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[Assistant] One day it's fake leprechauns trying to steal your gold and valuable items, the next day it's trying to bring Master Shake back to life with a witch doctor. It didn't matter what was happening, it just mattered how it all came together in the end. What all this randomness would add up to. Which would usually be an abrupt ending with one or more of the characters just randomly dying due to something ridiculous already happening.


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[Assistant] When the fourth season started, the cold openings were gone after that, and went to traditional openings of the nonsense for the show.


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[Assistant] Also, the writing for the show had a fun process. While, yes, it was scripted, they weren't afraid to let the voice talent ad-lib lines that later would be animated and added into the episode proper. This allowed the show to keep a fresh and fun work environment, giving way to more exciting finished products. Unfortunately, the show was canceled as the 11th season was coming to an end in August of 2015. The president of Adult Swim, Mike Lazo, decided it was time to move on from the show and shelve it.


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[Assistant] Even though both Dave and Mike wanted to continue, and the show was still performing well. Now there is still hope that one day this show can make a comeback. Dave and Mike have stated that while there are no plans currently for a revival, that maybe one day the show can come back.


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[Assistant] We might during one of the text screens between all their other shows. Hopefully one day we see Aqua Teen Hunger Force make a comeback. It was a staple show for roughly 14 years with a dedicated audience who would like to see more adventures of the fast food trio and Carl to see what other ridiculous antics they can get into. Or just give you something weird to wake up to in the middle of the night.


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[Assistant] Make a swan from the sky, I command it. Yeah, yeah I'll do that. Adult Swim started its program block officially in September of 2001.


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[Assistant] George Lopez, you know, jumping in the air. Now that's a low rider.


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[Assistant] I guess after a long dip in the pool of Cartoon Network programming, it's nice to have a pool briefly only open for an older crowd. Guess it's time to swim.


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[Assistant] Roughly the length of a community pool's adult swim session as to not overstay the welcome of absurdity.


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[Assistant] Trump has told me that he believes the country was already divided, that if he is just confrontational in a fighter, that people who feel aggrieved in the country will rally to him


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[Assistant] It's an entirely unconventional approach to the presidency to rally your own base and to not really try to unite the country.


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[Assistant] Did not get tenure at the Hebrew University as a historian.


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[Assistant] And he considered it a great defeat and humiliation to have to leave the country and find his academic way in the United States.


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[Assistant] What he thinks is a fingertip feel for American sensibilities and touch points. And he's great for CNN.


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[Assistant] Netanyahu saw a moment of betrayal and peril and an agreement that would never and could never work.


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[Assistant] That, you know, there are real nutcases in the national religious camp that we see that we need to calm down. Even gesturally.


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[Assistant] Netanyahu never did that. He never did that to his enormous discredit.


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[Assistant] Is one of the main political forces that's helped move the entire Israeli political spectrum to the right.


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[Assistant] Barack Obama came pretty much out of nowhere. He was a senator for about ten and a half minutes. And suddenly he was running for president. This is, this is a pretty alien creature to, to Netanyahu. And to a lot of Israelis.


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[Assistant] Any other issue, but also having to do with Israel.


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[Assistant] There are all kinds of figures in the Israeli security establishment, big military figures, who all, all think that it would be crazy.


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[Assistant] To say nothing, you know, counterproductive, dangerous, ruinous for Israel to attack Iran.


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[Assistant] I know for a fact that on election night, you know, the champagne bottles, metaphorically,


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[Assistant] We're on ice, they're waiting. They were absolutely convinced that the world could not fail to see things as they did and therefore Romney would almost certainly win.


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[Assistant] You have this great drama of American politics.


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[Assistant] You have the drama of a Republican Congress who almost seems to want to have Bibi Netanyahu as its leader rather than Barack Obama.


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[Assistant] I guess soccer in America, more, more people catch on to it, more people gain some traction here because I feel like no matter what they do, yeah, soccer people love soccer, but people that don't love soccer don't pay any attention.


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[Assistant] I believe at the end of a Twitch stream and then he said, Oh, I didn't even turn this off. And sports illustrated said that he was high. Then now he's like, it could mean drunk. Faded could definitely mean drunk.


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[Assistant] Faded could definitely mean drunk. Bitch, I'm faded. Faded. Faded. Faded. I'm faded.


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[Assistant] Uh, probable cause or something of that. There's some in the substance of abuse policy. Now granted, I don't know it now. They've changed it with the new CBA and over the years.


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[Assistant] Or he was high and was just pissed off at Sports Illustrated and said he was high. One or the other.


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[Assistant] Zeke would want, but he did say I'm fated, and I would assume an old white who writes at Sports Illustrator was like, fated? Let me Google that real quick.


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[Assistant] Tyga sang a song about this. Tyga was smoking weed while he sang this. He's high! Son of a bitch is high! Let's host it!


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[Assistant] Then, uh, Zeke's like, no, I was drunk, please get off of me, and I'm allowed to be, it's the off season, get off my dick. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Blake Snell, think about Blake Snells. I mean, every day, all day that's happening. Just like teams are monitoring everybody's social media by fake accounts. Like I think I had three people in Nicole's front office that were following me from fake accounts. I think. Like, I think there was three people following me.


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[Assistant] I guess that is a way to find out whether or not your players are acting how you would hope that they would act in the DMs.


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[Assistant] Not bad, to be honest. I've, I've come back, uhm, feeling a little bit croaky, to be honest. The, uh, the dust from the cement works was, uh,


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[Assistant] Rife in the air throughout the weekend. Do you know what I've learned? I've learned that five years away from Shanghai is five years too long in a racing context. I really, really like the Chinese Grand Prix.


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[Assistant] And whilst it might not be the most glamorous location on the planet and whilst in the past we haven't had the most, um, you know, full houses every time.


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[Assistant] This time around we did. This time around Shanghai properly embraced Formula One. Uhm, you know, it helps to have a local hero racing in it. But put on, I thought a brilliant weekend of racing and I just, it's a shame we've not been there for a while. I really enjoyed my five days in Shanghai.


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[Assistant] Well, I, I don't think, I don't think you keep a driver in a sport, um, just because the, the, the popularity of that driver is, is such that it guarantees a full house at the Grand Prix. You know, we're not into WWE levels just yet, but I personally, I think Joe Granue


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[Assistant] Those scenes, that emotion, they're just in the back of my mind, I kind of...


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[Assistant] I was just thinking, I hope this isn't the last and it might well be the last for Joe Guarnou for some time, because I don't see where he lines up on the grid next year. I don't see where there's a place for him that he wouldn't already have been at and would have left Sauber at the end of last year, Christian, if that makes any sense.


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[Assistant] It doesn't, and in a nutshell I'll tell you why. I think Nico Hulkenberg is going to Sauber and I think he'll be there at Audi alongside Carlos Sainz. I think that's where Sainz is heading.


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[Assistant] Because I think Mercedes will bring in, uh, Andrea Kimi Antonelli. That makes logical sense. And I think Red Bull will keep hold of Sergio Perez because I think that makes logical sense for them as well. And then where, where does Joe go? Well, look, he could go to Alpine.


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[Assistant] And remember he was a Renault Academy driver, so he could go back into that stable again.


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[Assistant] But then Ocon or Gasly or both are going to have to leave Alpine. Now Gasly might find himself at Williams and I'm sure he's been having negotiations with Williams to drive alongside Alex Albon. That does free up a space, but they've also got Jack Dewan waiting in the wings. He's already very much climatized.


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[Assistant] Uh, within that team, and then you're kind of thinking, right, Hass, no, because I think that will be, uh, Kevin Magnuson and Olly Behrman, uh, for next year, and Joe's not part of that Ferrari stable, so Ferrari will want to bring the young Ferrari driver in, and then, then you're kind of searching, uh, for answers on that one, and it probably, uhm,


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[Assistant] A works well with that team, B works very well with their sponsors and is a very marketable driver, uh, for the sponsors, including the title sponsor, uh, that Haas have. And, and does, does Joe get you better than Kevin Magnussen? Potentially.


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[Assistant] But I think Magnusson is a known safe pair of hands in that respect and look.


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[Assistant] To lose his seat at the end of the year. I think he did make a mistake against Yuki Sonoda. I think he did deserve the penalty. I think Ioki Matsu would be better off arguing the case for Coventry City's VAR ruled out goal, his favourite team in the FA Cup semi-final than arguing that Magnussen should get away with that one, to be fair, but uhm, you know.


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[Assistant] If you're pushing in your racing, and Magnusson still is, and he's racing as hard as he would be for first place, down in 16th, you know, you at least are giving your all for the team in that respect.


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[Assistant] He had the hat. Listen, this was his eighth second place. You'd think he'd be used to picking up the hat with the number two on it. It's happened a few times in the past, but no, he's gone. He obviously doesn't like finishing second. He's gone for the third place one instead. And nobody pointed out. Proper shambles. Where was the person with the clipboard?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think Lando put right everything that went wrong in the first 500 meters of the sprint race on Saturday with a tremendous drive in the Grand Prix and a mature drive as well, where he managed to combine that age old request that seems pretty impossible to the lay person.


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[Assistant] Pushing hard, keeping the pace and preserving the performance life in your tyres as well. Andrea Sella picked that out as what impressed him most.


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[Assistant] And he, he easily had the pace to hang on and to beat Sergio Perez. And whilst you can argue he got a bit lucky with the timing of the virtual safety car, so did Charles Leclerc in that respect.


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[Assistant] And uhm, he actually waited a lap longer than Charles Leclerc to come in under that VSC, so he lost a little bit less time.


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[Assistant] But I thought he was sensational with the Grand Prix. I thought he was brilliant in qualifying in the wet as well. He managed to generate heat and temperature in his tyres in that sprint qualifying where the likes of Max Verstappen, for instance, didn't.


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[Assistant] And managed to prove himself wrong because the word from McLaren going into the race, the word from McLaren on the Sunday was that we do not stand a chance really of being on the podium here. We're racing against Aston Martin and Mercedes and if we beat them, that's absolutely brilliant.


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[Assistant] We're not racing Ferrari and we're not racing Red Bull. So it came as a bit of a surprise, but you know, a welcome surprise.


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[Assistant] From Miami onwards, what the upgrades will bring. And if you remember back to last year, we waited until last year, Lando had the upgrade and they had a magnificent season from then on. Well, it's Miami that they're targeting for the big upgrades this year. And Andrea Stella, who was a calm, patient, assured, you know, just


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[Assistant] In control team principal, and I think that has paid dividends to McLaren, who needed leadership, but a calm leadership, who needed someone to believe in them.


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[Assistant] But to be that steady hand on the tiller. And he doesn't want to get involved in the politics. You know, he doesn't want to be the team principal in all the meetings with the other team principals. He wants to be the engineer that's leading them to glory. And he thinks that there's no reason why they can't do again what they did last year, which was catch up.


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[Assistant] I've developed over the winter, so therefore it's no surprise that we're on the back foot again because they're coming from a stronger base.


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[Assistant] But I'm loving what's happening at McLaren at the moment. They, they, they are a team that have got it right. They're not winning races. They might win races this year. They're not going to win regular races this year, but they've got it right. And considering where they were.


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[Assistant] The last time we went to China, for instance, you know, what a difference five years has made with a proper plan and proper leadership at that team.


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[Assistant] But yea, Sochi 2021 was the chance, and I think if he had the chance to go back and do it all over again, he'd make a different decision in terms of coming in and changing his tyres.


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[Assistant] That was the first time he'd found himself in that position. He was a much younger driver then, you know, he wasn't as experienced and now he is a more mature and calm driver now.


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[Assistant] You know, and you can, you can see this is enjoying the luxury of a long-term contract, a long-term association with a team that he believes in and they believe in him as well. And it's really working for Lando and it's brilliant to see.


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[Assistant] It is a big if, Max, I think there's one thing, and Ron Dennis was right all those years ago, there's one thing.


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[Assistant] That will stop McLaren potentially winning a world championship and that's they're still a customer when it comes to engines. They're not a works team in that respect and it's a real shame that the Honda Association didn't work out for them because look how, you know.


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[Assistant] When McLaren paid a hundred million to, to, to Tora Rosso and Alfred Tauri to, to take those Honda engines. Look how...


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[Assistant] The, the, the Fianza outfit, Red Bull work together to help Honda, you know, become...


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[Assistant] Very regularly. You don't win championships as a customer.


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[Assistant] You've gotta have a works deal. Which is why Aston Martin have moved heaven and earth to get that works deal. Which is why Red Bull making their own power trains as a works team. You know, Ferrari and Mercedes will carry on with that. And where Alpine really needs to work a bit more closely with their, uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, base a very chassis on as well to, to, to integrate the two sides a little bit more because they have that opportunity and it's not working for them at the moment.


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[Assistant] It doesn't help as well that Carlos probably had a contract on the table, that he was mulling over before Ferrari said hang on, don't sign that.


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[Assistant] Bit of a bit of a snag as far as you're concerned. We've got this chap from Stevenage coming in.


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[Assistant] I think, um, I think Carlos is right. They lost, they lost a bit of ground and, and losing that ground had then a knock on effect. So they, they, they lost out, uh, places at the start. They, they pushed too hard to get those places back where they didn't necessarily need to, had they have just held the position.


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[Assistant] And then that, that, that cost them towards the end. They didn't maximize their chances. I don't think they'd have got, uh, third place, which they, they, that was their intention going into the race. Ferrari believed that they, they had the pace to get third. They made a switch this year in the car whereby their,


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[Assistant] Effort technically into controlling the tyres rather than lighting them up in the way they did last year to get so many pole positions. Red Bull do the same but I think they've got a better balance as is shown by the results.


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[Assistant] To be honest, Aston Martin have probably gone the other way to Ferrari and having a better qualifying pace than their race pace allows them to maximise a day later.


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[Assistant] They definitely were targeting third. They lost places at the start. There's a lot of squabbling between the drivers.


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[Assistant] After all, look at, look at Monza last year where they allow both Charles and Carlos.


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[Assistant] To go banging wheels in the last few laps and giving us great entertainment on that one and nothing was said about that other than praise for team and drivers for really going for it.


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[Assistant] It's only when it starts to, to, to really hurt them and I don't think it necessarily really hurt, hurt them at the weekend apart from at the start where Carlos was forced wide and, and, and that was an understeery Charles Leclerc that was causing that rather than, than in trying to run his teammate off the road.


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[Assistant] But they could do with another sit down, I think, and just be reminded that, look, we're in a great, we're in a really great position to take second place in the championship. We don't want to throw that away. Carlos, I know you're going, but come on, you've got to do your bit for the team here.


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[Assistant] Oh absolutely, and we talk about McLaren and their upgrades and their updates to come. Charles Leclerc I think has described Ferrari's next updates as being a game changer. So we'll see.


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[Assistant] We'll see where that comes as well. And as far as I know, they're coming to Miami. Introducing upgrades on the sprint weekend is never ideal.


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[Assistant] Get them in now, uh, perfect them for Imola cause there's no point trying to perfect anything for Monaco cause that, Monaco could be, you know, as, as has been the case the last few seasons, an incredible qualifying, um, uh, hour.


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[Assistant] That might give us a bit of a shock result on the, the, the Sunday afternoon. Cause as we know, overtaking is not the easiest thing in Monaco ever.


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[Assistant] I don't even think it's the battle for second place. I think, I think what we've got this year is the battle behind Max Verstappen. It's, it's two world championships. You know, Max is to lose, 25 points clear now and he is still the best driver in the best car on, on current form. But behind him, put his teammate Sergio Perez in that. It's an incredible scrap.


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[Assistant] Let's give you the analogy, the Mercedes engine in 2014, you know, it was proper rocket ship and it was, they were turning the thing down and it was still winning by, you know, you didn't need a stopwatch, you needed a calendar to judge how far ahead they were.


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[Assistant] Um, and eventually the other engine manufacturers caught up and caught up. Mercedes improved, but they didn't improve by 10%. They improved by seven or then five and then three and then two because it's that lower diminishing returns. There comes a time where you can't improve.


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[Assistant] As much as, as, as, as you, your advantage was right at the start.


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[Assistant] So it's a bit of that, and I think that optimism comes from, look, Red Bull might be here, we might be there as of last year, but then Red Bull might be there this year, and then we might be here, because we've got a bigger margin for improvement than Red Bull have for increased development.


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[Assistant] Because they've already hit a very nice sweet spot, and within the restrictions of the regulations, there isn't a 10% improvement, just to pluck our figure to come on that.


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[Assistant] That gives me more hope, if that's right, for next year as well, which everyone thinks is a bit of a trading water year, but we might actually, as often happens, the year before we change the regulation.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so we might even get a closer one for next year as well, but look, boys, you know me, I'm the eternal optimist, I'm a Westamp season ticket holder and I think I have to be. You ought to be.


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[Assistant] Oh, I tell you what, I tell you what I learned as well, Matt, to go back to the beginning, right? Yeah.


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[Assistant] Passport control at Shanghai airport is not a place to be standing when your team are 4-0 down after 40 minutes or 30 minutes to Crystal Palace on the Sun.


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[Assistant] No, before a long haul flight, this was a lonely place. I was looking around for sympathy, it didn't come. Nobody understood my woes on that one.


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[Assistant] Wait, you were, Leicester were the Red Bull of the championship at one stage this season. So what's happened to Leicester actually gives the rest of us hope that we might actually get a season finale at Abu Dhabi where three or four have got a chance of winning.


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[Assistant] The concertina effect, from what we could see at the time, looked to have been started by Fernando Alonso to be fair, because he's the one that locked up.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but you do get, you do get that and of course they're all slowing down because the safety car's coming in and they're going to get going again and at some stage Max is just going to launch but he wants to get the best getaway and all the drivers know this and


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[Assistant] The only person you should be focusing on, and Niko was absolutely spot on in this respect, because he's been there and he's done these restarts, focus on the guy in front.


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[Assistant] If you watch the onboard, Lawrence is clearly looking that way into his mirrors. I don't know why. What is he expecting to be happening on the right hand side? Somebody shooting down to overtake him? No, you're behind a safety car. You gotta watch the car in front. And it's clear to me that he was looking in his mirrors and then looked straight and thought,


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[Assistant] Daniel's a bit closer, tried to stop and couldn't. It's solely his fault.


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[Assistant] I'm amazed that the team have come out and tried to defend this one as well.


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[Assistant] It's, it's like the, it's like the Fernando Alonso penalty in, in Australia. You know, where three days later, the team come out and defend Fernando Alonso and you're thinking, why are you doing that? We've kind of passed that discussion now. Why are you waiting so long? Oh yeah, you're having contract negotiations. You'd like him to stay. This is almost like we're going to back Lance because we want him to stay with the team.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so is there a danger of Lance not being there? I don't know the answer to that one. But I don't understand the defense and I don't understand why Lance just can't put his hands up, because that's the mature thing to say and go, yeah, what's looking at my wrist? Which is what, to be fair,


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, I think you're right with Daniel. I don't think it's two drivers under pressure though. Why is Lance under pressure? Other than the pressure of driving for a Formula One team, which you know...


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[Assistant] It is pressure itself, but he, if he wants to stay around, he stays around. Surely, you know, the team, the team has been built around him and, and, and, and there's, there's nothing wrong with that whatsoever. Um, but if he wants to stay in Formula One, he stays in Formula One. That's, that's.


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[Assistant] That's why his dad has invested so, so heavily in, into the facilities there and into that team. He wants his son to be a, to be a grand prix winner and to maybe have a chance of winning a world championship.


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[Assistant] Does he want to stay? I honestly don't know the answer to that. Sometimes he doesn't look like he wants to be there and sometimes he does. And sometimes he puts in a terrific performance and other times he just, he makes the sort of rookie error that you don't expect from a guy in his eighth season in Formula One.


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[Assistant] So, I honestly don't know what the situation is.


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[Assistant] I hope Lance is, is around the state and I hope that he's enjoying being a Formula One because quite frankly, you know, you've got to enjoy that because it is surely one of the greatest jobs in the world and you're one of the, the privileged 20 to be going and doing that week in, week out.


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[Assistant] That, that was, that was a poor mistake. What, where I feel really sorry for Daniel Ricciardo as well is that not only did he get clobbered from behind by Lance,


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[Assistant] But he also then overtook Nico Hulkenberg later on behind the next safety car, because Hulkenberg had shot down the inside after he'd seen Lance and Daniel come together thinking, well, they're, they're going to be out. I've just got to go past him. And looking at it again, I think he did have to go past him. Otherwise someone might have gone into the back of him.


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[Assistant] Daniel then re-overtakes Nick at Hulkenberg because he passed him under the safety car and picks up a three place penalty on the grid for the Miami Grand Prix. So his misery has been compounded doubly that afternoon.


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[Assistant] And, you know, it's a real shame. And just on the subject, by the way, of penalties, Logan Sargent saying, I don't understand why nobody told me that I'd overtaken Hulkenberg. The FIA should have said something. No.


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[Assistant] Race control, the race director's very clear on this this year. If you overtake somebody behind a safety car, under the safety car, it is the responsibility of your team to tell you about that, not us. Because you know you shouldn't do it, it's in the rules, so the team should be telling you to give the place back again. That's a hard and fast rule and it's been there for quite a while.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think Christian and Toto will carry on the war of words for their entirety of their time in Formula One. Uhm, and it will just carry on and they've got a history and they've got


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[Assistant] Toto, Toto's doing everything that you would expect one of your rivals to do, and if your driver is making it public that he might leave, yeaah, he's gonna put his arm around him, he's gonna tell him that he's the most important person on the planet, and he'll come over to us, the grass is much greener at Brackley than it is at Milton Keynes, and we've got real cows there, not concrete cows.


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[Assistant] The one thing that I think is always going to wind Christian up a little bit as well is that for all the success at Red Bull, for all the


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[Assistant] Toto Wolf is a co-owner of a Formula One team and Christian Hauler isn't.


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[Assistant] And I don't think that goes down very well with Christian. I think if you, if you said so, would you like to be a co-owner of that, that rebel team? Of course he would. He wants, he wants control and he wants power and Toto's got that because he is a third owner of Mercedes and Christian Horner, you know, he might be a CEO.


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[Assistant] And he might be a team principal, but he's a paid employee, isn't he? Of the Red Bull Formula One team. So he hasn't got that autonomy to make decisions in the way that Toto has. And I think a lot of the animosity on Christian's side maybe stems from that.


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[Assistant] But I think Toto also knows how to wind Christian up as well. I don't think Max Verstappen is going to go to Mercedes. I really, I really don't see.


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[Assistant] Unless, here's the caveat, unless he knows, and how he knows, I don't know, how anyone knows, I don't know, that the Mercedes engine in 2026 is going to be like the Mercedes engine in 2040. If he knows that, then he's going to want to go.


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[Assistant] But otherwise, why give up a winning thing? You know? And Red Bull are a winning thing at the moment, and there are no guarantees from the outside that Mercedes will be that in 2026.


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[Assistant] Yeah. It's our panto season, week after week. Fix your cartoto. Oh yes we have, oh no you haven't. You know, it ends every single week.


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[Assistant] For once, I'm not gonna have a big opinion on this, although I would say I like the format. It's not for me, it's not for the drivers, it's not for anyone except the fans. If the fans liked the flow of the weekend,


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[Assistant] And Christian, you know, you're watching, you know, back at home. I don't know whether you got out of bed or had your sky go on in a bedroom or not, but if it flowed better for you as a fan watching back at home, brilliant. That's, that's, that's the idea on that one.


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[Assistant] People want to see racing. If you're going to have more sprint races, have a sprint world championship. Don't make it part of the Grand Prix championship for me, but I've said that for quite a while. And by the time people watch this podcast, Matt.


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[Assistant] The F1 commission might well have voted on points down at 12th place and from what I understand, that is likely to happen from next year.


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[Assistant] I don't think it goes far enough, I'd like to see points down to 20th if you finish. So, and it's not a case that a few people have contacted me on X and said, oh yeaah, it's like modern day school isn't it, you turn up for the egg and spoon race, you get a prize. No.


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[Assistant] It is a very simple way to explain why a driver is in a certain position of the championship, you know, rather than, oh yes, cause he's had two 13th places and a 14th and the other guy has had a one 13th and two 14th. No, just have the points. And then, and then you reward for me consistency over the season.


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[Assistant] Uhm, in terms of finishing, which, you know, is a big part of Formula One. Uhm, you explain it easier for the fans, you get better battles because points, you know, are at stake.


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[Assistant] And if you do have a DNF, it counts against you more, and that might give us, and I haven't done the maths on this one, I'm not clever enough at maths for that, but I haven't done the maths, but surely if you...


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[Assistant] If everyone gets points who finishes, one DNF is gonna cost you a lot more than it might do at the moment. And if you're gonna do that,


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[Assistant] Just rejig the rules. A DNF is, a DNF if you don't make the checkered flag, not if you crash three laps before the end and you're classified.


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[Assistant] That's archaic, that's from years and years ago. If he gets the checkered flag, he finishes the race, otherwise, you happen, as far as I'm concerned.


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[Assistant] But it's, it's, it's, it's worth a chat. The only downside I can see is obviously teams and drivers pay for, for, uh, their entry in the super license based on points. And if you're all getting more points than the FIA, you're going to get more money. They, they shouldn't get a heap load more money, uh, just because we've redone the point system on this. Maybe it's just a way to fund.


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[Assistant] I tell you why I'm right, cause Anthony Davidson had this idea about 15 years ago. This is not a new idea. And Anthony was, was...


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[Assistant] Back in the day, absolutely convinced it was the way to go and we're still working out whether we should do it or not. So it's, it's, it's the right opinion because it's Anthony Davidson's and I'm just joining the party late.


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[Assistant] And news just in, news just in, the EFL have decided that Leicester City get a point for getting to the 90th minute. If Leicester City get to full time, they get a point, uh, just so that they can go up and, uh, Christian Wright can have a night at West Ham.


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[Assistant] And the Sunrise Dam gold mine as well. It's, it's, it's a mining place. Either way.


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[Assistant] One postcard is, is pathetic effort from the millions of people that regularly tune into this podcast. So I repeat, yeaah, cause he's lonely and he needs company and friendship.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah. Make us up a general Christian, you're good at that sort of thing.


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[Assistant] Back in the day, people, people wrote into TV programs all the time, but no one does anymore. Apart from Chris H in Laverton in Western Australia, uh, which was established- Start of the Outback Highway.


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[Assistant] In recognition of Dr. Charles Lava, who rode into town on a push bike from Kulgadi in 1896, took him four years. I tell you what.


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[Assistant] I'm full of optimism Saturday morning, and by about half past two, with another defeat at the London Stadium, I will be miserable until I get on the plane to Miami. Come on you irons.


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[Assistant] The worst thing, I'm going with my youngest son, the oldest is working, but the youngest son is a Liverpool fan, so it's proper dad-son rivalry, and uhm, I'm gonna need every bit, every bit of resilience on this one, I think.


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[Assistant] Those espadrilles that he bought for a fancy dress party in, in 2010, he's gonna wear all weekend long. I can see it now.


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[Assistant] I have two Hawaiian shirts. I have an avocado, uh, Hawaiian shirt that, uh, that was bought for me by my, uh, by my lovely stepdaughter. And I have a Williams Hawaiian shirt as well.


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[Assistant] The bollards, so Jo could park on the grid and we saw that was just a lovely little moment of sort of common sense of F1 going, let's do this, it'd be nice, which was really sweet. But I agree with you, you know, with the upcoming ambition of the Audi project with Sauber.


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[Assistant] You hear talks of Niko Hulkenberg, all that sort of thing. I do think he could potentially be, I think we've seen particularly in qualifying this year, Valtteri Bottas upping his game a little bit and dragging it a bit further forward than Joe has.


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[Assistant] So maybe all's not lost if Joe can, in the second half of the season, you know, carrying on the final two thirds of the season, really start to get on Valtteri's tail of pushing it forward. But I agree with you, Crofty, it doesn't, it doesn't feel like there's a logical place for him at the moment, does it?


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[Assistant] Kevin Magnussen, who I like, and you know, wish him nothing but the best. There's been a couple more mistakes, and maybe being outpaced by Nico Hulkenberg.


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[Assistant] More frequently than he'd like. I wonder if that's the potential option. I wonder if your has, I'm by the way plucking this out the top of my head as opposed to any information, whether you might fancy a gamble on Joe rather than Magnuson alongside Olly Behrman if your has, bearing in mind there might be some commercial


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[Assistant] Interest to do that as well, given what we've just said of Joe's huge Chinese support.


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[Assistant] Lando Norris managed to park in the wrong place. It parked in the pit lane rather than the grid. Granted, he could have had a bit of help from his team, but still he parked in the wrong position. And Lance Stroll managed to park in Daniel Ricciardo's diffuser, which if you're new to Formula One is not ideal and is sort of frowned upon a little bit. So I think I learned that I wouldn't necessarily trust a Formula One driver to park despite being the most skilled drivers in the world.


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[Assistant] Uh, and told my pass wouldn't let me out the building. So I got into the building and then wasn't allowed out. So I said, okay, no, I appreciate that. Fair enough if I've got the wrong pass, but I'm going to have to, this was Thursday. It's like, I'm not going to be stuck in this room until Sunday. Where was that person there when you need them to get a bit of law and order?


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[Assistant] After the Japanese Grand Prix, before the Chinese Grand Prix, and I asked him, based on something I'd seen on Sky, I'd seen, uhm, Charles Leclerc in the pen.


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[Assistant] I think we could catch Red Bull, and then I'd seen Toto Wolf say to Ted, no one's catching Red Bull.


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[Assistant] And I was sort of saying to Oscar, well, where is it? I've seen some optimism from Ferrari and obviously Toto saying you've got no chance. And Oscar, I really expected, bear in mind Lando tends to underplay things. I sort of expected Oscar to say it's going to be very difficult.


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[Assistant] And he sort of really surprised me and went, no, I think we could. And I was really surprised by that, before saying exactly what he just said, Crofty, that, yeah, but we're not going to be any good in China, this doesn't suit our car.


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[Assistant] And they were, and you use that word trajectory, Matt and Crofty, you compared it to going back to.


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[Assistant] The last Chinese Grand Prix. Even, I mean, look at the last, uhm, you know, the Bahrain Grand Prix of 2023. Lando's 17th Oscar didn't finish. Saudi of 2023. Lando came 17th and Oscar came 15th. And you're looking for, you're looking for that trajectory. You're looking for that consistent rise, whichever since the bad start to last season.


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[Assistant] They've had, and they're also coming from, as Crofty just said, yes, they're not winning races.


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[Assistant] But already this year, you know, a podium for Lando in Australia, another one here in China. So they're not coming from anywhere near as far back.


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[Assistant] Could they? Yeaah, they, they, them and Ferrari are the two that seem most likely to get there. And by the way, I do not buy some of the stuff you see online of, well Lando should have won races by now, he's not a race winning driver. Probably two races in his career.


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[Assistant] And maybe if you're being ultra harsh, you could say Italy 2021 as well, where maybe on another weekend he gets the better of Daniel and he wins that race instead of Daniel, but he's never had the quickest car in Formula One. So it's not like you're saying, well, he should have won races. So I think Lando is capable and McLaren are capable.


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[Assistant] It's just inevitable because the thing that stops you


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[Assistant] You know, racing drivers are unique beasts, you know, they are ultra competitive in all areas. And the thing that stops them from, you know, you want to beat your teammates, the old, oldest adage in the motorsport book.


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[Assistant] And the thing that stops them going hell for leather against their teammate is playing the team game. You know, the position in the constructor's championship, knowing you're representing all the people in the factory. But if you've been kicked out of that team and you are trying to put yourself in the market, you know, as Crofty said, it look, you know, as we sit here and record this podcast now, Sauber Audi looks the most likely option.


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[Assistant] But he's still thinking, maybe I can push myself into a Red Bull seat. Maybe I can push myself into a Mercedes-Benz C. Regardless of what he's thinking, he's wanting to give the very best version of himself.


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[Assistant] And if you've been kicked out by Ferrari, I just think it's inevitable that, you know, if he was still contracted to that team for another two years and thinking I might have a chance to win a world championship with this team, if I've got this team support around me.


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[Assistant] Then you might play a different game. So I think from the minute Ferrari committed to Lewis Hamilton for 2025, you open up the possibility of 2024.


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[Assistant] Inevitable. It's going to flare up at some point for me.


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[Assistant] Well, and also we were talking about McLaren because obviously last year Ferrari were in a battle with Mercedes for that second place.


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[Assistant] McLaren, it, it, it may be looked in maybe around one or two, it's like, oh, Ferrari are, you know, comfortably second. That's not going to be the case, I don't think. I think, you know, McLaren are knocking at the door. So they can't afford a situation where they take each other out because neither wants to give, because that literally could hand, you know, you miss out on 18 points because you've been taken out second.


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[Assistant] That's easily enough to give McLaren second in the championship, which Ferrari would be gutted about. But, you know, it makes another interesting storyline in this Formula One season, because I think that battle for second between Ferrari and McLaren will be a really interesting one this season.


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[Assistant] Crofty, can I ask you the question I asked Oscar? Are you pleasantly surprised by...


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[Assistant] The optimism coming out of Ferrari, you know, say the word game changer and McLaren in terms of.


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[Assistant] Stopping Red Bull, because it sort of felt last year, everybody at all points went, we're not stopping them.


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[Assistant] Don't talk to me about football at the moment. I've been a Leicester City fan as we make a valiant attempt at throwing away the promotion challenge. God, don't. It's, oh, it's so stressful. I, I look forward to Formula One so much because football is my other passion, but it's not stressing me out as much, Crofty. I'm so stressed by it. It's just so stressful.


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[Assistant] And Daniel will have to cling on to that because he did look quicker than Yuki all weekend, and that's the first time that's happened this season. So if you're Daniel, you need to


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[Assistant] Stay in the headspace of going away from it being like, actually, yes, I didn't score points. That was no fault of my own. That was a good weekend.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and you know, he had his chassis changed, which we can only speculate, you know, none of us will ever know because we've not driven the car, but it was either, maybe it was a placebo effect, maybe it did actually help, whatever, doesn't matter, better result for Daniel, better weekend for Daniel Ricciardo. I think, uhm, I used to race karts when I was a kid and even at karting level.


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[Assistant] You are taught under, you know, you actually in karting have a sort of virtual safety car situation where the lead driver becomes the safety car. You're taught for minute one, you focus on the bumper of the guy in front of you. It's motor racing.


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[Assistant] Grassroots stuff. So exactly as Crofty said, for me, the key in Karim, as well as Nick, I picked it up on the skypad. Looking over to the right was, you're defending the indefensible there.


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[Assistant] And I do wonder whether in that situation, of course, you've got to own up to it. As you just said Matt, you'd have far more sympathy. Mistakes happen and we've seen people spin under the safety car spin on the formation lap. Max put it in the wall on the way to the grid a couple of years ago. You know, things happen.


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[Assistant] You'd have far more respect if you'd just gone, actually, that was my mistake. But you just wonder whether, how much is the mental pressure of, he started the season fairly promisingly and a little bit closer to Fernando.


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[Assistant] And then that's dipped again and he's, you know, a world away from Fernando.


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[Assistant] How much does that take a toll on your mentality, I wonder, and I wonder if...


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[Assistant] Lance is in the right headspace at the moment because you would think he would come out of that situation and go,


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[Assistant] Let's cool down. I need to hold my hands up. I made a mistake, but he didn't do that. That's the most disappointing thing for me, not the mistake itself.


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[Assistant] Dipped a little bit in recent weeks. That, that might not be the case. So I therefore think Max is potentially keeping his cards close to his chest because he has said, well if Helmut Marko were to go...


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[Assistant] I go. So I think that's possibly why you're seeing Max keep his cards close to his chest. I'm not gonna repeat what Crofty said because I completely agree with every single word David Croft has just said.


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[Assistant] About Max, uh, not going completely agree, easy but close. Uhm, in terms of your original question about the war of words, you can, you can debate amongst yourselves and everyone listening to this will have their own view as to whether


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[Assistant] Toto is right to be so publicly courting another team's driver. I think just objectively speaking, it's very, very funny.


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[Assistant] And, uh, I think the fact that Christian is clearly getting wound up by it is very funny. And I think Christian would potentially be best not reacting to it because whenever you're being wound up by your little brother or your little sister, you get a reaction, you're going to do it more. So my advice to Christian would be


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[Assistant] Maybe react as much as you are doing because in Toto's situation, listen, Red Bull have opened this door ajar with their troubles. In Toto's situation,


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[Assistant] Of course you're going to go out of your way to say, yes Max, come on over, because we all know what an elite level Max is operating on. Toto, be daft not to say, would you like to sign Max for Stapper? No, I don't think so.


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[Assistant] You know, Tota Starman's walked out on him. So of course you're going to try and get Max Verstappen. So I...


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[Assistant] I fell in love with Formula One in the late 90s, early 2000s.


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[Assistant] I used to love seeing Ron Dennis have a moan about things and all that sort of thing. This is one of the many reasons I love the sport that we get things like this and I love Toto and Christian Bickering. Both of their characters have been great for the sport in recent years and as Crofty says, it's got a future.


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[Assistant] And, and I, I think it's quite funny is my analysis of that situation. And yeah, it's.


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[Assistant] Just, just makes me chuckle a little bit. I don't think Max is going anywhere, but I quite enjoy the bickering.


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[Assistant] Working in F1 now, but still consider myself a fan and I'm only at three or four races a season, Crofty. So yes, exactly. As you said, I'm sat watching at home two elements for me. I've always agreed with you Crofty about, well, look, that sprint race was fantastic. I actually got up about seven to watch it just before qualifying. That's about the only live session I've not seen this year, but, um,


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[Assistant] I love the racing, you know, what that battle we had to sort of the up, the behind, you know, third, fourth, fifth down was phenomenal. So I loved it. I would rather have that than.


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[Assistant] So I've always agreed with your points you've raised in commentary on their, uh, crafting. It, it flows better for me. And one thing I do have some experience with is the, the, the two podcasts I do, Everyone Explains and Fast and Curious, both have a lot of new fans listening. They tell us. So I do find myself a lot having to explain stuff to newer fans.


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[Assistant] And actually, it's a much more logical storytelling way to go across the weekend rather than go, oh, Friday we've got Grand Prix qualifying. Right. Qualifying has happened. Max Verstappen is on pole. Forget that now. We're going to qualify again for a different race and we'll come back to that.


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[Assistant] I'm feeling, I'm feeling a bit weird to go from a race to qualifying but I actually quite like, sprint to bonus, whether I sprint, there it is, qualifying and race, done, now we're onto the Grand Prix, I think it's loads better, uh, and I, look,


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[Assistant] If every sprint race isn't fantastic, fine. I don't mind that so much. It's better than a practice session. And what I do like about this new sprint format, I don't know if you agree Crofty, is uhm,


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[Assistant] The fact that Parc Fermé reopens. So a stick used to beat the sprint races within the past has been, you know how it's going to go in the race. But actually, because Parc Fermé reopens after the sprint's done, you get a situation like Lewis Hamilton, where he had a brilliant sprint race. Then he said he made setup changes and it all went horribly wrong. So we didn't get that spoiler.


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[Assistant] Of what the race will be. So no, I think it's the best. I wouldn't want a sprint race every weekend. I wouldn't want 10 sprint races. I think the level of six is lovely.


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[Assistant] I like it as a change. I like it as a mix up. I think this is the best we've had and I, I think this is quite nice. I'd stick with this personally.


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[Assistant] I was planning when I saw your running order, which we've mentioned that we strayed off at multiple points to talk about football. But when I saw the running order, I knew I'd heard Crofty's opinions on this over the course of the weekend in commentary. And I thought I'd rarely disagree with Crofty. And I would happily say if I, you know, Crofty wouldn't mind me disagreeing with me, with him, that's the joy of Formula One. But I, but.


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[Assistant] I tend to agree with Crofty and it was the first point I thought I actually disagree with Crofty here and the point I was going to make was that it should feel sort of quite


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[Assistant] Special to get a point and therefore I wouldn't give points to, to, for finishing.


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[Assistant] However, what I was there for going to say was actually you were in a situation at the moment where has.


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[Assistant] Sorry, beg your pardon, where, uh, several teams, Williams, Alpine and Sauber, haven't got points. So as Crofty just said, it makes it easier to explain if it's down to twelfth rather than, well, this weekend, for example, Alpine.


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[Assistant] But actually, Kofta, you're right, aren't you? Because I was looking at that in terms of the constructors, but there's the drivers.


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[Assistant] Yes, it makes for much better storytelling down the field, doesn't it? I'd only looked at my argument in terms of the constructors, but you're right. For the drivers, if you've got, you know, Logan Sargent versus


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[Assistant] Kevin Magnuson or Joe, whatever, and one of them's got a point. Yeah, you're right. So actually, I came into this point, disagreeing with Crofty, and that point that he's just, I've just sat and listened again, no, he's right, isn't he? So I can't disagree with Crofty after all. Crofty, you've successfully changed my mind. And I'd say if you haven't, I actually agree. And I'll tell you why I'm right. Tell you why I'm right.


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[Assistant] Would, would, would Jolyon Palmer, I'd spoken about this to Jolyon Palmer and he was saying, liked it down to a certain point but didn't want everyone and I was sort of leaning towards Jolyon but, uh,


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[Assistant] Uh, which by the time it goes out, we'll know the result of. I haven't even dared look


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[Assistant] I've got some floral, I've got, you've got some floral coffee. I inspired Simon Lazenby to get a floral shirt last time in Miami. Yes. He looked at my one. I don't think I've got one. I need to find one. And by race day, there was a floral shirt. So yeah, if you've got some- Simon asks, Simon gets. As rightly so.


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[Assistant] Background for those watching on YouTube and not listening, yeah. So if they love a bit of merch at Miami, they're here to do. And they charge for it as well, my goodness me.


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[Assistant] Uh, I'm good, I still haven't had my haircut after Simon made fun of me in Vegas, so I will try and get that done this week.


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[Assistant] Well, the statistics man is really crafty, but I think, uh, listen, it's horrendously impressive, right? You know, anytime you look at a season where a driver scored twice as many points as the person in second place, that just underlines what a great year they've had. I think...


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[Assistant] There's a lot of people out there who say they won because they cheated on the cost cap the year before. They won because Max, oh, Max won because he's in, you know, the most dominant car and he's only winning because he's in the most dominant car.


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[Assistant] Yes, it is the most dominant car of this season, but it's not like Checo blitz the rest of the opposition by a long, long way. And he is a very, very high quality driver. So I think, and even the cost cap thing, you know, Lewis himself said they've stopped updating the car since August and


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[Assistant] I don't know, what are they breached at? 1.2 million or something? I think you'd have spent a lot more than the ad from August if you were in a championship fight, so.


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[Assistant] Uh, I think the reality is you have to give credit where it's due. And what we've seen this year is one of the greatest seasons put together by a driver perfectly in tune with their car.


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[Assistant] Go to school good. Unbelievable. These millennials, I tell you.


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[Assistant] Don't take both, you get one. Okay. Leave some for us.


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[Assistant] I just think he maximised every opportunity in a very Fernando Alonso-esque way. You know, there were races where...


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[Assistant] At the start of the year when he asked, it was clearly very competitive and he was racking up those podiums and we all thought this is going to be brilliant. They're going to be the second best team.


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[Assistant] And then from Barcelona onwards, you know, we had some, some changes to the front wings and things like that that came about and they never quite managed that same form as they showed in the early part of the season. Other people developed.


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[Assistant] It's all relative, you know, it's hard to say if they went backwards, but the reality is...


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[Assistant] If you look at the early part of the year, I was doing some numbers yesterday until Spain, they were 0.51% off.


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[Assistant] Holland, where we had that rain, we look at Brazil, bit of weather, strange weather, qualifying, Alonso's there, he hangs on in the race, incredibly opportunistic when it came to racing against Checo there towards the end. Abu Dhabi, you know, the sort of,


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[Assistant] Pretty dangerous, as they said, break test on Lewis Hamilton to race him to the DRS line and stay in front, but there was never a weekend where


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[Assistant] Apart from Mexico where it looks like he was carrying some damage, but there was never a weekend where he was outpaced by his teammate, and I think he really, really maximized any performance that was there in the car.


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[Assistant] No, I think, I think you're absolutely right. You know, Fernando is just a master politician, isn't he? Uh, he doesn't always get those career moves right, as we've seen in the past, but he, he absolutely got this one right, and he's the best asset they've got. You know, they've got lots of...


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[Assistant] So yeaah, I think, uh, but I think you're right, you know, um, Benson, I remember Ted, when, when Fernando did his first retirement, uh, I got, I got, um, Fernando to sign a picture to Benson saying, love you lots, which, uh, we framed and gave it to him as a Christmas present. So there you go.


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[Assistant] After a good chunk of time away from Formula One, and that's not easy to just get back and get on it. And he out-qualified Kevin Magnus in 99 across, you know, the, the comparative qualifying sessions in, in, you know, both sprints and the races. So that's a, I think that's a really strong, um, return to Formula One.


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[Assistant] Haas have got terrible issues with Tireware, so let's not discuss the points or where they are in the standings. But I thought Nico Hülkenberg's return to F1 was one of the underrated stories of the year.


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[Assistant] I'll be back in the gym this afternoon Ted, after my haircut.


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[Assistant] It's a really strange feeling when you're doing F2 or GP2 as I was doing it at the time, you know, because you're, as you're coming to that middle of the season, you're all, you're all hunting around. This is five or six of you all hunting around, you know, and timing becomes so critical because you're heavily reliant on people from the F1


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[Assistant] You know, if you were looking at Dragovich or Lawson, you know, they're drivers who finished ahead of Sargent, for example, in F2, you know, so they probably do feel like they deserve an opportunity on the grid. Dragovich did a really good job in FP1, all the usual caveats, tyres, fuel, blah blah blah, we don't know, but,


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[Assistant] He was there on the timesheets, second quickest behind George Russell and did a good job in every other.


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[Assistant] What happens? Do they start the season with Cecho? If that doesn't work out, do they stick Daniel in the Red Bull? In which case, do they put Liam in the AlphaTauri or what are they going to be called next year? Uh, I think, so from Liam's standpoint, he's going, hang on a second.


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[Assistant] I, I, I, I might take this gamble here and not upset the Red Bull family because you can't sign with Williams even on loan from Red Bull and then leave mid-season, you know. So I think he's, he's gambling on something opening up perhaps in the early part of next year.


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[Assistant] Few opportunities. I mean, Bernie and I, you know, we went to speak to him, didn't we, on the grid in Zandvoort.


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[Assistant] He'd done zero laps in the car, in the dry. He was about to star his first ever Grand Prix. He'd not even had time to speak to his mum and dad on the phone, he told us, because they were in New Zealand and he was absolutely flat out.


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[Assistant] But he was really cool and calm on the grid and uhm, I thought his, you know, performance in Singapore in particular, we know now that he got told why basically on his way to the garage to get in the car for qualifying that he was not gonna be in Formula 1 next year. Helmut Marko dropped the bad news as he was about to get in the car for qualifying.


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[Assistant] And you go to the top 10. Uhm, so yeaah, there's a few, few people around, isn't there? Yeah, yeah.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna go for Zandvoort because it was completely bonkers. We were all sitting there and you could see the rain cloud coming.


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[Assistant] Remember Bernie, you know, you were getting very excited in your usual Bernie-esque way every time the weather radar lights up with all these blue clouds. And we could just see the rain coming closer and closer and then it dumped.


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[Assistant] It was brilliant and it just created this really dynamic, exciting race. And there's a lot of different strategies. A lot of people got it completely wrong.


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[Assistant] Uh, and others like Gasly and Lonzo came through and obviously Max, you know, serenely at the front, once again delivered for the home crowd. Um, it was just a bonkers race, um, but very exciting to commentate on.


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[Assistant] Which was, uhm, it's a boring pick, but it is best happened in Japan because I just think.


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[Assistant] It was as close to perfection as the lap you get. It was in the Schumacher, Senna, Hamilton category of utter qualifying brilliance. Uhm, you know, nothing really left on the table.


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[Assistant] And you know, I, I enjoyed what, I think I watched the lap back probably five, six times because it was just sublime, you know, every millimeter of the road used. And he thought about details as well, you know, coming through 130R, not using all of the road, using a shorter distance to try and just cut back some meters on the track.


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[Assistant] Um, the positioning of the car into spoon curve, you know, just millimeter perfect. Um, and on pole by, was it seven tenths of a second? Just exceptional.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna go Oscar Piastri winning the sprint in Qatar. Uhm, it was just...


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[Assistant] It was just brilliant because we've seen him building, building, building since Silverstone onwards when the car got updated and his second half of the year was really superb. You know, he out-qualified Lando 8-7 in the second half of the year, including Sprintz.


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[Assistant] Is race pace still, you know, is, is the shade behind Lando, I think, especially with tyre management, no doubt about it. So that race in Qatar, it was this sort of.


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[Assistant] It's a bit about like cycling, you know, you've got this guy out front and this massive peloton coming to eat him up.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and that's what it was, you know, Max caped through the pack. We had those safety cars and bits and pieces, but all of a sudden he thought, Oh God, here we go. He's going to win again.


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[Assistant] Uhm, at those last four or five laps that Oscar drove, I thought was superb. He really managed his pace well, made sure he had a little bit of tire reserve to attack the last few laps, uhm, and to take that win, you know, as a rookie to win


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[Assistant] And listen, I know it's not the Grand Prix, but it was a race and he crossed the checkered flag first and everyone cheered. Uhm, so yeaah, for me that was the feel-good moment.


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[Assistant] I'm going to add in science Singapore because that last part of the race where the Mercedes


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[Assistant] Coming, bearing down on him with Lando in between and the way he and Lando tagged teams and played the game.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I loved watching Carlos win that race. It was, uh, it was, it was just brilliant to watch because you know what, there were, there have been other races, isn't there? Austin, for example, I know it's harder to have taken things in Singapore, but there have been other races.


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[Assistant] Where Max has not been on the front row the first two rows, you know, Miami and Saudi, a place like that. But you just kind of expected him to come through the pack somehow by some magic. Uhm.


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[Assistant] But Singapore wasn't the case, you know, they were genuinely off the pace, uhm, the Red Bulls and to see Carlos and Ferrari take that win was, was lovely. You know what, there was a bit of relief across the whole paddock as well that, oh, thank God that someone else


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[Assistant] Honestly, a bit of disappointment that Mercedes and Ferrari didn't turn up to the party to challenge Max at Red Bull. You know, that, that, uh, as three-season testing unfolded and we got to the first race weekend.


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[Assistant] I was just disappointed, honestly, and uhm, you know, it was wonderful to see the exceptional greatness of Max in a car that was one of the greatest cars ever built. But I was disappointed that the others didn't take the fight to him.


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[Assistant] It'd be between me and Tom, right? I'm sure they sat down and talked it out, right? As long as they had a conversation and you were straight up and honest, right? Cause sometimes, you know how players are, right? Every guy thinks they're 45 years old and you know, if I could just do something to get over this little knee issue, you know, then, you know, I'll be back to running for three forties again. And, and so.


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[Assistant] If they talked it out and everybody was understood and they were honest about it, then whatever they came to was cool, right? You know, with us, with Dirk, Dirk knew he was kind of on the decline and we knew it, but we wanted to send a message because


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[Assistant] There, there was no way for us to put a championship team around them. And I wasn't, it's not like in the NBA you can just go and sign a championship team and say, you know, sorry, Dirk, you know, you'll be the 15th man, but we're signing all these dudes. No, that, you know, I wanted to keep them in.


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[Assistant] You know, I couldn't win a championship with them the way things were structured. So, you know, we just got on the same page and got it right. And as long as Kraft and Brady did the same thing, you just gotta live with the results.


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[Assistant] I, I wasn't surprised at Lewis's move, I was surprised at the timing of it, but I have always felt he would end up in Ferrari red one day. Even when he was saying he wasn't going to or he was going to stay at Mercedes.


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[Assistant] Just felt he was always going to do it. I've said it on some things before, and so I wasn't surprised at the moment. I was surprised at the timing of it, obviously, but I think everyone was. Even Mercedes was surprised at the timing of it coming out.


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[Assistant] Antonelli, yes, I agree. I think Antonelli could be the answer to that Mercedes seat, but he's still got a race in F2 this season. Let's see what happens there. And then if you don't pick him,


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[Assistant] Is it worth getting Fernando for one year when the engine regulations are all going to change again in 2026 or who else do you put in that seat? Um, at the moment, I mean,


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[Assistant] No, well exactly, he's signed up for a long time. It's going to cost a lot.


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[Assistant] I think George and Lando have got very similar seasons this year. I think they both need to mould their teams around them. This is really important for both of them now. They've got to that point in their careers where they're no longer young coming in, they've got experience, they know the teams they're in.


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[Assistant] They need to really build these teams around them now and make them work for them and the way that get the car built the way they want to drive it. Lando's committed long term. George now sees an opportunity.


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[Assistant] They've got to really use this year as a massive stepping stone for themselves, I think.


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[Assistant] I wanted to ask you about that because I feel like Ferrari in recent years has changed a lot. When it was, when Seb went there for example, it was very much live in Italy, speak the language, learn the language so you can communicate.


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[Assistant] And also to say, you know, that they won't be competitive. Well, we don't know if anyone who's going to be competitive yet. We only put a car on the track. You know, you, you don't know until then. Um, it's, everyone wants to be involved in Formula One right now because it is growing so fast and they've done a brilliant job at doing that. We've got to be careful that we don't turn that the other way, that we don't, um, we've got to make it seem as welcoming as it.


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[Assistant] As Martin said, you know, we make room for Brad Pitt's film to have garages, you know, that's not in question, that can't even be in the equation, comments like that, you know.


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[Assistant] You make the room. If it's, if the, if the will is there, it will happen. So uhm, I think key to it is how do we create the will among the other teams in the paddock and among the F1 to have more teams on the grid? How do we create that? What are they looking for? What do they need?


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[Assistant] It is a difficult position to be in, but this sport is growing all the time and we don't, if we put a lid on it, you know, what do you then do? Do you say we don't want it to grow anymore? It's grown enough, thanks. No.


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[Assistant] That's the other thing you've got to remember, isn't it? We don't want to see talent.


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[Assistant] I couldn't follow them. I got to Sunday and I was like, hang on, they qualified on Friday and it was just, I always felt behind the eight ball. You were brilliant.


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[Assistant] I just feel from the comments that have come out, a lot of teams have gone.


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[Assistant] Back a step in their cars in terms of last year they went down a certain route and they didn't have enough avenues to go off to develop the car.


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[Assistant] Lots of talk of bold, aggressive. One quote was, we've changed everything but the steering wheel.


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[Assistant] I think the start of the season, we could see a slow start in the first few races, but I think by the time we get to midway in the season, it's going to be much, much closer and much fiercer because they've all decided to go back, apart from McLaren and Ferrari, to say, to basics almost, to say, right, we have to give ourselves as much scope as possible here to develop this car. They're all talking about the development program.


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[Assistant] Already at testing. We haven't done everything we wanted to yet. We've got loads to develop. And the other thing is, last year at testing, when Ted and I stood at the side of the track,


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[Assistant] You could see who was having issues, you could see the Aston was really quick, even though we say don't read anything into testing. There are things you can read into it, there are things you can tell, and you also look at the faces of the mechanics and you see whether they're happy and how many are sneaking out for cigarettes and that tells you a awful lot.


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[Assistant] I'm very well, thank you. Uhm, just came back from a big trip in the US.


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[Assistant] Where, uh, I did a, combined a couple of things like some venture capital activities, so startups, uhm, representing some, representing Jungheinrich, which is an electric forklift brand out of Germany, uhm, and even my green awards, because we have one of the biggest sustainability events now in Europe called Green Tech Festival, and we went to LA with that, so we had a nice gala, gala evening there as well.


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[Assistant] No, I think Liam has done really well. It was such a difficult situation to jump into. Uhm, so if you give it out of 10, you would say 8 or, or, or even 9. Uhm, cause he just did a solid job and he, and he secured himself.


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[Assistant] No, he didn't secure himself a drive for next year, did he? Uhm, but I think he put himself in a... No, but I think he put himself in a great position to get a drive in the future, uhm, with Alfatari. What are they called now? Alfatari still? Yes.


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[Assistant] Well, first of all, Franz Tost on the grid in Qatar told me that Daniel was still struggling in the simulator one week ago, uh, with his wrist to do a full race distance, so...


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[Assistant] Let's see, I think it won't be easy for him to come back, uhm, and be physically, you know, 100%. So, I wish him the best and I hope he manages. Because it's so physical driving these cars, even when you're...


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[Assistant] Like in terms of wrist, it's not just steering, it's also when you're braking. When you're braking, you're pushing against the steering wheel a lot, because you can't allow your body to just flop forwards when you're braking into the seatbelt. You need to push against and steer, so there's incredible forces on the...


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[Assistant] On the wrist, uhm, so yeah, I wish, I wish that he, uh, that he manages to come back and, and, and feel fit to race obviously. And, uhm, and then, uh, the five races he needs to do now, I don't think there's such high expectation on him now because he's got the drive for next year. And, and, um, I think it just needs to be solid.


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[Assistant] Well, it's definitely not gonna be easy, because first of all, he needs to get himself into a top car, so he needs to do a great season in AlphaTowery next year. Uhm, then...


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[Assistant] Perhaps, uh, if, if Sergio continues this form, maybe even throughout the season, Daniel could have a shot at getting into the number one team. If he does really well, then there's no reason why not.


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[Assistant] And if he gets into number one team either sometime next year or the year after 2025, then he will have a great shot at winning another race. So there is a chance, but it's, it's still remote for now.


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[Assistant] Wow, well first of all I feel for him because, uh, it's such a horrible situation to be in. The pressure of the world on his shoulders and the social media world is, uhm, I mean, criticizing him so much.


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[Assistant] Uhm, because also all F1 fans are relying on him as well to keep things exciting. And in a way he let F1 fans down because he made it too easy for Verstappen. And I was in that situation with uh, with Hamilton. You know that I was really carrying the...


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[Assistant] The expectation of everybody on my shoulders to keep it exciting and to not let it become boring, the, the racing with Lewis Hamilton being too dominant. Uhm, and so, uh, it's really, really a tough situation for him. Uhm, so I can really relate and, uhm, and he's, I mean, he's,


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[Assistant] Having such a difficult time, I mean, Qatar was a horrible weekend again for him, like, so bad.


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[Assistant] Uhm, with the best car. So, wow, I don't know. I mean, he really needs to find a way there and very quickly because...


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[Assistant] At that, how he's driving now, I mean Red Bull really need to consider even for next year.


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[Assistant] No, that's a real, the real headache they've got there. A really, really big headache because they need two top drivers in the car to score some solid points and Sergio is massively underperforming at the moment for reasons that I struggle to understand because I know that he's a great driver.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so it's very difficult to understand why he would be so far off. One explanation is that Max is...


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[Assistant] Spectacular. One of the greatest of all time. Yeah, he's soon, soon gonna be one of the top five of all time. So that's one reason. But still, Sergio's too far.


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[Assistant] I think he'll just be newly motivated to do really well there. But the Mexican track is incredibly difficult because it's a very strange asphalt where the tire doesn't connect very well and it just suddenly steps out when you don't expect it. It's very unpredictable to drive there.


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[Assistant] I used to hate driving there. It was so, so difficult and, and it was one of my weakest tracks, uh, even though I won there. Um, did I win there once? Yeah, once or twice. I'm not sure. Um, and yeah, so, uh, so let's see how Sergio gets on, but it's going to be a difficult weekend, I'm sure for him.


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[Assistant] Not even, you're just looking for breakthrough moments and it can even come in a free practice session. It just, uh, you're just looking for those small breakthrough moments because it's very fast enough one. As soon as you line one breakthrough moment, another one, then you're back and with things move very fast.


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[Assistant] So I don't see, I don't see Max helping Sergio at all. What, like, what's the point? Um, Max, I think is just ultra determined to win every single race left of the season.


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[Assistant] I think that's what it's about and that's it. I mean, we saw it in Qatar even. He wasn't thinking about the championship points on Saturday. He was wanting to go out there and win the race. So uhm, and I think it's going to be the same for the rest of the year.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so things have been heating up there because also in Suzuka it was like well over the limit on one occasion where they both took each other off the track. Uhm.


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[Assistant] And uhm, yeaah, so it's interesting to follow. I hope that, especially Toto, I hope he's managing that carefully. Because you gotta be ahead of the curve there and not let things spiral. Uhm, it's a very difficult situation for George as well.


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[Assistant] Because you unfortunately, you can't just be the nice guy in that situation. You have to also internally keep the pressure on. You have to make it difficult for the team. Unfortunately, it sucks, but, but because otherwise the team is always just going to take the easiest route and, and, uh, and yeah. So, um, so it's very uncomfortable cause George needs to like.


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[Assistant] He's pushing, which he does on the radio, you can hear him on the radio in the racing, like saying again and things like that. So he's really trying to hold against it.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, and I mean, okay, it, it was a good one now in Katar for George, because Lewis actually admitted. So that was a big win for George in that sense, also internally.


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[Assistant] But, uh, which is very rare because like in my time, Lewis never had a hundred percent of fault. So he never actually had to admit in that way. So it's very, very rare for Lewis to be a hundred percent at fault like that. Um, usually never happens. So, um, but yeah, to be watched. I mean, it's, it's a interesting battle and dynamic that's, um, that's, uh, opening up there.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that would not have been ideal because Toto is the only person there that can manage that. Uh, he's the only person that will have the authority and respect to be able to handle that. And he's the right guy also to handle it.


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[Assistant] Because no one else can, can force them to sit down really and have a discussion and, and hit the table. And, um, so yeah, uh, I think it would be very good for Toto to be back at the racetrack.


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[Assistant] I mean, unless what, what Toto can do is, I don't know, like when they're back here in Monaco, uh, on Monday after Qatar, maybe he would have sat down with both or go visit Lewis in his, in his apartment and, and have a sit down with George individually first. Um, and then ideally you'd also sit them together then.


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[Assistant] And I mean, he's had so much experience with managing teammates, so he knows, uh, he knows what needs to be done. And the most important for him is to be neutral, which was an advice that, uh, Alan Prost gave him back in our time. Um, he said, Toto, the most important is never take a side between the drivers. Stay neutral because once you take a side, it spirals out of control.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and so I think Toto will have learned a lot and I'm sure he'll be managing that well.


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[Assistant] Because Lewis just had a very clean, clean season and really optimized. I mean, he's had incredible run optimizing points everywhere except for last race. Uhm, but yeah, definitely. I'm sure Lewis will also be keen on, on getting P2 in the championship because beating a Red Bull car with the Mercedes the way it was this year would be quite an achievement.


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[Assistant] No, it will be very, very similar. Extremely similar.


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[Assistant] Um, if there was a difference, what would the difference be? I wouldn't even know a difference. It was really, really literally the same most of the time. Sometimes we just, when you don't know which, which car set up, like sometimes you would have different geometries on the rear and you just didn't really know what was better.


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[Assistant] Well, the best fit would still be Mercedes. Uhm, but uhm, the only other one that I would consider would be Ferrari then, because I speak Italian, I get on best with the Italians, I really love Italy, so that would be the only other one.


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[Assistant] It would take me forever also to get back into it now because even just physically to get those, I mean, yesterday I was on a motocross bike and my arm went knackered like after, after a couple of minutes and back in the day I could have gone all day because the, the underarms are also what you train for the race car, uh, to hold the steering wheel. Um, so.


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[Assistant] It would take me forever to get all those specific muscles back up to speed and then, and the brain, for the brain to learn to process that, that speed again would also take forever. I mean, I'd have to drive so much in the racing car, which you don't even get the opportunity to do, you know, to drive in a Formula One car.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so it would be very difficult now to get back into it.


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[Assistant] If I had the passion and the passion for it to get back into it, then yeah, I could. But it would be hours. I mean, it would be hours and...


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[Assistant] And then, and then have a whole old F1 car test series lined up as well. And then, uh, eventually I'll be back up to speed. Yeah, but it would take a long, I mean, half a year at least.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, tell him, hey, get back to being the best in the world.


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[Assistant] It's going to take him, it's going to take him 12 months to get back. Andy Murray after his long injury, he's still fighting now to try and, to try and get into a top, top 20 in the world. So it's very similar.


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[Assistant] No, of course you need to have a huge desire to, because putting the work is going to be painful. I mean, the work that would go into it would be, would be rather painful. Yeah.


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[Assistant] It's a little bit early days still, but let's start with being a, well, I was going to say race winner. He's already a race winner, but let's go for Sunday race winner. So he has a great chance of being a multiple race winner. Champion.


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[Assistant] Let's wait with that. Uhm, because this year he's shown some weakness in race pace a little bit still, which is normal. It's normal for rookies to struggle in some different areas.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and he's up against one of the best out there, which is Lando Norris. And I haven't yet seen that, that he could definitely beat Lando over the whole season. Uhm, so we need to give him some more time. But let's start with multiple race winner.


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[Assistant] That's incredible. Yeah, that's incredible how they've done that and brought such a massive upgrade in performance.


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[Assistant] And I've heard rumors that they expected it to be such a jump as well. So they really fully understood it. It showed in the numbers. Um, it's, it's all to do with the regulations still being so young though. So they really copied a lot from the Red Bull car, from the concept.


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[Assistant] And so suddenly the car just came alive because it's a very different concept they've gone to throughout the season. Uhm, so it has to do with the fact that regulations are still young.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but I think Lando has been doing really well when he wasn't really challenged so much. I think he was always at his best.


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[Assistant] And then if you look at Katara now, suddenly you've had Lando's a little bit off.


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[Assistant] Uhm, never putting a lap together in qualifying and therefore having a bad, worse grid slot. Uhm, and not getting the best out of the weekend because Oscar beat him in both on Saturday and on Sunday. Plus what was a little bit of a worry because Lando always says himself how he has sometimes challenges with mental health.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I saw some signs of that unfolding again this weekend because he goes into this spiral of, of then saying, oh, I'm not good enough and I'm just making mistakes and I've done a bad job. And, uh, and he just repeats that over and over. And that's a typical example of, um, of,


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[Assistant] Of a little bit of a mental struggle there, you know, and I was, I was going to write him maybe because I studied with a psychologist for 10 years. You know, I was really.


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[Assistant] The driver who was most dedicated to, to, uh, improving my mental performance, um, but also mental wellbeing actually, because it came hand in hand. Um, so I spent every two days, I worked two hours with a psychologist every two days. It was more intense than, more intense than the physical training. It was insane.


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[Assistant] And it really helped. It was a big, big, uh, big, big part of me becoming a world champion.


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[Assistant] So I wanted to write Lando actually, and I wanted to say that one thing is thinking you're not good enough, but the other thing which you can influence and avoid is what you're saying then. And if you keep repeating that, you start to believe what you say even more. You know, in repetition, you can start to believe what you say.


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[Assistant] So it's important to try and avoid repeating, I'm not good enough and I'm making too many mistakes and over and over and over for the whole weekend.


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[Assistant] No, but let's find a balance there. It's, we all appreciate his honesty and that is how he is. So that's great. So he should keep that. So it's, it's just a matter of say it once, you know, hey, it's just been, uh,


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[Assistant] Not my best weekend, uhm, for some reason the car was a bit difficult for me to put the lap together in qualifying and then that's it. Just, but there's a difference between that saying it once like that and just repeating it for the whole weekend over and over. And there's the, there's the difference.


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[Assistant] The whole, uhm, human resources thing, hiring people, managing people, that's not really, uhm, it's not my greatest strength. Uhm, and you need that, like someone like Toto is incredibly well, or even I suppose Christian Horner, incredibly well with managing people, uhm,


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[Assistant] Giving them also, um, like a, like a view to the future and how they can grow within teams and, and keeping the culture strong so they don't jump ship to another team. That's a really big strength of Totos and I don't think that I have that, um, similar ability. So that would be a little bit of a weakness, an important weakness there.


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[Assistant] Apart from, apart from that, then also, I would not want to put that kind of dedication to my life again, ever again actually. Because being a team boss is a 24 hour, every single day of the week job, even a Saturday, Sunday. It's such a demanding job, so I don't ever want to put that kind of, uhm,


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[Assistant] Dedication into, into work anymore because I value my, my family, family time, uhm, too much for that. And if I could show you now I would, I was riding a horse with my daughter on the weekend.


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[Assistant] How, how times change? The horse was like, it's like a race car, the horse, like it's unbelievable. Like a little Twitch on the right and they will do a slight turn to the right. Little Twitch on the left. Like it's amazing. It's incredible.


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[Assistant] Enjoy, uh, yeaah, no, of course there's parts of that role that would be very enjoyable, yeaah, certainly. Uhm, especially like managing the drivers, uhm,


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[Assistant] With the engineers getting involved in strategy, making those kind of decisions. I think they're definitely, I would have strengths.


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[Assistant] Another thing that Toto obviously has to do through weekends is play the politics game.


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[Assistant] With the FIA, with the other teams, it's a constant politics, like constant, even now with the 11th team trying to, trying to, all the team managers are trying to, team owners are trying to stop that and leveraging Dominicali and the FOM to try and stop that against the FIA, you know, and it's like,


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[Assistant] Well, that's the thing that in F1 really everything matters, but you'd probably, I would probably start with the aerodynamicist. Uh, so I would invest most time and money to begin with.


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[Assistant] But it's not correct to say that, but anyways, that's my feeling that I would go aerodynamicist. The problem is you need just as much then the guy on the construction side who's gonna actually put what the aerodynamicist wishes into her actual car without it breaking. It's just as important to fit everything together, to package it.