The Late Braking F1 Podcast - 2025 British GP Race Review

Episode Date: July 6, 2025

The LB boys run through the British GP that had it all - rain wreaking havoc, dramatic spins, a rookie wipeout, a first-time home win, and... a long-awaited HULKENBERG PODIUM! They dive into all the major storylines from a historic day at Silverstone... >>> Tickets are now on public sale for our 2025 LIVE SHOW in Austin TX! ⁠⁠⁠CLICK HERE⁠⁠⁠ to buy now or for more info!

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Can I have another slice? Try the season's biggest hits. From the PC Holiday Insiders Report. Thank you for listening to the late-breaking F1. Make sure to check out new episodes every Wednesday and every Sunday. And welcome to the late breaking F1 podcast presented by Harry Eid, Sam Sage and me, Ben Hocking. Reviewing a rather tame British GP when not a lot happened other than Lando Norris took his first ever British GP victory in a one-two for McLaren and some chap called

Nico Holcomberg filled out the podium for seemingly the hundredth time in his career. We're getting bored of this Holkenberg dominant, Sam. Yeah, I won it every time, mate. I'm not bored of it. Give me Holkenberg dominants every day until I die. Yeah, that was just a little bit chaotic, a little bit crazy, wasn't it? British GP. You ever fails to not deliver.

It's always so good. Had rain. Yeah, that was a double negative, by the way, everyone that followed along with that. It did work, I promise you. It rained. We had accidents. We had incredible overtakes. We had new graphics that we never seen before here.

in the UK because we watch Channel 4 rather than sky. Yeah, it had a bit of everything and we're going to dig into it all. How are you, my friends? Did you like that one? Yeah, that was all right, wasn't it? We'll have a bit of that. I know this will come across as British Bites, but I think we do this the best.

We do this F1 Malarkey. The rain or just the whole shabang. We do it all the best. The weather obviously playing a big, part, but just Silverston is epic, epic racetrack always gives good action and then we're chuck in some completely random

weather on top of that. And Nika Hockaberg has a podium. I'm so happy about that. Like, nine teaks to podium being a salber. So happy. What a boy! No toasters here, folks.

We're taking them out for a blibing air friating night. Hey. Toasters work famously well in the rain, so it's still a toaster. No, what a race. I would run through everything that we're going to go through, but I'd be here for the next hour just running through what's going to be appearing on today's show.

So let's get straight into it. With the battle out front between the two McLaren's, Alando Norris victory, meaning the championship lead that Oscar Piastri has, has shrunk down to single figures now as we head towards the summer break. Oscar Piastri, of course, led a large part of this Grand Prix, but a 10-second time penalty.

for an infringement behind the safety car, ultimately costs him this Grand Prix, about six seconds at the flag separating the two after Piastri had served his penalty a little bit earlier on when he switched to dry tires. Sam, the penalty, 10 seconds, a good decision or not? Let's just say, I can understand why Oscar Piastri

was quite annoyed about things. Garry, if that's the most mad we ever see Oscar Piacari, he's the most level-headed man in the world. world. They should start using his head as a leveler when constructing buildings because it's so level that, obviously, you know, it's horizontal that man, purely horizontal. Yeah, I can see his frustrations here. Let's try and break it down chronologically. Safety car is going down, hangar straight. Halfway down, hangar straight at pure acceleration. We get the activation, which the drivers can see on the top of the safety car that the safety car will be coming in this lap. It's a really late call that the

safety car is coming in that lap. It's essentially the latest you can see. have a call like that. Obviously, the entrance of the pit lane is around the next corner. Oscar Piacri then has the right to dictate the pace, which he immediately does. He lifts off the throttle, hits the brake, dictates the pace at his level. He wants to back everyone up, as they always do. We've seen that time and time again. Now, in a combination of the speed of the announcement happening, the safety car having to pull away and Oscar wants to take the pace into his own hands, Max Verstaffin not being able to see Oscar Piastri, due to that visibility. And then obviously those few things coming together so closely meant that I think this

looked far more severe than it was. And when you compare it to Canada, only a couple of races ago where we had an overtake under safety car, where I think it was Max Verstaffin, who again went past George Russell, I think it was at that point under the safety car, immediately gave back no issue. here it was immediately gave back, oh, there's an issue. The worst part of Roscoe Petastry, which is so stewards,

is that Maxwell's tapping spings out of the next corner on the restart, which I think they believe has got something to do with this slight complication of where Piastri has braked and back the pack up. Now, I need to see raw telemetry.

I need to see if this is really seeing as something that is groundbreakingly different. But for me, this feels like a lot circumstantial evidence that is stacked up against Oscar Piastri to give him a 10 second time penalty where nothing has actually happened. And that maxed stop and spying ain't got nothing to do with this. Nothing at all. He bottled that all on his own. He looped it like spaghetti hoops on a Sunday morning. That was entirely on him. Oscar Piestri, I think, has been hard done by

and I can understand why he was very frustrating in this situation. Harry, when did we make spaghetti hoops a Sunday morning snack. Never. We never did that because that's hell. This, I can see the justification here for a penalty. It is, he slows down

at a rapid rate, Piastri, and given the conditions, we saw the onboard of the Stapun, Piastri appears sort of out of nowhere, and we saw not long before or after, I can remember if that was reason for this safety car, but Hajar and Anteneli in the

just no idea where he was and ran Antonelli off the road. So I think there's cause for this to be investigated, and I can see why they have gone for a penalty, just given the conditions. But 10 seconds is so harsh. Like, you saw other incidents that got 10 second penalties, Sonoda versus someone he knocked off the road. Berman.

Yeah, I've losing count with Sonoda these days. but yeah that that feels more fair than this does because as you say what it was you said that it was a complication sam and it was it was a kerfuffle and i can again i can see why they've gone for a penalty here just given the conditions and as a warning to say you shouldn't be doing that because technically he shouldn't be doing that under the safety guy it was quite a harsh stop but 10 seconds is is savage for a penalty so i can understand why piastri is is is cheesed off because I think that's as angry as he gets. That is the level he gets to is just cheezed off.

But I can understand why he's frustrated with this one because I think as he said, he'd been doing similar things previously. I think it was Vastappen who, I'm not saying he ever regged it, but he certainly flew past him. And then obviously the spin that happens afterwards. I don't know whether I buy into the fact that it actually did cause that, but it certainly didn't help Piastri's calls. Maybe they think his tyres cooled down.

because he was having to slow down for Piastri. I don't know. But yeah, it's very harsh. So I can see why he, it's got a good reason to be annoyed as Piastri. Yeah, I thought 10 seconds was harsh. I think the penalty was justified, but I'd probably have looked towards five seconds instead.

It is tough. I think with the conditions the way that they were, you've got to be extra careful when it comes to slowing down. and I know that the call was late to bring the safety car in, but he's still got plenty of time to bring that down far more gradually to the pace that he wants to dictate. It didn't need to happen straight away as it seemed to happen.

The statement released by the FIA suggests that the amount of force on the brakes and the speed at which he dropped was quite significant, but again, it's in isolation. So it's difficult to tell how much of an anomaly that was versus the norm. but I tend to agree that this was this was a penalty but 10 seconds like you say Harry seems at the significant end of what this should be the Vastappen spin should not factor into this whatsoever and if the stewards did consciously or subconsciously apply that as part of the logic to give him a penalty then that is really poor but it just

even before that just looking at the incident on its merits I can understand why they've gone with a penalty. I can also understand why Piastri's annoyed. If he's done this for a few laps behind the safety car and he's done the same thing when the safety car's come in, he's not breaking a pattern. So I can understand why he's annoyed. And he, I know he's trying his best to hide it after the race.

He is so annoyed. Like he, he's trying, but he has not hidden that very well. He is very much annoyed, which you can tell by the fact that he was asking the team to switch the positions. which I admire him for that. Give it a go, son. Why not? You basically had a 0.5% chance of it happening,

but hey, what are you going to lose? Yeah, I can understand the penalty. In terms of the races that they were having some, Piastri before the safety card came out, was absolutely blisteringly quick. Yeah, see you later, mate. That guy is come and gone. I think it was.

Gets past for Stappen. It took a bit of time. And I have to come over the Stappen for how well he was. putting up a defense in that setup, because we spoke about this, our qualifying review about this, you know, Dillotray rear wing, the straight line setup that if it rained, he might be in trouble. And he held on so much better than I really expecting him to.

Actually, what was ironic about it was it took until the DRS was activated for Oscar Piatry to actually get past him. You think at that point, well, he should have extra pace. He should almost, it's drying up. In theory, this straight line setup should start to be more and more active. But no, it meant that Oskopiastri gets back. passed. And once it was passed, it was like he was in a different formula. It was like he was driving a different category of car. The gap went from zero seconds to over 10 seconds. It felt like

as in as many laps. It felt like he was gaining, pretty much a second a lap over the likes of Vastappen and Norris behind who then for a little while did also struggle to get past Max Vastappen. And of course, the slow pit stop from the McLaren guys did mean that he ended up back behind of Stappen after the safety car as well. So incredible pace. I think that will compound how frustrated Oscar Piastri is. Because if this race rang even 5% more smoothly, he dominates his Grand Prix. I think he walks away comfortably as the victory.

I think he had the outright pacing hand for the whole Grand Prix. And I think without the penalty, I think he stays ahead for the rest of the race. Even though it looked a lot closer in that second half of the Grand Prix and the gap did come down to a couple of seconds. at its smallest, I think he holds some. I think he drives less angrily. I think he drives with more understanding of what he's doing and how to manage the race. I think he goes on to win it.

So he will be really frustrated that he was dominating at one point only to finish behind this too, mate. Yeah, without that safety car, I'm not sure what that gap ends up being. But the first half of this race, Piastri was so comfortably. The fastest car on track, but the fastest McLaren for sure of the two.

The second half of the race, I think, was far closer. Certainly when Piastri was about five, six seconds clear of Lando Norris, it felt like that gap had stabilized. And then after they switched to dry tires, again, it felt fairly steady the gap between the two. But this will absolutely compound to Piastri's frustration, is that he will feel like he had the pace and should have won this Grand Prix. Harry, to me, it feels like, of all the Lando Norris victories we've had so far this year,

and Norris had decent pace in the second half of the Grand Prix. This might be the first time that Lando Norris has won this year where he maybe hasn't been the fastest McLaren. Yeah, I think that's fair to say. And like you've already said, Piastri was flying and that is probably what has caused him to be quite so annoyed by this penalty. But yeah, certainly earlier on, he was absolutely gone. It was just in the distance, see you later, and Norris didn't have an answer.

Like you say, after the, as we got towards the second half of the race, it was, it was a bit different. But it was certainly stable. And, you know, we don't really know whether Oscar was just conserving tires or not. But Norris was closing as they got towards those final round of pit stops. So, yeah, it's tough one. I think overall, yes, I think Norris was the slower of the two. And it's probably the first time he has one between them. a race between them when he's not been the quicker driver,

but they were definitely, the pace of drivers during this race ebbed and flowed so much. It was ridiculous. Like, so it's quite hard to know when who was, who was truly the quickest or who just had hooked up with their ties. I mean, look at Hamilton for one point. He gets overtaken by Russell and then the,

like two last later, he's got back past him and he's like fastest driver on track. So, um, quite difficult to want to judge pace, but I think it's pretty fair to say that Piastri was the quicker driver, but didn't get the win. Niko Holkenberg. We have to discuss him because after 239 race starts,

he finally stands on a podium, Sam. Just going from 19th to third in itself is a massive achievement, but your thoughts on his Grand Prix. Nico, Nico, Nico, Nico. We're all Nico Holkenberg fans today. Yeah, what an achievement. 19th to third. And if you were to say that about Max for Staffing in a Red Bull

or Charlotte Claren and Ferrari or, you know, Landon Norris, and McClaren, you go, we're a comeback. That's a really well-deserved, brilliant comeback. Not great qualifying delivers a podium. He did it in the car that we've called a toaster in a bad way for like two years now, a year and a half. Obviously, he's only been there since the start of this season, but what a drive in a car that, yes, it's been improving,

but it isn't that good. It isn't that good. That was Miko Holkenberg. That was so many years experience, It's 239 Grand Prix's worth of experience. Finally, all coming to fruition. It was issue after issue for everyone else. But it was just another building block for him in overcoming other problems.

No mistakes. Consistency. And I have to applaud the strategy and the management of tyres as well, because the way that they decided to run their tyres, they called it at the absolute perfect time. When Hamilton came in for his first pitch, stop. He ends up behind those guys. And essentially, that's what makes the difference between Holkerberg getting the podium, because Hamilton can't switch on those tires quickly,

can't close the gap, and Stroll, Holkerberg, then Gasset and Ockon at one point, are all in that group. They're all in that pat because they made a brilliant call strategically, and they've got out in front of Hamilton, who was in front of all of them beforehand. And it just allowed him to be super calm, super consistent. He gets the overtake down at Stroll right at the right moment, because at that point, Lewis Hamilton's coming. And I do think if Hulk can't get that move down in time, Hamilton rocks up to the back of that pair and probably dispatches of Holkberg

because he's being held up by stroll so much, but he clears him in the right time, builds that gap. And then the defining moment doesn't come from Holgerberg, really, because he's just consistent, he's just getting elapsing. It comes from Lewis Hamilton, who comes out of that pit laying on soft tires, and immediately makes a mistake that we saw so many people make shooting off into turn three under the runoff, cost him another four or five seconds.

And that's the difference that you see for the rest of the Grand Prix. That's the five second gap that is there for the rest of that Grand Prix that Holkerberg is able to just maintain. So really, really brilliant drive. And I never thought we see the day that Nika Holgerberg got to stand on that podium and he gets a Lego trophy for his trouble. So what a day. What a boy.

What a day. I loved it. I had the biggest smile on my face. Harry, it's been a long time coming. it has been a long time coming they they referenced this in the the f1 tv channel four commentary when hamilton and was chasing down holkenberg and they were like in terms of experience between the pair of them they've got so many races under their belts and that's the thing that hulkingberg has been around for so long 2010 was his first season in f1 and i know he's had a

couple of years off in between but that was a long old time to be in this sport without without that um rostrum success i Look, there was, it's days like these, you've got to make it count. There's certainly some luck involved, you know, with the likes of Russell and the club having the terrible strategy at the start of the race, as it turned out. But Holkenberg was so quick today. And the strategy was great from his side. But he was super quick. And particularly, I think early, and I know this because I studied the interval between Hamilton and Holkenberg for about 20 laps, just looking at it.

I saw you watch. Yeah. I had no idea what else happened in last 20 laps. is just the interval. But Holkimer was really good in the first part of the lap. I think Hamilton kept closing up as they got towards Magnus and Beckett's, where the Ferrari had been strong all weekend. But yeah, so I'm super impressed.

And I'm glad that there's some real merit in this podium for Hockhampton. I mean, we don't care at this point. We just want to want the podium. But it was fully deserved. I think he drove superbly. And like you said, the move on stroll was, was crucial to this being a podium for him because I think he would have struggled

had Hampton caught up to the back of them fully before we got that move done. So yeah, fully deserved to Nika Holgerberg. I almost can't believe this day has come, but I'm so happy that it has. And also a fact that I'll credit to Luke Smith, the journalist, Adrian Soutle, bad day for him because he's now the driver again

that has the most race starts on that opium. I've just read that stat. Is it 1208? Yeah. Someone also quote tweeted that and put Every Day's a bad day to be Adrian Soutel, which I thought was harsh, but made me laugh. Oh, that's harsh.

Wow. It's all right. The man's an all right, bloke. Well, we'll see if Adrian Sotil's fortune's turn when we go to Belgium. He'll be looking to make a street that seems to have run for a while. They're very anonymous lately, isn't he? He's Soutil. Yeah.

Yeah. Not so much of him on the trail, do you? Not fighting for points recently, has he? No. Yeah, this is an epic moment. Just in for Nika Holkenberg, for Salber, like it's their first podium for like 13 years. Like it's, I think, 2012, I think you have to go back to, right?

13 years. That's who, Joe's. And but it's an epic moment for F1 more generally as well. I've got to be honest. Lano Norris and his emotion of winning the British GP was epic. And I don't want to take away from that. just because of the circumstances, the way that it happened, and also Lando Norris is quite early into his career,

I was all about Nica Holkenberg on those last couple of laps. I just wanted to see that moment happen because, like, us as relatively long-term F-1 fans, it's like we've seen him 2010 in Brazil take his first pole position and thinking at that point, there's going to be so many more of those and podiums and wins to come, and it hasn't materialized that way. And we've seen races like the 2012 Brazilian GP,

where he didn't just have a chance at a podium that day. He had a chance at a win. And you think when's the next good opportunity going to come? Maybe Germany 2019 is the next time you would go to when, again, he had a pretty good opportunity in poor conditions, similar to what we saw today, not quite able to capitalize. So for him to finally, I love that he's made this move to Audi with the intention of 26, we're going to build a great car.

I'm going to be on the podium. He's not at a year early. You don't need to do Audi anymore. It's fine. John. Done. Thanks, Adder. You could go home.

Congrats to them on the strategy play as well, because that was just as important as Holcombberg's drive. Two laps. That was the difference. That intermediate, that first intermediate stop where he comes in on lap 10 and everyone else pretty much comes in on lap 12. That's the difference. That propels him up the order so much to the point where he can attack Landstrol and overtake him, which in itself, in those.

conditions. That Aston Martin should be as quick, if not quicker than the salber. That deserves a lot of respect. And then later on, what he's able to do, defending against Lewis Hamilton, I felt as as the track dried out, his chance of keeping that podium position dwindled. Like it was just as soon as DRS is activated, as soon as we get into normal conditions, that Ferrari is going to fly past. And it didn't.

Lewis Hamilton, after Spain and here is going to be sick of that Salma, which is not what he would have expected. When he moved to Ferrari, but yeah, a pretty epic, a pretty epic way to get the podium as well. Like you said, Harry, I think we'd have taken it under any circumstances, but it means more that he's done it this way. Okay, let's take our first break on this episode. On the other side, more on Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstapp. Back, everyone. We discussed Nika Holkenberg finishing on the podium, which means we have to discuss the driver that just about missed out.

that we had in our preview episode was could Lewis Hamilton continue his podium streak at the British GP? He came very, very close, but fourth place, the best he could do in his Ferrari. Harry, you've already referenced that his pace was a little bit all over the place in today's Grand Prix. There were times where he seemed very quick, other times where he was struggling, which might be him, might be the Ferrari, but what did you make of his Grand Prix? Yeah, it was up and down. I'm just going to say, imagine telling someone who's not seen this race. you were like, they ask you like,

oh, did Lewis Hamilton continue his like 13 consecutive years podium string at Silverstone? And you say, no, he didn't. Oh, oh, who beat him, Nika Holkenberg? We're like, right, sure. That's how that goes. Standard. I know Hamilton will be disappointed to not be on the podium today,

but I actually think that there were some mistakes. But I think he drove pretty well because I think that Ferrari in these conditions was garbage. It wasn't a part of crap for most of that race. And obviously, it likes the dry conditions here. But as his teammate proves, not good. Not good at all.

So the fact that Hamilton ended up where he did, I think actually is a great result. He may well be kicking himself for that mistake out of the pit lane. Can I just say, by the way, the rear view shot of him coming out of the pits on dry tires with Charlotte-Cleff flying off the road and then Hamilton also going off the road is like the most for, Ferrari summary. Ferrari. Absolutely Ferrari. But so yeah, he'll rue that mistake because it could well have cost him

opponent. But as we said, Holcombberg's pace and it would have could well have been different had had Hamilton got past him. But Holgerner's pace was solid. I still think it would have been difficult. So I think he got the most, pretty much the most out of it. It ebbed and flowed a lot. Obviously, he had the big snapper through cops and that allowed Russell pass.

But he quickly made. made him ends on that one and got back past him. Yeah, I think he did well. I also think he will be ruining the mistake he made in Corley towards the end of the lap yesterday because that probably would have elevated him, if not on pole, but certainly the front row. And in a day later today, being on the front row meant nothing as Max for Staff improved, but it just may have made things easier. So, yeah, he'll be disappointed, but overall, I think I actually think it was a pretty good race from Hamilton.

what do you think so yeah overall real real positive regs maybe maybe his best race of the season so far he once again did a brilliant job at mitigating really tough circumstances in terms of that holkenberg battle i think what will frustrate him more is not the coming out of the pit laying and running off it'll be the snap that he had going through maggots and beckett's where he was right on holgerberg's tail i think he was only three or four tents behind and it looked like then he had the momentum he was about to get into the right spot to overtake and DRS was available to him. And it just meant that he lost a momentum going on that straight.

And then the tyres seemed to die. It looked like those intermediates for him, what I'm able to go any further really at the pace that he was expecting until we stop. And he puts on the soft tire, of course. And that seemed to be kind of the story of Lewis Hamilton's Crawl Prix. He would have like nine laps of brilliance and one lap that would undo it all. And then he'd have to kind of have nine laps of brilliance and kind of one lap that I'd do it all again.

And that was the same with what happened with the likes of Russell. We got overtaking a couple of times by Russell, and he'd immediately make up for it. He'd deliver some brilliant laps, get past him, be on his way again, and then there'd be a mistake, and he'd be caught by Russell again, or the restart was happening,

he'd be caught by somebody else again. So that double overtake that he put on Russell and Ockon, for example, which it felt like the commentators barely even recognise was going on when it was happening. Man goes around the outside of two Formula One cars when you cannot see is such a brilliant overtake. It was such a brilliant move. And it felt like that was Lewis Hamilton going,

right, I see it. I've had enough. I've had enough. I'll be Lewis Hamilton again now for a bit and actually get the move done. So I think he drove brilliantly. I think it helped that Lecler and Russell tried the very bold strategy of going into the pit laying in the formation lap. And it meant that he had almost going to go around him. He was like, right, I'm clear.

I've got no one really quick behind me. And I'm going to have no really quick in front of me. I can just have a good start and get behind the McLarence. And he gave Landon Norris for a little while some real trouble. He was right on the back of him. And then the opposite happened. Pierre Gassie over. him.

Espan Okon overtook him. Like, he was really struggling. So it really ebbed and flow for him. But as a net race, get Grand Prix result, a very, very positive day for Lewis Hamilton, but he will be gutted

that this wasn't a podium. Because out of all the places he could have got one, it feels like here was the place. Halfway through the season now, I'm not sure he's going to get much closer than that. Yeah, this is a really tough one. The judge for Lewis Hamilton. I think it was okay.

I don't think it was good. I don't think it was bad. There were certainly better parts of this Grand Prix. The first part of this race, and again, it's tough to know what's him versus what's Ferrari, that first part of the Grand Prix was particularly unimpressive. The fact that he was quite a long way behind the drivers in front, and he was almost having to defend from the likes of Pierre Gasly behind. That's not great.

I think it got better throughout the Grand Prix. It feels like this Ferrari not only has a problem in wet conditions, it has a real problem just starting up the tires. Like the first couple of laps felt like a real struggle before he got into the groove and that Ferrari was maybe slightly in a slightly better place to handle those conditions. It did get better as the Grand Prix went on. It's one of those where he hasn't made any catastrophic errors where many others had. And in that respect, he deserves credit.

it, but you look at who he's beaten. He's beaten Vastappen, who's spun around. He's beaten Russell and LeCler, who were on the wrong strategy, and he's beating the midfield. Like, it's difficult to say who he's beaten that he definitely should have beaten that didn't run into any issues. So I think it was okay. He'll be a bit gutted.

I think that this wasn't a dry Grand Prix, even though Hamilton has been historically one of the best drivers in wet conditions, that Ferrari, I think, would have been a very clear second best in dry conditions. And I think a podium would have come his way. Just ask LeClaire about that Ferrari in wet conditions. I'm sure he'll have a whole heap of nice things to say about it. Yes, exactly. LeCler struggled even more than Hamilton did.

What about Max Verstappen? Finishing P5, obviously getting pole position in what was deemed to be quite a risky setup, going quite low on downforce, high on top speed. Harry, it didn't really pay off. How do you view his Grand Prix and where you, I don't know, assign blame? Like, do you look more towards Vastappen

or do you look more towards Red Bull and how they set up this car? Look, it's clear that the car wasn't right for these conditions because it's not often when we see Max Verstappen struggle like that in wet conditions.

I don't think I've ever seen drift quite so much ever in Formula one, certainly out of like Magus and Beckett's. But yeah, look, this was the risk, wasn't it? With the setup and the Kali Lap yesterday was superb. And obviously that setup helped him. But we've known that Rain could well be on the cards for race day for quite some time. And it was a risk they were going for, I guess, after what looked like a terrible Friday,

they ran that risk and were hoping that maybe he could make up the difference. but I mean, Vastappan is truly, truly brilliant, but there's only so much he can do. And it's not often enough when you see a visible difference in a car's rear wing versus the other competitors around it. But it was clear that he had like a teet tray on the back of his car rather than a normal rear wing.

And that was always going to be tricky to keep, you know, keep in good nick under these conditions. So the fact that he still come out where he has, again like there's classic Vastappan like that was a terrible race he spun as we said um but to recover to where he did still pretty pretty impressive um so yeah I he's the one driving the car at the end of the day um but I'd say I'd say it's it's you know it's both the team and his fault I wouldn't play him on one more on either one or the other they both decided on this setup I'm sure Vostappen knew the risks of going for it,

and despite his, you know, his, his complaints within the car. But, yeah, I don't think they can turn around and be like, what, that was your fault. Because, yeah, at the end of the day, Vastappen was driving it. So a tough day, this was the risk. Had it stayed dry today?

Who knows? I think it could have been really tricky to pass, had it been a dry race today, given how quick that was in a straight line, but it just didn't work out. So tough day. I think this race and this weekend, this decision is an indictment of where Vastappan and Red Bull are in terms of the championship this season.

Like when you consider you've got Vastappen as one of your drivers who has won multiple world championships, obviously multiple constructors championships with the team as well, anything but winning the title is not seen as a failure, but that's what he's going to be gunning for every year. and rightly so, to the point where it's already an outside chance, a very outside chance, I think now at the championship. But if you're Vastappan, you're still going to go for it in any way you can. So with this race, I think they just saw an opportunity to do something different from McLaren.

Like, if you're Vastappan, why would you settle for a chance at third? Like, why would you just copy McLaren and hope to see off Russell and the Ferraris? It doesn't make any sense. If you're Vastappen, you want to give yourself every single opportunity you can to just do something different and take race wins because matching them isn't going to be enough at this point. They've got to try something different. And that's what they did.

They went for this high risk strategy, I think, given the weather forecast going into today. And if it stays dry, yeah, maybe he does go on to win this Grand Prix. We saw the opposite end of this risk, which was he spins after a safety car restart and is generally just struggling to handle the car. I can understand the risk. I think it's worth it. I don't blame them whatsoever for giving this a go. What do you think so?

It feels like we're back in 2018, where Red Bull are having to event, they're having to be experimental, they're having to do something so out of the box to gain a result against a very dominant force. Back then it was Mercedes. Now it's, of course, McLaren. And where there is great risk,

there can be great reward, but you can also, you know, pay the penalty of that great risk. And that's what happens again. I actually think if you ignore the spin, that one lap where he spang, I still think he had a brilliant Grand Prix. I think he, defending from both McLaren's exceptionally well, I was amazed that he was able to keep Oscar Piastro behind him until the DRS was opened. I was amazed at how well he fought against Landon Norris and the pit stop helped to get back out in front.

And then he fought well again. The fact that he's ended up in 15. place and the only car other than the McLaren's that are beating him that maybe had a real chance of beating him anyway was Lewis Hamilton. Like that's only the place he's really lost. Holgerberg was a freak result. Once a season we see these, we saw it without being in Brazil, right? Remember?

They got second and third. Here's the one that you get in this season. Mika Holgerberg in third place to Gassalba. That, you know, that could have happened to any of our top drivers if they're trying something different. He's lost, I reckon, and yet two places in total. because I think he still finishes in third place. If it's a dry, normal race weekend,

even if there's just some slight rain. I still think he finishes behind the McLaren duo anyway. So I think whilst the sping is bad and it's on him and it's his fault, he has had to drive through some of the trickiest conditions we've seen in a one in Formula One in one, in one of the most experimental setups that we've seen for a while in Formula One, and he's come out in fifth place, I still think that's a pretty solid result for a driver like that.

I'm not sure many others will be able to do what he did today. So he'll be annoyed, he'll be frustrated. He wants to win the title every single time he goes for a race. It didn't completely work today. But I think it could have been so, so much worse. So props to him, I still think overall a really positive performance, just with one costly mistake. Let's do Driver of the Day.

The verdict is in. You're the driver of the page. You're the driver of the day. you're good at driving. Sam, if you go. Thanks, mate, yes, Nicker Hockenberg. First pogging him of all the time, of his career, rather. He was really, really, really good.

And we've been through the reasons why so, so I won't drag it on, but my drive of the day. Harry? Nicke Hockenberg. And, you know, aside from the fact that we're very happy for him and the romanticness of this story, he went from 19th to 3rd. Any other day, that's a,

driver the day worthy. So Nika Hulkenberg. I think it's actually close between two drivers. And Nika Hulkenberg being one of those drivers. I think Pierre Gassley was outstanding. Yeah, fair. I do still, I still believe that is the slowest car. And he didn't strategically have the good fortune that Holcomberg had and he still managed to get P6 out of this. So Gassley, a very close second for me, but I am also going for Nika Holcombberg to make it a hat trick. What about worst driver of the day? Get in the bin, bin, bin, bin, bin, worst driver of the day.

Ben, bin, bin, worst driver of the day. You suck at driving. Sam, there are five DNFs and a number of drivers who did finish that didn't have a good day. So good luck. Yeah, one of those DNS. Did you call up into even DNS? Do he start? I'm short.

Yeah, DNS. But did he ever came out of the garage? right? No. Did we get a reason? No. They just said it. I'll give you the reason.

He's been fired. I think that's the reason. He's not there. We'll get on to that later. It's just literally been asked to leave. Weirdly enough, I think my worst girl of a day is not one of these DNFs.

I think it's going to be Yuki Senoda, who was slow, he was in the wars, he hit cars off the track, he picked up penalties, and then finished 36 seconds behind a flailing Charler, who was always, also having a really, really difficult day.

So, yeah, Yuki, the car is hard to drive, but you didn't even have the same setup on the Max for Stapping had, and you were still this much slower. It's kind of starting to say all it needs to say. I do think that you're struggling to keep the people alongside, even with the second seat of that Red Bull being such a controversial point of view. So for me, that's Yuki. Harry?

I'm going to go for Sonoda, but I think it's close. LeClaire was not good, he didn't hit anyone. He tried to. He tried to hit both Williams. Williams hate him. Yeah. Or he hates them.

I'm not really sure. It's where it is. It was not a good day for him. I'd also shout out Olly Bearman because took out your teammate in terrific style. I'm not saying it was intentional.

I love a synchronized spinging at the F1. They look great. So does Gene House. I just wanted some airtime, all right? Have some sympathy. Only Carlos Sykes had less airtime

to go. Yeah, was he there? Not sure. He was because Clauclard tried to hit him. But yeah, I'm going to go for Snowda because, once again, it was terrible. Slow hit someone last. Good stuff. The perfect trio.

Yeah. Well, I'd actually like to offer my congratulations to Olly Berman, who you just mentioned, because he was the best scoring rookie today in that he finished the Grand Prix. That's all he had to do. Rookie Graveyard of Silverstone today. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, all five of the DNFs, depending on what you count Leiblois, they're the other rookies.

And I am actually going to go for one of those five. Sonoda definitely was in contention as well. I'm going to go with Kimmy Antonelli. He struggled a lot. And I know the contact with Hadjar was, again, I don't even know how much to blame Hadjar for that, man. Like, he could see a thing. But with Antonelli, he was on a similar strategy to Russell. They just had to let him, Russell, go because of how slow Anonelli was.

And within a few laps, they are nowhere near each other. This was a race in which Russell was so far ahead of Antonelli. If Antonelli could just focus a little bit more on driving and less on giving Max Verstapp and a toe in qualifying, you might be on to something. All going for pasta together, which they did. Come on, man. Big brain strap.

You're at a box for wets. Big brain strat is going to be an interesting one. YouTube exclusive. I was trying to keep track of what everyone was doing throughout this Grand Prix. Not easy. Harry, what have you got as big brain strat? Freaking nerd.

I'm going for Aston Martin and they're called But Alonzo on the slicks towards the end of the race because that was done out of sheer panic and nothing else. Panic about Alonzo's Fury. He is angry at us.

Yeah, we were behind the curve. We must be ahead. of the curve. Yeah, but not like that far ahead of the curve, please, guys. That was far too early. The thing is, it ends up exactly where he was, which is even funnier, like all of that effort for basically no game. So, what on, team?

As soon as it was raining this morning, I was like, Wright Strolls being a long zone today. It's going to happen. It just happens every time somehow. I'm actually going to go for probably the reason they did that strategy call, which was the earlier strategy. of Landstrol going into the box for soft tires before going back onto intermediate tires. I think he was on those soft tires for four laps, and yet it was still a great strategy call.

It really worked out because by the time he had overtaking some drivers, he was ready to go back into the pits, and he gained a number of spots. And we see Holkenberg on the podium. Ashton Martin will look at that and think, that should have been Landstrel. But yeah, great strategy call from Astoramontan. what we got? Copy and paste. I'm going to give it to a serious one. I genuinely think that call for softs was a brilliant, brilliant decision. And it's amazing that his intermediate tired ending up dying before Holgerberg's intervening it's high ending up dying because

they were pretty relative on their lifetime. So that was amazing the pace that the Saab was able to deploy when they were up against each other. But that soft sting was sensational from Lance Strull. Generally, could have turned that race from nothing into a potential podium. So well done to them for that call. And well to stroll for making it work at that very short, short moment. Yeah, before we go to our second break, so much happened today. We've got five DNFs. We've got a McLaren 1-2.

We've got Nika Holkenberg podium. We've got Russell and 10th, LeCleurin 14th. Everything was all over the place. You are going to want to be on Patreon for power rankings tomorrow because there could be some wild and wacky ratings that we're giving out. Find out who we give tens to, ones to and everything in between. Make sure you join. The link is in the description.

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It's the Nissan Black Friday event where you can, wait, wait. Isn't it like a month long now? Nissan Black Fry Month? Does that work? It's the Nissan Black Friday month event. On remaining 2025 Rogan Centra, get zero percent financing. Plus, get $1,000 Nissan bonus on kicks models. This Black Friday, you've got a whole month to catch all the exclusive offers waiting for you. See your local Nissan dealer or Nissan.CA for details. Conditions apply. Welcome back, everyone. We saw a couple of drivers before the start of this Grand Prix

or after the formation lap decide that actually select tires. Don't need these intermediate tires. And it didn't exactly work out. A couple of those drivers were George Russell and Charles LeClaire that had obviously qualified in relatively good positions in fourth and sixth. So Sam, I mean, you can take these both for once or one at a time, But not a great day for these two. No.

There's a part of me that admires the risk and there's a part of me that thinks, what are you doing? What a bad judgment called this was? It reeks of George Russell. This does. Absolute George Russell through and through to be the guy to go,

yeah, I can make this work. I'm going to be a hero. I think he's got it in his head. I am going to win this Grand Prix by calling it onto soft and starting from the, not the soft, the drive, sorry,

that started from the pit lane. And it just didn't work. They were, like, seconds and a lap slower through the middle and last part of that race track, and you could just see them falling further and further away. And I think what was even more frustrated from a Mercedes point of view is,

one of your cars is further down the order. Keep rustle in the mix with the front lot. Don't do anything too crazy reckless. Anting Ellie is starting in seventh. We know he doesn't realistically, oh, he's starting a tense, sorry, after the penalty applied. We know he realistically doesn't have the pace

to be right. up there with those race leaders. Russell does. If you think that one of you goes, could be dry enough here for, you know, dry tires. Maybe we make a call. Put Antinelli on the dries

and use him as the gingie pig and see what happens. Because Russell's in a real chance of securing a podium or some really strong points. And I just think they ended up playing themselves on both sides. They left the slow guy out

on the right strategy. They put the quick guy out on the wrong strategy. And at the end, they're both driving around each other. I think it was in 12th and 13th to play side. after it all shaped down and they were back on the same strategy again. Massive net loss, really poor call.

Essentially, Russell can ever recover because the safety cars come out, everyone's on the same playing field again, and it meant the conditions were just too hard to really cut through. Although I did think that Russell would get further up the grid than he did.

We saw the way of the Stauffin was able to recover. I thought Russell, in his wet weather prowess, was going to be able to move further forward than he did. Charlotte, clear on the other hand, just a shocker. I mean, that Ferrari is absolute garbo. pure gnafness to drive, but he also,

he also was struggling. He was just having a really bad time. Every other time we saw him on the camera, he was going off the track, and then moaning, just having a bad time. So yeah, bad call for both. Didn't pay off. Love the bravery,

but massive risk that didn't not pay off for them. Yeah, congrats, Mercedes. You suck. Like, that was awful. What are you doing? One point. Again, like the risk at the start, Okay. It's clearly not working. So what do Mercedes do? Three laps in. I might as well have both drivers on this bad strategy. Great work there. And then the second strategy call they make is what dry tire to go for. Again, Russell is really early into the pits. Alonzo comes in. It is clearly not working because Sonoda has overtaken Alonzo and you look back at the timing screen. Alonzo is now five seconds behind Sonoda.

That indicates it is not the right time to go on to dry tires. What the Mercedes do with the very next lap? Pit Russell, not good, but still salvageable. If you put on something that isn't a hard tire, why are they on the hard tire in those conditions? That's the one with not a lot of grip, Mercedes. Not a lot of grip. So yeah, if you keep in count, that's nothing Mercedes got right.

So, well done. I actually think Russell's pace was pretty solid as well. you could have made something of this race, but not after whatever the hell they did. Do you know when I knew that that first tire gamble wasn't going to work when he came into the pits on the formation lab? It was the back of the grid because you had Behrman, Hadjar, Bortoletto, they all pit. Holkenberg, Stroll, give him credit in these conditions.

Holkenberg, Stroll, and Ocon all chose not to pit. And I knew at that point it's not the right call. Because those three drivers, I think one or two of them, or even all three of them, would have gone for it if it was the right call. They're far more experienced than the other three names I mentioned, all rookies. It seemed to be at the back of the grid, some of the drivers knew exactly what to do. The rookies didn't. And ultimately, it's the ones who knew what to do that ended up far better in the score. It's the one thing that Ferrari did right in that scenario.

I know that Leclair was only one place behind Hamilton, but at least they split it the right way. at least they let one of their drivers be right up there with the league is while the other was flopping around at the back of the grid. Yeah. So, yeah. Oh, also, Chau Leclair. I'd like, mate. Oh, good one for you.

I do love, I will say it, I do love Charlotte Clare's overtakes of the Williams. Not because, like, Silverstone, there are so many great places to overtake and so many obvious places to overtake. And Lecler was just going to get done at the slowest corner on the track in the most clumsy fashion possible. Just like right over the curb, no space at all. I'm on my way.

I love it. Harry, there were some incidents throughout this Grand Prix, to put it mildly, some of which got penalties, one we've already discussed, the Oscar Piastri 10 second penalty. Bearman and Sonoda, that also got a 10 second penalty for Yuki Sonoda. Did you agree with it? Yes, I think so. these conditions and we see so many incidents into that corner at the end of the Wellington Strait

and we've seen it for years particularly when it's wet with cars understeering wide you've got to say for Sonoda, Behrman wasn't there as he was approaching the corner and then he was as they were mid-corner so there wasn't in that sense there wasn't a lot Yuki could do but he's still the one that understood into the side of him so I think the penalty's fair maybe 10 seconds was slightly too harsh, but at this point, I don't really know what they're giving. They're just like blanket 10 seconds now is what we go for.

They've moved away from five. We just do tens. I don't understand. But yeah, that one, I think it was a tough one. But, you know, he took Berman out on that one. So, yeah, I think a penalty, penalty was justified. Did you see it the same way, Sam? Yeah, penalty justified.

Sagan's fault Tricky because they were right against to each other But I do think this is on Sondona They still haven't given Bermannberg a penalty For colliding into his teammate For what felt like almost a very similar instinct So something's going to come out of that Nothing's going to come out of that, I don't know

But yeah, I think this is a penalty I mean speaking of Ocon He also was involved in an incident on the first lap with Liam Lawson that saw Lawson's retirement from the Grand Prix. Yuki Sunoda also somewhat involved in that as well, Sam.

Did you see that as no action taken, okay? Classic first lap. They got to go bother looking at it. That isn't an on Ocon, in my opinion. He is the filling between a Red Bull family sandwich at that point, and I don't think he's got anywhere where he could go.

He has no right to back out. He doesn't need to. Lawson's got to try and swing it all the way around the outside. doesn't know that snow is on the inside. Snow is on the inside, trying to get down the inside and Ocon doesn't know that Lawson's on the outside. I actually put the blame probably more on

Sunoda than anyone for sticking his nos in because he was the last of the three cars to arrive. But overall, this kind of does work itself out as a racing incident. Felt quite sorry for Liam Lawson because I really don't think that he was at fault for this. Yeah, I wouldn't put this on Lawson for sure and I wouldn't put it on Ocon really either.

I think this is on Sonoda because he's got the full visibility, of that corner. Like he's the only one of the three that can see the other two. And he can, surely he can work out how this is going to go. Like, Ocon tried his best to back out of it very late in the day.

But he, even that was pretty much as early as Ocon could back out of it as soon as Sonoda was on his left. He tried his best to escape. Nothing you can really do at that point. Sonoda's the one who's making this three wide. So I think if you're putting blame on anyone,

I'd go towards him. Harry, how did you see that one? Yeah, Sonoda, Sunnod's fault. I just, what's the point in sticking your nose in there? Seeing as he's last on the scene, he should be able to see the other two cars involved here. That corner's always a pinch point. It's a one line corner.

You don't often get side by side through there. Obviously, the first lap, a bit different. But you certainly don't get three cars through there. So I'm not sure what he thought he was going to achieve. Yeah, so slightly, I know this lap one. They look at it slightly more lenient. but surprised he got away with that one with nothing because I think that one, I'd say,

was worse than the, the, the Behrman one in my view. But that's classic stewarding, nothing doing. I know that the second seat at Red Bull is obviously not a good place. I think Red Bull has started to become more and more aware that the car is the problem. Do you think Sing over is going to make it through the end of the season? Who knows it? Even with what's going on.

Sure. I just think they're so short of options now. Yeah. They could try and put Hadjar in the car, but I think they know deep down it will go the same way. And at that point, you've like, um, like burned another asset and you haven't got any left, really.

Like, you've given Lawson a try. At that point, Hadjar would have had a try. Sonoda is having a try. And you've got an 80, well, just about to turn 18 year old in F2. Arvin Limblad is quite literally hiding in a corner. Understandable.

Don't look at me. bold predictions. We had a great week in Austria. It can only get better, right? Wrong. Damn wrong. Sam, your prediction was that we'd get a repeat of Frugos Hamilton.

None of us watched Skulls. We're watching, mate. So that's a terrible idea. So it did happen, actually, and you'll always have to believe me. No, I'll personally go back and watch the sky coverage to prove this isn't right. You do that now.

I'm going to pause it. You do that. So, sorry, Discord. I was hassling everyone on Discord to, who was watching the Sky Comic Trips, which saved me clips. Wow. What Rossi was saying?

There were so many instances of me and be like, what do you say for that overtake? People sending me a video. People sending me the phrase. And I'm like, no, that doesn't count. No, that won't count. And then Hamilton overtook Russell and Ocock as a double overtake.

he's having a conversation with Zach Brown and he barely notices the blithing overtake. I thought, that is your moment. You could have done it then. And he knows it. He listens to this show.

I know you're Liskingcrofty. He listens to the show and he's going to do it now. I'm going to do it. It's a cheese off Sam. Sam's got a 2-1-0 lead and he's hustling our audience to make it after that 3-1-0.

I don't think I've ever won the bowl predictions, okay? I won it. Harry, your bold prediction was the same bowl prediction. prediction you made this time last year, Lewis Hamilton would win the British GP.

We gave it, go. He won it in our heart. Yeah, sure. Yeah. Ferrari just posted it's a one-two. Wait, the most points. I got the most points. They're good. Well done. So that's not right either. And on a day where there were plenty

of points to be scored in the midfield, I said that Williams would score at least 14 points, and they scored at least four points. They just forgot the one. Good stuff. Which means there's no change in the bold prediction score this time out. We'll see if our luck turns when we get to Belgium in a couple of weeks' time.

Let's take our final break on this episode. On the other side, it's Moment of the Race. Welcome back, everyone, to the final part of today's review, and it's time for Moment of the Race, which means we have some Discord submissions coming up in a moment. Before we do that, though. Harry, what was your moment of the race? I've got a few.

I'm actually struggling to decide which one. to go for. Shout out to Kevin Magnelson being in the Salba Garage as Nico Hockenberg support. They're like best buds, but what,

what's an arc they have had from telling him to suck a particular appendage to now supporting him for his first podium? I just enjoyed that. I thought it's wholesome. I'll go for,

I'll go for George Russell spinning off. and they pan the camera to Toto Wolf in a flat cap for some reason. What is he sat? He looks like bloody Del Boy. Why is he sat there? He's so miserable. He's just like, God.

It's gone wrong again. But I was like, why are you in a flat cap man? What's the matter with you? So weird. When does he leave for Verstappen again? Oh, dear. I hope it's a new theme he's doing. So when we go to Belgium, he's wearing like a beret.

culturally relevant hats by Toto's hats It's a rungy bit that he's now doing He's just doing it for laughs Yeah I'm like a braira in Mexico I wish he was doing it but for gloves I think it's gloves you've ever seen in your life

Mickey Mouse gloves on his pants Every activation So George Russell Panning to Toto Wolf is Harry's moment of the race Sam what was yours I was going to say I have three

I have two but I want to give out a new award for biggest ick of the race and that is when... For a bold prediction point. Ha ha ha.

That is where you know the Saba team Nico, Nico, Nico up him off his shoulders celebrating and it pans to Lando Norris's dad alone.

Lando, Lando. Lando. No one joins in. He's a in the corner. You're like, just a little of his moment. Your son's just won the British Grand Prix. You got better than.

Land, you're a fully grown man. Pack it in. Morning. Wait, so that's your ink in the right. What's your actual moment of the race? Yeah. Oh, it's between Fadroa and also being so angry on the radio. Amazing how you're going to get this right for me.

He's engineering gone. You are fine. See you out here. And actually, I will probably give it to that. But the other one for me was Lewis Hamletters' double overtakes. I thought that was pretty spicy in that level of wet conditions. I'm going to go really boring, Holcomburg podium. It was just epic.

So I would be lying to myself if I pick something else. Only problem is, I don't like to say things are over. Teammate wars feels like a stretch now. It's a tough one, mate. That is a tough one. Can we... Gabrielle Bortoletto wins in Belgium. I thought this would come up from YouTube,

but can we shout out another cracking George Russell team radio? It's raining. Yeah, a lot. Brilliant. Brilliant. It feels very Ricky Javance in the office like this. It's raining. Brilliant.

Yeah, brilliant. Oh, good. Discord submissions. What have we got there? So many, guys. We have so many. I'm actually just trying to scroll through. and finds the right one.

First up, we've got Caroline's number one dad. One of the race, count Nico Huckleberg out a own peril. Good job, Nico. Where to get third? That's what we actually meant. Great point.

Here's a very good point. Next up we have DJ Spin to Win. What's popping, everybody? It is DJ. to win, my moment of the race from the British Grand Prix was the fact that everyone was biting the dust. All the rookies. The only thing that didn't bite the dust was my wager

for the two Asson Martens to finish in the top ten. Let's go, Lance. Ride! What is happening? Oh, lordy lord. Thank you for that. Another musical interlude as part of our submission. We always do.

Lukie J is next. My moment of the race is Nico Oakhamberg from Trackside at Silverstone Love that What a day to be Trackside That's a good one to watch live

Thank you for that It gets too wet Thanks for taking your time Yeah 48 Okay Kim is next Ockham here Canadian in Australia

First time submission My moment of the race Is when Lewis Hamilton unexpectedly overtook two cars in the mist. Awesome. In the mist. I love that.

The mist of the British Missal. Like through the fog by Stephen King, out comes to Miss Hamilton. I think of two cars. It's a very niche horror reference. Alex C is next. Hey guys, Alex here. Moment of the race.

Nico Halkenberg first podium. Let's go. Give me the toaster, the microwave. every appliance in the kitchen he did it I think you're more excited than Nico was wow thank you for

someone go in tack on those appliances please yeah good as me Woody is next what's up guys it's your boy Woody from the home of Haas in North Carolina USA moment of the race speaking of Haas has to be seeing KMAG in the paddock

for Nico's first podium of his career really hits you in the fields it was cool to see him there and just what an awesome, awesome race for Nico. He's been a class driver for a bunch of just terrible teams for years. He deserves this by far the moment of the race. The strong irony in this is that Nico Hockenberger scored his first ever podium in what could well be the worst ever car he's driven. Yeah, I think there's a lot of irony on it being 4th of July weekend and Hasse have been given

an opportunity to get their first podium and instead it's a former driver being supported by another former driver as their two drivers both finish outside the points. The horse hate club are assembling outside sail, but. It's doing well. Good stuff. Next up is PNW Bum. Yo PNW Bum here. My moment of the race has got to be Ferrari Strat.

Charles LeClair getting absolutely shafted going on to those slick tires. And finishing outside the points, hashtag Free LeClair. Join the Patreon. I assume P&W stands for Pacific Gulf West. I think so. Come on. Geography Sam. It's a new character for the show.

Geography, Sam. Blazy is next. Oh my God, boys, Nico Holkenberg podium. I can't believe it, yes. But my moment of the race is Mercedes telling George Russell, we're brave, but not suicidal. The next lap, he comes into the pits for dries, and then spins on the next lap.

Like, yeah, they're definitely not suicidal. Keep breaking late. Talk about a melodramatic moment there from Mercedes. Uncle Long Tim is next. Uncle Long Tim here. My moment of the race has to be in the cool-down room. When Lando came in, confused, basically saying to Nico, what happened? How did you get here?

Keep up the good work, guys. Join the Patreon. We love you a long time. What the hell is a polo veteran in Arkansas? I like Lando not knowing who he is. Security? Aren't you that guy that fills in at the back? Well,

last for not least is Mrs. Pachy B. My member of the race, the whole damn thing. Holy moly. What a race. Hoaghanberg. Somebody free Leclair. Aston Martin making a good move Alonzo complaining about it

good Lord Crazy race, excellent Strong with you We should have just played that And then at end of the episode That is what we're going to do We've wasted our last hour It's actually hasn't been recorded

You can't have in that line Yeah Good stuff Thank you very much to all of you For submitting moments of the race Appreciate there were a lot of submissions For what was a day That had a lot of moments

But we play as many as we can and if you didn't get played, keep trying. All previews and reviews throughout the year, you'll have an opportunity. But probably done. Well, we're not, but we have a time limit on things. We probably have to get going, I suppose, which is a real shame, because it's always lovely to talk to YouTube about F1. But if you want to hear us talk to each other live about Formula One,

they're in the link down below. If you're coming to the Texan Grand Prix, USGP at Cota, we'll have a little live show on the Thursday night before so you can get a live ticket you can come to see us we put our little live show we've sold out every year so far we have a little drinking,

a little chit-chat and we'd love to see you so if you happen if you go into that Grand Prix and you think oh I like a bit of late breaking I'll go along and see it in person than you can do. Patreon is also down there as well and that means power rankings

you get power rankings every single Monday after a Grand Prix check those out amongst a whole host of other benefits and then we'll be back of course midweek where we'll be chatting away a whole, another array of F1 bits and pieces, some news stories, we'll play some games as always.

It's always good time to make breaking. Thanks for listening. Thanks for joining us this weekend. In the meantime, I've been Samuel Sage. I've been Ben Hocking and I've been Harry Ead. And remember, keep breaking late. Here you go, go, go. Podcast is part of the Sports Social Podcast Network.