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F1 2025 Bahrain GP Recap & Saudi Arabian GP Preview - Fast Laps with the Boys · Banter with the Boys

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  and laced up let's go it's time for banter with
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  the boys yo yo yo welcome back to banter with
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  the boys fast laps where we got the bahrain recap
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  saudi arabian preview i'll let joe stick to the
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  the actual titles of the races and up the speed
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  of course speaking of joe He's here this week.
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  I am. Sweet. Welcome back, as always, Joe. I'm
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  I'm here. You are here. You are here. Joe is
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  here. And also here is Mike on the other side
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  of the table. Mike. Mike. What is what is going
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  on, Mike? Hello. I am also here. Also, Mike is
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  also here. He is present. Present. Who else is
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  here? Present. Smelty is here, of course, as
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  always. And Kev, behind the camera. Kev Cam is
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  not up yet. Nor is Kev Mike. So you will not
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  hear him cussing us out yet. Okay. Yeah, let's
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  see. Bahrain GP recap. Yeah, Kev, let's head
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  right into it. And we're back. All right. No
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  continuity issues here. No, everything's great.
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  Everything's the same. Are we back? I should
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  say that as a question mark. We're back? We're
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  back? We are so back. No technical problems.
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  We're going crazy. All right. Let's see. Typical
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  pre -race banter, quality practice. Did you see
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  anything that jumps out to you that you're excited?
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  Joe's pulling out his highlighted notes. I did,
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  yes. So why don't we start there? So first off,
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  this is not... Just before we get into F1, because
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  we're not going to want to talk about it after
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  the fact, McLaren announced they are going to
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  the World Endurance Championship. in 2027. McLaren's
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  going back to Le Mans, baby. Wow, I did not hear
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  that. That's fun stuff. Le Mans, I don't know
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  if you guys ever watch it. It's 24 hours. It's
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  crazy. I don't usually watch it, the full 24.
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  That's fair. Most people don't. Same with Rolex
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  24. I don't really watch the whole thing. I catch
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  a good, I catch probably 18 hours of it. I think
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  one year I caught a ton of it, and then I went
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  to bed, and then I woke up. That year, there
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  was more. safety cars than the actual race itself.
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  Anyway, that's one of the biggest notes. Now
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  talking about F1 specifically, FP2, Alonso had
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  his wheel come off the car while he was driving.
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  He was having some technical issues. His wheel
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  came off and he put it back on and he kept on
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  going. I made a note of one of the comments that
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  the commentator made. They said... While it is
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  off with the car moving, you have no directional
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  control. That's new. No way. That's like a Will
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  Buxton moment. And he's not in F1 anymore. He's
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  an Indy. So glad they taught me that. His spirit.
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  His spirit is here. Unbelievable. Isn't that
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  crazy? Without a steering wheel, you can't turn.
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  Guys. We've been doing it wrong. Anyway. Quali,
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  Esteban crashed in Q2. Hulk got a lap deleted
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  from Q1 while they were in Q3, which pushed him
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  below Albon. But Albon did not get to compete
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  in Q2, even though he technically was in Q2 because
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  of the... I think it was just track limits. Which
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  was a big issue in the GP, as we'll get into.
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  Yes, yes. I mean, we'll talk about this a couple
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  times today. Probably they got to be quicker
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  on this stuff. It's ridiculous. Like Albon, he
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  could have placed higher, right? Yeah, that's
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  a shame. Besides that, Russell and Antonelli
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  were hit with a one -place grid penalty after
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  the race because they were in the fast lane of
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  the pits before the restart timer started. Or
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  the restart time was announced. So just one other
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  little tidbit pre -race. That's all I have until
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  the race came up. Yeah, and then lots of things
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  happened. We were watching. We watched Qualian.
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  I think you were the one that commented that
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  when the drivers went out, that the stake pit
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  wall was like, what are they doing? Where are
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  they going? Wait, when was this? This was during
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  quali when Russell and Kimmy went out after Esteban
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  crashed and there was a safety car. And so technically,
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  they weren't supposed to go out yet. Sure, sure.
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  That's what they got. So the whole kick pit wall,
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  you just saw them lean back and just look at
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  the cars and go. Oh, my God. With that, let's
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  head into the GP here. Let's see. I mean, to
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  start off, we just mentioned some of these penalties
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  here. Ridiculous amount of track limits. I mean,
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  I think almost everybody got a warning, it felt
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  like. Max was getting close to a black -white
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  flag himself. So, let's see. We had Lando, who
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  had the five seconds for being out of position
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  at the start, which Max... The steward caught
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  instantly and was instantly telling somebody.
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  But he was right. I mean, it was pretty blatant.
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  They showed his POV, and I was like, yeah, I
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  wouldn't have missed that either. No, for sure.
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  Let's see. Isaac and Antonelli both ended up
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  getting black and white flag. Are they the only
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  ones that got the black and white? Lando also
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  got one. Lando did get one, too. I want to say
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  one other person got one. But, yeah, I remember
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  Lando getting one because he was fighting George.
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  Why was this such a massive problem? Now, I know
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  Antonelli, like, honestly, was racing fairly
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  aggressive. It's more aggressive than I've seen
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  him race yet this season, which was kind of fun,
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  but we can get into that later. But so many.
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  Why is it such an issue here? So one of the reasons,
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  which it's a good reason, there was a lot of
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  really hard fighting between drivers. And so
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  people were getting pushed off track quite a
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  bit. And that's why Lando got to black and white
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  so quickly is because he was fighting with Charles.
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  I'm pretty sure it was Charles. And he went off
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  track. He had to give position back to Charles
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  at one point because he went off track. And that's
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  like. Like, that's not just, like, a racing incident.
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  That is a black, like, that is track limits no
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  matter what. Like, you go off track, even if
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  you lock up, you go off track, that's going to
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  be track limits. And there was a couple of lockups,
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  too, I will say. There were a few of those we
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  saw as well. But good fighting being one. And
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  then the other one, we have five rookies on the
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  grid. Things are going to happen. We have a broken
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  Red Bull on the grid. It's also worth noting
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  that Bahrain is in the desert. And because of
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  that, there is a lot more sand that gets on the
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  track. That affects tire grip and whatnot. Bahrain
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  is already a track that drivers tend to spend
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  a lot of time on the edge of the track. They
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  go on the white line pretty frequently. And so
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  some of that sand just means that they're bound
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  to try and take the corners a little bit wider
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  where they can so that they don't slide. Yeah,
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  I can't imagine how much sand actually does end
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  up on the track. A little bit. It's enough to
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  affect the tires. For sure. I mean, when you're...
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  Going high G's and corners and stuff. Yeah, it's
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  going to affect things. I think they're going
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  so fast that it just turns to glass at that point.
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  It's got a glass on the road. Anyway, Liam, you're
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  right. Liam, lap 54, ended up getting a five
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  -second penalty for causing a collision. And
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  then another. 10 seconds. I'm sorry. I think
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  the 10 second came at lap 54. I think the 5 second
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  was earlier. Yeah, so 41 was his 5 second, and
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  54 was his 10 second, and both were for causing
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  a collision. Whoops. One of them with Hulkenberg,
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  who also ended up getting DNF'd. So Liam ended
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  up having a decent finish, but just dropped some...
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  Oh, Hulkenberg finished. He just disqualified.
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  He got disqualified after the race, but Liam
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  had a decent finish, but then ended up because
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  of the... The time limits get pushed back down.
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  But then gained one because of Hulk, so whatever.
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  Let's see. We had a safety car this race. We
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  did. That was wild. I feel like we have not seen
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  that very often yet this season. I think the
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  commentators... Definitely not the first one,
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  I don't think. I think the commentators said
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  that this was like the fourth safety car we've
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  seen this late on the track. Bahrain or this
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  late in the race in Bahrain like safety cars
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  just don't happen that late in Bahrain very frequently
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  so very I mean it did restack everybody was interesting
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  to get a restart I mean again I mean the start
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  of the race plus the restart heading into the
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  first turn just pure insanity and chaos it's
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  fun but the drivers with the most skill came
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  out on top Both times, I would say. And just
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  with a better strategy. Like, I mean, first and
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  foremost, both McLarens had new mediums. No one
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  else had new mediums. So that was the best tire
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  for this track, at least for that length of time.
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  Yep. And then Piastri had clean air, so no one
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  was catching them. Yeah, and then... Yeah, Oscar
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  was dominant. Yeah. We can just get into McLaren
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  if you want. Sure, yeah. Let's go for it. Go
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  for it. You're a McLaren fanboy. Yeah, Oscar
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  dominant. He stuck it in first, and he did not
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  move. He it's a McLaren in clean air. I think
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  that's just kind of that's where they are most
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  dominant at the moment. And also mediums, too.
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  Like they seem to be really good on mediums.
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  And then Lando with the unfortunate, unfortunate
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  five second penalty. If he didn't get that penalty,
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  he would have finished P2. I think fairly handedly
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  he would have had it by safety car restart. Well,
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  by the safety car restart, you think? Because
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  George was fairly dominant until he started having
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  the issues at the end. didn't yeah but i i think
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  there was like there were many many times when
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  he was within five seconds and obviously he would
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  have to fight sure but you know i i think there
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  there are definitely times beforehand where by
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  the end of the race for sure i give that a hundred
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  percent well yeah george himself had said in
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  the post race interview that he's like yeah give
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  it another lap or two and i don't know if i could
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  have fought lando off yeah george george had
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  you know those softs and we'll talk about Mercedes
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  in a second as well. But, I mean, still, P1,
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  P3, very, very good. Podium sweep. Result, yeah.
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  Podium sweep. Sweep. Yeah. Lando keeps his lead.
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  Oscar slots in right behind him. Oscar, again,
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  showing pace, though. Yep. Three points. Better
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  pace than Lando. Three points. And it was the
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  whole weekend. Three points from Oscar. Three
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  points from Oscar? Yeah, and that's fine. I mean,
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  it's a McLaren driver, right? Yep. And that's,
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  I mean. If we are Lando, then yeah, we're a little
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  worried because Oscar is, he's fast. If we're
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  Oscar, we're feeling good because if Oscar had
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  finished in P2, like he probably should have
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  in Melbourne, Oscar would be leading constructives
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  right now by, if I remember correctly, like 10
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  points. WDC, yeah. Or WDC, yep. I'm going to
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  stand on it. It's going to be an issue. At some
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  point, it's going to be an issue and they're
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  going to have to like publicly. They've done
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  well so far, right? For sure, for sure. We've
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  seen a couple moments when, I mean, last race,
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  not Bahrain. oscar oscar did say no you're good
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  you're good you're good oscar did ask like hey
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  i can probably catch mask and max and like they
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  just ignored it pretty much i know and that i'm
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  not okay with like that to me that's them picking
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  lando which we already know like for me this
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  season it feels like they would pick lando anyway
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  but it's going to be difficult if oscar continues
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  to show better pitch i i could see them picking
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  lando but i don't think they're going to remove
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  oscar's chance like they're not going to intentionally
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  you know like if they're if they're both like
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  15 seconds ahead are you giving it an oscar's
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  leading the race ahead let them race oh they
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  should not they should not be doing any driver's
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  orders by any means If they are both still 1
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  -2 in the championship, you need to let them
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  race. You do not do team orders in that situation,
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  especially if you're 15 seconds ahead. You tell
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  them to race smart. You tell them not to crash,
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  but you don't give them orders. I also think,
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  though, you don't tell them to keep position
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  either. You let them race. You almost don't say
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  anything. Just see what happens. But ideally,
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  maybe remind them if it starts getting dicey,
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  hey, play nice. But you get one of the drivers
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  that says, hey, I'm faster than the guy in front.
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  Tell him to, you know. There's a info. There's
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  a different content creator who I watch who's
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  been making. He's been calling this for a little
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  while. He said that, you know, these two drivers
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  are going to be going at each other. And if you're
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  Lando, you're a little like maybe a little stressed
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  out by this because this new hot gun that shows
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  up and is really putting a great result. Whoever
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  that is, he's attributing this. And he's like,
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  we've seen something like this happen once before.
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  And it was sent across. when those two showed
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  up and like, this was the exact same situation
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  where one was a veteran, the other one showed
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  up and just got the good car. And then they like,
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  it was, and it was like a big, big heated argument.
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  And then the two drivers started having big problems
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  with each other. And he's like, I hope we don't
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  see that, but also it would be a little spicy,
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  you know? And this is nowhere near the same as
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  Senna props. Right. But, but Danny Rick and Max,
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  when Max first came, it was a similar thing.
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  Also on Mac, you know, They're not finishing
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  races because of it. I mean, just look at it.
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  That would become a problem. I agree. I don't
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  see that happening. I don't think they're going
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  to be wrecking each other. But I just think it's
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  going to be difficult at some point. Again, as
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  a McLaren fan, you're probably thrilled. Like,
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  this is awesome. Cloud nine. Constructors has
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  already won. I don't, at this point, I don't
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  really. I care that one of them wins WDC. I don't
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  care which one. I'd be just as happy to see Oscar.
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  For sure. These last two years, I've become a
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  huge Oscar fan, almost to the point of Lando,
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  if not surpassing Lando sometimes. I love Oscar
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  Piastri. I think he's such a good driver, and
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  he's just a natural talent. I do hope that because
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  he's been in that car for three years, and they've
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  been together, and they seem to have pretty good
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  camaraderie and a decent relationship, at least.
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  I don't think they're the best of friends ever,
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  but they're not. they don't dislike each other
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  i would hope that that you know keeps things
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  at least breeze nice and breezy between them
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  off track and then on track they can you know
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  do what they do best and race you know i think
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  i uh i'm actually a little afraid to say this
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  i think oscar might like sometimes i think he's
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  more refined than lando You know, sometimes.
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  I mean, the weird... It was a weird issue with
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  that five -second penalty right off the bat.
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  Like, I don't see Oscar doing that a lot, but
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  I've seen Lando... That's what I'm saying. Lando
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  has always historically not... awesome at start
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  so it's like when it happened i was like whatever
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  he's still in a fast car he'll be able to battle
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  back up and we saw him do that but you're so
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  right and it sucks because he actually had an
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  amazing race start but it was ruined it was ruined
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  because he was he was a little bit ahead of the
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  box yeah it's yeah it's tough we we don't see
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  oscar my point is we don't see oscar do that
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  he's like relatively consistent. I think like
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  overall skill, maybe a little behind Lando, but
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  I think he doesn't make the weird mistakes that
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  Lando does consistently. Sure. So that's kind
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  of my, my McLaren take. I'm still happy if either
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  of them win. Obviously I'm a very happy guy right
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  now. Both of my drivers are top two and they're
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  in constructors lead. I'm, I'm good. For sure.
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  For sure. Yeah. A hundred percent as a McLaren
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  fan. I did just put in one little tidbit. I said,
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  Zach Brown must be tickled, tickled pink, thinking
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  about where this team has come over the past
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  few years. I mean, it's got to feel good. Again,
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  cloud, the cloud nine feeling one, three. I mean,
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  this one being dominant, this barring last year,
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  barring last year, they weren't fighting for
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  the win. No, no. And right now teams are trying
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  to figure out how to fight for the win against
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  them. So Mercedes, George Russell going P2, Kimmy
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  P11. George honestly had a great day again. Yes.
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  Towards the end. He was having some malfunctions,
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  the whole DRS thing. I think the engineer basically
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  came on the comms and was like, hey, you're going
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  to lose your screen and everything. Just keep
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  going. And then he made the joke or something
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  about, well, at least as long as my steering
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  wheel doesn't fall off. Yeah, I was going to
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  save it, but you're good. You're good. You're
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  good. You're good. You're good. He called it.
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  It was hilarious. Yeah, that was amazing. So
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  funny. But George Russell, again, another great.
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  Just great race all the way around. Great weekend
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  all the way around. You know, consistent. You
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  know, he's just more and more consistent. And,
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  I mean, I don't think dark horse for WDC by any
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  means. But I think he could win a race or two
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  this year. Of course. I don't see why not. You
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  know, win McLaren's wreck each other. I'm sorry,
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  you say he's not a dark horse as in, like, you
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  don't think he's going to win WDC? No, he could
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  at some point. But, like, this year it's going
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  to be. hard pressed for it to not be Oscar Orlando.
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  Interesting. But I think he'll be, I think he'll
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  be a good battle, but that's, I don't think it's
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  going to be right. I mean, race I'm seeing more
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  and more than I'm like, Hmm, this might. This
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  might be Oscar's year. But that's what I mean.
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  Yeah. Oh, you're talking about George. Oh, I
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  don't know. I don't know why my brain is. Did
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  I say Oscar? What the heck? No, you didn't. No,
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  this is totally me. That's a Mike thing. I was
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  like, dang. My brain went somewhere else. No,
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  okay, George. George is entirely different. I
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  don't know. I personally don't really see him
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  as much of a WDC champion. I see him as someone
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  who. At all, ever? I don't think he's going to
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  win a WDC. Especially given our field. I think
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  he could. Especially given our field. Unless
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  the Mercedes comes out next year, just guns a
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  blazing. And that's just it. We have no idea.
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  Exactly. We have no idea. It could be Alpine.
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  No, I'm just kidding. We have no idea. I need
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  a 2016 Mercedes for him to win a WDC championship.
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  Fair enough. That's all I'm saying. Fair enough.
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  But we know he can drive it. We know he can drive
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  it. I know if he's got a super dominant car and
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  the other field isn't as dominant, he's capable.
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  If it comes down to just raw talent, I don't
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  think it's there. I think he's incredibly talented,
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  but he's not as talented as like a Max Verstappen,
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  as like a Lewis Hamilton, as like a Charles Leclerc,
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  as potentially Oscar Piastri. Fair enough. What
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  about Kimi? Kimi P11, just outside the points.
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  I thought he had a decent race. He had a good
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  race. My only concern, and I only bring this
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  up so I coach. football for those of you in other
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  countries american football is what i coach um
• 18:34
  but like sometimes these these kids are running
• 18:37
  and when they're running they're they're not
• 18:38
  they're like running out of control if that makes
• 18:40
  sense you know arms failing legs failing they're
• 18:42
  not they're not in control their bodies and that's
• 18:44
  kind of how i felt about kimmy like he wasn't
• 18:46
  fully in control of the car i just felt like
• 18:48
  he was taking chances all race they were mostly
• 18:51
  working. You know, there was the one point early
• 18:53
  on where he flew off the track. It might have
• 18:55
  even been lap one. I can't remember. And then
• 18:57
  gave the place back right away. I think it was
• 18:59
  to Pierre, so that's probably why I remember
• 19:01
  it. But, you know, he just didn't feel fully
• 19:04
  in control. But it was nice seeing him take more
• 19:06
  chances, though, at the same time. So I think
• 19:09
  he's just getting more and more comfortable with
• 19:11
  the car to the point where now he is going to
• 19:12
  start taking maybe a little bit more. Couple
• 19:15
  more chances. No, yeah, I agree. I think this
• 19:19
  was, in my opinion, probably one of his best
• 19:21
  showings. And I think he was just a little, I
• 19:23
  think he was messed up by strategy. Just looking
• 19:25
  at the stats, he was the only one, except for
• 19:27
  Sainz, who DNF'd, that had three pit stops. So
• 19:30
  he just had... Unfortunately, unlucky strategy.
• 19:32
  He would have been higher if he was on a two
• 19:35
  -stop like everyone else. And he had some really,
• 19:38
  really good overtakes. Kimmy? Yeah. He was driving.
• 19:44
  I think I voted for him for driver of the day
• 19:47
  as well because I just liked what he was doing.
• 19:50
  He was making moves, and he just got caught out
• 19:52
  for unfortunate strategy. Or just bad timing.
• 19:56
  And he started the race really well. He did.
• 19:59
  Battling the Ferraris. I mean, it looked good.
• 20:02
  It looked good. Let's see. Ferrari. I don't actually
• 20:05
  have any notes on Ferrari for some reason. I
• 20:07
  see. So, Charles P4, Lewis P5. I guess that's
• 20:11
  what we're expecting out of them at this point.
• 20:13
  So, what do you mean that's what they want? It's
• 20:16
  what they want right now. Like, given where their
• 20:18
  car is at and where the rest of the field is
• 20:20
  at, this is good. Until they nail down whatever
• 20:23
  this... You finish in front of Red Bull. Both
• 20:25
  Red Bulls. Yep. And in front of a Mercedes. They're
• 20:28
  close to the podium. You see Charles Leclerc
• 20:30
  is getting closer and closer to that podium with
• 20:32
  every race. Oh, I'm aware. I don't think he's
• 20:34
  going to win WGC. But, but. Yeah, I might have
• 20:37
  given Ferrari a little too much chutzpah at the
• 20:40
  start of this one. That's what I said, right?
• 20:41
  There's the constructors. No, I think he's right
• 20:44
  there. You see where it says Charles? It says
• 20:46
  Charles at the top there. Joe, I think you're...
• 20:49
  You know what? This is pish -posh. I don't know
• 20:51
  what this is. I don't know what you're talking
• 20:53
  about. I don't think this is actually from when
• 20:55
  we did this. This doesn't mean anything. Don't
• 20:58
  worry about that. Just ignore that. Ferrari,
• 21:00
  good for you. 4 .5. Good race. Interesting. The
• 21:03
  top three are exactly what they're at right now.
• 21:05
  For me, at least. That's cool. Right, guys? That's
• 21:08
  pretty cool. Where are we? The Max Bowls, Red
• 21:12
  Bowls. It's been five races? Max, P6, Yuki, P9.
• 21:16
  That car was broken this weekend. My only note
• 21:18
  is Max, a rubbish start for once. His start was
• 21:21
  horrible. I had to go back and watch it again
• 21:24
  just for his start because I was like, how the
• 21:26
  heck did he fall back so far? And it was just
• 21:28
  bad. I've never seen him start so bad. I don't
• 21:30
  think that got to be the worst start I've ever
• 21:32
  seen. Incredibly, he is a human. Right, right.
• 21:36
  Yeah, I don't know. He just did. battling the
• 21:39
  car and i think yuki getting in points is huge
• 21:41
  this week uh yeah we said he needed to start
• 21:44
  getting in points but again along the broken
• 21:46
  car aspect like yuki drove the crap out of the
• 21:50
  car too just to get into points so i mean against
• 21:53
  and again with haas we'll get to haas p8 and
• 21:56
  p10 but haas actually had some pace and you you
• 22:00
  know battling haas this weekend would have been
• 22:02
  no joke so again you could get in p9 i think
• 22:05
  i think that's that's fair for where this car's
• 22:08
  at. Obviously, there's some news about Max and
• 22:11
  stuff, but we'll save that maybe. But, like,
• 22:14
  is Red Bull really concerned right now about
• 22:17
  the performance of this car for the rest of the
• 22:18
  season? Or are they kind of, you know, let's
• 22:21
  ride it out, let's get, you know, maybe second
• 22:23
  or third in the constructors and get ready for
• 22:26
  26? I think they should be concerned. I mean,
• 22:30
  we're only four races in, but people are, like,
• 22:32
  freaking out. I think they should be concerned,
• 22:34
  you know, because it's... It's not good timing.
• 22:38
  You had so many driver swaps all of a sudden.
• 22:40
  Like, for a long time, your biggest worry was
• 22:43
  your second driver. And now, honestly, it's not.
• 22:47
  I think Yuki has more or less, like, he's met
• 22:51
  my expectations. He's already beating what Liam
• 22:54
  would have gave you this race for sure. 100%.
• 22:56
  So, done. They need to, like, even if they're
• 23:00
  not competitive all the time with first place.
• 23:03
  They need to fix the car, at least for Yuki's
• 23:05
  sake, right? He needs to be able to drive it
• 23:08
  and get them decent points for constructors.
• 23:10
  And maybe for Max's sake? Well, yeah. For Max's
• 23:14
  sake as well. I'm only saying for Yuki's sake
• 23:17
  because Max seemingly can drive a tractor. Whatever.
• 23:19
  Yeah. Max can drive a clapped out Honda Civic
• 23:23
  and beat anybody. As long as the light turns
• 23:25
  green. Right. Right. Let's see. Alpine. man that
• 23:35
  was awesome honestly and honestly max passing
• 23:39
  ghastly at the end of the race really frustrated
• 23:41
  me like i was really excited for p6 and then
• 23:44
  i got extremely disappointed as soon as like
• 23:47
  because they didn't show it no they didn't show
• 23:49
  the actual battle but they showed in the highlight
• 23:51
  video funny enough oh they did but watching the
• 23:54
  race like i didn't see it uh right after or like
• 23:58
  they showed it for like two seconds and then
• 23:59
  went to something else right after the race they
• 24:01
  like showed they showed it again did they yeah
• 24:04
  they did they did a quick interviews and stuff
• 24:06
  they did a quick recap of it and i was like oh
• 24:08
  yeah sure so max just was max yeah like there
• 24:11
  was no fighting that no no because i was like
• 24:14
  watching the little thing on the you know the
• 24:16
  freaking you know Timing tower. Timing tower.
• 24:19
  Yeah. Thanks. Yeah. I was watching that for the
• 24:22
  end of the race for Gasly. Like, come on, come
• 24:23
  on, come on, come on, come on, come on. And then
• 24:25
  it switched. I was like, damn, dang it. Doing
• 24:28
  the same thing. Yeah. So anyway, Gasly getting
• 24:31
  P7. I'm still happy about it. Don't get me wrong.
• 24:34
  Okay. So Jack doing P14. Jack doing in this race.
• 24:42
  Gained me. I'll give him at least two more races
• 24:45
  before I'm putting Colapinto in there. Because
• 24:47
  of this race. I think I saw enough from Jack.
• 24:50
  Like, yeah, he gave up, like, five spots in,
• 24:53
  like, the course of, like, a lap or two. But
• 24:55
  I think his tires were just garbage. He couldn't
• 24:57
  handle the car anymore, whatever. But until that
• 25:00
  point, he was running P9 most of the race and
• 25:03
  battling, again, the Haas, which had some pace,
• 25:06
  being able to beat out the Williams, which just
• 25:09
  straight up didn't look good in the GP compared
• 25:12
  to the Quali. I didn't think so. I mean, Albon
• 25:14
  was running well for a while, but Carlos didn't.
• 25:17
  Now I'm starting to talk about Williams. Well,
• 25:18
  yeah, we'll talk about Williams when we get back.
• 25:20
  That's a good point. Yeah, thank you. Anyway,
• 25:22
  but Alpine. Again, Jack, I think, earned two
• 25:25
  more races from me. Are you guys ready to pull
• 25:27
  Jack out of the car? Put Colapinto in there?
• 25:30
  Have you heard the word from Alpine? What the
• 25:34
  word? The bird? The bird is the word. The Jack
• 25:36
  bird. Alpine has pretty much come out and stated
• 25:40
  the fact that while Flavio is seemingly eager
• 25:44
  to put Colapinto in the car. The management and
• 25:50
  the team principal who... What's his name again?
• 25:53
  I'm losing it. Team principal for Alpine? Alpine.
• 25:56
  Isn't that Oaks? Oaks, yeah. Jonathan Oaks, yeah.
• 25:59
  Oliver Oaks? Oliver Oaks. Oliver Oaks. Yeah,
• 26:04
  him and the rest of the management for Alpine
• 26:06
  was like, Flavio, shut up. We're keeping Jack
• 26:09
  here until at least the summer break to give
• 26:13
  him a bit of a grace period for him to learn
• 26:16
  the car. We have expectations for our driver,
• 26:18
  and we do think that right now he is meeting
• 26:20
  those expectations. So unless things change,
• 26:23
  you can expect to see Jack doing in the car until...
• 26:27
  the summer break, at least. I'm about that. Thank
• 26:30
  God you told me some Alpine news today. So that
• 26:32
  was kind of the good news. Yeah. That was kind
• 26:35
  of the good news for Alpine, and for Jack especially,
• 26:38
  who probably heard this and was like, But now
• 26:41
  you've got to perform again next week. I'm not
• 26:43
  saying you've got to get in points. Yes. But
• 26:45
  for me, an expectation for Jack is P10 to P13.
• 26:49
  You've got to be in that window. Okay. For me.
• 26:51
  You've got to be battling in that window. Well,
• 26:53
  given what we've seen out of the Alpine so far
• 26:55
  this weekend, or this year, this last weekend.
• 26:58
  We're starting to trend in the right direction.
• 26:59
  It was a good look. It was a good look. And he
• 27:01
  looked fast in quality for a little bit. P11,
• 27:04
  right? I think he ended up getting quality. Something
• 27:07
  like that, yeah. He looked pretty good. One outside
• 27:09
  Q1. I remember being mind -boggled when I saw
• 27:13
  at one point that he set a lap and he was second
• 27:16
  fastest. And I was like, I'm sorry, does that
• 27:18
  say do? Is that what you call a Pinto? That's
• 27:21
  not my Jack doing. Not my Jack doing. Oh, my
• 27:26
  God. Haas, go. Haas, yeah, this was an amazing
• 27:28
  race. I'm super happy. Cars were amazing. Joe
• 27:32
  talked a little bit about Driver of the Day.
• 27:34
  I did vote Oliver Behrman for Driver of the Day,
• 27:36
  and I do believe he earned it. I think that's
• 27:38
  a great vote. I mean, he started P18, right?
• 27:41
  20. Oh, it was last. He was dead last. He started
• 27:44
  P20 and drove up to P10 with some help from a
• 27:48
  safety car. Admittedly, Haas did get some advantages
• 27:50
  from the safety car, but that's just kind of
• 27:52
  how it goes. And so both drivers drove really
• 27:56
  good. They put themselves up in the points. They
• 27:57
  kept themselves in the points with Esteban's
• 28:00
  case. double point finish and they are now fifth
• 28:03
  in constructors one point ahead of williams which
• 28:06
  is incredibly right where i put them ain't that
• 28:10
  right joe i see you taking notes did you that's
• 28:13
  crazy we don't listen to that it doesn't make
• 28:17
  any sense doesn't make any sense um no i gotta
• 28:21
  give it to you and uh i was going to mention
• 28:23
  this earlier because he He pops up in the Saudi
• 28:27
  Arabian recap from last year. It was his first
• 28:31
  race in a Ferrari in F1. He was in a Ferrari,
• 28:37
  yes, but not anyone can just do what he did.
• 28:39
  He raced really well. So you got to give him
• 28:41
  some pointers. 20th to 10th is an amazing feat.
• 28:44
  Again, safety car helped him a lot. But still,
• 28:47
  he made some overtakes. He kept it out of the
• 28:50
  wall and on the street. No, great, great finish
• 28:53
  for Behrman, I will say. And I'm very surprised.
• 28:56
  I like Haas, too. I just think their track record
• 28:59
  is awful, right, typically. Oh, yeah, for sure.
• 29:02
  Yeah. This year and last year have been crazy.
• 29:06
  Yeah. Because it's like we would not have expected
• 29:08
  that. Like last year, I think I also put Haas
• 29:12
  at like ninth, just ahead of State. It's very
• 29:15
  much just their driver lineup. And I'm comparing
• 29:19
  them specifically against, I think, Williams.
• 29:22
  Their driver lineup does not impress me as much
• 29:24
  as Williams does. Which is valid. But they're
• 29:28
  driving the car better than Williams at the moment.
• 29:29
  Right. Yeah, I was going to say, that's just
• 29:31
  it. I mean, Esteban was in points for at least
• 29:35
  50 % of the race. If not more than that. I think,
• 29:37
  what, he dropped a position? I thought he dropped.
• 29:40
  I mean, everybody drops a little bit. I don't
• 29:42
  remember where he qualified at. Who? Esteban?
• 29:45
  I can check really quick. I have it up. Esteban
• 29:50
  started. In 14th. Oh, so he actually made a bunch
• 29:54
  of positions. He climbed up there, and then he
• 29:57
  stayed up there for a while. And I thought he
• 29:59
  dropped one more time and then had to climb back
• 30:01
  up. But, I mean, Esteban had a great race. Yeah.
• 30:03
  So both drivers making their way up the pack
• 30:07
  and keeping their positions all the way to the
• 30:09
  end. And as I mentioned, I think off -pod earlier,
• 30:12
  Haas is still having underbody problems. So their
• 30:17
  car is still not yet refined. And you're still
• 30:21
  scoring points. And not getting DQ'd. Exactly.
• 30:24
  So, like, the fact that our drivers are putting
• 30:28
  up these sorts of results with a semi -broken
• 30:30
  car makes me very hopeful for the rest of the
• 30:33
  season. For sure. For sure. Fits, baby. Williams,
• 30:37
  Albon finishing P12. Carlos, retired. How much,
• 30:42
  like... I don't know. I don't know. I was going
• 30:46
  to say, like, I was going to say some wild stuff.
• 30:48
  Like, how much leash do we actually give Carlos?
• 30:51
  As much leash as he wants. But, like, the car
• 30:53
  obviously isn't amazing. I mean, Albon has had
• 30:57
  some good runs this year already. So it's just,
• 30:59
  is it just he's just still getting used to it?
• 31:02
  Yeah. Carlos Sainz, I think, is holding the leash.
• 31:04
  I don't think anyone's going to kick him out.
• 31:06
  Well, nobody's going to kick him out. I would
• 31:09
  have expected him to, like, I mean, he was running
• 31:12
  pretty decently. up until he crashed and broke
• 31:15
  his car and had to retire. Yeah. He started eighth,
• 31:20
  right? So he was right behind Verstappen. So
• 31:23
  he had decent pace in qualifying. I think he
• 31:26
  had decent pace in the race, but, yeah, he just
• 31:28
  made some bad mistakes. Something's off about
• 31:30
  that Williams car to me, though. You think so?
• 31:32
  Yeah, 100%. Something's just not right. Don't
• 31:35
  get me wrong. Williams is going to finish in
• 31:37
  front of Aston at the moment, going to finish
• 31:38
  in front of Kicksauber. Racing Bulls, who knows
• 31:41
  what's going to happen there. But then after
• 31:43
  that, I'm not sure. Albon's not happy, right?
• 31:47
  So, like, it's obvious. Where did Albon place
• 31:51
  again? At the final? No, no, no. McAuley. He
• 31:54
  started 15th. 15th. So, like, he worked his way
• 31:58
  up the pack as well. Like, he went, what, 15th
• 32:00
  to 12th? He was in the top 10 at one point, too.
• 32:03
  He was. I think that was, like. That might have
• 32:05
  been the whole. I think that was Pitt's strategies.
• 32:07
  But, yeah. So, like. Honestly, I felt like he
• 32:11
  had a pretty decent race. It wasn't anything
• 32:12
  incredible. And the fact that he was able to
• 32:16
  work his way up the pack like that in spite of,
• 32:18
  and I think he was pretty close on Yuki's tail
• 32:20
  at the end of the race. Albon? Yeah. And so if
• 32:26
  he didn't get DQ'd. Oh no, he was close on Kimi's
• 32:32
  tail then. Yeah, it would have been Kimi. Yeah,
• 32:35
  you're right. He was right on. He was right on
• 32:37
  his tail. Yeah, he was trying to give him the
• 32:39
  business. And I think if he got his chance to
• 32:42
  qualify in Q2, there's a chance he could have
• 32:44
  made it into Q3, and he could have been point
• 32:47
  scoring this weekend. But the fact that he got
• 32:50
  kicked out... It does stem back to that qualifying
• 32:52
  thing. Yeah, so I think he had a pretty good
• 32:55
  showing this weekend. I don't think I would worry
• 32:57
  about Albon from this weekend. I think it's just
• 32:59
  like a bad break. I'm not necessarily worried
• 33:01
  about Albon. I'm genuinely concerned about Carlos'
• 33:05
  performance in the car so far. But again, we're
• 33:07
  only four races in. Again, I get that. And he's
• 33:10
  going from a Ferrari to a Williams, so that's
• 33:12
  going to be massively different. But... I don't
• 33:15
  know. I'm concerned about Carlos a little bit.
• 33:17
  And it's not just because he retired. So far,
• 33:20
  the whole season as a group, to me, just like,
• 33:24
  not quite what I was expecting. But again, I
• 33:27
  guess I don't know what I was expecting out of
• 33:30
  a good driver in the Williams right now. I want
• 33:34
  to think it's just growing pains in a bad car.
• 33:38
  I have heard from... Some people that this year
• 33:42
  has already kind of chalked for Williams, they're
• 33:44
  really just focusing on next year's car a little
• 33:46
  bit. Not a bad idea. Honestly, it just hurts
• 33:50
  to watch. But I think he'll get his points, and
• 33:53
  I think they'll have some sort of a comeback
• 33:55
  at some point. I don't think it'll be huge. Yeah,
• 33:58
  it's a little hard to watch at the moment. You
• 34:01
  and I look like clowns putting Aston so high,
• 34:03
  huh? I put him in fifth, yeah. I have him in
• 34:05
  sixth. So rough. Why am I forgetting their team
• 34:08
  principal's name right now? Who? James Vowles.
• 34:12
  James Vowles. James Vowles made a comment regarding...
• 34:15
  Oh, I have notes. He made a comment on Carlos
• 34:18
  this weekend saying that he was really proud
• 34:20
  of Carlos' performance. You know, the DQ is unfortunate.
• 34:24
  Or the DNF is unfortunate, but, you know, it
• 34:27
  happens in racing. And he said that he thinks
• 34:29
  that Carlos is doing everything that he can with
• 34:32
  the car. And that he actually said that it's
• 34:35
  on Williams to meet Carlos and to say, we are
• 34:40
  not. We have not adjusted our car to him enough
• 34:43
  yet. And so because of that, he is still in an
• 34:46
  uncomfortable position. We think that he's giving
• 34:49
  the best that he can, but we haven't met him
• 34:51
  yet. And not everything is on Carlos, right?
• 34:54
  Obviously, you know, there was a turn that Kimmy,
• 34:57
  I swear to God, dive bombed Carlos, honestly.
• 35:00
  And I was like, what? Kimmy, bro, what are we
• 35:02
  doing? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All right. We'll get
• 35:05
  to the new segment. We'll get to that, I guess.
• 35:09
  oh yeah i just read another one that's really
• 35:11
  good well i'm sure it's on your list uh anyway
• 35:13
  we're moving on um racing bulls real quick too
• 35:17
  i just saw another note about red bull that i
• 35:19
  forgot to mention this was the first time this
• 35:20
  season that they had two cars starting in the
• 35:22
  top 10 that seems weird that seems weird to me
• 35:27
  That seems weird to me. I mean, because Red Bulls,
• 35:29
  like, even if, you know, the second driver isn't,
• 35:31
  like, meeting standards, typically start of the
• 35:33
  season, they're still very competitive. They're
• 35:35
  still up there, yeah. I mean, I think, like,
• 35:37
  most of our recap so far for the early races,
• 35:43
  Sergio has been there, like, second or third.
• 35:45
  Yeah, for sure. Yep. For sure. I just saw that.
• 35:49
  I wanted to mention that real quick. Yeah, that's
• 35:50
  a great fun fact. Racing Bulls, Isaac had an
• 35:54
  all right day. uh man can i vent for a second
• 35:57
  guys yeah i just can i just say something so
• 35:59
  isaac p13 liam p16 go for it and and that's that's
• 36:03
  kind of what i want to talk about right so he's
• 36:05
  heated yeah i i'm heated because like other people
• 36:10
  are heated i'm talking i'm specifically calling
• 36:12
  out you mike right hello whoa you dislike liam
• 36:15
  because he got into the red bull before yuki
• 36:18
  right and that's like your main reason for this
• 36:21
  for like Would you say? Like, I'll give you a
• 36:23
  moment to, like, you know, if you dislike him
• 36:25
  more than that, I'll give you a moment to say
• 36:26
  why. Well, also, you know, there's the obvious
• 36:29
  that he kicked out my, or he took my favorite
• 36:31
  driver's seat. The whole Danny Rick thing. There's
• 36:33
  the Danny Rick thing. It's personal. There's
• 36:35
  also that. It is personal. There's also that,
• 36:37
  but also the fact that I just, like, I watch
• 36:39
  him drive and he feels really sloppy. So Red
• 36:40
  Bull decisions. Got it. Okay. But he does feel
• 36:43
  sloppy. He does feel sloppy. Okay, yeah, yeah,
• 36:45
  yeah. His driving is sloppy. I'm going to moderate
• 36:47
  this. I was so, so, like. First off, I'll just
• 36:51
  say that was all Red Bull's decision. Liam has
• 36:53
  no control over where he's being put. Of course,
• 36:55
  but I'm going to point to him. Of course, but
• 36:58
  I don't care. Okay, fine. I liked Liam. I was
• 37:02
  rooting for him a lot to get a seat. And you
• 37:05
  remember that. I talked about it all last season.
• 37:06
  I was like, we need to get Liam in a car. Danny
• 37:09
  didn't deserve the seat when he got it taken
• 37:11
  away from him. I love Danny Rick. Did he say
• 37:14
  so? So. So Liam got into the spot. Liam got to
• 37:20
  the spot, and then it was like, who's going to
• 37:22
  take the Red Bull seat? And we're all like, I
• 37:24
  mean, you can't pick Liam, right? Because Yuki's
• 37:26
  the most experienced. I know. And then Liam got
• 37:29
  the Red Bull seat. And I didn't dislike him.
• 37:33
  I just disliked Red Bull more. And that kind
• 37:35
  of bled into disliking Liam a little bit. Because
• 37:37
  it's like, why are you in the Red Bull seat if
• 37:39
  you can't drive it? Because he couldn't drive
• 37:42
  it. And then Yuki got swapped over. And I was
• 37:44
  like, okay, Liam's back into a car that he can
• 37:46
  probably handle and manage. And I can finally
• 37:49
  enjoy watching him race. What is he doing? What
• 37:53
  is Liam Lawson doing? Joe is upset. Sloppy. What
• 37:56
  is he doing? Why is he getting beat by a rookie
• 37:59
  Hadjar? Why? Why is that happening? Yes, he's
• 38:01
  had in total a full season in that car. In total
• 38:06
  a full season. Which is true. He has. It has
• 38:07
  been broken up, so he hasn't been able to really
• 38:10
  hone in on how the car works for a long period
• 38:13
  of time. But he's driven an F1 car for the length
• 38:16
  of a season before. So why is he struggling so
• 38:19
  much? in a v -car which is like not a bad car
• 38:24
  right and losing to jack doing in an lp why i
• 38:28
  just wanted to see his reaction liam lawson he
• 38:33
  got a 10 second penalty he got a five second
• 38:35
  penalty for causing a collision with stroll and
• 38:37
  then he got another 10 second penalty for causing
• 38:39
  who did he cause a collision with for the second
• 38:41
  time hulk hulkenberg hulkenberg yeah what is
• 38:44
  happening Which isn't the first time he's hit
• 38:46
  Hulkenberg either. I understand. We're looking
• 38:51
  at him in a Red Bull, right? And we're like,
• 38:52
  the car's really bad and he's also new, right?
• 38:55
  Yuki's obviously going to do better because Yuki's
• 38:57
  way more experienced. By tenfold more experienced.
• 39:00
  Agreed. Put Lawson back in. He should at least
• 39:02
  be able to... My expectation for Lawson is to
• 39:07
  be better than Hadjar. And he's not. Yep. Why?
• 39:12
  Why is that happening? he's running out of time
• 39:15
  i just want to be clear his f1 clock is running
• 39:18
  out he is he is not at the top of like nowhere
• 39:20
  near the top of my favorite driver's list by
• 39:22
  any means um but he's also not at the bottom
• 39:24
  like i i don't so i'm not trying to like root
• 39:28
  for him a ton but like i i think he deserved
• 39:30
  a chance and he's squandering it you know it's
• 39:32
  just it's so disappointing to see like he he
• 39:35
  cannot but it's not like everybody not everybody
• 39:37
  pans out though right you're totally right i
• 39:40
  mean but like it's but i get the questioning
• 39:43
  like why why maybe he was overhyped maybe it
• 39:46
  just was said so much that was like liam needs
• 39:48
  a chance we need to give liam a chance he did
• 39:50
  he did pretty he did pretty okay when he subbed
• 39:53
  in for danny that one time he deserves the chance
• 39:55
  let's get him in there and then he's finally
• 39:57
  get the chance and it's just disappointing so
• 40:00
  really quick has isaac do you know off the top
• 40:04
  of your noggins has isaac won I thought he won
• 40:07
  an F2 championship. I'll double check. He did
• 40:09
  not. But he was up there. He was up there. He
• 40:11
  was second to Gabriel Bortoletto last year. Bortoletto
• 40:15
  won F2 last year. Bortoletto won F2 last year.
• 40:18
  What about the year before that? That wouldn't
• 40:20
  matter. If he won the year before that, he couldn't
• 40:22
  have driven last year. No, last year was the
• 40:25
  second year of F2. It was, but I'm saying he
• 40:28
  couldn't have won Formula 2. Oh, that's true.
• 40:30
  Because if you win it, you can't drive it anymore.
• 40:33
  Exactly. If you win F2, you can't drive it anymore?
• 40:36
  Champions aren't allowed to continue driving
• 40:38
  in F2. That's why you see F2 champions. So then
• 40:40
  what? So then you never pan out. And if you don't
• 40:42
  pan out right away in F1, that's it, huh? Reserve
• 40:45
  driver, baby. I did not know that. If you win
• 40:46
  a championship in F2, you can't keep going. Why
• 40:48
  do you think Dale Porcher has been a reserve
• 40:49
  driver for the last five years? How many reserve
• 40:53
  drivers can a team have? Just one, right? Or
• 40:55
  do they have multiples? One per seat, right?
• 40:59
  That would make sense. So there have been drivers
• 41:01
  that are reserve drivers for multiple different
• 41:03
  teams. So I don't know if a team can have many
• 41:07
  reserve drivers, but I do know that many teams
• 41:10
  can share the same reserve driver. Like Haas
• 41:13
  had Behrman and so did Ferrari last year. Right.
• 41:18
  But anyway, where I was going with that. Sorry,
• 41:20
  what's up? The Japanese driver for Alpine, the
• 41:24
  reserve driver. I forget his name. Hideo something.
• 41:27
  He actually just moved to Haas as their reserve
• 41:30
  driver. That just popped into my mind. Fun fact.
• 41:34
  But Liam never won F2. Hadjar won four races
• 41:37
  and logged four more podium finishes than Bortoletto.
• 41:41
  He missed out. on the title because he stalled
• 41:44
  at the last race. His car stalled on the last
• 41:46
  race. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, I guess it was a huge
• 41:48
  nail -biter. He's an unofficial champion, I guess.
• 41:53
  It doesn't matter. I swear he would have won
• 41:56
  because I didn't know that Bortoletto ended up
• 41:58
  winning because I was actually keeping track
• 42:00
  of their standings all year because we didn't
• 42:02
  know who was going to be in the seat, right?
• 42:04
  Yep. Ah, dang. Yeah, that's crazy. But Liam has
• 42:08
  not won an F2 championship, so that's why I checked.
• 42:10
  He didn't, so that's why I was curious. He came
• 42:16
  in third. Liam? In 2022, I believe. Okay. I'm
• 42:22
  going to check the fandom. Check the fandom?
• 42:25
  Anyway, while he's doing that, Kicksauber, Hulkenberg,
• 42:29
  DNF, Bordelotto, P18. Kicksauber's not doing
• 42:33
  hot. Hulk ended up getting DQ'd because of the
• 42:38
  excessive skid plate wear again. I think that's
• 42:41
  the second time he's been DQ'd for that same
• 42:42
  thing. No, last time was Ferrari. That was Haas,
• 42:45
  wasn't it? No, it was Ferrari. It was Ferrari.
• 42:46
  Yep. No, there's somebody else, too. There's
• 42:49
  two drivers I got. It was both the Ferrari. No,
• 42:51
  it wasn't. No, it wasn't? No, it was one Ferrari
• 42:53
  and then another car. Oh, was it? Oh, was it
• 42:56
  Alpi? It was Alpi. It was Pierre. Yeah, it was
• 42:58
  Pierre. It was Pierre, yeah. Yeah. And because...
• 43:00
  Both Ferraris got disqualified, but for different
• 43:01
  reasons. So, never mind. Sorry, Hulk. First time.
• 43:03
  First time. I thought it was the second time.
• 43:05
  Confusing you with Pierre. My mistake. Crazy.
• 43:08
  Crazy confusion. I know. All I put for Aston,
• 43:11
  honestly, you guys jump in. Alonzo, P15. Lance,
• 43:15
  P17. I just put straight fecal matter. Why am
• 43:20
  I so stupid? Where did I put them again? That's
• 43:25
  so weird. I don't. I. don't know what's going
• 43:29
  on honestly lance out of everybody lance gave
• 43:34
  me hope to start the season because he was like
• 43:36
  it's actually somewhat somewhat okay and then
• 43:40
  he got to japan and he got to this race and he
• 43:42
  was like oh okay never mind and now he's lancing
• 43:44
  some more and it's just we'll put a pin in this
• 43:46
  and come back to it huh now lance is getting
• 43:48
  alonzo to lance so it's like what the heck is
• 43:51
  and i want to like because everyone all of our
• 43:53
  watchers are thinking this right i want to like
• 43:55
  i don't think i did not yeah exactly i didn't
• 43:58
  think acid martin was going to do well because
• 44:00
  they have like like uh newie i didn't think that
• 44:03
  at all i just was like i thought it was going
• 44:05
  to be hard i was like top five is going to be
• 44:07
  what it was last year aston will somehow pull
• 44:09
  it out somewhere it's whatever yeah i just thought
• 44:11
  they might just be focusing for next year i thought
• 44:13
  they would honestly bounce off of what everything
• 44:16
  last year like they were they were literally
• 44:18
  again i always said there was one through four
• 44:20
  and then there was you know six through everybody
• 44:23
  else and aston was just five yeah i was like
• 44:25
  aston will do what aston does they will copy
• 44:27
  another team and then they will get top five
• 44:29
  you know that's just how i feel like we're idiots
• 44:31
  i feel like right now newbie is just whispering
• 44:33
  in into lawrence's ear like hey so we're just
• 44:37
  gonna throw this season away just don't worry
• 44:39
  about it next season if we if we come in dead
• 44:41
  last we don't care that means we get more wind
• 44:43
  tunnel for next year That means more winter.
• 44:45
  That means I get to develop the car more. Yeah,
• 44:50
  okay. That's fair. So straight from Mike's mouth,
• 44:55
  Aston is sandbagging to get more tunnel time
• 44:58
  so they can come out strong in 2016. Oh, no,
• 45:00
  I'm beached. Dang it. Let's see. We have Bahrain
• 45:08
  tech issues up here. Obviously, George Russell
• 45:11
  DRS. George Russell's DRS. Hold on. Where are
• 45:15
  the notes that I made? George Russell's DRS and
• 45:18
  just general car issues. They said... You mentioned
• 45:23
  it. He was told that, hey, if your screen goes
• 45:26
  off, just keep driving as normally. Still works.
• 45:28
  Just keep going. Okay. Red Bull had pit issues
• 45:31
  that made both of their drivers have longer pit
• 45:35
  times. Their release. all the light wasn't working
• 45:38
  it was not working so they stayed for an extra
• 45:40
  second and a half longer inside their pits maybe
• 45:42
  even two seconds it was a long pit um and then
• 45:45
  we saw on the broadcast timing tower issues specifically
• 45:48
  russell was having a lot of issues so i took
• 45:51
  it that russell maybe was like russell's car
• 45:54
  was just messing with everything and um it kept
• 45:57
  on sending him to the back and so timing looked
• 45:59
  really bad and so they had to keep going uh one
• 46:01
  of the one uh site that i was was reading i think
• 46:04
  it was motorsport .com was saying that there
• 46:06
  was a transponder issue that was just messing
• 46:08
  with everything on the track either way okay
• 46:10
  it's just weird that it all happened it all happened
• 46:13
  at the same time it was like a drs and then the
• 46:16
  timing tower and then also red bull it was like
• 46:18
  that's something else coming up do you have something
• 46:20
  dad he's still wearing the hat oh my god uh well
• 46:23
  i had a great take so um for this exact thing
• 46:26
  um i found out uh f1 just got a new um got a
• 46:31
  new lifetime supplier Which is, like, a new company.
• 46:35
  As of, like, today? As of this year. This year.
• 46:37
  Oh, okay. And this new Lifetime supplier is,
• 46:41
  like, the people who are doing, like, the animations
• 46:43
  on their, like, productions and everything. Their
• 46:46
  production, yeah, exactly. And is also keeping
• 46:47
  track of the times and whatnot. The things that
• 46:49
  the drivers, the problems that the drivers were
• 46:51
  having, that might have been something different.
• 46:52
  But, like, where we saw, like, it said replay
• 46:54
  when we were actually watching live Raze, that's...
• 46:57
  Because of these guys. They're new producers
• 46:59
  and stuff like that. Interesting. That's what
• 47:02
  the content creator I was watching, that's what
• 47:05
  he called it. I don't know if that's the proper
• 47:06
  term for it. Yeah, because I would imagine, obviously,
• 47:08
  the times are transmitted by these transponders.
• 47:12
  And then they're made to look pretty for the
• 47:15
  broadcast for us. And that's what the production
• 47:16
  team does. For sure. I mean, it makes sense that
• 47:19
  they were new because it's not the first time
• 47:21
  we've seen issues. The first race was also pretty
• 47:23
  bad with the tower and just with what they were
• 47:26
  showing us. So it makes sense that it was new
• 47:27
  and that they're going through growing pains.
• 47:30
  And you're going to get people angry like, I
• 47:32
  can't believe it. Where's my timing towers? It's
• 47:34
  like, I'm giving grace this time because there's
• 47:36
  obviously something wrong at the track. I mean,
• 47:39
  there are too many weird things happening where
• 47:41
  it's like, ah, there's got to be something electrical
• 47:43
  happening. Sabotage. Yeah. It's probably any
• 47:45
  car drivers. Maybe. Sabotaging because they can't
• 47:48
  handle it. Very possibly. Let's see. Driver of
• 47:51
  the Day tidbit. Yeah. So I think there's also
• 47:54
  something wrong with the Driver of the Day voting.
• 47:56
  Who ended up getting Driver of the Day? Lewis
• 47:58
  Hamilton. No. Yeah, can you believe that? That's
• 48:01
  not even, no. And I have the breakout. I mean,
• 48:04
  it's been his best race of the year. I love that
• 48:05
  they give us the breakout of who got the most
• 48:08
  percentages, the top five. It was Lewis with
• 48:10
  29 .6, and then it was Oscar, 14 .1, which makes
• 48:14
  sense. Race winner. And then it was Charles with
• 48:17
  7 .8. No. And then it was Lando with 6 .7. And
• 48:23
  then it was Pierre with 6 .5. Okay. Behrman,
• 48:25
  not in the top five. Scuderia is just bombing
• 48:28
  the charts. Don't get me wrong. I think Pierre
• 48:31
  should at least get a vote. But then we saw Kimi
• 48:32
  Antonelli that one race, and he was not doing
• 48:34
  anything. Yeah, I don't know what's going on.
• 48:36
  Yeah, it's very odd. Oliver should win. Very,
• 48:38
  very odd. um so i'm i'm almost like i haven't
• 48:42
  looked into this but i'm almost like convinced
• 48:43
  there's like a subreddit somewhere that's like
• 48:45
  all right this is what we're gonna do for the
• 48:47
  driver of the day this time around it's like
• 48:48
  they're just trolling it's like the game stop
• 48:50
  stocks all over again we know something crazy
• 48:53
  is happening when we see lance joe up there we're
• 48:55
  like okay there's a subreddit somewhere like
• 48:57
  all right uh all right let's let's fly through
• 49:01
  this the new seg the the comms the comms um Oh,
• 49:05
  we don't have any... We don't have a transition
• 49:07
  yet. Okay. Yeah. So you had already mentioned
• 49:11
  this, but Anthony made a pass on, I think it
• 49:13
  was signs. Yeah. Signs. And it was, it was essentially
• 49:16
  just a full on dive bomb. If signs was not a
• 49:19
  like experienced driver and did not see it coming,
• 49:22
  it would have been a big crash. Yep. Brundle
• 49:24
  Brundle called what he did a bit of a hospital
• 49:27
  pass, which I thought was hilarious. Super, super
• 49:31
  funny. We had that. Yeah. A will Buxton moment
• 49:34
  that I mentioned earlier in qualifying. um russell
• 49:38
  after he had pit for softs um at the safety car
• 49:41
  said 23 laps on softs this is pretty audacious
• 49:44
  um but he made it stick so that was great um
• 49:48
  hamilton this tire sucks talking about the hards
• 49:52
  i believe yep um which was a common trend theme
• 49:55
  yep and then i have the the the engineer um to
• 49:58
  george george there's a chance we lose the dash
• 50:00
  just keep driving normal as that happens and
• 50:02
  then russell as long as the wheel doesn't fall
• 50:03
  off and those are my those are my uh my topped
• 50:07
  picked yeah um top picked uh comments or radio
• 50:12
  messages um russell also having gear issues on
• 50:15
  lap 52 five five laps before the end he says
• 50:18
  gears are uh explicitive what is going on yes
• 50:22
  um yes yeah those are my radio messages so a
• 50:25
  good good amount uh came out of this race nothing
• 50:27
  like hilarious or crazy but you know a couple
• 50:30
  nice ones i only had a couple interesting ones
• 50:32
  like information wise and then whatever let's
• 50:35
  see um this was just a personal one for me lap
• 50:38
  30 vowels for Williams came on and said, uh,
• 50:41
  we don't quite have the pace of the Alpine, like
• 50:44
  set it on the broadcast. I was like, no, you
• 50:46
  don't, sir. Uh, so that made me feel good. Uh,
• 50:49
  let's see. Uh, let's see. Let's see. Let's see.
• 50:52
  Uh, Lando, a couple of, they were talking to
• 50:54
  Lando. Uh, George is worried about the soft tire
• 50:57
  and Lando said, I don't think he should be. It's
• 50:58
  a good tire. I thought that was interesting considering
• 51:00
  teams know what other teams are saying that they're
• 51:03
  getting broadcasted, you know? So I was like,
• 51:05
  So they just kind of helped them out a little
• 51:07
  bit. Yeah, it's interesting that you're commenting
• 51:09
  on someone else's tire like that. Yeah, I thought
• 51:11
  that was just different. I haven't seen that
• 51:12
  yet. Maybe it was like a passive -aggressive
• 51:16
  remark. Maybe. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.
• 51:19
  Oh, yeah, maybe. And then there's another one
• 51:22
  to Lando. They were like, remember to use drink.
• 51:24
  He said, I would if it was working. Oh, that
• 51:26
  was Piastri, I think. Oh, was it Piastri? Oh,
• 51:28
  I thought it was Lando. Remember to use drink.
• 51:30
  What if I was working? And he said, well, you
• 51:32
  have this many laps left. Yeah, good answer.
• 51:35
  And then there's one more. Charles early in the
• 51:37
  race. These brakes are so inconsistent. It's
• 51:41
  so annoying. And, like, the way he said so, I
• 51:45
  was like, oh, God, Charles, stop whining. This
• 51:49
  is so annoying. But anyway, those were the only
• 51:52
  comms I got other than Max saying everything
• 51:54
  is overheating on lap 21. I was like, oh, boy.
• 51:56
  But, yeah. Yeah. Did you catch any other comms?
• 51:59
  Nope. All right. He said nope. You can take off
• 52:02
  the hat now. It's okay. Unless he's got some
• 52:04
  in news, which will you go to right now? We're
• 52:06
  going to keep this close by. News, Kev. Boo!
• 52:21
  Let's see. Well, to start off our news, I don't
• 52:25
  have anything, but Mike's got a couple things
• 52:27
  quick, and then we'll get into Joe's. I got one
• 52:29
  thing, too. Yeah, okay, cool. So the first thing
• 52:31
  that I wanted to bring up, I don't have too much
• 52:33
  to go over on it, but it was just kind of interesting.
• 52:34
  It's got a lot of people looking at what's going
• 52:37
  on. The FIA's vice president just abruptly stepped
• 52:41
  down over the weekend, basically just said, I'm
• 52:45
  done. And he, I guess the FIA's... that they
• 52:50
  got from him was literally, or the first notice
• 52:52
  they got was a post on Instagram. He posted on
• 52:55
  Instagram before even letting the FIA know. He
• 52:58
  put a post out and then proceeded to let them
• 53:00
  know I'm stepping down. And so the FIA was like,
• 53:03
  oh, so this is crazy. And now a bunch of people
• 53:07
  are like, because there's been other people who
• 53:09
  have been walking out from the FIA and like pretty
• 53:12
  high value people. Is there something internal
• 53:14
  going on? Well, it probably always is. I'm going
• 53:18
  to look for, I want to see what he said, because
• 53:20
  that's interesting. Yeah. I can no longer, in
• 53:23
  good faith, remain involved in an organization
• 53:25
  that no longer respects the values I defend,
• 53:28
  is part of what he wrote. Yeah. What values?
• 53:34
  The summary is that the FIA is going through
• 53:36
  another eternal crisis. He announces immediate
• 53:38
  resignation, citing a loss of confidence in the
• 53:41
  way the institution is currently run. Whoa. Yep.
• 53:44
  So got to love that. So that's got a lot of people
• 53:49
  looking at the FIA right now. So expect to hear
• 53:52
  more news about V10 soon. They will not be happening.
• 53:57
  Oh, yeah, but it's just MSB's way of diverting
• 54:00
  attention. The other thing, I think you probably
• 54:03
  have something similar, but this isn't like official
• 54:06
  news, but it's like a lot of rumblings that are
• 54:07
  going around. Like, there's been a lot of talk
• 54:11
  about Max having a performance clause in his
• 54:14
  contract with Red Bull. And a lot of people are
• 54:18
  talking about the potential of Max leaving Red
• 54:20
  Bull to potentially go to a different team and
• 54:23
  whatnot. And actually, Christian Horner can amend
• 54:26
  the clause. Probably Christian Horner was asked
• 54:28
  about a performance clause after the race of
• 54:32
  people basically being like, does Max have any
• 54:35
  sort of a performance clause? And are you worried
• 54:36
  about it? And Christian Horner goes. Every driver
• 54:39
  on the grid has some sort of performance clause
• 54:41
  and really wouldn't say anything more about it.
• 54:44
  But there's a lot of people who are making some
• 54:46
  speculations either. You know, he could be just
• 54:49
  he could if Red Bull just isn't working out.
• 54:52
  He could just take he could leave at pretty much
• 54:55
  any time if the Red Bull isn't working. You know,
• 54:57
  he's expecting to be a father, so he could just
• 54:59
  take some time off and. go raise his child and
• 55:02
  do some racing like he wants to do. Like he wants
• 55:04
  to do. Yeah, I know. And he already says he doesn't
• 55:06
  want to race. Like when they were talking about
• 55:08
  Lewis Hamilton's age last year and they asked
• 55:10
  him, he's like, no, I don't want to race that
• 55:12
  long. Yeah. I have no interest in doing that.
• 55:14
  So maybe he is just. Or there's the potential,
• 55:17
  the big buzz as people are thinking that we could
• 55:20
  see him moving over to Aston. To Haas, yeah,
• 55:22
  I know. No, to Aston. Oh, gosh. Haas doesn't
• 55:24
  deserve him. I'm sorry. They also can't afford
• 55:27
  him. He's outside their payroll. To Aston, though,
• 55:29
  is interesting. If you had Max, Fernando, and
• 55:34
  Newey all in the same building, that's crazy
• 55:36
  talk. And Stroll's money and the partner's money.
• 55:42
  That's crazy. That's a pretty crazy lineup. So
• 55:46
  no official news. I'm just kind of curious. Keep
• 55:48
  the hat on the ground. I don't think that one
• 55:49
  deserves the hat. I'm kind of curious what you
• 55:51
  guys think about it, though. Oh, I'd love to
• 55:53
  know what I think about it. Yeah. I don't have
• 55:56
  enough fingers on my hand to tell you how many
• 55:58
  times I've seen that stupid headline pop up.
• 56:00
  Every single time Red Bull is a little bit bad
• 56:03
  in a race, Max could leave Red Bull. We've seen
• 56:07
  it so many times. I feel like we brought it up
• 56:09
  a lot last year even in this room. You're just
• 56:14
  done with the crying wolf. I'm sure if Max wants
• 56:16
  to go somewhere, he'll go somewhere. He's not
• 56:18
  going to go somewhere, though. I think the biggest
• 56:21
  reason why people are super interested in it
• 56:24
  now is because back then people were talking,
• 56:26
  what if we get to the point of the performance
• 56:28
  clause? And now we're reaching the point of we're
• 56:31
  starting to get close to a performance clause.
• 56:33
  There's a lot of talk for Stappen. Max, I think
• 56:37
  Max stays in the car. I actually agree. If you
• 56:41
  asked me two years ago, I would have never said
• 56:44
  Lewis is going to Ferrari. So I'll keep that
• 56:47
  in mind. But I do see Max stopping for a year
• 56:50
  to raise his kid. How's that possible? And then
• 56:52
  coming back, though. You think he would come
• 56:54
  back, though, if he were to take a break? I don't
• 56:56
  know. I think Max has proved that he is, even
• 57:00
  if people don't want to say it, he's one of the
• 57:02
  greatest of all time. Yep, for sure. Straight
• 57:04
  up. For sure. I'd love to see him in some other
• 57:06
  racing disciplines. I just want to see him dominate.
• 57:09
  That'd be sick. Put him in a sports car, put
• 57:12
  him to Indy, see what he can do. Let him do what
• 57:15
  he wants to do, really. At the end of the day,
• 57:18
  he should be doing what he wants to do. If he
• 57:19
  wants to keep racing F1, he's always got a seat.
• 57:21
  Someone will take him. I'm not saying he will.
• 57:28
  I actually don't think he's going to take a year
• 57:30
  off. I don't think he's going anywhere. I think
• 57:31
  he's going to be with Red Bull for a while. At
• 57:34
  least until his contract is over. I don't think
• 57:35
  he's going to outright leave. But I think when
• 57:38
  his contract is nearing it, he could retire.
• 57:41
  I think that's possible. Sure. Why not? For sure.
• 57:43
  For sure. He's got a long contract, like into
• 57:45
  2030, right? Yeah. Something like that. He's
• 57:48
  got a long contract. 2028, maybe. With that,
• 57:52
  Kev, let's head right into our Saudi Arabia preview.
• 58:07
  And I am here to bring you up to speed for the
• 58:11
  Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, the Jeddah Circuit
• 58:14
  coming up this weekend. Jeddah. I'm very excited
• 58:17
  about Jeddah. I love Jeddah. I like racing it
• 58:20
  on the game. Also, a very, you know, this is
• 58:24
  kind of nice at the start of the season, but
• 58:25
  we had some really early ones for us people in
• 58:27
  the U .S. Jeddah and Bahrain, fairly reasonable
• 58:30
  times to watch. I think Jeddah's a little earlier
• 58:32
  than Bahrain. We don't have to stay up until
• 58:35
  2 a .m. 2 a .m. for China or whatever? Jeez.
• 58:39
  jetta very fast track uh this year the formula
• 58:42
  one stc saudi arabian grand prix 2025 uh as always
• 58:47
  fun fact this is the fastest street circuit and
• 58:50
  the one track um with the most corners um which
• 58:54
  is interesting because it looks like a very straight
• 58:56
  line for most of it but there's all those little
• 58:58
  small ones that give it all its corners Looking
• 59:02
  at last year's race, it's lights out, and both
• 59:05
  Red Bulls get an amazing start off the line.
• 59:06
  Sergio immediately fighting. Sorry. That came
• 59:09
  out of nowhere. Usually there's two. Did you
• 59:11
  sneeze because I said Sergio? Yeah. I said it
• 59:15
  again. Quit saying his name. You're right. He
• 59:20
  who shall not be named immediately fighting Charles
• 59:22
  for second place. They go too wide at the first
• 59:25
  set of corners, but Charles is able to maintain
• 59:27
  second as they get to turn four. Despite some
• 59:29
  side -by -side racing through the first lap,
• 59:31
  the top six keep their places, the McLarens following
• 59:34
  the two front rows. They don't keep these positions
• 59:37
  for long, however, as Oscar takes fourth from
• 59:39
  Fernando by the end of the starting straight
• 59:41
  on lap two, and Perez makes a similar move on
• 59:44
  Charles, taking the second podium position away
• 59:46
  from the Monegasque driver. The camera following...
• 59:49
  I've got to actually set this up. Picture this.
• 59:52
  The camera, following Ollie Bearman, his first
• 59:55
  race in F1, subbing in for a sick Carlos Sainz.
• 59:58
  But he is not the action point of the shot, no.
• 1:00:01
  Two places ahead, we watch none other than Lance
• 1:00:03
  Stroll tap the inside of 23, immediately breaking
• 1:00:06
  his steering, going straight into the barriers,
• 1:00:08
  firmly planting himself as a fixture into the
• 1:00:11
  wall. Boom! His engineer asks him if he can bring
• 1:00:13
  it back home, to which he replies, no, I hit
• 1:00:16
  the wall. That's right! This brings out a safety
• 1:00:21
  car and triggers a wave of pits from the grid.
• 1:00:25
  I'm so sorry. From the grid. Amid the chaos of
• 1:00:30
  almost everyone pitting during the safety car,
• 1:00:32
  Perez releases right in front of Fernando, who
• 1:00:34
  visibly has to brake to not hit the Red Bull,
• 1:00:36
  ultimately gifting Sergio a five -second penalty.
• 1:00:39
  I said Sergio. Yeah, Sergio a five -second penalty.
• 1:00:42
  The McLarens, who opted not to pit both cars
• 1:00:45
  to avoid the double stack, instead only pit Oscar,
• 1:00:48
  leaving Lando to lead the pack on the safety
• 1:00:49
  car restart. Oscar in sixth begins battling with
• 1:00:53
  Charles in sixth. Oscar in seventh begins battling
• 1:00:55
  with Charles in sixth, but ultimately keeps his
• 1:00:57
  place after the first few corners. We watch Mike's
• 1:01:01
  boy K -Mag turn into the Williams of Albon, their
• 1:01:03
  wheels locking together for a moment and taking
• 1:01:05
  some bits off of Albon's front wing. K -Mag gets
• 1:01:08
  a 10 -second penalty for causing a collision.
• 1:01:10
  All the while, Bearman takes 11th away from Sonota,
• 1:01:13
  now fighting for 10th place, held by Joe in the
• 1:01:16
  kick. On lap 13, Max Verstappen takes the lead
• 1:01:19
  from Norris at the end of the starting straight,
• 1:01:20
  and Perez replicates the move on Hamilton to
• 1:01:23
  fill the final podium position. Lap 15, Charles
• 1:01:26
  also makes the move on Lewis for fourth at the
• 1:01:27
  end of that straight. Six laps later, Behrman
• 1:01:30
  takes his place in ninth after overtaking the
• 1:01:32
  Haas of Hulkenberg. This is not the end of Haas's
• 1:01:36
  woes, as K -Mag takes another 10 -second penalty,
• 1:01:38
  this time for leaving the track on an overtake
• 1:01:41
  and gaining an advantage on Sonoda. As a bit
• 1:01:43
  of defiance, and to protect Hulkenberg in 10th,
• 1:01:46
  K -Mag defends his position harshly from Sonoda,
• 1:01:49
  who attempts to take it on lap 29, but is boxed
• 1:01:53
  out by the Haas driver, sending Sonoda back and
• 1:01:55
  under pressure for Ocon, who takes Sonoda's place
• 1:01:58
  in the kerfuffle. further up the grid we watch
• 1:02:00
  oscar every week i try that's yeah i was gonna
• 1:02:03
  say you tend to work it in there that's yeah
• 1:02:06
  this is the second one i think i worked it in
• 1:02:07
  there yeah yeah you gotta use gaggle too uh oh
• 1:02:10
  gaggle's good yeah uh further up the grid we
• 1:02:12
  watch oscar piastri take fifth place from lewis
• 1:02:14
  hamilton on lap 35 four seconds behind his teammate
• 1:02:16
  lando unfortunately the next corner oscar does
• 1:02:19
  lock up and has to go wide forfeiting the place
• 1:02:21
  back to lewis lap 48 we see danny rick take too
• 1:02:24
  much curb and go spinning round and round cementing
• 1:02:27
  his 16th place in the grand Grand Prix. Two laps
• 1:02:30
  later, yep, the checkered flag is waved for Max
• 1:02:32
  about nine seconds ahead of his teammate with
• 1:02:35
  another ten seconds to third. Our finals, Verstappen
• 1:02:37
  to Perez, Leclerc to Piastri, Alonso to Russell,
• 1:02:41
  Behrman to Norris, and Hamilton to Hulkenberg.
• 1:02:44
  So Sergio was still finishing second. He was,
• 1:02:48
  yeah. The early Red Bull is no longer, right?
• 1:02:52
  Yeah, right, right, right. No longer. what so
• 1:02:59
  he started adjusting his hat well yeah there's
• 1:03:02
  a lot of k -meg there's a lot of k -meg there's
• 1:03:05
  a lot of bear men yeah i started pointing at
• 1:03:06
  the number 20 on my hat i was like that's my
• 1:03:08
  dog yeah but yeah i mean to like but i do remember
• 1:03:11
  him blocking he was defending hulkenberg yeah
• 1:03:14
  he was like hard defending his teammates so like
• 1:03:16
  he was yuki probably would have got hulk too
• 1:03:18
  yeah probably yeah he was like forcing sonota
• 1:03:22
  back and like he yeah completely ruined his race
• 1:03:24
  but like he did his job as a teammate so Let's
• 1:03:29
  see. So Joe last week got the most points from
• 1:03:33
  Bahrain. Okay. Let's go. He went Oscar Lando
• 1:03:36
  Max. The podium went Oscar George Lando. So Joe
• 1:03:39
  ends up with three points getting the correct
• 1:03:42
  race winner. Good job, Joe. Oh, thanks, guys.
• 1:03:47
  Yeah, no problem. No problem. Why are you clapping?
• 1:03:50
  Actually, we should put a laugh track in there
• 1:03:52
  right there, like from the 90s. Yeah, whatever.
• 1:03:55
  We're just going to cut that laugh and put that...
• 1:03:57
  No, that was horrible. I didn't even try. All
• 1:03:59
  right. And then Mike and me both tying with two
• 1:04:03
  points. Mike's podium being Lando, Oscar, Max.
• 1:04:06
  Getting... All right, all right. Sorry, I didn't
• 1:04:08
  even see you. He was there for a moment. Yeah.
• 1:04:09
  I was like, is he trying to punch me? Oh, yeah.
• 1:04:13
  Yeah, anyway. So we, us, whatever, getting points
• 1:04:18
  because Oscar and Lando were in there. And then
• 1:04:21
  me because of Oscar and George. I hate to say
• 1:04:24
  it. There was a moment where I was like, I kind
• 1:04:26
  of hope George gets a penalty at the end. That
• 1:04:29
  would have been rude. Then I thought about it,
• 1:04:31
  and I was like, he really deserves that podium.
• 1:04:33
  He sure does. Yes, sir. Oh, it's me first. I'll
• 1:04:37
  take the three points. Yeah, right. So our standings
• 1:04:41
  right now, Smelty at 12, who's leading still,
• 1:04:46
  which is crazy, who didn't lead on any of the
• 1:04:50
  shows last year. So keeping that one. close to
• 1:04:54
  the heart uh joe in second with 10 mike sitting
• 1:04:57
  in third at nine one behind joe if you're not
• 1:05:00
  on youtube uh joe is giving mike the loser sign
• 1:05:04
  on the on the forehead you know the shape of
• 1:05:06
  an l on the forehead um doing my best to be like
• 1:05:10
  my team nice yeah right uh anyway ah dang that's
• 1:05:14
  focused anyway um i guess i gotta go first because
• 1:05:17
  i'm leaning again sorry fellas um i'm gonna go
• 1:05:21
  from three to one Spicy. I don't know why I'm
• 1:05:25
  excited. Charles is three. Interesting. Yep.
• 1:05:34
  Oscar is two. Yep. Interesting. This is going
• 1:05:38
  to mess you guys up. Pierre Gasly. No. George
• 1:05:43
  Russell is winning this week in Injetta. Okay.
• 1:05:47
  It's going to be a crazy race. Did you hit your
• 1:05:49
  head? Remember when I did the L? You are not
• 1:05:53
  putting Oscar Piastri on the podium. Oscar's
• 1:05:55
  second. Oh, so you're not putting Lando Norris
• 1:05:57
  on the podium. Lando's fourth. Yep, correct.
• 1:05:58
  Wow. Yep, correct. Got to take chances, you know
• 1:06:01
  what I mean? You're right. It is me now because
• 1:06:03
  you're last. Because I'm dead last, so I get
• 1:06:04
  to wait for you. You're right. George is a crazy
• 1:06:08
  first. I know. But he's not crazy for the podium.
• 1:06:11
  It's not going to happen. This is an incredibly
• 1:06:13
  fast track. Yes. fairly technical as well. Both
• 1:06:20
  of the McLarens are in my podium because they're
• 1:06:21
  the fastest car at the moment. I almost put Lando
• 1:06:25
  winning, which would have put George in third
• 1:06:28
  and bumped Charles in fourth. But he's not even
• 1:06:30
  in your podium. Nope, he's in fourth. Do you
• 1:06:32
  think something's going to happen to Lando? It's
• 1:06:35
  possible. He's just going to get lost in the
• 1:06:37
  shuffle. It's going to be a bad start, and he's
• 1:06:39
  not going to recover this race. Last week's going
• 1:06:44
  to be stuck in his head. Piastri did do well.
• 1:06:48
  Oscar is potentially the fastest car on the grid
• 1:06:50
  right now. Oscar is first. Locked. Yep. Lando
• 1:06:56
  is second. Okay. That makes sense. That tracks.
• 1:07:00
  Lewis Hamilton. No. That's crazy. Not Lando in
• 1:07:03
  second. Lando is third. Lando is third. Uh -oh.
• 1:07:05
  Wait a minute. We're shaking it up. Wait a minute.
• 1:07:08
  So I'm between, just so I can think out loud,
• 1:07:10
  I am between Max and George, I think. This is
• 1:07:14
  fair. That's why Charles will do it. I'm going
• 1:07:15
  the statistic route. They're the two that have
• 1:07:17
  gotten on the phone. You said you were going
• 1:07:18
  to do it. You said you were going to do it. I
• 1:07:20
  think I'll go George. Whoa. I'll go George. Hey,
• 1:07:22
  he's scoring points. He's scoring points in our
• 1:07:25
  standings this year. I don't know if, like, McLarens
• 1:07:26
  are, like, really good on the straight line or,
• 1:07:29
  like, the fast corners. I'm pretty sure McLarens
• 1:07:33
  are, though. Yeah, I'm happy with that. I'll
• 1:07:37
  stick. I'll lock that. All right, Oscar George
• 1:07:38
  Lando, in that order. You are. No, you did it.
• 1:07:41
  Okay, sorry. I'm super prepared. Trust me, I
• 1:07:43
  thought I did it on the wrong one too. So, or
• 1:07:48
  historically, Oscar has been super fast on this
• 1:07:51
  track. Super freaking fast on this track and
• 1:07:53
  super good. And especially when that McLaren
• 1:07:55
  has been a boat over the last couple years. At
• 1:07:59
  the beginning of last year, the McLaren was very
• 1:08:01
  slow, and yet Oscar was super close to the podium.
• 1:08:04
  So I'm putting Oscar to win this race, and it'll
• 1:08:07
  be by a margin, like a pretty large margin. If
• 1:08:09
  he starts in first, yeah, he's going away. I
• 1:08:11
  think he's starting in first. Yep. In second
• 1:08:14
  place, I am putting George Jorge. You guys are
• 1:08:19
  starting to believe in George. He's not going
• 1:08:21
  to get the point. I think George is fast. I think
• 1:08:23
  George is good on some of these technical tracks.
• 1:08:25
  Don't do it. Don't do what? Who's your third?
• 1:08:29
  Charles. Who's my third? And in third place,
• 1:08:31
  another driver who we've seen notoriously good
• 1:08:34
  on this track, so not Lando Norris, is going
• 1:08:37
  to be Charles Leclerc. Interesting. I like that.
• 1:08:39
  I stated earlier that Charles Leclerc has been
• 1:08:42
  inching closer to that podium, and Charles Leclerc
• 1:08:44
  is notoriously very good on street tracks. and
• 1:08:48
  has been notoriously good on Jetta specifically,
• 1:08:50
  and I think that this is probably going to be
• 1:08:52
  the first weekend we see Ferrari on the podium.
• 1:08:54
  So you two have the same podium, and I'm the
• 1:08:57
  only one that picked Lando. I'm kind of upset
• 1:08:59
  that he said this podium, because I had this
• 1:09:01
  podium planned like three days ago. Sure. But
• 1:09:04
  I'm crazy for George winning. I honestly don't
• 1:09:07
  hate Charles. I actually, like, thinking back,
• 1:09:10
  you know, when I made my predictions 30 seconds
• 1:09:12
  ago, Charles might be a better pick over George,
• 1:09:14
  but the Ferrari hasn't been there. And the Mercedes
• 1:09:16
  is very surprising. Which is fair. The Ferrari
• 1:09:18
  has yet to really show up. I'm hoping Lando just,
• 1:09:22
  like, eats. My big take, and that is why Lando
• 1:09:26
  isn't on the podium this weekend, is we've seen
• 1:09:31
  that the McLaren is not great in dirty air, especially
• 1:09:34
  in corners. You put that McLaren into corners,
• 1:09:38
  into dirty air, and that McLaren struggles. And
• 1:09:42
  at least one of the McLarens have to be in dirty
• 1:09:44
  air. Exactly. That was my logic. And Oscar being
• 1:09:47
  as fast as he is on this track, I think Oscar
• 1:09:49
  is going to excel and put himself on pole position.
• 1:09:52
  And then Lando is going to struggle because he's
• 1:09:54
  going to be in dirty air the entire time. Meanwhile,
• 1:09:56
  you see drivers like George, who is a good car.
• 1:10:01
  That's possible. We might have a new pulse. But
• 1:10:03
  we see George, who's been very fast and very
• 1:10:06
  good and very consistent, and Charles Leclerc,
• 1:10:08
  who is notoriously good on this track. The double
• 1:10:13
  knee slap. Yeah, that was crazy. I just want
• 1:10:16
  to say that was crazy you just did that. But
• 1:10:18
  I do not hate your guys' podiums. I would like
• 1:10:21
  to see some more variety up front, as long as
• 1:10:23
  one of my boys are up there. Go for it. We're
• 1:10:26
  so far in constructors right now, I'm not worried.
• 1:10:28
  I do also want to point out that if... Something
• 1:10:33
  else that I jotted this down, and we didn't mention
• 1:10:35
  when we talked about McLaren earlier, Oscar was
• 1:10:38
  three laps away from having a Grand Slam this
• 1:10:41
  last race. Oh, leading the entire thing? Pole
• 1:10:44
  position, fastest lap, leading the lap for every
• 1:10:48
  single... Or leading the race for every single
• 1:10:51
  lap. Max has definitely done that. He's not the
• 1:10:53
  first. Max has done it five times. Only five?
• 1:10:56
  Who else has done it? Do you know? Oh, there's
• 1:10:59
  been plenty of other drivers. Lewis Hamilton
• 1:11:01
  has done it before. Obviously, people like Michael
• 1:11:04
  Schumacher and Senna have all done it. But Max
• 1:11:06
  only five times when he had such a dominating
• 1:11:09
  season. It's kind of wild to think about. And
• 1:11:11
  that's another thing that's got me so like, holy
• 1:11:14
  cow, Oscar is crazy. It's his third year and
• 1:11:17
  he almost had a Grand Slam. Three laps. He missed
• 1:11:19
  it by three laps. And there's only a handful
• 1:11:22
  of drivers who have Grand Slams. Exactly. Yep.
• 1:11:28
  Yeah. Oh, yeah, pitting it in. Yep. So he almost
• 1:11:32
  had a grand slam this weekend, and Lando's never
• 1:11:35
  had a grand slam. No. No. I mean, no, because
• 1:11:38
  the car's only good. Hasn't even really been
• 1:11:39
  in that conversation. Yeah, the car's only really
• 1:11:41
  good this year. Lando's never even been close.
• 1:11:43
  You need to pull. In the second half. Well, you
• 1:11:44
  need to pull, like, time. Yep. You need to either
• 1:11:47
  be the last to pit, or you need to pull, like,
• 1:11:50
  hard time in front. You got to be, like, 25 seconds
• 1:11:53
  in front. Yeah. And that might not even. Well,
• 1:11:55
  I mean, like. Yes. You're actually right. You
• 1:11:58
  need to be 25 seconds in front or you need to
• 1:12:01
  pit last. And then you are 25 seconds in front.
• 1:12:05
  That's a good point. That's interesting. Good
• 1:12:08
  fun. He almost got it. It's going to be sad when
• 1:12:12
  Max wins. He will too. Then we lose our 10 followers.
• 1:12:19
  He very well could be on the podium. This is
• 1:12:22
  a super technical track and Max is probably the
• 1:12:24
  best driver on the grid right now. I get some
• 1:12:26
  pretty decent points if Lando's there, though.
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  And I think Lando will be there. Okay, interesting.
• 1:12:32
  Stop. Stop, you scallywag. Anyway, Mike, thanks
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  for being here, brother. I was happy to be here.
• 1:12:38
  I yapped. I put on the hat. Good, good. You didn't
• 1:12:42
  get stuck loading a late truck? Nope. Or unloading?
• 1:12:44
  Which one? Either one. Unloading, typically.
• 1:12:46
  Unloading. Oh, wow. Thank God. So we're always
• 1:12:49
  happy to have you. And Haas was at double points
• 1:12:52
  this week, so that's B -A. You're very quickly
• 1:12:54
  proving us wrong. Looking forward to Haas scoring
• 1:12:56
  again next weekend. I just want you to know the
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  moment that they start to falter, we're coming
• 1:13:00
  at you. Oh, yeah, no, absolutely. Are you kidding
• 1:13:02
  me with how outlandish I've been? Fifth? Where'd
• 1:13:06
  your fifth go, huh? Williams could take it back.
• 1:13:11
  The two of them are like... Williams is – we're
• 1:13:14
  already so full. I could talk about this for
• 1:13:16
  another 10 minutes. I could talk about this for
• 1:13:18
  another two hours. Williams is not going to come.
• 1:13:20
  I don't think Williams is going to get fifth
• 1:13:21
  this year. I think they're just going to keep
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  kind of floating around seventh -ish. Which is
• 1:13:28
  sad because I want them to get fifth. And Aston
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  is – I'm so shocked in terms of Aston. I'm so
• 1:13:33
  shocked. Shocked. It's all over. All right. Smelty,
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  thank you for being here. Whoa, hey. I didn't
• 1:13:41
  say you first. Thank you for being here, John.
• 1:13:43
  We never bring it up. Kevin, thank you for being
• 1:13:44
  here. Thanks for being here. Thank you, Kev.
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  I'm not saying we shouldn't. We appreciate you.
• 1:13:50
  I just want to be clear. I'm not saying we shouldn't,
• 1:13:52
  but, like, we have said it before. Thank you.
• 1:13:55
  Thank God. Joe's like, I gotta go. My mom's here.
• 1:13:58
  I don't have to be here anymore. Oh, my God.
• 1:13:59
  You're being so mean to me. With that, obviously,
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• 1:14:14
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• 1:14:16
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• 1:14:18
  That we'll be here next week. More than zero.
• 1:14:20
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• 1:14:21
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• 1:14:23
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