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Hello everybody and welcome back to the P1 podcast
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with Matt and Tommy.
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It's not an emergency pod as such.
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I don't know what you would call this to be like.
02:13
We knew it was coming.
02:14
We knew that he was gonna be racing.
02:16
And we thought, look, we may as well talk about it.
02:19
There's no formula one going on.
02:20
And Max Verstappen decided,
02:22
I'm not winning enough in F1 at the moment.
02:25
Let me go and do some side quests.
02:27
Yeah, it's getting boring, isn't it?
02:28
Back to Verstappen dominance and winning every weekend.
02:32
And yeah, I feel like I'm in 2023 again.
02:37
And McLaren are still very fast in formula one.
02:39
But yeah, Max did very, very well.
02:42
So let's recap exactly what went on.
02:45
I guess over the sort of month of September.
02:49
So first and foremost, of course,
02:50
he got the fastest lap in formula one history
02:54
by the average speed in Monza qualifying.
02:56
He then won the race the next day.
02:58
The next week after that,
02:59
he gets the Nordschleife permit in the Porsche GT4.
03:02
The week after that,
03:03
because he doesn't take weeks off apparently,
03:05
he goes and then wins, of course, Baku,
03:07
the actual job he has, which is formula one,
03:09
which is what, perfect.
03:11
And then the week after that, which is today,
03:13
he wins on race debut in the proper GT3 class
03:18
with proper power and everything else.
03:20
It's been quite the September for Max Verstappen.
03:23
And half of it wasn't even F1.
03:26
Yeah, and Mad to think he's got a newborn as well, crazy.
03:29
But yeah, it's an insane time he's having at the moment.
03:34
It is funny, isn't it, how,
03:35
and we've had this conversation before
03:37
about his sim racing,
03:38
and it always used to be brought up by like Lewis Hamilton
03:43
as well, when he went off and did,
03:44
obviously it wasn't racing,
03:45
but the different things he enjoyed outside of formula one.
03:49
That anytime this goes well,
03:52
the narrative is always like,
03:53
this is why they're so good that they can do it.
03:56
If this had gone badly
03:58
and suddenly he was having a bad time in formula one,
04:00
it would be like, why is he messing around in GT cars?
04:03
But this to me is just, this is Max just showing
04:06
that he is just built to race.
04:08
He's just obsessed, isn't he, his whole personality
04:11
is racing, motorsport, sim racing, everything.
04:14
I remember when we were lucky enough to,
04:18
when we went to Monaco a couple of years ago
04:20
and he did that speech on stage
04:21
and they were like asking him,
04:23
oh, what music do you listen to?
04:24
And he was like, I don't listen to music,
04:26
I just like racing.
04:27
I listen to V12 engines.
04:29
And he is just, he literally is just born
04:32
to be a racing driver, it's crazy.
04:33
He's just, it's his whole personality.
04:35
He's a racing robot, isn't he?
04:38
So let's get into the race itself.
04:40
I'm not the biggest of GT fans.
04:42
I think you're probably the same,
04:43
Tommy, like we don't watch it as much
04:45
and as passionately.
04:46
So if you are listening and you know,
04:48
you're probably the expert here
04:49
compared to us, but let's kind of recap what went on.
04:52
So they qualified, say they, first and foremost,
04:55
it's worth saying that Max Verstappen
04:56
was racing with Chris Lulham,
04:59
who has some racing experience,
05:01
but he's also known in the e-sports scene.
05:02
So it's quite a nice little combination
05:04
and a great opportunity for Chris as well.
05:06
They qualified P3, which was the day before,
05:10
if I'm not mistaken.
05:10
No, today is this morning.
05:11
I was at the same day.
05:12
It was this morning, yeah.
05:13
Perfect, there you go, missed that.
05:14
But today, yeah, qualified in P3,
05:16
there was a changeable condition qualifying,
05:19
but Max was still very close to the front.
05:21
And immediately lap one, turn one goes from third to first.
05:26
Yeah, at a rolling start as well,
05:27
which you kind of think it's an endurance race.
05:31
You know, what's the meme?
05:32
No heroics in De Sandoval that they say in the F1 game.
05:34
And someone did actually crash
05:36
and almost went into the back of Max.
05:38
You know, it's a four hour race, an endurance race.
05:41
You think, take it a bit easy,
05:43
but yeah, Max got a great jump at a rolling start,
05:46
short run down to turn one,
05:47
made the move, got into the lead.
05:50
And then it was kind of like his last two Formula One victories
05:53
where he was like, you know,
05:55
Harry Potter waving goodbye on the train again.
05:58
Tom, he's dropping all the memes in this podcast.
06:02
There's so many more references you get out
06:03
by the end of this one.
06:05
Yeah, of course it was off, wasn't he?
06:06
He was, he was off into the distance,
06:09
multi-class racing as well,
06:10
I don't know if we've mentioned that.
06:12
And yeah, Verstappen who had the onboard
06:15
and everything else,
06:16
made sure to properly show him because he is the star of the show.
06:20
Because 100,000 people were watching on YouTube,
06:22
which normally like no offense to the Nürburgring
06:25
and the less races,
06:26
but they normally have less eyeballs on there.
06:30
And yeah, it's an amazing thing for the series.
06:32
You mentioned about multi-class racing.
06:35
People that are maybe more experienced
06:37
with multi-class racing at Le Mans
06:39
and watching WEC are used to thinking,
06:41
okay, so there's like really quick racing cars
06:43
and then other racing cars.
06:45
But the multi-class racing in this series is insane.
06:48
There's people going around in like VW Golfs and stuff.
06:51
Like that's how low spec some of these cars are.
06:56
And like what an insane thing for some of these drivers,
06:59
like no offense to them,
07:00
they're still racing drivers in their own right, of course,
07:02
and don't want to like disrespect them.
07:04
But to be able to say like you've shared a race
07:07
with Max Verstappen is like,
07:08
what an amazing thing to have had it in your career.
07:14
you're doing very nervous,
07:15
wouldn't you if you're driving around
07:16
in like a VW Golf or something
07:18
and you see Max Verstappen going past you,
07:19
you're like, don't crash.
07:20
Don't crash into it.
07:22
And now I'm going to drop a reference of the videos,
07:25
the really funny sort of gaming videos
07:26
where you just hear do-do-do-do
07:28
and Max Verstappen's coming out of nowhere
07:30
and you're sat there in a little road car, essentially.
07:33
But yeah, it's a phenomenal sort of exposure
07:37
for this series and for the Nordschleife for itself.
07:39
A lot of people have heard of it,
07:40
but even putting that on the map a little bit more,
07:43
it's one of the greatest if not,
07:44
you think of a challenge,
07:47
that is such an insane challenge,
07:49
even on a racing sim,
07:50
I can't remember half the track.
07:51
No, I think that's the most insane thing about it, isn't it?
07:54
That we've seen Formula One drivers
07:56
go off and do these things before,
07:59
but the Nürburgring Nordschleife
08:02
got basically scrapped from the Formula One calendar
08:05
in the 80s because it was too dangerous.
08:07
And people are still racing here.
08:10
This is not like discrediting
08:12
the other people that have gone off and done WEC and stuff
08:15
because I love to see it,
08:16
but this is another level to go do something like this
08:19
because the WEC is still racing on FIA grade one circuits
08:25
and it's an FIA series.
08:27
To go do the Nürburgring Nordschleife race
08:31
in the middle of a Formula One season
08:34
is utterly bonkers, really,
08:36
and it shows that Max is just like,
08:39
he just loves racing
08:40
and that's why he's doing it, really.
08:42
It's not for anything other than that, is it?
08:45
No, he doesn't need to prove himself.
08:47
He didn't need to go and do that
08:48
and it just shows the thousands of hours
08:51
that he spent on his simulator does genuinely pay off
08:54
because you would think anyone just rocking up
08:56
to the Nordschleife are usually an eight-minute lap
08:58
in the cars that they were going round in.
09:00
That's a long time to just learn
09:02
the specifics of that track
09:04
and he was only a couple of seconds off
09:06
the fastest lap time we've ever seen around there.
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Let's go to a question from people on Patreon
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member Tony Soprano.
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Is anyone actually surprised he won?
09:17
No, I'm not surprised he won.
09:18
I have looked into it a little bit more
09:19
and I've seen some very sort of passionate GT fans
09:25
saying that it wasn't the strongest of fields
09:27
compared to what it could have been
09:30
but there's also people out there
09:31
that will try and discredit anything
09:33
that Max Verstappen does.
09:34
So for me, I'm not surprised.
09:38
It would be cool to tick off the,
09:40
let's have a grid with every single one of the best GT.
09:43
But look, Max found an opportunity
09:45
in the Formula One season to go and race.
09:47
He, again, wasn't there to...
09:49
He genuinely probably didn't want any attention
09:51
and just wanted to go and drive a GT car in a race.
09:54
So, yeah, it was pretty phenomenal to watch.
09:59
I'm not surprised that he won
10:00
because we all know how talented he is.
10:03
And on paper, realistically,
10:05
a Formula One driver, we all say,
10:07
they're the best 20 drives in the world.
10:09
And for a lot of people thinking,
10:11
well, of course, he should have gone in there
10:13
and just wiped the floor with everyone.
10:15
You have to think that he's driving, you know,
10:19
He's not driving a Formula One car like he does every week.
10:22
Yes, he's driven that car a few times and things.
10:26
But the people he's racing against are good drivers.
10:29
They've done hundreds and hundreds and hundreds
10:31
and hundreds of laps at the Nürburgring.
10:35
So it is still mightily impressive
10:38
to be able to just jump in and be that quick
10:42
because, of course, you have the balance of performance
10:44
as well, so it's not like he's got the fastest car
10:46
and he can just clear off and win by a mile.
10:51
Yeah, it's amazing what he's done.
10:53
So I'm kind of not surprised because we know he's talented,
10:56
but I think it can't be said enough
10:59
like how impressive that is.
11:01
And it shouldn't be like discredited
11:03
by how impressive it is to jump into a series
11:06
that you're not part of, even if you are, you know,
11:09
a Formula One driver that are the best in the world
11:12
because it's insane what he's done,
11:15
a really difficult track.
11:16
As you mentioned, you know, he was,
11:20
if you missed the race and didn't actually see it,
11:24
you know, he had two hours in the car,
11:26
his teammate had two hours in the car
11:28
and when he got out the car after two hours,
11:29
he had a minute lead.
11:31
A minute and two seconds, to be exact.
11:33
When he came into the pits, it was, yeah, like,
11:38
going into this for Max, there wasn't much to gain
11:41
because I think a lot of people would go,
11:43
well, I would expect him to win, he's Max Verstappen,
11:46
but if he had had any problems, he would have received
11:49
a bucket load of criticism.
11:51
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11:59
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Chances of Max getting the triple crown?
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Not zero, but I don't think he's gonna go
18:07
for the Indy 500 personally.
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I can't see him doing the Indy 500.
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He is a GT man and LeMond.
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I think he will go for the top class of LeMond.
18:17
I could see him doing that in a prototype.
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He said many times that he'd love to race
18:22
with his dad at LeMond and also Fernando Alonso.
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I mean, my words watching Max and Fernando racing together
18:31
would be my absolute dream.
18:33
At LeMond, I think he will go for that.
18:36
I wouldn't be surprised.
18:38
Of course, we'll get into this later.
18:40
There will always be talks of well, Max retire early
18:43
and all this kind of stuff,
18:44
but he will go for that at some point.
18:47
Absolutely 100% is gonna drive at LeMond
18:52
at some point in his career.
18:54
Whether that is a Fernando Alonso
18:56
where he does it mid-season,
18:59
but I can't see him doing the Indy 500.
19:00
I think he is a GT man.
19:02
He said himself he wants to win the Nurburgring 24 hours,
19:05
Daytona 24 hours, LeMond 24 hours.
19:07
That's where his passion is.
19:11
Yeah, and the Indy 500 is nothing to turn your nose up at.
19:15
It is probably the most dangerous racing event,
19:20
just the speeds that the Indy 500 drivers manage
19:25
and the fact that there are people,
19:27
drivers on the Indy grid that decide
19:30
to not do the Indy 500 because of it.
19:32
Max has just had a kid.
19:34
There's plenty of things
19:35
that I think would push him away from doing that.
19:37
I just don't think he'd probably even enjoy the spectacle
19:39
as much as doing these GT races.
19:41
So I'm of the same opinion
19:43
when it comes to what Max will do,
19:45
but he'll try and get,
19:46
he'll make up a different crown.
19:48
It's like the quadruple crown of GT or something
19:50
and just win every 24 hour race.
19:54
P1 Petri, remember Alan Endepay
19:56
with Max clearly showing
19:57
that he is fast in multiple types of racing.
20:00
Could we see him possibly stepping away from F1
20:03
within the next few years
20:04
to take on other racing series?
20:08
I am more confident now
20:11
that the reason he stayed at Red Bull is exactly this.
20:15
I think that he has the flexibility
20:17
and perhaps even said,
20:18
look guys, I'll stay for another year
20:20
if you let me go play with my other toys.
20:22
And this is exactly what I think he's gonna do.
20:25
If the Red Bulls rubbish,
20:27
which some people think it might be next year,
20:30
he will at least be having fun,
20:33
having this, you know,
20:34
having lots of opportunities to go and do other things.
20:37
Would he have that same flexibility at Mercedes?
20:41
So I am now after seeing this thinking
20:45
that's one of the polls for Max staying at Red Bull
20:48
where the team is his, let's be real.
20:50
But no, I don't think we start the narrative
20:53
of oh, is he gonna step away now?
20:55
Because he's won this GT3 race.
20:58
No, no, I don't think anything has changed.
21:00
And he loves racing so much
21:03
that I don't see him ever really wanting
21:06
to take his gloves off and hang up his steering wheel.
21:10
Do you hang up a steering wheel?
21:13
He loves it so, so much.
21:15
Why don't we talk about him retiring?
21:17
Yeah, because also what this has proved
21:19
if anything is that he can go off
21:21
and even win these races
21:23
while still competing in Formula One.
21:25
So it's not even like the narrative is,
21:29
oh, he's finished seventh at the Nurburgring
21:31
and he really wants to win it.
21:32
And he needs to basically take some time out
21:35
from Formula One to really concentrate
21:37
on the series to be able to win it.
21:39
And of course, the Nurburgring 24 hours
21:40
will be a tougher challenge.
21:42
LeMond is a tougher challenge as well.
21:44
But Fernando Alonso, of course,
21:46
did the same thing where he carried on at McLaren.
21:49
And it felt like the same kind of thing
21:51
where the McLaren wasn't performing
21:53
the way he wanted to.
21:54
And he said, well, I want to go do this.
21:57
And it's almost that bargaining tool.
21:59
Yeah, I totally agree that I could see this being a thing now
22:01
where Red Bull have said,
22:03
oh, yeah, we'll let you go and race
22:05
on one of the most dangerous circuits on the world
22:11
Yes, I'm driving this kind of, you know,
22:12
go and do extreme sports.
22:13
Meanwhile, Max is literally racing around the Nordslide.
22:17
And I do think that this is gonna be a thing that he does.
22:22
I wouldn't be surprised if he does LeMond
22:25
while still racing in Formula One, like Fernando Alonso did.
22:27
I can't see him doing like a,
22:31
I want to do the whole World Endurance Championship season.
22:34
I think he'll just do like a,
22:35
I want to win LeMond, I'll jump in and do the staples.
22:39
So yeah, I don't think this is a case of like,
22:43
Max is gonna retire now and become a GT3 driver.
22:46
No, I really don't think so either.
22:48
Question from P1 Patriot member, TVR driver.
22:51
Do you think this will encourage more F1 drivers
22:54
to participate in other series?
22:56
No, I'd love to say yes, but I don't think it will
23:03
because it's just too difficult
23:05
and something you've kind of alluded to there
23:07
in the last question.
23:10
Max is in a very powerful position
23:12
that he can do whatever the hell he likes.
23:14
And Fernando Alonso is in a position
23:15
where he can do whatever the hell he likes.
23:17
No offence to just picking someone at random.
23:20
Ollie Bearman says, I want to race at whatever.
23:25
Well, he's new, he's a rookie.
23:26
Didn't they send you a flip in Teddy Bear for grace?
23:28
And I love the teddy bear.
23:29
I love the teddy bear, Bortoletto,
23:31
Ollie Bearman, Antonelli, everyone,
23:34
all these rookie drivers aren't in a position
23:37
to be able to tell their team
23:38
I want to go race at the Nurburgring
23:40
and they'll probably say, well no,
23:41
you've got contracts
23:42
and they're not in that kind of luxurious position yet
23:45
and they may be later down the line.
23:46
Look, like Fernando Alonso,
23:48
Max wouldn't have been at the time
23:49
if he'd said in his first year at Tarosso,
23:52
I want to drive in the Nurburgring.
23:54
Absolutely not what you're talking about,
23:56
getting in the car and driving,
23:57
focus on Formula One.
23:59
So, and these young drivers
24:03
are really interested in sim racing and stuff
24:06
and Ollie Bearman, the reason Ollie Bearman
24:09
was because when Max got back into the F1 paddock,
24:12
there was that video where Ollie Bearman
24:13
pretty much ran straight up to Max
24:15
and was like, what was it like?
24:17
And was I really excited to talk to him about it?
24:20
But unfortunately for them,
24:22
I just don't think, one, they're allowed to
24:25
and two, it's too difficult for them
24:28
to basically be able to go off and do this
24:31
while doing their campaigns.
24:34
Whereas, yeah, Max is in that much stronger position
24:36
because, you know, Nico Holkenberg
24:39
did Le Mans back in 2015
24:43
and you could have asked the same question again.
24:45
Now, the only people that have gone off
24:46
and been doing side quests
24:49
and that's 10 years ago now, which is mad to think.
24:52
Nico wasn't even an F1 driver then, was he?
24:57
And he just did two of the WEC races.
25:04
But yeah, and then didn't do it the following year.
25:06
So that was like a special thing
25:08
and 10 years later,
25:10
only Fernando Alonzo and Max Verstappen have gone off
25:12
and kind of done these two things.
25:14
Lando's Dando Toner.
25:15
But he wasn't an F1 driver, was he?
25:16
Oh yeah, it was the F2 at the time.
25:18
Yeah, that was pretty.
25:20
Maybe just, I think he'd just announced maybe
25:22
that he was going to be in McLaren.
25:23
He was going to be in McLaren, I think,
25:25
something like that, because he was with Alonzo.
25:27
So yeah, it's difficult.
25:29
I'd love to say yes, but Formula One
25:32
is such an intense sport.
25:35
This is the thing they always mention.
25:36
It's, there's so many races now.
25:38
It takes a massive toll on the drivers.
25:41
You've got to be an absolute racing nerd
25:45
and that racing nerd is Max Verstappen
25:47
because he will want to just race all the time.
25:49
Yeah, I think there are other racing nerds
25:51
as such on the grid for sure,
25:53
that love racing and things like that.
25:54
I don't think to the extent of what Max Verstappen does,
25:56
but it is very much a case of not being allowed to.
25:58
It's about, that is absolutely number one,
26:01
is they are not allowed to.
26:02
Most of the drivers will not be allowed
26:04
to go and do anything that might put them
26:07
on the back foot when it comes to their F1 seat.
26:09
Then below that, do they want to spend their free time,
26:13
which a lot of drivers claim that the circuit,
26:15
the calendar's really quite intense
26:17
and they need some time away.
26:19
Do they want to do that?
26:20
Some of them probably not.
26:21
So there are plenty of factors
26:24
that I think are at play here,
26:25
but the main one is that they aren't Max Verstappen
26:28
or I think Lewis Hamilton, if he wanted to do it,
26:30
he'd be able to, you have to be a big dog
26:33
to be able to go and just have fun in other series
26:36
as much as I think like Bortoletto
26:38
would love to just come and follow Max wherever Max goes,
26:41
to be honest with you,
26:41
and just be part of it because he's a proper Max fanboy.
26:44
So yeah, I don't think it's encouragement,
26:46
it's just being allowed to.
26:48
But I also don't think that the younger rookies,
26:50
especially in the younger drivers
26:52
should be doing other series
26:54
when there are 24 Formula One races to prepare for as well.
26:57
There's only so many drivers that have the capacity
26:59
that Max Verstappen has in his head.
27:03
Wow, we managed to chat for almost 20 minutes
27:05
about Max doing a GT3 race,
27:07
but that was good fun.
27:10
Tell me what your final thoughts?
27:11
Final thoughts are now back to Singapore
27:16
and to find out if it's championship back on
27:19
Oh wow, you look at, yeah.
27:20
Yeah, when will it be?
27:23
It will be October, so the super September
27:25
that Max is having will end.
27:26
Super September is gonna end
27:28
and then it's back to October.
27:32
I was gonna say awful, that's A,
27:34
it sounded like A, what would it be?
27:40
Orid, orid October.
27:43
Hopefully not for you
27:44
and for the F1 championship sake.
27:45
Oh yeah, please not.
27:46
I wanna see a Max Verstappen win by a minute.
27:48
But anyway, that's my final thought
27:50
because I won a three-way fight for the championship.
27:52
Anyway, that's something completely different.
27:54
Looking forward to Singapore
27:55
obviously next weekend and we'll see you soon.
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