The Late Braking F1 Podcast - 2026 Miami GP Race Review

Episode Date: May 4, 2026

Turns out we didn't need a wet race to get chaos... Ben and Sam review a wild Miami GP, from Verstappen's first lap spin through to Leclerc's last lap heartbreak - and everything in between!   Heading to the Dutch GP and interested in a Thursday meet-up? Fill out this quick form so we can keep you updated: >>> CLICK HERE

Thank you for listening to the late-breaking F-1 podcast. Make sure to check out new episodes every Wednesday and every Sunday. Very warm, welcome to the late-breaking F-1 podcast presented by Sam Sage and me, Ben Hocking, reviewing today the Miami Grand Prix. Grand Prix won by Kimmy Antonelli for Mercedes. So much of the same as what we had before this long break, Sam, and that's pretty much our review. Not much else to comment on. Yeah, Polter Lights Out Wing with absolutely no drama in between. not really worth coming back for, I suppose,

is what I would have said if that wasn't an absolutely crazy Grand Prix we had at Miami. I love that Kimi Antiglii can't win a Grand Prix by just staying in the lead, and there has to be chaos endlessly. We're taking it, but hey, it was good to be back. We had a good race. I love that we were talking all week

about how this could be an incredibly chaotic Grand Prix because of the weather. And what we got was an incredibly chaotic Grand Prix without any rain whatsoever. Like, it was like, yeah, the weather forecast was determined to make sure Miami stayed boring forever. And then, I don't know, some magic happened at the track.

Maybe it was DJ Khalid. I reckon, it might have been DJ Khalid, you know, another one, another raindrop. What did you make of Martin Brundle referring to DJ Calig as just DJ? I like it. That's actually his first name. He was christened DJ. I like how he met DJ Khalid on his gridwalk, and it wasn't the weirdest gridwalk. Sorry.

What is going on with Jimmy Falling on that walk? What was happening there? I don't know. There's some strong stuff in Miami. That's what I'll say. My guy's eating microphone tops. Again, there's some strong stuff going on in Miami. Anyway, plenty to talk about on today's review.

There's like 20,000 things that are being reviewed by the stewards, by the way. So we've got something of an idea of what the top 10 looks like. Could be completely different by the time we finish recording this. And who knows, with the way the stewards behave today, it might not be three weeks until we learn about what those things are. anyway. But shall we start out front with Kimmy Antonelli claiming his third race win in a row? Had to work a little bit for this. Didn't, got one of his patented not very good starts to the Grand Prix, so didn't have the lead coming out of lap 1, but was able to make his way past LeCler via some strategy, was able to make his way past Lando Norris with Mercedes being very quick in the pits?

How impressed were you with what Antonelli was doing towards the end of that Grand Prix given? This weekend hasn't gone absolutely to plan for Mercedes. No, it's being quite messy. And again, as I mentioned in that opening segment there, it seems like Kimi Antignelli can't actually do a first to finish race here. We were thinking win three in a row, the first ever driver to win his first ever three Grand Prix in a row in the sense of also being from pole.

We saw that Hill, of course, and Hackingham had done it, their first three. We saw that Senori Schumacher had taken three poles in a row, that Kimmy Antigley stands alone as doing all three of those things combined, which is an amazing feat for such a young driver, and you look at these races that he's had, none of them have arguably been simple.

Every single one has had some kind of chaos or hurdle to overcome, and this one more so than ever it feels like. The start is poor again. He gets off the line badly, not as badly as he doing the sprint race, which is lucky for him. He's immediately having to go around the outside of one car. He's then greeted by Max Flaffi doing a 360 in the second corner. He's then got to do with the fact that all the other McLaurings around him are trying to

swamp him. That's chaotic. That alone is enough for such a young driver. And he handles it well. He's immediately on the pace chasing down the McLaren and the Ferrari who managed to get around him. And I do think he keeps up this high intensity, high pace management for the car, which was going through some difficulties throughout the entire Grand Prix, the way that he had paddle problems, possibly some braking issues, possibly some gear shifting problems. And yet the gap continued to extend on Landon Norris, who slowly and surely fell away as the challenge arose as the Grand Prix moved on. I thought he was pretty phenomenal in the way that he handed things. I think the Seagis fully had his back in making sure it kind of came true because it easily could have gone the other way.

I think it could have swung in Norris's favour. It didn't. Antingale and Mercedes, they rose to the challenge and they really delivered. Yeah. The only thing that's scarier than a good driver is a good driver that keeps learning because, as mentioned, This weekend wasn't, it wasn't a disaster far from it, but it wasn't going as to plan as some of those other races we've had so far this year. And we saw in the sprint race that Ansonelli's pace was okay, but not great.

It wasn't like he was challenging the McLaren's for the race win or second place. But what we saw here was a much more complete performance, whereas in the sprint race, he panicked and had multiple instances where he goes off the track, picks up that penalty. as a result of too many infringements. Here, whilst he does, again, pick up a few track limits warnings, he doesn't go overboard. He manages it from there.

He does have some issues late on. He doesn't panic. And that's got to be pretty scary for his teammate and all of his rivals in this championship that someone at 19 years old does feel like they're getting a lot more, not even going to say he's getting a lot quicker. He's just getting more composed as he goes. And that's got to be quite terrifying.

Yeah, I think his biggest weakness was his composure. He would rush into things previously, or if there's a 50-50 choice, much like myself, he'd make the wrong one. But now, unlike me, he has learned and seems to regularly be making the right one. The way he's handling difficult situations is of the mindset of someone 10 years further into their career right now. And that is marvellous because he started with all the right equipment, you know, raw speed and unwillingness to budge. He was going to push himself through every single corner, every single race. and now he's pairing that with the race management,

the ability to think through problems properly, the ability to overcome adverse situations. Will to wheel racing is improving, despite what Charlotte Clare wanted to say to him. So it is genuinely becoming quite a formidable opposition, especially for George Russell, who must be absolutely furious inside that helmet. You see the shots of him slowly turning more and more green

throughout the season. As in he's becoming more and more like Shrek. Well, yes, literally becoming more. I don't understand what's happening with the camera, but he is becoming a deeper shade of green. Oh, that well-known song, yeah, yeah. Famous, yeah, the sequel of Deepa Shaggle Blue. Yes.

Yeah, very impressive from Anthony. I feel like as well with the start, I know he, again, didn't get a great start. And what we're constantly seeing, we have the timings with the reaction speeds. He's there. Like, his reaction speed is fine, but for whatever reason, him plus that car,

cannot do those first, I don't know, 100 meters very well, to the point where I think when he was coming out of turn 2 and turn 3 in second place, with everything that was happening with Vestappen and a lot of drivers trying to avoid him, I think if you'd offered him that before the race, he probably would have taken it, even with the pole position that he had,

to say P2 after the first couple of corners, it had gone, yeah, that's fine. I've got what it takes. I can get myself back to the front. you know, after a little while. And he did. He really managed to gather himself up. And I think I'm quite amazing going on got collected by Verstappen,

especially him, right? He's there right in the firing line of this sping. That's a good thing he went deep into the first corner. Realistically, that has inadvertently saved him for possibly being gathered by Max Verstaffin. Yeah. And it's interesting to see as well. It's probably a good thing for him and his development

and maybe for Mercedes more generally, that whilst Antonelli has been very good so far to this point in the season, It has mostly been Mercedes just being very comfortably better than all of the other teams and other drivers, which is great. And I'm sure Mercedes would have been happy for that to keep going. And maybe we return to that at some point. That remains to be seen. But it's probably a good thing for Ansonelli's development that he's really had to work for this race win and start to put himself in some situations, race winning situations, that maybe he hasn't been in before.

And to not only be in that situation, but to come out on top of it, very good tire manager. I fought for the most part today. And whilst maybe like Suzuki, he did need a little bit of good fortune to at least steer him in the right direction towards victory, still got to be there to take it. And him and Norris, they were a long way clear of anyone else.

I think they are, what, more than 30 seconds clear of a pedestrian further back at the end of the Grand Prix. It was, something along those lines. It was, I didn't have it noted down. I had it around 20 seconds, but it might be more. He was more than 30 to his teammate, which, you know,

Because we expected Russell to be the guy who was on top so far this season, that is pretty special from a driver. So in experience, especially right at the very top of a championship. How does Lando Norris reflect on this one? Because we obviously got a very raw reaction from him on Team Radio directly after finishing second here. We know he won the sprint race that we had yesterday. He led this race at one point.

Seemed to be quite disappointed thinking that whilst McLaren had got themselves back into a better position versus what they had in the first few races, it was a race that was there for the taking. Would you agree with him on that? Fully would. Fully would agree. And they struggled in qualifying. So he had to really have a bit of an uphill start.

But his start was very good. You know, managing to get all the way into the top three positions very quickly, dodging again, the swinging max for Stappen. And I do think that on outright race pace across the entire Grand Prix, especially against Sansegeli, it looks like the McLaren still isn't 100% up to speed with what the Mesaegis is able to do. So the ability to hold on to that Msegis for that long,

pushing him all the way, and I mean literally all the way to the end of the Grand Prix, shows that Landon Norris, when he gets the bit between his teeth, when he's able to really get his head down and focus, he's still got this absolutely brilliant pace. I think overall was a very good race for him. You can see his reaction after the Grand Prix.

You know, we should have won this. He was swearing over the radio, he was really frustrated. You could tell that he then almost regretting what he was saying. Maybe he's coming across too harsh with the, you know, our great progress.

It's good to see that we've made this step. I get it. I think he's allowed to have that raw reaction on both sides. Some people might slam him for being ungrateful, but the point is, did the team cost him a raised swing here today with a 3.7 second pit stop that was also caught out being undercut by Kimmy Antigley,

where before that moment, he was in front of him. And he was having a race that looked like landing or as might have gone to actually win that Grand Prix. So, yeah, I think he has every right to feel frustrated. But equally, there's got to be a part of him that goes, because of the team's efforts, I'm in a position where I can be frustrated that I've just missed out on a race wing because of a pit stop mistake. Where we called it too late and the pit stop was a little bit slow. So it is two worlds.

There are two sides of every story. But I do think he's got a right to feel both ways. And I think that will continue. In the moment, it makes a lot of sense that he would be bitterly disappointed that he couldn't claim this race win because the end of the day, I mean, these drivers understatement, they're massively competitive. And if there's a race win potentially in front of them, they're going to be massively annoyed if it doesn't go their way. And I don't think that will necessarily disappear in the coming days and weeks. But I think when he sits down with it and he's not in the heat of the moment, he will see the progress that they've made. this is a team that were struggling to start races

in the first few Grand Prix of the year. Here, not only have they well done started the race, they finished the race and finished it very well. And he raced very well. As impressive as Antonelli was, I think Norris was maybe as equally impressive as he was, in that you had the start, obviously, where Antonelli was ahead of Norris.

Norris had to get by Antonelli on pure pace in that first stint, and he did. He then had to hold off Antonelli in that first stint, he did. And whilst it would be easy to be critical of McLaren here and getting undercut by Antonelli and Mercedes, I'm actually going to lean more towards praising Mercedes on this because unless it was beaten very late on in this Grand Prix,

Antonelli's pit stop was the fastest pit stop of the race. Antonelli needed to deliver an excellent outlap in addition to that excellent pit stop. It's not like, as far as I remember, it's not like Antonelli was half a second behind Lando Norris when he made that call. It was actually a gap where you felt like Norris has probably got this in hand, but the combination of those two things made it happen for Mercedes. So maybe there is some blame to go on McLaren here.

I'm actually going more towards credit for the other team here. Interesting. Yeah, I think we've criticised Mercedes a lot historically, actually, especially up against Red Bull about not being reactive enough. Actually, not being proactive enough, sorry. and rather being too reactive to teams around them or drivers around them. We saw this. The biggest example might be Lewis Hamilton in Aberdeb in 2021,

where Max de Stauffling managed to put on the right set of tyres and Hamilton's course out on an old set. And it costs you. And it has cost them many a time in Grand Prix over the last decade. And yet here they do seem to have made the right call, which has allowed them to end up winging or race by a couple of seconds over a fast-moving, very up and coming, Landon Norris and his McLaren.

It was a really enjoyable battle to watch. I do think that this Miami GP delivered a very fun race. And I think that's a turnout for the books because it could have been wet, it can be boring, and yet we managed to get a little bit of in between where it was exciting enough to keep you interested. There were battles up and down the field. There was a fight for the lead that went on for the majority of the Grand Prix.

And for the most part, everyone was all safe and happy. Well, speaking of that, whilst we've got a little bit of time before we go to our first break, I wanted to ask you about the decision as to why we're here, quite a few hours before we thought would be here. The race was scheduled to, I'm going to use UK time, apologies. The race was scheduled to start at 9pm, UK time. It was moved back at three hours in the end.

What did you make of the decision? And do you think it was the right one? Yeah, I believe it was going to be 4pm, Miami time. Yeah, yeah. Which, okay, if it's health and safety, genuine health and safety risk, it's very hard to argue against this. You don't want anyone to get hurt.

because we've not bothered making a decision. Equally, I am starting to err on the side of frustration with Formula One and its safety concerns, especially around wet weather racing. Wet weather racing is an integral part of Formula One. It's crucial to make sure that it shows off best driver's skill. It does create exciting Grand Prix. We get freak results, much like Hulk and Bird picking up a podium in Silverstone last year. I do think that you see the Krem della Crem, the absolute best of the best.

They rise to the top. and yet more and more often we're becoming a dry weather sport so if it was going to be so extreme and with hindsight you know we can't really tell we don't know because we didn't go there we didn't have it and if the FIAA time we've looked into the future we had the wet race and someone's car gets struck by lightning

I'll go alright yeah fair enough don't want that but equally I do think we're too adverse now to wet weather and I do think we're too worried that someone might have a crash it's part of the sport it's going to happen occasionally So I think I love it for that reason. But equally, I think a lot of people will forget that it's been moved because we did end up having a very good Grand Prix. Yeah, I think my opinion is that I'm going to choose to believe that their decision was based purely on the thunder and lightning risk and not on the risk of heavy rain. Because I'm with you when it comes to just heavy rain.

Like we should do everything we can to race in those conditions until the point where it's just not doable. But when it comes to Thunder and Lightning, I understand there's an additional risk on top of that. I'm generally okay with them pushing back the time because it looked like we were going to get rain in the window we did race in. We didn't in the end, but it didn't look like that was going to be the case. I'm okay generally with pushing back,

oh, yeah, pushing back the times a little bit just based on this two-hour window we need to get F1 done in. Like if we get to 4 p.m. Miami time, and that's when we start. and we can't get going at the time that we're scheduled to because it's just too heavy. And then we don't have the daylight available to get those two hours in. Everyone goes home incredibly disappointed.

At least when we've got, we're pushing it back three hours, we are giving ourselves a bit more time to get those two hours in, even if it actually ends up happening at the same time as we were going to do it. Anyway, that would be frustrating, I appreciate. but they're giving the race every chance to go ahead. So if it was just a decision based on this heavy rain, I don't agree with it, but I understand there was more at play,

at least this time, compared to some of the other decisions we've had in the past. Shall we go to our first break? On the other side, we're going to be getting into Max Verstappen's race. It would be a one-hour segment. Welcome back, everyone. As we're recording this, Max Verstappen has finished P5 after starting second place in the Grand Prix.

Whether it is still P5 by the time you're listening to this, who knows, because there are multiple investigations going on, not just concerning him, but other drivers as well. A very entertaining race, whether it is for the right or wrong reasons, I'll let you decide, Sam. But should we start with the first quarter? It seems to make sense to go in chronological order. massive spin for him. Yeah, gets a good start. He's able to get alongside Kimmy Antingelli. You think, oh, okay, Max Verstappen is able to get away and lead the Grand Prix.

And the pace of that red ball, you would assume that there's a real chance he could go on to fight for the victory with the way that he performed in qualifying and the sprint race was definitely improved. And yet, he absolutely loops it coming out of turning to a mistake we so rarely see from Max Verstappen, especially in the dry, where he has just spun entirely on his own. Now, he's in slightly awkward circumstances, of course. He's got Charlotte Claire going around his outside, and he's a little bit squeezed. But, you know, he's well within track limits, and LeCler has left enough of the space that he could get round him.

But there was, I think the curb caused him to be a little bit caught up with the way that he's flashed on the accelerator, which has meant that he's lit up the rears on the curb, done a 360's being. I disagree with Martin Brundle and his incessant comments about how incredibly controlled and clever it was, the way he got back in the Grand Prix. I do think that we shouldn't really be praising someone for rectifying a problem that they caused entirely by themselves. And I think this was a pretty poor mistake from Max Verstappen. I think this was quite amateurish.

And I think he gets away with it. Every other Grand Prix, nine times out of ten, someone drives straight into you if that happens, your race is over. And you've taken someone else out of that Grand Prix with you. Everyone did a brilliant job to avoid him. He got back on the track. And then we saw a very eventful race afterwards

where we'll get into those details in a minute, but it was pretty chaotic. Yeah, sometimes it is just okay to say a driver made a mistake. It was an error. It was an error, plain and simple. And sure, well done for him to keeping it for keeping it out of the wall. But if you're putting together a positive and a negative side of this instance, there's a lot more on the negative side than the positive side. He's lost multiple spots as a result of an unforced error. And it happens to many drivers up and down the grid today. LaClair obviously had one late on. We had other incidents that we'll get to later on in the episode as well.

This was just an instance where he was a bit too trigger-happy on the throttle. And Vastappen immediately knew that. He came over team radio to say almost straight away, sorry, guys, that was an error. And it is uncharacteristic. We don't usually see it. When you're like, 99 races out of 100. You can have that one error. It's totally fine.

It happens. Oh, well, shrug it off, move on with your life. We don't have to plaster it up with ridiculous compliments. He's a brilliant race driver. He made one mistake. We move on. Do you think, because the incident definitely changed the strategy he was on and maybe saw some of the incidents he got into, again, that we will discuss.

But in terms of just outright pace, do you think he could have been in the mix? Yeah, I genuinely think he could have been in the mix. I think that, or actually robbed a little bit of another contender to be involved, at least with the pogging places properly with the pogging places, not as a sitting duck who was trying to conserve, really old tyres and try and hang on to any position he can. I love seeing Max Verstappen on the offensive. I love it when he's going out there and he's attacking.

Not in a slightly reckless, chaotic vibe that we got from this Grand Prix, but in a, I've got the car, I've got the tyres. I've just focused on the guy in front of me, I'm going to take this place because we see some brilliant racing from Max Verstapping in that attitude. And yet we had that taking away from us a little bit because of the spin. Then the early pit step under the safety car, of course, which went that.

I think he was back in 16th place twice. in the space of about five laps. He looked like he could really move through the field. Now, I know he was going through the midfield, and we've seen a large deficit between the two, but I think if he had a clean start and we saw the first 10 laps without problem, there's every chance I think he is beating Piastri, Lecler,

Russell, that fight that was happening, which he ended up just kind of being around because of the lack of tire wear. So, yeah, disappointed that we weren't able to actually see him fight for it properly. I'm pretty convinced he had the pace for third. I'm pretty convinced by that. And whether he had the pace to challenge Norris or Antonelli,

I'm uncertain, but it wouldn't have shocked me, based on what we saw from his pace in the sprint yesterday quite late on. And we saw it in part during this race as well. Like you say, it was more difficult to judge because those hard tyres he was on, he was trying to nurse to the end. And we never really saw just equal tire versus Antonelli or versus Norris. But he showed quite a bit in glimpses today. I think that spin has ultimately cost him a podium

and maybe even something a little bit better than that. It's a bit of a shame. And where we had Antonelli and Norris, you have to remember Antonelli strategically, of course, lap 26, he came into the pits to go from medium to hard tires. Norris goes in the next lap. Even if Vestappen was in that third spot and maybe didn't quite have the pace of those two,

that would have opened up strategically for him to do something a little bit different, maybe go a bit longer on that stint, or even try and do something like LeCler and Russell did, can go a bit earlier, but maybe not have as much traffic to go through, to the point that maybe he could have made that work. It would have been a lot more interesting to see him in that fight. Yeah, I'd like to have seen hanging out on the mediums.

Tireware clearly was good for him. The hard tires last a long time, so on the mediums it might have been great to see it. If a late safety car comes out, you never know, we might see the staffing having to defend from the lead rather than try and come all the way back through or sit on old hard size. We saw it in the sprint. His best pace was late in that stint. Of course, it's the equivalent of about one third of a Grand Prix. He was the one chasing down the likes of George Russell in that sprint late on. So there's every chance it could have worked the same way, where even if he didn't have the pace to match Norris and Antonelli early in the stint, maybe you could have done it late on.

there was a lot going on in Vastappen's race. We saw him pit for those hard tyres quite early. Do you think it was the right call? Yeah, I think so. I think so. I think realistically they tried to do something else. And when we had the threat of rain coming on, they were hoping that they can make up enough ground

on this fresh set of hard tires that it meant that either they could see out the lighter rain what others might have had to stop in tricky conditions and the hard time might have lasted longer than they expected. or it meant that they were able to use such great pace that they can undercut everyone to such an extreme level that the catch-up at the end of the Grand Prix might have been much harder.

I'm not saying that it was completely the right decision on the other hand, because Mustafa was clearly showing great pace moving through the field. I mean, even though there were some complaints from the Williams drivers, it felt like he was able to really side his way through, reassert himself back into the top ten very quickly. And with the safety car bringing the field back together,

it felt like he almost had a second lease of life to kind of attack again, that top six or seven. I think he still beats Lewis Hamilton with the damage that he had, for example, regardless. I don't think he was going to lose out too much there. So I would have liked to see him try, but it is the safe option, and I think it was sensible for him to stop. I think it's one of those where, regardless of what he did, he'd have ended up in the same place. I could see as an instance where he stayed out and he didn't pit under the safety car and actually just had the pace to legitimately beat the couple of cars in front of him, in which case that roughly.

gets him back to where he is anyway, whether he would have been able to beat Piahtri on that strategy, for instance, I don't know. But I understood what Vestappen and Red Bull were going for. This was, at that point, we were still unsure whether we were going to get any wet weather a bit later on, whether that was on lap 25, that first sort of, that first sort of range that we were looking at, or indeed later on, which was looking at about lap 40, which seemed more likely and was going to be heavier. And at that point, it didn't look like, anyone on the mediums was going to hang out for that sort of game, in which case,

for Stappen might have been able to undercut them all, and then when they already just come in for intermediates, he could have been leading the way. So I don't mind what they were trying to do. It was worth a go at that point. In terms of his multiple wheel-to-wheel incidents, if we were removing the start, obviously, from that since we've discussed it,

is there anything you felt was overboard? It's always tough with Max for Staffing, isn't it? He was aggressive out there. He was aggressive out there. There are a few moments where I'm thinking, yeah, he's going to tucking here. Oh, no, he's gone for another lunch. He's just absolutely sent it. I'll really bring it up, but it felt like the Williams team were definitely one of the more worse off

when it came to the Max for Stapping on slots of moving through positions. I do think he probably pushes the track limits a little far, especially around a track like Miami where the walls are so close. it could be a little bit uncomfortable at times. But equally, he knows his limits. He knows his rulebook. And it's rough and it's ready and wheel to wheel rubbing is racing. And I don't hate it.

This is a thing. I don't hate it. And I want drivers to be aggressive. I want them to be assertive and clinical. There are just a couple of moments where I think you probably slightly past the line there a little bit. Although there was one comment from Croftie that really made me laugh. Classic Crofty as well, where he goes, you know,

Max Verstappen is a very, he's a veteran driving hour. He's got great experience. And, you know, he knows that fighting Charlerlerc is actually going to end up damaging his race. So he won't do that at all. Proceeds to fight Charleclerc for three laps in a row. I'm like,

do you know what you're looking at? That man fights for everything toot and nail. And I respect that about him. But it did damage his Grand Prix. He then gets passed by a lot. Yeah, I don't know. It's hard to pick up. What did you think?

What did you think about their Williams stuff? You're always on the edge of your seat. with Vastappen, aren't you? He is a positive for this sport. I will always maintain that because you don't quite know what you're going to get, which, hey, entertainment, that's kind of why we're here. I think the issue that maybe the midfield has, and I understand it, if you're in the position of the Williams,

say Carlos Sainz, who himself had a bit to say on team radio about this, they're running their own race, they're not competing with Vastappen. And Vastappen knows that. So Vastappen is essentially happy to go into these corners, dive bomb, not leave any room on the outside, knowing that the Williams car or any other car in that situation is ultimately just going to back out because their choices either crash, which just doesn't help, it doesn't help Vastappen, but equally, Vastappen knows they're not going to do that because it doesn't help them at all, given Williams have barely got any points so far this year.

But equally, he will keep doing that if no one stands their ground. and decides to hold their line in a corner and go side-by-side racing with him. So as long as he can get away with it, he's not going to stop doing it. As soon as there's a crash, if Carlos Seines, for example, decides to race him side-by-side and Vastappen has contact and one of them's in the wool, at that point, Vestappen might get a penalty. But he knows it's not going to get to that. Equally, the one time that it felt like there might almost be a crash where I think it was a Williams that cut just back on front of the track

as they were going past the entrance. What I hate this, what I respect about Max for staffing is I hear a complaint from him when that happened. You know, there'll be some drivers. Oh, did he?

Yeah, yeah. All right. Take it all back. Little whinge bag. Don't do it if you like it. Yeah. I think at that point as well, he was so determined to just cut through the midfield

as fast as he could. Not saying everything was acceptable because of that, but that was his mentality, wasn't? It was just, I need to clear these cars as fast as possible. He saw them as an obstacle, not as competitors, which is the wrong way to go about it. Shall we have a look? A driver of the day. You're the driver of the day.

You're the driver of the day. You're good at driving. I love anyone who listens just to Race for a Revenue. views, by the way, because they're probably thinking we're massively negative about Vastappen, completely ignoring the fact that we've been heaping praise on him for the rest of the weekend. He did get Driver of the Day from the public vote, which did pull up the slightly amusing graphic of started second, ended fifth. But who are you giving Driver of the day to? I've got three contenders, I think. Three. There we is. And Saganli, Landon Norris, and

Colopinto is the people on my list. I'm not going for Colopinto because he was great. It's his highest place to finish in a Grand Prix, but, you know, there were some mitigated circumstances that I do think benefitting him, despite having a very consistent strong Grand Prix in the middle of nowhere. And I'm not going to give it to Kimi Antigone either. He had a couple of track infringements.

The start wasn't fantastic, but his race management was great and the outright pace was brilliant. I think the cards were stacked against Landlain, Norris, and I think that actually, a car that wasn't as quick, with a pit stop that wasn't as quick in a position that was held up further back, he put up a real

genuine attack offensive on that lead and I think he kept Kimi Antigelli under pressure the entire Grand Prix and I was really impressed with what he was able to do in that car so for me I've got Landang Norris they were the three names that I highlighted as well

I think they were the three best on the day Colopento like you say it sounds weird he might be held back slightly by Pierre Gazley not being in this Grand Prix because if Ghazley's in that race and Colopinto beats him by 10 seconds, that really bolsters his claim to be driver of the day.

But ultimately because Alpine were clear of those other midfield cars, he just barely saw him all afternoon because he was just running his own race. And credit to him, he's picked up four very valuable points for the team. But that's why I'm not going to go with him. I'm going to go with Antonelli,

but it's close between the other two. I think they were, again, a long way clear of everyone else. They were the class of the field in this Grand Prix, and where others were making errors, getting involved in battles, maybe they didn't want to be involved in. They were sailing off into the distance. I'll go Antonelli for the way he managed it late on, but it's closed between those top two. Wouldn't be surprised if they end up with a very similar grading on tomorrow's Power Rankings episode that you can find exclusively on our Patreon. Yeah, and you can be involved in.

Don't forget that there is a Patreon member's vote for each ranking as well. So have you say, get involved. We love your involvement on this show. As you'll find out at the end of this episode with Mountain of the Race. Indeed. What about worst driver of the day? Get in the bin, bin, bin, bin, bin, worst driver of the day. Yeah, Ben, Ben, Ben, Worse driver of the day.

You suck at driving. A few retirements in this one, Sam. A few instances of a teammate finishing quite a long. way behind. Where are you going with this one? Worst of the day, sometimes tricky to pick out, isn't it? Because, like, for example,

I haven't given it to this person. Let's take Charlerclair, for example. Leading the race at one point, and then he spins and hits the wall and ends up dropping multiple additions at the end of the Grand Prix, and that's a pretty costly mistake, which is entirely on himself.

And yet, he doesn't even come close to me. The person that does, though, is Isaac Hatcher, who has had a pretty tough weekend. You know, he was disqualified. from qualifying due to his barge borgs being about what two millimeters too wide which is tough that is tough but then only a few lapsing after what looked like it could be quite a promising start for him getting past the immediate and obvious bat markers he drives straight into the wall entirely on his own unprovoked unchallenged and that is just a rookie mistake he was having a bad weekend

anyway when he was already a second behind the staffing and the qualifying you know and then eight tenths behind the staffing and the other qualifying no points really to be scored elsewhere. Yeah, it's been a rough weekend and that really was the cherry on the top of the cake. Yeah, it's, it's Haja. There can be a few drivers that are thankful for Haja and have avoided potentially being in the discussion for this vote because Hatcher crashed by himself. Unfortunate error from him and we forget sometimes with how fast they're going through, even though, even these low-speed corners, how marginal it is. But ultimately, all of these other drivers are doing this lap after lap after lap.

And Hajas made that error without, I don't want to say without reason, but it's not like he had someone side by side with him in that corner or anything like that. So, yeah, he's easily his toughest race in a Red Bull so far, frustratingly for him on the weekend where Red Bull have showed the most so far. Yeah, which maybe says something that the car is going away from the second driver's seat ability again. Hmm, we'll see when we get Canada, big brain strat. I need you to box for wets. What?

It's not even raining out. What are you talking about? Yeah, and Bob, if you get a chance, later. I'm going to jump in here and go with Fernando Alonzo, just praying that it's going to rain at some point. In his car doing a whole rain down, just to make something happen. He was out there so long of those medium tires, hoping that it was going to rain.

And what does he gain from doing it? Like, nothing? Like, he beats Perez, who he was going to be anyway. I feel so bad for him, man. So bad for him. But I, I, why not? Why not, I guess? What was your big brain strap?

I'll come back to the OGs, of course. Ferrari. It's always good to give them something. And they are the creators of the big brain strap for a reason. They are. But the reason to pit Charlerlerc, without telling Charlerclair, that you're going to pitch Charlotte Claire and him understanding why Charlotte Claire has been Pitt is quite committed.

I am here. I am here. Really, really funny. Equally, just drops him behind George Russell, who he's, he was leading at one point. And how he's stuck behind Harskarskarting George Rosses. That was like four weeks ago he was leading. That can't have been today.

It's the same race. He was leading on the first lap and comfortably at one point. Yeah, it was a real tough one for Charlotte Clare today. That really was the funny bit, though. Well, let's call that a little bit of an appetiser because after the break, we're going to be discussing more about Ferrari and how on earth they managed to finish just sixth and seventh.

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But I appreciate those of you that we're listening a few weeks ago, we'll already know that. I just wanted to make sure that anyone who's returning to the podcast maybe after a month. month away from F1 is updated. Shall we get into Ferrari? Oh, good. Yes. The main course has arrived. You've had your appetiser, your entree.

We've had a little chit-chat. And now it's time to attack it. P6 and P7 on appropriately, episode number 667, after you rightly said, Shaulachler led this race. Yeah. It's like coming home, isn't it, Ferrari P6 and P7?

So we're back. Nostalgia, it's kicked in. Yeah. We spoke a lot recently about how is there a risk that they beat in Mercedes for a moment, McLaurag of Stepting. There's a real chance that they can maybe capitalize. It's all the pieces are coming together. And yet, no.

No, no, no, no. Some of the pieces are falling off, I would argue, across this Grand Prix. Yeah. Scattered around the racetrack here in Miami. So, yeah. six and seventh, well behind all of their competition, with potential penalties still to be applied. I think it became clear even with Charlecoe leading on the first lap,

and he led more than just the first lap as well. There was a good chunk of that first stint he was ahead. I think it became clear that whilst Ferrari weren't slow, Norris and Antonelli did have an advantage over him. But equally, I felt it was only Norris and Antonelli, and at that point, P3 was very much still there for the taking, and I don't think he would have been a huge amount behind the top two. But strategically, Ferrari have reared their ugly head once more.

Slow pit stop, trying to respond to George Russell, who it wasn't very competitive in this race, and ultimately LeCleur is trying to manage tyres late on that are quite worn. It just, when Antonelli came out, and the undercut of Charles LeCleur, and indeed George Russell had not been effective in any way. I just went aside. Yeah.

Yeah, disappointment came out in a shape of a Ferrari car. When George Russell pit first, and they saw that he had basically caught up to traffic almost immediately and wasn't making huge inroads on the cars around him, I was surprised that they felt like they needed to react so quickly with Charlotte Claire, because it did feel like the way that Antingale and Norris was starting to gap the field behind them. Sherlock Cloor was almost being slightly told along in that group.

He was kind of there or thereabouts. He was able to make a bit of space for himself. And I do think if they could just simmer down for five or six laps, let Scholl, let him cook. You know, just let the mindset come and actually start to pull out a few tents on the battle that was happening behind, which was at that point, Russell, Piastri. Hamilton was kind of holding on.

For Staffing, of course, had the threat of the big undercut on the hard ties. But they've known that for a long time. So that was new information to them. I do think a bit of patience here could have actually gone a long way. And actually, because of the outright speed of the Ferrari, I think fresh tyres later on with a massively benefited them. They might not have had slow pit stop.

You know, these things happen. They might not have happened if they were waited. He also wouldn't have had to deal with the Haast team. Russell, you know, we saw his pace. I don't think he would have been any different in terms of the perspective gap that he could have had there. And equally, the fresh tyres later on in the Grand Prix will have allowed him to catch the staff more comfortably

and steer clear of Piastri and Russell who were chasing him further along in the race. So it just felt like it all over. They took one wrong turn and it just unraveled completely for him. And even with the way that it unraveled, it still looked like P3 was possible. I think if it weren't for the slow stop,

he comes out ahead of George Russell and doesn't have to waste multiple laps getting past him. And at that point, maybe Piastri catches him one lap too late. and he isn't under pressure and he does finish P3. So I think third place was even doable with the strategy not being optimal. But if they did have an optimal strategy,

I think it would have been quite comfortable for him. I just think that power unit is ever so slightly off versus the Mercedes. Not by much, but just about too far away at the moment. But it does, I think, give them a fair amount of encouragement. If they can fix that,

with potentially a review coming up shortly, it could be enough again to put them in this conversation. Oh, God. Well, we're going to stop having the conversation about Ferrari putting themselves into the conversation. Or they just going to be the conversation. To be fair, that's the one thing we haven't seen from them, though, is that power unit, if that can get better. Because if that doesn't lead to them being, like, in the mix for first and seconds,

then they might have to panic because I'm not sure where it's coming from at that point. Yeah, yeah. And you can say the same thing about the forward engine in the back of the Red Bull. I mean, even when Lecler reached... the staff on those much older tires, he was tricky to pass for him and actually going down the longest straits, it took a couple of goes to get the job done.

Unlike Piastri, who basically, within a lap, circulating the whole track around him, got the job done and moved on. It just shows you they've got that little bit extra oof going down the streets. Hamilton, at least at the moment, makes up the seventh of the P6, P7, but that could change around

if Lecler is penalised at all for what happened on the final lab. He did pick up damage, early on, thanks to contact with Franco Colopinto. But we also saw the rest this weekend, Lewis Hamilton wasn't particularly quick. Do you think it changed anything? Would he have been fighting towards the front,

if not for that incident? If the entire race was exactly the same and Lewis Hamilton didn't have damage with Franco Colopinto, there's a chance he's on the back of that, the Stappen, Russell, LeCler, shangangans in the last lap. and I think I'm being kind with a chance. I don't think it's a guarantee. I don't think he's ahead of anyone.

I do think he's still the last in that pack and he might get a bit lucky with someone falling short, being slow, getting caught up in traffic, having damage, whatever it might be. He managed his race well. He had proper damage. The sidepog was severely damaged after that lap 1. Downforceing a lot of these areas,

especially through Sector 1 at Miami, is really crucial for having a fast lap time. He had to manage. He's very fortunate that the car's behind him were either in the wall, i.e. Hager, or they're in the midfield and they're so far off the pace anyway that they're not really getting a challenge, you've got

damaged Ferrari. It was only for Stappan that you feel with the mistake that he made in a fully fledged functioning car he probably could have maybe gone on to beat but otherwise, I don't think the position alters. I'll be honest. If you presented

that race to me and cut out the Hamilton Colopinto, like just cut out from the footage that that had happened. And you said to me, and you gave the result to me and said, do you think Hamilton had damage? I would say, yeah, I'm like 75% sure he had damage. Because sure, that result makes sense that he had damage. And that's why he was slower than everyone else. But equally, it was kind of in keeping with everything else we saw in the weekend. Like the two qualifying sessions, he wasn't particularly quick. Wasn't particularly quick in the sprint as well. He was

very comfortably, I fought second best of the two Ferraris. He was. So... This is worst weekend so far this season. And maybe the damage saves his blushes, blessings? Blushes. Blushes a little bit. You know, idioms are hard.

Idioms are hard. But finishing Kyra than P6 is even more hard. That's true. Yeah. The concerning thing for Hamilton, I think, is that I agree. I think this was his most difficult weekend of the season so far. It follows round three. which to that point was his most...

The weekend of the season, yeah. Trend is good. I've said this, said this after race two. If other teams start getting better, Lewis Hamilton is going to start getting worse because he just hasn't got that cutting edge that he had three, four years ago to make the difference anymore.

And McLaren are now better. Stappen was very good on his raw pace, maybe not with his racecraft, it's okay, but that's one race. If the Red Bulls can be there every race now, it's another spot that he's going to lose. How long is it until Hagsar is able to pull war out of that Red Bull.

Sometimes I think a result doesn't necessarily tell the whole story. And I think that applies with George Russell. He was awful. My man has got the luckiest two finishes across this weekend. He has gained essentially at the end of the Grand Prix twice this weekend. Like I appreciate he avoided some errors where others found them and that deserve some credit. But if we're just talking pace, that is one of his worst weekends in Formula One. Like not just, we're not talking this season.

When was the last time you can remember Russell being that much slower than a teammate? And he had Hamilton for a teammate. Over 30 seconds back from a teammate. And it's not just any teammate, it's the 19-year-old that's only being a championship fight for the first time ever in his entire life. It's jarring. It doesn't look right just based on, again, I know we're looking at last year and Russell was consistently, like, that same distance better than Antonelli. But again, like he was with Hamilton at Mercedes for multiple. years where they were incredibly close. It was very rare that one of them had a massive advantage over

the other. It doesn't look right that Russell is 30 seconds behind a teammate. And yet, here he is this weekend, just not able to do what Ancinelli was able to do. Yeah, clearly he wasn't comfortable with the car in this Grand Prix. I don't think there were problems with the car either. I just think that something wasn't clicking. And the frustrations you could hear were coming out. You know, after the safety car restart, guys, I'm in the wrong mode. Like, why haven't you told me? Well, equally, that is kind of on you as the driver to be aware of what Mojuring. And that happened in Japan. And it's happened in China.

He's had three safety car restarts where it's not gone to plan for him. And that starts to make a, you know, once is a mistake, twice is a bit of a, you need to change something. Three times, you look a bit of a fool. And I think it's cost him again. The pace after the pit stop, the undercut was great, even on fresher tires, he wasn't able to maximize things. He only got the advantage of Shell of a slow pit stop, which he then lost out to.

I think he's ended up incredibly lucky to finish P4 here because of a huge calamity of errors from other drivers around him. I hope for his sake, and I don't mind who wins the championships this year, of course. I hope for his sake he turns this around and becomes more competitive again because if he doesn't, his radio message after winning an Australia, I love this engine, I love this car, is going to be replayed for years and not in a good way. What silly thing did he say after that?

I can't remember. It was like a yabodam-dab-do. Did he do Borat or something? Oh, yes. Yes, it was Borat. Man does Borat and can't drive a car anymore. My mother gets meaning to a Caribbean if he doesn't win the championship but does Borat after race one.

I think he does turn it around, but this was not a good one. He even said like, I think it was maybe after the sprint or after qualifying, this isn't one of his favourite tracks, which kind of concerned. Because whilst I understand that might be true, it concerns me he said that because, number one, he finished on the podium here last year. And secondly, that wasn't a problem last year. We didn't have any instance of, OK, this was just an off weekend. He was just on it every weekend nearly. It does seem to be a new trend this season where drivers are quite happily coming out and saying,

I don't really like this racetrack. And then that seems to be an excuse to not be very good at the racetrack. If you're going to a title, you've got to really limit your bads, and maximise your goods. And George Russell did not do that. He got so lucky to pick up another four or five points at the end of that Grand Prix because I think at one point,

he was going to be 24 points behind Kimmy Antingelli going into Canada. And now it's already going to be something like 18 or something like that. So, you know, the limitations are starting to stack up here, George. It's going to hurt you real quick. Moving a bit further down the grid, we had some early retirements in this race, including Gasley and Lawson

as a result of their contact into turn 17, understanding after the race that Lawson seems to have a gearbox issue that caused that crash and does ultimately cause the retirement of both of them. I think based on Limbludd's pace, I think racing balls were a bit stinky this weekend, so might not have actually... Yeah, I don't think it would have got many points anyway, but frustrating for him for his race to end so early. Safe Gassley. Yeah, I think he excelled in qualifying, actually, to pick up the position that he did.

I think that actually real shows. Google all pace from Liam Lawson. If it does come out 100% that it was the gearbox and this isn't a convenient excuse, then that's just very unlucky, incredibly bad timing. I'm real shame for both drivers. I'm going to say more so, Pierre Gasly, because Gasly was really unlucky with how the start happened. He was one of those drivers that ended up being quite badly affected by Max Verstappan Sping,

by the way the rejoin. It kind of went exactly how we said in yesterday's review, saying Colopinto had the bad luck, and it could reverse. first tomorrow. And it does. It does. And Gassi was starting to work his way back through. And we know Gassi is a reliable driver. He's super quick. If he was going to maximize that outpaying in the midfield, it was going to be him. And I do think that beating both Williams, ensuring that he's probably going to finish, maybe at worst, P9, was definitely on the cards for him. So it's a couple of points lost. I think it's fortunate. It's only a couple of points lost because Gassadilly always

looks good when he's on the racetrack. Doesn't he just? I've made you wait for this one, Sam. Yeah, I know you have. Some bold prediction hedging going on here on the show. Let's do. Bold predictions. I'll get mine out the way because I said that Audi would score points with both drivers in this main race. What did they do, mate?

I've got to make the same prediction next time because it's there. They've got it and they can't convert it. Bortoletto. The carcass blows up. Yeah, I know. Bortoletto has finished 12th after starting on the back row of the grid and had the pace, I think, to beat the hash drivers and maybe the Williams drivers as well.

Holcomburg, who qualified well, was 11th. I mean, at least I wasn't on the edge of my seat thinking, is this going to come true or not? Because Hulkenberg was out and a few laps in. But, man, they just... It's just something... They can't put it all together. Same as far away.

Every time it's going to become funnier, you know that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good. Mine, of course, was that Colopinto would be in the top 10 for sprint qualifying, top 10 for qualifying, and then top 10 for the race. It was a triple parter. Let me tell you, the absolute poo that came out of my pants when I saw that Alping upside down. And I thought, oh, no, no, no, please, Franco, no.

Thank you, Pierre. for sacrificing yourself from my bold prediction. A rare moment of humility on this podcast, but I will say, I am very glad you got the point here because it was a very good bold prediction. And if you'd got two thirds of the way there and something stupid had happened like Colopinto

had retired 10 laps from the end, I would have felt genuinely bad for you because we like to see good predictions rewarded on this podcast and today it has. Yeah, it's nice to get one. I think if we waited too many more races, without either of a skating one, it might start to be a bit silly. I think I've got my own fright for the Bahrain and Saudi races.

I think you did too. Oh, yeah. Three two now, yeah. Yeah, sure, that's how it works. Sure. More bold predictions coming later in the month for the Canadian GP. We're going to take one final break. On the other side, it's Moment of the Race.

Welcome back, everyone, to the final part of today's episode. It's time for Moment of the Race. And, of course, that means we have Discord submissions. But before we get to those, Sam, was your moments of the race? I was so tempted to go for a moment of the race that happened before when Brundle did his Grigwalk and we have the incredible moment with DJ Callage where he was on the live stream of DJ Callig at the same time as being on the show.

What was he trying to say by the way? Like we make the weather or the weather? I don't know. Doesn't rain on DJ Callig. He's got some supernatural powers where he doesn't feel the rain. Cheers, DJ. Yeah. And then of course, Jimmy Fallon is what was going on there.

Every time he sees anyone, he just seems to scream. would jump around in their face. It was bizarre. He might be the most American man that's ever existed. I didn't think it was that weird. That was intense. But I've gone for a tiny little detail, and I think it was against a racing ball. Vastappen was having a fight.

And he thought, you know what? I'm not going to let that get past me. So around the outside, I think it was of turn three. He just sings it all the way around the outside. I thought that was sweet. That was a naughty, naughty move. And it was really, really well done. So that was my moment at the race.

I'm going to give my moment of the race to David Croft, which might be a first, and he gets a lot of, he gets a lot of stick on this podcast, and it's like 99% deserved, but the moment of the race, Crofty sometimes this season has been willing to play ball when it comes to the regulations and let me try and hype them up a little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, a bit of a yes man in that sense. But today, we got a bit of angry Crofty at the way in, which Vestappen's potential penalty for crossing the pit lane exit line,

we got a bit of anger from him at the fact that it wasn't being investigated during the race. And I have to say, David, you're 100% right. Why is that not being investigated during the Grand Prix? It's just, it's very rare that I sit on my sofa watching a race and go, yes, Croftie, you are right. You know what, Dave, you're 100% right here. They should be doing their job in the Blumen races. What else are they doing?

farcical, an embarrassment to the sport. Yes. So that was mine, but we have got these Discord submissions coming in. Thank you very much to all of you after what has been a very long break for submitting. We'll play as many as we can. We're going to start with DJ Spin to Win.

What's popping, everybody? It is DJ Spin to Win. My moment of the race for the Miami GP was the return of Mad Max. His race craft today was phenomenal, as well, the debut of the yellow V-carb. That livery is chef's kiss

anyways keep breaking late okay all right intro and outro music I love it I'll pick up on the second point of the racing balls livery

which I don't love as much as most I think it's okay I don't love it as much as maybe some of the other ones they've done who decided to put yellow on the on the trousers

why is it on the crotch area why have they yellow in the only space of the whole suit is where their groin is why Why? And what's impressive is,

Racing Bulls have racets where it looks like the drivers have peed themselves. And yet they don't have the worst race suits this week, because Mercedes showed up. What is up with those milker? Come on.

Big up milker, by the way. Very tasty chocolate. I don't even go racet suit like that. Exactly. Thank you very much DJ Spin to win for the very musical submission. Shall we hear from the one and only?

Norm from Texas. Oh, hello, my late breaking friends from across the league, Bigwood. It is I. Norm from Texas, and I'm here to get my moment of the race, and my moment of the race is coming back from a break, we get in an absolute binger of a race. Anyway, moment of the race, whole thing. Anyway, keep breaking late.

Love that. Not how it works, Norm, buy. Appreciate the submission. My guy has been here since day one. Norm is an OG, and yet he still doesn't do it correctly, and I live for that. I live for the fact that that submission was 17 seconds long, and nine seconds of it was the intro.

That's how Norm wrongs, baby. Love it, man. Thank you very much, Norm. Let's head next to Raff 21. Moment of the race was Charles O'Slayer giving me an absolute heart attack when he spun on the final lap and then proceeding to drop three positions. It might be the most Ferrari of Ferrari races that I just watched. But, oh well, good race, nonetheless.

entertaining. Yeah, my fantasy team didn't like that. No, mine neither. I'll tell you what, though, outside of the very glad that he's okay, obviously, with this, the image of him just, like, appearing out of the corner, was heroic.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's like, Crawford's like, oh, no, Charlotte Clers out of the race. I have risen. No, I'm not. I imagine there'd be, like, a Michael Baye moment as he comes around the corner, like the Evangance theme will play, as he pulled around.

But it's a shame he was really slow for the rest of the lap. Yeah, not his best lap in F one. I knew. The Bungalorian. It's the McLaren CEO. Yeah. And the moment of the race

has to be the melee that was lap one. Oh my gosh. Everything was chaos. Somehow no rain. But that was crazy. Yeah. I will say with first laps,

maybe just like the first portions of races this year. It does feel like the start of races are absolute chaos. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. They're a lot of fun. They are a lot of fun. I mean, it also helps that the Sades cannot do road starts to save their lives and they're often the ones at the front. So we tend to get new race leaguers, which means fight for the lead. It's a very convenient issue to have currently. I'd like it to continue through the rest of the Grand Prix. We do get some lowell moments. But Miami was better. Thank you very much, Bungers, who clearly with McLaren's upturn in form this weekend is is proud to be McLaren CEO once more.

Let's go to Charlotte. Hey, L.B, my moment of the race was Isaac physically crashing out and then mentally crashing out. It was devastatingly emo, felt like we needed some my chemical romance or something in there. All we were missing was the... No, no, I destroy the car. I love that clip so much.

I destroy the car! Do you a lot of people that got no idea what that is? I can't remember if it was F2 F3, but Jack Duhin also did an impression of him doing that, which was very funny last year. Speaking of Hager, there was

a shot earlier where should be failing again. He was doing an interview. How was that? I got three references. I know. And Hager, and he's speaking to a camera, right? And his producer is holding a notepad over the top of the camera. I'm here with my favorite F1 drivers right now.

Max for Stepping, written as Max for Stepping. And Isak Hajar, all in like Daph marks, forgetting to spell out. Like, it's hard to say. I mean, to be fair,

you might look at Isaac and say automatically Isaac. Sure. So I, I appreciate the effort to try and get it right, even if it looks a bit weird. But Hajjar?

Even Crofties found that one difficult at times this year, so maybe playing it safe. I'm not, I'm not letting that one slide. And thank you, Charlotte, for the submission. You win crispest submission of the week.

Beautiful audio. George Russell's tears up next. Oh, God. Hi, guys. It's me, George Russell's tears. My moment of the race was what I saw. Can we win the race again? And then I had to get bags again in front of him.

Man, it's so good to see 20 years later, the resurfacing of Leave Brittany Alone, Guy. Yeah, he definitely sent that from under a blanket with the scarer rang it down his face. Yeah, fair play. That was good. That was funny. Also, I love that George's tears are American. Yeah, you wouldn't have thought to say, but here we are. Absolute Gem is up next. Hello, good people of late breaking.

Absolute Gem here with my moment of the race, which is the announcement, the breaking news, that Aston Martin were on for a double car finish, their first of the season. Big Wolf. Yeah, he's very right. That's the best thing that's happened to estimate

on the season. Well done. I guess. They each beat one Cadillac each. Yeah. Honestly, it was depressing with Alonzo was on those fresh soft tires

towards the end of this race and Perez was on used hearts in his Cadillac that remember six months ago Watson's an F1 team and Alonzo, he gets bypassed Perez, just.

You were like a God Almighty send around the outside. And it took him like 10 attempts to do it. Yeah, we had to listen to this whole spiel about how many races Alonso Perez and Bottas they all been going through. And in this whole conversation, Alonso still hasn't got past Perez at that point. It's pretty tragic.

Final submission for today comes from Random CAD. Hello, weight breaking a lot. This is Random CAD. So my moment of their aces got to be when they all collectively in the cool down room just went oof at the race start.

I was surprised with the the cool down room that they didn't turn down the volume as soon as Piastri started talking about the regulations. Man, these cars are really difficult to defend with just fades to nothing.

DJ Calik that starts playing over the top. Shaquille O'Neal, I don't know where. Oh, I was thinking, DFS today, right? And in the, yeah, right, Rogue turn. In the back of the shop, there's a giant diesel

Shack O'Neill poster. Why? In DFS? He sells lazy boys, now. I'm like, in a furniture store. Yeah, like a British furniture store, there's DFS.

You see Antonelli thought that he saw Shaquille O'Neal in his press conference. No. He was in his press conference, I think, after qualifying yesterday, and there's someone DJ and he thinks it's Shaquille O'Neill. And I think one of, maybe it was for Stappan or LeClau, just,

that's not shag. My guy, Matt, he's got a shack. Thank you very much to all of those moment of the race submissions. Much appreciated. Next time we'll be back with those. We'll be the Canadian GP, which is in a few weeks time, Sam,

but we've got plenty of F1 to be talking about between now and then, if you wouldn't mind getting us out of here. Folks, by our midweek review, we may have just heard what the Stewart's decisions were. when it comes to all these penalties. Who knows? Maybe we'll get a whole new race review out of it.

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