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Formula Fanatics #4 - Australia & China GPs! · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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Oh, formula one, you know?
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Hey Brad, I know how much you don't like the name of this new segment that we have
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here, but we are still in time to call it.
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What the F1?
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I think there's already something called what?
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The F1.
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Well, that's what this season is shaping up.
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The be What?
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The F1.
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What is going on?
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Ah.
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It's exciting, but it's not.
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But it is.
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But it isn't.
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It's fake.
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It's fake excitement, right?
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Just like the fake turbo boost mushroom.
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Here we go.
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Here we go.
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Woo-hoo.
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That is Formula One.
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It's Mario Kart.
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It's ridiculous.
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It is stupid.
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Like just.
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But awesome at the same time.
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I don't know.
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Why is it awesome?
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I, I, I don't know why, I mean, convincing.
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The only thing that's awesome about it is Ferrari's doing really well.
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Yes, yes.
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That's awesome.
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Red Bull is having some struggles, which is awesome to see just for
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a change of like scenery, McLaren, where the, where is McLaren?
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Dude, I don't know what McLaren is up to, but I can say that big popup papaya,
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Zach Brown was just named membership chairman of the I-M-R-O-C for 2026.
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Cool.
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Good for him.
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Congratulations.
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So maybe he's busy doing that.
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I don't know.
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He has not been on camera at all, by the way.
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Nope.
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They don't show him at all.
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But let's kind of start at the beginning since you're going there
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talking about how the teams are doing.
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By the time people listen to this, Suzuka will be over, but we don't know about
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it yet because we're just in front of it and you know, the whole nine yards.
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So we'll talk about Suzuka and maybe we'll do some predictions as we wrap
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out this episode of Formula Fanatics.
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Let's start with ESPN's predictions for the year, because they published
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those almost just before the Australia race, and I thought it was really funny.
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They predicted Audi would finish seventh in constructors this year.
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Okay.
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After the first two races, I'm like, maybe, maybe, maybe.
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But they are saying Mercedes one, Ferrari two, McLaren three, red Bull,
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four Haas fifth in Constructors, then Alpine Audi Racing Bulls,
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Williams Cadillac, and Aston Martin.
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As it stands right now with two races done.
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Audi is eighth, so this isn't too far off, and Haas has been doing pretty well.
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ESPN is also bullish on Audi, which I think was a misprint.
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I think it's bullshit on Audi.
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I just, yeah, I, no, uh.
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I, I, I don't think, I just don't, I don't see it.
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Let's start with that.
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I know just like when we started drive through, we talked
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about Volkswagen, Audi News.
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We gotta talk about Audi because we can't talk about Cadillac.
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Well, where do you think they are?
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They're not last.
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No.
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You know, they're not last.
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Okay.
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We already configured that out after the first race to ask the Martin.
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Turd heap that has major problems.
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Yeah, they, they gotta do better than that.
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Nexus Cadillac.
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Where, where do they finish?
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They have to finish in front of Cadillac, but behind Williams.
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I think Williams is gonna turn it around at some point this season.
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They're gonna get their act together.
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Carlos hasn't done anything dumb.
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The problem I see with the Audi is the reliability issue,
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which they've suffered now.
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Border Leto didn't even start one of the races, and then Holgenburg had to retire
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early, so they're not getting any points.
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They, that's a zero right there.
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And even then, if only one of the drivers finishes, they're getting half of whatever
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pathetic points that they're able to get.
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If they can even get into the top 10, they have the same
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amount of points as Williams.
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Right now.
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I think Williams stands a better chance.
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They have the same amount of points as Williams who didn't retire cars.
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I mean, ah, it's only two races, so it's entirely too early
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to tell anything, honestly.
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But my spidey sense is telling me they're gonna be in the bottom three.
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They don't have the drivers.
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They don't have them.
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And the car is junk too.
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It's not the worst car.
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No, it's not.
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No.
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We know which one is.
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Well in that argument then Audi and Cadillac should automatically be 10
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and 11 because they are the new cars and everybody else has had cars.
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But then there's an argument to be had that everyone's
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cars are new because, right.
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These motors are completely different.
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Which is the problem Aston's having where their motor is trash.
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I think the problem that Aston is having.
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Is Aston and Adrian, just keep going down the list because I think the
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problem is the car was designed without the engine in mind or vice versa.
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'cause I've heard the argument both ways.
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Honda designed the engine without consulting with Adrian and Adrian
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didn't design the car around the motor.
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So that's why there's this discrepancy and why they don't work together
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and why it's not smooth, and why it's having all these problems and
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yada, yada, yada, yada, yada yada.
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Everybody's pointing fingers at everybody else.
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Well, yeah, they're doing the Scarecrow thing right from the Wizard of Oz, and
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the problem there is Big Daddy Warbucks.
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Is just sending money.
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It, it's like a rudderless ship, right?
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It's just sort of a drift.
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And then we hear through the winter that Adrian suddenly the team principal,
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he's a well-regarded F1 engineer, and then you put him in charge of a team
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and you're asking him to do two jobs.
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Now, is that his own arrogance or is that their inability that people just walked
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out and said, I'm not dealing with any of this crap, and maybe they're shorthanded.
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So what is it?
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What the heck is going on at Aston?
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Because if you ask Lance, you're not gonna get a straight answer.
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Have you seen these social media posts where they ask Lance his opinion?
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It's like, is he a buffo?
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He very well may be an idiot, very well, may be.
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However, it also very much felt like at the advice of my counsel, I'm
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pleading the fifth, that very, very much felt those were his answers too.
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Like I have been told to just say nothing.
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I know nothing.
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And therefore I shall tell you nothing.
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What do you want him to say?
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It was so cringe to watch like, oh my God.
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And Alonzo doesn't wanna talk to the press, obviously, and
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he, all he talks about is his, you know, apparent nerve damage.
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It's a really bad look because Honda, who went from having four
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world championships being the motor that was in the Red Bull, right.
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To suddenly be, oh, Honda's motors trash and it's gonna take two years to fix.
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But people have said that that was the same problem when they introduced the
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Honda at Red Bull too, where they went through some growing pains and apparently
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this was also true at McLaren at one point, but I don't understand then.
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So we, we lifted.
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Yes, Adrian Newey and Honda Motor to another mark.
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So it's still Adrian Newey with a Honda motor.
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So Adrian Newey doesn't understand a Honda motor and Honda doesn't understand what
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Adrian Newey is gonna do with a chassis.
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Where was the disconnect?
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Unless he decided to completely redesign the car and very well may have.
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And Honda said, here's the motor from the Red Bull.
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The way it was, you can have it and do whatever you want with it.
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It just doesn't match up for some reason.
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Although to your point, you think Adrian would know better having
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designed the Red Bull chassis, so I don't know what's going on over there
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other than they're doing very poorly.
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They don't know either.
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And now four months later, Adrian steps down this team
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principal back to lead engineer.
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What?
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Who knows?
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I don't know.
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It's like clockwork.
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These last two races, Brad, have you noticed they say.
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Alonzo can't go more than like 25 laps.
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And then apparently he has like core meltdown.
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Yeah.
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And the car like shakes itself apart and it, they make it to like maybe lap 22 and
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it's like retired out, gone like done.
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And I will say there have been more cars out.
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These past two races.
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Then there have been like, I think all last season, like it's insane the number
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of cars that are just basically falling apart or don't even start the race.
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So Audi's doing good then?
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Yeah.
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They only lose 50% of their cars instead of a hundred percent of their cars.
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So they're gonna be seventh and.
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And constructors.
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There you go.
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South division right in the middle.
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She's perfect.
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We just proved them right.
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Okay.
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Riddle me this Batman, Audi F1 boss, Jonathan Wheatley, is rumored
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to replace Adrian Newey at Aston.
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I don't know what, I don't know.
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He's only been on that job for what?
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Like a minute and now he's going to Aston.
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He's failing up.
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Yeah.
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Depends how big of a check Daddy Warbucks threw his way.
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Everybody's got a price.
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If you're the principal at Audi and you decide, decide to pack
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it up and go to the worst team in F1, what does that say about Audi?
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Do you read between the lines on that they're not paying enough?
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They don't have enough money.
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That's why they're, they're not selling any cars on the back end.
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My man, my man reading the tea leaves, I've been saying it.
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Sales are down at Volkswagen.
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They can't afford this.
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They're gonna make it one year and they're gonna have to pull
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out and it'll go back to Salur.
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Salur will find somebody else to sponsor the team course.
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She'll step in.
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Just kidding.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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It's the same bank account.
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It'll be, it'll be Hyundai.
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It'll be BYD.
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Oh my God.
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Ew.
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I heard about that too.
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Like whatever.
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So if Wheatley is leaving Audi, that means Egon is in charge
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at Audi right now, right?
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Beto?
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Yeah.
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That's unfortunate.
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This is why I say, you asked me earlier why I think Williams
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is gonna do better than Audi.
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This is why Williams is gonna do better than Audi.
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They've got the same drivers as last year.
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They basically got the same setup as last year.
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They're gonna do fine because they're just gonna be mediocre enough to be better
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than Cadillac, Audi and Aston Martin.
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Meanwhile, Haas is gonna pull ahead, I don't know, rumor on the street.
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Beerman might get a seat at Ferrari.
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Whose seat is he gonna take?
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Sorry?
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Whose seat?
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In Ferrari.
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I had read somewhere that he might get even a reserve spot at Ferrari.
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That's not a bad gig.
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Can you be a. Active driver of one team and a reserve driver of a another.
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Yeah.
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You have to quit Haas and go be the reserve driver just like BOTAs did where
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he was the reserve driver at Mercedes.
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BOTAs did that after 10 years already or whatever, being in Formula One,
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I think that would be monumentally stupid of Beerman after his second
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season to be like, all right, I'm gonna stop driving and be a reserve driver
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on the hopes that Louis or Charles.
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Moves on.
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Charles is gonna retire at Ferrari most likely.
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And Hamilton, God knows how long he's gonna keep going, especially
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if he does well this season.
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Yeah, yeah.
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He can snip it either way.
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For Lewis, he has a crap season and he leaves or he
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gets his eighth and he leaves.
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Yeah.
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But.
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Beerman doesn't need to become a reserve driver to be taken up by
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Ferrari if they so choose when the contracts come up for renewal at
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the funny season Towards the end.
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Yeah, they can just snipe him there.
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But let's just say they want Beerman or they take him on.
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If this rumor is no, they're not gonna take Beerman.
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Why would they take Beerman?
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Why would an Italian team take another British driver when they have a hot shot?
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Rising Italian rookie driver.
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Oh, Mercedes is never gonna let Antonelli go.
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Are you kidding me?
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For enough money, Toto will cut off all of his appendages before they give up.
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Kidding to Ferrari?
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No, because you know who Toto wants.
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Toto wants Max because Toto couldn't get Max.
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When Toto wanted.
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Max Maxwell retired before Toto gets him.
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I'm sorry.
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Max will make sure that that never happens.
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Max, if the Red Bull is a piece of crap.
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What does he care?
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He just wants to drive and win.
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He did an interview recently that I watched that he basically said, there's
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more to life than doing all this stuff.
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He goes, when I'm 70 years old, nobody's gonna care if I won four
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championships or five or seven.
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He goes, I want to go do other stuff.
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So he's outright, publicly saying.
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That he wants to go do other stuff, which is already evident in his GT three
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racing and Verta and this and the Berg ring and all that other kinda stuff.
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I see Verta exiting Formula One in the next couple.
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He's, he'll run out his contract at Red Bull because they're paying him
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and when it's over he's not coming back, which is another four years.
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I thought it was only like the 28.
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He has an eight year contract that started like forever ago.
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I thought it was 2028 and then he was done Maybe.
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A two more year Toto iss never gonna get him.
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It's never gonna happen.
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That's why they invested in Kimmy because they, that was the whole point that he
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wasn't gonna make the same mistake twice.
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Yeah.
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But it's Kimmy's choice to leave.
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I mean, yeah.
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I mean, not Totos, so an Italian driver's dream is going to be to drive for Ferrari.
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So if they give him the opportunity, it's his to leave toto in Mercedes.
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That's true.
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Beerman could be the second coming of Nigel Mantle for all we know.
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I know Hamilton's a Brit, but I'm just saying like there were other Brits
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that drove for Ferrari over the years.
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Yes.
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But how many Italians did a chance?
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Uh, yeah.
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I mean, how many Italians.
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Actually won it Ferrari though.
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It's, that's what I'm saying.
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How many stood a chance this antonelli is probably their best chance to have a,
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an Italian in an Italian car on podium.
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Yeah.
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They, they said the last time an Italian podium in a Ferrari was like Giancarlo or
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something like that, like 20 years ago.
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And it was like one time or something like that.
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I was like, okay, whatever.
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But to actually win the championship, the like last Italian to win the championship,
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I don't, I don't even know like, what was that, like aari or something
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like back in the, in the fifties.
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It's gotta be a long time ago.
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Mm-hmm.
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So anyway, there's a whole bunch of stuff shuffling going on.
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We're between the second and third race.
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And we're already shuffling the deck around and, and it's all this musical
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chairs that's already going on.
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But let's talk about Australia for a second.
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And Brad, to your point about the racing and how hokey it is, I
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guess is the word I want to use.
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You know, we have the new hurry up in coast Turbo, mushroom way of driving now.
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They said Australia 2025.
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Last year, if you remember that race, which was a little bit wet and there
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was some Alonzo crashed and some other people crashed, stuff like that.
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45 overtakes in that race last year.
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This year, 120.
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Overtakes, artificial, sorry, say those numbers again.
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There were 45 overtakes last year.
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In all of last year?
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No, no, no.
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In the Australian GP last year.
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Oh, thirty five, a hundred twenty this year.
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But it's all like back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
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It's artificial.
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I don't know what to say about the racing.
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Yes.
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Is it more exciting when you see someone past someone Yes.
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To someone who doesn't understand what's going on?
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It can be more exciting.
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On what merit did they make the pass?
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Because like, oh, I passed him and it's like, okay, well wait 10 seconds.
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Oh yeah, I got repas again.
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So what was the point?
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They're taking the driving out of the driver's hands, you know, what was
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driving, not to overlap and segue, but we didn't cover it in the main section.
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What was driving and not mushrooms was the berg ring NLS two four hour race where
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verse tapin was glued at some points to the back of the Audi in his Mercedes.
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Had to work for the pass and be strategic, especially lapping
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other slower cars and everything.
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And then when makes a pass, it's like, damn, you know, good move.
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And there wasn't an immediate retaliation because, oh, he passed and now he's
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got 50 less horsepower and he's, you know, at the mercy of the Audi to
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turbo mushroom and go around them.
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What's more exciting?
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I don't know, because you watch them like laugh.
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I say lap after lap.
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The fucking burging is how many minute lap.
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So like, yeah, seven turn after turn.
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They're sitting there, you know, glued to each other.
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Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
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It's like, damn.
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To sustain that, that's called racing.
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I mean, he got more seat time in that race than he did.
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That it did so far this season in F1?
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Yeah.
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What we, what we see in F1 is not racing.
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If I think Eric has gotten to me, if somebody wants to win a race
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and overtake, build a better car.
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Yes, thank you.
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I've been saying it forever and that's why sports, car and endurance
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racing is so interesting because within the rules, they're still
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able to build whatever they want.
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So the Aston Martin Valkyrie with the V 12 or the Toyota with their hybrid
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setup and the Porsche with the Audi V eight that they were using it or
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whatever, and I'll, I'll get yelled at for that one by by my Porsche friends.
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But the point is they're still able to build within a spec, but it's not
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a spec series like Formula One is.
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But there's BOP.
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But here's the problem.
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If this catches on in Formula One, then it trickles down to other motorsport.
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And I would hate to see this show up in endurance racing, where now they're all
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hurry up and coast and hurry up and coast and pass, and pass and pass because to
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Tanya's point, they don't need it because there's already action in those races.
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Can you imagine Daytona?
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Like this, be travesty.
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This is probably gonna be an unpopular opinion, but you
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can correct me if I'm wrong.
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Some of the, the regulations and the rules and everything that they
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create are because some of the bigger teams, Ferrari, Mercedes, red Bull,
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they can afford to engineer anything.
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The other teams can't afford to do that and compete.
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Right.
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Well, my unpopular opinion is, well, if you can't afford to do that and compete,
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then you should not be in the race.
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You should not be competing.
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I, I agree with that.
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And if the field needs to get smaller, and if the field gets to the point where it's
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just Ferrari and McLaren and Red Bull and Mercedes, then maybe F1 shouldn't exist.
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Oh, you're going out there, make room for something else, or make room for
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other teams that can't afford it.
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Yeah.
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Is rich energy still out there?
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I'll always go back to that.
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There'll always be rumor.
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I mean, seriously.
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Why is a team like Williams still kicking around?
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You would've thought Williams would've emerged with somebody else
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and created a bigger powerhouse.
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It's almost like a, it, it's like, yeah, Williams are even like a, um, salur.
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It's like a, it is like a tradition thing, right?
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No.
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If you can't afford to be an F1 anymore, you can't afford to do it and compete.
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Without the rules hamstringing, the bigger teams, you can't afford to be
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there, which is the andretti argument.
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If you have the money to build a team and do it the way you wanna do it, and
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as long as you can pass tech, then do it.
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Like who cares?
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Who cares?
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Yeah, exactly.
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Exactly.
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F1 is a farce right now.
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It really is.
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And, and you know what's funny is there's mixed reviews from the fans,
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obviously on how exciting the racing is.
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But you listen to the drivers, whether it's Max, whether it's Perez, has been
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pretty outspoken about how it's a joke.
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And they need to change the series, and he's coming at it after a couple years
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of not being in the car with sort of, I hate to say fresh eyes, but veteran
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eyes and it's like, yeah, this is junk.
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Like they need to fix this because they're gonna lose the fans.
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They're gonna lose the drivers.
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People are just gonna be like, yeah, this is dumb.
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Why are we doing this?
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It's become a little bit too Formula E in some respects, right?
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I don't know if they're trying to bridge the gap.
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The, the, the announcers can only make it so exciting.
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The artificial graphics on the screen trying to cover
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up what's actually going on.
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Yeah.
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People are gonna catch on at some point and just like
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you're saying, stop watching.
20:01
Well, and if we have to listen to Russell over the radio all the time.
20:04
'cause he is in the front complaining about everybody behind them.
20:07
I mean, you know, I'm gonna turn it off too.
20:09
I don't even watch for who's at the front.
20:11
I watch to find out exactly how long it takes Lance Stroll to get knocked out.
20:15
You know?
20:16
That is a fun little sub game.
20:18
It's like a drinking, like a drinking game.
20:20
Yeah.
20:20
How many laps does Lance stroll get?
20:22
Well, you, you know, it's 25.
20:24
That's it.
20:24
I mean, ASINs are good for 25 laps and then they're out if they even start.
20:29
But does he make it 25?
20:30
If they make it 25?
20:32
I feel like the drinking game should be.
20:34
You drink the number of drinks, which is the delta of the 25 laps and how
20:39
many laps land stroll actually gets.
20:42
Well, you know, they said that they weren't even gonna start in Australia.
20:46
They were like just gonna park the cars.
20:47
And they didn't.
20:48
They actually started the race, but then they retired early, you
20:51
know, and all that kind of stuff.
20:52
But even Australia, Haja blew a motor.
20:55
Kinberg didn't start border Leto did finish in the top 10.
21:00
Ptri wrecked on the out lap.
21:02
Like, what the hell?
21:04
And the best part of Ptri wrecking on the out lab is they didn't show
21:08
it until after the race was over.
21:09
And then you saw it on social media where he like spun out and
21:13
hit the wall and killed the car.
21:14
But during the race, you are like, the hell's going on, they just mean pretend.
21:18
It didn't even happen.
21:19
You're just like, PTRI will not be starting the race.
21:21
And you're like, uh, okay.
21:23
So I think what I heard happened, if I remember correctly.
21:27
Was he was overcharged on the battery.
21:31
And so basically like he gunned it unintentionally.
21:34
Turbo mushroomed.
21:35
Yeah.
21:36
Yeah.
21:36
He basically, he hit the turbo mushroom button.
21:38
Not knowing that the turbo mushroom was like the rapid one that like keeps going
21:43
right for like 10 seconds and not just like the single room, the green one.
21:49
And the sad part about that race about Australia was it came down
21:53
to pit strategy for Ferrari.
21:55
Yet again, they could have done a lot better than they did.
21:58
They could have had that race, but instead they didn't split the cars
22:02
under the virtual safety to keep one out and do that whole They did.
22:06
It was a mess, and it's just like, here we go again.
22:09
But what I did come away with in that race was I felt like maybe the Ferrari's
22:16
were so bad last year because they were actually testing this year's car.
22:21
And everybody's been brought down to their level.
22:23
Now it's more of a level playing field.
22:25
Because I noticed, did you, and I mentioned this to Tanya as we were
22:28
watching you notice when they go for top speed on the long straightaways,
22:32
like in Australia and stuff, and the car sort of peters out the same
22:35
way as the Ferraris did last year.
22:37
They hit that wall.
22:39
There's like no more speed left in them.
22:40
They're the kind of dog shit coming out of the corners, just
22:43
like the Ferrari's were last year.
22:44
And I'm like, I'm wondering if last year's car was a prototype for this year's car.
22:49
And so if you put that lens, even if that's an artificial lens over
22:53
it, you could say, wow, they did really good considering the car was
22:58
not designed for last year's spec.
23:00
You know what I mean?
23:01
That kind of thing.
23:02
So, I don't know, I, that's a little bit wishful thinking in,
23:04
in retrospect, but still, I feel like the speeds have come down.
23:08
The cars are slower than they were last year.
23:11
Well, 'cause they're coasting.
23:12
If they didn't have to coast, they'd put in faster times.
23:16
So pathetic.
23:17
It's like the, you know, the, the whole point of racing
23:19
is to go as fast as you can.
23:21
Not, not anymore.
23:22
Hurry up and coast, hurry up and coast.
23:23
And Ferrari would be doing better if Mercedes wasn't cheating.
23:26
Did you hear about that?
23:28
Why, why, why, what now?
23:30
The compression thing again, we compressing the FI six seven.
23:34
The FIA is investigating.
23:37
Mercedes for illegal front wing closure.
23:40
What?
23:41
The wing's supposed to close within 400 milliseconds, and there's
23:44
video footage of the Mercedes Wing closing in 800 milliseconds.
23:47
Oh, giving them an unfair advantage open longer.
23:51
Okay.
23:52
Oh yeah.
23:52
So Mercedes, they're gonna get, they're gonna get penalized for this, and as
23:56
soon as Ferrari releases the loopty loop wing that they came up with,
24:01
that'll get protested right away.
24:03
That's probably why they haven't used it in an actual race yet.
24:06
Yeah, because it's gonna get banned immediately.
24:08
That's why.
24:09
Oh, I, I, I forgot to tell you, the team that actually brought this to the FI's
24:12
attention was Ferrari Ferri Ferrari.
24:15
Of course, of course.
24:16
So they can get their loopty loop wing.
24:17
Yes.
24:18
Well, if they can do this, I want to loopy loop.
24:20
If you're gonna allow the wings to stay open longer, and that means
24:23
they've got somebody analyzing and timing how long the wings?
24:27
800 milliseconds.
24:28
Like you can't even blink that.
24:30
You know, it's like boom, it's done.
24:32
But somebody's measured that.
24:34
And they went to the FIA and protest, and Ferrari is notorious for getting their
24:38
way when they feel like somebody else is cheating for Ferrari and Red Bull.
24:41
Both.
24:42
Yeah.
24:43
All that to say Kimmy second place in Australia.
24:46
That was awesome for stopping starts 20th and he ends up sixth behind Lando.
24:51
And to your point about McLaren, where's our great champion?
24:54
Lando Norris.
24:56
Not on the podium.
24:57
Okay.
24:58
Ha one hit wonder.
25:00
I think so.
25:01
And I also think last year was staged.
25:03
There was some toy pokey there.
25:05
Shenanigans.
25:06
I'm calling it now shenanigans, but the rotating wing hopefully
25:10
will eventually get to that so that Ferrari can get protested by Mercedes.
25:13
But Tanya, you brought to light, they've got some other tricks up their sleeve.
25:17
Yes, apparently they have an extra little wing on the Halo bar to help streamline
25:23
the air around the driver's head.
25:25
How long before Mercedes protest that I, I don't know.
25:30
So this is how Formula One works.
25:31
You don't get protested if you're losing, but the minute Ferrari wins,
25:36
this is the thing that Mercedes is gonna hang their hat on next and say,
25:40
well, you don't have the wing that opens and closes too slowly or whatever.
25:44
You've got this other little piece of carbon fiber on the halo.
25:47
Yeah.
25:48
Right.
25:48
What a joke.
25:49
So switching gears to China,
25:58
best race I have seen in years was the China Sprint race.
26:03
Holy crap.
26:04
Why?
26:05
Even with the turbo mushroom stuff, it was amazing.
26:08
Like why aren't all Formula one races 19 laps?
26:12
It was balls to the wall, go for it, get it done.
26:16
Action.
26:17
There was a safety card, there were pit stops.
26:20
Kimmy is a freaking superhero.
26:22
Like he goes from like worst to first.
26:24
He suffers a ten second penalty and still manages to get back up to.
26:30
I told you guys to watch out for this kid.
26:32
He's a Wonder Kin.
26:34
Last year was just his rookie year.
26:36
He is getting a feel for it, but this year he's coming out swinging,
26:39
swinging, and then he comes out the next day and he kicks ass and he
26:43
wins 19 years old on the podium.
26:46
Dude, it's amazing.
26:48
I really enjoyed the racing between Hamilton and Cleric.
26:52
Watching them go back and forth at each other I thought was, was fun.
26:55
Well, even Claire said it was fun at the end.
26:57
Yeah.
26:57
Imagine that letting them race and the drivers enjoy it and have fun.
27:02
Who knew?
27:03
Yeah.
27:03
God forbid.
27:05
So during China.
27:06
Mort's out both.
27:08
McLaren's out, Alban's out.
27:10
Aston's are eventually out and then Verta is out.
27:13
Like that's a lot of cars.
27:15
Out record, number of carb, like out in a dry race.
27:19
That's a lot of cars in a dry race.
27:21
That's what I'm saying.
27:22
Right.
27:23
Predictions for Japan.
27:25
What do we think Mercedes and Ferrari back at the front, Hamilton's gonna win.
27:28
You think Hamilton's gonna win in Japan?
27:30
I'm going with Hamilton.
27:31
I'm, I'm having a lot of fun watching Hamilton kind of do.
27:34
Well.
27:35
After last year, uh, it's gonna be between Mercedes and Ferrari at the front,
27:40
and we don't care about anybody else.
27:42
I mean, it's a crapshoot of everybody else.
27:46
It's hard to say.
27:47
Like Aston's gonna be last.
27:49
Aston's gonna be last.
27:50
Cadillac's gonna be last.
27:52
Yeah.
27:52
Audi's gonna be in the middle.
27:53
Audi's gonna be solid, middle, as long as they got a car in bottom middle.
27:58
Let's be real.
27:59
Bottom middle.
28:00
There's 22 cars, so the middle is like 10, 11.
28:04
That's the middle.
28:06
I think Audi's gonna get a point.
28:07
Okay.
28:08
Here's what's gonna happen.
28:09
Okay, I'm gonna start from the back.
28:10
I'm just gonna say stroll.
28:12
I need to say anything else.
28:14
Alonzo's gonna suffer.
28:16
He's gonna have a seizure from all the shaking and he's
28:18
gonna alonzo's going well.
28:20
Alonzo will have been in the middle, but will end up at the bottom At
28:23
some point, he is gonna retire.
28:25
He will retire on the 22nd lap because the car can only go to 25.
28:30
He's, he's gonna retire.
28:31
Retire.
28:32
The next car out will be Perez after he hits BOTAs.
28:37
BOTAs will make it three more turns and the Cadillac will shut off.
28:41
Like it did in China.
28:42
So they're out Bline.
28:45
Ah, that guy, he's gonna start from the pit.
28:49
Kinberg will make it somewhere around 11th and that'll be like the best he'll do.
28:54
You're gonna have, uh, what's the new kid's name?
28:57
Lin Blood.
28:58
Yeah, he'll probably him and Albin and Haja I think are gonna dice it up.
29:03
They're all gonna be kind of stuck together there.
29:06
And then Liam's gonna get mixed in and that'll be the end of
29:08
that, like a wrecking ball.
29:10
The McLaren's won't do anything.
29:12
And to your point, that leaves whatever at Carlos and who cares?
29:17
That leaves Ferrari and Mercedes at the end of the day, and Max
29:20
is just somewhere in there.
29:21
Max is just lost in space.
29:23
Poor guy.
29:24
I mean, we know he can drive.
29:26
I am convinced he's a goat for sure because you, when you put him in something
29:30
else, he's amazingly quick to go into the Mercedes GT three car and have pole and be
29:35
1.9 seconds faster ahead on the berg ring.
29:38
And that's not what you do.
29:40
Yeah.
29:41
Against people that that's what they do.
29:43
I mean, he's a legend, right?
29:44
I mean, for sure.
29:45
But he doesn't have the car underneath of him.
29:48
He, he just doesn't, and Ford needs to get their act together quick.
29:51
That's pretty much the punchline there.
29:53
Well, then everybody's saying he's just bitching and moaning about Mario Kart
29:57
mushroom because he's not doing well.
29:59
And it's like, one could argue that, but also one could argue the more you see him.
30:06
And how he is.
30:07
He just says Shit.
30:08
If he's saying it's like Mario Kart, then he would probably say
30:11
that even if he was in first place.
30:13
Yeah.
30:13
The fact also stands at China.
30:16
The motor died like he came back in limp mode.
30:20
Yeah, so.
30:21
The car was junk.
30:22
The motor's junk.
30:23
They need to figure it out.
30:24
I mean, it was junk in Australia too, but what a heroic move to go
30:27
from last place to be like sixth.
30:29
Yeah, sixth.
30:30
And if there had been like one more lap, he would've gotten around Landau.
30:33
Yeah.
30:33
'cause he's just looking for a parking spot out there.
30:35
I mean, it's pathetic, but, so since we're talking about Max,
30:38
let's finish out talking about Max.
30:40
You mentioned the Berg ring already a couple of times and, and how he did.
30:43
What surprises me though, and I find it ironic.
30:46
Ford is backing him in Formula One, right?
30:48
You see him everywhere with his Ford stuff and his Red Bull and whatever.
30:51
How come they didn't give him a Mustang to go run the burger with?
30:54
I don't know.
30:56
Because he has gone out and done stuff in the new Mustang, like he's driven it.
31:01
I don't know what the deal is.
31:02
'cause like when he did the Berg last year, he was in the Porsche
31:06
and he's also tested the Ferrari.
31:08
Were there any Mustangs in the race?
31:12
Yes, because it crashed.
31:13
Oh, okay.
31:14
Or it was crashed into, I forget what happened.
31:16
It got like punted, I think.
31:18
I just think it's weird that his title sponsor, you know, second to Red Bull,
31:22
didn't give him a car to go do this.
31:25
I don't know how it works.
31:26
He's got the Red Bull sponsorship.
31:28
He's out there in the Mercedes?
31:30
Yes.
31:30
In Red Bull livery.
31:31
Yes.
31:31
Which is why I think it's strange that he's not running a Ford.
31:34
I don't know how all those rules work.
31:36
It's weird.
31:37
Or maybe, maybe Toto ISS involved.
31:39
Like you were saying before, Tanya, he's like, I'll give you a Benz.
31:47
But it's all for nothing.
31:49
Poor Max.
31:50
It is unfortunately, all for nothing because I mean, the first stint, he
31:53
was poll, he was first off the line.
31:57
I missed what happened within the first lap that the Audi got around.
32:01
It had something to do with draft.
32:03
I think the Audi was able to slip around and then he basically spent
32:07
the hour glued to his ass the whole time and then got around him.
32:12
They pitted.
32:13
He went back out.
32:14
He did.
32:14
They didn't change drivers at that point.
32:16
And then like the next Audi Dr. The Audi changed drivers and then like the
32:22
time just was stacking at that point.
32:24
He did come in, at some point they switched drivers again, blah, blah, blah.
32:27
And then like, that was, that was like it after that.
32:30
I think the gap just kept growing.
32:32
So they did finish.
32:34
He got back in at the very end, so he crossed the lines.
32:37
They finished in first Ray.
32:39
Yay.
32:40
Rah rah.
32:41
And then like several hours later, the notice comes out that they were
32:45
disqualified because Audi protested.
32:48
They got tech inspected, post impound, I don't know.
32:52
So apparently there was too many tire changes, and so it's like, huh?
32:56
They did, I believe, have to do a mandatory three stops because they
33:01
gotta change the drivers and everything.
33:03
But the problem is.
33:04
It actually was.
33:06
Whatever happened in qualifying.
33:09
Oh, did they used an extra set there.
33:12
They had the proper number of stops and everything in the actual
33:14
race, but there was an extra set of tires during the qualifying
33:18
is what threw them one set extra.
33:21
And they should have used, you think they would've known that going into the
33:24
race or somebody would've told them?
33:26
Who knows?
33:27
Inep.
33:27
Ineptitude.
33:27
I don't know.
33:28
Collusion.
33:29
I would like to think he wouldn't cheat like that.
33:33
Yeah.
33:33
Right.
33:34
Just to close out on Max Formula one.
33:36
God, he's moving into a sports car and endurance racing and he is flat
33:40
out said, despite the fact that his dad does rally, he'll never do it.
33:45
He's too dangerous.
33:46
Yeah, he says he is not interested in doing rally.
33:48
It does allude to the fact that he goes out with his dad and they do some
33:51
practice rally stuff, I guess like on a closed course, and he said it's
33:54
fun, but he has no desire to go do rally like on a professional level.
33:58
He's said this similar thing about IndyCar, that he won't
34:01
do that because basically.
34:04
There's too much risk also in that it's too crashy.
34:07
I think he said something along those lines.
34:09
It's like, not worth it to me, but I think the rally one is definitely,
34:12
for sure the risk of, of a, of a crash into a tree or something like that, is
34:17
not something he is willing to take.
34:19
It's one of the few motorsport that is still like highly
34:22
dangerous where fatalities occur.
34:25
Yeah, I, I don't wanna say on the regular, but they do compared to every
34:28
other motor sport, which is pretty safe.
34:30
I mean, it's interesting to see that he does draw a line somewhere.
34:33
Well, he did just have a kid too though.
34:35
Yeah.
34:35
Fatherhood will do that to you.
34:36
Yeah, a little bit.
34:39
Well, on that note, I'm excited to see where the rest of the season goes
34:42
and I'm excited to share it with you guys, but it is shaping up again.
34:45
I like it, but I don't, but I do, but I don't.
34:49
It's weird.
34:49
Conflicted.
34:51
I really am.
34:51
But I guess a couple more races, we'll see where things go or if we
34:54
just lock ourselves into a rhythm like we did last year after Suzuka.
34:58
And, uh, it is what it is.
35:00
So I guess we'll just have to stay tuned for the next one.
35:02
Mm-hmm.
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