Kimi’s first win & Lewis is back! | Chinese GP reaction
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paddock
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young driver development
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Formula 1
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wheel to wheel
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tyres that wear out
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Pirelli
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DRS
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battery power
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F1
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mid-season development
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prancing horse
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constructors
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wind tunnel
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simulator
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Colleague Betty Glover.
How are you?
Everything. When I was in China, bearing in mind, we were working in China Thursday,
Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Every single day I lost something.
Have you lost anything significant? Is everything okay?
Well, Thursday I lost my jacket. It just went. I don't know where it went.
And then eventually I found it later in the hotel lobby on the floor.
What's after Thursday? Friday.
I.
And guys, if you're wondering why I did the intro, what's after Thursday?
Friday I left my sunglasses in the hotel bar. Didn't even realise until Saturday.
You left your sunglasses in my hotel room in Australia as well and your drinks bottle.
I did, yeah. But then this waiter came over to me on Saturday and was like,
here are your sunglasses and I was like, oh, didn't even know I'd lost it.
And then I, on Saturday, I had my bag and it was open and I knocked over a whole cup
of coffee into my handbag, went all over everything. And then on Sunday I lost my
hair straighteners. Don't know where they went. How can you lose your hair straighteners?
Oh, I guess you bring them into the track, right?
Yeah.
So for those that don't know, if you've been living under a rock,
Betty is now presenting on F1 TV. So you're not new to travelling for work,
you do it all the time, but this is your first sort of, I think, intense bit of the F1 circus.
And Betty, it is a privilege, but it takes it out of you. I know from experience,
it's a lot. I mean, back in the last year when I did a few quick succession at the end of the year,
I was the walking dead. So I do sympathise.
Yeah, and it's so funny because you see like loads of people that work in formula one
at the airport in China ready to go home and everyone just looks dead.
They're not on their knees, aren't they? But yeah, I am alive. I'm kicking.
I've had two coffees this morning. I'm ready to go. Ready to talk about Kimmy Antonelli.
We'll talk about it a minute. Just while we're on this, because yes, it is time,
but as you say, it's amazing. What's it been like? Your first two experiences of being,
I would say being in the paddock proper because you've been in Silverstone with this podcast.
It's not quite the same of being, you've been right at the very heart of F1.
You've been in the pit lane. You've been in the garages. It's been amazing for us to see as
fans of you and fans of the pod. What's it been like being so immersed in it all?
Oh, I'm not going to lie. I think it's the best thing I've ever done,
like genuinely. I've done champion. Oh, God, just nearly knocked my head.
She's just knocked her mic off everyone. Carry on then.
I've done champions league, women's champions league, football. I've presented the men's euros.
I've done the Olympics and by far doing Melbourne and then China after,
it was the best thing I've ever done in my career. It was so cool, genuinely.
And being on the grid is so insane and that moment when you're stood there,
there's everyone around you. It's packed. You've got all the drivers in the cars ready to go
and you're like throwing to comms to be like, you know, the Shanghai Grand Prix,
about to get going. The adrenaline that's going through you is insane.
It's just so cool. Yeah, it was interesting.
And the difference between China and Melbourne was really interesting as well.
In terms of the paddock, I just found it all really fascinating.
We will continue to get that insight throughout this episode of the podcast.
And coming up, we'll talk the fighting Ferraris.
We'll talk Misri at McLaren. We'll talk Sad Max or Mad Max,
whatever you want to call him. But there is only one place to start, Betty.
And you are on the ground to witness Formula One's newest winner at age six and three quarters.
Kimmy Antonelli is Formula One's newest race winner.
Betty, I imagine this was one of those and you do see this where everyone in the paddock is
very happy because you don't hear anyone say a bad word about him.
He's been on this pod. We both spoke to him. He's a lovely lad.
I'm guessing everybody loved it.
Yeah, and we needed it, didn't we? We needed it.
I love George Russell. I think he's brilliant.
But if he had won Melbourne, the sprint in China,
and then the Chinese Grand Prix, I think everyone would have been a bit like...
But we needed Kimmy to step up and he did.
And he did really well. I mean, obviously we'll get into it,
but there's sort of a bit of luck on his side in terms of
the issues George Russell had in qualifying.
But it's fantastic.
Because the Chinese Grand Prix paddock is so big,
basically it's not really busy.
You know, in Melbourne it's so busy, there's like people everywhere.
Yes, Karun said this on the podcast before, hasn't he? Karun Chanda.
Yeah, I've never been, so I don't know this.
It's massive. So it feels like there's just people sort of spread out.
It doesn't feel that busy.
But it means that when some driver walks through the paddock,
everyone swarms on them like bees on honey type vibes.
And when Kimmy was walking through the paddock, it was wild.
Like everyone was just like, oh my god, there he is.
But it was just great, wasn't it?
To see him crying and show that emotion,
it's just so lovely to see.
And it clearly means so much to him.
Yeah, it was brilliant. What did you make of it?
I just don't cry.
This sounds very dark. I do like it when they cry.
Only because, like, you sometimes feel that that's a weakness for blokes.
I'm a crier. I'm a big crier.
I bloody love a cry. Get it out. You know what I mean?
And I think, you know, it's nice to let modern Ben know you can let your emotions go.
And it's lovely. So it was just lovely.
It was a good feel, good story.
I couldn't help but be delighted for him, as you said, personally.
Because he's the nicest kid.
And everybody you speak to as well says lovely things about him,
that he's grounded, that he's lovely, that he's funny, that he's warm.
Everybody says nice things about Kimi Antonelli.
And also, I think, Betty, you alluded to the qualifying thing.
Of course, had George not had that gremlin in the engine or whatever it was in qualifying,
George probably would have been on pole.
George didn't get to do his last run.
But I don't think, last season, Kimi Antonelli is able to do that.
I don't think he's able to.
Maybe he, it wouldn't have been a Mercedes on pole.
Maybe in the race, George would have got back up.
How many times in Formula One have we seen that number two driver
not be able to step up when needed?
Of course, we've seen that in Red Bull.
But maybe towards the end of the bot-ass days at Mercedes as well.
That number two isn't quite there when the number one isn't there for whatever reason.
But Kimi was.
And I think it's a sign.
We talk so much about the driver's need to level up,
these new drivers year upon year.
We've seen it so much with Oscar Piastri,
that he went from season two being able to win the odd race
to season three being a title contender.
And we were saying, look, yes, he didn't win the title,
but it was still a massive step up.
I think we've seen that with Kimi.
His pace is stronger.
Definitely he's stepped it up pace-wise.
And yes, we've seen the odd lairy moment.
You're going to get from the flair of an experienced youth.
And yes, there was the lock up at the end,
which gave Bono a heart attack.
Betty, on the other side,
Bono did an interview straight after the race and said,
oh my God, that did give me a bit of a moment.
That really did,
which I thought was really funny that Bono admitted that.
But listen, he got through it.
And I think it's a real sign of Kimi stepping up and maturing.
And maybe that was what you said, the sport needed it.
Maybe it's what he needed really early on to think,
well, hang on a minute, hang on a minute.
Maybe I can take it to George.
Yeah, I agree.
And also I wonder whether he was,
well, I don't think he,
I don't think he was ever doubting himself,
but he had obviously had two very bad starts.
He had a really bad start in Melbourne
and he had a bad start in the sprint.
And he just needed a really good race
for, I think, for himself,
but also for everybody else to think,
actually Kimi can do this.
Kimi can take it to George this season.
Do you think he can?
Do you think we will see a,
if Mercedes really are as dominant as they're looking
and as dominant as everyone says they are,
do you think we are gonna see a Kimi
and a George battle here?
Because, I mean, we need it.
We do need it.
We'll come onto the Ferraris.
We do need it,
but I'm not in the all is lost camp
in terms of other teams catching.
So we'll come back to that
when we talk about Ferrari.
Let's imagine it is all Mercedes
for a moment and say, well, can Kimi do it?
I doubt it,
but I couldn't sit here on a podcast and go,
oh no, no, no, Kimi can't do it.
Logic suggests it's probably season three,
like we saw with Oscar in season three,
where he's got it in him,
especially as he's younger in years than Oscar.
So I doubt it,
but with two races of 24,
what, 22 now, of course, 22, of course,
that's gonna take some getting used to, isn't it?
Two races of 22.
If he went and did well in Japan,
which is a tricky track,
and then again,
now Miami was very good last year,
Miami had his first sprint poll.
Again, you think, well, maybe all I'm saying is,
I don't think it's beyond the realms of possibility.
I said on Instagram,
I think because he had this generational talent tag
attached to him,
that a lot of people thought it was going to be instant.
And actually when you go and watch
Max Verstappen's early races,
it was very quick,
but there were still races where it wasn't,
oh, my God, this kid's amazing.
It does take time in Formula One,
and we're now, of course, in an era,
in a different era to that.
So it does take time.
He's had a lot to get used to,
given the new cars.
It's a lot for a young driver to get the head round.
I don't think it's impossible.
I think unlikely,
but I'm not gonna sit here and say that's impossible
because I just think Kimmy is the real deal.
I think he could just surprises.
I also think massive confidence boost from this weekend.
He dealt with the start really well, didn't he?
Because he obviously knew
I need to make sure George doesn't overtake me,
because if George overtakes me,
there's no coming back from that.
He knew that it's okay if the Ferrari's overtake him
because he'd be able to bring that back,
and I think he dealt with that really well.
That was really telling.
I thought that was really good.
Yeah, I completely agree.
It's good for the sport.
It's a good feel, good story,
because no matter what you think about the rules,
we know not all fans are united on it,
and it's been a bit...
The sport needed it, I think.
Do you know what I mean?
I think there's been a bit of the...
You know, whenever there's some uncertainty,
negativity around,
I think that the sport got...
Well, not just one feel good story,
because we're going to go and talk about the second,
but it was a really good feel,
good story, Kimmy winning,
and I'm delighted for him.
And I reemphasize what I said earlier
that he's spoken so well of, so highly of.
And I...
There's a man at Mercedes there.
I can't remember exact job title.
Something like head of development.
Everybody has fancy job titles in Formula One.
I just immediately struggled to forget,
but Gwyn LaGru is Mercedes
basically head of young driver development,
and I spoke to him last season about Kimmy,
and the maturity,
shown as he's risen through the ranks.
Mercedes have liked this kid since he was a fetus.
Like, they've been so keen on him.
Since he was in his mum's tummy.
Since... Yeah, the first scan,
Gwyn's outside going,
oh, there's a racing driver in there.
Yeah, he's spoken so well of,
so I'm delighted for him.
And also, Betty,
we said this a lot last season.
You know, it's good to have the big names
doing well in F1.
I wanted to see a revival for Ferrari for Mercedes.
It's nice to see Mercedes back up there.
Shall we talk about Ferrari then?
Because it is so good to see Ferrari sort of up there.
Lewis finally getting a Grand Prix podium
in the Ferrari red,
which was just so nice to see as well, wasn't it?
You said that this was coming for Lewis, didn't you?
Did you...
How are you finding sort of watching him at the moment?
Are you feeling really good?
Because he's just...
It's so nice to see Lewis happy.
He's a happy man.
The office I was working in Abu Dhabi in December
was on the first floor,
and there was a little balcony bits
where you could go and stand,
and you could see right over the driver's pen
where they do the interviews.
And there was one...
I think it was the race.
It was either the race or the quali.
I can't remember which one.
And I saw him do the walk.
He'd walked round the back of the paddock
by the marina to avoid the crowds
that you mentioned that happened in an F1 paddock.
He'd walked down the back all the way to the pen,
and he just looked so low.
You could genuinely see his shoulders stooped.
You could see how sad he looked.
He was talking to his press officer,
and I watched him all the way on this walk
and just thought, oh, he's just so sad.
He's just not enjoying himself.
And the contrast to this season
where you see him, the smile on his face,
the sort of, I would say, generic positivity.
His neutral is a smile this season,
as opposed to his neutro being, here we bloody go again.
I've got to do this again.
It's like he's rediscovered his love for the sport.
He seemed in a dark place last year
as he was openly questioning his own ability,
and that wasn't good for anybody to look at.
That was horrible.
It was so horrible to see, wasn't it?
Just on a human level, let alone a sporting level.
So it's just so lovely.
I think, as we said last year,
what we've seen is,
you know, Charle had such a long advantage
of getting used to that Ferrari
because the cars in the last rule set
were evolution rather than revolution.
But now they're both coming at it completely new.
Lewis has had a whole winter at the Ferrari team
to put his thoughts on it.
And plus, there is a theory amongst ex-drivers,
and there are far more about this than me,
that the sort of later breaking approach
that Lewis likes does work
more to his favor in this style of car.
It's all combined, and it just looks
like he's at the top of his game again.
What I'm not doing in any of this
is taking anything away from Charle,
because, actually, we've all...
We can take it as red
that Charle is this top-level driver
who could fight for world championships.
And the question since Lewis has been at Ferrari
is, well, is he going to be able to compete with Charle?
The fact that they are so evenly matched this season
is a testament to both of them.
It's just fascinating.
It's so good.
It's so good to watch, though.
And I know a lot of people,
and there are a lot of comments
saying that the racing's very artificial.
But you've got to say
that when Lewis and Charle
were sort of going wheel to wheel,
that's racing.
Like, you can't take that away from the sport.
That was amazing to watch.
It was great entertainment.
Now, I'm old enough of watching this sport
to remember when we first bought in
tyres that wear out,
that tyres that don't naturally
just last a race distance.
A lot of it was in response
to a thrilling Canadian Grand Prix
in the 2000s that Jensen Button
won hunting down Sebastian Vettel
when Vettel's tyres fell off the cliff.
Pirelli were given an instruction,
basically more of that.
People said that was artificial.
When DRS people said that was artificial.
I have thought at times this season
there's a bit too much on the side
of battery power.
I do think this sport
is full of intelligent people
and things will level out.
But also there is an element
that F1 evolves.
So maybe we are witnessing an evolution here.
So I enjoyed that racing.
It was good racing.
Would maybe the battery power
need to be toned down a little bit in future?
Maybe.
But I enjoyed that racing.
It was entertaining.
It did test their skill.
Without question, it tests their skill.
The biggest thing I'd like to see is
I want drivers to be able to go flat out
and qualifying.
I really do.
I don't think that's the controversial opinion.
But again, I really have faith in the sport
to make tweaks when necessary.
But that racing was great.
It was brilliant.
It was brilliant.
It was testing both of them, wasn't it?
And it was seeing two incredible drivers
at the top of the game
going head to head, battling each other.
And the thing that I really liked about it
is at the end, they were both like,
yeah, I really enjoyed that battle.
Loved that.
Loved that.
And actually, again,
there was a Toto Wolff pointed this out
and it's the best quote of the weekend, I think.
I grew up watching F1
and the criticism was there's no overtaking.
And he was often right.
You would often see no overtaking
unless it was in the pits.
So we also need to remember
of nostalgia in the past too much.
So I enjoyed that battle.
I loved that battle.
It's great to see Ferrari up there.
Now, yes, it is a big gap, right?
It is a big gap to Mercedes.
What we haven't seen yet this season
is mid-season development.
This is so important in modern day Formula One.
I go back to those days that I just mentioned.
90% of the time in the 90s and the 2000s,
the start of the season,
pecking order-wise,
was very similar, not identical,
but similar by the end of the season.
There was also fewer races, 17, 18 races.
Mid-season development wasn't so much of a thing.
Mid-season development is why
for McLaren have won the titles, they've won.
What I need to see is...
Greg James' favourite catchphrase,
low-hanging fruits.
Can Ferrari grab some of the low-hanging fruit
and take the steps up to Mercedes?
Adjust, again, some of the doomongers at the moment
saying it's all over because Mercedes is up there.
Let him.
You know me, Betty.
I don't mince my words.
I would come on this podcast and say,
yeah, no, I think...
It's going to be a Mercedes winner.
It is...
I think...
Remember how long the season is.
Remember the ups and downs we had last season.
I don't think it's beyond the realms of possibility
for Ferrari to catch...
I think it would only be Ferrari, really,
but I don't think it's beyond the realms of possibility
for Ferrari to catch Mercedes.
I said on our preseason preview
they need to prove to the Formula One world
that they can develop mid-season
as well as some of their rivals.
Let's see if they can.
But it was great entertainment watching the Ferrari scrap.
Potentially headache for them long term.
Yes, this is what it's going to go on to.
So, obviously, you've got these two drivers battling it out.
At the moment, it does feel like they're very level.
Obviously, Lewis really loves Shanghai, doesn't he?
Charlotte Claire doesn't love Shanghai.
So, you know, I think it probably made sense.
Lewis made the...
Yeah, yeah, so great.
Hamilton Track has won there 78,000 times, yeah.
Yeah, so, but going forward,
how does Fred Vassur and Ferrari manage these two?
Because they're in a position now where both of these drivers
could win world championships.
They're both the number one.
So, what do Ferrari do?
Is it like the McLaren issue from last season?
If you're new to this podcast often as a lifelong Formula One
and F1 journalist,
my role in the podcast is to provide insight
and expertise and analysis.
So, let me be the first to say, Betty,
how about the foggiest?
I do not know.
And it's interesting because,
Cast your mind back many ages ago
when the Hamilton to Ferrari move was announced,
I was actually hosting an event
at the British Motor Museum.
I was surrounded by motor racing geeks.
The best possible place to be when this news broke.
And all of these motor racing geeks around me.
The topic of the day was,
how the hell do you manage that,
if the sort of your instinct reaction was?
How do you manage that?
If your Ferrari, like a McLaren Hamilton,
that question went away.
Because soon as Hamilton got in the car,
it was obvious he was nowhere near a McLaren.
So, we forgotten that as a thing.
That question of two years ago
when it was first announced
that Hamilton was making the move is back.
That's going to be really interesting
because if Betty,
I said then I'm not exactly ruling out Ferrari
making a title fight here.
Imagine they needed to
pick one to go after Russell.
That's a tricky one.
Oh, and I put this on Twitter at the weekend.
And Twitter is a place full of desperation,
sadness and right-wing politics.
But actually, it really made me happy
on this particular occasion.
Because the amount of people
suggesting to me different papaya rules,
like Shudaria rules,
but obviously they're the prancing horse.
So, my favourite suggestion was prancing rules.
Prancing rules, yeah, lovely.
Really, can't believe.
Don't forget prancing rules, boys.
I really enjoy it.
So, maybe we see prancing rules.
Do you think that Charlotte Claire
and Lewis Hamilton are going to spend
too much time, energy and effort
fighting each other
instead of focusing on fighting Mercedes?
I think a lot of people were saying,
in the sprint and then in the Grand Prix in China,
they wouldn't have won it anyway.
No, no, that's it.
At the moment, they can't win.
So, they might as well crack on lads
because we're not going to win.
It's too far.
If all of a sudden, again,
I go back to Miami 23 or 4.
Hang on.
So, if they won the title,
if they won the constructors in 25, 24.
Miami 2024, when McLaren turned up
and somebody quite high up at McLaren
said to me, we think we've made a big breakthrough here.
And they knew they were going to be quick and they were.
If Ferrari have that moment,
Ferrari have that moment where the wind tunnel suggests
or the simulator says we've got something here
and they turn up and it's like,
we think we can win this.
We think we've closed the gap.
That's when it's going to be fascinating.
That's a big pressure on Fred.
How do you manage this situation?
And I guess you're going into territory of
qualifying being really important
and the leader into term one being really important.
Because I also, I don't know, I've just sort of...
And we said this last year with the McLaren boys.
And it did happen, but it didn't happen spectacularly.
The Canada was the obvious one.
I just sort of think they're going to come together at some point.
I really do.
It just seems...
Has been thinking in the sense that he's like, yeah.
Yeah, no, no, no, no.
They are going to come together.
And they definitely are.
They like kiss.
Lewis Hamilton describes it as kissing each other
at the Chinese Grand Prix.
That could have gone worse.
Also, a final thing before we get to a break.
Obviously Lewis hasn't been in the cooldown room for a while.
And there was the little moment.
You might not have seen this Betty
because you'd been on the grid,
but all in the paddock, whatever.
But Lewis going into the cooldown room and going,
oh, this just had not great.
Now they've sort of TV studioized it.
It was really fun.
Like, oh, what have you done with the place?
You haven't been around in a while.
Yeah, lovely.
I really enjoyed that.
Oh, I love that.
I also love the fact that Lewis' mum was there as well.
She's had a right little...
She'll be as tired as you.
She was in Australia as well.
She's on a right little trip, aren't she?
Oh, do you know what someone said to me?
Um, they were like,
the fact Lewis is bringing his mum to the Grand Prix.
I mean, this is his last season.
I was like, no.
Oh, my lord.
None of that.
Honestly, people will jump to all sorts of conclusions.
Lewis Hamilton's got a new pair of shoes.
That means that he's really trying to look smart
for his final season.
That's it.
The rumours, the paddock rumours on that front suggest
they're very opposite.
The paddock rumours on that suggest that Hamilton's looking
at extending the contract and that, you know, that,
and this is all rumours.
But no, my guess would be the opposite on that front.
I'm, I don't think, I don't think this will be
Lewis' final season in Formula One.
I really don't.
You watch.
We'll click this out in October
when he's announced his retirement.
God.
Um, can I ask you a question?
Yes.
Hard question.
I'm just intrigued.
If you were Fred and you had to pick a number one
between Charlotte, Claire and Lewis,
who would you go for?
I wouldn't make that decision here and now.
I'd let them race it out.
And personally,
if I had a car that I thought could win the championship,
I'd get through to, I don't know,
mid season somewhere.
I don't know.
I'd pick a random racer Zambore.
Why not?
And go, right, we're going to have to back
whoever's ahead in the title at this point.
I think the only way you can let this situation happen
is we let you race and you judge it race by race
up until a certain point of the season.
In a race, you go, actually,
we think we can win this race.
We've got to lap 20.
Charles, you were on pole.
You're ahead of Lewis.
Right, Lewis, you're going to have to play the team game here.
Next weekend, if you pointed on pole
and you're ahead by lap 20, it's up to you.
And then if you get later on in the championship
and Charles has got a 15 point advantage,
that's when personally I would be doing that.
But we saw just, only just,
but it worked for McLaren not to do that last season.
So it's fine.
It's fascinating.
It's a really good storyline for this year.
It's really interesting.
It's so good.
I'm obsessed with it because you've basically
got these two drivers at the moment
that know that they can't beat Mercedes.
But they're fighting for team honours against each other.
They need to be ahead of their teammate.
Otherwise, you're sort of going into the season
and you don't want to be the one
that is sort of behind the teammate.
Therefore, you know, number two almost.
Like, oh, it's so good.
Love it. Love it.
Okay, so we've talked about Mercedes.
We've talked about Ferrari.
And we're going to take a very quick break.
When we're back, we're going to talk about the bad news,
the sadder stuff for McLaren and Max fans.
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Now you may or may not know that he's currently doing
an absolutely ridiculous thing
for comic relief at the moment.
Christian, tell us, what is he doing?
He couldn't do anything normal, could he?
He couldn't just swim the channel
or something like normal people.
No, he's on a ludicrous bike, a tandem.
Basically, it's a massive long bike.
What we do love is he showing his love of formula one
by calling the tandem.
Is it a tandem?
How do you pronounce?
Tandem, thank you.
Tandem, a tandem.
I struggle with that.
He's called the tandem Tando Norris,
which is, which is, which is excellent,
lovely.
I'd have still gone for Kimmy Bikenon,
personally,
but it's not a target reference for radio one.
It might be considered a bit niche.
So fair enough.
Or so he likes Lando, doesn't he?
He like, well we all like Lando.
So he's cycling from Weymouth,
which if you're an international listener,
is right down south in England,
all the way up to Edinburgh in Scotland.
A ridiculous 1000 kilometers in eight days.
He's about, we're recording on Tuesday.
He's halfway through,
so he finishes roughly.
And he finishes on Friday.
And what we do love is that lovely,
fast and curious listeners have been messaging us to say
you've been bumping into him en route.
Ah, amazing, yes.
So Rachel says, hi gang.
I met Greg at the end of his third day
of the longest ride on Sunday.
He's doing ever so well despite the weather
and all of the aches and pains.
I did have my Aston Martin cap with me.
But didn't get to chat and show him,
kind of glad though,
as my drinks bottle leaked onto the cap.
Yeah, and also don't be thrown an Aston Martin cap.
The tandem had break down halfway through
or the vibrations would be too much
on Greg's handlebars.
You don't want that.
The tandem's probably faster
than the Aston Martin at the moment.
We shouldn't laugh, we shouldn't laugh.
No, we shouldn't.
Carry on, so that's my fault.
I apologise, come on.
Rachel went on to say he missed out
on a core curve of a race.
He'll definitely enjoy it
whenever he gets the chance to watch it back, I'm sure.
So glad Kimmy won.
Mercedes are truly back
or coming back to their old ways.
If only Aston Martin could as well.
Rachel, we're sorry about Aston Martin,
but hopefully they're going to improve.
Love the pod from Rachel.
Thanks, Rachel.
Thank you, Rachel.
Of course, we want our listeners to get behind him.
Anything you can donate.
It really helps Comet Relief,
which is just a brilliant charity.
If you just search Greg James Comet Relief,
you will find the links to donate.
And we will put the link
in the description of this episode as well.
So we can spread our fast and curious love
to Greg James
on his ridiculous long bike challenge.
And we look forward to getting him back on the pod
when he is back.
Yeah, what a legend.
What a legend is Greg James.
Just a quick one.
He won't mind me saying this.
Despite all what he's doing,
knowing that mothering Sunday
is a bit of a tricky one for me personally,
he still dropped me a text on Sunday to say.
Hope all's okay today.
That is a mark of the man,
wonderful man doing wonderful things.
We love you, Greg James.
He is brilliant.
He's brilliant.
Also,
I don't know if anybody knows this,
but his dad is really un well at the moment.
And I think it's just amazing
that he's doing this whilst doing,
you know, whilst going through everything,
all the sadness with his family and whatever.
So, oh, he's just a legend of a man, Greg James.
Alan will be proud
and we're sending Alan and the Gregory James family
a lot of love as well.
But yeah, what a man.
What a man.
Okay, let's talk about Formula One again, shall we?
Let's do it.
I like how you've linked this.
Christian has written in our running order,
speaking of needing some charity, McLaren.
Good link, get it?
Not just thrown together this.
Not just thrown together this show.
Oh, no, actually, we can't laugh
because it actually feels really bleak
for McLaren at the moment.
It's horrible to watch.
Can I just say, I was on the grid,
obviously pre-China.
Lando didn't make it out of the garage.
That looked bad.
But Oscar looked fine.
He looked fine.
The car was on the grid.
Suddenly, I'm walking off the grid
just throwing to commentary.
And then they're wheeling Oscar's car off the grid.
I'm like, what has happened here?
And the journalistic instincts are going.
That feels significant.
I'm not sure that should be happening over there.
We should mention that.
Why are you wheeling Oscar's car off the grid?
Ah, it's just awful.
Yeah, so, two separates
electrical related issues to do with the engine.
I mean, I suppose it feels more like
we expected it to feel
with these new engines,
which are complicated beasts,
having gremlins as we start the season.
My DMs have been flooded
and the podcasts actually
in the last couple of weeks
with people asking
why we're seeing the likes of them struggle
despite the fact they've got a Mercedes engine.
And it's a really good question.
And I think what's becoming obvious
and we talked about this a little bit
in the, as you said,
Abu Dhabi debrief in the Australia debrief.
Thank you.
We were there, Australia in the other time.
The Abu Dhabi debrief.
Yeah, the Abu Dhabi debrief in the Australia debrief.
That it's always historically been seen
as a advantage to make your own engines.
And the McLaren sort of prove
that you don't really need to win.
Certainly temporarily at the moment
we're back in a position where in Formula One
it really is an advantage
to make your own engine
because as much as you get
this shiny boxed engine
given to you from Mercedes,
if you buy it from them
with an instruction manual,
Mercedes arms don't have to give you
every single hint and tip
as to how to make it work most effectively.
So unlocking the true potential
of these engines
is still a challenge for the customer teams.
Now, I don't think this will last forever.
I think this will even out
as the season goes on.
And that's why I think we will see McLaren
get more competitive.
We don't really know
where they're aerodynamically compared
to Ferrari and Mercedes.
That will be interesting to see
as the season goes on.
It's also why we're seeing
Red Bull struggle
who do make their own engines
but they're much newer to it
in the Red Bull powertrains
making it going their own way
era that they're in
with assistance from Ford.
That's why we're seeing
the other two big teams
struggle a bit more at the moment.
I don't think it will last.
I certainly think better times
are coming from McLaren.
I don't think they're a million miles off
once they sort this out.
And listen, who's to say
that because it happened to McLaren
and by all accounts they got unlucky
I'd be staggered if Mercedes...
Well, we saw it with George in qualifying.
There will be other gremlins
for other Mercedes runners.
I just think McLaren,
thank you pardon, have been very unlucky.
But we're in a more engine dependent formula, ladies and gentlemen.
These things are going to happen.
I just can't imagine how Oscar Piazza is feeling.
We've had two races
and he hasn't raced in either.
He got the sprint, didn't he,
which was nice for him?
He got the sprint
but we've had two Grand Prix
and he hasn't started in either.
He hasn't...
It's just ridiculous, isn't it?
He's...
And also he would have been going into
Sunday thinking,
right, I need to redeem myself now
after everything that happened in Melbourne.
And then he just can't even get going.
The one thing I want to say is he seems chilled.
He doesn't seem like he's beaten himself up.
I think Oscar will bounce back.
I have no worries for Oscar Piazza, long term.
I think maybe there is just a...
I tell you, he made actually a really good point.
I don't know if you noticed this, Betty.
His old Ted Kravitz on Sky Sports F1 said that
he was looking at Lando across the weekend saying
that he maybe thought it was the first time he'd seen Lando's post-Abu Dhabi glow
disappear of the sort of reality hitting of,
I'm not going to defend this title, am I?
Because while there's me saying,
I don't think it's too late for Ferrari to challenge,
I can't see a McLaren title fight this year.
So I don't know if you witnessed that
with McLaren this weekend,
seeing the sorts of...
Maybe the thing of...
We've had two constructors wins,
we've had a drivers win.
It's probably not going to happen this year.
I think they knew that, though, didn't they?
Going into this season, I think they knew.
I think that's why the pressure was on so much last season.
They had the dominant car.
If they didn't get the job done last season,
I think, you know,
you'd think, well, are you ever going to get the job done?
Yeah, no, it's...
Well, yeah, and as I said,
I actually think in this rule set,
look, McLaren have not become a bad team overnight.
I think, I'll already say,
I'd be very surprised if they weren't challenging
for the title next season.
They've got the skills, know-how and ability.
I think it'll come,
I just think it's going to take a bit,
as I said, longer for the customer teams in this rule set.
Let's talk about Max then at Red Bull
because he's having an absolute nightmare
and it just seems to be getting worse
and worse and worse, doesn't it?
Yeah, it does.
I don't know about you.
It does feel to me,
he's clearly not enjoying this car.
Therefore, he's not enjoying the new rules.
It does feel to me that with the whole rules debate,
you get Toto and Lewis being like,
we're having a lovely time.
Then Max being like,
these things are the worst things
that have ever happened to sport.
And it is like, well, yes.
Not necessarily a coincidence, is it?
That the ones who were struggling with the cars
hate the rules and the ones that are doing well
don't hate the rules so much.
Max doesn't seem to be happy
and I do hope that Red Bull
find a way of finding performance
because I think naturally,
regardless of his views on the rules,
if Red Bull find performance,
we'll see a happier Max.
And Max is,
it's a controversial thing to say
that he's currently the number one in the sport
in terms of sheer ability at this moment,
we want him to be up there.
So I hope they get it,
but he's not happy, he's not enjoying it.
And I hope Red Bull unlocks
some potential and performance
because it's not just the engine.
They seem to be struggling
with the overall package as well.
The cheer drive ability of the car,
he's talking about a lot,
which has been a problem
for Red Bull in recent seasons.
So, yeah.
I would have loved to have just known
what was going through his head
when he was in that midfield battle
with like Cullopinto,
Bearman, Ocon, Gasly,
and then Verstappen.
He must have just been like, oh my God,
how have I ended up in this position?
Great battle, that though.
No, but we're not talking about that enough.
That was brilliant.
Yeah, absolutely fantastic.
Again, more great race,
which was really enjoyable.
I guess the positive,
brighter note for Red Bull, though,
is that Isaac Hajar
seems to be doing pretty well.
I think it's a really positive note
for Red Bull because
the spotlight was being shown
more and more on guys
you've got to sort this second seat out.
It feels to me
that they've got a driver now
that is comfortable in the second seat.
Again, like we were saying
with Hamilton and Leclerc,
the fact that the both
coming into this car fresh
will definitely help.
But Isaac Hajar
seems to be doing
what nobody has done at Red Bull
for the last two decades,
three decades, seven decades,
generation.
Coming in,
I'm being near max,
and I don't think we can
heap enough praise in him for that.
We heaped so much praise in him last year.
He's doing really well,
so I'm delighted for Isaac
doing really well.
And that is a positive for Red Bull
that it feels like
when they do sort this car out
and look, this is a team
that's dominated the sport
and it feels inevitable
that they will at some stage.
It feels like they will have a driver
line up,
providing they can persuade Max
to stick around.
That means they can have
two drivers up there
and have a second driver
doing what Antonelli did this weekend
of winning the race
when Russell had the qualifying issue.
You know, they've not had that
consistently for a long time now
since Checa was winning races
in his early time in the team.
Since Ricardo was doing it.
It's been a long time for them.
Well done, Isaac Hajar.
He's doing a great job.
Yeah, they've needed it, haven't they?
I will be so thoroughly depressed
if Max left at the end of this season.
Yeah, I'd be surprised.
I think he'd give it a bit longer.
But I still don't think
he's going to be one of these drivers
there when he's in his late 30s, early 40s.
You like your Fernandos
and your Nicos and your Lewis.
I think he, I don't think he wants
to be in it long term
for so many reasons.
So I don't think he's going yet.
But I think it will.
I don't think he'll be a Fernando Alonso.
Put it that way.
Hope he doesn't go.
Hope he doesn't go.
OK, I feel like we should take another break.
Christian, when we're back,
we're going to talk about our community notice board.
We've got Radio Radar
and we're going to be talking about
a few other little things.
So stick around, guys.
See you in a sec.
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son cosas que la comunidad
quiere decir.
No sé,
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necesito un cleaner,
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He perdido mis trenes.
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No, Ian Biel style.
Más que lo perdiste
como si fuieras.
¡Biel style!
Sí,
muy internacional.
Pero,
esto es eso, ¿no?
Y hemos dicho,
¿cuál en la forma en la que Paddock
iría a hacer este notispo?
Si hubiera sido George Russell, ¿no?
¡No hubiera sido!
Él es el persona
que iría a hacer esto.
Así que,
vamos a poner algunas cosas
en nuestro notispo de comunidad, ¿no?
Vamos a hacer un poco de papel
con un poco de papel.
Ok, perdón.
Y también,
si imaginas George Russell
hacer este notispo,
puedo imaginar
Fernando Alonso,
Luis Hamilton
como dibujando
como Willys
en el papel
y ponerlo ahí
para intentar ser divertido también.
Sí, y los niños.
Y los niños.
Y los niños.
Antonelli.
Antonelli,
¿puedo poner un p***
en el notispo, ¿no?
Sí, sí.
Es así.
Sí,
claro.
Y también,
y Oli Berman.
Estás escuchando
un podcast formal.
No, pero en ese punto,
hemos tenido que hablar de Oli Berman.
Pesos no están hablando
de Oli Berman
y Haas
Él fue muy bueno.
Él es realmente
un joven para ver,
¿no, Cristian?
¿Estás disfrutando
de ver su talento?
Sí.
Así que,
él se puso a la escena
muy espectacular
con sus superseparaciones.
Y entonces,
tal vez,
la primera mitad
de su fin de tiempo
con Haas de la temporada,
fue como,
¡eh!
Hay un par de errores.
Tal vez no es
tan rápido
como
él necesita ser consistentemente.
Hay siempre
el delirio,
la velocidad rara
fue ahí,
pero tal vez no se puede
extranjer consistentemente.
Y yo realmente creo que
fue como un post silvestre.
Él ha hecho un error
en la entidad del p***
en el punto de vista
del weekend de Silvestre.
Cuando me ocurrié
mirando en frente de mí,
y yo estaba como,
¡Oh, Oli!
Eso es malo,
pero si
esos errores
just disappeared
after that,
and ever since then
he's gone from strength
to strength,
he started this season
ridiculously well
and Haas
have made a very
drivable car.
They've come into a
new rule set,
maximise their package,
which is just typical
of the leadership of that team
ever since Kamatsu took over.
They seem to be really good
at getting the best out of it.
Oli is doing fantastically.
The pressure is now on esterband.
He, Oli is proving that car
can finish in the points.
Esterband's not at the best starts
of the season.
We're big fans of him
on this podcast.
He's the loveliest man.
I'm a big Ocon fan.
So I really hope
Esterband can be up there
in the points.
If he is soon,
Haas can have a brilliant season.
Really, really brilliant.
Esterband had a bit of a nightmare,
didn't he?
And he got beaten by Cadillac, which...
At this stage is not ideal.
Not ideal.
Okay, next on the community notice board,
Renao revival Christian.
Yeah, now I've called this
piece of paper Renao revival
in the heading
because I couldn't think of a pun
for Alpine,
but it's owned by Renao,
so just stay with me.
I just think they've done really,
really well.
And I really gave them stick last year
saying, look,
this is a team
that shouldn't be finishing bottom
of the Constructors Championship.
They really seem to have pulled it
together.
The 10th and 6th for Gasly.
Colin Pinto finally got his first point
for Alpine.
And that could have been more,
were it not for a tangle.
He looked right on Gasly's pace
in the race.
So it looks like they've got two drivers
capable of scoring points
and a massively improved car.
So well done Alpine.
Big time.
And also I spoke to Pierre Gasly
after the race thinking,
right, he's going to be really happy.
P6, great points on the board,
had a really good race.
He was really annoyed.
He thought he should have done better.
He thought he should have beaten
Ollie Bearman.
And I like that.
And I thought, oh,
you're really confident this season.
You think you can do
way better than you're doing at the moment.
They're clearly really confident.
Alpine, definitely worth keeping an eye on.
Whilst we're talking about
the sort of midfield pack
that are doing well,
we've got to talk about Liam Lawson.
Yeah.
Now I saw a few people on Twitter
saying I don't think enough people
are talking about Lawson.
I tend to agree because
Lindblad has made some headlines
early on
because he's come in and done really well.
But Liam had a really good race.
A really good race.
I'm just grabbing my notes.
He was 7th, remember if he was 7th or 8th.
Yeah, he was excellent
at the weekend.
And I just think he's one of those drivers
that it's become a little bit
fashionable to kick
because of obviously the brutality
of what happened to him last year,
which looking back,
you know,
there's no way
you should have been dropped
from that Red Bull seat.
He'd have done
absolutely no worse
than Yuki Senoda in that seat.
You know,
it just was an impossible seat
to be given.
So he was treated so harshly.
And I hope he's
we're showing some green shoots here
of reviving his career.
And the same way to what Gasly did,
that he went out and got himself
a drive elsewhere,
which is what I think Lawson
long term will be looking to do.
And please, Liam,
I like him a lot.
I've said this a lot on the part.
I really like speaking to him.
I think he's a good guy.
So I'm I think both Limblad.
Great start to his career.
Absolutely brilliant.
Obviously got a tangle early on Limblad.
Didn't get points this weekend,
but no worries there.
He's he started brilliantly.
I think actually it's interesting
racing Bulls, Alpine, Haas,
all of them,
given the reliability stuff
that's happening at the moment.
Don't be surprised,
see any of those teams
on the podium this year.
Yeah, agreed.
Also, maybe if Max Verstappen
starts upping his game,
he might get promoted
to the racing Bulls seat.
Yes, here we are.
We're back to that again
like last year.
I know.
Right.
Next on the Community Notice Board,
we've got to talk about the fact
that Fernando Alonso
was driving with no hands
on multiple occasions.
Have you seen the on boards?
Have you seen the video?
It's extraordinary.
It's absolutely extraordinary.
I mean,
yes,
we're going to talk about
the break in a moment,
that now what's going to be
a week or April break,
it's come at a good time
for Aston Martin
to go back to the drawing board
a little bit.
There's not much more you can say
other than what we said
in our Australia debrief
that it's all gone very,
very wrong.
And I really hope
for Aston Martin's sake.
This was,
you know,
we wanted to be going
into 2026,
talking about a new force
at the top,
mixing it with the likes
of certainly Red Bull
and McLaren,
where they are now,
if not McLaren,
sorry,
if not Mercedes and Ferrari,
we've not got it.
And I can't remember
in modern Formula One history
things like,
well,
I've got to stop
because of the vibrations.
It is unprecedented.
It's all gone.
Riving in a Formula One car,
having to take your hands off of it
for like,
it's like a good light,
second in a bit,
where he's just having to let go
and the car is just wild.
I don't think we've ever seen,
have we ever seen that before?
It's crazy.
Oh, no,
there's been moments
where things like this
have happened in decades
ago,
but in modern Formula One history,
I'm sure somebody might pop
something in the comments
if I've missed something,
but it feels unprecedented to me
in the last decade or two,
really does.
Also on the notice board,
we've got to say
that Bahrain
and Saudi Arabia
grumperies
are not happening
in April.
That has been confirmed.
So now there's this lovely,
well, lovely...
Not lovely if you want to watch racing.
Not lovely if you want to watch racing,
but now there's this massive break
in April.
So like you sort of alluded to,
that is going to be very good
for some of the teams.
You know,
you're Aston Martins,
you're Williams.
They're going to need this time.
It's a double-edged sword.
On the one hand,
they're missing out on running time.
You learn most about your car
through running
and through getting laps in.
And Williams did manage
to get a point at the weekend,
but let's be honest,
it came from retirement rather than pace.
So the Carlos did well
to extract what he could from the car.
Albon had more problems.
Yeah,
the opportunity to get back in the sim
and spend some time at the factory
I think will be grateful
for some of those teams.
We're obviously missing these two races.
They will not be replaced.
It was seen as too impractical
to last-minute rush to circuits
that might be available
in terms of selling tickets.
These operators would have to run at a loss,
which is just not the way the sport works.
I noticed Formula One in its statement
said that the races won't happen in April.
To me, that is deliberate wording
and I think they are deliberately leaving
open the possibility
of slotting something in
at the end of the season.
While that clearly isn't impossible
or so that wording
wouldn't have been put like that,
I think that is extremely unlikely.
Extremely unlikely.
So expect a 22 race season.
Yeah, okay.
Also, Roxy asks,
are the teams allowed to use
the cancelled races for testing time
or is that limited to pre-season?
No, mid-season testing
has been banned in Formula One
for a long time now.
You get your pre-season test.
They got more pre-season test this year
because of the new rules.
It's a good question.
I saw a lot of people speculating on it
on social media at the weekend.
Roxy, D'Embres, no.
They will be able to spend more time
at the factory, more time in the sim.
They'll be able to do more homework,
but they will not be able to go
and rent a track like Hereth
and do some laps around it.
It doesn't change anything on that front.
It will be very bit.
You'll think it will be beneficial
for the likes of Williams.
They'll be able to sort of concentrate
a little bit
and try and work some things out,
you hope.
You hope so.
I don't know.
Right.
Radio, radar.
Christian,
anything that caught your eye?
I just enjoyed,
and we mentioned it at the start,
I enjoyed Charlotte Clair going,
I rather enjoyed this battle.
I just thought that was so refreshing
because it feels like,
and by the way,
I was this when I was racing.
Every time anybody made contact with me,
when I was in the cart,
I thought it was the worst thing in the world.
So I do think like,
any form of sports person,
if you might sum up,
like a footballer,
when there's a tackle,
like that was an outrageous tackle.
And he watched it on the telly
and he like,
I know it was fine, wasn't it?
But still,
we've got used to the drivers
every time being like,
that's the,
that was the worst moving formula
on history.
He's just pushed me off the sink.
I'm lucky to be alive.
That's a disgrace.
So actually the way Charlotte was like,
I'd rather enjoy myself.
This is quite good fun.
I just thought that was,
that was lovely.
Despite the fact,
24 hours prior to that,
he was doing exactly what we used to
and moaning in the sprint race.
So well done, Charlotte.
I'd have given Charlotte
an extra world championship point
for that.
Yeah, would you?
Yeah, fair.
Same, same.
Actually, give it,
give him the point.
Um, but also it's funny,
the fact that he finished P4
and Lewis Hamilton finished
on the podium.
You'd think Charlotte Clare would be
like really angry about that,
but he just was like,
yeah, I had a great time.
It was having a nice time.
Credit to him for having a nice Sunday.
I'm pleased for him.
I really am.
The other thing that we've really
got to talk about,
this isn't radio,
but this is radar,
because the PAA announcer guy
that was announcing the podiums
said Kimi Reichenan
instead of Kimi Antonelli.
I feel so sorry.
This guy's a legend
and has been doing it for so long
and never makes a mistake.
So I'm bless him.
He must feel awful
and I hope he doesn't,
because things like this
in the grand scheme of things
don't matter at all.
And I'll just really,
really, really funny.
And we shouldn't take this sport
too seriously.
It was like in the Australian Grand Prix.
The person who put on the graphics,
color pinto and go penalty,
would have felt horrific
and it was hysterically funny.
Yeah, it was good.
We should normalize
people making funny mistakes.
So it was just the way
Kimi's face was like,
Kimi, Reichenan,
and we've all done it.
Kimi just went...
We've all done it
in Formula 1.
I definitely have.
We've all done it.
And with the racists,
that guy's been doing it
for years.
These are legends.
It was just such muscle man.
We have such sympathy for him,
but listen,
we back you, mate.
We back you.
Funny gaffes.
We want to just have a laugh with.
But...
Also,
Kimi took it really well.
But also,
you can just imagine.
You're there.
You're on the mic.
And you're like,
Kimi, Reichenan.
Yeah, smash that.
Smash that.
Yeah, well done.
What?
What did I just say?
Very funny.
Extremely, extremely funny.
And we need to go
because we need to wrap this up very quickly.
You wanted to talk about Japan, didn't you?
Because you think it's going to be
really interesting.
Yeah, Japan up next.
Just a couple of things to keep an eye out for.
It's a track that's sometimes
quite hard to overtake.
So it will be fascinating to see
what sort of racing we get
with these new cars.
Let's see if we get more overtaking,
which we want.
We really do.
So I'll be really interested to see
the energy harvesting,
the overtaking,
how it all works around Japan.
Keep an eye out for that.
That'll be a big talking point
for the weekend.
As will Aston Martin.
They've got two weeks now
to go away.
Honda and Japan.
It's like a...
It's a national brand.
It's...
You know, we think about Italy and Ferrari.
There's a really similar relationship.
Honda is everything to Japan.
You go...
I was looking enough to be there
last year in Japan.
Hondas everywhere.
This huge pressure on
Honda running teams
to do well when they go to Japan.
So Aston will be desperate.
OK, they're realistic,
but they'll desperate to come out
of Japan going,
look, we've made a step forward here.
We've shown that we're on the right.
Front.
It'll be interesting to see
whether Adrian knew he's on the ground
because he wasn't in China.
That was pre-planned apparently,
but they will be desperate
to make a step forward.
They really will,
because that's tricky.
That is tricky.
It is indeed.
Well, it'll be interesting, won't it?
And neither of us are going to be in Japan.
So we can sit on our sofas
and watch it together virtually.
Which one do you find?
Old school.
Old school.
Old school.
Old school.
Like Formula One,
we're going to take a week off,
but we'll be back on the Tuesday
after the Japanese Grand Prix.
We will still be popping up
to react to all of the breaking news
and bring you all the big name interviews
like we've been doing for the past three
and whatever years we've been doing this for.
And also, guys,
keep sending in your questions
because we absolutely love them.
Fast, curious pod
on all the different social medias.
Yeah, send us whatever.
Questions.
This has been lovely.
I've loved having a chat,
catching up with you, my friend,
and chatting all things F1.
This has been a delight.
And thank you to all the lovely listeners
that reacted so positively
when we did say that we're moving to a Tuesday.
It's a lot of logistics this season,
especially with us both being on the road.
So we're desperate to do it.
We've said before it's not our only thing.
It's not the thing that pots money on the table for us.
So thank you for your understanding
that you might have to just wait
a little bit longer of a Tuesday.
But it means we get a bit more time
to formulate our thoughts.
Think, and then we'll all have a catch up midweek.
Look forward to the next race.
Look back on the last one.
It'll be lovely.
So thanks, guys.
We appreciate you.
We've seen it, Betty, haven't we,
the last couple of weeks with being on the road.
The warmth and love for this podcast.
We so appreciate it.
So thank you.
We so, so appreciate it.
Yeah.
The fast and the curious listeners are unbelievable.
Honestly, I can't even say it enough.
Like, I'm so grateful for you.
There'll be people listening to this.
Sorry to interrupt.
There'll be people listening to this.
I don't know if they would say that.
It's such a cliche media thing.
Our listeners are the best.
I just can't tell you what it means when you're at a race weekend,
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It means the world.
Thank you so much.
Even happened to be getting off the train where I live.
This week.
Don't have to be.
Don't have to be at a race weekend.
So yes, it's lovely.
Thank you, guys.
We really appreciate you.
And as Betty says, we'll be back
after the Japanese Grand Prix for another lovely old chat.
Lovely old chat.
See you guys then.
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About this episode
The discussion covers Kimi Antonelli's emotional first F1 win, highlighting his growth and potential to challenge teammate George Russell. Lewis Hamilton's resurgence at Ferrari and his renewed joy in racing are explored, alongside Ferrari's internal battle between Hamilton and Charles Leclerc. The hosts analyze McLaren's reliability struggles and Max Verstappen's difficulties with Red Bull's current car. Positive notes include promising performances from Red Bull's second driver and Alpine's midfield progress. The episode also touches on Formula 1's evolving racing dynamics, upcoming challenges at the Japanese GP, and community updates from the paddock.
Original notes
Betty and Christian break down a busy sprint weekend in China. Kimi Antonelli took to the top step of the podium for the first time in his F1 career, and broke the record for the youngest pole-sitter for good measure. Team mate George Russell and Lewis Hamilton rounded off the podium, the first for the Scuderia for Hamilton, who has a spring in his step this year.
Plenty of things happened elsewhere on the grid, which means it’s time to bring back the George Russell Community Noticeboard
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