The Late Braking F1 Podcast - 2024 Singapore GP Review

Episode Date: September 22, 2024

It may not have been a thriller of a Singapore GP, but there is plenty to discuss. The LB boys talk through Norris' dominant performance and close calls with the wall, Ferrari's comeback and Colapinto's daring first corner move... FOLLOW us on socials! You can find us on YouTube, Instagram, X (Twitter) and TikTok SUPPORT our Patreon for bonus episodes JOIN our Discord community JOIN our F1 Fantasy League BUY our Merch EMAIL us at [e-mail]   & SUBSCRIBE to our podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This podcast is part of the Sports Social Podcast Network. Thank you for listening to the Late Breaking F1 podcast. Make sure to check out new episodes every Wednesday and every Sunday. Good and welcome to the Late Breaking F1 podcast presented by Harry Ead, Sam Sage and me, Ben Hocking, Singapore Grand Prix review time. And as promised yesterday, we are once again in the same place. Tokyo, we follow through any promises. We always follow through. Oh.

Oh. What? It's just not true. On this occasion, though, we actually have. Freeway follow through. Yeah, sure. We're all okay after last night, aren't we? Yeah.

Everyone's well. Our producer is asleep. Nelson's asleep. We've had a right ruckus this morning. Went to the F-1 Arcade in Birmingham last night and had a grand old time. I actually thought it was very good. Recommend. Yeah, we'd recommend if you're in London or Birmingham, go to one of them.

It's good fun. Didn't get recognised though, did we? We're not that famous, so. Big disappointment, that. A little bit disappointed. People were just too shy to come up to us. Thought I saw Marmas. Yeah.

We're going to talk about the Singapore Grand Prix, unsurprisingly today. We've got to try to. Well, we'll give it a good go. We've got a moment of the race coming up later on, a little bit on the midfield battle, Holcomberg and Alonzo both scoring points in that. So Joe Perez also scoring point to singular. So we'll be discussing that a little bit later on as well.

Well, Ferrari versus Mercedes, an interesting battle of strategy there. But we're going to start out front because Lando Norris led from the first lap, which in itself is a talking point. He had a very good start, no problems there whatsoever. And then decided to, what's the way I can say that the FIA won't be mad at me? He went off. Ran away. Ran away.

How impressed were you, Sam? There were moments where I was very impressed. it's this was a really good Grand Prix from landing or a and equally there were some moments in there where I was absolutely

terrified that he was about to put it into the wall for almost no reason whatsoever led entirely by himself his start was good and it's about time that he got a good start

he finally got away in the lead the first lap I think Max was stopping had a poor start Lewis Hamilton got right up alongside him going through turn one and that obviously

massively helps the leader when they get away like cleanly he got going on next so that helped him and then it seemed like he was so relaxed for a log of the Grand Prix. When his engine air came on the radio and said,

what's the pace like what you're doing at the moment? Lando goes, I spent on about a six at the moment. And we all kind of went, is it actually a six? Is it actually a six out of six? Is it six out of ten? Six out of four.

It's actually seven. He was going really quickly. But what's more scary was when they went, okay, cool. Well, by the mid-teen laps, we want to have a plus five second gap to Max for Staffing. You knew at that point, didn't you? Yeah.

And what is when within two laps, it was over five seconds. It was lap 12, wasn't it? Yeah. I hadn't even got to mid-teen. I was like, oh. It was just on demand, wasn't it? Yeah, immediately the pace ramped up.

Go faster now. Okay. Okay, I will. And it was so effortless for him. The car and him were really at one. And yet, at the same time, which we'll get on to, there were some mistakes that really made me panic a little bit for someone who was so comfortably out front.

In the end, the, uh, the wind margin ended up being slightly less than what we saw at Zamvor, but still just over 20 seconds. At one point, it was 28. I think we said throughout this Grand Prix if he needed it or wanted it to be 40, 45. I think he could have been close to a minute. Yeah, he seems so comfortable, which, yeah, I guess similar to Zambor,

other than the fact that he needed to make the overtake at Zambor, but really after that, it was just, it was very, very dominant. Correct. End of podcast. Very dominant. It was, I'm not saying it's easy. for him out there because it wasn't but he could just as he said it was on demand the pace he had and he was just sort of it wasn't not even managing the gap because he was still extending it but

he built that buffer up and then he could like I said could have gone even faster but didn't need to had those few scares with the walls um but yeah it was quite a quite a scary scary performance in terms of how dominant was from from Norris um we're not used to seeing that from I mean, we've had a lot with Verstappen, but from McLaren this year, I know Zanvort is a good example, but apart from that, it's been tight. It's been a good battle for the lead, but this was convincing. Yeah, and of course, only one fastest lap from Daniel Ricardo away from a first career grand slam, but even so, a very dominant performance.

I, like you, Sam, as soon as they said, right, we want to get this gap to five seconds. We want to do it by then, and then he just did it. You kind of knew at that point that he had this rap. up unless he was going to do something actively to hurt his chances. As good as Vastappen was on the day and we'll get to him in a moment, as good as some of the other drivers were as well. It was really impressive what he was able to do with that gap because at Singapore as well, sometimes I understand the point of you do want to protect against the undercut by getting

that five seconds, but often you're in such management mode at this circuit with the high temperatures and the quite soft tires, the street circuit, that as soon as you get to like five seconds, you could just, all right, we'll manage it. We'll keep it around this point. And the fact that Landon Norris didn't need to do that. And he just went above and beyond that and just extended, extended, extended to the point where he didn't have to worry about anything anyone else did. Like he could just pick whenever he wanted to pit. He obviously had to scare with the front wing. If it was anything worse than what had happened, they could have just stopped him and fixed the front wing, and he still would have won this race, I think.

He just created such a buffer for himself. So we have had questions about Lando Norris and his ability to convert on quite obvious pace that he's got. This was a major tick because Quali nailed it, two-temp's gap, race. We do have some question marks about him in pushing at times, but the margin of victory is so dominant and it really leaves him in a good position for the rest of this season. Yeah, I think whenever he does something, wrong, he then rectifies that, but then he does something else wrong, right? And that's what worries

me about Landon Norris. Are you a champion yet? Are you a true champion in the sense of every time, there's always a weakness to his game. And I would be, if I was Max Verstappen, if I was any other competitor, I would look to exploit that weakness. It would be a, you're not consistent enough. Under pressure, he does seem to have his, his problems. You know, he hit the wall three times in this Grand Prix. One of them almost saw his, you know, if that was at a slightly different angle, that could have been the front wheel off the car. It really could have been game over. And for what reason?

What were you doing to gain that advantage? At that point, he was over 20 seconds clear. Why are you risking that? Why are you driving in a manner that seems so precarious? And then he was also lapping Colapinto, of course. He really runs the car wide out into the wall. What are you doing that for? Why are you risking it?

Hits the back wheel on the wall where Russell D&F last year again. I think he did that last year when Russell was chasing him actually as well, didn't he? That's exactly the same place that he's hit the wall two years. in a row now and got away with it two years in a row. But these are risks you just do not need to be willing to take. And that is why I still have question marks over Mando Norris and his ability right now. The raw pace is obviously there. The Kig is so quick. And he's a real talent. Can he do it every single race if the car required it? If he needed to win that title fight,

if it came down to the wire on the last Grand Prix, do I think he's the guy to do that right now. I still think there's some questions there. Did you read anything into Vestappen's response to seeing that crash for the first time. So they're in the call-down room. Vestappen, based on his reaction, I don't think has any idea that Norris has, and we're talking about the first one of the three here, as you say, goes into the wall,

and Vestappen's reaction is shock. Like, you did that, son? Like, how did you get away with that? You know, I think, one, I think it will not shock them that this is how dominant they are, but the fact that he can essentially crushing to the wall, stop the car, turn the car, carry on going, and the gap was still, I think, 21 seconds after that. Four seconds, isn't he? Yeah.

But the fact that the gap is that big that four seconds is, who cares? I still can't see you. It's still up the road. That's scary for Red Bull that the gap is that big in the performance margin. But also, Max will look at and go, God's sake, any other time, if you're putting that in a war, that's championship over. I win the race. Norris doesn't get any points.

That's it sewn up. It's not getting brought back from what it would be there. then 78 points. I think we got a 25 point swing the other way. Yeah, 77, I think. Something like that, yeah. So it would be, you know, that would be championship game over.

Not technically, but I don't think Norris could bring back a 77 point gap with only six races to go, whereas now, I still think it's a real tough ask, but it's definitely possible. Did you have any concerns about some of those near misses? Yeah, don't do that, Andy. It's a great point.

It's great feedback from you. If you want to be champ, don't crash into the wall. In the book. In the book. yeah it's a little there were a couple of lapses of concentration from Lando and he said afterwards it wasn't like he was pushing too much but even so

they were the lapses of concentration which is a common one for this circuit given the heat and the and the fact that the race goes on for 48 hours yeah the fact that he didn't actually bin it is obviously good but he those sort of mistakes you do need to iron out because it's the consistency

of a stab or a Hamilton or Adelonzo that's made them world champions and Norris has some inconsistencies as you says I mean his pace is electric but he just needs a bit more yeah consistency and less mistakes and yeah these were tiny marginal mistakes

so they didn't matter in the end but he's fortunate that the car he had allowed him to make these mistakes and A that it's a strong car and B that it was quick enough that he could then re-extend the gap when he did make them so a lucky boy, he can't do that again. I was concerned.

It was completely unnecessary, completely unnecessary. And I'm sure people will, you know, come at me for a day in which Lando Norris has had such a dominant victory that were being negative about, like, a couple of things about his performance. But when you boil it down to what was there to gain versus what there was to lose, in all three instances, why? I appreciate the first one is more of a mistake. it's less of a decision. But certainly his decision to go as close to the wall as he did on the second one with, like you said, where Russell hit last year,

he didn't need to risk that. The collarpinto one is probably the most needless. Like, you are going to get past him. You are lapping the car. You don't need to do it where you tried to do it. And, you know,

if all things go well and you can execute all three of those, like, what do you gain a tenth of a second that you don't need? and if it goes horribly wrong, as you say, Vastappan can win that race, Norris can DNF, and that might well be

the nail in the coffin, championship over. So when you look at the pros and the consenside, it's a complete mismatch. So I was concerned about his, as phenomenal as his pace was, his race management,

I thought was, in a few of those instances, questionable. Risky. Unnecessary risky, wasn't it? Yeah, I've got no problem with risks. It's when, like,

what's the reward? need to do the risk. If he's chasing down Vostappen for the race win, okay. But he wasn't two seconds clear of Vastappen either. There was no chasing happening. He was like in Malaysia and Vestappen wasn't on this earth. He's already driving down the road to Cota at this point. That's how far ahead he was.

The other two drivers on the podium. So Max Vestappen started second, finished second. Oscar Piersch had a bit more work to do, went very long on that first stint, but eventually got by the Mercedes drivers, and he finished in third. Start with Vastap and Sam. Given again how dominant Norris was, he's only lost seven points in the championship.

Good result. Perfect day out. Genuinely, if Norris is going to go and win a race in that much of a dominant fashion, for him to not get the fastest lap, thank you, Daniel Ricardo, I'm sure, as we heard, Max say over the radio,

for him to only gain seven points, which again, if that happens every single race for the rest of the season isn't enough to win the title. This is the best it can be from Max Verstappen. And I think he drove really well. I think he had a really good race. It was solid. The pace was very consistent.

We heard because it wasn't a lot happening. They were really diving into the nothingness of the Grand Prix. So the lap times were getting read out an awful lot. But the staff was ever so consistent. It was going to have a point to either side of the same lap constantly. He was keeping Piastri at bay the entire time once Piastri did get into third. The gap barely came down from 18 seconds for the majority of that second stint. he was comfortably in front of the Mercedes after the start.

His only negative, I think, was getting off the line, and it didn't cost him in the end. So, again, it was a champion's drive. That was an impressive drive. That was someone that is going. I will, much what like prosecutors could say, I will wing, without winning, in the slowest way possible. I will gain everything I can with the least risk, the least worry,

no problems on my side. He didn't really mowing over the radio at all either. It was just head down. Second place. It's the best it's going to be together. picked up the most points. I don't think you ever won that Grand Prix with Landon Norris not having a problem.

What do you think, Harry? Because we were looking at Red Bull on Friday and it wasn't looking very good. And here we are on Sunday, second place for Vastappen. It looked poopy on Friday, isn't it? That's a very technical term, but I don't disagree.

Very poopy. Thank you, Sam. Is that the Red Bull from Friday? That was what the Enging sound like. Yeah. I said this to you after the race finished. Every time Lando finishes the race ahead of Vastappan, it's like, oh, this is great.

And then he looks around and, oh, Vestappans, right next to me. Oh, hello there. Oh, hello there. Max here. So, yeah, for Vestappan, this is very good damage limitation. I don't think that Red Bull deserve to be on the podium. I think it deserved to be fifth. Yeah, I think.

And obviously he was fortunate with the fact that Ferrari were Ferrari in qualifying yesterday. Piaastri wasn't on scintillating form and they had the measure of the Mercedes but it wasn't the second fastest car today and I think Vastappen made the difference on that one while you said time just accepted I think obviously given where they were on Friday it's probably actually a good result for them but

accepted the fact that it wasn't going to be a win and just went for P2 and it paid off so it's yeah again minimal seven point seven points he's lost which is in the grounds. We're shipping away at the races here. Land is going to run out of time to try and catch him.

So a good day for Stappan. And according to Sean Kelly, F.1. Stapman. Of course. Does now mean, Vestappen does not need to win another race. Will he win another race. He's a bizarre thing. But yeah, he doesn't need to. He can finish second the rest of the way now.

So even with sprint races? I believe so. Wow, God. I mean, that is the luxury, isn't it, of getting the job done early? He smashed it at the start of the season, dominating the first six, seven races. And it's basically held him up from there because it's not been good, basically since, what, before Spain?

That was his last win. There was his last time. It really went properly well for that team. That's a long time ago now. That's a long time ago. It's what, 10 Grand Prix ago? In the Vastappan era of the last few years, it's a lifetime. Yeah.

It's crazy. I thought he was great today Vastappen, because I, like I say, I think it probably was the third fastest car out there. I think if Lecler starts, if Piastrian Lecler start right behind Max, I think they get past him. Yeah.

And, Norris was phenomenal and his margin back to Vastappen and everyone else was ridiculous. The gap from Vestappan back to everyone else was ridiculous. He was, Piastri was nowhere near him and neither were the Ferraris,

neither were the Merck. So, yeah, I think Vastappen should be very happy with how that's gone. Again, and Norris was so, so good, and he's lost seven. You'll take that, I think. I said this yesterday. They're giving me real Hamilton for Stappen, 2021 vibes these two at the moment. They're just so far ahead.

At least they were this weekend, so far ahead of everyone else. Like it was. Yeah, different class. And we said this almost last year when how many times did we confident Landon Norris because he'd be driving a race where you think, if you don't look at the timing board, you see the orange car go by, And all the other cars go by, but what you've actually missed is Verstappan is 20 seconds up the road again.

It's the opposite way around at this point, right? At the time that we said, wow, if the Red Bulls weren't in this, Norris will absolutely dominate this. Well, if Norris wasn't in this race, the Stapham is absolutely dominated in a car that shouldn't dominate this Grand Prix. I said it when we were watching how in Baku, you know, the front three separated by second, the duality of F-1 here, you come to Singapore, the front three is separated by 45 seconds at one point. It is, you know, baffling the way that it can flip like that within the space of a week. Yeah, I do want.

I don't think this would be an easy stat to get, but it'd be interesting, like the last time the margins of like the top three were so different from one race to the next. Pretty mad. Quick shout on Piastri as well. Happy with the result? Obviously, he's another podium,

but he was a long way from his teammate. So how does he see it? I think he'd be happy. Damage limitation somewhat after quality yesterday because I think he was out of position. The thing is like when you are, like with Leclair and Piastri, they're out of position.

They clearly had the pace. but because they've got to like use the strategy they can't just overtake and get past the cars they need to they're going to use the strategy to do it by the time that's all played out their actual battle that they probably should be involved so far up the road that it's a done deal so it does make it I think it does make it look worse

of Piastri in terms of the gap so yeah I think he could be fairly fairly happy with how the day went yeah I think this is one he lost lost is harsh because he's finished on the podium but I think the reason he's not second is yesterday and not today because so much of his strategy is focused on how could he get ahead of George Russell, how could he beat the Ferraris and the Merckes, at which point you settle for

third and Vestappen's not really in the picture. If Piastri even starts third and not second, then suddenly all of his strategic, all of his strategy goes into how can I beat Vestappen, in which case I think he might give him a run for his money. But yeah, I think there'll be a little bit of disappointment in that when you have a teammate that is so dominant, you do want to at least be second place. But again, I think this was more lost yesterday than it was today. I actually think it's the opposite of Lando Norris this race weekend in the sense that Lando's raw pace was phenomenal, really incredible. But as we've already mentioned, the consistency, the risk, it was worrying at times. Whereas Piascri, I don't think had that raw pace around

Singapore. He didn't click with him. He wasn't comfortable. He wasn't able to extract everything out of it that Lando was. When we have seen that he's able to previously, But what I was very impressed with was the clinical nature he makes overtakes. The way he's so calm over the radio getting stuff done. Once he does get into the clean air, it's the consistency again. Lap after lap after lap, no risk, no worry. The way he just cruises up to someone like Lewis Hamilton and he's like, down the inside, see you later moving on. I'm not going to sit behind you for six, seven laps.

I'm not going to faf around with it. I'm getting the job done. I'll see you later. You shouldn't, we shouldn't make these sorts of comparisons because they're two very different people, you know, stages of their career. but he actually really reminds me of Hamilton in the way he just overtakes people. His approach to just rocking up and getting it,

sort of the big bangling, and getting it done, just reminds me of Hamilton in his, I'm not saying Hamilton doesn't do it now, but it's lesser because of the car situation, but just Hamilton in his early, early career when he just rock up

to get the overtake down and move on. I think he'd see it as a fight. You'd see it as a, you're in my way. Move to the side. Yeah, I'm going through now. Yeah, I'm going through now. You know, and Oscar does it.

really respectfully at the same time. He isn't shoving people off the racetrack. He's not overcrowding them or almost causing crashes. He got past both Mercedes in the same place. And at every moment, they had full car on the track. Overtake was clinical, job done. And he swanned off into the sunset. Okay, that's our summary of the top three.

We're going to take a short break. On the other side, we're starting to look into the Ferraris and the Mercedes. Okay, everyone, welcome back. Ferrari versus Mercedes now, because we were looking at these two teams as one having a better day than expected in qualifying and one having a worse day than expected. We had the two Mercedes starting third and fourth. We had the two Ferrari starting ninth and tenth.

And they basically made their way back to one another. So Mercedes have got the better of Ferrari, but only just. George Russell finishing fourth, Charlerc finishing fifth, Hamilton sixth, and then Carlos Sines in seventh. Should we start on the Mercedes duo, Sam? So Lewis Hamilton, he starts third, but on the soft tire, the only driver in the top 10 to go that way. It doesn't really work out for him. George Russell goes longer and ultimately able to get by Hamilton quite comfortably.

How did you see the way they played their strategy? Hamilton's strategy is an absolute pile of poo in it. Pick it up and put it in the Bing. What are doing starting on the soft tire, Lewis? You mowing about everything. You hate tyres. There's a vendetta against all things made of rubber that are round. And you gave him the things that run out.

incredibly quickly on a very heavy car. They were used. They're not even for a new. What's the point? Yeah, a couple lap old toes. What are you doing with him? What a terrible decision. Then they bring him in so early, of course, which is a nightmare,

because then he has to do 45 laps on hard tyres. And Lewis is already complaining in 10 laps in going, guys, you've screwed me here. What are we doing? What are we doing? And that point, Russell's overcut him. And Russell's pace, I was, the car wasn't there. And I think actually Hamilton and Russell were basically kind of wear the car

should be, maybe slightly further ahead of it. But I was really impressed with Russell's pace. I was really impressed with how he just kind of got it. Once he did overcut Lewis, he was just, he was gone. There only thing up being a whole pit stop between the two of them, I do think Russell had a bigger strategy. I do think Russell regularly had the bigger compact guitar at the right time. But I also think that Russell generally was just faster on race day today.

And I think the Sagers will come away thinking overall points, yeah, we beat Ferrari. We were never going to outscore and on else massively, you know, match kind of, the Red Bull guys as well, it's all right. I think in the details, they've still got problems. I don't think they understand a lot of this car. I think the heat causes them too many problems. The strategy is still being this wild and bad. It's just ridiculous to me.

So on the surface of it, fine. They'll come away with it, no issues. But they need to stop making these silly mistakes because I do think, I think how much probably could have had a closer battle with the likes of LeCler today. If he was up there with Russell the entire time, maybe they're going to be a different scenario

they both finish in front of both Ferraris and there's a few more points game there. What do you make of the days of Hamilton and Russell? Yeah. The Hamilton strategy is a, I understand they're trying to do something different, but it did seem like an odd. It's the wrong different.

The wrong different, yeah. And I, because they know how hard it is to overtake of Singapore. So that strategy is automatic. giving up track position really early doors because he's going to have to come in early. So why are you doing that? I know what they're trying to do with it, but for where they are, just it didn't make sense. So odd one and yeah, his day was kind of done from there.

Russell, yeah, I thought Russell was pretty impressive. He was kind of, again, on his, like Alonzo was, on his own for quite a lot of the race. So I was so many radio messages from him. What a great day for Russell radio. He was the entertainment, we slow back. But yeah, he was just sort of, you know, chopping about on his own for most of the race.

Had some battles with, you know, Leclair as he came through. But apart from that, he was on his own. But I thought his pace was pretty good. And like you said, Sam, I think he got the most out of the Merck. And to be honest,

to be on the podium for a, for a while, I think if he'd come away at the podium, that would have been very impressive. I know Piastri got him in the end, but Piastri should have been on the podium anyway. So I thought it was a good day for Russell. Yeah, from Russell's perspective, he wasn't beating Piastri.

That wasn't happening as much they tried. He held him up really well, the first thing. He did, yeah, yeah, 100%. And I think they knew that regardless of whether they went earlier or later for Russell, Piastri would have the pace to either undercut or overcut. And there's not much you can do at that point. But the way in which I was quite impressed with how early Mercedes were on it in terms of the threat of Lecler.

They read that quite early on, which would have helped Russell to manage that last stint to the point where LeCler caught up, but by that point, didn't have the tires left to actually make the overtake. So I think they played it quite well for George Russell. Lewis Hamilton, I disagree with the strategy, although I've got a slightly different reason why compared to you both, I think.

So I was okay with him starting on the softs. I think it was, and it nearly went down this way, I think the only way in which a Mercedes potentially beats Vestappan in this Grand Prix is starting on the softs and getting Vastappen with those soft of software right at the beginning of the race. Nearly happened. They were side by side. But I think that's their only chance of maybe getting P2. Because I don't think Vastappen would have, at least on track, overtaken Hamilton. Maybe strategically they get him. But I could understand why they did that for Hamilton and not for Ruff. Because Russ obviously starting P4, it was more unlikely that he was going to.

to get to P2 by the first corner. The issue from my side, and I think you mentioned this during the race, Sam, is that it didn't really seem like he was struggling that much when they brought him in. I was really surprised that they brought him in so early. The gap to Russell, that point was about two and a half seconds back.

He was close to Russell. Actually, it opened up over 10 laps or so before he pitied. I think it seemed to be coming down. I think he probably could have done maybe another five to 10 laps laps on those soft tires and made his hog stink much more comfortable. I'm really surprised that they brought him so early. straight into the traffic of the likes of Magnuson, Ocon, Sonoda,

these people who are driving cars that are real lumps, they're not quick, are you getting stuck behind those guys at Singapore? Just chucking traffic in your way for no reason. Yeah. So that was the bit I had more problem with because I didn't think there was a reason for them to stop Hamilton at the time they did. And the power of the overcut became quite apparent for those that weren't stuck in traffic. If he was really holding on at that point and Russell was all over the back of

him and he's got a queue of cars. Maybe my opinion's different here. But yeah, I think they should have gone, even though they started on the softs, I think they could have gone a little bit longer in that one. Ferrari, so they did not have a good qualifying session. We all had a good chuckle when we went through the... No time, no time. No time on the grid lineup that comes up before the Grand Prix.

Charler-C started 9th, Carlos Sein started 10th. Perhaps even more so than Mercedes, they went radically different with their strategy, even though they both started on the medium compounded tire, Carlos Seins came in very early on and went to undercut a lot of drivers that he lost out to at the beginning. He didn't have a great start to this Grand Prix. He was down in 12th.

Charles LeClair, on the other hand, goes longer on that first stint, and as a result, is able to make some progress late on, including the overtakes of the likes of Lewis Hamilton to get back to fifth. Harry, how did you see the days of Lecleran signs? Good, missed opportunities for both of them. I think, I think Lowe said LeClau had actually had a really good, a belting race.

But I think Sines actually had a good race as well because the fact that he did, was it like 40, 45 laps or something. Yeah, I think he might well have gone the longest on those. I think he did, yeah. On his second set of tyres, showed obviously the car could hold onto its tyres well. And, you know, he was obviously the end of the top six. No, he's not because Peres was 10th.

Or, yeah. Apart from Paris, he was the end of that. that top, you know, the top teams, but which is fair because he, you know, had to hold on for that long. Be held off Alonso, which I think, you know, other cars might not have been able to do. And for Lecler, yeah, his pace was, especially in the second half of the race, his pace was was pretty, pretty good and, you know, a very frustrating beginning, as he was saying, where he was just sat behind Alonzo and Holkenberg for like 30 laps.

He had to. Yeah, he didn't, couldn't do anything else about it. and this is what I'm saying earlier on with Piastri, they just have to sit and wait. And by the time that happens, without a safety car intervening or anything, the battle that they probably should have been involved with is already up the road and gone.

So yeah, good days, good damage control, but they can't afford to do that if they want to try and also be in the constructors fight because McLaren have outscored them. Yes, they have. And to be honest, they've basically matched Red Bull today as well. So they are,

they're 50 points behind Red Bull. and then 91 behind McLaren, which is a big old margin now. I feel like from science's perspective to start with him, as soon as, and I know there was a lot of damage done from qualifying, plus that start where he's down in 12. I feel like the own,

at that point, the best you're going to get without some weird safety car is where he finished. Like, and pitting early and just managing that second stint. So it's almost, I think signs did a good job, but he probably didn't need to do the good job that he did.

That makes sense? Yeah. Yeah. I think it was a really bad weekend for science. I think every problem encounter was caused by science. I think it's all his fault. I think the crash in qualifying, rookie. Really rookie.

Poor, poor crash. Then terrible start caused by himself, drops down into more traffic. And he's now behind, you know, the battle with Perez. He's fighting with the likes of Sonoda. He's got to sit around cars that are so, much slower than that Ferrari where despite him having a bad quali, there went too many

slow cars in front of him. It was only Holgerberg and alongside really. We saw how hard that it was for LeCler to get past those guys. So he could have just been calm, settled in. And I feel like they, I think they could have finished fourth and fifth here today. I really do think that on a good weekend, after that bad quality, they could have finished fourth and fifth. So I was disappointed with science. His tire management was great, but it was all self-inflicted. Lecler, I thought, again his own fault that the lap doesn't come together in qualifying, invalidates.

He gets himself out of trouble. I think it's a good Grand Prix. I think it's a shame you can't get the move down on Russell. That will have, you know, really brought the comeback into place. I only one place away from the program at that point if he does get it done.

Good drive, good pace. Overtakes were solid. You could see he was getting so frustrated, though, you know, that moment where his race engine, it comes on and goes, Norris P.E.1. Russell Pee 1, who's like, what are you telling him all that for?

I'm bloody miles away. a minute away from me. Stop talking to me about that. It's irrelevant. You could see that he was frustrated, I think, this race. But it was a good recovery. The pace was solid. I just think it's a real missed opportunity this weekend of August for them.

It is because from LeCler's perspective, I think what he was able to unlock in that second stint, just it was equal parts great and frustrating because the pace was very good. And at the same time, it was frustrating because you looked at that and thought, yeah, that's a car that could have finished second. Like, if he gets quartered, Wally right, there is no reason from my, I don't think he would have had the legs to beat Norris today, but he could have been on that podium for sure.

So the fact that he has recovered it to P5, a good effort today, but it's probably two or three position short of where it could have been. Yeah, he's comfortably dropped a good seven or eight points there. Shall we review some bold predictions? Yeah, sure. Sam, you went, um, niche. Neish is the correct word with you. your bowl prediction, which was,

that Crofty will make some form of silly or poor joke related to the denim livery on the Menardi. I'm shook of. They said everything under the sun that was terrible. There was so many opportunities to say random stuff today. Denim lines. None of them happened. No, trousers being pulled down.

No, you know, rub of the material or something like that I was waiting for. Zip. Yeah, literally, I left the door so open for him. And they say, I mean, the comments. Mexico day. Danny Minogue, Kylie Minogue, the cause being breathless.

You got bloody... It's a good one. I'm not mad at that from last. Oh, that's great. Things going in and out so many times. Ted. You know, honestly, there were so many

bad, weird commentary lines, but nothing about denim. As if. So, yeah, no points for me. Speaking of points, that's quite relevant for your bowl prediction, Harry, because it was. Vostappen would finish outside the points.

with no retirement. I think you got 18. Yes. A whisker away. My turn. What did you get, Ben? I said that Ferrari would finish one, two. And if you take LeCler, who finished fifth,

and signs who finished seventh, and add those two numbers together, you get 12, which is a one and a two. Come on. No points that was killing on you, Ben. Oh, I thought that was going to work. Yeah, I was not very right, also known as wrong. So, Abacus is out.

No movement at all. It's a successful year so far. Yeah, we're doing well. Important bowl predictions next time we get to it, though, because it's Austin Bowl predictions. So. From a live show. From a live show, I have to think about that in advance. I'm right.

Shall we also have a look at Driver of the Day? Okay. Oh, hang on. You've caught me on. Where's it, Ben? Give yourself a little jingle, why you're there? Pick yourself up a little jingle. Just pay yourself a little wee jingle.

Hey, hey, Ben. Hey. Do you want to tee that up again? Should we do Driver of the Day? That's a great idea. The verdict is in. You're the driver of the days. You're the driver of the day.

You're good at driving. I'm a lovely wee jingle you're there. If you got some. Who have I got for Driver of the Day? Tricky batch, I think. I'm going to say that there are many options. Norris is a shout. This is good stalling.

Why, you think of the answer? It's more the final answer, right? Norris is a shout. I think Vestappen deserves a shout. I think Alonkso and Holkenberg deserve shouts as well. I thought they were both really good. I'm actually going to give it to Vastappen. No mistakes.

Mostly could get out of it. There was nothing else available for him today. Dig everything right. No problems. I'll keep my brief because that's basically what I've got to say my contenders were Norris, Vestappan and Alonzo and I've given it to Vestappan. We can't want to be gone to get us to make it to make one of us

some hate unless you give it to Norris. Sorry, Lando fans. I've given it to Fernando Alonzo. Oh no. Not one of us have given it to Lando Norris. I agree with all your points. So Norris is definitely out there as a dominant. It was just the mistakes.

It was just the wall banging. And yeah, those three are the three for me well, I just, I'm obviously head of the van club, but Alonzo's just dragging that car into points. It doesn't deserve, look where his teammate was, crying out loud. Anyway, yeah, you have to go quite far down. You know, when you're on like a dog walk and your dog sees another dog and they're like, oh, I want to go, you've got to get with a scruff of the neck. You're like, no, no, you're not running up.

That's a longso without Aston Martin. It's like, you're getting around this race track. If I say so. I will get you into the points. We will get points. Okay. That's a great Aster Martin impression. It's like it all sound like.

Worst driver of the day. Get in the bin, bin, bin, bin, bin, worst driver of the day. Yeah, Ben, bin, Ben, Ben, worst driver of the day. You stuck at driving. I'm going to go with Sergey Perez. I guess no, no progress. He was in the points. Yeah, great.

The point. Call a pointo bean. Nice. Thanks. We should have thought that last week. That's good. When he was in the point. Not now. Damn it. That was really good.

He gains places from, obviously, Alborn having a bit of a shocker at the start. He fights with the likes of Sonoda, whose car is pants, and then he makes no more progress. He can't get past the horse. He can't get close to a long, so the Ferrari scamper off. And also, I don't think his car is as fast. As the Ferraris, it's more than good enough to be up there with those driving in front of him. no progress at all. He's just too busy complimenting

how good Colopinto is driving around him, apparently. He got him, though. He got him for 10th. Well done. Well, you need that, Perez. You need that point because it's anyone you'll score. Oh, no. No, actually, he's got lots of points.

He's just knowing here his teammate, is he? Yeah. It's just not a good thing I've said, yeah. I've gone with Kevin Magnuson because it wasn't a very good day. And in fact, you could say it was a bad day until he hit the wall and it became a worst day. Holkenberg show what that has could do

and Magnuson did not I don't know puncturing yourself then getting the fastest lap and having it deleted because you didn't do a lap properly I thought that was really great that's so funny

that's so K-Mag yeah if you just said that story and said who was it yeah number one guest is Kevin Magnuson it wasn't looking for him that was great

he's had better who you're giving it to I also go on for Sergio Perez I know it seems a bit obvious but it's just just a crushing disappointment after what we thought was maybe some form regained in Baku. Oh, we're back. I hopes were so high for him.

I enjoyed praising him last race. I still don't believe he's going to keep him for the rest of the year because... Well, the championship surely. Well, they can't. That's what I mean. If they're going to do it, they need to make a decision. They should have made a decision before, but they need to pull the pin now on it because it will be gone because they can't keep having a P2 and a P10.

That's not how you win championships. For me, I think it's more actually. I think the constructors is gone at this point. But what is salvageable properly is making sure that your second driver is right against and Max for Stafford to protect from as many driver's points that they could stop. So Max is safer towards the end of the season. And he's driving without a shield right now. You know, Lando's always got Oscar.

Russell and Hamilton are right next to each other, sicing McClure right next to each other. Max is driving a team. on his own. Big brain strad. All the time. Every time. Love that. What have you got for big brain strats, Sam?

Just the works, Plan A. Yeah, fair. Just everything, Plan A. There's some carbon fibre on my wink of Plan A. I'm stuck behind Holgerberg, Plan A. I think that sounds like Plan A. Yeah, but you know what? Doing this podcast is Plan A.

Plan A? Yeah. Yeah, that was actually mine. Because, you know, the meme where the guy sitting at the table and everything else around him was on fire? Yes. That was just like Carlos Sines out of the points. We're on plan A. Everything's fine.

The pizza is plan A. Everything's well. I will offer an alternative. Daniel Ricardo's 12 stop was great. Again, I said this to you whilst we're watching it. Why did they put him on the mediums if he had to stop so early for the break duck issue? Put him on the hard tires. At least he can try and do it like a Carlos Sines.

He's never going to make it on mediums. So then you pick. If there's a last bit of safety car, chuck him on the south spur. Yeah. What's the point in that? I feel like we've been to Singapore enough times now to know that you're one stop at Singapore.

Yeah. Come on now. Silly people. Big brain strap. Alpine. Poor Pierre Gassley. He's still going. He hasn't picked yet.

He has a bit overtaking every single time. Why are you leaving him out there for so long? I don't really know. Hey guys, what's the track? We're going to have a shot. for a safety car, mate. But we're in 16th place. No one is behind us.

But also they let, they let every, and we saw every overtake because F-1 were being brutal and just showing us a montage of him being overtaken. But they let everyone overtake him and then pit him.

Why? Now that guys, good job. What's the point of that? Let everyone go past and then pit him. Get him now. At which point he comes out and he's like nine seconds

behind the Salber duo and it was a question of would he get back to the Salwood duo and overtake them? At that point? Narrator, no. What's the, what is the point? You did not.

What's the point? It's a waste of petrol. It's just bad for the environment, Alpine. It's not gay. No one benefits from this. Right, that'll do it for this segment on the other side. We've got more chat on the likes of Williams and Sergio Perez. Williams had a very good result in Azerbaijan.

No points, though, here in Singapore. We weren't sure exactly. what their pace was going to look like here versus what we had at Baku. Qualifying that they did a fairly good job, they were at least in the mix. And indeed, Colopinto has just finished 11th, so just outside of the points. And he was running in the points for a good chunk of this Grand Prix. Alex Album was an early retirement in this one. So it didn't really have a chance to feature, although a bad start for him probably would have left it a difficult job for him to get points as well.

given what they did last week Sam is this more of a just back to reality of where they should be? No, I don't think so. I really don't think so. I think this is a surprisingly good result for Williams. I'm impressed with Colopinto. We said this multiple times how,

okay, it's one thing to be good at Mongza, it's another thing to be good at Baku, but then you go to somewhere like Singapore and that's a very different challenge in itself. And whilst you hang a couple of little flirtations with the wall, A little bit of a occasionally A little smooch

Have he seen his On board of his start By the way Oh yeah It's filthy Genuinely unreal He sent it from Baku Yeah

He just never stopped breaking From so one How impressed were you By that first So it's so impressed So impressed The commitment He gets it slowed down

Brilliantly It's clean There's no issues Against anyone Part of Alex Al I'm having a right old Whinge over the radio Oh he's just died

on me What's he doing? That's a terrible impression. Because he won't moan about any time of racing that comes alongside him is Alex Alibon. Good Lord. Yeah, I thought it's fantastic. And he was so close to the points. You know, one second regularly away from Sergio Perrids for so long.

In any other Singapore Grand Prix, the chance of someone in the top ten crashing or retiring, pretty high. And I think they're very unlucky not to almost lucked into a one-place improvement due to a retirement or damage or something. something like that. The car historically wouldn't have performed here, I don't think. And the fact that it has tells me they're going in the right direction.

This is a positive sign for the rest of the season now that they have performed at straight line merchant tracks, which they've always been alright at, but also one that is incredibly downfalls heavy and relies on high temperatures and tire wearer can be tough. And they've nailed it. I really think they outclassed Mangardi. I think they were bigger comfy than Alping. Now they're well past that front. they're right up there with the hearse

and quite similar now to the Aston Martin's a longso's doing a great job but I think that's a longso if you look at the medium between the two cars those four drivers at the end were very close as well so Colopinto's at the back of that group Monzo's at the front of it with Holkberg Perez in between but you could there was only a couple of seconds

between those four drivers I'm surprised just how close Williams are on that pace now and it's a bit too late but at least they dig it but having a competent second driver in that car might start to really pay dividends as we get to of the season. Yeah, he was very good.

And I think with some of the other drivers on the grid, and I know Singapore, you're kind of expected anyway, but if you had shown how that Grand Prix went to a lot of the drivers, like this is how it's going to play out, I'm sure that at least a few drivers would go, hmm, maybe I should attack the first corner a bit more because there weren't that many opportunities to get overtakes done out there. It was relying on strategy.

It was reliant on being patient in the case of Charlotte, And, you know, that's with the benefit of hindsight. Colopinter just went for it. And it's a good thing he did. And I thought it was a great move. It was risky. And honestly, I think at some point it's going to catch up to him. Yeah, that could have gone wrong very quickly.

And I think there are going to be instances where it goes very right as it did today. And if he keeps up with this mentality, there will be instances where it goes wrong. But if it goes right more than it goes wrong, not too bad. That's okay. Yeah. I think Albin would have been around if he didn't have such a poor start. I think Album was probably going to be in the mix with Collapinto as well. So it wouldn't have surprised me if they came home 11th and 12 or something like that.

But yeah, a very different circuit to some of the others we've been to recently. And despite the fact that they're not coming away with the same amount of points or any points like they did in Baku to be in that mix, I think that's a win for Williams. James Vals will be happy. Harry? Yeah. Sounds weird because one of them didn't finish. But there was a good day for Williams. Some encouraging pace would like to see where we are.

when we get to Austin um but they have you know the upgrades at least around the street circuits have seemed to have worked for them um yeah colopinto columbate bean i am increasingly impressed by him uh and yeah be good to see him in a seat if only there were more cars on the grid um but yeah i thought yeah they should they should be encouraged by how that how that car's now performing um because their main battle is with uh with the likes of has and stuff in the championship championship. So they were there are thereabouts with him. So we'll see what it's like in in Cota, but

that's a good day all around. Speaking of a few of those other drivers that were in that mix, so we've already, Samue gave shouts to Alonzo and Holcomberg in your driver of the day short list. And of course Perez, worst driver at the day. Those three drivers were

next to each other in eighth, ninth and tenth. How did you view that matter specifically? I mean, it feels like it played very much into the features of the race Singapore is notoriously difficult to get moves down. You do, as you mentioned, have to be very patiently. You have to strategically think your way through moves. You have to go, right, actually, I can't get down on track.

So I'm going to pit here, overcut here, whatever it might be. And I thought, a longs those ability to run in free air, which he did very much at Baku as well, I thought was incredibly strong. The way that he, once he gets into the groove and he's not being bothered by someone. He's like, I've got a target in mind, and I'm just hitting it. And I'm hitting it and I'm hitting it. And he doesn't let up. He's so relentlessly good.

being consistent. And that's, you know, we spoke about this is where people like, I think Lando could learn from. But if Fernando can keep doing that and he did it brilliantly, he was so close to the back of the Ferraris, right? That Ferrari is so much better than Asken Martin. The fact he was pressuring sites, yes, on older tyres, but that's still really, really impressive. He gets past Holgerberg as well, no issues there because Holkenberg qualified so well, it might have been difficult, but clears him, does a good job.

And then Holkerberg, I think, was really, really good. I mean, it's a shame that he lost a couple of spots overall, but I thought his drive was brilliant. He was clean. He got the most, I think, out of that house. Maybe the only thing he was beating Fernando. It's a pretty good day for them. Sergio, there's no, there's no thinking going on there. There's no kind of long-term processing. There's no kind of, I'm stuck in this situation. What can I do to get myself out of it? What can I do differently? Should I undercut? Should I stick on a different set of tyres? It's just, I'm just going to sit here and I'm just going sit here some more. And you can see like with Piastri, he was going, I'm a bit stark. What

I do? Okay, we are going to overcut. We're going to really hang on and hang on and hang on. It just felt like they didn't do anything different. They didn't try anything. They didn't want to change things up. And that's really frustrating because Sergio also doesn't have the outright pace or cut through ability to pass these cars on the track. So they've got to think outside the box to make something work. And they just didn't. It was just lackluster. It's just another poor performance overall from the Red Bull team. How did you see the race that went on between 8th and 10th? Yeah, I thought, I thought Hulk and Boe was excellent all weekend.

I know he lost that to Alonzo in the end, but he shouldn't have been there in the first place. So Hulk, excellent. Alonzo, just, as I said, I gave him driver the day because I don't think that Austin really, really deserves to be in that spot. And like you says, I mean, it's just, he is relentless. son of this is Fernando Alonzo, but he doesn't. Don't give up, does he? He certainly doesn't. And yeah, I thought his pace is very, very good.

And as I said to you when we were watching, he was just in no man's land again. Like, not really, not quite as much as he has been. Because he was closing down the Ferrari, towards the end and he had the group behind. But just sort of, that was it. And Paris, yeah, is, which just wasn't a good, wasn't a good day.

But he was compounded by the fact he didn't have a good qualifying. so he might have you know he could have got a few more spots but realistically is he an eighth rather than tenth than the end I don't know he didn't have any he didn't have any pace today to do anything with it and yeah the strategy wasn't bold but I'm not sure how much difference would have made anyway I think from Alonzo and Holcombberg's perspective I've given Has quite a lot of credit this year for strategically being pretty good I think I think there'll be a bit miffed off today that they allow Alonzo and Astor Martin to get the upper hand on them.

I know it's only one position, but I think Holkenberg comes in later than Alonzo, but only by six laps. At which point, Holkenberg is able to eat into the gap that Alonzo's built up based on those fresh tires. But at a six-lap delta, it's not quite enough to really make a difference

when Holkenberg gets close to Alonzo. I think Alonzo did a great job managing that gap as well, particularly late on in the stint. But I think they might be annoyed that they did, didn't beat Aston Martin to that strategy call or went a bit longer and tried to create more of a delta for him at the end of the Grand Prix. Even so, it was a great day for Holcomburg and the team. From Sergio Perez's perspective, I think they should have done what signs did.

I think they should have got him in earlier and tried to clear everyone else and hold on, similar to what signs did. I think it probably, I think he could have got eighth. I think he could have got the two drivers in front if he goes with that call. You know, Ferrari got the call right and Red Bull didn't. What? Oh my goodness go. But yeah, damage was done yesterday.

You qualify 13th. You're going to struggle to make much progress around a trial at Singapore. Another day where Sergio Perez once again can't get into Q3 properly and it costs him. It's the same story we keep telling ourselves over and over and over again. Let's take the final break on this episode. On the other side, we've got Moment of the Reyes. Okay, we've got Moment of the Race submissions from our Discord that we will get to in a moment's time. But before we get there, we each have our own moment of the race.

Sam, what have you got? I've got two in mind. One is the Colopinto start. I generally thought that was sublime. Oof. Watched it back after the race and was even more wowed at it from the onboard. It was such a tiny gap that he snuck down. And, yeah, maybe bordering on too risky.

But it paid off for him. And everyone did a good job at kind of maintaining where. they should be and I thought he was brilliant. So that's up there. The other one, as I've spoke to you guys about already, comes before the race starts. Martin Brundle just being an absolute one-line queen that he is and delivering something like the old Max,

I can't speak to you anymore. Otherwise, we're all going to get into trouble. I just think that was great banter playing on the FIAs. Ridiculous swearing rules that we're going to be talking about on another day. Yep. But I'll go for Colopinter as it was actually in the race because I thought that was phenomenal. You don't see starts like it that often,

especially from those going to drive it. I think you smash it. Harry, moment of the race. George Russell. Just full stop. Just full stop. Radio ball. Many, many moments.

But him asking the team for encouragement is sensational. Tell me I'm great. Please tell me how good. That was excellent. There were points during the race. He was just radioing and no one was replying to him. Just chatting away. Yeah.

Him saying basically implying he was driving the 2014 Ferrari that had understood and oversteer. Impressive. It's that a song, really? It's like a song, yeah. All right, George, thank you, mate. I've kissed the wall. No one spoke to him. He can speak, is that a song for him here?

Thanks, George. You think he just, like, no one speaks to us. He just says really random things to see if they're like that. Are you like? Will this get a reply? Anyway, yeah, that one for me. I have to go with the MPA Gassley being overtaken montage. Oh, no, no.

It was like four overtakes in the space. So I don't know if they happened one after the other as much as the replays made it look. But every time for like two minutes they went to a replay, it was Gazzley being overtaken. Oh, poor Gassley, man. He's already dead.

Pretty much. Yeah. But we have some moment of the way submissions from our Discord. in race previews and race reviews. Who have we got first? Right. First, I've literally run out of hands here. But first up is Darth Fart Noise.

Hey guys, Darth Fart Noise here. My moment of the race was like 15 laps to go when Norris out in the lead of like by 20 seconds. And he just almost does a George Russell. Like, dude, the guys, you know, fast, but he's making too many mistakes. I don't think he's just ready yet for a title fight. But, you know, prove me wrong, please. All right, Darth Hart knows out. Come to me.

Never gets solved. We're children. Thank you, Darth Hart, noise. That's fun. Northern Texas is next. Oh, hello, my late-breaking friends from across the Big Wed. It is I. Norm from Texas, and I am here to give my moment of the race,

and my moment of the race is the, the oh my god dads and sons on a bad road trip energy that was coming over the radios today between george trying to get encouragement and charles leclerc battling his strategy team over tires oh my goodness boring race great radio anyway keep breaking late lecler must have been so bored i'm bored i love rear wings says mcclure yay and more real wing is it Oh, another helping of rear wing. Going five seconds slower than I could. Please, sir. Can I have some more rear wing?

Bristol Liam is next. All right, lads. I'm a bit ill. The voice is a bit deep. But under pressure. Moment of the race. The moment of the race, probably Russell asking for motivation and just being met with

some like random traction statistic because something else that was quite funny. And also I'm sure Harry enjoyed because it means he'll never have to see Daniel Ricardo again. Cheers. Yeah, Harry. Yeah, you hate him. Yeah, Bristol, I know you're real, but you're delusional.

I love Daniel Ricardo. I always put him in my fantasy. My fantasy. I did use him in my fantasy. Well, that's where Harry's were going wrong. He was there at the end of the year. But no, but my teammate was pick is always Ricardo, so shut up to him. Next, good.

Next is Garuda One. My moment of the race is Danny Rick getting out there, getting that fastest lap in for him. Definitely not for Red Bull, not for a different team, of course. No conflict of interest at all. But also shout out to the FI for getting on top of an issue that plagues this sport,

you know, the dirty language. I think it's been a really productive weekend. So shout out to everyone. everyone involved. Thank you, Garug, Sansom. Those rappers, honestly. Oh, God. I'm not going to start.

Yeah, really getting to the hard-hitting issues, the core of F-1. Moabedness, isn't it? Yeah, my-mobinness. What's up, Lake Breakers? It is Mobinness right now, coming at you from the land of no kilometers. We're talking about Singapore.

Moment of the race. Gotta be crofty, talking about some weird about Alonzo and Hamilton's total. kilometers not like reaching over halfway the moon like i don't even know it's weird it's just weird crofty why do you say these things like that you know you you're not a stat man not as much as you think you are keep breaking late love you boys thank you my business thank you my business uh next up is cronenberg that's a beer spelt differently to the beer oh i am so glad i got up before i am to watch

the Singapore. Get it. Grand Prix. Shout out to Landau. Good win. Moment of the race, though. Probably had to be

when Brundle said that Colapinto was going full beans. Who knew he was a late-breaking fan? Hey. All right, boys. Keep bringing late.

That was a good one. Love that. Full beans, full bait beans. We'd have a beans reference. Yep. What was their character called beans? What was that on?

Like a, and the TV. Even Stevens. Beans. Oh, it's absolute beans nations. Even Stevens. All good always is next. Coming to you live from turn seven

where most of the overtakes happened, which is pretty cool. Sorry, Sam. I think I pray too hard and the weather was fantastic today. No safety car. Moment of the race. Everyone's talking about Lando's Masterclass,

but I really think the award for me. Masterclass or the title Masterclass should go to Nico Holkenberg. I mean, it's like he had a fire lit under his bum. The way that he was defending that Red Bull. Amazing. Anyway, love you guys with the podcast. Bye. Lovely to hear

on track action in the background. Sounds like a lovely time. Also, love hearing people who aren't, who don't have English accents, say bum. Good. So, send that in. Your submissions, please. That's niche. Bum. Sure.

Next of is Nando's Big Green Tractor. Great name. Hello, Lightbreakers. It is Nando's Big Green Tractor, and my moment of the race is George defending off Charles LeClair. As a George fan, I was in great anxiety that he would be overtaken, and I was so relieved that he managed to cling on to his lead over Leclair for the, you know, until the race was over. So that was my most exciting moment. Correct. Good stuff.

One final one, which is not coming through the Discord, it's a new way of submitting your submission here. It's coming via email from Esco Pablo Bar. I love Esco Pablo Bar. She was a great name. I also love the, even though you're not on the Discord, you still put your username like that. That's fantastic.

Hello, chaps. Asko Pablo Bar here with Moment of the Race. That was an absolutely crap race, but well done, Delando Norris. Good win. my moment of the race is in fact 62 laps worth of Crofty getting everybody's name wrong including

on lap 61 getting Kelly Minogue and Danny Minogue mixed up oh that was fun to listen to not cheers ads bye-bye and then Brunnell did it as well

and then I can't really both did it one after another yeah I'm keeping track of those monogues in it there's the whole one two of them they're everywhere those manokes honestly

All two of them. Crofti wasn't particularly poor form today. To be fair. It was dull. I know, but I think that's when he, that's his worst moments because he just doesn't know what to say.

Yeah. Yeah, you can kind of hear him think. I can't deal. I can't do, sorry, sorry, David Croft, but I can't deal, because I know it's a hard job,

I can't deal with him like desperately clamoring for any, maybe any opportunity that might be a safety car. Some bits of the advertising hoarding were on the track and he was like, maybe it's a safety car. Shut up, Crofty.

I just hate the, constant references to like tea. Like, trying to be... There's a lot of tea references today with it. I'm like, again, trying to fill dead air. It's really hard.

I probably couldn't do it, right? But, you know... We could, but it would be terrible. Yeah, we'd be like this. But what was that one about having it squirted tea on the back of your throat and stuff? I'm like, what are you all about? Getting tea bagged.

That was a brunderer, I think. I don't know. It's together to be a terrible twosome. That will do it. That'll do, donkey. That will do. Thank you, Shrek. It is a while.

until our next race. Where is the next race, Ben? I believe it's in Austin. Should we go? Come on, man. You've convicted me, trust in my arm. We're going to go to Austin. We'll do the race preview there, of course.

But that doesn't mean that's our next episode. No, no. We've got power rankings coming up. Oh, boy. And where can you find power rankings? How are you? On the Patreon. Correct.

I lived with the camera then with the wishes died, so never mind. On the Patreon? Yeah, the links in the description below. we'll be doing that again all together in a moment so you'll hear our driver ratings if you are curious you can listen to the whole season of power rankings as well

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I'm asking more questions. Very reasonable, actually. Yes, it is very, very reasonable. Discourse is available, and that's where you could do your submissions, unless you're Ablo Pescoa. That's not even right, but sure. What is my name? Ablo Pesco, Pesco, Babelabbar.

We can't do it by email. The other guy can. Anyway, thanks for listening to folks. We'll be back midweek for our standing showing. We'll just chat more F1. I'm probably talking about all these rappers and their swear words coming up to you soon. In the meantime, I'll be Samuel Sage.

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