The Suzuki Samurai is a small SUV built to handle rough roads and off-road trails. It’s popular because it’s relatively light and simple, so it can be used for basic off-roading and modified for it. People bring it up when talking about cars that are good at getting through tough terrain.
This is when the brake pedal stops working the way it should. If the driver can’t brake normally, they may have to slow down in a different way or crash-avoid by going off the racing line.
Term
Q3
F1 qualifying is split into sessions (Q1, Q2, Q3). Q3 is the last one, and only the quickest cars make it there to set the best starting spots for the race.
If a car leaves the track and hits gravel, the surface is loose and unpredictable. That can make the car lose control and start spinning instead of staying pointed straight.
Mercedes is an F1 team/constructor. When they’re mentioned in a pole battle, it means their cars are qualifying fastest and fighting for the best starting spot.
Ferrari is another major F1 team. If they’re battling for pole, it means their car is among the fastest in qualifying and is competing for the best starting position.
Term
Q2
Qualifying has multiple rounds. Q2 is the second round—if you’re not fast enough there, you don’t get to run in the final round (Q3) and you start farther back.
Anti-stall is a system that helps keep the engine from shutting off when the car is trying to move from a stop. If it doesn’t help, the car can struggle to launch.
In F1, tire choice is about picking which type of tire to start with. Some tires grip more but wear out faster, so it affects both speed and how often the car has to pit.
A safety car is when race officials slow everything down because something is unsafe on the track. It often changes strategy, because pitting during a safety car costs less time.
Term
beaching opportunities
“Beaching” here means going off track and getting stuck in the gravel. If that happens often, it can lead to a safety car because the race has to be made safe again.
Overheating means the car is getting too hot while it’s racing. That can make it slower and sometimes can even cause problems if the temperature gets too high.
An overtake is a pass for position—when one car moves ahead of another. In F1, timing and line choice matter because you need enough grip and speed to complete the pass without losing control.
A gearbox problem means the car can’t shift or transmit power properly. If it’s bad enough, the driver has to come in or stop the race because the car won’t accelerate normally.
A “stop” is when the car comes into the pits to change tires. A two-stop or three-stop plan means the driver expects to use two or three different sets of tires during the race.
Hamilton is Lewis Hamilton, one of the most famous F1 drivers. In this part, they’re talking about how his pit timing and tire use help him stay quick and catch other cars.
A pit stop is when the race car goes into the pits to get serviced. In F1, it usually means changing tires, and when you do it can make a big difference to your race.
“Managing tires” means not wearing them out too quickly. If you drive in a way that keeps the tires in the right condition, you can stay fast for longer.
Race cars can carry an automatic fire extinguisher inside the car. If there’s a fire, it can spray the right agent quickly to put the flames out before they get worse.
This is a special emergency button/switch for fire safety in the race car. The worry here is that debris could hit it and accidentally trigger the car’s emergency fire response.
In F1, “net lead” means who’s actually ahead once you factor in pit stops. It’s about the real time advantage, not just who is in front on the track right now.
Antonelli is a young Formula 1 driver. Here he’s close to Russell and they’re battling, which can slow down or complicate Russell’s race plan.
Term
failure
In F1, a “failure” means something mechanical goes wrong badly enough that the car can’t keep racing. It’s usually not the driver’s fault and it can happen even without a crash.
They’re talking about how different F1 teams’ cars can be better or worse than each other. If the cars aren’t equal, then racing wheel-to-wheel can be less fair and harder to compare.
They’re talking about the Spanish Grand Prix (the race in Spain). They’re using it as an example of a big on-track incident.
Term
rolled to a stop
It means the car couldn’t keep going and just slowed down until it stopped. In F1, that usually means something went wrong and the driver has to retire.
VSC is short for virtual safety car. It’s enforced by timing targets that tell drivers how fast they’re allowed to go, and it can make pit stops less costly in time.
“Deltas” are timing differences F1 uses to show whether you’re driving slower or faster than the target pace. During things like VSC, they help you understand how much time you’re gaining or losing.
Oversteer is when the back of the car slides out more than you want while turning. It can make the car feel unstable, especially if the setup isn’t right.
Downforce is the “suction” effect from the car’s aero that presses the tires to the ground. More downforce usually means more grip, but it can also make the car slower if it creates too much drag.
In F1, drivers talk to their team using the radio during the race. That’s how the team can tell them what to do and how the driver can report problems with the car.
Power steering helps the driver turn the wheel without so much effort. If it suddenly stops working, steering gets much harder and the car can be harder to place on the track—so the driver may run wide.
That’s the camera housing mounted on the outside of the race car. If it comes loose and falls off, the team may need to deal with it before continuing because it could be unsafe or against the rules.
F1 cars have to be at least a certain weight under the rules. If something comes off, it might change the car’s weight enough that the team has to consider whether they still meet the requirement.
In F1, the garage is the team’s area where the car is worked on and where the crew supports the driver. Saying the “garage” is positive means things are going better behind the scenes.
F1 has rules about where you’re allowed to drive on the track. If you cut a corner too much or go outside the allowed area, officials can penalize you with extra time.
In F1, a black-and-white flag is basically a warning from race officials. It means “you did something wrong—fix it,” and if it keeps happening you can get a bigger penalty.
Kimi Antonelli is an F1 driver. In this race, he was penalized for cutting outside the allowed track area (track limits), and it happened late enough to add time to his result.
A yellow flag means there’s danger ahead, so you have to slow down and drive carefully. If you don’t slow enough, officials can penalize you for breaking that rule.
“Race distance” is how much of the race the cars actually complete. If the race doesn’t run its full length, officials use the distance completed to decide who gets classified.
They’re recapping a Formula 1 race in Barcelona and then talking about how the results affect the season standings. They also mention how many laps they raced.
A hybrid uses two kinds of power, usually a gas engine and an electric motor. It can often use electricity for low-speed driving and switch to gas when you need more power.
In F1, penalties are punishments for breaking the rules. If a driver speeds in the pit lane, they can get a penalty, and sometimes they can even end up with more than one if they mess up the first one.
A speeding penalty means the driver went faster than allowed in a specific area. Here, the race uses sensors to measure speed, so the officials can tell if you were too fast.
The track can have sensors built into it. They measure how long it takes the car to travel between two points, and from that they calculate the car’s speed to decide if there was a violation.
They mention “77 centimeters” to highlight how tiny distances matter. If the car passes the measurement points slightly differently than expected, the calculated speed can come out different.
“Median speed” means a typical/expected speed for that section of track. If the driver takes a slightly different line than expected, the sensors can show a speed that looks too high.
In F1, a penalty can be turned into extra time added to your race result. If that time pushes you behind another driver, your position changes. Here, removing the extra time changes who finishes where.
F1 has rules that cap how fast you can go in certain situations. If the timing system or officials think you went faster than allowed, you can get a penalty. Here they’re debating whether the evidence proves the driver actually broke the limit.
In F1, stewards are the officials who review what happened during the race and decide on penalties. They look at evidence like timing data and decide whether the punishment is correct. In this case, they’re explaining what they are and aren’t allowed to change.
To “overturn” a penalty means to take it back after it was already given. F1 doesn’t let officials do this freely; they have to follow the rulebook. That’s why the discussion is about why it happened for one driver but not everyone.
A “served penalty” means the punishment has already been applied to the driver’s race outcome. The stewards are saying they usually can’t remove it after the fact. This is the reason they only changed one driver’s result.
This is about the timing/sensor system not measuring perfectly. If the data is slightly wrong, it can cause penalties even if a driver tried to follow the rules.
After officials hand down a penalty, a team can officially complain and ask for the decision to be reviewed. If the appeal succeeds, the penalty can be changed or removed.
“Gasley” refers to Pierre Gasly, an F1 driver. The segment discusses an appeal related to penalties involving him, showing how steward decisions and rule enforcement can directly impact a driver’s race result.
They’re referencing the FIA race director who was involved in a famous controversy in Abu Dhabi. The point is that race-control decisions can completely change how a race plays out.
They’re pointing out the incident happened in Monaco, a very twisty, slow street track. Because it’s so unique, fans react strongly when penalties or rule decisions make the race feel random.
FIA is the organization that makes and enforces the rules in Formula 1. If something goes wrong during a race, the FIA is often the group that reviews it and decides what happens next.
Pierre Gasly is an F1 driver. The host is mentioning him because the discussion involves who gets podium credit and trophies after a race result is disputed.
A drive-through penalty means you have to go through the pit lane at the speed limit, without stopping. It makes you lose time compared to the cars on track.
Bernie Ecclestone was a key leader in Formula 1 for many years. The host is bringing him up to hint that the situation feels like another big F1 controversy.
“Starts” means how well the car gets going right after the race begins. If a team improves its starts, it can gain position early and make the rest of the race easier.
“Brakes” are what slow the car down before corners. In racing, brake performance can decide how late you can stop and how stable the car feels when you’re braking hard.
A double header is when two races are held back-to-back over consecutive weekends (or very close together). In F1, that compresses logistics and can reduce the usual time for upgrades, setup changes, and driver/engine preparation between events.
Silverstone is a famous Formula 1 race track in the UK. It’s known for being fast and challenging, so it’s a good place to see which teams are really strong.
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C'est de l'Agnion de la Perra, and welcome to Ch'terf 1, a podcast about speedy race
cars that, by the way, is Spanish for to be from the year of the pear.
Oh my god, I love the year of the pear.
It's great.
Shout out to all the pear.
Shout out to all the pear.
Thank you very much.
I had that on a t-shirt for a while.
I was very proud of it.
I think I'm too big for it now.
That particular idiomatic expression means to be very old.
So a special congratulations to F1's oldest race winner since 1970.
Wow.
Who it is, you'll have to listen to the rest of this podcast to know.
Fernando, I'm your Scanlon.
Joining me is Danny O'Dwyer.
How are you, Danny?
I'm doing great.
We're recording at a weird time.
Rob is unavailable very much.
We are very much enjoying new season reliability issues here on the podcast.
I've been away for two weeks.
I missed the Monaco pod.
I tried so hard.
I was in Ireland.
I was in between houses.
I was in Ireland for four days trying to see all of my friends and family.
I didn't spend two nights in one place.
I was bouncing all over and I couldn't get involved.
But you know what reminded me of Monaco?
It was like a chess game where the interesting thing isn't when the person picks up the
piece and moves it.
It's all the possibilities that can happen between any moment.
And that was like, because in the Shift F1 Discord they were like, every race there's
a poll and it's like, should you watch the highlights?
Should you watch the 30 minutes?
Should you watch the full race?
And that one was really hard because it was like, well, I wouldn't watch it for the race.
I'd watch it for all the commentary that was going on during it.
Yeah, you guys did a good job pulling that together.
But as a result, I wasn't sure how much prep you needed for this.
So I also prepared an idiom.
Oh, right.
OK, so yes, and background.
Yes, I have newborn twins at home.
And so I was still not able to prepare very much for this.
I read some news, but that's kind of about it.
So thank you, Danny, for being my safety net here.
What was your phrase?
My phrase is it's a de mesi verdes e mandorin, which I don't speak Spanish.
So sorry, which translates as some greener ones ripen or even the green ones
ripen and the English equivalent is like you never know, meaning that you
cannot confidently predict what will happen.
And that was certainly the case for both of these races.
But yes, definitely.
Catalania and Grand Prix, adding a new new flavor into the mix, maybe,
for the 2026 title challenge.
Interesting.
Well, if you are new to this podcast, a very warm welcome to you.
And if you are new to Formula One itself, my audio usually doesn't sound like this.
I'm recording from a featureless white void.
Again, because of the aforementioned twins taking over, are they taking over the house?
Yep.
The hallway that I usually record in is not sonically treated.
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Danny, do you know what we have going on this?
I have a notion.
Have you guys picked anything out?
Yes, we're watching Death Race 2000 and the 2008 remake.
OK. Starring Statham.
Yeah, we talked about this.
I remember in a meeting or something.
Yeah, OK, Death Race. Great.
When are we doing it? Do you know next week?
Who knows? Great question.
Great question.
Do your kids want to watch a death race?
I'm sure they would love to.
Could record at like 2 a.m. during a daddy night shift or something.
I mean, there's been weird stuff on the TV already.
So OK, while I'm while I'm taking my shift.
Yep. A lot of a lot of old one up show.
Oh, interesting. Yeah. OK.
It's a real real nostalgia hit for getting like 25 year old Tina Sanchez
before she joined the world of Game Dev.
That's right.
It starts with the launch of the Xbox 360.
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That's it. So good.
Viva Piñata. God, we were so naive and youthful back then.
They're still covering like, you know, black for the PS2.
Oh, yeah. God, I worked in the store when I came out, I think.
Yeah, it's awesome.
Wow. What what times we lived in.
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And this would this was a lot of fun this race.
Yes, a surprisingly good Monaco followed by a surprisingly good Spain.
What the.
Well, that's a Lundian.
Let's hey, hey, hey. Excuse me.
I'm so sorry.
We got the Madrid.
We're not at the Madrid.
Madrid, Madrid, Madrid.
All right.
Danny, as ever mentioned, I do not have play by play notes here.
So I'm going to throw it over to you to take not only the start,
but the rest of the race.
No problem.
I just a little bit talk about with practice and quality.
So did you see Bottas's incidents during practice?
No, I didn't.
He had a brake pedal fail, like straight up just fall off.
The pedal. Oh, yeah, pedal came off.
I think it was the pedals not supposed to come off.
No, I think it was Q3.
I can't remember.
I watched I watched the highlights after the fact, because everything was on
pretty early and I'm still coming back with that with some jet lag from Europe.
But yeah, yeah, he had a failure.
And thankfully it happened in a spot where he was able to just kind of
hit the gravel and spin out, but that wasn't awesome.
Qualification was interesting as well.
Another, you know, it's really coming down to a battle between Mercedes
and Ferrari when it comes to the the pole positions here.
And we had a, you know, in a way, I feel like the Q3 dropouts are pretty standard
and the Q2 ones are now becoming somewhat standard.
I think qualifying is, yeah, for whatever reason, the differences
between some of these teams, at least at a track like
Barcelona is getting shaken out pretty, pretty evenly now.
So we're getting used to it.
But anyway, let's run through it in a 20 second position.
Fernando Alonso, 21st Lanstrol.
Val Tzari bought us in 20th, Sergio Perez, 19th.
Alex Albon, once again, failing to get into Q3.
He starts 18th.
Esteban Ocon, 17th.
Carlos Sainz, 16th.
Ali Berman, 15th.
The Haas and the Williams splitting themselves there.
Then we've got a pair of Alpines.
Gasoline, 14th.
Colin Pinto, 13th.
Gabriel Bortoletto in 12th.
Arvid Limblad, the first of the racing bulls mentioned here in 11th.
Then the top 10 are Charle Leclerc, who had a DNF and he went out in Q3.
I forget exactly what happened.
He crashed.
He crashed.
Where did he crash again?
I forget the turn, but he had a weird wiggle that sent him into the wall.
Yeah, he corrected it and then went into the wall.
Yeah, was it in that?
Maybe it was just before that straight in sector two.
In my head, that's where I might have seen it, but I can't remember.
The commentators were a little perplexed that someone had crashed there.
Yeah, you never, that really adds insult to injury.
It does.
Did you see the MotoGP Racing Catalonia this year?
No.
It was an insane race, but the amount of crashes was ridiculous,
including one where one of the drivers got caught in the wheel of another.
When his bike flipped, he flipped with it.
It was rough.
He's out for the season.
I forget.
Oh, gentlemen's name.
Anyway, sorry.
Charlotte Claren 10th, Nico Holkenberg 9th, Liam Lawson 8th,
Oscar Piastri in a disappointing 7th, Isaac Hajar in 6th,
Max Verstappen 5th, Landon Ars in 4th.
And then we had Kimi Antonelli in 3rd, not starting from pole this time.
Lewis Hamilton in 2nd.
Yeah, flying up there and a couple of, I think less than a 10th,
maybe and change ahead of him was Georgie Porgy putting on Ply Russell,
who managed to get in 1st.
He was pretty much, he was speedy the whole way through this weekend
and was eager to get pole position and then managed to do it on his last run.
Bit of an interesting last few minutes of qualifying as it tends to be.
So that's how they started.
So how did they start start?
Well, lights went out.
All of the top few were the same leading into like turn 4, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th.
Charlotte Claren managed to gain like 3 places from 10th position by the end of the 1st lap.
Isaac Hajar had an absolutely wretched start.
His car essentially, I don't know, it wasn't anti-stall,
but he just had horrible wheel spin, couldn't get it off.
He slipped down quite far, but I think recovered back to 13th by the time the 1st lap was done.
And then he spent most of the rest of the race overtaking people,
especially on the entrance to turn 1.
What did you make of the start?
What did you make of the first few corners?
Yeah, good start from Russell.
Yes, I think I was, you know, all eyes kind of at the front, right?
Like Lewis Hamilton surprisingly strong in qualifying,
so wondering whether that can translate to the race.
And yeah, I thought tire choices were interesting.
It was Hamilton on soft and then Verstappen and basically everyone.
Oh, Ann Holkenberg actually in 9th.
By the way, great job, Holk, to get up to 9th.
I feel like he was starting 11th so many times.
But yeah, everyone else in the top 10 started on mediums.
And the commentators were saying that because it was so hot out there.
Yeah, and it's an abrasive track, too.
And the medium and the software were pretty similar in terms of pace.
Yeah, and obviously not in terms of degradation,
but it opened up three stops as an opportunity as well in a track where
I feel like there's a pretty decent chance of a safety car
just because of the amount of beaching opportunities you have here.
I feel like I said it was around 50%.
Oh, really? Yeah.
So you don't even need a crash.
You just need somebody to break down on the wrong part of the track.
And especially again, with the heat, overheating is often a thing.
With new regulations, you know, there's a there's a decent chance
that it'll happen similar to Monaco.
It's just like one of these tracks where if you go off,
sometimes it's harder to get the car off the track than it is in other spots.
And that might necessitate virtual safety car.
Safety car, even if the incident itself isn't that big a deal.
You know, nobody crashes, right?
And like that.
I do like the fact that, you know, Hadjar,
even though we swamped it at the start,
he often what has happened in the past few years
with the second Red Bull driver is that something like that happens.
Or they start in 13th or whatever.
And then there is a there for the entire race.
Hadjar, at least, is trying to make things back up.
He's passing people.
Yeah, lap three, he gets past signs on the straight.
Speaking of the straight, Leclerc almost goes into the back of Piaz Street.
Do you see if Piaz Street broke super early?
It seems like caught Leclerc off guard,
looking not to break some of his front wing.
Hadjar then gets past Colopinto wide on turn three,
which became like a thing during this race.
That they were happy to, you know,
there was more grip out there maybe than people anticipated.
And yeah, able to sweep around the outside.
It's a long turn.
So if you're able to stay out there,
hang it out there and get grip,
you know, the turn will sort of,
the overtake will come towards you eventually.
But I've never been able to figure that turn out in video games.
The video games, yeah, it's okay.
You can't win a controller.
You need a wheel for that one, especially.
It doesn't deal with the binary input of a controller.
We had our first retirement of the day here.
There was a significant amount of them,
many of them off camera.
This one was as well.
Lance Stroll had a gearbox problem,
came into the pits and pulled away, first of many.
Lap six, Hadjar gets past Gasly.
Leclerc then does similar on lap eight.
He has an interesting,
this is the wide on turn three situation again.
He manages to pull it out and get on the inside line
into turn four, which was...
Or MP Astri.
Sorry, or MP Astri, yeah, not Gasly, my lord.
Hadjar though was past Gasly
and then he was hunting down Liam Lawson,
manages to get him into turn one,
which I believe was for a 10th position at that stage.
Lap 17, we had our next retirement,
Batas with the previously mentioned overheating problem
coming up a cropper for him.
At least his brake managed to stay on.
The brake managed to stay on until then,
but he retired his car on lap 17.
Hadjar still on its error, gets past Bearman.
This time on the ultimate final turn of the track,
it was kind of another weird place
between the penultimate and final turn,
he manages to get around him.
When you've got a disparity between cars,
that's going to wear when you can use
weird parts of the track to do it.
By now, we're all on hard tires.
Was it Hamilton that instigated the stops?
He stopped very quickly and then Mercedes had to cover him off.
Hamilton stock looks like lap 10,
shout out to racefans.net for the lap chart.
And then George Russell two laps later.
And then that kind of cascaded everybody else,
like, oh, I guess we're doing a two-stop or a three-stop.
What did it end up being?
A three?
A three for Hamilton at least, almost everyone.
Well, we'll talk about that later, I guess.
Yeah, Hamilton's next pit is on lap 28.
Before that, the only note I have is Hadjar
past Lin Blyde as he slowly makes his way through the field.
Hamilton pits, so his second pit,
obviously he's going for a three at that stage.
Again, sort of pushes the Mercedes team into, you know,
figuring out exactly what they're going to do.
But the thing about Hamilton is very good at managing tires
in these situations.
And he's got the pace.
He's closing up on people, which is, which is impressive.
And we'll get to that in a second.
Hulkenberg then retires, bizarre retirement.
Oh my God, this is crazy.
Yeah, do you want to take it?
Well, I mean, we didn't really know why during the race.
And then he posts, I saw a post on Instagram or something.
Yeah, in our Discord actually.
Oh, funny.
I guess it leads to some social network.
But yeah, he posted a picture.
A rock, a piece of gravel got kicked up by,
was it Liam Lawson, I think, ahead of him?
Yeah, because I'm looking at right now.
That's who was ahead of him in the lab chart, at least.
And it came up and hit.
There's like a, it looks like a pole ring on a fire extinguisher,
because that's what it is.
Like if the car pulls over and is on fire,
a marshal can come over and pull that pin.
And the extinguisher system in the car can put out the fire.
The rock hit that and turned his car off.
I've never heard of, I've heard of rocks hurting drivers' fingers,
you know what I mean?
Yeah.
Like gravel, that happens.
Seeing them popping off their helmets,
I've never heard of it ever interfering with any of the buttons
or switches, or in this case, this safety fire switch
and triggering anything in the car.
Absolutely bizarre.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And he was able to get back to the pits.
Somehow he could coast it in.
Kind of where it happened, maybe helped, but yeah.
Just, you know, sometimes lady luck is just not on your side.
No, it really is not.
I'm going to start a note here to, I don't know if my notepad,
I need to write down things to put in the show notes.
Okay.
Polkenberg extinguisher.
Speaking of show admin, do we need to have a break sometimes here?
Oh, we certainly do in one minute, 17 seconds,
but since you brought it up, why don't we do it right now?
All right, Danny.
Left 29.
We're back.
That's right.
Let's do it.
That's where we're at.
Hamilton, Hamilton, sorry.
Trying to overtake Leclerc at this point.
He gets past him.
Hamilton trying.
Yeah, because he's pitted.
Okay.
Yeah, of course.
So now he's trying to make his way back through the field.
And he gets past Leclerc into sixth position.
He is at this stage, 27 seconds behind Russell.
So essentially he has the net lead for if Russell is pitting again.
They are on different strategies, right, Leclerc?
They are, yes.
So Russell's only pitted once at this stage, I believe.
Hamilton likely to have to pit again.
So he needs to basically gobble up all this time on Russell
and then try and put in as much fast laps as he can
so he can get a gap of a pit stop again.
I mean, talking about 20 seconds here.
He's on the right tire because Hamilton went soft hard medium now.
Yeah.
And Russell went medium hard.
Yeah.
And Hamilton just starts putting in quality laps essentially at this stage.
At the same time, what's not helping George Russell
is his younger brother who is now fighting him for the lead of the race into turn one.
Kimmy Antonelli, he's caught up on Russell and the two of them are fighting and fighting and
fighting for, you know, six or seven laps at this stage.
Narra sends up pitting on lap 36.
Russell and Antonelli are still fighting at this stage.
Russell eventually pits himself on lap 37.
Importantly, he comes back out into fourth ahead of Narra's who had pitted the lap before
but crucially behind Leclerc who's in provisional first, I guess, Hamilton and Antonelli.
Sorry, what did you make of this Mercedes battle here?
Because it's like what we were denied when Russell's car broke.
Yeah, I mean, and we enjoyed a great race between the two of them before that had happened.
You know what I mean?
That was Canada, right?
Yeah, it was the first half of that race was absolutely amazing.
And then Russell obviously, you know, the car, he didn't crash out against the car,
had a failure and he went out.
Yeah, I mean, it's great.
I think like this is why we love racing.
There is a discrepancy in these cars between different teams.
So if you have people who are in largely the same cars, then yes, we should let them fight.
McLaren did last year, Mercedes did this year.
There was a couple of times where they were in that end of that first section where I was
getting flashbacks to Rosberg and Hamilton, having a little bit of RG bargy, taking each other out.
At Spain, right?
Right, yeah.
It was where they had their big one.
Yeah, exactly.
On that first lap with Hamilton holding his hands in his face famously as they rolled to a stop.
So yeah, I think it was great to see.
Obviously, it's not helping Russell's race at this point.
How much this matters in a title challenge, I guess is maybe we have a different question
at the end of this race, but we'll get to that, let's say.
Antonelli pits and comes out into fourth position, I believe at that stage, lap 38.
And then we have Alonso.
Yeah, we had a couple of other retirements in between there.
I think Albonne went down and someone else did as well.
Colopinto, is it?
I forget who else went down.
Yes, but then we had Albonne.
Yeah, I said Albonne.
I'm trying to think.
I kind of remember who it was.
Paris, I don't know.
Who knows?
We had a few, we had like seven by the end of this race.
The next one, of course, is Fernando Alonso, who is cars stricken, and then eventually
the virtual safety car is called.
At this stage, Hamilton was somewhere in the realm.
It's kind of hard to tell with the deltas because they were moving so much on this
initial VSC call, but he was at a minimum 16 and at a max 22 seconds ahead of where Russell was.
Hamilton essentially gets a freebie pit stop because the 20 odd seconds that you would get
at full race pace is now negated significantly because the rest of the field has to drive
to that slower delta while the virtual safety car is on.
Hamilton actually just about missed the VSC or the pit when the VSC was called.
He came back around, came in for his pit stop, and the VSC literally drops as he is exiting
the pit lane exit ahead of George Russell.
George had just put on new tires a few laps prior.
He had, but Hamilton, given the, I don't know, given the situation,
given the race pace, given the few extra crucial laps that he was going to be enjoying on fresh
rubber, I think even if he had not gotten that free pit stop and come out ahead of Russell,
if he come out just behind him, I think Russell was on the wrong strategy or Ferrari had,
in a remarkable turn of events, Ferrari had done a pit strategy, a tire strategy that
perhaps handed them the lead given that and also Hamilton's performance and the performance of the car.
Yeah. I mean, to some degree, this virtual safety car robs us a bit of what, you know,
a battle that could have been. Hey, we got a different battle because,
guess what? Little brother, he's catching up with a big brother.
Kimmy Antonelli passed Russell into turn one, managed to pull off the overtake that he couldn't
for so long earlier in the race. Antonelli then tragically on lap 62, we cut to a very,
very slow looking Mercedes and Kimmy Antonelli pulling off to the side. He had some type of,
I don't know exactly what it was, but engine failure or some description,
had to retire the car, pull over as a sort of mirror events to what happens to Russell
in Canada just a few races earlier. Yeah, again, and such a shame there because his move
on Russell to take second place was great. I mean, Russell gave him a stout defense,
left him like exactly two meters for Antonelli's car to go there.
I read after the fact that Russell said that when he came in for that last pit stop,
they adjusted his car incorrectly and gave him, I think, too much oversteer or too much
downforce on the front wing. He's really quick to throw his team under the bus, though.
Like, I think this is one of the things people don't like about Russell the most is that he gets
quite like, you know, picky, like nasty about his team. Like, reactively. With maybe the exception
of Charlie Claire, although maybe not. He is also quick to, well, when something is wrong,
he will certainly voice it. Yeah, maybe it's maybe it's the reactive nature of it is that it always
happens like over the radio, whining about something, you know what I mean? And if everyone
does that, like everyone may do that. And when we see something like this happen,
then we connect the dots in a way that tells a story, you know what I mean? Like the directors
or whoever's in charge of the VO maybe over indexes Russell complaining. But he could also just be
a complainer. He could be a complainer. He could be.
But yeah, that was that was a shame. A great, a great move. But I guess now they're even.
Yeah, Leclerc, by the way, at this exact same moment is going wide on turn two because his
power steering turns off. Whoops. Yep. That's not great. Laugh 62. But so he goes out. He goes out.
He was a race. And it was Bearman. Sorry, earlier, who was the notch color pin to our board,
one of the other young boys was Bearman that went out because they sent Albonne back out.
He got went into the pits and they called James Valz. James Valz. He means like, yeah,
the TV camera pod fell off. You are kidding me. Yeah. That's what it was.
Could they just leave it all? I don't know if they put it back on or they just tore it off or
what? I don't think you're allowed to race unless you hit the minimum weight, though. Like,
I bet that TV pods. Well, but if you, you know, if something like your barge falls off,
flies off, I guess, but they don't want to have, you know, something dangling, right,
that could fly off. So they send him back out. And that's actually talking to my sister about
this. She's like, why did they send him back out? He's five laps down. But, you know, Williams
needs all the data testing they can get. And because there is nothing actually wrong with
the car, they're getting good data. Yeah. Right. Yeah. A couple of weird ones.
That's yeah. I mean, we had loads of retirements. It was bizarre. The race ends,
66 laps. Lewis Hamilton crosses the line. His first ever victory for the Tafosi.
He manages to pull off a win for Ferrari. You know, massive moment for him coming off of
what has been a more positive, you know, Hamilton side of the garage, you know,
he replaces engineer. He's gotten some of his old, you know, cohorts back around him.
His love life seems to be going well. There's a lot happening and well. So this
wasn't like some sort of freak victory situation, you know, I mean, he was cruising.
Yeah. We're building towards this and the car seems to be doing well and
perhaps Barcelona also suited them as well. And perhaps the heat also did. We'll have to
wait and see. Kimi Antonelli ends up getting a five second penalty after the race. He got a black
and white, oh, sorry. Yeah. He had a black and white flag for track limits early in the race.
Very early. Yeah. And they were, you know, there was lots of replays for the rest of the race.
But yeah, pretty late on, he managed to breach track limits one more time, which meant that
he got that five second penalty. On top of his DNF. On top of, yeah,
which makes it a moot point. They don't knock that down until the next race or anything.
And the only other thing we got was Colopinto losing two places as well.
What was his penalty about again? He failed to slow sufficiently for Fernando Alonso's
yellow flag. It was a yellow flag breach. So he gave him 10 seconds, which dropped him from
eighth to 10th. Yes, unfortunately for him. So let's make our way through the DNF's land
stroll. Valter Ibotas, Niko Hülkenberg, Fernando Alonso. The knock classified also includes
Alexander Alban, who was 18, sorry, 11 laps down upon the ending of the race. Three more DNFs.
Ali Bergen will get 17th because of race distance. Kimi Antonelli 16 and Charlotte Claire 15.
You're flipping the script here, Danny, this is great. Bottom to top. Yeah, I like it. Yeah,
it's fun. It's like a delay gratification. You're gonna wait to see what happens.
Then we have Sergio Perez in 14, three laps down from everyone, but you know, hey,
he finished the race. Esteban Alcon, 13th, Carlos Sainz, 12th, Cavalier, Bortelato in 11th.
That's really got to stay with five other six cars. Wait, no, more. It's like 15,
12345678 cars out and, oh man, I couldn't get points.
Are you kidding me? And Colopinto getting a 10 second penalty, dropping into 10th, but not
enough to get to let you in. Right. Killer. Arvid Lindblad in 9th, Liam Lawson 8th,
Gleason Derr for the Racing Bulls, Alpine in 7th with Pierre Gasly, Isaac Hajar in 6th,
Oscar Piastri, 5th, Max Verstappen, 4th, Londoners, 3rd, George Russell 2nd,
and Sir Lewis Hamilton in 1st position, bringing it home, 66 laps of racing in Catalonia,
and that was our race. Fantastic. Should I go down the driver's standings?
Let's do it. All right. Kimmy Antonelli still on top. I'm going top-bottom. That's how I do it.
It seems more appropriate. With 156 points. Lewis Hamilton in 2nd with 115,
closing that gap. George Russell is in 3rd with 106. Charlotte Claire in 4th with 75. That's a
sizable gap. Lenon Orris close behind with 73. Boy, those retirements are really,
really got to be weighing on the Claire. Oscar Piastri is in 6th right behind his teammate with
68 points. That's a five-point difference. Max Verstappen is in 7th with 55. 8th place,
Pierre Gasly in 41, with 41. Isaac Hajar in 9th with 34. And Liam Lawson in 10th with 28.
Ollie Berriman has 18. Colopinto's got 16. Arvid Lindblad with 13th. Sines with 6.
And Albin in 15th place with 5 points. Then we've got Estaman O'Conn with 3 points.
Gabriele Bortoletto with 2. Fernando Alonzo with 1. And then 0 points are in 19th.
Nico Holkenberg followed by Valtteri Bottas, Sergio Perez, and Lance Stroll.
In. Stroll fan over here. In the team standings. Mercedes is on top with 262 points. Ferrari is
in 2nd with 190. McLaren's in 3rd with 141. Red Bull in 4th with 89. Alpine is in 5th with 57.
Racing Bulls in 6th with 41. Gene Haas in team are in 7th place with 21 points.
Williams in 8th with 11. Audi is in 9th with 2. Aston Martin in 10th with 1.
And Cadillac in 11th with 0. My rental car in Ireland was a Renault,
but it was Alpine branded all over it. Oh really? Yeah, they upgraded me because they didn't have
the shitty hatchback that I asked for because I wanted to spend as little money as possible.
So they gave me this, uh, yeah, it was kind of swanky. I had like a massive screen in it,
and it was like pretty white. It was a hybrid, so it was pretty much an electric car at lower.
Was the GPS voice Flavio preatory? Unfortunately not. No, no, no.
Kept saying to me every time I was reversing.
If you'd like to join the standings yourself, you can do so
by using the link in the show notes to join our fantasy league
from Barcelona. Here is the fantasy podium. Let's do it. In third, 44, Niko number one.
That's confusing. It is. Split allegiance is there.
In second, Cadillac My Haas. Oh boy. This is a family podcast, right?
And in first, Rich Energy, Euro Cali F1. Oh, beautiful.
You thought we were done with them, but no, they're here. Here to stay.
Let's see. Overall though, I think we've had some switching up. By the way,
do you have a fantasy team in here? I did it, but I haven't noticed since the start.
Okay. Well, did you, as I did, get an email from forming the one fantasy saying
we've corrected the Monaco standings. You are kidding me. Yeah. Wow.
It's pretty good. Because of the news story that we'll get to, Danny. Yeah. That's right.
Should we get into it? Oh, sorry. In third, overall standings in our fantasy league,
we have Fanamp Fantasy HQ. Oh boy. In second, the Macarena still going strong
since the nineties. Uh, they actually have 1997 points.
Wonder when. It's not the year it came out. Yeah. And in first, the perennial cigarettes.
Came in 95. Okay. So I was hitting a time around 97 maybe. That's right. Shout out to cigarettes.
Gasly in Monaco. Yeah. Let's talk about it. Yeah. So they've, the penalty, I mean, Monaco,
just throw out all the Monaco. Listen, we recorded on Monday. We knew this was going to happen.
It always happens. News always happens after we, right after we record. And on Monday,
it happened doubly. So it was, what happened, Danny? Ridiculous. Yeah. So I mean, I mean, like
during the whole thing here during the race, no, I'm not going to recap the whole
thing. My brain is not that good. But I will say is during that race, questions were already being
asked, you know, on fans online in living rooms around the world on the shift F1 discord is there
are way too many penalties for speeding. Like six speeding in the pit line. Like that never
happened. This does not happen. It was happening to people who had no right to be speeding in the
pit. Like, like sometimes it happens when someone's really trying to come in,
busting a gut, trying to get as many like that last thousand.
Happening to people who are just coming into the pit line. I was like, this is,
there must be something going on here, right? I'm retiring. Yeah. Unfortunately, a lot of drivers,
you know, had to take penalties. Some of them had to take penalties on penalties because they
forgot to take their penalties the first time around. So it was just the whole race was just this
ridiculous farce of law. It was like watching a body count video with one of those like,
those auditors who are like trying to, trying to trip up police officers by getting them in like a,
like a, a interpretation of the law. The whole race was just like people trying to
figure out exactly like who's going to end up where and they can't, they can't check this.
Like they can't check this right now. It's not like they can look at a replay and change it.
It's like, well, because we hear all the time from commentators. Once you are under investigation
for a speeding penalty, it's a slam dunk because it's just, it's just math, right? They, they
embed sensors in the track. They know how far apart those sensors are. And if you, and they know
what time is, so if you go between those two sent sensors in a low enough time, they can calculate
your speed. And therefore they know exactly how fast you were. Yeah. And that's ultimately what
it came down to 77 centimeters. So, you know, I'm sure this is not the first time this has occurred
where there is a pit lane entry that is on a, that is curved, which means that the, the shortest
possible distance for a car to make the term and hitting the wall is not necessarily going to be
like the, I don't know, the median point between the two lines, right? So
faster than what they were anticipating given, so they obviously use those two parts to
mathematically figure out what the median speed was through that section, right? And that's how
they do it. But obviously drivers were not driving the way that they thought they were able to cut
it slightly. And so were, it looked like they were driving too fast. They weren't, they were still
under the speed limit, but because they broke through faster than the system was anticipating,
they, they would, they got flagged as speeding, which is the fact that it happened to like half
the field should have been caused to maybe like, I don't know, should we wait until after the race
maybe to deal out some, deal out some stuff? I don't know. Well, they, they did for one car.
Yes. They did for one car. One driver had the guts to just wait until after the race or had
the ability to because it happened later in the race. Right. So he had already pitted and
didn't need to pit again in the serve of penalty. So it just got applied to his race time.
And then, and then it got, it's, yeah, then it's been, it's been swapped around. So, um,
he's had it removed. Um, and what does that do? That puts him back into third? Yes. Yeah, it does.
So it takes the, the, which at the time we were like, even saying like, I don't think Hydra is
going to keep, can they check this now? No. Okay. We're just going to send Hydra in. Okay.
We did get that really funny moment where he said it was almost the lowest aged podium
to Lewis Hamilton, which was quite funny. Yeah. So that got reversed and Gosley manages to go
to third place in Monaco, which I'm sure would have meant a lot more to him as a Frenchman
than it does now, sort of procedurally. Yeah. And so this is a, all right. The hyphen race.com
has a good breakdown here, um, of this that I can then put in the show notes, but they point out
that the F1 rules only refer to a quote, speed limit. Right. And therefore this like calculation
thing, they therefore can't determine whether he broke the speed limit. Right. Cause he could have
been over and then way under, you know, right. So, uh, that's, that's sort of the reasoning,
the stewards for being able to overturn this. Um, they do point out, and this is the quote from
the stewards, there is no regulation that gives the stewards the power to under undo a served
penalty. Yeah, of course. So that's why we're only doing it for Gosley and not everyone else. So
as you mentioned, Danny, uh, this moves Hajar from the third place he inherited back down to fourth.
Um, and it also moves, uh, piastry behind him from fourth to fifth. Right. So McLaren, not too happy
about this. Um, and their, their, their argument, and I'll read again from another, uh, uh, article
from the race.com, um, their argument centers on the fact that the teams were aware of the
pit lane speed discrepancies and some adjusted their procedures for the race to take more margin to
mitigate the measurement errors. Oh, interesting. I wonder how they knew. Was it brought up in the
driver meeting or is it just, I think it did. Oh, it did. Okay. Yeah. And so the, the, the quote in,
so they have lodged an appeal against this decision to cancel Gasley's penalties.
Cause he should have known better cause we told him. So this is so petty. I mean, yeah.
The, uh, the finish happened and then Alpine was like, no, we were lodging an appeal and then,
uh, McLaren says, well, we're lodging an appeal for your appeal. Um, here's the thing,
this might be the biggest mess up in a formula one race in terms of rules. I mean, since the
Michael Massey Abu Dhabi, right? But that, that's because of what it meant. I think just in terms
of pure, how this affected the race, this is one of the worst I've ever seen. This is,
well, and they're compounding it, but, but here's, but here's the thing. I want to qualify that.
Okay. Nobody cares because it was during Monaco. Monaco is boring. Monaco, like,
this is the Bernie Eccleston, uh, putting on the sprinklers. Like Monaco is so boring and like,
it's such a race that's one on Saturday that weirdly, I think nobody really cares. Like,
I think it's just funny and everyone finds this funny. Like, I don't think anyone's going to be
sad for Hadjar for getting like the whole race was a crap shoot because there were, there were so
many instances of this happening and people getting penalties and a changing race order,
and therefore changing strategy that sort of every, like, I get that some people have like,
come out of it really good, like Gasly, but like, it was, it just feels so random and like,
randomly enforced all of these penalties because of how this happened and when the
infringement happened and what it meant to everyone's race state that I think most people
just find this whole thing very funny. And the fact that it's Monaco is, is a big part of that
because people just like, hate, love hate Monaco. You know, we love Monaco. We hate Monaco. We love
it. It looks great. It's, it's, things can happen. Nothing usually does. So I think this is really
unique in Formula One in that I've never seen this much of a procedural mess up that has affected
so many drivers. And also I have never seen a situation where there has been FIA or Formula
One messing up this bad and nobody cares. Well, McLaren seems to care and I'll read
again from the race.com's article. Red Bull was also weighing up whether to follow through with
its appeal. It hasn't handed back the third place trophy to Pierre Gasly yet. Red Bull insists it
is in the process of arranging for the trophy to get to Alpine. Hey, it's in a different country,
come on. Mercedes, Danny, also exploring legal options over the Monaco GP result. Here's Toto
Wolfe. Quote, we were on the phone with our lawyers to look at what we can do for George.
The drive-through, if it didn't happen at the end, is the equivalent of 20 seconds race time.
Okay. Let me add to what I said earlier. The third element of why no one cares is the person who
got shafted the most, George Russell, is not particularly popular in the F1 fan community
of the world. I think if this had happened to Charles or Piastri or someone like that,
I think it's even funnier that it happened to George. I'm nothing against George Russell,
but he doesn't create a lot of sympathy around himself. I think in situations like this,
yeah, people are just happy to laugh the whole thing off, but he did completely get screwed.
His race is totaled by this whole thing. Yeah. Was that the FIA's fault? I mean, partially,
but it's a good point. Yeah, that adds a big wrinkle to the whole thing, that the fact that
they brought that up, I was not aware of that. It definitely adds a caveat to that. It just,
yeah, it makes it even stupider because they shouldn't own and someone presumably did and
slowed down. It honestly smacks a little bit of Felipe Massa going like, you know what?
If Crashy hadn't happened 12 races later, I would have been champion.
I've seen Ashton Kutcher's hit film, The Butterfly Effect. I know exactly what,
you know, sliding doors moments. Yeah, Felipe Massa, he's once again, they're back in court
over this, the Crash case cover-up that led to Lewis Hamilton winning on points,
the points being thrown at you in that race. The fact that it looked like Bernie Eccleston and
Co were new about this and had mentioned it in a documentary. We've been covering this
for the past few years. There's a little bit of a change on this end. The headline here from
Sky Sports is FIA, Bernie Eccleston and Formula One take appeal to Supreme Court after being
ordered to pay £2,500 sterling to Felipe Massa. £250,000. Sorry, what did I say?
£25,000? Did I say £250,000 maybe? I don't know. We shouldn't record this at four o'clock, man.
My brain's not. I should be asleep or something. Sorry, £0.25 million sterling, let's say that.
This is not a payoff for him. His championship is not worth the quarter of a million English.
This has got to do with fees and charges that he has accrued basically over the course of this
legal situation. They're appealing this payment. They're appealing the payment because that's what's
been ordered so far. I think also what has happened is that the trial has been approved
for a jury for a conspiracy. This is what I can gather. I'm not a legal scholar.
It sounds like this is an intermediary step for Eccleston and Co to pay Massa for his legal fees
before the trial. That is what Eccleston and Co are appealing.
Yes, it is set to go to the Supreme Court. The appeal, yes.
But yes, they're attempting to throw this whole case out.
Apparently they leapfrogged the Court of Appeal initially, but that is perhaps no longer the
case. There's going to be a documentary about this in the future, which is probably before
of them actually, which will be very interesting to watch. One on HBO, one on Netflix, one on
Brazilian. Netflix, Brazil. We'll keep Massa watch on the tips of our tongues and the tickle
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Yeah, we didn't sign up for any of that. It's just megaphone.
That was default. Yeah.
We got like 32 comments.
I read them. I read them all.
You read them?
Yeah. They're fun. They're fun. People are being cool.
As long as someone's reading them.
I'm saying that as a caveat in case somebody said some heinous stuff there that I didn't see.
I'm not saying that that was cool of them.
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All right. Well, Friday, Juneteenth, the NASCAR Craftsman, that's not right.
Yes, it is.
Craftsman, trucks are in San Diego, the street course at San Diego for the Navy 250.
Hey, big Navy town. I used to live in the other Navy town,
Annapolis, Maryland, on the East Coast. So this is the sunnier one.
They wouldn't, racing in June in Maryland is tricky with all the lightning storms.
They almost had that. that at the Freedom 250 UFC event,
which sounds like a NASCAR race. It sure does.
Yeah. I was sort of hate watching, seeing if the storm would come in.
I hope you powered a best dream.
It's on Paramount Plus, which as you can see, if you're watching the video version of this,
I've watched a lot of Paramount Plus because my team Arsenal got to the Champions League final.
I was in Budapest for that final. I didn't go to the game, but sadly we did not win.
But yeah, so I flicked it on for a second and unfortunately I did watch several ads for
cryptocurrency and sports betting as a result. So I apologize.
Have you been watching the World Cup?
I've watched every match of the World Cup, Drew.
Wow. Okay.
World Cup is life for a month. That's it. Guess what? I've been watching a World Cup
match this whole recording.
I have a little TV in the corner that I can see what's going on.
It's two all at a half time, Norway and Iraq.
Wow.
Norway and Iraq. I love the weird Iran versus New Zealand was yesterday.
You know, like countries that have probably very little cultural overlap.
You know what I mean? I'm sure there's a bunch of Persians living in New Zealand or something,
but for football, except for the beautiful game.
That's right.
I watched the last 20 minutes of Cape Verde, Spain.
Oh my God.
In the most exciting tie I have ever seen.
Best draw in World Cup history, Cape Verde, Cabo Verde, a team, a country of like 500,000 people.
They are the only Irish guy at the tournament.
This is a story that's been doing around for a while.
He plays for Shamrock Rovers. His name is like entirely Spanish,
but he's from Crumlin in Dublin. He's got a proper big Dublin accent.
And he plays for Shamrock Rovers. He's in his 30s.
And about six or seven years ago, he got a message on LinkedIn from somebody in Portuguese
that he thought was spam and didn't respond to.
And then nine months later, they sent it to him again in English.
And it was the Cabo Verde Sporting Federation asking if he'd like to declare for them
because his dad was born in Cabo Verde.
But he didn't speak Portuguese or didn't like hearing from Cleo was going on.
So, and he was like not, he wasn't going to get on the Irish team at that stage.
You have to declare for one year.
What's that?
Hello, I think, or good day in Portuguese.
Is it?
I have no idea.
Yeah. And he got a, so he's been playing for them for, you know,
the past six or seven years, they almost qualified four years ago.
They qualified this year. And yeah, he was the guy who like saved.
He was, he's the center back and he, or full back and he, he saved one of the shots in the last minute.
So fair play to him.
My favorite one is Curacao though. That's a country of like 150,000 people.
And they lost 7-1 to Germany, but they did equalize at one stage.
That one.
Oh my gosh, that's it.
They're delighted. They didn't care about the next six.
They were, for 17 minutes, they were tying with Germany, one of the greatest like football royalty.
This is what the World Cup's all about.
It's just, it's every game matters and it's all the stories and the underdogs.
I just support underdogs all the time. So it's a good time.
But yeah, don't worry. I've not been like watching the game.
I saw Erling Hallen score a brace, I think.
And then a Screamer, the second Iraq goal was an absolute Screamer.
But anyway, that's what you have to follow.
What would we call it?
Buck penalty F7. I don't know what we'd call our soccer podcast to cover, to cover that stuff.
Yeah. All right. We've also got back to the racing world.
Speaking of the world.
Yes.
Did you know the Hidden Valley racetrack is a place that exists?
Hidden Valley.
You can't find it because it's hidden.
You take a big old swig of ranch dressing and you're transported to the Hidden Valley racetrack
for the Repco Supercars, better Darwin Triple Crown.
That's what's happening.
Why, wait, wait. It's not sponsored by a mayonnaise company?
No.
Or ranch? Why did you mention ranch?
Because Hidden Valley makes ranch dressing.
Oh, okay. Sorry.
Yeah. Sorry.
That wasn't on the citizenship test.
Where is Hidden Valley? Do we know?
Australia.
Oh, okay. Fair enough.
NT. What is NT?
Where's NT?
Is that a state in Australia?
Northern Territories.
Northern Territories.
Is it?
Or Northern Tasmania?
I think the Tasmania is TZ. It's its own one.
There's only seven of them, right? I think Northern Territories is all.
All Australian listeners are yelling at me. I'm so sorry.
Uh, MotoGP, speaking of, is in Czechia in Bernou.
Better Czechia yourself before you recce yourself.
Well, there might be that. It's MotoGP.
So that will probably happen.
The Monster Energy Grand Prix of Czechia, I believe it is.
Okay, great.
Thank you, Danny.
Monster is available everywhere.
You did your homework.
I did.
I went to Poland one time and saw.
Energy drinks.
Did you see the Robert Kubica energy drink?
I did not see that one, but I did see advertised a Mike Tyson.
Oh yes. I know what that's called. I also saw that.
Yes.
It's called Black.
Black energy.
Black energy by Mike Tyson.
They just have a thing in Poland.
I feel like we talked about this a lot before.
They have a thing in Poland just about having kind of one off energy drinks with celebrities on them.
Yeah, including the Robert Kubica one, which is pretty cool.
You think they give me one?
I don't think you want one now.
It's probably been 10 years.
China is hosting the Sanya E Prix in Haitang Bay, the Formula E race.
Yes, Haitan.
On the island of Hainan, which is right down there in the South China Sea.
I didn't have to look it up.
I didn't know where I was.
It's a pretty big island.
Never heard of it.
We have DTM, Zalian.
Skipkau.
It's a lousy screen.
Wow, that was good.
Thank you.
Wow, it's a real theme here in NASCAR.
The NASCAR O'Reilly series is at the San Diego Street course.
For the United Rentals Driven to Serve 250.
Wow.
Motocross Grand Prix is at Pista Motocross Monteverdi
in the province of Arezzo, Italy.
Wow.
Monteverdi.
It's like Green Mountain.
Is that what that is?
That's a good guess.
We have the NASCAR Expel Grand Prix at Road America.
Road America, coming out of Sheboygan County, Wisconsin.
It is Sheboygan County.
It is Sheboygan County.
Great.
And also in San Diego Coronado, we have
NASCAR.
For the, oh my god.
It's not the Freedom 250.
No, it certainly isn't.
It's the Anderal 250.
Why does Anderal drew?
It unfortunately has nothing to do with Lord of the Rings.
It has everything to do with Palmer Lucky's Defense Company.
Oh, is that what that is?
Yes.
Hey, man.
Someone's got to pay for all those wars America keeps losing, you know?
By this metal Game Boy.
Iraq is losing to Norway right now.
It gets us to one.
I guess that get gold got overturned.
They're losing to Norway, but they did defeat America.
So, you know, wow, wow.
That's what's happening this weekend, Danny.
What happened to this day in history?
In this day, why do I have it open on October 16th?
That is not the month we're dealing with right now.
Daniel O'Donnell.
It is June 16th.
By 1999, former world champion Damon Hill was no longer enjoying F1 and
announced on this day that he would be hanging up his helmet at the end of the season.
He said, Formity One has afforded me many incredible opportunities,
and I will cherish some fantastic memories.
I fulfilled my ambitions and consider myself very fortunate to have done so.
Wow.
That's incredibly neutral of him.
One of Damon's fellow British F1 champions was celebrating his day in 2001,
when he was awarded a knighthood.
From now on, it would be Sir Jackie Stewart,
after the three-time world champion was awarded for his achievements
and his work to improve safety in the sport,
which has claimed the lives of many of his friends.
Yeah, Sir Jackie, out there making it safer for all those drivers.
All right.
Yeah, there we go.
Well, Denny, I'm going to open it up to final thoughts on not just Spain,
but Monaco as well.
Yeah.
I mean, we're like, what, a third of the way through this?
Here's what I'm going to say.
Before the break, the last podcast I was on,
I was reacting to a lot of the scuttlebush that was happening
around the championship being wrapped up.
Can Russell catch Antoinette?
And I was like, for goodness sake, we are months in to a new regulation championship.
There's plenty of time for other teams to catch up.
There is still plenty of times for any of these teams to go through
some sort of problem with stability with their cars.
I said, all it takes is one or two retirements, and that gap is gone.
Ta-da!
Kimmy Antoinette didn't finish this race.
People were far too...
You saw what happened, especially after last year,
where you saw a Max Verstappen who was 100 points behind
with a third of the season left, and he managed to pull up.
We went down to the last day.
That can happen.
We don't know what's going to happen this year with the amount of races.
We'll see now if some of the stuff in the Arab world will happen or not,
based off of the seeming peace deal memorandum that's been signed.
But even with those two not happening, there are still plenty of races
for people to crash out.
Now everyone's saying, is Lewis Hamilton in the mixer for a title championship?
Like you said, this was not a fluke.
He looked really strong.
Car looks good, the vibes are good.
We'll see if some of the other tracks...
Mercedes have also gotten better at starts, which is a factor,
but over a race pace, will some tracks with, I don't know,
longer straights maybe benefit Mercedes, we'll have to see.
But maybe he could be an issue as well.
There's a million and one different things could be.
We haven't even talked about Charlie Claire's brakes,
which I think Rob will talk about that next week as that story develops.
Maybe we'll have more in it next week.
But yeah, it's too early to be making big calls like that.
You know, I think we'll have to see what happens.
But at the moment, we've got definitely a three-horse race currently,
and three drivers that are like all at completely different parts of their careers.
Wow, you're right.
It's very, very interesting.
Yeah, I think we're off to a strong start,
and I'm excited to see how the season develops.
Well, we will be back next week for, oh boy, what is the next race?
We don't have a race next week.
The week after that is, I have it on the tip of my tongue.
It's Austria, the Red Bull Ring.
Of course.
June 28th.
And then it's a double header.
We got Silverstone after that, then a bit of a gap for Deliverer of Spa.
Next week, we'll have our pre-Austria show.
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About this episode
Barcelona-Catalunya GP 2026 coverage kicks off with jokes and a nod to “new season reliability issues,” then shifts into how the hosts prep for races and vote on coverage length via a Discord poll. Qualifying turns dramatic with “He had a brake pedal fail, like straight up just fall off,” and a Mercedes-vs-Ferrari pole battle. The race features VSC strategy, pit/tire timing, and multiple retirements—plus a late Leclerc steering failure and Hamilton’s Ferrari win. Post-race, penalties and standings wrap things up.
The summer driving continues with a trip to an old friend with a new name.
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When Mercedes teammates don't behave themselves in Spain
More details about GAS's Monaco penalty
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