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F1 2025 Spanish GP Recap & Montreal GP Preview - Fast Laps with the Boys · Banter with the Boys

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  laced up let's go it's time for banter with the
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  boys welcome back to banter with the boys fast
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  laps i am joe starting off a little bit differently
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  we don't have smelty today instead it is just
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  me and our lovely guest slash permanent guest
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  slash co -host mike hello hi i'm here again i'm
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  not smelty you're not smelty no believe it or
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  not we're gonna have to i'm in his chair i mean
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  we're gonna gonna have to kind of you know navigate
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  this a little bit wing it we're winging it a
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  little bit yep it's been a busy day smelty's
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  gone he's he's incredibly busy with work right
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  now i think you are incredibly incredibly busy
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  with work right now you almost didn't make it
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  yeah i'm very busy with work too the outline
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  is barely done so it's gonna be it's gonna be
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  an off the an off the cuff one a little bit and
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  of course as always kevin behind the cameras
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  behind the mics he's waving you can't see it
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  but i promise he is waving and he's smiling he's
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  happy to be here he's happy to be here he's crying
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  Yeah, without further ado, I think we should
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  get into it. We have a little bit to cover. Yeah,
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  I think so. All right, let's do it. starting
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  off per usual i think we should just kind of
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  get into what happened before the race uh before
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  the race happened uh not i usually have sometimes
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  i'll have like paragraphs uh i'll have like a
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  lot of bullet points i don't have a ton this
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  time around um uh the first point i have yuki
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  out in q1 starting in 20th just right off the
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  bat um and then my actually only two i guess
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  uh stroll to miss spain um there were uh i guess
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  he still injured or he had to get into surgery
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  i think i think Maybe it revolved around his
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  wrist. I know he had a bicycling accident at
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  one point. This was like a year and a half ago
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  or something like that. He was out bicycling
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  and got injured and had to go in and get surgery
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  done on his hand and came back maybe sooner than
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  he should have. and uh just kept racing and i
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  guess they're saying that he just exasperated
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  it and yeah i mean if you don't have someone
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  fully healed and you keep working it it's not
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  going to make it better no it's not especially
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  not in something as demanding as formula one
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  right right yeah and so i think we should talk
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  a little bit i don't know if you've heard anything
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  about it but you know what his future looks like
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  and just for the next coming races we'll talk
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  about it um lots to talk about jumping into the
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  race that's all we have for kind of the pre -race
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  banter um jumping into the race the starting
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  grid um piastri norris and happen um russell
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  hamilton antony leclerc ghastly hajar and then
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  alonzo uh a bit of a mix -up uh at the uh really
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  actually the latter half of that one big noticeable
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  difference near the start but right off the bat
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  mclaren won two i mean Did you think, I mean,
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  did you think that your prediction was, you had
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  some, you had Piastri first in your prediction.
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  Right. I think I had Norse and then I had Piastri
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  on third. Right. I mean, they're, they're looking,
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  still looking very good. I mean, very comfortable.
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  I think I said it on our last pod that Andrea
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  Stella had came out and commented saying like
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  for everyone hoping that these, these wing changes
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  are going to make a difference. You're looking
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  at the wrong thing. No, yeah, that's an excellent
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  point. It was right when we had some new. uh
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  some new changes to the car and again just like
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  the rear wing everyone thought that this would
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  be their downfall but yeah it wasn't yeah that's
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  i think like looking at it more i think a lot
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  of uh a lot of people are kind of narrowing in
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  that their biggest strength right now is probably
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  um their tire management and that mostly comes
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  from the cooling of their brakes they're just
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  way better at cooling their brakes than any other
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  car on the grid i don't know did we talk about
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  that last pot at all they're like the their brakes
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  system being kind of like like i guess their
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  biggest outlier right now right to other teams
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  it's like they have this like um auto cooling
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  kind of like brake feature where like it separates
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  the the brakes from the actual wheel and so dag
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  is a little bit better for them i don't think
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  it's like you know otherworldly different but
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  it's enough clearly good enough yeah it was it
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  was enough that like i know red bull was trying
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  to like crack the whip and try to be like hey
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  the mclaren guys are cheating you need to do
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  something about it and so the fia like dug into
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  their car to see if they could find some way
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  and the fia was like now i mean everything looks
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  good yep Everything looks good. A near perfect,
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  flawless race from Piastri, I would say. Norris
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  doing, unfortunately, a little kind of Norris
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  things at the start. He fought hard, I will say,
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  through the first turn. He didn't give it up,
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  but he did lose it immediately, but gained it
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  right back and then was pretty steady there for
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  the rest of the race. There's been an ongoing
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  joke I've been seeing across a bunch of different
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  F1 content creators where people are keeping
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  a bottle count, the Norris bottle count. And
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  I think our bottle count for this season is up
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  to 19. wow 19 different bottles yeah because
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  he keeps on bottling it in different situations
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  in qualifying or in races or i guess i feel like
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  this season he's already at 19 i feel like that's
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  gotta be like season i don't know i feel like
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  these creators just are out of are out for lando
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  there are some lando haters out there and i'm
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  not here for it i don't know one of them is notably
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  a huge mclaren fan like it's his favorite team
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  yeah so i don't know man i don't know well maybe
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  he has definitely shown himself doing it in the
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  past but i feel like he's had a pretty good season
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  i mean he's second Second in drivers. He's only
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  10 points off of Piastri, but none of us would
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  have expected Piastri to be leading at this point.
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  Currently 50 points off of Max. Crazy. 49 to
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  be exact, but 50 points off Max. Max is closer
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  to Russell than Verstappen. Max is closer to
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  Piastri. Right. Isn't that insane? And then Russell
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  in fourth. I mean, Mr. Consistently just ending
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  up on the podium, you know? Yeah. I mean, these.
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  like just so good at just accidentally being
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  there i had to double check i was like wait was
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  he on the podium no no no he wasn't just in general
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  he finds himself there a lot he's got he's got
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  the points to kind of show it um but yeah i just
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  wanted to kind of throw it out there uh what
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  do you i mean i just kind of want to stay in
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  piaggio just for a second longer like he had
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  incredible race granted uh mclarens are known
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  to be kind of a little a little worse in the
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  dirty air like other cars but notably it seems
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  to affect them a little bit more he had clean
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  air so he stayed in front of the entire time
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  i don't think it was at any point was it like
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  a max level dominance of being like over like
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  10 or 10 seconds or something crazy or was he
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  just steadily in front i think he was just steadily
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  in front i don't think it was quite that crazy
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  i don't remember we uh we're recording this race
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  the week two weeks yeah yeah oh yeah after so
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  a little bit later so i don't remember the race
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  exactly but i don't think it was quite that dominant
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  but to be fair he did get the max first app and
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  treatment that we saw him take off in corner
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  one and didn't see him until he crossed the finish
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  line yep so i mean clearly there was that level
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  of dominance that like we didn't need to look
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  at him at all no so i mean yeah he is just again
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  proving to everybody why you know he is a champion
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  in the making yeah like very possibly this year
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  absolutely i i absolutely agree and i'll kind
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  of i'll kind of keep it on mclaren for a second
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  and then we'll we'll ease ourselves into um probably
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  the biggest thing to come out i mean i i saw
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  the memes you probably saw them too it was like
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  lap one and two everyone kind of cheering it
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  was really exciting like two to what was it uh
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  two to like 60 yeah two to 63 was like like our
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  two to 64 59 was like boring and then 60 to 64
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  was like crazy again super crazy so after that
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  safety car brought out by i believe antonelli
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  his car just blew up right yep just stopped working
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  uh on the restart we saw piastri kind of i mean
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  that's exactly what happened like i don't know
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  if you've seen the footage but literally he was
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  coming up to a corner and you can hear his car
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  just going yep and then it just stopped silent
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  and then you and then you see like yeah yeah
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  it's it's like i i obviously not fun to see cars
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  retire but when you see him retire i love seeing
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  just the internal explosion kind of happen like
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  i i remember i think it was austria one year
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  signs his like you could see his back just explode
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  yeah a bit like it no like huge like explosion
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  outside but you could see like the body work
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  like kind of fattened out a little bit because
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  the engine just killed itself yeah um yeah so
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  uh until they went out safe car came out on the
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  restart piazza kind of backed up the field a
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  little bit max had a little bit of a moment there
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  um i guess we'll talk about his his pit as well
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  um he pit for new tires and all he had left were
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  hards came out complaining about him and then
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  we saw the restart and i guess we can kind of
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  get into max downfall do you want to just kind
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  of run us through it for yeah so he he pits for
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  the hards and even like they so they called him
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  in for the pit like right when he was coming
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  up to the pit lane so there was no time for him
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  to like to say wait why are we pitting what tire
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  are we putting on what's going on it was basically
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  just max get in the pit now and he just trusted
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  gp trusted his pit wall got in the pit pulled
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  out and literally wasn't even out of the pit
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  lane before he got on his comms and was like
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  wait are these hards did you guys put hards on
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  my car and went out and basically just went through
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  The race restart, coming through that final corner
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  into the pit straight, lost some traction, fishtailed.
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  I mean, a beautiful recovery. Such a good recovery.
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  He was almost perpendicular. Yeah. Like, so good.
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  Like, incredible that he saved that car. He should
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  have spun out. Definitely. But yeah, it did just
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  completely open the door for Charles Leclerc
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  behind him to make a charge on him. He did try
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  to defend it. It did look like he might have
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  tapped Charles Leclerc, but it wasn't enough
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  to damage either car. And Charles got the position,
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  so there's no reason to make anything out of
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  it. Yep. And then he had to struggle with Russell
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  coming up behind him. And they fought into turn
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  one where Russell kind of shoved him out, like
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  jetted him off the track. And so he took that
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  runoff that so many drivers were doing at the
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  race. Russell took the runoff, I believe, right?
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  No, Max took the runoff. Max took the runoff
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  to come ahead of Russell. Oh, okay. You're right.
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  And he came ahead of Russell. And because of
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  that, the team got on the radio and said, you
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  need to give that position back. And Max was
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  like, why? I don't need to. And the GP said,
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  just give it back. Don't fight it. Just give
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  it back. And Max was just not having it. Already
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  upset that he lost the position because he was
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  on the wrong tires. Upset that he pit to begin
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  with and they put him on hards. And then this
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  happens as well when he was pretty confident
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  that he didn't need to give that position back.
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  Uh, so he might have let loose a little bit and
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  crashed into Russell on turn. I think it's seven.
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  Somebody can correct me, but no one's going to
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  correct you here. Yeah. I think it's around that,
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  around that turn, uh, the turn before the kind
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  of the straight that goes into the longer straight,
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  a little uphill. Yeah. Um, yeah. And that was
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  kind of like the biggest question coming out
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  of the race. I mean, like to the viewer, to us,
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  it was like, that was intentional. He just rammed
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  him. Um, but kind of in the paddock how it was
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  looked at how it had to be looked at it was just
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  like was that on purpose if it was he should
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  probably get a bit more of a punishment for it
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  versus yeah maybe he just maybe he thought that
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  he wanted to give the place but then he didn't
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  so he made a bad move so it was like just like
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  who was like what his intention was and of course
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  max beautifully during interviews doesn't give
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  anything i don't want to talk about yeah doesn't
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  give a single thing away so like still kind of
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  up in the air he does end up with a 10 second
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  penalty which kicks him back to yep uh and i
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  think like i think we were like looking at it
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  just like if he had well no yeah he kicked him
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  back to 10th yep yeah and uh yeah he what was
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  my comment that i had on it just a second ago
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  my brain is farting um i do know that after just
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  i think it was about a week ago um A little while
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  after the race, a few days after the race, Max
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  did actually come out and make a formal apology
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  on, I think, Instagram. And it was him saying
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  that, you know, that was not professional. You
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  know, I shouldn't have done that. It wasn't the
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  most, the best apology he could have made. It
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  was kind of, kind of. Kind of on the side, Kevin's
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  pulling it up on screen right now for us. Yeah,
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  I think he definitely took accountability for
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  the error he made. He definitely didn't say that
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  he intentionally did it, and I don't think we
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  got a crazy apology. We had an exciting strategy
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  and good race in Barcelona until the safety car
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  came out. Our tire choice to the end and some
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  moves after the safety car restart fueled my
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  frustration, leading to a move that was not right
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  and shouldn't have happened. i always give everything
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  out there for the team and emotions can run high
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  he wins them together you lose them together
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  see you in montreal so no real apology per se
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  but um did he did say that the move he made was
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  a bad move right um didn't say he intentionally
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  tried hurting russell just said that it was not
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  a good move yes which is really i mean that's
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  pr at its finest right yep fair enough and it's
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  good that he addressed it um I mean, he did take
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  accountability for it. He said, I was frustrated
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  and I made a bad move. He did. Which is. Like
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  I said, for Max Verstappen, more than he usually
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  gives. Like ordinarily. Which is nothing. Yeah,
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  ordinarily he makes a move like that. And people
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  want to complain about it. He just says, I don't
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  want to talk about it. I'd say we got growth
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  from him, right? I think the earliest image of
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  him I can paint in my mind is him pushing Ocon
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  after the issue they had on track. Now he's a
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  dad. He's still making crazy moves on track.
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  But he's a little bit more calm about it. He
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  just doesn't talk. He's going the silent route,
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  which I can respect. I don't care. I don't love
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  all the journalists anyway. And the journalists
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  want to create drama. Yeah. Definitely. Before
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  we move on from Max, I just want to ask then,
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  obviously he was under pressure on track. Is
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  it getting to him? I feel like we've seen this
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  in the past where he gets under pressure and
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  he starts making really, really aggressive moves.
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  We saw it with Lando last year a good couple
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  times. Is it just when he's put in a really bad
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  spot, he starts to crumble a little bit? I feel
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  like he does have a little bit of that rage,
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  and it's gamer rage. It is gamer rage. It is
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  literally gamer rage. I was listening to a different
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  podcast earlier. who literally one of the people
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  in the podcast was saying that they say that
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  move on George Russell is literally something
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  you see out of a sim racing game. And they're
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  like, probably because Max is a sim racer. He
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  did what he would have done in a sim racing game.
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  crashed into him he did what max sometimes does
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  do yeah we've seen him do it like i've seen the
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  streams like so uh yeah i mean it was probably
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  just a lapse of judgment he got angry and you
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  know um i've seen some people and i'm kind of
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  i i assume i know what your take on this is going
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  to be but i've seen some people on like reddit
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  and twitter and instagram and stuff like that
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  who've made some comments saying that max's and
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  the way he acted doing that to Russell is a champion
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  mindset. And they're recalling it to say, look
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  at Michael Schumacher or Ayrton Senna or Niki
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  Lauda. These were drivers that would always shunt
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  other drivers off the track and push drivers
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  off and make these super aggressive moves. And
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  these guys are champions. yeah i mean you don't
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  have to let that define a champion right so was
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  hamilton yeah i mean i don't think hamilton ever
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  intentionally did something like that to at least
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  to my knowledge like i mean i'm sure he probably
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  has and also those are really old drivers where
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  like it Things were a little bit more lenient
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  back then, still not good to do, but like different
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  back then. It was like high. I mean, it still
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  is high drama, big entertainment when we see
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  it now. But like it's it was like more so the
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  norm, I would say. it was more dangerous back
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  then it was more dangerous there's more point
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  of safety nowadays oh yeah doing something like
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  what max did is very it's like yeah if he ever
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  came out that that was 100 intentional and i
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  don't think we'll look into it because i don't
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  think anyone wants this to happen he would get
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  bans like straight up straight up yeah i mean
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  I think Rosberg was the one who was calling for
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  a black flag on him. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Like a commentator.
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  Like he was sitting here. He goes, he needs to
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  be DQ'd for that. We need a black flag him. That
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  is unacceptable. Yep. Instead, demoted to P10,
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  one point and enough points on his license that
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  one more and he gets a race ban. Yes, sir. Which
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  is exciting. And if that happens, I mean. Do
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  they bring Liam back up? Do they try Hajar out?
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  Can they even do that? Or do they get a reserve
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  driver? Red Bull actually has already commented
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  saying the fact that to address fans wondering,
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  they say that they've stated the fact that they
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  are likely going to bring Hajar up to the new
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  car. At that point, they've got the chance. It's
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  a benchmark to Yuki. Yeah. And then they get
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  to have a benchmark to Yuki and Hajar both in
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  the Red Bull. Yuki should be scared of that moment.
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  Yuki should be scared of that moment because
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  if Hajar comes in and really lights it up in
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  the Red Bull, they don't have a real reason to
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  keep him around. I agree. Yeah. Like, put him
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  back in the V -Carb and then you got Hajar. I
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  absolutely agree with you. So... Right. Ferrari?
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  Ferrari. I mean, P3 for Leclerc, that is... best
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  no he got p2 in manico right yeah um so obviously
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  wanting to get higher up there but podiums back
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  -to -back podiums which is the best we've seen
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  ferrari all year so far um hamilton not super
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  far behind in six uh picking up that extra place
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  once max got demoted which is nice a little bit
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  of a more rough race for hamilton i think it
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  seems to be kind of yeah it seems to be kind
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  of a It's becoming a thing. Yeah. I think he's
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  still acclimating to the car. I've been seeing
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  a bunch of people talking about like, oh, well,
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  is Hamilton actually washed? Or how much time
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  do we need to give Hamilton to learn the car?
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  And like, yeah, I get that he's a multi -time
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  world champion. But we also need to remember
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  that he has his entire F1 career only driven
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  with Mercedes power unit. Yep. Because prior
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  to Mercedes, he drove for McLaren, which was
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  a Mercedes power unit. Yeah. And so. This was
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  before they were, I think they were Renault before
• 18:53
  they were Mercedes. But during Hamilton's time,
• 18:55
  they were Mercedes. Always Mercedes? Yeah. Okay.
• 18:57
  So he has literally only ever driven for a Mercedes
• 19:00
  power unit. So this is very different for him.
• 19:02
  So there's going to be some adjusting. I think
• 19:06
  it's fine. He's still picking up points. He's
• 19:07
  still doing a pretty good job. And he would have
• 19:09
  held sixth if it weren't for the fact that the
• 19:12
  car ahead of him had newer tires. Yep. And we'll
• 19:16
  talk about that once we get there. We'll talk
• 19:18
  about that very shortly. And I'm so excited to
• 19:19
  talk about it. Talk about that very shortly.
• 19:21
  Mercedes, Russell in fourth. Good placement for
• 19:25
  Mercedes. Very acceptable where they need to
• 19:27
  be, unfortunately. uh a more bad luck for them
• 19:32
  as well with antony you know his car exploding
• 19:34
  um not much else to say about mercedes clean
• 19:36
  race out there until the very end where he had
• 19:38
  that bit with uh max but i think kimmy was up
• 19:41
  in the points wasn't he using like eighth or
• 19:43
  something like that he was yeah i mean he was
• 19:45
  he was definitely competing so he was in the
• 19:46
  points which is like he started in pretty good
• 19:49
  show yeah he started in what is 10th 9th 8th
• 19:51
  7th he started sixth sure yeah so i think he
• 19:54
  might have dropped positions but like c 'est
• 19:56
  la vie like it's he's still in the points and
• 20:00
  then his car exploded yeah um i mean if we're
• 20:03
  going in order of the finishing grid do you know
• 20:05
  who's next yes and this is just so everyone in
• 20:08
  case you haven't watched it you should watch
• 20:09
  it at least watch the first two laps and then
• 20:11
  the last five um yeah and then maybe maybe catch
• 20:15
  the highlights highlights i think highlights
• 20:17
  do well for you um hulkenberg and that's hulkenberg
• 20:21
  in a kick salber in fifth place before you go
• 20:26
  off There was a question you asked me after one
• 20:29
  of our recording nights. You said, if Hulkenberg
• 20:31
  was in a better car, would he consistently be
• 20:34
  competing for podiums? And I said, I don't think
• 20:36
  so. Yep. I'm not going to lie. This kind of turned
• 20:40
  me around a little bit. He's been so good. Like,
• 20:42
  ever since he came back, like, this is his third
• 20:46
  season back, right? Ever since he's come back,
• 20:47
  entirely different driver. Entirely different.
• 20:51
  The way he's been racing has been masterclass,
• 20:53
  given the... fact that he's driving boats yeah
• 20:55
  like a haas the the 2023 haas the 2024 haas obviously
• 21:00
  was better and we saw him consistently scoring
• 21:02
  points and consistently fighting his way up and
• 21:05
  like just great performances and now in a sauber
• 21:07
  um the first fifth place finish for sauber since
• 21:12
  i think i heard like like i think it was like
• 21:14
  2008 So it's been a long time since Sauber has
• 21:21
  been this high up and he got them there. And
• 21:23
  it was mostly due to merit because I remember
• 21:27
  halfway through the race looking down and commenting,
• 21:30
  is that Nico Hulkenberg in 10th? Are we going
• 21:34
  to see a Sauber in points? What is happening?
• 21:38
  And then he just kept climbing and climbing and
• 21:41
  climbing. And then there's the infamous clip
• 21:43
  of him overtaking Lewis Hamilton on the last
• 21:46
  lap. which is crazy. I literally stood up out
• 21:52
  of my chair cheering when I saw him overtake
• 21:55
  Lewis. I was so excited. I watched it late because
• 21:58
  I was out of town, but I was on voice chat with
• 22:02
  you, and there was just a moment where I was
• 22:03
  like, Hulkenberg? I don't think I was watching
• 22:06
  the whole race, but he was slowly making his
• 22:09
  way. All of a sudden, you're like, wait, is that?
• 22:10
  And he started 15th. Yeah. It was a crazy drive.
• 22:15
  It was an insane drive. And yet somehow he didn't
• 22:18
  get driver of the day. No, Max did. And then
• 22:20
  Max got demoted to 10th, which was like, it's
• 22:24
  funny because I think if he didn't, if he didn't
• 22:26
  have that penalty, I probably would have understood
• 22:27
  more. But like, you know, voting was so late
• 22:30
  and the crash was so late. Everyone. Yeah. Well,
• 22:32
  by the time voting had ended, by the time that
• 22:34
  the. this the no voting ends on like the last
• 22:37
  like at the last lap did it it does yeah but
• 22:40
  like but like it was like i mean most votes are
• 22:42
  at that point yeah um he would need like a whole
• 22:45
  another country to start voting i was talking
• 22:48
  to uh our mutual friend about this and like uh
• 22:52
  him and i were talking about it and he's like
• 22:54
  oh well you know max was having a great race
• 22:55
  though up to that point and i was like yeah but
• 22:57
  max didn't drive 15th to 6th which then obviously
• 23:01
  Nico got promoted to fifth because of Max's penalty,
• 23:04
  but still. that's still six i would be just as
• 23:08
  astonished at sixth yeah that's crazy yeah it's
• 23:12
  a insane insane race for hulkenberg and sauber
• 23:16
  it puts them i mean still not high it puts them
• 23:18
  in eighth but they're level with aston martin
• 23:21
  they're above alpine and they're 10 points from
• 23:23
  haas right now like right i mean more points
• 23:26
  they had last year right and the year before
• 23:28
  i think i think together yeah so uh yeah it's
• 23:31
  uh so uh before i kind of yeah so i mean like
• 23:34
  anything else just his race that you want to
• 23:36
  kind of call out other other quick thing that
• 23:38
  i did want to talk about from sauber yeah so
• 23:40
  this race or actually i think it was the race
• 23:42
  before i think they might have brought it to
• 23:44
  monaco but over since coming to europe cake sauber
• 23:47
  brought a huge upgrade i want to talk about this
• 23:49
  too yeah and they upgraded the heck out of their
• 23:52
  car and now we're seeing the fruits of their
• 23:55
  labor and i'm really curious if you think that
• 23:58
  this is going to be something that we're seeing
• 24:00
  more consistently going forward if maybe the
• 24:02
  sauber is picking up more points or if this is
• 24:05
  just a one -time fluke obviously fifth is probably
• 24:08
  a fluke yeah i don't think i'm gonna see him
• 24:10
  i'm gonna i don't think we're gonna see him get
• 24:12
  into fifth again bordaletto in 12th oh my gosh
• 24:15
  bordaletto in 12th there's a lot of l's yeah
• 24:18
  uh i is still not bad really good honestly qualied
• 24:21
  was it 15th uh he qualified yeah he qualified
• 24:27
  i think bordaletto started he was at the bottom
• 24:32
  so he kept position yeah so he kept position
• 24:35
  yeah which is honestly for a rookie in the worst
• 24:38
  car in the grid you know like that's i'd still
• 24:40
  i still rate it you know yeah um so back to your
• 24:44
  question i do not see them getting into fifth
• 24:47
  again unless something crazy were to happen yeah
• 24:49
  i think enough enough kind of chaos ish stuff
• 24:53
  happened in this race to allow him to get into
• 24:55
  that place plus he just drove an excellent race
• 24:57
  yeah with great strategy i i do expect them with
• 25:01
  this upgrade or at least i hope that they start
• 25:03
  fighting for the last point position yes that's
• 25:06
  all i can really ask from at this point is that
• 25:08
  one point yeah because i mean getting that enough
• 25:11
  times and you're you're beating teams honestly
• 25:13
  yeah right um oh i do also need to make sure
• 25:17
  that i get my jabs in on you too because i do
• 25:20
  believe in our first episode of the pod Where
• 25:23
  I had made a comment about Nico Hulkenberg scoring
• 25:25
  points. And you and Smelty... God, I wish Smelty
• 25:27
  were here. Smelty, you're going to hear this.
• 25:31
  That you guys both looked at me like I was...
• 25:33
  crazy because i said nico hulkenberg was gonna
• 25:35
  score points this season and i was like i think
• 25:37
  he'll score some points and then he scored points
• 25:39
  in the first race and you guys were like it's
• 25:40
  a fluke he won't do it again and here he is in
• 25:43
  fifth i think we need to get a replay i don't
• 25:45
  think we said he was we were he wasn't gonna
• 25:47
  score points run it back i didn't i didn't think
• 25:49
  we said he was gonna not score points i just
• 25:51
  think we thought it was crazy for i think you
• 25:53
  said consistently score points no no i just said
• 25:56
  he's gonna score a few points across the season
• 25:57
  listen if i'm wrong i'm wrong and i'll eat my
• 25:59
  words now but i i don't it doesn't sound like
• 26:02
  me to say he wouldn't score points you'll be
• 26:03
  hearing about you'll be hearing about this i'm
• 26:05
  gonna go back to that right i'm gonna go back
• 26:06
  to that pod and i'll you know i'll send you a
• 26:08
  letter with the former apology and i expect it
• 26:11
  on my desk by midnight gotcha um all right uh
• 26:15
  we talked about ferrari already um seventh racing
• 26:18
  bulls hadjar crazy this guy yeah honestly he's
• 26:22
  our he's kevin's favorite red bull driver i guess
• 26:24
  um uh he's i mean i we've said it before he's
• 26:29
  the best rookie out there i think i think it's
• 26:32
  between him and antonelli and given the fact
• 26:35
  that antonelli is in just an objectively better
• 26:37
  car like yeah Yeah, I mean, that's a good point.
• 26:41
  Antonelli is definitely competing, but if Antonelli
• 26:45
  were at Hajar's level, Antonelli would be fighting
• 26:47
  for podiums consistently, I feel like, with the
• 26:49
  racing bull in the state that it's in. It kind
• 26:52
  of makes you wonder. We know that the Red Bull
• 26:56
  is a... It's just a flawed car, right? The second
• 26:59
  seat is a little bit cursed. No one else can
• 27:01
  really drive it but Max. At some point, if Hadjar
• 27:04
  keeps performing like this, I know they've already
• 27:06
  said they're not going to swap Yuki out, but
• 27:08
  maybe it's worth doing once or twice. In Constructors,
• 27:12
  Hadjar is only 27 points behind Antonelli. How
• 27:20
  is he compared? That's fine. How does he compare
• 27:22
  to Yuki is what I'm curious. To Yuki? Where is
• 27:25
  Yuki? He's above Yuki. he's above yuki sunoda
• 27:29
  is currently in 15th with 10 points isaac kajar
• 27:32
  is in 9th with 21 points i can understand not
• 27:37
  wanting to because i wouldn't want to either
• 27:39
  i don't want to swap the red bull drivers anymore
• 27:41
  um but and i think they should seriously be considering
• 27:44
  for next year right no I think so. Because I
• 27:48
  think Red Bull's biggest problem, and we see
• 27:50
  them do this over and over and over again, is
• 27:52
  they rush their rookies into the seat. Yeah.
• 27:55
  And the other Red Bull seat just eats them up.
• 27:59
  And so we finally have a rookie that we gave
• 28:02
  some seasons to to grow and develop in Yuki Tsunoda,
• 28:06
  and then we put him in that other seat. Obviously,
• 28:08
  that's not working really well right now, but
• 28:10
  that's mostly due to the car just not being copacetic
• 28:13
  to the second driver. But Hajar, I think if we
• 28:17
  put him in that other car, he's going to have
• 28:19
  the exact same problems. You're probably right.
• 28:21
  And all it's going to do is it's just going to
• 28:22
  ruin his career. I think we just take some time,
• 28:24
  give him his experience, let him continue racing
• 28:27
  with racing bulls, and just build this experience
• 28:30
  through all these races and let him grow. We
• 28:33
  already see this much experience. What happens
• 28:35
  in three years? Give Yuki maybe two years with
• 28:39
  this Red Bull and let Yuki kind of skirt by.
• 28:44
  And if Hajar is still performing, then pull Hajar
• 28:50
  up. So, fundamentally, I think you're absolutely
• 28:52
  correct. But that's not how the Red Bull machine
• 28:55
  goes, baby. God, I hate that you're right. That's
• 28:58
  not how the Red Bull machine goes. And you know
• 29:00
  it, too. All right? Hajar 2026. Oh, my God, please.
• 29:04
  Replacing Max. Max is going to Mercedes. Oh,
• 29:07
  my God. Aston Martin. Max to Aston? No. I truly
• 29:11
  do think, though, like, I mean. I mean, I just
• 29:14
  feel like Red Bull and their drivers, except
• 29:15
  for Max, obviously, because they hit the gold
• 29:17
  mine with Max, right? Every single of the drivers
• 29:21
  just in for a painful, painful career at the
• 29:24
  moment. Yeah. Because you're either Liam and
• 29:26
  you're stuck in reserve driving until you finally
• 29:28
  get your shot and then you're demoted back to
• 29:30
  the sister team and you don't succeed. Yep. Or
• 29:34
  you become Hadjar and he might be in for a fate
• 29:37
  such as Yuki where he's just in that team forever.
• 29:40
  He becomes the new benchmark. Yes. Because, of
• 29:43
  course, then you've also got the up -and -coming
• 29:44
  Arvid Lindblad in F2, who is, I think, performing
• 29:47
  pretty well in F2. I think he's only F3 right
• 29:49
  now. Oh, is he in F2? I'm pretty certain he's
• 29:51
  in F2. He was in F3 last year. He was in F3 last
• 29:53
  year, yes. He had a very, very quick... He had
• 29:55
  an incredibly quick step. I have him in news.
• 29:57
  We'll talk about him for a second. Okay, awesome.
• 29:59
  But yeah, once again, and I saw that, and I was
• 30:01
  like, once again, they're a cup runneth over
• 30:02
  with drivers, and you're just putting yourself
• 30:05
  in for a bad time. So Hadjar 7th, better than
• 30:08
  Lawson on 11th. Again, disappointing. I don't
• 30:10
  really want to talk about it anymore. In 8th,
• 30:13
  Ghastly. Smelty? Smelty? Weird. All right, I
• 30:17
  guess we're moving on. In 9th, Alonso. Alonzo
• 30:24
  in ninth. He got points. He got points. At his
• 30:27
  home race. He got points at his home race. Wait,
• 30:30
  was it really ninth? It was ninth. Yeah. Let's
• 30:34
  go. That's awesome. I should have worn my Aston
• 30:36
  hat. Two points, right? Two points, yeah. He
• 30:38
  got two points. Hey, you know what? That's more
• 30:39
  points than I think. That is 200 % more points
• 30:42
  than he had across the season. Actually, that's
• 30:44
  not even right because he was at zero. Yeah,
• 30:46
  it's not right. Yeah, you're right. It's not
• 30:48
  right. It's not right. It's not right. So he
• 30:53
  pushes Aston Martin to 16 points, still getting
• 30:57
  beat by Kick technically because Kick had the
• 30:59
  bigger leap. Because Kick has had a better finish.
• 31:02
  Because Aston has never been up to fifth place.
• 31:05
  So because Kick has had the higher finish across
• 31:07
  the season, Kick is ahead in constructors. Yes.
• 31:09
  That's how they measure that. That is true. I
• 31:12
  think, oh, Williams, Albon with, did Albon crash
• 31:17
  or did he have a car issue? It's been a while.
• 31:21
  I thought he crashed, right? Because he took
• 31:23
  wind damage in lap one, didn't he? And then he
• 31:26
  was racing later. No, you're right. Yeah, he
• 31:30
  took wind damage and then he went back out and
• 31:32
  then took wind damage again to Lawson or something.
• 31:38
  I don't think he took wind damage. He took wing
• 31:40
  damage a second time, and then they were like,
• 31:42
  yeah, just retire the car. Albon picks up wing
• 31:45
  damage after being overtaken by Lawson. He's
• 31:47
  told to box to retire, but he gets a 10 -second
• 31:50
  penalty while he's in the box. So they send him
• 31:52
  out to serve that penalty, and then he retires
• 31:55
  directly after. I don't remember the time beforehand.
• 31:57
  I don't have it noted, at least. But either way,
• 32:00
  he had a penalty, so he just... Yeah. yeah he
• 32:08
  had a penalty so he you know he ended his race
• 32:11
  that way not a great race for williams not in
• 32:14
  the form that i was at least hoping that they
• 32:16
  would be in right um you know i wanted them to
• 32:20
  keep getting into the points but hey you know
• 32:23
  what they're still fat or sixth they're still
• 32:25
  sixth and pretty safe in sixth because no your
• 32:28
  team is right behind them what are you talking
• 32:32
  about no wait Williams is in fifth currently.
• 32:34
  Oh, Williams is in fifth. I'm sorry. They are
• 32:36
  pretty safely in fifth. Yes, they are pretty
• 32:38
  safely in fifth. Speaking of your team, though,
• 32:41
  they're the last that we have on here. Haas,
• 32:43
  what do you have to say for yourself? Why are
• 32:47
  you wearing that hat? i like this hat it's a
• 32:51
  good hat yeah it's a good hat it just it tastes
• 32:54
  a little sour right now yeah it was a tough trip
• 32:56
  it fits a little poorly it was a tough triple
• 32:59
  header uh life moves on i don't know we were
• 33:02
  they actually had commented that they were expecting
• 33:04
  troubles in this track so yeah not europe in
• 33:08
  a whole i think they're gonna they're gonna do
• 33:09
  well in a couple of these tracks but um yeah
• 33:12
  they did they did say that They were expecting
• 33:16
  some difficulties on this track, especially.
• 33:18
  So I'm not too surprised. We're still in. No,
• 33:23
  we are down to seventh. We fell down to seventh
• 33:25
  behind V -Carb. You did. Two points. Yeah. So
• 33:29
  that sucks. But still very doable. V -Carb really
• 33:33
  only has one driver that's scoring them points.
• 33:36
  And he's not Max Verstappen. So as long as both
• 33:40
  of our drivers can keep hitting points every
• 33:43
  now and then, there's a good chance we can. catch
• 33:45
  up to v -carb and reclaim ourselves in sixth
• 33:48
  i think i'm i'm happy enough with hoss insects
• 33:51
  so it is what it is i'm glad you're happy that's
• 33:56
  all that matters when it comes to house your
• 33:58
  happiness you know it's great to see them falling
• 34:00
  back down consistency is key yeah yeah uh that's
• 34:06
  bad yeah unfortunately that's all i had for the
• 34:09
  race any other any other tidbits you want to
• 34:11
  bring up for the race before we get into comms
• 34:13
  No, I think we can just go jump into comms. Let's
• 34:15
  jump into comms. Do you have any that you want
• 34:17
  to call out? I have four. I actually think that
• 34:19
  I had one. You did have one. I usually don't
• 34:22
  keep track of comms. I do. Ever since we started
• 34:25
  this, I've started keeping track of them because
• 34:26
  I love them. They're just really good this year.
• 34:29
  I'm sure they've always been good. It was the
• 34:30
  comment between Max and GP. Yes. Max, driving
• 34:36
  out of the pit, said, Now, what the... explorative
• 34:41
  are these tires and gb came back and said uh
• 34:44
  so these are hards max That's good. And I just,
• 34:49
  man, I love how sassy GP is. He is so freaking
• 34:52
  funny. I remember the point, I think it was before
• 34:56
  last year, where he was his race engineer, and
• 34:59
  he was very calm and collected. And last year,
• 35:01
  he was like, I'm not putting up with anything.
• 35:03
  Yeah, I'm done getting bullied. Yeah, it's like
• 35:05
  during the winter, they just had a really bro
• 35:07
  connection, like a bro moment. He's like, I'm
• 35:10
  just going to say my mind. Or maybe Max was like,
• 35:12
  yeah, just say your mind on the radio. I can
• 35:14
  take it. They probably got really drunk together.
• 35:16
  Maybe. are we just making like fiction fiction
• 35:20
  stories yeah yeah i'm okay with this yeah yeah
• 35:25
  my fanfic um yeah big gp and max just hanging
• 35:30
  out just hanging out um okay uh i have a couple
• 35:34
  of them lap three uh this is after uh george
• 35:38
  had some struggles behind some people these explicitives
• 35:41
  are moving out of breaking today what is going
• 35:43
  on toto got onto the horn right after and said
• 35:45
  george concentrate george concentrate yep lap
• 35:49
  33 we had a max quote uh this was in reference
• 35:53
  to a quote he said last weekend on the weekend
• 35:56
  beforehand rather uh max it's again like i have
• 35:59
  no clutch while upshifting uh gp responds 1973
• 36:02
  max yeah maybe 74 now i love their banter it's
• 36:08
  so funny it's really really good when they're
• 36:10
  not arguing with each other like you know domesticated
• 36:13
  couple yeah that's funny because Most times you
• 36:15
  hear like the driver just pushes their engineer
• 36:17
  around, but GP just doesn't take it. Yep. Yeah,
• 36:20
  no. And then I have, I had the one that you had
• 36:24
  about max on that 55. The last one I have is
• 36:27
  Hamilton during the safety car. And he's, he's
• 36:30
  mentioned this before. In reference to the safety
• 36:33
  car, they do love wasting laps waiting for it
• 36:36
  to end. That was pretty funny. I've seen him
• 36:38
  a couple times get a little irritated with the
• 36:40
  safety car staying out too long. Speaking, you
• 36:43
  jogged my brain since you brought up Lewis. Did
• 36:46
  you see the post -race interviews at all? I watched
• 36:50
  a couple for the Max incident. Right, of course.
• 36:54
  I did not watch. the others though okay so lewis
• 36:58
  went up like um they're like right after the
• 37:01
  race they're just standing right outside the
• 37:02
  pit whatever and they talk to a commentator share
• 37:04
  a few words and then they go on their way right
• 37:05
  yeah um They went and talked to Lewis, and they
• 37:08
  tried talking to him, and I think that was the
• 37:10
  coldest, least interested, just very clearly.
• 37:14
  He was dejected. I do remember this now. And
• 37:16
  just kind of upset. And he was like, yeah, I
• 37:19
  don't want to talk about it. Goodbye. He was
• 37:21
  like, yeah, what do you want to say? It wasn't
• 37:24
  a good race. I'm not in a good mood. That's it.
• 37:26
  It was a bad day. I was like, wow. I mean, I
• 37:31
  would probably be a little upset, too, if I got
• 37:33
  overtaken by a Sauber. but yeah yeah finishing
• 37:38
  six yeah i mean if you're lewis hamilton i guess
• 37:40
  six really is never good enough no fifth isn't
• 37:43
  good enough fourth isn't good especially with
• 37:45
  all of the pressure on him from like moving to
• 37:47
  ferrari and like yeah yeah so yeah i just saw
• 37:51
  that i thought that was interesting i was gonna
• 37:53
  bring that up too because i was like i was like
• 37:55
  man what is going on with lewis he's got a little
• 37:59
  bit of an attitude right now yeah i think that's
• 38:01
  all we had for the spain uh you know It's a hard
• 38:05
  track to overtake on, but I love it. I'm really
• 38:09
  happy they're not replacing it next year. Same.
• 38:11
  That is confirmed now. We do have Barcelona coming
• 38:13
  back next year. Yes, we have Spain next year.
• 38:15
  I do have the calendar on our news segment, which
• 38:17
  is coming up next. We will talk about it. But
• 38:19
  very happy that we keep... spain i think i mentioned
• 38:23
  this before on the game probably the best track
• 38:25
  for me at least i love i love spain um so happy
• 38:28
  to see that's coming back um hopefully we'll
• 38:30
  get a bit more or we'll get um the same level
• 38:33
  at least of excitement that we got this year
• 38:35
  yeah maybe spread out a little bit during the
• 38:38
  race but i overall can't complain especially
• 38:40
  after monaco can't complain i don't know i felt
• 38:42
  like the race overall was enjoying i didn't i
• 38:44
  enjoyed it yeah it was my favorite out of the
• 38:47
  triple header i think so yeah yeah i would agree
• 38:50
  All right. With that, Kev, let's get into news.
• 39:00
  All right. Banter with the Boys does F1 news.
• 39:11
  I don't know. Well, we're getting into news now.
• 39:13
  That was my Ron Burgundy. I'm Ron Burgundy. I'm
• 39:16
  Ron Burgundy. First, first little tidbit here.
• 39:20
  I have this is your words, maybe Canada. And
• 39:24
  that's I think that's what kind of got me on
• 39:26
  this little question mark thing. News. Yeah,
• 39:30
  that's funny. Yeah. So I think you were hearing
• 39:33
  some similar stuff. So there is a very real possibility
• 39:38
  that we might not even be racing in Canada this
• 39:41
  weekend. There are a lot of wildfires going on
• 39:43
  in the Montreal area, and it is getting really
• 39:46
  close to Montreal to the point that it is reducing
• 39:49
  visibility and air quality. I saw photos of the
• 39:53
  track. It's already there. Yeah, it's pretty
• 39:55
  bad. And in fact, the Montreal area is currently
• 39:59
  listed as the worst air quality in the world.
• 40:02
  And so there's concerns about safety for the
• 40:06
  drivers and the pit crew as well as with visibility
• 40:09
  and just how well it's going to show on TV if
• 40:13
  everything is smoky and hazy. How good is it
• 40:16
  going to look? Is it even worth it? And then
• 40:19
  there's all the particulates in the air from
• 40:21
  everything burning around them. um that could
• 40:25
  potentially damage the vehicles these vehicles
• 40:27
  that are so sensitive in dirty air and now everything
• 40:31
  is dirty air yep so yeah i don't know it's uh
• 40:35
  it's interesting really good weather it's obviously
• 40:38
  it's not good it's really bad it's really bad
• 40:41
  obviously it's horrible uh we get affected by
• 40:44
  it we don't obviously we're not crushed we're
• 40:47
  not devastated by it but we see the smoke we're
• 40:49
  local minnesotans so we see the smoke climb down
• 40:53
  from canada quite often yep um it would what
• 40:56
  i was trying to say was like make would make
• 40:58
  really good photos when they're at the track
• 41:00
  but you're right it might not make good racing
• 41:02
  i'm just imagining poorly cropped pictures of
• 41:05
  lewis hamilton passing max with fire behind him
• 41:08
  i see i imagine different i'm imagining it's
• 41:10
  just like a slate of like or either a wall of
• 41:12
  smoke and then a mclaren just yeah It looks sick,
• 41:16
  but yeah, probably dangerous. So we should hear
• 41:19
  soon if it's canceled. I mean, I haven't seen
• 41:22
  anything official, right? So far, business as
• 41:27
  usual. So speaking of Canada, our Canadian stroll,
• 41:32
  has that been confirmed that he will be there?
• 41:35
  Has that confirmed that he will not yet? If he's
• 41:37
  not, who takes over for him? um yeah so uh deo
• 41:42
  porcher is driving in le mans he is he has stated
• 41:45
  that's happening that's happening the same weekend
• 41:47
  yep same weekend yep and deo porcher will be
• 41:49
  racing in le mans so he will not be available
• 41:51
  as their reserve driver so their other option
• 41:55
  Valtteri Bottas is accessible to every Mercedes
• 41:57
  works team as a reserve driver. I'd love to see
• 42:00
  him get back on track. We could get to see Valtteri
• 42:02
  Bottas. I want to see him get back on track and
• 42:04
  score the most points Aston Martin has seen this
• 42:07
  year. There has been some rumblings that Lance
• 42:10
  could just be coming back. Oh yeah, totally.
• 42:13
  And I think that's a bad idea. Not just for like,
• 42:17
  like as a Lance hater. Lance is worried if they
• 42:22
  put in a reserve driver in his place, he's going
• 42:25
  to keep the reserve driver. Well, no, not Lance.
• 42:28
  I think Aston is probably a little concerned
• 42:31
  about the optics of what happens if they do replace
• 42:34
  Lance for a race. And reserve driver turns out
• 42:38
  to do really, really good. He puts himself in
• 42:41
  fifth. And then what happens? Then how are they
• 42:44
  going to fight off all of the people who are
• 42:45
  trying to claim that Lance needs to get out and
• 42:47
  that he's holding the team back? In my opinion,
• 42:51
  they're fighting that all the time already. I
• 42:53
  don't think it's going to matter. It's not going
• 42:54
  to change anything. They don't address it ever,
• 42:56
  right? I mean, yes, but we as viewers and fans
• 43:01
  don't have benchmarks that we can directly take
• 43:03
  because we can only trust their benchmarks that
• 43:05
  they give us from their data. But if we see Valtteri
• 43:09
  Bottas get in that car and put up fast laps and
• 43:14
  really, really send it, then like... I mean...
• 43:20
  At that point, you should be more worried for
• 43:22
  Alonzo, probably. No, I don't think so. I mean,
• 43:27
  Stroll is the owner of the team, right? Yes,
• 43:33
  and he is still the major owner, but he doesn't
• 43:36
  have as much authority as he used to between
• 43:38
  Adrian Newey being a partial owner as well as
• 43:41
  the team being partially bought out by Saudi.
• 43:46
  uh so saudi's got a pretty large stake in the
• 43:48
  team now as well and so a lot of lance's or lawrence's
• 43:52
  like power that he has over the team is waning
• 43:55
  and so it's waning but i mean i don't think stroll's
• 44:00
  going anywhere i don't either I think it's heavy.
• 44:03
  It's probably heavy in Lawrence's contract that
• 44:05
  my son drives his car until he doesn't want to.
• 44:09
  Right. Yeah. I think my other big thing is I
• 44:12
  think they shouldn't put him in, not because
• 44:15
  I don't want Lance there. Because he should recover.
• 44:18
  But, yeah, it's because he should recover. Like,
• 44:20
  Lawrence, you watch our show. I know you do.
• 44:23
  It's his favorite show. It's his favorite show,
• 44:25
  obviously. Just give your son the time to heal.
• 44:29
  As a father, you should want your son to heal.
• 44:32
  Don't force him into the car any sooner than
• 44:34
  you have to. Force him to injure his wrist any
• 44:37
  worse. If he goes back too soon after a surgery
• 44:41
  and gets in an F1 car, he could ruin his wrist
• 44:44
  even more, and it could affect him for the rest
• 44:46
  of his life. So just give him time to recover.
• 44:49
  Like Danny Ricardo, give him some time. Let him
• 44:52
  come back. Who cares? And then give Dale Porcher
• 44:56
  some time to actually drive an F1 car. And then
• 44:59
  hopefully go to Cadillac. Dale Porcher is not
• 45:02
  coming back to F1. I'm just going to ruin it
• 45:03
  for you right now. No, Dale Porcher is never
• 45:05
  coming to F1. He's never been here. Yeah, yeah.
• 45:08
  Okay, good. We're going to be like that. Yeah.
• 45:11
  Yeah. I agree. I think. I mean, even like all
• 45:15
  thoughts aside, he shouldn't race if he's still
• 45:17
  recovering. Yeah. I would love to see. I would
• 45:20
  love to see Botas in the car. They could put
• 45:23
  no one in the car. They could just not run. It'd
• 45:25
  be weird for them not to. I think there are some
• 45:28
  rules about needing both cars to at least qualify.
• 45:32
  Maybe. Well, it's a race. You have to qualify
• 45:34
  to race. I don't think you have to have the car
• 45:36
  in. I don't know. We'd have to look into that.
• 45:40
  I thought they had some rule about that. Maybe.
• 45:42
  We can look into it. Something from back a long
• 45:45
  time ago that they made. All right, calendar.
• 45:48
  So today they released the F1 calendar, and they
• 45:54
  did make some changes with it. More so, we're
• 45:58
  still kind of going all over the place here and
• 45:59
  there, but there are some notable differences
• 46:02
  that bring places together more. To call some
• 46:07
  out, Canada is now right after Miami. spain austria
• 46:14
  uk belgium hungary netherlands italy spain again
• 46:18
  so we had the two spains kind of on opposite
• 46:21
  ends of the the calendar a little bit about a
• 46:23
  month or so apart um yeah so it's a little bit
• 46:28
  more bunched up in the places that we're going
• 46:29
  which is good it's you know the goal yeah i think
• 46:32
  i mean it's it's the biggest factor to how to
• 46:34
  get to zero you know zero missions um So Madrid
• 46:38
  is replacing Imola. I don't think you loved Imola.
• 46:41
  Yeah, I was a big fan of Imola. I like Imola.
• 46:44
  I don't think it produces really great racing,
• 46:46
  but I like the track. So I'm a little sad to
• 46:49
  see that go, especially since things I've seen
• 46:51
  of Madrid are not promising. So I'm not like,
• 46:54
  we'll see though. We'll see. I won't hold it
• 46:58
  against it until I see it. I thought Vegas was
• 46:59
  going to be bad, but I actually really enjoy
• 47:01
  that track, too. It's a really good racing track,
• 47:04
  but Madrid doesn't look amazing, so we'll see
• 47:06
  what happens. I'm not going to run through the
• 47:09
  list. You guys know the only differences is that
• 47:12
  Imola's gone, Madrid replaces it, and then some
• 47:15
  changes here and there in terms of the order.
• 47:17
  I know. Basically, we're going Australia to the
• 47:22
  Middle East. do a couple races there, and then
• 47:25
  we're going to America, right? Go Australia,
• 47:29
  China, Japan, and then the Middle East. That's
• 47:32
  right. Yeah, I forgot about Asia. So we go hit
• 47:35
  those Asian nations, and then we come to America,
• 47:37
  do those races, and then we go to Europe, and
• 47:41
  we're knocking all of our European races out
• 47:43
  in one fell swoop. And then we, I think, come
• 47:49
  back to the United States for... for what coda
• 47:55
  mexico vegas and then back to the middle east
• 47:59
  after we go to baku so we go to madrid and then
• 48:03
  we're at baku and then we go to singapore and
• 48:07
  then we're in austin mexico brazil vegas qatar
• 48:11
  and then abu dhabi right okay Generally, we're
• 48:16
  trying to keep things in the same area. Which
• 48:18
  is how it should be. And I know there's a lot
• 48:20
  of European fans that are very excited because
• 48:22
  it means that all of the European races are all
• 48:25
  happening clumped up together and everything
• 48:27
  like that. I'd be okay if our three US races
• 48:30
  happened all at the same time. Yeah, I'm cool.
• 48:31
  I'm fine with that. That sounds great to me.
• 48:33
  Just to Canada in there. Yeah, why not? Canada's
• 48:35
  really early. I guess it's May 22nd. But that's
• 48:41
  May 22nd in Montreal. It's a bit north. We can
• 48:45
  get snow and stuff. A bit cold. Just imagine
• 48:51
  that we're out here and these guys are having
• 48:54
  to go race in like 40 degree temperatures. It's
• 49:00
  a real possibility. I mean, we're getting...
• 49:03
  It's June 10th and we still get our mid -50 days.
• 49:08
  If my math is right, that's like 4 or 5 degrees
• 49:10
  Celsius for our European fans. That's pretty
• 49:14
  darn cold. Sound off in the comments, European
• 49:15
  fans. Yeah, sound off in the comments. Yeah.
• 49:21
  Wow, that was crazy. You were spot on. We just
• 49:25
  did a quick fact checking. I was pretty good
• 49:27
  with my Celsius calculations. That was really
• 49:28
  good. Right. Our last bit of news, Arvid Lindbald.
• 49:37
  Lindblad? Arvid Lindblad. Okay, I misspelled
• 49:40
  it here. We'll get it. I said Lindbald. I'm so
• 49:42
  sorry. Arvid Lindblad. What do you know about
• 49:47
  him? I mean, from what I've read, he was, like,
• 49:50
  carding. As early as 2021, he was in carding.
• 49:54
  And then he jumped into F4. And then he was immediately
• 49:57
  placed in F3. Yep. And now he's in F2 as of right
• 50:01
  now. He is Helmut Marko's prayer for Max Verstappen
• 50:06
  to Electric Boogaloo. He's been making big, big
• 50:11
  steps forward. making a big name for himself.
• 50:14
  And yeah, we're just really hoping that he's
• 50:17
  going to be the next generational talent, which
• 50:21
  I guess I hold out reservations on. I did the
• 50:25
  same thing with Kimmy when he came in. Everybody
• 50:27
  was like, he's just the Italian Max Verstappen.
• 50:29
  And I was like, yeah, okay, whatever. Show me
• 50:33
  some results. So I'll do the same with Arvid.
• 50:37
  you know we'll see it happens yeah i'm assuming
• 50:40
  we'll see him in f1 at least within the next
• 50:42
  two years yeah i did read that the f the f i
• 50:45
  did just approve him to race in f1 and he's only
• 50:47
  17 currently correct yep um it could happen it
• 50:51
  was it's been a really really quick turnaround
• 50:53
  time for him though so yeah which is just like
• 50:56
  man just get the get the kids some time to practice
• 50:59
  man yeah i don't know about enough about max
• 51:01
  to know if maybe if he had a very similar kind
• 51:04
  of uh pathway where he was just like i don't
• 51:08
  think he went from carding to f1 within three
• 51:10
  years but like i don't think so no um yeah it's
• 51:14
  crazy but he definitely did move up fast but
• 51:17
  i think he went through all the normal channels
• 51:19
  it was just like he would spend one year in a
• 51:20
  season he was yeah and like he was carding and
• 51:23
  then he finally got to formula i think he might
• 51:24
  have even skipped formula 4 i think he went straight
• 51:26
  to formula 3 i thought i read that he was in
• 51:28
  formula 4 but i could be he wasn't i don't know
• 51:30
  i'm like you i don't really follow max very much
• 51:35
  He was in 2022. So coming mid -2022. So Lindblad
• 51:41
  signed to the Red Bull Junior Program in 2021.
• 51:46
  Still racing karts recently is 2022. He rose
• 51:50
  sharp since then. Coming mid -2022, he stepped
• 51:53
  up to Formula Racing by taking part in a host
• 51:55
  of Formula 4 series. And then 2023, taking part
• 51:59
  in Italian UAE Euro Series before taking part
• 52:02
  in the Formula 1 edition of the Macau Grand Prix.
• 52:05
  And then he was placed in Formula 3 as a 16 -year
• 52:10
  -old in 2024. So he's in F2 right now? I believe
• 52:15
  he's in F2. Okay. Yeah, he's... He's zooming.
• 52:20
  Yes. He was promoted to F2 for the 2025 season.
• 52:23
  Yeah, and I believe they moved him up to... so
• 52:26
  that he could acquire the necessary super license
• 52:30
  points to be able to race in Formula One as soon
• 52:35
  as possible because Helmut Marko cannot choose
• 52:38
  one child. He's already listed as a test driver
• 52:41
  for Racing Bulls. He took part in his maiden
• 52:46
  F1 test in Imola in February, driving the 2020
• 52:50
  Alfatari. He got points very early on in F2.
• 52:55
  Yeah, he's making moves. He's on the right direction.
• 52:59
  Unfortunately, he's part of the Red Bull program,
• 53:00
  so wait for a seat to open. Doomed to fail. Yeah.
• 53:04
  So I did go check it out because this was bothering
• 53:06
  me. Max did jump straight to Formula 3. Okay.
• 53:09
  So, yeah, Max went from junior division straight
• 53:15
  to Formula 3, did a season in F3, a season in
• 53:17
  F2, and then went from F2 straight to... Toro
• 53:21
  Rosso. Sounds right. We know where the rest goes
• 53:23
  from there. Yeah, we sure do. Sounds right. All
• 53:25
  right. Well, we'll keep an eye out for him. The
• 53:27
  next Isaac Hadjar, possibly the next Max Verstappen.
• 53:29
  He's doomed to stay a test driver for the length
• 53:33
  of forever. Oh, that was a thought that I had
• 53:35
  earlier. He brought up. He could kick Liam. He
• 53:37
  brought up. I mean, probably kick Liam. That
• 53:41
  was a thought that I had earlier was a comparison
• 53:45
  of Isaac Hadjar and how well he's doing. I don't
• 53:49
  view Isaac Hajar necessarily as a future world
• 53:54
  champion, per se. It's still a little early to
• 53:56
  say. And I don't like arguing that sort of stuff
• 53:59
  in somebody in their first season. But the way
• 54:03
  he holds himself and the way that he races, the
• 54:07
  closest analogy I see to him as a driver is I
• 54:10
  could see Hajar be the next Lando Norris. A driver
• 54:15
  that's really, really good. but maybe not quite
• 54:19
  at that same top echelon i think as somebody
• 54:22
  like a lewis hamilton max verstappen fernando
• 54:24
  alonso yeah that's fair so just like a a very
• 54:28
  very talented driver and like good chance we
• 54:31
  see him winning races in five years that'd be
• 54:34
  nice yeah so i i didn't know if you had any disputes
• 54:39
  on that or not if you feel the same but i don't
• 54:41
  see him yet um I agree. It's interesting. I was
• 54:45
  thinking about it. I don't really even see Piastri
• 54:47
  as a WDC. I've never seen him that way. I do
• 54:49
  now. I 100 % do now. I still see Norris more
• 54:53
  of one than Piastri, but I know Piastri is more...
• 54:56
  I think Piastri is more of a place to win it.
• 54:58
  I think Piastri will win it, actually. I agree.
• 55:01
  The whole reason this came up was because it
• 55:03
  was after the whole champion mindset with Max
• 55:06
  thing. I was thinking about it where I was like,
• 55:10
  I feel like... lando's biggest struggle he has
• 55:13
  because lando has incredible race craft right
• 55:15
  but i think lando's biggest problem is his mindset
• 55:18
  lando struggles with his head too much he just
• 55:20
  gets to he gets under his own skin too much and
• 55:22
  things like that and that really gets in his
• 55:24
  way and like when he when he isn't getting under
• 55:27
  his own skin and he isn't getting in his own
• 55:28
  head just phenomenal racing from the guy just
• 55:32
  top tier racing but that's that's something that
• 55:34
  he's still trying to get over is that that mindset
• 55:37
  problem that you don't see out of oscar oscar
• 55:40
  just gets out and just gets to work like people
• 55:43
  make jokes that he's a robot and like he is yeah
• 55:46
  i mean i like that about him though to be fair
• 55:47
  i do too i love oscar like so i don't know i
• 55:51
  see that and i i'm like i i see oscar as more
• 55:55
  of a world champion now than i do lando which
• 55:58
  feels really bad to say yeah well uh he deserves
• 56:02
  it Well, I'm certainly hoping to see them continue
• 56:05
  to rise. I think that does it for news, though.
• 56:09
  I think we should get into our preview. All right,
• 56:27
  final stretch. I'm here to bring you up to speed
• 56:29
  for the Canada Grand Prix. This year, the Formula
• 56:32
  One Pirelli Grand Prix de Canada 2025. A fun
• 56:36
  fact, Canada was host to the longest F1 race
• 56:40
  in history at four hours, four minutes, and 39
• 56:43
  seconds. I think I shared this last year, but
• 56:46
  it's such a good fun fact. That's crazy. Imagine
• 56:49
  a four -hour race. I think Formula One has agreements.
• 56:54
  with like tv sponsorships and things like that
• 56:56
  that they need to keep their races at like three
• 56:58
  hours now yeah about two hours is the preferred
• 57:01
  but no longer than three yeah i think like three
• 57:03
  is like the limit they start a countdown timer
• 57:06
  yeah if we're getting close to three yeah um
• 57:09
  Right. So our starting grid for last year was
• 57:11
  Russell to Verstappen, Norris to Piastri. It's
• 57:14
  a wet start and all cars are on inters except
• 57:17
  for the Haas cars who chose to start in the extreme
• 57:19
  wets. Lights out in the top four keep their positions.
• 57:22
  Russell leading Max in the front of the two McLarens
• 57:25
  with a gaggle of other teams following in their
• 57:28
  overspray. A little further down the grid off
• 57:32
  the first few turns, Checo makes contact with
• 57:34
  Gasly. Pierre getting perpendicular to the direction
• 57:37
  of the track and Checo bumping his way. through
• 57:39
  making his way through the grass still middle
• 57:41
  of the lap one and it seems the extreme wets
• 57:43
  were the correct choice for the very start of
• 57:45
  this race magnuson making seven places from where
• 57:48
  he started up to eighth before the back straight
• 57:50
  five places up for his teammate hulkenberg magnuson
• 57:53
  continues his expert wet run through the next
• 57:56
  lap making his way past hamilton for sixth place
• 57:58
  hulkenberg getting past the player for 10th at
• 58:00
  the end of the straight magnuson gets up to p5
• 58:02
  overtaking alonzo and setting his sights on piastri
• 58:06
  next with more grip than anyone he He reaches
• 58:08
  Piastri at the hairpin before the straight in
• 58:10
  lap three, making his way past the McLaren by
• 58:12
  the end of the straight. The fun ends for Haas
• 58:14
  about five laps later as the sun is shining and
• 58:16
  their tires become suboptimal. They pit for inters
• 58:18
  and get back on track after making over 10 places
• 58:20
  each. Unfortunately for K -Mag, he is an incredibly
• 58:23
  slow pit, getting the inters on, knocking off
• 58:25
  8 .6 seconds while stationary. All right, this
• 58:31
  is a long paragraph. You have to bear with me.
• 58:33
  We cut to the battle for second between Lando
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  and Verstappen on lap 20. Lando slotted behind
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  Max on the back straight and making his way around
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  the Dutchman before they turn into the starting
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  line. Lando doesn't stop there, and he sets his
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  sights on Russell, overtaking him for first position
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  at the same corner he took Max a lap before.
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  Russell breaks a little too late and has to take
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  the runoff area at that corner, comes back out
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  on the second behind Norris, now severely under
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  pressure from Max, who overtakes him almost.
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  instantly through the starting straight we cut
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  to four laps later piastri thinking about making
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  some similar moves on russell right as they run
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  into a yellow flag caused by the williams of
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  sergeant turn the wrong way on track after spinning
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  and hitting the barrier he brings out the safety
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  card before retiring and gives opportunity for
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  stappen russell and piastri to pit norris already
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  having passed the pit lane norris gets himself
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  in the pit lane on the next lap but loses a first
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  and second position doing so slotting right ahead
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  of his teammate on racer zoo most everyone pitted
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  for newer enters before the green flag on lap
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  30. Everyone except Charles who opted to go for
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  the slicks. We watched with bated breath to see
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  if he was too early. He was way too early. Already
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  in 19th, he starts falling further behind and
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  he ends up retiring at some point between 30
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  and 45. On lap 45, we watched as the last three
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  cars on enters Verstappen, Russell, and Norris
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  in a 1 -2 -3 go for their pit strategies. Verstappen
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  and Russell box at the end of the straight, but
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  Russell decides to hold out for, sorry, Norris
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  decides to hold out for one lap longer, hoping
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  to get the over. Overcutting the two ahead. At
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  the end of this lap, he pits. And while coming
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  out of the pits, he slips a little bit on his
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  mediums and unfortunately gets beaten out on
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  the undercut by Verstappen. If it were just a
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  little bit drier and his tires were a little
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  bit warmer, North sort of perfected the overcut.
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  49, Lando has a lockup at the hairpin before
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  the straight, giving Russell an opportunity to
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  overtake in the straight, which he makes. Only
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  two laps later, Russell has a moment in the S's
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  mid -track, giving Lando advantage, who takes
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  second position back. Perez brings out the yellow
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  flag a lap or two later after destroying his
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  back wing, limping his way back to the pit. This
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  is when he limped his way back to the pit, got
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  a penalty, came out a couple laps later to serve
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  that penalty, and then went back into the garage.
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  I hated that. I hated that they were able to
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  do that. But besides the point. flipping his
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  way back to the pit just as signs loses grip
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  on the same corner as Perez and he spins collecting
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  Albon by bashing into his back right Albon unfortunately
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  finding himself embedded into the wall ending
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  Williams race as a whole both Mercedes opt to
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  pit for brand new medium sitting in fourth and
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  fifth the two McLarens and Max leading the pack
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  all on all on 10 plus lapped tires Piastri and
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  Russell have a kerfuffle at the end of the back
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  straight making contact with each other and sending
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  Russell through the runoff again where he loses
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  position to Hamill effectively swapping them
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  Hamilton has a go at Piastri next lap and he
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  is able to make the move stick putting himself
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  in the final podium position Russell makes the
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  move stick on Piastri a lap or two later Russell
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  seeks vengeance and on lap 68 he finds it overtaking
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  his teammate Hamilton for the final podium position
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  at the end of the race after giving permission
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  to fight two laps later the hectic Canadian Grand
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  Prix ends with Max crossing the line first followed
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  by Lando and George our final 10 Verstappen to
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  Norris Russell to Hamilton Piastri to Alonso
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  Stroll ricardo ghastly 2 ocon crazy Yeah, I was
• 1:01:44
  not expecting to have to write such a long recap
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  for that race. I do not remember it being that
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  crazy. I completely forgot about the Haas at
• 1:01:51
  the start. Unfortunately, it ended 11th and 12th.
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  It did not pay off, but they were still not in
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  a good car at that point. Probably would have
• 1:01:58
  paid off had they not had an eight -second pit
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  for Kevin. Yeah. I remember getting so excited.
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  God, it was such a roller coaster. I was so excited
• 1:02:07
  at the start of that. I was like, holy crap,
• 1:02:09
  do you see Kevin Magnuson? Oh, this is amazing.
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  And then it was an eight. second pit and i was
• 1:02:13
  like i'm taking my hat off like oh no i'm sad
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  and i just watched them limp home yeah it was
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  i mean it was a really good start it was really
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  fun seeing haas just like cruise up front i think
• 1:02:30
  we were both cheering a bit like that was crazy
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  and then he had that pit and it was all lost
• 1:02:34
  we were like ah dang it nice while it lasted
• 1:02:37
  right um so let's get into predictions shall
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  we and then we'll wrap this baby up um let me
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  go ahead and pull up our predictions here i just
• 1:02:45
  had to log back in because i got kicked out mid
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  -podcast i don't even remember how many points
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  i got over so uh this last weekend the two weekends
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  ago rather um uh smeltsy once again once again
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  stumbling into something great uh uh actually
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  he actually had a fairly normal a fairly normal
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  um podium he had oscar lando and george um gaining
• 1:03:10
  himself four points i had lando to oscar to charles
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  gaining myself four points and you had max to
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  lando to oscar gaining yourself three points
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  which brings us uh smelty with 25 and then you
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  and i tied 24 so because smelty is ahead however
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  he is Kev, do you have his predictions? All right.
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  Let's go ahead and lay him out for the Canada
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  Grand Prix. In this order, Oscar, Max, George.
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  Oscar in first, Max in second, George in third.
• 1:03:44
  No Lando on the podium. I'm not surprised. I'm
• 1:03:47
  not surprised at all. I guess so. I mean, I smell
• 1:03:50
  tea. Oscar, wait, he said Oscar, Max, George.
• 1:03:55
  Okay, yeah, I was going to say, there's no George,
• 1:03:57
  and then I was like, oh, no, there's a George
• 1:03:59
  Russell. How do we choose who goes next? Should
• 1:04:04
  we rock, paper, scissors? Do we want to do it
• 1:04:06
  fun? We'll each give each other our three. I'm
• 1:04:10
  trying to think. Technically, we both made the
• 1:04:12
  same amount of points getting up. We're tied
• 1:04:14
  right now, so we'll go at the same time. We'll
• 1:04:16
  go at the same time? Who's in third? We want
• 1:04:19
  to say it at the same time. Not at the same time.
• 1:04:22
  You'll do your third. I'll do my second. Lock
• 1:04:24
  in your third. Is it locked in? This is stupid.
• 1:04:30
  I'm running the calculations in my brain. My
• 1:04:32
  third is locked. My foresight is crazy right
• 1:04:35
  now. Okay, I'm good. All right, ready? Okay,
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  third? Yeah. Who says it first? I can go first.
• 1:04:44
  I'll just go first. I'll say it right after you.
• 1:04:46
  Yeah, so my first. Your third. Your third. Sorry,
• 1:04:49
  my third. My third. Max Verstappen. Max Verstappen.
• 1:04:52
  Okay, well, this is boring. Yeah, this sucks.
• 1:04:54
  I hate this. Why did we do this? Why did we do
• 1:04:56
  this? All right, I'll say my second, and then
• 1:04:58
  you'll say your second. Ready? I think it's actually
• 1:05:00
  going to be different. I do think, I think we're
• 1:05:02
  going to have the same top two, but I think they're
• 1:05:04
  going to be reverse order. You think so? Yeah.
• 1:05:05
  Who says I'm going to have a McLaren? Good one.
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  Charles McLaren. Good one. Second is Oscar Piastri.
• 1:05:12
  Lando Norris. Yep. So it's going to be, and then
• 1:05:14
  your first is. Obviously. Yeah. Okay. So mine
• 1:05:16
  is Lando Oscar Max. Yours is Oscar Lando Max.
• 1:05:25
  Ooh, we're breaking the mold here. Yeah, it's
• 1:05:29
  like this is just the same. I mean, God, these
• 1:05:32
  McLarens are so good. I will say I am very interested.
• 1:05:34
  Part of me was really, what I was really kicking
• 1:05:36
  around is how I brought up earlier the fact that,
• 1:05:40
  you know, Montreal is on fire. Yep. And there's
• 1:05:44
  a lot of talk about dirty air. The entire track
• 1:05:46
  is dirty air. And how poorly these McLarens handled
• 1:05:50
  in dirty air. So that could seriously affect
• 1:05:53
  the McLarens. Granted, yes, it is dirty air.
• 1:05:56
  It's not the same kind of dirty air that they
• 1:05:57
  experience. I think every car is going to be
• 1:05:59
  suffering if they have to drive in it. And I
• 1:06:01
  think McLaren will still get on top. I do too.
• 1:06:04
  Not that I have to defend myself. But Lando was
• 1:06:07
  obviously the fastest person last year. And he
• 1:06:09
  just got caught out, unfortunately. He got caught
• 1:06:12
  out. out but he also it was bad strategy kind
• 1:06:15
  of it was like it was just tough strategy i'll
• 1:06:18
  say he got caught out by the safety car and then
• 1:06:21
  you know he had a you know it was a really wet
• 1:06:23
  line out but lando was obviously fastest that
• 1:06:27
  being said oscars had a crazy year crazy crazy
• 1:06:30
  year and i could 100 see him getting first instead
• 1:06:33
  right i feel kind of the same like if lando were
• 1:06:35
  to get first i'd be like yeah that makes sense
• 1:06:36
  i mean he's super fast on this track and like
• 1:06:39
  he showed his pace last year i just feel like
• 1:06:41
  i just feel like every time i pick oscar it's
• 1:06:43
  lando and i'm like i gotta get one lando right
• 1:06:45
  you know yeah you gotta just keep sending lando
• 1:06:47
  in a eventually you'll get it yeah every single
• 1:06:50
  time i haven't gotten lando once i've gotten
• 1:06:54
  oscar a couple times but every time i put lando
• 1:06:56
  up there it's always someone different and then
• 1:06:58
  i put oscar up there and then it's lando and
• 1:07:00
  i'm like what are you doing to me what are you
• 1:07:01
  doing uh so yeah um natural order of things you're
• 1:07:05
  right it was lando uh in Monaco. There's Oscar
• 1:07:09
  in Spain. It's time for Lando again. It'll probably
• 1:07:12
  be next. It'll be Oscar again. Yeah. All right.
• 1:07:15
  So there's our podium. Any final thoughts before
• 1:07:18
  we... Actually, I do have one more. Yeah. Actually,
• 1:07:20
  Kevin, if you... Because I don't think you've
• 1:07:22
  seen this yet. Kevin, if you can put this up
• 1:07:23
  on the screen for us. I totally forgot to bring
• 1:07:26
  this up in news. It's Haas' 200th Wraith. Wraith.
• 1:07:30
  200th Wraith. Ooh, a lith. And they've got a
• 1:07:32
  special livery. Do they really? Yeah, and it's
• 1:07:35
  a throwback to their first livery, which is so
• 1:07:39
  good. There should be the F1 website. Oh, yeah,
• 1:07:41
  that's perfect. Yeah, that is going to be their
• 1:07:45
  special livery. They're going back to their original.
• 1:07:50
  their original livery oh yeah and it is that's
• 1:07:54
  good it looks so good the big haas on the side
• 1:07:57
  that's very good the the coloring around the
• 1:07:59
  letters and everything they've got their italicized
• 1:08:01
  numbers on the cars and and the colors are the
• 1:08:04
  same the silver black and kind of like that red
• 1:08:07
  orange kind of color i'm into it i'm very much
• 1:08:10
  into it i really like haas's livery now but i
• 1:08:13
  do love when When they all mix it up a little
• 1:08:15
  bit. I do too. And it's really nice to see this
• 1:08:18
  livery come back reminiscent of their first ever
• 1:08:20
  race. They should have done that. What was that
• 1:08:22
  energy drink? They should have brought that livery
• 1:08:25
  back. The black and gold. It was a good look.
• 1:08:28
  They kept the livery for a while.