It means certain corners of the track are getting damaged. If the surface is breaking down there, the cars can behave differently than expected when they turn in.
A red flag is when the race is stopped right away for safety. Something dangerous happened on track, so everyone has to slow down and wait until officials clear it.
The Monaco Grand Prix is a Formula 1 race on city streets in Monaco. Because it’s so tight and twisty, it’s usually hard to pass other cars, so crashes and penalties can completely change who wins.
A “10 second penalty” means the race officials add 10 seconds to a driver’s time as punishment. On a track where passing is hard, that can cost you several positions.
Cadillac is mentioned because the hosts say it scored its first ever point. That’s a big deal in racing because points are hard to earn when you’re new or still building competitiveness.
The drivers’ championship is the season points race for individual drivers. Every Grand Prix gives points, and whoever has the most points at the end wins.
Engine braking is when the car slows down because you’re not pressing the gas anymore. In this case, Stroll felt the slowdown wasn’t happening the way he expected, which made braking feel unstable.
Pit lane speed is the regulated maximum speed drivers must follow when entering and driving through the pit lane. In this segment, the hosts explain that drivers use a button/limiter system on pit entry to ensure they don’t exceed the limit, similar in concept to a speed limiter used on road cars.
A limiter is an electronic control that caps speed or engine output to keep the car within rules. The host compares it to road-car motorway limiters, but in F1 it’s used to prevent exceeding the pit lane speed requirement.
A monocoque is a car design where the body itself acts like the main “skeleton.” Instead of a separate frame, the shell is what holds the car together and takes the forces from driving and impacts.
Being “lapped” means you’ve fallen behind by a full lap. The idea being joked about is: if you’re lapped, you get eliminated, so the race stays more intense and unpredictable.
“Engine dependent” means the car’s speed depends a lot on how strong the engine is. On tracks like Monaco, other things like handling and driving skill can matter more than pure engine power.
“Mercedes engine” here means the engine package used by Mercedes in Formula 1. The host is basically saying Mercedes has a strong engine, but Monaco might not reward engine power as much as other skills.
Qualifying is the session where drivers set their race starting positions. In Monaco, it matters a lot because the track is narrow and it’s tough to pass during the race.
When an F1 car enters the pit lane, it has to drive slower for safety. The pit lane speed limiter is a system that automatically restricts how fast the car can go there.
“Generational talent” is a way of saying someone is unusually gifted compared to other drivers of their age. The host is saying this driver’s Monaco performance looks like it could define a whole era.
Martin Brundle is a former F1 driver who now works as a commentator. The host is quoting him to say the young driver’s performance looks truly exceptional.
A full restart is when the race stops and then starts again from the beginning. Drivers have to reset quickly and nail the start again, not just keep going like nothing happened.
A standing start means the cars are stopped before they launch forward. It’s harder than a rolling start because you have to get moving cleanly right away without losing traction.
Kimmy Antonelli is a Formula 1 driver. The host is saying he’s doing so well that he could win the championship, and that his results look earned rather than just luck.
George Russell is a Formula 1 driver. In this segment, the host explains that he had trouble during the race—partly due to a penalty and some confusion in the pit lane—so he couldn’t capitalize on his pace.
Q1 and Q2 refer to the first two knockout segments of Formula 1 qualifying. Drivers must set fast lap times in each session to advance, and the host is using this to explain where Russell looked uncomfortable.
A drive-through penalty requires a driver to enter the pit lane and drive through it at pit-lane speed without stopping for service. It’s a race penalty that costs time and can drastically change track position, especially if it happens near safety-car periods.
Tires are a critical performance component in F1, and pit stops to change them are often timed to race events like safety cars. In this segment, the host describes a panic because the team was ready for Antonelli, but Russell was in the wrong situation for the planned tire change.
In Formula 1-style racing, a “five-second penalty” means the rules add five seconds to your race time if you don’t handle it properly. The key is that you have to serve it in the pits at the right time, not just ignore it.
A sporting advantage means getting an unfair benefit in the race, like keeping your position when you should be penalized. The rules are designed so penalties can’t be avoided just by staying where you are.
A safety car is used to slow the whole race down when something unsafe is happening on the track. It keeps cars moving at controlled speed until the danger is cleared.
Pit entry is where you enter the pit lane from the track. If something is called out right as you’re entering, it can make it hard to serve a penalty correctly.
Formula One is the highest level of professional race car driving. The cars are very high-tech, and how they’re adjusted can make a big difference in how easy they are to drive.
A “setup” is how a race car is adjusted for the track. Think of it like tuning the car so it handles the way the driver wants—so it’s easier to control and goes faster.
“Track’s crumbling” means the racing surface is falling apart. If the track is breaking up, the tires can lose grip and the car can feel different from one moment to the next.
McLaren is a top Formula 1 racing team. Here they’re talking about how McLaren’s cars have been having reliability problems, which affected how the team sounded during the race.
Zach Brown is a key leader at McLaren. The hosts are saying his reactions during the race sounded frustrated, likely because of problems with McLaren’s car performance.
Term
P4
P4 means the driver is in fourth place. It’s a way commentators quickly say where someone is running in the race.
They’re saying the problem might have been connected to the car’s power system—especially the battery. In today’s F1 cars, the battery helps provide extra energy, so battery-related faults can cause weird glitches.
A time penalty is basically a punishment measured in seconds. They add those seconds to the driver’s race time, so it can cost positions even if the car was quick.
Telemetry is the car’s recorded data during the race. It can show exactly what the driver did and when, which is why it’s used to judge whether a penalty was justified.
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Hello everybody, welcome to the Fast and the Curious. Wow, what a mad Monaco Grand Prix.
We have just witnessed who would have thought Monaco Grand Prix with all of the drama. I'm
Betty Glover, today we're going to talk about it all, crumbling corners, awesome Antonelli,
five in a row now, rueful Russell and Gutted Gasly as well. Our resident Formula One geek
Christian Hugel is also here in Christian, you're not Gutted are you?
I'm not Gutted, I had a lovely time watching that and it's lovely to be with you earlier
than we would normally be, we normally do new episodes on a Tuesday but this week we're talking
to you on Sunday at 5.59pm UK time as we record this, we're recording it early because Betty's
off to the World Cup this week. But this has worked out rather well because we get to talk to
you on a Sunday night, sort of old school Fast and Curious and it was great fun wasn't it?
Now, Fast and Curious fans, let me start, normally we start with Betty asking a question,
I won't start by asking a question this week. Fast and Curious fans, me and Betty, I find
myself saying this a lot, we're not just like certain media people who broadcast together
and then never talk to each other, we talk a lot don't we? Too much actually. I'll give
that a couple of phone calls in the week in the last couple of weeks haven't we? Like when you're
driving because you're normally driving, Betty's been on one this weekend, right? Betty's been
texting me a lot this weekend, I'm going to come out and say it, Betty correct me if I'm misquoting
you, you don't like Monaco do you? Guys I'm so sorry but I just hate Monaco and I'm so bored
of pretending I like it. I understand, obviously I understand that it is iconic, I do, I get it,
I get it, it's iconic, we get reminded that it's iconic all the time. And I appreciate it,
looks stunning and do you know what, if I was there I think I'd have a great time but...
Oh you would, I was there last year, it was great. Yeah, I'm not sure it was but do you know what,
like somebody that is watching it on the TV, oh my god, if it wasn't for that red flag
Christian, we would have nothing to talk about, it's like a procession, it's a procession
and then the tarmac crumbled, thank the lord, great, then we got some action, oh but honestly,
I just, I can't deal with the fact that we're bigging up a race which ultimately nobody can
overtake, apart from Harvard Lindblad, the only driver to do an actual overtake, thank you.
Okay right, we're going to go into that a bit more, that was supposed to be a teaser guys,
that's not even the main bit. Sorry, I had to get it off my... No sure, I'm glad you have,
I'm glad you have, I could tell you feel better for it, we'll dig into that, we'll talk about
Leclerc, Hamilton, heartbreaking for Russell, we'll obviously talk about Antonelli,
as we're coming, I say on air as we're recording this, we're also not fully sure about the finishing
order because there are 927 penalties, but as we understand it, Kimi Antonelli's won the race,
that we don't think he's changing, his fifth race win in a row. Lewis Hamilton has got a record
equaling eighth Monaco Grand Prix podium with his second, he's tied with Ayrton Senna,
Isaac Haji was third, his second F1 podium, we think they're investigating him for touching
the car when they shouldn't have done in the pits, so let's, hopefully he's that got third.
Oscar Piastri fourth, Liam Lawson fifth, a career best finish for both Red Bull drivers,
because Arvid Lindblad got sixth, Pierre Gasly seventh, we'll talk about him in a bit because
he just looks unbelievably sad because he dropped from third after a 10 second penalty,
Albon eighth, his best result since the Italian Grand Prix in September last year,
Esteban Ocon was ninth for his best result of the season and Sergio Perez scored his first point
since Las Vegas in 2024 and Cadillac's first ever point with tenth, what a moment,
George Russell finished P13, so Betty Glover, where does that leave the title battle and
I say battle, that term battle is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Yeah, so Kimmy Antonelli
is 66 points clear at the top, he's leading the driver's championship obviously,
five Grand Prix wins in a row, Lewis Hamilton is behind him in second, he's on 90 points
and then behind him we've got George Russell on 88, so he's 68 points behind his teammate
Kimmy Antonelli, oh he's not having a good time of it at all is he, we'll talk about that later,
but should we get on to the Monaco Grand Prix and the absolute chaos that happened at the end
Christian and for those that missed it, it was lap 60 towards the end of the race when Lance
Stroll hit the wall and from there it was just absolute mayhem, well like yeah just under 15
laps or so from the end of the race Lance hits the wall, I thought it looked strange because
watching the slow-mo replays it's like Lance didn't seem to do anything wrong, I know it's very
fashionable to kick Lance Stroll but I was watching the slow-mo thinking well he doesn't look like
he's gone in too quick, you can see him turning the car so something looked weird to me, he hit
the wall in the final corner, brings out the red flag, Charles Leclerc also hit the wall at the
final corner, now David Croft and Martin Bundel on Sky Sport straight away with saying hang on a
minute is the track crumbling away, like is the surface removing itself, now in their interviews
as I say we're recording Sunday night Stroll and Leclerc have both said no we've had car issues,
Stroll was struggling with what they call engine braking, sometimes the car will slow you under
braking, sometimes it won't slow you enough under braking and he believed he was being pushed forward
too much under braking, so he struggled with that, said he was struggling with it all weekend,
Leclerc said his car's a nightmare under braking, we're going to get onto that at the minute,
so there was a red flag, meanwhile there was total chaos because there seems to be some
sort of issue with the pit lane speed thing, for those that don't know, drivers press a button,
there is a line, you must be going at a certain speed on pit entry, the drivers press a button,
like when modern cars have limiters that you put on on the motorway to make sure you didn't creep
over, it slows the car down if you press that button, it's all quite confusing as to what's
happened because 873,000 penalties were given out for speeding under the pit lane, so we've
got a red flag, we didn't know if the session was going to restart, there was loads of penalties
being investigated, it did restart, Kimmy Antonelli stayed unbelievably cool under pressure when he's
got a seven time world champion in what's become a very fast starting Ferrari this year and Kimmy's
weakness has been his start, so he didn't let that bother him in any way shape or form, Kimmy held it
from the restart, we did the last handful of laps and Kimmy Antonelli won the Grand Prix,
but as we're talking those penalties are still being looked at, so goodness knows what's going on.
On the speeding in the pit lane thing, so many drivers got caught out by it, that you know
everyone's questioning what is going on here, is there an issue, is something not quite right,
do we know why yet? I haven't a clue because I agreed with the commentary, we were both watching
on Sky weren't we, so we both, I think it was David Croft saying it doesn't feel right to me that
so many are being investigated, you might get one or two in a Grand Prix, so straight away people
were saying it doesn't seem right, Bernie Collins who is amazing on Sky had one theory that because
drivers were potentially taking a slightly different line onto the unusual pit lane entry,
maybe that was tripping them up because it's done sort of like an average speed thing on a motorway,
that was Bernie's theory, Antony Davidson, Antony and Karoon on the Sky pad, like they're amazing,
they just find everything and this weekend it was Antony, Antony seemed visibly annoyed that
he couldn't find what was going on, he says okay I've looked at everyone and it all just looks
right, so no that's probably going to be looked at in the week I'd imagine because it does seem
really strange, there is no logical explanation there as to why so many were being caught out
and Pierre Gasly's interview at the end of the race, he said look I pressed the button so early
and it told me I was at the limit and I've been disqualified, George said similar, George said
really similar, Pierre Gasly just because you've brought him up I feel so sorry for him because
he was looking like he was going to get a podium, he was on track for P3 wasn't he, cross the line
P3 and then gets shoved back down to what was it P7 and he was talking to Sky afterwards wasn't he
and he was just absolutely devastated, he was gutted and understandably so because then they
got a handful of podiums in his career and Bernie said you can't retrospectively undo every penalty
in a race like that even if they do find there's a glitch because you'd be there till Christmas
like it would just become a total farce so yeah there was that and then of course there was the
track club grumbling Betty as well, yeah Ben got in touch he said that tarmac has been laid by a
British council which we both very much enjoyed because that could not be any more accurate Ben
if you tried that is literally the British council that is what we do, hello to our American listeners
and Australian listeners as we run to about local authorities in the UK, the potholes where I live
are unbearable honestly it was uncanny, it's like driving around Manchester and how unusual
there's something like that though like that that was very weird wasn't it, yeah I mean it's happened
it's happened in the history of F1 before, you also get things like we've had at Vegas where
you get greats so it does happen it's not like unheard of but it's very rare what I'm imagining
is there'll be a investigation into that with the FIA who look after all things safety for Formula One
because that part of the track was relayed so if that if any new part of the track has been
relayed year on year that happens that's not unusual but if there's a part of a track that's
been relayed and then towards the end of a Grand Prix when it was it was hot but we've
had hotter Monaco Grand Prix I think last year it was hot so I was there last year it was baking
so it shouldn't really have cumbled that much because it wasn't that hot I would think they
would look at that definitely, I'm very pleased that it did restart and they didn't just count it
at that point though because fair play Kimmy Antonelli absolutely rode it flawless and it was
before that moment though when the red flag came out and and all of those all of the safety cars
it was a pretty dull race wasn't it truth be told we were asking for your questions thoughts
comments over on our Fast and Furious Instagram page and our favorite comment or question will
win a signed copy of a brand new book called Grand Prix 101 which is out later this month
it's written by some some lad called Christian Hugel don't know if you've
heard of him look at that beauty I actually received mine in the post on Friday that's another
thing we've been texting about good lord Betty's copy of the book that sounds like it's been on a
Pirates of the Caribbean style tour it's literally been everywhere do you know what Royal Mail just
won't post put like just drop drop it over the the fence they used to just lob it over the fence
for me and now they won't so it just kept going back to the thingy anyway whatever let's read out
some of these comments and choose our favorites right so sure sure Tay on Insta says f*** it make
them drive lego cars we're out monocoque that came in as the race was like really nothing was
happening and it really made me chuckle just like f*** it I really enjoyed that uh Christian says
not me a listener called Christian monocoque should become an elimination race once you're
lapped you're out oh I like that great and it's like my theory for um livening up uh coverage
of the London marathon or any televised marathon event basically at the end of like every 10 minutes
like with a paintball gun obviously just shoot the last 10 so you've got the people dressed
as fridges like sprinting along sort of thing have a similar thing here I quite like that
Christian that's a good idea interesting uh Georgie says nothing happens for the majority
of the race then the minute I need the loo f*** happens hopefully you made the loo Georgie
hopefully you made it in time and Luke says is it time to say goodbye to the monocoque Grand Prix
or at least put it on rotation betty you've so right my betty we've heard your thoughts at the
start right we've heard your thoughts at the start my question to you would be given what happened
because because my thing has always been I didn't used to like it I've really struggled with it in
the last sort of three or four years I've come around to it because it's sort of like it's a
unique sporting test and it's an endurance thing and yes it's not the best on a sunday but we can
do one different style of race across the 24 and occasionally every three or four monocoque
Grand Prix maybe even every two or three we get a bit of rain or we get something crazy and we got
that something crazy so my personal thing is the reason I don't mind it and listen I was lucky
enough to go last year but I'm sat here at home watching this year so I'm saying it as someone
who's not just there drinking champagne on a yacht with Kim Kardashian we'll talk about her later
um I still I still like it do you still like it yeah for the reason that we've had today because
you it can lull you into a false sense of security and then bam something happens today
sums up why I'm still a fan of it betty do you not agree with that at all because you did agree with
me at the beginning of the race it wasn't until the whole tarmac situation yeah in the middle of
the race I agree she's right I mean she's throwing me onto the bus but the middle of the race I'm
texting her going you're right aren't you you are right and then I sort of reminded myself
oh no no this is why I like it this is why I like it to be fair that the one thing that you say there
that I do really agree with and I do quite like is that it is nice to have a completely different
test in the season because it's a long season if they were all the same then it wouldn't be fun
would it so I do get that I do appreciate that I like the fact that qualifying is mega it means a
lot and it adds an element of jeopardy onto qualifying more so than usual but I just don't
love it I feel like it's really performative I feel like it's there for just what it looks like
it just doesn't do it for me that's fine I'm not gonna like every race no no that's fine that's fine
and we welcome all opinions and that's it is historically yes it is it is there for what it
looks like and for the sheer spectacle of can we put on an event in this in in this location
which maybe in the 70s was more oh wow look what they're doing yeah it's in modern times it's like
well man they they do loads of cool stuff now don't they like we've got air fries now we can do all
sorts so maybe it's not as impressive do you know what I mean yeah I just really don't like the fact
that you cannot overtake really I know I've had lindblad overtook but other than that not everyone
is arvid lindblad famously so many people aren't well there we go um shall we talk a bit about kimmy
antonnelly then because I cannot believe that he you know we've talked about so much before we've
even got to him he won the the whole thing five grand prix in a row everyone just keeps saying the
word flawless because he just absolutely was flawless didn't put a foot wrong did he surprise
everybody again christian did you expect this performance from him I guess I guess how impressed
are you with him because this feels like it it's it isn't it he's laid his marker down now yes
great right after the break no sorry yeah no to to answer your many questions there yes he
surprised me again I thought charlotte claire would win the race I thought you know what
mclaren of not mclaren sorry famously they've not got the best overall package good lord
Zach Brown let's sound like he would rather be anywhere else than the world during that race
Mercedes have got the best package but so much of that is the strength of the engine although
there are stats that say red bull have got the most powerful engine according to Lewis Hamilton
but whatever we know the Mercedes engine is good so I thought it's going to be less engine dependent
charlotte claire is amazing round monaco it's going to be charl I just thought it was going to be
charl so he surprised me when he was able to do what he's done this weekend but then I mean look
at qualifying to go and we've just said qualifying on a saturday in monaco is is like no other saturday
of the season to do that and put it past an informed max for stappen and an informed Lewis
Hamilton incredible let alone beat George and then on sunday it's like do you remember going
back to 2023 betty when we were talking about max weekend week out and I was saying like there was
a load of chaos happening and it was like and Greg used to say surely that was the one where max
isn't going to win and we like well no because he just doesn't put a foot wrong yeah like look
everybody was getting caught up with this pit lane speed limiter kimmy wasn't people were getting
silly penalties kimmy wasn't he didn't hit the wall which for a young kid in monaco is amazing
he beat Lewis Hamilton he's his weaknesses this season have been starts he has to do another
star imagine the mental stress that does next to the Ferraris who have been so fast starting this year
nothing can break him and he's so young it's I genuinely think this is historic now I think
we're really going beyond isn't he impressive we're going into the level of generational talent
that people have been hyping him up to be I think he had his warm-up year last year and wow I think
we're starting to see one of the great formula one talents it's so impressive what he's done this
weekend yeah Martin Brundle said are we looking at a generational talent and I think you've just
got to you've got to say yes we absolutely are he's insane he said something um after the race
which I just thought was really impressive and interesting on the pressure of that standing
start that you said would have you know caused him a lot of you know you have to have such a
strong mentality in order to to deal with that knowing that that's where he struggled that's
the thing he struggled with this season he said I've tried to embrace the pressure as much as
possible because I just don't want to let the pressure destroy me like it did last year in
the European season so of course I try to embrace it the challenge and I just enjoy it as much as
possible without worrying about anything else and it was a really good test today because with the
red flag I'm not going to lie I was a bit annoyed because getting back into that mindset in doing
of a full restart is not easy but it was a good test on that side and I didn't fail and I just
think it says it all that is so impressive at 19 years old to be able to have the mindset where you
go right I need to embrace this pressure I need to enjoy what I'm doing and to be able to put
yourself in the correct mindset in order to do that standing start again is just so impressive
if if he was going to fail that would have been the moment and he did I completely agree that was
beautifully done that you're absolutely right but I will do a bit on Ferrari but I just want
to praise Lewis Hamilton because like you mentioned how much he's impressed Martin Bundle with
Bundle calling him an inspirational talent and how many has Martin seen over the years as a driver
and now in his sort of two decades in the commentary box but then if you're impressing Lewis Hamilton
as well in that you know you're doing something right because I think it was David Coulthard wasn't
it was doing the post-race interviews came straight away what was it like and and Lewis just went
just first we need to talk about Kimmy and Lewis actually said I haven't got the quite in front of
me because I'm not as prepared professional as Betty Glover but Lewis said something like
it's a privilege to be able to watch him in his moment and boy is this his moment like
you could see how impressed Lewis is and then he said some lovely stuff about being pleased
from Mercedes which I just thought was so gallant so I think that's so classy and I think when you're
you've got a seven-time world champion in second going yeah lovely result for me but can I just
say wow like that says it all I'm just and I never thought Kimmy would be this impressive this season
I thought it might come but I thought it might be season three season four it's it's happening so
fast and and I think it's sort of last year that pressure in the European season might have lulled
some people into a false sense of security and actually bam it's like wow he's that good I just
think it's phenomenal he looks unbeatable at the moment given the advantage the car has
and it doesn't have that much of an advantage in Monaco as well as it does in other circuits it
still has an advantage of course but not as big as it will be exaggerated on other circuits
given that car and given the form he's in he could win another five in a row we we could
be in for a Schumacher-esque season here of winning the title I don't know in late April which
would be some feet because we're now in June but you know what I mean like it we could be on for
a historic season here Kimmy could have this wrapped up let no struggling in the European
season Kimmy could have this wrapped up by the time we're back in America it's astonishing I get the
sense that Ferrari are gonna are gonna win some but we'll talk about them in a moment just quickly
before we move on Jack on Insta messaged us and he said can George actually come back and win this
title now no I don't think he can so I've been doing a little bit of digging I'm not a statistician
so if I've got any of this wrong correct me in the comments I'll happily put something on social
but I think using the current f1 point system the biggest deficit in my brief research before this pod
that has ever been overcome to win the drivers championship was max in 2022 in 2022 Ferrari got
a 1-2 in the Bahrain Grand Prix the first race of the season they roared out the blocks they had
an amazing start to the season and at one point max trailed charl by 46 points now Lewis trailed
Oscar sorry Lewis Lando trailed Oscar by 34 last season now if you were to now now 46 points with
charl is the biggest gap to have been overcoming this point system but if you were to merge all
the f1 point systems and of course this isn't an exact form of mathematics or it won't it might be
for somebody cleverer than me but most seem to think that Kimmy Reichenan's title win in 2007
would equate to the biggest gap overturned at one point people say if in today's money in today's
point system he would have been around 56 points behind god so when you put it like that you're
you're looking at the fact that George is 68 points behind Kimmy Antonelli now I knew you'd
asked me this question so I'm sat there racking my brains going I can't see Kimmy losing races
and and I always go back to the history book so it's go well no formula ones there's so much I
love about this sport that's changed but I haven't realized this research in the book when seeing all
the old pictures so much of it is the same as what it was in the 50s 60s we've got seven decades of
this sport so if you can go back in the history book so has it happened before history tells us
that Kimmy Antonelli will win this world championship at a canter yeah oh god well
the rate he's going he absolutely deserves it doesn't he he absolutely deserves it
he does and we've we've heaped praise on him let's talk about George Russell because
George wasn't as quick as Kimmy at any point in the weekend so we can say George has got the bad
luck yes he does but even watching the practice sessions I mean Kimmy had a bad start but George
didn't look as comfortable in the car in qualifying George looked nowhere near comfortable in Q
one of the qualifying sessions Q1 or Q2 I can't remember which one it was they were worried
about George sneaking through like he's qualifying George did not look happy at all then of course
drivers struggled with setup everything there but what happened today largely wasn't George's fault
we'll come on to that but even taken into account more George bad luck if George had had better
luck in this championship he'd be closer but Kimmy is winning on merit don't take George's
luck away from Kimmy Antonelli he's doing unbelievably and this weekend is another example I don't
believe a George Russell with no with with even good luck would be beating Kimmy Antonelli this
weekend the best George could have hoped for this weekend was second there was a lot of confusion
wasn't there over what went on in the pit lane with the speed limiters we talked about that but
is there also an excuse for what happened with them not serving the penalty because George had to
drop back from third place because of that drive-through penalty that he had to serve
what happened what went wrong was that his fault well we don't know at this early stage again
we're recording on a sunday it's the disadvantage of recording on a sunday but sky played in the
team radio that Antony Davidson found and it would appear that they said to George stay out
whether George didn't stay out I'm imagining he didn't hear that call
early enough after the safety car he didn't stay out he pitted they were only ready for Kimmy
therefore there was panic because it was like oh get the tires George is in
what you need to do if you have a five second penalty to serve in that situation like George did
for the pit lane speed in the speed limited thing which I'm saying we can debate the most of that
if you've got a five second penalty and you're coming into the pitch you have to serve that
five second penalty in the pits if you if you don't pit between the end of the race the five
second penalty will be added to your time at the end of the race but it will only be added to your
time at the end of the race if you don't come into the pits because otherwise you're getting a sporting
advantage by just staying in your position for example if you went also at the end of the race
well that might the five seconds might drop you into the midfield and we now are messy the midfield
gets so that's why the rule is in place to you know to stop you getting a sporting advantage if
you've got a five second penalty you've got to take it at the earliest opportunity so is it George's
fault unless he's ignored the team which I highly doubt it and just minced into the pits anyway
then it's not his fault it's it seems unfortunate because also then you can understand Mercedes
going oh god George is in it strikes me as a bit of bad luck would be my reading of it at this stage
he said um after the race I mean he was so down wasn't he he said he's just flat and just
beyond frustrated and just struggling to comprehend what what is happening but he said that um the
punishment didn't fit the crime I mean he went from p3 to zero points the punishment did hit the
crime that that's I don't agree that you think it did yeah of course it did because the the
the punishments were doubting the pit lane speed limited thing but if you get that penalty you've
got to serve that penalty um if you then get a 10 second penalty for not serving a first penalty
that's the rule book the punishment very much does fit the crime just because it's moniker when
there's been a safety car and you fall all the way back sorry George the rules are there yeah the
punishment absolutely fit the crime now we the only ones we can debate is whether there's something
wrong with the safety car system but then everybody else served those penalties so it's it's unfortunate
because of the circumstances I've said before with them coming into the pits and him getting the call
just at the pit entry it's unfortunate but the punishment did fit the crime the reason George
will be so down is for two reasons a he's getting bad luck that can't be doubted he's also the second
quickest Mercedes driver that can't be doubted so take take away his luck let's stop talking about
luck does it look like George can outpace Kimmy Antonelli regardless of luck no it doesn't that's
why you're down and it's god it's awful for George because there he has sat there for years
while Mercedes haven't been in a fighting chance of winning a world championship Lewis leaves he's
got this person in in the team next to him he's seven and a half so he thinks great this is my
chance and look what's happening it's awful for George it's a brutal sport it's so hard isn't it
because he obviously won in Melbourne he was leading Canada the car broke down he was leading in
Japan then there was that poor safety car timing issue wasn't there he could have been on the
podium today if things had gone slightly differently oh you do it's just so hard do you think that he's
losing faith in himself or do you think his inner confidence is still there no I don't think he's
losing faith himself I was actually very impressed with him in the pen I thought it considering I think
I'd have I think I'd have kicked over the railings in the pen and taken a hammer to the
television monitor let alone just be a bit down I think I'd have walked in I'd have kicked the
railings over I'd have grabbed one of the reporters notebook and lobbed it in the marina oh I'd have
been furious so I thought he was actually very composed in the pen considering I don't think he's
losing confidence in himself I dare I say it with no pleasure I just don't think he's as
quick as Kimmy Antonelli at the moment do you think that George Russell is going to be under
pressure from losing his seat if he doesn't perform well this season it's a great question I think
George was already under pressure for losing his seat because I think if Toto can get max and we
know Toto will take any opportunity to flirt with Max nowadays absolutely any opportunity to have a
good old flirt with Max Toto takes the opportunity and I think even before this season if Toto could
get max which we know he wants he'd been off George rather than Kimmy because they think Kimmy's
this generational talent so yes I do but I think that was the case before the start of this season
I think Toto's dream lineup is is Verstappen and Kimmy I mean I mean whether whether they'd work
now we know that Kimmy's as quick as he is whether they'd work together is a different thing but
listen um then you go into the whole thing of do you want two number one drivers because it can
get messy look what McLaren had last year with two easily uh two evenly matched drivers Mercedes
have been in this position before with Hamilton and Rosberg so I don't know um I think we're
getting a bit ahead of ourselves but no way George Russell thinks he's a number two driver to Kimmy
no no exactly all I'm getting at is I'm sympathizing with George Russell he's having bad luck
but I don't think it's just down to that I also I don't I've had I've seen a few people with the
comments on Instagram people messaging me going oh but it's just all been George's bad luck it's not
Kimmy's pace is there too trust me well we'll see still still a long way to go Christian I'm just I
was just working out with my head I was like with that point scout there needs to be I was like we
haven't had that many races we've still got a very long long season to go anything about tell
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Hugh Gill who's got some breaking news for us Christian what are you hearing
Betty hi I am hearing exclusively it's not exclusively at all from my sources
producer will who sat his iPad open producer will uh that Alpine have requested the rights
to appeal the pit lane speed limiter penalty that's cast Pierre Gasly his podium will bring
you more on this breaking story as we get it I mean we probably won't because by the time
that's done this podcast will probably be done but still at some point in the fullness of time
we'll talk about that happening Betty back to you oh Christ thrilling stuff
and well what what can we do we still don't know the result we started the podcast saying we don't
know the result of the bloody formula one race so we still don't know the result we still don't know
the result oh my gosh the breaking news is it's even more confusing arguably than when we started
the podcast excellent excellent um let's talk about some positive stuff though right another very
impressive weekend from Lewis Hamilton he seems like we've been saying this all season to be
honest but he does just seem like new Lewis Hamilton he's loving life he's another podium for him
I mean what what why why is he doing so well and why is Charlotte struggling so much I can't get
my head around it I think he's probably cut and paced the answer I gave you on the last episode
really he's definitely more comfortable in that team in Ferrari uh he's definitely not got the
disadvantage to charl having years of experience in in a car that he's coming into
and I think those things combined has lessened the gap to charl considerably and now in the
last couple of races it's meant that Lewis has been the stronger Ferrari driver arguably less
three uh so that has mentally reset him and and he's just happier the thing that I'm struggling
with is that Hamilton's happier Hamilton's doing very well Hamilton looks like brilliant like
another second another podium brilliant you know on another world could have won it yeah yeah
exactly you know if something happened to Kimmy Antonelli if he had a five second penalty for I
don't know looking at the wrong direction when he shouldn't have done or you know crossing the road
on a red light um but what's really interesting to me is you've got Lewis being like I'm having a
charl coming out and staving well you've got the quote haven't you I've got the quote he described
it as borderline dangerous the car yeah um he said that he will
go in Lewis's direction in the next race what does that mean well it it would imply I found
that really interesting that comment to me it implies they know they've got a car that isn't as
quick as Mercedes they're trying to get the car that is as quick as Mercedes and that may be the
two drivers the two vastly experienced Formula One drivers have different views as to how to
extract the best of it and therefore they're running very different setups that's how I read it
could be completely wrong could be talking total rubbish but it suggests to me that
Charlotte's thinking oh I know Lewis is doing this setup and yes it's helping you in this area
but I don't think it helps in this area so I'm going to push along with this and then because
because he actually said well there's been a few areas where I think Lewis's direction won't help
but I'm really struggling to drive it full stop because he's been so unhappy in the last two
Grand Prix whereas Lewis has been quite happy so it suggests to me that there's this strange world
happening where Charlotte thinks actually my setup will help more broadly if I can make it
more drivable but I can't make it more drivable so reluctantly I'm going to have to do what Lewis
is doing which is just very confusing to me yeah I wonder I want I want to know the exact details
to be honest it's just it makes sense though doesn't it if your teammate seems to be getting a bit
more out of the car or seems to be more comfortable then it would make sense to be like okay right
I'll go with their approach then it's not just Lewis is too tense quicker and you know
Charlotte was third today Charlotte's going like good lord Natalie Pinkham couldn't have given him
more of an opportunity in the pen to say that wasn't your fault Charlotte was it the track's
crumbling underneath you oh yeah yeah yeah and he's going no it wasn't the track it was absolutely
my car and Natalie went yeah but Charlotte was a massive hole in the racetrack the racetrack was
crumbling under you there was a what is those what are those things that happen where you the the
world goes in and the cars fall in and children what are they called sinkholes sinkholes Natalie's
going yeah but Charlotte's a sinkhole there's a sinkhole in the racetrack and Lewis is going
no I know but sorry Charlotte's going yeah but Lewis's car could deal with a sinkhole in
my car honestly this car is the worst Formula One car that's ever happened like it makes the
Super Aguirre off of the 2000s look stunning and Natalie's going yeah but Charlotte the
the racetrack fell over and he's still going no it's the car like he just he was so
determined to blame the car meanwhile Lewis is sat there in the cooldown room with his new young
friend Kimmy going aren't you wonderful just seemingly just having quite a nice time it's
just such a difference one's borderline you know I'm going to retire and and go and live in the Alps
well he can't he's just extended his Ferrari contract he's got two are fancy he's more of this
despair more of this heartbreak I'll have another three years of this lovely this is a great way
to live my life just being sad all the time no it will be fine it's all going to work out for
Charlotte Clare at Ferrari isn't it isn't it oh I get right so again we asked for your messages
and we want to talk about Charles signing your contract Emma on Instagram this man is so entrenched
in Ferrari depression it's like he's been groomed to believe that this he was where he needs to stay
and we'll go along with his captors just for an easy life
just friend the kidnappers because otherwise there'd be a shootout
Mara said Charles signing on for a few more years then gets reminded of Ferrari strategy
that must hurt a lot he's in the car go even before he blamed the car for putting him in
the wall not the crumbling circuit even before that he's on the radio going I can't fathom why
we've done what we've done I can't fathom it we might as well have run three wheels I can't fathom it
were you surprised at the fact that he signed he's extended his Ferrari contract genuinely I
did an Instagram about this I'm in the gym on Friday right and I get a news alert on my phone
and it's Charlotte Clare is announced as a new Ferrari contract and I genuinely out loud in the
gym went oh charl and then I sort of went hang on a minute this is a driver getting a new contract
to drive for his dream team Ferrari by the way we're going oh Lewis is quick to go to Ferrari
because it's the one everyone wants charl's got a new contract and without even thinking about it I'm
going oh the poor sod but where else is he supposed to go well but quite because he never gets linked
anywhere else so I am surprised I genuinely am surprised if I'm in Charlotte Clare's shoes
I'm thinking I believe I'm capable of fighting for world championships do I think I've said on
this podcast all season I'm struggling to have trust in Ferrari to give them a their driver's
world championship car I think the sort of strangeness between the two cars this year sort of feeds
into that I was I if I'm charles la clare's representatives I am knocking on the door of
McLaren and Mercedes and going any chance now they might have already done that who knows
well he said he had other offers but he didn't want to say who oh yeah but Alpine doesn't count
does it charl with the greatest of respect like do you know what I mean I'm making a serious point
no they know against Alpine but yeah Cadillac would love him to go but he's not going to yeah I've
had other offers courses at other offers but but are there the offers he wants do you know I mean
if if in the agent world charles la clare's agent go charles la clare's available yeah
hats are gonna go all right yeah but are Mercedes do you know what I mean
hold on but Ferrari are like the ultimate right well yeah I've done a bit more than this because
they've won anything since the late 1940s I know they're the ultimate I know they're iconic
they're iconic they're like no I'm an iconic loser then being iconic then being like no
be iconically sad be iconically screaming down the team radio for the rest of your career what
my question to you though is if you were in his position you would stick it out so that you can
win a world championship Ferrari because it is gonna happen I wouldn't I'm sat here doing a podcast
going I've lost trust in Ferrari's ability to win Formula One races if I'm driving the Formula
One car where it's considered I'll I'll turn this off this evening go and have a lovely evening
with my other half it makes no subtle difference to me but if I'm charles la clare it's having
quite a bigger impact on my life so if I'm sat here on the 17th best Formula One podcast out there
going we I've lost faith imagine what I'd be if I was driving it no genuinely I'm being silly but
I'm making a serious point if I'm charles la clare I'm trying to get out I don't believe Ferrari
I never wanted 2007 and even then they were quite lucky so actually in terms of when they were
proper winners it's the Schumacher era I don't see it happening I I totally think red bull will be
back at some point fighting for championships I think McLaren will be back but it's like Manchester
United isn't it players top players are still gonna go to Manchester United not the top not the
top it's been a long time since they've signed to Harland do you know what I mean they so yeah
you're top ish or you get Casemiro the greats on the way down which you could argue Hamilton so
Casemiro had a fantastic season thank you a very very good season and Lewis is having a very very
good season the point I'm raising is they've already won it elsewhere so they can go to these iconic
names uh yeah I'm I'm I'm genuinely not convinced that's the right move sorry yeah let's move let's
move on to um another team that are uh equalist abreast oh my lord did you hear Zach Brown yeah
let's talk a little bit about McLaren yeah what you're saying is Zach Brown joined Sky on the Pit
well during the race didn't he and Crofty was trying to you be Crofty
Abbey Zach just throw to me full update Abbey Zach Crofty was like oh Zach Brown how are you
feeling Oscar Piastri looking very strong and sturdy currently in P4 how you feeling mate
it's it's Monaco isn't it they'll um they'll probably just go to the end from here
he was he couldn't have sounded and and and Zach Lando's having all sorts of problems
yeah cars on its ass another one yeah um no it's not great Piastri P4 though
Oscar Oscar on a better weekend P4 Oscar on a better weekend he was closer to Lando's pace
all weekend I were actually was struggling the practice sessions but tend to dial it in by the
end of the weekend so Oscar on a better weekend I've been saying to you Betty I was a bit worried
about Oscar Oscar had a better weekend it was much closer but yeah there's it's there there seems
to be tension between for me brewing between this Mercedes and McLaren relationship because all
right George had his technical problem in Canada which was probably engine the battery related
and they've said we're not going to find out exactly what caused that for ages but still
they had a glitch there fine but broadly speaking Mercedes engines and cars are okay
but there's lots of reliability issues at McLaren and that I wonder if that's why Zach
sounded so furious during the race I mean credit to him for actually doing the interviews but he
just you could tell how unhappy he was um Lando's had a lot of bad luck um and I think I think they're
just fed up because because we've said before there's a decent package in there somewhere when
we've seen that in glimpses like Lando's sprint race win like with like the old podium we've seen
we've seen that when they're on their day and it's dialed in and the setup's right and everything's
working as it should there is a decent package in there which I still think can win races
but it just seems they're struggling with so many glitches so it was a miserable weekend for them
this this whole thing and you touched on it there that Lando has a lot of bad luck
has led to a lot of people on the internet speculating as to why it's always Lando
that gets the car failures over Oscar's history which isn't quite right because Oscar has had
his issues as well but he has had his issues you'd like to say Oscar wasn't able to take the start
not too long ago just like Lando wasn't so it's not all been Lando factually speaking can I just
make this as clear as anything because I had my dms on this the podcasters had dms on this and I
tweaked on this go back through the history of formula one you will find so many examples
of drivers having more bad luck than their teammate mechanically it happens in top level sport
it happens in motorsport it is bad luck you don't always need to look for conspiracy if you think
McLaren are deliberately sabotaging their world champion go and watch another sport
because it's not happening in any way shape or form if that's what you genuinely think
you don't understand motorsport McLaren are not sabotaging their world champion just like last
year they didn't sabotage the kid that they tried so hard to sign from Alpine it's quite simply
bad luck it happens in motor racing they build cars cars break sometimes one guy's cars breaks
more than the other guy's car it's not a conspiracy right when I'm looking forward to being public
enemy number one for the next time I ain't checking the notifications tonight yeah guild right
we're gonna round up the rest of the action and talk about Kim Kardashian after the break because
arguably haven't seen enough of her hello and welcome back to the Fast and the Curious this
is your headlines at 10 p.m. she's made up a tie because it's a podcast
I looked at the clock I saw 47 I thought oh I can't say that no it's a podcast you are never
going to be right anyway more breaking news we've got more breaking news let's go live to our
correspondent Christian Hugo who is there waiting Christian what can you tell us Sergio Perez has
been handed a 10 second time penalty for being out of position at the red flag restart meaning all
that celebration we had at the start of the podcast about Cadillac's first points wasted time no first
points for Cadillac boo I that's harsh I'm that's sad anyway I just what are we doing that because
there won't be time to talk about it now Sergio Perez is consistently quicker than Bottas at the
moment he's doing a really really good job in that Cadillac well done Sergio anyway that means
miracles do happen Aston Martin move up to p10 Fernando Alonso gets Aston's first point of the
season in p10 despite that car in qualifying being literally slower than the Cadillacs that my
friends is as close to a sporting miracle as you're going to get and no further action on
Isaac Hadja so he keeps his podium unless that writer review that Alpina going to do that was
the last breaking news actually happens and Pierre Gasly has given another interview while we've
been doing this podcast and he is really very cross and for more on that now we're going to cross
live to our Pierre Gasly is cross correspondent Betty Glover in Manchester Betty what can you tell us
well he's dropped the f-bomb so I mean that tells you everything that you need to know he says it's
10 years I'm effing working my arse off for this type of moment we did everything right today standing
on that podium in front of all of the fans that turn up this is the type of moment that for me
can't be taken away from us because of unfair reasons he's really really upset isn't he and
quite rightly so I guess I say it's really you know unless it comes out in the telemetry that
he did just press the button too late I I'm with him it's see everybody said it do you know what
I mean Anthony Davidson Martin bundle whatever everybody on that coverage who's driven a Formula
one car is going seems weird to me if they're pressing the button at the time they're always
pressing the button it seems weird so it's hard not to have at this day sympathy for
Pierre Gasly and all the others who've got the penalties so yeah um tricky let's we need to do
this quickly because we've already been going for 51 minutes such as you know what I really
need to pack I've got a flight at 8am in the morning yeah right okay quick quick fire midfield
let's go go go yeah so brilliant weekend for racing balls let's talk about them uh Liam Lawson
Arvid Lindblad excellent p5 p6 career best for both drivers excellent Christian they're both doing
a brilliant job this season Liam Lawson is proving what a fantastic Formula one driver he is this is
the second podcast in a row where I'm saying he's putting himself in the shop window Liam Lawson
is doing a brilliant job Arvid Lindblad meanwhile is having a very very impressive start to his
Formula one career and all of a sudden we were saying well Red Bull not too long ago who are
they going to put in this second seat all of a sudden they were washed with great drivers again
so yeah brilliant Arvid Lindblad is going to become world champion one day wouldn't surprise me at all
I think he's a potential future world champion I think Bearman's a potential future world champion
although he's had a hard weekend this weekend wouldn't surprise me at all and don't forget
you know these top teams looking for drivers if they can persuade Max to stay Red Bull could
have best happened and had you for a while because Isaac's doing a great job so those two you know
firmly in shop window territory those two also it is brilliant to see Liam Lawson thriving isn't
it after everything that he went through so many critics on social media got put in a horrible position
with Red Bull but ultimately he is absolutely thriving this season it's it's so good you were
really impressed with Alex Alban weren't you I think it was his strongest weekend for a while
not just because he managed to get points Carlos was very unlucky and that he got bashed around a
bit on the restart but again like Oscar I've wanted to see a bit more from him in relation to his
teammate I felt that was there this weekend so I thought it was I mean we said at the start it was
Alex's best result since what Monza in September so a good result for Alex Alban and just an all
around better weekend so um yeah the green sheets of recovery at Williams that they you know could
have had double points on another day today oh heartbreaking for them um Laura on instax said
how much sage do I have to burn to get Fernando a working car perhaps I need an Etsy which maybe
if she did it if she burnt that sage maybe that that's what's done it for for him he's got points
I mean I was just so shocked when they were like again you know that when we're saying we know they've
struggled with their engine and this is the least engine dependent circuit on the calendar and they
were still outqualified by the Cadillacs so we were thinking we were going to go and say in this
podcast it was a disaster of a weekend but to be honest I don't think anybody asked and Martin is
celebrating that point they got it because they got to the end and sometimes in Formula One races
just get to the end we'll get you points so there's there's some merit in it but they're still an
absolute you know it's still nowhere near where they should be anyway forget that forget that I
really really want to talk to you about this um we're not going to do radio radar um we're not
going to do under the radar we're going to do this instead did you see Martin's gridwalk
the worst gridwalk no one would speak to him guys you are there to be spoken to you're on the
grid this is what happens right you're right the worst gridwalk and whenever I much prefer it when
Martin doesn't get anyone to speak to it's wonderful television and he come that he's so quick Martin
Bundle the line when some I mean who is still in 2026 who has got that lack of awareness to start
sort of borderline bullying Martin Bundle it's like going into the Vatican
and bullying the Pope like don't do it and his line he gave when somebody pushed him
don't push me mate I'm nearly famous because it's self-depreciating well it's also saying
come on mate I've sort of done this for a while it was brilliant but did you see him approach
Kim Kardashian I did I'm really disappointed in Kim Kardashian I'm not I'm not a biggest fan but
you know I've watched Keeping Up the Kardashians the odd time I just think Kim come on you know
how this industry works just say a couple of words just say something what's wrong with celebrities
a celebrity is totally weird because it's not just it's just rude the thing that annoyed me about
it most it's sheer rudeness on a human level if I'm out walking the dog and someone says hello to me
I don't just look at them and go I say hello do you know I mean if they go if someone says oh
that's cute dog thank you very much you know it was the way that Martin just just bothered very very
nice just said something it was the way she sort of blankly stared at him and looked him up and
down like I'm not going to talk to you this wasn't booked in was just being normal human being and
say even if you don't want to do an interview just say hi it's lovely to be here thanks all you need
to do what it's even like it's it's done nothing for her PR though really because that's what everyone's
talking about is that moment on the grid just say a few words really happy to be here loving the
sunshine you know sorry Betty you've been invited as a media celebrity to one of the most globally
recognised brands in the world in Formula One and you look at someone like you're staggered when
they approach you with a camera like what's this person doing what were you expecting I just can't
fathom why these people are so rude it's basic human nature to just be polite just smile at least
rather than just give him a weird look like who are you by the way you know thought somebody by
the way would have gone given the on and off what may be happening with Lewis Hamilton you know
thought someone had gone by the way if this bloke comes up to you with a sky microphone he's kind
of a thing so just say hello even if that didn't happen just basic human decency I don't get who
do these people think they are because they're good at a sport or they've created a thing that they
can't respond to a human being is just making conversation with them and yes it's on camera
yeah of course it's on camera you're a Formula One race what do you expect I just what's wrong with
them it's so funny though because then you do get the odd like really big name like big celebrity
that does get it and then they engage and they're really good chatty Steve Carrell
Jimmy Fallon these people who are just like oh my god I'm so happy to be here like Derek Shepard
from Grey's Anatomy can't remember his actual name but love him anyway oh so I needed that
you needed it at the start about Monaco in general I just don't get celebrities why we're
doing radio radar we're not doing radio radar we're doing commentary radar because why we're
talking about we've done a lot of sky love today so forgive us but I really enjoyed
Crofty going do you remember Martin the 1984 Dallas Grand Prix only Crofty could come out with that
like an encyclopedia of knowledge and Martin just called as she like goes no because I was in
hospital with my legs all smashed up oh well actually Martin that's quite a reasonable one
for not remembering that Grand Prix excellent excellent right before we go Christian who is
going to win the copy of your book there's only one winner Emma Emma I will sign it here and now
Emma for saying the book that Charles is so entrenched in Ferrari depression it's like he's
been groomed to believe that this is where he needs to stay and will go along with his captors
just for an easy life that's the level guys if you want to get on the parts that's the level
of humour I really enjoy that Emma right this very book Emma this particular copy I'm going to sign
it I'm going to write you a note in it I'm going to pop it in the post tomorrow on my way to the gym
and it will be with yours and it all yours and if you would like to buy the book it's
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very much is there anything else you'd like to say before we wrap this up very briefly get well
soon to friend of the Fast and the Curious Chris McCarthy who you will hear know his voice from
commentating on Formula 2 and Formula 3 he came on the podcast last year to talk about the brilliant
work he does with the purple sector fundraiser which raises funds and awareness for young epilepsy
Chris tweeted over the weekends because people noticed he wasn't on one of the F2 races to say
he suffered an epileptic seizure over the weekend so he wasn't on it's brilliant that Chris is so
open and talking about this stuff because it really makes a difference to people who go through
life suffering with it so Chris good for you for speaking up on it mate get well soon Chris McCarthy
we hope to have you back behind the mic soon get well soon Chris um we are going to be back after
the Spanish Grand Prix it will be a very special international episode coming from Spain and the
USA I don't know where I'll be in the USA but somewhere and I'll be on holiday so I'm covering
the Barcelona I'm going out for to work at the Barcelona Grand Prix never done that before so
I'm looking forward to that but then I'm going on holiday for a few days after so we'll go back to
the usual Tuesday record by which point you'll be somewhere in America because Betty by the way
just before we go Betty you're doing a youtube show on the work yeah and podcast yeah yeah
traveling around the USA um so yeah on pocket people in you know I've just put the book we'll
plug anything so um it's four American media network men in blazers I'm doing the breakfast
show so I'll be doing a youtube show that comes out every morning eastern time so make sure you
tune into that if you want to hear about the world cup it will be like snappy fun it'll be great
go and watch that but it means that for the next few weeks Betty's going to be in random parts of
America doing the podcast I'm going to be doing it on holiday so next week's episode could be all
sorts of carnage because who knows I could have had a wine we could maybe at one point we'll both
have a wine and we'll podcast no no no you can't have a wine because you will podcast
worse three wines will ruin your life guys yeah um which I can't podcast worse right I do need to
imagine you need to go right this has been great fun we're back next week after the Spanish Grand Prix
bye
About this episode
Monaco GP 2026 sparks nonstop debate as the hosts zero in on late-race chaos: a red flag, crumbling tarmac, and a restart that reshuffled everything. They dig into why so many drivers were caught speeding in the pit lane, including Pierre Gasly’s disqualification after pressing the button early. The conversation also covers penalty confusion, FIA safety questions around track damage, and how Monaco’s qualifying and pit-lane systems amplify pressure—while Kimi Antonelli’s calm, dominant restart performance stands out.
Betty and Christian debrief a hectic Monaco Grand Prix. This episode was recorded while some results were still being amended by the stewards, so insert obligatory ‘all information was correct at the time of recording’ message here.
*SPOILERS FOLLOW*
- Are we now understanding just how much of a generational talent Kimi Antonelli is?
- How are Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc enjoying life at Ferrari so differently?
- Who is in Christian’s bad books for their treatment of Martin Brundle during the grid walk?
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