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Lewis Hamilton to Ferrari: A New Era or a Risky Gamble? · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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  As part of Ferrari Fridays, William Ross from the Exotic Car Marketplace
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  Hello, everyone.
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  I'm your host, William Ross, and for Ferrari Friday this week, we're not
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  actually going to talk about cars, per se.
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  We are going to talk about the blockbuster news of Lewis Hamilton coming to Ferrari,
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  going to Ferrari in 2025 in Formula One.
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  So I'm sure a lot of you guys out there that listen to the channel
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  or are fans of Ferrari, you know, also are fans of Formula One.
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  Now, Grant, I know it's not everyone's cup of tea and I know people like lately have
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  kind of been, um, I say losing interest.
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  Oh, Max Verstappen is just, you know, it's all this Max Verstappen.
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  Well, obviously these people must be new to watching F1 because
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  this is how the cycle works in F1.
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  You have your dominant teams, you have your dominant guy.
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  You know what?
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  It's the best car wins.
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  That's the big thing about Formula 1.
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  It's about the best car.
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  Yeah, best driver helps as well, but the best car is going
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  to win over everything else.
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  And the past few years, obviously the Adrian Newey design red
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  bull has been the dominant car.
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  Now I'm not going to take any ways from anything away from Max.
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  We're stopping.
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  But prior to that.
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  It was Lewis Hamilton that won six in a row, seven in a row, six or
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  seven or whatever the heck it was, um, with Nico Rosberg, you know, kind
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  of dropped himself in there the one years of 2016 that he won, uh, and
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  then just abruptly retired because he had enough of all the mental games
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  and whatnot and he made his, you know, multimillion dollars and stuff like that.
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  So he didn't need to really drive anymore.
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  So he got done, which was kind of an interesting move and good for him.
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  Go out on top.
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  But obviously then prior to Lewis Hamilton, you know, we had a spattering
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  here and there, but then you had Michael Schumacher was dominant.
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  Um, you know, so he had consecutive five consecutive years.
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  It was, was it 2000 or 2001 to 2005?
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  I believe it was, uh, that he won the championship and for our
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  one, the constructor champions.
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  So, you know, Michael came on to Ferrari, took him a few years to get things right.
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  But, you know, they also brought on Ross bronze on thought.
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  You know, they had the super team.
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  I guess you could say that Ferrari.
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  In the early 2000s late 90s early 2000s, you know and create a dominant
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  car and that's what it kind of takes And that's what red bull has now So but
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  anyways ferrari's been kind of chipping knocking at the door But you know,
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  they've been playing second fiddle to red bull and it's also subsequently
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  mercedes So like last year, you know ferrari finished third behind mercedes
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  and then obviously red bull So far he's got some catching up to do so.
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  It's going to be really interesting to see Uh, if anyone's been watching or paying
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  attention, Ferrari just dropped video on the new SF24, uh, and so it looks sweet.
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  I mean, it looks like the other cars, everyone seems to be
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  following Red Bull's design.
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  Um, I mean, obviously regulation safety is, plays a major, huge
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  role in the design of these cars.
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  And, you know, they have to work within the regulations, but.
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  What always kind of kills me is when you look at these cars as these designers,
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  no one really, I guess, say things outside the box in regards to design.
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  Now I give kudos to Mercedes.
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  They gave it a shot with that zero pod design and they tried something
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  completely different, didn't work.
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  So they had to revert back to like the design pretty much everyone else had.
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  But I was, I was cool.
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  It was cool to see that because, Hey.
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  Outside the box.
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  Let's try something different.
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  Let's not do what everyone else is doing.
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  I mean think back to who was it Was it Benetton did the the
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  raised nose back there in the 90s?
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  You know, everyone's like what the heck is that?
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  You know, everyone had the what the can I know but everyone had the nose went
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  down to the ground I'm sorry, you know like the late 80s early 90s produced some
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  of the most Gorgeous F1 cars of all time barring like say the 1960s, um, but you
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  know, eighties, you know, uh, seventies and eighties, they had some great ones,
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  but man, the late eighties, mid early nineties, just some gorgeous cars.
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  Uh, I wasn't a big fan of those raised nose design that lasted for so long.
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  They had some really wacky things.
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  And again, it was all about the rules and regulations and
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  how those things got designed.
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  So, and there were, there were, it's about aerodynamics.
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  You know, it's about downforce on that car.
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  So obviously you got to have a slippery car.
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  You got to try and have least amount of drag, but you also need
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  downforce on specific tracks.
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  And, you know, you'll see it where a lot of the cars, they're good on
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  one track, terrible on the other.
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  You know, it's, it's a, you know, obviously, you know, a home run.
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  If someone can build a car, i.
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  e.
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  Adrian Newey, that actually is good on all tracks.
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  Now, I shouldn't say it's going to dominate every single track, but,
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  you know, it's going to pretty much do very, very well on every track.
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  You know, you're going to have some, you know, where your
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  competitors are closer than others.
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  Uh, but, you know, I think Ferrari had those issues.
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  Last year, I know they pulled out Carlos Sainz, you know, uh,
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  pulled out that one win last year for Ferrari, which was awesome.
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  And speaking of Carlos Sainz, that is who Lewis Hamilton's
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  seat is he is taking, is Mr.
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  Carlos Sainz.
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  Now, I'm a big Carlos Sainz fan.
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  I like him.
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  You know, he goes about his business, doesn't play games,
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  you know, everything like that.
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  He's got kind of a personality.
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  Um, but you know, I like him and I, you know, I love his old man.
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  His old man's phenomenal when you know, when the best rally drivers of all time.
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  And if you kind of keep an eye on him now, he's dominating the car rally.
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  Uh, he's doing some other things, but you know, um, it's going to be interesting to
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  see where Carlos signs goes now, obviously the scuttlebutt and rumors or that is,
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  you know, he's going to go over to the Audi team when they kind of show up.
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  Uh, I believe they're supposed to be showing up next year, you know,
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  taking over for the Sauber team, um, as the Audi team, or I don't know if
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  it's going to be 2026 when the new engine regs and everything comes in.
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  So I'm not sure, but the rumor was, has it that he was going over there and
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  I'll potentially, you know, make sure marker's name was mixed in there, whatnot.
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  So I don't know.
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  It's going to be kind of interesting to see, but he he'll end up somewhere.
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  Um, obviously there's a lot of contracts that are up after 2024.
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  Now you had the big guys already signed.
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  No, obviously, um, Max Verstappen signed.
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  You know, you got, well, the Lewis is going now to Ferrari.
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  Uh, Charles Leclerc, he, you know, he's signed up.
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  So, but you're gonna have a lot of open seats like that.
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  You know, obviously like Daniel Ricciardo supposedly going
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  back to Red Bull, whatnot.
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  So I don't know.
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  We'll see, but let's get back to Lewis Hamilton and him going to Ferrari.
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  Now.
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  This is kind of an interesting, I guess, scenario because he'll be 40 years old.
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  Now, obviously this day and age, I was like, Oh, 40 years old, especially way
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  back in the day that was about, you know.
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  The guys weren't really hitting their prime and doing actually serious
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  racing until their 30s, early 40s.
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  So, I mean, it was nothing new back then, but you know, obviously
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  the big wave was all these young guys in, in their early 20s.
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  Um, obviously then you had the teens, you know, with Max Verstappen being 17
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  when he made his debut, which was just like, everyone's like, Oh, that's a
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  big mistake everybody blah, blah, blah.
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  But Red Bull stuck with them and look what they got now.
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  Now he's a multi world champion.
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  But, you know, I think, uh, Fernando Alonso was kind of able to.
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  Change that stigma in regards to, you know, these guys in their forties being
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  able to still race Obviously Fernando's a very very unique specimen and individual
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  in regards to his talent Unfortunately for him, you know, he always wrong place
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  wrong car wrong time, you know It's sad because he should have more than two world
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  championship He should have five or six, but he always made the wrong move Was
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  it just being too antsy not waiting now?
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  I will give him credit, you know, he stuck around with McLaren for way too long Back
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  there was a 20s 15 whatever it was, you know, and especially when they're going
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  to the growing pains with Honda but you know He was kind of loyal to them even
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  though he had a kind of a falling out back in, you know, many years prior to that.
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  But, you know, kudos to him.
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  But then obviously he took some time off.
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  Took a sabbatical race, 8,500 caught.
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  I wish he would've won the Indy 500 that year.
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  Too bad his engine blew up.
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  That would've been so awesome.
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  But, um, you know, then came back obviously with Aston Martin.
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  So now Fernando's a little bit older by a few years than Lewis, but he's
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  proving that a gentleman, driver.
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  of that age is still extremely capable of producing results.
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  Obviously, Fernando outscored his teammate Lance Stroll, i.
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  e.
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  the son of the owner of the team.
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  Uh, now I'll give Kuda, I don't, I have nothing against Lance Stroll.
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  I think he can drive.
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  He did very well in sub carry, got up there.
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  Yeah.
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  Hey, but who doesn't, you know, a majority of these guys had
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  to pay the way to get up there.
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  Hey, and so what, yeah, his dad owns a team and he owns Aston Martin basically.
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  So, but.
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  You know what?
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  I think the kid can drive, you know, he's had his moments, you know, um, you
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  know, he's won a pole position, whatnot, you know, he's not, you know, he's
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  had his few podium finishes, but you know, I just think it gets a bad rap.
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  You know, there's a lot of weight on his shoulder, you know, everyone just kind
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  of knocks on them because I don't know if they're jealous because, hey, you know,
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  who wouldn't want to have, you know, a dad that's a multi billionaire, uh, and you
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  have access to all that stuff and you can pretty much go race wherever you want it.
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  So, but, you know, anyway, so Fernando came in and kind of, not
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  say walked all over Lance, but he pretty much did, you know, outscored
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  him very, very by a very wide margin.
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  So I think that kind of opened up the eyes.
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  Now, obviously Lewis Hamilton has the CV.
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  In regards to being, you know, a seven time world champion, i.
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  e.
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  someone could say he should be eight because of that fiasco a few
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  years back, uh, in, uh, Abu Dhabi or wherever that final thing is.
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  Uh, F1 races and they had that last lap restart.
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  Now I will say I was rooting for Max.
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  I thought I was screaming at the TV, watching that finale.
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  That was like, that was probably one of the greatest things I've ever seen in F1.
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  Uh, basically, you know, one lap last lap dash for the world championship.
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  And you know, Max was on newer tires and obviously he passed Max and then
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  he goes to win the world championship, you know, and, but then, you know,
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  the race director or whatever his name was, he obviously gets canned and
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  everything, blah, blah, blah, because.
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  You know, that wasn't supposed to happen, but what's done is done.
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  But anyways, so, I think, you know, obviously, Fernando Alonso
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  is paving the way for these older guys to stay in the sport.
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  And again, like I said, for, uh, Louis has got the CV.
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  He's a seven time world champion.
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  And obviously, he's proved it, you know, driving the Mercedes.
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  Now, obviously, Mercedes has been very, you know, I don't
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  want to say not competitive.
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  They've been competitive, you know, but they're just, you know,
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  I want to say best of the rest.
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  I guess you could say, um, but you know, they have the technical where with all,
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  um, obviously, as you can see, they nailed the first with the hybrid era
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  in regards to the 2014 to was a 20, 20, 19, 2020, whatever it was, um, you know,
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  then obviously, you know, when, you know, Max came in and then the regulations
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  changed to the new downforce regulations where they also had the under trays, uh,
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  in, um, They changed up the car design.
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  They kind of messed up.
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  So, obviously, again, it just kind of shows you it's a hit or miss situation.
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  But, he drove those cars very well.
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  He was, you know, showed, you know, he's still very fast.
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  Still can drive a car.
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  There's no doubt about that.
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  He's, uh, you know, a very physically fit person.
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  You know, he's a vegan.
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  Um, so it's not like he's, you know, well, these guys at that age,
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  all the drivers, you know, have their nutritionists and whatnot.
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  They're not out partying or anything like that.
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  Back in the day, you know, James Hunt, my hero, the way he just, you know, you
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  know, sex, the breakfast of champions.
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  That's probably one of the greatest, you know, uh, patches you can get
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  on your race suit of all time.
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  But, um, you know, so anyways, it's shown that these guys can get, you know, still
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  hang with the youngsters and still drive.
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  And again, obviously you gotta have the car.
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  But, you know, and obviously you gotta be physically fit to be
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  able to train and do that stuff.
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  But, it's going to be interesting to see, one, this year, because Toto, knowing that
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  Lewis is leaving, so are they just gonna put everything behind George Russell?
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  Or are they still gonna try and play nice with, you know, Lewis?
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  You know Lewis will bring A very, very structured and, you know,
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  methodical, you know, hey, work ethic.
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  He's going to do what he needs to do to win races or try and win races.
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  Um, he's going to hammer it out.
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  But it's going to be kind of interesting to see what
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  progresses throughout the year.
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  Because as anyone that watches Formula One, you know, say you got your number one
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  drivers, you got your number two drivers.
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  And even though Mercedes wouldn't admit it, obviously
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  Lewis was always the number one.
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  George Russell is a very, very fast driver.
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  So, but, so it's going to be interesting to see what happens for
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  this season, this upcoming season in regards to what Mercedes does
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  and how they get behind Lewis.
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  Knowing the fact that the end of the season, he's going over to one
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  of their, you know, you got your top three, it's Ferrari, Mercedes,
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  Red Bull, there's your contenders.
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  So, obviously they don't want to divulge, they're not going to give
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  away, you know, they just don't want to give stuff away, and I've seen
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  that, you know, there's always You know, anyway, it was very strange.
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  Normally you wouldn't see this announcement or done till mid season
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  till around June, July is when you start really, you know, everyone hates
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  signs, new contracts or whatnot, but this was done even before this season
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  started, which I found was absolutely astonishing that they did this so early.
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  So, you know, and cause having the whole season to go, I mean, Lewis
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  has got to probably think in his mind that this season is just a throwaway.
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  Um, You know, I mean, I don't know.
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  It'll be seen unless the Mercedes comes out of the box.
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  It's just faster as all get out, you know, and which then it'll be interesting
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  because then obviously him and George will be going at it, but so I don't know.
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  I'm always excited for when the season starts, you know, your first about six
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  to eight races kind of really kind of can dictate where this how the seasonal look.
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  So it's gonna be interesting to see.
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  I think now that these teams have got a few seasons under their belt.
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  Um, and with this new design, everything like that and how the downforce works
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  now, Um, you know, so it's, it'll be interesting to see how this plays out,
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  but Lewis's aspect of it is even more interesting because what do you do,
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  obviously, say you're on track, you're racing against, you know, the guys in the
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  Ferrari in red, you know, you got to give them some leeway, how hard you're going
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  to race them, what are you going to do?
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  You know, I mean, it's in your mind think, I'm going to go,
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  you know, I'm going to work with these guys in this team next year.
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  I mean, I don't want to punt this guy off the track.
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  So it's going to be very, very interesting to see how this plays out this season
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  with Lewis and the Ferrari guys.
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  Cause they're always seem to be battling it out.
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  Um, so obviously, you know, divulging secrets like that.
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  So what's he going to take over?
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  But kind of going back to what I was trying to get to is, you know, if you
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  want, you know, read all the, you know, stuff online, you know, and when, you
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  know, you got all your pundits out there, they're always going to say this, say
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  that, whatnot, but, you know, saying.
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  You know that all there's these stipulations put in place about
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  no poaching anti poaching whatnot.
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  You know Lewis can't take you know anybody that I said I mean come on
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  money talks people buy out, you know, I always love how f1 works They say oh
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  they put that person on gardening leave, you know, they're still getting paid.
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  They're just you know out there doing nothing which Who wouldn't love that?
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  Hey, I'm, yeah, I'm still making what I made, but yeah, I'm just, obviously I'm
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  doing some gardening as they would say.
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  But, um, so it'll be curious to see if Ferrari's able to poach any of the
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  Mercedes engineers, any other team members over there and bring them over.
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  Um, you know, and try and obviously move Ferrari forward because.
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  Frye hasn't won the world championship since 2007 and that was with Kimi
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  Räikkönen and then they won the last Constructors 2008 with the
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  last run of the Constructors.
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  So, it's been a long time and the people of Marinello, fire is under their ass.
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  You know, so, you know, we got Fred Vasseur, you know, running the team.
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  So, some thought, you know, he might come in and really shake it up or what not.
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  So, I don't know, you know, obviously last year was his first year.
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  So, now he knows the ropes, he knows how to operate.
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  But the unfortunate thing is with Ferrari, it's very political how everything is run.
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  You know, they're the only construction that builds their
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  own car and their own engine.
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  So, I mean, they're just, it's a lot of politicking, a lot of BS that goes
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  on in Ferrari, which I wish they would just kind of get rid of that crap.
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  I don't know if it's just the Italian way, it's the way Italians always do stuff.
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  I don't know, but I think it really can, can hinder their progress.
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  I think that's why when, you know, Michael came in, Ross Brawn, you had
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  Jean Todt, you know, you had a, a German.
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  An Englishman and a Frenchman come in and, you know, no Italian connections, whatnot.
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  I think they're really able to turn things around.
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  Just, hey, organizationally wise, just how things done.
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  Hey, the top down structure, you know, so no favorites, anything like that.
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  I mean, obviously, you know, starting out, it was Eddie Irvine, which is why
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  I was always a big fan of Eddie Irvine.
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  Uh, but then obviously Rubens came in, you know, playing second
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  fiddle, but, you know, Rubens got to win some races and whatnot.
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  Uh, then, you know, obviously, you know, you had your other
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  transitions, but anyways.
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  Um, it's um, this season is gonna be interesting because I think Ferrari's
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  got a lot to prove this year.
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  Um, I think they need to make a big jump.
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  You know, I only live, you know, obviously, thank God, well, they're
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  the only other team to win a race last year besides Red Bull, so.
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  Um, am I right with that?
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  I'm pretty sure, right?
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  I can't remember.
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  My memory's terrible.
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  Um, so, it'll be interesting to see how they step their game up.
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  And like I said, obviously the first six to eight races really
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  dictate and will tell you and show you how the season's gonna go.
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  Um, and what these people were able to produce car wise.
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  No, the Skoda Butters AlphaTauri, i.
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  e.
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  now V, you know, uh, RBV's the cash app team.
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  These names are horrible.
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  Um, you know, I suppose they're making a big jump because they're actually, you
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  know, sharing more of their componentry and whatnot, technological, yada, yada
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  with Red Bull, the parent, you know, the, the, the growing up team, so to speak.
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  Now, there's a fine line in regards rules and regulations regarding what
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  you can share and what you're not allowed to share all that kind of stuff.
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  Because I obviously look at Haas and how Haas works with Ferrari.
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  So, you know, Haas is, you know, model, you know, they built by basically by.
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  As much as they're allowed to off the shelf chassis from
• 19:18
  Dallara motors from Ferrari.
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  They buy a lot of stuff from Ferrari parts wise Obviously produce their own
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  so but you know, I wish they would just you know Andretti would go in there
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  and Haas would sell it to them or at least you know Buy out 50 percent or
• 19:33
  75 percent as if that's a that's a whole different whole different episode
• 19:38
  whole different episode But anyways back to the Lewis going to Ferrari.
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  So When Lewis gets over to Ferrari, he's going to be, you know, in his
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  forties, um, you know, and he's obviously on a multi year contract.
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  So it's not like a one, all right, we got an option and whatnot.
• 19:52
  And I think that was him, but the amount of money they are paying this
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  guy is obscene, just absolutely obscene.
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  So I don't know if that's what made him move or what, but I mean, obviously, you
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  know, you talk to all these drivers and hey, it's always like the goal is or what
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  the dream is always to drive Ferrari.
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  I want to drive for Maranello, you know.
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  And it's just, it's an experience like none other.
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  I mean, I got, I, you know, could imagine, imagine the accesses of
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  the cars you can get access to and the driving and everything you do
• 20:19
  on the extracurricular sides and just sponsorship, blah, blah, blah.
• 20:21
  I mean, that's just be phenomenal and awesome itself.
• 20:23
  But, um, for the 400, basically just under 450 million, something like that.
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  I mean, it was just obscene amount of money that they're throwing at this guy.
• 20:35
  Like I, and I don't, I want to say that's not all for our pain.
• 20:38
  I think that's what's all the other subsequent stuff like that.
• 20:40
  But.
• 20:41
  The number I saw that was opposite I've seen it for what his duration there was
• 20:45
  contract is but with all those other stuff It's like almost, you know, it's close
• 20:49
  to half a billion dollars now How much he's getting salarized drive the car.
• 20:55
  I don't know I mean, I know like max is up there in the 40 some million
• 20:59
  dollar range a year So, I mean, I'm assuming losers gonna be at least
• 21:02
  that so if not more But then you got all the extracurriculars and a lot of
• 21:06
  back end stuff Um, so I don't know.
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  I mean, that's just an obscene amount of money.
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  Get paid to drive a car.
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  I mean, God bless him.
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  Have at it, you know, and you know, you're set for life after that.
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  And you're still a young man.
• 21:18
  Well, I mean, you know, he's in his forties, but I mean, it's just phenomenal.
• 21:22
  I mean, it's unbelievable.
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  Good for him.
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  Hey, you can get it.
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  Go get it.
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  So, but again, how much motivations will be there?
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  You know, you know, I'm hope that he gets there and you
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  know, it's, Tooling and whatnot.
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  It reenergizes him.
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  He comes out, man, just swinging, you know, he's got the momentum
• 21:43
  Obviously, you know the car has got to be underneath him to be able to
• 21:46
  do it But again, so what do they do?
• 21:48
  You know, obviously they build a car They try and build it also to
• 21:51
  the characteristics of the driver.
• 21:52
  You know, got some guys like understeer So I'm like oversteer,
• 21:55
  you know, so and some guys like to you know, turn in sharps or so I mean
• 21:59
  There's all these different things.
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  So there's a way you build the car and set up wise and whatnot.
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  You can kind of, you know, shape it to how the driver likes it.
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  So when you're building up a new car and the guy's been there for me for a
• 22:10
  few years, I eat Charles Leclerc because that's obviously to be their guy.
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  Um, it's gonna be kind of built around him.
• 22:17
  So I was like, so what's the car going to be when he gets there in 2025?
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  Is it gonna behave what Charles Leclerc likes and how he likes to drive his car?
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  You know, or what?
• 22:25
  Is he gonna be able to handle that?
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  I mean, um, So I think that's gonna be other biggest thing is okay.
• 22:30
  He gets in there.
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  All right This is not gonna be till year two year three if he stays there,
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  you know that He gets a car underneath him that you know, he he likes I mean,
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  I don't know There's all these unknowns that you won't know until 2025 race one,
• 22:46
  you know, obviously testing and whatnot They do that doesn't tell you shit.
• 22:51
  You know what they sandbag it through everything.
• 22:52
  They're not going to show all their cards So I mean I always take that's the
• 22:57
  Preseason testing stuff where they go to Valencia or Barcelona or what the heck is
• 23:01
  in Spain, you know I always think that's a great assault because you're never gonna
• 23:05
  real see anyone's true potential because they're not going to show all their
• 23:07
  cards Well, especially the top teams.
• 23:09
  They're not going to show it because they're just not gonna
• 23:11
  let that fly this the back marker teams What mid level teams?
• 23:15
  Yeah, they could probably go out there in Hawes But again, you got
• 23:18
  a large portion of these guys, you know between who's in the middle
• 23:22
  there Then they got your drop off.
• 23:25
  You got your Williams and your Haas, you know, you got your back markers
• 23:28
  and everyone else is in the middle.
• 23:29
  Then you got Ferrari, Red Bull, Mercedes at the top.
• 23:32
  So, again, it's going to be an interesting season this year and how things play out.
• 23:38
  See what happens with Lewis and Mercedes.
• 23:40
  But, 2025, Lewis Hamilton at Ferrari.
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  I'm curious about what everyone's thoughts are.
• 23:47
  Make some comments, shoot some messages our way.
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  Tell me what you guys think about him going to Ferrari
• 23:52
  and seeing him in the red.
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  Um, I'm, I'm excited for it.
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  I think it's going to be a big change.
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  I don't know.
• 23:59
  Charles is going to be ready for it because I could be a situation
• 24:03
  where Lewis is going to overshadow Charles or say Charles, um, anything.
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  I'd like Charles to Claire.
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  I just think he's, you know, yes, he can drive a car, but you know, I
• 24:13
  just don't think he's got the mental wherewithal to win an F1 championship.
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  I just think he's, you know, doesn't have it.
• 24:20
  I mean, you've watched him race, whatnot.
• 24:21
  He has too many mental breaks, lapses, crashes, whatnot.
• 24:25
  Um, So, it'll be interesting to see.
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  So, let me know your guys thoughts.
• 24:31
  Let me know what you think about Lewis Hamilton going to Ferrari 2025.
• 24:35
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