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F1 2025 Emilia Romagna GP Recap & Monaco GP Preview - Fast Laps with the Boys · Banter with the Boys

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  laced up let's go it's time for banter with the
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  boys that's good or bad hey welcome back to banter
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  with the boys uh f1 what are we doing fast laps
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  that's what it's called where we got the miami
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  recap and the emila emilia romagna that's what
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  i meant uh emilia romagna Parmesan cheese. Let's
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  see. What happened? That's rough. Anyway, yes,
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  we're here. I'm Smelty. That's good. Joe. I'm
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  Joe. Hey, Joe. And then Mike. Hello. Hi, Mike.
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  I'm here again. Mike got off work early even,
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  or like well before. Yes, sir. We thought this
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  was going to be a late one. And we ended up actually
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  being earlier than our normal time, so that's
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  awesome. Anyway, not that you guys care. I'm
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  rambling. Yeah, let's just head right into the
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  Miami GP recap. ah yes uh right into the gp recap
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  um yes we got the fp1 uh were those were those
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  year notes joe yes yes fp1 lay fp1 on us and
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  sprint quality while you're at it yeah sure all
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  those right into each that sounds great yeah
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  so uh I guess, like, the biggest, like, not really
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  headline, but, like, the clip that came out of
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  FP1 were the tools left in Lando's car after
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  he left the garage. I think they left, like,
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  two large lights. He had reported that they were,
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  like, knocking around his cockpit. So he got
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  back in. They pulled everything out. He was good.
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  So it was just, like, a little clip. That would
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  be rather annoying. Oh, I'm sure. Yeah. Imagine,
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  like, going full throttle, and you just have,
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  I mean, I would say broken bones, probably. I
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  mean, you're going mock Jesus in these things,
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  and you just got lights bashing around. There's
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  only like a top speed of like 210 miles an hour.
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  Only? I mean, that's not even, I do that every
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  day. I do that every day on my way to work. He's
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  over here, police. This is more of a weekend
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  note. Actually, maybe we'll touch on it when
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  we get to them. So I'll leave that. At the end
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  of free practice one, the only free practice
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  because we had a sprint, Ali Behrman did crash
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  with about four minutes, 30 seconds left in the
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  session. I think he just lost it. I don't think
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  there's really anything else to it. Yeah, I think
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  so. It is what it is. It is what it is. Going
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  into sprint quali, biggest notes, Yuki out in
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  SQ1. I just don't think he was able to set a
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  very good time. I mean, we'll touch on it, too,
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  when we get to the... gp and red bull as a whole
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  the car is just not great not great not great
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  um and then the last little note i had uh i believe
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  jack duane was released a little late and behind
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  his teammate um so there was some conversation
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  that he had to his engineer on the radio the
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  first and Last time, I think we're going to hear
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  Jack swear and a little angry on the radio with
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  his engineers because of how they released him.
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  I think it was to the point where he got to the
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  line and the flag had already been waved or something
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  like that. Probably just blew his whole GP. That's
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  why. Yeah. That's why it was bad. Definitely.
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  The only reason. It was definitely that reason.
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  It just overflowed into the GP. Absolutely. But
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  I mean, like, really, the most exciting part
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  of sprint qualifying, Antonelli Pole, the youngest.
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  to be on any kind of pole position in the sport.
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  Isn't that crazy? A, it's insane. B, Antonelli
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  is quickly becoming my new favorite driver. The
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  dude is just effing electric. There's something
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  about Miami, man. Every race, okay, like the
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  last three races, he has slowly been, not slowly,
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  but he has been. starting to take more and more
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  chances. Like, some of them not as smart, right?
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  And that's just age and experience in F1, you
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  would imagine. But, I mean, I don't know. It's
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  becoming, I better get up so I can watch what
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  Kimi Antonelli's going to do this week. Yeah.
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  You know what I mean? Definitely. There have
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  been people I've been talking about, though,
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  who have been seeing, like, us, we're all very
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  excited that Kimi did that. I'm very proud of
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  Kimi. But, like, there are a lot of people who
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  are like, It was a sprint quali. Does it even
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  really count? He had a good GP, too. He had a
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  good sprint. He had a good race quali, too. I'm
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  like, guys, it was still a qualifying session.
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  What did you think? They were holding back for
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  a qualifying session? He still beat the McLarens,
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  which nobody can apparently do right now. Yeah,
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  right. It was still an absolute fire lap. And
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  he took the record for the fastest lap on the
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  track so far. So that is the fastest that we've
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  seen come out of that track. a guy who's the
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  youngest pole setter ever. So like, I think people
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  got to give him a little more credit. Oh yeah,
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  definitely. I think his, his quality time, his
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  one lap pace is absolutely there. Definitely
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  needs a little work on his race pace. He lost
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  a lot of, a lot of positions both in the race
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  and the sprint and, and sprint. But his, his,
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  yeah, I mean, Miami was just a very good track
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  for him. Was this the first time he's driven
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  at Miami too? Literally first time ever. That's
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  insane. I think it was, uh, I think it was...
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  I was like, F2 didn't go there last year. I think
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  most of the rookies, I think this was their first
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  time here. There were a few other rookies who
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  have been here before, like, raced, like, FP1
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  sessions or stuff like that. But this was, like,
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  literally Kimmy's first time ever being in Miami.
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  So, like, and I think it was... Was it Jensen
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  Button or whatever was saying that, like, he
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  was talking to Kimmy before the race, and he's
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  like... Do you have any tips? Like, what am I
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  supposed to do here? I've never been here before.
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  And, I mean, to be fair, not to get into the
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  GP too much, but to be fair, I mean, still finishing
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  P6 is, you know, for the first time ever. Yeah,
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  you started P3. Totally. That's a negative three,
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  obviously. For a rookie, I would not expect less.
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  And, you know, yeah, letting Albon, you know.
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  beat you to the line but at the same time williams
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  had a great day we'll touch on them might yet
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  it'd be a mercedes issue not an antonelli issue
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  yeah yeah for sure but anyway where were we um
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  yeah the sprint i think i have a lot of notes
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  on the sprint um I actually wrote them all inside
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  our dock, and then I deleted them because it
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  was taking up so much of it. That's a good point.
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  I'll just run through them really quick. Go for
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  it. Very rainy on Saturday. Very rainy. The formation
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  lap started under the safety car and then ended
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  up in a red flag. About half an hour later, the
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  race started, I think. It started on lap three.
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  It was a standing start. Piastri, Norris, and
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  Verstappen all took Antonelli in the first corner.
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  Verstappen was noted for being out of position
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  at the start. We saw Sainz and Ocon having some
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  decent fights. Yuki was the first to pit for
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  slicks on the 11th lap. We saw, I think, another
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  big highlight from sprint, Verstappen and Antonelli
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  colliding in the pit lane from an unsafe release
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  from Verstappen. He did end up getting a 10 -second
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  penalty, which just brought him right down the
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  order. Sainz gets a puncture, has to retire.
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  Norris gets saved by the safety car that comes
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  out at the end of the race because Fernando did
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  crash after getting what I believe looked like
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  pit by Liam Lawson, just straight up. So Norris
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  was able to get the last pit under safety car
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  and just pull ahead of Piastri and win. So the
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  race finished under the safety car. Nothing no
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  one could do about that. Verstappen had to eat
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  the 10 -second penalty under the safety car,
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  so he just dropped down the order. Sprint final
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  was Norris Piastri Hamilton, Albon Russell Stroll,
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  Lawson, and Behrman. Lawson, after everything
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  he had done, still got into points. Isn't that
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  crazy? I can't believe that. That's wild. What
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  a rubbish. I do have like... Actually, no. I'm
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  so sorry. That's not true. There were penalties
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  after the race. Lawson did not. Yeah, you have
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  your finishing eight as Norris, Piastri, Hamilton.
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  Hamilton, Russell, Stroll, Sunoda, Antonelli,
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  Gasly. Yeah, keep Gasly. After penalties and
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  after all that fun stuff, yeah, sorry. After
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  all the penalties, Liam Liamed. Love that. I'm
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  curious. There's been two major discussions that
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  I saw come out of this race or the sprint. First,
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  is how do you guys feel about potentially going
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  forward? Like this was, I think a lot of people
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  agreed, the most eventful sprint that we have
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  seen to date. Like this was a super fun sprint.
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  And I think one of the things that made it so
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  much fun was pits. And so there are a lot of
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  people talking like, maybe we should just start
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  doing a forced pit in the sprints and just force
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  like, kind of like how you have to take at least
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  one pit in a full length race. You have to take
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  one pit in the sprint, which now. Forces some
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  strategy onto teams, would allocate an extra
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  tire for the weekend to make up for it. Yeah.
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  But, like, and that's fine. Like, we could do
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  that. There's nothing wrong with that. And it
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  would force more strategy into what we're doing,
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  how late do we pit, because we can already cover
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  the whole sprint distance on one set of tires.
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  Like, it opens up a ton of new strategy on what
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  we can do. And a lot of people are talking about
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  it could be fun. And I'm kind of curious what
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  you guys take. I don't hate that. I don't hate
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  that. I do agree that the sprint was extremely
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  exciting. I don't hate it. Force pit. Yeah. I
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  mean. You're right in that the reason. You're
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  the devil's advocate today, Joe. Only a tiny
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  bit. You better be careful. Yeah, only a tiny
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  bit. I'm not going to rant about it. You're definitely
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  right. It was like the pit is probably what really
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  made it exciting, and that's because of the inclement
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  weather. So, like, obviously that also had a
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  play in it, but mostly because they had to pit.
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  So, yeah, I mean, it'd be interesting to see
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  how they do it. I mean, it's such a short race.
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  The sprint felt real NASCAR -ish to me. Sure.
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  In the sense of carnage. Yeah. You know what
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  I mean? Like, they were racing each other real
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  aggressive. almost arguably for me, almost more
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  aggressively in the sprint than the GP. And I
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  don't know why that was. I have a new pitch.
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  But pitch it. We make the track wet before the
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  sprint every time. I mean, it's just pure chaos.
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  Yeah. So that sounds funny. All right. Really.
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  And also, I forgot to mention Leclerc crashes
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  on the way to the grid, so he did not participate
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  in the sprint. Yeah. The other thing that I saw
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  people talking about with this was Max got really
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  the short end of the stick for, you know, the
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  unsafe release 10 second penalty and then being
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  forced to end under a safety car. Because of
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  that, it bunched all the cars up. And so it pushed
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  him from what was it like, like fifth, like fourth
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  or fifth and knocked him all the way down to
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  basically dead last. Right. And that really sucks.
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  I feel like in a situation like that, in rare
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  situations where you're finishing under a safety
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  car, they should do something slightly different
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  where a 10 -second penalty would have otherwise
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  have been roughly about a two -place grid penalty.
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  I think they should have just given him a two
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  -place grid penalty. I think it would have been
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  more than two places. It's still a sprint. I
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  don't know if they were that far apart from each
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  other. Maybe they were. I don't remember what
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  the gaps were. I see what you mean. If they start
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  imposing place penalties for races, it just gets
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  a little messy because like, what if, what if
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  he was. 20 seconds ahead of third or fifth, right?
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  And he gets a two -place grid penalty. It's like,
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  I would have cleared that with even the worst
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  penalty they could have given me. It just introduces
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  more variables or rather more flexibility, which
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  they shouldn't have. It should be set in stone.
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  It does suck. You're right. I mean, it wasn't
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  his fault either. It was his team's fault. But
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  the team's got to take that penalty and he's
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  just got to deal with it, unfortunately. To me,
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  it's like... It's a specific thing of like when,
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  if like a situation like this where somebody
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  has a penalty to serve, like when the race ends
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  under a safety car specifically, because the
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  safety car then bunches everybody together. So
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  that 20 second gap goes away. So like. At that
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  point, then under that circumstance, it feels
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  like we should change things because we're under
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  a weird circumstance already by finishing under
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  a safety car, which is something that the FIA
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  actively tries not to do. But if it is something
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  that happens, then maybe we should alter what
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  our penalties are because we're not in a racing
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  situation. We're in a safety car situation. Yeah,
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  I definitely see your point, and it kind of makes
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  me think, and I want to hear your thoughts on
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  this too, Smiltzy, because I'm interested in
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  if you have any ideas. Maybe they introduced,
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  like, before the safety car came out, this was
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  the time gap, like, right before. So because
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  of that, the 10 -second penalty will be reduced
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  in that setup. Oh, sure, yeah, that makes sense.
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  Because we finished under safety car. But then
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  you still have people that are like, that's unfair.
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  You're saying if somebody finished 20 seconds
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  ahead, still using that example? Yeah, yeah.
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  Like, yeah, if he was 20 seconds ahead. before
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  the safety car came out, but he had a 10 -second
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  penalty. But they finish under safety car. Instead
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  of putting him back all the way to the back of
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  the grid, they're just like, hey, you had 20
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  seconds right before the safety car, so we're
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  going to impose your 10 seconds on that, technically.
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  I think that's the most fair way to do it. If
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  we're being real. It's messy, but I guess it's
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  the most fair. But at the same time, races are
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  races and anything can happen. Which is also
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  a fact. Liam Pitt Alonzo, do you think that's
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  fair? Alonzo? No, of course not. Before the safety
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  car, he didn't pit Alonzo, so Alonzo should actually
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  finish sixth, right? Yeah, sounds great. It introduces
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  Alonzo. It gets messy. Do you have any thoughts
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  about that, Smelty? If you could change the rule?
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  No. Not on this one. I like your thoughts. I'm
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  going to pitch you for director of FIA. I think
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  you'd be a good fit. Everybody just, whatever
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  you want. It's fine. Sounds good. Meanwhile,
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  Mohammed bin Salam is like, what's a smelty?
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  I just got word. He just introduced a rule that
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  actually doesn't allow you to be. I'm so sorry.
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  That's tough. It's crazy how that happens. Yeah,
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  wait. Oh, that's right. Yeah, yeah. We'll get
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  there. We'll get there. Oh, we're going to get
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  there. Yeah, because I can't wait to hear why.
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  Anyway, we'll talk about it. After I saw it,
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  I chose not to dig into it, so you can tell me
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  so I can react to that live. Anyway, what are
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  we at? We're at qualifying for the GP, so we
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  better hurry that along. You got any good notes
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  on that, Joe? No. Perfect. Wait a minute. Hamilton
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  out in Q2, both Williams and Ocon in Q3, just
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  because, you know, I mean, come on. That's it,
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  though. Nothing else. Oh, and then just before
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  race, Gasly starts in the pit lane. Do you remember
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  why? You know what? That'd be a good question
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  for an Alpine fan. Was it just... Did he he made
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  obviously was parked for make changes, right?
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  Yeah, like I was curious if you knew exactly
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  I mean it was an LP and he was gonna be in the
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  back. Anyways, whoa It just says do to set up
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  changes, yeah, okay that they just easy enough
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  He must have been pretty low that he went out.
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  He went out q1. I think I think he went I think
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  it was P18, actually, but you're right. Yeah,
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  Q1. So, like, at that point, just take your setup
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  changes and hope for a better race. Yeah, totally,
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  which is exactly what they ended up doing. Yeah.
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  Yeah. Anyway, McLaren. Take it away, Joe. Your
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  boys absolutely killing it. I mean, there's not
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  really any other way to put that. A race of their
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  own, right? Truly. Both of them are max Verstappen.
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  Both of them are Franz Herrmann, I should say.
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  They are so, I mean, 30 seconds ahead of P3.
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  And that was just Lando. Making Oscar almost
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  40 seconds. They didn't have to fight each other.
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  Piastri got ahead of Verstappen immediately.
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  Lando did have to fight him a bit. Yeah, exactly.
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  And those two laps, not even. It was like a lap
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  and a half. But of Lando and Max fighting, oh,
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  my God. It was so much fun. But you could tell
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  Max was fighting the heck out of that guy. Just
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  trying to stay up with him. Yes, yes. Lando had
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  a moment where I think he thought, or rather,
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  I mean, yeah, he thought he went off track and
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  gained advantage, so he gave Max the position
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  back. But, yeah, he did it so well. that he was
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  right on him at the next, yeah. It was really
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  good racing from McLaren. I mean, come on, no
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  notes, really. And I mean, Piastri, I mean, he's
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  quite literally, it's the definition of driving
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  away with the WDC right now. I mean, if I don't,
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  it's going to be really tough just getting that
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  dude's way. Even if you're Lando, like he, the
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  last few races, he's had way more pace than Lando
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  anyway. So I don't know, dog. We could be looking
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  at a brand new WDC champion already, and it's
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  freaking May. I just learned today, too, which
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  is interesting. Please play devil's advocate
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  on that. Oscar has won three races in a row now,
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  right? And he's looking for his fourth. And McLaren,
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  as a team, has never won more than four races
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  in a row. Interesting. More than four. And the
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  only driver to win four races in a row for McLaren
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  was Prost. wow so crazy so uh if just imagine
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  if oscar shows up guy in his third year ever
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  shows up and sets a record for such a tenured
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  team like mclaren that'd be so cool and you know
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  they have i mean they have two drivers that can
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  break their record they do and they're both gonna
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  be up there i think gleno's gonna have to work
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  for it a little more though I would agree with
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  that. I would agree. He's going to this point.
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  I will. OK, listen, it's everyone. It's on everyone's
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  mind. I know this is easy to say this, right?
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  Oscar is doing so well. Well, yeah, because he
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  is. It's a fact. You know what I mean? He is.
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  No, he is. He is driving. He's driving better
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  than Lando. It's just it's just full stop. He's
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  driving better than Lando. That being said, Lando,
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  I think while he still has to drive well, it's
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  not going to be. I mean. You guys say he has
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  some work ahead of him. You're right. To get
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  to Oscar, he does, but his car is so fast. Oh,
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  it is. Oh, yeah. As long as he doesn't scuff
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  up quality, which they have a knack for doing
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  sometimes for some reason, he's in the race.
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  He's going. This is reminding me so far of Verstappen,
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  Checo, and then Louis Botas right now. Like,
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  they're so dominant that they're going to be
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  able to just hold their own. Lando almost has
• 19:37
  two locked to me until Russell can put more pressure
• 19:42
  on him. Yeah. Which I think could still happen.
• 19:45
  Right. I do truly think George Russell could
• 19:47
  probably battle Lando, and we could see some
• 19:50
  fighting, some really good battling there the
• 19:52
  rest of this season. Yeah, I would love to see
• 19:53
  Mark kind of get up there more. And Max is just
• 19:56
  going to, you know, be Max. He's going to be
• 19:58
  in there somewhere. He's going to be in there
• 20:00
  somewhere. Max could still get P2 as well. But
• 20:03
  it's going to be fighting a really difficult
• 20:04
  car. Right. Anyway, sorry. No, that's, I mean,
• 20:09
  what else is there to say? It was a literal perfect
• 20:12
  weekend, right? Yeah, for McLaren. Yeah, no doubt.
• 20:15
  Mercedes, we already talked. George Russell finishing
• 20:18
  P3. But Kimi Antonelli. I like what you said
• 20:21
  here. His race craft, he needs to work on a little.
• 20:24
  I think that hits it right on the head. That's
• 20:26
  totally true. I mean, yeah, we saw it. He lost
• 20:28
  positions almost immediately, both in race and
• 20:31
  in quality. Well, the first couple turns in the
• 20:33
  GP were quite interesting. He was, like, keeping
• 20:36
  up with Max. I was like, what? Definitely. You're
• 20:39
  right. And then it ended. But, I mean, his quality
• 20:41
  was quick. Yeah. So quick. I don't know where
• 20:45
  that came from. And then George was struggling
• 20:48
  so much in qualifying. Right. Like, so much.
• 20:51
  It was a bad weekend for George, and he came
• 20:53
  up on the podium. And he's on the podium. And
• 20:55
  in good George Russell fashion, happenstance
• 20:58
  is his way into another podium. And I'm really
• 21:00
  sad that I didn't take George on my podium this
• 21:03
  week. Didn't you? I thought you did. You guys
• 21:05
  did a really crazy job. Wow, we had a shakeup
• 21:07
  there. I can't wait to get to that. That's right,
• 21:09
  you had Charles. Holy crap. What a shakeup. Yeah.
• 21:12
  Four point. Is that the first four point? No,
• 21:15
  that's two four points in a row. All right, we'll
• 21:17
  get to that. Mike's killing us, Joe. What the
• 21:20
  heck here? He almost got... He was so close.
• 21:22
  I was so close. We were watching the race together,
• 21:25
  and he was so close to getting six points, and
• 21:28
  I was just like... Joe was like, oh, no. I was
• 21:30
  like, I don't want... I want the McLaren 1 -2,
• 21:33
  but I really can't have Max in third place right
• 21:36
  now. Oh, my God. You'll figure out what we're
• 21:42
  talking about in a second. If you're already
• 21:44
  a fan, you know what we're talking about. For
• 21:45
  real. Ferrari, Leclerc finishing P7, Lewis finishing
• 21:50
  P8. Yep. Yep. I mean, that's... At this point,
• 21:56
  I really had higher hopes for Ferrari and thinking
• 22:00
  that they could battle. But, I mean, now Antonelli's
• 22:02
  beating you pretty handily, it feels like. So,
• 22:09
  I don't know. I think seven and eight, maybe
• 22:11
  that is the most realistic thing we're going
• 22:14
  to see from Ferrari this year. Like, I think
• 22:16
  Leclerc, who knows? You know, I think he could
• 22:20
  still, I don't know if he's going to get a podium,
• 22:22
  though. I was fairly confident he could still
• 22:23
  get podiums. But this is just like, they're consistently
• 22:26
  where Aston was last year. Charles said over
• 22:31
  the weekend that he's like, I think I got everything
• 22:34
  I could have out of the car this weekend. I believe
• 22:37
  him. He said, I don't think I can get more out
• 22:40
  of that car. So, barring weird things happening,
• 22:43
  they are... I mean, this is kind of what to expect
• 22:47
  out of them. Like, 5, 6, 7, that's probably where
• 22:52
  they're at. I know they're bringing a really
• 22:55
  small upgrade to Imola, but I don't... I don't
• 23:00
  think they can catch the Mercedes right now.
• 23:01
  Yeah, I don't think they can catch the Mercedes
• 23:03
  right now either. Barring weird situations happening,
• 23:05
  the Mercedes starting on fire or something. Which
• 23:08
  could happen. Yeah. You know, it's interesting,
• 23:10
  though. Hamilton finished third in the sprint,
• 23:13
  which kind of makes me think, what if their whole
• 23:17
  issue is strategy? Right? What, Ferrari with
• 23:21
  strategy issues? Isn't that crazy? No. Isn't
• 23:24
  that wild? Ferrari's never had strategy issues
• 23:26
  ever. That being said, doesn't account for them
• 23:29
  being beat by Williams. But, you know, so there's
• 23:32
  that. There's that. I don't know what's going
• 23:33
  on with Ferrari. I don't know. Maybe it was their
• 23:35
  livery. It was just really ugly this weekend.
• 23:37
  Yeah, it was not awesome. Too much paint on that
• 23:40
  car. I would agree with that. What's this Team
• 23:42
  Orders thing that you put in here, Joe? Oh, okay.
• 23:45
  So I was going to ask first, do you guys have
• 23:47
  any radio call -outs? for today no no okay then
• 23:51
  we can just skip that section because this is
• 23:53
  the only thing i had yeah so there was a portion
• 23:56
  in the race where hamilton and leclerc were racing
• 23:59
  together hamilton was on fresher i think soft
• 24:02
  tires right uh medium or medium so he was on
• 24:05
  mediums leclerc was on hards he asked to switch
• 24:08
  with leclerc so he could try catching albon yep
• 24:11
  i'm pretty sure um and they took forever to confirm
• 24:14
  that switch um and he was getting very impatient
• 24:17
  and calling him out on it um they finally did
• 24:20
  make the switch like way too many laps later
• 24:22
  and by that point Yeah, by that point, Hamilton
• 24:26
  was like, I mean, he had already kind of like
• 24:27
  burned through his tires a little bit more and
• 24:29
  he could not catch him. So they told him to give
• 24:34
  the position back to Claire, which he did, I
• 24:36
  think, fairly quickly. But he was not happy about
• 24:39
  the situation as a whole. So some of the radio
• 24:42
  messages that we got from Hamilton during this
• 24:46
  time. I just read one. Yeah. So this is. Yeah.
• 24:53
  Leclerc was told to swap positions after three
• 24:55
  laps of Hamilton asking. How did I miss this?
• 24:57
  Hamilton says, I gave the position in China.
• 25:00
  What are we doing? The engineer says, we are
• 25:02
  working on it. Hamilton responds, have a tea
• 25:04
  break while you're at it. Dude, that's. Right.
• 25:07
  That's like, I'm kind of paraphrasing. I don't
• 25:09
  think that's exact quote. No, have a tea break
• 25:11
  while you're at it. Come on. Quote. Yep. He did
• 25:15
  say that. Lap 53. This is after Leclerc swaps
• 25:18
  back with Hamilton. So Leclerc's now back in
• 25:20
  front. Engineer gives him info, Hamilton info.
• 25:23
  Signs 1 .3 behind. Hamilton responds, you want
• 25:27
  me to let him pass too? Oh yeah, that one was
• 25:30
  so good. Oh my gosh. Man. You want me to let
• 25:33
  him pass? Oh yeah, you want me to let him pass
• 25:35
  as well? That one I did see. It is so interesting.
• 25:39
  Zesty. Uh, it's almost like, and we, we've seen
• 25:42
  this right when like two years ago, Ferrari was
• 25:45
  known for making the worst strategy calls. So
• 25:48
  they basically gave the strategy to the drivers
• 25:50
  to make themselves. It seems like they're trying
• 25:53
  to take that control back a little bit. And I
• 25:55
  don't think the drivers are doing well with that.
• 25:58
  At least Hamilton's not, I didn't hear Pete from
• 26:00
  the entire race, but seven time WDC. And now
• 26:03
  you're going to. But he didn't have to do this
• 26:06
  at Mercedes, right? It's just, I don't know what's
• 26:10
  going on. Then again, he never had a teammate
• 26:13
  that could stack up to him at Mercedes. He was
• 26:15
  either really had a Botas or he was a bit behind
• 26:19
  Russell near the end there. We're just going
• 26:22
  to say that Ferrari is in shambles. Ferrari is
• 26:26
  in shambles. You know who isn't in shambles right
• 26:28
  now, though? I'm giving you the greatest segue
• 26:32
  I can here. For who? Next on my list is Max Verstappen.
• 26:37
  We haven't talked about Williamson? No, I know.
• 26:40
  That's because Joe made it. Not me. That makes
• 26:43
  sense because your list is better, right? Well,
• 26:45
  no, but I do the team based on the highest position.
• 26:50
  That's the only reason. I didn't do that. I could
• 26:54
  have made it, and I didn't make it. I'm sorry.
• 26:57
  No, no. I'm sorry that I was doing a producer's
• 27:00
  job. I'm sorry I was doing a producer's job,
• 27:03
  Kevin. Oh, wow. That's what I'm saying. Credit
• 27:10
  me. Kev's just getting shots. He doesn't deserve
• 27:16
  this. Technical difficulties. Max Verstappen,
• 27:22
  four. Yuki Tsunoda, ten. Okay. You should read
• 27:27
  that first line. This is dad Verstappen. Is that
• 27:31
  what we're calling him now? That's what I'm calling
• 27:33
  him now. I'm either calling him dad Verstappen
• 27:35
  or Franz Herr. You gotta say it when you wear
• 27:37
  the shirt though. Crofty. Said something about
• 27:42
  like like this is why Max Verstappen showing
• 27:45
  us why he's the daddy or something like that
• 27:47
  Daddy on the track. Yeah crazy like man. I don't
• 27:57
  know great Yeah qualified Q1, didn't he? Can
• 28:03
  we call him that when he's finishing P4? I mean,
• 28:05
  it's still Verstappen. It was a great qualifying.
• 28:08
  It was a good qualifying. I want to note this
• 28:12
  earlier. Red Bull was running an updated floor
• 28:14
  in Max's car, not Yuki's car. I guess that could
• 28:17
  explain some of the distance between them. It's
• 28:21
  Max Verstappen, let's be honest. I don't know
• 28:24
  if that floor really worked well. I mean, Yuki
• 28:26
  got a point. Yuki got a point. He fought for
• 28:29
  the point, too. He got there, so I'll give him
• 28:30
  that. He's still got beat by both Williams. Still
• 28:34
  better than Liam. Still doing better than Liam
• 28:36
  ever did. How about the Malpeans? No, we don't
• 28:39
  even need that. Yeah, Gasly finished P13. After
• 28:42
  starting in the pit, as we've mentioned. That's
• 28:45
  actually pretty good, though. Yeah, the doing
• 28:48
  loss and thing. I mean. It's T1, right? That's
• 28:51
  just. Turn one, lap one. Yeah, it was right away.
• 28:55
  I mean, there's a reason why. colo pinto is going
• 29:00
  to be in the car i mean unfortunately for jack
• 29:03
  uh hopefully he gets another opportunity but
• 29:06
  it could still be without him ran into lawson
• 29:09
  right but to me it did unfortunately okay um
• 29:14
  yeah um the best comment i saw coming out of
• 29:18
  that i'm sorry um was the last full lap of the
• 29:22
  race that do hand did was in the lego car yeah
• 29:25
  yeah His last full lap of an F1 track. It's also
• 29:31
  the happiest he's looked in the... That was hilarious.
• 29:36
  I loved watching that back. It was so funny.
• 29:39
  So funny. And taking a little bit of damage like
• 29:42
  that. That cracked me up. And people are like,
• 29:44
  oh, the people that spent so many hours are probably
• 29:47
  so upset. And somebody else is like, absolutely
• 29:49
  not. They're probably going crazy right now.
• 29:51
  They're watching F1 drivers have the time of
• 29:56
  their life in something they built. I'm sure
• 29:58
  they were ecstatic. And Pierre Gasly, just the
• 30:00
  best reactions. He was losing it. His laugh is
• 30:03
  hilarious. It was so good. I know. It was awesome.
• 30:06
  I loved that. If you have not seen that, you
• 30:08
  need to go back and watch. It's totally worth
• 30:09
  your time. Unlike watching Haas this weekend.
• 30:12
  Ayo! Womp womp. Womp womp. I did actually have
• 30:21
  one of my few notes about the races that actually
• 30:23
  Ollie in the sprint. uh started p20 and raced
• 30:27
  his way up to p8 before uh getting knocked down
• 30:31
  to a penalty it was an unsafe release yeah 20
• 30:36
  to 8 that's insane insane right i'm saying this
• 30:39
  is insane did he get help from the the pit lane
• 30:42
  or the pits at all He probably did, yeah. But
• 30:45
  even so, he made a bunch of overtakes as well.
• 30:48
  It's kind of funny looking at Oli. We're talking
• 30:50
  about Kimi and how Kimi's got such great one
• 30:53
  -lap pace, and he can put up a really good qualifying,
• 30:56
  but his race craft isn't really there. I feel
• 30:58
  like it's the opposite for Oli. I feel like Oli
• 31:01
  is struggling in his one -lap, but man, his race
• 31:03
  craft is good. Interesting. Watching this guy
• 31:06
  race every single race is so cool. I got to lock
• 31:08
  that in next race. I'm going to pay heavy attention
• 31:11
  to Oli. I have not been paying attention to Ocon
• 31:14
  basically at all because anytime I'm watching
• 31:16
  a Haas, I'm like, what's Oliver doing? That's
• 31:18
  fair. He pissed me off last year. Why? Williams.
• 31:25
  Williams. My favorite underdog. Yeah, Dave. What
• 31:29
  a race. Actually, yeah. What an awesome race.
• 31:32
  I mean. Battling, I mean, Albon up there. Albon
• 31:35
  in fifth? Yeah. Sick. That's insane. So sick.
• 31:39
  That's crazy. The thing is, I don't think that's
• 31:44
  actually an anomaly. I think they could actually
• 31:47
  consistently beat out Ferrari going the rest
• 31:51
  of the season, which actually sucks. That's crazy.
• 31:53
  Because I had Ferrari. I know. I had Ferrari
• 31:56
  up. Hold on. He's got to grab his notes. I have
• 32:00
  the original paper. Where did I put Ferrari in
• 32:03
  constructors? Second. We all put Ferrari in second.
• 32:06
  Darn. We're all idiots. We're all bad. Because,
• 32:08
  I mean, at this point, I could see Williams at
• 32:11
  least starting to finish consistently higher
• 32:15
  than Ferrari. Definitely battling. I mean, they
• 32:19
  looked good all race, really. I do need to address
• 32:22
  one thing, and this is a note that I did make
• 32:24
  sure to write down, is vowels after the race
• 32:27
  when he was talking about this, and their reporters
• 32:30
  were asking, like, this is great, where did all
• 32:31
  this pace come from? And vowels did state...
• 32:34
  that this finish isn't going to be a normal thing,
• 32:38
  and that this track is a special performance,
• 32:40
  and that they have upgrades for very specific
• 32:43
  tracks, that they believe that they'll be able
• 32:45
  to put up performances like this again, but not
• 32:49
  to expect this in every race. No, yeah, that
• 32:50
  makes sense. Can we expect points then, at least?
• 32:53
  Oh, I'm sure. Like 9 -10, 8 -9 -10, somewhere
• 32:56
  in there. Eight's pushing it? You know, I'm really
• 33:00
  happy to see them up there. Because they looked
• 33:02
  so fast this week. They did. They looked so good.
• 33:04
  I was like, dang, they flipped a switch. I would
• 33:05
  love to think that these upgrades will... Turns
• 33:07
  out they didn't. They're going to turn it back
• 33:08
  off. Yeah, I would love to think that these upgrades
• 33:10
  will carry them through the next couple races,
• 33:12
  at least close to points. To say that they're
• 33:15
  going to continuously beat Ferrari, I just think
• 33:17
  Ferrari's going to come back. I mean, they got
• 33:20
  Imola coming out. A whole other half a season,
• 33:22
  right, essentially. Williams didn't actually
• 33:24
  bring full upgrades. This was just a package
• 33:26
  that they had for Miami. For Miami. Yeah, because
• 33:29
  Val's has stated the fact that they're like,
• 33:31
  we're not working on this car this year, guys.
• 33:33
  They're like, we're not upgrading. We're focused
• 33:35
  on next year. They're like, this car, this performance
• 33:37
  is just what we've got. So they're like, if the
• 33:40
  people around us continue to upgrade. That's
• 33:42
  not our problem. What a chance to come out of
• 33:44
  the gate. Hot next year for Williams. They're
• 33:47
  focusing on next year basically entirely. And
• 33:50
  they've just got a couple of packages for a couple
• 33:52
  of races. Like Miami was one that they are going
• 33:55
  to show up with. But aside from that, it's just...
• 33:57
  I just wondered if anybody got it. Don't antagonize
• 34:02
  the poor boy. No, no, he didn't antagonize. He
• 34:03
  just said something wild. I made his brain go
• 34:06
  like... Wait a minute. Hold on. You need to stop
• 34:07
  thinking about that and go focus on what the
• 34:09
  heck he just said. I'm going to just ignore that.
• 34:14
  Despite it just being a package from Miami, Williams
• 34:18
  not doing horrible in general. In general, yeah.
• 34:20
  So I'm hoping at least through this half of the
• 34:23
  season they can do some. Do we have an updated
• 34:25
  instructors pull -up? Yeah, I can pull it up
• 34:27
  really quick. I'm screen peeking. What do we
• 34:30
  want to see? Do we want to see what Williams
• 34:31
  is at? Williams is fifth right now. Yeah, okay.
• 34:34
  Right below Ferrari. How many points below Ferrari?
• 34:39
  Quite a bit. Like 27. That's a good distance.
• 34:42
  How many points are they above six? 47 points.
• 34:44
  They're 17 points above Haas. Yep. Yep. I mean,
• 34:48
  they could absolutely... That's a good battle
• 34:50
  right there, Williams and Haas. Yeah. I think...
• 34:55
  I think those are the two frontrunners for fifth
• 34:57
  right now. I think Williams is crawling away
• 35:00
  with it. Haas has got to figure out. Haas could
• 35:02
  absolutely catch him, especially if Vaughn's
• 35:04
  going to come out and say that. Yeah, I mean,
• 35:06
  do either of them finish in fifth, though? You
• 35:09
  think Haas could finish in fifth? I think one
• 35:12
  of those two teams is going to finish fifth.
• 35:13
  Who's in seventh right now? Seventh is Aston
• 35:15
  Martin, and I just don't see them. Right now,
• 35:18
  they're not improving. They're not gaining any
• 35:20
  traction. But then you have Racing Bulls. Who
• 35:23
  could still flip the script? Alpine and then
• 35:26
  kick Sauber. Kick is done. The only way Alpine
• 35:29
  flips the script this season is if Colapinto
• 35:31
  comes out hot. But, I mean, Gasly also hasn't
• 35:35
  been finishing awesome. The car's not good. Gasly's
• 35:38
  either. Qualified okay in at least half the races
• 35:42
  this year, you know. But he can't get the car
• 35:45
  to the finish, you know, in points. So, I don't
• 35:49
  know. Yeah, they've got to fix the car. I'm not.
• 35:51
  I don't think Alpine can make that jump as much
• 35:53
  as I want them to, and I had them actually finishing
• 35:55
  fifth. I mean, of the bottom... And you had Aston,
• 35:58
  so... I do, and that was crazy of me. Of the
• 36:00
  bottom five, I see... I don't see either Williams
• 36:04
  or Haas finishing fifth. I see, like, an Alpine
• 36:07
  or a Racing Bulls coming back somehow. Please
• 36:09
  be Alpine. That's crazy. That would be awesome.
• 36:11
  Because, like you said, Williams is not working
• 36:13
  on the car, so it just doesn't really make sense
• 36:15
  that they would keep it. It'd be cool if they
• 36:17
  did, but, like... And if Racing Bulls... Hadjar
• 36:20
  can absolutely battle for points with the likes
• 36:24
  of Ali and Williams. I think he can wiggle his
• 36:27
  way into that mix pretty easily. Lawson, I just...
• 36:30
  I think there's a log jam right now between P8
• 36:33
  and P12, and I don't think Lawson is going to
• 36:36
  be part of that log jam. No. So racing bulls
• 36:39
  for me would be tough to climb up there. Alpine
• 36:42
  started okay. They had a future for this season,
• 36:48
  but that's quickly going away from them as well.
• 36:52
  They'd need a really crazy flip, and I just don't
• 36:56
  know right now. Yeah, and Aston Martin needs
• 36:58
  to... I don't think Aston's pulling through.
• 37:03
  I don't think Aston's even in question. I think
• 37:05
  you could see, I mean, yeah, we saw Hulkenberg
• 37:09
  finish in front of him this week, but that could
• 37:11
  be normal. It could be. I think at this point,
• 37:14
  Bortolato, I don't know. He's finished race,
• 37:16
  but the car sucks. I think I've mentioned this
• 37:18
  in a previous episode, but when you look at Williams
• 37:21
  versus Haas, you look at Haas, which should be,
• 37:23
  I think, a better car technically. Than Williams?
• 37:25
  Versus Williams, which has, in my opinion, better
• 37:28
  drivers. Oh, yeah, for sure. So it's a very interesting
• 37:32
  mashup between the two. He didn't say that Miami
• 37:37
  was the only package they're bringing. Correct,
• 37:39
  yeah, they do have a couple other packages in
• 37:41
  the future. They just need to hit really, really
• 37:44
  hard for just three more races, and then they
• 37:47
  have fifth pretty much locked, I think. I think
• 37:49
  they're a good contender. I mean, think about
• 37:52
  it. If you're finishing, what was it, fourth
• 37:54
  and eighth or fifth and eighth? Fifth and ninth,
• 37:58
  yeah. And then you just have the top four teams
• 38:00
  filling in the rest of the gaps. How is anyone
• 38:03
  going to get you? Who's going to catch you? Okay,
• 38:06
  I see. The only people that are there are going
• 38:09
  to be the top four teams. And then you've got
• 38:11
  Max and then Yuki should be getting 10. I mean,
• 38:14
  17 points, though. There are 17 points above
• 38:17
  Haas. How many points did you say Williams has
• 38:19
  right now? 37. 37? I mean, Aston last year finished
• 38:25
  with 94 points in fifth. So they're already a
• 38:28
  third of the way to where Aston finished last
• 38:29
  year. This was... This was round seven, right?
• 38:33
  Round six? This was round six. How many races
• 38:36
  do we have? 22? 24. 24 races? Yeah. So we're
• 38:40
  a fourth of the way there. We're a fourth of
• 38:41
  the way there. And they're a third of the points.
• 38:44
  Smeltsy, that's very interesting. They're not
• 38:49
  going to do this every single race. They're the
• 38:51
  third of the way there, but they could have a
• 38:54
  losing streak of just no points. I'm looking
• 38:59
  forward to this fight, though. This Williams
• 39:01
  -Haas... Throw Alpine in there just to be fun.
• 39:05
  I do hope that Alpine does make a comeback because
• 39:08
  now that Okan's off the team, I can start liking
• 39:10
  him a little bit more. You just did not like
• 39:12
  Okan, huh? don't care for the guy, you know?
• 39:15
  I don't know what it is. He's a bit of a prima
• 39:17
  donna. I don't know what it is. He's been pretty
• 39:19
  chill ever since joining Haas, though. Well,
• 39:22
  we touched on Kick and Aston. We don't need to
• 39:24
  talk about them. We talked about the radio for
• 39:28
  Hamilton, which was pretty much the only comms
• 39:30
  we heard this week. So, Kev, let's head right
• 39:34
  over into our news. And to start off our news,
• 39:53
  as the resident Alpine fan, Oliver Oaks resigns.
• 39:59
  There is some controversy. There is rumors about
• 40:03
  Flavio disagreeing with Oaks and pushing him
• 40:07
  out the door. Everything has been false so far,
• 40:11
  but the controversy is, I mean, that part of
• 40:13
  it is fairly true. with uh oaks's brother william
• 40:17
  i believe his name is uh being arrested william
• 40:20
  is a president of uh high tech yeah yeah high
• 40:24
  tech so um and then there's yeah what's the thing
• 40:28
  there's something related with the mazapan family
• 40:30
  like i thought william bought something that
• 40:35
  the mazapan family used to own like a share in
• 40:37
  something or something i can't remember what
• 40:39
  i what i think i was hearing was that they were
• 40:41
  basically using like high tech to launder money
• 40:44
  oh boy i did not hear that deep into it yeah
• 40:48
  so it sounds like it's yes money laundering yeah
• 40:50
  so the mazpins were basically money laundering
• 40:53
  through high tech with william and uh that's
• 40:56
  why ollie or oliver oaks was like got out and
• 41:00
  like basically right after miami like didn't
• 41:02
  stick around for any press conferences nothing
• 41:04
  just on a plane boom out to saudi arabia So he's
• 41:10
  gone. And, yeah, a lot of people are very interested
• 41:14
  right now because they're like, wow, was Flavio
• 41:16
  not the bad guy for once? Like, was Flavio actually
• 41:19
  in the right for once? And Flavio came out and
• 41:21
  said that it was nothing to do related to the
• 41:24
  team, which, I mean, obviously with this news
• 41:26
  coming out, we can probably gather that, you
• 41:29
  know. Because what's his name? Mazepin's dad,
• 41:32
  I can't remember. Mika? No. I think you're...
• 41:35
  I got it. Anyway, he was like... Daddy Mazepin.
• 41:38
  UK was like... Oh, what's the word for it? Nikita
• 41:43
  Mazepin. What's the word for it? Oh, it is Nikita,
• 41:46
  huh? Oh, wait. Essentially... No, Dmitry Mazepin.
• 41:48
  Essentially trying to blame Dmitry because he's
• 41:51
  close to Putin and stuff for the Ukraine war
• 41:53
  and all this stuff. So it's getting bad. It's
• 41:56
  getting bad. So yeah, all the oaks decided to
• 41:58
  dip out, whether he's involved or not. That's
• 42:02
  all it would end up being about anyway, so it
• 42:04
  kind of sucks for him. Let's just say, let's
• 42:07
  hope he's not involved. Let's see. Jack Doolin,
• 42:12
  out. Colpinto in for the next five races. I feel
• 42:18
  like that was going to happen as soon as Flavio
• 42:20
  took over. I mean, we knew that was going to
• 42:23
  happen, and honestly, Colpinto's probably going
• 42:26
  to do a better job than Jack. Just even from
• 42:30
  the slight experience he had. Now, we liked him
• 42:32
  when he came in a couple times last year, right?
• 42:34
  How many races did he have last year? Colapinto?
• 42:37
  Yeah. I think he had at least five or six, I
• 42:40
  think. Yeah, and I feel like the first few races,
• 42:43
  I'm saying first two races, we were pleasantly
• 42:47
  impressed, like, wow, okay. And then he ended,
• 42:49
  and he kept wrecking, kept wrecking, kept wrecking.
• 42:52
  So I'm hoping it's going to be better. than what
• 42:56
  Jack was given Alpine to start this season. I
• 43:00
  think he'll definitely do a little bit better.
• 43:03
  I think his big issue... Because he was in the
• 43:05
  Williams last year, right? Yeah. I think his
• 43:06
  big issue last season is that he had a lot of
• 43:08
  pressure on him. In the fact that he's like,
• 43:12
  I know... To try to obtain a seat? Yeah, he's
• 43:15
  like, I know I don't have a seat, and this is
• 43:16
  really my chance to show what I'm worth. And
• 43:19
  he pushed himself really hard. And he actually
• 43:21
  took credit for his Las Vegas crash, saying,
• 43:23
  yeah, I was pushing myself harder than I should
• 43:26
  have, because I know that I need to try and make
• 43:28
  a name for myself here. I really like that point.
• 43:32
  Yeah. I think he's... slotting into this seat
• 43:34
  right now way more comfortable than he was in
• 43:37
  the in the william seat so i think he's gonna
• 43:40
  come in with a with a different mentality very
• 43:42
  much more relaxed and comfortable like i know
• 43:45
  i've got my seat i know i've got a team that
• 43:47
  wants me to be here you know so interesting oh
• 43:52
  here it comes yeah he gives me this look all
• 43:54
  the time i think I think the biggest thing I
• 43:58
  want to talk about is how much he loves Jack
• 44:00
  and Liam so much that he wants to, like, Cadillac
• 44:05
  needs to have them and then Logan Sargent's the
• 44:07
  reserve. It all leads back to Logan. And then
• 44:10
  Mick. Mick Schumacher. I have news on Mick. So
• 44:16
  we'll come back to Mick. So the biggest thing
• 44:21
  that I want to talk about. is that they are calling
• 44:23
  this a rotate seat so you said he has a seat
• 44:26
  but he really doesn't have the seat but he does
• 44:29
  they could be calling it a rotates a rotate seat
• 44:32
  just to make jack feel better or make his swapping
• 44:35
  look better and then it could keep colapento
• 44:37
  I'm just going to say it. I don't think Colapinto
• 44:39
  is going to do any better than Jack did in five
• 44:41
  races. I don't either. I don't think it's a problem
• 44:45
  with the drivers. It's not a problem with the
• 44:48
  drivers. It's a problem with the car. Well, there's
• 44:50
  a couple of things that Jack has done that I'm
• 44:52
  like, whoa. But I don't think Colapinto is going
• 44:55
  to be like worlds better than him. Probably not
• 44:58
  worlds. So I'm interested in when they say rotate
• 45:02
  seat and they are like, when I was reading about
• 45:05
  it for the first time, they were pitching it
• 45:07
  as a strategy of like, we want the seat to be
• 45:11
  like a rotating seat where we can bring talent
• 45:13
  in and out. throughout the season to build up
• 45:16
  to fy 26 fy 20 i'm so sorry i'm talking work
• 45:19
  to why 2026 i don't um sorry that was crazy um
• 45:25
  2026 so they're they're trying to figure out
• 45:27
  who best who best slots in the seat yeah so they're
• 45:30
  doing tryouts right now essentially live trouts
• 45:32
  which is crazy actually right i mean without
• 45:36
  telling the drivers that right like that's That's
• 45:40
  probably the best way to do it. That's what Flavio
• 45:42
  said, though. He was like, we want this seat
• 45:44
  to be rotating so we can take drivers in and
• 45:46
  out to figure out who best fits our team for
• 45:50
  the new regulations. Which is so interesting.
• 45:53
  It's also worth noting. I was hearing today that
• 46:00
  there are rumors going around that in like...
• 46:03
  Some of the test runs that they were doing. The
• 46:06
  other driver they have is Paul Aaron, their other
• 46:08
  reserve driver. I'm sorry, Paul Allen. I guess
• 46:14
  there were rumors going around that Paul Allen
• 46:17
  was putting up better times in the Alpine than
• 46:19
  Franco was, which could also be part of why...
• 46:23
  Is he part of the rotating team? Are we going
• 46:25
  to see a third driver in the Alpine? I think
• 46:27
  we are. It could be why Flavio was like, okay,
• 46:29
  you know what? Colapinto, we put all this effort
• 46:32
  into him, and he's a big name, and we want to
• 46:34
  put him in the seat. So we're going to rotate
• 46:35
  him in and give him a couple races, and if it's
• 46:38
  not working out, whatever, he's not scoring us
• 46:40
  points. We'll try and put Paul Allen in and see
• 46:43
  how he's doing and see if maybe he's a little
• 46:45
  bit faster. You know what? They're all the same,
• 46:46
  Jack. Get back in there at the end of the season.
• 46:48
  You know, let's just give Logan a call. Ooh,
• 46:51
  man. Mick? Mick? So say the Mick Schumacher,
• 46:56
  and then we'll talk about NBA. I mean, Mick Schumacher,
• 46:59
  I mean, I guess I'll let you, you probably have
• 47:01
  more red on, like, you might have like a better
• 47:04
  point to say. I just know what he's doing right
• 47:05
  now. I just, oh, I, yeah, I heard that. Where's
• 47:09
  my, where's my note on it? So actually Mario
• 47:11
  Andretti had made a comment that Mick Schumacher
• 47:16
  has potential as a contender for the Cadillac
• 47:18
  spot. Oh. And so Andretti is. Andretti is trying
• 47:23
  to potentially push for, or not push for, but
• 47:25
  is talking about, like, we can't rule out Mick
• 47:27
  in this seat. And when talking about it, he pointed
• 47:30
  out the fact that in World Endurance, which I
• 47:33
  think is what you were probably going to bring
• 47:34
  up, he's gotten two podiums out of the three
• 47:36
  races. So he's actually been doing really, really
• 47:39
  well in endurance. And so it's been kind of turning
• 47:42
  some heads, being like, maybe Mick has got a
• 47:44
  little bit of gas in the stove still. And we've
• 47:47
  preached PR with Danny Rick and Sergio. Right.
• 47:52
  Why not? You have preached that. Why not? Why
• 47:54
  not? The biggest name in F1 and Schumacher of
• 47:57
  all, possibly all time. One of the biggest names.
• 48:00
  Let me calm down. One of the biggest names in
• 48:02
  F1. One of the biggest last names. Yeah. Right.
• 48:05
  One that, you know, dumb American fans, no offense
• 48:08
  to us, would be like, oh my God, we're going
• 48:11
  to be a Schumacher. We're going to be. Well,
• 48:17
  yeah, so, like, what's... That's exactly it,
• 48:19
  though. Mick, after his time with Haas, lost
• 48:23
  some of his, like, sponsors that he had that
• 48:26
  got him into Formula One. And so that's part
• 48:29
  of the reason he went to World Endurance, because,
• 48:30
  like, he lost that sponsorship, he lost all interest,
• 48:32
  whatever, or other teams and sponsors lost interest
• 48:35
  in him. I would imagine he also got swapped for
• 48:39
  Valtteri as a reserve driver, too, so that probably
• 48:41
  freed him up to do other stuff. So... Taking
• 48:47
  him is a bit of a gamble because they don't get
• 48:51
  as much sponsorship money out of him, and that's
• 48:53
  something that a lot of teams need to think about,
• 48:55
  especially nowadays, which only furthers my ambitions
• 48:58
  that they're going to take Checo as their other
• 49:00
  seat, a pay driver who gets paid very well from
• 49:03
  big Mexican sponsors. How good would it be if
• 49:07
  they had Sergio and Mick Schumacher? Checo spotted
• 49:13
  in Miami. Checo's in Miami. He wasn't. Checo's
• 49:18
  in Miami for the upcoming Cadillac reveal. He
• 49:21
  was in Miami. Crickets. Nothing. Nothing happened.
• 49:25
  The reveal was stupid. The reveal was stupid.
• 49:28
  The reveal was dumb. I didn't even see it. It
• 49:30
  was stupid. It was just like a video. It was
• 49:32
  just a video. Terry Crews was there. I think
• 49:35
  some of the artists were there. So he's racing
• 49:36
  next year. Yeah. Terry Crews. They fit him in
• 49:39
  a car somehow. The Cadillacs are going to be
• 49:41
  bigger cars than all the other cars on the track.
• 49:44
  I mean, true to nature. Just like the NASCAR.
• 49:49
  The Camaro in the WEC. The Camaro at Le Mans.
• 49:53
  Yeah, that was. crazy um those pictures blow
• 49:56
  my mind yeah they were yeah it's yeah you don't
• 49:58
  realize like how like car size you think that
• 50:01
  those prototype cars are like huge but they're
• 50:03
  truly car sized yeah yeah um no yeah that's yeah
• 50:08
  i i still think i feel like honestly mick is
• 50:11
  a better choice or a more logical choice than
• 50:14
  checko or danny that's crazy you're right though
• 50:17
  checko would bring in way more money if that's
• 50:20
  what they were what they're looking for and maybe
• 50:21
  maybe they should be But I feel like a fresh
• 50:24
  driver looking for a good name as well, Mick
• 50:27
  would be a pretty good choice. I just don't think
• 50:29
  they're going to pick Checo. They'd start selling
• 50:30
  a lot of Cadillacs in the U .S. more so if Checo
• 50:33
  became part of it. Maybe, yeah. Interesting.
• 50:36
  Okay, so yeah, that was not my point. I was going
• 50:39
  to move Mick. I was going to mention Mick is
• 50:40
  currently racing in Alpine Hypercar in WEC, doing
• 50:44
  very well. I think he just did the... Was it
• 50:47
  12 hours of Spa? I think he did decently. He's
• 50:52
  on the podium, I thought. That Alpine WEC has
• 50:56
  not been a great car to drive, so he's doing
• 51:00
  it well. How many drivers are in the 12 -hour
• 51:02
  one? It's not just how many drivers, but how
• 51:06
  many cars, because there's three different classes
• 51:08
  of cars that are driving at the same time, or
• 51:10
  four different classes of cars. Don't they use
• 51:13
  four drivers for the 24 -hour races? Per car?
• 51:17
  Per car, yeah. It's like two to three, I think.
• 51:19
  I thought it was four. Okay, never mind then.
• 51:21
  I think I want to say it's two to three. They
• 51:22
  probably still use the same two to three then
• 51:24
  for the 12 -hour. Yes. Yeah, so never mind. Yeah,
• 51:26
  so like K -Mag is also in that series as well.
• 51:30
  He's in the BMW currently, and he's also been
• 51:33
  doing very well. Much like Antonelli, his qualifying
• 51:37
  is incredible, but their race craft is not very
• 51:40
  good. It's like they're former F1 drivers. Yeah,
• 51:42
  the former F1 drivers tend to do very good unless
• 51:45
  they're Nick DeVries. I see usually in these
• 51:47
  endurance races. Oh, his other buddy. He loves
• 51:50
  that one. Who loves that one? Nick DeVries. I
• 51:53
  don't like Nick DeVries. Moving on. MBS, lay
• 51:58
  it on us. What's the deal here? And then we're
• 52:00
  going to skip the last thing. So I have to give
• 52:01
  credit to Mike for finding this. There was a,
• 52:07
  I guess maybe a rumor or something, Carlos Sainz
• 52:11
  Sr. People were bidding him to take MBS's spot,
• 52:16
  saying that he could run for it. And I think
• 52:19
  he maybe indicated a little bit of interest somewhere.
• 52:22
  I don't know if there's any validity to that.
• 52:24
  That being said, today... MBS came out and is
• 52:29
  proposing changes to the statutes of the governing
• 52:32
  body that would essentially, without getting
• 52:34
  into the nitty gritty, not allow that to happen
• 52:36
  because it would be a conflict of interest. But
• 52:39
  he's making that? Yes. So the current president
• 52:42
  makes rules. So that means Toto's wife couldn't
• 52:44
  do it either. Yes. Yeah. She already came out
• 52:47
  and said she wouldn't, but the current president
• 52:49
  is making rules saying, the current FIA president
• 52:53
  is coming out and making rules saying that Future
• 52:57
  people couldn't become the current FIA president.
• 53:02
  That's not how that's supposed to work, Joe.
• 53:04
  It's not. No. That sounds like a dictator. I
• 53:10
  did go check it out. Carlos Sainz Sr. did confirm
• 53:15
  that he was seriously considering running for
• 53:17
  the position. So it was confirmed by him that
• 53:20
  he's like, yeah, I am very seriously thinking
• 53:22
  about doing this. So what if Carlos Sainz was
• 53:24
  no longer racing? Then what? He could probably
• 53:26
  do it. He could do it. I think so. His son would
• 53:29
  probably be less than happy because his son would
• 53:32
  get the short end of the stick here. Williams
• 53:35
  would probably be really unhappy because they'd
• 53:36
  lose their driver. No, no, no. I'm not saying
• 53:38
  like, hey, Carlos, you need to quit so I can
• 53:40
  do this thing. That's definitely not what I'm
• 53:42
  saying. I'm just saying like 10 years down the
• 53:44
  road and Carlos is done racing and it was still
• 53:47
  a thing. Yeah, then Senior could in theory run
• 53:51
  for it. Interesting. Yeah, so this is pretty
• 53:55
  scummy. I do have other news about MBS as well,
• 54:00
  something that came out prior to this. Yeah,
• 54:02
  more MBS news. I love it. Because there's always
• 54:03
  something with MBS. He goes to be so cool. He
• 54:08
  stated that the FIA is going to work on toning
• 54:13
  down the rules for Appendix B. which is that
• 54:18
  ruling about drivers cussing on, like, over radio
• 54:21
  and in press conferences and things like that.
• 54:24
  Toning it down, but we just get rid of it. So,
• 54:26
  yeah, I agree. But, which, there's actually a
• 54:29
  lot of... speculation that they're going to get
• 54:32
  rid of it but they can't until they're between
• 54:33
  seasons they can't they can't make major rulebook
• 54:36
  changes until they're between season that so
• 54:39
  they're just going to dial down and kind of lay
• 54:41
  back off of appendix b right now so that like
• 54:43
  like ollie made a quote stating that he's like
• 54:46
  i can't mess this up because i could in theory
• 54:49
  get fined for almost my entire year's pay oh
• 54:52
  yeah so he's like he's like like what i make
• 54:56
  from my team is almost how much the fine is so
• 55:00
  And that's why, like, ever since that has come
• 55:02
  out, they've been getting a lot of negative press.
• 55:04
  Interesting. I did not hear that about Oli. Yeah.
• 55:06
  So MBS has come out and he's like, yep, the FIA,
• 55:10
  we're going to back off on that just a little
• 55:12
  bit. We're still going to enforce it. But, like,
• 55:14
  maybe if you mess up, we'll just, like Max, send
• 55:17
  you to go do community service or something.
• 55:20
  Which is still so dumb. We aren't going to fine
• 55:22
  you a million dollars. I don't think Max did
• 55:29
  community service. We would have heard if he
• 55:32
  did it. I don't think he did. He said he wasn't
• 55:33
  going to do it. That's funny. At least I think
• 55:36
  Hamilton said Max shouldn't do it. I wouldn't
• 55:39
  do it. I hope he didn't. That would be way funnier.
• 55:43
  Yeah, that's crazy. I was starting to type, did
• 55:45
  Max Verstappen, and it said win. Come on. Come
• 55:48
  on. I mean, yes. Over, under. That is interesting.
• 55:52
  It makes me think if they are going to kind of
• 55:55
  hold back or rather pull back on their regulations
• 55:57
  of what people can say. I think another big part
• 56:00
  of it is probably because Max has refused to
• 56:02
  just talk during interviews. He's just refused.
• 56:07
  He's like, I'm not going to talk about that because
• 56:09
  I'll get in trouble. That's like his main line
• 56:11
  now. And that's probably not great either. No,
• 56:14
  that's terrible press. That's worse. AI overview.
• 56:19
  Okay. We always trust AI. Correct. Always. It's
• 56:24
  2025. Come on. Yes. Max Verstappen completed
• 56:27
  his community service penalty in Rwanda. He served
• 56:31
  his punishment before the FIA Awards Gala, where
• 56:34
  he received his fourth championship title. So,
• 56:37
  yeah. I don't know what he did, but apparently
• 56:39
  he got it done in Rwanda. Huh. Okay. Props to
• 56:45
  him, I guess. Sorry. I don't know. Sorry, Kev.
• 56:50
  This is absolutely ridiculous. Unprofessional.
• 56:54
  Yeah. Yeah. Well, it was a video of Max just
• 56:56
  happening in Rwanda doing community service.
• 56:58
  I wanted to see that. Oh, fair. It's just him
• 57:00
  talking at a microphone. So he probably gave
• 57:02
  a speech and they were like, that's good. Good
• 57:05
  job. And now he's driving a car in Rwanda. I
• 57:08
  do. Okay. No. He does not do anything. I mean,
• 57:13
  did the community like it? They must have. He
• 57:16
  was servicing the community. That's true. I'm
• 57:19
  going to go in a circle for four hours. But he's
• 57:21
  driving it. Yeah. So I do have one other quick
• 57:24
  note, too. And I told you about this ahead of
• 57:27
  time. But I did also hear as well that Red Bull
• 57:31
  has been trying to commune with the FIA and try
• 57:37
  and push back some of the regulations on next
• 57:39
  year's engine and change some of the rulings
• 57:43
  because they are. Red Bull is trying to do this?
• 57:45
  Yes. They are afraid of how much the engine uses
• 57:49
  battery and how that will affect the engine on
• 57:52
  large straights and in high altitude locations.
• 57:55
  We're afraid everybody's going to be on the same
• 57:58
  playing field as us. That's the problem. That's
• 58:01
  what it is to me. I think what it is is that
• 58:03
  Red Bull is secretly like, oh, crap. uh the ford
• 58:08
  engine is not panning out to be as powerful as
• 58:11
  we want and they need more time to work on it
• 58:13
  so we need to make some changes that benefit
• 58:15
  us so please that's not gonna happen that's so
• 58:17
  funny uh I read a news article today. I'm not
• 58:20
  saying you're wrong. I think maybe they're backtracking
• 58:22
  or trying to do some PR. I read a news article
• 58:24
  today where Ford came out and said, yeah, the
• 58:26
  engine stuff is going great. They came out and
• 58:30
  were like, yeah, I feel like obviously we don't
• 58:32
  have the whole thing done, but things are proceeding
• 58:34
  really well. We're getting information fed to
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  us and we're getting ready. We're basically building
• 58:40
  parts to test now and it's going well. Hearing
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  that, I'm like, whoa, maybe that was just PR.
• 58:46
  Maybe it is. I don't know. I don't know. Maybe
• 58:48
  Red Bull is just blowing smoke out their butts
• 58:51
  or something. I don't know. Maybe they're just
• 58:53
  trying to hassle the rest of the team as Red
• 58:56
  Bull likes to do. Typical. Or the rest of the
• 58:59
  grid, I mean to say. All right. All right. We
• 59:01
  got to move on. Preview, Kev. Preview. Just send
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  it whenever you're ready. That sounds good. Joe,
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  you ready? And it is time to go up to speed for
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  the Formula One AWS Gran Premio del Made in Italy
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  e del Emilia -Romagna 2025. Say that five times
• 59:31
  fast. You killed that. I'm really glad I'm not
• 59:34
  trying to say those anymore. Yeah, I mean, I
• 59:37
  think this is the one we mentioned last year,
• 59:39
  too, of like, that was a mouthful. That was a
• 59:41
  mouthful. All right. As a fun fact, per usual,
• 59:45
  this circuit has been known by three different
• 59:47
  names. Autodroma di Imola, Autodroma Enzo e Dino
• 59:52
  Ferrari, and Emilia -Romagna Circuit. I just
• 59:56
  call it Imola. I'm going to mention Imola a lot.
• 59:58
  I wrote Emilia -Romagna a lot because I think
• 1:00:01
  that's technically what it should be called,
• 1:00:02
  but it'll forever be Imola to me. That's the
• 1:00:04
  technical name. Yeah, it's going to forever.
• 1:00:07
  I think it's because it's the region that they're
• 1:00:08
  in. I don't know. Right. Our starting grid for
• 1:00:13
  last year's race is Max to Lando, Charles to
• 1:00:16
  Carlos. We go racing at Emilia -Romagna, and
• 1:00:19
  Max keeps his lead ahead of Lando. Both Ferraris
• 1:00:22
  side -by -side and close behind them, trailed
• 1:00:24
  by Oscar and a pair of Mercedes. An incredibly
• 1:00:27
  clean start from every driver in the field through
• 1:00:29
  the first corners, the only one to gain positions
• 1:00:31
  in the top 10 being Hamilton, moving ahead of
• 1:00:34
  Yuki. It is smooth sailing for 10 laps until
• 1:00:37
  we cut to Albon running slowly around the track
• 1:00:39
  after his pit stop. A replay of his stop is shown
• 1:00:42
  where only three of his tires are bolted down.
• 1:00:44
  He limps back to the pits for another change
• 1:00:46
  in comes out a lap down on the field. Perez,
• 1:00:49
  who started out of point and attempted to claw
• 1:00:51
  his way back, has a small incident on lap 14
• 1:00:54
  going off the track and into the gravel after
• 1:00:56
  a quick lockup down into the last few corners
• 1:00:58
  before the starting straight. While the top of
• 1:01:01
  the order remains fairly static, we get to watch
• 1:01:03
  some more fights down the field, namely Yuki
• 1:01:05
  overtaking Logan in the start of the S's after
• 1:01:07
  a long first straight, and Hulkenberg taking
• 1:01:10
  Logan on the next set of S's quickly after. After
• 1:01:13
  his pit stop, Perez starts to regain control
• 1:01:15
  of this car and control his race, making a couple
• 1:01:17
  of easy moves into the bottom. bottom of the
• 1:01:18
  points, taking 9th from Hulk and 8th from Sonoda.
• 1:01:21
  Lap 47, Hulk's day gets worse as he loses the
• 1:01:24
  final point position to Stroll, and 4 laps later,
• 1:01:27
  Stroll's day gets better as he takes Yuki's place,
• 1:01:29
  putting himself in 9th after utilizing the fresher
• 1:01:31
  set of tires. The battle for 2nd between Norse
• 1:01:34
  and Leclerc gets put on hold as Charles cuts
• 1:01:36
  through the grassy last chicane, losing time
• 1:01:38
  to Norse and falling slightly behind. By lap
• 1:01:41
  46, Max is starting to feel a little under pressure
• 1:01:43
  as his tires start to fall off. And he's racing
• 1:01:46
  well after being given his final. And rather,
• 1:01:48
  he is racing well on the edge being given his
• 1:01:50
  final warning from the track limits. He is told
• 1:01:52
  to focus on keeping it on track and, of course,
• 1:01:55
  staying ahead of Lando. All the while, Lando
• 1:01:57
  is encouraged to push towards the leader. Lando
• 1:02:00
  is able to lessen the gap to 1 .6 seconds by
• 1:02:03
  lap 58 when his engineer tells him that he can
• 1:02:07
  push even more on certain turns. Lando drives
• 1:02:10
  his car to the absolute limit, taking it to the
• 1:02:12
  knife edge of the curbs, almost losing control
• 1:02:14
  as he drives over them. At the end of the day,
• 1:02:17
  however, Max Verstappen is still Max Verstappen.
• 1:02:19
  Lando ends up closing the gap to under a second
• 1:02:21
  to Max. However, Max is able to keep him behind
• 1:02:23
  through the final lap, taking the win in Imola.
• 1:02:26
  Our finals, Verstappen, Norris, Leclerc, Piastri,
• 1:02:30
  Sainz, Hamilton, Russell, Perez, Stroll, and
• 1:02:33
  Sonota. I'm a little headed. What happened? I
• 1:02:41
  mean, you pounded it out. Yeah. You pounded it
• 1:02:44
  out. It seemed like it was a, I mean, I don't
• 1:02:47
  want to say a boring race, but it wasn't the
• 1:02:48
  most exciting race ever last year. So, you know,
• 1:02:51
  it's an easy track now, a ton of overtaking opportunities.
• 1:02:54
  It's an older track. It is. So it does struggle
• 1:02:58
  with what some of the older tracks have, that
• 1:03:00
  our cars are very big now. The F1 cars are much
• 1:03:03
  bigger than they used to be, so it's harder to
• 1:03:04
  overtake on the track. So another week where
• 1:03:08
  qualifying is going to be oh so crucial and something
• 1:03:11
  that we expect. Yeah, something you've got to
• 1:03:14
  think about. Other thing that will make qualifying
• 1:03:16
  interesting that I failed to bring up in news
• 1:03:19
  is this weekend will be the first weekend where
• 1:03:21
  we will be able to use the C6 tire. which is
• 1:03:25
  also previously known as the Hypersofts. They
• 1:03:29
  were previously the purple tire. So they'll be
• 1:03:33
  available. They will be available. I'm not saying
• 1:03:34
  they have to use them, but they will be available.
• 1:03:36
  But likely chance that they will use it for qualifying.
• 1:03:41
  I mean, yeah. They have to. Because they are
• 1:03:44
  just the fastest. They would have to, yeah. So
• 1:03:46
  there's a good chance that that'll happen. We'll
• 1:03:49
  see some fast laps. Interesting. With the boys?
• 1:03:52
  There will be a few boys. That's us. That's us.
• 1:03:58
  Sorry, I'm a little behind. Are we doing a pod?
• 1:04:01
  No. So last week in Miami, I got one point. Joe
• 1:04:07
  got three. And Mike, he got four. Joe and Mike
• 1:04:11
  both picking Oscar to win the race. Hello. Yellow.
• 1:04:18
  That's my boy. So wait a minute. Yeah, so if
• 1:04:22
  he would have put George, yeah, he would have
• 1:04:24
  got, that would have been six -pointer. That's
• 1:04:27
  the most we can get, yeah? Yep. Yep, yep, six.
• 1:04:30
  So far, you're still the only one to get six.
• 1:04:34
  You got six on the second race. Oh, that's right.
• 1:04:36
  You did that. Because of George Russell. Yeah,
• 1:04:38
  I did do that. Because of George Russell. The
• 1:04:39
  only one. Who else? Yeah, yeah. So anyway, I'm
• 1:04:43
  no longer in the lead, so I no longer have to
• 1:04:44
  go first. Yeah? Mike with the four points, and
• 1:04:47
  I only grabbed one this week. We did a little
• 1:04:49
  switcheroo. Now is it my turn to start reminding
• 1:04:52
  that I am now in the lead for the first time
• 1:04:54
  in the boys' history? I mean, like you've done
• 1:04:59
  every episode. Yeah. You've done every episode.
• 1:05:04
  First time. First time. Look at me. I'm number
• 1:05:07
  one. So I am so lost on who to pick because there's
• 1:05:15
  so many. Yeah. Qualifying is going to be really
• 1:05:19
  good. Well, there's so many good options that
• 1:05:22
  I'm like, pretty much anything you guys say,
• 1:05:24
  I'll be like, yeah, sure. That's fair. So you
• 1:05:27
  should go with William. In third, I am picking
• 1:05:32
  Lando Norris. Crazy. Okay. In second, I am picking
• 1:05:41
  Max Verstappen. What a joke. And in first, I
• 1:05:46
  am picking Oscar Piastri. And there's a little
• 1:05:49
  bit of copium in that. Although I do feel like
• 1:05:52
  there's a very real world where we see... Max,
• 1:05:56
  qualify first. Bro's just stealing my podium
• 1:05:58
  from last weekend. That's crazy. I mean, to be
• 1:06:02
  honest, I lost. Yeah, true. All right, Joe. So
• 1:06:07
  you should be happy, right? It's not my turn.
• 1:06:09
  It's your turn. That was a good podium, by the
• 1:06:12
  way. I know. You're the wild card, by the way.
• 1:06:20
  I think Mike and I typically always pick the
• 1:06:22
  same podium, more or less. Like, order kind of
• 1:06:26
  withstanding, the people are the same. You, however,
• 1:06:30
  had Charles in your podium. Hey, I picked Charles
• 1:06:33
  Leclerc once. Once. Yeah, and I got points off
• 1:06:36
  of him, too. He's done it almost every weekend.
• 1:06:42
  Hey, you know what? This is basically a home
• 1:06:44
  race for him. I have not picked... It is Italy.
• 1:06:46
  I have not picked Oscar to win yet. It is Italy,
• 1:06:49
  yep. Yet this year. Other than one time. Wow.
• 1:06:53
  Just failing. This is also basically a home race
• 1:06:56
  for Kimmy, too. It is. Yes, that's true. That's
• 1:07:00
  a really... Honestly, that's a really good point.
• 1:07:03
  I really want to leave Oscar off my podium just
• 1:07:06
  to throw a wrench in things. But I feel like
• 1:07:08
  that's not going to be smart. So we'll go Oscar
• 1:07:11
  winning because it just seems like a safe choice.
• 1:07:13
  I want to leave him off my podium. We're going
• 1:07:16
  to keep him in the top. Oh, man. You guys are
• 1:07:27
  going to. This is going to be crazy. George Russell.
• 1:07:30
  I was about to say. George and Charles. George
• 1:07:33
  freaking Russell and P2. Do it. Yes, let's go.
• 1:07:38
  And then say Charles Sinclair. Max for seven.
• 1:07:41
  Yeah, that's fair. That's probably smarter than
• 1:07:43
  Charles. But Lando not on the podium. I don't
• 1:07:47
  know. That makes me nervous. And George at two,
• 1:07:49
  that's crazy. So whatever. You guys made my job
• 1:07:54
  easy. It's Lando, Oscar, and Max. I thought about
• 1:07:57
  doing Lando winning. And then I left him off
• 1:08:00
  my podium. Yeah, I was going to do anything.
• 1:08:02
  So just a little insight into my game. I was
• 1:08:05
  going to do any opposite winner because I knew
• 1:08:07
  you were going to pick Oscar Orlando. I was going
• 1:08:10
  to opposite winner for you. So, yeah, Orlando.
• 1:08:12
  I was trying to get a free two points this week.
• 1:08:14
  That's all I'm trying to do. I was very seriously
• 1:08:16
  thinking about putting Max up as my winner because
• 1:08:18
  Max is super fast. And they're going to qualify
• 1:08:21
  on C6s more than likely. And Max's one lap pace
• 1:08:25
  is unreal. I like this track, Satasa. It's going
• 1:08:29
  to be a toss -up this weekend. My gut's telling
• 1:08:33
  me that Max is going to qualify first, and he's
• 1:08:35
  going to take a 5 -second penalty, or like a
• 1:08:37
  5 -10 -second penalty from track limits, and
• 1:08:39
  he's going to get pushed down to the second.
• 1:08:41
  Track limits is a great thing to bring up, too.
• 1:08:44
  Because he struggled with track limits last year.
• 1:08:46
  He did. And this car is a lot harder to handle
• 1:08:49
  than last year's car. Okay, well, that actually
• 1:08:53
  helps my thought of potentially going really
• 1:08:57
  crazy and putting Kimi at three. That would have
• 1:08:59
  been sick. Just to be fun. I would love to see
• 1:09:01
  Kimi. But, like, I think the track limit thing,
• 1:09:03
  you know, it is a skinnier track. And watching
• 1:09:07
  some of these drivers the past few years that
• 1:09:09
  go to their home for the first time, like, it
• 1:09:12
  doesn't usually go well. Usually, yeah. So, like,
• 1:09:14
  I just don't, I'm not feeling it. I could put
• 1:09:18
  Kimi on a podium this year. Predictions be damned.
• 1:09:21
  I would like to see Kimi. I think it would be
• 1:09:23
  cool if he got a podium here. Of course, it would
• 1:09:24
  be cool. It would be cool if freaking Joe Granu
• 1:09:30
  won a freaking F1 championship, but I don't know
• 1:09:33
  how cool that would be. Joe Granu? What's his
• 1:09:35
  name? Joe Guan Yu. See, I can't say it. I, no
• 1:09:41
  joke, had no idea who you were talking about.
• 1:09:44
  Yeah, Guan Yu. My bad, Joe. I saw a different
• 1:09:48
  creator who was talking about how funny it's
• 1:09:51
  going to be if Kimi is fighting the Ferraris
• 1:09:54
  this weekend. Because what is the Tifosi going
• 1:09:56
  to do? They're going to be like, who are they
• 1:09:57
  going to root for? Their home team of the Ferraris
• 1:10:00
  or the Italian driver? I think they can root
• 1:10:03
  for both. They're going to like, Kimi will pass
• 1:10:05
  or the Ferraris will pass. They'll be like, yeah!
• 1:10:07
  And then Kimi will pass and they'll be like,
• 1:10:09
  yeah! Screw it. Might as well. Tifosi, if there's
• 1:10:16
  any Tifosi watchers, let me know. All right.
• 1:10:19
  Man, that's it, fellas. That's it. That's a wrap.
• 1:10:22
  Already? That's a wrap. What do you mean already?
• 1:10:24
  We're at an hour 10, dog. I could push this another
• 1:10:26
  half an hour easy. We almost could have wrapped
• 1:10:27
  this up at 30 minutes. That's the sad part. So
• 1:10:29
  here we are. Glad you're still here with us.
• 1:10:32
  We're here the next three weeks. Triple header.
• 1:10:35
  Yeah. We don't have a break until Canada, until
• 1:10:38
  right before Canada. Excuse me. We got Monaco
• 1:10:41
  coming up, don't we? Yeah. Yep. So it's Amelia.
• 1:10:46
  And I'm going to be done saying other names this
• 1:10:49
  weekend. Good job. And then. Yeah, Parmesan,
• 1:10:51
  Romeo, and then... Parmesan, Romero. Yeah. And
• 1:10:56
  then I think it's Monaco, and then it's Spain.
• 1:11:00
  Is it Monaco after Ebola? I think so, yeah. I'm
• 1:11:02
  pretty sure. I'm pretty sure Monaco's next. And
• 1:11:04
  we got the Spain, J -Pay. I love... J -Pay. I
• 1:11:08
  love España. All right, don't forget to like,
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  comment, subscribe, wherever you listen to the
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