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The Street Demon Strikes Again: Perez Wins in Saudi - 2023 Saudi Arabia Grand Prix Review · The Undercut Podcast

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Hello and welcome back to the Undercut Podcast. I'm one of your hosts Jesse Billington and as
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always I'm joined by the Shirley to my Temple Timo Albers-Dailey and the Olive to my Cocktail
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Ellie Mae Taylor. How are you both? I'm just dandy thank you Jesse. How about you? Not too bad,
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a little bit tired. It's been a fairly busy press day for Classic Card Weekly. Monday's always press
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day. It's always day after F1. It's always podcast day. It's a manic Monday like the bangles said.
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Ellie Mae, how are you? I'm good thank you. And of course we're back to review all the action from
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this week's Saudi Arabian Grand Prix but to help us through the relative chaos that seems to have
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spanned out across the weekend we have a guest, a friend of the show, it's Ellie Wilshaw. How are
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you this evening? I'm really great yes thank you very much. Thank you for inviting me on to your
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lovely show. Oh it's always a pleasure to have you here. You've always always come with some
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fantastic insights so more than happy to have you back and we'll launch straight into the world of
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Formula One and what's been going on in the past week and first on the list is a note on Louis
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Hamilton and Angela Cullen who have parted ways, the latter going off to Pastures New. Timo do you
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want to fill us in on this one? Well that was pretty much all there was to it to be honest because
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we don't know what the Pastures New are and we don't know quite the reason for the split. I mean
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there's rumours left right and centre from all the usual silly sources, cough the sun cough,
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but yeah I think it's you know in my mind it's one of those things it's like a Jedi and their
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apprentice. She's taught him everything she knows and she can't help him anymore so she's just going
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to go off and find the next big thing to try and sink her teeth into and I don't think that there's
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anything kind of suspicious going on there or anything that you've got to go in for there. I
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think it's just yeah one of those things. I mean there's always going to be some rumours circulating,
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I mean there's always been rumours about Louis and Angela as sort of a pairing regardless so it's
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there's there's been rumours, don't don't don't look surprised. I'm not a gossip, I wouldn't be
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doing those things. I wouldn't say that either but I'm simply reporting what other people have
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reported and simply saying that there have been sort of always unbased rumours but it seems that
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again she's a sort of sports physiotherapist, sports trainer, there are going to be almost
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certainly other sports that she'd like to work within the realms on so it's going to be
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suspicious of Michael Ataliano and Yuki Snowden next then that's how that works.
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Lots of topless pictures between those two but anyway yeah so it's it's only fair that she moves
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on to a different sporting realm and wants to sort of spread her wings somewhere else with
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potentially a different project and equally I think Mercedes are looking at jiggling things around. We
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seem to have as a podcast have our doubts about what they're up to this season with a lot of
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changes coming in through the team so potentially that might be part of it or possibly it's a knock
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on effect due to that so we'll wait and see how it pans out but speaking of Mercedes changing
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things they have announced that they will be heavily modifying the W14 throughout the season
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with side pods being changed somewhere along the line too and this is interesting. LA do you have
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anything to drop in on this one? Well their current side pods are clearly not working for them are they
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so I mean well seen clearly they're still you know sort of a joint second in the championship at the
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moment so that's still not too bad you know I think they've had a better start this season than
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they did last season but they're due a little bit more time in the wind tunnel as well I think
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that's right isn't it so you know maybe that development from the side pods and combined with
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the extra wind tunnel time that could definitely bring some interesting upgrades you know is what
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everybody seems to be talking about we only just start the season and everyone's just suddenly
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start talking about upgrades as well so well why is the car just not great anyway but you know
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that's another conversation so yeah let's see you know Jory's still out. I did enjoy Nika Rosberg
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trying to catch Toto out and Toto just saying I don't care if it looks like a double decker bus
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as long as it's quick I don't care what it looks like. Yes yeah concern has gone beyond the aesthetic
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they're looking on the grounds of pure functionality which I think is sort of the line you go down when
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you're designing an F1 car anyway. Ellie May have you got anything to drop in on the side pod yet?
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No I'll keep it short because we went off on one sort of the last one just. Yeah the preview
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may have gone on a technical rant and I'm sure to go on one of those later anyway. The next point
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we've got in the news is the fact that wheeled transport has been ruled out of track walks.
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Drivers are no longer allowed to cycle or scoot on track walks and must instead walk their track
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walks. This is down to circuits just seemingly getting too busy with different press and media
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outlets circulating on the circuit as well as often on some weekends Formula 1, 2 and 3 all
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doing their track walks at the same time. If you try and add people on scooters and bicycles into
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that mix often traveling a lot faster than you'd anticipate them it's going to get a bit sort of
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sketchy and dangerous and equally this was compounded quite neatly in Saudi A being a tight
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and busy street circuit but also the fact that Will.i.am closed the circuit down for some music
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video filming they rescheduled the track walk and Nico Hülkenberg missed out on this as well. He had
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prior I think it was media commitments that he had to attend to and couldn't make the track walk.
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Ella you're shaking your head am I completely wrong or you just annoyed at the stupidity of it all?
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No there was two sessions available for the track walk for the drivers one earlier on in the day in
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the morning and then one scheduled for later on during the day so you know the drive that some
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drivers had it in their head that they were going to go to the later one which is fair enough you
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know if they have a choice if they have the option Nico was a part of that particular you know well
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I'll go later group and of course that they didn't foresee that then that would be cancelled for a
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music video and I'm sort of shaking my head because although I don't even know what I mean
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with although there's no although is there why is a driver track walk cancelled for a music video
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I think that's a question that we need to establish if these track walks are that important
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that they're now saying well you that health and safety you can't drive a scooter or a
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bicycle on there because you know the two needs to be safe needs to be important well if they're
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that important why cancel it for a music video? I personally even though I'm not a driver even
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though I've got nothing to do with the companies at the minute that employ everybody in Formula One
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probably wouldn't be too happy if my scheduled track walk that's going to enable me to compete
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in a race is cancelled for a music video so it's such a sort of low priority but Formula One seems
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to have that sort of a bit askew on the grounds they're going ah we can just sort of get rid
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of this essentially relatively important data gathering part of the weekend for a sport that's
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so heavily driven by data that it's sponsored in large by Amazon AWS. I'm sure it wasn't just Niko
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that missed that because it's a later start it was much later schedule as well later than Bahrain
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so it's a later schedule and I'm sure that there was more than one driver that missed out on that
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track walk because they didn't intend to be there for that earlier session but yeah obviously
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Shahla stated that he probably won't be doing any more track walks if he can't cycle it a lot of
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drivers like to try and get it done not necessarily as quick as possible but they like to sort of get
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a view from it from behind the wheel of something and equally when you're on the wheels you feel
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a sort of different aspects to the road you feel camber a lot more you feel surface a lot more
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differently through the way it's transmitted and he said that if he can't cycle it he'll instead
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probably just watch the videos that teams produce. Max Verstappen isn't going to be affected by this
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he doesn't do them anyway in favour as he's always said in interviews staying in bed a bit longer
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and then he says if he needs to he just does a slower FP1 out lap which I think is possibly
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the biggest Max Verstappen flex you could possibly have but it's going to be interesting to see what
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the knock-on effect this has between the relationship between the FIA and driver groupings
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and teams where they're trying to organise their weekend schedules. I think Daniel Ricciardo was...
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There are other opportunities to to go on the track anyway you know at Zandvoort when I was
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doing a track walk and it was quite late on in the evening and Valtteri was cycling around and around
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you know he did multiple laps you know passing myself and a colleague and George Russell was
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also on the track on his bicycle and that wasn't track walk time for the drivers that was just when
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the track wasn't live anymore so anybody could could go and walk on it and so I sort of feel like
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that that if you want to go around that track on your bicycle you can do it at sort of keep fit
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time you know at time when people generally do track runs as well don't they on the Thursday night
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or you know some of the trainers take their drivers out for for a run so I think that there's sort of
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opportunities I'm not I mean I don't know maybe it's just a bit of a knee-jerk reaction from Charles
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but there will be an opportunity for him to go around the track at a certain point on his bicycle
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I feel. Yeah there'll be a chance for him to cycle it but whether it's sort of within that officially
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stated sort of track walk time or whether you've got the right lighting for it whether you've got
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the right members of your team there for doing so literally piecing together as they usually go
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around with a clipboard and notes you even have them sometimes taking photographs of sort of
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drain covers of kerbstones that are toe tall and stuff so they know the exceptional minutiae of the
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way a circuit's laid out I know Ellie May you've got a point you want to toss in here. Yeah I'm
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just going to clarify that I don't think it was the FIA that's put this in force it's Formula 1
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management so I think if drivers were to still cycle around it I don't know how they will be
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sort of penalised or how this will yet be sort of put into force. That's very true. Probably something
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wishy-washy two hours after the race. Yeah Formula 1 management's just going to go we'll find you
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some money I guess but again yeah they're not sort of a mandating authority so the moment that Yuki
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Snowda tries to sort of skateboard his way around Zandvoort they don't have sort of anything to do to stop him.
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Last thing I will say before we get onto the race though is that I think Daniel Ricciardo
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properly was ahead of the curveway this one by bringing the horse to Austin because that's just
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the perfect way to get on the track now. It's not wheel transport but I can't imagine circuit
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management being very happy about having to send someone out to poop scoop. Well then they shouldn't
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have been the bicycles that's all I'm saying. Yeah bicycles don't poop on circuit. That's the title
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for the podcast. Yeah this is very true just sort of flick it onto the verges and hope no one spins
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off in it. We'll move on to the actual Grand Prix itself and Sergio Perez took pole position on the
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Saturday second of his career and second at this circuit so of his pole position record they're all
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at the same circuit which is quite a nice little round fact and we saw Verstappen having some
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reliability issues in qualifying left him in P15 and possibly the same issues might have raised
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their head later on in the race. So Ferrari and Bahrain and Red Bull in Saudi are we looking at
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early seasons just teething problems or is this like to be something a bit more serious if Red Bull
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found more power than their driveline can handle? I think it depends because obviously it was the
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driveshaft obviously completely went in qualifying so Verstappen obviously if that was in a race he
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would have had to have retired. It looks like they got it fixed and I think with a driveshaft
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that's probably a lot more easy to fix than say with Ferrari's troubles of an engine or electrical
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problems and with Max in the race obviously we don't quite know what those problems were whether
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it was the same issue with the driveshaft not creating enough power for the rear tyres but then
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you think still it was what was about a third of the race to go if they really needed to Max could
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have just limped home because he was so far ahead of Fernando Alonso so I think it's a case of yes
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there may be reliability issues in that Red Bull but if needs be they could probably just about
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manage it and get away with keeping that position and finish the race whilst if it's kind of your
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engine or electrical issues that Ferrari are having it's a bit more difficult to try and limp home with.
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LA do you have anything to drop in? No not particularly again you know sort of
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juries are still out with me there's been some changes obviously over the winter to the regulations
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so you know there's some the car all the cars have needed to adjust certain things and
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I'm kind of happy in a way not happy that's the wrong word to use I'm kind of satisfied in a way
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that they're all they all have some issues they're all having problems and it feels good from a
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competitive health of the sport that Red Bull aren't romping away with it or Ferrari aren't or you
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know Mercedes aren't that there's now a little bit of healthy competition because there's issues for
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each team and their little teething problems that they will all I'm actually quite excited that
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the the top few those top sort of four or five might really get on top of all of their teething
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problems and there might be an absolute competition you know come sort of April the end of April May.
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We've got this sort of engineering race as the sort of four different teams
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looking to try and sort of rectify the issues they have with their car that ultimately looks
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to be different between the lot of them so we're going to see this sort of spread of development
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race through the field as they not only seek to fix problems but also develop the car to make it
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faster through the season. Ellie May? I can't remember when because as Red Bull changed
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the gearbox on Max Verstappen's car did they do that in free practices or before Park Burmese
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because which gearbox is it? Is it the practice gearbox that they use or is it actually the race
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gearbox because is it something then that the first gearbox is fixable or will they then have
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to make another one and he gets a penalty for that later down the line when obviously you can't have
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that one gearbox last now for 22 races. It depends whether or not it's gearbox issue if it's
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differential issue or where quite that problem lay all we knew was essentially it's going to be the
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half shaft that runs out the back of the diff to the rear wheel when that failed the question is
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what damage was that likely to have done if it failed at the differential end was able to spin
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around and batter the casing there might be a chance for that to have stuff for a failure later
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on but again it's such a sort of tightly guarded secret they told us everything they need us to
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know and nothing we didn't and from there it's going to be sort of tricky to find out short of
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literally going and having a poke around the sort of leftover parts bins at Milton Keynes I don't
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know we're going to find out anytime soon as to quite which end of the shaft of failure was and
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what damage it might well have done because he seemed to stop the car sort of or at least limp
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the car back pretty quickish and very gently so you don't really want too much wheel speed if it's
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still spinning essentially a giant flailing drive shaft around I assume they're probably also quite
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well reshaped as well they're not going to be sort of flopping around like you'd get on cars where
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it just mullers the floor pan so interesting to see the developments and again we're going to see
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this sort of reliability and development race through the season which not necessarily on the
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face of it but certainly from a sort of invested fan's perspective is going to produce an interesting
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season it didn't stop Red Bull though collecting a consecutive 1-2 podium which they haven't had
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since I want to say 2009 somehow which is just ridiculous when you think that that was before
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their domination it just shows how much they kind of screwed Mark Webber over during those four years
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that they couldn't get a 1-2 again and that okay yeah Mercedes after that but then last year you
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would have thought that would have happened at least once but apparently it didn't and it was
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kind of you saw the statistic about Perez getting his second pole position like yeah it's Saudi
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right not ever like oh oh and you're like how that doesn't really make sense but okay that
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it's logical apparently the the information's there to back it up and you're just kind of
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scratching your head like it's weirdly impressive but you'd expect you'd not it's kind of like if
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McLaren did that it's like okay fair enough 2009 that makes more sense but Red Bull very odd.
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Mm having had such a long spell of sort of supremacy for that period and then coming
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into another period of supremacy but period of exceptional competence from Red Bull at the
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moment we'll know by the end of the season whether it's supremacy and dominance but they
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it seems weird that there's this team dynamic where only one driver is allowed to be the one
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that sort of is constantly sort of making the headlines and you end up with this second driver
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that every now and then produces a statistic and you go hang on they did what and yeah.
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Although I'm hoping with how Perez is reacting already to stuff this year that we might not be
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seeing as much of a number two driver role from him as we have done the past two seasons which
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would be quite nice. No early on his confidence and his drive and his annoyance that sort of the
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whole fastest lap thing seems to. In his face when he got told in the uh post-race interview
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just for the poetry and was like he did what now that little son of a. Yeah it was it came out in
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the cool down room it was a case of oh did I know he confirmed it there as well but it kind of.
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In the interview um post-race before they went up to the podium um well before they went up to
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cool down room and I noticed. You could see it written on his face couldn't you? He hasn't got
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a good poker face Perez I saw his face just change completely and he then sort of tried to get through
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the rest of the interview and I thought let's wait for it wait for it then he got to the cool down
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room and it was like. Brazil flashbacks. Yeah it's like oh uh fastest lap you know quite sort of
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nonchalantly and I was like. Tries to play it nonchalantly but he knew. The other interesting
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thing was in that sort of I don't want to say mind games thing going on between the two red
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ball drivers but Max sat in the seat designated for the winner in the cool down room and you're
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sort of looking at going perhaps you're just so used to sitting in the middle seat where you
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did it so many times last year that maybe you just sort of fell into a rhythm but you're clearly
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sat in the seat that's got Sergio's number behind it and you're sort of going. Yeah but he also put
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his helmet on Fernando's seat so then there was sort of it was musical chairs at that point
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because it's like who's going to take the next seat and of course it was Fernando so then Sergio
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had nowhere to sit. Is it too much to ask for a kind of 90s-esque championship style by the end
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of the year where you kind of get Perez and Max going for it and then Elftrack kind of they have
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a bit of fisticuffs and getting annoyed with each other in the cool down room like get out
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Mike's chair and start having a bit of a tug around the place. I feel though that from you just you
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just brought it up with with Weber you know and Vettel and I feel that Weber was always a little
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bit too much of a gentleman and you know never sort of heavy-handed himself enough and I feel
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that there needs to be a turning point for Perez and he needs to say it's just sort of say look I'm
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going to stop being the reasonable guy you know don't use to embrace his inner Fernando Alonso.
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Don't ask the questions on the radio just put your foot down drive the wheels off that car to get
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that fastest lap he's an expert at the fastest lap because few seasons ago they were bringing
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him in towards the end of the races to get the fastest lap point or to take it from Mercedes
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purposefully he's the expert at these fastest laps he's the best one out there to get the
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fastest laps so drive the wheels off the car get the fastest lap don't ask permission just go do it.
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Yeah because that was kind of the same thing that almost Verstappen did Verstappen asked what was
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the fastest lap and they said we're not concerned with that and Verstappen was like yes but I am
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so he was going to go for that fastest lap whether they liked it or not which is I guess
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is what Perez is going to have to start doing as well. Yeah sort of Max overrode the team orders
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and went for his lap and then I think obviously I think it's going to start just sort of descending
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into this sort of almost Hamilton Rosberg-esque battle and I think when we sort of joked about
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the sort of the ferora in the in the cool down room obviously there's that famous clip of I think
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is is it Hamilton lobbing a cap at Nico Rosberg or vice versa in the cool down room from quite a few
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years back and again it's that sort of drivers coming off the heat of the race you're on that
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sort of rundown from adrenaline and you're going to have these big egos coming together and that's
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why I like the fact that we've got the cool down room back especially as we're starting to get these
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sort of ego clashes between drivers it's going to be interesting. Last year was a bit of a Max Verstappen
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podcast with just two different circulating sort of guests on it but this year it looks like it
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could be the same three people going up there and that could be a bit of a sort of pressure cooker
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environment for these especially Fernando Alonso's ego and Max Verstappen's ego coming together
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and then if you have Sergio Perez I don't want to say growing a backbone that sounds like he's
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quite weak to begin with but finding more of his confidence I want to say is better
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that's going to prove to be very interesting indeed. As much as I love the Nico and Hamilton
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reference there I'm also thinking is it time for Multi 21 the sequel? I don't think Twitter would
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cope with Multi 21 if it were to happen today it would go into a complete meltdown and that would
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be hilarious but we move into something somewhat worse than Multi 21 and if you're listening to
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this now is probably a good time to just hit pause go and put the kettle on make a cup of tea and
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sit down because this this point goes on for a while and I'm not sorry about it but it's one that
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I think the rest of the sort of people on this podcast agree with me on and it's the fact that
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there seems to be again a complete lack of communication between the FIA stewarding teams
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and race directors which leads to as my notes say complete stewarding bollocks with inconsistencies
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in how pit penalties are enforced and we saw the rear jack touch the back of Lonzo's car when he
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came in to make his pit stop early on in the race lap 18 I think it was and he came in to serve a
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five second penalty for his start infringement where he was quite a long way to the left of his
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box as were a few other drivers but they were also not penalized interesting. So car 14 was given a
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10 second penalty which demoted him to P so obviously because the jack touched the rear of
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the car before the five second period had elapsed car 14 was later given a 10 second penalty which
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demoted him to P4 overall in the race results and George Russell up to P3 this was later reversed
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however when Aston Martin went to the stewards and showed them seven occasions when a jack had
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touched a car previously and no penalty had been awarded so the stewards then took away the 10
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second penalty reinstating Alonso's P3 and George dropped to P4. So one of the first questions is
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why did it take the stewards so long to do their job there was no other overhanging sort of race
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investigation for them to really be focused on there was very little else going on as far as we're
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aware that is and it took them a hell of a long time to come to the conclusion that boom 10 second
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penalty a long time after the race a long time after the podium celebrations which is annoying
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for Fernando Alonso because he goes up and celebrates what he thinks is his 100th podium
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amazing time to be him 100th podium joins the centenary club with a handful of other drivers
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only to then essentially have that undone taken away and then poor George Russell just gets
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given a trophy has had none of the podium celebrations none of the sort of hooray and
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joy of it all so now two drivers have been robbed of something relatively important in
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the life and aspect of being a driver that's successful and then that gets undone again so
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you've then got the enormity of being George Russell going well cheers for that for the best
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part of three hours there you go Alonso I'll give you that back again so all's well that ends well
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for Alonso a bit weird being George Russell and as a fan you're watching this ongoing well that
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seems a bit of a mess so it's sort of ruined a podium celebration it's ruined possibly George
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Russell's afternoon and evening sort of going yay oh that's a shame and it also must have messed up
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with the scoring a hell of a lot because for a brief period of time it promoted George Russell
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three places in the overall driver standings so if anyone keeping statistics like I am you've got
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to go back into the spreadsheets and then watch his line drop back down again it's like that's a
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shame so there's like I said Alonso appeared on lap 18 in a 50 lap race there was a huge amount
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of time between that pit infringement and the stewards eventually coming to a decision questions
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and there weren't many like I've already said there weren't many other incidents on the track
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throughout the rest of the race so it's not like they were busy this is all comes down to a lack
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of communication with regards to the understanding of the rules and how the stewards are informed of
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this the FIA had a meeting forming one teams and drivers and they essentially what it turns out is
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the FIA expects the teams to treat the rules one way which has an allowance for touching cars with
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the jacks but the stewards have not been informed of this so we end up in these silly situations
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where the stewards are going you're not supposed to do that and the FIA has gone to the teams
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you don't certainly nudge the car with the jack that's fine that's not working on the car
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as far as they're concerned so you end up with this sort of weird golf LA you're shaking your
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head am I going down completely the wrong tangent or you're just so annoyed by the whole fact
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I'm just really annoyed and frustrated by the whole fact because the stewards are the FIA so
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if you look at it in terms of like their football referees they have to know the rules if they're
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the people that are applying them and enforcing them and enforcing penalties so what is happening
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that they don't know all of the rules first of all there's also something else a bit curious as to
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what's happening with the tele with the coverage with the cameras available to the stewards
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because even from the stroll incident it seems like the stewards don't have access to all to the
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same cameras as we do sitting at home the tv feed it was quite clear stroll was not stopped on track
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sitting in the studio or you know sitting watching on your laptop wherever they couldn't even see
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from a camera they didn't have access to a camera view of where he was they just had the gps
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apparently this is a part allegedly apparently and so links that some people will go to to not
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watch sky f1 is respectable well it's not i mean it comes from the circuit doesn't it so it'll be
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the live circuit feed from just the circuit camera direct the live circuit feed so so it goes out
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throughout the world so there's sort of a couple of things here that's that's that's disturbing me a
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little bit and this hasn't been the first time because a couple of seasons ago one of you might
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know when when and where it could have been somewhere like brazil or something that red bull
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noticed something on the tv footage that mercedes had done or something had happened and they
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sent it to the stewards and the stewards haven't seen it and christian horn is going come on come
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on let's sort this out we've seen this this has happened so so they're not seeing everything
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everything and to me it was almost like maybe they didn't notice that at that particular moment in
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time maybe somebody else noticed it another team noticed it and sent it to them but if it is a
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penalty that's being served then they should be seeing it they should be watching it and it
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seems to me like that camera angle a little bit like var if you're a football fan which is very
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very highly controversial still that how can you really tell anyway from that really sort of rough
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camera angle from from behind and even one of the commentators i'm not sure if it's karun or
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karun chandra later on afterwards said he thought that maybe one of the other mechanics had touched
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had put his hand on it but again that was very very difficult to see from the angle that i could
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see it from so there are and then there's also this point that if they are going to clarify
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this ruling of not touching a car or not putting a jack under the car if if that's going to be a
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point if that's going to be considered as touching the car so you have to wait with your jack you
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can't go anywhere near it then they should have enforced that anyway over the weekend they should
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have said no that's definitely not allowed sorry what happened other seasons sorry what happened
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last race no we're we're the bosses we're in charge this is what's happening and it's not just teams
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it's not just podium celebrations it's not just people being happy or sad you know that teams have
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won and lost the drivers have won and lost this is a multi-billion dollar euro industry there may
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have been high stakes and bets put on for this and payments made and all sorts of very complex
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and complicated issues that may have followed that decision in the first place then we've changed
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the decision then reverse the decision back and it doesn't sit well with me i don't like it and
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i'm sure that you guys are are gonna give me something to think about as well and i'll round
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out the point and i know that everyone else chime in with their thoughts because like you said it
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is the wider implications it has for not only the podium celebrations the way teams react and the
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way teams start doing debriefs but then also like you said when you've got sort of things like bets
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and money placed on things why can it not be resolved before the end of the race that should
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be the period in which any of the racing result has to be decided if it's something that happens
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on the last lap you might have to have an extra bit of leeway there just to ensure something is
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decided fairly but when it comes down to the camera angles surely the stewards are equipped
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with all the camera angles there is there was a brilliant shot actually from the race a shot a
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camera shot from one of the roving cameramen in the pit lane looking from the back of the car to
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the front and there is a marshal wearing a tabard that says like adjudicator or something on the
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tabard watching a pit stop to ensure that it is done properly why what role does he actually serve
31:14
in the overall process because apparently a man there looking at it first person with his own eyes
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seem to have got it wrong i appreciate that sometimes people get things wrong but then surely
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if you know there's going to be certain angles that one man cannot see you simply have a second
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person there it's not tricky or you have a top-down camera we've seen the drive to survive
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introductions have a top-down camera of pit stops it cannot be tricky for the fia for stewards to
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have installed a top-down camera for monitoring pit stops to have a second angle that isn't
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artistically shot with tires in front of it so you can get a clear shot of an entire car
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and an entire pit crew when it comes to pit stops especially if you're going to be applying pit
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penalties it's it's crucial and again the poor communication the promise aside the the penalty
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is a second issue alonzo was told that there might have been a penalty on his way aston martin had
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caught wind of this and had told alonzo to try and pick up the pace they assumed it was going to
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be a five second penalty so alonzo opened up a seven second gap to russell behind and he said
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they told me i had a five second penalty so i pushed a little bit harder and opened seven
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seconds and i paid the penalty and before the punishment and that was he said that before the
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punishment was reversed in the second stint there was no investigation so that yeah that was in the
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opening penalty for his pit box infringement so he thought open up the gap that way it won't be
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damaged too much when he comes into pit initially then through the second stint he says that there
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was no investigation no information nothing if someone had told me you have 10 seconds i'd have
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opened 11 though alonzo had the pace and the ability in that car to make it go a bit further
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it would have been pushing it to its limits but he thought and felt that he could have pushed that
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car to have opened up a gap that where he wouldn't have been impacted by a penalty and that would be
32:56
in the end of the race fair's fair you opened up the gap your penalty doesn't really do anything
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that happens so yeah why was he not informed in promptly enough time for it to have was it
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positively impacted the race but impacted the race in a meaningful or sensible manner
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impact the race during the race not yeah after it yeah during the race when the race is happening
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pretty quick on um ocon the weekend before you know he they were really well i think that's what
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annoys me the most with it like jesse and i all of i think last year for a lot of it especially for
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the feeder series i think we had this i remember i was bickering with someone so it's probably you
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jesse um about the wild inconsistencies of the stewards from race to race through all the feeder
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series including w series and then f1 as well and you just think how can you get it so right with
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ocon in terms of you've done something wrong penalty you've done something wrong penalty
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you've done something wrong penalty and then two weeks later go oh i don't see that multiple times
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for things that us two thousand odd miles away can see on our tvs back home it's ridiculous
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and you just like like you were saying it like billion dollar industry you'd think they'd have
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a spare couple of quid knocking about to get some of the other camera angles i know sky tv's expensive
34:12
just go to a different provider they'd get f1 tv it's not like you don't own it and then you can
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see everything perfectly for yourself it's just it's a problem that shouldn't be a problem and yet
34:23
for some reason they're prioritizing all these other kind of nonsense issues that it was like
34:29
okay fair enough if everything else is sorted but it's not because you can't even figure this out
34:34
you can't even see if lance stroll is on the circuit when everyone at home and their dog can
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see he's clearly not so it's it's mad right about the feeder series as well though because it happens
34:45
all too often it was denis hoga last year as well wasn't it with in in jeddah yeah in formula 2 it
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happened with critic christian lungard a couple of years ago where probably he had all the bad
34:55
luck didn't he had to serve a penalty and he served it um and then i think he got p3 p2 or p3 in the
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race and when he pulled up to you know up at the the thing you know in the under the podium and
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went up and they said no no no you've got a penalty you you can't you're not they hadn't
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loved it he'd served it yeah and he'd served it and it was like what what is going on here what's
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happening and it you know it happens and he shouldn't disregard these kind of decisions
35:24
just because they're feeder series you know they're they're just as important it's the thing if you
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can't get it right you'd something it's a mistake you'd think would happen with a championship
35:33
that's relatively new like again nothing is formula e but it's it's only 10 years old or so
35:39
you'd expect something there maybe because you know you're still not figured out all the kinks
35:43
but this is a 70 plus year billion dollar industry sport you kind of need to have your
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your stuff together on this one i mean george russell spoke out on it later on in one of the
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interviews and he said that he believed both penalties were too harsh for the offenses in
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question and he said i understand why these rules are here but at the end of the day we've got to
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and we've got to stick within the guidelines but i think a little bit more common sense needs to be
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shown ultimately this is when he refers to alonzo's start at least he says i think he was a little bit
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to the left on the grid was that right but he gained nothing from this perhaps a five second
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penalty in that regard is too much and i don't think it impacted his start of the race i think
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he was going to get perez regardless the statistics showed that he got off the line quicker he had a
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better reaction time he got to a certain speed marker a lot faster he was passing alonzo going
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into turn one regardless of where he parked his car left or right and russell then later commented
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on the pit stops and he said i don't know what happened and why he received the further penalty
36:40
exactly but a 10 second is too extreme in that case and alonzo accepted he had made a mistake
36:45
in positioning his car but russell and perez agreed that the lack of visibility from the front of the
36:49
car is a nightmare you cannot see anything especially now you've got the taller wheels
36:54
with the wheel brows over the top trying to align your car not necessarily left right within the
36:58
box also forward backwards is a problem that's why this year and last year we've seen these
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extended yellow lines going out to the side of the car that tell you where you want to be lining up
37:07
i think it's the front of the front wheels that's more reason for the argument to have the transparent
37:12
livery completely transparent bodywork would help but yeah and the drivers say that they need better
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visibility to be or to come up with an idea that's better than the one they've currently got which is
37:23
just a bit of yellow paint on the road and while it's good to have a rule in place that stops people
37:28
sort of parking at different angles or overstepping their mark and gaining an unfair advantage
37:33
sometimes when you're parking your car they say it is just luck to be honest where you position
37:37
yourself and again it's positioning your car on the grid is tricky because of their design and
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the limited track markings touching the car with a jack doesn't constitute as working on it the
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stewards seem to have no clue what's going on and the fia who yeah that's the only consistent thing
37:53
with the stewards is that they have no idea what's going on they're kept in the dark by the people
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that essentially organize them and oversee their half of the sort of the process and when the
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stewards actually have to do some work it's slow overdrawn and nowhere near timely enough to
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positively or negatively impact the race with barely two seasons two races into the season
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and things have already gone pitong for f1 it's not a good viewpoint either from within the sport or
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as a very casual fan looking at it going hey what happened there you're sort of going oh it's a bit
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a bit weird it could put off other fans but equally as a more hardcore fan you're going
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it's just bloody annoying isn't it you just want to enjoy the race and walk away from it knowing
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what the answer is not checking your phone at 11 o'clock at night and going no so long as I did
38:37
get a third right it's not the way you want a race to be decided but i think that this is it's
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going to be it's being looked at um i think if i have got the information correctly it's going
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to be addressed by the next sporting advisory committee which i think is in three days um and
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then clarified there's going to be clarification issued ahead of the australian grand prix
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there's almost certainly going to be some sort of answer some sort of
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basically someone's drawn up some notes from it and gone look these are things we need to do
39:07
better because clearly this was a shambles and i think rightly so that someone's doing something
39:11
about it but whether in f1 we actually see something in the end done about it is a different
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matter we often see people raising points raising arguments saying oh we need to do this this needs
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to be done better and f1 simply sits back and just sort of nods its head and goes it always comes
39:25
across as a beautiful black and mold they sort one thing out and the next thing pops up and i
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oh for god's sake not again yeah elly may do you have anything you ought to put in on this one
39:34
i know you've been a little quiet um i'd say in terms of penalties themselves they should be given
39:41
if whatever the driver has done has given the driver like a lasting advantage what alonzo did
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at the start it was his position was correct in sort of the front line it just wasn't correct
39:55
where he was then positioned in the starting box sort of is just a bit to the left of it so that
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didn't give him really an advantage and i guess it needs to be more looked at whether did he gain an
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advantage from that or not and he clearly didn't and then as well when he pitted i don't know
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whether i was eagle-eyed or what but i noticed that the jack man touched his car immediately
40:22
because then during those five seconds those five seconds actually went really quickly for me
40:26
because i was questioning whether that was allowed or not and then still i didn't get that
40:31
clarification throughout the race and then when that kind of speculation came about that he was
40:37
then maybe getting a penalty that was the first thing that came into my head but then i thought
40:42
why is it taking this long because i've seen it and you know what what are they doing and
40:51
yeah i mean no no no disrespect to any of us here on the podcast but if we can bloody spot it then
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it was quite plain as the guy goes to scoot the jack in not necessarily aiming to touch the car
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but at least get it underneath essentially the rear tail lamp ready to jack it up you can see
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that he's come in a bit with the jack not lowered enough and it's clipped it and sort of wobbled and
41:11
you can see the contact but it's not actively trying to lift the car or start work he's simply
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just moving something has bumped into the car it's not again that lasting advantage argument it's
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not been something to try and sneakily speed up the process it's simply sort of the same way that
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you see all the mechanics hovering above what they need to do the instant that five seconds elapses
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that's fine you can have a jack hovering waiting to do that that's fine and simply in that instant
41:36
moment when you're under pressure he's just made a sort of hairline mistake and again it's not given
41:42
alonzo a lasting advantage and going into that race if anything it forced him to drive harder
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and put more risk into his race and his strategy towards the end trying to open up that gap that
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he might have needed it's certainly been a bit of a shambles but through all of that we've at
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least been able to appoint some winners and spinners from the race certainly so we'll move on to our
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next little section and timo who is your winner from the race well as is always seemingly the case
42:10
for us we bash a team or a driver and then come next race weekend things have turned around a bit
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and we went on quite a bit of a rant for mercedes and despite a temporary p3 which was still a p4
42:23
p4 and p5 i think a lot better than any of us were probably expecting including mercedes so
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i kind of have to put them as my winner and it's a shame that we couldn't have seen lewis unleashed
42:35
a bit more because when he was on the mediums and everyone else was on the hards i would have
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liked to see if he could have pushed ahead a bit further and gone to catch up maybe p3
42:45
um whether or not he would have got past another matter entirely because we know what we're on so
42:49
it's like especially now in the sasden martin already this year um and they could have always
42:54
swapped them back later on but didn't happen but at the same time solid result p4 p5 if that's
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if you especially like i think it was you la mentioning earlier if you compare it to where
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mercedes were in saudi last year much better for the second race i mean they they chanced themselves
43:11
onto a podium slightly in barrain last year because of red bull dnfing but they have been
43:19
supposedly a terrible team and a terrible car not too bad so i kind of have to a little glimmer of
43:25
hope that i hope isn't quashed immediately in australia so it'll be awkward but um decent and
43:31
i kind of i'm glad i was wearing my mercedes top very nice ali may who is your winner from the race
43:38
i've gone for logan sargent i mean he started sunday i guess at the back of um as his q1 lap
43:46
got deleted after running his tires over the pit entry line which is frustrating as it was a good
43:52
enough lap to get him into q2 but he drove pretty solidly throughout the race defending from joe
43:57
defrese and the two mcclaran's pretty well in the second half of the race and i think i've been
44:02
pleasantly surprised by his performance over the past two races i think he's been the most impressive
44:07
rookie so far considering that williams should in theory be the worst car there and both him and
44:16
albert have been very good at getting or extracting quite a bit out of that car
44:23
i think that yeah i wouldn't say the williams is the worst car on the grid at the moment and
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it's the worst f1 car because mcclaran appeared to have brought a feeder series car and not
44:30
realized yeah they've rocked up with a couple of years back's f4 or something but the the williams
44:36
is it's decent and his ability barrain especially was a good example of this the fact that he was
44:40
very nearly able to get into q2 with a time rivaling that of norris's was a surprise so
44:46
nice he didn't was because norris did it first that was literally the only reason the only reason
44:51
yeah and again his form over saudi was strong and he was at points it looked like he might have been
44:58
able to sort of make a real charge up to sort of the not necessarily points but certainly sort of
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around 11th 12th it was a decent little drive and yeah good signs of good things to come at least
45:08
la your winner from the race weekend oh it's so hard isn't it one because i mean i know he's
45:16
world champion but he made up 13 places didn't he and still got the fastest lap of max verstappen
45:23
but then you've got to look at sonoda who made up five places um and and the clerk who made up five
45:30
places but tell you i'm going to give it to i'm giving it to k mag because you know he started
45:35
down in 13th after being you know just that little shuffle there in the order in the starting order
45:42
made up three places when he got that very first point for has in the last few laps eventually
45:49
getting past sonoda that he couldn't get past the whole lap so he tried and he tried didn't he yeah
45:55
so noda knows what he's doing you know he's still got that that freshness f2 rio scrap
46:01
left in him you know he's still he's still quite recent from there isn't he so even though it's a
46:05
couple years ago now but no i'm giving it to k mag and to has because they've worked so hard you
46:12
know that they were doing really really well a few seasons ago we know this they had the the plug
46:18
pulled on them they had the finances pulled on them for the reasons obviously that we know about
46:23
and we're not going to talk about and they've really been a determined team there there seems
46:28
to be a lovely team it seems to be a nice family team as well you know close close knit and k mag
46:35
for me all day long that race yeah it sees them leap up into seventh in the standing as well has
46:41
so they've sort of got the season off to a good foot and while their track record in australia is
46:46
a bit hit and miss it'll be interesting to see how quite how well they perform theirs but uh
46:50
time will tell but yeah came out get a decent little performance decent drive against yuki as
46:54
well really had to put put up a fight against him and it was nice to see a bit of action from
46:58
and again and a well-earned reward for the has team for sort of developing a relatively decent car
47:04
this season and equally for the drivers for being able to extract the pace from it so nice stuff i'm
47:09
going relatively straight down the line with my winner um for me it's going to be so joe peres for
47:14
sort of showing that he's come into this season with a real fire in his belly for something and
47:18
again there were moments across the weekend where he looked like he was driving on just an absolutely
47:23
different level to some of the other people in that field and that's what i really want to see
47:26
from this season or more of that from him this season is this sort of evolution of his ability
47:32
out on track and this sort of absolute hunger to get something so if we can keep growing from here
47:37
be a good time to be a sergio peres fan indeed on the flip side of that coin though we do want to
47:44
find out who people's spinners were and la i'm going to throw to you straight off the bat
47:50
person who really should have done a bit more this weekend uh yeah i'm going to go for oscar i know
47:56
he's a rookie but he's still a racing driver and he's been racing a lot of years um you know and
48:01
he knows the score he knows how it is and you know there was a little that little coming together at
48:06
the beginning with with gasly with pierre that that affected the rest of his race you know he
48:11
qualified in eighth you should have given him more room as an experienced driver as gasly is
48:16
no i know i don't believe that i don't think that at all you know i i i do feel that sometimes
48:23
just take a breath take a step you don't have to go for the win on your first lap you know you if
48:29
anything what even if you're stuck behind after the first few laps you've got that drs then about
48:34
to kick in so to me he should have just have not tried to have gone up that inside because that
48:41
wall on the left catches everybody out every single race every single time uh so to me you
48:47
should have just backed out a little bit and then gone for it again at the next opportunity
48:51
so i just feel i feel frustrated because oscar is great you know we we did watch that season that
48:57
he won the championship as a rookie in f2 and his f3 season of course he's a great driver he's a
49:03
great guy just take a breath you're against pierre gasly the guy started off in in the alfertauri
49:10
in red bull gasly knows what he's doing you know just take a breath you wouldn't have lost your
49:17
your front wing and you wouldn't have affected lando's race either so it's not blame blame
49:24
you know if oscar you're watching not i'm sorry but just take a breath and uh next time don't
49:31
knock your front wing off oscar if you are watching hello please remember to like comment subscribe
49:36
um we'll have some more positive notes on piastra coming up as well i've got some slightly different
49:40
thoughts and uh elima your your uh spinner for the weekend yes down the similar line i've gone
49:48
from mclaren i mean oscar he had a good qualifying session getting to ninth on the grid and then
49:53
lando hit the wall uh breaking the steering rod in q1 so starting at the back of the grid in 19th
49:59
and the race was painful to watch if you're a mclaren fan really i mean like you said both
50:05
picked up front wing damage and i don't know whether they that still continue to carry on
50:10
throughout the race whether they still have some of that damage sort of lurking about
50:14
and i almost hope for their sake they were but because they were absolutely nowhere they
50:20
couldn't overtake williams in a drag race with drs open and you kind of get excited thinking
50:26
oh williams and mclaren are battling against each other again and then you realize it's for p15 and
50:31
it's not that great it's kind of going back to gp2 engine again except for it's not the engine it's
50:39
everything else there's a lot more to be gotten from that mclaren there's possibly some bits
50:45
about it that do work but there seems to be a lot about it that at the moment that bit works
50:51
it certainly does and i know that timo you'll sort of echo and lead in or lead into yours quite
50:56
nicely because your spinner was norris and the stewards yeah i mean stewards i feel like we
51:02
don't need to go on anymore but i just want to have a point home again that they have to go and
51:07
take a seriously long look in the mirror norris though yeah i mean as much as he got caught up in
51:14
the opening lap stuff with with ghazley and piastry and everyone else there i feel like he
51:20
shouldn't have even been there in the first place he should have been able to see that a bit of a
51:24
mile off and not even been there so i just kind of think that i don't know there's been something a
51:30
little bit off for me with norris for a little while and he kind of he talks a lot of talk but
51:36
doesn't have the track record to back it up and it's a lot of it is down to his own kind of mistakes
51:42
in some way he could have won three races back to back almost in 21 if he'd really wanted to
51:48
but didn't and at least two of those were his kind of fault there so to kind of give piastry
51:57
a good mention don't worry i'll balance things out early i did enjoy it a lot when he passed norris
52:03
because i just thought yeah that's kind of what i wanted to happen all season because as much as
52:08
i didn't want ricardo to go if he's going to be replaced i then kind of want that driver to really
52:13
show why and norris needs to be challenged a bit because he's clearly not been for the last two
52:19
years and to see him not only pass lando but then disappear overtake sergeant something lando couldn't
52:26
do against a rookie with the drs like you were saying it was just delicious to watch as a kind of
52:34
neutral-ish fan there and kind of like yeah we kind of we want oscar to do well it's a shame that
52:38
we have to have him in this way but if we're going to have him like this then at least we can still
52:42
find some kind of joy there and hopefully this is the wake-up call that norris needs to be like yeah
52:47
you're only a worn driver because no one to challenge you since signs so that only lasts
52:53
so long and hopefully piastry is kind of the driver that can wake him up and push the team forward a
52:58
bit it seems a little bit reminiscent of maybe a hamilton in mercedes before they were dominant
53:05
it's kind of he's got that kind of calm collected mindset that he could build a team around him and
53:10
then norris is like wait a minute that's my team like no anymore it's not you should have been
53:14
paying more attention so yeah norris is my spinner anyway so i'm just gonna move on and i think that
53:20
none of us are liking mclaren much at the moment yeah i think the piastry argument is an interesting
53:24
one because of the amount of money that mclaren have effectively poured into getting him into
53:28
that seat they want to at least give him a few opportunities also regretting not being with lp
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now considering that they could that could have been quite good for him as well that wouldn't have
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been a bad starting point but yeah the amount of money they poured into getting hold of oscar
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piastry mclaren are clearly going to give him a fairly good sort of run at things to prove that
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the money they did spend was justified and i think that's why they had um sort of him and norris i
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don't know if it's team orders i can't remember if it was or not but whether the fact that he was
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able to simply make that overtake and disappear off up the road is a good chance for him to prove
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that he was worth that time and investment and the whole hassle that um that they poured into it so
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that is good indeed um i think for me my spinner though has to be ferrari and this was a race that
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they really needed to sort of prove that potentially their sort of retirement in
54:21
barrain was a bit of a fluke but they came into it having replaced nearly every element on charl
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leclerc's car to a point that he's now had to serve a grid penalty for going over on the electrical
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components it's not the start to a season you want as tiff hosie and it's annoying but i'm always
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one for as much as i love praising ferrari i'm one to always go on a big rant about them when
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they upset me because well i don't know i want them to do better every weekend then every weekend
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yeah and i think yeah this is another instance of ferrari really should have done better today and
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the fact they were they seem to be down on pace they seem to be for a brief moment it looked like
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they had fantastic strategy despite the fact that stroll just drove past science going through turn
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13 they did look like around the outside though less yeah just literally swung it around the
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outside pulled it off had the drive coming out the corner i can't remember if there was a tire
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difference between the two of them but it was just it was not a weekend to be a ferrari fan
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but hey it's weird because you've like mercedes beat them and you're like that sounds correct
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but it doesn't yeah in the grand scheme of where mercedes are in development with their chassis and
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in reality where ferrari were with their chassis last year and their sort of overall performance
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it's not what you'd expect unless you sort of just come out of a coma in 2015 maybe um anyhow
55:43
we'll move on to other drivers worth a mention one of them we've already touched on a fair amount
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that's piastri as we've already mentioned once he and norris swapped places he literally vanished
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another driver that we've got on there is logan sargent who we sort of touched on with ellie
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mays winner for certain some good battles on track and some nice driving skills um so no
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that we've also previously touched on he's also makes our list of drivers worth a mention he had
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a fantastic battle with kevin magnuson and proved that he could really hang around the points for a
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very long time but just in the end against a far more experienced driver didn't quite have the edge
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to cut it the interesting one that's fourth on this list is nick de vries and i don't know who
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wrote it in but i'm curious as to why why did why i know everyone haven't really shown much of
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de vries these past two races and in fairness there hasn't really been much to show that
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alfateria is sadly a lot worse than i thought but the reason he's on there is for me he did the best
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overtake of the race on lap 42 where he did we see it we did see it it was live tv
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uh i must have been watching the stewards camera sorry well he boldly overtook glogan sargent on the
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inside of turn 27 in a way that was almost like i'm coming through get out my way and it was so
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punchy and i respect that because it was sort of to get that line on the inside of turn 27 but do it
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so that you're not pushing the other driver into the wall i think you've got well you have to have
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so much trust that logan sargent isn't then going to crash into you when he's trying not to go into
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the wall as well and just to do that so well and so cleanly i thought he deserved a mention
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i think that's fair he made a decent run of things this weekend la have you got something to chuck in
57:38
um i do it's not about de vries and i know we've covered them as we say a little bit
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um already sergeant and piastry um but but one thing that we have to remember from feeder series
57:50
is that um logan was set back a year uh in in f3 for for you know the reasons that you can read
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about online and whereas piastry went up and then won his championship um last season logan did
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struggle a little bit to get going um you know the balance of the car of the carlin and once he got
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tobacco he absolutely flicked a switch and he admits himself it was self-learning he needed to
58:17
get get grips with the tires pad and the pun the balance of the car and and he ended up being in
58:24
real lovely symmetry you know between man and machine and at one point he was in absolute
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contention to win that f2 championship he could have mathematically won it himself
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um and even up to the last i think race weekend i think it was third and ended up coming fourth
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with liam loss and his teammate just overtaking him so the one thing i want to mention to you
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is that logan and oscar were teammates as we mentioned really really early but didn't connect
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the two at the time they were teammates in formula three at prima and in 2020 oscar won
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and logan came third and there was only four points between them in that championship and of
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course the three of them which we've said vesti was a part of that prima team as well
59:13
they they won the team's championship by a massive margin it was really huge the three of them were
59:19
really on fire that season and really challenging each other so the interesting thing about oscar
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and logan is i'm really looking forward to any more battles on the f1 circuit because they're
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quite evenly matched and they know each other very very well they're going to know exactly how
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each other is going to drive into a corner roughly the behavior they'll use to defend lines
59:42
so it's going to be an interesting one to keep an eye on as it develops and if yeah if saudis give
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us just a little taster of things to come it's going to certainly be interesting as things move
59:51
forwards we have our predictions review next on our list to get through and it's an interesting one
59:58
because i didn't score anything elime didn't score anything despite her protestations in the group
1:00:04
chats and timo scored two although at one point he had scored two then he scored one then he scored
1:00:08
two again because alonso did retain his p3 position which does give timo a point his other one was
1:00:14
for perez getting pole so congratulations there to timo i think overall elime still has a point
1:00:21
elime still holds the lead in our predictions battle oh no it's probably peaked for the season
1:00:26
don't worry no it's it's uh four points a piece between you and elime and i'm still on one so
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in which case game on i'm coming back yeah here we go the battle begins uh next up though is
1:00:39
constructor's countdown mclaren unwilling to hold on to 10th place while alfatero drop one position
1:00:47
from eight to nine williams also take a dive from p7 to p8 in the standings as has leaked from ninth
1:00:51
to seventh alfa Romeo drop from fifth to sixth while alpine take a step forward into the top half
1:00:55
field Ferrari clinging on to fourth for the time being with mercedes and aston martin tying on 38
1:00:59
points in p3 and p2 respectively and at the front red bull leads by 49 points
1:01:12
so that's how the constructor's standings look but what about if we play this in the fantasy realm
1:01:17
yes we have our little fantasy league running i think you can still join it there'll be the code
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and the link somewhere in this video in the description on the podcast somewhere but we'll
1:01:26
see who the winner is from this week well i'll tell you our biggest climber is jumping up six
1:01:30
places from their ranking last week is max out on speed the worst performing team dropping nine
1:01:36
places was the podcast team my neck mike crack and francesco road still leads the field i can't
1:01:43
remember what points they're on not particularly important they're all streaking away though it's a
1:01:46
big gap at the front for them ellie may is the highest out of the three of us in p5 with her
1:01:51
emt racing i don't know how because i've got okay i have got red bull and astin martin but i've also
1:02:01
got nick defrice nico hulkenberg and valtteri botas how am i doing better than you two i don't know but
1:02:08
i did make some changes this afternoon but yeah you're in p5 my highest team is mid beds racing
1:02:14
with p8 and teemo's on the curbs is his highest one leaping from 21 to p16 so fairly mixed bag of
1:02:22
results there but i went through and made some changes to my teams this afternoon because i
1:02:26
wasn't feeling great about where they were absolutely tragic time of it because i thought
1:02:30
i'd made changes that i hadn't made so i thought i'd had an excellent weekend and then went to
1:02:34
review my fancy team of like wait what's what's what are you what are you drivers doing there
1:02:41
why have i just changed why have i got elbow oh no well you can always make those changes ahead of
1:02:49
australia which is the next race on the calendar and that is where you will hear from us all again
1:02:54
next but only if assuming you're not an f2 fan in which case you'll probably skip our feeder series
1:02:58
review covering the f2 action in saudi arabia and can hang on until we are talking all things
1:03:04
australian grand prix in a few weeks time although if you really want some more interaction with us
1:03:10
i say interaction like this is some sort of relationship it's not we don't know you
1:03:14
there is an interview with former f3 driver and current usf pro 2000 championship driver
1:03:19
francesco pizzi so keep your eyes and ears peeled for that that's on its way out teemo you conducted
1:03:25
the interview earlier today i want to say was it i did indeed bright and early this morning and it
1:03:30
was an absolute treat nice chap so look forward to hearing uh your interesting chat with francesco
1:03:36
on the way soon still in the meantime if you want more from the three of us and indeed our guest
1:03:41
teemo where can the people find you can find me over on is it fast on the curbs the nitrox podcast
1:03:48
paddock sorority paddock passion and instagram i am just about gosh darn everywhere as i like to say
1:03:53
he is indeed elly may where can you be found uh you can find me co what's the word co
1:04:03
co-managing co-running co-running yeah co-running the instagram page and running the tiktok page
1:04:13
it's very much worth yeah very much worth checking out the instagram page there are some fantastic
1:04:18
graphics and bits elly may puts together for that one including uh head of the saudi romean grand
1:04:22
prix you had a brilliant little berm sort of circuit guide as well that was quite fun to
1:04:27
read through that one so make sure you're giving us a follow over on the gram and if you want more
1:04:31
from la where can people find you they can find me on road to f1 and that's on all the platforms
1:04:38
available which is instagram facebook tiktok twitter and on youtube as well because you know
1:04:45
i do intend to get some nice interviews in this season and i already have a couple out there with
1:04:50
louise goodman uh who we all know and love from icv formula one days and also um i've just done
1:04:58
you talk about it francesco another new shirou's driver for f2 and that's brad benavides um and so
1:05:05
i've just interviewed him as well which is lovely to hear from him and he's got a little sort of
1:05:10
nice surprising story and a nice little background so yeah youtube as well yeah plenty of time for
1:05:17
you to get across the youtubes and keep an eye on those make sure you again always drop a like
1:05:21
comment and subscribe that's always the the phrase everyone loves using for youtube um if you want
1:05:26
more of me you can find me across twitter and instagram as at jesse on cars and if you really
1:05:31
want more of me and want to hear me rambling on about classic cars be sure to pick up the latest
1:05:36
issue of classic car weekly new issue drops wednesday which will hopefully be the day after
1:05:41
this podcast comes out we'll be able to read my words on the lotus esprit turbo the one that james
1:05:46
bond had in fioras only fantastic car um so yeah that's all we've got time for this week's episode
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we'll be back in australia