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Podium Ceremony _ 24 Hours of Le Mans 2026 · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: The podium ceremony gets underway. This is going to be
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  Speaker 1: quite the spectacle. And if these images don't inspire you
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  Speaker 1: to book a ticket for Lamon twenty twenty seven, then
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what will.
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  Speaker 2: Dates are already out the twelve thirteenth of June. Haven't
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  Speaker 2: got the Formula one Calendra out yet, so we don't
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  Speaker 2: know what it's going to clash with.
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  Speaker 3: If it's going to.
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  Speaker 1: Clash at all, does not matter what it class.
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  Speaker 4: You are by far and away the superior events.
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  Speaker 2: But my most favorite Lamont is twenty and eleven.
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  Speaker 3: It was a great race on track. Did you like
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  Speaker 3: it or not? I can't remember.
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  Speaker 2: Rocky didn't like it when I spoke to him, unsurprisingly, Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I guess I liked it a bit.
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  Speaker 3: You did you two victory? I just just double checking.
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  Speaker 2: Rocky ended up destroying Mike rock and Feller that we
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  Speaker 2: had in the commentry box at FP three, destroyed his
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  Speaker 2: car entirely.
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  Speaker 3: Going towards Indianapolis.
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  Speaker 2: And it was great because after the race there was
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  Speaker 2: about a two hour gap.
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  Speaker 3: And then shasts everything calmed down the paddock.
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  Speaker 2: We had the Canadian Grand Prix, which was an epic
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  Speaker 2: Grand Prix jetson button taking that picture if you remember,
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  Speaker 2: and the celebrations continued late on into the evening around
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  Speaker 2: Sodansa and the camp site and that the Ultimate Motorsport Day.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that's what we did last year as well
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  Speaker 4: in the bar afterwards.
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  Speaker 3: This is true Canadian Grand.
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  Speaker 1: Prix was on, but for our specific British audience on
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  Speaker 1: TNT Sports and HBO Max, if you can't make it
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  Speaker 1: to Lamon, then maybe you can make it to Silverstone.
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  Speaker 1: The World Endurance Championship returns to the United Kingdom on
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  Speaker 1: April twenty fifth.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, nine round championship next year, more points on offer.
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  Speaker 2: But it crucially means there will be four races before
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  Speaker 2: the lamon twenty four hours if the calendar works out.
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  Speaker 2: There's been only two this year because Katar was canceled.
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  Speaker 2: There should have been three, but even more time Lena
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  Speaker 2: for Ford and McLaren to prepare in rating conditions before
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  Speaker 2: they come to the lam on twenty four hours.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. And if you think about how many teams are
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  Speaker 5: on the weccrid, a huge number of them come from
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  Speaker 5: the United Kingdom, so it isn't just a case of
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  Speaker 5: it's a race for the British teams like Aston and McLaren.
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  Speaker 5: This is a home race for so many teams out there,
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  Speaker 5: it's going to be pretty incredible. The only thing I
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  Speaker 5: say about April is the last time I did a
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  Speaker 5: race for in April at Silverstone. It's snowed in free
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  Speaker 5: practice three.
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  Speaker 2: It is cold English weather, could be could be twenty degrees.
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  Speaker 3: It could be.
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  Speaker 4: It's a lot of a lottery.
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  Speaker 2: You know that the English British Force will be out
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  Speaker 2: with McLaren and Ford making their debuts next year. There
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  Speaker 2: will be a lot of flags are fluttering. You can
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  Speaker 2: see how much it meant to Nick de Freeze. He
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  Speaker 2: had the perfect perfect face and expression for that big
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  Speaker 2: long inhales, a slight smile for what he's just achieved,
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  Speaker 2: and looking over that sea of Toyota.
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  Speaker 1: Flags and even telling the team no, no, no, don't
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  Speaker 1: celebrate just yet because they know what happened ten years
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  Speaker 1: ago at Kazugi Nakajima joining both of his crews on
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  Speaker 1: the podium and the president of the Automobile Club the LUESPA,
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  Speaker 1: if you're awarding a very well deserved third place trophy
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  Speaker 1: to the number eight crew that they will be back.
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  Speaker 2: For more next year for sure, He's twenty four hour
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  Speaker 2: trophies designed for the nineteen ninety three Lamark twenty four Hours.
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  Speaker 2: They got an upgrade then same design since then and
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  Speaker 2: the trophies.
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  Speaker 3: About one hundred of them are manufactured.
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  Speaker 2: In Morbion, which is in Brittany, about two hours away
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  Speaker 2: from here, the Gulf de Morbion, and they are made
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  Speaker 2: of bronze and plastic.
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  Speaker 3: And the original, the.
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  Speaker 2: Large one, doesn't go anywhere, that stays here unless you're
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  Speaker 2: a three time champion. It weighs over seventy kilos and
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  Speaker 2: that's why they at the end of the race, having
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  Speaker 2: done a bit of work with their arms, kind of
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  Speaker 2: struggle to lift it.
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  Speaker 1: They usually get all three drivers in the effort to
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  Speaker 1: lift the trophy and it will be Sir Mark Cavendish,
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  Speaker 1: the Manx Missile who has the honor of presenting the
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  Speaker 1: winning trophies to the number seven crew of Mike Conway,
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  Speaker 1: Community Kobyashi and Nick Defrees and taking the time to
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  Speaker 1: shake hands with.
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  Speaker 3: All of the drivers on the.
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  Speaker 2: Podium, giving having a go with the seventy kilo one.
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  Speaker 4: Not quite just yet.
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  Speaker 2: Because it Concagema, then picking up the trophy for Toya
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  Speaker 2: as a manufactures once upon a time in the cockpit
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  Speaker 2: and on the top step of the podium and his
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  Speaker 2: three drivers and his team principal alongside him.
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  Speaker 4: Those are the money shots, aren't they?
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  Speaker 1: The photographs that will adorn the walls of the workshops
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  Speaker 1: and become the phone lock screens that people remember.
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  Speaker 3: And then what did I say, just a.
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  Speaker 4: Little over twenty four hours ago?
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  Speaker 1: The people who have come here to line the stands there,
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  Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty thousand strong, will go home and
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  Speaker 1: tell the story of what they saw at them on
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  Speaker 1: the further trophies to be awarded for the Number seven
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  Speaker 1: crew then.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's the original Lamont trophy. Hand to
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  Speaker 2: the manufacture. Hence why I got handed over and taken
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  Speaker 2: straightaway back to the museum.
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  Speaker 1: They went on to put on some gloves and you know,
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  Speaker 1: clean their hands afterwards.
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  Speaker 2: Mister Lamar our very own Tom Christiansen, such a pleasure
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  Speaker 2: to have him in the Comedy Box.
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  Speaker 3: Oh Tom, he has had a lovely weekend. He's really
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  Speaker 3: really enjoyed his time.
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  Speaker 2: You could tell with every type, with every hit on
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  Speaker 2: screen and every visit to the Comedy Box from Wednesday
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  Speaker 2: through the Sunday. A hard working man is a huge
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  Speaker 2: amount of people who want to say hello to him.
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  Speaker 2: Wherever you go, he does not get an opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: walk freely, and he hands over the f i A
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  Speaker 2: medals medals for the Hypercar hyper Pole on Thursday evening
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  Speaker 2: and medals once again to the winning team.
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  Speaker 3: F i A coming up with this new.
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  Speaker 2: Idea when Mahami bin Salam took over as president, that
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  Speaker 2: medals should.
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  Speaker 1: Be awarded as well as you have the medals, you
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  Speaker 1: have the reads, you have the trophies, and don't have
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  Speaker 1: to get the Rolex that they all get to take
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  Speaker 1: home as well each individual driver that you would probably
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  Speaker 1: never take off.
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  Speaker 2: So important the watches, and here he comes with those
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  Speaker 2: roote watches. Of course, hard to keep a Rolex watch
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  Speaker 2: on when you've got more than one, and there will
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  Speaker 2: be a fair few watches in the cupboard of Tom
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  Speaker 2: Christiansen for instance.
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  Speaker 4: That's why we have two risks. Then for your second
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  Speaker 4: the one win.
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  Speaker 5: And that's why you also have friends so you can
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  Speaker 5: take their watches, take their watch, you know, you ask
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  Speaker 5: for them and then they say no.
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  Speaker 2: Lena is insinuating that perhaps she has a winners Lamore watch.
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  Speaker 3: He made.
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  Speaker 2: That's very cool because of course she's not just the winners.
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  Speaker 3: The podium, the full podium.
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  Speaker 2: I believe that get the watches, is it not, yes,
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  Speaker 2: which means that is eight watches Formoi kobe ashy eight
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  Speaker 2: times on the podium, but only once a victor after.
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  Speaker 3: You don't have eight risks. You're not an octopus.
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  Speaker 4: But we do have ankles. Maybe they're big enough to
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  Speaker 4: go on your ankles.
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  Speaker 1: I'd be I'd be wearing them as ear rings if
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  Speaker 1: I could, if I had that many romans.
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  Speaker 3: Now the moment for the big.
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  Speaker 1: One, yes, my John right, and the big celebration on
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  Speaker 1: the top step of the podium, the seventy kilo trophy.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to need all four of them, maybe even
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  Speaker 1: a bit of help from the mechanics as well.
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  Speaker 3: Even Bruno Vanderstick is now calling it the big one.
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  Speaker 2: Seventy kilos Hoisted above.
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  Speaker 3: The heads of our winning crew, the number seven.
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  Speaker 2: Toyota Racing come Ony Kobyashi, Mike Komwait and.
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  Speaker 3: Nick de Friese.
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  Speaker 2: Nix's first victory and that's why it is so special
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  Speaker 2: to him.
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  Speaker 3: The tears in the eyes of everybody on the podium.
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  Speaker 2: Even those that perhaps fiel Hard done by we haven'teen
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  Speaker 2: too many smiles from BMW on the left hand side,
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  Speaker 2: but they should be so proud such huge performances from
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  Speaker 2: Robin Frynes, from Rene Rash from fourth to first in
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  Speaker 2: the first couple of corners, and Kelvin Vandalinda, and of
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  Speaker 2: course the eighth crew of Sebastian bow Amy, of Brenda
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  Speaker 2: Hartley and Rio here a Cowra It was here a
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  Speaker 2: Cower who will go away from here with the lap
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  Speaker 2: record of a three twenty five zero four one lap
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  Speaker 2: record and hypercar.
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  Speaker 3: Of course.
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  Speaker 2: Weird one because Brendan Hartley had it on about three occasions.
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  Speaker 2: Here a Cower in that stint didn't have much pace,
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  Speaker 2: and then on the very last lap before his pit stop,
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  Speaker 2: banged that in three tenths faster and better than Sebastian Bowamy.
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  Speaker 3: Where did that come from?
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  Speaker 1: We've been smashing lap records all week in Hypercar and
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  Speaker 1: LMGT three. It's been a furiously fast races. These cars
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  Speaker 1: continued to develop. Still just a little bit of champagne
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  Speaker 1: left to be sprayed, the all important selfies to be taken,
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  Speaker 1: the fall podium photo with all nine drivers, and of
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  Speaker 1: course the mission man as well to the poor man
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  Speaker 1: in that suit.
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  Speaker 3: There isn't a man inside the Benda because that's Benda.
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  Speaker 3: Don't don't ruin the illusions.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, since Santa is real, ben.
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  Speaker 3: Don't ruin the illusion of the Bendam.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently the Bendom looks like tiles stapped up on each other.
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  Speaker 2: That's how he was originally presented one hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 2: years ago at the Paris.
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  Speaker 3: Auto Show.
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  Speaker 2: To help Michelin sell tires, and how the Michelin.
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  Speaker 4: Stars system came up as well.
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  Speaker 1: You would drive to the nice restaurants and the hotels
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  Speaker 1: on your Michelin tires.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, the Bendam hasn't aged one bit. He hasn't
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  Speaker 3: had a redesign.
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  Speaker 4: No, that's true.
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  Speaker 3: And he used to give me nightmares.
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  Speaker 4: As a kid because of Ghostbusters.
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  Speaker 2: No, because that's used to appear age five six at
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  Speaker 2: race tracks and used to be all friendly and he
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  Speaker 2: never had a grumpy face.
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  Speaker 3: And now Michelin, what was.
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  Speaker 2: The stat has equaled Dunlop as the most amount of
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  Speaker 2: or no beaten Dunlop with the most amount of victories.
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  Speaker 1: Here