The Late Braking F1 Podcast - 2026 British GP Race Review

Episode Date: July 5, 2026

For the first time since October 2024, Charles Leclerc is a Formula 1 race winner! The LB boys discuss Ferrari’s return to the top step, how Antonelli’s pole position joy quickly turned into a point-less weekend, and why the decision not to restart the race after Verstappen’s trip through the gravel proved so controversial... Get involved in F1 Fantasy this season! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join the Late Braking league⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and see if you can beat us... LEAGUE CODE: C6Y6R4ZUY02 Want more Late Braking? Support the show on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and get:Ad-free listeningFull-length bonus episodesPower Rankings after every raceHistorical race reviews& more exclusive extras!Don't forget! You can also gift a Late Braking Patreon subscription—perfect for loved ones or your own wish list. Choose anything from 1 month up to a full year of top-notch F1 content: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/latebrakingf1/gift⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Connect with Late Braking:You can find us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠X (Twitter)⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Come hang out with us and thousands of fellow F1 fans in our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Discord⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ server and get involved in lively everyday & race weekend chats!Join our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠F1 Fantasy League⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and see if you can beat us!Get in touch any time at [e-mail]  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Thank you for listening to the Late Breaking F1 podcast. Make sure to check out new episodes every Wednesday and every Sunday. A very warm welcome to the late breaking F1 podcast presented by Harry Ead, Sam Sage, and me, Ben Hocking, reviewing of course, today the British Grand Prix, a slightly different review from us because we are fresh off of the track that we were at. We were at Silverstone. I wouldn't say fresh. Yeah, fresh.

I was stinky off the track. I was going with it, all right? Don't tell them. Sorry, mate. Sorry. We are hot, we are sticky. The bus was an inferno on wheels. It took forever to get back.

And now we're immediately doing a review. I can't believe it. It doesn't seem right that this is the first time in our friendship, in our podcasting years, that we have been to a British Grand Prix together. Yeah, it is quite bizarre. But how did it? We decided to go big for our first one together

and went to Austin, then did it three times. Yes. And then finally went to the one that's... down the road, yeah. Very happy to be bringing you this review today, of course. Before we start, a massive thank you to everyone that we saw around the track. And thank you for coming up and saying hello and having a chat with us. It's always an absolute pleasure and a privilege to talk to you when we can get out to a track.

And the kind comments that you have about the show, why you listen, how you listen. It's really great to hear. And that feedback is massively appreciated by all of us. We just love our egos being inflated. It is the most surreal thing in the world to actually meet someone that listens to you regularly. And they go, yeah, you make me laugh. And I'm like, no, don't be silly. That's what.

That's not true. Favorite one from today. And I've already found the name of the kind man that came up to us. But him and his son said that, well, he said that his son liked the show from a few years ago because Sam said once that Perez was a poo. And you know what? And then we got him hooked. You're in. The other thing I wanted to bring up.

is, and this will lead us of course nicely into our lead topic today, is that we seem to be something of a good charm for Ferrari and indeed Charle-le-le-le-Clure. Unless I'm wrong here, the last time before today that Charles LeCleur won, we were there for in Austin two years ago. Yeah, fair. And we're here today to witness Charle-le-le-le-beating George Russell into the win. Third place went to LeCleur's teammate, of course, Lewis Hamilton. So second on the grid to first in the first.

the race. Pretty impressive stuff from a man who needed it. McCleur, more than anyone, I think, in that top four or five needing a proper result. He was downing out against his teammate, five in a row. He had lost to Lewis Hamilton the first time since Sebastian Vettling, 21st, that that happened to him. And it didn't look good at the start of the weekend either. Sprint qualifying went the way of Hamilton. The sprint race comfortably with the way of Hamilton. And then he started to turning around. He's beggaring the main qualifying comfortably as well across all three sessions. And then when the race gets underway, it looks as though Hamilton can't really ever

muster up a proper challenge to go against Charlotte Clare. And that's what he needs. He's stated so many times that he hasn't got the feel of the car. He's uncomfortable. He's not sure what's going on. It's confusing. He bounces back and he gets his first ever British Grand Prix win. It felt like something was missing and maybe he found it today.

Yeah, I agree. You were saying this as we left the track earlier, that to start that race when it looked started to pull away from Hamilton, they were like, oh, there's actually something here. This isn't just a good start and then he falls back. Yeah. And whilst, you know, there was a bit of good luck along the way for Charlotte Claire, he had some great pace this afternoon. We spoke about this a lot in the qualifying review.

Didn't get involved in any early scraps. He went off and just led. And that really did help him. But it wasn't quite the same way as maybe as like in Austria with Russell. but he led from the front for the whole race, basically. So, yeah, the only time we didn't was when Antenegos decided to stay out until the next decade. But I will get on to Bono and Ancinelli and their hate love of pit stops. Back and forth, going.

They are playing effort. Back of four. No. I want a box. No. Now come in. No, I'm going to stay out. Sight out loud.

Toto's in, like, heads in hands. What are you doing, man? Just win the race. I love how we've only got a few minutes in and we've already got the first Toto impression. It was good. We're going strong. I just want to heat praise on Charles LeClerc, because heaven knows that don't have the

opportunity to do it often these days. As mentioned, he'd been searching for a win for over 18 months at this point, nearly two years. And the way in which he dictated that Grand Prix was really impressive. He needed a good start from second place on the grid, not only to get ahead of Kimmy Antonelli, but also to hold off Lewis Hamilton, who also had a very good. start. And we know it's not a massively long run down to term one at Silverstone, but he still made the most of it, managed to get that lead. And as you've already referenced, what I said,

when we left the track, it was the way in which he not only grabbed that lead, but then was able to extend in a very calm and collected way that we haven't seen from really Lecler or indeed Ferrari earlier on in the year as well. And I know the Ferrari is a much improved car than what we saw, certainly in the first six races or so. But we've seen LeCler lead Grand Prix this year. But it always felt like, okay, when's it going to happen? When are the Mercedes going to catch up? When is LeCleur going to lose this lead?

It didn't feel like that, at least anywhere near as much today. And he must have been very thankful for the Antonelli and Hamilton squabble that was going on behind that would allow him to extend that advantage out a little bit. So credit to Char LeClaire for finding something that he hasn't really been able to find all year long. And then the other reason I want to heat praise on him is what you mentioned about this being a sprint weekend. And so often we see, despite the fact that you can change your setup between the sprint race on Saturday and then qualifying later in the day, there isn't a lot of opportunity to get it right when you don't have it right to begin with. And we saw throughout

first practice and then throughout sprint qualifying and then throughout the sprint, he had a deficit it to Lewis Hamilton that we've seen routinely over the last five races or so. And it is very difficult to recover that when you don't have additional practice time. And yet we get to qualifying. He nails all three, you know, Q1, Q2 and Q3. We get to the race. He displays race pace that he wasn't able to show in the sprint. So, you know, two main reasons there why Lecler.

Who knows what would have happened with Antonelli. And we'll discuss that in a moment. He deserves respect nonetheless. should we speak about Antonelli given he started on pole. Not the first time this season, not the best start. Yeah. And he, I now think it's at that point that he is to blame for the poor starts.

You know, we've seen the Mercedes regularly going away comfortably as well as a Ferrari, hold on to Leeds, overtake people off the start now. It's not like we're going through Australia on repeat where we see Antingelli and Russell both drop five or six positions and have to make him. up throughout the Grand Prix.

This was poor from Anting Annie. And it did make his life much, much harder. It took him a bigger time to get past Hamilton. And as you were rightfully talking about, it looked like the gap between him and Unclear, sorry, was taking an age to come down. He was chipping away at it, you know, really slowly, grafting away.

I'll get there, I'll get there, I'll get there. And then the pit strategy happens. And the Claire goes early. He goes on to the hard tire. He stopped to do the kind of the longest thing later, in the second part of the race, whereas... Which is more conventional. Very normal.

Very normal. Antingelli and Bono, which will get onto properly and some detailing on it, decided to do the complete opposite, and the very opposite, a very odd strategy it felt like with the way the tyres were working. They ran well into the 30s, almost into the 40s of laps, to swap onto a gang, the hard tire. Because the conversation was going around that he might go to the soft.

Well, I just wanted to ask you on that. Do you think that Antonelli's strategy was kind of a bit pre-planned, if that situation was to come about, or was it a case of Hamilton and Vestap and we know and others were sort of dueling further back, kind of maybe slowing each other down a little bit, and therefore Antonelli could still sort of go back into that gap? Is that why that situation unfolded? It's definitely a contender for a reason why, and I'm sure it plays a part into their race strategy in their race program that they will have similar things.

Simulating is the thing I'm looking for. But equally, I think safety car plays a lot into it. We will regularly see safety cars appear in Silverstone. So that makes a key element. Also, the tyre drop off. We saw with several cars, even in the sprint race, that the tyres do drop off here. And I was wondering if they were trying to give Antingale a 10 to 12 lap offset,

but with an 8 to 10 second gap that he was then able to flat out for 18 to 20 laps, lap after lap after lap, close that gap down. But he also knows he only has one car to overtake. Exactly. Because he did the job in the first stint. And that opening stink, once he negated the poor start really came good for him.

It was able to kind of overcut the likes of Hamilton, Russell, Verstappen, Norris, all who are having their own problems of their own, Russell's got the slow puncture. Verstappen seemed he can't find the pace that he had and he sat there with his teammate for a long time. Hamilton gets a five second time penalty

for jumping to start. Someone is struggling elsewhere, Antingale is there to take advantage of it. I do believe that he would have won the Grand Prix hanging finished it. I tend to agree with you on that. I found like the Antonelli overtake on Lewis Hamilton was quite reminiscent of what happened in the sprint race.

It was sort of come in and coming out and then finally it happens. Of course, it was on the same tire that we had in the sprint as well, that medium compound, maybe a similar sort of stint length as well. It was looking like, of course, Antonelli didn't exactly follow through with that. And then as soon as he'd got past Hamilton, I thought then, okay, now the gap's really going to

come down to LeClair. And it did, but you're right, it was slow progress at first. I think it was maybe four and a half seconds or so by the time that he got by. And it kind of stabilized for a number of laps. It wasn't until the very end of that stint when maybe Ferrari's slightly worse tireware was starting to play into it, because that gap did come down to two seconds, two point five seconds. And at that point, that's where Ferrari pulled the plug at the side.

Okay, let's get LeClair in for his pitch. bitstop. I thought it was a very interesting decision from Mercedes to let Antonelli go as long as he did. I think it was a very brave call, but a very good call. I think it was working. Yeah. It was risky. It was different. They were playing a very interesting

strategy. I do think it was the right strategy. I think it was going to work out for them. We hang what, about 10 laps from the end, Dancing Ellie starts to come under these problems at 10 to 8 lads. Yeah, yeah. At that point, the gap had come down from about 10 seconds to about, I think it was about four seconds. Folks will have to

forgive the exact numbers. We were trying to watch. Yeah, we were trying to our best. There was a screen about 400 meters away that we're trying to see these intervals. So apologies if we're slightly out. But the gap was coming down massively. We could see that physically on the racetrack. But, you know, LeCler had a couple of corners.

And then a few laps later, LeCler only has one corner. And then a couple laps later, they're on the same bigger straight together. And you can physically see that gap coming down. He was closing in. And then the luck swings the way of the likes of George Russell. And Antigelli is once again struck with a reliability problem. It looks as though initially it might. like it being a suspension issue.

And then it was the east side wheel protector on the front left of his car, I believe, which meant that he was unable to steer. We saw him go off multiple times, handing a five second time penalty the amount of track extensions, even though, come on, let's face it. He's not gaining any time.

He's trying. He's trying to get a damaged car, a wounded car around the racetrack. And there's a real difference between, you know, cutting the corner to gaining advantage and just keeping it alive. Do you see that Lance Stroll picked up 21 track extensions today?

I mean, he's got to try something, right? He's got to go faster somehow, I mean. Yeah, I mean, but he didn't pick up a penalty is the reason why I bring that up because I think it was very aware from the FIA and the stewards that he wasn't gaining advantage. He was just struggling to maintain the car. That was Antingale. So I'm surprised that a penalty was a ministered, but it was. And it just got much, much worse for him for the rest of the Grand Prix.

But the clerk takes advantage of this. He did the hard work at the start of the Grand Prix, which meant that when Anting Ali does have a problem, he's already done the hard yard. He hasn't got to worry about fighting with a teammate, trying to scrap past someone else, having to do an undercut again. He's clear.

The gap ends up being about 21 seconds to Lewis Hamilton at that point. It's plain sailing. People are going to get sick of me saying this, but I'm going to keep saying it because I believe it to be true. And it doesn't sound right because this gap at the top of the championship

keeps coming down as a result of... 25 points. right now. Right. Keeps coming down. And yet, my confidence that Antonelli is winning this championship just goes up and up and up. And mathematically, that doesn't make any sense. But just the way in which this race unfolded, I really believe he would have won this. And I don't think it would have been that close. Even if everything else took place in exactly the same way, but Antingale doesn't retire. So he overtakes the Claire, let's say. Let's say he overtakes the Claire. Lecler is second, to Antigli's first, Bostappen still crashes.

We still have a safety car. Everyone pits the same way. Russell still ends up in P3, it's like a P2, and it's only a 10-point gain rather than a 18-point loss for Antingelli. The way that he drove this Grand Prix, even with Russell having the slow puncturing having to make that pit stop, even before then, the pace difference was stark. It was so clear that Antonelli had the upper hand on George Russell this weekend.

Yes. was Antonelli winning that one? Yeah, I think so. The pace he had towards the end of that race. And I'm not sure. I don't know. We saw how earlier on it was tough for him to get past Hamilton, but he still did,

and that was on the same amount of tire life. He had such a tire advantage. Approaching the back of Charlotte, Claire, that I think probably he was going to get that done relatively easily. But you never know it's, well, at least used to be tricky to overtake an F1 but still it still can be tricky so you can't say for certain it was

but it was looking pretty good before the wheel shield fell off. Not the wheel shield. Not the wheel shield. The worst. I was saying that I just think that even though that championship points gap

is coming down, Anonelli just keeps being really quick and it's, he's getting a lot of the bad reliability at the moment and to be fair, it was kind of roles reversed earlier in the season. I don't know, to me at the moment, it feels like the number one reason why Antonelli won't win this title is reliability. Yeah, and it's got to start to become a bit of a worry.

Obviously, like I said, Russell had it too. But it's now 2-1 on reliability issues to cause either retirement or bad results. It's going to play in the back of his mind for the remainder of the year because, you know, we're at the start of the year. Parts get older and more you. as we go along, maybe not wheel shields, but that's a bit of a rogue one.

But even so, it was, it's going to, it's going to play in his mind. I think with Antonelli at the moment, there is the, when there's a driver who was on like, top level,

superb form, I'm thinking like, Vastapin in the 22, 23, 24 season, Hamilton in the late teens, there's just an inevitability about them. Any race you watch, you'd go,

well, he's probably going to get him anyway, isn't they? And that's what Antonelli feels like at the moment. I think you're right. And that's a really good point. And the bit that always stands out to me about those two examples,

about Hamilton, about Vastafing, is if they are having a bad day, they will end up being second place, third place. Like the consistency is so key there for them that if a bad day is a bad day, they're still on the podium. When Russell had his poor form or reliability problems or something was going wrong with the car, Antignelly was winning the Grand Prix. That was his answer.

The other way around here is when Antingale has struggled with it in Barcelona and now here in Britain, Russell is nowhere to be seen and it's kind of got a little bit lucky with the way it's happened because both times, Antingelli has been in front of George Russell when this has happened, boosting him up. That late safety car in Silverstone

with his decision to stay out boosts him up to second place. It's been a little bit fortunate for him but he's not being in contention for a victory and I think that tells you the difference in where they are in overall pace in comparison to their team ring. Well, let's take her a quick break.

On the other side, we'll get into how this race ended. A bit of a controversial safety car decision. Welcome back, everyone. As we know, this race ended under safety car as a result of Max Verstapping going off at Stowe. And then ultimately, despite the fact that we thought we were going to get one racing lap,

we didn't quite, meaning that Charles LeClaire was able to go across the line at a relatively low speed with no danger of being overtaken in a one-lap shootout at the end. It was, I mean, we were at the track a little bit confused as to what was going on. And then maybe we learned that, no, it was kind of just confusing for everyone. This is an absolute disgrace

of an end of a Grand Prix. This is so badly communicated, so badly managed. And I don't really care what way you want to look at it. Whether you want to look at it in, or they followed safety protocols, great, but it was communicated so terribly that it was a disgrace.

Or they screwed up the protocols and therefore the race management was a discreet. race. Either way, the service to the fans in the sport was appalling. It took away what can be a really fascinating and fun end. If it was there for pure safety reasons, which it wasn't, then genuinely, I feel like they need to make that ultra clear to those watching. The fact that we, well, understand the race track a little confused, because if you've got been to an F1 race, like a racetrack, communication can be a little tough to come by. You know, you're listening to a tangaway commentary. It's a bit tough. The screen's quite far away.

it's hard to know what's going on specifically, which I get why it might be confusing for those people. But on the TV, if you're also struggling to understand, you've got full commentary team, graphics, multicam that you can choose from, and you still can't work out why this has happened. That's not good enough. This has not been good enough from the skewers,

from the management. And I believe it's because they essentially had a lapped car problem that meant that they had to go around again. But it's confusing and it's difficult to follow. and it means that we got a really, really disappointing into a Grand Prix. So really gutted. I'm really gutted that we didn't get to have a one-lap shootout.

I think it's really disappointing. What's your take on how it ended? Slight side note, and I'm in no way blaming this person, but potential confusion about lapped cars. Carlos Sons unlapped himself. Man wasn't a lap down. My man's taking the lead. That's how you win.

I see what you're doing, Carlos. Carlos is a winner. So they've given him a penalty of one lap. Has there ever been a one lap? I think it by a new one. Yeah, you get a lap. Wow.

I really respect that because could have fooled me. Yeah, we didn't know. Yeah. Yeah, this is, it's once again Formula One over like complicating and mismanaging their own rule book or their own rule book

being far too over complicated because by the letter of the law, yeah, they did. actually did this right and as total wolf has already said we should do that in 2021. Let's get into that though. Yeah, let's now break down. No. But, yeah, so theoretically they did, or they actually did follow this right.

The safety car ending message, it turns out was that was an error, like a systems error. But why is that not a manual thing anyway? It's a pretty bad error. That feels like that should be a human being crossing the button. But the reason being that they'd only just let the lap cars through and they're supposed to have one lap before then you go racing. Fine, but you've let the lap car

through. Like, manual override this. You can get going. Two words. Common sense. Yeah, and they're just none. It's just like, but I think they're a bit scarred from things like Abidabee, not to keep going back to that, but things like that, they're like, now we've got to do it by the book, otherwise we're going to be massacred.

But Abadabie wasn't, I mean, it was because they didn't do it by the book. It was horrific, but again, more common. But common sense, again, but there was no, there was no common sense there. So it's, they've shot themselves in the foot by their own complicated rules. And it was, it was a real anti-climax of a, of a race. What was, you know, it wasn't a classic, but there was some good bits and it was really building up towards the end. And that last lap shoot at, it may well have just stayed the same result anyway, but at least we would have got to see it. It's just a shame. The fans, we were in the stands, obviously.

A lot of people were unhappy. Apparently you could hear the booze on the broadcast. Oh, interesting. how should it have been played? Like, how would that have been played out differently? Mr. Harry Ead was in charge and not going round on a Lego car like the actual person in charge. We'll get on to that.

Anyway. You will get on to that. The whole, again, the whole thing's so slow. The great marshals at Silverstone because we could see if Sapp and Scar being taken off. It wasn't in the barriers just in the gravel. So they just picked it up. Gone.

I think, so the incident was like 48. I think by the end of lap 49, going to 50, Vestappen was cleared out. We've got three laps in total, 50, 51, 52. Fine, at that point, go, lapped cars can go. As long as everything safe,

but it was, we could see with their own eyes, it was safe. So you get the lap cars done then, and you've still got at least two laps to sort everything out. It's just, things are so slow. And I remember it was a couple years ago with spa.

Was it last year in Spa? We had that rain delay at the start of the race. Oh, yes, we did. It took forever to get the race going so long that it basically dried out before the race started. Yeah, yeah. It's all of the same stuff. It just take everything so by the book and slow.

It needs common sense, like you say. I don't think there was any reason why we couldn't get one racing lap in at the end. Even if you say that two was ambitious, whatever, one should have been, should have been in place. And yeah, it's just confusing how we're in this spot, again, talking about rulemaking. as not being agile enough when it comes to making these decisions.

I don't know about you, but when Vastappan went off, and we'll talk about the Vastappan side of that in a moment, when he went off, I don't think anyone thought, that's race over. We all turn to each other. We say, I reckon there's a couple lapsing it.

I don't, I didn't think at that point, we're not going to get going again. He wasn't in the barrier. He'd just, he'd gone off, obviously, quite deep into the gravel, but it hadn't gone into the barrier. I thought, it's going to be a full-course safety car.

It's not going to be a VSC in this instance, as was the case earlier on with Nico Holkenberg. But even though it will be a full-course safety car, I don't think there was really much doubt in my mind. There was going to be a racing lap at least. And on that, I want to applaud the stewards because they got that car cleaned up and moved out so quickly. They got that digger out there.

It picked it up quick. And we could see it. If we turned to our right from Vale, we could see up the hill to Stowe. And we could see the car being taken behind the barrier. And there was definitely a couple of laps. They definitely could have let the lap cars through a lap earlier than they did. And they definitely could have just had common sense and let the lap cars go half a lap in front.

And just get on with it. Because if we're being really honest, they're lap cars, they're not fighting for points. I don't care if they're half in a lap or if they've caught up at the back or if there's only four corners in front. I'm not bothered. Just focus on the point scorers at that point. It's a real shame. Maybe a team that didn't think, or at least thought there was a chance we wouldn't get underway, was Mercedes, decided to leave George Russell out there

on some rather old, worn medium tires, potentially threats from those behind who would have been on new softs, who did decide to take the pit stop. Ultimately, it worked out very well for Mercedes. You understand why they went with the call? Yeah, I've totally worth a gamble for Mercedes because what were they going to lose there?

Realistically, if the race did restart, he falls back down in his one or two laps. He falls back to where he was anyway. he might maybe does go one further but I think at that point it was worth the risk given the amount of time he had left in the race so and it worked out worked out perfectly for him so uh applaud it's for Mercedes on on that one yeah and it very much helps george russell when it comes to the championship um well yeah what did you make of you know russell's race as a whole but then also the the way in which Mercedes handled that yeah russell's pace not amazing not bad well amazing and And he is again called up in the melee of the fight behind the leading battle, that fourth through to seventh brigade, rather than realistically the first through to third brigade, which he would want to be much closer to.

He manages to scamper free a little bit, and he's trying to chase down Lewis Hamilton, and then he gets that message, of course, slow puncture. And it's funny, at that moment, he ends up going faster, right? He ends up pushing the car. Yeah, he was looking pretty threatening. He was. And you think, oh, he's just starting to get into the Grand Prix.

He really was almost at his best moment the moment the slow puncture was called. Now, I understand that when you've got a slow puncture, even though he's decided to attack that lap, you have to come in because you don't know if a stone, a bigger curb, will tear that tire, and then you'll have to do the whole lap at almost a walking speed and everything just goes down the toilet. It becomes a waste of time for you. So, pulls off into the pits.

He's playing a recovery game. Now, at that point, he is stuck behind the likes of Vestappen, who he's fighting with. He's got Norris in the picture as well. it's Hajar is obviously there and thereabouts. It's tricky for him to start working his way back through. But it looks all right. It looks all right.

I do think that things in the championship, the blocks of those pieces have started to fall his way a little bit. And I think he does get quite lucky that one, Antingelli goes out. And then two, if they have sat there in their strategy garage and the say he's said, we're not going to go green again. And they've told Georgian not come in for that intentional reason, blinder. absolute blinder. If they've done it on a whim

and hoped, fair enough, because you prayed to the right racing gods today. Somewhere in the middle, maybe. Most likely. Yeah. What about Max Verstappen? Chasing down Lewis Hamilton, trying to get a podium out of this race,

pushing a little bit too hard, maybe going into the gravel. He's had a couple of incidents. We know that he seems to have, or that Red Bull seems to have an issue when it comes to straight line mode, which then I feel quite important, to be honest. Yeah, it's a weird one.

Again, I think they're suggesting it's the same issue. Yeah, yeah. Well, it's the same end result, but a different problem. Oh, that's even worse. That's even better. Good. They came up with a solution for the Austria one,

which Max commented on and said it's fine. Then this has happened, but the result of it is the same issue. Unfortunately, you don't need straight line mode at Belgium that we're going to next. Famously not. Yeah. Yeah, for Max, this is,

it was a, I think, frustrating race. He didn't, he wasn't happy after qualifying yesterday. Wanted to just start from the pits because I thought that would be better than the way in quarter of them. They didn't do, didn't they? I thought it was pretty good.

Yeah, yeah, some good moments during the GP. And I think it was that middle, I know he stopped early, but I thought was maybe he was actually going to two stop anyway. I, I don't think he was going to catch Hamilton at the end. It wasn't catching. him at enough of a rate.

He was going though. Oh, he was flying. I agree. I don't think he'd have got there. I don't think you would have got there. But also, I don't think the car was fast in the Ferrari anyway. So he was giving it a proper effort. Well, the fact that he's even doing, like, that was even a possibility.

Yeah. So, yeah, don't blame him for the crash. It's, Max Fassapen doesn't tend to do that, not two weekends in a row. It's not his fault. It's a car issue. And I also want to shout out the group of Vastappen fans sat in front of us that took it, like absolute chance as well. Man, they were, they took it.

They were lovely. very well. They were really lovely. They just turned and said, well, he's going into the Lando stand now. Yeah, he's got a pot of a t-shirt and have a good time. And they were surrounded by Hamilton fans and Norris fans and they kind of just shrugged it off and moved on. Fair play to you guys, because it can be a tough one. I wanted to give for Stappen some credit as well, because he overturned the qualifying loss that he had to had job very early on in this race. He did. And then kind of went about his business after that. Being able to see it up close, And we've seen this in Austin as well when it comes to Vestappan.

And I know sometimes the way in which he goes racing, particularly defensively, can be flirting with the borderline of what is acceptable. My man knows the rule book. His car placement is exceptional. Like we saw that today with some of the defensive work, again, because he stopped quite early. He was having to defend it. Yeah, Russell Hamilton behind him, right? Yeah. And the way in which, and again, folks that I don't remember, we were.

at Vale. And as soon as they come out of stow, the obvious thing that drivers will do, and we saw this from many others, is if you are defending, just go as fast as you possibly can, make them go around the outside, and let's see what happens. Max Verstappen knows when to slow down.

He was being absolutely perfect about intentionally going slightly slower through those last couple of corners to ensure that whoever was behind him didn't then have the run to then potentially have a move into term one. he is excellent at that.

It's great to watch it in person. It is. You do see a certain dynamic you don't get on the telly when you're watching that full set of corners from the same angle because obviously the TV crew might cut to a different replay, different camera, different expective, might be on board. Be able to watch two drivers,

two world-class drivers in Hamilton, and Russell, of course, go through this series of corners, cops all the way through to the star, finish straight of Silverstone. It is wonderful watching him defend from these guys. He was brilliant. on the other side of the garage,

Hajjar, he seems to be making some real ground in terms of that one lap pace, but maybe across a race distance, it's not quite there yet. It's not there quite for Hadjar in the race, is it? But been mightily impressive over one lap this weekend and had the measure of,

Bustappen for most of it, Bustapen then turns up in the race, but I mean, that's experience over his very young teammate. So, yeah, even though it wasn't the, it was the greatest race for Hajjar. I think he can go in from this weekend. Pretty happy with his performance, to be honest. Yeah.

And it's easy to forget as well. Like, not only is Hajar only, you know, six months or whatever into his red bull stint, again, he's only in his second year in the sport. And it's not as if he entered F1 as one of the older rookies. I think, I know I've made this point before. We often talk about how young Antonelli is. and of course, Anthony Lee and Hadjar sort of came up very similar times. It means that we forget just how young Hajjar is as well,

not quite as young, but equally what he's doing at his age is still very impressive. And sure, it's not there with Max Verstappen on a race day yet. Pretty lofty expectations at this point. So a pretty solid Grand Prix I thought was suffered from another slow stop, I believe as well. But yeah, pretty solid, I thought, throughout. Yeah, did well. Shall we, before we go to our next break, just review our bold predictions.

Now, Harry, you weren't able to be on the preview episode for this one. What would your bold prediction have been? Well, we discussed this in the stands for the race today. I was going to go for, oh, I did go for, but you didn't hear it. I was going to go for the Vestappelin Hamilton, we're going to repeat 2021. Which was spicy. We'd have a little collision. One of them would come off.

you were there waiting. It was getting there. The Stappar just fell off by himself instead. You're going to claim that was Hamilton? Yeah, yeah, yeah, the mental power of Lewis Hamilton. Had him off from seven seconds in front. What was your bold prediction, Sam? That in either spring or main Grand Prix,

two people fighting for the league of the race will end up colliding, and one of those would have race ending damage. And again, you were probably hoping that Antonelli catching LeCler. I did think that that was, going to be the moment. And of course, technically he did essentially have race ending damage, but I'm assuming LeCler did it from about four seconds in front. Yeah. My bowl prediction didn't start particularly well and then just got progressively worse.

What was it? So I said that both Mercedes, I was expecting Mercedes dominance. Both Mercedes would be everyone else by at least 10 seconds. Now, firstly, Russell didn't really hold up his end of the bargain. Antonelli, I feel like, based on his poll position, if he'd got clear at the start, I think he could have done it, but it wouldn't have mattered anyway. And then he goes and has car problems and it's a very, very wrong, bold prediction. It's also really funny that Lecler was 21 seconds clear at one point. Yeah. Wrong team, wrong driver. My life in it, really. Yeah. Well, let's go to our next break with that then, shall we? That's clear. So it's being existential break. Yes. On the other side, we've still got driver of the

day, worst driver of the day to go through as well as some other teams, including McLaren. Let's go to McLaren next. Firstly, again, we can give a bit of an on-the-ground report on this. A lot of Lando Norris fans, a lot of McLaren fans. There's a few of them, weren't there? Yeah. Yeah, the Lando stand was mightily impressive. Stando.

Sorry, the Lando Stando. Yeah, a lot of support for Lando-Norris at Silvers in this weekend. And look, Lewis Hamilton's still the number one, obviously George Russell was there. The reaction that Lewis gets when he comes onto that. Yeah, he's still the number. Yeah, Orlando Norris is. I think I've got a long of love.

Popular boy. And like I say, McLaren as a whole. But stinky. Yeah. I kind of felt like Norris made the most of it. Yeah, I think he did, again, fortunate, but was there. He didn't really, couldn't really do much else. I didn't think this race.

And then was picked up the pieces when things fell apart for those. in front of him, so can't fault him for that. Have we worked out why Piastri's front wing fell off? No. No. No. Okay, fine. Have you heard Norris' comments about the car? Stinky? It's not good? Yeah, that's thinking not good.

Roll into this, he has said it's the hardest Formula One car he's ever had to drive. Wow. Okay. That's a lie. I don't, yeah. I think he's probably decided to speak with his heart there and not take a moment, but it gives you an idea of what he's going through. He scored like 50 points in his soul first. season, didn't he? Like, which is fine as a rookie year, by the way, but also competitive-wise, it was quite way off.

Regardless, the car is not easy to drive, clearly. And yeah, I'd like to know what happened to Piastri. If you know, folks, as you might know more than us on this one, takers single little replay or something. It'd be good to see. I like how with Piastri, the only coverage, like, we really had of him the whole race, because he was so far behind was, what lap is he going to overtake the Aston Martins? and it just like that gap reduced at such a rate to the point where he was kind of directly behind both of them

going into Vell and we were like, the next time he comes around, he'll probably be ahead of not one of them, probably both of them. And he was. And he was. Yeah, we keep using the phrase picking up the pieces when it comes to McLaren,

but it is a scarily accurate representation of where that team is at right now. They just don't seemingly have the pace to be able to contend with definitely Mercedes, but Ferrari when they have a good day, like here or in Barcelona, or Red Bull when they have a very good day, Austria last time out.

We haven't really seen that from McLaren in quite a while. The closest we got was actually earlier in the year when Norris won the sprint race in Miami. Piastri was second in Japan, but it was a while ago at this point, and it feels like maybe where Ferrari and Red Bull have made a few steps, McLaren, they haven't fallen back,

but they're just a bit stayed still. Yeah, it's just not, like they had some upgrades that propelled them towards the front, Miami being the biggest one. And everything since hasn't, I don't think it's been worse. Like it's not been the worst years ever, not everyone else. Ferrari Mercedes have just made bigger jumps or, yeah, with their upgrades. And McLaren have stayed still. I think that's pretty fair, fair summary.

I guess with Norris yesterday in the sprint, he kind of, he took advantage of what was a brilliant start to get up, to third and then was able to hold it partly due to some impressive work from him, partly due to a few cars fighting behind. I guess today was almost that, except the fighting wasn't really there behind him. I've got to give Norris a lot of praise for this weekend. I do think he's driving a tricky car.

It is slower, I think, well, the last two tracks than Red Bull, Ferrari and Mercedes. He's been better than his teammate at Geng here. I know something has happened to Piastri, but throughout the weekend, anyway, he was better. and he's managed to walk away with a podium in the spring race and a fourth place in the main Grand Prix. Now, I know that's a little bit, you know, results are going his way, again with Anthony and Lee and Verstappen, of course. But sometimes that happens.

And he was the next car to pick up the pieces. That easily could have been Pajar sitting there. That could have been Piaestry sitting there. It could have been William Lawson sitting there for all we know. It's not. It's Landon Morris again. McLaren as a unit, as a car as a team, they need to do the hard graft.

The drivers are ready to take it forward. when the car is ready to do so. Yeah, and even with the slow stop for Hachar Norris had to work to get that position and, you know, he succeeded very well there. Slightly further back, the racing bulls, as is commonplace now, double points finish. Lawson and Limbludd basically stuck together on track. It's like that's not up.

I don't think this was a new race for them. I think this was the same race that they've done the last two Grand Prix. They just copied and pasted it and no one recognized. Yeah, solid as heck. I, that is a good little car for the racing balls in the moment. And they've got two good peddlers behind the wheel. So yeah, they continue like this. They're going to be laughing in the constructors.

Yeah. Which I didn't see coming, to be honest. Whilst Alpine have scored today, it's only 9th and 10th, which is, of course, only good for three points, whereas racing balls have taken home quite a lot more than that. One point, isn't it now? One point is it? Yeah, 159 for racing balls, 60.

for Alping. And the way the form book's going, at least, it might not stay that way for much longer. There was a conversation about the fact that Alping were not going to score again at Silverstone. Obviously, the fact they had two retirements. Yeah, two retirements in front of them allows them to basically drop into the points very kindly.

So, yeah, they are really strong. And Lawson is on such a brilliant vein of form and it's great to see him succeed. Equally, so impressed that Lindblad has been there pretty much every race right by him as well. Lawson's been very impressive recently. Was he holding up limb blood today? As other than Blancid did suggest.

They were very close. Over the radio, we did hear a bit of a polite. Can you get a move on, please? But at the end of the day, I don't know if it will have changed the result for them. I think they will just finish him the same place as the other way around anyway. They're just like, yeah, do what you want. Yeah.

I just finished like that. Every time they were bothered was when Hager had to come back through off his slow pit stop. That's pretty much the only time that they were disturbed. I think Libblad just needs to be in a position where he's actually ahead of Lorson after these lap one situations, whereas it seems to be commonplace that he ends up just behind him. And he's able to keep with him, but we also saw in Austria when the reverse was true,

when we discussed this incident, of course, earlier in the week, but Lawson had to try and stay with Limbludd, and he could do that. It feels like they're so evenly matched, which is a weird one in that it's positive for both of them. Like, Lawson seems to have improved a great deal recently, and Limbludd is still, you know, not even, 10 races into his career.

Keith Gennie's a rookie. Yeah. The biggest comfortable you can pay a rookie is you forget that they're a rookie. Yeah. Very impressive. Audi score points.

Audi of score points. Not with both of them, but Aldi of score points. Yeah, Nick Holgerberg, unfortunately retiring by the side of the track. But Gabriel Bortoletto was just behind the two racing balls.

Good enough for P8. P8. And I think the thing we all noted individually and turned to each other and said, that Audi sounds so unique. I don't understand. It's a spaceship.

It's such a different sounding car to all the others. I actually love it, but it's... Oh, it's awesome. It's so loud in comparison to the others as well. I was surprised that this is where they picked up points. Now, I know again, they benefited from mistakes in front, but I did think that of all the tracks, they'd actually be further down the pecking order anyway.

So the fact that Bortoletto, Hank Hulkeberg, who was running well, but Bortoletto specifically has got that far into the points. Brilliant race for him. It was, and it was a similar situation to Austria in that Bortoletto, because Zaldives don't have these great starts, or more accurately, Ocon has these great starts and can't do anything else at the moment. Bortoletto had to make that move on O'Con quite early on,

and then try and catch up to and keep pace with the racing balls, which I think he was a moderate success. Whenever we saw the racing balls come by, Bortoletto wasn't challenging either of them, but he was there. just there are thereabouts. This has kind of been the thing for Audi. They're not quite with racing balls,

but there are thereabouts. And then they just haven't had the, I guess, luck with retirements in front. Today, they did, or at least with Bortilata, they did. So it's paid off for them. And I think Holkenberg was getting back into that fight. He was,

he was quite far down after the first lap. It was a really bad start. I've seen a clip. He also had to avoid, Gazley and Colopinto, So having a ding-dong in that one. Oh, what are they doing? Gaisley,

the exit of, what's the long right-hander? Forward. Brooklyn's, whatever that is. Lafield. Lafield, yes. Gassley runs him, collar pins into the gravel.

Good. It goes that way. And Holcomb was like, oh, and has to avoid as well. Excellent. Great stuff. He did qualifying front of one of those, so maybe just have a normal start.

He won't have to deal with it anyway. No, not possible. No, can't do that. mate. Good. No, not in my, not in my facilities,

big man. Can we talk about Alex Alvin versus Olly Behrman? It was on. Quote, Alex Alman. Lap one incident.

Alex, mate. What are you doing? Can't go to the side of Oly Vermon. Yeah. Berman still beat Sock on. Yeah. Not Albon's finest hour

that one. No. still he wasn't the Williams that didn't realize they weren't a lap down and just got a one-lap penalty. You may now unlock himself. Okay, cool. I don't need to be asked twice. So if they notice.

Yeah, this was a bit sloppy, wasn't it? It wasn't his fine as well. He's defending here. He's just not left the room on the outside. Behrman looking like he's got an almighty run around the outside of him. It looks like he's really on. And that one is on, Alex. He just tags him.

Quite similar, actually, almost, in reverse to the Perrizanonso from the spring. Yeah, fairly similar, I'd say, yeah. And can we also talk about Cadillac? Because we didn't really see much of them in Austria. I think it was a grand total between the two drivers of seven laps, maybe. But we saw a great deal of them today. Firstly, good to see no reliability issues, but also... Pretty good pace.

Keep in pace. That's pretty good pace. Per has been Anthony today. It's a very good point. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but like they, I know there were a few that had incidents and were sort of fighting back through like, like, Bearman, for example. But they were sticking. They were sticking with them.

They were a normal part of the racing pack. They were not like the Austin Martins being overtaken and left. We'll go. I mean, Piaastri going back through the pack and one lap, it was behind both of them when he came past us. And you were like, don't think that's going to be the same when they come past next lap. It wasn't. It got back both in one lap. The onboard of those cars, it's like they're dancing on.

quite literally trying. One of them's called Torval, one of them's called Dean, and they are all over the shop. Harry Hills back again. So, you know, an answer to the issue at the formation lab and he went to the bits, he was then really annoyed on the radio

about how quickly they started the race. Like without him? Wait, guys, wait for me! It's all right, because he's actually won something now, of course. Well, come on to that. This is going to be a real test for me now. Because I need to play the driver of the day button. Upside down.

But it's upside down and definitely not already where it needs to be. The soundboys in Australia. Bang is in the UK. There's a lot of lights going on now. Little of a light show. You're the driver of the day. You're good at driving. That definitely played.

This is where it's completely the wrong jingle. F1. Back F off. Or it's just like one of your submissions for like a ball prediction from two years ago. Hello, everyone. Harry here. Who was your driver of the day, Sam? Who was my driver of the day?

It's a great question. Thanks. You haven't asked it before. No, that's a new one. That's a new one. I think after the disaster class of Austria, I think we're going to flip your baby in reverse. Yeah, go on.

Charles LeCler. Go on. Come on, Charlie. I'm going to do the same. I'm happy to do it. Very happy. Worst of the day, Austria. But I would have gone for it

Even if Antonelli got him At the end of the end of the ring I think I still have gone Leclerler Yeah I think he was superb today I had Lecler in the mix

I've got Antinelli in the mix Lando Norris as well I don't think he could have done much more Liam Lawson Very good again in the midfield I'm going to go with Antonelli I think he would have got him

I can't after that start That's fair I'll be honest when it comes to our power rankings, there isn't going to be a 10 out of 10. But I think I'm just about going to go Antonelli on this one.

Okay, fascinating. What about worst driver of the day? Get in the bin, bin, bin, bin, worst driver of the day. Ben, bin, bin, been, worst driver of the day. You suck at driving. You suck at driving.

There it is. Sports fans. Who did suck at driving? driving. There's a few contenders here. And we have just spoken about him, but I think Alex that wasn't. Yeah, sorry, Alex. That was quite panx. Yeah. You drove into the side of someone, and then you were really slow. Wasn't even trying an overtake. I think after, after the incident, it was, it was just, they were using it as a test session. I think they've come out and said that, but yeah, the fact that they had to do that in the first place was down to the incident, which wasn't

great. So, yeah. I am going to shout out LeCler's teammate, though. Oh, really? I thought it was a not great day for Lewis Hamilton. Tireware was off the charts for him

in comparison to his teammate. He jumped the start and he put his hand up and said he did. That's not ideal. No. He then loses pace very quickly to the clerk. Gets beaten by Antingelli fast. Nice little move on Max, though.

It was. I'm not saying it was. That's why I haven't given him worse of the day, because I do think the worst of positives there. You know, I just don't think it was a good. day for Hamilton.

And what about big brain strap? What? It's not even raining out. What are you talking about? Yeah, and Bob, if you get a chance,

let's... Man, you forget how much longer that one is. That one is long. It's a great one. I'm listening to. Love those synths. Big brain strap.

Uh, box, box. Go again. Go again. Go again. Go again. I'm going to stay out. I'm going to stay out. Okay.

Okay. Stay out. One more. One more. Box is that. Box out again. Step. Yeah, it's Bono and Tungani. Because what are you doing?

Pick a lap. Come on. I can't disagree. That's mine too. Just superb. The contrast versus when he was extending his first in. And Kimmy's like, I want to come in. And Bonner's like, one more.

Do another one. Just go again. Do another one. And the difference between that. And the moment of VSC comes out, that red boy is straight down the pit layer. that was good stuff. Immediately down the pit lane, it's so decisive.

And Mercedes, again, despite the fact that it did turn out to be a good strategy, they're so wishy-washy with it. It's like a wet flannel. Make a choice. It's the same thing when then he had the issue. And Bonner was like, okay, retire. He's like, no. And then he's like, but then he keeps coming by and be like, this is so terrible.

He's like, okay, we'll retire then. No. We ain't gone to do it. We made that comparison, isn't it? Of like, okay, come down for dinner? No. Okay, can you come down for your dinner? No.

My dingers cold. I told you to come down for your dinner. I told you, man. Contender for me is Hasse managing to stop Esteban Okon under a VSC and somehow Behrman, who didn't still beat him, I don't guess it. Backwards. I don't understand. So O'Con got the better strategy.

That Behrman was backwards. Am I missing something? He's slow Kong. I also don't exactly at this point know why Alpine decided to pit Franco Colopinto. first? Because Gazley was beating Colapinto and then Colopinto gets an undercut on him. Yeah. And punishment for Ghazley for running off the road at the first lap.

You know what? That wouldn't actually surprise me. Flavio's like, no, no. Yeah, you'll get ex-halling off and that's how it works. Still better for Colapinto, given this time last year, they were just like, yeah, don't bother starting the race. I'm actually going to go with Russell, Mercedes decided not to stop. That's a great shout.

Yeah. That's a great show. Let's take our final break on the other side. we're doing moment of the race. Welcome back, everyone. Moment at the race time. What have you got, Harry? Fernando Alonso winning the cart race.

It's like, it has to have happened. Honestly, one of the funniest things I've ever seen is him cutting that final course. No, it's hitting other drivers' brakes as he's next to them to slow them down. Nothing was going to stop that man winning that race. Super. I don't like to repeat ones,

but I cannot give it to anything else. Like, there are four, like, drivers in contention for the win of this Lego race as they come through, like, towards the last couple of corners. And Alonzo is fourth of those four, I think. And of course, this is, this is a driver's parade. So the idea is that you're having a bit of fun, but you're also, like, going offline to be able to wave everyone. Yeah. And, of course, the other three in front of him are all going off to, like, the left of club, yeah, of club corner to make sure that they're waving to everyone. And then you just get Alonzo deciding, if I take this grass line here, I can win.

This guy is in his mid-40s. I love it. The picture of him leaning his head over the front of the cart to make sure he's definitely in front is iconic. Officially, Max Verstaffing is the only world champion on the greeting not winning anything so far this season. So step up, Max. I've got a bone to pick up at this like a race. I thoroughly enjoyed it. And I know when you present something like Formula One, it's probably good to keep the brand on side and to make sure that they're happy and whatnot.

I am sick to death of Ben Sillian being involved, sticking his beaking and being involved. Why is he in like an evil? Steve Sunday was in it as well, actually. Was he? I didn't not notice him. I think it might have broken down before we got to us. Good. Oh, wow.

Saving grace. Why are they involved? The thing is, like, I can't remember which of you I said this to. It's like when Lego, whoever pictures the idea, the initial conversations. No one at Lego is going, can we please make sure that Muhammad Ben Suleum is there?

It's what they wanted. Yeah, they, he wasn't even really in a Lego cut. He was just in a car. No, just like going from a weird blue and white cart. It was like some evil

unlock cart in a game. It was like, I want a birthday party, but I haven't got some any friends so pay them to come to my birthday and they don't really want to celebrate with you. No. Was that your moment of the race?

No, it's my worst moment of the race. Oh, what was your moment of the race? I haven't really thought about it. I was sure. Sounds like a real problem. My moment of the race was after the race ended, great stuff, watching this man try and carry the overtake zone

sighing away from the racetrack. So between us, we've picked all moments of the race, none of them in the race. Hamilton overtake, I thought, was very good. Yeah, it was very good. If we're going into the race. Yeah, deemed. Well done, Lewis Hamilton.

Segment redeemed. Right, who've been... Well, no, I can tell you we've got first, Ben. It's Carlos not signed. Hello, late breaking team. I met the circuit, and the moment of the race is Fernando Alonso winning the Lego race today. It's probably his last winning in F1.

Carlos not signs here and looking forward to meeting you guys today. He manifested it, to be fair. He did. Yeah. He was lovely. He was, yes. And sadly, that probably was Fernando Alonso's last. You got everything right in that entire sentence.

He won? It might be his last thing. and you met us. Great day for you. Tick, tick, tick. Next up is Chalokomo. Trackside in the Landau stand. My moment of the race was the TV direction

because they put me on the TV yesterday. And today, this is Chloe from California, reporting from the Landau stand. That ending was stupid. Stupid. And they was stupid. I confirm. Stupid.

I do have, I know we've spoken about the, the Lando stand and the rest, but like, the sight of it was something to behold. My man knows how it had a brand. Yes, he is branded. The colour is, what's sensational, it's stood out brilliantly. Also, because everyone's in the same top, they're just everywhere. They went everywhere. Yeah. So, Clocommo, sensational, because it stood out, actually.

And your way of saying, Chula, Clomo. That's terrible. I have a problem bringing that. Clocoma. Clokoma. Also, your way of saying, stupid, is going to be like a new verbal tick for me. Hazer is next. Oh, excellent. England going to take.

All right, boys, my mark at the race was ending the race one safety car because that's what we love to see. Well, good, really, really good. Proper loved it. Excellent. Cheers, boys. Not a hint of sarcasm. Not a hint of sarcasm. Not a hint of sarcasm. Pretty good.

Absolutely loved it. I have a theory. Go on them. He didn't mean that. Ha, hazer, not genuine. I reckon he didn't like that. Well, good, pretty good, pretty love that. That'll be his reaction at 3 a.m. when we lose to Mexico.

Yeah, or it's rain blade. Woody is next. Woody's round up. What's up, fellas? It's your boy Woody from the homojas here in North Carolina, USA. Happy America's 250th to all the fellow American listeners out there. My personal moments of the race all happened in the last about 12 to 14 laps when little Kimi and the Nelis. basically announced his independence for Mercedes and just kept kidding,

hey, let's box the car, let's box the car. Nah, mate, I'm going to go for the points, ends up finishing in ninth, gets the two. Good for him. For Sakimi. Update for sports fans. He did not get the two. No.

I've just realized Ferrari have a wing for every year that America has been independent. That's good going, given they didn't get many of them for the early years, you know? They really caught up. And the later stages. Shoemaker had a lot to do. Poor first 190 years.

It did. I got at $2.50 all. Ferrari versus America, the state, it continues. It can be an ex-way so you're taking. Do you remember that podcast episode from George Washington where he was like, a Ferrari ever going to win? You have them dead and buried at that point. I'd really come back strong in the last 30. Great.

God, damn it. Dubs is next. He was a first time submitter, I believe. Hey, guys. drum from Ohio here. First time submission tied between Antonelli pleading on the radio for why am I getting a penalty? And all of a sudden, the stewards give him a five second penalty for trying to save his car. And it's either that or Hamilton getting absolutely robbed at the end. Good chance of P2 for Hamilton at the end in all seriousness. He was quite angry on the podium.

I think he thought he was going to lose to the podium as well. In an interview, he has said, I've been put on the yellow flag. This is before it came out that he'd been cleared, I've been put on the yellow investigation. That's a slam dance. I'm probably going to lose that too. He was really quite miserable, guys. You know, he had this response a minute ago. Yeah, that's what he said. Yeah. Fortunately, for himself, he was wrong.

He's about the yellow. Yeah. DJ spin to win. What's popping, everybody? My moment of the race was going to be the blue ball from the FIA. However, although there was many passes, got to give some love to the triple Red Bull finish with Hadjar Lawson and Lindblad without a max for Stappen. Big love to the Ford family. Anyways, keep breaking late.

It's always great to see someone go trailer park style. Isn't it just? I've got nothing to add to that. Oh, okay. Yeah, no worries. I really enjoy a musical interview in submission, by the way. Next up is a robo, who was also a first-time submitter. First time, long time. My moment of the race is when Mohammed bin Siliam was the one driving the safety car and wanted to finish the race first. Did you see the way when he hits the gravel and he's there like, me and my friends.

Oh no. And no one interacts with him. Go away, Ben. And then he goes and gets in the safety car to go and win it. Yeah, move, but. Impressive. It's mine. Yeah, like I said, if we're at risk at aiding ourselves and opportunities, to be honest,

then fine. Which we wouldn't do. No, never. I am, I'm so bored of it. So it's such a sad little act. Good. Cool hand, Luke. is our final submitter for the day.

This is Cool Hand, Luca, calling in from an alternate dimension for my moment of the race. In this dimension, we have a functioning FIA, and we got a last last last shootout that was one for the ages. So good job, FIA in this dimension where the FIA is somehow good. He's absolutely gotten there. Yeah, he's got FIA, no kneecaps left. Any other dimension, they're amazing. I can't believe we're ending this review on the FIA, not having knee-caps.

caps. Well, what are we like in the other dimension? That's a good question and that will be question of the week. What do we like in Cool Hand Lucas? Other dimension. Good. Okay, I think we're done and dusted for this British GP review some. I think so. Sorry if we missed anything. Again,

tough to follow. Hard to pick some bits up. Thank you to everyone that came out and saw us at the Grand Prix. Genuinely, maybe the best bit of doing this whole show is when we actually get a chance to say hello to any of you. So thank you again. we're doing power rankings. So if you do want to hear our opinions on every single driver properly

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