The Late Braking F1 Podcast - 2025 Singapore GP Race Review

Episode Date: October 5, 2025

Ben and Sam are here to break down all the action from the Singapore GP with George Russell winning his second race of the season. The guys discuss Verstappen's P2 in spite of car troubles, contact between the two McLaren drivers, Ferrari's brakes deciding they'd had enough and much much more! >>> LAST FEW TICKETS left for our 2025 LIVE SHOW in Austin TX! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠CLICK HERE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to grab yours or for more info!

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. And welcome to the late breaking F1 podcast presented by Sam Sage and me, Ben Hocking. We are reviewing the Singapore Grand Prix today. One from poll by George Russell, joined on the podium by Max Mastappen and Lando Norris in third place, championship leader Oscar Piers. Astry in fourth.

Slow burner has been mentioned, Sam. I still don't think it burned a lot when it did burn, but the second half was at least something more than the first half. I was going to say, show me the match, Ben. Is that coming out yet? As it happens? It's a small match. It was a tough watch for a Singapore GP.

Now, the Singapore GP could be a tricky one because it is a street circuit. It is tight and winding. But when a racetrack has had, this many alterations made to it and it's got four DRSOs and there was a little threat of a slippery surface at the start. Come on, at that point you've got to have something happening

still, the biggest talking point was Lance Strohl screwing about his 100 year old medium tyres and Lewis Hamilton doesn't have any breaks to just cut every corner under the sun. Honestly, I was going to try and start this episode positively because I've got like 12 rants lined up. It feels like on this episode.

So, much of this annoyed me. But there are positives to talk about. We're going to be going through the midfield battle that Alonzo eventually came out ahead of. Bearman and Carlos Sines also scoring points. Kimmy Antonelli beating both Ferraris to finish P5. McLaren, P3 and P4, good enough to claim and reclaim the Constructors Championship defending it from last year. But let's start with that battle out front, George Russell taking his second race victory of the season following on from his win at Canada early in the year. Same result in that it was Max Verstappen

as his closest challenger this timeout. But unlike Canada, not a lot of pressure from him. How impressed were you by what George Russell was able to do? There was an interesting comment from the Skycoms. I know a lot of you listening don't get the Skycoms. But early on, there was talking about how the race leader in many occasions here at Singapore has backed the grid up, you know, usually treating it like a big snake.

So those behind the race leader can't, essentially execute the undercut, because the undercut around Singapore is so powerful. It's such a long racetrack that if you get your tyres up to speed nicely, you can gain between two and three seconds on a lap on someone who's on older ties. So often, the leader doesn't want to give anyone the opportunity to undercut and therefore they will pit into traffic and negating that advantage. But George Russell was out like a living greyhound and out of the gate. He was just flying away.

And you know what? Perfectly executed. He delivered a sensational strategy, never let up at the start of that grown. pre and by keeping Max for Stapen, his new game, makes for Stapen is how we say it now. Staying in in second place, Max for Stapen. Max for Stapen, that's for sure. By keeping him at bay at the start, even though he was on those softer tires,

we saw the whole left side of the racetrack as getting appalling stuff. More on that, because, yeah. We'll get to that. It treated some people very unfairly. It allowed him to essentially use Max on these now older soft tires as a buffer. So the cars that were faster behind him. Great strategy management, manage to pull out the gap that he needed to,

and then you could hear at the end that he had pacing hand. He was managing that race car all the way to the end. Pacing hand was solid. No risk even coming through the traffic, which is exactly what you need when you're the race leader. This was a class race with George Russell. He was fantastically qualifying yesterday, delivering the two fastest lap times across Q3.

And he showed that true pace at the Mercedes had a gang, perfect car, perfect driver combination to game. Brilliantly executed. Well done, Mercedes-12. This probably isn't the right way to do things as I'm going to start from the very end. And I wasn't going to bring it up, but you just mentioned it. The Toto Wolf comment at the end over team radio is like, great, driver and team combination, George. How about that? The combination of us and you worked very well.

Here's your unsigned contract, if you wouldn't mind getting on with that. A very coded message, I thought. But yeah, I thought George Russell and Mercedes played this perfectly in that. first stint because it was fairly clear, I think, five or six laps into this that Russell had the legs on Vastappen today, at least on those medium tires. What they didn't know was whether they had the legs on the McLarence. And I think based on practice, their answer was probably not, in which case, it made sense for Russell and for Mercedes to work that advantage over Vastappen into that first stint. It looked like that lead was going to be something like 30 seconds if he was going to keep at that pace.

Obviously, they didn't want to risk anything in that second half of the Grand Prix. So decided just to just to keep things going from there. But yeah, I just think based on Lando Norris being stuck behind Max Verstappen, they thought, if he gets that undercut done, which there was a potential for that, is Norris just going to catch and catch and catch and suddenly would I be really thankful that I had a 10 second gap or a 15 second gap. We knew coming into this weekend, Russell and Mercedes figured they had no chance whatsoever.

hilarious. Yeah, no, right? That seems to be the case with Mercedes these days. They only perform well at circuits they have no expectation at. But I think just based on that, they were probably worried if McLaren got free air, what they could do with it. So just extending that advantage out in the first stint made sense.

And then the second stint was just very well managed. We didn't really hear much from George Russell and the result was the same but we saw Lando Norris last year when he had a dominant lead a few near skirmishes with the wall. Had a few today as well. Didn't really get that from Russell. He was kind of just left to run away.

No, it's good if you can ever see him on the camera. Yeah, yeah. I think that about any race. If you're not seeing the leader, even around a racetrack like Monaco or Singapore, you think, wow, this guy is so in control of what's going on that the cameraman can't be bothered to put him on the screen because it's just boring for everyone to watch the fact that he's doing such a dominant job.

There's no point following them around. Yeah, exactly. If we're shifting focus to Max Verstappen for a minute, starting second, finish a second, try something a little bit different with the soft tire to start this Grand Prix, as already referenced, those on the left-hand side of the grid struggled much more than on the right side. So it's more defending from the McLaren's rather than attacking George Russell at the start. It never felt like Vastappen was comfortable.

this Grand Prix, yet he has walked away with more points than both McCarron's that he could theoretically be fighting in a championship battle. Still a bit theory at this point. Do you think it'll be happy with how that race unfolded? No, I don't think so. I think going to Max was to happen. They tried to do something different by starting on that soft tire. And again, the left side of that racetrack just shafted anyone that even wanted to try something different. And that would have been the key to whether he could have won this race or not. If he could have going in front of Russell at the start and commanded this race on those softer tires. Get away a little bit.

Maybe he's hoping that Russell and Norris and Piastri will tangle a little bit and lose a few seconds dropping a DRS range. He would have in his mind, I think, unfolding a whole different Grand Prix in the way that did. But in the end, he ends up having car problems. It's unsettled. He doesn't feel comfortable with the way that the balance is taking place in his car. He's doing max for stopping things, a car that doesn't feel very max for stop and worthy, which is always so impressive.

The way he's holding off, Lando Norris and Piastri, who's a couple of sense, seconds back for that entire race, just shows you the quality that he's able to bring to a race like here when he isn't comfortable. But the elusive Grand Prix win at Singapore continues to elude him. He can't get his hands on it. He's going to get more questions about it next year and he's going to be annoyed about it again. Because he didn't enjoy them all this week. He's going to get them even again in 2026. Might retire. Maybe we'll just give up. Yeah, for that reason. I'm going to go Gorsalifer every weekend instead. I thought he had a brilliant Grand Prix.

I actually thought the thing that Red Bull and Max Verstappen did so well was not being baited into the pit stop early. by McLaren. It was a really well-worked out call by the team. And they were right to call out the fact that if they had pitted, they were going straight into heavy traffic, four or five cars extra that they hadn't cleared yet in the way that the pit stop was unfolded. But because of staying out and calling the bluff of McLaren, which we've seen a few times, and the Skycoms team really seemed to love giving credit. They even called it when Max did coming about going, oh, has he been baited again here? And he came out in the perfect spot right in Frank and Fernando along so with eight seconds in front of him.

I could be wrong. I know I've mentioned this a couple of times over the years. I could be wrong. I felt certain that they banned that as a tactic to actually go out into the pit lane with the tyres. They did. And I can't remember them ever unbanging it, but they either did unban it or have just completely forgotten about the rule.

Think in theory, you're allowed to do it once. And that's a bad, and claim it's a mistake, right? You go, oh, I'll drive a change their mind. But you do it multiple. A Ferrari, right, with the main culprits of this. when they did it four or five times a race, they'd run out there, I think. Anyway, that was the call. And that was the call that kept them in second place,

because it meant that the staff had got that undercut. And we know that with the tyre offset, you need to have maybe 10, 15 lap difference in ties minimum to realistically have the pace over a driver in front of you to get a move done. So whilst Norris was faster than Max for Stappen, the cars were close enough and what Max was able to do was good enough, that even on those older tyres, not by too much, but the older tyres meant that he could hold on.

What Norris is going to actually do was to undercut Max and stop bluffing, stop trying to play a silly game, get in the pit laying early, get the tyres on, and close that gap down. So when Max does pit, he's in front and he could get after George Russell. And they hold them off on older ties, if needs to be. I actually think that was a bit of a strategic blunder from McLaren and a great call from Red Bull. Yeah, I think Red Bull held their nerve because there was the potential for Lando Norris to go into the pits. And even if it was to go into traffic, could have started to make some overtakes on some fresher tires.

think they realized the Delta wasn't that strong at that stage and realized that waiting for the clean air was the right call. And they delivered expertly well on that strategy. So fair play to them. I think from Vastappan side, there will just be, I don't know if it's disappointment or just an annoyance, frustration that there wasn't a little bit more in that car. I think it was, again, just really clear quite early on. This was a race where I think he was hoping that the soft tires would be what he needed to get that lead at the start. But failing that, he would have hoped soft versus medium tires, okay, I could hold on to the back of George Russell at the very least for, say, 10 laps.

And then maybe I fall away a little bit after that. But that's okay. Like, that's the risk of playing the soft tire at that stage in the Grand Prix. Instead, that advantage that Russell had was kind of from the off. And I think Verstappen might have known at that stage that this is going to be a defensive race and not an attacking race. And it's going to be, can I hold? on to second rather than can I go and get first. And in that respect, he has at least succeeded

with his objective. He did hold off both McLarency has taken away. He has eaten into their points advantage, probably not as much as he would have hoped after how qualifying went, but still by an OK amount. I think he defended well. He had that one off that cost him a couple of seconds when he was starting to build some momentum on George Russell. I think that was his biggest error on the day. But outside of that, I thought he raced, he raced pretty well. I thought Red Bull strategically handled this race pretty well. And I'm not sure they could have taken away anything more from this one than what they did. The worrying thing, I think, for the last part of this season four, Vestappen and Red Bull is, again, tireware, because we saw Russell versus Vestappen on the same

compound of tire, the hard tire. The first thing, they were obviously on different compounds, so it's tougher to compare. It felt like early in the stint, the Stappan had a little bit of an advantage on Russell. Like we weren't looking at a 10 second gap anymore. If he was building in, he was eating into it. And then it kind of just faded a lot quicker than what it did for the Merck in front and the McLaren behind. So that will be a thing to keep an eye on as we go to some more, some hungry tracks that like to eat tires like Qatar. I'm not sure how well they'll fare. No, I think that could be a McClough.

and absolute wiping of the floor. If they've shown anything like they have around these long, sweeping corners, that's going to be McLaren playground. I think Russell, weirdly, will be very happy with how the race unfolded with the Stappen because it was essentially a shield play, not intentionally, but it was kind of a shield for him. It was like a bigger version of what Sikes did with Norris when he had to hold off using the car behind.

It was like having a blocker. And this is what we mean by when you have your teammate right with. because in theory, if you have a driver one and a driver two, that's what driver two would be doing. They'd be driving well, they would be putting their car over they can on the racetrack, they're holding back the cars behind. So driver one for the team can run off down the road,

get the perfect strategy, go on to wing. And effectively, despite, I don't know, despising each other off the racetrack, have they made up? We don't know. They were, he was helping him. Stappen was indirectly helping George Russell massively. And by sacrificing himself a little bit to this defensive race,

he was handing George Russell the wing. There might have been a play that by letting Norris and Russell tangle, then maybe he might have had a chance at the victory, but you're really playing with risk versus reward there. A second place on a daylight today for Vastappen, it felt like the best the outcome was going to give for him. Yeah, and we'll see what Mercedes can do for the rest of this season. I'm sure that will be a topic for another day.

But we know we've got Las Vegas coming up where we are expecting them to be a bit stronger, which means there will be probably 14. for the last. But maybe they can be a factor at some of these other tracks that we weren't expecting them to be. It's not like they're going to be fighting for a championship. Russell probably isn't even fighting for third in the driver's championship. But this is motor racing. You want to go out there and win. So it'll be interesting to see if they can add to their two victories and whether it will just be Russell that's adding to their victories. So confusing, isn't it, that they are second in the constructors and yet Russell is barely even close to fighting for third in the drivers. It is

the difference between having two drivers that can score points regularly and get your team up the table and having one driver that's actually so much better than what the team could give him and being what, 66 points away from winging the championship. It's crazy, the difference between those teams. It is weird that battle for a second. I've said it before.

It's like it's a battle for who doesn't want it because we've got... Mercedes haven't had two drivers in the fight all year. Like Antonelli has been off the pace, particularly in the middle part of this year. He seems to be recovering now. But for whatever reason, that's still enough to beat Red Bull, who are consistently only having one car in the fight,

and Ferrari, who keep Ferrariing themselves every weekend. So, yeah, Mercedes are just there to pick up the scraps. I can't, we're going to get onto it, but I can't believe both the brakes on the Ferrari just failed. I can't believe it. Well, let's take our first break. We're not going to get there quite yet, but on the other side, we're going to be discussing McLaren.

Welcome back, everyone to the second part of today's review of the Singapore Grand Prix. We've discussed the top two, George Russell and Max Vastappen, as they qualified. But we now get on to the McLaren duo of Piastri and Norris. Not finishing in that order, though. Norris, third place, despite being outqualified by his teammate, Oscar Piastri having to settle for fourth. Should we start at the start?

Because a bit of contact between them, at least initially there was contact between Norris and Vastappen. But that contact sent Norris into the side of Oscar Piastri. no damage for Piastri that was going to cost him throughout the rest of the Grand Prix, but he did lose a spot to Norris as a result of it, nearly put in the wall. Quite well avoided, I thought, that he didn't go into the wall. And Oscar Piastri not particularly happy about how the events unfolded. How did you see it?

It was a racing incident, I believe. I think if we saw that with two random drivers, let's say it was Antigelli and Hamilton, for example, I think it was going to be, oh, it's a bit scruffy at the start, but everyone's away, a bit of a bump of the wheels. For me, it was elbows out, a bit of a mistake, we all got on with it. And I think because of the McLaren politics that we're seeing between these two at the moment, there is far more to analyse here than what's actually happened on the racetrack. So in terms of the actual incident, if you're looking at it from a top-down view,

Norris has gone a little quick. He's tagged the back of the stapper, which has caused his front wing damage. And then he will bash his teammate. That is, unfortunately, for McLaren, not where the problem actually lies. the problem actually lies in their word of fairness and how they're displaying their treatment of their two drivers. And you can understand from Oscar Piastri's cockpit on that turn how he could see that this is unfair.

He was seething the entire Grand Prix. We've spoken so many times this season about how calm Oscar Piastri is, how level heading he is, how he shrunking off and gets on with it. And actually, more often than not, will still deliver a fantastic race performance, despite some kind of adversity,

which we've seen a couple of times so far this season, caused partially by his own team. This was not the case. I think after what happened in Baku, where he went out of the race, I think, and then of course the events that happened in Monsa previously as well with the changing over at the pit stop,

I think here he was looking to just have a solid performance against Landon Norris, specifically, Landon Norris. So when in turn one, he's bumped out of the way, and to him it feels like he's just been driven into, his claim of that's not very fair. This isn't a lot of teamwork between teams. How does that work?

I can see why he is vocal. I can see why he is protesting against how McLaren have dealt with this. But from a neutral point of view, from outside the cockpit point of view, I think you can see that it was an accident. It was a bit brash. Norris is probably driven off going, oh, sorry, you know, bump of the tires. We move on with it. We get on with it.

But the cars who seem to be slightly falling, Landon Norris's way a little bit, the last few Grand Prix. What do you think about it then? I think Norris was ambitious, but I don't think that's a bad thing. in this situation. He's the one who's doing the chasing in this championship. And I know that if he decided to hang back and let Vastappen and Piastri battle over that position instead, we probably would be on here saying Norris has got to force the issue. Norris has got to get

involved in this if he sees half an opportunity. So I'm not going to hold it against Norris for trying. It was clumsy. He's a bit fortunate as well. Obviously he picked up damage, but not damage that cost him reasonably any any race time. If it was just even slightly worse than that, he could have required the front wing to be changed. There were a few questions at the beginning of this Grand Prix. Would we see the FIA force McLaren in to change that front wing? Fortunately, for McLaren, they didn't. But the way this race unfolded and how important track position is, that would have been devastating. He probably would have got back to eighth. But yeah, I mean, He'll be Hamilton LeCler

after those events happen. So maybe he would finish 6th or 7th that a push. Yeah, and he's losing even more ground to Piastri. So he's lucky to get away with that. I think from Piastri's perspective, I can completely understand

why he's aggrieved with this. I agree that it's a racing penalty, but I understand Piastri's viewpoint because whilst we are looking at this from a, almost like a bird's eye view, we can see how the start unfolded, how this event caused this event and the chain reaction of it all.

Piaastri, when you're on board with him, all you see is a McLaren going into the side of you. And you've got no idea that he has touched Vestappen, which has then forced him into you, and that's why you're out there. Now, from Piaastri's side, he would say, well, it doesn't really change anything for me. I'm still being forced out here.

I've still lost a spot, thanks to the actions of my teammate, which weren't good. I'm sure there's kind of word there. Well, he phrased it himself, didn't he? I know that's very good. My teammate crashing into the side of me. He's right.

That's not what seamwork is. But ultimately, I understand why they didn't go ahead and change the positions on this because I don't know if they'd have done it anyway. Piazri couldn't get close to Norris. Pace wasn't there to go, was it? I don't know if that's a symptom of the head loss, being frustrated behind the wheel, being angry.

Or we've seen it a couple of times this season. Monaco most specifically, he doesn't have the pace on a street circuit. And they've not been his friend so far this season. He did well at Jedder. anything okay when it came to Miami. But that's about it. All the other street circuits,

you'd argue either from pace or genuine finishing position, you know, Canada probably being the exception there that Norris obviously crashed into the back of him, but what's faster, they've not been his friend this season. No, and I thought we might be getting a sort of Monza situation where if you remember, you know, Norris was ahead of Piastri, and it looked fairly comfortable in that little battle between them. Norris had a pretty comfortable lead.

and then it's turned out that Piastri was playing a bit of a waiting game and was saving the tires a little bit for the second half of the stint. And suddenly Piastri gets much closer to Lando Norris to the point where the whole discussion about the undercut, overcut was even a thing. I thought we might be looking at the same thing here today. I just don't think we were. I think this was a case of Piastri's pace had gone missing versus Lando Norris.

The only time Piastri got significantly closer to his teammate was at the end of this race, when Lando Norris wasn't showing what he could fully do because he was stuck behind Max Verstappen. And even then, I was expecting Piastri to get on the back of those two at all, but quite quickly. And it was slow trucking.

He didn't get there very quickly. And even when he did, not enough time to really do anything about it. So this wasn't a great weekend for Piastri. I gave him credit for what he did in qualifying, where he pulled it together enough, I think, to, you know, beat his team, may be Antonelli, where it wasn't guaranteed. And the fact that he's only lost three points to his teammate, he probably takes that.

It probably does take it. Because soon we've got six races left, if there is a three-point gap between those two every single race from now, and hey, look, the wing is not guaranteed for a McLaren these days. That's three in a row that they've not won, now, remember, he will win the championship. You know, it's a maximum of 18 points game by Norris. He'll still finish four points clear come the final Grand Prix. Piaschew probably needs one really solid Grand Prix left where he picks up a victory

to make sure that realistically this is probably in his hands without any real issues unfolding his way. I think the bigger issue for McLaren, which I think they can have to sit down with Oscar and speak to him privately about, I think they're at risk of losing his loyalty. I think they are at risk of losing this.

Papaya rules, you know, we do our team thing. Brundle was right, where he was like, you know, I think we just rewrote the rules with how that happened from Piascri's side. Piazri seems like a level-headed calm guy, but I do think you only take so much of swap position, do this, change this. Can you try this before you go, no, I'm league of the championship.

I want to wing. It's exhausting, man. It's tiring. I was kind of done with it yesterday and I'm even more done with it today. Now that the championship is settled, shut up, McCarron. Just let them crack on. Go side of the garage versus side of the garage. Your championship is sealed.

constructors wise, let them fight. And honestly, it comes from McClara most of the time. All of this chat about, well, do you want the pit stop? Do you want them to take the pit stop first? Do you want to avoid the undercut? At one point today, Piastri just said, I don't know. You do it. That's how it should be.

You're the one with all the data. Sure, ask you drivers' opinions, but they're kind of busy racing around a street circuit at 200 miles an hour at 200 degrees. Come on. The man of Norris is going, no, yeah, yeah, no, yeah, but no, but. Like, he doesn't know, does he? Man's on Melbourne.

Vicky Pollard's in the car. You know, he's driving a race car, like you said, around one of the, the most difficult race trip we have in the entire season. You're going, join in Piacchi, the Undercut, your championship rival and, you know, closest competition. Yeah, no, wait, what's the question?

What's the question what you're asking me? Put me in the best position. You're my engineer. Put me in the best position. What's the debate? Why is this a struggle every single time we get to a race course now for this team? It's a very frustrated dynamic to listen to. Yeah, and we get the whole, well, we'll sit down after the race and do a full debrief on.

Every week. There was a racing incident at term one. You went into the side of him. You both carried on. And then you finished third and fourth. And then next race, you can go racing. No Constructed's Championship to think of. All the best.

We have no dog in this fight. Wish you all the best for the driver's championship. but it's up to you on the race track. It's now your engineer versus that engineer. The driver in front gets pit stop priority as always. That's the only rule. But you know they'll come out with, well, papaya rules have been downgraded to four out of ten

as a result of the Constructed of Championship, but that's actually downgraded to three out of ten if this situation occurs, which it just has, even if you think it's dubious. They'll do that all over the sitting radio, though, as well, live. We'll have to sit there and work it out, and the drivers have to, oh, it's just farcical. It is farcical.

I respect how much. much they're trying to keep people happy, but it just becomes more trouble than it's worth at this point. And there's a lot of positives for McLaren, not even relating to today. They're the only team that's had two drivers in the top four, for example. But with this race sealing the Constructed Championship, I think midweek will be a point where we get to fully, fully go into how McLaren have won this championship so early on. Again, they've defended their championship from last year, but very different circumstances as to how they've got there. They have been dominant all year long.

We'll break that down midweek, I think, a little bit more. But congratulations to them in the first instance, even if you annoy me sometimes. With that, shall we focus on our driver of the day? Let's do it. The verdict is in. You're the driver of the day. You're the driver of the day. You're good.

Now, we don't usually follow the vote that happens, the masses, the sales force driver of the day, but looking at the results with a few laps to go, it was a very close three-horse race. In the end, it was given to Fernando Alonzo. Your driver of the day, Sam. I'm going Russell. They came into this weekend, very uncertain about how they were going to do. And I think a lot of the hard yards were done in qualifying. and Russell looked monumental in qualifying.

He was such a beast. He was so controlled, so put together. And I think he carried that perfectly through to the race. He only doesn't get a grand slam because Lewis Hamilton decided to whack on the soft tires before his brakes exploded. So fair play to George Russell, pure domination, pure control. He deserved it. He deserved it this season.

Grangy's got a really good race like that. I think it longs there was a great shout. I think the Stappen was a great shout. And there was a couple others up and down the ring as well that I thought were really, really good. but I'm going, Russell. Yeah, I think this is a rare occasion where I agree with the people in that they had it as a very close fight between Alonzo, Russell, Vestappen, and that's kind of how I saw it as well. I think you could feasibly give it to all three of those. I would definitely put Carlos Seines in the mix as well to go from 18th to 10th on a race where overtaking was incredibly difficult.

And the way in which he and Williams executed that strategy was impressive. He wasn't the only one who tried something similar, but he was the only one that made it work from the worst grid spot. out there. So well done to him. I am going to agree with the people completely. I'm going to go with Fernando Alonso. He was held back thanks to that awful pit stop. And I just felt at that point, oh, not again. He's in position for some good points. And it's just going to go horribly wrong for him. But he recovered very well. He deserved the points that he got without needing to make those overtakes. But he was given a bit of extra work to do, a bit of homework. And he nailed it. He got those overtakes done pretty clinically, including on the likes of Hadjar.

I think without that slow pit stop, it would have unfolded that this race was basically the top seven drivers were like this good. Everyone else was like pretty similar at this level. And then Fernando Alonzo was just in like a Formula 1.5 world by himself, which kind of is how it ended up, but just not aided by the pit stop. I thought they had a really good race. He had that battle with Hajar as well. champion of the race or whatever it was.

So, Fagando. Team Radio at the year. There are some strong contenders from today. Yeah. They're going to appear in a moment of the race, guaranteed. God. But what battle with that was? Great Wheel to Wheel to Wheel to Racing with those two.

Yeah, yeah, agile having to deal with some engine issues. Sadly enough, didn't quite hold on for points, ended up finishing 11th, but made a good effort. Brave race from him. Yeah. Worst driver of the day. Get in the bin, bin, bin, bin. Ben, Ben, Ben, worst driver of the day.

Worse driver of the day. You suck at driving. Now, of course, we're recording this directly after the race has finished, and we don't record our power rankings until tomorrow, which is a Patreon exclusive. If you're not already a part of Patreon, would absolutely encourage you to do so. The link is in the description.

Looking forward to the episode, one of the reasons is, don't hold me to this in case I change my mind. I don't know if anyone's going to get worse than like a four out of ten. I don't think anyone was bad. Yeah, it would be far below if I was scoring someone that far.

No one had a disaster. There's no twos going on here. That's for sure. There's a couple that I was pretty surprised about that didn't progress in the way I thought they would. I'm going to give my worst driver of the day to, or it's between either Gassley or Holgerberg, really. Holgerberg coming off.

I mean, Bortiletto put it in the wall on his own, by the looks of it. But Gassinger couldn't overtake anyone. Colopinto still finished two, three places in front of him, despite the chaos. And Gass is behind Ockon. He's behind Colopinto. He's behind the likes of Lawson. Only Holkerberg is behind you.

But I'm going to go Holgerberg just simply for the mistake all on his own. But you're right. It's not, I'm having to be picky. It wasn't an absolute disaster. Yeah, I think those are fair. Holkenberg, it's tough to know whether the issue was on him or not. obviously where he goes off, not into the barriers, but it looked like we might finally get a virtual safety car

or a safety car in a race that almost always delivers one. Not quite. Why? I ended up with Gisley as well. I know that maybe Colapinto strategy aided him a bit because Colapinto, he pit very early on. He went in on lap 14, whereas Gassley was out there for another 10 laps and starting from the pit lane and an Alpine.

I'm not sure what the expectations should have been. but yeah, Colopinto made more of this race than what Gasley could. It looked like, and it's not like this was against the trend of the weekend as well. It looked like Colopinto had the better of Gasly all throughout practice and qualifying two. So I'm going to go with Gasly, but he wasn't. He wasn't that bad. Like, it's just no DNFs. Big brain strat.

Uh, Bob, we're going to need you to box for wets. What? It's not even raining out. What are you talking about? You get a chance, let your team make. I get sold. Never. Big brain strat.

What have you got? I'm going for what I spoke about earlier, which is McLaren desperately tried to bait Max Verstaping a Red Bull, only for them to actually lose out on their own baiting. Max Verstappen appeared at the right map and execute the undercut, well, the overcut, I suppose, perfectly to keep landing ours behind. And that was pretty much the one opportunity that McClaron could have had to have gotten in front of the Red Bull. and they fluffed it.

Absolutely ruined their chances. So for me, terrible call from McLaren. Great call from Red Bull. My big brain strat is further back from where you're at. But there were a couple of viable strategies, if you were in the midfield today, to gain some positions. Option number one was do what Colapinto did. Now, I appreciate Colapinto hasn't scored points or anything,

but he is in an Alpine, and he still did benefit from pitting on lap, on lap 14, to go on to the medium tires as well, at which point David Croft on Sky Sports College, oh, he's doing a two-stop. No, these tires will last forever. He'll do a one-stop. How can you go from saying the soft tires are more robust

to say that he can't get to the end on medium tires from them? Like, where's the logic there? Yeah, so I thought that strategy was viable. The other strategy that was viable was what Carlos Sines did, which is be the last person to pit and therefore go all the way from 18th to 10th. both strategies work really well, which are the two strategies

that Esteban Ocon has deployed all year. Not today. This was the one race where Hasse pit Esteban Ockon in the middle of the race. Oh, God. Hars are so good at strategy.

They're so good at it. It's just really funny. I think it was lap 30 of 62. They pit Ockon. And Ockon could have done the same thing as signs, I'm pretty convinced. The way they've called it, every season. We should pit in the first 10 laps, that'll get them. Or we should pit on the last

five laps. That'll get them. Not today. And yet, this is the one that might have worked out. So that is our big brain strap, folks. Let us know if you think we've missed anything on there. And also on Driver of the Day and Worst Driver of the Day, is there someone who deserved a nomination that didn't get one? Give us a shout. We're going to take our second break on this episode. On the other side, we're going to be getting more into the Ferrari versus Antinelli battle. Welcome back, everyone. We've already discussed one of the Mercedes drivers, that being George Russell, taking the race win.

Now, the last time that Russell took the race win, Antonelli joined him on the podium in third place. Not to be today with Antearni needing to make an overtake on quite late on, not quite as late on as what the Sky Sports duo thought it was, but yeah, needed to get that overtake done on Shao LeClau, makes it happen for P5. How will he come away from this weekend? I think he'll be a little frustrated.

I think this race was all right from Kimi Antigelli. And if you know what, if this is an all right race for Kimi Antigli in his rookie season, finishing fifth behind the two title protagonists, Max Verstappen, the issue being, though, that the going front of all of them is his teammate, George Russell. If George was anywhere in that gap that wasn't first,

you look at this ago, that's respectable. This 19-year-old is finishing a couple of spots behind race-winger, a regular race winner George Russell holding his own, but Russell wasn't just winning this race. He was so comfortably out front. And that is, again, the problem that we've had so many times with a kind of a, not necessarily was a rookie, but, you know, a driver that's maybe new to a team

where their teammate is really off down the road. He was unlucky with the start as well. He, you know, got caught up behind what was going on with the McLaren's in front and the stabbing. And the Claire had the better lying around the outside, which we've seen already affect multiple people negatively, Hamilton, including who was the other car involved in this kind of three-way fight that was going on. He got a little unlucky at the end.

The brakes on the McLeod, on the Ferrari's rather going, means that he was able to essentially scamper through. Hamilton's quite literally broke, and Leclair was dealing with brake problems. It meant that he was able to recover from any issues. But it's the raw pace for me that was a big of a problem in comparison to his teammate. I don't feel like he was being held up by Leclair for the whole Grand Prix, only at the start.

I feel like he was really trying to get past him. And the gap started to grow. He fell out of DRS. It became kind of one and a half, two seconds, three. So good race, solid. Nothing particularly special. I think because of that, I think Kimmy will be frustrated,

considering where Georg is. I think there will be frustration. I think there'll be a few emotions, but frustration is one of them because I think there was more on the table than what he was able to deliver. My instinct here is that he was quicker versus Russell than he was at Canada,

even though he got the podium at Canada and he was fifth place here. I think all the way throughout practice, even throughout the early parts of qualifying, there was nothing to choose between them. And I think you could make the case that Antonelli was actually quicker than Russell up until maybe Q2 of qualifying.

It's a bad time to stop being fast-killing your team, mate. It sure is. And honestly, I don't even know if during the race, the start killed him. Like the start getting trapped behind either Ferrari, he just put himself in the wrong race. He wanted to be in that race, at least with the McLarence, ideally with Verstappen and Russell. And I'm actually really intrigued as to what he could have done.

I think he would have been in the mix. But ultimately with the how difficult he was to make overtakes here, particularly in the first half of the race where all tyre wear was the same, you know, we saw that. No one was really to make, the first overtake was maybe Bearman versus Album, but that was after Bearman had pit. Like, we didn't really see any overtakes after the first couple of corners throughout that first stint. Oh, first half of the race, all tire wears the same.

That sounds like something, oh, it sounds like a sprint race. We should do one of those next year here. Oh, ho! Sprints are pouring coming. Yeah. Yeah, so I think, I think Antonelli will be disappointed. I think he could have got in that fight without needing to deal with the Ferraris, but it's inexperienced.

And I think what you're talking about where he kind of fell off the back of Leclair, at least at one point, I think he was, and Hagell was guilty of this as well, maybe it's a rookie thing. They're almost like, they can stay within seven, eight tenths

of the car ahead, so they do. And it's not the best idea for them. Whilst it does put them in theory in a position to make an overtake if the car in front makes an error, if you had the pace to get by on a track like this, you'd have already done it. You just eat your tires up.

You just heat everything up and you lose your pace. You'll see it from the more experienced drivers on this grid. They all realise, I can't get the overtake done even if I think I'm a little bit faster. I might as well just drop back two seconds before. Ironically, Hamilton, a prime example of this. He was sat about 1.8 to 2.1 behind Dan Tengelli. And the moment there was any of your chance of getting closer,

you see him Griff right back up to DRS again. And then he goes back a second because you've got to call your car. I've got a Ferrari need to work on that. I can't laugh at them in a minute. But yeah, there's still much to learn. But I do think there are some real positive sides for Antigna over the last couple of Grand Prix. He has stepped forward since that awkward middle period of this season

where he looked like he was struggling. And I think the car caused him to struggle. But I think it's coming back. I definitely think it's coming back. I think these two races have been his best back-to-back races so far this year. You could argue maybe Canada was better than Baku or Canada was better than here, sure. But I think in terms of a one-two hit,

like I think this is the best we've seen from him. I'm with you. It'd be interesting to see what he can do in the remainder of the season. Obviously, the Mercedes made a lot of changes to the car to try and take it away from the wrong direction. They've gone down in the summer. So maybe that's helping Antonelli quite a lot as he looks to resign with Mercedes as we go into next year.

Ferrari, I'll be real. I don't know where Hamilton's going to finish this race just based on the investigation into what... I don't think he'll care either. I do not think he'll care because how are the brakes broken? How has this happened? It's Ferrari. Yeah.

It's just the most laughable thing. All to play for tomorrow, their social media posting is they qualify sixth and seventh. Not quite all. Not quite all. That's how the points are rewarding, Ferrari. The worst parties, I was going to come on this podcast initially and commend them for how good an idea it was to put him on that soft tire because it was working. It was actually working. He caught the clerk very quickly.

He was a rocket on those soft tires. Caught the clear. They did the right thing. They quickly swapped the cars around. Good job. Get them out of the way fast. You see the clerk, three, four seconds behind at that point. Good move.

He catches Antingelli. Their wheel to will. Oh, my goodness me. Ferrari, it pulled out a blinder. Where it comes to strategy, he will beat him a mistake. No, no, no, no, no. Because the car is made of actual paper mache, and apparently it can't last a normal Grand Prix anymore.

Because if one thing is fixed, you know, whether that be the suspension, the floor, the board on the bottom of the plank, you know, we got that song again, the other brakes don't work. How? How are you doing this Ferrari? It's, I think strategically what they did made sense. I was ready to criticise them earlier on in the Grand Prix because I felt that one team and one driver could take the advantage of essentially this unfolding into two Grand Prix. You had the top seven and then everyone else. Yeah. Whoever was like seventh had the opportunity to just go really long on that first stint because they knew that as soon as they came in for fresh tires, they weren't going to have to overtake any of these midfield runners.

They'll still be clear of them. So I was ready to be critical of Ferrari because I felt like they could have done with that with Hamilton. But they still went with a similar strategy. They still went for that tire offset at the end of the Grand Prix. It was a good call. It looked like it was going to pay off. I feel bad for Hamilton here because he did what he needed to do in qualifying to out-qualify Lecler, which is no mean feat.

It's not something he's done very regularly this year, which puts him on the wrong side of the grid. And ultimately, he would have been better off, probably, being out-qualified by his teammate. Kind of stuck from there and then to cap it all off is breaks fail. And it's difficult to comment too much on the brakes failing because we didn't see any of it. all we saw was this spark come out of his front left tire, which evidently the brakes have gone. I'm assuming all he's done is he's driven around the racetrack at about 40 miles an hour and just coasted over every curb possible

to get around the corners without any major problems. The gap to Alonso at that point was 41 seconds. It was six tenths at the line. He must have been at a scale of pace. You have to argue really that he should have been retired from the Grand Prix. Well, that's going to be the question, I think, for the stewards. Like the track limits things like that's a bit more black and white. Like if he's had to cut corners to get around,

then you give however many five second penalties he deserved. Although you'd argue he didn't gain any advantage. I mean, yeah, but that's how it works, isn't it? Yeah. But yeah, I think the bigger question is whether he should have been in the position to cut those corners at all and whether Ferrari should have shut this thing down. For me, that was a safely risking. For example, when the front wing is hanging off, you get caught.

You get the meatball flag. You come on in. and you're told to change that front wing through danger of another, if there is a sudden crash in the wall and Hamilton can't hit the brakes fast enough to get himself out of it and it hurts someone, that's a safety risk. Yeah, I mean, it's difficult to legislate, I appreciate because you could argue,

it's not just breaks are working, breaks are failed, there's a lot of middle ground that I think Hamilton was somewhere in the midst of, but I think there maybe should be some sort of rule of if you can't get within X percent of the race leader's time or something like that. The average grid time at this point, yeah, right? Yeah, yeah. They've got time on their hands. They can figure out exactly what it is.

But yeah, maybe something like that because you're right, it's a safety risk. And we don't want Hamilton's brakes to completely fail going into a heavy braking zone. And suddenly we have questions about should he have been out there? It's one thing for an incident like that to happen, but just randomly, and there's just no expectation it's going to happen. When there are probably a few people in the team going, should we pull it, should be, should be stopping here? Then it becomes.

Are you going to what, Ferrari? For what other four points it might be? What a waste of a championship winner that is? I think the awful thing for Ferrari outside of everything is the LeCler, when he was interviewed, was it after Baku, no, after Monza, sorry. And he was asked, you know,

what are your best chances of competing for the rest of this season? Two of the three tracks, I think he listed, were Baku and Singapore. They've been nowhere. No, they nearly got lapped. You know, Russell would not lap. So just, just managed to not get to him.

They were less than 30 seconds away for being lapped. I mean, for a Ferrari in the top ten, that's atrocious. And not from the dominant car of the season either. that's really poor. Can I have a mini rant about something that somewhat relates to Ferrari here? I would love you too.

I love a Ben Run. So you know the last couple of laps that we just didn't get to see? None of it at all. Alonzo catching Hamilton. We didn't have any idea how much Hamilton was struggling. Even before this point, the race direction today was woeful. It was awful. So many overtakes.

No, not shown. Well, that's the thing. There were barely any overtakes to begin with in this Grand Prix. And we missed everyone that happened. Yeah. Like the Antonelli one, we just got on board at the time it was happening. It was hard to go if he ever actually got a move down. I don't even really know how it happened.

Yeah, there was one that happened like in the side-by-side sort of box. The first one that happened, Behrman versus Albin, like literally the only overtake of the first half of this Grand Prix. I still haven't seen it. I don't know. People are raving about it. I don't know what's happened. Dove up the inside of him. But yeah.

Right. Well done. Yeah. I just thought the rest direction was really bad today. It's usually Monaco that is the poor raised direction. This was woeful. What about that midfield battle? So Alonzo has ended up with at least four points here,

maybe more depending on what happens with Lewis Hamilton. Behrman, Carlos Seines, both in the points as well. Very different ways of getting there, you would say, across those three drivers. But what did you make of that fight? I thought all three of them were fantastic. I'm actually gutting for Hagjar, who, as we mentioned earlier, finishes 11.

because despite his ailing car, I thought he had a brilliant Grand Prix as well. I thought for a fight for measly one, two, four points, they put up a real effort here. Alonso, he can't get it right, can you? In terms of the way his race unfolds, it's not his fault the way it went, but the pit stop wasn't perfect.

They get stuck behind Lank Stroll's train. Now, do you think that Lankstroll was left out intentionally to back those cars up towards Alonso? Or was it just, hey, I'm Lankstroll. I've never got up here. Honestly, it could be either. They probably didn't have much to lose at that point, but yeah, you could say it helped him out, so it might have been intentional.

Maybe. Aloxus pace was sensational, and I do think that there is one of those Grand Prix where he was never going to be able to really compete with the cars in front. The Aston Martin just isn't there, and the way the track unfolded for him, it just wasn't suiting him. But he was so far ahead of absolutely everyone else involved. Berger and Sites, on the other hand, they got to their points in completely different ways. I recommend Carlos Sites.

After being disqualified in qualifying both his him and his teammate, look where they ended up, the difference between them. I was amazed by Carlos Sikes. I'm very pleased I kept in my fantasy team. Very happy. Me too. Yeah. A lot of patience from Carlos Sines to get that result.

Yeah, exactly that. It didn't look like that was going to be points for nearly all of this Grand Prix. And they just, they stuck with that strategy. He kept those tires alive very well. Something he struggled with a little bit towards the beginning of this. this year and then took full advantage of those soft tires in a way that a couple of other drivers didn't. Like Lawson had a very similar strategy. Couldn't get near him. Yeah, yeah. Couldn't get near him. I mean, all for a point, which is a real shame, but we did say this about them in the preview,

but actually, whilst Williams were going to struggle here a little bit, I knew they wouldn't struggle as much as they were talking about. They thought they might be the ninth fastest car. They deployed a fantastic strategy. Sites was so cool and calm and collected. They executed that strategy exactly how it should have been. Maybe he could be a Beerman or a perfect day, maybe. But, you know, a point out of all that, not too shabby. Yeah, I echo your thoughts. I thought all three were great.

Alonzo, even with the bad luck, he made the most that he possibly could out of this Grand Prix. There aren't any more points he could have got from today. And, you know, the fact that he was still in the conversation for overtaking Bayerman and overtaking these other drivers, pretty impressive. Behrman, I thought, was very good. He was helped out a little bit as a result of the slow pit stop of Alonzo and then Hadjar also having those engine issues because he could effectively perform an overcut on Hadjar,

which is obviously very rare at this type of circuit. But he still made the most of it. Got an overtake done on Albon was then a little bit more stuck as he came up to, I think it was Carlos Sines and then a couple of other drivers in front of him. And I think that's probably what cost him eighth place to Fernando Alonzo here is that Alonzo made the most of his medium tires. And it was a very aggressive call, by the way, from Aston Martin to go soft to medium. But I think it was the right one. Whereas Hasse, Bayman couldn't quite get the most from his hard tires when they were at their best to the point where when Alonzo was on the back of him, he was able to take advantage.

So maybe one or two more clinical overtakes from Behrman and this is a perfect day from him. but still good points at your first ever Grand Prix here. This is a classic case of if Pirelli had just stretched the way the tires work a little more, we could have a really interesting Grand Prix. If the hard tires could go on for a finity lapse but were quite a bit slower, but those soft ties, if you were to do a two or three stock with maybe soft, soft, medium, or just medium to hard, I really think you could have had one of those converging grand prix here today. It was one of those races that never quite got there, I feel.

Yes, yeah. And part of it is, at least out front, is Max Verstappen. And I don't blame Max Verstappen. He's doing what he can do to score as many points as possible. If one of those McLaren's is second or third after the first corner of the first lap, maybe we get a barnstormer similar to what we had a few years ago when there was a battle for the lead very late on. I think entirely possible. But yeah, yeah, that's the way it unfolded. really review our bold predictions. I'm in favour of just skipping one. You know, we can break tradition. Well, I would do, but Harry has specifically message to say, like, you must do bold predictions today. Unfortunately, he's not here to collect his crown, but he was wrong, so it doesn't matter anyway.

Zing! Harry Ead said that there would be five different constructors in the top five. There were three constructors in the top five, which if you're counting folks is literally the smallest number you can have in a top five. Yeah, I guess it'll work like that. Yeah, unlucky, Harry.

My, if I could do a graph of mine, and this is a slightly visual reference, folks, my bold prediction was that Fernando Alonzo would score a podium. After FP1, where he was first, I was up here, and then he was fourth in FP2. I'm like, that's still pretty good.

And then whatever they did to the car overnight didn't really work, so it got even worse from there. he gets to Q3 but isn't in the mix with the top guys and I thought well it's going to have to be a crazy Singapore GP for him to get in the mix now and it just wasn't he was very good here this weekend but that car wasn't quite as good as I thought it might be well yours was definitely more optimistic and closer than mine because yuki singoda was going even close to meeting max for staff qualifying sealed it didn't it oh what I'm just so annoyed at yuki I want him to do well it's so

frustrating to see him every single race week. Something goes wrong. Six more chances to get it right, UK. It's, yeah, this one might have sealed it. I don't know. The thing is, his pace in the Grand Prix, I thought was okay. Like, he had to pull off quite an aggressive strategy based on where he stopped. The start was horrible for him. He dropped like three spots on the start, despite being on the better side of the grid, I think. But he managed to. He managed to. He was horrible for him. He dropped like three spots on the start, he managed it all right from there. Like, he was quite comfortably clear of other drivers on the same strategy in the midfield, which I appreciate is not where he should be anyway.

But when you're qualifying outside the top 10 at Singapore, you're going to have a tough time. Look, if Sikes could get up to P-Teng, starting from behind him, realistically, he should have been fighting for that last point. He should have been beating Hachar when he was struggling with that engine, for example. Yeah. So no points for Yuki-Sinoda, I'm afraid. and no points for us on bold predictions. What's new?

Right, let's take our final break on this episode. On the other side, it's Moment of the Race. Back to the final part of today's review of the Singapore GP, and it's time for Moment of the Race. Now, we do have some Discord submissions coming up very shortly, but before we do that, we have our own moment of the race. Sam, what have you got? I'm going nice and easy.

It's theolog to Hageau battle for me. It was pretty much the only proper battle that we got. And whilst for annual, so team radio reaction was sensational. It was actually great to see some brilliant wheel to a racing around Singapore. So that's going to take it for me. What about you, Ben? It's team radio galore.

Yeah. Either of the Alonzo team radios could make it. And I won't spoil the other one in case it comes up with another moment of the race. Just because I think it has a chance of winning an award at the end of the season, I'm going to give my moment of the race to something else, which is just the perfect encapsulation of Ferrari season, which was Lewis Hamilton, whose brakes have completely failed,

having to let Charles LeClair past him on the start-finish straight, only for Charles LeCleur's dodgy brakes to mean he goes too far off, and he doesn't make the corner. Still keeps it. It's just, that was Ferrari's race and Ferrari season. That, in a nutshell. How'd you get this wrong? I can't, I can't, I can't. Let's move on.

Three seconds of video, perfect. Yes, we do have some Discord submissions as well, of course. We'll be taking a look at these. We just get me a list. We're going to start with uncommon hoodlum, who is apparently above you, Sam, but I'm going to assume that just means that the message is above his message. Societely, it's above me.

Even though he is an uncommon hoodlum. Let's hear from him. You know, hoodlum here, my moment of the race was 20 laps after Antonelli passed Leclair. When we finally saw a replay of Antinelli passing Leclair, keep breaking late. I was so confused by that as well. I had to realize we were being showing a replay to start with.

I was like, wait, they aren't close to each other. How is, what's happening? And then, yeah, it's just such a poorly organized race. Neither did the commentary team. And I'm now watching, like, no, no, that's not what they mean, no. You're morons, you're morons. Yes, very good shout. Next up is, well, we've got a written one here, which is fairly rare, but it was quite funny from spicy pastry.

So it is worth reading this out. Spicy Pastry's moment of the race. Can't talk because sleeping baby. I'm not sure if that's because I'm sleeping baby or spicy pastry as a sleeping baby. Probably the second of those two. But my moment was Hamilton setting both the fastest and slowest laps of the race. Oh, that boy will be slow, Ferrari for you. Yes, he'd be quick, but then he'd be slow.

We've got a first timer next, and we love first timers here. It's Tad. Longtime listener, first I'm submission. My moment of the race is all of Fernando Alonzo just going scorched earth on Hamilton and the entire world. Yeah, fair enough. I don't think anyone's been as unhappy to get an eighth place as Alonzo has. that man is so angry this season

so angry this entire race it was hot out there bless him right we've got and I don't like saying it but it is his discord name so Inferno Jimapoor Jimola's better Inferno Jimola here

from turn 9 turn 10 Singapore my moment of the race was Alonzo's ridiculously sideways move on Hajah incredible bit of drama between McLaren, glad that they weren't too ridiculous. Singapore is amazing. You should visit if you can.

Love you, bye. Feel free to fly us out there, Jimula. Cheers, Jimola. Another good shout. I will say the sideways moment as he's about to shape up the overtake. I think he might have been going for style points there. I don't. It's an Alonzo move, isn't it?

My guy, he's 10 out of 10 in all categories. So fair. Yeah. Up next, we've got Dude Reimbolt. What's up, late breakers? My moment of the race is watching McLaren's incompetence, Phil Oscar Piastri with rage, pain and anger as he slowly turns to the dark side.

Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to Ferrari. Ferrari leads to suffering. I mean, all of those are true. Very correct. Thank you, Dean, Roan. Do you imagine like a Darth Moore-esque, Oscar Piastri You know

Got the The painting face With the spikes on the head Yeah yeah yeah I went as that once For like Halloween At like six years old My dad painted my entire face

It's great More a dressing gal With my robe Dressed up as that as Halloween It was a 2023 I think it was last year maybe Hey great costume Don't mind that whatsoever

Pick up Dathmore We've got a return Of real dad We haven't heard real dad for a while Here he is. Moe of the race from real dad. Stroals Pitwall telling him that Bulta was ahead on old tires and him coming back saying,

yeah, mine feel like a hundred laps old. Oh boy. Over and out. Only me today. James is on a school trip in India. Love the podcast, guys. Join the Patreon. Bye.

James has seen more of the world than I will ever see. He's like 14. I hope you're having a great time, James. Enjoy India. Yeah. That may be... Yeah. My tires are old.

Guy just not help himself, does he? I've complained about Lance Stroll quite a bit on the podcast over these last few weeks, but he is forgiven for that line. That was so funny. Why are you telling him this? Right. Tim JKN-955 is next. Catchy. Alonso calling himself as hero as the race

before he became hero of the race, what a drive. Manifesting. There was some debate as to what he. meant by that, I suppose, wasn't there? Yes, I didn't know if he meant himself or Hajjar. Both are entirely plausible. Yeah. It was sarcasm if it's about Hajjar, right?

Surely it's like, get out my way. Yeah, for sure. Who have we got next? I have to go a little bit further down till we find, even more catchy, LJ 13769 and another first-timey. The first time, long time, whatever. My moment of the race, I'm not a stroll fan, but I thought both the Aston Martins were exceptional, especially Alonzo.

But McLaren, with these fake stops, they need to finish. It's really annoying me now. Cut it out. Understand that. Everything's a silly little game to McLaren. It is. And that might be my new moment of the race, actually, is your submission with first time, long time, whatever. Fair. Yeah.

have we got time for any more? Of course we do. We've got time from Georgia, from Georgia. My mom another race, other than Sassio radio messages, there wasn't really anything to watch. So, I mean, it was being on the Discord and watching all the late breaking puppies and accidentally sharing a picture of my breakfast and watching everybody lose their minds on McLaren, because, you know, that's fair. Georgia, you have the most wonderful accent in all of the world. Brilliant accent. Yeah, and you know what? makes a brilliant accent even better when you plug in the late breaking Discord.

Smooth. You can only say more beautiful words if you're talking about the Patreon. Speaking of, I reckon it's time for us to get out of here after that moment of the race. Let us know, as always, if you're late, obviously, we're not going to play them out anymore, but still let us know if you have a moment of the race that hasn't popped up so far. We're going to be back midweek, Sam. Not for an F1 preview, I'm afraid, but there's still going to be good F1. chat.

Loads of F1 chat. Maybe a little game to come your way, maybe a little bit of old debate about what's going on in the world of F1. Maybe we'll hear from our dear leader to find America Carly, who knows. Thank you, Ben, for saluting

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