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Unveiling the 2022 Ferrari F1 Car and the Future of Racing · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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  As part of Ferrari Fridays, William Ross from the Exotic Car Marketplace
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  will be discussing all things Ferrari and interviewing people that live
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  and breathe the Ferrari brand.
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  Topics range from road cars to racing, drivers to owners, as well
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  as auctions, private sales, and trends in the collector market.
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  Hello everyone!
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  Glad to have you back.
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  This is William here.
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  Welcome to the Ferrari marketplace.
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  Hey, I just kind of want to give a couple I guess not say shout outs, but
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  can see we can do to help you And as you know, we got the podcast and coming soon,
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  we're going to have the YouTube channel.
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  It's a, the channel name's already up, but I haven't got any content
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  yet, but working on that, uh, next week, headed out to California to
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  go to some Ferrari events that are going to be really, really special.
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  So it's going to be some really good stuff.
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  So keep your eyes out for that.
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  Um, I'll let you know, uh, the next podcast when I got that drop, but just
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  kind of keep an eye out there and, you know, check on YouTube and you'll see it.
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  And, uh, I'll post it out there and, uh, all the places on.
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  Facebook, YouTube, and they also got the web page, you know, www dot
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  the Ferrari marketplace dot com.
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  So check it out and let me know.
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  Um, it's not the greatest.
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  I'm not the most digitally advanced person.
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  Um, you know, just as I don't know if I mentioned before, you know, my A.
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  Really kind of prohibits me from actually sitting down for hours on end and trying
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  to put the thing together because I just get distracted and I just get frustrated.
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  And so it's best bet, you know, to go out there and utilize and get
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  some support from other people.
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  I don't know if you ever used it.
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  I highly recommend Fiverr.
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  Um, they're not paying for any sponsorship on this.
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  I'm just letting you know that Fiverr is awesome to, you know,
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  get some other things done and hire some freelance people.
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  Uh, I've used them a few times and it's relatively inexpensive.
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  You know, it's not like thousands of dollars.
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  It's a hundred bucks here, 50 bucks there to get something simple done.
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  Um, so I got a guy working on a couple of things for me now to
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  kind of give me a little better exposure and spruce things up a bit.
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  But anyways, so for today's episode, what I want to talk about.
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  Is the brand new Ferrari Formula One car that just got dropped.
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  Now, I don't know how much all of you follow F1, but I'm a huge rabid
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  fan for God knows how many years.
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  Um, you know, back in the golden era, so to speak, from the 80s all the way on.
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  And, you know, the beautiful, you know, gorgeous, you know,
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  V12s and the V10s and V8s.
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  You know, that screaming sound that they would have, that was just, ah.
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  And if you ever had the opportunity.
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  I don't know demographic wise, but age wise, but there was nothing like
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  hearing that V8, V10 screaming in person.
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  It was just unbelievable sound that was done.
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  I mean, it just was, it just sent chills up your spine.
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  It just really, really made it.
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  And it was, it was sad when they had to go, uh, to the, uh,
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  electric stuff, um, and that.
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  And, you know, especially with the, all the turbo stuff they had to use and kind
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  of really just muted the sound now, I don't know how it said high fall, but
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  I've heard some of these cars because they really worked on that for these new cars.
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  And I think actually having this extra year really kind of helped also,
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  because I know they were supposed to drop for 2021 season, but because of
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  COVID and the pandemic, they decided to push it out for the 2022 season.
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  So I honestly think that was very, very.
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  fruitful for the teams, especially and the FIA, you know, getting it right, getting
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  the sauce right, so to speak, you know, because, you know, this is, you know,
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  the premier racing event in the world, you know, it's, um, you know, it's second
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  to none, you know, there's, I think, you know, soccer is the only more viewed
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  sport in the world, you know, after F1.
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  So, or before F1, I should say.
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  Um, so it's, it's just a phenomenal sport and you're watching it and, you know,
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  You know, some people may look at it, you know, Oh, well, these guys got certain
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  teams dominate and everything like that.
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  Well, it's, it's a cycle.
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  It always happens.
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  You have Mercedes has been, you know, pretty much leading the
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  pack here since what, 2014 now.
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  But hey, you know, Max Verstappen last year, he put it, I, that was awesome.
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  I couldn't believe that last race.
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  That was phenomenal.
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  And hats off to Massey, Massey, I already pronounced his last name, you
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  know, for making that decision to let those five cars between him and Lewis.
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  Hey, no, get around it.
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  Let's have a last lap dash.
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  I mean, hey, there's a lot of money in line.
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  I get it prestige and whatnot.
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  But you know what?
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  This is for the viewer and you talk about I was jumping up and down screaming when
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  that last lap started and Max got past him and You know, nothing against Lewis,
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  but I'm just not a big fan of Lewis.
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  Um, I just don't, I don't know.
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  I just don't appreciate how he presents himself and handles his business.
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  But, um, you know, I was, I was a Max Verstappen fan.
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  So, I mean, after being my Ferrari fan with Leclerc and Carlos there.
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  But, um, that was an awesome, awesome race.
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  So I don't know if he had the opportunity to catch it, but I highly, you know, I've
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  watched, I've re watched it a few times.
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  Now, I haven't re watched the whole race.
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  I watched the last about 15 minutes.
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  But still, it's just phenomenal to watch.
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  It still gets me just tingling.
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  It's just awesome to see.
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  But anyways, get back to what we're going to talk about is the new Ferrari F1 car.
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  So, obviously, in the past years, they were supposed to come out
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  in 2021 because of the pandemic.
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  They get released this year and they, um, starting to drop all the
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  things, teams are starting to drop it.
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  Um, so, it's interesting to see, um, everyone's take on
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  the rules and regulations and how they interpret it.
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  Now, um, It's, you know, I mean, it's a completely different design because
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  what I said, how much you follow it or whatnot now, you know, prior what they
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  have no way back, you know, um, was in the seventies into the eighties, you know,
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  they actually had the ground effects, you know, Lotus was pretty much the pioneer
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  of it and coming out with those cars.
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  And it was really interesting concept and how they did it.
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  Cause they had these like floating.
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  little side pod like these composite material that actually moved up and
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  down because it had to go with the flow of the road because if If you it got
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  too high or whatnot thing all sudden all the suction was lost and it just
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  you're in the wall You know, they were if you if you lost it forget about it.
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  You were done It was not a fun fun time to be driving that car but anyway, so the
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  name got away from You know, uh, you know, doing that type of car and having ground
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  effects and they moved to that flat bottom and it's, you know, they call it a wood,
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  you know, it's just a wood plank, um, that was underneath the car and because it kind
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  of gave, you know, for regulation wise, the monitor, be sure ride heights and
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  everything along those lines and stuff, you know, you know, sparks flying, all
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  that jazz, um, you know, went to those.
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  So basically the cars were basically just reliant on the wings and airflow
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  around the car and over the car.
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  So that's what created the problem.
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  Their cars following is the air that was disrupted coming over the car
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  was so turbulent behind the car, the car following It took all the air
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  and everything off it, so you had no downforce, so you couldn't get in the
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  corner going, I mean, and you're going to have to put more steering input into the
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  steering wheel, you know, so obviously what that does, it scrubs more on your
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  tires, so it's ruining your tires quicker, you know, so all the effects kind of
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  just compounds and goes down the line, so that was the biggest problem is, you You
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  couldn't follow another car and try and make anything competitive and pass them.
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  So, you know, and they came up with a brilliant idea for the DRS, you know, and
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  I don't know, you can love it or hate it.
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  I don't know.
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  I, it's one half of one of the other, but it's just a foregone conclusion
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  when someone's within a second behind that person and they dropped that little
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  button, that thing opens up, they're going to pass them, you know, so it's
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  not so much down to drivers, just around a drop of that thing and straight
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  line So, you know, they're, they're still going to have it for 2022, but.
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  I don't know how much it'll, you know, be fixed.
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  I don't know, it'll be interesting.
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  I mean, obviously, you know, they created it because they wanted to have passing.
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  I mean, they, they started, they put it in DTM.
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  They did the same thing because, I mean, no one really wants
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  you to see freight trains.
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  People want to see passing going on.
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  And, you know, this past season was phenomenal in regards to,
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  you know, passing, interaction, everything on the track.
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  And, I mean, if you seriously look, At, you know, top to bottom of the field,
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  you know, you're not talking like a difference of 15 seconds, 20 seconds from
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  the first place guy to last place guy.
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  You know, you're talking maybe a second, eh, depending on the track, you
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  know, you get down to some slow guys.
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  You know, it could be only about 2 seconds per lap that they're slower.
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  And 2 seconds is not that much.
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  1 1000, 2 1000.
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  That's it.
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  So, I mean, that is how much difference it is, and then slower going on the track.
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  But, I mean, that compounds it as you go through the race, obviously,
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  if you're doing 60, 70, 80 laps.
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  You know, it happens everything, so it's gonna grow, grow, grow, grow, obviously
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  it just keeps building itself up.
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  And, it's um, you know, foregone conclusion in regards to that, so.
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  But anyways, the new cars, and have it coming out, they obviously are going
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  back to the ground effects design.
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  So, they are trying to eliminate, well I don't say eliminate, but their biggest
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  thing, because you're always going to have the air flow going over the car.
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  And, it's always going to be a situation where whoever's following is going
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  to have some dirty air, so to speak.
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  But what they're trying to do is Maintain that air.
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  So it's more, I want to say structured.
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  So it's more, it flows better.
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  So if you look at some of the things on it, like on the previous cars, as the
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  air got back over the rear wing, it was so turbulent because you had air coming
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  over from the sides underneath, go around.
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  So it just created this, almost this whirlwind, um, I want to say tornado,
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  but just this really disturbed unstructured air that really was
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  very volatile to the car behind it.
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  So these new cars, as that air goes over it.
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  And goes past the car.
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  It's a lot more flowed.
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  So where it actually should come down onto the car following it.
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  So what that's going to do is keep the car having downforce and be
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  able to follow the car closer.
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  Hopefully, that it won't really damage tires and what have you.
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  It'll be able to have a little more, I would say, wheel to wheel action to
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  be able to pass more and not trying to a planet where you're going to have
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  to pass with DRS, you know, this is stuff we'll be able to actually pass
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  in corners and everything like that.
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  So, um, it's going to be interesting.
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  I'm really excited.
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  Um, I think, what, in about another, uh, 8, 9 days, 10 days, you know,
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  they're going to have their first test.
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  I believe it's, it's going to be, I don't know if it's in Abu Dhabi again or
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  if they went back, going back to Spain.
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  It's one of the two.
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  I can't remember.
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  I know they keep switching it up.
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  So, it's going to be great to see.
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  All these cars on track and just see the times, whatnot, and how
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  the cars, the drivers react to us.
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  Now, I know these guys, you know, do it's ton, ton, a ton simulation,
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  um, SIM driving, but there's nothing like being in the actual
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  car and seat of the pants driving.
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  You know, that's, that's one of the things is someone that's a good driver.
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  They just like, they can feel everything through their ass, you know?
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  So it's, you know, just the sensations of feelings, everything like that.
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  They're just the nuances.
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  Yeah.
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  I mean, I know these.
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  new simulators are unbelievable.
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  I mean, they're crazy expensive and they can really get in with the G's
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  and whatnot and how those things work and really give you that sensation.
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  But there's nothing like being in an actual car driving.
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  Now I've, I heard a couple of cars right now.
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  I heard, you know, the alpha run and they got a Ferrari
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  engine and wow, it sounded good.
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  It sounded really good.
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  So I'm curious to see when they get these on track.
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  I know a couple of other manufacturers that dropped their cars, you know,
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  done a little shakedown stuff.
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  So, you know, I can't remember what the FIA allows them to do for the shakedown.
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  It's not a lot.
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  So it's not like they're just banging out laps, you know, starting to
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  do research on this and testing.
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  It's more of just, hey, is everything working?
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  Is everything where it needs to be?
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  Is this how it is?
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  You know, it's not like really getting the feel of it and set up for the car.
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  The big thing now how much you're a racing person whatnot But when you
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  go racing and you race at a track you take notes You have your suspension
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  settings tire pressures everything camber adjustment all the toe toe in toe out
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  the whole nine yards You you write all that down How it was set up, especially
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  if you did good, you know, because what happens when you come back to that
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  track again, you reference those notes.
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  Now, are they going to be working that next time?
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  No, but it's a starting point for when you're at the same
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  track you were at before.
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  So it gives you something to work from.
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  And it was, you know, and especially if it was successful, you know,
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  that's what you want to have.
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  So it's, it's a great tool to utilize, but so what do they do now?
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  I know computers can run the simulations or anything like that to try and get
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  where it needs to be in the whole nine yards, but again, it's, you can't take
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  into account track conditions, what the asphalt, what the, you know, surface is
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  doing, you know, and everything, you know.
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  Because another fact is, you know, they're going to these 18 inch rims now.
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  They were what, four, 13s, 14s before.
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  Really quite remember.
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  Uh, I know it was like 13 to 14 inch diameter on the rim.
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  So, and they had huge sidewalls on these cars.
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  So in the sidewall and obviously biggest sidewall, they make, you know, they're
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  stiff to an extent, but gave quite a bit.
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  So you had that roll in the corners of that.
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  So I am.
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  It gives it that weird feeling, and I said again, I don't know if you've
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  ever driven a race car, but I have, and you know, it's just a weird sensation.
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  So when going to these 18 inches, obviously it reduces the sidewall, and
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  what happens is, to make these tires last, that sidewall is a lot stiffer.
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  So these tires are going to be completely different than
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  what they're used to running.
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  Now I know the Formula E guys, you know, they've been running, you know,
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  these rims for, ever since they started.
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  So, um, it's an interesting look, I'll give you that, but what, you know,
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  they're doing this year for the F1 cars, Is they, um, you know, have those wheel
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  discs, uh, inside it that kind of is, is more, I don't know, makes it more solid.
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  Um, it's, um,
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  yeah, I don't know.
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  I mean, it looks good.
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  I mean, I like it.
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  So, um, It's just, it's a totally different look.
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  And I love the fact is because it still looks like a Formula F1 car.
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  They didn't go nuts with it.
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  I mean, I don't know about you, you know, watch any car.
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  I'm not a fan of that.
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  Um, Lexan shield that they're using.
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  Is it, I mean, so it makes it almost basically an enclosed cockpit.
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  Um, just, I don't know.
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  Somebody looks at, you know, I wasn't a fan when the halo came out.
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  Um, but it's grown on me because and after that, I guess, especially
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  after seeing, uh, what IndyCar did, I even hate the halo is not bad and
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  actually, and it's proven to work.
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  I mean, you just look at last year with Max, uh, and going in and with Hamilton
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  and him going up over his car and his tire ended up on Hamilton's head.
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  So it's proven it works.
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  So it's something that's, you know, obviously it's here to stay.
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  It didn't go anywhere, but I just like the look of it.
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  Now, and they've incorporated well into the car, so it's not very intrusive
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  to the look and the flow of the car.
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  But anyways, getting back to the Ferrari F1 car for 2022.
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  Now they came out, you know, it's interesting because they, I think the
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  red is, you know, it's like a little more, I would say a bloodish red.
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  It's a little bit darker hue than previous reds.
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  And, but what's cool, I like, is they went with the black wings and
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  there's like a black accents to it.
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  I really dig that.
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  I like that look.
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  Get that note.
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  They've had to kind of walk away from Marlboro and that Mission Win Now stuff
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  is it's gone and You know, we just I Don't know if it was more all sudden
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  They just really cracked down and said look this isn't working because we get
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  people know what this is and I mean like that still basically advertising,
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  you know tobacco So that's completely gone, but they brought on a few other
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  major sponsors, you know, to help.
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  And what, you know, as you probably know, if you're an F1 person, is the
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  fact is, you know, there's a cost caps, uh, going, playing into this season.
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  So they only have the 140 million, 145 million, I think it is, for this season.
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  Then it reduces next year and then a year after that down to 125 or
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  something like that, a million.
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  Um, so.
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  Keeping the capital or so it's like, that's why, you know, far as getting
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  into, uh, the endurance racing, because they have this extra money to go
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  racing because it would have just went into that one program, but so they're
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  going to put sweats, which is awesome.
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  It's going to be great to see Ferrari back at Lamar.
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  Um, I can't wait to have that.
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  I mean, there's going to be in 2023, they should all be showing up.
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  I believe it is Porsche's coming back.
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  Ferrari is going to be there.
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  You know, there's a few other manufacturers getting
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  back and involved in it.
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  Um, so I, I'm super excited for that.
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  So I'm, I'm trying to do is get over there for that race next year,
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  2023, to see that and be part of it.
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  So hopefully fingers crossed pandemic.
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  Hopefully it's way over by then that I can get over there.
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  So, but back to the F1 car now.
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  Design elements wise, you know, the whole new front wing is completely different.
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  You know, they only had allowed to have those four elements up to four elements.
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  I should say, cause some other teams aren't actually, you know, for the
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  O's and using three elements on that front wing Ferrari's going all out and
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  using four now, the other interesting aspect of it is the width of that wing.
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  Now it goes basically from the outside of the front wheels to each end.
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  So it's, it's the width of the car.
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  And, but there's no more of those ridiculous, like, turning vanes and
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  all that other crap that was, you know, on these, you know, most recent cars.
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  I mean Any little thing, it was just baffling, I
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  baffling, I get the gist of it.
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  Because, you know, for airflow, when they're trying to do what they can,
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  they're trying to get the car and the air to go around the wheels and
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  into certain spots, blah, blah, blah.
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  And all that stuff, but, I mean, it just made the cars look hideous.
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  I mean, I don't know if you ever watched any of this stuff back in the day, in
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  the 50's, 60's, when they had no wings.
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  I mean, that was awesome.
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  I mean, I know we'll never go back to that, but.
• 18:06
  You know, hey, it was all basically just mechanical grip from the suspension
• 18:10
  and that and the tires and the driver.
• 18:12
  So now you got all this other aero aid stuff.
• 18:14
  I got that in there too.
• 18:15
  So, but then kind of moving back on the car, you know, it's you know, the side
• 18:19
  pods are all totally different shape.
• 18:21
  Um, and the way this flow around, it's kind of interesting too, because
• 18:24
  as you look at it from the side, No side putts, you got your wall in
• 18:27
  there, but as it goes up and over and around back to the cockpit, it drops
• 18:31
  back down and curves over the car.
• 18:32
  So the way they got the air flow coming around that and
• 18:34
  going through it is pretty cool.
• 18:36
  I mean, the car looks phenomenal.
• 18:38
  Another aspect I really, really dig is the rear wing.
• 18:41
  Now on this thing, they have it, you know, it's pretty, you know, style wise, you
• 18:46
  know, they have It's tucked in basically the width, the inside width of the rear
• 18:52
  tire, maybe just a smidge outside it.
• 18:54
  But again, it's not anything crazy.
• 18:56
  It's not some big obtrusive and they got all these different
• 18:58
  elements and everything on it.
• 19:00
  It's very simplified and you know, it looks gorgeous.
• 19:04
  I think, cause it's just, it's not obnoxious, you know, cause they're
• 19:07
  basically trying to do is to get all the ground effects underneath the
• 19:12
  car to basically do a majority of.
• 19:16
  The downforce.
• 19:17
  So to suck it down to the road.
• 19:19
  So their goal is to have that be the major factor in keeping these
• 19:24
  cars and giving them, you know, the downforce that they require and need
• 19:28
  to be able to go around the corners and that stuff as fast as they do.
• 19:31
  And, you know, like the parabolic and all that stuff, you know, we clip it
• 19:34
  along at 180, 190 miles an hour going around this bend, you know, the car's
• 19:37
  got to be able to suck to the ground.
• 19:38
  So again, I'm super excited.
• 19:42
  To see where this heads and how these cars run on the road.
• 19:45
  So we got, you know, the first one test of the season coming up, uh,
• 19:49
  in, you know, a little over a week.
• 19:51
  So.
• 19:53
  I tell you what, I think it's just going to be an awesome season, you
• 19:56
  know, and we're going to see who gets it right and who gets it wrong again,
• 19:59
  because this is completely new, totally redesigned cars, and it's going to
• 20:04
  be interesting to see what happens.
• 20:05
  You know, some are going to get it right.
• 20:06
  Some are going to get it wrong.
• 20:07
  Some are going to be kind of familiar, but you know, the hope is, I think the
• 20:10
  midfield cars, I think it's really going to kind of bunch them up some more.
• 20:14
  So I think there's going to be a ton of great wheel to wheel
• 20:16
  racing in the midfield cars.
• 20:19
  I hope Haas kind of, Gets their shit back together.
• 20:21
  Supposedly and, you know, conversations because their standards had, you know,
• 20:25
  that, you know, the, cause they didn't put any development into the 2021 car.
• 20:31
  They just maybe a couple of little bits here and there, but everything.
• 20:35
  Was full hog going towards the 2022 car.
• 20:38
  So now, as you, if you know, is when they came out in, when they launched,
• 20:42
  when their initial year, they came out, they actually were doing good.
• 20:45
  You know, they were, you know, pretty, pretty competitive.
• 20:48
  Um, but as the year went on, they obviously, they couldn't keep up with the
• 20:53
  changes of the car and updates to the car.
• 20:54
  They just, I don't know, was internal, whatnot, because they don't really
• 20:58
  have so much manufacturing on car.
• 21:00
  It's manufactured out there for the facility by someone else.
• 21:04
  I don't know if you're familiar with how they circumvented the rules, but
• 21:06
  hey, they're allowing them to do it.
• 21:08
  You know, because in Formula One, you had to build everything, you
• 21:10
  had to build your own chassis.
• 21:12
  And you can get the car from, you know, the engine from someone else,
• 21:14
  but you had to build your own chassis.
• 21:16
  But, you know, they went a different route and had an
• 21:18
  outside entity build it for them.
• 21:20
  And so, I don't know how much that plays during, throughout the season,
• 21:23
  how much they help with aerodynamics and, you know, updates to the car, but.
• 21:27
  Again, hopefully, you know, uh, Haas can kind of pick up the game
• 21:30
  because they're powered by Ferrari.
• 21:32
  You know, they're kind of, I don't know how much they are, kind of, you
• 21:34
  really didn't hear much about it.
• 21:35
  When they first came out, you heard quite a bit of how Haas was the,
• 21:39
  you know, Ferrari support team, so to speak, and doing stuff and that,
• 21:42
  but, you know, they were doing good, so you just didn't really hear much.
• 21:45
  But as far as I know, they still have that collaboration with Ferrari regarding
• 21:50
  certain aspects of the car, because they get the engine, the gearbox, and
• 21:53
  I think some other things from Ferrari.
• 21:54
  I think the brakes.
• 21:55
  Um, what, you know, the maximum stuff that they're allowed, that they can Source
• 22:00
  from another manufacturer, uh, that they don't have to design and build themselves.
• 22:05
  So, I mean, that, that's a big cost savings.
• 22:07
  You know, and again, kind of going back to budgets and whatnot.
• 22:09
  Now, Haas wasn't even, I don't even think they had a budget of, you
• 22:12
  know, close to 140, 150 million.
• 22:14
  You know, even the previous, I think they were doing between 80 to a hundred.
• 22:17
  So, I mean, this, uh, budget cap's gonna be great.
• 22:19
  Now, who knows?
• 22:20
  And they might be able to bring in more sponsors, so we shall see,
• 22:23
  you know, uh, a little side note.
• 22:26
  I don't know if anyone's following it, is Old Rich Energy is supposed
• 22:29
  to be coming back into F1.
• 22:30
  They keep teasing stuff like that and they're getting made fun of.
• 22:33
  So I don't know what team would be willing to jump on board with
• 22:38
  them as a sponsor after what happened with Haas the other season.
• 22:41
  I mean, that was just a debacle.
• 22:43
  So it'll be interesting to see.
• 22:45
  That William Story guy that's running that supposedly owner and what not.
• 22:49
  I mean, he's got money coming from somewhere and what not.
• 22:51
  Who knows?
• 22:52
  God only knows.
• 22:53
  So I don't know what it'll be.
• 22:54
  So I'm kind of curious to see.
• 22:56
  If they're actually going to be a sponsor on one of the cars, you know, they showed
• 23:00
  pictures But hey, you can get an old f1 car and have someone give you you
• 23:03
  know Current whatever doll it all up with stickers and everything like that.
• 23:07
  So I don't so we shall see so but um Again, hopefully, you know Charles
• 23:13
  and Carlos will get themselves back up to the front and be battling
• 23:16
  Mercedes and Red Bull We also have that three way battle going.
• 23:20
  I Alpine might be up there too.
• 23:21
  I mean, hey, you never know Like I said, it's going to be interesting to
• 23:24
  see What comes about for this season because everyone started from scratch.
• 23:28
  Everyone's got all new cars, all new design.
• 23:31
  So we shall see where this heads.
• 23:33
  I'm super excited for the season to start.
• 23:36
  Um, and it's going to be gangbusters, I think.
• 23:39
  You know, it's lots of development is a rubles.
• 23:42
  You made the comment that, you know, the car, they start the season out and
• 23:45
  two races in every race is going to be the car is going to be different
• 23:49
  to like a major extent because it's updates, you know, everything that
• 23:52
  because they're getting all the feedback.
• 23:54
  They're getting all, you know, everything they're taking from the
• 23:56
  car and what they're learning and getting asked because again, you
• 24:00
  can do all the same stuff you want.
• 24:02
  But until that car is out on the track and hey, you're putting wheels to the ground
• 24:05
  hitting the pavement, you know, you won't.
• 24:07
  You won't really have the perfect idea of how this thing is going to run.
• 24:10
  So, but, so fingers crossed are back up front where they belong.
• 24:14
  Uh, bring back to the glory.
• 24:16
  Hey, especially it's a 75th anniversary of Ferrari for this season.
• 24:19
  Um, and Hey, and I'm, I'm the day I'm taping.
• 24:22
  This is actually Enzo's birthday.
• 24:23
  So, um, I don't know when you might end up listening to this, but
• 24:27
  Hey, it is Enzo's birthday today.
• 24:28
  Uh, was this February 18th.
• 24:30
  So, just a little more information for you, a little tidbit for that, so.
• 24:35
  But anyways, I'm going to wrap this up.
• 24:37
  I appreciate you listening and I think, you know, I'm trying to put
• 24:41
  together thoughts for the next car.
• 24:42
  I think I might talk about the new 296 that's coming out on the next episode.
• 24:46
  I'm really excited about that car and I'm looking forward to
• 24:48
  have the opportunity to drive it.
• 24:50
  I'm going out to California.
• 24:51
  Next week.
• 24:52
  And I think I might have the opportunity to take it for a spin and see.
• 24:55
  So it's been the spiritual successor to the Dino.
• 24:58
  So we shall see.
• 24:59
  So, Hey, again, I really appreciate y'all listening.
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