Kimi Antonelli is a Formula 1 driver. In this episode, the hosts say he’s been winning a lot and leading the championship, especially after some lucky race moments.
George Russell is another Formula 1 driver being compared to Kimi Antonelli. The hosts talk about his points position and how he lost some points, but they still think he can catch up.
A safety car is when the race slows down because something is unsafe on the track. When it happens, teams often change their strategy, and it can help some drivers more than others.
A mechanical glitch means the car has an unexpected problem. In racing, that can slow the driver down or force them to retire, which can change who wins.
Crofty is a Formula 1 commentator on Sky. The hosts are quoting his commentary opinion about who looked faster in the race.
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Oscar Piazza
Oscar Piazza is a Formula 1 driver the hosts mention as an example. They’re basically saying that even if a driver looks strong early, it doesn’t guarantee they’ll win the championship.
A “mechanical problem” refers to a car issue that prevents a driver from performing normally—often leading to reduced pace, retirement, or losing positions. In this segment it’s used to explain why a points gap and championship momentum can shift quickly.
“Kimmy” refers to Kimi Antonelli, an F1 driver. The hosts are saying his racing style shows some of the same aggressive mindset they associate with Max Verstappen.
“Toto” refers to Toto Wolff, who leads the Mercedes Formula 1 team. The hosts are talking about what he says and how it shapes the team’s mindset during hard racing.
Wheel-to-wheel racing is when two cars run side-by-side at the same time, competing for position through corners and braking zones. In Formula 1, it’s often where drivers test the limits of grip, track space, and racecraft—especially when the hosts say someone is “on the edge.”
“Investigated” means the officials look at what happened on track to see if a driver broke the rules. Even if nothing changes, the review can happen when racing gets very close.
“Wheel kissing” means two race cars get so close that their wheels nearly touch while they’re fighting for position. It’s risky because if one driver misjudges it, they can bump and crash.
In F1, teams have to pick what kind of tyres to start the race with. The tyres affect how much grip the car has, and the team has to decide before the race starts because it’s hard to change at the last second.
“Inters” are special tyres for when the track is wet but not pouring rain. They’re meant for a specific kind of wet surface, so if the weather changes, the choice can backfire.
When there’s a safety car, the race slows down and the cars get closer together. That can make pit stops less damaging to your position, so teams try to time them during those periods.
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formation up
“Formation up” is when the cars are lined up and controlled before the race restarts. The timing matters because it can create a chance to pit without losing as much position as you would under normal racing speed.
McLaren is a top Formula 1 racing team. Here, the speaker is saying McLaren made some strategy calls that didn’t help them win, especially around tyres and race timing.
Pole position means you were fastest in qualifying and start the race from the very front. Starting first can be a big advantage, especially in Monaco.
Oscar Piastri is a Formula 1 driver. The hosts are basically saying he needs to respond strongly after a tough stretch, and they’re comparing his speed to his teammate’s.
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pace-wise
“Pace-wise” just means “in terms of speed.” They’re comparing how fast each driver seemed to be.
Charles Leclerc is a Ferrari driver. The hosts say he wasn’t having a smooth weekend because he seemed to struggle with braking—getting the car slowed down properly.
In racing, brakes aren’t just about stopping—they’re about slowing down hard and consistently for corners. If a driver is “struggling with brakes,” it usually means the car isn’t slowing the way it should.
Lewis Hamilton is an F1 driver. The host is talking about how his approach this year—especially how he uses the simulator—might be influencing his performance.
Adrian Newey is a famous F1 engineer/designer. In this segment, he’s saying the team’s computer simulation wasn’t matching the real car closely enough, so they needed to improve that.
Aston Martin is the Formula One team being discussed. The host says they started well, but later their performance dropped because their simulator didn’t match what happened on track.
A wind tunnel is a facility that blows air over car parts to study how they affect drag and downforce. F1 teams use it to predict how new aero parts will work before racing.
Formula One is the highest level of open-wheel racing. Teams constantly tweak the car, and drivers use tools like simulators to prepare. If those tools are wrong, it can hurt how the car feels on track.
They’re talking about Canada as a race where Lewis Hamilton tends to do well. Different tracks “fit” different driving styles, so the same car problem can feel bigger or smaller depending on the circuit.
An “electrical problem” means something went wrong with the car’s electronics. In racing, that can cause the car to lose power or even stop, so it can completely change who wins.
A “late overtake” is when a driver passes another car very close to the finish. It’s hard because everything is running out—so it’s a big deal when it happens.
The “cooldown room” is where drivers go after the race to settle down and recover. The hosts are using it to set the scene for how intense and surreal the moment felt for a young driver.
Franco Colopinto is an F1 driver. In this segment, the hosts praise him for strong recent race results and say he looked genuinely fast, not just lucky.
The Canadian Grand Prix is one of the Formula 1 races on the calendar, usually in Montreal. The hosts are referencing it because it’s where they saw a driver’s results improve.
“Pierre” is one of Alpine’s F1 drivers. The hosts are saying even when he didn’t feel great in the car, he still finished in the points—so the car seems to be working better overall.
A “technical issue” means something went wrong with the car’s systems or mechanical parts. It can ruin a race even if the driver is otherwise doing well.
“Shop window” just means being on display so people can see what you’re capable of. In racing, it’s when a driver’s performances are noticed by teams that might want to hire them.
Modern F1 cars use batteries to store and deploy extra energy. If someone says the car is “too battery dependent,” they mean the battery limits how the car performs, and they want that balance changed.
Here, “politics” means the off-track power games—who pushes for what and how people handle disagreements. They’re saying Verstappen doesn’t play those games as much as some other drivers.
Penalty points are like a scoreboard for driving rule mistakes. If you keep getting them, you can eventually be punished more seriously, like missing a race.
Penalties are punishments for breaking the race rules. In F1 they can come in different forms, and some penalties also lead to penalty points that add up over time.
A race ban means the driver is not allowed to race in a particular event. It usually happens after they collect enough penalty points for rule-breaking incidents.
Here, “license” means the driver’s official FIA racing credential. Penalty points are counted on it, and enough points can lead to missing a race.
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Alex
Alex is the driver who got taken out by the incident being discussed. In racing, that usually means they lost control or got hit and couldn’t continue normally.
Person
Isaac
Isaac is the driver being described as collecting a lot of penalties. The point is that even if the car is fast, mistakes can still lead to punishment.
The FIA is the organization that runs the rulebook for motorsport. In F1, it’s the group that decides what counts as a penalty and how those penalties are enforced.
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throws the top bit of the car out
The hosts are talking about a driver throwing away part of the car after a heated moment. In racing, doing that can break rules and get you punished.
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Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the Fast and the Curious. As always, I'm Betty Glover
and I'm joined by our resident Formula One geek, Christian Hughgill. Christian, neither
of us were at the Canadian Grand Prix, which I was actually quite happy about because we're
experiencing a heat wave in the UK and in Canada it was not a heat wave.
Yeah, I'd done the last two Canadian Grand Prix and both times the weather was, let's
just say, highly changeable. And there is a rule that if I'm not at a Grand Prix, the
weather is glorious. For my first two years of being properly on the road, I became convinced
that I'm cursed. Oh, Hughgill's there. Tell you what we're going to have. Rain and clouds.
So I was actually like, oh, I feel like I'm owed this one weekend. I'm not at watching
like I watched Ted's notebook and saw Ted in his big coat and thought I'm due this with
us basking in glorious weather and enjoying that. So I felt like I deserved that look.
It looked cold, didn't it? It's very, very cold. But not really any rain on the Sunday.
No rain on the Sunday and we'll get to that later. No, it did rain.
Like trickled. No, it poured it down. No, it poured it down. Well, it must have done
because McLaren started both drivers on inters. So it must have done.
That's what I was saying too. I'm only joking. Because I was like, I was at the football
on Sunday last day of the Premier League season and all that. I raced back and I was just
caught the start of the race, like the very start of the build up. I was like, why am I
claret on inters and no one else in the top 10 are on inters.
No, you could have watched all the build up and still been asking that.
Yeah, probably, but I was so confused. Where did you watch the race, by the way?
I watched the race with my dad, which was nice. Yeah, it was very, very nice. Yeah,
it's nice to watch the race with my dad, how I fell in love watching the sport. We'd gone
up for a bit of a bank holiday, sun trap barbecue. So that was all very pleasant. Yeah, so it
was nice to watch with dad. I enjoyed, I do love the Canadian Grand Prix as a fan. It's
one of my favourite tracks. It always tends to produce a great race. So I really enjoyed
watching from afar this weekend. Obviously, I'm fully aware of how fortunate Betty, we
both are to get to go to races. But actually, sometimes a weekend at home and enjoying the
weekend and flicking the F1 on at the end of a nice day. It's like, this is why I fell
in love with the sport. So now I really enjoyed watching this weekend from.
Like a proper fan.
Like a proper fan. Yeah, I really enjoyed it with the sunshine and then going in to watch
the Grand Prix, it was like, oh, great Sunday. So now I really, really enjoyed it. Also,
sorry, but it was an absolute cracker of a race as well. And it could have been even
better if certain things hadn't happened. But what, what a race. It was. And yet I,
I'm being ungrateful. I feel like an ungrateful child on Christmas morning who's just unwrapped
a bike, but he wanted a bike and a drum kit. That's how I feel because we got a good race
and it was really entertaining. But I was heartbroken. I'll be honest, I couldn't give
monkeys which one of Georgia or Kimmy won. Couldn't care less. But I was just enjoying
the battle between them and the fact we were robbed of half of that battle by Georgia's
battery conking out. I became a bit spoiled and like, oh, yeah, it was good, but it should
have been so much better. So yeah, it sort of wasn't the second off wasn't as good as
the first was good. What a bit amazing. I just wanted to carry that was brilliant.
And you know what? We've been saying the line this season between too easy to overtake and
me saying, oh, come on. I don't like it when people say it's too easy to overtake because
there used to be no overtaking. That felt perfect racing. Do you know what I mean? It was hard
to overtake, but there was overtaking and it really required them skill and neither wanted
to yield. It was brilliant to watch. Great wheel to wheel racing.
It was so good. It could have been an all time classic. But you know what? I'll take
the first half of that race because that was excellent. Why don't you remind everyone where
we're up to after Canada? Where does everyone stand?
Well, let's just focus on the top really, because that's what everyone's talking about
at the moment. Kimmy becomes the first ever driver to win his first race and then get four
in a row in the process. No one's ever broke the winning duck and got four in a row. He
now leads the championship on 131 points with George on 88. That is a 43 point gap. That
is a big gap. We're going to talk about that over the course of this week's episode. In
the constructors, Mercedes lead Ferrari by 72 points. That to me already seems a full
gone conclusion. I just don't see anybody catching Mercedes. You might as well give
them the constructors title now, but the drivers title to me is fascinating. Of course, we're
so sad that George has lost the 25 points, but I don't think it's over. We'll get into
all of that. We'll also do Radio Radar. We'll do Under the Radar. We'll do some really funny
moments from this weekend's Canadian Grand Prix that I'm excited to debrief with Betty
with. We'll talk a little bit about Lewis at Ferrari and of course McLaren, but Betty,
we've got to start with Mercedes, haven't we?
Yeah, shall we start with Kimmy Antonelli? Let's talk about George in a second. But take
nothing away from 19 year old Kimmy Antonelli. He was good this weekend, wasn't he? And he
just keeps being able to just back it up each weekend. And I know we got lucky this
weekend, but how impressed were you with him?
He's had healthy doses of luck, hasn't he, this season? Anyone who's watched every race
knows he's benefited from safety cars. He's benefited from some George mechanical glitches
again as we saw this weekend. There can be no getting away from the fact Kimmy has had
a big old slice of luck. But you are right, Betty. To me, you can't take anything away
from him because a Crofty was Crofty Martin Bundle on commentary on Sky were adamant in
saying Kimmy looks like the slightly quicker driver in that race.
Yeah, I heard a lot of people saying that. It does feel like that.
No, it did. Yeah, I felt like it as well. And it to me felt like over the course of the
weekend, on sheer raw speed alone, Kimmy maybe edged it slightly. He certainly did in the
race. So that's impressive in itself because Betty, we were laughing at the fact that
everybody was like, Oh, it's a George Russell circuit, though. It's a George. Has anybody
mentioned George is good in Canada?
George is great in Canada.
Yes, we know George is good in Canada. But the point stands, he is. And so it's really
impressive, therefore, that Kimmy was able to go toe to toe with him on what should be one of
those. Kimmy is great in Canada.
Kimmy's good in Canada. Canada now. That's what you say next year. Remember,
Kimmy's good in Canada. The fact he was able to go toe to toe with him was really, really
impressive. And again, Betty, I think you mentioned it last week. He could he always
bounces back from things, doesn't he? So the disappointment of being beaten by George and
the Sprint, the disappointment of getting pole. He doesn't mow. He doesn't lose it. We've
spoken so many times in the pod about how impressed we were about him recovering from
his midseason blip last year. He demonstrated that again. So yes, because the thing is, the
George fans, when I've been praising Kimmy on social media, you can't even say, I don't
know, Kimmy only did well in getting out of bed this morning before George fan goes, Yeah,
but George has been very unlucky.
Yeah. No, no, fine. Totally see your point. But that does not take anything away from
the fact that it was another phenomenally impressive weekend from Kimmy Antonelli.
Do you think Kimmy Antonelli is world championship material? Do you think he's, do you think
he's there?
Well, let's be boring. It's too early to tell is the official Christian Hugel answer because
this is the first season where he's showing world championship form and we're not through
it. But if you're asking me to go on a got instinct, I'm saying yes, I think he's going
to go all the way for this title. I think he is championship battling. There's the standards
of driver kind of driver battle for a championship. We know Oscar Piazza can battle for a championship,
but ultimately he didn't prove himself able to win a world championship. Lando did. We
can go back with other examples. To me, Kimmy is at that level where he's showing I will
be in a world championship fight. I can be in a world championship fight and I think
he is in a world championship fight.
It's really interesting, isn't it? Because it's really hard not to get carried away at
the moment and be like Kimmy is brilliant, four in a row, he's leading it, he's going
to win, blah, because I think I did that with Oscar Piazzari last
season and look how that turned out. It's such early days, but do you think actually,
do you think that Kimmy Antonelli has a little bit of max for sapping in him in his sort
of driving style and the way he is?
I'm going to answer your question in two parts there. The first, when he said about Oscar
last year, that's a really interesting point. By my calculations, correct me if I'm wrong,
the biggest lead Oscar had over Lando last year was 34 points.
Yeah, you're right.
Now, Kimmy is leading by 43 points. So your Oscar analogy is really interesting because
yesterday we were getting carried away last year, but this is a bigger gap. This is an
even bigger gap, so that's really interesting.
But I think because George has been so unlucky, like, yes, it makes me think, is it really
that big of a gap, really? It's hard to, it's hard to.
Yeah, sure. I mean, it could also, you can go on all day, because Lando, this was after
Zambort when Lando had a mechanical problem. Lando also took himself out in Canada last
year, so you could go on all day. What I'm getting at is it's a big old gap.
But then to pick up on the second part of your question, is there a bit of max in Kimmy?
It almost feels like max has set the standards. And there was a couple of times Toto said
in interviews, well, would max do it? And I think what max has done, similar to what
we've seen in the past with Formula One drivers like Michael Schumacher and Sene, you'd put
in this category, the drivers that have been willing to show they will do anything to win.
Max has, you know, gone over the boundaries at times as to what's acceptable and unacceptable
racing. So I think there is, what we're seeing is a little bit of the legacy of max in that
it's almost Kimmy going, well, max has shown no Fs given at times, so therefore I can.
And I think Toto's lent into that a little bit by going, look, guys, because we've always
said on this part, how good at losing Toto has been. He said, look, we've been beat.
There's no excuses. We've been beaten by the better team. And we know how much of an
admirer he is of max. Far from stranger things have happened than max ends up in a Mercedes
with Toto one day. And Toto sort of said, look, this is the standards he set. I think
that's what we're seeing. And that wheel to wheel battle. I think you can honestly say
the same with George as well, because I thought in the sprint race, George was actually be
fortunate not to be investigated because he was very brutal in not giving Kimmy the room.
So actually Betty, to answer your question, I think there's a bit of max in both of them,
because I think we're seeing that on the edge racing from both of them being like, well,
this is what max has done. And we've shown that this is how it's got to be in what is
supposed to be the elite level motorsport category in the world.
I absolutely, I love it. I love the wheel to wheel racing. I love the drive to sort
of do anything to win. And I think both of them credit to both George and Kimmy. I think
they're dealing with this team battle really well. Even George after obviously after DNFing,
he's getting interviewed and he's saying, yeah, I really enjoyed it. I just thought that's so
good. I just think that's great. So many people would have been like, only was doing this was
doing that blah, blah, blah. I was crossing the line. He's been really childish all weekend,
whatever. But I just think you can tell they're both really enjoying it. It's great racing,
isn't it? This is why we're watching F1. George spoke to Rachel Brooks after the race, didn't
he? And I was really impressed. As you said, by the way, no, I was enjoying it. That is really
impressive. And to be in that moment of such intense disappointment, that was impressive.
He admitted he let himself down by throwing the bit off his car, which he shouldn't have done,
and he's got the fine for, but I forgive drivers for emotion. These aren't the robots. We don't
want our sports boots to be robots. I've just got no interest in laying into George over that,
but they did enjoy it. It's similar to how both Max and Lewis said about their battle. I really
enjoyed it. So that's great. And as I said at the start, just a shame we didn't get to carry on
seeing it because it was great. And I agree with you, Mercedes are handling it well because there
was that, but they went on the radio apparently and said, look, any more wheel kissing, we might
well call a stop to this. It felt to me like they let them get on with it right to the wire and then
said, any more of that guys and this stopped. Who knows though, if that battle had gone on
another 10 laps, maybe they would have taken each other out, maybe we'd be sat here going Mercedes
should have stopped it sooner. That is going to be such a tricky thing for them to police over the
course of the year because it was almost felt like we said this on the pod last year, it frustrated
us that you actually didn't get all that many Lando Oscar wheel to wheel battles. Whereas it
feels like because that Mercedes has got them, I mean the McLaren had the advantage last year,
but it just worked out that way. But because the Mercedes has got the advantage, we're seeing so
much wheel to wheel racing between them and I think that's going to continue. So it's really,
really interesting. Yeah, they're sort of letting them get on with it at the moment. So somebody
from called Tuesday Magic, interesting name on Insta got in touch with us. They said,
is Kimmy learning or does the four wins in a row absolve his childish behaviour this weekend?
I did see quite a lot of this, mostly from George fans, on the sort of F1 fandom that Kimmy was
being childish. A couple of his radio calls they were referring to, Betty to your point a couple
of the times when he showed a bit of Verstappen-esque-ness in giving George no room. I do not think Kimmy
was being childish this weekend in any way, shape or form. I definitely think at some points,
we saw the exuberance of youth. We saw that while ultimately we both said we thought Kimmy
probably shaded it pace wise, George was maybe able to use that experience to be the slightly
more rounded package. I like a Jensen Button analogy, regular listeners and viewers will know
that Jensen perhaps always didn't demonstrate the raw speed when he was up against Lewis Hamilton,
but his smoothness and being the complete nature meant he could get results. Alain Prost going back
in further F1 history was known as the Professor because again, maybe didn't have the speed of
a sinner, but he had the all-round calmness to deliver race results. We saw a little bit of
that this weekend with some extravagance from Kimmy Antonelli. I don't think it borderlined
on childish. I think it's a rookie who's still running around the edges and let's forgive sports
people for emotion. No, and my previous point, I actually thought there was a moment in the
sprint race where I'm thinking, I think George could have been investigated for not giving Kimmy
the room. Listen, these things goes both ways, but I think it's harsh to say Kimmy was childish
this weekend. Betty, do you? Yeah, I think it probably is. I quite like his attitude to be honest
and I really like the fact that everyone pretty much wrote him off at the start of this season
and just look at what he's doing. And I think I like the fact that he's just got this pure
desire to win. It doesn't matter. I like the fact that he's going wheel to wheel with George and
he's really pushing George to the limit. I'm wondering whether Kimmy has got a big mistake.
He's got mistakes in him, hasn't he? No, I agree. I agree. And I feel like he's got a little bit
lucky in getting away with some of his mistakes or things haven't quite gone as badly as they
could have. I'm wondering whether down the line, he is going to make a big mistake.
Couldn't agree with you more. I think that's a really nice way of putting it and that's one of
the reasons why I think the championship is still very much alive. But I also agree with your first
point about his mentality. Betty, you've stood next to him on F1 TV, one Pablo Montoya. I interviewed
him for a podcast I recorded a couple of weeks ago. Oh, Pablo Montoya. He is, yeah, interesting.
Isn't he just? Love him. Love him. He's so funny. But he's so interesting. And I
spoke with him on the podcast I recorded with him about when he came into Formula One,
he had such a carefree attitude. It was like he didn't have as much respect for the sport
as other people did and it worked in his favour. And he said to me, I didn't care then. I still
don't now. Yeah, he still doesn't. No, I still don't care. And he actually said to me, I'm more
interested in, I've got some new golf clubs that I'm going to collect. I'm more interested in
that. It's like, great. But actually, I think that sort of, that he's, he actually, in being
very funny makes a really good and serious point that have, as we get older, we do overthink more
as human beings. So the sort of almost naivety of youth, the carefree attitudes, probably means
he's not in his head as much. He's just like, it doesn't care as much. It does care. But actually
that, do you know what I'm getting at? I'm not explaining myself brilliantly well. But that
youth mentality of not overthinking, I think could be a real, you know, help for him in
a title battle. Do you see what I mean? 100% because this is his second season. He can't
really overthink that much. He's just absolutely going for it, isn't it? And he's exploring different
ways of doing different things. And he hasn't got that bad experience constantly in the back of,
in the back of his mind. Do you know what I mean? There's a lot of people say like,
in football, for example, if you've got a team going into the World Cup, sometimes it's better
to have younger, fresher players that don't have loads of failure in the back of their mind.
Yeah. You've got more of a chance of winning. A mental baggage. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. You know,
you mentioned the funny Instagram things. Smash by Ashby on Instagram says, is George just going
to have to poison Kimmy to get past him at this point? Better to you on this one. Would you
advocate George Russell poisoning Kimmy Antonelli in order to win the championship? Betty Glover.
No, George. I don't think you should do that. I do. That's the only way to go now, I think.
I think George will probably win in Monaco. I agree. Yeah. And no one can really overtake
in Monaco. So that's a done deal. Yeah. So and then I think he's just going to go on a hit wall.
I don't know, actually. I think that's his chance to go on a winning streak, isn't it?
So I don't think he needs to poison. No, for legal reasons, I should say. We don't condone
poisoning on the Fast and the Curious. It's never cropped up before, but we should make
our position clear on it at this stage. We don't condone poisoning. But we do condone
murder. No, we don't. Absolutely. That's fine. So no. But I mean, the sort of the point is,
I guess, being raised by Smash by Ashby, who I'm guessing has a proper name and that's just
their Instagram handle. Let's call them Ken. I'm guessing that's the point from Ken that,
well, is there anything George can do? And I think we've sort of answered
our takes on that in this question that even though it's that bigger gap than what we saw
last year, I think your point you raised, Betty, about Kimmy having a mistake in him. I think he's
true. There's definitely George's had the bad luck in terms of failures. Who's to say that Kimmy
won't have a battery failure engine failure like George had with his battery this weekend?
I mean, it could also be. I mean, look at poor old Alex Albon who was taken out of this race by
a wild Oscar Piazza. And you can have things like that at first corners where somebody outbreaks
themselves and taps you off. So much can go wrong. I actually think it's nowhere near done.
And I'm not saying that to hype up the excitement because I said with the constructors, give them
it now. Just cart the constructor trophy off to Brackley and save it on the freight at the end of
the race. It's easy, but with the drivers, I still think it's wide open. And listen, George
actually said something in the again, in that interview that he did at the end of the race,
I thought again, impressively level head. He said, I got pole in the sprint. I won the sprint.
I'm pretty happy with my weekend. I can't I can't let anything like this affect me. And it sort of
reminded me on a couple of times where we'd said in the second half of last season, it's like
Lando learned to lose better. He didn't beat himself up. He just said, that's the way it goes.
And you've got to do that in motor racing. In racing, you will get taken out engine failures,
tire blowouts, and you have to not let it get in your head. You have to stay strong mentally.
And just because you know what? That wasn't my day today and there's nothing I can do about that.
So I'll go into the next race with positivity. It seems like that. What's what's George is doing?
So I'm still not, it's not alarm bells, blaring emergency for me for George Russell. I still
think he can win this world championship. Not at all. And actually, you know, if he hadn't
have had that mechanical era, whatever it was, power unit thing, wasn't it? It could have been a
completely different weekend for him. Yeah, it was battery. It battery for
what I've heard. But yes, no, it could have been. It absolutely could have been. Who knows
which one of them would have come out on top in that battle. Yeah, exactly. And so many people
got in touch with us asking about what on earth were McLaren doing. So after the break, we are
back. Welcome back, everybody to the Fast and the Curious. Yeah, we've got to talk
about McLaren, don't we? Because what on earth happened to them on Sunday? Everybody has got
in touch with us on this. So Andy on Insta said, enters for a light drizzle on a dry cold track.
Why? Becky says, why are McLaren becoming Ferrari with their strategy? Lizzie says,
what is going on with McLaren with their strategy? Can we call Randy and find out?
She means McLaren Sporting Director, Randy Singh. And we love Randy on this podcast.
He's been on many times. He's the loveliest, most delightful man. But I've said this before, when
we've had to be, give constructive criticism to people we like in Formula One, this isn't news to
them. They know this and McLaren will know they made a mistake. And we said at the start of the
season, and we're not saying it was a Randy Singh call, but you know, it'll be his team that look
into this. We don't know who made the call, whether it was a strategist, whether it was
Andrea Stella himself, for example, we just don't know. The more broad concern I've got from McLaren
is there were several points last season where we thought if they didn't have the car advantage,
they would have not won the race because they made it hard for themselves. Some people say
that they should have won the race in Miami if they'd pitted Lando at a different time. I still
doubt that personally. I'm still not sure there was much they could have done there. But fine,
they admitted it wasn't optimum. Here in this race, they've made a bad call. And it's a call that
I just can't understand on a couple of levels. I mean, listen, you do have to make your tyre
choice five minutes before the start. So it's not like you can make a very last minute decision.
And they weren't the only ones. There were other drivers who started on the inters.
No one in the top 10, though. No, sure. But
yeah, I mean, you're right, Betty, because actually, if you further back in the top 10,
you might as well gamble. So yes, Betty, that's a really good point. Look, these decisions happen.
To me, there's two things that make me more concerned over just the sheer decision to put
the inters on the grid. The first is why do it with both cars? It is changeable. It's clearly
not cut and try, if you'll pardon the pun. So why don't you just do it with one of your two cars
and say, do you know what? It could go either way. We're going to look like rock stars if we stick
Oscars on into with him being the one that qualified further behind and just give him a gamble.
But they didn't. And then because of the struck Arvid Limblad RB, they had an opportunity to
fix it. They could have pitted on one of those safety car laps, well, not safety car laps,
on one of those, you can come into the pits at the end of the formation up. That is a thing.
So again, the drivers have gone out and the drivers are screaming at them. I think we've
made the wrong decision here, guys. And they could have less than the damage then. So it's more
the two after things that those two other things that rather than the initial, the initial decision
itself was bad, but then they compounded it by not recovering it. So they just worry me. And I
think again, we said it better on the Miami post Miami pod, if they're going to win this year,
when even the door is half a jar, they're going to need to barge it open and walk through it.
They can't leave things on the table. They'll need to be 100% if they're going to win races this year.
And they make strategically and race management wise. McLaren make too many
mistakes and have been doing so for a while.
Bit of a disaster really, wasn't it? From third and fourth on the grid. It just doesn't make sense.
I don't know if you heard Toto Wolf talking to Sky after the race. And he was basically saying that
like it was it wasn't ever in their thinking to start an interest. Like they were nowhere near
even thinking about it. So you just think, well, where did why? Why McLaren?
Because sometimes formula one can be so untechnical and everybody has different weather radars and it
really so many people have them on their phones. And I love it before Grand Prix walking up and
down the paddock and you see these different radars with different forecasts on them. But
sometimes it is as simple as looking at the sky. And even you could see on the coverage,
it didn't look like it was full of rain. It just didn't. I turned on with 15 minutes to go to
the start of the race and I was like, it doesn't look like it's going to rain. It just looked so
obvious. And Toto said that too. So yeah, it was a baffling call and even more so of a baffling
call to do it with both drive. You think, do you know what? Mercedes aren't going to lose this
race on cheer pay. So actually, let's, even though it's a 20% chance, let's gamble on one driver.
I don't necessarily mind that. Sometimes fortune favors the brave, but to do it with both just
seemed daft and to not correct the mistake on the formation that seemed daft. Interesting.
How are you feeling about Oscar? Are you feeling a bit concerned about him?
I am a bit, because it feels like after the disappointment of last year,
take into account results and bad luck and mechanical issues and he's had a stop start
to the season, haven't we all? But still, broad picture. What are we now? Is that the fifth race?
Yeah, five races in, which just feels he's not quite got to the pace of Lando across the board
this season. So I really will be, now in Monaco last year, even though momentum was with Oscar at
this point of the season, Lando had a brilliant Monaco and crucially got that pole position
and won the race. So it's a tricky ask for Oscar to do that, to have to do what I'm about to say
in Monaco, but he needs to, I think, I need a weekend from Oscar where he looks like the quicker
McLaren. If he, right, McLaren aren't fighting for a title, so it lessens the spotlight on this
somewhat. But I just think if you're Oscar Piastri, you're thinking he seems to have the
better of me pace-wise and I was supposed to come back this season and really sort of raw back
from the disappointment of losing that championship. I just think it's nothing major worry, but it's
a trend I'm spotting that Lando just seems the better McLaren driver. So Oscar, I think,
will be wanting to bounce back a little bit. Betty, what do you think?
It's a hard one, isn't it? Because we've only had five races and Oscar had a really good Japanese
Grand Prix, didn't he? He finished P2. He did, yeah, he did. So I do agree with you though,
like Lando does look more dominant at the moment and Lando obviously looked really good in Miami
and then Oscar was just a little bit behind Lando in Miami, wasn't he? It'll be interesting,
Monaco will be very interesting. Yeah, and you're right, it's very early days and there's nothing
to overly worry about, but I just maybe expected it to feel a bit closer between the two of them
than it does at the moment. There is still a decent package in there. They've just got to really make
sure they maximise it when they even get half a chance. Good weekend though for Lewis Hamilton
and Ferrari. Now, it really does feel like things are starting to come together for Lewis,
doesn't it? It really does because he had a decent China, but we all know that he's very
good in China. That's like a George Russell Canadian Grand Prix thing. Everyone goes,
oh, Lewis loves a bit of China, but he was brilliant all weekend, wasn't he? How impressed
were you with him? So impressed with him. He was the better Ferrari driver and it was another one
where, as was the case in China, as you rightly say, he was just the better Ferrari driver.
Charles Leclerc, to his, it wasn't like Charles had one of those weekends where he was like,
everything feels okay, I'm just not fast. He was really struggling with brakes, getting the car
stopped, he seemed to be really struggling with. So Charles was struggling with something, but I
think also the thing is with Lewis this year as well is the Lowe's aren't as exaggerated,
even when he's not the quicker Ferrari driver, he doesn't seem as far away as last year.
And on this point at the moment, would a Carlos Seidens be doing anything more than Lewis in
that seat? Bear in mind, we're probably looking at a Lewis who's lost a touch of his powers compared
to years gone by, certainly nothing major, but you know, we're not seeing at peak Lewis Hamilton.
I think most people accept that given his age. He seems to be so much more competitive, more
broadly, and this was a really good example of this weekend. Have you noticed that any time
his mum is there watching, he does well? His mum was in China, he was on the podium, his mum was
in Canada, he was on the podium. It was a lovely quote he did about that as well, where he'd been
trying to persuade his mum to come out with more grand prix. And she apparently was very
reluctant, doesn't like traveling, they both had a little bit of a life's too short moment. And
then she said to him last year, next year, the one where I'm going to say, Oh, well, I'll put
myself on these planes, I don't necessarily like going on and come out to race. So that's just
lovely. Well, you know, we're all so lucky to be able to do things with our parents. And we,
when you get a bit older, you realise that, don't you? So it's nice seeing her in the garage with
him this year. It's lovely. What do you put down to Lewis's sort of like better feeling,
better atmosphere? Because it just feels all round so much better this season for Lewis at Ferrari.
And obviously, I know he's had time to sort of settle in and, and whatever. But I don't know,
it just feels like there's such a mentality change from him. I certainly think that in an
era where all drivers are having to get used to very new cars, the experience of Lewis Hamilton
helps there. And he didn't get on with the previous generation of car as well. But he
is one of those drivers that has longevity. He survived many different rule changes,
many different eras and being competitive. So in an era where you're having to get used to
loads of things being new, having his experience and sheer ability is going to be a big part of
that. His teammate doesn't have the advantage of being settled for so many years. We've said that
before. So settling into the team will help. He's got a much better relationship with his
new race engineer who's now being made permanent, it seems. That is going to really help. He's less
new kid at school. And as I say, you've then got the sheer advantage of it's new for everyone.
It's just signalling a better Lewis Hamilton this year. And the sport is better for Lewis
being happier. There's no question about that. 100%. I love that he's shut down retirement
rumours as well. Straight away. None of that chat. He's shut them down. He also says that
he's better when he's not using the sim. Why? What does he mean? I found this really, really
interesting. And I want to go a bit geeky as to explain why that might not be the case.
Sorry, why that might be the case. I'm going to pick that up. I found this really,
really interesting. And I want to go a bit geeky to explain why there's some science in this.
All Formula One teams use their sim. And they can put an upgrade on the car virtually, go out
onto the racetrack of the next Grand Prix virtually and test how this part is running virtually.
The key to success in Formula One or a key reason why you will have success is the correlation
between the real world and the sim. And you often hear teams talk about dialing in the sim.
If there is a big difference in what's happening as to the sim and to real life,
that is a huge problem. And I've mentioned this on the podcast before, but I was at a
non-broadcast event with Adrian Newey last year and he was very vocal in saying,
and remember Aston Martin had such a good start to the season in our first year of doing this
podcast, Betty, what was it, 2023? And they had such a good start to the season. Fernando Alonso
got podiums. He looked like the one that could take it to max. But they really struggled after that
to build. They really struggled to maintain the form. The form dipped as the season went on.
Adrian Newey comes into that team and says the correlation between the real world and the sim
isn't there. We need to fix that. McLaren, on the other hand, have been so good at doing
mid-season upgrades that that would suggest their wind tunnel sim package. It all really works.
Designers come up with a theory on paper or on a screen. They manufacture these parts.
They're tested. They go in the wind tunnel and it is all correlated well. It's how it should be.
That suggests to me, and this would make sense. Now, Lewis hasn't said in the grand scheme of things
there's problems with the sim. He hasn't said that, but I'm putting two and two together
and possibly making eight here when I think Ferrari have struggled to build championship
winning cars and consistently improve their cars. Lewis is saying I'm having worse weekends if I'm
spending weeks in the sim than if I just get in and trust my raw instincts. He even said the
years I won the title, I didn't use the sims as much as it's become so much more used now in
Formula One. They're always used to an extent, but even more so now. I just wonder whether Ferrari
need to look at their sim, possibly their wind tunnel, because that might explain why. I said
at the start of the season, I need to see proof from them that they can improve that car as the
season goes on. Lewis saying, actually, I don't want to use it, suggests that maybe there is some
sim issues there with Ferrari. It's really interesting that stuff to me. If Lewis is saying,
you know what, as a racing driver, I'm going to use my sheer experience, raw ability to set that car
up. You think you'd be going into Friday practice on a disadvantage if you've not been sat in the
sim for ages doing your preset up, but if he thinks I can go in and just do it all on feeling and
gut instincts and have less time to do so rather than adding the extra complication of the sim,
it shows what a skill he has and also maybe shows there's some problems at Ferrari there.
He's such a millennial. That's like saying, no, no, no, I'm not texting you back. I'm not
sending you a voice note. I want a phone call. I want a cold hard phone call.
Do you know what it's more like? It's more like if my dad's getting in the car and going somewhere,
he's reluctant to use Google Maps. He just knows the way. I'm sure he do know the way, Dad, but
Google Maps does live traffic. Yeah, exactly. And he's reluctant to trust it. But it's like
using Google Maps and Google Maps saying, don't go via the M1. The traffic's an absolute nightmare.
Go via the M25. You go by the M25. That's snarled up and your mate who's on the M1 went, no,
there's no traffic. Obviously, the satellite data reflects what's happening. So it's like using a
satellite that's badly, the satellite data is unreliable. So I think it's really interesting.
And what I'm interested, again, Canada's a very Lewis track, though. Canada, you know,
he got his first win there. He's really good round there. I'm interested to see how consistently
this happens. But there's no reason Ferrari can't win races. And listen, if George and Kimmy had
taken each other out, if Kimmy had had the same electrical problem as George, Lewis would have
won that race. Well, Lewis's late overtake on Max Verstappen just epitomized his whole weekend and
his confidence for me. I just thought, I just thought Lewis was fantastic. And he's definitely
found a little bit more performance or edge or something from that car. Like it seems to be
clicking with him. And I'm just hoping that he can carry this on throughout the season. I hope,
I hope he can build on this because brilliant. But also, we haven't actually said this yet,
but Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton, their little battle at the end, absolutely here for it.
And also, sorry, what a podium. Kimmy Antonelli, his two idols, he must have been like,
what on earth is going on? I had the exact same thought in the cooldown room when I just see
19 year old Kimmy Antonelli sat there in between these two legends. And I do wonder if, I wonder,
I genuinely wonder, I'm not going to be able to speak to Kimmy in the near future, I don't think,
but I'd love to ask him whether he was sat in that room going, oh my God, I am just
won a Grand Prix with Max and Lewis next to me. Or whether it's just so totally normal now.
Because of that naivety of youth we said earlier, whether he was just like, yeah,
this is cool, this is where I am. No, I think we've spoken to Kimmy a few times and he's so,
I think, I think deep down he would have been like, wow, like he's pure professional, whatever.
But I do think he will be thinking, wow, how have I ended up in this position? And I love
that Lewis just like, is picking Kimmy up and he's just, yeah, great sport. Let's take another
quick break and when we're back we'll answer more of your questions and go through some other stuff
from the Canadian Grand Prix. Okay, so it's time for Under the Radar and Radio Radar,
my favourite section of the podcast. Christian, who went under the radar in your humble opinion
this weekend. There are two drivers who, if you don't mention them, by the way,
sorry to everyone watching on YouTube, it's like 5,000 degrees in the UK today,
none of us live in homes with air conditioning, so I'm just sweating buckets here. I'm sure
you're the same, Betty. I feel sick. Yeah, no, I was just grim. These houses just trap heat.
Yeah, we're not built for this in the United Kingdom, because there are a lot of Betty's
dying in front of us. I've got minutes left. There are two drivers who, if you don't mention
them on any podcast in the comments, it's like, what about these two from their respective fans,
which is lovely. We love a passionate fan base, but they both had brilliant weekends.
Oh, McGinn. You all right, McGinn? McGinn's turn. I was always just knocked on the door. He's just
gone mad. Well, I'll call McGinn. This is definitely the most frequently interrupted by
Dog's Formula One podcast, isn't it? It's got to be. Without a question. Anyway, firstly,
Franco Colopinto. What a great weekend. And it's interesting, again, Sky was saying that when
they'd interviewed Alpine, they sort of, they haven't got a sort of, well, this is why Franco's
been doing so much better recently. Maybe it is just time. Maybe we just need to give people time,
but he followed up his absolutely brilliant weekend in his career, best seventh in Miami,
with going one better with sixth in Canada. So two fantastic weekends for Franco Colopinto.
And this is not just a performance where it was like, oh, I don't know, we got lucky with a safety
car or something. He was the quicker Alpine drive of all weekend. No question about that.
But credit to Pierre. Pierre had one of those weekends, we just couldn't quite find a level
of comfort and actually still finished in the points and got eighth. So that shows the overall
improvement to the Alpine package where Pierre can feel like he's had a bad weekend and still got
eighth. So well done Franco Colopinto. If he keeps putting in performances like that, talk of him
being replaced will feel a long, long time ago. But I also think the same has to be said for Liam
Lawson, who to me is putting himself in the shop window. He's not going to go back into the main
Red Bull team. But if he keeps putting in these performances where he's dragging that car into
the points and stacking up well against Limblad, I mean, obviously Limblad was out the race, so
there was no stacking up to be done. He was unlucky with the technical issue. But still,
Limblad's a big talent if Liam keeps doing well alongside him. I don't know if you're a Cadillac
and you know, Bottas has been struggling in places at times. If you're Haas and maybe long term
looking for a replacement, if Bearman gets nicked by Ferrari or Ocon, you know, they've reached
the end of their time with Ocon. Maybe even if you are an Alpine and again, they lose one of those
two drivers. To me, Lawson's putting himself in the shop window here, reminding everybody what a
very good Formula One driver he is. So yeah, I mean, we could also say the same about Ollie
Bearman, but he's sort of under the radar. We know how good Ollie is in just dragging that car
into the points. We don't even really need to mention it. So the two I really want to highlight
from the rest of the pack today are Colopinto and Lawson. I thought they had excellent weekends.
They did. And also just a shout out as well to Carlos Sines for getting points for Williams again.
Impressive. Yeah, he shows his ability, doesn't he, to... That car is nowhere near where they
want it to be. But if it's even within half a chance of points, Carlos will grab it. Alex did
the same in Miami and, of course, was robbed of the opportunity by Oscar. And we should have said
this earlier, not again when we were sort of slightly worried about Oscar's form. That was a
bit of a bad mistake there where he got wiped out. So yeah, unfortunate for Alex. So we don't
know what he'd have been able to do in that race, but Carlos is doing a great job for Williams and
underlying what an asset he is to them. Also, Max on the podium for the first time this season.
Nice to see him happier to an extent. He still had a big warning at the end of the race where he said,
by the way, if these don't go back to being less battery dependent, I'm still gone. So happier,
but still not willing to stick about if something doesn't change, which is interesting.
He's definitely been the most outspoken about everything, hasn't he, Max?
Yeah, I mean, he can be. He's put himself in that position to be. I'd be surprised if other
drivers didn't feel exactly the same as Max, but are playing politics more. Max does not play
politics. He doesn't need to. I wouldn't say he's bigger than the sport. I don't think anybody
is. I think the sport carries on just fine without Max Verstappen, but it'd be a blow to lose him,
as we've said before, Betty, and he can say what he wants. He's Max Verstappen. I think there's two
drivers on the grid at the moment who are really, truly in three, actually. Alonso Hamilton Verstappen
can say what they want because they are Alonso Hamilton Verstappen. They can do and say what
they want and nobody can stop them. Okay, Radio Radar, what jumped out to you? It's got to be
Charlotte Claire, right? It's the only... Yeah, and we don't like seeing Charlotte have bad weekends,
but it just... I just loved... We've all been at these points in our lives when he had towards
the end of the race. Unless it's urgent, don't talk to me. I get in moods like that when I'm like,
actually, this needs to be for you to just speak to me as a human being. I don't want to speak to
anyone. I don't want to speak to anyone. I'm not having a nice time. Just leave me. You do get
like that, actually. I don't want to speak to anyone. Just leave me. I loved how it was like,
let's stop speaking until the last lap and apart from anything absolutely critical. I just liked
the way he worded it. Let's stop speaking. It's brilliant. I think everybody
watching or listening to this has been at that point at some point in their lives. I just don't
need to hear from you anymore. I just don't want it. The other thing that really stood out to me,
it just really made me laugh, was Skye's interview with Fred Versa after the race. Now, I can't
actually remember who was doing the interview, but they misheard what Fred called Lewis at the end.
Fred called Lewis Luigi. So he was asked like, what did you call Lewis at the end of the race?
And Fred was like, Luigi. And then he just stood there and just laughed for like five minutes.
Like he found himself absolutely hilarious. And whoever it was doing the interview was just like,
okay, Luigi, okay. It was just so awkward. And it absolutely killed me.
I think it was Ted, but I could be wrong. But it was just
protect Fred at all costs. He's such a character. He was absolutely brilliant.
We've got a couple more questions before we wrap this up. Rebecca said,
why did Oscar and Isaac not get penalty points on their license for their infringements? I feel
like last year, Ollie and Liam were giving penalties for things that they got away with today.
The honest answer is, Rebecca, I don't know, but Rebecca's onto something. There was various
points last year where we were saying, I mean, Bearman was one of them, because obviously,
if you do something naughty, you get a penalty. If you do something naughty, you get a penalty
plus points on your license. And so many points on your license, you get a race ban.
It's a simple system to understand. But we were getting into a position last year
where we were saying to drivers who were sat there going, I don't remember them doing anything
massively wrong. And they're all of a sudden facing a race ban. Like this just seems a bit weird.
So that move from Oscar, listen, I am all on the side of sympathy with drivers. It's a tight
track. You're going for a move. He made a mistake, but it wiped Alex out. I'm not going to go in hard
on Oscar because mistakes happen. But it wasn't great. It was a bad mistake. And I think if Oscar
had got two points on his license, three points on his license, nobody had been sat there going,
that's outrageous. You'd have gone fair enough. And Isaac for Shin, Isaac attempting to break
the record for the most number of penalties. And we talked about Kimmy Antonelli's exuberance of
youth. We've seen that massively with Hacha this weekend. Fortunately, because the gap's so big to
the rest of the pack, Isaac could have got 92 penalties and still finish comfortably where
he finished. So he's still having a good time of it in that car shear speed wise,
but there was some rookie errors there for me, Isaac, within picking up the penalties. And again,
on sheer number of penalties, you'd have expected points before. So it just felt to me like maybe
the FIA and we haven't heard this as an official directive. If we have it's passed me by somebody
might in the comments might say, no, the FIA have said this. If we have, I've missed it. I'd
like to apologize. But it just feels like they're giving out fewer points, which to me is probably
a good thing because unless drivers have done something massively bad or been consistently
horrific all season, we don't want to be banning them for a race. So, Rebecca, you on to something
there? I think we are seeing fewer penalty points being given out. MKSV5 says borderline something,
something. Now, I want to talk to you about this. Do you know what this is about? I think I know
what you're going to say. Go on. Is it about the Red Bull admin? The Red Bull tweet. Yeah.
Excellent trolling from Red Bull. This is absolutely excellent trolling. Listen,
no bias in Formula One for me. I don't care whether it's in favour of one driver or another.
I just like a good bit of sh** house area, a good bit of winding up. So in the past, Russell
criticised Max for his general mannerisms and his general driving and their sort of feud.
Max and George said at the time, unnecessary anger and borderline violence. And then, of course,
George, in an unnecessarily angry turn of events, throws the top bit of the car out
and gets put on the naughty step from the FIA. And Red Bull just replied to this Twitter account going,
well, going borderline something, something. Brilliant. The pettiness to have held on for that
so long and sport isn't serious. We should have a laugh with these things. It's good trolling.
So I'd like to declare Red Bull my admin of the week. Oh, yeah. Do you know what? Red Bull admin,
you deserve an award for that. And I can just imagine them sitting there at their laptop.
Shall we? There's that sniggering. Shall we? Yes, on it. Let's do it. I loved that. I really did
enjoy that. So funny. It's good fun. It's all good fun, isn't it? Oh, God. Right. Is there anything
else you want to add, Christian? Is there anything else I want to add? No, I don't think so. Monaco
next. And we'll talk about that. I'm sure. It feels like it's going to be ages away.
Two-week gap now, which is nice. It feels like a normal gap rather than right. We'll join us again
in eight weeks time. And guess what? You've got podcasts to fill where there's nothing happening.
So I'm glad it sort of feels more normal now. So, yeah, we look forward to Monaco. I suppose
we'll end up doing the age old Monaco debate, won't we? Yes, always. Do you actually like Monaco?
We look forward to that all bloody weekend. But still, it's a great test for the driver,
so I look forward to it. Qualifying is going to be massive. No, I think I'm done. Have you got
anything else you add? Do you want to just say anything? Monaco just annoys me, right? Because
I get really, I get jealous because everybody that is there is having the most amazing time.
They say it's brilliant, looks fantastic, whatever. But then actually watching on TV
is just not a good watch anymore for me. So there we go. Interesting. I enjoyed it when I went.
Yeah, I went last year. I was working there last year for the first time. I'm not there this year,
but I did enjoy it. But yeah, it's an acquired taste. I quite like it. I like the tension of it.
I like the test of it. Yes, it's not going to be on track action. My thing if it's always been,
if there's 24 races in a season, as the normal is, then you can afford to do one different and
have it. It's a bit of a different test, a test of endurance and skill rather than overtaking.
And qualifying. Yeah, yeah. So I've come to, I've made peace with Monaco over the years, but
but now you've got a short throw in just in life in general or, you know,
I'm going to go and get a Magnum. I'm going to go and get a Magnum. I love a Magnum. What's your
favorite ice cream? Magnum. 100%. I like a white chocolate Magnum. Now, do you suck the chocolate
off first, then go into the ice cream? I like to melt the chocolate off within my mouth.
A little bit. I'm, I'm one of those. I'm actually a bit psycho. So when I'm eating like an ice cream
or an ice or least like a calypo, I will just full on bite into the calypo. That is psychotic
behavior, isn't it? Biting into a calypo is truly psychotic. I know. I know. Well, there we go.
That's what, that's what I get up to. No, I do like a twister. Oh, okay. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. I think
they're underrated. A mini twister. Mini twister is very nice. Yeah. A little, you know, a little
see you for a minute. I might do that after this podcast. A little, a little bit of something,
twister. Right, this has been a pleasure. Christian, thank you very much. We'll, we'll go and we'll
About this episode
Rain and intermediates shaped the Canadian Grand Prix, and McLaren’s call to start both cars on inters turned into a bigger problem when they didn’t recover the situation during safety-car timing. The hosts loved the wheel-to-wheel racing, but George’s battery failure “robbed” them of a key battle. Kimi Antonelli’s early streak and raw pace raise title-fight questions, though they say it’s still early. The discussion also swings to Verstappen’s “battery dependent” warning and Monaco qualifying importance.
