2026 Hungarian GP Preview

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Pre-viewing today the Hungarian Grand Prix

Sam you've always said the Hungarian GP very underrated if memory serves me, right?

I memory does serve you right and you are right, sir

I think the Hungarian GP's a secret banger also helps us get a water park nearby and if you know me

You know that I love a water park and also fascinating how the weather is deciding among those parts. How are you?

You're our 30 year old man

I

Have your opinions change on the water park already hungry I'm not changed

But I've always been a fan of hunger. I think like yourself. It's a

It's an underrated underrated Grand Prix. So looking forward to this one

I think we're gonna have a one of the better races of the 2026 rules here

Very politically well done. Thank you. No straights basically that's why Harry Bergman, right? I

Got we got Andy Byrne in reference

Two for two I just before we move on I love the concept that as soon as you turn 30 your opinion of the

And it's in a couple weeks time. Well, it's the first of August you will you will suddenly change as a human being

Maybe not the hungaring specifically, but it's just like one random race. You suddenly are very very opposite feelings

I see it and they just say clicks out one minute past midnight on the day

Abu Dhabi, it's great

Don't push it. Yeah, that might be pushing it

We are of course here to preview hungry this evening

final race before the summer break, of course

And as usual the hungaring round 11 of the championship just before that summer break

longtime permanent fixture on the calendar it first hosted a race back in

1986 and hasn't been off the calendar since then the track has remained relatively unchanged in the 40 years

We've been coming here

And it presents a very different challenge to our last few venues such as Silverstone and Spa

This is a tight twisty circuit that will reward chassis and aero performance with overtaking notoriously quite difficult turns one and two

Probably the best opportunities on the track

Rain is of course seemingly banned in 2026

But I can only report the weather forecast as it is right now

Which is that it is looking dodgy for Sunday at the moment

I've heard reports there could be rain over the water park already get me there immediately

Well

Water I we're gonna say a park never mind

There are so many people who will not understand the water park reference that was 2018

It's almost 10 years ago. I think I vaguely forgot how it works anyway

They just kept saying that it was gonna rain at the track because there was rain over the water park

And then it just never rained despite the fact they keep kept saying that it was going to site the five second penalty for rock on thing

Yeah, eventually will just become weird law in the background of formula one pretty much

Before Sam we focus on maybe the the teams and what we think maybe the pecking order will look like in that regard

Just wanted to focus on the Mercedes duo

Antonelli's lead now 45 points after the last Grand Prix back to Lewis Hamilton

George Russell a further five points away

With this being the last race before the summer break and we know whatever happens

Antonelli is going to hold the lead going into that

How psychologically important is the extent of that lead? I think

Belgium was a massive blow to Russell's confidence

Your workout, I think if you've kind of trawled through the internet if you're gonna sad people

That's forever online like the three of us that there was a bit of an inside joke between George Russell

Charlotte Claire actually after qualifying and the spring sorry in Silverstone

They walked into the call-down room where they were both on the podium in the main Grand Prix and you'll recall them saying oh

Look, look who was thought not us

You know because they were joking about how they wouldn't be in the podium because obviously their teammates have been beating them for the first half of the weekend

And I think that was a psychological damage for Russell that again Antonelli is faster

We come to spa Antonelli is on pole position half a second faster than Russell and Russell needs a good race to kind of

Motivationally get back in the game

Not necessarily with the points, but with the fact that he can just be faster than Kimmy Antonelli

He's not again after what happens with the battery failure, of course at the start

Which happened to many Mercedes powered cars, but mostly affected George Russell

And if you haven't heard folks the radio that came out of George Russell's car what is in the gravel is?

Extreme my man is not happy quick fire question on that

Did the FIA not play it during the race because a

It was not very complimentary of the battery or B because it had so many

Expletives well, let's remember now that they're doing things to protect the driver and that is always at the forefront of all of our minds

So that's the official party line. That's what's being told

Answer yeah, it wasn't played it was a crazy radio. Go look it up. He's not happy

We know that in his big race interview it was almost in tears with how devastating he was

He is in the dumps when it comes to where his head actually is right now

Motivationally, he is struggling. This is his last chance. I think before it basically ends for Russell

He'll need such a turn around in the summer. He'll need the equivalent of color Pinto's winter. He'll give a Russell summer

He's a hot George summer is what he needs and

If I was gonna do it, it could be him but he needs to start in Hungary and

There's a good wall apart down the road. If anyone's gonna have a hot George summer. Yeah

It might be George. I reckon probably not Kimmy. Every summer is a hot George summer in his mind

So I think regardless of what happens if the Mercedes is slow

narrator it wasn't

He will need to still beat Antigali and prove that he can be faster in the same machinery

But it won't be slow and therefore he needs to essentially win the Grand Prix

Harry in terms of this points margin could could sway one way or the other as we've kind of seen over the last six Grand Prix

Or so how important is it for for Antonelli to extend the advantage? How important would it be for Russell to narrow it?

On Antonelli, I don't think it's that important at all

I'm not saying he's gonna go to this weekend just like laid back and gonna lose lose a load of points on purpose

But I think given we've seen how as you mentioned the the points have swung swung back and forth albeit

Antonelli's not lost the lead, but it certainly closed down quite a bit

But he's not been that bothered. Does he he's just turned up on the next one and got it done

I know obviously in Belgium

It was a it was exaggerated by the fact that Russell didn't score anything and Antonelli won but I

Think he was due to to gain points on them. Anyway, so

Frantonelli, I don't think it matters too much for Russell like you said Sam

It's super important to get back

Get back some of the points that he lost in Spa

Because yeah

It it took him a while to chip away at the the gap that was there and he hadn't made his way down to zero

But if it's gonna take that long each time he needs to start immediately. So a win

Or at least a substantial outscore of his teammate is gonna be super important for Russell

Yeah, I think psychologically is maybe more important than what people realize because yes whilst Antonelli will again have the lead

Regardless of what happens in Hungary

We could be going into the summer break with Antonelli having a 20-point lead

We could also be going in with him having a 70-point lead both of those are possible and those two are very very different

Situations, I agree with you Harry in that for Antonelli

I don't think it matters too much because he has been utterly

Unphased all season long by what's happening around him

He's just been focused on what he's doing getting on with the job and ultimately claiming a lot of wins

And I keep waiting for

This driver who is in his second year in F1. We know he's one of the youngest the youngest on the grid

Sorry second youngest on the grid

We he hadn't won a race until the start of this year

I am waiting for the moment that it sinks in for Antonelli and he starts to get in his own head and

At some point you just might have to admit it's not gonna happen. Like he is just so

Unbothered by everything that's going on around him. It's it's massively impressive

the race before a summer break is very important psychologically because

Whatever you do in terms of your performance and your result

You have to sit with that for nearly a month if you if you have a great race to end this half of the season

You get to think only of that for the next four weeks or so if you have a stinker in terms of performance or result

There's nothing you can do about it until we get to the Netherlands in like four weeks time

So I think it is important if the lead is like 25 30 points at the end of Hungary

And you're George Russell or Lewis Hamilton suddenly you think well Mercedes have had a lot of DNFs this year a lot of reliability issues

I'm in this thing if on the other hand it's back out close to 70 points, which is what it was after Monaco

That's a real blow for both of those drivers in that Antonelli has had a DNF at

Barcelona a non-score at Silverstone and this little segment of the season if you were still to say that

Margin is something close to that 68 points he had coming out of Monaco

That's tough to reason with so

Yeah, I think it's important for that reason you're calling it the the goal right before halftime essentially. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, 100%

George Russell and his deficit to Antonelli just wanted to focus on this because there were a lot of comments over the Belgian GP weekend

beforehand George Russell was

Hypothesizing about whether it was his driving style that was the issue

He concluded or he and the team concluded during the weekend. It's not that

Instead he now believes he's convinced that it's an unknown car issue that he's dealing with

After a time from the Belgian GP, of course

Russell over team radio said that straight-line speed had been completely unacceptable all weekend long now Harry

I'm not expecting an answer that Mercedes seemingly can't give. I don't think we're gonna be the ones to be to be able to break this

But you never know. Let's wait and see. Let's not say crazy things

Why do you think he might be struggling like is it is it an unknown car issue that Mercedes need to find? I?

don't know it's it's

It's not one because

He versus the other Mercedes cars around him

Really did struggle at the top of that top of the chemistry didn't he?

Some say he was losing places like three places. I

Saw a video earlier that was he was the only one of those four that he didn't down change through a rouge

now

We are we are hypothesizing a lot here because as you mentioned Ben we aren't Mercedes engineers and we don't know thank God for them

Thank you. Ah

Kiran shopland is delighted

We're hypothesizing but he was the only one he didn't do that

So that is a driving style aspect that is different to those around him and he was the one who suffered this issue

So that could be part of it, but it is odd that he seemed to lose quite so much and

So what goes back to a wider point that if you don't down change during a rouge you suffer that much the end of the

Chemistry that in itself is problematic

But that is the formula we're dealing with in the moment and you've got it. You've got a drive around it. I

Yeah, a total wolf came out after the race and was sort of suggesting it was 50% driver 50% car

I'd probably be inclined to go down that route. I don't think it's completely one or the other

I think there's probably things that Russell could

He could well be doing differently and again, this is hard for us to know given we're not the ones in the car

But then also, I think Mercedes do need to see if there is anything else

That's happening. That's that's weird and we have seen

Not just Mercedes, but other cars

another other, you know powertrains that have had

Just random issues and the drivers like what on earth was that or why is that happened?

So I think it's it would be harsh to say it's completely one of the other but I would be I

Wouldn't be surprised if it's if there is something up with the car

But also Russell does need to do something different with his driving

What do you think Sam is there? Is there something underlying that's going wrong here? They're very well might be

They're very well might be we've seen throughout the season that Mercedes in particular obviously McLaren started badly

But I've definitely come out of that a little bit

But Mercedes in particular have had problems with both cars throughout the season and actually it's

Alpine out of all the Mercedes powered cars that have done the most racing laps

More so than Mercedes more so than Williams or so than McLaren. They are far and above the most

reliable Mercedes using a car there, which is interesting

It's Alpine that are on top because it's their first year with all that in the car

And they're seemingly able to do something with it quite interesting

Maybe something to read into it

Maybe not if we're gonna hypothesize on the flip side

We have had conversations about drivers in the past who have

Desperately believe that something is wrong with their car the most recent one springs to mind with Daniel Ricciano

That he had a crack chassis at one point and it was being carried between several Grand Prix and they eventually changed it and

Suddenly he became a bit more competitive. This was his racing bulls

Correct. The team name was at that point, but this was yeah post-mortem

it was and

Now whether that is a purely psychological thing and we know how much of sport is psychological

You've got to be in that right mindset. You've got to be motivated

We've seen with even the greats that they've got to have the right people around them

So make sure that they're uplifted and positive and feel good about what they're doing

It's like George Russell right now is he started to spiral and can't work out what to blame and the last thing that he wants to do is

Blame himself which is completely understandable because as an athlete you need to have total faith in what you are able to do

And if you believe that you could be the best then you've got to really believe that you could be the best

So it does feel like blaming the machinery which has shown weaknesses is a logical step

I don't think we're saying he's again come out and just claim flat out that something is wrong as was the case with total wolf

But I wouldn't be surprised if sure. There's a bit of a software problem, but equally Russell has a hand looking the best

Yeah, I wanted to give a shout out to Jenna on patreon

Actually, so we put this out as our episode briefing ahead of time on patreon to let people know what we're gonna be talking about on this preview

And I think he's given a very measured response as to what might be going on and maybe similar to both your responses

It might not be one thing. It seems to be a combination of multiple things the things that Jenna has listed are

Undiagnosed car slash engine issue lack of confidence in himself some bad luck and a lack of support from the team and I think maybe

It you it'll depend on your opinion as to what percentage of each goes into this

But I think it's broadly right that it is a combination of these things

And based on qualifying at spa and indeed the break start as well

I do believe there is something not quite right here and I think those are that are just saying

George Russell is slow. I

Think that by itself in isolation is pretty lazy analysis in that

George Russell is not this rookie driver that's come out of nowhere and isn't doing very well

George Russell as recently as last year we were discussing is he the second best driver in this sport George Russell outpaced Lewis Hamilton

At Mercedes in 2024 he dominated Kimmy Antonelli in

2025 and you might say well Kimmy Antonelli was a rookie you'd expect that well

Some of the all-time greats that have come in as rookies have done pretty well. Lewis Hamilton is a great example of that

It doesn't necessarily mean it has to be that way. So just to say that in 2026 where George Russell is no good

That that by itself to me is a bit undercooked as a take like there's more going on here

I think and when we've seen like the spa qualifying laps Antonelli versus Russell the fact that

Russell and Antonelli are so well matched in terms of top speed in the first half of the lap and in the second half of the lap Antonelli has

10 kilometers an hour more in some parts versus his teammate is a bit crazy

So it points to either there being again some sort of car

engine software issue or and or I guess you could say some sort of driving style difference that's leading

Antonelli to claim a little bit more energy recovery

I'm gonna trust George Russell and Mercedes that there is at least something going wrong

I do agree with you both it feels to me that it doesn't explain all of it

It's maybe 50 50 and there's still work for Russell to do. Do you think

There's a chance that Mercedes are starting to wang on their support with with Russell

It felt like an odd response from Wolf. You think so? Yeah

I I was surprised by Toto Wolf's response in that if there was a problem

He would have just come out and said there was a problem

I thought it's not like he's come out and just thrown Russell under the bus

But it's not a glowing endorsement of Russell either like he he stresses

This is an issue with all Mercedes cars. He doesn't isolate it to Russell's car

He says this is something that all Mercedes cars are dealing with which to be fair

Antonelli and his struggle up to turn sort of to Radeon no Rouge would support that but that kind of

I don't know caught my eye a little bit

The fact that he said he has less energy to deploy at turn 18 only

The fact that he's stipulated its one corner and not the entire racetrack again

alarm bells a little bit and then he obviously says he thinks it's about two and a half temps that it's costing him

We know that the gap in terms of qualifying at least was closer to half a second

So again, it's not like Toto Wolf has come out and said

We don't support George anymore anything ridiculous like that, but there are far

There are versions of him coming out and defending Russell a lot more than he did. I think yeah

Yeah, that's how I saw it as well. I had to hurry. I don't know if you you agree

Yeah, but if they're waning in their support at all for George, that's hella unfair

given how loyal that man has been to

That team sat through that Williams for years only to get a call up and then beat Hamilton

Yeah, but then also sitting a crap Mercedes for three years as well. So I

Yeah, we're not suggesting is they've they say they're not throwing him under the bus or anything, but

Come on. No, no, I help help him

Yeah, help out well at least try first. Yeah in terms of helping him out

What can or should they do at this point? Like do they Sam?

Just completely rip it all apart and put it back together again. Take some grip penalties at a circuit like Hungary where maybe you wouldn't normally or

Is the is the danger there that if this is a software issue, that's not going to do anything

Yeah, and of course over the summer break, you have to bear in mind

Especially if you're into F1 we have almost a lockdown essentially you aren't allowed to

Get out there use the cars. You can't get involved with the cars

It's very much a kind of right cars go to blankets and that's it

So if you're going to try something and go different and try and regain that support and that motivation

It has to be done a hungry the other thing they could do of course is fire and together immediately and pertinent car decaying in the second seat

Russell and the cucumber it sounds like a kicks. Well, that's a film. I wouldn't watch

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Harry a Ferrari contenders this weekend. We've come from a couple of circuits that are much more power sensitive

We're now at a track that is far more focused on chassis on aero

Is that the key to to get another another Ferrari victory?

I'm gonna caveat this with its Ferrari. So trust nothing always bear that in mind always

But hell, yeah, I think they they should really be confident about this weekend given

Their formula they've had at the last couple of races at tracks that shouldn't really suit them

I know LeClaire was fortunate

With the BC and stuff and that that sort of put him in the victory fight

When he maybe shouldn't have been but their pace was still pretty good

Both Ferraris relatively so no hometown damage, etc. And and obviously Silverstone

LeClaire one so this is a track that should suit that car a lot

So I think they should be very confident going into this one that they can they can challenge for challenge for victory. So

Can't wait to see how they're gonna surprise us and let us all down

Would it be fair to say?

Silverstone and spar again, even if there were some circumstances that helped LeClaire and Ferrari out on in pure pace terms

He's still on the podium in both of them

Exactly and and like I said, I know he'd look like I was fortunate with the VSE, but pace wise he was really really good

And whilst, you know, if Norris and Verstappen had been in in that fight, then maybe he wouldn't have been on the podium

But they weren't so I

Think the pace that they've had they've shown at both these races

I know Austria was not good before that, but they've obviously made some changes to the car since then

The pace they've shown those tracks should really encourage them for the one that we're about to go to and hungry

It's been quite interesting Sam to track the Ferrari progress since that big upgrade

They had in Barcelona Barcelona, obviously they were they were very very good

Silverstone and spar maybe good, but it's not as good as Barcelona and then Austria probably their bogey track of those last four

Where does Hungary sit in that range? Well, there's a famous expression which I know is a trio

We all absolute love on this and I'll tell you let me do my best voice for the people that say it

I think I'll find that hunger is actually monocle without the barriers

That's the formula one nerds out there

Wow

We just cut them off. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's got a lot of cool thing. We don't appeal to nerds. No, right

I

Be cool like us you freaking nerds. What's that mirror doing nerds?

We used to call each other freaking nerds at college because we were so lame still do

Yeah, it's very similar to monginco, right?

It's a downforce heavy track and if I'm gonna play devil's advocate here

We all expected Ferrari to rock up and do really well because it is a power centric and Antigua Lee

Dominating beyond belief when it came to monginco now there are some differences the average corner is definitely faster at Hungary

I think that is more similar to the middle sector of Barcelona

It's far less power centric right Barcelona's got a big big corner the last sector long straight

The rest of it is quite mid speed realistically very similar to the middle part of Silverstone very similar to the middle part of

Spa and Ferrari was solid in all those elements

I know they were trying to balance the setup in spa

But they were still quick throughout certain parts of that racetrack and those are complementary conditions to what is all of Hungary

You pair that with the fact that Hamilton is what the most willing driver

Hungry with eight crawl pre victories is very successful here

I do think that they are in with a chance of really challenging for the leader

Do you think it's gonna be closer between Ferrari and Mercedes then it has been at the last couple of Grand Prix and we talk about the last

Couple of Grand Prix it was probably down close there as well. Yeah, indeed

One thing I decided to look at before before we jumped on here for this preview is

And I appreciate this is slightly outdated because full throttle percentage doesn't maybe apply in the same way in

2026 as it has done in previous years

But I wanted to have a look at you know, how often around the lap you are full throttle around Hungary

Versus the last couple of circuits that we've been to so Silverstone is about 68% that puts it fourth

Of all tracks so close. I know right you'll be annoyed at this one as well. Spa is sick for 66%

Come on. Yeah, we won the World Cup man. Come on. That's an all right number. Oh, don't bring that

So you've got so that's sick

So you've got both of those in the top six for full throttle percentage Hungary is all the way down in 20th

You're only on full throttle about 53% of the lap here

So it's only Monaco, Singapore and Mexico that are actually lower of current tracks

So, yeah, that kind of proves that power is not going to be as important here as it has been in other in other more recent venues

Like you Sam, I hate Monaco without the wall. It's it's a rubbish comparison

It really is I think I'm into offending anyone but it's just you hear it all every time we get to hungry

You hear someone say and it's so tiresome and it's obviously it's lazy and analysis. It's just lazy

That's how I see it. It's often described as well as like an overgrown carting track

Which honestly, I think it's way more accurate than just it it's Monaco about the walls

But anyway, it's a different expression guys

The yeah, and I wanted to bring up the same point that you did Sam that is we've had one pure test of chassis so far this year

Ferrari came in as favorites for it that being Monaco and they didn't win like they were a long way back from Antonelli

Neither driver was on the front row for qualifying in that race

So I think this will be a bit of a test those upgrades that sort of came at Barcelona

Were they good of this? They were good enough to win at Barcelona. Will they be good enough to win here as well?

I'm intrigued and obviously that's not the only upgrades they've brought recently

I think Belgium was only the second race so far this year that they haven't brought upgrades

So it's um, yeah, it's a much better car than what we had earlier in the year. Maybe that'll be enough for victory

What about the drivers Harry? Who do you think has the upper hand right now?

Of course Lewis Hamilton ahead in the championship, but Leclerc's coming off the back of two very good results

Yeah, I think

These two pretty evenly match at the at the moment aren't they? I think a few races ago you'd say easily Hamilton had the

Had the momentum over over Leclerc. He was going, you know, look at Barcelona Hamilton

Windsor race and Leclerc has a complete stinker

But yes spa and Silverstone have certainly helped

uh

helped boost Leclerc's

Momentum whether that's to do with the he changed his brakes didn't need the thing he was complaining about quite a bit

Dates of mind Lewis Hamilton. Yes, exactly. Um

So yeah, they seem much more evenly matched

So I'd it's tough to say I wouldn't want to say uh, but either one of them has got the advantage

I think they are so close at the moment over the past couple of races

You'd say race pace wise Leclerc has had the edge over a race distance

In the first part of the races they seem to be pretty close and then the close aged away

But as you mentioned just now, Sam Hamilton is a serial winner around the home gara ring

So, uh, I wouldn't want to bet against him too much going into this weekend

So goaded that he started a race along his own at one point

Yeah, you could clear the grid. I think we're in that one though. I only have a goat won that one

You can have a little bit of joy mate. It's been tough for you

It's this been a tough year for rock on fans around the world me and all six others

I'd love to go though. I'd love to watch the meeting around the round table of you and the seven

Oh, we don't have enough to fill a round table. It's actually a square table

It's a semi circle

Someone gets the corner. It's a bit awkward

There's someone like not really sat down

There's someone pulling off a great ick because they've got a chair that's far too tall from the table

Yes, someone's always by the tea station because I don't want to be seen with you

And then the other way around someone's got a chair that's far too small. So they're like their heads

I've like nicked it from the preschool. It's like a nursery kids chair

Two X man. That's too many for an Auckland fan club

Yeah, and when you combine that with being an Auckland fan as another ick, like it's it's rough

Tri-factor

I was going to just quickly before we move on to Sam, Harry, is um

If right now the car is available for either the Hamilton or Leclerc to win are you

Roughly even in terms of their confidence like they can go and get it like they're both equally

Informed competent enough to take a victory

I think right now. Yes. I think that you would probably bet I'd

Lean more towards Hamilton on that just based on the year overall

but if both had

Up and down races. Um, I think Hamilton's low points have not been anywhere near as low as Leclerc's have been

Yeah

But he still had some a few races that I think we mentioned this

Reaked a little bit of last year a little bit earlier in the season like Suzuki. Maybe was that's the big one

Yeah, um

So yeah, I think right now both of them could if presented with a car that can win as we've already seen they've both done it now

I think either one could I just wouldn't maybe lean towards Hamilton

Like 52 48 to Leclerc and as we know that is binding

In our current world. It is mate 52 48. That is how things are late breaking way. Yeah, we've always said it

How do you view the uh Ferrari matchup at the moment Sam?

If we're going on form, uh, Hamilton has it in Spanish right eight victories here

We've just spoke about the clerk doesn't have a podium here. I don't think you are correct not he has he has a podium at

23 different circuits in his f1 career. Hungry not one of them

I think fourth is the best he's ever done. I think it's done it a couple of times

But yeah, it's not being a truly successful. Yeah, and it was looking good. Was it last year where um, they had poll last year

Yeah poll and then the car started to just get worse and worse and worse. He led for like 30 laps

Exactly. Yeah, he held on and I think just got

Bad. Um, so it's not to say he can't do well right here, right? He's mentioned he's got the poll

He's got the raw pace but something seems to not go his way every time

But if I'm going to lean on the form book if I'm going to look at history

And also the fact they have been so evenly matched over the last five or six Grand Prix

I would err on the side of Lewis Hamilton

But the cursing a right rocket form right now is really doing well. I do think that if anyone is going to

Take it based on recent Grand Prix

He might be a bit of a dark horse of challenge for the victory here

That's if Ferrari can give them a car that genuinely does challenge the Mercedes guys

Well, just to add to that like

Charlotte Clair over the last two Grand Prix has scored 43 points

He scored 46 in the six rounds before that

So he's really turned a corner this season and credit to him

It's not just the fact that he's beaten Lewis Hamilton over the last two races

The pace is definitely returned if if it weren't for the safety car at Silverstone

That margin would have been very healthy indeed and even with the five second penalty at Spa

It was still just over 15 seconds that separated the Ferrari drivers at the flag. So yeah, Leclerc's definitely turned a corner

But as you say Hungary is is somehow Lewis Hamilton's backyard and you mentioned he's got eight wins

Somehow he's got more pole positions than he has wins. He's got nine poles. My man loves it here

Absolutely loves it. He doesn't just stop picking up penalties

You know, it's not good and he's making a bit of a habit of it. You heard his radio expire where he's kind of like

Another one

DJ Hamilton over here throwing up the ones at the camera

Stop getting the fives my guy stop getting stop getting the fives start looking out the zeros and you might get the ones

free very very lot a lot of maths going on there

Not sure what adds up no more five second penalties zero of those one victory. Come on. Got it

Thank you. Um, any chance for red bull, Harry

I think so. I mean the Stappen goes very well. I mean goes well anywhere, doesn't he but goes very well here. Um

We didn't get to see it in the race, but he would that that red bull in his hands in Monaco working very well. So

uh, another another track that tests chassis not because they are related in any in any way Hungary and Monaco

um, but

Yeah, I think I think you expect the Stappen to be to be challenging

Where they struggled in the spa was in the straight line. Uh, you know the the bits of the straight line. So, uh,

There are a lot less of them here in Hungary. So I'd expect Stappen to be up there

Do you like uh red bull's chances sam? It's almost like

We're taking away the the battery element a little bit which they've struggled with but that also means we're taking away

their

Leading ICE on the grid. So how does it work out? I put that dust up with that absolute nonsense

Um, look what was the one area that red bull absolutely thrived in its spa?

It was the middle sector

It was the high speed corners with rapid change of direction and max the Stappen

Thrive through that section in a car that we saw in the straight lines was so

Difficult to kind of get up to speed to follow the cars around it

That's where he was able to be the closer gap or pull away from the cars around him

Hungary is basically an entire lap of just the middle part of spa for the most part

I really think there could be dark horses to go and win this Grand Prix

I think if they're going to take a chance at a victory

There might not be a better opportunity for red bull right now than Hungary

Well, we'll see if that translates into a poll 123 prediction, but before we do that time for a bold prediction

Are my F1 bold predictions and help the law be run?

Harry you can go first

Aston Martin point, baby

I'm selling away because that's also mine

I mean we'll discuss Aston Martin a bit more after the break. Um, but

Top 10 for Aston Martin or you actually said points. So if they're any better than 10th, you're wrong

Point or more points they can have all the points

Or they can have one of the points

You haven't weirdly distinguished which driver you think Aston Martin point because honestly, mate at this point

Who knows what's gonna happen not stroll before

You know what it would be really land stroll to get 10th here, wouldn't it or no to get ninth here and win the season 2 1

Yeah

And he'll just be like just fancy trying today

Yeah, okay. Um, do you want to stick with that as well? Sam? We're gonna have a repeated bold prediction

No, no, I can't do that. It's just us against the law

Uh bold predictions. I'm gonna say that max for staff and we'll win

Oh

Oh a max for staff and victory predicted from sam

my bold prediction

So you sometimes you just think you're clear and then it just pulls you back in. Oh, it's aldi, isn't it? It's aldi

I have for every other week. What's the matter of you? You got a problem?

Yeah

Yes, I have a problem. Secondly

Should be a good track for them in theory. It should be a good track for them

Their chassis is pretty good. So I'm gonna say there will be one aldi in the top six

Whoa, that is bold. I can't wait for a b from the bees nests

In the commentary box to fly into the kill switch while it's halfway around the racetrack

You know what that would almost be too normal of a reason for them to not get this

It'll be weirder than that somehow. I also can't wait to finish seven for those

Oh, don't do it aldi. Yeah, I'm gonna go aldi top six. Um poll 123 sam

We already know the the one of your poll 123 but what about the rest? Uh poll I think will go to

Shall la claire I think the wing will be max for stappin. I think second place will be la claire

I think third will be ance and ellie

Fing for nando

Fernando a long time

for not

Pog 123 harry

There are some real grown-ups that listen to this show and they must get to these bits and go

Wow, whatever move on. I'd be surprised if there are real grown-ups listening to anything we do all of our stats are made up

No one's listening

Uh poll I'm going for lewis hamilton the win. I'm going for lewis hamilton

Max Verstappen will be second

And george russell will be third

Oof well, we've got um three different race winners for three different teams here because I've got poll position

Kimmy anton ellie the win

Also for kimmy anton ellie second place for lewis hamilton and third place for shall la claire

Oh

Bye bye church

Yeah, I mean championship down it wouldn't be a good result for him, but um, yeah based on recent form maybe not

Um, right. Let's take our second break on the other side

We're chatting asta martin and their search for points that they're apparently gonna get

Oh

Welcome back everyone time to talk asta martin now

They haven't got a lot of coverage on some of these previews recently because well, they've been very slow

We've expected them to be very slow, but uh, they have a major update coming this weekend that has been months in the waiting

So we've got uh, I believe to be included in this upgrade

Rear suspension new nose

Revised aerodynamic surfaces and a significant weight reduction doesn't look like they'll be quite at the weight limit

But they will be far closer to it than they have been up until this point in the season

Um harry is this just going to be a b-spec car?

Yeah, yes, uh, and they should be calling it a m r 26 b because I don't think there's going to be many bits left on it

that were on the original

m r 26 to be honest so

Look, it's the it's uh, I agree with that logic here

There was no point in them doing a we've spoken about this before no point in them doing like a cadillac and sort of just chipping away

The they've been in dire straits and whilst the last few races especially have been

painful like just pure pain like seconds off cadillac

um

This hopefully should be uh should be worth it because the amount of upgrades they're bringing to this car

Again, this is a lot of hearsay, but they reckon it

reckon a couple of seconds which

Again, it has to be p 17. Yeah, it's got to be at least a couple of seconds to get them back in there in the fight. So

um

Fernando's just looking forward to that do like more than lap one with other cars. I think

Uh, at least half a race towards the same other car. Yeah

And they're going to wrap up the car for an onzo to open like a present on christmas

Yeah, here's what we should have got you for your birthday, but it's now christmas

Um, is that good?

No

Yeah, it's uh

The thing is

It cannot be any worse can it oh now he's done it

No, but it just there is no way it can be because it just can't be anyone. They aren't making 107 percent rule now

They're going to put it out and you just break

Yeah, um, which see obviously it's not the whole thing because honda's upgrade isn't coming to zandvort

So yeah, well, we'll be there to witness the the win

We're gonna work this summer

witness the fitness

Um, but yeah, I think there will be there'll be some improvement

Is this gonna be is this just gonna be a brand new car sam?

Look ask your martin as someone who's hanging out his job. Let me tell you it doesn't solve all your problems things still go wrong

so

Lucky you're bringing a few other people you miss out you like

It's gonna solve everything. Where's my rear suspension? Yeah sam sam sage b is what they call me. I can be sam bench actually

That's unfortunate

Yeah, that's not done me well. Um, you had a cool name before that. I know

Page really has a double meaning

Um, yeah, it's a brand new car and it needs to be a brand new car because I think it's the slowest formula one kind of decade

It is you know, you remember harsh being seconds behind

I think this car would lose to that car at a straight fight and that's awful to say but it really is that bad

there's been comparisons that

Um, it would be slow around spar then f2 car then a gt3 car

It really is that far away from the rest of the field

And they are falling further and further back from the likes of kayak let alone

You're out pings you're racing balls. Yeah, you're oudies who are all progressing really well

They are seconds away along. So was a minute behind botas at spar and the only person to be two laps down

It is devastating times for a car a team and the driver that we all got sold a dream for last year in thought

It could be something quite special going on here. We might see something really

Different and new and fantastic

And it's it's flopped. So yeah, we need to make sure that they bring something pretty mega to hungry and I think

They've timed it well as we know

The honda power unit is rubbish

It is absolutely rubbish so far off the pace and whilst that has got an upgrade in xanvoid very much

Don't expect that to deliver a whole nother level for them. I still think that's gonna be a you know a step forward

Not a leap forward

So having two tracks in a row that are essentially chassis based downforce focused

Allows them to maybe get to grips with the car without worrying about the engine too much and then we of course get to

Monza

And then we'll see how far away they are again. No, I don't think I'm doing that one. They're just

Yeah, they're using their like, you know

Your reverse cars they're green. They can just blend into one of the italian flags. It'll be right no one will know

They're there

I'll get a harsh next to them and I'll get the ferrari on the other side and I'll go right. We're just a flag

And they're like ferrari, you're actually all right. You can race like now. We're we're good

So ferrari as well to go like, oh, sorry

We just assumed we were bad. Yeah, and to get it's waving these three cars around

Yeah, I'm with you both in that in modern f1 terms

This will be as close as we get to a brand new car in the middle of a season

Adrienne newie as well as had

months to put this together

And we've already mentioned that unlike Cadillac and other teams who have brought

Incremental upgrades as the season's gone on. There have essentially been zero performance related upgrades for

Aston Martin since the beginning of the season because they're all packing it into this one upgrade that's coming now

I

I mean newie's had a lot of time like he hasn't been he's still team principal, but he hasn't been

Due to health reasons are probably due to this reason as well

He hasn't been around the world much so far this year. He was in australia

I think and then

Didn't wasn't at a race weekend until silverstone. I think was the next one. So he's

You would imagine the irony of saying he hasn't been around the world much and quite literally flew to the other side of the world

And then back again

He's been around the world. He just doesn't done many stops in between

Which you know should have given him a fair amount of time to cook up something

Half-decent you would imagine what I'm particularly interested in is

Will

he do like a

Closest possible replica to some of the best cars on the grid

or will he bring

Things that are just brand new like proper

Innovative adria newie that we've seen in the past. I

I don't know where the balance is going to be between those two

schools of thought

Brand new baby

But that's what he did

The first time

Yeah, but he had no time

He had no time to cook up something

He's got you know raw eggs in the pan still let him make a full roast then cook up

It would it would be bold to go completely the wrong way with car direction

Seeing these teams that are doing far better and going

We're not going to copy that. We're going to do something different again

Like there's a third option that we should look at. Yeah

That's literally the the simpsons meme like am I the problem? No, the children wrong

It's always the children that are wrong

Um, harry you you said a couple of seconds. Maybe they're hoping from this

Do you imagine it will be around that could it be even better?

If it's not as good as a couple of seconds, is that worrying?

I think a couple of seconds like I said is a minimum, right?

It needs to be because that's almost like how far they are off the back of the pack. Um

Yeah, I think that's going to be the minimum for this weekend

Obviously, we'll see what then what the Honda upgrade brings as well. It's not going to shoot them to the front

a few again a few expectations or

Rumors or flying around that

they wanted to get up to like

the the mid like the

Albi racing bulls Alpine

10th 11th region

um

Which is a bull that's quite bold thing to say given where they have been

Um, but that's how much they're expecting from this from this upgrade. I think

Yeah, it's going to be an interesting one. There's going to be

for a team that's had no

Spotlight on it for basically a year in terms of like no attention because would they know what everyone knows what's going on

Fp1

All the attention is going to be on that car

Um, so yeah, it's going to be interesting. They might use their like yearly allotment of flovis in fp1 alone

Uh, to try and get these upgrades working as someone just tell them not to use the green flovis because it doesn't really work on their car

True. Yes. Thinking about aesthetics here

I just think you can't see it because green or green

Yeah, and the results. Oh, okay. Yeah. No, that'd be us to mine to do that. That would make sense. Is that all the flovis?

What's happened? Oh, we can't see any of it. No, that's the car

Oh

I've um, I've seen the same

Thing that you have harry in terms of hope that this might get them into that racing bulls alpine audi fight

Now, I know spar is the longest track on the grid

And I know it is a more power sensitive track than what we're going to have this weekend

But lanstrol was four seconds

away from arvid lin blood in q1

at the belgian gp

That is a massive margin to find without again changing the engine at least not yet

They're not going to be doing that this weekend

They're not changing the front suspension

And they're not going all the way to the weight limit either. We know they're cussing a lot of it

but it's not going to be 100%

and

I'm going to err on the side of caution maybe a touch more here

If they can turn this around and find

Three seconds plus of lap time through this one upgrade that doesn't touch every single part of the car

I will be seriously impressed like that will be a huge advantage to find

um

I don't I have my instinct is it gets them

At least competitive maybe even ahead of hasse and williams

I don't know if it's touching the group ahead of it one car at a q1

um

If they if they qualify p15 and p17 that I mean that's a step forward. Oh, it's a step forward. Yeah

Um, I think that's a realistic step forward

um

I think james vows might be under pressure if this really works

um

Not really because he'll be he'll be under pressure if by the time

His big upgrade comes in back who and that doesn't work and astro martins does then he's under pressure. Yes

Um, but I don't think it will be at this weekend

Well, let's see shall we?

um

Maybe no surprise sad, but there's talk of astro mart. Maybe not having enough parts because of how aggressive they're

Developing this car. I almost think it's a good thing because that indicates that you are being incredibly aggressive about these upgrades

rather that if they were super comfortable about the parts they're bringing I'd be like

Push the boundaries a bit more. What are you doing?

Yeah, it's a fair point and but I think there's a balance to be found of you've had enough time to bring an upgrade package now

You probably could have just done two of each one now at this point realistically if you if you go bring a whole beast spec car

I assume it's going to be lark stroll who's still going to be four and a half seconds back

And maybe a long so might be sneaking into q2 if all things go to plan

So I agree with the fact that they need to push the boundaries

But pushing the boundaries so far that they're having to essentially have a sacrificial lamb

I don't love it. Don't love it. But you know be experimental be bold. Let's hope it works imagine if something happens

Oh, we've not seen that before so it won't happen to the upgrade and then they're like

Sorry, here's the old front wing front nose back on

A long so would leave f1. I'm out. Yeah. Yeah. I'll go race with no front nose. I'm not doing it

I'm just a long so would walk home. Yeah, give me the honda jazz and it'll be faster

Come on. So yeah, we're going to keep the upgrade on on lunch. Is car is that okay for now? No leaves just never coming back

Let's do under pressure where we can pick any driver any team or indeed

Another person or track whatever we want that we think is under pressure going into a race weekend. So sam, what have you got here?

I've got with Nico Holkenberg

Now I've tried to not go for an obvious answer here because there's usually five or six. Well, well done. You've picked my one

Yeah, three for three

um

My man's come out as with a sassy comment recently about uh, Carlos Sainz potentially being spoken to for the odyssey

You know, oh, there's a reserve seat available. But I'm not sure he's gonna be interested in that one. Oh, god him nice one

Nico

Nico banterberg

You've been quite bad the last couple of grand prix. You have not been actually a teammate

You're gonna start scoring some points, son

Um, if Audi are rumoured to be good, this is the place to do it. You're gonna show up. You've got to be gabby

I'm just imagining a banterberg is like an Audi version of a battenberg

I would eat that up. I love a battenberg

I can't believe you've got to battenberg chat 50 minutes in

wrapped around it

I didn't think you were going to do the impression afterwards and you just get you just it has massive panel around it

It's great. It's a thing to get exciting about. Yeah

Um, I've gone with Nico Holkenberg because I wanted to avoid a bit of an obvious answer

We are so crap as a podcast

No

Betoletto now has 10 points Holkenberg has none and Holkenberg has been

11th, 12th, 4th 13th, six times this year

Um, but no points. So

He just needs to get some luck somewhere in theory

Again, this could be a track where where Audi are more competitive than they have been recently

Which I mean they've been competitive elsewhere too, but this could be even better

um, so yeah, he could do with putting his experience to good use and

Getting that gap down a little bit between himself

for his team mate. Harry, don't say I'll come back.

I will go for the obvious one and say George Russell. Yeah, as we've already

spoken about, an important weekend heading into the summer break for him.

And even if the wind's not on the cards for Mercedes, if they do have a challenge, which

would, you know, seem unusual given the amount they have won.

Even if it's not a win, he still needs to score or outscore his team mate before the

break hits. Yes, so we've got two for Hülkenberg, one for Russell, just as this segment intended,

I'm sure. Let's take a final break. On the other side, we're playing back and forth.

Welcome back, everyone. Let's do our F1 fantasy update, shall we? They're coming

fricking fast based on all of these races, and there seems to be a lot of change at the moment.

But before we get to our individual updates, let's focus on the top three in the league to

start with. So, never Lewis Faith. Been leading since like 2005 at this point, I think. Still

number one in the league. Still number two in the league is Lumley Speed Syndicate.

But we have a new challenger who has risen to third in Immaculate Ferrari, who was very,

very clever, or maybe got a bit lucky, didn't include Mercedes in their team.

Had Red Bull and Ferrari as constructors, which worked out rather nicely.

That's good tactics there. I'd like to know if the Lumley Speed Syndicate is related to

Joanna Lumley. I see which is a list of the show. I'm shocked Joanna Lumley hasn't had more

references on this podcast. I know I can. Could be a first. Do you know it probably

isn't, though, is it? No, probably not. No. And congratulations to the winner for the week as

well. So, Ode to Delicious, 328 points. Used three times chip. So, had two times on Kimmy

Antonelli, three times on Isaac Hadja and all of his overtaking points, three times not too

bad at all. Very well played. I have to admit, I still don't really understand how they calculate

the points on this. Like I get the gist of it, but like, I mean, every position you gain in the race,

you get a point, but you also get a point if you actually overtook them on track.

Right. So, Hadja got himself quite a few points at the weekend.

It's quite good at any. Not too bad. What about us, though? We have another

change at the top, because I had quite a good week. Managed to improve by 81 positions up to 274th.

I think not. But you are still second, Sam.

403rd, which I ever down as a drop of 53. Yeah, I obviously used my limitless at Silverstone,

so I went back to my original team. I kind of had a bit of hope with Ferrari, and they

had a mistake using my Constructor, so not ideal. Any changes you think are brewing for the weekend?

Yeah, I'm not going to spill the tea just yet, my friend, but I'm looking.

Harry, my friend.

I've had a bad week. I've gone down to 832nd.

You know what? I'm going to put my hands up. Bad week.

Do you know what? I had a good Saturday. I had a bad Sunday, so...

Sounds like a great weekend.

Your team got the Sunday scaries.

I really did, mate.

Oh, don't say that on this podcast.

Oh, well, there's still plenty of time. We've got over half of the season for you to recover,

as you might say, you've got us exactly where you want us.

Exactly.

Anyway, even if you can't win F1 Fantasy, maybe you can win F1 back and forth.

Probably not.

Probably not. Play the same, innit?

That's good.

F1, back and forth, it's F1, back and forth, it goes backwards, then goes forth, it's F1,

back and forth, F1.

Always shocks me when it goes forth again.

Does it really?

Just never see it coming.

You just don't... Fair play.

F1, back and forth. Harry versus Sam will go back and forth on correct answers until

one of them can't think of a correct answer or gives an incorrect answer.

I'll be real.

This is a tough one, so I'm going to give you three strikes each.

There are going to be some guesses going on here.

I'm tired.

Sometimes the passes like prolong the pain with this.

Yeah, that's what I like about this game.

Great.

So, the Hungarian GP first took place in 1986, 40 years ago.

I would like you to name the other 15 circuits that were on the calendar in that year.

OK. Harry's taking this seriously.

Well, I realise I think of things and forget them immediately.

Ah, new tactic.

No, I'm going to open up our text chat and I'm going to write them in that.

All right.

Oh, do you want to kick us off, Harry?

Monaco.

Monaco is a correct answer.

We've got one.

We're all good, folks.

Sam.

Silverstone.

Silverstone is not a correct answer, I'm afraid.

F*** off!

Harry, back to you.

That's one I can cross off my list, because I have that and that too.

Well, Adelaide, Ben.

Adelaide.

We reviewed it yesterday.

Adelaide is a correct answer.

It was actually the last race of the season.

A very good championship decider.

One that we have reviewed for Patreon this month.

Sam.

Monza.

Monza is a correct answer.

Harry.

Estoril.

Estoril is a correct answer.

Yes, indeed.

Sam.

Spa.

Spa is a correct answer.

We've got five on the board.

Here we go.

Harry.

Imola.

Imola is a correct answer.

Yes, it was around three of that season.

Sam.

Right.

We must have had a British GP, so if it isn't Silverstone, it's got to be Brandt Hatch.

Well worked out, yes.

We didn't have Silverstone because the British GP was held at Brandt Hatch in 1986.

Harry.

Detroit.

Great shout.

Yes, Detroit was on this calendar.

Sam.

The, well, yeah, it's tricky, you know.

Hockenheim.

Hockenheim is a correct answer.

Well played.

Harry, back to you.

Um.

Hereth.

Hereth is a correct answer.

Yes, second race of the year.

Sam.

How many have we got left?

12345

How many strikes have we got left?

I mean, you've still got two strikes left.

Harry's got all three.

Okay, I'm going to go with Circuit de Gilleville now.

Yep, Canadian GP was on this one.

Harry.

Rio de Janeiro.

Yes, Rio de Janeiro is a correct answer.

Thank you very much for not making me pronounce the actual name of the circuit.

Sam.

Oh, no.

No.

Oh, no.

Three out there somewhere.

Oh, what countries were about that then?

The Yugoslavia Grand Prix.

Well, maybe.

Right, France is quite popular back then.

What?

Rago were quite good.

But was Magical on the cards?

I'm going to go pull a card.

You are correct, at least in one thing you said.

You're correct that pull a card was on the calendar.

You're not quite as correct about Renault being good,

because they had already left the sport by this point.

But that doesn't matter for this game.

My knowledge deceives me.

Yeah, Benetton had already entered.

Harry, back to you.

There are just two answers left to find here.

Uh, Mexico.

Mexico is a correct answer, yes.

Just one answer remains.

I underestimated you both here, giving you three strikes.

No, I'm struggling at this point.

Oh, I'm struggling.

I'm struggling.

You can do this, son.

No.

You can.

Don't put that on me.

I don't need that in my life.

Where were we in the world at that point?

Did?

No, it wouldn't have existed.

Oh, were we at Zanville existing at that point?

It did exist, but it's not on this calendar.

Obviously the location theoretically exists.

Okay, fine.

Harry, back to you.

Can you complete the board?

Suzuka.

Not Suzuka?

No.

Must have been like, were there an 87?

Yeah, we were.

Right, yeah.

I guess it was the last year without it.

But no, it's not Suzuka.

So back to you, Sam.

Can we find this elusive answer?

Well, I think I have an idea.

The issue is this, I don't want to say anything

in case I get it wrong, but like, right, goodness.

Yes, that's back and forth.

Yeah, this nation that I'm thinking of

has been on the calendar in multiple instances,

but like the track has had different names or layers.

I mean, if you give the right track a different name,

that would be fine.

Right, I'm thinking Austria is what I've gone,

but I don't know whether it's the A1 ring.

A1 rings fine.

It was just the Osterreich ring at this point,

but it's the same track, yeah.

Thank you, Osterreich.

Well done.

Congratulations to you both.

Didn't even need all of your strikes.

You still had a few to play with there.

Well done indeed.

I would say that's the end of the episode,

but it's not because we just have time for what I can only

really describe as the greatest segments in all of podcasting.

And it's time for the LB question of the week.

Harry Kane moment there, actually.

Sorry about that.

There we go.

Okay.

So we obviously focused on the Aston Martin upgrade,

and we were asking what is the secret upgrade?

What's that last little upgrade that they're going to bring

that's going to make all the difference?

Oh, God, I forgot.

Harry, if it's like a cough up like that.

Michaela on Instagram saying paprika-powered internal combustion engine.

That'll go.

That'll go some.

Good callback here from Jayne App, who said a stuffle,

not stuffle, stuffle Vandong will replace the

the aging Hons range with one from 2018.

I love the idea that stuffle is different character to stuffle.

I love the amount of stuffle Vandong written up and down these

up and down these comments.

One from Cameron, R2-D2 will be fitted right behind the drivers

and help to fix problems on the go.

Oh, I'd love a little drawing of the F1 car.

That'd be great.

Yeah, go on, R2.

They can shoot at each other.

This one's for you, Sam, but from Clayton on Instagram,

a seat on the rear wing for big downburns sit on.

They have one overtake, Max from the back.

Mate, that's brilliant.

They are making the weight limit with Dan Byrne on the back.

Use the man's head.

No, it weighs more than the earth.

Dan Byrne is a natural hero.

And I love that man.

Hand of life.

Full throttle calling has said,

though shaved off 15 kilograms by removing stuffle the waffle

from hiding in the engine.

He's a very light man and stuffle.

Yeah, this really made me laugh earlier from Oscar.

Dangle a grilled cheese sandwich over the front of Stroh's car.

Just a picture of him.

Just like, oh, trying to chase it as it goes away.

Oh, no.

Bryce on Instagram says, ejecto seat cus.

The cus in there really really makes it.

Sorry, Blake has just said,

hot dog holder for larks is snack time.

Why is there so many snacks for larks?

There's a lot of snack references.

Last one from me on X from Coleslaw Meemaw.

A nice soft pad on the steering wheel,

so Fernando can beat his head off of it.

Crikey.

Last one from me.

DG just says, 1000000000 dollars.

Of course.

That's always the way to make anything better.

1000000 dollars.

Of course, this one from us,

which of course we'd make a better option.

Jordan said, remove larks.

Any one of the LB boys guaranteeing faster.

That's the one incorrect statement of this whole show.

I'm afraid that that wouldn't work.

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