Ricciardo steals hearts, Norris steals the show - 2024 Singapore GP Review

[00:00:19] [SPEAKER_01]: So there are why are we starting with launch troll in Singapore GP review? Where did he finish? I don't even know where he finished but why are we starting with launch today?

[00:00:27] [SPEAKER_02]: The important thing is that Lanstroll is now a record holder. Yes, he has a record to himself, but unfortunately not one that he's going to be very proud of

[00:00:37] [SPEAKER_02]: So Lanstroll has been around in Formula 1 for a fair bit. I now has a record for the most

[00:00:43] [SPEAKER_02]: Chrome prees without ever taking a single fastest lap that's been 161 ray stats and the person that is actually

[00:00:52] [SPEAKER_02]: surpassed is Johnny Herbert, one of the stewards that was there for the Singapore Grand Prix so I hope the both of them share

[00:00:58] [SPEAKER_02]: a little champagne after the race to celebrate the passing of the record from one to another. But yes Lanstroll is now a

[00:01:06] [SPEAKER_01]: record holder and thanks to who Daniel Ricciardo. Thanks to him. Yes, indeed. I think it's only fair to start off with him.

[00:01:17] [SPEAKER_01]: No canal considering this could be the last time we chat about him. Yeah. Firstly I didn't understand

[00:01:23] [SPEAKER_00]: the thanks to Ricciardo reference because Lanstroll was actually never in contention for the fastest

[00:01:29] [SPEAKER_00]: lap in Singapore either way. It was Kevin Mucknussin if I remember. Oh, you don't know his

[00:01:36] [SPEAKER_01]: old championship material. You can pull out of performance like that and any given point in time.

[00:01:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely. We don't actually. I won't be a hiter. I'll just stay fact and I know this is where all the

[00:01:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Canadian listeners are like oh my god, there we go again and they probably hate me a little more than you both.

[00:01:54] [SPEAKER_00]: But the status of course Nico Halkenberg brilliant race. We'll talk about his race later but

[00:02:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Nico Halkenberg is now equal on world drivers championship points with Lanstroll in a house.

[00:02:09] [SPEAKER_00]: A customer for our team and the reason why I say customer for our team because they are literally

[00:02:15] [SPEAKER_00]: a customer day by almost everything they can legally allowed to from for our team.

[00:02:24] [SPEAKER_00]: And Astin Martin with the biggest you know best most recent facilities with the biggest

[00:02:31] [SPEAKER_00]: signing that's actually happened just two weeks ago in Adrian Newy. Lanstroll is 11th with 24 points.

[00:02:41] [SPEAKER_00]: He has been beaten by Nico Halkenberg. Chat, that's the story but okay Daniel Ricciardo

[00:02:48] [SPEAKER_01]: time. Yeah, I don't know is there much that can be said now it's feels weird that we're talking

[00:02:56] [SPEAKER_01]: about his last face in Formula One right okay and we confirmed it yet is it out here and why are

[00:03:01] [SPEAKER_01]: we acting so sober when we know that there's no official announcement but we all know that it's all happening

[00:03:06] [SPEAKER_01]: what do we yeah I see a bunch of confused expressions on my screen it's including my face

[00:03:14] [SPEAKER_02]: no because when Ralph Schumacher said that this is going to be his last week and I didn't really

[00:03:21] [SPEAKER_02]: read much into it but then Danny Ric coming and accepting that yeah it's possible it might happen

[00:03:26] [SPEAKER_02]: and the way things proceeded after the days the press conference at a very emotional I mean for

[00:03:33] [SPEAKER_02]: him as well but even who's watching it Danny Ricciardo almost choking almost having tears in his eyes

[00:03:40] [SPEAKER_02]: and a couple of other images that turned up he was hugging his if I'm not wrong his I'll be

[00:03:45] [SPEAKER_02]: in a former Enno colleagues before he left the panic and that can only mean one thing and the team

[00:03:51] [SPEAKER_02]: principle also accepted that this could be a possibility so yes there's no announcement but

[00:03:56] [SPEAKER_02]: the way things ended yesterday it seems like that and I know we've always logically tried to

[00:04:02] [SPEAKER_02]: argue if Danny Ric really deserves a place in Formula One at this time but when it comes to this

[00:04:09] [SPEAKER_02]: stage when someone is possibly leaving it it's a different feeling altogether and you feel a little

[00:04:13] [SPEAKER_02]: side and yeah I've been feeling a little side if he's walking away from from this spot.

[00:04:20] [SPEAKER_00]: I'll tell you what I'm also I would say I'm not sad I've seen a lot of drivers come in go it's been

[00:04:25] [SPEAKER_00]: harder when I used to work for a team and I remember this one driver I won't name just hours before

[00:04:32] [SPEAKER_00]: an announcement we were just outside of the trailer and he's just you know the they're humans they're

[00:04:39] [SPEAKER_00]: a human athletes yes but they are humans and there was so much emotion that came out and you know

[00:04:49] [SPEAKER_00]: bumped into the same driver the next year at a different race of course not a part of the team

[00:04:54] [SPEAKER_00]: and just looks at me we both smile greet each other fist bump you know give the brohag and

[00:05:00] [SPEAKER_00]: he's like same shit different driver literally and he was right because like Max was

[00:05:07] [SPEAKER_00]: tap instead you know Formula One's gonna move on without me of course the team had moved on but

[00:05:13] [SPEAKER_00]: what does that mean you it's literally the template like what's a template on Thursday you will meet

[00:05:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Somal for an interview then you will do a real bits on the ram then you will go to you know this

[00:05:22] [SPEAKER_00]: broadcaster have a five minutes at down this is your open media session that's your this is when

[00:05:27] [SPEAKER_00]: you get to sleep this is when you get to eat there's a schedule the schedule almost never changes

[00:05:32] [SPEAKER_00]: there are two things that change the driver of course the nucleus of the schedule and the

[00:05:38] [SPEAKER_00]: nodes the nodes being who are the media people you'll speak to because it won't give exclusives

[00:05:42] [SPEAKER_00]: to the same media people so I'm not sad with Daniel Riccardo going I'll tell you what I'm sad with

[00:05:49] [SPEAKER_00]: the way it's been handled the very fact that none of us including Riccardo including Laura

[00:05:56] [SPEAKER_00]: McEar's in his post-trace release at maybe this is Daniel's last race we don't know

[00:06:02] [SPEAKER_00]: basically the fans and the driver and the team may not have been given a chance to celebrate

[00:06:11] [SPEAKER_00]: and have a fair will race for Daniel Riccardo and there's you know some people ask me

[00:06:18] [SPEAKER_00]: book but why didn't you say the same thing for Logan Sergeant well there is a difference Daniel Riccardo

[00:06:24] [SPEAKER_00]: and what he's done in that red ball what he's done in that Renault of course what he couldn't

[00:06:29] [SPEAKER_00]: do in McLaren and racing bulls is another story but Daniel Riccardo has to be celebrated yeah

[00:06:36] [SPEAKER_01]: and if you look at the record you won't cry a lot over an eight or a nine-time ground prewinner

[00:06:42] [SPEAKER_01]: leaving this port nobody cried as much when David cool thought left in fact it was just a past 13

[00:06:47] [SPEAKER_01]: times 13 times yeah exactly it was sad moment to see his white red bull spin out of the first

[00:06:52] [SPEAKER_01]: son but there was no emotional fair well no emotional goodbye but Daniel Riccardo's different

[00:06:57] [SPEAKER_01]: he's not just a multiple-time ground prewinner what he's done in Riccardo is something that

[00:07:02] [SPEAKER_01]: is replaceable but he stands for what modern day formula one is entertaining lively full of life

[00:07:09] [SPEAKER_01]: joyful which is what modern drive is quite often end up not being and he's a fresh breadth of life

[00:07:15] [SPEAKER_01]: breadth of air in terms of everyone else around which is why we're gonna miss him so much not because

[00:07:21] [SPEAKER_01]: he's a great driver he was a better one in the past maybe not the same anymore but it's what

[00:07:26] [SPEAKER_01]: he brings to this port outside of a person that he is and I know formula one's not really the place

[00:07:31] [SPEAKER_01]: where we celebrate people and what they bring to people and they enjoy that they bring in or

[00:07:36] [SPEAKER_01]: the emotion and the humor or the drama that they all bring to life but sometimes we have to take

[00:07:40] [SPEAKER_01]: a step back and realize man ultimately it's a bunch of really cool people doing really cool stuff

[00:07:45] [SPEAKER_01]: and this guy was the coolest one of them all we're not gonna get someone like him again

[00:07:50] [SPEAKER_01]: we're not gonna get some we've not seen someone like him in the past who's a if anything

[00:07:54] [SPEAKER_01]: if we can't celebrate what he's done in the car recently at least I think we should take

[00:07:58] [SPEAKER_01]: out some time to celebrate what he's done for the sport outside of it and trust me it's had such

[00:08:04] [SPEAKER_01]: a big impact I don't think formula one would be formula one today in the post-liberty media era

[00:08:11] [SPEAKER_01]: had had not been for someone like Daniel Riccardo because you look at what people think of

[00:08:15] [SPEAKER_01]: all the drivers Lewis has the inspiration Max as the so-called bad guy

[00:08:21] [SPEAKER_01]: shals as the heart rock the heartthrob of everyone that the person that everyone loves to admire

[00:08:26] [SPEAKER_01]: is no one like Daniel there's no one with his energy there's no one with his human his charisma

[00:08:30] [SPEAKER_01]: and his passion for life and that is rare I think we needed a character like that in formula one

[00:08:37] [SPEAKER_00]: just to shame that it has to end this way you know as a tribute to Daniel Riccardo in case

[00:08:42] [SPEAKER_00]: he's not racing in Austin which is actually his second in his head at least as he sees it

[00:08:49] [SPEAKER_00]: the other 20 drivers should come show up on a horse because that's what Daniel Riccardo would have

[00:08:55] [SPEAKER_00]: definitely done shown up on the horse in the paddock in you know Texan memorabilia all over him

[00:09:03] [SPEAKER_00]: with the sticks and hat and so on but we should also probably try and address a couple of things

[00:09:10] [SPEAKER_00]: which is why why would racing bulls or red bull racing bulls doesn't get to decide who drives their

[00:09:15] [SPEAKER_00]: cars it just to build their car yes right so why would red bull decide to replace him now

[00:09:23] [SPEAKER_00]: and not say just after or just before or during the summer break that just went by

[00:09:29] [SPEAKER_00]: or wait till the end of the season and of course there are a couple of reasons I would say here

[00:09:36] [SPEAKER_00]: one of the reasons that Daniel Riccardo's highlighted which is probably a hint is contractual

[00:09:42] [SPEAKER_00]: dates so there is a date by which racing bulls needs to commit to Liam Lawson so this is not

[00:09:49] [SPEAKER_00]: so much so about dropping Daniel Riccardo it's so much more about actually promoting Liam Lawson

[00:09:56] [SPEAKER_00]: so they do not lose his services to another team or he doesn't become a free agent right

[00:10:01] [SPEAKER_00]: so that's that's one point number one and I think there is of course like Helmet Marco has

[00:10:06] [SPEAKER_00]: come and said on our podcast every top driver has a performance clause and I think Daniel Riccardo also

[00:10:12] [SPEAKER_00]: you're a sort of hinted at it he said maybe if I get a podium at this race he said this before

[00:10:17] [SPEAKER_00]: the Singapore Grand Prix I might just tell get to drive which probably meant that he's not hit

[00:10:22] [SPEAKER_00]: those performance benchmarks their racing bulls would have put in front of him so it's been a very clean

[00:10:30] [SPEAKER_00]: clean negotiation or a clean way of working with him he would have been told this is your

[00:10:35] [SPEAKER_00]: date these are the targets you need to hit by these dates we'll give you the car of course

[00:10:38] [SPEAKER_00]: lots of times he's had accidents people have gone into a more ispan out or wrong strategy but

[00:10:44] [SPEAKER_00]: those are variables that are at play almost every driver's career in Formula 1 so you still

[00:10:49] [SPEAKER_00]: have to between those variables still delivers to some of those performance benchmarks so

[00:10:55] [SPEAKER_00]: this is more about loss and getting a drive and not losing a not losing him to another team then

[00:11:02] [SPEAKER_00]: about dropping Daniel Riccardo he just so happens that it's Singapore and then the next race is

[00:11:07] [SPEAKER_00]: three weeks away and whatever else and it just so happens that the most droppable team where you can

[00:11:14] [SPEAKER_01]: pick out a drive from is as a authority and at least performing driver in that team had to be

[00:11:19] [SPEAKER_01]: Daniel Riccardo but who knows had Ricardo got in that Red Bull seat and Sergio Perez would have

[00:11:24] [SPEAKER_01]: been here we could have been saying the Sergio Perez is last race in Formula 1 it's just the

[00:11:28] [SPEAKER_01]: circumstances that lead to what's happened eventually but before we go to Landon Horace I know

[00:11:35] [SPEAKER_01]: it's probably the last time we're going to talk about Daniel Riccardo I mean properly as a

[00:11:40] [SPEAKER_01]: Formula 1 driver of course we will have him mention on the F1 awards and we will talk a lot more

[00:11:44] [SPEAKER_01]: about his antics but one cold memory you can take back guys well what's one thing you really

[00:11:50] [SPEAKER_01]: love about Daniel Riccardo could be on track could be off track could be anything it's most

[00:11:55] [SPEAKER_02]: definitely I mean keeping aside his character I really want to go for what he's done on track

[00:12:01] [SPEAKER_02]: wasn't the greatest driver I would say he had just a couple of wins eight wins and a handful

[00:12:07] [SPEAKER_02]: of pole positions but on his day what he can do in the race especially was was remarkable

[00:12:12] [SPEAKER_02]: if he had the race pace on that day he can pull out some of the most magnificent dive bombs

[00:12:18] [SPEAKER_02]: and that's the first thing that comes to your mind him putting some clean especially back what

[00:12:23] [SPEAKER_02]: was it four wide three wide on on the main straight three wide him pulling a very clean dive

[00:12:30] [SPEAKER_02]: bomb holding position and and probably also Monaco what was it 2016 him being absolutely

[00:12:35] [SPEAKER_02]: pissed at losing that win but then getting redemption two years later with an engine that was

[00:12:42] [SPEAKER_02]: low on power by 40% so some memories of Danny Danny Riccardo he says always one is hard on

[00:12:48] [SPEAKER_02]: sleep so yeah we're definitely gonna miss that character and what he was able to do with this

[00:12:52] [SPEAKER_01]: car I think that's such a good point right we often rant about Formula One driver is not being human

[00:12:58] [SPEAKER_01]: anymore then being very mediatoring about having very generic answers very generic statements about

[00:13:04] [SPEAKER_01]: what to say Riccardo is one who's made as realize a Formula One driver is R indeed human and

[00:13:09] [SPEAKER_01]: he's the most human of the more at least in terms of talking to the media that's what I love about

[00:13:14] [SPEAKER_02]: the most I think Danny Riccardo is an India for one of one of the shorans or the road shows

[00:13:21] [SPEAKER_02]: whatever it is and I think he was dancing to I think he was doing Pagoda yes I remember correctly

[00:13:28] [SPEAKER_02]: in Delhi can you can you imagine if any other driver would do that any other driver a shall

[00:13:35] [SPEAKER_02]: declare a Fernando Alonso Fernando Alonso's an India can you actually imagine any other driver do that

[00:13:40] [SPEAKER_00]: I actually have you know a memory and I I hosted this event Adrian Suttel was here

[00:13:48] [SPEAKER_00]: and he danced to the the bung song with his belt and he did that the bung song he did but

[00:13:54] [SPEAKER_00]: he did I guess what happened the main camera that was rolling actually the memory went blank so we

[00:14:01] [SPEAKER_00]: have no memory of this we have no story whatever we were all really upset when that happened but

[00:14:06] [SPEAKER_00]: you know my memory of Daniel Riccardo will be that he was he was a big driver beta on track

[00:14:14] [SPEAKER_00]: he took on Sebastian Fettel and beat him while Max Wrestapan was still young and immature but

[00:14:22] [SPEAKER_00]: still quick he beat him there and the you know to me the the the big you know question mark

[00:14:31] [SPEAKER_00]: is and I've always believed in this because I've worked with so many of these junior drivers just

[00:14:36] [SPEAKER_00]: because you can one formula doesn't mean you're quick in the next and that's probably what

[00:14:41] [SPEAKER_00]: happened to Daniel Riccardo so when he moved to McLaren when he moved when the ground effect

[00:14:45] [SPEAKER_00]: he'd a call's game etc it's not that Daniel Riccardo's lost his talent it's just that how

[00:14:52] [SPEAKER_00]: you extract a lap time from a different car built by a different team is suddenly very different

[00:14:57] [SPEAKER_00]: and those were actually the conversations that we all went through multiple times at McLaren when

[00:15:02] [SPEAKER_00]: he used to say my natural driving instinct is just very very different and I'm unable to go

[00:15:08] [SPEAKER_00]: against that right but I you know the irony and keep colon time who runs race fans dot net again

[00:15:16] [SPEAKER_00]: a very very credible journalist I would say which how he's built F1 fanatic and you know which is

[00:15:24] [SPEAKER_00]: now called race fans he said something very interesting Daniel Riccardo left Red Bull racing

[00:15:30] [SPEAKER_00]: because he did not want to play second fiddle to Mcswish tabl but in his possible last race

[00:15:38] [SPEAKER_00]: ad racing goals he ended up playing second fiddle owingman to Mcswish tabl and by taking that

[00:15:45] [SPEAKER_00]: one point away from Lando Norris with that fastest lap in Singapore of course Riccardo doesn't get

[00:15:51] [SPEAKER_00]: that point because he finished outside of the top 10 but what a circle of life for Daniel Riccardo

[00:15:58] [SPEAKER_00]: leaving a team because you don't want to service another driver but leaving formula one ending up

[00:16:04] [SPEAKER_01]: actually servicing that very driver itself but it's a tale of how human emotions can play their part

[00:16:13] [SPEAKER_01]: and probably I don't know if this is the case or not because the other driver was rarely ever

[00:16:18] [SPEAKER_01]: showed but he's evidently the most emotional driver of them all and we've seen that all the

[00:16:25] [SPEAKER_01]: through we've seen that through every decision in his race in Korea especially when drive to

[00:16:31] [SPEAKER_01]: survive firstly came out first ever season his move to Renault was so well documented and you can see

[00:16:36] [SPEAKER_01]: the emotion issue into words this which it's more about backing himself which would be a

[00:16:42] [SPEAKER_01]: natural instinct at that time given that the asshoun system Red Bull word that he won't be a number

[00:16:46] [SPEAKER_01]: to drive over you could sense that Macs was the bigger one coming along is it's just a tale of

[00:16:51] [SPEAKER_01]: human emotions can sometimes get the better off you but what would we be if it's not for our emotions

[00:16:56] [SPEAKER_00]: it's that's working and you know so I love listening to Riccardo's interviews he's got that

[00:17:03] [SPEAKER_00]: broad grain always positive even during the Macs nowadays you could feel the pain but he

[00:17:09] [SPEAKER_00]: would still be positive but the one thing I noticed and this is a very card of fans probably

[00:17:12] [SPEAKER_00]: don't like me too much is where the slower he got compared to teammates

[00:17:19] [SPEAKER_00]: the longer his answers would be okay and deeper explanations using lots of words of course

[00:17:27] [SPEAKER_00]: very introspective what I mean to say is that but that often was my correlation that if you

[00:17:33] [SPEAKER_00]: suddenly see a Riccardo answer that's four minutes you're like okay I can almost sense where he's

[00:17:38] [SPEAKER_00]: on the timing sheets okay but we should before we move on because it was of course a lot more than

[00:17:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Daniel Riccardo and and Lance troll right there are two things we should probably talk of first

[00:17:49] [SPEAKER_00]: and very short I have a view on Red Bull racing using racing bulls to take that point away from

[00:17:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Lando Norris which of course this means that even if Lando Norris wins the next whatever number of

[00:18:04] [SPEAKER_00]: races that we have six races and Macs which tap in finishes second Macs will still be World Champion

[00:18:11] [SPEAKER_00]: okay so what Red Bull did was I think it's against the spirit of the sport but it's absolutely

[00:18:20] [SPEAKER_01]: migaling everywhere I have to bring this topic up what is this spirit of this sport canal it's

[00:18:27] [SPEAKER_01]: because I bring this up because in cricket I've had this whole big discussion with so many people

[00:18:32] [SPEAKER_01]: when the English cricket team always ran so about spirit of the game I don't get what spirit of

[00:18:40] [SPEAKER_02]: gamers isn't the spirit of the game to go by the rules are you guys staunch believers of the spirit

[00:18:46] [SPEAKER_02]: of any sport or do you follow the rule book let's let's understand that I am person who absolutely

[00:18:51] [SPEAKER_00]: loves going my rule book rule book I would say rule book yes absolutely but I today was

[00:19:00] [SPEAKER_00]: yesterday was a great example of why Zach Brown has been talking about single ownership between

[00:19:06] [SPEAKER_00]: two teams not being good for the sport formula one even though it's great for the business of

[00:19:10] [SPEAKER_00]: formula one and you know I think somebody's turned up and said it's a constructus championship

[00:19:16] [SPEAKER_00]: not a coalition championship which makes sense you know and people were of course saying

[00:19:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Mac Newson tried to take it and lots of times it happened that drivers are outside of the top 10

[00:19:26] [SPEAKER_00]: have tried to take the fastest point away etc no foul play to racing bulls or Ricardo or Red Bull

[00:19:33] [SPEAKER_00]: whatsoever they did what's within the rule book but at some point we've got to ask you know if

[00:19:40] [SPEAKER_00]: it's like this right we all want a 2021 we all want drivers going into the last race of the season

[00:19:48] [SPEAKER_00]: equal on points battling all that crazy I don't mean we want 2021 the fiasco that happens right

[00:19:53] [SPEAKER_00]: but if moments like these happen they're you're using a beat team to take away the sporting

[00:20:00] [SPEAKER_00]: spectacle that such a closely fought championship could offer that's when I'm like hmm

[00:20:06] [SPEAKER_00]: yes it's within the rules but it's not the spirit of the sport if you get what I mean so

[00:20:11] [SPEAKER_00]: that's where I am I are papaya rules and in this good of a good point but papaya rules

[00:20:18] [SPEAKER_00]: everything else at far i guess done over this yeah i would say that's also not within the spirit of

[00:20:23] [SPEAKER_00]: formula one has tried to police you know tried to police team orders they realize they cannot

[00:20:31] [SPEAKER_00]: police it a police it accurately and they've gone away from it so they've said actually it's

[00:20:36] [SPEAKER_00]: allowed to have team orders again I don't believe it's in the spirit of the sport at all right but

[00:20:42] [SPEAKER_01]: there's always gray areas in such situation here we out though isn't the spirit of the sport

[00:20:47] [SPEAKER_01]: elite high performance and maximizing results to me that is the spirit of formula one

[00:20:52] [SPEAKER_01]: and wouldn't that be a case of red bull and arby are just trying to do what they can with

[00:20:58] [SPEAKER_01]: the tools they haven't had it isn't that the spirit of formula leaders i i i i i i i no point

[00:21:04] [SPEAKER_00]: of by saying this shouldn't do it either i'm just trying to say that you know when Zack

[00:21:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Brown went to town last year uh that there's a rhyme to it Zack Brown went to town anyway uh when

[00:21:16] [SPEAKER_00]: he went to town last year beating his chest with this saying Red Bull can't own two teams

[00:21:21] [SPEAKER_00]: i was actually against it saying well 15 years ago when nobody wanted to own teams there was one

[00:21:27] [SPEAKER_00]: man who said guess what don't worry i loan two teams and then we applauded that guy yeah now suddenly

[00:21:31] [SPEAKER_00]: when the business looks so good we are saying yeah thank you you build us our 15 years ago but

[00:21:35] [SPEAKER_00]: now we don't need you please sell the team what rate are you going to sell it I okay and and so

[00:21:42] [SPEAKER_00]: i understood Zack at that time i understand him even more now but this is a great example

[00:21:47] [SPEAKER_00]: live television 2020 for Formula 1 season when it is so closely fought that you actually

[00:21:55] [SPEAKER_00]: see a scenario playout we're like hmm Zack is talking sense as well we don't know what's right

[00:22:01] [SPEAKER_00]: because both sides are correct uh and at no point should Red Bull be forced to sell alpha tower

[00:22:07] [SPEAKER_00]: with all that they've invested all the all these years but it could just rob us off

[00:22:15] [SPEAKER_00]: both drivers going equal into points and Abu Dhabi or whatever you know anyway okay okay okay once

[00:22:21] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm gonna say 21 minutes into the episode who are we why are we talking about Daniel Ricardo

[00:22:26] [SPEAKER_01]: and the spirit of the race why are we not talking about land on earth and his big win

[00:22:31] [SPEAKER_01]: let us tell you more we just get carried away we're the inside line f1 podcast we we're not

[00:22:38] [SPEAKER_01]: what can i say we ultimately we do end up being fanboys of Formula 1 quite a fair bit and

[00:22:43] [SPEAKER_01]: it's it's only normal the voice you just heard before me that was Kunal Shah the former marketing

[00:22:48] [SPEAKER_01]: head of force India that's why he shared a story about Adrian's suit on camera missing and the

[00:22:53] [SPEAKER_01]: camera not capturing that Dhabang Natsai hated should have seen it he's now also working as a part

[00:22:58] [SPEAKER_01]: of the biplane network and you would have seen him on the biplane f1 broadcasts last week

[00:23:03] [SPEAKER_01]: I suppose you'll be back next week as well we're in the Kunal for the next year next race luckily

[00:23:08] [SPEAKER_01]: there's a four week gap yeah thank you there's that and alongside myself Somalarora was Sundaram

[00:23:14] [SPEAKER_01]: Ramaswami f1 stats guru yesterday at our f1 screening in Mumbai and Sundaram of course

[00:23:20] [SPEAKER_01]: is known as f1 stats guru for the reason his stats are super popular including one that he found

[00:23:25] [SPEAKER_01]: out about the fastest lap his work has been published on audysport.com, modysport.com

[00:23:31] [SPEAKER_01]: is the official statistician for f1 academy is a part of the WTF one talent network it's like I have to

[00:23:36] [SPEAKER_01]: read out his resume all the time but he must know that he's done so much and of course there's

[00:23:41] [SPEAKER_01]: me I've commented on the more JP Indian Grand Prix, the Indian Racing League and in Formula 4

[00:23:46] [SPEAKER_01]: championship Indian Super Cross Racing League and hopefully some more leagues without the tag

[00:23:50] [SPEAKER_01]: Indian to it because I feel there's a lot more fun stuff to be done outside as well but that's us

[00:23:56] [SPEAKER_00]: and we need and that's you that that's you the voice of motorsport in India hands down

[00:24:02] [SPEAKER_01]: you've been to kind there we do kind but the voice of just I'm just reading out facts anyway

[00:24:07] [SPEAKER_00]: the voice of you guys are so you go ahead and you guys hosted a very interesting

[00:24:14] [SPEAKER_00]: race screening yesterday for the Singapore Grand Prix in Mumbai in power we had a attack machine

[00:24:20] [SPEAKER_00]: where drivers which drivers use for hand to eye coordination we set that up this was in partnership

[00:24:26] [SPEAKER_00]: with Hainik in one of the official partners of Formula 1 as well I am told that I've seen all the

[00:24:32] [SPEAKER_00]: reals and the content the engagement was fantastic even if I would say the race in itself

[00:24:39] [SPEAKER_00]: wasn't I mean it was a spectacle every time Singapore is but the racing wasn't really a spectacle

[00:24:44] [SPEAKER_00]: so anyway hats off to you guys for hosting another race screening I love what we do we

[00:24:50] [SPEAKER_00]: entertain people you know on on air like this y'all entertain people actually we all entertain people

[00:24:58] [SPEAKER_00]: on air on television as well and we also entertain people and engage with them on ground so

[00:25:04] [SPEAKER_00]: you know 360 degree Formula 1 life a motorsport life as we call it and before we actually go on

[00:25:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Fernando Alonso has been in India this morning as we were recording on the Monday after the race

[00:25:17] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm amazed at that guy's fitness the race only just got over late in the night in Singapore

[00:25:26] [SPEAKER_00]: here have gone slept or probably flown through the night slept through the flight it's

[00:25:31] [SPEAKER_00]: anywhere 4 and a half hour flight to India or to Chennai it's probably maybe half an hour more anyway

[00:25:36] [SPEAKER_00]: and then he was with cognizant the partner this morning lots of fans have sent me or lots of fans

[00:25:43] [SPEAKER_00]: of our show who were in the audience there have sent me you know hey he's your you know what

[00:25:51] [SPEAKER_00]: questions should be asked some of them also sending me stuff of what he actually said in the in

[00:25:56] [SPEAKER_00]: the conference because it was a close door whatever employee engagement that the sponsor did so

[00:26:02] [SPEAKER_00]: there were two things he said and so then I'm you'll get a you know wide green when you

[00:26:06] [SPEAKER_00]: hear this he said his favorite memory from the in from India was a 2012 Indian trunk pre when he

[00:26:13] [SPEAKER_00]: over took Michael Schumarker's all time F1 points record and he actually had a special helmet

[00:26:19] [SPEAKER_00]: designed for that right so that's one and the second he said he's really aiming to win the Dakar rally

[00:26:27] [SPEAKER_00]: someday which means that for all you Fernando Alonso fans just like Mr. Reif Hans Thats Guru Fernando

[00:26:33] [SPEAKER_00]: is going to be racing for many many many years to come to the unit itself side of Formula One

[00:26:39] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm very gutted I'm not there in Chennai I even considered his option of standing at the airport

[00:26:45] [SPEAKER_02]: to probably bump into him but then obviously that didn't work or but yes I've always known that

[00:26:50] [SPEAKER_02]: Fernando is going to be around in some category or the other and even if he retired from Formula One

[00:26:56] [SPEAKER_02]: there's always going to be more opportunities to watch him closely the one thing that I'm really

[00:27:00] [SPEAKER_02]: missing out on his getting a photo from him he does not take a lot of photos of this fans and

[00:27:05] [SPEAKER_02]: I've seen him clicking a couple with people at the airport so little gutted that way today but

[00:27:11] [SPEAKER_02]: it's nice to know that he's in the country to make you feel worse in the room.

[00:27:15] [SPEAKER_01]: He was there in Chennai three four times over the other one that same

[00:27:21] [SPEAKER_01]: airport that same airport and me the hacker and was also there at the same airport a few days ago

[00:27:27] [SPEAKER_01]: I missed him as well oh god what are we doing okay so close yet so far close yet so far hey that's

[00:27:34] [SPEAKER_01]: the same thing that our listeners will be saying that you guys were so close to mentioning land on

[00:27:38] [SPEAKER_01]: notice at this hut but you didn't well it's only fair right because how many minutes are we into

[00:27:43] [SPEAKER_01]: the episode we are 27 minutes away he was 30 seconds away from the rest of the field so it's only

[00:27:48] [SPEAKER_01]: fair he gets the airtime after all of that guys this was a very Sebastian Vettel S. Quinn

[00:27:55] [SPEAKER_01]: I'll hand on to my opinion dominant all throughout the weekend and it's very rare to be mentioned

[00:28:01] [SPEAKER_01]: dominant throughout the weekend because people only focus on Saturday and Sunday his Friday was

[00:28:06] [SPEAKER_01]: amazing a second off everyone free practice all the goddamn time then he goes out and does it in

[00:28:12] [SPEAKER_01]: the race you know what I'm most impressed by in the first five odd laps he built up a gap of around

[00:28:17] [SPEAKER_01]: two and a half seconds canal and people were like why is he pushing so much and then McLaren told him

[00:28:22] [SPEAKER_01]: okay lander you can push and he went as second faster than Max constantly wow that is

[00:28:29] [SPEAKER_00]: I was unbelievable you know I asked myself of course great dominant performance like you've explained

[00:28:35] [SPEAKER_00]: like F1 has put out you know one word dominance with his standing in that fetal kind of pose as well

[00:28:42] [SPEAKER_00]: which is also eerie but you know eerie being because it's a Sebastian Fettel thing and you know

[00:28:47] [SPEAKER_00]: I always remember fettel with that finger and not anyone else but you know life moves on

[00:28:54] [SPEAKER_00]: formula one moves on as we said earlier but what was Lando notice out to prove in Singapore

[00:28:59] [SPEAKER_00]: he was dominant yes but I think he had two or three brushes with the wall one very almost

[00:29:06] [SPEAKER_00]: he would have been did kinds and the other one just in the place where you know George Russell hit

[00:29:11] [SPEAKER_00]: the wall last year as well and actually crashed out I think Lando just wanted to prove a point

[00:29:17] [SPEAKER_00]: that he could drive so much faster than everybody else he wanted to finish more than a pit stops

[00:29:25] [SPEAKER_00]: you know lint time wise ahead of Max which happened because Max was was not fighting for the win

[00:29:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Max was like I call it five second I'm finishing second haha that's what I wanted to do I don't

[00:29:38] [SPEAKER_00]: because he just didn't didn't have the pace for it but Lando notice wanted to you know

[00:29:45] [SPEAKER_00]: unhighlight the opposition including Oscar P.S.T including Max was snap and then I would say he

[00:29:50] [SPEAKER_02]: actually did that I think this I think this was definitely one of Lando's best weekends

[00:29:57] [SPEAKER_02]: because he was literally there in practice he was there in qualifying he was there in the race

[00:30:03] [SPEAKER_02]: he did not been the opening lap for a change he did not lose the lead position on the lap

[00:30:08] [SPEAKER_02]: on the lead lap and like you said 30 seconds ahead of Max was happened one of his best days

[00:30:16] [SPEAKER_02]: we can act to wear a track that is so demanding physically mentally with such humor and hot

[00:30:22] [SPEAKER_02]: conditions managing to do that and not drop it so if you wanted a clinical Lando Rourdes performance

[00:30:30] [SPEAKER_01]: I think this one was that and he nearly the start as well Konell.

[00:30:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes so Nithyanand who of course is also part of the inside line effort podcast put

[00:30:39] [SPEAKER_00]: subtle those cool graphs he pulled out the stats saying 14 races that have happened in Singapore

[00:30:45] [SPEAKER_00]: 12 times at the pole sitter has led at the end of the opening lap and the two times that didn't

[00:30:51] [SPEAKER_00]: happen was 2017 with Fettel Rican and Rish Tap and crashing and 2022 with Perez jumping

[00:30:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Leclare because both both instances were a wet track so Lando Rourdes finally has converted

[00:31:05] [SPEAKER_00]: a pole position to a victory but crucially has converted pole position to actually leading the race

[00:31:12] [SPEAKER_00]: at the end of the opening lap statistically one of the easiest circuits to have actually done that

[00:31:19] [SPEAKER_00]: on as well I would say and just for the record not as finished 20.9 seconds ahead of Rish Tap

[00:31:26] [SPEAKER_00]: and 41.8 seconds I'm going to repeat that 41.8 seconds ahead of last weekend's winner

[00:31:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Oscar P.S. Rire what just happened to Oscar P.S. Rie guys by reading is he was out of position

[00:31:40] [SPEAKER_00]: in qualifying he just messed up Q3 like he admitted he did and that said he was playing catch up

[00:31:47] [SPEAKER_00]: and like like before examples saw Lando Nourdes play catch up in Baku this time it was P.S. Rie's turn

[00:31:53] [SPEAKER_01]: to play catch up and that's why I emphasize no Nourdes having a good weekend because that's what

[00:31:58] [SPEAKER_01]: you need to win a race nowadays he just he just can't have a bad free practice in the

[00:32:03] [SPEAKER_01]: end recovery format as easily because formula one nowadays is getting so competitive that your

[00:32:08] [SPEAKER_01]: preparation to every session matters so much and we could tell in free practice we could tell

[00:32:13] [SPEAKER_01]: in qualifying P.S. Rie just didn't feel as comfortable with the car as Lando did through out the

[00:32:18] [SPEAKER_01]: weekend or even as Charlotte clerked it which is another point we should come to immediately after

[00:32:23] [SPEAKER_01]: but he was always playing catch up having that bad qualifying not making sure there is

[00:32:28] [SPEAKER_01]: runs were good enough in Q3 and then one particular final run MIP as she made a couple of errors

[00:32:33] [SPEAKER_01]: brilliant saves yes but not quick enough ultimately and once you're in that midfield once

[00:32:38] [SPEAKER_01]: you're stuck trying to pass people in Singapore good luck trying to go win the race I don't think

[00:32:42] [SPEAKER_01]: anyone's done it or again you might need a team principal to call upon your team mate to crash your

[00:32:48] [SPEAKER_01]: car and then you can get an advantage but clearly McLaren's ethics and models are beyond that so

[00:32:53] [SPEAKER_01]: yeah it's a this is why this is why McLaren and in this predicament I feel so in the run because

[00:32:58] [SPEAKER_01]: one of their drivers one of their drivers is the faster better one evidently but he's not as

[00:33:05] [SPEAKER_01]: strong in those tough moments as the other one is and together they follow good team which is why

[00:33:11] [SPEAKER_01]: they're leading the constructives championship but in division they are not the finished article yet

[00:33:16] [SPEAKER_02]: I think both of them are not the finished article in that sense but it's nice to see that Lando Noris

[00:33:22] [SPEAKER_02]: has kind of smoothened a couple of edges through this year and he he he may he may he mentioned

[00:33:29] [SPEAKER_02]: this before this this race we can we celebrate differently to a race when or a podium then we would

[00:33:34] [SPEAKER_02]: have done maybe 10 races ago so they're clearly trying to implement that mindset of being a front

[00:33:39] [SPEAKER_02]: running team a team that wants to go for the championship but but like you said Singapore is such a

[00:33:46] [SPEAKER_02]: way if you don't qualify well and also the fact that the pit loss time is nearly 25 26 seconds

[00:33:53] [SPEAKER_02]: so wanting to take an additional pit stop or putting or doing the pit stop at the right time

[00:33:58] [SPEAKER_02]: is also very crucial and in that sense it puts more emphasis on qualifying and that was exactly

[00:34:05] [SPEAKER_02]: the case for the likes of an Oscar Piestry, Charlotte, Claude, Carlos, Science all had terrible

[00:34:10] [SPEAKER_02]: qualifies and then it was ultimately a case of damage limitation on the flip side Hamilton who had

[00:34:16] [SPEAKER_02]: a very good qualifying dropped down to P6 that's where like I said strategy is also very key if

[00:34:22] [SPEAKER_02]: you can't overtake on track you really have to make the best use of the pit lane and you know PS3

[00:34:28] [SPEAKER_00]: being out of position is why he also ran on a different pit stop cycle and he had to overtake

[00:34:33] [SPEAKER_00]: the two Mercedes cars on track just goes to show McLeod and had so much reserve that A they could

[00:34:40] [SPEAKER_00]: extend PS3 to 38 laps on the medium more than any other driver and say for example A it

[00:34:45] [SPEAKER_00]: laps more than Lando Norris itself and then he could pull off those moves on the Mercedes cars as

[00:34:53] [SPEAKER_00]: well but I get this feeling that Ferrari was actually the second quickest car on the Sunday

[00:34:59] [SPEAKER_00]: but because they were out of position, they just couldn't attack. They messed up qualifying so badly

[00:35:07] [SPEAKER_00]: now this brings memory of what Somal has said all along that Ferrari is not the master of scoring

[00:35:12] [SPEAKER_00]: back to back wins if they're strong on one Sunday there is a very good chance at the following

[00:35:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Sunday or the Saturday they'll fumble and they always find new ways to mess things up because

[00:35:23] [SPEAKER_00]: something that's not become official yet because it's probably been hushed away I would say by

[00:35:28] [SPEAKER_00]: by the media or the Ferrari media team but LeClaire said that his tyre blankets were not working

[00:35:33] [SPEAKER_00]: he was minus 10 on track on tyre temperature when he left out for Q3 and we saw Carlo signs he had

[00:35:40] [SPEAKER_00]: that crash because his tyres were not ready very strange it goes on the throttle tyres are not ready

[00:35:46] [SPEAKER_00]: for taking that much traction and acceleration and they just spun out and with with LeClaire the same

[00:35:54] [SPEAKER_00]: thing he just didn't have the grip into turn one and he said it was his mistake anything he just

[00:35:58] [SPEAKER_00]: took one for the team at that point but it was something up with those tyre blankets and then

[00:36:03] [SPEAKER_00]: they were chasing from 9th and 10th I think it was just game over they had to try different things

[00:36:08] [SPEAKER_00]: they were really quick in clean air but they had lost so much track position especially since

[00:36:14] [SPEAKER_00]: along so Halkenburg and Perez started ahead of them not Perez but along so Halkenburg started

[00:36:21] [SPEAKER_00]: ahead of them that Ferrari just had the best race to play and fifth and seventh was all they could

[00:36:26] [SPEAKER_00]: do again 36 laps on the medium for LeClaire and with Carlo signs very interestingly he

[00:36:32] [SPEAKER_00]: just 13 laps on the medium and he actually said by putting that early I just undercut

[00:36:39] [SPEAKER_00]: more I just undercut the entire midfield and that's what he did because then he ran like 48 laps

[00:36:45] [SPEAKER_01]: on that hard tyre you know I've often heard in the US that artists get sued for no showing

[00:36:52] [SPEAKER_01]: and damaging what the quality of a show is meant to be like and the promoters often tend to do that

[00:36:58] [SPEAKER_01]: seriously this is a pojp promoter should just sue Ferrari for that because that was a

[00:37:03] [SPEAKER_01]: had look look not had that terrible qualifying or they just not had that tyre blanket issue

[00:37:08] [SPEAKER_01]: we would have genuinely seen a race on Sunday is it's just land and noris doing his thing but

[00:37:13] [SPEAKER_01]: otherwise looking at everything this would have and this show has been a notice was as the

[00:37:18] [SPEAKER_00]: clever battle we just robbed off it by tyre blankets yeah and was was what the tyre blankets that

[00:37:25] [SPEAKER_00]: are using dysfunctionally and I presume that tyre blankets are a standard you know a standard

[00:37:33] [SPEAKER_00]: supply from the FIA much like a lot of other components because the sensors were picking up that

[00:37:39] [SPEAKER_00]: the tyre blankets the tyres were not ready otherwise you know LeClaire wouldn't have no one

[00:37:44] [SPEAKER_00]: use minus 10 on the temperature dash right but we don't know if it was the blankets not being

[00:37:51] [SPEAKER_00]: working fine or did the mechanic enter the wrong values there and that's something I hope we get

[00:37:57] [SPEAKER_01]: to know at some point weird weird wife Ferrari word competition so max which happened actually finished

[00:38:04] [SPEAKER_00]: second in the car which I would say was third quick ass because the car that was second quick

[00:38:09] [SPEAKER_00]: ass was out of place and I think max which happened is in this space where he was just like oh

[00:38:14] [SPEAKER_00]: power I'm second I had a great qualifying emphasizing what's on the arm set track position was so crucial

[00:38:20] [SPEAKER_00]: he put that car in P2 I think he was also surprised he was there he was probably expecting it to be

[00:38:26] [SPEAKER_00]: much lower because Ferrari and of course Mercedes to an extent faltered in qualifying

[00:38:32] [SPEAKER_00]: and then what happened to max which happened is just banked in all the point he could got his

[00:38:38] [SPEAKER_00]: main Daniel Ricardo to take the fastest lap point away from notice not that he took the call but

[00:38:43] [SPEAKER_00]: you know how far is a you know how difficult is it to send a WhatsApp message to a Laura O'Makey

[00:38:49] [SPEAKER_00]: is and say get Daniel to pay Daniel who's anywhere running last and then say we'll that's his legacy

[00:38:55] [SPEAKER_00]: the you know he took the fastest lap of the race which you know if you're outside of the top 10 is actually

[00:39:00] [SPEAKER_00]: meaningless in every way you're doing it to stop somebody else from scoring that point rather than

[00:39:05] [SPEAKER_00]: score that point yourself that's literally the reason why you take the fastest lap when you're outside of

[00:39:11] [SPEAKER_00]: but I think max which happens battle mainly this weekend was with the FIA because he wasn't battling

[00:39:19] [SPEAKER_00]: the McLaren's whatsoever okay he was in a beautiful McLaren papaya sandwich and I would say

[00:39:27] [SPEAKER_00]: it he takes he continues the tradition of world champion drivers multiple world champions

[00:39:34] [SPEAKER_00]: having issues with the FIA or the FIA having issues with them you guys remember Lewis Hamilton

[00:39:39] [SPEAKER_00]: sack with all the multiple dual reason watches in his hand you know when suddenly the dual

[00:39:46] [SPEAKER_00]: rebound came up and then Sebastian Fettel wore his underpants outside on on his racing suit

[00:39:53] [SPEAKER_00]: so max is just carrying forward that legacy saying there we go I'm gonna have this so he lost

[00:39:59] [SPEAKER_00]: the battle against the McLaren's on track but he won it against the FIA in his own press conferences

[00:40:05] [SPEAKER_00]: on Saturday and Sunday and I sat through that press conference and I'm like max is putting landstroll

[00:40:11] [SPEAKER_00]: to shame with those mono-silevlic answers you know and Versaqin has not won in Singapore

[00:40:18] [SPEAKER_02]: that that's the standard I do you should know despite being informal one for close to a decade

[00:40:24] [SPEAKER_02]: and the race at Singapore for so many times Singapore literally sticks out like a sore thumb because

[00:40:30] [SPEAKER_02]: it's the only track of the season where he's not yet won and P2 is his best result and I think

[00:40:37] [SPEAKER_02]: beyond a point like I said it was in the most spectacular race in terms of racing and at one point

[00:40:43] [SPEAKER_02]: everyone was really running for a safety car which has had 100% possibility at Singapore that

[00:40:49] [SPEAKER_02]: that moves away from the track but then burned male ander I'm sure he's had a nice chill time in

[00:40:54] [SPEAKER_02]: zone tub of cool water of his own because he's not driven on track during a grand Prix for nine

[00:41:00] [SPEAKER_02]: races which is now the joint longest absence of his career as a safety car driver he's done this

[00:41:08] [SPEAKER_02]: a couple of times in the early 2000s but if we have one more race without him in Austin coming on

[00:41:14] [SPEAKER_02]: that's gonna be the longest absence of him of his career so yes this is Max which happens best

[00:41:22] [SPEAKER_00]: in Singapore since 2019 or 2018 I think okay because of course didn't have two races in 2020 and

[00:41:30] [SPEAKER_00]: 2021 but he's not had the best of you know results in Singapore. About this safety car I actually

[00:41:37] [SPEAKER_00]: have a philosophy or an hypothesis sorry that's the word sorry there's so many languages in my head

[00:41:45] [SPEAKER_00]: but anyway I have a hypothesis where Lando notice was the only driver literally pushing all he

[00:41:51] [SPEAKER_00]: can's full beans on track which is why most of the others were just driving to the lap times

[00:41:58] [SPEAKER_00]: that they needed to against their rivals pushing managing etc and that's why in general they would

[00:42:05] [SPEAKER_00]: not taking as much off a risk as they would on every single lap so I don't mean they didn't take risks

[00:42:11] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean that they had to take risks during pit windows specifically and they just pitted you know

[00:42:18] [SPEAKER_00]: once most of them so that's one of the you know only reasons why one more reason by the safety

[00:42:25] [SPEAKER_00]: car didn't come out but we should talk about it but also reliability has reached such a level because

[00:42:34] [SPEAKER_02]: you don't see as many reliability concerns like we used to see even in the last couple of years

[00:42:39] [SPEAKER_02]: that's also another reason I mean we're seeing we have reached a stage where we have races but there

[00:42:45] [SPEAKER_02]: are no retirements yeah we don't have a necklace Latifia or a Mikita Mazda Ben anymore so there's no

[00:42:49] [SPEAKER_02]: silly crashes as well but the cars has generally also become that much more reliable.

[00:42:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Nor Logan Sergeant either in in fact his standing replacement Franco call up into amazing what a drive

[00:43:02] [SPEAKER_00]: again Singapore one of his toughest mental physical challenges what a drive I would say

[00:43:12] [SPEAKER_00]: into just I think a tenth away from Alben in Q2 and then had that mega dive bomb moment on the

[00:43:20] [SPEAKER_00]: opening lap like all or nothing kind of thing and I pretty much loved I've loved how

[00:43:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Franco seized the moment even though he knows nothing might ever come out of such you know

[00:43:33] [SPEAKER_01]: heroic drives that he's had in the last three races. Yeah and to be loaded by Sergio Perez

[00:43:38] [SPEAKER_01]: of all people for driving very well that is a big big compliment and the fact is three races

[00:43:44] [SPEAKER_01]: into his Formula One career he's already at a stage in life where he's criticising the team

[00:43:50] [SPEAKER_01]: for not giving him a good enough strategy. I mean think about it two months ago Franco call up into

[00:43:55] [SPEAKER_01]: a mid-fielder in Formula Two and none of us cared you did could not because you follow

[00:43:59] [SPEAKER_01]: Formula Two a lot more than we do but the the rest of us were like oh he's someone I knew

[00:44:04] [SPEAKER_01]: him as someone had commented on on an esports race actually a few reesports races earlier on

[00:44:09] [SPEAKER_01]: and I knew that he was quick but this quit this good this confident in this mature now it's quite

[00:44:15] [SPEAKER_01]: something and he could have gotten points had theoretically Williams not kept in order for one extra

[00:44:21] [SPEAKER_01]: lap in that would have prevented Sergio Perez from passing him but again if spots whatever the

[00:44:25] [SPEAKER_01]: team would be very impressed though and the world would be going around the part of that dis sky is

[00:44:29] [SPEAKER_02]: the real deal. But if Collop into a scored points he would have had as many points as Esteban O'Con

[00:44:36] [SPEAKER_02]: Collop into his already ahead of show-con, new Logan Sergeant to what for obviously

[00:44:40] [SPEAKER_02]: his and also value what as with four points he's 19th Esteban O'Con is one point ahead

[00:44:46] [SPEAKER_02]: Kevin Magnus and his two points ahead so if he puts his card within the points being positions there's

[00:44:53] [SPEAKER_02]: the possibility that he could finish as high as 17th or maybe even 16th.

[00:45:00] [SPEAKER_01]: That is insane.

[00:45:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Since it's very good CV.

[00:45:04] [SPEAKER_00]: So I would say Franco Collop into a was one of my drivers of the day or drivers of the weekend.

[00:45:09] [SPEAKER_00]: I would say even Nico Halkenberg my definite driver of the day driver of the weekend.

[00:45:14] [SPEAKER_00]: I know I Daniel Ricardo got it because it's probably his last race and lots of fans just do that

[00:45:19] [SPEAKER_00]: to thank the driver. But Halkenberg mega qualifying started in the top 10

[00:45:25] [SPEAKER_00]: captured their cap Perez behind him for I think 90% of that race and drove flawless. Of course

[00:45:34] [SPEAKER_00]: didn't get the the the praise from Perez you know like Collop inter did but now has his

[00:45:43] [SPEAKER_00]: you know scored points again which I think is brilliant and then we should just shortward on

[00:45:49] [SPEAKER_00]: on Mercedes because I think they would admit that they messed up with Hamilton strategy starting third

[00:45:54] [SPEAKER_00]: they put on the soft the softer the worst tire to be on and that said he was game over and done

[00:45:58] [SPEAKER_00]: after that. And while a lot of fans on social media are saying Mercedes and blaming the team

[00:46:06] [SPEAKER_00]: you have to remember a lot of tire choices especially race tires are choices that drivers are

[00:46:13] [SPEAKER_00]: actively involved in they consider all the scenarios one of the key scenarios they would have

[00:46:18] [SPEAKER_00]: considered is there is a very high chance of a safety car especially early in the race itself

[00:46:25] [SPEAKER_00]: and you know within the safety car windows so it's you know it would have suddenly looked like a

[00:46:36] [SPEAKER_00]: pulled you know pulled a move on either max or land or both of them and gain track position.

[00:46:42] [SPEAKER_00]: So I think they had their everything to try for and I'm glad they did it just in workout

[00:46:46] [SPEAKER_00]: and they put their hands up saying sorry we messed up. Yeah, I mean they had to right there

[00:46:52] [SPEAKER_01]: are no other choice the new terms of rope is they were nowhere compared to Mercedes anyway.

[00:46:57] [SPEAKER_01]: I've compared to Red Bull and McLaren anyway so yeah worth it but once that we must end on

[00:47:03] [SPEAKER_01]: Sundaram you have pointed out something about what was happening and what he's still

[00:47:10] [SPEAKER_01]: not achieved we need to get this set and then one really fun question from canal before we

[00:47:15] [SPEAKER_01]: call it but what's that what's that fun number. Now the thing is that McLaren

[00:47:18] [SPEAKER_02]: have been doing a lot of overcuts off lately that's turned out to be a trend they often

[00:47:23] [SPEAKER_02]: let their rivals go ahead and take the undercut which is meant that land on orders did not

[00:47:29] [SPEAKER_02]: leave the leader of the race and he did not hand it over to max or step in so what's

[00:47:33] [SPEAKER_02]: happened did not lead a race during the Singapore Singapore property which then means he's led

[00:47:39] [SPEAKER_02]: only a total of three laps around this track in entirety and a certain Antonio Gionazie has actually

[00:47:46] [SPEAKER_00]: led more laps in an alpha Romeo here. Wow who would have ever imagined that but since we are on

[00:47:53] [SPEAKER_00]: max we're stepping here's a question for you born okay go ahead Red Bull has seven wins this season

[00:48:05] [SPEAKER_00]: yes yes they do right McLaren so Red Bull has seven wins this season McLaren has now scored

[00:48:13] [SPEAKER_00]: five yeah McLaren have almost a 35 whatever pointed advantage in the constructors championship

[00:48:20] [SPEAKER_00]: there are six races to go. Will McLaren end the season as the team with the most number of wins

[00:48:27] [SPEAKER_00]: in 2024 yes or no yes and follow question will Red Bull win any race after remaining six races yes

[00:48:40] [SPEAKER_00]: okay wow we are all on the same page again max which happened give a beautiful land post race he said

[00:48:46] [SPEAKER_00]: these streets circuits do not work for us even though we've cured the cobs and the bump

[00:48:51] [SPEAKER_00]: writing that we were unable to do which is a strong strong hint that Red Bull may have found

[00:48:57] [SPEAKER_00]: you know some solutions in their package to make their car easier to drive compared to say last

[00:49:02] [SPEAKER_00]: year how they struggled right and he said the normal tracks will suit us better and if that is the

[00:49:08] [SPEAKER_00]: case and this is going to be a Norris versus which happened for the next six races I would love to see

[00:49:14] [SPEAKER_02]: but soon I before we end you have a great stat yes McLaren I just remembered took their 14th consecutive

[00:49:21] [SPEAKER_02]: podium of the season and it's their second longest podium run in their history of being in

[00:49:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Formula 1 so 14 in a row right now this season their best ever is 19 in a row and if McLaren continue

[00:49:35] [SPEAKER_02]: on this talk quite I mean you can expect them to do that they literally have the best car out there

[00:49:40] [SPEAKER_02]: for a very very long time but if the finish on the podium or every race till the end of the season

[00:49:45] [SPEAKER_02]: they will take their they will break that record as well 20 podiums six more races to go they

[00:49:51] [SPEAKER_01]: could actually claim their make new record that is insane not a turnaround now we'll see we'll see all

[00:49:59] [SPEAKER_01]: of that is to come in future races and for that we're going to have the next race preview also coming

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