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• FCTTN 26 11 02 v2: This episode of Full Crow the Noise is brought to you by the Race of Champion New Zealand edition. You be there January 9, 10, 2027, at Henry Stadium in Wellington. This marks the first time ROC has landed in the land of the Long White Cloud. Ticket sales are available now through Ticket Tech in New Zealand. Go to premier.ticketch.co.nz. Single day passes for kids start at 49 bucks and weekend passes start at $74. Various hospitality packages are also available. Confirmed drivers include Sebastian Vattel, Valerie Bodas, Chaz Mostett, Hayden Padden, Will Brown, Brody Kastecki, Travis Bastrana, David Kultart, and Mad Mike Wittert with more drivers to come. Righto, let's kick off with full credit to the noise. This week on Full Credit to the Noise, Ferrari blow a win in Mexico, while Antonelli smashes the tequila and MotoGP is in a state of crisis. Welcome to Full Credit to the Noise. Well hello, good morning, good afternoon, good evening, and welcome to Full Credits the Noise. You can find this podcast on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook at FCTTN Podcast. You find me on Instagram, Twitter, Blue Sky, and Facebook at Former underscore legend. You can find the bloke across me on Twitter at AVL underscore motorsport. He's on Instagram at AVL dot motorsport. He's a man who this week stocked up on quickies and strepsels for the kitties at Halloween. He's begged Australian selectors to show patience with Marnus Labershane and tonight he's wearing jockey silks from the Godolphin Stables. Welcome to Speak Cafes, Andrew Van Lewen. Hello, former. Yep, there's plenty of kids in my neck of the woods sucking on an anti-coal right now. Remember anti-coals? Do they still make those? Got again. Yeah, I got a whole got a bucket of sitting out on the on the gate out the front. Actually this I mean, you mentioned the cricket there. The scariest thing of Halloween was that that effort from the top order from the Aussies. I was so excited. What's doing? I was so excited on Sunday. I was like, how good's it gonna be? Sunday, Sunday evening. sorry, Saturday evening was, wasn't Saturday evening watching the cricket. This is gonna be great. And by the time I got back from trickle treating it was it was cooked. No good at all. I knew we were in trouble when they started getting past two hundred for us to chase. I was like, We won't get two hundred. Well I mean advance and it almost felt like the track was flat enough apart from, you know, a bit of bit of turn that it wouldn't be a big issue, but you just gotta knock it out. You've got to protect your wicket, you've got a whole day to bat. Come on, boys. Yeah. How many changes would you make, AVL? What'd you say? Five. Okay. Quite a few, yeah. Yeah. Anyway. Marnus, you'd hang on to Marnus? No, I don't think so. I think. Four years between centuries. That might be just about long enough, I reckon. I think so. I think so. Hey, something we did we something we didn't get time to cover off last week was Liam Lawson singing a concert at the US G P. Now he covered a couple of songs. Some Sam Fender gear, Av L. I you're into Sam Fender, and some John Mayer stuff. Have a listen to him here. What do you of that? what am I meant to make of it? Well, it's i he he did do a few covers, but then he referred back to his roots down here in the southern hemisphere because he did moving rendition of his favourite Australian arts, and I'll tell you the similarities between the original are remarkable. Take a listen to this. Like I said, I'm feeling a bit frisky. So I'll tell you why. Go rooting in the back of the Kevin Bloody Wilson. You beauty. Saw him at the Frankston RSL once. That was a hell of an experience. mate. How was he? Yeah, pretty good. I never got to see Kevin Bloody Wilson. I've got I've done Rodney Root a few times and he was outstanding, I've got to say. But pretty sure Kev is still touring. I'm pretty sure he's still getting around. Yeah. Yeah. I wonder if he's still doing rooting in the back of the youth. I'm sure he is. I'm sure he is. You can't let a classical lad die. Did you catch up on the GT Festival from Sandown on the weekend? I saw little bits and pieces, but not a whole heap. So you have to The Mustang Cup was pretty hard fought. Josh Anderson did enough to be crowned the winner over the weekend. in the Transams, Nathan Hearn won two of the races and he's got a commanding lead going into this weekend at the same track, which seems a bit weird, but for sure. And in the G T fours, they crowned all their champions. Zach Suter and Gled Nerwin wrapped up their first silver Am Cup. But if you want to go and have a look at the last five minutes of that race and see Zack Suder arguing over positions he really didn't have to argue about, but anyway, Nathan Callahan and Chris Lillis claimed AM Am Cup and Tom Heyman and Jet Murray wrapped up overall championship. Look, it was the GT four especially had some big shunts and it made me start to think around supercars this weekend and some of those barriers with tires and old school arm co, they are starting to look a little weathered and aged over. Yeah, I mean it's an old school circuit that's that's got some old school characteristics, but I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing. We need these old tracks, it's great. I agree, I agree. for as long as we can hang on to this one especially so Yeah. If you are around, get out to Sandown this weekend. It's sure to be a big weekend. But let's go the shift cut because there's a lot of F1 and Moto GP news to come across. And we'll start with the Mexican Grand Prix in Formula One qualifying saw Lewis Hamilton claim his and Ferrari's first pole position of 2026 while Oscar Piastri suffered a shock Q2 exit. Hamilton beat his former Mercedes teammate George Russell by just.009 of a second with Charles Leclerc third. the lap secured the seven tie world champion his one hundred and fifth career pole position, his first for Ferrari and his first since the twenty twenty three Hungarian Grand Prix. Max V Max Verstappen finished fourth after making a mistake on his final push lap, but had to drop to fifth on the grid following a one place penalty for an incident with Liam Lawson in FP two on Friday, which we'll cover off in a minute. World champion elect Kimi Antonelli consequently moved up to fourth on the grid, having qualified fifth for Mercedes. Lawson was eighth fastest, he went down one but poor old Matt Oscar, he his poor form just keeps on keep keeping on. he c couldn't get any faster than thirteenth, which was his worst qualifying effort in two years. And feeling in for Esteban Ocon, Ryo Hirokawa could only get to nineteenth in the group and we'll cover off that in a minute. Did you see any of the qualifying? I did not. Yeah. I had to figure out what time it was on. It was actually on a friendly time, but it was only after I started getting notifications from our Discord that I was like, okay, cool. Yeah. my heart bleeds for the poor Western Australians. He might have to get up early one morning. in the Grand Prix, the two Ferraris came together at turn three. Versappan jumped up four spots and George Russell spun Isaac Hadger. This is all in the opening lap. After penalties were handed out, Max took the lead and looked untouchable until the front left suspension collapsed on the Cadillac of Valtory Bottas. That sent him into the turn one barriers and red flagged the race for about half an hour to fix the barriers. there was a restart, saw Max hold the lead, Hamilton mug his teammate to get second, and Antonelli moved to third. With ten to go, Oscar and Linblad then came together, sparking another safety car. That compressed the field, but Max hung on again from Lewis and at twenty years and sixty a sixty-eight days years of age. sorry, twenty years and sixty-eight days old. Kimmy Antonelli grabbed third, but more importantly. He won the world title. Yeah, it was a hugely fitting kind of podium, right? to have Max Vistappen, Lewis Hamilton, and the new world champion, Kimmy Antonelli, there, it was just perfect. the the two greats of the modern era and this remarkable child who is now the world champion, which is just incredible. So it was I I I felt like we laughed about how McLaren kinda handled the immediate post race last year with the world champion hotline cringe fest that went on there. But it felt really beautifully handled by Mercedes, the way that they dealt with that moment. And do you think they might have learned a bit from McLaren last year? Maybe. Maybe. But it was it was quite it was really emotional. Like I I sort of felt the emotion watching it. And I I just feel like it's such an incredible team effort. often I don't know, you there's all this focus on the driver, but you just have to really think about what Toto Wolf saw in this kid, right? All those years ago. I totally agree. The amount of faith that they put in him and they they looked through some rocky form in some of the junior formula. he crashes the car the first time he hops in in an FP one session at Monza a couple of years ago. He goes through this real wave of of form last year. There were times where people were really questioning whether he had it or not. And I'm sure that those questions were being asked internally as well. And here we are now and he's a world champion. So I think that shows an incredible amount of sort of foresight from from Mercedes led by Toto to to identify this talent and to get into the point that he's at right now. And that's something that's pretty impressive. And I think that that they really deserve a a whole heap of credit for that and and Pete Bonnington and and the work he's done with him as well and the way that, again, it would have been easy to lose a talent like Lewis Hamilton and lose all that star power and think, right, what are we going to do next? Is there a a more obvious solution to to sort of to to fill in that gap and they they kind of went off piste and it's paid off for them massively. And the hard work that those guys have put into Kimmy as a young driver, I think that's I I I love that. I I think that's what These are the sort of stories that that sport is built on and I think that's it's incredibly impressive from everyone involved, from Kimmy down to the team. So yeah, fan fantastic outcome really. I I totally agree with every part of that. I was the only thing I was wondering during all of the celebrations, because he looks like from a million miles away and from what we see through camera lenses and everything else, he just looks like a good kid. Like a you know, I can't imagine. But then I started thinking, you know what, the way the world works There will be some pushback eventually on this guy and there'll be a do you know what I mean? there'll there'll be social media hate of him or or whatever it is. And I was just wondering where and when that might take place because at the moment you look at him and you just can't imagine it. You can't imagine that anyone could not like this kid. Success breeds that it's tall puppy syndrome, right? We're bad for it in Australia, but it's not it's not a geographically locked issue. It happens all over the world. So True. you look at you you do end up if you are successful enough, you will end up to the point where it becomes polarizing and there are signs that that, Kimmy is the next kind of Max slash Lewis type of athlete that's going to have a lot of success and eventually people will try and find a way to to cut that down. But we're a fair way off that happening yet, and it just feels like a good news story at the moment. And I'm gonna be the I'm gonna be the first guy. Fuck that guy. fair enough. Why not? Max Verstappen and Liam Lawson each received a one place grid penalty over a collision in FP two. Both drivers admitted their moves were unnecessary and clumsy, the FAA steward said in their ruling. Verstappen was preparing for time lap when he tried to pass Lawson, who was cooling down before another attempt. Approaching turn twelve, Lawson fought back through the next corner in the stadium section. Both Verstappen before Verstappen crossed the curb at turn fourteen and the two made contact. Both cars sustained damage while debris on the circuit prompted a brief red flag. Max gave Lawson some advice after the session. He said, If I would hear if I was him, I would be act a little smarter. Also, when you're fighting for your seat, it's not very smart behaviour. Lawson responded on Sky Sports F one saying, I went to see Max this morning to apologise because obviously what happened yesterday doesn't need to happen. I don't want to have that happen in the future, and obviously right now It's not the best time. I didn't understand what they were fighting about. It seemed so stupid to me. I mean we're gonna get onto some pretty poor handling of things by the FIA pretty soon, I think. But I actually like the way they handled that. They know you can both have a penalty. Like there was nonsense from both of you. Yep. speaking of having a bad weekend, Estemoto has denied he used violence after admitting there was a difference in viewpoints at Haas before he was benched at the Mexico City Grand Prix. Ocon was suddenly dropped by Haas without explanation on Saturday morning, just hours before final practice got underway and replaced by reserve driver Rio Hirokawa. For Okon, who is to be replaced by Kamara at the end of neck end of this year, it marks a striking resemblance to how his Alpine stint ended in twenty twenty four as he was replaced by successor Jack Doan for the Abu Dhabi finale. French newspaper Le Equip reported that a potentially physical altercation between Ocon and Haas team principal Ayu Kamatsu on Friday evening occurred after practice. Ocon denied this in a statement. He said last night a difference in viewpoints led to a discussion with the parties involved. Whilst I acknowledge that this took place, I categorically reject any reports or allegations suggesting that any form of physical violence was used to resolve any differences of any nature. Forgetting that for a minute. In a fight, who you backing? Okon or the four foot Japanese man Ayu Komatsu? Ocon's got the reach, but I don't know, it He's French. Komatsu does sort of remind me. Traditionally not great fighters. Yeah, well yes. Does does remind me of that you know the pretzel episode of The Simpsons where there's the like the the short guy that hasn't done anything yet and home's waiting for him, the forgiveness pleased guy. That's he's got a bit of that about him. So I don't know. Yeah, this was a really weird A really weird situation and And it's still not really resolved 'cause we don't know whether this is a done deal now or whether he comes back. Surely they would be nuts not to put Camara in the car for for Brazil, right? Like he's But he's racing for Formula Two a Formula Two title, right? They're not in Brazil, are they? Are they done? No, but he's still got one more round, potentially depending on what happens in the Middle East. Well, no, I think you put him in the car. It's the pr it's his home race. It's an opportunity to get ahead of next seasons. surely that's But I don't yeah, I just don't I I just can't see that they that this thing with Ocon gets resolved. And and it's obviously just like there's there's there's an issue there behind the scenes, right? Like this this is there's a pattern with this driver. And and and obviously being difficult to to work with and and we've seen it. I mean there's There's fairly recent examples in supercars of of that being the case where people get in the way of their own ability in terms of their ability in the car by just being too difficult to work with. It does happen and there's very modern examples of it. And we're going to go into that. But it there's there's there's very well known examples of it. So it's just it's it it's such a silly thing because I don't think anyone would deny the fact that that Esteban Ocon's a pretty good Grand Prix driver. But He's just worked himself into a position where teams don't want to work with him to the point where they will bench him midway through the the weekend, which is a a pretty pretty sad state of affairs really. But yeah, I think either the second or third team that he's left in he he's been famous he's been famous for it for a long time. It's not a new thing, it's not the first time it's happened. So but I think Ryo Hirokawa did a pretty good job as a sub. Yeah. Isn't he thirty or something? Yeah. Yeah. So the the issue with him doing Brazil is that he's meant to be off winning winning a WEC title next weekend. so but I guess that's an interesting kind of situation to be in as well, is it? Do you go, Well, do I wanna win a world championship in sports cars or do I wanna go and race in a Grand Prix? True that. So Anyway, we'll see what happens, but I would think Camaro would be the obvious choice for next weekend. Now speaking of genuine four footers, Dick Johnson Racing is searching for a new co-driver after Tony Delberto announced his retirement from Supercars Enduro Cup duties today. T D's time behind the wheel at DJR included third place finishes in twenty seventeen alongside Fabian Coulthardt in twenty twenty three with Anton Di Pasquale. he'll stay with the team as an ambassador, but and probably do some GT racing, but supercars that's that's it. She's all over Red Rover. So well done T D. fantastic career and yeah, probably now it makes me wonder about what's around for DJ R. I know it's a long time before we have to really panic about that, but yeah. Well, you say that, but Jesus' seats fill up fast. Like it it happens really quick now. It's not a case of of it all happening sort of midway through next year. So they'll need to be in the market pretty soon to to find someone. But as you say, amazing career from T D, one of the great blokes in Australian motorsport. alwa always has been, a lovely bloke. So definitely wish him all the best with his post supercars career. I don't think things probably ended in the way that he would have liked. Well I think that's a fairly obvious thing to say, but he was a fantastic Servant for that team, did fantastic work for them. a great race car driver and a very good person. So yeah, well done on a great career, T D. And there's a little junior T Dalberto in carts at the moment, so you never know. Nascar, Shame Being Gizburden qualified twenty ninth for the Voter Fraud two fifty at Martinsville, but carved through the field to finish fifth OVL in a race won by William Byron. I tell you what, that track, Martinsville, how you don't get dizzy driving around that five hundred times is absolutely beyond me. but let's talk about Moto GP because there's first of all, there was a GP on the weekend in Malaysia. Jorge Martin withdrew from all racing while sitting in second place in the championship with that wrist injury that in was a happened in Phillip Island. He completed the opening practice session but withdrew just a few minutes into the afternoon session on Friday, attracting criticism of the doctors who cleared him to race. the sprint race was held. Pedro Acosta won after Alex Marquez crashed from the lead as Mark Marquez finished second. Marco Bosecchi completed the podium for April. And then in the Grand Prix, Marc Marquez was absolutely untouchable in the race on Sunday to win his seventh GP of the year, beating home Pedro Acosta and Alex Marquez. in just seven days time, ABL. It looks like he will wrap up his eighth title. There's an asterisk to that claim, but we're going to cover off in a minute. In Moto 2. Moto GP bound Senator Agius had a shock over weekend. He qualified twelfth and felt fifteenth. And in Moto three, Joel Kelso crashed out from sixth place with four laps to go, so was a bad day for the Aussies. However, the other thing that's happening in Moto GP at the moment, and it's an alarming new report on the Qatar Grand Prix situation, which claims Moto GP riders could face race bans if they do not take part in this week's twentieth round of the season. There is a report that the standoff between riders and the Moto GP group over racing in Qatar have reached A striking new phase. Over the last seven days, riders have held several meetings and expressed concerns about going to Qatar next week due to the risk of an escalation in the US war with Iran. Don't forget the reason this race has moved to this time of the year is because it was deemed too risky to run earlier this year. In recent days, numerous sources have reported that US President Donald Trump plans an intense renewal of attacks on Iran following the third of November midterm elections, with riders set to hold off as long as possible before travelling to Qatar because of the uncertainty. It's also known that the only that only D D Zone will be on site from the pool of TV broadcasters, with the rest electing for remote reporting, while VR forty six has confirmed some of its team personnel will not be traveling to the event. According to Motorsports Oriel Pugemont, Moto GP may start issuing sporting sanctions to riders who do not take part in the Qatar Grand Prix for any reason other than injury. The publication also claims riders could be banned from the Portuguese and Valencia Grand Prix if they fail to show up in Qatar. Just after hours after the Grand Prix of Malaysia in Sipang, Yamaha announced a company wide decision not to participate in this weekend in Qatar. Subsequently, Moto GP has warned against possible sporting consequences for Yamaha. it's hard not to back the riders and the teams here, mate. Yeah, it's a super tricky situation. it's obviously a pretty big leap that MotoGP is taking by trying to put this race on. We've obviously seen F1 go in the other direction in terms of not hosting the rounds at the start of the season, and we're all still very eagerly waiting to see what they do with the two Middle Eastern events that are meant to close out the season. We've seen the Dakar rally move to Morocco and Spain, I think it is, for next year. That's usually held in the Middle East as well. So the general trend. is to move away from trying to host events in that region and MotoGP's obviously doubling down and trying to get that done. interesting with Yamaha, I mean I guess if they were fighting for a championship, would they have such a strong stance on it? I'm not a hundred percent sure. I think that ultimately sporting performance trumps any sort of politics around this sort of stuff, but you know, it's it's an admirable stance whatever the circumstances are that around it. And Yeah, it's it's like I say, it's a big deal for Moto G P but the real question mark is what F one is gonna do because this has proven that it is a very, very tricky scenario and just saying it's fine, let's go racing there doesn't actually pass the pub test and it doesn't pass the teams test either. Yeah, I feel horribly sorry, especially 'cause it's not just r a lot of these stories are reporting on riders, but obviously it's not writers it as well it's their teams, it's people that link to it just must be a a shocking situation and to read the news like that there there is a likelihood of fighting to return in that part of the world in the next five days. And if you go on to Smart Traveller I know this is not funny, but go on to Smart Traveller and and look for recommendations around safety travelling Qatar and they say don't go where's a large gathering of foreigners. Well exactly. Yeah. That's the thing. You're you're it it might be it might be perfectly civil and calm and everything walking down the main street of LaSalle right now, but the reality is that when you bring that sort of attention to your city, to a big event, that can be problematic. And that's that is the issue. You know, statements may be made. Events are the that it's not just about you know, the the political instability and all that sort of stuff. You are Putting a big microscope over a whole bunch of people and saying, All right, well here this is and it's I I totally understand why people would be nervous about that. Do you think F one is watching this with interest to see how this all plays out? For sure. Do you definitely do you think there's still a hope that they would go or not hope, a chance that hope's wrong word. Yeah. A chance that they would go there? Well, I think the right decision is to put the event on an Imola and cancel those last two events. in the Middle East. Especially now the titles wrapped up, right? Correct. That that does, as we discussed a week or so back, that certainly takes the pressure off F one in terms of trying to to see out the full season. But yeah, it's who knows? Who knows what's gonna happen. At the end of the day, it what will ultimately dictate it is dollars and cents. That's the harsh and somewhat sad reality of it. So it'll depend on what the financial picture is as to whether they try and put it on or whether they don't. That's that's what I think will actually it will come down to. But hopefully some s sanity gets in the way and and a decision is made to to just not try and do it 'cause it just doesn't feel like the right thing to do at the moment. No, I agree. I agree. All right. We'll go to a break and then we'll come back and preview the Sandion five hundred. Winter could spell bad news for your vehicle's battery. Here are three maintenance tips from the battery gurus at RNJ Batteries. 1. Avoid frequent short trips to keep your battery at a healthy state of charge. 2. Keep the battery terminals clean and corrosion free. 3. Avoid running your accessories with the engine off for too long. If your battery is three years or older, it might be time to get it tested for free. At your local R and J Batteries. R and J Batteries power like nothing else. Hey mate, before we s preview the Sandown 500, I've got say there's still a chance to get to the where the 2026 Repco Supercast Champion is going to be crowned. At Adelaide, of course, on the iconic street circuit, the last time they're going to be on that street circuit for the BP Adelaide Grand Final in 26th to the 29th of November. You can experience four days of War Class Motorsport featuring supercars, GT World Challenge Australia, GT One Race Club presented by GG Classic Cars, and so much more. There's on and off track entertainment, including the Australian Rally Championships, your favorite, the Napa Speedway in the city, and a host of race day attractions. Saturday and Sunday tickets include access to after race concerts. On Saturday, Hilltop Hoods take the stage, the mighty Hilltop Hoods, joined by special guests Ballpark Music, Cyril and Teenage Jones, and then on Sunday strap on the flannels, get on the Winnie Blues because Guns N' Roses are back in town and they will rock that joint to its core. Tickets are available right now at Ticketmaster. Get in quick because this looks like one hell of an event. and what a way to finish a fantastic year of supercars ABL. Yep, I'm already very excited about Adelaide. It's actually cool. As I like by the time this pod's live, I'll be on a plane heading to Melbourne for Sandown. And we've got the Sandown semi final and then the Adelaide Grand Final. And I know I've Go on about this all the time. I love the finals, but it's just so cool. There's just two awesome events coming up and I'm genuinely excited about it. And this isn't part of the the ad. I'm just excited about going to this event. It's gonna be awesome. I know. I am trying to find a way to get there. It's Yeah, do it. Yeah. I might have to sell someone, but that's okay. worry about that, we'll talk about that later. But let's talk about this weekend. It's the Sandown five hundred. Let's preview the round of the weather Well, it's possible showers across the weekend with tops of just twenty one degrees AVL, so you'll be fine there. I don't think it's going to be too swampy. Shocking. supports of the Dunlop. Knock you down. the supports of the Dunlop Super Two's the Trico Transam, the Toyota G R Cup and Porsche Michelin Sprint. for the supercars, there's two sessions on Friday practice sessions. Saturday is qualifying at eleven twenty and a top ten shootout straight after that. And then a seventy nine lapper from three thirty A. and then it's just rinse and repeat on Sunday with the same format. Mate three thirty AMs. Three swallow, imagine. Who imagine what get there early, I told you, there's gonna be lot of people there. That's a terrible You can still get breakfast at Macca's if it finishes up at three thirty AM. Yeah, yeah. three thirty PM, of course. Let's look at your predictions because my podium is gonna be controversial. What have you got? Well, I've got Brock Feeney, Matt Payne, and Anton Di Pasquale. maybe it's not it's I've got I've got Anton winning a race. from from Brock and Brody. What about shootout and the poll? Give me two different ones. I I'll pick two different ones. I'll give one to Brock Feeney. Yep. And I'll give one to Anton as well. Yeah, I've got Anton and Let's throw in a smoky and go Kai. There you go. your best Ruffy for the weekend. I'm gonna chuck a bit of Hughesy in here. I love that. He's like we've seen how well he can go on a track he's never been to before, so let's take him somewhere that he's done a few laps and see how he goes. Yeah. I'm gonna put Dave in. It's my Ruffy. And given that he's also in a Chevron, they might go all right, how many safety cars over the weekend? Three. Three. I'm gonna say one over the entirety of the two days. unlikely headline from the weekend. fans denied replays of Todd Hazelwood's Sandown crash in T V page. Yeah. mine is modern facilities please fans and teams alike at Sandown. I don't know if you've seen the press the media box leaking like a sieve on the weekend. I did. Now if this is the answer, what's the question? The answer is Todd Hazelwood, Lee Holdsworth, Will Davison, Taz Douglas, and James Golding. who would be a great bunch of blokes to have a beer with? There's some beauties in there. Some of the absolute greats. Name five drivers who think moving the wall back at turn five was a pussy move. Yeah. Fair. and if this is the answer, what's the question? The answer is Heritage Round. What sand down should be? What is the back half of the field in Porsche Michelin Cup commonly known as? No All right. Mate, when are you heading over there? tomorrow, by which I mean Tuesday morning. And do you think you will see a calendar at some stage during that weekend? Yeah, I'll be very surprised if we don't. I think I think later this week we should see a calendar. Awesome. I may have seen the calendar. Alright, let's already. Don't worry. Alright, we'll bring it up in the next next segment. Mate, enjoy the weekend. I know there's a bit of a get together with some of the people from the Discord that are that you organized. Goodness me. Best of luck, that's all I can say. And we'll go to a break and we'll come back and we'll talk about the Discord after the break. Credit to the Noise Yeah, welcome back. Now, as we said, the Discord as part of the full credit of the Noise membership has been rocking over the weekend. especially the Grand Prix this morning, it was quite good. Usually I'll be sitting there by myself watching this, but yeah, it was going off. I had to ban myself from looking at it because watched the race on delay and I didn't need any spoilers, so I had to it was hard because like my natural instinct is to like crack over the Discord whenever I'm watching an F one race, but I like, Yeah, I better not do this because it's gonna ruin it for me. So Yeah. Anyway. all right. Let's do yeah, see if you do want to be a part of it, go to FCTN dot com, follow the links to the membership and then you will be given access to the Discord where it is a bunch of like minded people talking motorsport, especially during events, which is kinda cool. And there's still a lot to go over the the next sort of three or four weeks, including F one. Sure. All right. Six credit or shredded. So I'm make a statement. You just tell me if you agree or disagree with a credit or a shreddit. We'll come back after we're done all six. Number one, if Liam Lawson wasn't from down in this part of the world, we'd all think he was a bit of a flog after you listen to him on his team radio. Shredd it. Credit. Number two. Red Bull Formula One team principal Laurent Mecke's hit back at Christian Horner's claims that his former team had lost its mojo since he left. Horner is a self absorbed flog. credit. Credit. Number three, Lewis Hamilton stated in twenty twenty three, you shouldn't be able to have billions, right? I think there should be a limit on how much money you can have because there's enough to go around for everyone. Currently, in twenty twenty six, Hamilton is estimated to be worth five hundred million and girlfriend Kim Kardashian is worth two billion dollars. Lewis Hamilton is a hypocritical flog. I see a theme here. I can see a theme. I'm gonna go with credit, but I will explain that. Credit. Number four. Isaac Hadjar shoved a fan in the paddock at the Mexican Grand Prix who tried to get a selfie with the driver. Hajar is a flog. this is the flog edition I see. I'll go with credit, kinda. Shredd again, I'll explain. Alex Marquez admits skipping next weekend's Moto GP Qatar Grand Prix is an option. As you evaluate surgery on the shoulder that he injured in Barcelona in May. This is the motorsport version of 4D chess to get out of going to Qatar while tensions in the Middle East continue to rise. Ooh, credit, yeah. Credit. Pretty smart. number six, Mark Marquez has surpassed Valentina Rossi as an all time great in Moto GP. Ooh. I'm gonna go with Shreddit. Really? Yeah. I'm gonna go credit. All right. Liam Lawson from down this part of the world. I don't know, man. I like Liam. I d I T of what? I don't know. If he was George Russell, we would be pumping him. Maybe. I don't think anyone's team radio really reflects well on them. You know what I mean? Like I think that if you isolate at all it's a high pressure, high stress, high adrenaline environment. it's yeah. So I I I don't think you can You can necessarily judge someone based on their team radio. That's why I went with Shredded. Yeah. I think we we would be pretty hard on him if he was from any other part of the world. Laurent Mekis said Horner had a crack at Horner after Horner said that the team had lost its mojo when he left. Horner's a flog. Yeah, well self absorbed vlog, I think, is the terminology that you used exactly. and I do go with credit, but I don't necessarily mean that as a bad thing. I think that's what you need to be to to succeed in those environments, if that makes sense. So I d I don't think that's a radical statement. I think it's a pretty fair assessment of Christian Horner. But I don't mean that as a as a bad thing. I think it just you just have to be. Lewis Hamilton, the money situation and now Mrs. Lewis is worth two billion and he's worth half a billion. Yeah. Yeah, I I mean I overcred it, but again I don't necessarily mean it as a bad thing. Like Lewis is and always has been a pretty decent sort of human being, right? And and I'm not sure we should hang people for what they do for a living when their general social conscience is well meaning. You know, I think that's I think that's actually a good thing. And Sebastian Vettel tied himself in knots around this, when he started to go on environmental campaigns and that sort of stuff. And it I I think it played a very big part in him leaving F one. and ultimately like F one would be worse off than not having Lewis in it. So I think letting him use his powers for good, even if there's an element of hypocrisy around it, is not a bad thing, really. Like that's that's my take on it. But it's it it is hypocritical. There's that there's no doubt about that. I just think that even in twenty twenty three, if you're swimming in those circles, you would make those statements. But anyway. Hajjar shoved this is one I really want to talk about. Hajar shoved a fan in the paddock of the Mexican Grand Prix to get a s who wan try to get a selfie with him. Hajjar is a flog, I said shred it. It's a this is a really interesting scenario, right? What's your what's your take on it? So my take is one, I think It seems to be quite easy for a certain type of person to get into the back of the paddock and get close to the drivers. Hajjar was having a bad day. gave his team free character references at the time. and this guy really I don't know if you've seen it, but he really rode his luck, like getting close to him to try and get a selfie as Hajjar was walking. Hajjar didn't stop. He was walking and he was walking. when you see someone walk with purpose, he was walking with purpose. And I would have thought get your picture as best you can, but if you get hip and shouldered, that's on you. Yeah, I don't disagree with that entirely. I I can I sort of s see both sides of this. And the the one thing and I understand that I think you got a warning from the FIA in the end, like he did, yeah. What what F one does sell and what supercars does as well, this is the major selling point. From these sports is access. you can see things that you cannot see in other professional sports in terms of the behind the scenes. You can be in the paddock at a supercars event. You can see less at an F1 event because the the paddocks are sorry, the garages are closed off. But at a supercar's race, you're not allowed to close the back of the garage off. It has to be open. There's literally regulations around it because it's all about Giving people this insight into the sport and making them feel involved in it. So I I see why I I can certainly see how it would be super annoying how when you're having a bad day, you would end up in a situation where you would react in the way that Isaac did. At the same time, like if that's the worst part of your job and you earn thirty million euros a year. I know that. I yeah, I get that. Come on. Like you just kind of gotta suck it up a little bit. because this is not a normal job. Because you can sit there and say, Well, if someone pulled you over on your way to work and tried to get a selfie with you every five seconds you might get sick of it. But I reckon if I earned what an F one driver earned, I'd find a way to live with it. I'd find a way to go, you know what, I don't actually have a normal job. So I can't have the expectations of someone with a normal job. So I I like I say, I I kind of see both sides of it. But ultimately I think it the onus is on the athlete to just suck it up. If that's the worst thing that happens to you and you if you have to walk back into the hospitality unit and open your phone and look at your bank balance for a second and then sit around and go, My bad day was the fact that my my Formula One card didn't go as fast as I wanted it to. well, I think you've you've got to have a bit of a reality check on on that one. And I understand that again that's something I think that is context that that is lost on athletes as well sometimes because they don't They don't know any different, right? That's their whole life. That it it all is life and life or death for them in terms of what's happening on track and and their own performance and that sort of stuff. But out in the real world, they're pretty minor problems. So that's where I ultimately land. I think that he has to do better in that situation. I don't know whether Isaac Isaac listens to the show. Let's just say he does. Little bit of advice from Uncle Former. A little sneaky sackwack and that flow. Probably won't bother you for a little while. So and it's harder to detect than a hip and shoulder. So just a quick out on the download, quite literally. Drop drop you like a like a bag of spuds. See you later, buddy. Alex Marquez is looking at skipping this week's Qatar Grand Prix for surgery on an injury from May. This is four D chess. Yeah, that line from the Moto GP saying you're you you you There might may be sanctions if you miss it for anything other than injury. That's the little red flag in this one. This is very clever work. Yeah, there'll be blokes going straight to their doctors and getting doctors' notes. This one I'm interested in. Marquez's surpass Rossi as an all time great. Well, you've got a better read on this than me. You're more plugged into the Moto GP world than I am. I just always feel like there's more to start on than results, right? Like it's Rossi is still this massive megastar, like global, transcends his sport kind of kind of person. And I'm I I I'm not sure Marquez is quite there yet, but I'm but I may be wrong. Yeah, it's not a bad chat. But you've probably got a better read than me. But if the way I read the question or heard the question, as an all time great, I still think that there's Valentino Rossi and there's sort of daylight behind him. And even guys that could could could challenge him very comfortably on track. you have Pedrosas and guys like that. Yeah, that they just could never be this superstar that Valentino Rossi is. Because it's more than it's more than just what you do on the bike. I wonder whether in that situation whether they get bigger and better after retirement in some regard. Some guys drop off the map and you don't think of them again, and then other guys seem to Yeah, but I generate an even bigger buzz. It comes back to what but Valentino Rossi made his stardom during his active career. He just made such an impact that it's carried on beyond his retirement. And to be honest, he had some hope. Remember when he had that shoulder injury and he was like carrying that and he was he was dog slow for a few seasons there and completely uncompetitive and it just didn't matter. Well so was Marquez on the Honda as well. He was out injured for a year and and you know, when he came back he came back on the satellite Ducaddy team and we're all like, this might be the end of it if he doesn't get anything going and well, buggy me dead, he's got that going all right. So yeah, look, it's it will be interesting to see how history does treat both of them, but I think Marquez will only get bigger and better. Rossi I I agree with I agree with that a hundred percent. And I think that Marquez is definitely the only of the current generation that has any chance of having any sort of star power like Valentino Rossi. that's a hundred percent a fair statement. But whether he's quite there yet, I'm not I I think you could walk into a pub right now and ask the people sitting there if they know who Valentino Rossi is and most of them will. And you could ask them if they know who Mark Marquez. And I'm not sure that you're gonna get the same strike rate of people going, Yeah, that's that motorbike guy, right? Like So that's that's where I sit on it. Do you know why what brought this question about? No. So this week I've been on a bit of a mission to look for a Rossi helmet and then I started thinking, I'd like a Marquez helmet in a glass box, that'll be sick. So then I looked at Marquez's helmets. The cheapest I can get one anywhere in Australia right now is about nine hundred dollars. And that's like it's just a replica, it's not a race user anything. Rossi, two hundred. So I was thinking, Wow. Yeah. Yeah, that's that's interesting. But I guess also the bigger your star power is, the more commercialized your brand is, right? True. And the more stuff that is out there and the more of it that's out there, that's ba pretty basic economics, the cheaper that it's gonna be. So it's probably more of a case of just there being more availability of Rossi memorabilia on the market. I guess what I'm saying is if you've got a Marquez helmet you want to sell for two hundred, hit me up. So that's a good point. Whisper of the Week, it's not a whisper, it's just gonna be a statement, AVL. if if Zach Bates is to leave his team, for the love of God, someone find a way to get him into a super. That would just be I think that's something that Toyota would very much like. I think that's something they would like, but I also don't think he's gonna leave his team. 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