Oscar Piastri wins with Papaya Rules, Naomi Campbell returns to F1 - 2024 Azerbaijan GP Review

[00:00:23] has not got the opportunity to watch her race, but it also presents us a good opportunity

[00:00:28] to understand what on earth went down. Guys, I've just seen the results. I see Oscar Piastri

[00:00:34] winning. I see Max Wistappen nowhere in the podium. I see Russell getting one. Landown,

[00:00:39] or is in fourth. Sergio Perez, Dianne Fing and the same can be set for Carlos signs. And

[00:00:45] another lookler pool, not being converted to win. Oh, it could not be true. Who's going to tell me first?

[00:00:51] What what just happened here? Whatever missed this weekend you actually missed a lot. I

[00:00:56] what you've done is read out the results which is fine, but there was so much more that happened in

[00:01:04] Baku something always happens in Baku and always does whatever that Murray Walker court is that

[00:01:10] Ryan always bring forward to Baku, but some of the weirdest stories that you would have never

[00:01:18] imagined. So, steak, cake, sourber or well sourber formula one team got the fastest pit stop of the weekend.

[00:01:30] Can you believe it? This is that team that had the slowest pit stop ever in the whole season for several

[00:01:37] races to come. They had the fastest pit stop on Walthri Bhothas's car? No, no, no, no, wait. How quick was it?

[00:01:45] 2.4, what? 2.4 seconds and a red bull if I'm not wrong. Max Wistappen had a 3.1 second pit stop.

[00:01:53] Yeah, I think it's been four or five races have entered. Red bull have been pretty terrible these last

[00:01:58] couple of races. Yes, I think red bulls had four or five races where they were three second pit stops.

[00:02:05] Also, Savo was in 2.4. He was a 2.3-2 second pit stop. Okay. So that's one story. That's one story.

[00:02:14] Second of course, we're going to talk about it Williams double point finish. They've jumped

[00:02:19] Alpine in the constructors championship, etc. But in Q3, Alexander Albin left the pits with an A box fan

[00:02:28] on his car. Okay, so he had to go park up on the left and the team was very clear.

[00:02:35] You can give the fan to the Marshall but do not let him touch the car. The radio instructions

[00:02:42] were so precise, clear. I love that you can give him the fan handed over to him but do not let

[00:02:50] him touch the car because that would time to mount to him being then given outside assistance. So that

[00:02:55] that was one. Then but he did not hand it over. He literally threw it off of the car.

[00:03:02] If he found a car correctly. Yeah, and he's like if we earned a point this weekend,

[00:03:07] we will have some more money to spend even on the cost gap or whatever it goes. And then

[00:03:14] Fernando Alonso had a plastic bag stuck on his halo in Friday practice.

[00:03:22] Yeah, so he was busy. He was a beautiful video. He's busy doing this and then the engineer

[00:03:27] saying actually it's a little on the bottom. It's on the left. It's here. It's there. And he finally

[00:03:31] manages to get it out. So lots of crazy stories that came up from Baku, not just the race itself.

[00:03:42] I mean, he was one for F1 stats crew. When was the last time? Four drivers were battling for

[00:03:50] endless laps together. Almost at no clue who's going to actually claim the win and they were

[00:03:58] half a second away from each other. That means four drivers within two seconds. Literally when

[00:04:02] was the last time we had that incredible. I really can't remember. The interesting thing is,

[00:04:09] I think the last couple of races that we've seen. We've actually had a pass for the lead in most

[00:04:16] of them or in the last five, six races which was such a raretie in the years before because we

[00:04:22] would often see the lead changing only when the lead drive would go into the pits and then in that

[00:04:28] situation someone else would take the lead. But we very rarely see seeing someone overtaking

[00:04:33] the race lead and we've seen that consistently in the last couple of races which probably goes on

[00:04:39] to show that Formula One is in a very healthy state right now. And like you know it says four

[00:04:43] front drivers. Surge of pair is was literally in the in the in contention for a race when after

[00:04:49] very long time I was actually rooting for him until that crash happened but yeah things look

[00:04:55] very good for Formula One and we still have seven more rounds to go. So excited. This brings

[00:04:59] me this brings me to my first question. Yeah, yes how can go for ask your question.

[00:05:04] So yeah how did surgery pair is one second? This doesn't make any sense to me.

[00:05:10] He might have really identified Max firstly. Yes he did.

[00:05:14] First he does. For the first time in 33 races driver number 33 got out qualified for all your

[00:05:21] love for numerology, summer. Okay tell me more. See this is the back of effect because

[00:05:27] and I'm a very firm believer of this if a driver does well at a track for some reason

[00:05:34] he just manages to find another cure at the level and I've seen that trend throughout this season as

[00:05:39] Surge of pair is was pretty good at spa. He scored points there and he was good in qualifying

[00:05:43] at least. He was good in monza and he has actually had the longest active streak of any driver

[00:05:50] in monza. He scored there for the last 10 races. Similarly Surge of pair is as a good

[00:05:55] record around Baku yet five podiums leading to this race. So only driver to win this race

[00:06:01] more than once. And the only track that he's one at twice in his career. His most successful

[00:06:06] track. So everyone was playing out playing a fantasy game over the weekend and an O30% of people

[00:06:12] picked Surge of pair is in barely 7% picked Max was step in. So the numbers really came into effect.

[00:06:19] He out qualified Max was step in and was in fight for the race when I opened the last three or four

[00:06:25] laps. This brings me to my question about Red Bull racing. Is Red Bull racing back? Because

[00:06:32] Checkupair has was actually actually in the battle for the win. He knows that by the time.

[00:06:37] He was not in the battle to finish in the points. He was not in the battle for the podium. He was

[00:06:40] in the battle for the win. Is Red Bull racing back? Checkupair has finished 20 seconds ahead of

[00:06:46] Max. Which happens. Okay. And I just get this feeling that Max was probably running a lot of

[00:06:55] experiments to find his sweet spot. He knows this title is anywhere his. So he's like to all that

[00:07:01] experiment all you can do. All the patchwork all you can and just get me the car the way I like

[00:07:07] it next year. That's probably where he is. This is where all the British fans go. You just said Max

[00:07:13] knows that his the championship is his. And I like that we're actually touching touching on this topic.

[00:07:19] I mean, shall we talk more about this right now on later? Before we do that we should tell people why

[00:07:25] some of it couldn't watch the race because it's not that he was busy doing something else. He was

[00:07:30] busy doing something else which was a lot more fun actually when it comes to Formula 1 now pretty much

[00:07:36] every race is so much more fun that I wish you you buy your commentating at the Indian racing league this

[00:07:43] weekend in Chennai. You also had your monitor on the side because you would have probably just

[00:07:49] started commentating on the Formula 1 race in the Indian racing league feed itself.

[00:07:54] I mean, I over there on Sunday, we missed you there. So I'm seriously we we were all just

[00:08:01] telling everyone who had their phone on the Formula 1 to shut up and go away because we didn't want

[00:08:06] any spoilers whatsoever. I heard one person come in the middle and say, hey, dude Oscar Piaestries

[00:08:11] leading the race. How does that? I mean, again, I'm still in that same space as I was in Sunday evening.

[00:08:19] What just happened guys? How did it look like bottle is? Is it a bottle? It was it one taken away

[00:08:25] on merit. What's the what's the right way to look at it? I saw on the overtake that was quite good.

[00:08:30] That was incredible. That was incredible. That was incredible. You know, to be a clear on the

[00:08:36] brakes in Baku he's one of the toughest things to do. La Clare so Corin Baku on a single lap because

[00:08:43] he's so good in the brakes and you can make up so much more time in the braking zones especially

[00:08:47] the heavy braking zones. Oscar Piaestries Beach are a clear right there. He actually, you know,

[00:08:53] claimed after the race it was a 50-50 more and he made it happen and La Clare was like, I should have

[00:08:57] blocked you. I thought I'll stay in your way. I used the DRS and go for it and I think it was one of

[00:09:04] the most epic battles for the race lead which did not involve max which happened Lewis Hamilton

[00:09:10] or Landonaurus, you know the three most frequent most highest race winners that

[00:09:16] that you can find in in recent times I would say. And the interesting thing is the battle

[00:09:22] that lasted after Piaestries overtook Shaal Leclare. It lasted for 28 laps and for each of those 28

[00:09:29] laps the gap between the both of them was less than a second. 28 consecutive laps

[00:09:35] of Piaestries and Leclare battling it out almost. I mean there were occasions where Leclare was

[00:09:41] very, very close I think they were 40-5 times where he could have jumped on the inside and

[00:09:46] taken their risk but he did not and I think that was typical Shaal knowing that you know this

[00:09:52] so much of risk involved and he's going to go straight into the barriers and there is a

[00:09:56] Constructors Championship on the line as well. So I would say that he was quite smart but

[00:10:00] you still expected maybe Shaal would just try at least once to see if it happens but he kept it

[00:10:06] I mean he kept it clean out say. Was he annoyed at the end of the race canal?

[00:10:11] Was he honoured? He was he was he was absolutely he he he he knows he lost it on merit he

[00:10:18] knows he lost it to a driver who drove fantastic who overtook him as expected you know in a

[00:10:28] move it you know turn one into Baku is usually always a beautiful and I think if anything Leclare

[00:10:35] would just be like the cars were almost evenly matched it was about who had track position as

[00:10:40] as it is in in the in most cases right but he was also down to that one key you know

[00:10:50] discussion which is going to come up going into Singapore part McLaren's pace even without DRS with

[00:10:56] that wing flexing too much and the gap between the DRS uh being off and the rear wing so that's

[00:11:04] going to be an intense scrutiny in in the few days to come from now because Oscar Piasis

[00:11:12] end of DRS own pace was so high that Shaal without really risking too much could interrupt

[00:11:19] just gotten you know next to his wheel tracks and try to do something on the brakes with him so

[00:11:25] was trying to do was trying to keep running Oscar into making mistake which frankly there was no

[00:11:32] chance he was going to make one because Oscar is so really cool with it but he was hoping that somebody

[00:11:37] styles would go off and it wouldn't be here that's what Leclare was hoping for. Is that a new loop

[00:11:42] whole that they're exploiting because I particularly remember I think the Euro something ago McLaren

[00:11:46] not being the fastest team in the speed traps they were better in the higher speed corners but this is

[00:11:52] new and I particularly was surprised to see them up and qualifying because I remember I predicted

[00:11:58] them to be a bit nowhere and for are you to be better in them winning the race which clearly

[00:12:02] was not too far off but again wrong. How did that happen? What's this whole story about?

[00:12:08] Yeah you're right it's uh eventually down to the fact that McLaren's upgrades have gotten them into

[00:12:13] a more aero efficient configuration and they are literally matching red bull with the might of that DRS itself

[00:12:22] so McLaren is literally you know they're the most all-round car there and after the Friday

[00:12:27] they had after the Saturday they had pretty much no-one thought McLaren would win so convincingly

[00:12:32] I wouldn't say they won't comprehend civilly but you know it's it's great to see McLaren win

[00:12:39] and guess what? On the weekend they decided that they would use papaya rules they actually use papaya

[00:12:44] rules but not against Oscar Piazry they used it in favor of Oscar Piazry landowner is doing

[00:12:53] his best to hold up Czechoperas which I think was vital in that victory as well which means

[00:12:58] Oscar Piazry and landowner's both have two wins this season and landowner's played a big role

[00:13:05] in port those wins for Oscar Piazry. One second there's two, two, is it?

[00:13:12] In fact that's a good point in the last nine races just one race has been won from pole position

[00:13:19] and that was Sunfoot with landowner's. That is unbelievable. There's still so much to talk

[00:13:27] about though in this particular episode and what you're listening to folks is the inside line F1 podcast.

[00:13:33] My name is Somalarora as can all mention I was commentating on the in-racingly this time out

[00:13:38] is why I missed but then at least I get to listen to two of my favorite voices on this port as well

[00:13:44] and I can be biased and surely you can be the same as well because when you've got someone like Khanal

[00:13:49] who's the former marketing and a force in there and also an F1 expert on Viaply who's always on

[00:13:55] their studio shows as well and also F1 stats guru Sundaram who's been one of the most

[00:14:01] and what was been the best statistician around in terms of social media content part of the WDF

[00:14:05] and Taland roster also the official statistician for the Indian racing league as worked for

[00:14:10] autosport, more sport, so many other publications as well. It gives me such a good way to

[00:14:16] get a good idea of what went down in the race weekend. I'm still learning. I'm still catching up

[00:14:21] and the next point that I want to catch up is what have I missed again? Okay we we understood

[00:14:29] how Oscar was good his attacking and then subsequent defending was incredible. I think then

[00:14:35] other big incident happened in it. Science and bet is how did that happen to the end? Who's going

[00:14:40] to take this one guys? I want to hear Kunal give his opinion first because I have a very strong

[00:14:46] perspective on this because I've spent a couple of us going through a lot of footage but so yeah

[00:14:51] I'm actually going to let Kunal go for this first. In my view it's a racing incident, marginal marginal

[00:15:01] marginal things and both strivers could have done to over the crash. I agree with the

[00:15:05] two words on this completely. If you have to have to have to have to have to pin the blame on one

[00:15:14] person, I would say marginally towards Carlos signs because you know when you race in

[00:15:22] Baku. The beauty is you can actually try and emulate this in a go-carting circuit. It doesn't

[00:15:28] matter if you don't have a formula one cover, you put a go-cart and what's happened in this case

[00:15:32] is Carlos signs under steer because he was on the outside line trying to overtake Lecler. He turned

[00:15:38] in late. He had a bad exit. He corrected himself. So on that acceleration phase, in that acceleration

[00:15:43] phase, signs was already compromised. Whereas who was waiting patiently watching to see what's

[00:15:49] happening with Ferrari drivers turned in. He made sure he accelerated fine. So on the run down to

[00:15:56] the next corner, which was also a left-hender, Czechoperas would have naturally had the inside line

[00:16:02] and mind you it was not his front wing. It was wheeled to wheel so Paras are already made an

[00:16:07] inrode into signs this car. And usually when something like this happens what do you do?

[00:16:15] The driver who's being attacked in the case of signs, his best form of defense is to go

[00:16:20] towards a left so you sort of narrow down the angle for the next corner which means the driver

[00:16:25] who's attacking in this case, Paras has to break more in the dirty side and risked more. So that's

[00:16:31] what Carlos signs was trying to do, fair play to him for doing that. In the case of Paras,

[00:16:37] okay and I know Jolyon Palmer said he was trying to get the slipstream from Charles Lecler. Well,

[00:16:41] that's true, these cars always need a slipstream but more so in the case of Paras for him what he needs

[00:16:48] to do is he needs to make sure he doesn't give Carlos enough regular room. So Carlos has to drive

[00:16:55] straight and not towards the left. Now that's typical racing as it would have happened. So yes when

[00:17:02] Carlos tried to come into the left, Paras could have gone to the left to avoid him but he was like

[00:17:06] I have more than just my nose right up next to him. So in my mind, I think it was Carlos signs and

[00:17:13] maybe these cars are big wide long all of that. So Carlos signs just went there and then the tyres

[00:17:20] were so close that there was nothing that they could have done and then we saw what happened.

[00:17:25] So that's where I would put it. Both could have avoided it. Maybe Carlos signs a little bit more

[00:17:30] and now I literally am putting on my helmet as I visualized as I would love to be that car on the

[00:17:36] previous corner. You won their acceleration phase. You're definitely just you don't even have to break

[00:17:41] two-car meters a car length later. You have to break half car length later because you are

[00:17:46] almost alongside up there. So you've literally won the previous corner and corner to come

[00:17:51] and that's what Jacob has did out there. Have a different perspective, although I think that was

[00:17:56] very well explained and I know if it's actually true especially from a very tactical point of view

[00:18:03] but in my opinion I think it yes, it was a racing incident. It was in a case of a driver running

[00:18:10] driving into the other one but I felt search-up where Jacob's car has done a little bit more over here

[00:18:15] and the reason I say that is a very similar situation happened on the opening lap as well between Alex

[00:18:22] Alban and Nico Holkenberg. The thing is that section between turn two to turn three is slightly curved

[00:18:30] and I know everyone thinks of Parko as a circuit with right angle corners and straight straight.

[00:18:35] If you know what I mean but that turn two to turn three if you look at the the track limit

[00:18:41] white line that's slightly curved. So you don't take that run down to turn three parallel to the

[00:18:48] walls or parallel to the white line. So basically you enter that straight bit closer to the walls

[00:18:54] but as you make your way to turn three you slightly start drifting towards the left and this is

[00:19:00] what every driver did in qualifying in the race. I check Jacoberas and Carlos signs his footage as well

[00:19:06] and everyone had that same line. So you go closer to the wall when you enter and he slowly come

[00:19:11] inwards and this is exactly what Carlos signs did and that's what he said even in the post race

[00:19:16] media pen that I did not do anything erratic. He looked into the mirrors, he knew Sergio Perez was there

[00:19:22] but in my mind I think he was expecting Sergio Perez to keep that natural racing line of slightly

[00:19:28] which Perez did not do probably because he really wanted Leclerce slipstream and you know

[00:19:34] two laps to the end. If you don't take that slipstream then you probably lose that position. But in my

[00:19:38] mind Sergio Perez should have moved a little bit towards the left which is why I say Alex Alban

[00:19:44] and Ico Helkinberg had this very same incident situation on the opening lap and both of them

[00:19:49] they respected the natural racing line and moved a bit towards the left which is why I feel

[00:19:53] Carlos signs was not wrong and what he did because otherwise he goes on the dirty side of the track

[00:19:58] closer towards towards the track limit white line and that kind of compromises him. So

[00:20:04] that's why I don't feel it's signs is too much to blame in this case.

[00:20:08] I'm just glad it was a racing incident because somebody been, it's not as black and white as

[00:20:15] a lot of other incidents and I like the comparison and the fact that you checked Alban,

[00:20:21] also for slap early race you don't want to really take that race because you've got so much

[00:20:25] more coming up ahead but when you're doing it literally on the penalty mat lap especially with

[00:20:30] cars that are so evenly matched no longer down to strategy just down to rhythm momentum.

[00:20:35] Maybe that's also one of those differences that played out in Perez and signs is case I would say.

[00:20:41] Now there are two other things so everyone is often speaking about steering wheel angle

[00:20:45] and both of the steering angles were straight no one actually moved a bit towards the right

[00:20:50] or towards the left so they were going where they intended to go but Perez it just seemed for some

[00:20:55] sake that he wasn't reacting to signs coming up towards the left and he took good four seconds

[00:21:00] to come towards Sergio Perez and if you see a lot of the battles that happened before that I think

[00:21:05] it was you kiss to no da and land with ours or anyone else going through those tight sections

[00:21:09] you see the car ahead is trying to defend going a bit left and the drive-up behind

[00:21:14] usually reacts to that movement in Sergio Perez's case I think he was a two fixated

[00:21:20] on seeing where Charles Lecler was ahead to get his slipstream that he probably did not notice

[00:21:26] Carlos signs coming in at a pretty decent pace. But were the other drivers as close alongside

[00:21:33] as Perez was to sign so I don't recollect so I think the others were far behind or just in one situation

[00:21:40] out in one situation yes yeah okay great well it was a racing incident one of those really

[00:21:47] rare things that happened as well but yes I'm the only thing I can tell from disc clearly it could be

[00:21:55] define some Sergio Perez as well because we've seen so many racing drivers talk about it saying

[00:22:00] that we don't lift or we don't let go of our place when someone's going side by side and this is not

[00:22:06] some amateur level drivers we're talking about Max was tapping as a lure to something similar

[00:22:10] there is recently a video of Kevin Estrev, World in Jordan championship driver who's one

[00:22:15] everything that is to win with Porsche and sports car racing saying the same thing Sebastian

[00:22:18] Gwemie was side by side with me I just did not lift I just did not budge that's the kind of driver

[00:22:23] I am that could be what was going through Sergio Perez's mind as well last couple of laps

[00:22:28] big position on offer and not saying you're thinking about the job or the risks of it but to

[00:22:36] be in that position where you can see in touch a podium right in front of you that you don't

[00:22:41] lift off or you don't let go of a position like that do you could well be a scenario of that sort as well

[00:22:47] maybe that's actually one wonderful report because yes on one I need to create result yes

[00:22:52] result is coming at Baku his favorite circuit yes that result would have meant that you know

[00:22:58] Red Bull actually are not 20 points behind but few a points behind then then McLaren in the

[00:23:03] Constructors championship but to buy also no two points yeah exactly and I also know that

[00:23:09] when as a driver you know you want a corner and you're going to win the position at the next corner

[00:23:14] you pretty much just think about the next corner I would say and and that that natural transition

[00:23:21] that happens in the circuit etc the truth is he hadn't so let's let's take Monaco for

[00:23:27] example where Perez was in the same position he had Halkenberg to the left and McNeustin to the right

[00:23:33] he actually inadvertently or inadvertently ended up squeezing McNeustin and then there was a

[00:23:38] three car pile up him Halkenberg might be a near he wasn't squeezing signs to the left at all

[00:23:45] so irrespective of the natural line that a driver would take say in qualifying when you the only

[00:23:52] car on the line out there okay what happens with qualifying why do they all make space for each other

[00:23:57] because you want to take the natural line the fastest line possible when you are in wheel to wheel

[00:24:02] battle at an actual line goes away then the line that actually talks is the line which

[00:24:07] you're forced upon or you're forcing your rival upon and the line on which you'll don't end

[00:24:12] crashing even if it's the slowest line possible which is why when drivers are engaged in battle

[00:24:17] they actually they they clocked slower lap times yeah but did we see either of them check their mirrors

[00:24:26] because signs too so signs knew he even admitted that I knew Perez was there but then that's

[00:24:32] what he and I feel says just one second before the crash signs looked into the mirrors he saw Perez

[00:24:37] that close and he still went for it I mean it's not because of that he went for it but

[00:24:43] he was just drifting across in that angle probably expected Perez to move a bit towards the left as well

[00:24:49] and yeah mutual understand you know back in the day NASCAR had a feature where you could

[00:24:56] chat to another driver in the middle of a race and a really one maybe it's time for that no but

[00:25:03] thing is I am actually very gutted for for Sergio Perez because like one I'll say this is

[00:25:09] one of those tracks where he does he does exceptionally well and probably this might be the

[00:25:14] only track towards the rest of the season where he does so well and he needed that result more than

[00:25:19] anything a P2 more than the 18 points who have been a great confidence booster for for Czecho

[00:25:25] leading up to the last seven rounds and unfortunately no points to go home with so he's going to be

[00:25:34] he has a good race in in Singapore as well but yeah and I'll put you guys out there.

[00:25:39] He has dropped down to Ace the lowest you can drop down to in the drivers championship George

[00:25:44] Russell by virtue of that podium that he got gifted and the podium that got taken away from Czecho

[00:25:50] Perez means that he didn't have a point score this weekend but I just think Red Bull for them

[00:25:59] well we actually quick or not was it just the Perez factor that made us quick because you know

[00:26:05] now they are turning around and telling the world that oh in 2023 bar Solona we realize we had these

[00:26:11] problems and then they got accentuated in 2024 immola but Max was just winning it was the Max factor

[00:26:16] no now is this the Czecho Perez factor was Red Bull actually quick was it just the Perez factor they

[00:26:22] won't know we won't know till they go to Singapore and in Singapore it's a Red Bull factor which

[00:26:27] always bothers them and they were already saying that we're waiting for Austin because there

[00:26:31] is a gap of three weeks before we come to Austin Red Bull will be able to bring more parts to a

[00:26:36] real circuit as etc as well so just 27 minutes in and we've hardly covered 10% of all the stories

[00:26:44] maybe we should move on to the Piestry LaClaire battle because I know he's spoken about it so

[00:26:51] when you asked was it on merit or not the key thing is Piestry what I loved about him is he used his own

[00:27:00] experience and I remember you keep saying he's learning these tires he's learning these tires in

[00:27:04] stint one he messed up his tire trying to chase Charlotte laClaire. Instint two is engineer

[00:27:10] actually told them let's be smart here there are three tires you need to take care of the rear's

[00:27:16] front right okay his engineer actually told him this and promptly the next lap he pulled off that

[00:27:23] overtake okay and I think I think it was that that's what made it even more beautiful he went on

[00:27:29] his instinct he of course knew that oh my god I actually messed it messed this up before in the previous

[00:27:35] stint we went on instinct and then there was a classic McLaren feature that also helped them because

[00:27:42] before he pitted some of here a six second cap okay to Charlotte laClaire the minute they came out of

[00:27:49] the pits he was just one point some seconds away and that gap is what he made up because he could fire

[00:27:55] up his hards faster than Charlotte laClaire could and the difference in their outlap itself

[00:28:00] for three seconds. Ferrari's Ferrari's in lap and outlap both were bad both were bad.

[00:28:06] Yeah how bad. Was it driver error was it just not them firing on the tires? Just not having enough

[00:28:13] grip at all just not I mean yeah they're not firing up their tires as well as others talking

[00:28:19] what firing up tires let's not talk what Lewis Hamilton because he had a terrible terrible race

[00:28:23] trying to get his tires into the right operating window we'll come to that because some will

[00:28:28] ask an interesting question which Nathan on this actually pulled up a graph it's going to go upon

[00:28:33] social tomorrow. LaClaire's in lap 153 8 4 4 PSries in lap 153 5 1 1 so that's a 3 1 1

[00:28:46] half tenths out there point number one but the crucial one is the outlap. LaClaire's out like

[00:28:52] outlap 206 0 7 1 that's 2 minutes 6 seconds and PSry was 2 minutes 3 seconds 2 5 3.

[00:29:05] Okay so yeah so that's 3 1 1 half tenths in the in lap and 2.8 seconds in the outlap.

[00:29:15] It's crazy how many contributing factors exist to making a race car good right it's not just

[00:29:20] high speed or top speed it's not just best cornering speeds or best turning in abilities

[00:29:26] it also how quickly you fire up your tires it's also how well you manage them over the

[00:29:31] course of a long race because I suppose this same thing was what helped for R.B. better in

[00:29:37] Monza because they were kinder to their tires they didn't fire them up as much so over the course

[00:29:42] for long is still they were more sustainable it's a nice and and this is something that goes

[00:29:50] on notice usually you see the pit stop times if it's 2 seconds 3 seconds and you can quite

[00:29:56] clearly make a difference there but then what people usually don't notice is the in lap time or

[00:30:01] the outlap time more crucially if they have the right grip the tires are up to the right temperature

[00:30:06] and if they're setting a fast enough lap compared to the competitors behind so that's that's a

[00:30:13] in laps and outlapse. Some of the something else I was strange that happened

[00:30:17] Lando Norris was knocked out. And Q and I was a fine. That I saw.

[00:30:23] And in this case I'm hearing it's actually Ocons Vault like for once the Ocons Vault memes are real.

[00:30:31] No well I wouldn't say it's his fault maybe maybe the FI is fault because yeah it was literally

[00:30:37] it was literally in like for 150 meter part of the circuit where they flashed the yellow flag

[00:30:45] and it flashed for him and he had to lift off. Of course you made a mistake at turn 16 exit before

[00:30:50] that but it would have costed him like a couple of tents not more than that. Max had a similar

[00:30:54] mistake in Q3 and it cost him half a second so I don't think it was that turn 16 mistake that

[00:31:00] contributed to Q1 loss for Lando Norris where it was definitely that yellow flag and I know

[00:31:07] Andrea Stella said PFI need to reconsider what they did but I get this feeling and I said this

[00:31:14] on the wire play brought cost is after turn 16 even though it's a flat out 2.2 kilometers straight

[00:31:20] it's not really a straight you're still having high speed directional changes.

[00:31:25] Estabano Con was driving way offline, way slow through that high speed directional changes.

[00:31:32] Of course you know that drivers don't usually lose it in that section but you have to warn them

[00:31:38] so I can feeling that that yellow flag was also fairly apt even though it was for a very

[00:31:42] very short time and that just cost Lando Norris and that's how it all unfolded. So that was yet

[00:31:50] another weird story and then my favorite story from the weekend apart from the favorite moment where

[00:31:56] we had both some of this you definitely need to look this up on a social media. There was at one

[00:32:02] lap Oscar Piestry four wheel slide turn 16 curb. Oh I see. The minute I saw it I'm like that's

[00:32:09] it he's a sitting duck but the next half a second later because I was a gap likely a similar

[00:32:16] four wheel drive four wheel drift it was beautiful. It reminded me of like the 70s and the 80s

[00:32:22] where typically if this were ever happened the team would have said okay box this lap or box next

[00:32:27] lap because it would just not be able to handle it but both of them had the drift which went

[00:32:32] all also that luckily I couldn't really make the overtake but this is what something I tweeted you know

[00:32:38] if F1 drivers were racing car drivers are like monkeys they just follow the driver ahead's wheel tracks

[00:32:44] and motion and momentum so close you guys remember Russell George Russell in Singapore last year

[00:32:51] he went straight into the barrier he was chasing was it Piestry or Norris because somebody

[00:32:56] nudged the barrier and then Russell also went and hit the barrier and went straight because he's

[00:33:00] steering wheel broke. So when the field bunches up the way it does you know these beautiful

[00:33:08] motorsport moments come out where it doesn't matter if you're driver from the 60s

[00:33:14] 80s or the 2000s or the 2024 you are still doing port drivers have done for ever since there's been

[00:33:21] motor racing. I just want to see a visor cam of that battle in full. How cool will that be like

[00:33:29] for an hour and a half both of them fighting this is we say there'd be miss F1 in the 70s

[00:33:36] 80s right we say that ah we miss these awesome hot co-battle so the judges two drivers fighting

[00:33:41] on strategy fighting on driving merit fighting on driving ability we have it now and these are

[00:33:47] two drivers in two different teams and the same drivers had a different fight in a different circuit as

[00:33:52] well it's what more could we ask for I think all the days of crying and days of morning are

[00:33:57] very truly gone if we just get that one onboard footage of them of both of them look look

[00:34:03] in dire race with the visor cam especially man that will be I'd be paying for that stuff honestly

[00:34:10] I'll just put it down for an hour and a half and just watch. No this this would be a great

[00:34:14] race to actually have piastry and lookler speaking on a podcast and actually running us through

[00:34:19] what they were exactly thinking about on each lap okay I'm 5 tens behind him what was it

[00:34:25] thinking over here okay not this lap let's try to do it next lap but see the beauty of this this

[00:34:31] I think is even if you look at the classification sheet or even if you see the qualifying

[00:34:35] highlights or sorry if you see the highlights you really want to get a sense of what happened

[00:34:41] this is a race where I would recommend anyone to actually sit and watch through each of those

[00:34:46] minutes in one and a half hours this is one of those races where you actually have to watch it

[00:34:51] and watch it in one full sitting not the call not not the highlights not not not just the overall

[00:34:57] results you have to watch this whole race and it's a great race to recommend to anyone who is not

[00:35:01] a fan of this sport and the one weekend I miss it do the one weekend I miss it. Nice where yeah

[00:35:08] well that's also what we can wear in Max wish you missed a lot more Max wish tap and I like

[00:35:13] had Christian honor gave it away after the race in the podcast when he was asked and he said we

[00:35:18] left to see what different setups that were running between when he was asked why Max wish tap

[00:35:24] was so off Perez and I could just get a feeling Max is of course struggling in the Red Bull

[00:35:30] and Perez actually said before the race weekend that with the changes we are actually putting

[00:35:34] in place it'll help me with my driving style and when I read that quote I said okay wait a minute

[00:35:39] is this for real but actually turned out for real so we'll have to go to Singapore or like I said

[00:35:44] Austin before we even know what happened but we we we finally know what happened some of this

[00:35:50] very interesting so when the crash happened with P not P.S. sorry signs and Perez Nico Hulkinburg

[00:36:00] got a big hit on his front wing if you see his on board which somebody is tweeted to me on on Twitter

[00:36:06] and I've sort of shared it with everyone else you can actually see the camera like the cars

[00:36:13] picked up some big debris and it was from the crash and he was running a

[00:36:20] time he was running in the points okay so he was running 8 lose sort of in 9th and then

[00:36:27] no there yeah lose sort of in 9th and Berman would have been 10th okay for he hit this is on

[00:36:33] the penalty metal app he hit the wall before that and call up into over took him and then he hit

[00:36:37] this debris and then suddenly all of a Berman was also over taking him so Nico Hulkinburg finished

[00:36:42] 11th for the 7th time in 17 races and he could have scored points but that give Franco

[00:36:49] up into and Oliver Berman points which is I think an incredible story of course

[00:36:57] you know two drivers top drivers in the podium positions were taken out or whatever to each other

[00:37:02] out but Franco Kulkin to actually had the guts to start on that medium tire run the regular strategy

[00:37:09] while the ran Alex and Aralben on the William strategy what's the William strategy you just run

[00:37:15] reverse of everyone because that's what they need to do right Alben was holding his ground even

[00:37:21] against Lando Norris in that McLaren who is also on that reverse strategy so Franco Kulkin

[00:37:26] to making it work on the same strategy as the six drivers ahead of him or whatever 8 drivers

[00:37:32] ahead of him was incredible what a brilliant debut for him and Paku because he's never driven

[00:37:39] on the circuit before and then of course Oliver Berman has become the second the first driver

[00:37:44] ever to score points with two different teams in his very first race with those two different teams

[00:37:51] in the same season lots of filters here where they are there we go what a beautiful race

[00:37:56] week and you need to watch every lap of it not the highlights and I think it's immediately made

[00:38:03] the dropping of Logan Sergeant worth it and we know that call up into comes in with sponsors we

[00:38:08] know he comes in with money but executing this sort of strategies under him is that's what you

[00:38:14] can expect if you get him that from a paid driver I say keep him honestly see it's not exactly

[00:38:21] and this is why I feel this is the sort of audition that he wanted it's very very difficult to

[00:38:27] find an F1 seat these days especially if you're even if you are successful after whoever there's

[00:38:33] no guarantee that you will get that promotion into Formula 1 he was at the right place at the

[00:38:39] right time and probably with the right sponsors he said okay fine even if it's nine races

[00:38:43] and I don't have a seat for 2025 I'm going to give it my best shot and even if I can impress people

[00:38:48] on one race I'm sure there might be a helmet macho wanting to put me into an alpha tower

[00:38:54] case in point would what happened in the degrees at Edmonsa so I mean he's I think he's he's

[00:39:03] which has been a very difficult thing to do over the past couple of years none of his teammates

[00:39:07] have been able to do it but he didn't have he he him crampary qualified him he outqualified him

[00:39:14] I think by just one position if I'm not wrong way I think he was paid Albon was P9 or P9 P10

[00:39:20] he outqualified him the more experienced team mate around but that's also because Alben had their

[00:39:26] box and then his or his final lap was compromised yeah I mean nobody's still still

[00:39:32] code-own as ex-heater as yeah absolutely he's still managed to deliver that's not.

[00:39:37] Because Baku is a very difficult drag especially if you look at see the first and the third

[00:39:41] car sectors are fine that that middle sector is extremely technical and you can either be cautious

[00:39:47] over there because this is the first time driving there but otherwise just go straight for it and

[00:39:51] that's what he's done so impressive 51 laps throughout impressive time management and impressive

[00:39:57] overtakes I think what was it Nicole come back yeah I think a very impressive statement for from

[00:40:05] him this week. Oh what on this car all before we go to helmet because I saw a rise light up

[00:40:10] when we said that isn't it funny how a Formula 2 driver is coming in so much more prepared now even

[00:40:16] though they get such little destiny I see Oliver Behm in his first couple of races already feeling

[00:40:21] like he's driven 10 15 races call up into in his second races doing so well and it's feeling

[00:40:25] so confident with the car. It's like we have such a good crop of drivers nowadays and even though

[00:40:30] they haven't driven F1 per se it's amazing how ready they are even give me that to nearly I mean

[00:40:36] the lines that he was taking at Mons and the way he was chucking that was series car around before

[00:40:40] the crash I I'm cops Mac about how ready these drivers are and how many Formula 1 ready people

[00:40:47] we have nowadays yeah it's really difficult to assess because none of these drivers have driven an

[00:40:54] F1 car and you have an Oli Behm and who's not having a great F2 season you have

[00:40:59] where is Kimi Antonyle on on the standings maybe P6 or P7 not great in terms of the hype that's

[00:41:06] been created around them but they're still doing exceptionally well whenever they've given a

[00:41:10] being given a chance in an F1 car Kimi Oli and even now Franco it's great to see it's difficult

[00:41:14] judge who's actually ready for Formula 1 but I think I'll tell you one I think

[00:41:22] I'll tell you one I think the Formula 2 Formula 3 ladder is broken it exists purely for Formula

[00:41:28] 1 to make money right because look at it this way two years ago Logan's Argent top 5 let's put him in

[00:41:35] by our American driver whatever guess what happened to him then at that time jok one new was top 3

[00:41:41] or just before that was top 3 what happened to him so I think what's happening is drivers who got

[00:41:48] certain backing not just terms of sponsors but God for the figure like you know

[00:41:54] thought a wolf is for Kimi Antonyle they're sort of coming through portal letter and call

[00:42:00] up into a backed by Fernando Lonso himself and what call up into his done is he's suddenly used

[00:42:06] performances to bring himself on the radar of the likes of solber right yes he's done private testing

[00:42:13] the way jack two and has done Antonyle has done the drivers are coming a lot more prepared into

[00:42:20] Formula 1 these days even though actual Formula 1 testing is very limited but I get this feeling that

[00:42:27] F3 and F2 need to have a serious look at themselves because the series even though it's a spec series

[00:42:33] there is just so much variation between teams and cars that one suddenly ends up believing that

[00:42:40] a particular driver is better or not and then you look all over women and you look at Antonyle and now

[00:42:46] you know call up into who of course was also top 5 in Formula 2 when they get their breaks you are

[00:42:50] always wondering are these the most talented drivers who will who should get there to to Formula 1

[00:42:58] I know we're getting late and I know there's lots of other F1 stuff to talk about as well but

[00:43:03] now that we've put out this topic I just have to ask this question to you canal because you

[00:43:08] cover Formula 2 with such depth as well so our Theo Porscher and Christian Lungard and the likes

[00:43:14] or even Drugovic not that good as Formula 2 champion what's not working well why is the system

[00:43:19] the way it is right now I would say what happens is a minute you are entering your third season

[00:43:24] your chances of getting a break are so so little because that's just how the series is

[00:43:31] designed I mean look at make sure marker F32 seasons you want championship in the second F2

[00:43:35] seasons one championship in the second now he's celebrating a podium with Alpine and Beck which is of

[00:43:41] course not bad but you that's not why he wants to race so in the case of Drugovic look at Porscher

[00:43:47] he's a sour driver he's testing with sour this season sour has a way can see but they

[00:43:55] could be looking at Bortoletto who's just in Drembel last year announced as a McLean Jr

[00:44:00] lots of things it play and I believe it's about having that father figure Godfather whatever you

[00:44:08] call it but they want to see you in Formula 1 along with a lot of money and God forbid if you were

[00:44:15] a third or fourth year pretty much never gonna get to sit in a Formula 1 car.

[00:44:20] The thing is the hardest it's ever been to get into Formula 1 because previously you could buy

[00:44:24] away in because they would be financially let's have dependent teams teams that didn't really

[00:44:30] have lots of security now teams are secure thanks to the budget cap and he incredible popularity

[00:44:36] of F1 so he made money talent, Godfather and luck in Formula 2 man start dreaming about GT

[00:44:45] he's got a few young kids. A lot of luck in Formula 2 for that money you pay you're literally

[00:44:55] you're literally betting you're gambling but I shouldn't say more. Not here not here but

[00:45:03] when is the maybe afterwards but okay anything else that we've missed out this week and guys

[00:45:07] let's give it a thought and I can give it a scroll through my Twitter because my goodness my

[00:45:13] Twitter is exploding each time. Oh my god. Yeah I just realized that when Paris and

[00:45:21] science crashed I felt okay this has got to be the chance for burn mail under to come out on track

[00:45:27] for the first time in eight races he did not it was a virtual safety car for what was it one

[00:45:33] lap two laps so he's not you don't track for eight races and that's the longest that we

[00:45:40] not seen him on track for the last 20 years. He actually had a long straight back in 2003

[00:45:45] nine races it's even equal that at at Singapore which is going to be very tricky because that

[00:45:51] also was a very tight narrow street circuit but yeah we've not seen burn mail under for a long time.

[00:45:58] McLaren are leading the championship right now by 20 points and I think after Miami they had

[00:46:04] a point deficit of 115 points to Red Bull and if McLaren goes to win this championship the

[00:46:10] start of the championship that will be the biggest margin overturned by any pain in the current

[00:46:16] point system. And and probably this one last number based opinion I think that I think there

[00:46:23] is no driver's championship to talk about I think there is no point in putting papaya rules because

[00:46:27] Lando Nordas is 59 points behind Maxwell's lap and we have seven rounds which mathematically means he needs

[00:46:34] to have he needs to outscore Maxwell's lap and my nine points at each round and he's done that

[00:46:41] only once this whole season and that was in Maxwell's lap and retired in Australia. So it's a lot

[00:46:49] that's being asked of Lando Nordas to do consistently over the next seven rounds and I feel McLaren

[00:46:54] have the more important championship already in in their reach that the constructor's championship.

[00:47:00] And given the overalls that are happened in the constructor's championship guys we don't need

[00:47:08] drive to survive if this is how an F1 season is going to be. These kind of races are the best

[00:47:14] advertisements for Formula 1 yes drive to survive brings in lot of new story new ways of

[00:47:20] telling different stories from the season itself but when the racing is this court okay you don't

[00:47:26] you don't need more stories because there's just so much that happened on track but there was one

[00:47:32] thing which we shouldn't forget and I'm going to ask you guys a question go for somebody

[00:47:38] made a comeback to Formula 1 in old man who says he's a genius in Formula 1 you know I'm talking

[00:47:45] about of course of course of course he's known you all the street a few things.

[00:47:51] Yes wait a minute don't don't add to it so Flavio Brigatori is back in Formula 1

[00:47:56] guess who else is back in Formula 1. And you know me Campbell. No I don't know

[00:48:05] and Naomi Campbell is also back she waived a was supposed to wave the checkered flag I don't know

[00:48:11] something but yeah anyway she was in that chemical involved initially wasn't she with McLaren briefly

[00:48:15] herself picture of her in Lewis packet of thousands of years ago she was she was always with Flavio Brigatori

[00:48:22] now thank me for it later go google it okay that are a shell this after this episode ends

[00:48:30] which now would be a good time to because we have and we're going to end on a good

[00:48:35] form show wait wait wait no we we've ended by the oh what what's the bomb shell this is

[00:48:42] interesting I did not know this form of the answer okay Flavio is playing the game man he's

[00:48:51] he's flying anyway okay I don't know what he meant to Flavio Brigatori his life how

[00:48:57] did Flavio become who he is because this guy's a fascinating character do you you do

[00:49:02] know who is his wife right or who really data after that no hidey clue yeah what yeah

[00:49:16] yes Voli Flavio Flavio Flavio my friend how much were a masterclass

[00:49:25] it's unbelievable all you for someone not for could not reach which means which means

[00:49:31] that my next point is an entry climax so when the race ended it's all related under a virtual

[00:49:36] safety car but a Maxwell's tap and Pierre Gossley Nikoln can bug and as the Banocon actually

[00:49:44] over took their rivals as they normally would after race ends so Lander Norris was promptly on

[00:49:51] the radio saying hey Max is over taking everyone what's he doing there and George Russell is like

[00:49:56] I'm not sure what he's doing there so the over of course given a reprimand and a warning because

[00:50:00] this was unprecedented but anyway now it's time to drop our checkered flag and

[00:50:06] catch people in a few days for the Singapore preview I guess yeah we should do that but it's

[00:50:13] are too busy running up on the life of Flavio he's I find it amazing he started out as the

[00:50:20] commercial director of Beniton without even being interested in this sport and so he fired

[00:50:24] the entire staff of that team this is what I'm reading on wiki yeah no I want to document

[00:50:29] on this guy's life it's still good too good well that's the last thing I thought I'd be

[00:50:34] saying at the end of a Azerbaijan GP review but that's that's how suppose the kind of

[00:50:39] weekend and the kind of race it's been if you made the same mistake as I did I hope

[00:50:43] we've been able to bring out the entire story of the week and to you on this review and if you

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