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The Motorsport Brief - Randle’s ready & Doohan’s disappointment · Rusty's Garage

• 0:02
  A listener production.
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  Welcome to the Motorsport Brief.
• 0:06
  A look ahead to supercars in Tassie and cue that Miami Vice music as we debrief Formula One.
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  G'day everybody.
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  I love that show by the way.
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  It's Rusty here.
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  Welcome to the Shortcast.
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  Two interviews for you on this one radio style.
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  Shortly to Matt Hickey from the Daily Telegraph and news.com.au to talk Formula One.
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  But first we are going to go straight to the Apple Isle.
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  No mucking around today.
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  Round four of the Supercars Championship is on this weekend.
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  The Snowy River Caravans Super 440 at Simmons Plains.
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  Haven't had today's guest on for a little while, and I'm delighted to get him back on.
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  From Tickford Racing, driver of the Castrol Mustang, hello Thomas Randall.
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  Hello Rusty, how are you?
• 0:48
  Oh, I'm fantastic.
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  Hey, we are spending way too much time together.
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  You did a very good job on commentary last weekend at the Speed Series.
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  You did that in conjunction with a drive in the Mercedes-AMG GT3 as well.
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  Does that help or kind of require a bit of a reset when you get back in the supercar?
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  I'm a believer that miles have just got to be good, don't they?
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  Oh, they do.
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  Firstly, I don't think we spend enough time together as it is, frankly.
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  So I don't know where that's coming from.
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  Oh, no.
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  Now, look, that's the first time I've ever done double duties in that sense with doing the broadcast commitments and then also driving as well, which I think is quite unique.
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  And the way that the schedule kind of worked out...
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  with the GT World Challenge, the fact that we were racing at SMP under lights, the schedule actually worked out really well to be able to do both.
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  And we had a lot of fun on that Saturday night with the grid walk.
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  And the fact on that first race, the AM driver or the bronze driver starts.
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  So I don't jump in the car until halfway through.
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  So it was quite cool.
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  You letting me loose, you and the guys letting me loose with the mic and running amok on the grid and going and interviewing different drivers and stirring them up.
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  So that was quite fun.
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  But...
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  I really enjoyed it and it made for good TV, I thought, and I just have a lot of fun and it's such a cool thing to be part of that broadcast as well.
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  And not that I didn't respect anyone that does it because it's a hell of a job.
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  There's so much pressure involved in that, but being on the other side of that and just seeing what goes in and the production side of things, it's pretty impressive what you did.
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  whether it's you, Stubbsy, Kralsey, Isabella, do to make the show happen.
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  You've slotted in with these, mate, and you do both jobs, I think, incredibly well.
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  Can we preview Tassie and put the supercars hat on?
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  This is a great little bullring, this place.
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  Do you enjoy it?
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  Ninth in the standings at the moment, only two points off Anton Di Pasquale.
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  So it's kind of close in that battle as you head in too, isn't it?
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  It really is.
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  And this place has got so much history, just the state, Tasmania, so famous for, you know, holding the Australian Grand Prix back in the day at Longford.
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  And I think it's, like you said, a bullring and it resembles the shape of a pork chop, actually, this place.
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  And sometimes, you know, you can carry on like a pork chop around here.
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  It's got three braking zones, as we all know, and because it's so small and so tight, any little mistake can be very costly.
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  So yeah, we had really good form last year.
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  Cam and I are locking out the front row.
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  I got my pole position, my one and only pole position last year there.
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  Yeah, it's going to be a busy weekend.
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  The weather actually looks really good, so that's handy.
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  But one thing we really look for is which way the wind direction is.
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  And leading on to that is the slipstream in qualifying, because that could give you a tenth of a second, and a tenth around here could be six or seven spots.
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  Can we just delve into that in a preview sense a little deeper?
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  Firstly, tyres are going to be a talking point this weekend, and for fans, probably in a good way too, aren't they?
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  Yeah, I think so.
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  And if we wind the clock back around to New Zealand and Topor, the format there was the same as where we're about to go, except we've done us flip on the tyres.
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  So at New Zealand, we ran predominantly on the new 2025 soft and we did one race on the super soft.
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  But for this round, it's the opposite.
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  We do most of the running...
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  on the super soft and we do the one race on the soft so when we qualify for the soft race on saturday we won't have actually done any running on it that'll be the first time we actually do laps similar to what we did in new zealand so it's going to throw a spanner in the works but it's the same for everyone and i've been explaining to people that that ask about the format changes i think it's a really
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  good thing for the fans.
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  For us, it's harder work and the engineers, it's harder, but it just means that you can't copy and paste strategies from one race to the next because you're on a different tyre.
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  You don't know how that tyre is going to behave, handle or how it's going to degrade.
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  So that's where I think having the two compounds makes for more
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  exciting racing, if you like.
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  So, yeah, qualifying is going to be everything around Tassie and fingers crossed we can get that cast of my saying up the front.
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  Scott Sinclair said in a preview column this week on the Supercars website, and he's obviously there in a technical advisory kind of capacity to the broadcast nowadays, that getting a set-up there was always very difficult.
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  He found it hard for them to find the sort of secret source and that he, I think, almost described it like a place of three parts
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  and finding something that works well across all of those three parts is not easy.
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  Do you share that?
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  And will anything from that qualifying form for you last year help in 2025?
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  I would agree with that, with Scott's notes, because...
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  It is quite challenging the different sectors that we have at Simmons Plains.
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  For example, Turn 1 and 2, it's really the only right-hander we have on the track, but you also need that lateral support.
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  So you can sort of set the car up with what we call asymmetric cambers.
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  So the left rear is different to the right rear.
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  Predominantly, when we go racing in Australia, the cambers on both sides of the car, normally you put it in the same, but when you go to a track like Tassie, where it's
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  predominantly left-hand corners uh and you've only got one right-hander you would think okay maybe we can favor the car for left-handers to support the right side of the car but then on top of that the track goes up and down there's bumps you need to have really good braking and then you want to get the car off the corner well especially that hairpin it's the slowest corner we go to first gear and if you can't get the the turn and the drive off there that's just going to really hurt you down that back straight so yeah like scott said it's
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  It can be challenging to nail the setup, but I think because we're on predominantly the same tyre that we were on last year, I'd like to think that would help us with our setup and how we're going to sort of roll the cars out.
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  So we've just got to make the most of the practice sessions and then I think it's going to be everyone racing because chief stations are qualifying again like we saw last year.
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  And then on Sunday...
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  Sunday, longest race I think we've seen in Tasmania since 2019 and you can very easily go down a lap there with pit stops and so on can't you and you've talked about at the commencement of previewing things here about the effect of the slipstream down the back straight and how beneficial that can be.
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  Well, that's a really good point you raised, Rusty, about going a lap down.
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  I think you only have to be 20 seconds off the leader or something like that, or 15 seconds off the leader.
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  And when you pit, you will go a lap down.
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  And then that also plays a part on the leaders because if you pit, go a lap down, you might come out just in front of the leaders and then they've got to work out, are we going to pit or are we going to have to stay behind this car?
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  Traffic.
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  Yeah, correct.
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  Traffic's a big thing in the race and there's overcuts, there's undercuts.
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  There's not
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  a lot of Thai deck here relative to New Zealand.
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  So that's going to play a big part in what you do with strategy, whether you try and stay out with the clear air or you go early and see how you go.
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  But then, like you said, on those races on Saturday, do you take –
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  rear tyres, right tyres, three, four.
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  I think you'll be seeing a lot of different things happening on Saturday, which is really cool.
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  Busy little stretch too, because cars arrive back relatively late from New Zealand to get turned around for here.
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  Then you've got the big long haul over the Nullarbor to Perth.
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  Darwin's not all that far away either.
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  So in the mapping out of how this portion of the year goes, you've got to be a little bit careful, but at the same time, be as brave as you all have for those variety of winners we've enjoyed today.
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  so far in 2025.
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  Well, Rusty, I think it's trying to find the balance between how risky you go versus conservative and higher risk, higher reward.
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  But then also you can have dramas and challenges with that.
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  And a good point you touched on is that this year the cars went to New Zealand via sea freight and our cars only got back on Thursday last week.
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  So it's been a very busy journey.
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  period for the guys and and i think the trucks were packed monday so they only had sort of two and a half days with the cars and then like you touched on we get back from tassie and we go all the way over the nullabor to perth then there's a weekend off and go to darwin so it's there's a lot of a lot of travel i feel for dodge out truckie he's got a lot of a lot of miles to catch up on but uh he loves it and um yeah and
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  It'll be interesting to see what happens over the next few rounds, who can capitalise the most on this short stretch of racing.
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  He's a legend.
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  Now, quickly to finish here.
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  Firstly, spotted a little something on the V8 Sleuth website, which I loved.
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  The Piano, right?
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  This is an ABC series.
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  You have appeared there, and they encourage the people taking part to play in public spaces.
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  So tell people where you played and obviously go and try and go and find, um, the episode and watch it.
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  And there was some glowing comments from none other than Harry Connick Jr. Mate.
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  That's seriously cool.
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  It is.
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  I, um, yeah, it was, it was a great opportunity.
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  I, um,
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  I did it down at Southern Cross Station.
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  This was towards the end of last year.
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  I think it was after the Stand Down 500, actually.
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  I was a bit nervous, to be honest, because you are in a public space and they literally just put an upright piano in the middle of Southern Cross Station and...
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  Yeah, we sort of rolled in and I got to play on the piano.
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  And Amanda Keller is the host for the show, and she's absolutely gorgeous, you know.
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  She's got such a warm heart.
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  Great human being, yes.
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  Yeah, great human being.
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  And, yeah, that was really impressive.
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  And I haven't watched enough of the show yet.
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  All the episodes are actually...
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  on demand.
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  I sound like I work for the ABC here, but all the episodes are on demand on ABC.
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  I think I'm second episode, but I think it's actually getting shown this the same day or Sunday night of the Tasmania Super 440 on ABC.
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  But yeah, Harry Connick Jr. was pretty cool.
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  I had no idea.
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  that he was there until after the segment happened and we all sort of got together at the end of the episode, which you'll see, and he said some pretty cool things.
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  He said, man, you drive a race car and you play the piano?
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  Like, that's just so unfair.
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  Yeah, he was pretty cool, and he wants to try and get out to a race.
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  I have no idea how to organise that, but it would be pretty cool to get him out to a race at some point.
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  Hell yeah.
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  I won't spoil any more of it then.
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  Let people go and watch it for his assessment of you.
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  To finish, after the break, we're going to be talking a bit of Formula One with Matt Hickey from news.com.au.
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  Can I get a thought from you as we lead into that?
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  I mean, obviously, Oscar Piastri on fire at the moment.
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  Tough week for Jack Doohan in the same breath.
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  I mean, you're someone who walked a bit of the European path for a while.
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  And I know you still follow it very closely.
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  Well, firstly on Oscar, I mean, he's just unbelievable, isn't he?
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  What a talent.
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  I kind of envy how cool, calm and collected he is.
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  And you just don't see him make a mistake, which is absolutely incredible.
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  And the way that he raced Max, I mean, just look at the way he raced Max versus the way Lando raced Max.
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  I mean, he just studied Max very carefully and he managed to get it done in such a
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  quick and easy way relative to Lando.
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  And, I mean, he is racing a four-time world champion as well.
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  So I think, yeah, look out.
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  I'm tossing up whether I buy some tickets to Abu Dhabi already going and watching him.
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  I think there'll be a lot of Aussies doing that.
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  But, yeah, parallel to that with Jack Doohan, I mean...
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  F1 at the moment is just so brutal with rookies.
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  Personally, I think he deserved longer in the seat and he just out-qualified Gasly for the Grand Prix in Miami.
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  And personally, I don't think he had anywhere to go at turn one and it was just an unfortunate DNF.
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  And that whole team at the moment, I don't know what's going on at Endstone because they've...
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  Oli Oates has now resigned, who was basically running Alpine.
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  You've got Flavio Briatore's in there.
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  And now, frankly, Colapinto's stepped up or they've done a driver swap.
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  And, yeah, I'm not sure if I'd want to be in that team at the moment.
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  No, I agree.
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  It's all going on over there.
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  Beautifully put, mate.
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  Hey, we're going to let you go now.
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  Have a fantastic weekend in Tassie.
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  I know the natural thing in the media is to try and bring up what transpired last year.
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  The one thing I know about you from having conversations off the track, you put that behind you very, very quickly and you're all eyes forward.
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  Go well there at Simmons Plains this weekend and thanks for coming back on the podcast.
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  You're welcome.
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  Thanks for having me, Rusty.
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  Appreciate it.
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  A quick break on this edition of the Motorsport Brief.
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  When we come back from supercars at Simmons to some sun and fun in Miami and everything happening in the world of Formula One.
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  That's next.
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  You're listening to Rusty's Garage.
• 13:50
  For this ep of The Shorty, we have two interviews for you.
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  Before the break, a pre-brief with supercars driver Thomas Randall from Tasmania.
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  And for this second part, it's a debrief on F1 after round six of 24 for the season.
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  For the convo, we're joined by Matt Hickey from The Daily Telegraph and News Mastheads.
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  It's his first time on the pod, but he brings a
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  proper love of formula one to the mic hello mate thank you for coming on absolute pleasure to be on huge huge honor and a bit going on in the world of motorsport at the moment as well bit going on is an understatement can we you know begin this with a kind of broad overview about the way the australian public has reacted to this not just because of drive to survive but i mean i think oscar was third page of the daily telly the other day i mean there's real thirst beyond the sphere of motorsport for what he's doing at the moment isn't there
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  Yeah, there certainly is.
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  You look at a guy like Oscar Piastri, maybe doesn't quite have the big personality that a Daniel Ricciardo has, but people have really grown to love him.
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  And I think it's the humility, the calmness.
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  And what's not to love when you've got a guy who, let's be honest, in the most recent race, outsmarted one of...
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  Probably the greatest drivers of all time will go down in Max Verstappen to win that race.
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  So people are loving Oscar.
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  They're loving his calmness and his ability to just get the job done.
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  And he never seems to get flustered.
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  Can I expand on just what you've spoken about there?
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  And that is the reaction that Max Verstappen is having to Oscar Piastri.
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  So on more than one occasion now, we've seen Oscar attack, pass, hold his ground and...
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  And it's not as though Max doesn't put up a fight.
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  He puts up a hell of a fight.
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  But there is something in this here where he realises the kind of stone-cold hard player that Oscar is.
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  And there's a bit of respect in that.
• 15:41
  And I actually feel, in asking you this question, Matt, that Lando is having a tougher time getting into that space, even though he and Max have been friends for a long time.
• 15:51
  Yeah.
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  Well, we saw it on turn one, didn't we, with Lando, where he probably got a little over-eager knowing even though he had the better car.
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  And that's what a lot of people will raise when you put that question forward to us, is the fact that, oh, well, McLaren's got the better car, so he probably should pass Max anyway.
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  But let's be honest, Max has beaten a lot of people in a worse car than those that he's beaten.
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  And this time, Oscar, again, it's that calmness.
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  And he's spoken about it himself.
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  He doesn't really know where it comes from, Oscar Piastri.
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  He just, it's a thing that he's got.
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  winning championships in F3 and F2 set yourself up so well.
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  And again, as you said, he's just outsmarting him at the moment, which is a remarkable thing to say for a guy in his third F1 season.
• 16:34
  The move in conjunction with Mark Webber when they ultimately went Alpine to McLaren is a masterstroke.
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  I know we're three years effectively into that now, but I'm highlighting that because of the dramas that Alpine is now
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  Going through, I mean, we've seen Oliver Oakes walk away this week.
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  Now the move that Jack Doohan will go back to a reserve role and Franco Colopinto will come in.
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  What do you make of all that?
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  Yeah, it's remarkable, isn't it?
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  And it's funny, a lot of people are actually resurfacing Oscar Piastri's tweet at the time, which is at the F1.
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  world of blaze where he said this is actually incorrect i'm not doing this and it is a master stroke i just feel so sorry for jack doing and i think even without the green and gold colored glasses that that we may have on i think the rest of the f1 world goes geez this guy was a little bit hard done by wasn't you look at
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  Really, from the outset, even before the very first race in Australia, there was already talks of him being replaced.
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  Now it's happened.
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  And now Alpine have also thrown out this, oh, well, it's not a permanent move for Colopinto.
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  He's only got five races and then will reassess, which I think is their way maybe of trying to save some face, a little bit of a PR stunt on that front.
• 17:43
  I think if you compare the results too with Jack and Oscar Piastri, yes, okay, there's a couple of numbers that are certainly stronger in Pierre's favour.
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  Thomas Randall was with us just before the break.
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  I mean, he talked about the fact that Jack had outqualified Pierre for the first time.
• 17:58
  You know, there were glimpses there, and I just feel that the game is so tough now.
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  The rookies are not given...
• 18:06
  a lot of time to prove themselves, particularly when the reality is the ingredients and the framework there at Alpine were not right for that.
• 18:15
  Yeah, exactly.
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  And people will look at some of his results post-race without actually watching the race themselves and go, oh, okay, well, he had another DNF, he had another crash.
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  But you look at even the most recent race, Turn 1 incident, not...
• 18:27
  Not a lot he could have done in that situation that he was put in.
• 18:31
  And I think this season has been a big reminder of the cutthroat nature of Formula One.
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  You look at Liam Lawson, for instance.
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  Now, many would also agree that he probably wasn't given a fair enough crack.
• 18:41
  People have to remember that these cars are all set up very differently from team to team.
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  And it will take people a little while to get into it.
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  But if they're not given the chance, then we never get to see potentially where they could end up.
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  Does Ferrari, I think I saw someone suggest somewhere today that maybe they should start focusing on 2026, the new regulations, a new car coming in and so on.
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  I mean, it is such a shame to think that that might be the move on the chessboard that they begin to look at.
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  And we're only, what are we, six races in?
• 19:14
  Yeah, it's the perennial discussion, right, when you've got new regulations coming in is ridiculous.
• 19:18
  What now are the teams who really, when you look at the battle at the top, who are actually in and amongst it?
• 19:25
  We heard Lewis Hamilton's frustrations recently as well with, I think, some of the sassiest team radio that I might have ever heard in the history of Formula One.
• 19:34
  And it is a shame because that driver pairing, the iconic red car, of course...
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  It's leading that way.
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  When you look at whether they're fourth in the standings, it doesn't look like they're going to get close to McLaren, Mercedes and Red Bull on a consistent basis.
• 19:49
  We might see a race here or there.
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  So you could have a spot on view of that in terms of looking ahead because as we all know, new regulations come in and the game changes once again.
• 19:59
  Max is unbelievable, what he does with that car.
• 20:02
  One lap pace of the Red Bull is still very, very handy.
• 20:06
  We've seen that in qualifying on more than one occasion now, but it is as though he's starting to find it tougher to fight with one arm behind his back when the races play out.
• 20:15
  Yeah, certainly.
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  That race pace has been huge for McLaren, that consistency across the entirety of a race.
• 20:21
  And I think now we're actually seeing...
• 20:24
  just how good Max Verstappen is in terms of his driving talent because no longer do Red Bull have the best car on the grid.
• 20:32
  And in the past when they have, of course, his teammate, whether it would be Sergio or in the past Daniel Ricciardo, has been up there with him and fighting with him.
• 20:40
  Now that the car's not as good, we're just seeing how good the driver is because the gap between him and his teammate...
• 20:46
  whether it be Tsunoda or earlier Liam Lawson is lengthening.
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  But, I mean, he's always going to be up for the fight.
• 20:53
  Just whether he can actually stick with them in the papaya is another big question.
• 20:57
  The governing body is in an interesting phase at the moment, hearing that Carlos Sainz Sr. has thrown his name into the ring for consideration for the top job there of the FIA.
• 21:09
  I think there would be plenty of people that would welcome that.
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  Clearly, there is a lot of...
• 21:15
  unhappiness or things that aren't right at the moment in the governing body and a change I think by a lot of people would probably be welcomed if he was to you know fully go down that path Carlos.
• 21:28
  Yeah the concern I think for the FIA at the moment is losing the drivers at the moment and I think that the swearing, fining and banning played a pretty big role in that and that's certainly been that kind of PR story.
• 21:39
  that's got around and it seems a little bit over the top.
• 21:42
  I mean, we as F1 fans, we love to hear what's going on behind the wheel.
• 21:49
  Of course, you can't expect drivers not to react emotionally in the heat of the moment with what they're going through and what they're putting their bodies through.
• 21:56
  So I think that was a big misstep, even if it was maybe when you really put it down, not a massive thing in terms of the sport itself, but in terms of PR and fans and the drivers themselves, I think that was a misstep that potentially could come back to haunt them down.
• 22:11
  I got the read wrong.
• 22:12
  You're absolutely right.
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  To finish here...
• 22:14
  Daniel Ricciardo, we understand that he might have snuck into the paddock at Albert Park this year.
• 22:19
  He had his Enchante clothing brand in Chapel Street there in Melbourne and so on.
• 22:24
  He's been quiet in that whole post-driving period, if you will, which we...
• 22:32
  I'd love to see him maybe have a crack at a Le Mans 24-hour.
• 22:36
  Maybe someone could twist his arm for a Bathurst 1000.
• 22:38
  Do you think we'll see him behind the wheel of something again?
• 22:41
  Or has the page been closed and has he moved on?
• 22:46
  I think so.
• 22:47
  Somewhere along the line, we will see him behind the wheel of something again.
• 22:50
  When that is, is the very big question.
• 22:52
  He's obviously very happy with his, you know, he's got his wine out now as well and his clothing line and he seems to be, you know, loving life.
• 22:59
  We see every now and again some social media videos pop up of Danny Rick just loving his life, which I really love to see because those last few years when he was under so much scrutiny and copping so much heat, he deserves probably to let some steam off and go out and enjoy himself away from the public eye.
• 23:16
  I do think, though, with all of these drivers, they do get the itch again.
• 23:20
  Obviously, we'd love to see him at something like Bathurst.
• 23:22
  Imagine the crowd's going nuts for Daniel Ricciardo there.
• 23:25
  We might see him over in the States.
• 23:26
  We know he's affinity for NASCAR and things like that.
• 23:28
  So I think we will see him, but when that is, is the big question.
• 23:32
  awesome insights by you we would love to get you back on the pot at some stage before we let you go let people know where they can read some of your columns and and so on yeah so head to codesports.com.au and of course all the master heads across news corp as well herald sun daily telly wherever you are career mail so thanks for having me on rusty massive pleasure
• 23:50
  Incidentally, Sir Lewis Hamilton and Aussie motocross sensation Jet Lawrence both represented the sport superbly at the Met Gala this week too.
• 23:59
  That is it for today.
• 24:01
  Supercars from Tassie this weekend.
• 24:02
  You can catch that on Fox and Sky Sports for those of you listening in New Zealand.
• 24:06
  MotoGP at Le Mans in France.
• 24:09
  F1 next weekend in Italy at Imola.
• 24:12
  WRC is in Portugal at the same time.
• 24:14
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• 24:17
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• 24:18
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