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Formula Fanatics #7 - Canada, Monaco and Spain! · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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  This is Formula Fanatics.
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  So Formula 1 fanatics Yeah.
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  When we recorded the last drive through, we were right on the heels
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  of the Canadian Grand Prix happening.
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  So it feels like a millennia ago that the Canadian Grand Prix happened.
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  Montreal, the first time we had a sprint race in Canada.
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  It was exciting I did not watch that one.
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  You didn't watch the Canadian Grand Prix?
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  Oh my- I didn't watch the sprint race.
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  Oh, I did.
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  It was great.
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  Verstappen was in seventh, then it was Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes.
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  Stroll didn't start.
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  He had a front right issue.
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  Kimi had a great start, thank God, the first time in a very long time.
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  Hülkenberg went from 11th to 15th, and then he went lawn mowing.
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  It became a battle between Russell and Antonelli.
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  I mean, Canada was the race where it looked like Forza, and the
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  sprint race and the race race were no different from one another.
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  The sprint race was just a compact version of mowing the lawn, jumping the
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  curbs, Antonelli and Russell going at it.
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  Mm-hmm.
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  It's great.
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  Hopefully not trying to kill each other.
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  And at the same token, it ended with a bunch of more Forza moves,
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  and it was Russell, Lando, and Kimi, due to some mistakes.
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  So- Wait, I-
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  Kimi kind of gave up the sprint race.
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  Oh, in the sprint race?
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  Yes, in the sprint race.
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  In the race race, I wrote down colder track temperatures than the
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  sprint, and a little bit of rain.
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  So that made track conditions very different the next day, and that meant
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  Piastri starting on intermediates.
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  That's right, both McLarens did.
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  It was the dumbest strategy ever.
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  Buffoonery.
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  Was nobody reading the weather report?
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  I mean, the Villeneuve track is not Le Mans.
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  It's not eight and a half miles around that on one side of it it
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  could be raining, on the other side of it it's gonna be dry.
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  It's a freaking potato, and it's, like, two miles long.
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  What were they thinking?
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  They took a gamble.
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  It did not work.
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  No, it didn't.
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  And then we had this whole extra formation lap chaos because there
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  was a problem with Lindblad, so then the race was basically delayed, but
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  they're doing, like, parade laps around the out- I felt like we did the first
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  five laps at, like, 20 miles an hour.
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  We just kept reforming the race to have a better start.
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  And then that allowed Lando to change his tires, and then Oscar,
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  like, drops, like, way back.
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  This is Binotto's genius, and the Audis s- also started on intermediates.
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  Yeah, that's right.
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  Maybe he thought it was raining where he was because he was crying so much.
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  His eyes were wet, and he's like, "Ah." They suck so bad.
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  Capen Didsuck They're
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  solid in the middle They're solidly sucking.
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  I'm t- God, how did he s- Solid in the middle They're so terrible.
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  Oh.
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  But- Lando ends up in the pits, which gives Kimi the lead.
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  Kimi and Russell are back at it again.
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  It was e- Canada was an exciting race.
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  It really was, like, it was cartoony, and it was Forza, and it was like everything
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  you wanted last year's Formula One race to be between Piastri and Lando,
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  which didn't happen, although Lando's goofy move that he tried to pull.
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  Russell holds onto the lead.
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  There's, like, a ton of back and forth, and then I wrote down, "Lap 31, he
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  cuts the turn and abandons the race.
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  WTF." And that's the moment where I thought, because Kimi got around
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  him, that he was just having a temper tantrum. Mm. And he shut
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  the car off and decided, "I'm done.
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  I'm going home." And he, he, he, like, died in the worst spot.
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  But apparently, there was, like, an issue with the car.
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  Like, the motor just went boom, and that was the end of it.
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  But he did throw a temper tantrum, 'cause then he got- He
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  did … uh, he got a fine for it.
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  Did he?
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  I didn't know that.
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  Yeah, I believe he got a fine.
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  Oh.
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  Yeah, he was fined.
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  Was that for swearing on television?
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  Is that what that one was for?
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  That was for throwing his stuff onto the track like a child.
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  Oh, that's right.
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  That's right.
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  I do remember that, yeah.
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  And then Lando has a gearbox problem, so the, that McLaren's out.
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  Piastri ends up with a penalty because of Albon, and then Perez suddenly goes out as
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  the front suspension just disintegrates.
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  That was wild.
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  He's just, like, going along, and it's like, boop, there
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  goes the whole front end.
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  You're like, "Wait, what the hell was that?" Wild.
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  Leclerc has a code brown moment.
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  Hülkenberg spins, and the race ends with Hamilton on the podium.
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  So it's Antonelli, Hamilton, and Verstappen.
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  And I wrote down, "Cadillac is hot trash. Bottas was 45 seconds behind Stroll, who
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  was a lap down." Hot- Oh, man … garbage.
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  Yeah.
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  You're glossing over- Am I?
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  … something here.
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  What am I… What?
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  What?
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  Tell me.
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  Hamilton on the podium.
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  That was his second time on the podium.
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  Yeah.
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  Weren't you the one who said he was washed up, he should hang it up, he's too old, he
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  should give up racing, he should go back to basket weaving or whatever the hell,
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  and hang out with Kim Kardashian, and steal towels, and do all that other crap?
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  Is he stealing towels for real?
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  She did.
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  No, are you serious?
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  She stole Kimi Antonelli's towel because he sprayed champagne in her eye.
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  This time it was champagne.
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  Oh.
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  So she's, so he d- there's a whole meme about it.
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  There's a whole, Antonelli responds with a whole video of like, "Hey, have you
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  seen my towel?" Oh my, I didn't know that.
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  See, I don't… This is why, I would get sucked down such a rabbit hole if
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  I spent any more time on social media.
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  I missed all of that stuff.
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  And then she, and then she gifted him a special towel.
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  It says, "Here especially for you," or something like that.
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  Yeah, there's a whole thing.
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  It w- you missed a whole thing.
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  Is that because you follow her on Instagram?
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  Is that what it is?
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  I mean, I wouldn't have seen any of this stuff.
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  No, it's because I follow Antonelli and like- Ah … What The F1
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  and, and stuff like that, yeah.
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  Got it.
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  Got it.
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  Got it.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah.
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  But Hamilton on the podium, but he's washed up.
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  He should give, he should hang it up.
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  He's terrible.
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  He's just like Alonso, blah, blah, blah.
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  There are three people that should retire, and that's
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  Alonso, Hülkenberg, and Hamilton.
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  I believe Hamilton is, is he second in points in the championship now?
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  Yeah.
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  Or is he still third?
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  Second.
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  Yeah, I think he's second I thought he was ahead of Russell now.
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  Yes, he's second.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah, he's second in championship points, driver's championship.
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  As of Spain, but he's not gonna catch Kimi.
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  There's no way.
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  Uh… He's actually a lot closer than you think.
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  I think he's only, like, 70 points away.
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  That's… There's a lot of season left.
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  There's a lot of races left, and hopefully lady's reliability
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  Ferrari is getting upgrades too.
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  He's 40 point, 41 points behind.
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  Yeah, he's only 41 points behind.
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  That's two races if Kimi gets a DNF.
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  It ain't over yet.
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  I don't… No, there's a long way to go.
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  Yeah, it's a, it's a long season.
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  And then, and, and yeah, I believe both Ferraris are getting two upgrades.
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  Are they a turbo upgrade, I think?
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  They're, they're getting upgrades too.
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  BOP, baby.
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  That's the mid-season change, right?
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  They're allowed to do, like, a bunch of stuff for, like, the halfway point, right?
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  I think this is all coming off of some rule changes that they made because of
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  the issues at the beginning of the season.
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  Right, which as of Canada, despite the antics, I feel like that break we had
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  because of the excursion that we were having, or still ha- I don't know what the
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  heck's going on with that either anymore.
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  The Middle East races were canceled, so we all had all that time for Kimi to
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  practice his launches and everything.
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  I feel like they figured some stuff out, rebalanced the power, and not a BOP thing,
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  but balanced the power distribution with the hybrid system, because the racing
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  feels a little bit more like last year's.
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  They did it after… They didn't do it then.
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  They did it after the near horrific wreck of Bearman.
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  Yeah, so after Suzuka.
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  Well, no, he did wreck, but, like, he, when he crashed trying to
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  avoid the huge difference in speed.
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  That was after those two canceled races, I thought.
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  Yeah, I think that was after Miami.
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  Oh.
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  But yes, they, they rebalanced things a- as a result of that incident, so now you
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  don't see anymore the weird Mario Karting.
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  It's less Mario Kart passing.
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  It's more subtle.
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  Yeah.
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  There's definitely a turbo boost, more like DRS kinda thing going on,
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  which is, you know, I think we're all used to that, but the way it
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  was before was just ridiculous.
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  Yeah, it, the racing I, I feel has definitely gotten better.
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  For sure.
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  It's definitely more palatable now.
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  And Stroll still sucks.
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  That dude's never getting any better.
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  Mm. So Canada, any more hot takes on Canada?
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  I, I do love the fact that Canada, and I quote, "Is shaped like
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  a potato." It i- look at it.
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  It looks like- Like a gr- It looks like… Okay, I'll take it back.
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  It looks like a croissant.
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  A croissant.
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  Croissant, 'cause it's in French Quebec, Montreal, French Canada,
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  so it looks like a croissant.
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  How do you say potato in French?
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  I know frites are fries.
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  Other than that, I don't speak French Frites I don't speak French
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  It's like a raw frites Yeah, right?
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  But if you look… So actually, you can… I think we talked about this before.
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  Tanya and I, a couple years ago, we went up to visit some relatives in
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  Montreal, and we took a afternoon to go over to Circuit de Gilles
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  Villeneuve, and you can drive it.
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  It's open every day of the week.
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  It's a park, and it goes around a casino, and all this kind of stuff.
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  You can drive it with your car, as long as you stay out
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  of the way of the pedestrians.
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  Everything is there, you know, the curbs and all that kind of stuff.
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  It's not that long.
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  It's, like, 2.4 miles.
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  It's like driving NJMP or Summit Point.
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  It's like, it, it's very tight.
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  It's very small.
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  There's not a lot of runoff space.
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  And if you look at its shape from above, I mean, yes, it's an island,
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  but I call it a potato, 'cause it's like, it's just like a little potato
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  that's, you know… Croissant, sorry.
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  It looks like a croissant.
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  It's not that exciting.
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  It's one of those legacy tracks.
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  Like, you have to run it, but then there's legacy tracks.
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  Like the next one.
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  Yeah, like the Funeral Procession
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  God, Monaco.
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  Why do we still race at Monaco?
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  Tradition.
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  Tradition.
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  Monaco should be Formula 1 classique.
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  Like, I feel like they should all be given 1970s era Formula 1 cars and
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  then go race, and do, like, a classic thing to just go, "Isn't racing
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  glamorous?" like it was in the old days.
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  'Cause the new cars, even these new shorter cars, are still too
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  big to go around that track.
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  It's pathetic.
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  Like, watching their hand movements, the amount of, like, full lock they
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  have to give it to go around the hairpin and stuff, it's just wild, and the car
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  barely gets through there, and they're just crawling at, like, 20 miles an hour.
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  It's awful.
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  They should do Monaco in go-karts.
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  That would be exciting, too.
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  Get rid of these formula cars for Monaco, or just do Monaco, but do it in a
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  special way and make them run it on foot.
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  Valtteri Bottas would love that, or bicycles, right?
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  He'd love that.
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  We all know that Monaco is where you qualify is where you finish.
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  Pretty much how it is.
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  And as Sam said to me when we were talking about it, he goes,
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  "What are you talking about, man?
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  The qualifying is the racing.
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  There is no race." And I'm like, "Yeah, th- you know, that's
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  very true, too." So I call it a funeral procession because it is.
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  They're just, like, doing parade laps, and there's zero passing
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  and, you know, it is what it is.
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  So qualifying, Antonelli, Verstappen, Hamilton, Leclerc,
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  except we broke the rule this year.
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  You didn't finish where you started because Verstappen stalls right off
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  the line and just basically goes off into the s- he was out before the first
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  corner because the Ford is unreliable.
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  That's sad.
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  Surprise, surprise I just hope that they're not using that motor
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  as their test motor for their entry into Le Mans next year.
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  They're using the same electronics as the Focus.
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  Ah, that makes a lot more sense.
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  Nah, but this was another race where a half a dozen people DNF'd.
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  All these false starts, like Russell had a false start, and then Perez ends
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  up with a stop-and-go penalty, and then you compound that with all of the pit
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  speed limit penalties that everybody was recei- I was like, after, like,
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  the second one, I think I would've gotten a little, like, suspicious.
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  But after, like, the eighth one, it's like, come on, guys.
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  Like, I think we have a problem here.
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  Lando was eighth for the longest time, then he reports a bunch of misfires,
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  and then he's out on, like, lap 45.
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  That was, like, unimpressive.
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  McLaren out another race.
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  They were out in Canada.
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  They're out here.
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  I did think it was cool that Audi changed their livery to yellow instead of red,
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  so they stood out a little bit more.
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  I think they should've stayed with that, because they went back to
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  the red once we went to Spain.
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  So, that was kinda cool.
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  And one thing I, I love to comment on as we were watching the Monaco
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  race, Russell had come over the radio, and he was talking about
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  how he could see Hajjar's tires.
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  He's, like, freaking Superman.
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  He's got, like, X-ray vision.
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  I don't know how you can see anything when you're two car lengths behind him.
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  What are you talking about?
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  "I can s- I can see his front tires." He's like, "Hajjar's front tires are
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  degrading," blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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  And I'm like- He wasn't wrong … he wasn't, but you know what?
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  Mad props to Hajjar, because he toughed it out for as long as he could, and
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  he was doing everything he could to stay in front of Russell and keep him
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  there as much as possible with those, quote-unquote, "degrading tires."
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  Uh, what happened to Russell in this race?
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  There was a drama with that too He had a double penalty.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  He was issued a penalty- He didn't serve it, and then he got another … and
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  then he said that he served it- That was it … because they red flagged the race,
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  and then he was, like, crawling into the pits, and he's like, "See how much time
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  I wasted because Kimi was in the box?
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  I served my penalty.
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  These are not the Jedi that you're looking for.
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  No." That's not how that works, bro.
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  So then they slammed him with another penalty, so by that point he was done.
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  I was like, bro, I would've parked it.
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  I would've been like, "I'm out." Like, who cares?
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  I'm not getting points for this race anyway.
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  I'm double penalized.
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  Just park the car and save the motor.
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  So then I got
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  Bottas.
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  God, Monaco is, like, a test and tune day for Cadillac.
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  I think every race is a test and tune day for Cadillac.
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  I think.
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  I, I think you're right.
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  And Perez with all his stop-and-go penalties, it was insane.
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  And then Bottas over the radio, "We need to cool the car and box."
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  I'm out.
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  I'm done.
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  And, like, the next scene, they're out there, you know, racing around,
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  and, and Bottas is, like, up in the stands, like, "Ah, what's up, guys?"
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  Doing his Bottas thing, and I'm like, "Oh, my God." So then Biermans out.
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  Hamilton gets a five second speeding in the pit penalty.
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  Russell gets his first speeding in the pit penalty.
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  And then, like I said, like, six, eight other people end up with speeding in
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  the pit penalties, and apparently this had to do with the way they measure the
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  length of the pit lane from one end to the other, and because Cadillac had the
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  extra box, it changed the dimensions.
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  But then people were, like, cutting off the corner.
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  They were cutting off the entry because of the extra box.
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  The way they explained it didn't make a ton of sense, but apparently
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  that discrepancy of the length of the pit stalls or whatever was making
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  everybody get these penalties, and I'm like, "Whatever." I don't know,
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  but then it was said that that was happening in the qualifying too, so
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  they should've known that already.
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  But they should have already adjusted for it by the time
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  they got to the race, right?
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, come on.
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  Come on, Formula 1, you can do better than this.
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  So Hajjar has issues with the Red Bull outside of the tires, and I think the
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  best part of this race, other than Lance Stroll wrecking on lap 60, which then
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  caused Leclerc to wreck after that because then the track was falling apart and they
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  red flagged it, is amidst all of this, and this is why I say Russell should have
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  parked the car, Kimi laps him at Monaco.
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  A track that is famous for not being able to pass people, Kimi ends up lapping him.
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  It's like, I was like, "The man. The man." Lap of the gods right there.
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  Yeah.
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  Passing Russell.
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  So again, Russell and his whole penalty shenanigans.
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  Leclerc wrecks on the restart right in the same exact spot where Stroll wrecked.
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  That was wild.
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  What a horrible patch job they did in that corner.
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  I mean, it's like, did they just go, like, to Home Depot, get, like, a
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  bucket and pour it on the track and, like, sweep it in and say, "All right.
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  We got some sealer on here.
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  It's good.
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  Looks black to me." Yes.
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  It's literally falling apart.
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  The race was red flagged on lap 68, and they had 10 laps to go at the end.
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  So it was like, so it was sort of like Monaco had a sprint at
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  the end, which was kind of cool.
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  So standing start on lap 70, and in the end, Kimi dropped the clutch
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  and dumped it and went, and he ends up winning the Monaco Grand Prix.
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  So there's another win for Kimi.
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  Awesome.
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  That was stressful.
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  It was.
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  That was stressful knowing that there was a restart.
• 17:50
  Yeah.
• 17:50
  I did not… I wanted a rolling- From a stop, from a standing
• 17:54
  start … want a rolling restart.
• 17:56
  Standing start is, like, Kimi's Achilles heel, right?
• 18:00
  I mean, terrible.
• 18:01
  Surprised Perez didn't get another stop and go penalty.
• 18:04
  Now, I, I will say, most exciting Monaco race in a very long time,
• 18:08
  like, most exciting Canadian GP in history in, as far as I'm concerned.
• 18:13
  So super cool.
• 18:15
  And then we talked about this on the other episode, talking about how
• 18:18
  Le Mans weekend was a little meh, and this and that, and it was, you
• 18:21
  know, not… It's traditionally on Father's Day, but it was the same
• 18:25
  weekend as the Spanish Grand Prix.
• 18:42
  And I thought to myself, I put on my tinfoil hat yet again, Brad, and
• 18:45
  I said, "I wonder if they scheduled the Spanish GP the same weekend as
• 18:50
  Le Mans that way Formula 1 drivers can't ever schedule to go race Le
• 18:55
  Mans." I think you might be reading a little too much into the tea leaves.
• 18:59
  I mean, it's not usually, they don't usually have a race on the same weekend.
• 19:02
  Correct.
• 19:03
  It's to stop Max from going to do Le Mans if they put them
• 19:07
  on the same weekend, right?
• 19:08
  Because then he would lose the points.
• 19:10
  It wouldn't matter right now.
• 19:12
  No, it wouldn't, and that brings up a very good point because I read somewhere
• 19:16
  that his contract is also subject to how good the car is for the year.
• 19:22
  So there's rumors going around that the car is so bad that he may be able to get
• 19:27
  out of his contract going into next year.
• 19:29
  So where does he go then?
• 19:31
  Yeah.
• 19:32
  He goes to endurance racing, which is what he really wants to do.
• 19:34
  I think he's done with Formula 1, honestly.
• 19:37
  I don't know that he's done yet, but he does wanna do endurance racing.
• 19:41
  So does he sign with Ferrari?
• 19:44
  I don't know.
• 19:44
  And help Ferrari's endurance racing team?
• 19:46
  Didn't Leclerc just re-sign his contract for, like, the next 50
• 19:49
  years or something like that?
• 19:51
  Like he's never gonna leave.
• 19:51
  I don't mean Ferrari F1, I mean Ferrari WEC.
• 19:54
  No.
• 19:55
  No, he'll run a- Probably Mercedes.
• 19:57
  Yeah.
• 19:58
  He's been running that Mercedes, so.
• 20:01
  Maybe they'll have him drive the Ford in Le Mans.
• 20:04
  Hey, now.
• 20:05
  Hey, now.
• 20:05
  That'd be good.
• 20:06
  That'd be really good, actually.
• 20:08
  But speaking of contracts, there was a lot of hype going into these
• 20:12
  couple races where it was like Alonso goes to every track as if
• 20:17
  it's his last time at the track.
• 20:19
  It's like all this whole sob story, and it's like, come on, guys.
• 20:21
  Like I, I… We know Alonso needs to retire, and he's there for
• 20:24
  the paycheck, but this year is worse than any year previous.
• 20:27
  At least in years prior, Stroll would be doing lead follow with Alonso.
• 20:32
  Alonso's, now he's just out there, he's lost, and the car is garbage, and,
• 20:34
  you know, everything we already know.
• 20:36
  But then I hear that Briatore's coming back.
• 20:41
  And he's trying to get Alonso to go to Alpine, and I'm like, is there
• 20:46
  blood to squeeze out of this turnip?
• 20:48
  I don't know that Alonso going to Alpine is better than keeping Gasly
• 20:52
  and Colapinto, because Colapinto's the one that's on the chopping block.
• 20:56
  I don't know.
• 20:58
  Couldn't tell you.
• 20:59
  So I've got a question for you.
• 21:01
  Hmm.
• 21:01
  I know we're not done talking about the Spanish Grand Prix, but what is
• 21:05
  more likely, Verstappen winning another Formula One championship or Hamilton
• 21:11
  winning another Formula One championship?
• 21:13
  Let's just keep things at sort of a static pace.
• 21:16
  Let's just assume not that Kimi wins every race, because we've broken that streak as
• 21:22
  a result of the Spanish GP, but let's just say he's able to maintain a substantial
• 21:27
  lead, you know, always podium every race with the majority wins in his back pocket.
• 21:33
  There's a h- very, very high probability Kimi's gonna win the, the season, right?
• 21:36
  That's not to say that Hamilton won't podium the championship this year,
• 21:42
  but I don't think he's gonna win it unless something catastrophic happens
• 21:45
  to the Mercedes or something happens to Kimi or, you know, just I don't
• 21:49
  think he's gonna have a repeat of last year, meaning Kimi, like, kind of being
• 21:53
  in the middle of the pack and sort of finding his way and learning the
• 21:56
  tracks, and I think he was sandbagging.
• 21:58
  I've said that before.
• 21:59
  I have a strong suspicion Hamilton's gonna have a good year, but he's
• 22:04
  not gonna have a winning year.
• 22:05
  He's not gonna get his eighth, right?
• 22:06
  It's just not gonna happen.
• 22:08
  I don't think anybody else is even close.
• 22:10
  Tanya, do you think there's even anybody in contention after that?
• 22:13
  Well, technically Russell's only not even, I think, nine points behind him.
• 22:18
  Behind Hamilton.
• 22:20
  Yeah.
• 22:20
  But he's, like, two temper tantrums and a flat tire away from, like, losing
• 22:24
  that too, so that doesn't matter, right?
• 22:26
  A problem is it's not looking good for Mercedes right now, 'cause they're
• 22:30
  having too many reliability issues.
• 22:33
  Like, two is too many.
• 22:35
  Yes.
• 22:36
  For them, for sure.
• 22:37
  And it, was it more than two?
• 22:40
  Did Russell have it twice this year?
• 22:42
  Maybe it was just one each, but, like, that's two too many, so if they keep
• 22:45
  having troubles like that, then Don't know what to say Well, and they need to
• 22:51
  chill out too, because what's funny is Antonelli's doing this Senna thing where
• 22:56
  they tell him to slow down, and then he puts, like, the personal best down, like
• 23:00
  the fastest lap of the race, and then he just continues to truck until the end.
• 23:03
  He's like, he's just ignoring them.
• 23:05
  Or it becomes this Senna versus Prost thing between him and Russell where
• 23:09
  they're trying to kill each other on track, and it's like, "Guys, you gotta
• 23:13
  get it together." But the, I think the bigger problem is Kimi's the faster
• 23:17
  driver- Mm-hmm … of the two of them, but he's not the lead driver on the team.
• 23:22
  And I hate to say, Russell's gotta eat some crow.
• 23:25
  Oh, 'cause one of those races, whichever it was, that BS was going
• 23:29
  on where he was being held up.
• 23:31
  Yeah.
• 23:32
  Uh, that was the, it was the, the Spanish GP, because he was
• 23:37
  being held up, being held up.
• 23:38
  He finally got around him.
• 23:39
  Yep.
• 23:40
  And then it was, like, two laps later, the car Chernobyled.
• 23:43
  Yeah, for Kimi.
• 23:44
  Yes.
• 23:44
  Yeah.
• 23:45
  God, that was, like, heartbreaking.
• 23:47
  Yeah, it failed on lap 63 is what I have on my, my note.
• 23:50
  And then Leclerc ended up with, like, power steering issues at the same time.
• 23:54
  So I don't know.
• 23:54
  They need to figure that out, and Russell just needs to, like… I get it.
• 23:58
  Like, it's taken him 10 years to get to this point, and, "I deserve my
• 24:02
  championship," and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 24:04
  Okay, great, but Kimi's the faster driver at the end of the day, so they need to
• 24:09
  figure out their team orders or whatever.
• 24:11
  Yeah.
• 24:12
  If you're so fast, then when you let Kimi go around, you breathe down his neck and
• 24:17
  don't let him get 20 seconds ahead of you.
• 24:19
  Right.
• 24:19
  Exactly.
• 24:20
  Or your job is to fend off Hamilton, 'cause then it becomes a
• 24:25
  manufacturer's game, and you don't wanna give it to Ferrari either.
• 24:28
  So I don't know.
• 24:30
  It's a very strange sport to think that the politics have to get involved, but
• 24:34
  they really do if you wanna lock it in.
• 24:35
  And has Russell even ever come in second in the championship?
• 24:40
  I'd take a silver.
• 24:41
  Just to say I got a silver, I'd be happy with it.
• 24:43
  But he deserves the gold.
• 24:45
  Ah, I get it.
• 24:46
  He deserves it.
• 24:46
  Yeah.
• 24:47
  Stuffleupagus deserves it.
• 24:49
  Uh, so anyway, I have the starting grid for the Spanish GP: Russell,
• 24:54
  Hammy, Kimi, Lando, and Verstappen.
• 24:56
  That was the top five.
• 24:57
  That's where they qualified.
• 24:58
  So lap six, Stroll was out.
• 25:00
  The gearbox exploded.
• 25:03
  Charles got his brake swap, so no more complaints about
• 25:06
  how terrible the Brembos were.
• 25:08
  What did, what did they end up putting on there?
• 25:09
  Carbotechs or something like that?
• 25:11
  Is that what they're using now?
• 25:12
  Duralast.
• 25:13
  Duralast.
• 25:14
  Duralast.
• 25:15
  From Trash Auto.
• 25:16
  I have to report on this.
• 25:18
  Alonso's Aston Martin made it to lap 40.
• 25:22
  That was impressive.
• 25:22
  That, that was pretty good.
• 25:24
  I mean, he beat that 25 number that they seem to be hitting every time.
• 25:28
  Then there was a virtual safety car, and then the Hülkenberg thing.
• 25:33
  Talk about a freak accident.
• 25:36
  Do you guys remember this?
• 25:37
  Oh.
• 25:37
  Oh, yeah.
• 25:38
  So we didn't know what happened until after the race, 'cause it
• 25:41
  was like suddenly it was down.
• 25:43
  He was, again, solidly in the middle.
• 25:46
  Yeah, I think he was gonna get points, actually.
• 25:48
  The two liter turbo exploded, right?
• 25:50
  And then suddenly it was like, he's in the pits and he doesn't come out
• 25:53
  of the pits, and it's like, "What just happened?" And a rock hit the
• 25:58
  emergency shutoff, ricocheted up from Liam Lawson, knocked off the emergency
• 26:07
  shutoff kill switch, and killed the car.
• 26:14
  What a fluke.
• 26:15
  Like, you have a higher chance of getting hit by lightning and winning the lottery
• 26:20
  than that happening, a projectile hitting the kill switch and turning the car off.
• 26:25
  I feel like they should have better engineered it so
• 26:27
  that's impossible to happen.
• 26:29
  Right?
• 26:30
  They should have s- foreseen that happening.
• 26:33
  Well, its placement is a little strange, too, and I get it, because
• 26:36
  it's designed for somebody to reach it from outside the car.
• 26:39
  Well, somebody did reach it from outside the car.
• 26:43
  It did, it, it worked then, in that case.
• 26:46
  It's like somebody with a slingshot.
• 26:47
  Pow.
• 26:48
  Yeah.
• 26:48
  As, as intended.
• 26:49
  Bart Simpson hit it.
• 26:50
  That was a Mario move.
• 26:52
  That was bizarre.
• 26:53
  That was the blue shell right there, right?
• 26:54
  It's like, boom, done.
• 26:56
  You're out.
• 26:57
  So Hülkenberg's out, and then McLaren was all sorts of tattle-taling on Kimi.
• 27:03
  There was all sorts of just nonsense over the radio.
• 27:05
  Oh.
• 27:06
  Yes.
• 27:06
  This is the race he was riding the track limits.
• 27:10
  Yes.
• 27:14
  And every time Kimi went through that complex, and then Lando's like, "He did
• 27:18
  it again. He went over the line. Blah, blah, blah." And then they would show the
• 27:23
  shots from, like, above from the cameras.
• 27:24
  They're like, "Nah, he's, he's, he's still in there." I mean, barely.
• 27:29
  You don't have the superhuman vision like Russell does, where he can analyze
• 27:33
  Hajar's tires at 170 miles an hour.
• 27:36
  I'm sorry, Lando, put your glasses on.
• 27:38
  But Kimi was fine.
• 27:40
  There were a couple times he pushed the limit.
• 27:42
  Oh, man, it was like every other lap, "Oh, he did it again.
• 27:45
  Did it again.
• 27:47
  McLaren is protesting.
• 27:49
  Did it again." It's like, "Stop.
• 27:51
  Shut up." So then it doesn't matter because Kimi's pushing, pushing,
• 27:56
  pushing, and then he ends up out on lap three, like I said, Leclerc
• 27:59
  with the power steering issue.
• 28:00
  We thought the race was gonna end under a virtual safety car, remember?
• 28:04
  It was like a nail-biter even.
• 28:06
  This one was just like, "Come on, guys." And then they went green
• 28:10
  on lap 65 And there was some real confusion about the tail end, 'cause
• 28:17
  this was also the race where there were a ton of cars that didn't finish.
• 28:21
  Like, a huge amount of cars, like, just retired in this race
• 28:24
  too, like almost every race.
• 28:25
  And it said, I remember reading, we were talking about the results, Tanya.
• 28:29
  I remember it was like Albon was, like, six laps ahead, but he ended three
• 28:34
  positions behind people that DNF'd, but there were a total of eight DNFs.
• 28:38
  So I read that then, I was like, "God," He was DNF too … "that's
• 28:40
  a lot of cars out." He was DNF too.
• 28:42
  Yeah, he ended up DNF to, as well.
• 28:45
  So in the end, Hamilton, Russell, and Lando up on the podium.
• 28:50
  Woo.
• 28:51
  That's how the race ends.
• 28:52
  First.
• 28:52
  And, and I will say, and I- First … Brad, I know you've been biting your
• 28:54
  tongue 'cause you wanna talk about this.
• 28:55
  Hamilton, for once, was given the decency, the dignity, the grace, whatever word you
• 29:04
  wanna use to describe it, that Ferrari didn't screw up his pit strategy, and
• 29:09
  that's what allowed him to win the race.
• 29:11
  Had it not been for that, had Ferrari Ferrari'd, as Tanya likes to say,
• 29:16
  Hamilton would not have won that race.
• 29:18
  But because he pit at such a weird time- It would've been really interesting to
• 29:24
  see It would've been closer … he was on an absolute tear, and was gaining, and
• 29:30
  if they would've kept going, there was a lot of speculation that he might have
• 29:35
  been able to get around them without that.
• 29:38
  You're talking about Kimi?
• 29:39
  No, Hamilton.
• 29:40
  Kimi was faster than Hamilton.
• 29:42
  He was flying until the car broke.
• 29:44
  No.
• 29:44
  So Hamilton did the, the pit and started catching them.
• 29:47
  No.
• 29:47
  That was where he was behind, and he was just reeling in lap after lap.
• 29:52
  Like, the gap was just like broo.
• 29:54
  Yeah.
• 29:55
  The gap was shrinking.
• 29:57
  So it would've been interesting to see, I think towards the end,
• 30:01
  Antonelli started picking up the pace.
• 30:04
  Right.
• 30:05
  But then his car blew up.
• 30:06
  Correct.
• 30:07
  But Amp- That's what I'm saying … ended 20 second, 19 and a half
• 30:10
  seconds ahead of George Russell.
• 30:14
  He was on an absolute tear the whole time.
• 30:17
  So it would've been really interesting to actually see how it would've played out
• 30:20
  had that virtual whatever not happened.
• 30:23
  Right.
• 30:24
  Exactly.
• 30:25
  So I think between that and the pit strategy with Ferrari that pretty
• 30:29
  much locked in Hamilton, they made the right move because they put
• 30:32
  the harder tires on, and then he was just stretched them out, right?
• 30:35
  And said, "That's it. One pit strategy, let's go," instead of
• 30:38
  all these shenanigans or whatever.
• 30:39
  A- and then I think he pit under the VSC, which locked him in anyways.
• 30:43
  Then he had fresh, like, softs or something like that, right?
• 30:45
  If I remember how that ended.
• 30:46
  So yeah, that was that.
• 30:49
  That was all she wrote.
• 30:50
  Now, the question is, Brad, and I know, you know, you're, "Oh, well, Hamilton,
• 30:53
  he's washed up," and this and that.
• 30:55
  The question has yet to be answered in the sense that it's taken him two years
• 31:00
  to win his first race with Ferrari.
• 31:02
  I'm not saying he's a bad driver, whatever.
• 31:06
  But the question is, can he repeat that?
• 31:08
  Can Ferrari get out of its own head and do more like what they did at the Spanish
• 31:14
  GP, or is it gonna be business as usual?
• 31:17
  So- Especially if Leclerc is having a good weekend, because he didn't have a
• 31:22
  good weekend at the Spanish GP either.
• 31:24
  He has yet to have a good weekend, I think since, like, the first race.
• 31:28
  Yes.
• 31:28
  But, you know, everybody likes to pull the data sets and blah, blah, blah.
• 31:32
  So, so if you follow the trends, 'cause they pulled this
• 31:36
  one out already a while ago.
• 31:37
  Of their butts.
• 31:39
  'Cause every team, which this is only his third team being on, but he's nev-
• 31:43
  he's always done shit the first year.
• 31:44
  So even Mercedes, he came in terrible first year, and then the second year.
• 31:49
  So they're like, "This is gonna be his year," if that trend holds.
• 31:54
  And if it doesn't?
• 31:55
  I don't know.
• 31:55
  There's still 14 races left, I think.
• 31:58
  So I think it's still entirely way too early to say anything.
• 32:02
  I get that.
• 32:03
  So Brad, I'm gonna ask you this question.
• 32:05
  If Hamilton gets to the end of the year and he doesn't win, but
• 32:09
  let's just say he podiums the, on the championship, second or third.
• 32:14
  Doesn't win the championship.
• 32:15
  Do you think he should continue?
• 32:18
  Definitely.
• 32:19
  Why?
• 32:19
  Why?
• 32:20
  Because he's still better than Stroll.
• 32:22
  And Stroll is still gonna be out there.
• 32:25
  He's still better than- Second or third in the championship means he's better
• 32:28
  than 19 or 20 other fucking drivers.
• 32:32
  Right, right, right.
• 32:33
  So, uh, would you hang it up if you were that close to
• 32:37
  tasting another championship?
• 32:39
  I still think after 20 years, I would just go do something else.
• 32:43
  I would wanna go win a different championship.
• 32:45
  I wanna w- you know what I, and b- but that's just my personality.
• 32:49
  Like, I'd wanna mix it up versus, I don't know, feels like it gets boring.
• 32:52
  But how many Formula 1 drivers have only done their one thing?
• 32:55
  Like, all of them.
• 32:57
  I think it was more so in the old days that they did different stuff than now,
• 33:02
  you know, where they did mix it up.
• 33:03
  Or like, again, like a Graham Hill type, that era, where they would go,
• 33:07
  you know, do Indy, and they would go do, you know, Le Mans, stuff like that.
• 33:11
  A Graham Hill type, who was not a seven-time world champion.
• 33:14
  He was a Formula 1 world champion, though.
• 33:16
  That's all that matters.
• 33:17
  He's the only one with a Triple Crown.
• 33:19
  I think if Hamilton only had one, maybe two championships, and he finishes
• 33:25
  the season, like, fourth or fifth, then yeah, maybe, maybe hang it up.
• 33:30
  But he's proving, as long as the car and the t- the team supports
• 33:35
  him, he's proving that he's still got it, and he's still competitive.
• 33:40
  I say, yeah, he should come back another season and go for a championship,
• 33:44
  especially if he finishes second.
• 33:46
  If he finishes second, there's no reason he shouldn't come back and try.
• 33:50
  Like, he can, you can almost taste the victory at that point.
• 33:53
  Maybe.
• 33:53
  You can almost taste that eighth championship.
• 33:56
  Especially if it's close.
• 33:57
  Like, you're two points away or, or it was a, it came down to one
• 34:01
  race difference or something.
• 34:02
  I mean, who knows how this plays out.
• 34:04
  Suddenly the Ferrari become a turd.
• 34:06
  You know, there's always that.
• 34:07
  So let's just flip it around then.
• 34:08
  Let's say he doesn't.
• 34:10
  Let's say he does win the championship.
• 34:12
  That's where I wanna go with this.
• 34:13
  Let's say he does win the championship.
• 34:15
  Does he continue?
• 34:17
  Yes.
• 34:18
  So either way, Hamilton lives to race another year, if
• 34:22
  that's what you're saying.
• 34:23
  I think so, yeah.
• 34:24
  Plus, he might have to, depending what his contract says.
• 34:27
  I mean, I think Ferrari's gonna do everything in their power
• 34:30
  to get Kimi at some point.
• 34:32
  But, uh, unfortunately, he's probably stuck at…
• 34:34
  I mean, that's not unfortunate.
• 34:35
  He's with a good team.
• 34:36
  He's gonna be stuck at Mercedes for a while.
• 34:38
  They will have to pay up.
• 34:40
  Toto has invested too much.
• 34:44
  Yeah, plus if, if Ferrari can win with another driver, they wouldn't
• 34:48
  dump the championship driver that they just won with just to get
• 34:51
  Kimi just because he's Italian.
• 34:53
  Oh.
• 34:53
  That would be some Ferrari bullshit, though.
• 34:56
  I mean- That would be some Ferrari shit.
• 34:58
  So here's the thing, if Leclerc ends, like, trash- Well, true,
• 35:03
  yeah, if Leclerc ends, like, trash- He'll be driving an Audi.
• 35:08
  He'll be driving a Cadillac.
• 35:10
  He might have just renewed his contract, but- Yeah Contracts
• 35:13
  were made to be broken.
• 35:14
  That's just a piece of paper.
• 35:15
  Yeah.
• 35:15
  I think barring Hamilton finishing 10th or worse, he comes back
• 35:21
  for another season at least.
• 35:22
  Probably, and we'll be here to comment on it if he does.
• 35:25
  I'll change it.
• 35:25
  I'll, I'll change that to seventh or worst, seventh or worst in championship,
• 35:29
  he'll come back for another season.
• 35:31
  Be interesting to see how that goes.
• 35:33
  He at least finishes his contract.
• 35:34
  I don't know how long his contract's through.
• 35:36
  So when do they announce the drivers for next year?
• 35:39
  That happens in the fall after the last race.
• 35:41
  When do we get to know about that?
• 35:42
  When the silly season happens.
• 35:43
  What is, what is that?
• 35:45
  That's what they call the, the post-season trading of drivers and- Oh … contract
• 35:49
  renewals and all that bullshit.
• 35:50
  They call the silly season.
• 35:50
  It's like the NFL draft.
• 35:52
  Yeah.
• 35:53
  All right.
• 35:53
  Well, we have Austria up next, and then after that, what do we have before
• 35:57
  the next Formula Fanatics episode?
• 36:00
  Uh, British GP over 4th of July weekend.
• 36:04
  Oh, so Silverstone.
• 36:06
  Belgium, followed by Hungary, followed by a break, so that's when the silly
• 36:11
  season will be 'cause there's, like, a month between Hungary and the Dutch GP.
• 36:18
  Believe that one.
• 36:18
  Yeah, 'cause they take August off, right?
• 36:21
  Yeah.
• 36:22
  So it's gonna be a busy July, so I have lots of Formula One to talk
• 36:25
  about, and then we can talk about the silly season and everything else.
• 36:28
  All right, cool.
• 36:29
  I'll just say this.
• 36:29
  You're all for, like, jokingly, like, Alonso should hang it up,
• 36:33
  and Hamilton's washed up, and he should hang it up or whatever.
• 36:36
  I am always gonna be in the camp of go till you can't go no more.
• 36:40
  Be 85 years old, doing 110 in your Nissan Z- In your fucking Nissan convertible
• 36:44
  convertible.
• 36:46
  In your Nissan Fastima convertible.
• 36:48
  Fastima.
• 36:51
  Well, on that note, we'll pick this up next month with Austria.
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