2026 Austrian GP Race Review

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Hello and a very welcome to the Late Breaking F1 podcast presented by Harry Yidd, Sam Sage and me, Ben Hawking,

reviewing the Austrian Grand Prix. One by a Mercedes, but for the first time since Australia,

one by George Russell. An important victory for him, just one week before his home race as well.

Joined on the podium by his teammate Kimi Antonelli in P3 and Max Verstappen in a somewhat improved red

ball finishing within two seconds of the victory in second place. Sam, did you enjoy that one?

Hmm, yeah, that's Yabba-dabba two wins for George this season. No, no, today it wasn't Yabba-dabba. It was, was it?

It sounded like an ambulance in the background. That's what you're doing, George. You can only win at

race tracks that start with us. So, Oscar, I assume, is going to come up at some point and then win that

one. And that'll be, pack it here at that point. Move on. Come back again next year.

Just the three wins for George Russell this year, then. Yeah. Yeah. It might be actually. If you

only go win one every seven, it genuinely might. That's fair. It's good analysis already in the

start of the show. I'm glad this hasn't gone too badly, yes. Harry's barely got a voice.

Sam's loving life. My toilet has broken. I'm very annoyed. On a Sunday afternoon.

Of all the days of Sunday. Come on. It could have been so many other things.

Sam, let's take your mind off it with the beauty of moment of the race with our

driver of the day, worst driver of the day, and so much more about this Austrian GP.

Let's start out front with that George Russell victory. Of course, got pole position yesterday in,

should we say, somewhat controversial circumstances with the whole discussion of

single wave yellow versus double wave yellow. George Russell ultimately

understanding the flags correctly and taking that pole and from there able to convert it

into a race victory. Didn't have it all his own way. Sam, but what did you make of his win?

I thought it was strong from Russell. There were moments where the pace

was not as expected. And we saw in that big part of the race, I'm going to jump around a little

bit on the timeline here, that Max was closing him in. And actually, I think it was more of a

failing of Red Bull rather than a strength of Mercedes that the charge was saved off,

essentially. But I thought Russell did enough through the whole Grand Prix to manage the ties,

manage the gap. It was only that few lap period where Max Verstappen was about a second and a half,

two seconds away. It looked like it was ever in doubt. Great start off the line. No issues for

that Mercedes car. Go away from the likes of the battling Ferraris and the McLaren's trying to get

involved. And of course, Max would car through quickly. And from then on, there was really

one or two opportunities to ever really disrupt him. I thought he handled the pressure pretty

well. What did you make of the win, Harry? Yeah, I agree. Of course. I agree. This could be a long

hour. I thought it was strong. And to your point about obviously getting pole, the fact that he

was on pole and converted that to a good start, I think that was a big part of him winning this race

because all of the other contenders for this win, like Anthony Verstappen, you could argue,

maybe Hamilton, they were all getting in scraps in the early part of this race. We just allowed

Russell to always have a gap to whoever was behind him. So I think that in itself should be credited

to him. And yeah, he soaked up the pressure well from Verstappen. I know it was never like

around until we got to the end. It was never really, really close, but he still was being

hunted down for the most part. And he had maybe one or two offs, but that everyone was having

weird offs lockups today. So I don't think you could really criticise him too much for that.

So yeah, strong and an important time to do it. Because I think, as we said in the preview,

he, despite getting points in Anthony, was still overtaken by him at Barcelona. So

the fact that he's converted the pole into a win, I think it's a big moment for him.

After a couple of instances where he was unable to convert pole positions into victories,

and there were varying reasons as to why obviously Canada very much not on him. Barcelona, Ferrari

were much better. And here's an example of where George Russell can go and do the business on

Saturday and then fully convert it into that race win on Sunday. I was going to touch on the

exact same point that you just made there, Harry, which is I really think that pole position lap,

and it sounds really obvious, but that pole position lap was so important for George Russell,

but not only him getting pole, but crucially who was directly behind him. And we'll talk Ferrari

later on in the episode. The reason why we'll talk about them later on in the episode is because

they weren't in the mix for this victory. And if I think if Antonelli or Verstappen had lined up

second or third on this grid, I think there is a reasonable chance we could have been looking

at a different winner here. And as weird as that is to say, George Russell, it's going to sound

like an insult and instead it really isn't. It's a compliment. It takes a lot to win a race when

you are the fastest driver. It takes even more sometimes when you're not the fastest on the

day and you still claim the win. I'm not convinced on that podium he was the fastest driver out there.

I think he might have been slower than both his teammate and Verstappen as well.

But where Russell got that pole position and got that early lead and Harry, as you say, was clear

of that battling that Verstappen was having with Hamilton. Antonelli was down to P5 very early on.

He was able to build a bit of an advantage and just give him that buffer that ultimately

he kind of needed as we got towards the end of this Grand Prix. And I think in hindsight,

we had a team radio message from Marcus Dudley about a third of the race before the first stop,

actually, where I think Russell maybe had a three second advantage or so on the couple cars behind.

And there was a message of encouragement from Marcus Dudley to say like,

every second we can get here really helps us. In hindsight, yeah, it really did because that was

the time at which Russell could extend that advantage and therefore maybe not play into pit

stops as much as the other teams would have wanted to. And he crossed the line only a second

and a half ahead of both Verstappen and Antonelli. So congratulations to George.

I thought he managed the race very well, particularly in the final. I thought the final

stint was actually the strongest. The middle stint I thought was a bit dodgy, but I thought

the final stint he did very well just to see off the fret of Verstappen as he was starting to close.

It shows that being clinically overtaking as well can make or break a Grand Prix. Again,

that feels like a really obvious statement to make when it comes to motor racing,

but getting the job done on track quickly shows that if you can't do that, you lose out because

the way Verstappen and Hamilton were jockeying for, it felt like a couple of laps and that gap

was around three seconds and four seconds and five seconds back up the track to Russell.

You look at the gap at the end of the Grand Prix and if Verstappen can just execute the overtake

within two corners and drive off, there is every chance that actually that two-second gap at the

end doesn't need to be two seconds at the end. It's actually minus two seconds and he's got the

overtake. Russell were a couple of laps before the end, so ensuring you can get the move done,

understanding how the battery works, understanding how the flow of the track works,

is really quite crucial for later on the knockoff effect that every second you lose will have on

the later race. Just a quick question that I wanted to address about race starts, because

certainly the narrative towards the beginning of this season was that's where Ferrari can thrive

and get leads into turn ones and then see if they can hold it. After the last few, can we put

that to bed now? It seems fairly even now. I think the same is sort of the problem out.

Verstappen is killing more comfortable in the car and the upgrades that Red Bull brought this weekend

were clearly strong. I think it's pretty level-footed now. Russell did a pretty good job

in turn one and indeed on all of lap one, whilst there was some incidents happening behind him.

What about the two drivers that ran him as close as he did? His teammate Kimmy Antonelli,

who takes P3, and Max Verstappen, who takes second. Harry, should we go with Verstappen

first and foremost? It started to prove a bit of a pest to George Russell as this race went on.

We were questioning midweek whether these upgrades would be enough for him to contend for a victory,

not ultimately to take one, but he was definitely in contention.

Yeah, I think what the real sign for Verstappen of his pace was how disappointed he sounded

on the radio at the end of the race. He was like, yeah, a podium. I think he knew they had the pace

today to win this one. But this is a very encouraging day for Red Bull and for Verstappen,

because it's the most competitive they've looked at here. Obviously, he has picked up a podium

previously, but these upgrades do seem to have worked here definitely. It'll be interesting to

see how that converts when we go to Silverstone next week. But in qualifying trim, obviously,

he found the limit of that car. But in race trim, it looked really good. I think that should be a

really encouraging sign for them and give Verstappen a car that's competitive. He was delivering,

right? And like you said, I think if he, again, this is a criticism on him, but if he'd start to

slide further up or hadn't got involved in those scraps of the start with the Ferraris, et cetera,

then we may be looking at Verstappen win. So yeah, a good day, good day in the office for him.

They spoke about this on the Sky commentary. Red Bull are pretty confident that if they give him a

good car, then he'll stick around. Now, that's a good starting point.

It sure is. And we know how effective he's been at this track in the past. And we felt that if

Red Bull were to give him something of a car to go fighting with today,

he was going to at least take advantage to be in that fight. And it's up to you. It's up to your

opinion as to how much you believe the whole home crowd, how much of an advantage it actually gives

you. But if it does give you any advantage whatsoever, it's here because that crowd,

particularly after the race as well, Austria was rocking for Max Verstappen. I know we've

seen it in years past, but today felt like another level again. It's insane.

Yeah. The fact that you can hear them singing Max Verstappen as they're walking towards the podium

at that level. He has even won the Grand Prix. And you can just hear that over the TV comes is

pretty phenomenal. I'm very excited for it when we go to Zanvo later on in the year. I think it

will be a lot of fun. Two crucial moments, I think for Red Bull, for Max Verstappen specifically,

this Grand Prix, because I thought his actual race pace was phenomenal. I thought he was almost

flawless in how he drove this Grand Prix. He needed to get through Hamilton faster and I do

criticise him for not being able to get that job done better. Because I thought the first time

round Hamilton was fantastic up against him. The second time round Verstappen does a very good

job of getting the move done. And he drove on nicely. The second part that I think really let

them down was their strategy. I think that they stayed out too long when Russell had pitted and

Russell was just a second and a half faster, a second and a half faster. And that turns from a

two second gap, which Verstappen was kind of right on the back of Russell before they pit

into a 10 plus second gap. And that's a real mission to recover. And we saw that was a difficulty

for Verstappen, the fact that he was unable to ever get properly close again until the very last

lap, which is no time. You can't get the job done when it's that close. So I would have liked to

have seen them bring him in a little closer, prevent an undercut of that level and actually

see them go toe to toe on more similar range tyres. I think that was probably the only time that I

think cost him. Yeah, I think strategically they were caught in this middle ground between the

two Mercedes because Russell was kind of the instigator, not of the first stop, but certainly

of the middle stop where he comes in around lap 43, whereas Antonelli goes nearly 10 laps

longer than that. And they kind of had opposite strategies, whereas Verstappen was kind of sat

in the middle. I think he created a five lap tyre delta for that final stint Verstappen, which

proved enough for him to be faster. And he definitely caught Russell, but it wasn't quite

enough to catch him firstly, fast enough. And then secondly, probably not enough of an advantage

to actually get the overtake done if he had got there. I think they maybe needed to commit one

way or the other, either follow him in straight away or maybe try and again do a second undercut,

or essentially do what Antonelli did. And who knows, maybe you get lucky and you go one lap

far enough and the VSC helps you to a race win. But overall, very, very encouraging for

for both Verstappen and for Red Bull. You mentioned two key points in this race. I would

100% agree with you that today they were two key points for Verstappen and whether he could win

this race. I think the third one didn't take place today. The third one took place yesterday

when he crashed. And to be clear, car issue, not Verstappen.

Yeah, but just so people are aware of that fast mode, the rear wing doesn't shut properly

going into that placement corner. If he, again, I think if he gets on the second row with the

rear, if he gets second or third, I think he might win this one because that Hamilton battle

slowed him down a great deal. Good news for all of us in that we got to see that battle unfold

between two absolute legends. But for Verstappen's race, didn't help him out.

Yeah, what did you what do you think of the TV direction? I think I think it was a little

bit lacking horrendous today. Yeah, really bad. I like back of head shot of man. What is that?

Overtake. Ridiculous. At least the drone looks cool.

It looks very good. I did that a lot though, didn't I? Oh, yeah, yeah, they got their full

money. Got the muggies worth. Yeah, I know this is this has got to be kind. It's very

sky specific here. So sorry to those of you that don't have Sky TV. That wasn't good enough

from Crofty today. I don't think I thought the commentary was really subpar. I mean that

kindly in terms of like, you know, it wasn't up to scratch for Crofty standings

anywhere. I don't think and I think that needs to get better for next time, please.

In terms of TV direction that you mentioned, I would have liked to have seen some more

replays of the Hamilton Verstappen battle because at this point, I was thinking we'll

come on here today and give our view about whether it should have been a penalty as Verstappen said

in the car. Didn't really see enough of it to be honest. Like we were obviously, we were looking

overhead at times, but like we never got anything on board. They cut the replay. drone

cam, didn't they? Before we got to the move on the pivotal corner. It was quite frustrating.

But it was fascinating to watch between those two on track as they both have

voice that they really enjoy now battling each other and it was fun to see them going into wheel

We've come so far. We're all very grown up now. Man,

look at us now. Who would have thought? Not me. In terms of Mercedes, I think leaving Barcelona,

we had two big questions about the rest of this season and how they would fare. Question one is

on the battery side of things, their reliability and would they come a cropper at these really

high temperature Grand Prix? We're going to take that box at least for this race.

And the second thing was Ferrari had really caught them in Barcelona. Would they be able to return

to the top step? So I guess a bit of a test for Mercedes, Harry, coming out of the last race.

Quite encouraging for them that they've passed it here.

Yeah, and no real complaints on the right. Well, apart from the water, the drink's not

working for Georgia, both actually. I think I'd say they didn't either. By the way, on that,

Russell trying to get something out of the staff and at the end I was like,

oh, do you have your drinks going all right today? And the staff was like,

it doesn't really matter, does it? It just goes really warm. Russell was like,

I'm really proud that I finished this race without any water. It's so pick me in it.

It comes over the line. It's the winger of the Grand Prix and my drink didn't work.

Anyway, sorry. Yeah, this happens. Russell was really made me laugh.

Yeah, and I don't normally drink. Never, never really.

Yeah, it was encouraging. They, and like I said, no real complaints over there about

temperature and stuff. You know, we had Ferrari at one point tell Hamilton to switch engine modes

because he was having some temperature issues. There was something about Antony's brakes,

but for the most part, they were all pretty reliable. So that would give them some good

encouragement, I think, for other hot races that we'll have later in the year.

Because yeah, they must be getting a little bit worried about that issue.

That has cropped up a couple of times. So it could still happen again. But today,

which was quite a hot day out in the Austrian hills, it worked for them.

Last question, Sam, before we head to a break, I just wanted to ask you about

Antonelli of obviously one lap away from being able to take advantage of the first

virtual safety car, one lap away from being able to take advantage of the second virtual safety car.

Lucky would have been lucky if he got either of them.

Having the same opportunity as everyone else and then having the same result as

everyone else doesn't mean you're unlucky. That's not how luck works. That's not how that works,

okay? No, he ran a normal race and didn't stop under the BSC. It would have been very fortunate

if it worked out for him, but he had to run a normal Grand Prix. And I think actually,

young of the top runners benefited. Even Hamilton, who put on the soft tyres randomly

under that BSC, it didn't really cause any difference. So I'm not going to really act like

that shape that it might have helped if he did get it, but we'll never know. And that's

a different world where he did so well. I do think that we saw a slightly scruffy Antonelli

in the first portion of this Grand Prix. I do think that cost him a result at the end of this race.

He mentioned even sowing his post race interview with David Coulthard, but

he was uncomfortable with the brakes. Actually, that was causing him to make those mistakes,

goes off at turn one, goes off at turn three. We see a repeat of that, I think on the next

couple of laps as well, where he leaves the track again, had no confidence on his brakes.

A bongo comes over the radio, says you've got brake split, where one brake is hotter than the

other. And you can hear him that he's not confident going into these braking zones. In Austria,

you basically need to be confident at two things. How quickly can you get up to top speed,

and how quickly can you slow back down again? And it looked like 50% of that he wasn't very happy

with. So unfortunately, that affected the race pace. And I do think that in turn meant that he

was unable to get that move down on the staffer, and maybe his teammate at the end of the Grand

Prix. So yeah, not his finest, but to walk away with third place and to keep the gap pretty

minimal. I'm sure he'll take that.

With the whole virtual safety car stuff, I feel like people forget sometimes that,

because I don't think he was unlucky. But if he took advantage of, if he went one lap later and

did take advantage, that wouldn't have been lucky either, because one of the main reasons you go

far into a Grand Prix and try and create that offset is because you are playing into a potential

safety car situation. And a lot of times it won't work out like today. And then on the odd occasion,

it will. That's why you try it. It's a good result for him, and he doesn't lose too much in terms

of his championship lead versus George Russell, who of course now is second place having recovered

that from Lewis Hamilton. Speaking of Lewis Hamilton, we'll take a quick break. We'll

discuss his and Ferrari's race on the other side as well as McLaren.

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We're so back.

Welcome back, everyone. Let's move on to McLaren, fourth place and seventh place for them with

Oscar Piastri, the lead driver today. Simon was with a bit of a stinker from Oscar in Barcelona,

and it's been a bit of a stop-start season for him, a lot of which reliability related.

This feel like quite an important result, even though it's not a podium.

It was a stinker in Barcelona, but he clearly went back to the MTC.

Zach Brown's rung him a nice bath, giving him soap and said, clean yourself,

Aposca. Come on, come out smelling fresh. It's fun fishing out there somewhere about that.

We won't go even further on that on the podcast. But he has come out smelling fresh,

and I thought he was really good today. I thought he put in a really solid shift,

and Landon Norris is no easy competitor to go up against, and it looked like the pace difference

was pretty strong after the first few laps when Piastri did the job to get past him,

essentially, when they were right next to each other. He did well, I think, to hold off the

Ferraris, the hard tire clearly working and more favourable from McLaren over what the

Ferraris were experiencing. There was a moment where it looked like the Clare Hamilton,

and Piastri were all kind of being together, and one of the Ferraris could have come out on top.

They didn't. I think Piastri's race management at that point was really strong. It never looked

like they had the pace to catch up to Antonelli for stopping further ahead, but I do think that

Piastri was a good step above the likes of Hajar Norris, the Ferraris today. So, yeah,

made the difference, I think. Are we calling that best possible result, Harry?

I think so, given where they are. I don't think they were ever going to challenge

the Mercedes and Verstappen. But yeah, I think it was a solid race from Oscar, and one of the most

anonymous ones out there just sort of, he just did 71 laps and ball by himself for most part.

He was a bit involved with Hajar and Le Clare. Later on, he still needed to get those.

The pace was there. So, yeah, I think he made the most of the car he had underneath him,

kept out of trouble, a little bit of contact with Le Clare, but it was fine, really. So,

yeah, I'm not going to be pleased with it, obviously. But I think from his point of view,

it was a good way to bounce back after, like I said, a stinky Barcelona.

Yeah, and I don't think one individual result at this point in Piastri's career, and I know he's

not the most experienced driver on the grid, but he's been through enough of these situations

already in his career that I don't think one race was ever going to derail him completely.

But it's still useful to bounce back after such a result. And to be clear, it wasn't awful. It's

not as if he crashed out or anything. It's just his pace was quite lacking versus his teammate.

But a really good turnaround here, solid enough start. And then, yeah, whilst we didn't get a

huge amount of his coverage, a lot of that was just based on his strategy not really featuring

with the top drivers and then getting the moves done where he needed to ultimately get ahead of

the two Ferraris that he obviously started behind and indeed his teammate as well. I thought he

drove a very, very sensible race and conditions were quite similar. I fought to Barcelona, which

should give him even more encouragement in that we were looking at two and three stop races,

quite high tyre wear, similar-ish sort of track, same compound of tyres. So any concerns that he

had about Barcelona, I think he probably put them to bed here. And I don't know if we can call

it important given he was competing for the championship last year, but that result does

actually put him marginally ahead of both his teammate Leclerc and he's ahead of Verstappen as

well. He's got 80 points, 79 for Leclerc and Norris, 73 for Verstappen. So he's now P4.

Because certainly the amount of races he hasn't started, it's not too bad.

Yeah, not too bad at all. In terms of McLaren's overall pace, Sam, again, it didn't feel like it

was quite there with certainly the Mercedes or the Red Bull of Verstappen. I think it got better

as it went on. I was thinking in the first stint that this doesn't look great for them and it's

not like they were competing for the win at the end. But I thought they found their way a little

bit. Yeah, I'd be a little bit worried if I was McLaren. I think the fact that they were so far

clear of Red Bull at the start of the season, and Red Bull have clearly made, I mean, they brought a

huge upgrade package here to Austria and it's clearly works, right? You see how fast Verstappen

was throughout that race stints. They were neck and neck at the start of this season. And obviously,

we had a couple of Grand Prix where they couldn't really feature because of failures within the

car. But when they were having pace, they were regularly better than Red Bull. We saw in Japan,

for example, in Suzuka, Verstappen was fighting with gasoline. You know, they couldn't get out of

the midfield for the most part. And now... And Piastri could have won that race.

Right, yeah. But that's the flip. And now you come to Austria, only what four Grand Prix later.

And now Verstappen finishes, that's two seconds away from a race wing,

Pajar has beaten Lando Norris. And Piastri was having a very good Grand Prix. Is it exactly down

the road? It's only what four seconds clear of Lewis Hamilton here. And I think that's a bad

day for Ferrari. I think this is almost an outlier. I think this has gone well for them,

rather than it being stupendously good for McLaren. So I actually think they're in a bit of a

worrying position. I think they need to sort something out and bring it up great or get it

together because Piastri got the best result. But I think that was because he had a really strong

drive. But he usually could have been next to Norris and they could have been, what, 78.

Yeah. I think it's a bit of a headscratcher for them because I think exiting Barcelona,

it's like, well, Ferrari got the better of us, obviously. But equally, Norris was right there

with Antonelli and Russell before Antonelli's retirement, at least. And then if you go to

this race and you say, well, actually your result relative to Ferrari is going to be better than

it was, you probably is Andrea Stella or Zach Brown think, oh, that probably means we're competing

for the win, right? But no, Mercedes are that much clearer of you again. It's just, it's an odd one

for them to try and figure out ahead of Silverstone. Believe to be something of an upgrade weekend

for them. Again, not a massive one like Red Bull this weekend or Ferrari last race, but maybe

that can help them get in the mix a little bit. Speaking of Ferrari, we did our question of the

week earlier on. We asked the question, you know, how would Ferrari after the win in Barcelona,

how would they follow that up here in Austria? If you said three stops a piece or P5, P8,

well done, you're correct. Ah, Harry, it ain't good, is it?

A bit proper stinky news book about macroscopy Astri. It looks horrendous to drive that car,

especially in Leclerc's hands, like awful. Just couldn't keep any of the tires alive,

especially the hard tires. They just looked terrible on those every time.

Bit better on the mediums, maybe, but yeah, their tire deck was, one of the radio messages that

came through was tire deck is as expected to Charlotte Clair about what were you expecting,

good, bad, terrible, because it was terrible. Yeah, they seemed to suffer with that a lot more

than others. I think it was noted in the commentary that towards the end of that race,

Pierre Gasly, who'd come out on some fresh softs, was actually trying to get past Leclerc,

unlapped himself. That's how slow he was going. Like I said, with Leclerc, a bit of a head scratcher,

I think Ferrari will go away with a few people scratching their heads there because it wasn't

a good afternoon, especially considering where they came from in Barcelona.

They'll be a little bit concerned. It may just be a track-specific thing,

because at least in Cologne, they looked to be there. Obviously, at one point,

they were going to be a one-two on the grid, but yeah, their race pace, they really struggled,

which was surprising.

I incredibly rough calculations here, but looking at the strategy of Leclerc versus someone like

Verstappen or Russell, Leclerc did two stints on the hard tire in the middle of this race that

collectively went, I think, about 46 laps. Verstappen and Russell, they were able to

get to the end on just one stop after doing lap 18. They weren't even considering going for these

three-stop races or starting to introduce the soft tire at the end, as Charles Leclerc had to do.

Is it a bit confusing, Sam, as to why this just didn't work on the same level that it did last

time? Yeah, there's a lot to worry about, and I think Ferrari will hope that this will almost

be another outlier type Grand Prix for them. It also puts proof into the pudding that the

battery is so important. Ferrari bring an aging upgrade here, and they thought they found maybe

between five and eight brake horsepower for the whole power curve, which in theory should be a

really strong upgrade for an aging. And yet you could see in the straights that they were by

far the slowest. Do you hear the cool down room moment where Antonelli is like, and nearly went

into the back of Leclerc at the end of a straight? Yeah, because it's so slow. It's so slow at the

straight line, and the Mercedes battery and the Red Bull battery clearly so superior over the

Ferrari battery. And that, remember, isn't part of the Oduo process. It does not get looked into

at all. It's such an important part of this overall aging, though. Ferrari, it's so... I mean,

how can you go from winging in Barcelona to doing so many things wrong in a Grand Prix? The fact that

you can't get the types to work, you then clearly are overheating the car having to swap the engine

into the cool down area, which we heard, of course, from Sanctis to Hamilton. Charles Leclerc's pace

is nowhere to be found. He's so far off the mark. And when that's happening, we realise that the

Leclerc hasn't got the pace versus Hamilton. Do we make it easy and we let one car come through?

No, we don't. No, we make them fight. And Oscar Priastri goes, yeah, cheers. I'm just going to drive

off down the road now. Don't worry about me. And then it takes another whole lap to swap them round,

and then they battle for a corner again. How are these two side by side 10 times more often than

any other team mates? The best bit about it as well was that they battled on Charles Leclerc's

in lap, like one more. Yeah, yeah. Charles Leclerc goes, I'm going to fight you. I'm going to fight

you. I'm going to pick. Bye-bye. Thanks for making this really hard. What are you doing, Ferrari?

You just won a Grand Prix. You know, the worst thing is like normally, if we were expecting like

this weekend to have been something of a back down to earth moment for Ferrari,

we would have said, ah, the strategy that's really, really undone them here. Like they

had the pace again, but this time the strategy didn't go right. I don't think it mattered that

they three stop. If they two stopped, maybe Hamilton gets P4 instead of P5. I don't think that pit

stop management was rubbish. I don't think it matters. I don't think it changes the world. I

think you might have beat Piazzacri. I think you might have beaten Piazzacri. I think the stop under

the BSC under the soft tire was unneeded. I just think you added, yes, you got stuck in traffic,

had to overtake Hadjah, had to get past his teammate. The amount of time he's losing on these

warm soft tires. But if your tire wears that high, again, that's another problem is that they felt

the need to do this. It's odd though, because they've not experienced this problem before.

They've used this tire. It's not like this is a different compound. No, it's exactly the same

as what we had last time out. I just maybe again with the heat hazard that was issued this weekend.

I know we will have some other hot races, but this is probably going to be top three, I reckon,

throughout the year. Maybe we don't get too many more of these. I don't think it's going to be

either quite that warm next week at Silverstone. No, please. 21 degrees or the light breeze would

be great. Thank you. Maybe the most worrying thing about a pace wise about Ferrari was when

Hamilton went over Team Radio was like, you know, how was my pace? And the response was,

yeah, your pace is great versus Charles. It's like, yeah, but the problem is he's really slow.

So that's the slowest man on the track at this moment. You know, last time it was like,

you can catch him. Come on. This time it's like, you're doing great versus the other guys stop

doing great. The actual phrase was from Hamilton was just, he said, pace, okay,

question mark. And then race engineer was like, better now. The ex was rubbish,

but now it's a bit better. Bit better. And he's on new tires. Yes,

probably going to be a bit better, isn't it? Oh, it's so sorry if you're a Ferrari fan.

It must be rubbish. Yeah. You've hit the earth hard this week. Are we putting to bed

Ferrari championship chances? Rest in peace. June 20, 26th, June 20, 26th.

Hope he was tomorrow. I am joking. We've got a long way to go. We've got a long way to go.

Also, just again, the qualifying versus race pace, we've seen them before,

like not be very quick in qualifying and then not be very quick in the race. You're like,

well, that adds up. They could have had, they could have had pole. They could have had a 1-3

or something along those lines. It felt like Ferrari really built into the weekend up to

when qualifying stops. Yeah, from Friday to Saturday.

Rubbish FP2, Hamilton's attempt to weigh FP3, qualifying right till the last moment. They

got a 1-2 and then they may as well be fighting with the midfield. It's amazing they beat anyone

in that top eight. I mean, fortunate actually that Russell didn't have pole in the end,

because imagine if they converted a 1-2 into a 5-8. We would have content for the

The worst part is you could pick up this segment and you could put it into so many

We're not here. The last 10 years you could go, yeah, that happened then and

and then. We'll see how they go at Silverstone. Shall we review our bold predictions because

there are plenty of points to give out here, right? Technically, the points are there to be

given out, but whether they will be given out is another question. They're all up for grabs.

We can grab them. I can't reach. Let's see how we start. Sam, what was your bold prediction?

Bam in top six. Where did you finish? Not there. Yeah. Harry, what was your bold prediction?

Oh, no Mercedes on the podium. I saw two of them. Yeah, both on both. Cool.

My bold prediction was that Audi would be both drivers in the top 10. What happened?

The finish 11-12. Every time. Oh, well, we'll chat about the midfield a little bit more after

the break. Give me a couple of DNFs, people. Come on. They did, but from the back. Yeah, right.

Liam Lawson is literally shouting about the fact that he's on fire. I'm still on fire.

He's actually just really good. I am on fire this season. Wow, man. Wrong time to use that phrase.

Oh, I just, yeah. I feel like I made a plea to the grid. Like, can I just have a couple of DNFs

to get this bold prediction right? And the Cadillacs were like, reporting for duty.

Again, my chat about Cadillac in a little bit. Can't wait.

Yeah, let's take a break. On the other side, we'll go into driver of the day,

worst driver of the day, big brain strat, and into that midfield battle.

Welcome back, everyone. A good day for racing balls, 9th and 10th. Unfortunately for them,

couldn't get any further than that again, based on the golfing class at the moment between the

midfield and the top runners. No DNFs or no, no, no poor races amongst the top eight.

But still, 9th and 10th, another double points finish. I was having a look, Sam, that it's now

four straight races that Lawson has scored in, and it's four straight weekends that Limblard

has scored in. One of them he scored in the sprint, but not the main race. But it shows the

consistency that's coming together for this team. Sadly, that team has found something,

because I think we were giving them some real criticism after a Japan period where, you know,

they looked like they were slipping further and further back. And I actually expected them to

almost be where Williams are now. I thought they'd be that third last team, because I've

been that little gulf on their own. And yet they've stepped it up. It's actually, they've taken the

place of Alpine. Now, the likes of Gaston and Colla Pinto, really unable to touch that racing

ball at the moment. And Limblard's in his rookie year, he's doing a great job. But I do just want

to take a moment to praise Liam Lawson, because he went through the ringer. He was not good enough.

He got that early promotion up to Red Bull, which was silly. He got reduced back to a racing

ball driver imminently afterwards. And you can understand how that might really knock you for

six. And it was worrying when he went up against Hajar, didn't fare too well, and he went up against

Limblard in that first race. Limblard did so well scoring points in his first Grand Prix,

you're thinking, uh-oh, is this going to go the wrong way for Lawson? And here he is, maybe

the most consistent driver in the midfield right now is clearing up his race craft. The

consistency in pace is great. Even when he's on fire, he's quite literally on fire. I thought

he was really, really impressive, really, really impressive. So good to see that the car has improved,

but he seems to have really improved with it. Impressed by what they were able to do, Harry?

Yeah, really good day for racing bulls. He right. They were just, they couldn't catch the top

but the pair of them were together for like the whole race basically.

Yeah. Yeah. Second apart. Yeah. And you know, they had a good gap to the Audi's behind. So

I don't think they could have done much more, to be honest. Just, yeah, really, really strong.

The car looked good and also both drivers delivered on that pace. So yeah, I think they can be

very pleased with how that day went. Yeah, I was trying to work out strategically what they

were doing exactly. And I feel like this makes sense, but again, we are recording this very

shortly after. So if there was a different reason, we'll find out soon enough. But

Lawson obviously had the advantage over Limblad in that first stint, but then Limblad pits won

that before Lawson does, therefore getting ahead of him and getting the undercut, which I thought

was slightly odd. I'm guessing maybe protecting against some undercuts from drivers behind,

because as soon as the second pit stops come around, they just reverse it and Lawson is the

second driver pit first, then Limblad pit after and Lawson gets the undercut back on him. But

you're right in saying that they were essentially attached at the hip throughout this entire Grand

Prix, really nothing to separate them, which is really good for both drivers, but also the team,

because that should give them quite a lot of encouragement that they've got something that

they can work with not only here, but for what they will hope is a long stretch of the season.

You're right, Sam, they were struggling. And I guess it made sense in that it kind of followed

where Red Bull were struggling as well, and they've kind of picked up together almost.

But the consistency that they've been able to deliver is something that they have really been

missing over the previous years. It always felt like even when they were doing quite well in the

midfield a few years ago, they took it in turns to have a good race weekend. Here we're having them

quite consistently, like seven for ninth or ninth and tenth. And sure, it's not big point scoring

finishes, but at the moment, that's kind of all they can get. Lawson was great. He was on fire,

no doubt. And he had a really good race last year as well. So he's proving that this is a track he

enjoys. And Limblard, he's continuing to impress. And he is the only rookie on the grid that has to

be remembered as well. He doesn't even have other rookies to be compared to. And he's doing a really

good job. He doesn't look much like a rookie at this point, which is fairly high compliment.

I forget that he is actually a rookie, which I think is a big compliment. He doesn't make many

mistakes. He doesn't. As a team, there are only 13 points off Alpine now as well. You know, you

keep this up for three or four races and they will find themselves in fifth place in the championship.

So a great job. Yeah. And today was also pretty good because where racing balls have been fast in

qualifying in previous races, they maybe haven't converted that fully into race pace. It's been

like the racing bulls has had the advantage on Saturday and then maybe Alpine has had the

advantage on Sunday. Here, it actually followed through and they were quite comfortably clear

of everyone else. Starting with Audi, Portoletto 11th, Hülkenberg just about holding off

Pierre Gasly for P12. So I don't know about this one, Sam. Obviously, it's bittersweet in that,

again, it's no points for the team, but this felt like a more complete race than what they've had

previously. This is the first time with Audi that I can't pick out almost a little notepad list of

mistakes or issues that have happened with Audi's weekend. So regularly, there's a problem with

qualifying or we see an overheating issue with their car or their start is so awful that they

go to the back of the pack and they've got to overtake everyone again or a driver gets a pebble

that hits his kill switch button and he ends up out the Grand Prix. That's your fault. Okay.

But the point is here, I can't really find much that went wrong for them and I think that's really

solid and considering that, again, while they've got a brand new team in that sense like Cadillac

are, there's still a new outfit and there's still a lot that's gone on there and a lot of changes

that have taken place even with the likes of Wheatley leaving, of course, so soon into the season

they've still got to adapt to these things. So you can see Portoletto and Hülkenberg so close

together, only a few seconds between them at the end and they were the ones trying to push for the

points. It's promising. I'm not going to shower it with praise, but it's a promising and positive

weekend for them. I'd agree. It feels like a promising result. I guess if you're picking

out drivers as well, Harry, Portoletto has maybe been a step behind Hülkenberg more often than

not recently. So this is quite a good result for him. Yeah, he looked comfortable versus Hülkenberg

today. Sorry. Yeah, I agree with what you said, Sam. It's a positive step. We obviously joked

about it with your ball protection, but they can't really do much more at the moment apart from

hope for some retirements in front and that being from the top. Obviously, the racing

is the positive step. I felt like a clean day, which as you mentioned, Sam has been

lacking all year, basically, frowning. So yeah, I think they could be positive about it.

Yeah, I feel like as well, whilst 11th and 12th was probably the optimal result, I felt they were

the sixth fastest team. In terms of margins separating themselves and racing balls,

they were quite hurt as they often are with lap ones. It wasn't even awful from their side

this time. It was Ocon got such a great start on lap one that Portoletto was kind of tucked up

behind Ocon for a little bit. And once he'd got away from that fight, it was fairly level with

the racing balls. He wasn't catching them, but equally, he wasn't really going adrift of them

either. So I feel like if he'd stayed ahead of Ocon on lap one, he probably would have just been

a few seconds behind that fight. Again, I don't think he had the pace or Audi had the pace to

actually beat them. And Hülkenberg was similar. Hülkenberg was further back and on medium tyres

rather than soft tyres. So it took him a bit longer to get through that traffic. But overall,

yeah, a pretty clean weekend for them. I think consumerist comes at a race which is so power

heavy. We've just found out how down on power the Audi engine is as well. So when they bring

those upgrades, it can be interesting to see because the chassis clearly got some promise to

it. So if the engine can start to match that, it'll be really fascinating. And that might be

Alpine's worst weekend of the year. Very anonymous, wasn't it? Yeah. Gasly tried to do something a

little bit different with that soft tyre at the end, but equally, even if he got the move on

Hülkenberg, they're not there with the racing balls this time. Yeah, it's pretty poor,

frustrating. You kind of think that maybe Alpine have cracked the code. And when McLaren and very

much Mercedes look like they're in the fight each weekend, you think that Alpine might have

a bit more consistency, but it doesn't seem to be ringing true. Well, the good news is whilst

everyone's starting their deringing process at Austria, I think Cadillac are already at Silverstone.

It helps when the car impacts itself on the racetrack. Yeah, they were there by lap four.

Yeah. Yeah, they're already gone. Just as soon as the first one came through, which was Bottas,

you're like, you kind of felt that the next wasn't too far away. I believe my brakes are on fire.

It's just like, of course, they are. But even worse, it's too separate. They

wasn't the same problem. No, no. What a weekend for Perez, by the way. Just like,

can't do any of practice because his car keeps breaking down. Don't worry, it will get better

in the race. Four laps in, he's out. Yeah, like the car got to stop falling apart at some point.

The pace was technically better for the three laps that we saw of it. I mean, they were much

faster than Aston Martin, which I'm sure we'll get to. But yeah, you've got to finish a race.

There's no point being quicker if you can't actually get through a Grand Prix. And this

is another problem that came like a really experiencing. Yeah, Coley versus Aston Martin

looked all right. But yeah, you kind of have to go more than four laps into a Grand Prix.

And at least Alonso finished the race arguably. I can't wait to go on to that.

Yeah. Yeah, I just think Cadillac have a long way to go. And I don't even

need that disparagingly like that. It was always going to be a tough journey for them. It's just

results like this evidence that when it comes to more extreme conditions and these other teams

are a bit more well equipped to deal with them. Cadillac are learning these things and finding

these things out for the first time this year. You're going to get results like these unfortunately.

And that's the time to have them. Rather you have them when you're 20th and 21st than when

you're maybe fighting for your first points. Sure. Well, I don't think either driver is going

to feature in this next discussion, which is asking who was driver of the day.

Unless there was a massive vote swing in the last couple of minutes, I believe the

one driver of the day from the public. I am shocked. It was a fairly big advantage when

they showed it a few laps from the end. So I'm going to assume he did get that.

But would he get your driver of the day, Sam, or are you picking someone else?

He's definitely involved in the conversation. And I still haven't really made a final decision.

I've got his game in the pot. I've got Liam Lawson's game in the pot as well. I think,

you know, he had a really good race. And that's not the first one I've said that this season.

I've played a lot. Liam Lawson this year. You famously love Liam Lawson.

Famous thing. I don't think anything's changed. You've always loved Liam Lawson.

I do this all the time. Yeah. Yeah.

Long. I love me a bit of Lawson. And Russell, I thought I did a really good job maintaining

that Grand Prix. I actually mentioned then not actually the fastest on track, I think.

So to bring home the wing was really, really positive. There were a few mistakes here and

there from pretty much everyone involved. I'm going to go Lawson. It was mistake free.

Everyone else had something that I can critique. Not with him.

Who are you going for, Harry?

Yeah. I think they probably certainly are my contenders. I'd try maybe to leave a

blood in there as well, because I think both of them were as good as each other.

I'll go with Russell, though, of this one. But I think it was a really good drive. And like you

said, Ben-Aaron, he won the race, even though he wasn't the fastest on the day, which that's

credit to him. I kind of went through the same process as you did, Sam, which is

Russell was very impressive, but equally, I think he didn't have the best pace within his own team.

For Stappen, arguably, if he gets by Lewis Hamilton the first time of asking, he has a chance to win

this race. And Antonelli, very scruffy first part of this race that, again, might have cost him a

chance to win. So once I dismissed those three, whilst they're all in the conversation, I also

landed at Liam Lawson, a very good performance. Wow. Seasons that they're like breaking headquarters.

Indeed. What about Worst Driver of the Day?

I like to think he's saying Ben, not Bing in the background of that song.

Ben. Ben. Ben. Ben. Ben.

You're heading the Ben. Oh, geez. It's never gone down well, that one, Ridley.

Harry, who's your Worst Driver of the Day?

I'm going to have to go for Charles Leclerc. Did he whiffy? Yeah, exactly, mate. Real whiffy.

His Ferrari pace, as we said, was not good, but his was worse of the two drivers. And he just spent

all afternoon defending from something or something. Being overtaken by Lewis Hamilton.

He was always being attacked and never being the one doing the attacking. Sorry,

what have you got, Sam? I'm very much in the same line of thinking here. Out of that top eight,

it's hard to find anyone else like critique more. Big Charles Leclerc.

Ocon was brilliant again. Also, blue flags. What are you doing, man? Get out of the way.

He's got to fight someone, all right? Yeah, he's a team mate. For the start line,

we're going to drive into him because he has a better start, sure. Yeah, I'll go Charles,

but Ocon was my other consideration. I didn't know that I had him in Driver of the Day contention

either, but I cut Ocon a bit of slack because his strategy, again, was not great, whereas

Berman took advantage of the virtual safety cast. So I think the gap between them was

slightly manufactured for that reason. I had two drivers in contention. Whilst the Alpine wasn't

great, it was at least somewhat competitive in Pierre Gasly's hands, not so much in Franco

Colopinto's, who was a long way off. So I did consider Colopinto, but could this be a first?

I don't know. A triple. A triple, Charles Leclerc. Worst driver of the day. It was stinky.

This isn't just this race. This is this year. It's very square peg round hole stuff here.

There's something not clicking, and it's odd. It is, and it's like these cars,

like you can't get his head around the way to manage these cars because there was one

when he was defending from someone, I can't remember because it was everyone he was defending from,

but he used all of his battery up. I was Antoneli because Antoneli does him into the penultimate

corner because he's completely out of juice, and it's like, I know this driver was struggling

with that, but no one else is making that mistake. But Hamilton has grasped it a lot

better than Leclerc has this year, I will say that. Everyone has. You can see a single other

move like that all grown pretty long. It was the only person that made that mistake.

Yeah, I just think with the battery, again, Ferrari do seem at a disadvantage in that regard,

and I just think Hamilton's, it's not great because he's still having to deal with the

consequences of it, but Leclerc just doesn't seem to have the handle on it. Yeah.

And I know I shared a stat midweek that is now true, which is that this is the first time since

beginning of 2019 that he's gone five straight races, shall Leclerc losing to his teammate.

And I don't believe he's ever had six if he were to lose to Hamilton at the British GP.

Okay. Let's do Big Brain Strat.

Just sensational. Just sensational. A lot of strategy going on out there with multiple

stops across all drivers. Sam, a Big Brain Strat from you.

Yeah, Ferrari get out of each other's way, actually communicate it. So that takes it for me. It's

good to give it to Ferrari. The OG is a Big Brain. I'll get your point, but also boring, man.

It's boring. Just dive and race. It just gives us the content. Think of the content, man.

I'll say you're absolutely right. Harry, what was yours?

Yeah, I'm just kind of Ferrari generally. That was one of the points.

Hamilton's race engineer telling him to box as he's midway through the final corner.

Yeah, correct.

Hermano, stay out. And then, again, I know why they did it, but the cord's gone too soft.

I don't think it works. I know they were. I won't give them too much stick for that one,

because I think they were just throwing stuff at the wall to see what was stick.

We did say, didn't we? After Barcelona, they're just going to do three stops now,

because it worked once. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So that's what they did.

And I'm like, well, I'm going to get on the stopping. So stop doing it somewhere.

Yeah, just generally Ferrari. I do feel the soft tire had some potential in that, like, again,

with Audi, like, Bortoletto taking the softs at the start, and Holkenberg didn't.

Probably a good call. And that likely gave him the pace to get past Ocon,

where Holkenberg took a lot longer to do it. But it was where you use those soft tires that

were born. Yeah, because I can't gas it at the end, and he didn't quite pay off,

because he didn't get past. But that made sense. Yeah.

Plunking it in the middle of your stints felt just a bit.

It's like they went VSE. You went to boxing. It's faster. Do a box.

I said so in the manual. Yeah, faster under yellow. Do that.

And you're like, well, that's because it's that graphic always comes up when a VSE comes

up about the pit stop time you gain. They probably see that and go, we've got to do it.

Obviously, we need to gain time. I wanted to go with one that it's this is a weird one,

because it doesn't really actually pan out. But I wanted to give Red Bull some credit here,

because the Stappen was essentially the only driver going into this race strategically

that had both two sets of medium tires, new medium tires, and two sets of hard tires. Now,

the way that it worked out is that he did the same strategy as the likes of Russell anyway.

But he had the flexibility and I just Red Bull seemed to be more on it about these things than

other teams do. There is another version of events today where the Stappen could do with a

late safety car and the Stappen could really do with maybe not the soft type, but it could really

do with a new medium stint. That could give him the win. Again, didn't quite work out for them,

but I want to praise Red Bull for the way in which they manage their tires throughout a weekend,

because it's giving them more flexibility going into race days.

That's going to do it for Big Brain Strat. Let's take our final break. On the other side,

we've got Moment of the Race.

Welcome back, everyone, to the final part of today's review of the Austrian Grand Prix.

Quick note, Sam, if you want even more chat about the Austrian GP,

we've still got something coming up tomorrow. We're going to do some power rankings.

We've got power rankings coming, which is always a lovely sign, when we go through every single driver

in detail, we give them a ranking between zero and ten, and you get a ranking too.

You get to be involved in the conversation. So we send out a form, you get an average ranking of

all Patreon members who put their submissions in, and it's really interesting to hear your feedback.

You really get a chance to be involved in the conversation. So if you want more content,

more race content after every single Grand Prix as well, check out Patreon. It's the price of a

cup of coffee, as I like to say, and if you can't sit after a month, then look,

Patreon City's the best city. So move on here. Come here and have a little flat. It's comfy.

And if you are on that top tier, you have availability to power rankings, and the form

that Sam has just mentioned there is already out for this Austrian GP that's taken place today.

So make sure you get your ratings in, and that will be included as part of the Patreon average.

Moment of the race. We've got some Discord submissions very shortly. Sam, what was your

moment of the race? It was a few to pick from, actually. The likes of Liam Lawson being on fire

was amusing. I'm glad that he's fine, by the way, but it wasn't an amusing radio message.

But another radio message that stood out to me that we haven't discussed yet was

towards the end of the Grand Prix, where Charles Leclerc was discussing having his final pit stop

where Norris had just caught him, and Charles goes,

have we got the ability just to give another stop? Are we going to lose anything? And the

engineer comes back, not anymore. No. Now that you've been overtaken, mate.

Now you're last of all the top cars. No. So yeah.

Very classic. I've also gone with a Ferrari team radio message. It's the one that you mentioned

just before the break, which is the opportunity to pit Lewis Hamilton under VSC. Just about too

late. Box box. Tell me too late, man. And just the, we tried. We tried. I feel like we tried

his Ferrari's motto. I'm not doing that. We tried. Harry, can you break the streak of

Ferrari team radio messages for Moment of the Race? I can. I haven't gone for that. I want to

this is quite sky specific. So I'm only shouting this out, but at the very start commentary,

Crofty said, to paraphrase, it's hot in the steering. Yeah. No, I have the word steering,

and I vomited all over the floor. What? What do you say? say, man? Who are you

paraphrasing yourself? Why have we gone from stereo to steering? Anyway, my actual one is

the Hamilton Verstappen battle. Yeah, it was great. So good. Yeah, just so fun to watch. And

a shame. A shame it didn't last longer. From our point of view, obviously, Verstappen's needed

to get past or should have done quicker really, but it was great. Great to watch those two go

able to also just separate note. The fact that we get these battles is great, but also

we've said this so many times, we're getting three stops or two stop strategies.

We're getting some good races out of it. Yeah. Please let it continue. One more is going to

shout out. George Russell saying, I could do a one stop. Shut up, man. No, you're not. My mind is

saying with this little fishing rod, a bit of bait on the end of it. Who's taking it? If you

were running around after like 50 laps, sure. I mean, the tyres aren't going to get you that far,

mate. Yeah, you're just fishing any. It's turning to my hand getting something on the Grand Prix.

What more do you want from the man? Very true. I was just going to say on your moment of the race,

Harry, with the Verstappen and Hamilton battle, it seems a recurring theme at the moment with

these Grand Prix. We are getting incredible first quarters or first thirds of races.

And then it's a bit of a question mark as to how much that carries on for the rest of the race,

depending on strategy. But the first like 15 laps of nearly every Grand Prix at the moment is just

full of action. It at least seems to me anyway. Yeah. We've got some moment of the race submissions

from our discord. Thank you very much to everyone who's popped the submission

in the in the submissions channel. If you're not part of our discord already,

you can you can follow the link in the description. We are going to start with cannibal beef.

Hello. Been a while. Moment of the race. Ferrari converting a P2 and P3 to a P5 and P8.

I love my team. Okay, bye. What's the cannibal thing about? Yeah, I don't know, man.

And we're talking cannibal as in human, is he human or as in like a cannon ball from a ship?

The first of those two. Cannibal. Okay. Wow. Gosh, what's beef been up to whilst I've been away?

I guess that name is a beef animal. No. Human.

And by the way, Ferrari doesn't have to be a team. Like you sign up for this when, you know,

you put Ferrari as your best team. You know what's going to happen at this point. Come on.

Yeah. Next up, it's been a while since we've heard from real dad.

Moment of the race from real dad. No, James. He is currently surfing. Some people have the best life.

George Russell saying yabba-dabba-doo at the end. It doesn't get any better. Over and out from real dad.

Bye-bye. Yabba-dabba-doo. I never thought this phrase would make such an appearance in our lives again.

Yabba-dabba-doo, obviously. That's mine. That's what you should have done.

He's really missing opportunity there. Thank you very much. I also appreciated the team radio from

The Ambulance. Let's go into Nick the Quick. What's up, like breakers? Nick, the quick moment

of the race. Got to say the classic Verstappen Hamilton battle. Love to see it. Also, hey,

great battle with McLaren and Ferrari and let's zoom in on the back of a guy's head.

Great job, TV direction. Anyway, keep breaking light.

So long shall not be said. That was great. I feel like back of head guy is belonging in the

Hall of Fame with, what is it, flag waver? Over-excited flag waver. I might do the next episode

in the same way they've done that camera shot. I'll just sit back with a cap on.

At which point we've moved on from the joke and no one understands why you're doing it.

Clearly a really good camera angle. So the podcast should get views on YouTube.

True. Can't fault that logic. Let's go to Lance.

Better than stroll here at my moment of the race. Moment of the race has to be Fernando Alonso

getting a five second time fifth penalty for somehow speeding in the pit lane in an Aston

Martin. And then two minutes later, getting noted for ignoring blue flags. Classic Alonso.

He's definitely over it at this point. I felt this penalty was going to come up at some point.

Yeah. And we haven't even talked about the fact that he got lapped by a Williams.

He was the place ahead of it. Yeah. You're getting lapped by 17th place.

Crikey. That's bad.

He was happy with the progress and qualifiers yesterday. So, well, he hasn't got our money

making machine out of the rest of the teams. It's been a great weekend for Alonso. Really,

yeah. Yeah. Very good shout, Lance. Very much agree with you. Let's go to Blasey next.

All right, boys. Moment of the race. The Ferrari Hopium was very short lived as

Luis Hamilton was called into the pits. He told him it was too late and Ferrari simply

responded, we tried. Yeah. Let's add that to the words of wisdom, I say.

If memory serves me correctly, Blasey had a submission on our last one, the Barcelona GP,

and was very animated about how Ferrari had finally won a race.

Sorry, Blasey. It didn't last for you, mate. One of those I've just seen out the window

falling very quickly back down to earth. Yes. Up next, George Russell's tears.

George Russell's tears, guys. These are tears of joy because my moment of the race was when I

beat all my bullies. I beat Gibby, Max. I beat Luis. I beat all of them today.

And now total said I could keep my job for a little while. Yeah, but Tabadou.

Haters will say that's not George Russell. Soving through the Tabadou's.

Well, well done, George Russell's tears for standing up to your bullies.

Buggy, buggy, buggy. Let's go race in late breakers. My moment of the race,

just like we predicted at the beginning of the season, Aston Martin in front of the Mercedes

and the Red Bull right at the end of the race. Oh, he's three laps down. Sorry, Fernando.

My mum, when that happened, went, what's that? Oh, it's Aston Martin. He's forgotten who the green

team were. They're actually caught up and we're actually in the lead battle. It's actually that

far ahead. Yeah. Lastly for today, we have Aresta. Hi, it's Aresta here. My moment of the race was

those first few laps in the beginning where seemingly almost everyone's car was catching fire

and as someone who is currently in Switzerland during this heat wave, I could not relate more to that.

Aresta.

Oh, no, he's killed Ben.

Top tier banter. Aresta's been on like so many times. Why now?

Always sees the day.

Carpe diem. the DMs, lads.

That went to the end of the car. Thanks very much to everyone who submitted. Sorry for those that

we couldn't get round to, but you've got plenty more opportunities as the season unfolds. We do

these moment of the race submissions after every single Grand Prix. Of course, the next of which,

the British GP in a week's time. Good for us, Sam, that we're going to be there on race day,

but of course, we'll be there ahead of time in terms of the preview as well.

Yeah, preview, midweek, and then we will be at the racetrack. So if you happen to be attending

Silverstone on the Sunday and you see these three absolute wombles walking around with

Kirsty McGregor, our wonderful producer, and so brings ferrying us along to do things that we

should be doing, because we are quite useless. They do stop and say hello because it's always

lovely when we bump into listeners, but we'll be doing our review straight after. So we're

heading back off the track to sit down and do the review so that we will see what happened,

as expected. And of course, the usual weekend content we provide for a race weekend.

And a power ranking to get on Patreon on Monday. So make sure you get back involved,

enjoy the ride, get into Patreon City. It's a grand old time where the aircon is delightful

and the flats are comfy. Right, see you then. In the meantime, I'll be saying the same.

I've been bed-hawking. And I've been hurried. And remember, keep breaking late.

Kimi Antonelli

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