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Formula Fanatics #6 - Bienvenido a Miami! · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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  Strap in, because the lights are out and we're underway.
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  This is Formula Fanatics.
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  Formula uh.
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  We have so many things to talk about in Formula 1.
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  What was the last race?
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  It feels like a millennia ago.
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  Uh, Miami, right?
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  Miami.
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  I put it out of my mind, 'cause I don't like that track.
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  Oh, God, it was forever ago.
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  It was a couple weeks ago.
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  What... Was there any drama there?
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  I can't even remember.
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  Your boy won.
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  Yeah, Kimi.
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  Kimi.
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  So Miami was the, had a sprint race, which was super exciting.
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  Yes.
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  So in my notes I wrote, "Hulkenberg didn't start the Miami Sprint despite
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  qualifying 10th due to," "engine issues in the Audi." Are they running the
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  same two liter that everybody else is?
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  You know, Binotto said there's motor problems.
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  Well, the other car still finished in the middle of the pack.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  What's that, what's that Adam Sandler song at a medium pace?
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  Uh, that's still multiple positions ahead of Cadillac, who finished basically last.
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  Yes, yes, yes, yes.
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  Kimi, they need to drill him on taking off at the line.
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  What is his problem?
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  I don't know.
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  He qualifies on the pole, unlike Aston Martin, who qualified
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  slower than the Formula 2 cars.
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  That's why I have the graphic up on the screen here.
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  He qualifies on the pole, and he can't get out of his own way.
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  Everybody goes around him.
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  Like, he stalls.
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  I don't get it.
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  Uh, I don't know.
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  I don't know enough about the cars.
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  I've never driven one, but clearly he's the only person
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  suffering from this launch issue.
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  God.
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  And you would've thought, given the cancellation of two of the races,
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  so the very much extended, like, spring break that they had, that,
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  boy, you should've just been on the track doing that over and over again.
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  It'd, it'd be like writing words on a chalkboard.
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  Toto should've just made him do starts over and over and over again.
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  Like, I don't get it.
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  It's terrible.
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  Maybe he did, and then maybe in the heat of the moment he crumbles a little bit.
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  I don't know.
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  Maybe he's texting on his phone instead.
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  I don't know.
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  Who knows?
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  Selfie.
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  So in the sprint race, Lindblad was out.
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  Hulkenberg was out.
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  Russell cuts across the nose of Antonelli at one point.
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  That was interesting.
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  Those two are not getting along.
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  It's very clear that Russell does not like Antonelli.
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  I don't think there's any animosity the other way.
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  Yeah, I was gonna say I'm pretty sure that's one-sided, 'cause Kimi
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  is, like, this little lap dog who's just, like, so excited to be, like,
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  around everybody whenever you see him.
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  Maybe that's why he can't start a race.
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  He's there like Thumper, and he's like, "Oh, my God, it's so exciting.
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  Then he forgets that the lights turn green.
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  They just go around him.
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  Maybe that's what it is.
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  Tanya's fallen out of her chair.
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  Give her a minute to catch her breath.
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  Give me S. It's an Ellie.
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  This is the middle name
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  Ooh.
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  Wow.
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  And that's meant with no disrespect The man is a h- he's
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  my hero now, I'm telling you.
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  Oh, my gosh.
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  Well, I guess we'll find out this coming weekend if he's, uh, gotten
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  his, his nerves in check for Montreal.
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  Yeah, yeah.
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  That'd be nice to see him start on the pole and blow everybody away by turn one.
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  So going back to Miami, this is the first time we got to see the flip over wing.
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  Yes.
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  And I remember commenting to you, "Did I just see the wing
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  rotate on the Ferrari?" Yes.
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  The Ferraris have the rotating wing now.
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  Yes.
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  Didn't seem to help 'cause I think they finished in their worst positions.
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  Oh, God, it was awful.
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  It's like, "What are you guys doing?" But we got the cool flippy wing.
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  And then there was a battle between Hamilton and Verstappen.
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  I had wrote down Norris, Piastri, Leclerc, and inevitably Antonelli.
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  I think that's c- was, like, the top of the, the sprint race there, basically.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  And then the full race, yet again, Antonelli's in the pole.
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  Then we had Verstappen, Russell, Leclerc.
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  The last car was the Audi with Bortoleto.
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  Again, we had a sucky start.
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  And so, and this is where Verstappen spins, and we're all like, "What
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  did I just see?" They... How many times did they show that replay
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  of Max spinning at the beginning?
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  Several times.
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  But I mean, he caught it, and didn't get hit, and kept going.
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  And that's not the first time, actually, in an F1 race where
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  he's caught a spin, and then just like it was nothing, kept going.
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  S- it was wild to see.
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  I expected Stroll to plow into him, and even he didn't end up
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  hitting Max, maybe 'cause he was so far back it didn't matter.
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  But still, it was unreal to see him spin in the middle of
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  traffic and then just keep going.
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  Buck wild.
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  So then he's like, what?
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  10th place at that point, and then Leclerc's at the front of the
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  pack because of all the confusion.
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  Yes.
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  Absolutely wild.
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  Yes, that's right, and he, and then his car broke at the end.
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  That's why he ended up so far back.
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  That's right.
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  He should've been podiumed, and then the car started breaking down,
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  and it was, like, the last lap or whatever, and he just kept going
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  slower and slower, then everybody caught up to him and got around him.
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  And somebody got a penalty.
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  Maybe he got a penalty on top of that, too, to push them further back?
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  Yeah, Leclerc got a penalty after that.
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  'Cause if not, he would've ended up in sixth behind Verstappen.
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  Correct.
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  'Cause Verstappen passed him, I think, right at the start finish.
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  And then, yeah, forget what he got a penalty for, and then
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  knocked him even further back.
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  20 second time penalty after finishing.
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  He was driving a damaged car in an unsafe condition, 'cause I think it, like, broke
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  the rear wishbone or something like that.
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  Uh-huh.
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  Okay.
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  That's what was the problem.
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  Okay.
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  So that's what he was investigated for, and then they finally ruled... And then
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  it... I feel bad for him, because he still managed to hold it together and, what?
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  He came in, like, fifth, just struggling to bring the car- back.
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  Yeah.
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  And it's like, I, at that point I would've been like, "Man, you get the hard charger
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  award and you can keep those fifth place points. Who cares?" Like, you did it, and
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  the car made it home despite being broken.
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  But I guess the downside to that was, what if the wheel fell off and hit somebody?
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  But there was, like, two turns left.
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  Who cares?
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  As long as he crossed the line and pulled off to the side, he was fine.
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  But I get it, racing incident.
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  So I have in my notes, Antonelli ends up first at one point and then
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  drops to third, and then Hadjar and Gasly wreck out because Hadjar hit
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  the apex and broke the suspension.
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  That was funny.
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  I was like, "You know that wall doesn't move?" Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  That's right.
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  They wrecked, two wrecks.
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  Simultaneously.
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  They were unrelated- Yeah ... in, like, the same lap.
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  Yep.
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  Oh, is this the one where Gasly ended up upside down?
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  Yeah, because Lawson hits him.
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  Yeah.
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  He flipped him over.
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  This was a very dramatic race, actually.
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  It was.
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  'Cause normally it's not that exciting.
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  It's like, man, this track is boring, and then they, all they do is yell about rain.
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  "It's gonna rain.
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  It's gonna rain." And you're like, it's 97 degrees and sunny, and they're
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  all going, "It's gonna rain, guys.
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  Don't worry.
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  It's gonna rain." It's coming next lap.
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  Yeah.
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  25 laps later.
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  Which they did again this race, too, and I'm like, "Seriously? Can
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  we stop with this BS?" Like, I get that there's sudden s- thunderstorms
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  in Miami, but come on, guys.
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  Like, let's be real.
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  So yeah, Lawson hits Gasly, flips him over, and an announcer said, I,
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  I wrote this down, I don't know if it was Coulthard or whoever, and he's
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  like, "Lawson lost deceleration."
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  Is that a funny way of saying that he didn't hit the brakes
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  and just, like, plowed into him?
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  Like, what does Lawson deceleration mean?
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  Or is it something in this electronic system that doesn't work?
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  I believe something allegedly broke on the car.
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  Allegedly.
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  Allegedly.
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  Antonelli was complaining about gearbox issues, which was to me very similar
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  to what Russell did the year prior, where he would, "Oh, you know..."
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  But he did have electronics issues even though the car kept going.
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  So gearbox issues with Antonelli, which then I didn't understand
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  because he started going faster.
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  Is it all in your head?
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  I, uh, whatever.
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  But Hülkenberg did have gearbox issues, and then there's a Kimi and Lando moment.
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  And let's see what else.
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  Russell ends up behind Verstappen in the end, and ahead of Hamilton.
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  Hamilton, not a great race for him.
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  On the other side of that, I wanna talk about some other Formula 1 stuff.
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  So I had a recent Formula 1 related experience.
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  I got two articles that you can check out in your free time.
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  They're on our other website, or you can pull them up through the
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  Drive Thru show notes themselves.
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  The first part was I ended up in Boston for the IBM Think conference, which
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  did you know IBM sponsors Ferrari?
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  Does all their big compute stuff, they use, uh, IBM for that.
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  So I got to see last year's Formula 1 car on stage at IBM in Boston.
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  They also had their own simulator where they were showing off Watsonx
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  and the telemetry and how it works.
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  They had a modified version of Assetto Corsa.
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  I got on there and tried it.
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  It was in Niki Lauda's F1 car from, like, back in the '70s, and the rig was kind of
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  chintzy because it was all, like, Logitech stuff you could have bought at Best Buy.
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  So not the best experience, although I, I put up a podium time like, my first try,
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  and it was like, "All right, I'm good.
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  See y'all later." So there's a bunch of pictures from that, pictures of
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  the car, more about the write-up and the simulation and, and about how IBM
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  contributes to the team and, and what they do and all that kind of stuff.
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  I will say, seeing last year's car up close, like, you could get really,
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  really close to it, it is super big.
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  Like, truck size big.
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  I forgot how big the modern Formula cars were because you don't... You always see
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  them from a distance, but once you see them up close, just crazy, crazy huge.
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  Really interesting time at IBM's conference.
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  You know, spent a lot of time learning about how they're using artificial
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  intelligence in Formula 1, how they're augmenting the engineers.
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  It did r- kind of raise the question in my head, is racing still racing in 2026?
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  Like, with all this AI and all this technology, you know, determining
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  exactly what they need to do to the cars, are the drivers still driving?
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  I, I think so.
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  On the other side of that, I got invited to F1 Arcade in Boston for the first time.
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  This establishment opened a couple of years ago, and I've always been curious,
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  and I was like, "Oh, next time I'm in Boston, I'll have to go check it out."
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  Well, what's even better is when you don't have to pay the registration
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  fees, and you go with the Arrow team.
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  Yes, Arrow, the same people that sponsor McLaren, to visit F1 Arcade
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  and go try out their simulators, check out the bar, go compete against other
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  folks for some signed McLaren merch.
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  And you get to read the whole story about that on our website as well, and all the
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  gory details about how the simulators are set up and how I ended up doing.
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  So I had a great time.
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  I will say, if you're a Formula 1 fan and you end up in Boston or in DC or in Vegas
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  or Atlanta or the, you know, other places where F1 Arcade now exists, check it out.
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  You will not be disappointed.
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  It is absolutely a lot of fun.
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  And if you go with some friends, they'll just enjoy the bar, too,
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  'cause it's pretty cool looking.
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  Well, this next one belongs on your game room table.
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  What is this, Tanya?
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  So I'm actually probably gonna buy this.
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  What?
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  Apparently, there's going to be a Monopoly F1 edition board game.
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  And so from the surface, you might think, oh, it's just like every Monopoly edition
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  blah, blah, blah board game, right?
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  Where it's just themed or whatever.
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  This is actually apparently different.
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  It's Monopoly with a twist, so you actually have to, like, win races as
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  you're going around the board, and you- the teams each have unique abilities.
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  So the example they give is, there's a special F1 die that you roll with the
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  regular dice, and if you're, like, Team McLaren, you get to either immediately
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  move to the next race or move some number of spaces shown on the red die.
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  So I ask you, it is worth getting this just to find out, what is the
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  special ability of Aston Martin?
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  Yes.
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  Yes.
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  Is it crash your opponent?
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  You got strolled.
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  Do not pass go.
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  Do not pass start.
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  You move two spaces back.
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  You spun out.
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  So this looks like an interesting twist on the Monopoly idea, so I think
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  it could be interesting for people who enjoy a good board game night.
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  Maybe this is something to add to your collection.
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  Look at that.
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  Look, you have all the colors there of all the cars.
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  How much does it cost?
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  They actually did not list the retail price, but, uh, I don't know.
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  I would guess somewhere in the range of 30 to $50 easily.
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  Ooh, and it's current.
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  It has the Audi team in it as well.
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  Actually, they in fact do list the retail price.
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  I was correct, splitting the difference, 39.99, and it releases July 15th.
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  You can pre-order at walmart.com.
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  There you go.
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  I'm sure they'll be flying off the shelves.
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  Well, you never know.
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  Look at what Drive to Survive probably made Hasbro go, "How do we too
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  capitalize on Formula 1?" Lego's done it.
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  Monopoly's doing it.
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  Who's next?
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  Who's next?
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  Transformers.
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  Yes, excellent.
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  Let's switch gears and still talk about Max Verstappen for a second.
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  Tanya, you like to follow his extracurricular activities.
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  Yes, so there's multiple extracurricular activities, so one of which was
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  Max recently went to the Fuji Circuit, and he was racing a Nissan
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  Super GT class car for funsies.
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  First time at Fuji, first time in the Super GT car, and he beat out the driver
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  who drives that car on a regular basis.
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  No.
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  How embarrassed is that guy?
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  I mean, probably didn't feel great about it.
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  Probably not very embarrassed.
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  It's Max Verstappen.
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  I mean, the guy had a face on, you know?
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  So I don't think he was necessarily pleased, but could've just been
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  resting, resting face also.
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  I don't know.
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  What is this car?
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  What i- 'cause at first when I saw this, I was like, "That doesn't look
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  like a Mercedes." No, I mean, it's in, it's a Red Bull car, so it's,
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  it's Red Bull livery and all that.
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  But apparently, it's a Nissan Z Nismo GT500.
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  Ah, okay, so it's an actual Nissan.
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  There we go.
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  Yes.
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  Yeah, I was gonna say, it looks like a, looks like a Z.
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  Yeah.
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  Sort of.
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  With a lot of wide body flares.
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  That's a lot of scaffolding on that car.
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  And ground effects.
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  Yeah.
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  And hood scoops.
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  That's wild.
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  And GoPros.
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  It reminds me of the stuff that they made in the '80s.
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  But yeah, he ended up being several seconds faster than the person
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  who normally drives this car and this track, like, all the time.
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  And in the rain.
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  And it was, yeah, and it was under wet conditions.
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  Wow.
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  So what else is going on in his extracurricular activities?
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  All of this was a lead-up in some of the previous races he's done.
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  He's shown his commitment and interest to endurance racing, which has taken
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  shape at specifically the Nürburgring.
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  And this past weekend was the 24 Hours of the Nürburgring race.
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  Okay.
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  And I did post an article from Motorsport that actually deep dives
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  into the statistics, because basically, he's the fastest guy in the world.
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  Like, I mean, in summary, nobody is faster than him, because he's gone Formula 1
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  champion, faster than everybody, into a whole other motorsport discipline against
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  people that are doing this all the time.
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  And I think, in summary, at the end of the day, he created a two-minute gap-
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  Wow ... from all his stints combined.
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  But is he faster than an electric Taycan around the Nürburgring?
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  I think if you put him in the electric Taycan, then yes, they
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  together would have the lap record.
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  I mean, they broke it down by all his stints versus his teammates versus the
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  number, the sister car, and he was just miles ahead of everybody else, basically.
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  I mean, some stints he's, you know, 30 seconds faster than his
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  teammates or his, or the sister car or whatever, unfortunately.
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  And so I mean, that put him in the lead.
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  They were in, in the lead for a huge majority of the
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  race until it all fell apart.
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  At two hours to go or something like that.
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  And unfortunately, it was the number three car, his car, the
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  number 80 sister car, one-two, and a fricking drive axle took him out.
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  Ah.
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  Drive axle failure.
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  They brought it in.
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  It's like 45-minute repair.
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  They repaired the car, and they went back out for the sake of saying,
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  "We're going back out and we're gonna finish this." They ended up in,
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  like, 38th or 39th place as a result.
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  So from first to 39th or 38th, I mean, unfortunate.
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  He would have won.
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  Like, he would've been able to say, "I'm also a 24-hour Nürburgring
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  champion," but we'll see.
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  I'm sure he'll try again next year.
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  Hopefully, the car holds up.
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  You know, who knows?
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  M- the other car held up.
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  Maybe a, a two-minute lead was too aggressive driving, I don't know.
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  Just also can just be bad luck when you're in an endurance race.
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  Lots of things can happen.
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  Of course, now there's all the whispers, "Oh, Le Mans. Is he gonna
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  do a 24 Hours Le Mans and join that?" And I mean, I wouldn't be surprised.
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  I think it's too late, obviously, for this year, but- Yeah ... who knows?
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  Maybe next year we could be seeing more endurance racing.
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  I, I like it.
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  It's a good thing.
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  And then this is why I keep saying I think he's going to find a way to exit
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  stage left from Formula 1, because this stuff is more interesting to him.
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  There's also those reports where it's saying, where he's saying that, "No,
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  I'm..." I don't know if he, uh... The reports are saying he's staying,
• 18:10
  he's fulfilling his contract with Red Bull in Formula 1, which may be true.
• 18:15
  I mean, if he can do it all, I think this is him.
• 18:18
  He lives and breathes.
• 18:21
  He'll spend every day in the car racing, so as long as it doesn't
• 18:24
  conflict with calendar, I think he would do all the things all the time.
• 18:28
  For him, it doesn't matter, right?
• 18:30
  He'll do his virtual, he'll do this endurance, he'll do the Formula 1, and
• 18:34
  he's got the energy for it, apparently.
• 18:36
  He said before he'd rather do all these things now at his age than
• 18:39
  wait around till he's, you know, 40 and I guess doing an Alonso.
• 18:45
  Oh, what a backhanded message that is.
• 18:48
  I mean, I'm saying the Alonso part, but he definitely said the part about fulfilling
• 18:52
  some of these other driving, I don't know if you'd call them dreams, but, uh, goals.
• 18:58
  Is it, do you think it's because he drinks all that Red Bull?
• 19:01
  He gives you wings.
• 19:03
  Or is it because he wears these?
• 19:05
  It's probably, I'm sure- The Crocs ... he's wearing his Red Bull Crocs.
• 19:13
  You never see his feet.
• 19:14
  You wanna tell me Max Verstappen doesn't wear Red Bull Crocs around the house.
• 19:19
  I bet you he's got these.
• 19:21
  Oh, 100% they've sent him a pair.
• 19:24
  100%. Whether or not he's actually wearing them, I don't know.
• 19:28
  Maybe what's-her-name's wearing them.
• 19:30
  Okay, real talk.
• 19:31
  I swore- You would never buy a Croc in your life, but you might buy
• 19:35
  these ... if they're Ferrari Crocs.
• 19:37
  I would wear Ferrari Crocs.
• 19:38
  Would you wear Ferrari Crocs?
• 19:39
  Brad, would you wear McLaren Crocs?
• 19:41
  I wouldn't wear Crocs.
• 19:43
  Bull.
• 19:44
  Real talk, if you could get Formula 1 Crocs, would you wear them?
• 19:47
  I would not wear Crocs.
• 19:48
  In size 19 or whatever you wear.
• 19:50
  I would not buy Crocs, no.
• 19:52
  Come on, look at these.
• 19:54
  Then just imagine, you could put a little spoiler on the back,
• 19:57
  put little canards on the front, like wide body kit on your Crocs.
• 20:00
  Where, where are you wearing these?
• 20:02
  On the drive through.
• 20:04
  Okay, so you're not wearing them out in public.
• 20:07
  But look how cool they are.
• 20:08
  No, I wouldn't wear them in public.
• 20:09
  I, I, cool is an interesting word to use.
• 20:12
  Cool in the sense that those are Formula 1 Crocs.
• 20:16
  They do have spoilers.
• 20:17
  Look at that.
• 20:17
  I'm still not seeing cool.
• 20:19
  Look, they have spoilers.
• 20:23
  That's awesome.
• 20:24
  That's awesome.
• 20:26
  Come on.
• 20:28
  Ah.
• 20:28
  How much do we think they are?
• 20:30
  Oh, I don't know.
• 20:30
  Tell me, how much are they?
• 20:32
  $95. What?
• 20:33
  That's worth it.
• 20:35
  Dude, Ferrari Crocs for $95, I might do that, just 'cause.
• 20:40
  Brad, if you really wanna save money, this is how you do it.
• 20:43
  You don't buy them.
• 20:44
  That's how you save money.
• 20:46
  You wait till all the teams come out, and you buy the Lance
• 20:49
  Stroll ones that nobody wants.
• 20:52
  They fall apart halfway through your walk.
• 20:54
  Do you trip when you wear them?
• 20:56
  You don't start your walk.
• 20:57
  Yeah.
• 20:58
  You're, you're automatically walking into other people wearing Crocs.
• 21:02
  Do your legs start shaking when you wear the Aston Martin ones as you're walking?
• 21:06
  Yeah.
• 21:06
  You're like, "Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah." The Cadillac ones smoke.
• 21:09
  No, the Audi ones smoke.
• 21:10
  You can only wear them for 25 minutes before you have a
• 21:13
  seizure- Yeah ... or something.
• 21:15
  Terrible.
• 21:17
  The Mercedes ones make complaining noises.
• 21:20
  Oh.
• 21:22
  Mm-hmm.
• 21:23
  In a weird British accent.
• 21:25
  If you have the Russell ones with his number, every time you
• 21:28
  step it goes, "Wah, wah, wah."
• 21:32
  Oh, tea and crumpets.
• 21:33
  Oh, tea and biscuits.
• 21:35
  Damn you, Kimi.
• 21:36
  Damn you, Kimi.
• 21:38
  Ferrari cheated.
• 21:39
  Ferrari cheated.
• 21:40
  Oh, that's terrible.
• 21:42
  Speaking of terrible, breaking news.
• 21:49
  Oh my God.
• 21:51
  We thought this guy was unhireable, and yet somebody is going to hire him.
• 21:56
  Look at this.
• 21:57
  It's your favorite, Brad.
• 21:58
  They're gonna use him and abuse him to get their program off
• 22:03
  the ground, and then once it's approved, they're gonna fire him.
• 22:06
  "Your services are no longer needed." I mean, the BYD team is not even
• 22:10
  approved yet to be in Formula 1.
• 22:12
  Yeah.
• 22:12
  That's the scam.
• 22:14
  BYD is not approved for Formula 1, yet they hired Christian
• 22:19
  Horner to be their team lead.
• 22:20
  No, they have not hired him.
• 22:23
  They're in conversations with him.
• 22:25
  They're in serious discussions with him.
• 22:27
  Are they that desperate?
• 22:29
  Yes.
• 22:30
  This is like Unsolved Mysteries.
• 22:32
  Why would you hire Christian Horner?
• 22:35
  'Cause he led Red Bull for so many years.
• 22:38
  Into the toilet?
• 22:39
  Like, what, what, what?
• 22:41
  It's like that scene at the beginning of Army of Darkness.
• 22:44
  Remember?
• 22:44
  And he- and they're walking along and, and Bruce Campbell's with the King of
• 22:47
  Scotland and he's like, "I lead this and I lead that," and blah, blah, blah,
• 22:50
  blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 22:51
  And Bruce Campbell's like, "Look, buddy, you're leading two things
• 22:54
  right now, Jack and shit, and Jack just left town." That's what's
• 22:57
  happening here with Christian Horner.
• 23:00
  He's leading nothing.
• 23:02
  This guy, I can't... Nah.
• 23:04
  If he can get a job in Formula 1, why can't I?
• 23:06
  That's what I wanna know.
• 23:07
  How many teams have you led to a championship?
• 23:10
  Hey, I'm gonna lead my lemons team to a championship.
• 23:12
  Maybe not.
• 23:13
  But you know, hey, whatever.
• 23:14
  Actually, I'm not the team principal.
• 23:15
  That's Tanya's job.
• 23:27
  And on that note, well, sadly, we'll have recorded this
• 23:30
  before the Canadian Grand Prix.
• 23:32
  We will not have that information in time for the publishing of this
• 23:36
  episode, but we are wishing everyone an awesome Canadian Grand Prix.
• 23:41
  It's gonna be amazing.
• 23:42
  It's not gonna be like every other race we've seen this
• 23:44
  year, but Kimi's gonna win.
• 23:46
  But we can talk about that more next time.
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