The Late Braking F1 Podcast - The 2023 LB F1 Awards!

Episode Date: December 30, 2023

[Updated audio 30/12/23] It's time again for the most prestigious awards ceremony in all of F1... the LBees! Everybody's favourite host Clives Pigglesworth is back for another year alongside Sam, Ben, & Harry to dish out F1's most sought-after accolades, and announce the 2023 inductees into the LB Hall of Fame... FOLLOW us on socials! You can find us on YouTube, Instagram, X (Twitter) and TikTok SUPPORT our Patreon for bonus episodes JOIN our Discord community JOIN our F1 Fantasy League BUY our Merch EMAIL us at [e-mail]   & SUBSCRIBE to our podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This podcast is part of the Sports Social Podcast Network. Thank you for listening to the Late Breaking F1 podcast. Make sure to check out new episodes every Wednesday and every Sunday. And a very warm welcome to the late breaking F1 podcast presented by Harry Ead, Sam Sage, Ben Hocking, and the one and only making his once a year appearance. It's Clive's Pigglesworth for the Elbe Awards. Well, hello. I thought we were going to play a play.

some fancy music, but my DJs let me down. It didn't play. Hang on. Let me try that again. Hello and welcome to the 2023 LB Awards. I'd like you to raise your glasses. It's a toast to the festive season, and we're going to have a sparkly odd time. With your

hosts, Benjamin Hawking, looking rather smart. Harry is in a vineyard in Tuscany. And Samuel Sage is apparently nowhere to be seen. But you've got me, Clives. It's like chives with an L. Let's crack on with the awards. You can also watch this on YouTube. Okay. I don't even know where to go from that. How do you explain Clives to someone? How do you explain Clives to someone who has heard him before, let alone hasn't?

I don't know what you're wrong about. He's just a normal guy. Oh, hello, Sam. You're right? Yeah, I'm fine. Sorry, he booting me out the chair for him, man. It was very strange. It's just a normal, honestly, Clive's bugger off, mate. Seriously, get back in the cupboard. No, I want to hear from Clives. How's your year been? Yes, it's been rather good. Thank you. It's been quite dark and I've not been on holiday. I've just been stuck in the cupboard.

August, I've been polishing these awards that you give out every year. And Sam does not let me eat anything. I'm quite starved. Does that I always talk about? Why don't you let him eat anything, Sam? Answered to Clive as well, not to us. It's the Costco-Livie crisis, you know? Because he lives.

I got, I got a fat mouse to feed. This podcast doesn't pay enough. He's in the cupboard. He doesn't understand that. Leave me along, Sam, you're horrible man. This is apparently the year that me and Clives have a rivalry on the show rather than getting along. You've got retaliation for that, Sam? No, get all the awards, please.

I'm really glad we put us up to that. Ten awards to give out. We do these awards every year around this time. Everyone wants to win an LB. All the drivers, all the team principals, all the teams themselves, they all admit this is the one they want to win. They don't care about driver's championships, don't care about constructors championships.

Can I get the LB Award for Stop Talking or Fake Netflix Story of the Year? That's what they're worried about. So we're going to run through our 10 awards. And then, of course, to close out today's show, the 2023 Hall of Fame nominations. Who is worthy of joining the likes of Beef and Shaquille O'Neill, in the late breaking Hall of Fame.

Find out a bit later on. Let's start, though, with our first award of today. And that is Race of the Season. Some previous winners of this award, Hungary, won this award last year. But Brazil and Austria have also won this. But the question is, 2023, who's it going to go to? Sam, kick us off. What was Race of the Year?

I mean, we had some ups and downs. We had a lot of chaos. We've had some new entries into the season, of course, with the likes of Vegas and Qatar was bizarre and had drivers passing out, left, right and centre. But the one that captured my mind and was most interesting, and I still talk about today, it's got to be Singapore. It really did stand out.

I mean, the race itself wasn't absolutely breathtaking from start to finish, but the fact that the Red Bulls suddenly don't perform, the fact that we've got Russell and Hamilton hunting down Norris and science who are working like an intelligent duo up front there, like Pinky in the brain trying to run the entire Formula One race and succeeding. The master class that was the science move, I think it was tactically one of the most interesting

grandprings we've seen for a very long time. So race of the season for me is Singapore. It was sensational. And we should explain on this, actually. The three of us will all give our nomination for the award. If there's a consensus, that's the easy bit. And the award goes to whatever that is, race or driver. But then if we do offer up something different,

then we can debate which one we think. gets the nod. So Singapore for Sam. Very official. Yeah. These matter, Sam. These really matter. Harry, race of the season. Going Singapore. I shout out to Zandvort as well because that was carnage. And I think you said this, Ben, on our season review episode, but it was a much needed race, Zandvort after quite a few dull ones. So that honorable mention to that. But, and also Vegas. Sorry, Vegas. you were also pretty good, even though I hate it. But yeah, Singapore.

Singapore was, as you say something, the one that just, it's the one that stands out. I know it probably, people will say probably because it had a different winner that wasn't a Red Bull, but it wasn't about that. Because I think it would have said the same if it was still the Stappen at the front, if he was leading that train. It was just that battle of, yeah, four cars, all of which had a chance to win that race.

I know they didn't, no one overtook anyone until Russell fell off the road. but they, that was the exciting thing about it. They all could have, all could have easily won that race. And that is what I want F1 to be. Even if it doesn't, even if they don't overtake, I don't care. I want F1 to be like that. So more of that, please. Singapore, race of the season for me.

I feel like as a whole, the season started out pretty poorly in terms of the overall quality of the races. We had, we had Bahrain, which was pretty good. good, but then we had Saudi Arabia, Australia and Azerbaijan, I think, as the next three, and all three weren't good. And then we kind of got a little bit better as we went throughout the summer season. And then we got into what I thought were the three best races of the year that actually happened one after the other, the Dutch Grand Prix, the Italian Grand Prix, and then the Singapore Grand Prix. I will say as well, shout out to Las Vegas, because that was great. And shout out to the United States Grand Prix as well, not because we're biased and we were there, but also it was a pretty

good race anyway. But I do think the three best were that three in a row. And I have to agree with both of both Sam and Harry, because I had the Singapore Grand Prix as the best one as well, which means our job is easy here. Clives, who's the winner? Ladies and gentlemen, your race of the season for 2023 with the most wonderful airport you're ever going to see is the beautiful, gorgeous night race. Singapore! Raise a glass, everyone. Cheers to Singapore.

A really lovely place. Also, do you not think that races at the start of the season get a bit of an easier ride because there's the impression that you're all excited for the season. So even if you get a bad like Jedder, because it's second, you kind of go, something could still be on here. It's quite fun, quite interesting, even though it might be the most dull Grand Prix going. I think there's a point to that because I'm not saying Abu Dhabi was great or even good, but there is a certain element of, I don't know,

lethargic by the end of the year. Abu Dhabi did feel like, we don't need this. And I'm not saying that would have been the case if it was a better track and a better race, exactly, but it doesn't help it. Award number two, the fake Netflix story of the year.

Now, we know Netflix and Drive to Survive, like to come up with some interesting storylines that are baked in reality, but might not always be 100% the truth. So it's our job to come up with and help Netflix out what should be their storylines for next year. So Sam, fake Netflix story of the year. What have you got? It might be a personal favourite award list for me because, you know, the realm of possibilities for what Netflix has come up with.

As we've seen is endless, they will quite happily put anything on their streaming service. So I have not kept my idea nailed to the floor. We have definitely lifted off for ridiculousness. and I'm going with the storyline of the conspiracy behind the Alpha Tauri second seat, and that is Yuki Sunoda is definitely sabotaging anyone that gives that drive in order to secure himself success. So, Ruin Latifi's not a Tifi, who's Latifi's not involved in this. Sorry. He can't blame Sonoda for that.

When you have that much chaos, it's hard to think of Giklis Latifi. Ruyn Nick DeVries car, Daniel Ricardo's hand immediately breaks. Lawson then gets turfed out again. Ricardo can't keep up and gets absolutely sent on by stroll, who I'm sure Yuki Sengaga probably bribed to get that done. And make sure that he stayed on top in both partnership throughout the season. So my fake Netflix story is the Yuki Sanoza Saboteur storyline. He will do whatever it takes for success in Formula One. That seems fair. You know, you know the meme of Kirby with the knife on someone's doorstep? That's Sonoda.

Yeah, I think so. Because every time it's the driving number on the door instead, though. Exactly. Harry, fake Netflix story of 2023. My fake Netflix story, if I can speak. Good Lord. It's Alonzo and Hamilton. And, you know, there's history there, as we know.

But you thought 2007 was bad. Oh, you didn't, you know, you don't know anything. thin, the 2023 Canadian Grand Prix when Lewis Hamilton was released from his pit box slightly near Fernando Alonzo and it will cut to Alonzo slow motion like jiggling his steering wheel, then it'll cut to Toto Wolf, jiggling thin air. And then this is the culmination of 14 years of, of, of, of, of, of, of bad blood between these two drivers and it all goes down in the Canadian GP pit lane. I don't see what's so funny about this.

He can be killed. Through the hotel and Alonso Pauls Lewis Hamilton down to the ground where they're running down the corridor and the smirks on their faces, which are 100% not scripted as they're laughing at each other after being assaulted down the corridor. It tells me, they're in on it. They know what they're doing for the drama.

It's all part of the game. And they're going to come out in 20 years time and go, we've had you all fooled for years. They're probably like we're married or something at the end of this. I bet. That's what's going to happen. I reckon so. Also, side note, if you want a laugh, go and watch that advert, mainly for the ending, because it's excellent. There's something in a sauna, a finish driver. I love how anything that Sam says in terms of analogy could have gone that same way in terms of, I refer back to insert advert, back in insert year between 2000 and 2009.

that's just every analogy. That is my life. That's how I'd describe anything. I've got two nominations here. Firstly, a quick one. Max Verstappen causing the track issues at Las Vegas because he doesn't like the race. Like he's actually out there sabotaging it.

Exactly. But my leading... Moks for Steepen. Yeah, I'm actually going to go with a different one as my leading nomination here, which is Oscar Piastri maliciously injuring Daniel Ricardo at the Dutch Grand Prix because there's only room for one Aussie in F1. This town ain't big enough for the both of us, boy. And Aussie off.

Exactly. Piastri intentionally crashed and then Daniel Ricardo only to make Daniel Ricardo crash after him and break his hand. we've got a lot of contenders here yeah whereas race of the season naturally we do get some duplicates

it's very rare we get any duplicates in fake Netflix story but that's because the Netflix drama is so real and this has nothing to do with us as hosts being silly of course it's all down

to what works and sells Netflix subscriptions I mean I would I'd go with Alonzo Hamilton it feels like it the longest time and they deserve a little partner They can come off on stage together, accept it, probably fall over, blaming each other for that. I feel like it's written in the stars.

Daniel Ricardo won it last year as well, so, you know, he's already got his award for fake Netflix story for his battle for 37 with Sebastian Vettel. Get out of here, award winner Daniel Ricardo. Well, if we're all in agreement, Clives can sign it off. Ladies and gentlemen, raise your glasses to the two Kings and Queens of Formula One, Louis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso for the rivalry of the year. They're going to kill each other at some point and it will all be a joke. That's the fake Netflix story of the year.

Cheers! Okay, so it's a good award ceremony so far for Fernando Alonzo, Louis Hamilton and Singapore. Because of course, that makes sense. We now next go to one of my favourite awards, the Nicholas Latifie Memorial Award. He's not dead. He's not dead. We just like, we just wanted to do it in his memory.

Oh, Oh, and he's fine. Bit of context on this one, folks. This is actually rookie of the year, which we call the Nicholas Latifie Memorial Award because he was the first recipient of it because he was the only rookie.

Even then. We can have a foxyship on this, please. I should clarify as well, actually. Even though he was the only rookie that year, Harry still did try and give it to Nico Holcomburg. But, rookie of the year for 2023,

what have you got, Sam? I mean, it was a tough choice, everyone. We hanging on a couple of big options to go for, but it did just fall into the path of Oscar Piastri for me. You know, fantastic entry into the sport. And Logan Sargent, really, he was creeping up on him at the end of the season. I thought it was going to be a close call, but it was just that sprint victory in Qatar.

I know, Logan did get into Q3 that one time in Zangvort, which I thought was close to rivaling it. But, you know, what a great point, Sam. Right? Very equal in achievement. But for me, it's Priestry that takes the rookie of the year. Unlucky, Logan, count yourself unlucky. You were very close to taking this one home. How are you going to give it to Nika Holkenberg again?

No. No. It's our awards. You can do whatever you want. No. no obviously I won't give it to Danny Ricardo in the same way I wasn't allowed to give it to Nikolk Holkenberg um I am going to have to go for Oscar Piastri I'll shout out Liam Lawson as well because you know that guy got thrown into it into Daniel Ricardo's

alpha tower receipt at the last minute and then obviously to do quite a few races and was I was quite impressive in that standing role um but yeah piastri is it's just snuck in a head head there of Logan's sergeant, hasn't he? A whisker. Yeah, a whisker away. Yeah, he's had a very, a very good, and a very good year, and not that I wasn't impressed, but I think he's been as good as we thought he was going to be.

And I think before the year we said who was, do we do who's under pressure or something? I can't remember who's under the most pressure. And I think I remember saying Piastri, because, yeah, he's had a lot, a lot of controversy around getting that seat at McLauran. And in some ways, he had to sort of prove that he was worth the fuss. I think he has. So, yeah, Piastri for me.

Yeah, this one wasn't particularly close because Oscar Piastri's main rival did like four races, four or five races, however many Liam Lawson ended up doing. And the other two, Nick DeVries, who I guess we could call him. a rookie and Logan Sargent were probably the two worst drivers of the year. So, fairly easy one overall for Oscar Piastri, but having said that, I mean, he got up to speed very quickly. He's clearly got the right mentality for F1. Sometimes these rookie drivers come in and it takes them a few years, I think to mentally adjust to the sport as well as get up to speed. With Piastri, it was a seamless transition. And look, I know he wasn't in a seat

last year at all in terms of F1 or anywhere else, maybe it's not the worst thing in the world. Maybe it's not the worst thing in the world to be embedded within the team as a reserve driver for a year in the same way, I guess, as Drogovic has done it with Aster Martin, and then join the team. We always say about the absence of racing being a problem, but maybe Piastri's proving that isn't always the case. But I was impressed by Piastri this season, and this one is an easy shoeing award for him. Clives.

Well, I imagine we're more exciting than Oscar is, as he's the most level-headed down-to-earth man of all time. So, Oscar, you have one rookie of the year, or the Nicholas Latifian Memorial Award. God rest his soul, he lives in Gatela forever, reward. And then it goes to you, Oscar Piastri, the man who lives on the other side of the planet from me. And we are delighted to say,

Oscar Piastri is not here to accept his award. Thank you, Oscar. Anything you want to say, Oscar? Nope, all good. Right. That'll do it for the first set of awards. More awards after this break. See you after the break.

It's lemonade with some glitter in it. It's only 11 a.m. It's all an illusion. No, I just haven't had a drink for 365 days. One sip and I'll be gone. I'll be off with the fairies. I don't know how you're still breathing, to be honest, clothes. Right.

Award number four. This is a good one, folks. One of my favorites. The Ferrari moment of the year. Previous winners of this award include the Istanbul team radio from two years ago where LeClair was told if he doesn't get overtaken by the driver in second,

he'd win. And last year, yeah, and last year, the fastest lap attempt by LeClair at Belgium that resulted in a penalty and him missing out by about a second. No matter how much comedy we try and put into this show, Ferrari, just trying to do something good and failing is still funnier every year. And there are some contenders, as I'm sure you can expect, for this year as well. Harry, what was your Ferrari moment of the year? My one isn't actually as particularly as funny as those two,

but I've put down the Monter battle because it was just the most Ferrari food in human history, converting that one, well, they want it on the grid into a battle for P3 and almost killing each other in the process in front of their adoring home fans who had they taken each other off, there'd have been a riot there and then at Monza. Obviously it was really entertaining to watch

so I'm not doing it. I'm not criticizing them for that but it was just what are you doing? What are you doing? Yeah and it almost gave me and Sam a half-de-sac watching it as you can go and watch on our Instagram channel

so yeah I'm nominating that one. It's a great shout. The only thing that would have topped it off is if they did take each other out, which was probable at many moments. How they avoided that, I don't know. Sam, have you got a... Yeah, exactly.

So mine is almost a culmination of events. I've got the word tyres written next to Ferrari's game, and that is because there was a series of events that led up to this one end event, which I really think caps off Ferrari's year. And that was, firstly, we started in Monaco, where both Ferrari drivers tried to double stack, had the time mistake, came in too late, and ending up being fighting for the front,

dropping down to like sixth and seventh or something like that, Pierre Gassie, I think, got in the middle of them both. We then move forward to LeCler in Canada, Q2 elimination. They get the tyres run again. And I think Crofti's on the mic just going, oh, and LeCleur is struggling. Pause, struggling. And Lecler is literally wrestling the car as it's falling off the track with the wrongs like a tire. It's brilliant again.

And then we've got the hungry slow tire change. again, just fantastic pit stop execution again from the Ferrari boys. But then the one that caps it all off is the Dutch Grand Prix, where LeCler comes into the pit lane to service the changing tires. And there are no tires. No tires available. They're taking all the tires off the car. No tires available to put on the car.

They didn't bring any out. And Lecler has sat there like, I'll race on no wheel, shall I? I'll just do a hovercraft. I'll make it fly around the track, shall I? And it's just so Ferrari that you manage to do. it this many times in one year, and they brought out zero tires. So I've just gone Ferrari tires with the Dutch GP being that decisive moment in the award for me.

Because he just stood there. Holding this thing, like, I don't know what to do. Yeah. Why did he just have a blue stick? I'm helping. Oh, it's so ridiculous. You know when you do a group project at uni and you got that one? one kid who doesn't do anything.

It's the opposite of the Ralph I'm in danger. I'm helping. Not quite. Not quite, sir. I have to, I've got, I've got a few written down. Firstly, a little bit of credit to Ferrari. I think there were marginally fewer to choose from this year versus previous years. So you're going in the right direction, Ferrari.

I'll give you credit. The three or four I've got written down have already been said. The only one that hasn't. is Lecler's did not start at Brazil because that was just... I don't know. There was just such an element of, yeah, sure about it. It's just, sure. Of course that's happened.

But of the other ones that you've mentioned, yes, battling each other at Monza came up on my list. Monaco staying out in the rain definitely came up on my list as well. I have gone for the pit stop at Zandvoort because, yes, I don't know. It's just like, if there weren't any people in the pit lane, that's one thing. It's that there were people in the pit lane, just like almost sat there. Just everything was the same, apart from the tyres weren't there? It's like one job to do.

All in the right position just without the necessary ingredients to make it work. And I, for me, actually, apart from Blue Stickman, the other funniest part from it was the guy who was on the front left. and he just like awkwardly hobbled around the car to get to the front end. He's like, oh, don't mind me. Just going to squeeze it. Intimidate tire running past the front of the car. Don't mind me. I've got to get over there now.

It's like a, it's like a Lego skit. It was like a Lego skit of a Ferrari pit stop. And meanwhile, Red Buller out here, sorry. Oh, no. I'll say meanwhile, Red Buller out here doing pit stops in the dark in like 2.8 seconds. True. And McCarras wrote the world record this year. So, you know, good job, Ferrari.

Well, given we've got myself who said Zambort and Sam, that was your crowning moment of the tyres. I feel like that might be the winner. That's the winner, folks. Grazie Rugazzi, Ferrari moment of the year. Zangvort tire change. Remember, if you're like a pick crew, you're going to get a tire.

A blue stick mag, see me later. You silly boy. Cheers. Because he's getting fired. He's getting fired. Cool. I'm with cries on this one. The idiot.

Award number five, best result of the year. So we give this as a best result because it doesn't necessarily need to be a race win. It could just be a great podium by a team that's not normally there or points for a team that's not normally there or even a pole position. And in actual fact, the last two times we've given out this award, it has gone to a qualifying performance. So, Harry, best result of that. the year because Leblanc that Alpine was a part of garbage basically all year and

only worked at like two tracks and O'Cohr made the most of it at Monaco so that was I think more for his quality effort because at one point he was almost on pole position I actually went back and watched that the other day oh

it's so good what a session but the one I'm going for and I know I'm head of the fan club here but is is Alonzo's P3 in Brazil because it didn't the Aston Martin by Brazil didn't deserve to be on a podium

anymore and the fact that it ended up there was pure Fernando Alonzo genius and I love even though the race wasn't very good I love everything about that battle it was just the it's like the quintessential Fernando Alonzo performance

just like not giving in to not giving in to the inevitable and he's 42 years old and he probably should but he won't because I have Fernando Alonzo so yeah I'm going for that one for me but I'm shouting out Ocon I'll shout out Alpin I'll give him a compliment here they don't get many of them so that is much appreciated I've got I'll just run through some of the some of the names I've got written down here. So Carlos Sines win at Singapore, as we've kind of already touched on,

very impressive in terms of the way he strategically used his DRS. Alex Albin, his P7 at Canada and how he held off like half the grid in order to get that. I thought that was really impressive. Vestappen, you could pick like 12 of his race wins, probably, but just to hone in on a couple of them.

Zamvort, he was a long way behind Perez and won that fairly comfortably. Hungary, he absolutely dominated, and Miami, which I think we've all picked out as a pretty important win on the year. And also his poll at Monaco was pretty damn good. Also, just one shout out for Lando Norris, actually. I thought his second place at Brazil was very impressive because he basically beat everyone by a pit stop apart from Max Verstappen. You take Max Verstappen out of that race, That is an incredibly dominant win for Norris. So I'll chuck all of those out there.

If I had to pick one, Vastappen poll at Monaco. Sam? I had a long list. And you've already mentioned a large chunk of that. There's two more on there that I had that you haven't written down. And that was Piastri's wing on the spring wing in Qatar. I do think that that was absolutely phenomenal for him.

And I also put Hamilton's polling hungry. Because if you were to remove the Monaco qualifies, that hungry qualifying might be one of the most excited ones that we've seen as well. It was absolutely fantastic. And I thought the excitement you can hear from everyone that we had a different poll city that wasn't either Leclair or Verstappen was quite loud. So a long list. I think all of what you've said are fantastically valid.

And I don't really know where to go from here. I do think science deserves a bit more of a shout-out for that brilliant wing in Singapore because it was absolutely scupendous. But I'm also blown away by Verstappen's poll app in, in Monaco. That was really, really good. Can we come to some kind of agreement here, gentlemen? Okay.

It does seem right as well that we have picked a pole position or a qualifying lap for this award every year that we've done it rather than anything that happens in the race itself. We just love qualifying so much. We do. They shouldn't change it. Every year. Change can be a good thing, Harry.

You know, I might come around to sprints in 2024. We'll see. Shut up, Ben. Okay. Clives, give Vastappan another award. Well, Max Vastappen, the one ward you've been waiting for. Forget the World Championship. Forget every race wing you've ever picked up.

It's an Lby for Max Vastappan, our performance of the season. Pole Position in Monaco. Cheers to you, sir. Another one. Thanks, Lives. Wow, a bit of a Stappan fan, are you, Clives? Honestly, I've tried to tell me to keep it quiet,

but when I've got the tele on, and you can hear it under the stairs, you can hear him playing the anthem for three hours straight. We haven't got much else to do, is he? That's so true. I only gave him an iPod with one song on it, and it was that anthem. Well, we'll give you a voice a minute or two's rest.

We'll be back with the second half of the awards right after this short break. Okay, award number six. the Stop Talking Award. Basically just an excuse for the three of us to tell someone to shut up. Shockingly, we've never actually given it to one of ourselves, which would be valid. But previous winners have included, well, last year it was just F1 Twitter as a whole. Also giving it to F1 team bosses, Helmut Marco, and David Croft won it one year as well.

What's awful for David Croft is he won it in a tie with Helmut Marco It's great company Feels harsh Feels harsh Yeah it does, don't it? What are we doing? Right, stop talking award

Sam, what have you got? I've just gone in broad for this one Again, I feel like that's part of the award That we keep it slightly open But I've just gone with Frederick Ian Anderson themselves It's starting off not great With the track limits and not understanding how to apply your own rules

and the five second penalties for absolutely everything And then towards the end of the season, it got a bit silly, for example, the Perez moment, as we got in Abu Dhabi, where he almost got told off for criticizing a decision that was made. And then we get to the end of what's going on with Formula One management and Susie Wolf and Toto Wolf for all that's nonsense. So it's out of season activity, but I still think it's valid. It's before the awards where they've made an absolute mockery by believing this one article that is absolute crud, rubbish poop, I dare say. and they'd make a whole shabang out of it, which I think was atrocious. So this season, FIA, shut out.

Harry, talking and start doing better. And I'm mainly referring here to the preseason when they were talking about, I guess they were looking smug, but they were talking up there. More a smug look. Yeah, but they were talking up their chance sleeves. We'll see it at some point.

Yeah, they were sort of going around saying, you know, looking happy, talking about their optimism for the year. Shut up, Alpine. You are crap. Stop firing people. Be better. It's a fair point. It's a fair point on Alpine. A couple from my side, I did have, as Sam has already referenced, the FIA side of that redacted publication article. I was going to give it to the redacted publication for that stupid article on Susie Wolf. I'm actually, I'm going to give it to Steve Sunday. Let Andretti in, shut up. Oh, God. I'm struggling to disagree with that one. That's my entire point. Can I also give an honorable

mention to Otmar for his nine pregnant women in a month comment? No. That was amazing. True. You know what, Othma? Say more stupid stuff like that so we can use it on the podcast. Thank you. best thing he's ever said. It's been like 10% of our content since he said that. Maybe I'm going to transfer that to a later award that's coming up, which you'll see shortly. Someone, this is entirely unrelated, but someone the other day said they were laughing, where was I? I don't know, but they were laughing at Mike Crack.

And I was like, I know, that's been about 30% of our podcast this year. Just that name. Pretty much. Charlie Schumer. Charlie Schumer. Where do we go with this one then? We've got Alpine, the FIA, Steve Sunday. All worthy winners.

Yeah, maybe Alpine deserve a little something, something to give him a kick, to give him a boost. I mean, speaking of kick, kick Salba. We'll get on to that in another show. But I have had to go to A&E to give myself some fluids off, the amount of vomit that flew out of my mouth after hearing that one. Give me a hernia. But onto the awards.

On to the awards. I think maybe Alpine deserve a little bit of a pick-me-up. Yeah, go on Alpine. Happy to give it. They need to win something. Bonjour Alpine. You have won Numero Uno. The award of Shut up.

Of the year awards. Congratulations. Less talking, more doing. Off you pop. That went from classic English to French to Spanish to normal English, back to classic English. Clives is a man of mystery. I've heard this in the running for the new.

James Bond post. That might be what he does next. I'm not going to put money on it, but that would be interesting. Award number seven. Overtake of the year. Harry, what have you got? I mean, he's been absolutely robbed by the actual, not the actual,

but F-1's awards. Fernando Alonzo in Bahrain on Lewis Hampton. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Leclair. Your move in Vegas was great, but it was still a DRS pass. in the end.

I'm still trying to shower off the dirt from watching that move. It was so good. I don't see how, I just can't see it being anything else. Shout out to, to stroll in Saudi Arabia around the outside of either the LeCloro or science.

I can't remember, but that was pretty filthy. And then also Magnuson in, yeah, Magnuson in Monaco for his move on to sergeant, think, but it's a bit lower down, but he absolutely sent it into Mirabot. So shout out to those two, but I'm going Alonzo, Alonso and Hamilton in Bahrain because it's just so good. Sam, are you an agreement or something else? Well, while I was sharring off the filth from the Alonso move at Bahrain, Kevin Magnuson actually walks in with an absolute bucket of dirt with the Prince of Monaco and threw it straight into my face after I saw that absolute filthy send

on Logan's sergeant down into Mirabot. And I thought that was the... move of the year. You don't see it a lot. He did it fantastically well, no proper contact. Both drivers come out fine. You don't need no DRF for passing sunshines. Kevin Magnuson's got you sorted. I thought it was amazing. I watched it back the other day and it was such an amazing move.

I felt like the Bahrain one was incredible. Most of years we've won it. I am in agreement with Harry though that the crypto currency award of the year to LeCleur was a sham, an absolute shambles. So, like to the move. Important for or, you know, he's positioning the championship.

But it's just a breaking move of after DRS. So either one of those two, I'd be very happy with. So I've got four written down, two of which have already been said, two haven't. I have got Alonzo on Hamilton written down as an option. I also have stroll on signs written down as an option at Saudi Arabia. The two that haven't been mentioned, Ocon and Sonoda at Spa was pretty epic. and another one that has been somewhat forgotten, I think, George Russell on Charles Leclerc at Silverstone

around the outside of the corner, I can't remember the name of, the one after Brooklyn's. I can't think what it's called. Luffield. But yeah, it was... Yeah, Luffield. It's the one where, yeah,

and over Team Radio, they referenced Buffalo Girls. That's what it's most remembered for, apart from the actual move itself. being epic. Actually, I lie. It's none of those four. My answer for overtake of the year

is Roman Grosjeon on Scott McLaughlin at Barba Motorsport. Right. Good, good. We're outside of Formula One. It only took 50 minutes. So fair. That is such a good move.

Speaking of one that I did actually forget that's Fung related, Landon and Norrisso, George Russell at Mexico. Also, one as well. I would staying outside of Indy car. My, it's either Alonzo or stroll for me.

I'm going to give it to Alonzo on Hamilton. As we've all mentioned it, yeah, Alonso Hamilton. Justice. There you go, Fernando. Two awards for you now. Just hogging them. Do you want to make it official, Clives? Go on, Clives.

I suppose I will. I mean, why did you have to do it in the first race of the season? And we've never get better across the entire year. I don't know. selfish of you, Fernando. But you've won another award and you can mock Lewis Hamilton again in the process. Congratulations, I suppose. Enjoy it. Maybe you could do your baby in reversing on your way up to

the stage because you're not here to accept it. Your selfish fool. Congratulations. Award number eight, Team Radio of the Year, which we might rename to George Russell moment of the year. Harry, where do you even start with this? Yeah, I think I mentioned this. I don't know whether we should have a separate George Russell award, but I feel like there's going to be an obvious winner here, but I don't know. I'm going to shout out some other people first.

Lando Norris in Zanvort when his engineer told him that people on dry tires were going quicker than people on Inter's in the wet. And he just came back and said, are you bleep, stupid, mate? which is savage response. So that one, I forgot about that until the other day, which made me laugh a lot. A very recent one in Abu Dhabi

where Toto was trying to be a hype man for Lewis Hamilton saying he was really quick and Hamilton just goes, okay, thanks Toto. Like, great. Thank you. Thanks, Toto. I have seven world titles. Yeah, I'm the goat, but thank you anyway.

that one. Ferrari, because obviously, again, I think Abidabi, Carlos signs just being lost, saying I'm lost, Ricky, what's happening? Where am I in this race? What's going on? Like a lost child in the supermarket. But there can't be any other winner in my view. It's George Russell thinking it's raining or spitting, as he'd probably say. and in fact it's just sweat coming from his own head. That is, that's comedy gold. You couldn't make that up and be as funny.

They're so good. So George Russell in Spain with no rain for me. Spanguing no rain. Sam, what about from you? Some really brilliant options there, Harry. A couple of that I forgot about, especially the Toto Wolf one, which really does make me laugh.

I've also got a couple on here, but I will come to a conclusion, but I've got Yuki over the radio, which is still so sensational. And went down a treat on this podcast. You know, you guys all joined in. It was amazing to see so many to do it. Also, after the overtake, I think of Lewis Hamilton, when he got the move done, it went, yes, bye-bye, and drove off was also a sensational reggae moment.

So, Fernando, I long so to hear him come across the radio like that, and loved it. but the final one I had down was George Russell in Spain. Is it just spitting or maybe it's just sweat coming off my own face? Because what a line while you're driving at 200 miles ago to come across with that, then you might go, oh, the driver's thing is raining? Maybe I'm just really sweating. Probably that is phenomenal.

And he had so many. So having to pick from George Russell's, you know, collective group of radio messages was ridiculous. And that was a great one. I've got two others that haven't been mentioned that I do want to give a shout out to. Liam Lawson in Japan talking about his caffeinated start and how that lit him up. That was great. And I don't remember the race itself.

It was some point in the middle of the year, I think, but it was Toto Wolf again over Team Radio, just begging with Lewis, just we know the car's awful, just please drive it. I can't remember what race that was. Yeah, please drive it. But the obvious winner is sweat inside the helmet, Spain, George Russell. Here's how good that team radio message was. In the exact same race, the exact same driver, George Russell over team radio, said the phrase, Bloody Nora.

And no one remembers how funny it was because of the sweat line. So that is an obvious winner. I had, because I went back and looked through like little notes I made. in the races. And I went back and looked at Spain. And I had written, the first thing was George Russell, bloody Nora, which I kind of forgot about. Then underneath it, obviously superseded by sweat, because I'd just written sweat in capitals. It's the mark of a true high performance athlete. Yeah. Well, Clives, I don't think there's any surprise on this one, but if you could give George Russell his LB.

George, it's already in the post, and it is covered in my sweat because I got so exciting and rapping it for you. You can say, ha, bye-bye to all the other contenders because you really were the goat of the radio. We love you. We'll see you next year. Congratulations on your LB. I've got a theory here that Clive's, the character, just gives Sam a license to be slightly weirder than normal. What are you on about? That's foolish. Definitely not. Every time he talks, I pop out for a cup of tea. Sure. Gus, how many teas you have, mate? Well, it's the same tea. I just keep it warm because I have a couple of mouthfuls to come back I'm shugging mugs of tea every eight seconds he talks.

I could be savvy 17. Based on this podcast. I don't know if that's true or not. I don't know what's real anymore, mate. Well, then, so just to recap some of the winners thus far, we've got two more awards to go. But Max Verstappen won an award. Oscar Piastri, Lewis Hamilton, the Singapore Grand Prix,

Zanvore, or Ferrari at Zanvore, Alpine, George Russell and Fernando Alonzo, who has two more LBia wins than he's got F1 wins this year. But you've got two more awards still to go. Podcast moment of the year. Oh boy. Sam, where do we start on this one? Yeah, I don't know. This is the one that I struggled on the most,

and it's mainly because I haven't got a very good memory. But a couple of key moments that stick out to me, but I was hoping that you guys would supply with some great comedic moments of the past. I had our lovely fangs joining in with the Yuki radio moment and all sending in their individual, which we did a great compilation of the social media. It was very, very funny,

and you're all top sports for doing that, really, really good. I've also just put down Otmar and his nine pregnant women as a moment of the podcast, because that gave us more content than maybe some races did this year, which I thought was absolutely sensational. But I couldn't bring it down to us one. specific moment. Boys,

I don't know if you've got one key moment that you want to raise for this award. I can do your three better. I've got four.

Oh. Okay. Fernando Alonzo as Lord Farkquard from Shrek. Yeah, yes. That is a great

Photoshop. Well done. Lord Fercquod. This one, this one's from, from me, I guess, accidentally

calling our Discord listener crazy predator instead of crazy preacher. And then he turned up to the live show and said, I'm crazy predator. Which is a great line in its own right. The worst bold predictions of all time. Oh, that might have been.

I had that one down. I eventually settled on my winner being Sam previewing the episode where we were going to intimidate each other. but it's a close run thing. I forgot that. I can't kill you. Get it wrong. Anything from you, Harry?

I'd forgotten about the episode, the actual episode where we intimidated each other or imitated. That doesn't win. The episode itself is not the winner. We all undid everything, everything we've built up here with one episode and that was it.

So that's not winning. We tried. I had the predictions down that we made from Mexico that we made in the US still. We were still there. They were just awful. Me trying to split onions rather than hairs. I'm splitting onions.

Very shrek-like. Very, very shrek-like. So that one's up there. I also, I mean, shout out to our live show because that's a big old podcast moment of the year. A serious one, yeah. Yeah, like an actual, an actual serious moment of the year.

Sorry. It was still funny whilst we were there. I mean, in particular, so many highlights on that show, and it was amazing. We're still sad about the fact that it's done. But highlight was asking, doing a live poll of who liked sprint races, who didn't like spring races,

and who wasn't different. There was one person who was, indifferent. And they replied with, Yeha, which is the greatest response to anything being

indifferent. That was so funny. So yeah, shout out to all of them. I think I might have to go for our predictions in Mexico

Mexico predictions. They were terrible. How can you be that wrong? All three of us that wrong. So many years, we've done Formula One

content. You think we'd have some understanding of analysis and trends and how it might work and we could not have been more off the mark on that set of predictions. I think it's got...

Well, can we just remind the listeners what those predictions were? Because, Harry, your prediction was that Sergio Perez was going to win? Yep. And he was out on the first corner. My prediction was that Ocon was going to be in the top four and he finished ninth maybe after actually being in 16th for nearly the whole race. And then Sam, yours was related to Aston Martin. I can't remember exactly what, was it both in the top six or something?

Yeah, top six. And then I think they double DNF'd. They double DNF. Yes. That's a worthy winner in my book. Yeah. The bold predictions takes it. Go ahead and Clives.

Clives. Well, the only reward that wasn't a bold prediction was you guys nominating yourself for being absolute moral. congratulations on your own, LB. You can't do anything right. I don't know how you have a show. Well done. Fair point.

We just put that award in so we can win something. It's nice to win. Feels good. I kind of like a podcast moment of the year. We won an award this year. Didn't even mention it. Oh, yeah. Which you all voted for.

Yeah. We are so rubbish at this. We really are. We want points. Sports podcast of the year. Sports podcast of the year. Hell yeah. I forgot we're award winners.

That happened this year. Also, we went to a Williams fan zone twice. We didn't mention that either. That's good. Thanks, Williams. We appreciate that. That was amazing. Ah, what a year.

Scooping, scruping show. Award number 10 might actually be the quickest award of the lot and the easiest one to award. But we always do this one last. it is driver of the season. Now I feel like there might be one very strong contender for this, but we will go around the room as usual. Harry, driver of the season.

Oh, ooh. I'll do a couple of shout-outs first. Fernando Alonso for still being that good at the age of 42. I think he had a stellar year. I know there were a couple of off races, but obviously the car went downhill a bit, in the, especially in the second third of the season. Lando Norris, again, didn't have a great car for a lot of it,

did make a few bottle job mistakes, but he, especially in the second half of the year, was very impressive. But it's got to be Max Verstappen, isn't it? E-19 of 22 races. That's hard, hard one to argue against the driver of the year. So, yeah, whatever. Max, your third championship isn't as important as this award.

That is definitely true. Of course, we're here deciding who the best driver of the season was, just looking at first. But if you'd like a view on what our top 10 drivers of the season are, you can do so by checking out Patreon, which is in the link in the description. Come on, what a plug. I feel dirty again. That was so slick. They got Ben Hawking's face on them because he makes plugs so good.

I've had long enough to try and get better at these, so I'm glad one's actually worked seamlessly. I'm giving this to Max Verstappen. He won races this year, more than anyone else. He scored a lot of points this year. In fact, he scored more points this year than any of the other drivers, and that caused him to win a driver's championship. Good. Analysis.

End of point. Yeah, he was good. Ben explains how F1 works. We're doing an F101 series But perhaps Maybe that's Maybe just pick that bit up Put it into the other show

I honestly think Like He was so good this season That I think if you were to pick Like his 10th best win That would be the best win Of so many drivers careers That's even like

I think you could even look at Maybe even world champions And say Vestappan's sixth best win was this. And if you were to put that into a career of someone who's won a championship, that might be their best win ever.

That's how many dominant runs he had this year. Do you remember the Canadian Grand Prix where we were like, oh, that was a bit closer. It was a 10 second win. And we were like, wow, it seems to have really

come together a bit more. Ten seconds, he won that race by. We were really clutching the sports, weren't we? We were desperate. Yeah, yeah. Please, anything, Max. Who are you giving it to, Sam?

You're going to go with Max Verstappen or someone else? Well, someone this season, dig man who should win 19 victories in one season, which is a record that they beat their previous of 15, which they set the season before. What's scary is that that 19 victories in one season that this individual made is more than some of the greatest civil time did in their career,

as Benz already mentioned, the likes of Sterling Moss with 16, butting only had 15, Emerson Fitzpaldi only had 14, Ascari only got 13, all beaten in one season by Max for Staff. Of course, we do have more races in the season. He's still got to win every single one of them, which he did. His win percentage is the highest of all time now, 86% in one season,

which beats all the records, the one held by Ascari, of course, for over 50 years, 75%. He scored more points than anyone else in a season. He scored 575 points off the 620 on offer for if you were to win everything in a season, which is absolutely ridiculous. That's 93% of all points available. He holds the record from his consecutive wings in a season, which is now, I believe, 10, which is fantastic. I can't believe how bloody good he is.

He's also got the largest average wind margin of 33.7 seconds to Landau Norris, which, again, ridiculous time. It's just, it's endless. It's endless. I could keep, I've got so many things written down here that I could keep talking about how good he is. But Max Verstappen, in a single season, it might be the greatest single season of all time.

And of course he deserves driver of the season. It was phenomenally good. No car, no cheating, no nothing can take that away from Max Verstappen. He was astounding. Could you imagine after the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, where he finished second, saying, okay, that will be his second worst race of the year. Oh, dear.

Oh, he's too good at the F-1. Go on, Clives. well, you're number one in our hearts, your number one for the fans, and you're number one at the Elbeys, for you are the driver of the 20-23 season, the ultimate award, it's your Elby.

Play the Dutch national anthem in my cupboard because I'm coming home. Honestly, we're so stupid. I know people who know this already, but we're idiots. Really are. I'm going to get back on. Oh, wow. Okay.

embarrassing. Right, that's all the 10 official LB awards given out. We're going to take one last short break, but you are going to want to stick around because on the other side, we're going to be nominating people and things for the 2003 Late Breaking Hall of Fame. Okay, so 2023 Late Breaking Hall of Fame, if you're new to this, the last two seasons, we've given out four nominations for what we call the Late Breaking Hall of Fame. We each get one vote each, and then we give one vote to the people, to the fans. If you want some sort of an idea as to who has been nominated into the Hall of Fame in previous seasons, Shaquille O'Neill, Yuki Sanoda, Harry's Fire Alarm, we've had beef, who else,

we've had Harry's microwave, Dave Benson Phillips is in the Hall of Fame, very normal names that have gone on. Ian the cat's there Jean-Pierre Jabuie or Jean-Pierre Jaboui, as Sam likes to call him. He got nominated last year. So we now find out, I try to say who, but it's never just who. It's also random objects. Who and what will be nominated for 2023. Let's start with the people, because we put this out as a post on Instagram and indeed on Twitter. to find out who you thought should be nominated.

And should we just run through some of those that have been said before we get to who we're going to give it, I don't know, who's going to be the overall winner. For Beer Ben, got a nomination, a bit of a late entry into the year. But George Russell's team radio got a mention, the metric system, Harry Soundboard, that definitely got a mention as well. Fahrenheit, Shrek, machine gun,

Kelly, 3T, Sam, sweaty George Russell, Harry's Discord alerts, multiple shout-outs for Ralph Wiggum, sandwiches, Charlie LaBali.

Oh, there was a lot in here. I'm sure I've missed out some as well. The LB. Abacus, Rye guy gave himself one, Clacton Pia. Sorry, my favourite one that was so random.

Didn't get any likes, but I really liked it. Barry Manolo. Yeah, I'm about to say that. It's so good. Why? It's Barry Manolo. Did he get a mention? No.

You're on the show. Anyway, her name was Lola. However, Sure. However, there was one name that came up multiple times and got the most likes as well, which I think is deserving of this award. I have to say this person very nearly got the award last year, just missed out and rightly inducted this year.

I think it's only fair. Now we've met the man himself for two, that Live Laf Latifie is a Hall of Fame. Oh, good Lord, he deserves it. Well done, LLL.L. What a lovely man you are. You make this show better. It really does.

Have we got some clapping, Harry? Oh, oh, uh, got it one on there, surely. Why don't we just play one of his jingles

or the gammon juice scoop dog parody that is sat there in us? That might be a bad idea. A clapping won't play. Okay, so play the, the gammon juice.

Here we go. Play. It's not going to work, is it? It's not going to work. True fashion because it's so angry it wasn't conducted.

The Soutborgas muck you off for one more time. Sorry, sorry, they've laughed for TV. You played one earlier. I know. You know, we're on the old soundboard today, folks,

and it's back in its old ways. You're stupid piece of crap. Anyway, sorry. Sorry, Liv Lafletifie. We'll clap you. That sounds awful. No one here is good. I'm sorry to head phone Liskins.

I'm so bleak. Bleak. Okay. Liv Laf Latifie is in the Hall of Fame. Harry, who will be joining him? I had he was one of my nominations I had Lyph Laf Latifie down

so I'm glad he's made it in already I've got another nomination here for a new member to the late breaking podcast for 2023 we've never actually heard their voice but the banker the banker

the banker is a great shout the banker's a great shout So he's there And then I again I haven't really made the full decision on these two Out of these two But the other one is not a person Not that the banker is a person

But Sorry as much as Clives is a person The bank is a person The other one I want To induct It's the Mercedes apology letter After Bahrain Because

So yeah is without doubt one of the stupidest things I've seen an F1 team do after a race where they've scored some decent points. So... Let's enter that as radio moment of the year. State.

Yeah, so it's out of those two and I will settle for right now, make a decision, Harry. I'll go to the banker because that is one of the stupidest things we do on this podcast. Folks, if you haven't heard of the banker, no one has.

Yeah. The thing I love most about the banker and Sam's interactions with the banker is the confusion as to who's calling who. Oh, and it drives me insane. When it's ringing and he's like, he takes a long time to pick up. You pick up! Pick up! The goodness sake. Oh, God.

Oh, God. The banker. Well, then, sir. I'll let him know next time he calls. Oh, God. All right. So the banker's in. Levelaf Latifie's in.

I'll give you my nomination now. Well, it was a difficult one. There weren't numerous contenders as there there always are. But I did end up with one. I know with nearly every award tonight, I've given four options here. Just one. And I can't look any other direction

because I think I'll give it to one rather than 10, but you'll see why, because I could give this out to 10 people because 1 plus 9 is 10. And if you do get 9 women pregnant, you might well get 9 babies in a month. Othmar Saffnauer from being smug early in the season about absolutely nothing

to being fired mid-season for then Alpine to get their best result of the season the race after he was. fired and then deliver a statement to say, you know what I always say as if it is a common phrase about getting nine women pregnant and expecting nine babies in a month. That might be the best phrase of all time. Othmar Saffnauer for me is in the Hall of Fame. Oh, it's so deserved. That phrase might be the best phrase of all time, you know. I just, I tried to just, I tried to justify giving it to someone else, and then it just always came back to Ockmara in that quote.

Pure brilliance. Oh, what a moment in life, not just Formula One, life. One I forgot to mention, and I won't change my answer here, and it's probably because it's quite niche between the three of us, but Hebb. Hebbie! Hebe! May because the people of Texas are really annoyed by how we say Heb. Because it's not how you say it.

Howie spots, Heby! I love Howie. We spoke on the radio in Texas. Yeah. You know, the actual way. Yeah. Oh, boy. Heby's a good show.

Sam, that just leaves one nomination left, and it comes from you, sir. Yeah, I'm going to go a little bit personal with this one. And it has been a big feature of the show. We've all said it a lot. We've got a lot of fun with it. But my lovely Nang passed away this year. And she delivered one solid moment to this show before she went. And that was the creation of Houndberg.

And that sits firmly now in the Hall of Fame. You know what? They need some storage in there. So hang bags, make it in. And that's for you, Nang. So you're in there somehow. Well done. You did something after you, going.

I can't stop you. Love that. Love that. So just clarify, is your nan in there or the handbag or both? No, she ain't getting it. It's just handbag. Just a handbag. Okay. Her creation, her moment, but not her. Good stuff. Okay, so just to round up the nominations this year,

the class of 2023 is complete. Joining the Hall of Fame, we have the banker. Yes. Live Laf Latifie. Yes. Otmar Saffnauer. Yes. And Handberg?

Yes. It gets better every year. Unbelievably, this might not be the most weird. Assessive entries we've had. Which is saying something. It's also a first. It's the first time we've done the Hall of Fame. And something of Harry's has not been inducted.

You're slipping, Harry. Get yourself on other complaints. Sorry, I need dodging your plights. That boiler needs to step up its cave. Yeah. I'd tell you what, maybe next year, the lamp, well, the light in my spare friend that's hanging on by a thread because no one never sees that on the podcast,

but it's hanging on the dear life. If that drops through an episode, I will lose my absolute mind. Hey, keep it up with the Discord alerts and maybe that will make it next year. I'm pretty sure if that keeps happening, Kirstie would have left us by then, but for a Hall of Fame nomination, it's good.

Okay, Kirstie's Google meets badoong of her re-engine. the meeting. Yeah, that's clear. That's a, shout either. It's a good shout. Multiple times.

I'll do it for the Elby Awards, I guess. It's over. It's over for another. Honestly, this episode is what reminds me how dumb this podcast is. Every year, we do this and I go, why does anyone listen to this? Yeah, thousands and thousands and thousands of you do. Exactly.

Every single week. we've built something, a community that you're all a wonderful, brilliant part of. We couldn't do it without you. So for another year, thank you so much because we're getting to the point where we can almost do this full time. Maybe by the end of next year we might be having those conversations, and that's because of you listening. I mean, if you want any evidence as to how weird this podcast is, by the way, apart from listening to this entire episode, just look at our most recent reviews

because after prompting people to review on a previous episode and just writing the world, milk. All of our reviews for the last like week are just milk, milk, milk. Harry's massages and milk, milk, just anyone not knowing what we, what we do. Goodness me. That's so funny. I love that so much. I think it looks like we're like a span bot or something. Arguably, we are. Yeah, but a spam bot of podcasting. Oh dear. Right, right, right. Would you mind getting us out of here, Sam? And close.

You can bugger off. Back to the closet where you, mate. You've had your time. Thank you so much for joining us. You've been so wonderful. I hope you've loved the Elbees again. Let us know your thoughts. Anything that maybe should get an early shout for next year,

of course, you need to start keeping it ready now. Join the Discord. We ask in there as well. We do loads of different stuff. There's a disco racing league that concludes today. That's going on. You could be involved in that next year. Loads of the chik chat.

We've also got Patreon as being mentioned, and you get extra content. we've done two extra episodes again for December, beer breaking, gaming nights, discount on merch and birthday shoutouts come every single time. Follow us on social media, late breaking F1, everywhere. And this is all been on YouTube as well.

So if you'd like to see me wearing a suit, Harry and Avignon Yard and Bengas looking bloody handsome, then you can do. It's over on YouTube. Subscribe there. I think we're going to hit the Big 5K, which is halfway to the Big 10K. We have hit the 5K.

We have. I think we have, haven't we? I thought it saw they yesterday. Celebrate good times. Come on. We're at 5K, baby. That's 5K in five years. That'll be,

oh, 2028, it's going to be a great year. I can't wait for us to get Silverstone 2032. We've maybe hit 9.5K. Well done. Please keep to talk us over there. It meets the world. I think that's absolutely everything.

You've been wonderful. And in the meantime, I'll be Sam and Soge. I've been Ben Hocking. I've been Harry Ease. And remember, keep breaking late. See you for.

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