind him, I think he trusts Ferrari and he's going to be there for the long term
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Yeah, I agree good old-fashioned Netflix documentary. It was his godfather that that passed away. Was that correct that uh
25:58
Originally got him kind of going towards Ferrari to begin with right?
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I don't know if it was his godfather as much as just his mentor
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According to it. It was his godfather. So it has very much sentimental value
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So I think that's some big points of that. I mean he really was just targeting Ferrari since he was 16
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Well, the 2022 season is behind us and we are ready and looking forward to 2023
26:29
Two weekends ago. We did have our first race of the f1 season
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In Bahrain we had as many expected
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Max Verstappen did win that race but personally I wanted to talk about Aston Martin's dominance
26:43
For them to finish with Alonso climbing up to the pole hitting that three spot and Lance Stroll climbing in at number six
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Just two weeks after that man broke his wrist is just a remarkable feat in itself
26:56
But for Aston Martin to have this showing in the first race
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I don't think anybody would have expected it if you did you're just a little bit of a
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liar now with that their aerodynamics team is basically Red Bull's team
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Checo was even joking that it was nice to see three Red Bulls on the podium
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A lot of people are terming this Aston Martin car the green Red Bull but even still you know
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If you can get the valuable insight on what these teams are doing to compete and excel
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Why wouldn't you go and get that and try to do it yourself? This is a copycat
27:30
Type of race league so if the winners are winning why would you just sit there and just trying to keep improving on what's just
27:37
Holding you back at the end of the day so for Fernando to get a podium was just great to see for him as a whole
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I would say that he got more recognition and more praise after this race than even Red Bull did with Verstappen and Perez going 1-2
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Everybody loves seeing Fernando up there and personally I think Stroll stole the show
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With that kind of performance after having a fractured wrist and he broke his toe
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Just crazy in my opinion what they were able to do and I'm really excited to see what the future holds for them this year
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Especially with the bump we see early on
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Between Alonso and Stroll, Stroll bumping into the back of Alonso a lot of people thought that that might be the end for them for that race
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Do you think that Aston can
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Jump above Mercedes at least in the constructors by the end of the season
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I'm not I don't think they'll bump Ferrari. I think Ferrari will figure it out
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Obviously, it's way too early to tell right now, but we might as well ask the question like do you think they'll
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They can compete and maybe surpass Mercedes at least this season or is Mercedes gonna get it together, too
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I think it's certainly possible with the amount of money that Lauren Stroll is pouring into this team and like I said
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Just poaching a bunch of Red Bull's talent with Mercedes
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They figured it out at the last quarter of the season last year
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But they can't wait that long this year to figure it out for them to actually have a good showing this year
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And the likes of the Aston Martins are just they're here to play this year
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They showed it week one and I just I don't know that's a tough question because at the end of the day you have Lewis
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Hamilton driving that Mercedes so he makes up some of the gap of the cars difference
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But I don't know if George Russell can also we have with this car the Aston Martin
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We have the same engine as the Mercedes but Aston Martin has just been able to show it off more
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They've been able to get the most out of that engine one of the biggest things that I feel
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Made the difference in Red Bull's dominance in this race and it shows in their previous
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2022 series they did a lot of
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Significant changes to the car that a lot of other cars didn't have they threw in a different suspension system different springs
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They threw in a different push and pull
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System to create a little bit more room for the front end
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They did a lot of different things in 2022 and it showed
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So the fact that Aston Martin kind of took a little bit of pages out of the Red Bull
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It's showing showing in numerous ways by just having the same aerodynamics
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engineer going from McLaren to Red Bull and then down to us Aston Martin and just showing podiums and
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just sheer differential between
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Everybody in the pack so
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The fact that they were able to do that it just shows in the dominance left and right
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So it shows in many ways as we've already discussed which kind of brings me into my topic Red Bull's
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Dominance in this race. It was just sheer
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Unbelievable for first happened to win by 38 seconds over Alonzo alone
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That just is
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remarkable
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To win by almost 40 seconds in F1 that is just to me unheard of as a newcomer
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Perez even took second place and was still another
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27 seconds ahead of Alonzo so for them to be able to just go one two and finishing with such a dominant
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Time elapsed that is an unbelievable performance by Red Bull. It should carry on I
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Don't see how
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They can mess it up. Obviously. There's a very long season ahead of us, but the way they're starting
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It's looking a lot like 2022 when it's all said and done and even more
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So there's a lot of people saying that Red Bull even had more in their tank that they even could have gained their second a lap
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We're talking over a minute gap on third place
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Yeah, that's just insane to think that they have more in the tank after the showing they had
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But it wasn't even a question. I think that for Stappen was gonna win. We'll focus a little bit later
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We'll talk about how the second place maybe shouldn't have gone to Perez
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But there's there's no questioning how good of a car Red Bull has this year and with the best driver in the world currently
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Behind the wheel of that car. This was just crazy to think that for Stappen won a race by over
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35 seconds to the next closest non Red Bull team. That's just insane to think about and not to mention
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Two years later. You're we're seeing what Red Bull is gonna have to deal with for those budget issues
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This is the year where they have
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Significantly reduced wind tunnel time and then to be able to show up with that type of showing even with this type of a punishment
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I mean
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Unreal you even have George Russell coming in saying that Red Bull could win every race this year
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This is a Mercedes driver not even betting on his own team that truly says something right there
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You have a team that over the last 10 years has been the most dominant team
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Their second driver who they just signed two years ago was coming out saying that hey
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I really am NOT gonna be able to compete this year
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Like you'd hate to see that as a Mercedes fan or a Mercedes team member
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But that just goes to show the dominance of what Red Bull has done to make this car as good as it truly is
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Even with Ferrari who knows how this race would end up
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We have you know in the qualifying
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Leclerc doesn't do another lap
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Possibly could have got pulled that could have threw off everything for Red Bull and then you have a clear in p2 in
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Front of Checo doing a heck of a race not even finishing because of engine failure. This is gonna be another repeat for Ferrari
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This has to be looked at too because Ferrari could still be competing. It didn't keep this car healthy. Yeah and
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Before the race even started things were already not looking good from for Leclerc
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apparently some of his
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Electronics and energy store components were already going bad before the race. So they are judging by data
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They were getting from the power unit
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So they had to mess with that right away and his official
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DNF was caused by an energy store and control unit failure
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So you only get two energy store units in a season
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So he could get a grid penalty here coming up soon
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Maybe as soon as the next race in Saudi Arabia, but we'll see yeah
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it's interesting to note on the the regulations on how many like components and power units you can use because using one of your
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Available a week into the year, you know
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You're hoping to at least get a half a year out of that depending on what tweaks you have to make
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But that's a it's crazy to think about that
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Even in the first out lap of qualifying for Leclerc no damage. I'm sorry. No contact. No nothing his car started falling apart
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We have yet to know what that piece was that came off. They're kind of keeping it hush hush
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But that even just in this first out lap. Do he just driving in his cars falling apart?
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That's just signs to show that Ferrari can't get it, right?
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The principle essentially doesn't matter because they can't fix their damn car and for Ferrari like, you know
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That's got to just be embarrassing at this point. I mean
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arguably
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That failure may have cost him a podium
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May have cost them at least some points for sure. Absolutely some points it cost them
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I mean, it's a big deal to start your season that way
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Yeah, I would say it most certainly did cost him some points, you know, the clerk was in second pretty handedly
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It wasn't really a fight for third at that point. He had the race in the bag for a second
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I mean he was still eons beyond for snap in but yeah
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I mean those points are crucial even if it is so early in the year you can make them up
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But you can't bank on Red Bull having one two three DNFs this year
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You just can't bank on that where you have to expect Ferrari's car to fall apart at least three to five more times this year
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You know, yeah
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I mean especially in the fact that that they finished 200 points behind Red Bull in the Constructor Cup and the Constructor standings
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That that DNF is something that they have to approach
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ASAP if they want to be able to even compete for number two spot this year a hundred percent
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I totally agree another like failure
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I would say from the first week first race of the season here would be absolutely McLaren. So you had
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Piastri who started 18th and worked his way all the way up to eighth
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I mean he was actually having a somewhat decent run ended up having an electrical issue
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He boxed they tried the different steering wheel. It just wasn't working out allegedly. Maybe it's
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Further down an electrical issue further down the steering column. It just wasn't gonna be a quick fix. His car was retired
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Lando
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Essentially as soon as the race started had a pneumatic pressure leak almost immediately which does affect his shifting
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It doesn't affect his speed though. So he was still able to like he was running 18 17 16 kind of in there but
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About every 10 laps he had to start coming in to box and not to cut you off
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But I mean a normal box just for tires only takes a couple seconds when they're repressurizing the system
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That's gonna even add more time that adds, you know when he's down in 17th 18th
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Like you're saying it's not gonna help his case to fight back up into points and the so needless to say their new
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MCL 60 cars is not quite right yet
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So we'll just have to see what happens going forward a team that did actually perform
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I'd say better than expectations would be Williams
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I mean before the race Alex Albon was kind of nervous, you know
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He was kind of worried that they would not perform at all and he's leaving the race
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Saying that they're the second best team as far as being the most improved team
37:36
But that's something for Williams. Absolutely going forward with rookie Logan Sargent finishing 12th. I mean that's
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You can't ask for much more in your first race
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Yeah, I would wholeheartedly agree with you in my opinion Williams was the most impressive in this weekend
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You can make a strong argument for Aston Martin
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But at the end of the day with all the money strolls put into the team
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They have two pretty damn good drivers, you know
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Say what you want about Lance Stroll and his dad's money is where he's at that cat can drive at the end of the day
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He hasn't had a car worth performing
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So for him to get that six in this this race means a lot to me
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But for overall for Williams to finish 1012 and that 12th being a rookie
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When exactly like you said smelty Alex Albon's going into this race saying that that car can't compete not that it won't compete
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It can't compete that says a lot for him to be able to climb up into p10 get some points on the board for Williams
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we all know Williams has had a lot of
38:32
Down years you can say in the past and to me it was really heartwarming to see Williams produce what they did and
38:38
Just showing that Williams might be a team that could you know make a push for the bottom of the midfield this year
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Can I see him getting five four?
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I don't know
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I would have to see more than Bahrain for that and see what developments and upgrades they can have throughout the year with how little
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Money they have but I was very very impressed with Alex Albon and Logan Sargent going into this or after this race
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And with Williams, I mean obviously we have to look at them
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They were just amazing the first race and it wasn't like they were you know
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Huge wreck on the first turn where they're just passing people
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They raised solid the whole race and I think also I mean we talked about
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The Alonzo and his race and obviously getting driver of the day
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I think a hard second for driver of the day has to be ghastly
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Fighting back up in a new car and still showing he can do it. We can't overshadow him in this race
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He's just been he was amazing from the start fighting in the last couple laps
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Yeah, I agree with you wholeheartedly right there if Alonzo didn't get a podium and Alonzo wasn't who Alonzo is
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Ghastly is the driver of the day without question to go from 20th to start up into points and not even to points
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But to 9th granted not a huge difference between 9 and 10
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But still for him to move up 11 positions in a race where there really isn't a bunch of opportunity for overtaking
39:52
That is madly impressive, especially being in a new car this year going into that Alpine team on top of that
39:58
He was fighting off one of his best friends on the grid and Yuki
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Who was his teammate the last couple of years at Alfa Tori?
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You know, he was able to fight off Yuki get in front of Albon and finish P9. That is just crazy impressive
40:12
We all know Alpine has one of the best midfield cars out there now
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They didn't have the best showing with Okon getting 4,700 time penalties. That man was just a magnet for time penalties
40:23
Just insane
40:24
But nonetheless, I mean Ghastly truly showed his colors this race moving up 11 spots getting in the top 10
40:30
Finishing with points and getting Alpine on the board this year. I was madly impressed with Ghastly
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And we also got to talk with Ghastly. I mean when he goes to Red Bull he goes out of the Alfa Tori
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He struggles. He went back to Alfa Tori again. He just excels now. He goes to a different car and he's actually excelling
40:45
There's got to be something to say there. I mean, maybe it just wasn't the fit for him
40:48
He deserves to be on the grid
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He's very underrated keep keep an eye out for him all season long and I think he's worth mentioning
40:56
Later in this episode, but I mean watch out for him the rest of the season. Absolutely
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Yeah, most definitely Ghastly is one to be on the lookout this year that Alpine
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I don't see is gonna finish like they did this this week is nine and D and F
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So, I mean I could see Alpine making a push for that that three four spot with the drivers
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They have they have some talent. That is most definitely for sure
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Well Bahrain is behind us boys. Let's get into this next week's race
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We have Jetta taking place in Saudi Arabia last year Verstappen, of course took the win with Ferrari getting 2-3
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But let's get in the meat and potatoes of this race here Cole. What are you looking forward to this race?
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What do you have your eye on?
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I mean the big thing has to be Ferrari can they turn back?
41:42
Can they keep doing what they did last year even last race arguably?
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They could have pulled and we know Jetta being a tight course
41:49
Pole could you know help them win it could really get them back up top and keep the movement going
41:54
Yeah, it's definitely going to be interesting to see how Ferrari performs this year
41:58
They they did really well last year two podiums last year. Can they get the car fixed?
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That's the issue leclerc is going to be there sians should be there
42:07
But the question is can they get that car put together for this week? Yeah, Carlos ran fine last week, honestly
42:12
I don't know if he really had any issues at all
42:16
Finished fourth and just I think we'll expect another at least points from Carlos and hopefully Leclerc this week as well
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I think they will
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Make some changes. I mean
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You can't roll over after a dnf in week one. I mean you have to do some things
42:32
You got to come out and attack this week for sure hundred percent
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Yeah, the one downside I would say to sians last week is after alonzo passed him his team was asking him to push more
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And he simply is on the radio
42:44
Sounded absolutely defeated and said the car didn't have anything else into it if he would push more than they would cost him the race
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So that just doesn't make you feel good about the performance of the ferrari
42:54
But lets you know that they the cars there the talents there can they just put it all together consistently?
42:59
And speaking on that, I mean, let's look who passed them Aston Martin
43:03
Coming through last week had a solid week. All right, we look into this week. We have a more healthy stroll
43:10
Can they get better grid spots and can they make this a bigger race for them?
43:15
Can they try to get a pole maybe and get a win be huge for Aston Martin?
43:19
No, no hate on stroll, but I will say I feel
43:24
That Lewis and George Russell both finish in front of stroll this week
43:29
Just kind of a gut feeling i'll get into Lewis in a little bit, but
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I just think uh, George will also pass
43:36
Stroll up this week. Yeah, it really is going to be interesting to see how stroll does this year
43:42
I mean the car's there. There's no question about that. So is the talent behind the name?
43:46
Or is he in his spot because daddy's money? I don't personally believe so
43:50
But this year I think is going to be the best overall test for that
43:53
Yes, I mean he's competing last week with coming off obviously he talked about the injury
43:58
And if he can continue to do this, I mean he's shown promise in other cars
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If he gets a fast car, is he able to get podiums for the team?
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Is he able to get those big points the team needs to finish top three?
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That's just it. I was just going to touch on that too
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I think it is going to be on stroll to determine if they finish top three
44:18
As a team and the constructors are not it's kind of on stroll
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I don't think we really have anything to worry about Alonso. He looks so good last week. I
44:26
I don't feel he's going to drop off yet
44:29
um, I do think it's on stroll to determine if they can kind of
44:34
Get up there with mercedes and ferrari and attempt to challenge red bull even though
44:38
I don't think anybody will challenge them
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Yeah, I think the I think this is gonna be a big test for Ferrari because jetta seems like a very faster paced track
44:47
So it's gonna be very engine tested very aerodynamic tested. I think we're gonna see the true grit and and
44:55
Decision making behind ferrari and austin martin behind all their
45:00
Everything that has anything to do with their car
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So I think this is going to be a very very good race to to have an idea of what we're gonna be semi looking at
45:09
And even the joke about last week when Alonso passes science and just goes bye. Bye. He is confident this year
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He's gonna keep showing this all year. I think he hasn't been this confident in a car in a very long time
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And like you said, I totally agree. It's entirely on stroll shoulders
45:25
How this car finishes this year and the constructors it most definitely will be interesting to see if Aston Martin can keep it together
45:32
And progress during the year to fight for that top three
45:35
But what i'm really looking forward to this week is how is mclaren gonna show they were
45:41
Fighting for that fourth spot last year. They ended up with fifth they came out this year
45:47
And got a 1920
45:49
Lando did not was not able to compete at all during the race
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Piastri got out real early and this is after the whole fiasco last year with piastri not going to alpine signing with mclaren
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He had high expectations this year mclaren as a whole had high expectations
46:04
This year, especially after departing with ricardo
46:07
That I mean it was mutual it wasn't that mclaren just gave up on him by any means
46:11
And I mean it's venture to say ricardo's in a certainly a better spot as the red bull reserve driver this year
46:16
But it just was not expected to see mclaren
46:20
Not show up like they did last week and they're talking about these upgrades and talking about how they're going to be in place
46:26
We'll see lando's a top 10 driver. You can make a very strong argument for a top five driver talent
46:31
They just have to put a car behind him to see and with this this new cat oscar oscar piastri
46:36
We'll see what this rookie can do. He's coveted. He was highly sought after
46:41
The proof's in this pudding. What does mclaren do this week? Yeah mclaren right now. It's kind of like your ex-girlfriend
46:46
She's in your life out of your life. She's all over the place, right?
46:49
I mean the last couple years it's just like we're gonna have a good year
46:52
Uh, maybe not, you know, you just never know what we're gonna get on mclaren. So hopefully they can turn it around obviously
46:58
I wish they kept riccardo, but hopefully this these new young bucks can
47:02
Make something of it and no to your point tyler. I totally agree that lando has got to be a top five skill driver
47:09
on the grid, I mean
47:12
He just needs a better car straight up mclaren just doesn't give it to him yet
47:16
We'll see what they do this week
47:18
But i'm honestly not holding my hopes too high because I feel like
47:22
We've been hearing for the past three years that mclaren is going to do
47:26
this year do something maybe challenge to
47:29
I mean at least be best of the rest but challenge for that top get into those top three teams
47:35
And they just haven't done it yet, and I just I don't know
47:39
I feel bad for lando. I wish he could get into a little better ride
47:43
Maybe a dark horse for that louis hamilton spot someday. I don't know but we'll see yeah, it kind of seems like
47:50
We're just buying your ex-girlfriend a purse to solve your problems. You know they've just done so many different changes
47:56
But yet same results same results. How are we gonna?
48:00
How is this going to change so i'm pretty interested to see if we're going to be dealing with the same mclaren or not
48:06
But yeah, that's that's exactly
48:09
Some points that to listen to so honestly I kind of want to talk
48:14
A little bit about a dark horse for this race and it's weird to say
48:17
That they're a dark horse, but mercedes more specifically louis hamilton
48:22
There's people out here saying that louis hamilton is never going to win another race and I just I don't believe that at all
48:29
louis's last win actually came at
48:32
jetta
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Which was the first year they ever ran this race race which was 2021 which it was the second to last race of the season
48:42
And it was the first race of the season
48:45
And also was louis's third win in a row at that point shaping up for a showdown between him and max
48:51
In abu dhabi and we all know what happened there then obviously 2022 max took the race
48:57
However, the race was changed for the 2022 season and was ended up being the second race on the schedule like it is this season
49:04
And for some reason I just feel like mercedes could possibly
49:08
Make a move this race. I mean they'll definitely get some points but
49:12
Could we see louis on the podium this week or do you guys think that alonzo's just?
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Too overpowering right now and that uh not ashton martin another driver
49:22
I just want to briefly mention is somebody we've already mentioned tonight, but pier gasly
49:26
I mean 2021 the first race ever of this race. He finished sixth place the next year. He finished eighth
49:33
And we all saw what he did last week
49:36
From 20th. So I think we do need to watch out for pier gasly to kind of also be a dark horse this race
49:42
He might just sneak up on you. Yeah, I never really heard uh of that before with pier
49:46
I didn't know this was a pretty solid race from especially in the alfatori
49:49
Which is not the best car last couple of seasons, but it could be huge. I mean if he gets a good
49:55
Qualifying it could be a very big turn, you know, it could stir up everything
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Well, that brings me to my wild take because we all know
50:03
I'm just out there on any opinions I have so
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What defines if he ain't first your last?
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To me, it's the haas team
50:16
America built off a speed built off of balls built off of everything and they've got the wild man kevin
50:24
Magnuson driving and they're bringing back nico hulkenberg
50:28
That just says a whole bunch of different things
50:30
I would love to see them just put it pedal to the metal
50:35
Causing as many safety car accidents as possible. All I know is
50:41
Merica
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Well fellas, this was an absolute blast. I'm looking forward to doing this more during this f1 season
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It's my first season. I'm really getting involved in watching every week and I'm just ecstatic going forward
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I can't thank you fellas. I'm just so excited to be back
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I'm looking forward to doing this more during this f1 season. I'm really getting involved in watching every week and I'm just ecstatic going forward
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