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Hello everybody,

welcome back to the force in the cures with me,

Betty Glover and just one sec, one sec, one sec, one sec, one sec.

Sorry, hang up.

Hello.

Again, Betty, again.

Christian, we've been through this.

No, Christian, we've been through this.

There isn't a vacancy.

Will you have to try Salba?

I don't know what to say to you.

There isn't a vacancy here.

I know Andy Cal's turning down.

I know.

There's no Christian.

Christian, tell him to try the Sky F1 pod.

We've got room.

Betty says try sky.

There's no room at the end, Christian.

There's no room at the end.

There's no room for you here.

I'm sorry.

Okay.

Love to Jerry. Bye bye.

Bye bye. Bye bye. Bye bye.

It's like the third time he's called me this weekend.

Anyway.

Andy Cal says he's been chatting to everyone.

Sorry, coming up.

Coming up.

Will dissect that Lando Oscar contact into turn three.

Say well done to McLaren, who are constructors champions once again

and talking depth about Aston Martin's determination to entertain us

with their team radios.

But we've got to get straight into it because what a Singapore grumpy.

That was everybody.

We have got so much to talk about.

Here is your top 10.

George Russell dominated the races.

Fifth win of his career.

Max Verstappen took second,

despite a lot of pressure from Lando Norris,

who took third.

Oscar Piastri finished fourth.

Kimi Antonelli fifth.

Charles Leclerc, sixth.

Fernando Alonso with his great radios finished in seventh.

Lewis Hamilton after a five second time penalty finished eighth.

Oli Berman took ninth.

And Carlos signed with an unbelievable drive, by the way.

Started from P18.

He overtook five cars in 10 laps.

That was insane.

He finished 10th.

Wow. Wow.

This is why the championship is insane.

This is how the championship looks then everybody.

Oscar Piastri leads on 336 points.

Lando Norris is second on 314.

That's 22 points behind him.

Max Verstappen is 63 points behind.

In third on 273.

We have six races left.

This is getting very exciting.

Hi, I've not said hello yet because we had the phone call interruptions.

Hi, I'm Christian Hugill and Betty,

we're chatting later than usual

because we've both had very busy days.

You've been doing sport.

I've been running around the field.

So we thought we'd have a wine, didn't we?

Or a drink just to you.

Well, we were recording late in the evening.

Cheers, you know, end of the weekend.

We were recording late.

You know, cheers, everyone.

You've all had a nice weekend.

Cheers, I've got a beer because I'm a lad.

Cheers, Betty.

Producer Will's got a cup of tea

because he's not as boozy as us yet.

Cheers, Betty.

Fair play.

Looks after his health does, Will.

Yeah, well, listen, I've run around the field today.

I deserve a beer.

Thank you very much.

Well, I've had to watch Aston Villa against Burnley.

So I deserve a beer.

Oh, wine.

You've got a wine, actually.

Anyway, should we talk about Formula One?

Yeah, I think we've got to start with McLaren, don't we?

Don't we?

Constructors World Champions, brilliant.

We'll talk about that in a second.

But let's be honest, that has been massively overshadowed

by that incident between Lando and Oscar on the opening lap.

That is what everybody is going to be talking about.

Norris getting up the inside of Piastri.

Eventually the two went wheel to wheel.

How did you see it, Christian?

How did it play out in your mind?

I'm delighted it happened, for many reasons.

So week after week on this pod.

So when I said that Lando should have done more

when Oscar messed up, I was described passionately

as anti-Lando.

And then you can get called anti-Piastri.

So I'm just going to call it as I see it, right?

If Lando Norris isn't going for that move,

we can all pack up and go home.

It's pointless as doing formula one.

There was a big gap that Oscar left there

and he was tentative as hell going into that corner.

And on a slippy track where it's difficult track,

Singapore, in difficult conditions

at the start of a Grand Prix,

Lando without malice at all stuck his nose up there,

got the move done.

And yes, the car moving in front was slow

was max because it's the start of the race

and there was a bit of contact with max

which ricocheted him into Oscar.

The contact was slight and guess what Oscar?

Lando is fighting for a world championship here.

So I am absolutely delighted

that to go back to Will Buxton's point

in our last episode,

there was a bit of grip between the teeth

and Lando went, I'm going to go for it

because I mentioned that criticism

I got on the last episode for saying,

Lando, I've just not seen quite enough for me.

That's what I want from you, Lando.

Good boy.

That fight.

Here we go.

We're in a title fight here.

If I'm going to catch up these positions

and eat a bloody well go for it

and he did, I want that aggression.

You need that aggression.

It's all very well is going after you, my love.

After you, everyone's a team here.

We're McLaren, everybody's lovely to each other.

At some point it's going to have to go

into an actual title fight and it did.

So I loved the aggression and it was fair.

I agree.

I really love the aggression.

Also it's not like he sent him into the wall.

I think we'd be having a very, very different conversation

if that's what happened.

Now on the radio, Oscar was like,

that's not fair, that's not fair.

If he has to avoid another car

by crashing into his teammate,

then that is a pretty shit job of avoiding.

It's worth to say though,

he was a lot calmer about it after the race.

He said he needed to watch it back

before commenting on it.

Well he was, but he still docked the question spectacularly.

So I still don't think he was very happy.

Rachel was asking him in the pan all sorts

and he was just like, I'm not saying a word.

So I still think he was a bit annoyed.

Yeah, to be fair,

from where he probably saw it,

how it played out in his mind

without having all of the context

of what was sort of happening

with Lando and Verstappen

and how big the gap is,

you could probably see why in the heat

at the moment you would be really frustrated

and annoyed by that.

But I do reckon

when he does watch it back,

he's probably going to think, okay.

I hope so because the whining

of Formula One drivers on the team radio.

I'm sure it's always always,

it's always happened.

We just hear it now.

But I hope Oscar looks at it

and goes, oh, it was nothing major.

It was fair enough

because as I say,

if Lando isn't at least trying that,

you're not winning the championship, mate.

We all pack up and go home.

This is motor racing.

So I was watching the F1 TV feed

with them, Julian Palmer

and David Coulthard.

You know, they've got

two very good racing drivers there.

They both said exactly the same as me.

That was my instinct was it's fine.

It's fair. It's hard.

It's turn.

It's the first few turns

of a race

when we're when we're battling

for a championship.

So now it was not unfair to me at all.

It's the grit.

It's exactly what I wanted

to see from Lando

that I don't think

we've quite seen enough of.

A little bit of grit.

I was pleased to see it from Lando.

Having criticized him before

and got a stick for it.

That's what I was not about guys.

That's what I want to see.

I also think at this stage

if Lando hadn't done that

then then his head is not in it.

He had to do that.

He saw the opportunity

and he had to do it.

And I must say

Oscar's demeanor

throughout the rest of the race

did seem a little bit different.

I haven't quite seen him.

Maybe like that before

maybe a little bit down.

I think is that fair to say

or am I probably overthinking that?

Do you think it affected him?

I don't think you are overthinking it.

I was really impressed.

I mean Tom Stalard

is race engineer is a classy operator anyway.

He's a fascinating amazing man

who's competed in other sports

and Tom was brilliant in.

Tom doesn't have to do this a lot.

But Tom was going, OK,

we control what we can control.

Just calm.

Just move on.

And Oscar went back again

and said, yeah, but that wasn't fair.

Move on Oscar.

So listen, Betty,

to your point

I can absolutely understand Oscar

being a bit not because

your teammates made contact with you.

Fine.

But what we saw from Oscar

was a bit of a retaliation.

But his response

was maybe a bit stronger

than we've seen before.

And he's it was the

now it's only slight.

This isn't big criticism.

I'm giving him here.

This is slight.

It was the first time

that maybe we started to see.

You know, because obviously we saw

that the heat of the battle

in the mistakes he made in Baku, right?

He made big, big mistakes.

He had an awful weekend.

But in terms of his demeanor,

this was maybe the most obvious

example of the heat of battle

getting him to him a little bit.

And I wasn't that impressed by it.

His Oscar strength is keep calm.

Focus on me.

Do what I can do and move on.

And he wasn't anything dramatic,

but he didn't seem quite as able

to do that after that incident.

And even his demeanor later on

on the radio,

it was a bit grumpy teenager.

He was a bit.

Yeah, he told us clean his room.

It was just a bit grumpy.

There was one point where

his engineer said

like what do you think here

or what do you want to do here?

I can't remember the context of it.

And Oscar was like,

I don't know.

I just don't know you guys say

and it's just he's never been

like that before.

No, and listen,

I want to say at this point,

this is a guy in only his third

season in Formula One

who has raced an unbelievable

season and leads the World Championship

because he is a phenomenal talent

doing an amazing job.

I'm so I'm so impressed by him.

I'm such a fan of him.

Oh, he's a legend.

He is amazing.

So I don't want to come down

too hard in him,

but I felt to go through it

step by step.

He's been too sensitive

into those first turns there,

too, too sensitive.

Lando's taken advantage of it.

Yes, there was a bit of contact,

but I'm sorry.

That's racing.

And then his response to it.

We see this from Max sometimes.

So we see it from the best,

you know, move on.

Stop getting grumpy.

Stop looking for excuses.

Move on.

Focus on what you can do.

And it's the third weekend in a row

after Italy, Baku.

And now here we are in Singapore

where in the race,

certainly because it wasn't the case

in qualifying in the race,

Lando has looked like

he's got the edge.

I don't care which of them

wins the World Championship.

I just want it to be close.

That's all I want.

I want a title battle.

And just to just to finish

what we're seeing here,

which is promising

for the title battle

because let's be honest

over the course of the first

two-thirds of the season,

Oscar,

more often than not,

had the pace advantage.

But again,

three races in a row now.

Lando is coming right back into it

with his pace in this championship.

When I look at Oscar,

I think he's had his best races

when he's been in the lead

and he's just controlling the race.

And that's what he's really good at.

He's really good at controlling the race.

He's in the lead.

He knows exactly what he's doing.

He can stay really calm

under that pressure.

But he's in control.

It feels like

it's not as smooth sailing for him.

And this is probably a really obvious thing to say

because it would be like this for anybody.

But when he's further back,

do you know what I mean?

And it's maybe just that experience of,

I don't know.

No, no, no.

And we've seen evidence of that.

And again,

maybe we have to go back to the fact

that he has not got the years of racing experience

of the people he's battling

for this championship.

Max Verstapp and Yolanda Norris.

So it's fair enough.

Oscar's been phenomenal this season.

Bloody love the man.

Just like I love Lando.

And I'm not sitting on the fence here.

I just want it to be close between them.

But that was not like Oscar Piastri's best grand prix

because I feel like he got in his own head a little bit.

Feel like he was over cautious at the start of the race.

I think he overreacted

to the Lando move a little bit.

I mean, I would overreact to that.

Yeah, it's understandable.

Listen, it's understandable.

That said,

his overall weekend,

I said in the preview show,

this is the biggest weekend of Oscar's career

because of how bad Baku was.

And because, again, to go back to Italy,

Lando had had the advantage.

He broadly responded really well.

You know, he outqualified Lando.

The pre-practice sessions were messy anyway.

This is a McLaren that does not seem to have

an overall pace advantage anymore.

I wonder if they've moved some development into next season

because that sheer pace advantage

just doesn't seem to be there.

The evidence, the last couple of grand prix.

It'll be interesting to see how that plays out

for the rest of the grand prix.

So overall,

this is not a bad weekend for Oscar.

But if I was in the Oscar Piatri camp,

I'd be reminding him of his own strengths.

Oscar, your own strengths are

when you as a driver just keep cool.

And I just didn't like the sort of clinging

onto that Lando incident today.

When he came back on the radio,

just move on from it.

Tom has been really clear.

We'll have the opportunity to talk about it afterwards.

And this is not the first time this season

we've seen Oscar be a little bit cautious

on the opening few turns.

Cast your mind back to Imola.

He was definitely caught napping by Max Verstappen.

Granted, it was an amazing Max move.

I forgot about that.

I'm glad you reminded me of that.

Yeah, and Max got him

in order to take the lead

and went on to win the grand prix.

So a bit over cautious at the start of the grand prix.

Made a bit too much of it.

Got in his head a little bit.

I want Oscar to just remember

what he's good at.

But listen, overall, actually,

there's a lot to praise both McLaren drivers

for this weekend

because they've both had solid weekends.

Lando deserves great credit

for making up the places.

Oscar has bounce back

from an absolute shocker in Baku

and it wasn't an absolute shocker.

You know, a lot to be positive about for that.

And actually on another track,

Lando would have overtaken Max as well.

It's so difficult to overtake in Singapore.

Yeah, and it's just it's difficult to overtake.

It's not my favorite grand prix

of the season Singapore

because it's really difficult to overtake.

So it's not anyone,

it's apart from John Frostles now to be honest.

So listen, not a horrific weekend for McLaren,

but I was just pleased to see

a bit of spice between them

because actually I think it's inevitable.

It's a championship battle.

Talking of spice,

do you think the fight between these two

is going to be a bit different going forward now?

I'll be really interested to see

because so we're recording this in the evening.

The only interviews with the drivers

we've seen have been in the pen

with Rachel Brooks on Sky

and on the Jensenbottom podium interviews.

They wouldn't go into it for obvious reasons.

I'll be really interested

come probably media day in Austin

when we get Oscars viewing it.

What I want from Oscar is to go.

Yeah, listen, the gap was there.

The contact was unfortunate.

It is what it is.

And but and then I don't think

there will be that much of a change.

But the flip side to what I'm just saying is

there's only six races left now.

It did feel like we came back from the summer break

and it was like, oh, there's still loads of races left.

When I was preparing for this episode,

I was like, Christ, only six left, 22 points.

That's not a big gap.

No, Max would have to be a miracle

because he's got sprint races as well.

Max, it would be a miracle.

It's not impossible.

The fact that he didn't take a big chunk out of them

this weekend makes it even less likely,

but still let's imagine it's a Lando Oscar thing.

I think inevitably

it's going to be a bit different, Betty,

because the stakes are getting higher

and higher every single race.

And that's I think we've seen that a bit from Oscar.

I think we've seen that bit.

That and also now they've won the constructors.

Maybe it's like, OK, well now now you can battle it out

because we've won the constructors.

That's done.

Yeah, well, yeah.

I mean, that's yes.

You're absolutely right, Betty,

but that's sort of always been the case

because we've always known they're going to win it

because they just haven't got any competition for it.

But yeah, it was it was a fascinating move.

And for me, it was good, hard, fair racing,

a little bit of contact sometimes.

There's a reason we have racing incidents.

If you're an Oscar fan,

you're going to be saying, oh, it's outrageous.

Lando made contact.

If you're a Lando fan,

you're going to be saying he had to go for that move.

Me calling it as I said, don't care who wins.

I think it was a racing incident.

I think Lando's got to go for it.

I think it's fair square.

Yes, I don't think I haven't.

I haven't heard or listen to anybody disagree with you there.

Like any former drivers as of yet, as I say,

haven't haven't been able to be across everything,

but I haven't really seen anyone present

a really strong argument that disagrees with you.

I enjoyed it.

Don't know if Zach Brown did as much.

It is worth saying, though,

that he had a brilliant evening anyway,

because congratulations to McLaren.

They are constructors, world champions.

We knew that that's singular at some point, didn't we?

It's their 10th overall, which is pretty incredible.

Second in a row.

They've been in a class of their own this season, haven't they?

It used to feel like if you were going to make big strides

in Formula One, you would do it over the winter.

What McLaren have done is really,

I wouldn't say change the game,

but maybe change the game in the terms of rates

of mid-season development.

We're sat here, Betty, having this conversation in 2025.

It's our third season of the Fast and the Curious.

I can still remember our first ever race debrief.

Can you? I can.

Yeah, I can, because it was Bahrain,

and we'd done a lot with McLaren in the build-up,

and we won.

And McLaren were dreadful, and it was like,

oh, God, you know,

and we'd done all this stuff with Oscar,

and it was all like, oh, you know,

and they've got this new and exciting driver lineup.

We were like, we've backed the wrong horse here, lads.

What have we got on with McLaren?

Christ.

Like, the way that, and here we are in 2025,

and they have turned it round so spectacular

over the course of the 23, 24, and now 25 season,

that the rate of change has been unbelievable.

And what's truly impressive about it is,

it's the same drivers,

and it's mostly the same people within that factory.

You know, this is a team that has clubbed together

and has just improved in every single possible area.

It is an achievement in their turnaround

that stacks up to anything in Formula One history.

It is remarkable to have,

to McLaren have been nowhere for years.

It's been Red Bull.

It's been Mercedes.

Ferrari have been, you know,

the ones that you think are they going to battle them.

McLaren have been nowhere.

And they have, over the course of the last two years,

re-announced to the world,

we are back as major forces in this sport,

like they were when I was growing up,

Betty watching Michael Schumacher v.

Mickahacken, and it's remarkable.

Zach Brown has come in to a team

that barely had sponsors on the card

that looked a shell of a Formula One team

that had lost drivers like Alonso and Button,

and a single-handedly,

give it not single-handedly,

that's unfair, but he's been the one

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putting people like Andrea Stella

and Randy Singh in leadership positions.

They got Randy.

Yeah, we love Randy.

You know, it is remarkable.

They have done an amazing job.

And yes, we give them a bit of stick

for maybe over protecting the drivers in their title fight.

But look back to Hamilton Rosberg,

Ricardo Verstappen.

I could go back to all of these flashpoint moments

with two drivers that could win races.

Actually, history tells us McLaren have handled it bloody well

and that's why they've won Constructors' Championships

and all right, Red Bull have been up there,

but they've not been able to keep two cars in contention

red McLaren have.

They have been sensational.

Congratulations, McLaren.

It's a great point, actually,

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and papaya rules and all of this stuff.

But actually, maybe they're doing the right thing.

Maybe this is actually the best for their two drivers

and they know their drivers better than anyone else.

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Don't we? He had a brilliant weekend, stunning drive.

We'll debrief his weekend in a moment.

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Hello everybody,

welcome back.

I am halfway through my glass of wine.

I have 2 thirds of the way to this beer.

I have no lovely time just chatting and having a drink.

It's great.

Chugging me down.

Nice way to spend an evening.

Let's talk about George Russell then.

It was a perfect race, wasn't it?

His fifth win of his career.

I'm so happy for him.

He did such a good job.

He was brilliant out there this weekend.

How impressed are you with him at the moment?

I think he might win the world championship next season.

I'd love that.

Everybody's...

All the noise...

And by the way, we don't know.

This is wild speculation.

But the noises coming out of Mercedes for next season are good.

The point I'm making here is if they are good,

they've got a title fighter there.

It just doesn't often feel like George Russell

leaves performance on the table.

And obviously the racers like this

will get the headlines because he's won the Grand Prix.

But the fact is Red Bull were really struggling

with their setup this weekend.

They do.

They admit themselves.

Our car struggles with Singapore.

Look at how much Yuki struggled this weekend.

Max, because he's...

Max managed to drag it into second

whilst visibly fighting it all weekend.

By the way, Max lapping Yuki.

We need to talk about that later.

Yeah, we'll go on to that in a minute.

But it summarises the point I'm making.

We've got McLaren who worked the overall quickest package.

Ferrari or just Ferrari are not there.

So it is a weekend where Mercedes have a shot here.

But whether they've got a shot...

If they should be getting third, George puts it third.

If they should be winning...

Have a chance of winning the race,

George tends to take the chance to win the race.

It was only a couple of years ago

where George was making loads of mistakes.

I think, you know, go back to 23, 22.

You know, we'd see George quite crashy.

I think one of them was in Singapore.

We don't really see that from George Russell anymore.

He's matured as a driver.

He's had a very slow burner of a career.

You know, he had to sit at Williams for three years

when they were really uncompetitive.

Then he moved to Mercedes

and they've not had a car capable of fighting for titles

since he moved.

He stacked up so well against Lewis Hamilton.

There was only one season together

where Lewis comprehensively beat George.

And last season George was comfortably

the better driver of the two.

George, I could sit here and talk about

how good George was this weekend

because he was perfect.

He had an amazing qualifying session.

He executed it in the race brilliantly.

And by the way,

all of these Formula One drivers are superheroes.

Just look how knackered they were

at the end of this Grand Prix.

If you're going to have a good Grand Prix,

Singapore's the one to do it

because it is such a physical mental test

of these incredible athletes

that we are so lucky to watch over weekend.

This Singapore sums that up better than any.

So if you win that race,

you've had an amazing weekend.

But what the point I'm trying to raise

is this shouldn't be a surprise

because if George has half a chance

to be there or thereabouts,

he is, he's ready to fight

for a Formula One World Championship.

To me, George Russell is such an underrated driver.

People do not talk about him enough.

They do not talk about him enough.

Until he wins a race,

then maybe he gets some of the headlines.

But still like he is brilliant.

And since Lewis Hamilton left Mercedes,

he has stepped up into that role

in Mercedes leading the team,

which a lot of people questioned

whether or not he could do, didn't they?

Remember, a lot of people were like,

Mercedes have got Kimi Antonelli coming through,

a young driver.

Is George Russell going to be able to step up in that role?

And he has, and he's done a brilliant job.

Bangal, bangal.

He still hasn't signed a new contract.

Has he, Christian?

No, I get a lot of DMs about this.

Don't worry, George Russell fans,

George Russell will be a Mercedes driving next year

and I shall tell you for why.

They've neither got another option.

If you look at the driver market,

it's not like Mercedes,

even if they wanted to,

which they don't could come in and go,

okay, in that case,

you come in and replace him.

It's not like there's a, I don't know,

Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen,

is there without a contract.

That's not happening.

George hasn't got anywhere else to go.

It's not like George, you know,

George knows the rumors

about Mercedes engine package for 2026

and that being a place where you want to be,

George isn't going to go anywhere else.

But I think because both sides know

it's going to happen eventually,

I think you're probably in a situation

where I don't know,

it might be win bonuses,

it might be commercial time

in terms of time doing interviews

and things and working with sponsors.

Whatever, there's some details

I've not flashed about.

I would be astonished

if George Russell isn't at Mercedes

next year and the biggest part

of that is Betty because Toto Wolff

isn't stupid either.

My goodness me,

he knows that this guy is capable

of leading his team.

I, George has been great this year.

George has had such a good year

and I remember

when he was announced

that he was taking over Valtteri

because I love Valtteri Bottas

but you knew Valtteri

wasn't going to beat Lewis.

So all of a sudden

coming into the 2022 season

you've got, oh wow

and also George could fight Lewis

for a title as well as Lewis

fighting Max for a title

and it was all going to be so exciting

that you could see George

fighting for a title.

We've been robbed of that.

That's a storyline we've been robbed of

so I so hope Mercedes

are up there because I want to see George

in this title mix

with Lando, with Oscar, with Max.

Who knows with Charlotte and Lewis

because he's in that bracket.

Your driver's capable

of fighting for championships.

He's right up there.

I also love that he's

unapologetically not very cool.

I don't even know if he realizes

he's not very cool.

I'll be honest with you.

I don't think he realizes

he's quite what he is

but I love it.

I love the man.

Yeah, he I'm a I have always been

a George Russell fan.

The first Formula One driver

I ever interviewed before

he was a Formula One driver

but my first

he just been announced at Williams

back back in the day

when this was old George Russell.

So yeah, I'm a big fan of George.

I think he's I think

he's had a great weekend,

great season

and he'll be at Mercedes

next year. Don't worry about it guys.

I think it's sad that

he didn't do the Abadabadu

when he won because

that's iconic George Russell

Also, what I love about this as well

is that obviously F1 Christian

is such a technical sport, isn't it?

They use so much data

they analyze everything

and but afterwards George was like

I don't know why

this this performance was so good.

I don't know where this performance came from.

He didn't expect it at all.

I mentioned this at the start.

I think it's a lot to do with the fact that

I don't think the Mercedes

is overly uncomfortable in Singapore

but I think the Red Bull really is

and I think the Claren's pace has dropped a bit

and therefore it sort of leaves the opportunity

Mercedes has been like

yeah, we're pretty much as we are.

I think I could be completely wrong

with that assessment

but you know Mercedes are

that's where they are this season.

This being their second win

they're ahead of Ferrari pace wise

they are there

they're about such tracks

which suit their car better

and you know

you could you could

it's a half an hour explanation

as to why certain cars

suit certain circuits

don't do that because I don't have time for that.

No, it's late, but you know

characteristics of the particular sort of tarmac

used on the circuit

configuration of fast slow corners

weather conditions

all of this factors in

to whether a car suits a particular track

and Mercedes their pace is such that they're

just a bit behind Max in the Red Bull

and the McLaren's

so that if either of those are the bad day

they're going to pick up the odd win

they're going to pick up podiums

that's just where they are this season

what I'm just hoping for next year

no be a step ahead of that

Solid weekend for Kimi Antonelli as well

P5

Yeah, we remember coming back off the summer break

this was one of the big talking points

of us going

he's really struggled since he got the podium

really struggled

he's just not looked like a Mercedes number two driver

like he did at the stars of the season

he's really turned that around

and I think that's so impressive

and the fact he overtook the Ferraris today

really solid weekend

much better from Kimi Antonelli

if he continues this form to the end of the season

he's going into a second season in Formula One

in a really strong place

and just remember the sort of step up we had

with Oscar Piastri from season one to season two

if Kimi ends this season like he's done this year

looking pretty good

and then takes a step up over the next year

all is well for Kimi Antonelli

I'm really impressed with the way he turned it around

there's a really another really solid weekend from him

like Baku

all is well for Kimi Antonelli

we've had so many nice comments Christian

from our last episode with Will Buxton

yeah people love Will Buxton

thank you so much for all the lovely comments about the episode

thank you to Will for coming on

and lots of people enjoyed us paying tribute to Roscoe

there was one YouTube comment I saw

that was like first time I've tuned into this channel

five minutes of talking about dogs

it's not for me

yeah that's true

if you don't like dog chat this podcast isn't for you

to be honest we chat about everything and anything

so it just happens that you tuned in

and we were talking about Roscoe okay

yeah I'm fine and listen unapologetically

Roscoe was a legend

and it was a man

of course it was a man

we are we are a big you know big fans of dogs

Roscoe was the world's most famous dog

so we also ask for your pet related F1 stories

boy did we get them

of course we got the proof that most of our listeners love it

because my god the inbox is like they were

I hope that guy is not listening

mr underscore Dave underscore hill

I have a very energetic cock a spaniel called one Pablo

after one Pablo Montoya

this is brilliant

this is such niche levels of F1 drivers

from 15 years ago

that's why it's brilliant

I love a niche name

also it's brilliant because this guy is in the park

going one Pablo

one Pablo

you'd have to you'd have to call it Pablo

Pablo

one or Pablo

it still is still amazing to be shouting in the park

Sha2e

I have a Westie

named Russell after George

and he likes a good pose too

if you're watching on YouTube

here is a Russell the Westie

here he is

oh he does love a pose doesn't he

he is standing proud as punch

in a green field on a sunny day

there's Russell the Westie

he looks cute

he does look cute

and a tools tip before you from producer will

and his first

first pet guinea pig

was named Michael

after Michael Schumacher

I just don't know why a guinea pig called Michael

feels but what's your guinea pig's name?

Michael

lovely

Stuart McDonald got in touch

he said that they've got two year old Yorkie

called Wolfie after Toto Wolf

sorry

Wolfie looks so cute

Wolfie

Wolfie's got for those listening

like a little like

like a hair bubble in the middle

and it's just

it's the least Toto Wolf like dog in the world

which is why

yeah

that that is not what I pictured in my head

when

when you say a dog's called

what called after Toto Wolf

Breezy 724

says my son is too goldfish

named Yuki Max

he is actually a Lewis fan

why if he's a Lewis fan

why is he called them Yuki Max?

because Yuki's a great name for a fish

also I think Max will end up eating Yuki

Goldfish do that don't know

are we back to f1 chat now or is this

yeah

and

Cary where

apologies

I didn't say that right

said Bruce McKitton

after the McLaren team

found Bruce McLaren

I like that

that's clever

Bruce McKitton

after Bruce McLaren

oh lovely is

and Bruce

we've got a picture of what appears to be Bruce McKitton

asleep in what appears to be a bucket

oh

you sleep way up Bruce

cats will sleep anywhere

they really well

but the best one of these

goes to Natalie fashion

so this is Lando the Labrador

and here is his reaction

to Lando winning the British Grand Prix

for those listening to us Lando the Labrador

is sat in front of the telly

as Lando the F1 driver

is on the podium

having won the Grand Prix

just watch and listen to this

oh my God

that is incredible

that that is incredible

but Betty

but the best one of these

we've tried to get hold of this person

now

Greg James

our third wheel on this podcast

who is not on this week

because he's on a

a

tour of the UK

plugging his new book

he's also interviewed

Taylor Swift this week

but

Greg sends a message to the group

on one of these

on one of his sort of

you know he's doing these shows

to plug the book

and he's obviously been

meet a book show

yeah he's been meeting

Fast and Curious fans

so hello if you've been

talking to Greg

and what did we learn from Greg

this week Betty

he met a lady

that has a dog called Betty

after you

is it after me

yes

that didn't want to be arrogant

and just assume now

somebody who listens to this podcast

is such a fan of this podcast

that they have named their dog

Betty

now I said to Greg

can we please get this person on the podcast

and I don't think Greg

oh hang on is this Claire

Claire

right

Will I'm going to send you these pictures

and we can flash them off on the screen

now

here is Claire

with a gorgeous

white fluffy looking dog

called Betty

there you go Claire

thank you Claire

shout out to Claire and Betty

absolutely wonderful

Betty how do you feel

let's just get your analysis on this

how do you feel that

you've got a dog named after you

I was honestly

I was honestly astounded

I was speechless

but I love it

thank you Claire

I appreciate it

is it solid dog name I'd say

I'm not

I think you know this about me

I'm not a jealous type

at all

I am actually feeling

pages of jealousy here

for the fact that you've got a pet named after you

I really

I think that's amazing

oh I know

I'm buzzing to be fair

thank you very much Claire

I'm honoured

by the way

just if anyone was watching our

I think it was two episodes ago

my dog McGinn

ended up coming on the screen

yes McGinn was on

I was at Aston Villa Bernie

this is very niche

only a few people are going to appreciate it

and the Premier League

and I was stood in the tunnel

and all the players were walking out

ready to get you know

to start the game

to start the football match

John McGinn walks past me

and I've interviewed him a couple of times

but I didn't really think he knew

that much

I didn't think he'd recognise me

or whatever

I mean he'd recognise me

and let's just say at this point

your dog is named after

the Premier League footballer John McGinn

John McGinn clocks me

comes over

says

hi how are you

how's the dog

John McGinn knows who McGinn is

he knows who McGinn is

I was like oh my god

and then I thought

is this a bit mortifying

does he think I'm like

a massive Aston Villa fan

like bit of a weirdo

I don't know but

and I panicked and I went

he's okay thanks

John McGinn's people come on the podcast

please I would absolutely love this

there you go

tell you what

I'm sorry

you don't like this

the podcast isn't for you

that was amazing dog content

we will go back to Formula One stuff

and we'll do Betty's Radio Radar

and we'll look at who slipped

under the radar

in Christian's Coving Hole

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We're going back to debriefing

the grand prix

having been a bit distracted

by dogs.

We mentioned at the start

that we've been out doing stuff today.

And Betty rings me when she's on the way back

from the aforementioned Premier League football match

and I'm on the way back

from running around a field.

And Betty goes,

have you seen the result?

I was like, yeah,

I've seen who won,

but I've not seen anything else.

So I'm going to go watch it

before we do the podcast.

And Betty just goes

with the most excited tone in her voice.

Betty goes,

Radio radar is amazing

because of Aston Martin.

She was so excited.

But before that,

before we get to Aston,

my DMs exploded

in practice because of Radio Radar.

We normally,

this is the bit,

if you're new to the podcast,

we always pick our favorite bits of radio.

This normally is from the race,

but practice outstanding from Oscar Piatri here.

I think Oscar Piatri might have done

the best radio radar

out of the whole season.

I think he might win the award.

In practice, he said,

I was going to say the knob is quite stiff,

but didn't think that would be appropriate for TV.

Now Oscar Piatri,

you knew exactly what you were doing.

God did.

When you said that,

you knew exactly what you were doing.

He definitely had a smile on his face.

Absolutely stunning.

And then Aston were just incredible

because Betty,

you pointed it out to me on the phone.

Betty told me about this.

I got attacked in it.

People attacking me in all of these,

going, oh my God,

you need to listen to Alonzo's Radio Radar.

So I was like...

This feature is getting a mind of its own, isn't it?

But lap 34

when Alonzo goes,

if you speak to me every lap,

I'll disconnect the radio.

Absolutely wonderful.

No, but the engineer was just going,

34 to go.

Surely you've got...

They've been working together ages.

Surely they've got this down by now

as to how much he wants that.

Surely he either gets a lap countdown

or he doesn't.

But then also,

then there was Fernando as well

when he was battling with Isaac.

Yeah.

And he was like,

shout out to the hero of the weekend.

Oh, Fernando, come on.

It's racing.

It's literally what you'd have done.

But also,

back to when Alonzo said,

if you speak to me every lap,

I will disconnect the radio.

He wasn't even saying that

in a jokey way.

It was so incredibly dead plant.

Dead plant.

He was like,

if you speak to me every lap,

I will disconnect the radio.

And then I forgot to write it down.

But the lance stroll one as well,

which was just made funnier by his accent.

Oh, what was that?

Oh, did you miss this?

So I can't remember who it was.

I'm sorry, I forgot to write it down.

But somebody was in front of Lance

and they said his tires.

I don't even forget the compound.

I don't know.

But I say this when you're off.

I'm absolutely crap at doing this feature.

But Lance was trying to overtake a Formula One car.

They went so and so in front

on the so and so tires is struggling.

And Lance just went back

in such a loud Canadian way.

Just went,

yeah, well my medium tires

feel like they're shard as well.

It's just so like.

Oh, Lance is never a nice time.

Is he?

So I mentioned,

I mentioned I was watching the F1 TV stuff.

So I didn't see this.

But apparently Martin Bundle interviewed.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

This is the best grid walk interview

that I've seen this season.

Martin Brundle went up to Lewis Capaldi

or who he thought was Lewis Capaldi.

It was actually Lewis Capaldi's brother

and goes, all right, Lewis,

blah, blah, blah, blah.

Lewis Capaldi's brother goes,

oh, I'm actually Lewis Capaldi's brother.

Lewis Capaldi has stood right behind his brother

and it's just like, hi.

It was just absolutely classic.

Stunning work.

Brilliant magic.

I've severely sympathized in those situations

because I haven't,

I think I've been on the grid

before a race like four times.

It is insane.

And what appears so obvious

on the telly is just not obvious.

So I have every sympathy there.

They do look quite similar.

I didn't see this year.

But Lewis Capaldi was behind also.

Why is Lewis Capaldi always sweaty?

I mean, I know it was hot there,

but every time I see him, he's sweaty.

Fast curious part if you can answer that one.

I don't know.

There's many things I can answer questions on in this podcast.

That's not one of them, Betty.

I've got nothing for you. I'm sorry.

I really like Lewis Capaldi.

Anyway, should we dive into your cubby hole?

Because I think there's things that I probably have missed

on this race that you can enlighten me on.

I just want to highlight a few things.

Ollie Bearman had a really, really good weekend.

His best qualifying of the season, I think,

in P, and then a P9 finish.

He also put in an absolutely brilliant move at one point.

I think it was Alex Albonge during the race.

Ollie Bearman was absolutely fantastic.

Also, we've just been laughing at his sassy radio,

but Fernando Alonso.

That Aston Martin doesn't look competitive.

They are struggling.

They are looking to the new rule changes now.

Fernando dragging that, granted after a Lewis

five-second time penalty.

Fernando dragging that to seventh.

That was a real weekend of Fernando

reminding as he's still in this sport.

And I'm excited to see what he could do

at the age he's at, if this car got next year.

And then also, Carlos Sainz,

who for obviously a second weekend in a row,

granted it was a podium last weekend now, it's P10.

But almost as impressive, actually.

Williams are very good at this.

They've done this with Alex Albon in the past

and going, we will pit approximately nine seconds

before the checkered flag and just making it work.

And we've seen Alex be heroic in his ability

to do this in the past.

This time it was Carlos turn.

So starting from P18, some brilliant overtaking.

Excellent strategy from Williams.

And it's just, because obviously they got thrown out

qualifying for technical infringement,

which is all very unfortunate when things like that happens.

So to grab a point out of that,

it's just nice that it's coming together

for Carlos at Williams.

So yeah, lovely.

I'm loving the Carlos success so far.

I think it's brilliant.

But I said this last time with Greg

on the last debrief petty, I always thought it was going to come.

Like I always had no doubt it was going to come.

It just seems to be all coming together now.

So yeah, absolutely lovely stuff.

And also on my radio radar,

another thing that I was delighted

lit up my DMs over the weekend.

It was lovely because I've been doing other work this weekend,

which I'll talk about at some point on this podcast.

But so I've been a bit out of it,

like not quite as dialed in as I would normally be

because I've ironically been doing other formula one work.

But what I've loved is our listeners

sort of keeping us honest and being like,

have you seen this?

And my phone lit up when Leah Block

won her first F1 Academy race on Saturday.

Yes, go on, Leah.

Absolutely amazing.

So we're so pleased for Leah, who's just,

she is getting better and better and better.

Like her sheer pace in that series.

You know, identical cars.

We've spoken on this podcast before

about the challenges of going from different race series

like Leah's done outstanding from Leah Block

this weekend, really brilliant.

If you want to know a little bit more about Leah Block,

we've got her on this podcast quite a few times.

I interviewed her, it might have been last year.

You interviewed her very, very recently.

So just have a scroll back, especially on YouTube

and go and check it out because she's brilliant.

Yeah, the last time we had her on.

So we had her on when she had her first podium,

but it was for like two minutes.

But then the last time we had her on

was a bit more of an in-depth chat.

And yeah, it's such an interesting story,

and such an impressive thing to have gone from rally

to sort of tarmac racing like she's done.

So you're right, Bessie, absolutely brilliant.

Anyway, I've finished my glass of wine,

so we'll finish this episode.

Next up, yeah, so we're back to preview

the US Grand Prix.

It's not 100% confirmed, so I won't say yet,

but we think we've got an exciting guest on,

who I love, who I'm excited to bring on to the podcast.

So we'll preview Austin and then we'll debrief Austin

and for the debrief, I'll be there, which is always fun.

No, it's really exciting.

Well, for you, it'll be late night again, like this one.

You'll be doing late night podding.

I'll be doing mid-afternoon podding.

And I bloody love Austin.

It's brilliant, so I'm excited to talk to you from Austin.

Brilliant, I'm very much looking forward to it.

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Hang on one sec.

Betty's ringing again.

I'm not even going to answer it.

It's just, it's speaking of beggy.

It's embarrassing at this point.

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