The Late Braking F1 Podcast - The 2022 LB F1 Awards!

Episode Date: December 21, 2022

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This podcast is part of the Sports Social Podcast Network. Thank you for listening to the Late Breaking F1 podcast. Make sure to tune in for new episodes every Wednesday and Grand Prix Sunday. Hello and a very warm welcome to the late breaking F1 podcast presented by Harry Eid, Sam Sage and me, Ben Hocking. And usually it would be just the three of us. But it's not a normal episode. It's not your old run-of-the-mill regular episode from your favourite late breaking boys. No, it is something very different, which means there's four of us here today.

Hello, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the 2022 Elbe. With me, your host, Clives Pigglesworth. Yes, that's like chives with an L. And of course, I'm with special guests. Harry, Ben Hocking, hang, our lovely Samuel Sage, there's going to be a huge array of awards to receive today. Can you guess what stupid choices the boys are going to make? Here we go, back to Ben.

I mean, before we get into any of the awards that we'll be handing out today on the LBs, how have you been over the last year or so, Clives? It's been, it's been a while. Quite stuffy, actually. I've been in the cupboard for 365 days. Sam will not let me out. You say Dave in there? Yeah.

Dave gets to walk out whenever it wants. So, wherever it is that gung noise and the rattle of a 50 pegs piece on the floor, he gallops off and I'm left in the cupboard with the vacuum cleaner. Sam, sorry, Clives, can you ask Sam some. questions and then Sam can you reply? What would you like me to ask him? He's a little bit busy at the moment. Just ask him how his day's been.

Sam, are you there? Yeah, you're right, Clives. The boys are going to, how are you dating? How are you dating? It's been all right. I went to Asda and I did ask the car. It was quite cold here in London. So bad.

Yeah, I wouldn't know. I wouldn't know. I've been stuck in that cupboard. I least you've had the heating on. Anyway, I guess we'll have. hand it back to the boys. Cheers, Clives. This is impressive, but that might be the worst thing we've ever done. Which bodes well for the next hour or so.

Yeah, the LBs. If you haven't tuned into the last couple of years, we always do an end of year award show where we hand out some of our favourite awards. I think we've got about 10 or so coming up today, including, of course, who will make the 2002 late-breaking Hall of Fame? We introduced this last year.

We know that the 2021 inductees were Dave Benson Phillips, Yuki Sonoda, Big Shack, Shaquille O'Neill and Harry's Fire Alarm. But who's going to make the cut this year? There's been a really difficult one to choose. A lot of nominations. A lot of nominations. We'll get to that last. But we'll start with award number one, which is for race of the season. Now, last year, it was the Brazilian Grand Prix that won.

this award but what race will win it this time out sam any opening gambit from you yeah this one came down to two options for me um the initial one was i think when it happened by far the best race that we see at that point and that was silverstone it was a menace of a weekend produced some brilliant moments uh that fantastic move from lewis hamilton as he went down the inside of the clara and perise as they drifted off the track but i'm not going to give my nomination to silverstone now i'm going to give it to Hungary, which I think was possibly one of the most underrated races we've seen for a long time. It had it all, all three top twos fighting out at the top. It had drama with Ferrari. It had Lewis Hamilton hot on the hills of Matt's for Staffing, who did a 360 just for

style points who then went on to wing it. It had top two starting out of position. Honestly, thoroughly enjoyed the Hungarian Grand Prix. Hungarian, no one's ever saying like that before. But for me, that is my nomination, the Hungry Grand Prix. Right. And of course, with these awards, we will get all three of our opinions and then choose a collective winner. So we might have to vouch for our own choice in a moment or so. Harry, did you have a race of the season? Both are the ones Sam that said were on my list. But the one I've actually gone for is Brazil, Brazilian GP.

Not because there was a sprint. That doesn't count towards anything. but thoroughly enjoyed Brazil had a lot had a lot of a drama in it and it was good and maybe it was because it wasn't a Red Bull winning it

but it was just nice to have it a bit of a mix up at the front for the ones this year the other one I almost said but I couldn't because I hate the track was Saudi Arabia and I don't know if you remember but the DRS chicken

the hashtag DRS chicken hashtag DRS chicken the Lecler of Estappen were having that battle they had actually, even though I hate the track, I love the battle they had at Saldi, a reminder to what was a championship battle.

They were good, weren't they? Once upon a time. Once upon a time, but I didn't go for that. I think it's still all the cards. I think it could, LeCler's still in with a chance. There's a lot of days left in the year. When do you think you'll wrap it up by?

Well, he's got a few days left. Okay. You know, it's not over until January. I'm going to get Brazil. Okay. So you're actually going for the same race that won it last year, which just prove the point that Brazil is not capable of producing a bad track. Such a good track.

Here's an idea F1. It shook Damon Hills front win off. It is. Good fact that. Here's an idea F1. Have the Brazilian Grand Prix as the last race of the year? Wow. I've done that before.

That's revolutionary. It is revolutionary. Tell you what, you can go to the bank, you can cash that one for free. No problem. Okay. So in terms of what I had, I think Brazil was good to very good. I think for a Brazilian Grand Prix, it was actually perhaps below average, which says more about how good Brazilian Grand Prix are rather than how the race was.

It was still a very good race. I actually had four ones that I came up with. I had sort of Bahrain and Britain in the sort of tier two category. And then I had two at the top, which I wanted one of those two to win. And since one of them has already been mentioned, I imagine that's what collectively will go with. Hungary, I agree with you, Sam, I think was really underrated as a Grand Prix. Who knew? Having like six drivers in contention for a race win would be a good idea and produce

good racing. For whatever reason we got, the formula was perfect for Hungary and all six drivers were really in a good fight. Ferrari obviously helped that out massively by, you know, thinking hard tyres were a good idea, but it was a great race nonetheless. The other one that hasn't been mentioned, but was actually tied for first for me, was the United States Grand Prix. I thought it was an absolute belter. It would have been even more interesting if signs that get torpedoed on the first corner. But even outside of that, the Aston Martins being a factor was really interesting.

We had different strategies. We had Magnus and trying to make it to the end on seven-year-old tires, whereas Vettel, who was kind of messed over through strategy, had to make his way back through the field. Great race. And I guess, and I'm not just saying this, because we are going to Texas next year. If you're going to Texas next year.

Not just that. I've always been a bit on the fence about. about Coater, because, just because of the runoff, I've really struggled to get over the fact that there's no grass or gravel, or the limited grass. I think I can finally say now I'm a convert and I'm a fan of Austin.

Can we go and see the Dallas Cowboys next year? Potentially. I mean, it'll be NFL season. How near are they to, to Co-Ther? Half an hour, I reckon. It's like something like, isn't it?

Yeah. Very close. It's like London to Redding. I would assume so. I feel like we've probably hit a real niche there of people that are really clued up on US and UK geography who are currently shouting at you. Yeah, maybe we can see the Dallas Cowboys. Oh man, that would be so good. Get to go to Jerry World.

Yeah. What is Jerry World? Jerry World. Jerry Halleywell? The owner is called Jerry Jones. And in their home stadium is often referred to as Jerry World. Where in the world? It's the sort of thing Bernie would do.

Bernie World is also a F1. Who's getting this LB? We've got off of a stupid tangent. Oh, hungry. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's hungry because two of us have said it. Well done. First LB, Clives, who does it go to?

Ladies and gentlemen, the LB4 race of the season goes to the one that makes my tummy rumble. Indeed, it's hungry. Good. Genuine. Good, good, good. Award number two is another returner from last year. The Drive to Survive, 2023 fake story of the year.

What are Netflix going to choose is a storyline from this season that really wasn't actually one. I've got a few just to kick us off here. Vettel versus Magnuson at the US Grand Prix. I reckon they can get some of the... You remember the Magnuson comments about Nico Holcomberg? You know, all the rest of it.

You could say they were balls, Ben. I was being inclusive or... Delicate. Yeah, delicate, that's the word. But I think they can basically just get footage of that in, so it appears as if he's saying it at Vettel for the move. I think that's a good one. Gasly leaving Alfatari because he hates Yuki Sanoda.

That could be one as well. And Nick DeVries poisoning Alex Almond to get in the car at Italy. I think all three could be contenders. Have you got anything, Sam? Yeah, well, I was going to go actually down the route of several members of the midfield trying to sabotage DeVries getting on the grid entirely by saying that he's quite literally debris in the Formula One field. of course he just gets in the way constantly

he doesn't deserve a spot on the grid and that he's a bit of a Formula One village bike everyone's had a go with the DeVries So sure The other way out which is far more I guess realistic to happen Is the um they're going to build a pantomime Around Max Verstappen absolutely hating Sergio Perez

And it's all going to come to a crescendo At the Brazilian Grand Prix That was my slightly more realistic take Not that it's actually real but Don't put it behind it flicks to make something happen. So there are my two. Harry? I've got two. One is better than the other. But the first one is Daniel Ricardo versus Sebastian Vettel. They finished on equal points, I believe. Oh yeah. Yeah. 37 points each.

But they're going to flash it back to the Red Bull days. Oh. The tragic split. When they were friends until they weren't. That sort of thing. And that's all led to this final epic jewel for 11th and 12th place in the championship. The battle for 37 points. Yeah. I call it lucky 37. And the other one isn't actually necessarily a fake story, but we've brought this up before. But it's Fernando Alonzo Lewis Hamilton taking us all for a bag of chips with this.

They hate each other rivalry. And they're going to... The hat. When I said there's mileage out of the Magnuson one, there's mileage out of the Alonso Hamilton one. Like, they're going to make the most of that. And it's not a fake story, but I've said before, they don't hate each other. They're winding us all up now. I'm telling you.

Next time, next time, Fernando, whenever we have contact, say I can only race from first. And then, and then I'll tweet this picture. So good. Some strong contenders in that. Yeah. I do like Ricardo versus Vessel. I think the Lucky 37 has got a lovely ring to it

and I think for me that's got it. That's an episode title right there. They got it. Yeah. There we go. So the, well, Oglary has announced the winner, of course. Ladies and gentlemen, the winner of the 2023 Netflix making up some kind of story award goes to the Lucky 37 with Vesvetel and Ricardo re-hashing their jewel from the early days of their career.

and battling out until the 37th points. Iconic stuff from Netflix, thank you. I mean, it makes it even better that, but can you think of a time this year when Ricardo and Vetter were really battling each other? It could not be further away. All right, award number three, best result of the year.

So this could be a win, but doesn't necessarily need to be. For example, last year, the winner of this award was George Russell for his quality. lap at spa. Best result of the year, Harry. What have you got? There are a few here, but the one I've settled on, is Lando Norris's podium at Imola,

which until very recently, I'd forgotten about, and to be honest, that, sorry, it can hear some rustling, Santa's opening a worldly bar. What a time to do that. Sorry, Clives is opening a whirling bar. Clives, you can eat afterwards. I'm sorry

Anyway Lando Norris Yeah To be honest That McLaren's unlike last year That McLaren has not deserved to be Anywhere near a podium All year

So for me Yeah I'm very impressed I know it took the club Absolutely bottling it Which I forgot I forgot that in a other podcast Anyway

Absolutely bostling it Into the wall Chasing down the Sappan But or chasing down Paris. It was chrised down someone. Anyway, Norris was in it to win it. Stellar performance from him.

All right. I've got three shouts, one of which I think is the best result of the season. I will give a shout out to Charlecler in Austria. I think that was a really great drive at a time when obviously Red Bull was starting to gain something of an advantage. It was a one-off for Ferrari, of course,

but he was great that weekend. Fernando Alonzo is qualifying at Canada I think deserves a shout as well for me the best result of the year was actually a win Max Vestappen at Belgium that was very very good it just it took him no time at all

he he started was at 15th or 14th he started and he was seemingly first a third of the way into the race and there was just no doubt there was so little doubt about Vostappan winning that Grand Prix before it started, despite him starting where he did. I think that speaks volumes. He was brilliant that day.

Sam, best result of the season? I have, again, three that I'm happy for you all to choose from. Two come from the same race, but I'm going to start with the Ogwang out on this one. And that's actually Mick Schumacher's performance in Austria. Specifically, I think was it the sprint race more so than the actual Sunday? He was angry, angry boy at that. race weekend. And you know what? It spurred him on. And he had a fantastic time. The same actually at Silverstone.

He was fighting with Max Rastapen. He did a brilliant job there as well. But I've gone with Austria for this one for him. But the other two that stand out a bit more for me are big K-Mag getting pole positioned at Brazil. All those drivers on the track, changeable conditions. Him and Haas absolutely smashed it. It was not pure luck that he ended up on that top spot. He deserved to be on pole. He urged it and it was great. Brilliant stuff. And I love the reaction from him. And the second one, Brazil is not an individual performance. It's the Mercedes-1-2 in the race on Sunday,

despite a damaged car, Russell leading the field. It was such a crazy topsy-turvy race. I think it's a team nailing a one-two after the trials of tribulations they've had this season. A phenomenal result for them. So they're my three. We've got a lot of options between us. Yeah. We've got like 10 options and no duplicates, which is great.

Nice. I didn't even start with what wins there. Um, I don't know. This is good. How do we take it? I mean, I'll take it norris out for myself, taking Norris out of the running, even though I nominated him.

I agree, brilliant performance, but he only got there because of a mistake from another driver, I think. Yeah, that's fair. But I do agree, it was still a phenomenal drive. If I had to say, out of all of the submissions that you two had, my winner, out of all of those,

would be Magnuson at Brazil. I'm trying. Oh, yours was for Stap in Belgium, for the big one, wasn't it? Oh, Verstappen wins a lot. Give K-Mang the glory. Come on. Give K-Mag to lead the season.

Not Katrina Mayer is going to be delighted. Clive Spigoldsworth, who wins the award? Well, I don't believe it. The 2022 best performance of the year award goes to the one and only Kevin Magnerson. God, what a sexy-looking man he is and he made Brazil his own. Joyous times for the Haast, Gary.

They didn't make a heart to themselves that time. That's for sure. and it was utterly iconic seeing Kevin Magnuson start a race on a Sunday from first play. That was, oh my God. Oh, he's ruined. That was a spring race, won't it? Yeah.

Go have an ice bath and cool down, mate. There we go. So, so far, three awards have been handed out. Award one race of the season to Hungary. Award two, the fake Netflix story to Vettel versus Ricardo. and the best result of the season for the second year in a row has not actually gone to something that happened in a race. We've gone for Kevin Magnuson, his qualifying lap at Brazil.

We're so good at this. We're so good at this. We're going to take a short break, but we've got plenty more awards on the other side. See you on the other side, folks. Cheers, Clives. Cheers, Clives. Award number four, possibly my favourite award of the year. The Ferrari moment.

of the year and there are so many to choose from. Sam, have you got any to start us off with? Yeah, I have two, which again, this is not helpful for the overall choosing of the issue. One is an on track moment. One is an off track moment. The on track moment is actually one that's been mentioned quite recently, the hard tires incident in Hungary. The fact that, you know, Red Bull started, I think 10th and 11th they started that race, Mercedes obviously at the time, they shocked everyone by getting that pole with George Russell, but no one still thought they have the car over a whole racing, necessarily go ahead and win that race. And so you thought Ferrari here, who were still relatively close to the championship at this point, surely capitalised.

They surely start to pull some points back. No, no, no. They look at who was it, Lank, stroll on the hard ties, struggling around at the back of the grid, hating life. And they went, you know what the best option is? Hard ties. Let's have a go on then. So that, catastrophe, classic Ferrari. The other one, short and sweet, Bonotto simply saying, we can still win this. We've still got it. And you think, really, Mathia? You're really grasping. You've reached a long way there, my friend.

But they're my two. You know that meme that's kind of gone around Twitter the last year or so, the handshake one. It's like Bonotto and Harry Ead, we go again. We go again. Oh, yeah. Me and you, Mattia. We've got this. Thanks, I'll grim my hair out more.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Give you my glasses. you'll be fine, yeah. Yeah, Harry of. I tried to, again,

I tried to do two or three options for these. But because it's Ferrari, I just found myself writing five because there's just that many. Five? Well, five, Jeremy. Five? You're insane.

That's insane. To be fair, one of them was what you said. The hard tires at Hungary were, that was really, really funny. Turning a one, two, into an iconic three six that is sensational work um the the tired choice in qualifying it into

lagoz just to get that in there when leclair was the only one out there on the uh was at the inters that was that was funny i'm just the question was funny what an iconic moment that is and what i'd almost forgotten about the double stack at monaco that was yeah yeah Shafting LeCler Absolutely But for me The winner is Chaulecler's

Fastest laugh attempt at Belgium We just want seven tenths off He was nowhere near We've got a shot this Ladd let's do it No Didn't get it Also got a penalty

For Smith Great work lads I forgot I completely forgot about that. Harry any more from you? I had the same one as you had

mainly because it was our reaction to it but the turning a one two into the then patented three six. Oh God I listened to that clip again the other day really made me chuckle. You just said Ferrari and we burst into laughter.

That was after Belgium. But that was also because of that fastest lap attempt. And the other one which is not necessarily as funny, but kind of illustrates their incompetence this season was at Silverstone when when Signs was leading, but LeCleur was clearly quicker and they just wouldn't let LeClaire go past.

I know they ended up with the win, but in theory, LeClaire would have won that one by a bloody mile. And they ballzed it up. But yeah, they were my two. I think the other one I had was fast slap tant but it's been quite a few belters this year

they've done well some really good ones they've really exigued themselves haven't they? I should also say what won this last year which was their Istanbul race where they told your win. Yeah basically what do I have to do to win said

Chal Leclair if no one overtakes you you'll win it wasn't even that because I saw it again the other day It was, what position am I fighting for? And they said, if you stay in front, you'll be first. Come on. So first. Oh, which, that was going to take some beating this year.

But what takes the win? For me, it's either between hard tires, the passing tick 3-6, and the fastest lap attempt. They are by far the clear team that stand out for me. And I'm very happy with either to take it. I'll, I'm happy with either of them. I'll put a vote in for the fastest lap. Fastest lap. Or the no one then.

There we go. Ferrari moment of the year, Clides. Just sorry, sorry, Clyde. I just remembered that they dropped him in behind Fernando Alonso as well. It was awful at every point. Oh, no, no, no, no. And so, the Ferrari moment of the year, we are checking. We are checking. It is the fastest lap attempt in Belgium for the absolute catastrophe.

There was Charlotte Clare. What a bloody mess. Anyway, another reward for you, Ferrari, one that you never thought you'd wait. Congratulations. Award number five, the Nicholas Latifie Memorial Award. It is the rookie of the year.

If you're wondering, why is it called that? Well, he won the first rookie of the year that we did because he was the only rookie. Speaking, oh yeah, he's not dead. We still like to Oh, come on man Well, rookie of the year Technically there were two

But we'll see where this goes Rookie of the Year from you, Harry Nika Holkenberg That doesn't count as one No, no Well, I'll go for an actual rookie I'll go for Nick to Freeze because sorry he was

he was only there for one race but what he didn't that one race was was pretty pretty epic and it's no offence to Joe

because he was going to win this award by an absolute furlong and then Nick de Frees turned up and he was so excited Joe Guan Yu is a big fan of the podcast he's a good friend

he messages me all the time if I can't wait to win this award yeah can't wait to me on the show I mean you two might go for him, so it doesn't matter. But for me, Nick DeFries, because that Monter performance was just ridiculous. Well, presuming that Sam doesn't throw in someone like Alex Palau for his practice performance

in Austin, it is likely that Sam will have the deciding vote here, because I'm going for Joe Guan Yu rather than Nick DeVries, because I'd feel horrible not giving it to. How can you live with yourself, Harry? Honestly, mate. Don't care. Wow, that's impressive. Yeah, Joe Guan Yu didn't score many points this year. However, he did have some good performances. He had eighth in Canada. I think the middle part of the season was pretty good for Joe Guan Yu.

The problem was the start and less so the end, but definitely the start of the year, when the Alpha Romeo was actually good. And Bottas was able to take advantage of it and Joe Guan Yu wasn't. But I think for a rookie campaign, he did an all right job. And I can't give it to Nick DeVries because he did one race. sorry Nick. But that does leave you, Sam, with a deciding vote. Who gets the award?

You know, that Nick DeVries drive was very good, but it was probably the one track in the whole season. If you were to say, old driver Williams, that's the one you're chosen, isn't it, really? For me, it's got to be the lovely Jo Guangyu. For his performances off the track and on the track, he just, that man goes, I guess, I'll dress himself. He's a lovely looking chap,

and he wears it well up and down the pits. So for that performance alone, he wins it for me. But he also was rather good on the crack. I think his points show him in an unfavoral manner that it may be slightly unfair into how I actually think he was across the season, much better than I ever thought he was going to be, deserves that second year. Glad he's still going to be here.

So rookie of the year for me, definitely. Show Guang you. Can't believe you've both given rookie of the year to the only four-time rookie that was in there all season. That is the most serious thing that we've done. That's rogue. Yeah. Look at us. We're growing up.

So, as I say that, we're going to go to Clive's Picklesworth to announce the winner. Cheers, Clives. Yeah. Go on, Clives. And winging the Nicholas Latifie Memorial Award, Rookie of the Year, is the one, the only, Joe Guan, you, suck it de Vries. Wow, Clives, calm down. He's an angry man. He's been in a cupboard for a year.

Yeah, unfortunately, despite it being a... fan of the podcast. The show, Gwainu, is not here to collect his award. What's up with that, Joe? Come on, Joe. We'll have words. Award number six, overtake of the year. Sam, any that stand out for you?

Yeah, there were a few, but we've been a bit difficult on the option, so I'm going to boil this one down to just one move that for me was epic. And that was, a fight that's already been mentioned, actually, in the Netflix award ceremony, movie. And that was the Vettel on KMAG move going on there. I thought, and I've got a concern to Vettel before he disappears off the face of Formula One Earth. That fight at the end of that race, Vettel has such a phenomenal Grand Prix, the two Strachies coming together right at the end, going all the way around those corners like that. It was sensational. For me, Savaski Vettel, overtaking KMA at Cota is the overtake of the season. I disagree. I think it

was a great move. But Kevin Magnuson's tyres, were older than some cars in this country. It's going to say, don't care, but you make me laugh. That's really good. It was a great move. I'm going to say a few others just in contention for this. Charles LeClaire on Max Verstappen at Austria. Very much late breaking as well,

which does give you bonus points for the late breaking podcast, unsurprisingly. I don't remember it. It was good. He broke pretty late. he got into the lead it worked solid yeah I saw you can ask for

from an overtake if we're being honest yeah yeah a shout here for I'm not even sure who he overtook it was probably a couple of drivers Lance stroll at Japan

off the start was can't get to him ridiculous he gives himself unfair advantage and he is the god of that ones

he changed to make himself look better the winner for me I think by a landslide possibly the most beautiful thing I've ever seen outside of Laura in case she's listening to this.

And us too. And you too. Yeah, don't listen to her. The most beautiful thing I've ever seen on a racetrack. Joe Guan Yu's overtake on Alexander Albon at Abu Dhabi was wonderful.

What's that the switchback? Yeah. It was the switchback. switchback to end all switchbacks. And no one saw it. Yeah. Yeah. I think that takes it for me.

A late one, but Joe Guan Yu, for me at least, in contention for two straight awards. Harry. Nice. For me, the best overtaker of the year

was Charlerclair on Lewis Hamilton. it was in amongst, it was after the Hanthro goes Hamilton move and they're battling away and Hamilton had got in front and then they're on the way to,

and bear in mind, again, Ferrari had screwed Leclair over here and instead of putting hard tires on this time, they just left him out on hard tires because they're allergic to any other tires. So he was getting mugged left, right and center. And he went around the outside of Hamilton at Cops.

And the camera cut, just as he was going around the outside. side and I thought we were it was 20, all over again and they were both going to end up in the boonies, but no, I mean, fair play to both of them on that one. But yeah, that one, what me and Sam watched that one together, I remember

shouting, I think it's probably video of it, so. We're shouting a lot. Yeah, I can believe. That one for me was, with absolute filth from, from McLear, considering where, what state his car was in as well, or at least his ties, filthy, filthy move, dirty. I'm sorry, I forgot,

that God. Just going to give a props to the new regulations because we've had some sensational side-by-side racing as well this year. I know the championship ending prematurely to all of our surprises come in the end of the year. I know, still shucking. But we did have

some brilliant side-by-side moments in not normal overtaking spots. It's great. It was really good to see. I think this year will actually be over-sighted. I know, underrated. Oversighted, it's not a word, is it?

Oversighted. Oversighted. Yeah, nice. But anyway, I think people would just underrate this year for a long time because they just think this happened, but we've actually had a pretty good year. I know we won it early, which is a shame. But as you say, we've had some cracking races slash battles. Anyways, that doesn't make it a win.

There's no winner there, but. No. I'm struggling not to go for the show switch back now. I remember that existing. You know what I forgot? because they never showed it on the bloody television. Yeah, I know. On social media later.

Go on, we'll give it to Joe. He can be the double winner. Oh, Joe. He's having a great night. He wasn't here to receive his last one, and he's not here to receive this one either. So Clives, do the honours. Well, for winging the overtake of the year award,

he switched back on the award season himself, and he takes the doubled home. That is Joe Guan Yu, with overtake of the season, because no one ever saw it happening. Thank you very much, Clives. award number seven team radio of the year i'll throw a couple out there stop inventing from carlos signs that was really funny and i don't feel bad about that being funny because he

won the race so you know if he didn't end up winning that would be a bit tragic but he actually won one that um we recently mentioned philando alonzo on lewis hamilton that he only knows how to driving P1. Nice. And the debris call from Carlos Sines was sensationally funny. Debris.

Debris? And I'd tell you, I wouldn't be sad about that one winning whatsoever. And it was my choice to win until almost at the last moment

I remembered another one. There wasn't essentially a one liner. It was more of a five lapper. Max Verstappen versus his DRS at Spain.

Are you pressing, stop pressing the button twice, Max. You're just spamming the button. D.R. So bad is D.R.S. waving at everyone on the ending. Stop working. Big summer brown!

Literally waving its arm. I swear to God, GP, John Pierre Lambassie, his engineer, is the world's calmest man. Because Max is like, winchering off at him about the, about the DRS. and he's like, Max, you're pressing it twice.

Stop doing that. Any from you, Harry? Oh, very good options here. The one I've nominated, now I'm slightly worried I've made this up, but I'm 99% sure this happened. I was just trying to find evidence of it before we did this. But it was also at Silverstone, I think,

and signs and Perez, I'm pretty sure, are having a battle, and they radio signs to say, I'm so glad I didn't imagine this Boxes slap Carlos He's like no I'm not I'm look at the TV What are you doing

Yes that one for me Another classic Ferrari Wasn't he literally like Shut up shut up Shut up shut up Over the radio While he's literally wheel to wheel Around the whole lap

The Sergio Perez They were like going around Shogin list Yeah Yeah He said going Carlos coming We're going to fancy

What did you want for dinner later and he's livid. The only one, the only one I could think of that I think has, well, two, actually. We've already mentioned another award, and that's when Lecler realized he was anyone into media. You just hear him sigh over the radio afterwards.

It's like, are we going to audiences? Yes, and he just goes, you can hear the frustration in, which I thought is so farro. The other one, again, at Brazil, actually, was George Russell's monologue that went on for a... George Russell all year, to be fair. George Russell, yeah, yeah.

Just talking. Cricy. Mate, be more concise over the radio. Is that like, so this is happening. Again, it's the little ginger king on the mic. Apparently, I've never been on my. I've done it before. Has John Russell over the microphone.

You're like, George, shut up. Him on a... I don't think either of my two wing. Russell and Schumacher. Yeah, Craigie. Crickey. Yeah. Cricy, despite him driving straight into Schumacher.

Sam, I've just realised Sam. has made a reference to something that happened in an intro that didn't get recorded. They've never heard it. Oh, yeah. From a week ago. Yeah, yeah. There's been some, it's been some,

one that's not funny, but almost a turning point, not a turning point, but one of the turning points this year is when Leclair crashes out in France and he just has a shrill screams. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, awful, that one.

That's the kind of thing where you see someone make a bit of a Muppet of themselves in public and they get a bit wound up and you kind of like look at your mate like oh I don't want to be here this is awkward that's how that felt watching that on tell you a bit of like oh dear who wins then

oh god it's not as easy as last year with Kimmy Riking and telling his engineering that one was a sensational winner and this one is tough I forgot the Michael one it would still win it it would still win for me

can you hear me You're going to hear you Why you're answering Why you still reply You can't hear me Are you still reply Yet you answer Yeah

It gets me He's two years old Oh god God I don't know I don't actually know I'm I'm kind of going to go George Russell crykey

Crykey He's a good one He's driving He's driving for his life In he governor Oh me at one show He's going to take me right out, Sunshine. Oh, blimey!

That was a pain. That's Russell never coming on. Yeah, going, George Russell for being too British. We'll give it to it. Clive's, speaking of British. Well, no one saw it cunning as it came out of nowhere. But, cricky, mate. George Russell has won the Radio Transmission of the Year Award.

Crikey! Heavy muscle. It's Cockney Ryman's Lamb in Slam for George. George Russell, isn't it? Having a bit of a tussle. I'm a bit of George Russell there. We're going to try and recompose ourselves for a few minutes, and then we'll get back to the last three awards,

plus the Hall of Fame nominations. As you're probably very aware by now, we're massive fans of the F1 and live sport generally. Sam, do you ever get frustrated that you want to watch a live sports event, but it's not available in your country? Why, yes, Ben. That is a frustration. Wow. That's where NordVPN comes in. With NordVPN, I can switch my virtual location to a country that is showing what I want to watch.

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Last year, the award was actually won by Harry because he went on a massive monologue, which is rare for Harry, about jovenazi when we asked a question about Romag Grosion. Yeah, I still stand. You don't listen. I don't listen. It might have been vice versa, I can't remember, but

it would, yeah, yeah. Yeah. It's so funny, it's about three or four minutes long. We're not even talking about it. You didn't stop me, though. You're just like, yeah. Yeah. You're finally saying something.

We thought we'd let you go with it. Podcast moment of the year. Sam, have you got anything that stood out? Yeah, I've got three words. John, Pierre, Jabuie! It's hard to look past you, booey, in it?

Oh, it's my favourite moment of the podcast, I think. Honestly, crack up about it every day. Look, I've got another nomination, but I don't, I think this is the winner. I'd like to say unless we, you know, there's a mistake like a technical error or there's a really bad swear word in it. I rarely take stuff out of this podcast. But when the Djibui thing happened and we were just laughing, I had to take, I had to take something out because it was so long. We were just laughing for that no one wants to hear that.

It was about a minute. Yeah, I think we got it down to a minute. Yeah. Just so long. so long. Oh my lord. That's so funny. John Pierre Shabui. No, not even Jean-Bierre, just Pierre Jambuie. PJ. Even funnier that it's now spawned its own Twitter account. Yes. Yeah. Hello, John. Oh, dear. I'll put a few. I agree that should be the winner. I've got a few others just to mention. We only did this twice when we were supposed to do it about 23 times. The two,

two times that we brought up F1 Fantasy. Yeah. Just any updates that involved beginning at the end of the year. Yeah. And Jack Nichols describing his first commentary experience where a car just blows up.

It's just the way that and it just blows up. Great guest. Or also him being really annoyed at Adrian Suttle for not racing in the 2012 season. Oh, I beat him in the game. He's still not over that.

That's reminding me of another one I want to nominate from Jack, which is him explaining the what's in the Parma cheese game they did. The only, and again, I think we're unanimous by this one, but the only other one I want to nominate because it spawned a year's worth of poultry-related jokes. It is not just meat-related jokes. It's when my gammon was ready because... Yeah. A star was born.

That was so good. You should know that replies on our Twitter profile that wrench of the word gamming now get privated, they get hidden because it's gamming in the UK is considered an insult for old white men. So now the amount of people that talk to us about gammon, it gets hidden, which is hilarious. That's a shit.

Sadly, call me gammon boy last week in the podcast. Cammon boy. That's you, your superhero game. Gammon boy. I mean, we know what the winner is, but what I'm most intrigued about. is how we know Sam doesn't pronounce Jean-Pierre Jabuie's name correctly, but does Clive's Piggilworth pronounce his name correctly?

We'll find out in a matter of seconds. Well, the winner of the podcast moment of the year is Jean-Pierre Jabuie! It's almost like they're the same person when it comes to that word. We are not the same person. I mean, as if we could be the same person. Absolutely ridiculous. Sorry, Clives. Also, he'll forever be overlooked in that sequence, but Jacques Lafitte.

Yes. By itself, that's brilliant. But it'll be overshadowed forever by Chabui, but just one of the real issue with French names. Stupidly, in El Billionaire, I almost used myself again with, I forgot, I can say it, and I don't embarrass myself. Is it, Tieri Bootson? No, it's got Boots and Goet. Cats.

Survey. Savet. Sever. Try that's what a severe. I can't say it. I can't do Frank Shane. Frank Coys, Kevert. Chevert.

Frank Cois covert. Right. Two more awards to go. Award number nine is the Stop Talking Award. Last year we did this award as well. And it went to team bosses. No one, no individual claimed it. It was just all team bosses.

Because we were, of course, at that point, much in the Michael Massey Jonathan era. So stop talking award.

Who gets it this year, Sam? I've actually giving it for now a winner of a previous award and that was

to George Russell because the man just doesn't know how to stop going on every time he's asked

a question. And it's so much so that there's even a meme that runs around our Discord now with

someone holding up their fist to a warped George Russell head, being like, shout up, boy.

You know, like Homer Simpson's like, shug up boy, because he just keeps going on. Honestly, like, I love the bloke. He's so talented, but just be a bit more concise, a bit more,

a bit more skipping, scappy, you know, with your words, that'd be fantastic. So for me, George Russell gets it. I've got two potential ones here.

The first of which, I'm not sure if this is allowed because he's not really anything to do with F1 anymore, but I do want him to stop talking. and that's Bernie Echlestone. The man this year sided with Putin. That's my argument.

And the other one, which is much more F1 related in 2022, is, well, it's Al-Pi, Othmaasafnauer. Piahtri's not with you anymore. It's all right. Move on. All right, just move on. Just want to talk to you again about why we decided

that that contract wasn't actually right for us. Exactly. Shut up, Otmar. Great shout. I don't know if that award should go to Alpine generally or Opemar, but those are my two shouts. Harry?

My shout is for, it's quite general, but it's just F1, Twitter. Shut up. Oh. Yeah. Just be quiet. And actually, I feel,

I was thinking about this. Maybe I should have done this last year because last year was way more toxic. but there's just other things. And actually, when Hamilton of Vestappan came together at Brazil, it really reminded me that they just need to shut up. All of you, all of years, have a word of yourself. Toxic F1 Twitter. Yeah, sorry, I just clarify that.

It's not everyone on F1 Twitter, but I feel like people who listen know what I mean here. It's all the morons on F1 Twitter. You know who are. Your three points are all very good. I really like all of them. I can't put George Russell on Twitter I agree George Russell doesn't be any of it

he's just a nice person trying to get a message across it doesn't have been wrong spoken it would be tough to put George Russell for this award after the point I read about Bernie Acklesstone put it that way yeah right the morning he didn't say Crimea oh come on Justin Timberlade did though Crimea River

right that's it we're done for the year Bye-bye. I'm going to have to go with F1 Twitter, I think. All right, let's go with that. Just stop it. You know you are. Just stop it. Just be nice.

Just be nice. Make an educated point. Have a conversation. Be nice. Go to bed. Just let your brain have a whirl before you say anything. Have a whirly bar. Have a whirly bar.

Yeah. Join the revolution. Have a worldly bar and join the revolution. Well, folks, ladies and gentlemen and everyone in between listening to the show. The shut up award goes to all of you. Little crediting is out there in the world on Twitter. Part of F1 X or Cost Cap Staping or however you bloody say it.

You are the winners of an award. You're rubbish. You suck and we hate it. Clive. Shut up. Clives. Calm down. I like the idea that we can get Sam.

Sam can say anything under his alter ego guys. Not an alter ego. Right. One more for you, Clives. And then you can go back. back in your cupboard for another 12 months. Oh, we should shut up. Award number 10.

Maybe you should have won the last award. Maybe. Award number 10 is driver of the season. Harry. Not that I'm suggesting Harry's the winner. I'm asking Harry who he thinks should be a driver. Driver of the season goes to me. Yeah.

Wings up for a year. Look, it's very hard to see past one particular driver here. We did it on the last podcast. our top 10 drivers and there was only one number one for all of us and it was Max Vastappen um yeah there were been so there's some close can not close but some close ish contenders Lando Norris Leclair but but no one had the consistency of a step and uh if you listen to the f1 higher hello we did last podcast eody didn't finish 23 laps isn't that the stat ben yeah which is a ridiculous mount so

yeah nice there you go one for the road so yeah a ridiculous level of consistency and his pace was insane all year do you know what sort of seals it for me is

when we when that hungry Belgium when he didn't start well Hungary was 10th wasn't he Belgium he started basically at the back and I remember just going into that race thinking like I just thought

well he's going to win it I didn't have any doubts that he wouldn't win that race. So yeah, he's been, obviously the car's been great, but he's been unstoppable this year has old Maxie Vestapp.

So on top of your two award, champion chips, have another award. Drive of the year for me. It is very difficult to look past Max Vastappen. And he's, you know what?

One more for the year. He's good at the F1, isn't he? He's good at the F1. I, I feel like we've made all the points that we need to. And if you don't think he's very good or if you think he's, I don't know,

not one of the best drivers in the sport, then you've probably got an agenda at this point. He's very good. Sam? I don't think you're saying anything. The season alone speaks entirely for itself. And good Lord, that man knows how to bloody drive a race car. And he does it so very, very well.

Yeah, congratulations. Big up, Max. You are numero uno everywhere. Well, we know that Clives does have his favourites, so maybe he goes rogue here, but will he follow the will of the people? Oh, that's a horrible phrase. What do you say, Clives? God. No, you know what? I'm already sick of this. Do it once a year. I'll go back to my cupboard. I'm just going to give it to Verstappen because I can go home. Thanks so much for the honor of being here. All of you are rather irritating. Do a bigger podcast. and I'll see you in 365 days.

Lovely. That's amazing. Thank you, Clives. Thank you very much indeed. Which leaves us just with one more thing to decide. Who is in the 2022 late breaking Hall of Fame? The second year of inductees. Who is going to join Yuki Sonoda, Harry's Fire Alarm?

Dave Benson Phillips. and Big Shack, we'll find out now. There are going to be another four inductees. So we will each have an inductee. And then there will be a fourth one, which is voted by the people. So we put it out on Twitter, Instagram, Discord. We've looked at what everyone is said. And we'll aggregate a winner to get into the Hall of Fame that we'll announce.

Before we get into the winners, just a shout-outs to all of these names, things, and people that have had some form of nomination across our various social channels. There's a lot. There's only four are going to get it. So I wanted to at least name some of the shoutouts we've had. Harry's Gaman has had a shout. Ian the Cat has had a shout. Jean-Pierre Jabouille has had a shout.

Keith, Keith the Handyman, has had a lot of nominations. Mathieu Bonotto, he's given us a lot of content this year. Can't argue with that. Liv Laf Latifie, all of his songs throughout the year, and there's one more still to come at the end of this episode. Skyler and the letter C, no chance, Skyler. Someone said Big Shack should have a second nomination. I'm not against it. I'm not against it.

He was iconic again. Double Shack. Tim Apple for his waving. Harry's microwave. Harry's boiler. Pete Gazzley is. had a nomination. Spagpole! I've got even said that way.

Big Bud has had a nomad. Oh yeah, Big Love for Big Bud. Sam's favourite Jimmy Neutron. Whirley Bar has had a shout. Martin Brundle for some reason has had a nomination. Christopher Walkin. Too sensible. Handberg has had a nomination.

The iconic Duke Dinsmore has had a nominate. Debris. or DeVries has had a nomination. Sam's radishes. Laura for her guest spot, although she's banned, so it's difficult to see that happening. Nicholas Latifie,

Harry's fence that he sits on, my bag of chips that I get sent for, the soundboard, and finally Sam's roof. All of those have had nominations. So thank you to everyone who put in a suggestion. Come on. This is entirely unrelated,

but I would just say, notification on our Instagram on the post that Sam put up before this podcast because you're going to have a look at it it's from your dad Sam and just said, nail in pants. Yes!

It right, all my life my dad has called me boy in panks because I walk around in just my panks as a teenager and it used to be like, oh look, it's boying panks and now I guess I've graduated finally, thanks dad, to manning panks. The funniest thing is

Sam's mom's already commented on She would say something I think totally opposite of I only dress for what's on over the desk or something Yeah, yeah Right, let's get into actually who's making the Hall of Fame We'll start with the people's vote We've looked across Discord, we've looked across Twitter We've looked across Instagram

And whilst there were a number of shouts There were a lot of comments And a lot of likes of comments for one person in particular Hello Congratulations, Brexit beef. Christopher walking. Oh, right. Oh, you know, when I've accepted the award, I can't believe I want a hell be. A lot of love for Brexit beef and her number and her Discord submissions throughout the year.

You are in the Hall of Fame. Oh, go have to bloody use her face. And every question that we make every year. And now we get to the nominations for the three of us. Harry, who are you going for? Last year, you said, I think word for word, you said two words. Big Shack.

Two words, two syllables. How many words are you using to give yours this time? It's one word. Hang on. I can't wear this one out. It's my microwave. I'm going to go for the microwave. To go with the smoke.

To go with the fire alarm. At least the Hall of Fame is safe now. You can cook and be safe in flame. Exactly. And Big Shack and Dave and Yuki were getting hungry in there. So they needed a microwave. You can eat beef. Yeah, look, I can only apologise. It's been a year's worth of interruptions from my household appliances, from my fire alarm.

From the start off the last podcast we started to do as well. How have you got two appliances and all the fame? The boiler of being there next year. It's 20 years time. How has your entire home? in the Hall of Fame. Just a reminder, folks, this is an F1 podcast

and the first two nominations to our Hall of Fame are Brexit beef and a microwave. All right. Sam, who's your nomination? Or what's your nomination?

There could be only one. John. Pierre. Jab Bowie! I mean, come on. Have you ever seen someone gets someone's name? The last time someone misprime

announcing name as badly as this, it was John Travolta giving the reward to Frozen, and he got the singer's game so badly wrongly, went down as an internet meme, and I've done it, I've topped it. John Pierre Jaboui lives on forever. It's a fair shout again, and even though the reason might be slightly off, we actually have an XF1 driver in the Hall of Fame. So that's a start, I guess. This was a really tough one from my side. I was definitely toying with Djibui. but obviously that option's gone, but there are plenty of others that we've already mentioned out there,

and I've come to the conclusion, folks. You know what this Hall of Fame needs? It needs some feline representation. We need a cat in the Hall of Fame, and I can only think of one cat that's right for the job. Ian, the cat, is a Hall of Famer. Ian's, dang it. I'm so proud of her.

She won't understand anything. She's just going to scum. Because the microwave will definitely understand. Yeah. Don't let hang hear that. Right. Look after her. There we go.

That's the 2022 Hall of Fame sorted. It's Brexit beef. Harry's microwave. Ian the cat. Jean-Pierreepuie. Oh, this podcast is so stupid. I can't wait for them to be walking up to the doors of the Hall of Fame and to greet them as boot shake.

Take bits and finish. Uki's Sino-da and in the background. My fire alarm going off. The fire alarm's going to have a friend. He's going to be like, oh, you're here to the microwave. Give them all their robes and everything. It'd be great. Right.

I've just... Sorry, I've just realized if my microwave goes in the Hall of Fame, do I have to buy a new microwave? Is that how that works? Yes. Quiet a one, I hope. Better think about getting a boiler next January. there we go that's the Hall of Fame that's the LBs obviously we've got an episode next week but it

will be pre-recorded so this is our sort of last opportunity to properly speak to you folks what a year it's been oh my goodness a little bit of a sentimental soppy moment the fact that we had less than a quarter of a million downloads last year the fact that we peaked and not even half of the listeners that we had last time, the support that we've seen from you, the brilliant, wonderful people that listen to this podcast week and week out, is crazy, absolutely crazy. Of course, we could thank the sport that gives us the content to talk about,

but it is you lot that turn up every single week to listen and to get involved and to be a part of this brilliant community that we love more than we can actually ever really express without sounding a bit creepy. So thank you. We'll be back, of course, for 2023, bigger, better. That's debatable. But we are going to be back with so much more silly, silly content

to bring you in the Formula One world. Anyone else want to say anything before I take us away? Very quickly. I agree with your sentiments. It has been a brilliant year. Well, I mean, the content's been pretty awful, but it's been brilliant in terms of you tuning in. Thank you ever so much.

if you've just started listening to us a couple of weeks ago or if you've been with us since our first episode back in January, it's been a wonderful year. And we're going to be back at it again for 2023. We're not going anywhere. We'll be continuing to churn out the episodes. And at its core, the podcast will remain what the podcast is, which is three best friends talking nonsense.

You can expect that will never, ever change. Yeah, that was my only point I was going to make is that this still battles us that people listen because when we turn the microphones off, nothing changes. It's just the same. We do this to each other every day of the week.

The same thing, but we just don't share it with the world. We give you like an hour's worth or two hours worth each week. So yeah, that really baffles us. And we love that you listen and love that you join the Discord and shizzle like that.

And do you know what you also love? Oh, here we go. It's managed to get it here. Maybe that could be like a hall of fame nominee. Oh, folks. You know what I'm going to say. Five stars. Five stars.

Five stars. Where's that coming from? Is it from the microphone? I can't hear anything. Five stars. Five stars. That's weird. Every time you speak, it stops.

All right. So Sam kicked off the episode by having a conversation between himself. and Harry's finishing the episode by having a conversation between himself. Great. All right, fine. Yeah, guys out of it. Thanks so much for listening.

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I've been a five-star review. Oh, of course he has. And remember, keep breaking late. And to sing us out, it's Live Lafletifi. I wouldn't sip on Gammon Juice. It's just a terrible idea. Awful. I can't believe you fell for this. With so much drama in the FIA, it's kind of hard being Ben, Sam and Harry, but they somehow some way keep making these funky podcasts

like every single race. May I say a little something about the F1, late breaking podcasts on your bloom? Two in the morning, and the race hasn't started because it's in Singapore. We got Ian in the living room listening in and the loop spin Leakinson, 6 in the mo.

So what's you gonna do? Man, I got an LB hoodie and my home boys do too. So turn off the lights and start the Sprint. But we don't love them sprang. Yes. So we're gonna get a bag of chips. That's fries, not crisp. Now you mother flippers bounce to this.

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