The Late Braking F1 Podcast - Who would we put in our 2022 driver lineup? Q&A Special! | Episode 173

Episode Date: January 26, 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. And a very one welcome to the Lake Breaking F1 podcast presented by Harry E, Sam Sage, and myself, Ben Hocking. It's Q&A time, folks. We've reached that point in the year where we ask you to give us all of your questions. Okay, before I go on,

okay, I should probably point out. In previous episodes, I have been the only person who has been responsible for the soundboard, but somehow these two morons have found a way that they also have access to it now. So if at any point,

you think, Ben probably wouldn't normally do that, it's probably because I haven't actually done it. Point proven. I should have been given access to this. Yeah. I didn't disagree with you. in the slightest.

Yeah. I just have that feeling this is going to be a long one and this is going to be tough. Is that the first question? Yes. Is this going to be a long one? Yes. It probably will be. But we've got plenty of really interesting questions

lined up that you've got in touch with us about on Instagram, Twitter, our Discord. So thank you very much. And we'll get through as many as we possibly can. Sam, do you promise to tell the truth and nothing but the truth. I mean, that's all I tell. I'm not smart enough to understand

to create any other world. So, yeah, unless it's a metaphor, and that would be true anyway. So truth is the truth. That might be the worst answer I've ever given to an answer. It's a good start. Truth is the truth.

Oh, my God. I'm enjoying the sound morning. I'm exhausted already. Yeah. Well, considering our exhaustion, Should we get on to question one? Yeah, let's do it. Question one is very appropriately chosen because we did say that you can get in touch

on all different channels. And we did say you can send us an audio clip on our email. And there was one person who did that. So thank you very much to that one person. And as your award, you get to go first. The rest of you, you're failed. This is a question from a Discord member. Here for the Lolls is what he's called on Discord.

Not sure about real name. But we'll go with Discord name, and we'll play his question now. Hey, guys. First, I want to say thank you for the hours of entertainment, and congratulations on the growth of the show. My question is, there has been criticism over the past few years about the fact that sometimes the F2 drivers graduating to F1 are not ideal when considering there are more promising and talented drivers to choose. How do we fix this, and are F1 license points maybe too easy to get? so good question and thank you very much for the kind words in there and also a not ideal reference as well i think you've pretty much nailed 26 seconds of audio there so sam answer to the question here for the lulls you've got rather lovely sultry tones to your voice so congratulations on that whatever that is can you read us like bedtime stories yeah if you'd like to maybe do like our our outros or our credits you're welcome to it's not paid um away how we fix F2? I haven't heard that question.

I think you gave it a little preview to make sure it all works everything, but I've not heard it. I didn't know what the question was. So how can we fix the progression between F2 drivers becoming Formula One, stop making money focused, and allow drivers that we as spectators and the media will necessarily view them as having

the talent to take the step up what others maybe don't. I think a lot of the resolutions you can give put a lot of pressure onto Formula One teams where maybe they should be allowed to make their own choices. We've come up with a few of these answers in previous podcasts before, and I think the one that is key, I think is always having,

is a seat that needs to be moved around or owned by Formula One or the FIA that allows an F2 driver to step into Formula One for one season or one season only, to allow them to extend that career essentially. So you have 11 teams currently. One of them would be FIA owned or F1 owned and they would necessarily be run by some kind of unbranded team or something like that. And it allows for, say, the top two in F2 if they got signed by a team to step in have a full season in Formula One to allow them to show off their skills. Of course, the tricky thing is with this idea is Formula One cars on uniform like Formula 2 cars. They might not have development.

Finances might be tougher for F1 to, they're not, but they might have been theoretically tougher for development. They might have an engine supplier. There's so many questions up in the air, that it becomes very quickly unfeasible. And we're obviously talking about, you know, Oscar Piascri, right? He's the guy that has won the junior category, and he is one of the few people who are in those top sections

that were never really in a shout of a car. Guan Yu-Jo has obviously stepped into a role, and he hasn't. So it's hard to give you an actual direct answer that allows you to go, yes, that resolves the problem. We're going to do that then. Maybe it's as simple as only the top three in F2 are allowed to be signed by F1. But again, you're putting in rules that feel manipulative and against choice and a bit difficult. So I can't give you a 100% second stone answer that I think fixes the problem.

Maybe Ben and or Harry can provide something as they're a lot more intelligent than I am. But for me, it's something that is probably one of the hardest questions to answer in the world of Formula One. I don't think there is a sensible option that ticks all the boxes. So thank you for recording that lovely sultry voice of yours and sending it in. I do appreciate that. And you've got a not ideal in there because the answer to that question that I guess gave was not ideal. But it's hard to answer that question. I don't think I have a guaranteed solution for that.

So sorry. Not to worry, because Harry does have a guaranteed solution, don't you? I always have one. No, to be fair, I think not on jokes as I don't know. It's not ideal is probably the most accurate phrase for this issue, isn't it? There is really, I don't know if there is going to be any way to make it fairer. On the point of super licence points in F2, I don't think it, we've, touchwood for the past, I don't know, maybe, let's say 10 years. there haven't been exactly many

Duff drivers who've made it to F1 that haven't really been good enough to be an F1 so I don't think that necessarily is an issue and to be honest it's so hard to get a C and F1 that I don't think the bad ones have got any chance of making it through anyway so I say that

Raghunathan could still get a seat as I'm part please lord lord mavina what's the air maviay mavier maia yeah um yeah so i yeah as sam said there there is no real easy solution to this and you know is it is it keeping a seat free but who like how do you do that who which team has to keep their seat free is at the bottom of the championship each year has to give their seat up but like sam said it's it's it's all feels a bit too manipulated, doesn't it? It's just a really

hard, hard fat. And I guess the real solution is to get more teams in F1, but that's a wider issue in itself. You get more seats, then you get more opportunities for these young drivers to come through. I think it's a wider issue that F1 is facing at the moment. So, unexpectedly,

I don't really have a solution to the question here. I've come up with one, but I'll let Ben talk first. God. Well, better get in my question. mine in first then. Yeah.

My idea that I have said on the podcast previously, it would have been a while ago now, is that I think there should be some sort of rolling draft of sorts where essentially, and this works on the basis of 10 teams. So if that number changes, then the system will have to be updated slightly. But with 10 teams at least, every five years, you have to take either the winner or the runner up of F2. Now you could say that is forcing the issue. It is, but these teams will have time to prepare well in advance.

So let's say next year, we know it's Alpine who are going to be taking the first place finisher from F2 and it will be Hasse taking the second place. And then essentially you go around the other eight teams in the next four years and then it goes back to Alpin and Hasse but Hasse get the first place driver. So essentially every 10 years you're taking two drivers from F2, at least two drivers from F2. one of them is the runner-up and one of them is the first-place finisher. Slightly half-baked idea, so don't take it too seriously. But I think the actual issue itself isn't necessarily the achievements of the drivers in F2.

I actually think it's more of an issue of how long it takes them to get there. Because even with the, let's say, worst drivers in F-1 at the moment, it's not as if they've had junior careers that are completely uneventful and have had no success whatsoever. If you want to look at Nikita Mazepin as an example of this, that's probably one of the names you're thinking of when you're asking this question. You know, he did have a top five finish in F2. He did have a top three finish in F3.

It's not as if those results aren't there. I think the question comes about how long is it taking to get these results? Because as we know with that sort of development in that age of 17 to 21, you know, the older you are, it's a massive. massive experience edge that you have. And if you look at Nicholas Latifi as an example, yes, he did very well in his final year in F2, but it took him about five years to get to that point. So I actually think the issue, the core issue actually isn't related to F2 in particular. It's actually a much more grassroots issue that we have where it's, you know, you get the advantage from an early age

in terms of experience because of the money you have. That gives you an advantage at the next level. That gives you a head start at the next level. And it just keeps on cascade. It's almost like a snowball effect. To the time you get to F2, you've got these drivers that have because of wealth had such an advantage over other drivers.

But the issue doesn't start at F2. It starts well before that. But I agree with what you both said. There isn't a perfect solution out there. And I don't think there's one solution out there as well. The only way this can be tackled a number of measures what they are you know i've got a few ideas for some of them but maybe maybe for others not so much what's your idea that's going to finish it off here we go um so

i think you're all thinking it's going to be absolutely stupid it's not it's not that ridiculous i think red or all four teams should be offered um extra funding extra subsidies or perks by the fia to run a third car that can only take part in the Drivers' Championship. And on agreement to these extra subsidies, they have to take on board one of the top three in F2. So essentially it means that the bottom three teams will run three cars and they'll take the top three from F2. They can't compete in the constructors,

but it does show that they can show off their wheel to wheel racing. It shows that they can be in a car that's the same as their teammates. They might have performed better. And they'll always be funded for that secondary cars. As long as they can prove that funding isn't going into doggie side deals and whatnot, then I think that I think that could be quite an interesting method

of allowing a racer to prove themselves while the scene doesn't actually lose out on funding and whatnot. It needs some fleshing out, but as a pure idea, I don't hate it. Oh, that's the first. No, I don't hate it either. What occurred to me was, what happens if

a non-constructed championship car crashes into a Constructors championship car I felt like there would be uproar Yeah But there's uproar

Anyway You know Yeah It doesn't take a lot for there to be uproar Yeah true Should move on to

Question 2 We have to get into the written questions now Honestly Making us All of you are not worthy In comparison

to Here for the Moles We very much don't mean that Um A very important question this one actually Hence its position towards the beginning of the show It's from Leila

Pineapple on pizza question mark Tim Tock Harry Eid what do you think Get the biggest bin you've ever seen in the world And stick it in there That's what I have to know the matter I love song to interrupt Harry's answer about pineapple pizza Because Benz just referred to Harry as Tim Top

Which has never left this This recording, brilliant. We can sign up to our recording software with any game we want. And accidentally at one point, I think it was Harry. He mispronounced TikTok as Tim Tok. And since then, he has just called himself Tim Tok on this software for about six months now. Question is, why was I signing in as TikTok anyway? I don't know.

I forgot that needed context. Thank you, sir. There you go. We can't know that Harry refers to himself as Tim talk every time we record a podcast. This is really like behind the actor's curtain right now.

It's a Q&A episode. This is a bit different, isn't it? So find the biggest bin is your answer, Harry. Yeah, disgusting. So definitely no. Get out of it. Sam, pineapple on pizza.

To quote Pet Shop Boys, it's a sin. I don't get a lot of about Tinder and Apple podcast. Like, Tim Tox's going to go. It's really spats as water around. It's awful, isn't it? It is absolutely awful.

I work with a lot of Italians in my actual job that isn't part of this. And honestly, I've heard someone mention pineapple pizza to them. They get physically angry by the looks of things when you bring it up. Understandably. It is an atrocious combination of foods. I guess, Ben, we throw it over to you. Will you make it a trio? So I would not throw pineapple pizza in a bin.

and that is because I have too much respect for bins they don't deserve it yeah I am not deviating away from the consensus here disgusting is the correct word why don't you do because pizzas are magnificent things I had one for ding a lot folks oh yeah which

which one if you'd like to see it it's in the hashtag food Chat, the Discord, links in the description. Have a look. Have you posted it in there? Yeah, it's in there. Go have a look, everyone. Oh, I'm going to have a look. It looks good.

2,000 people have just joined the Discord. Food chat. This next one I like a lot because it not only comes with a question, but it's actually also a presumptive answer as well, which I think is great. And we'll confirm whether your assumptions are right or wrong on this. So the question comes from, username you can pronounce, which I think I've done an all right job with that.

So, yes. Not wrong. What cars do you all drive? And the assumption here is that Sam seems like a Merck guy. Ben, something a bit racy like a type R or a Clio sport. And Harry, definitely a Toyota. So, Harry, do you want to either confirm or deny the assumption here? Me and Ralph Schumacher.

No, denied. Sorry, guys, I don't drive a Toyota. I, in fact, currently drive a Merck. So there you go. Sam, your Mercedes? I do not drive a Merck. I'm not talented enough to be signed by Toto. No, I drive a relatively new, actually,

little mini electric level three. Folks, I've been in the car with this man and the electric instant torque from an electric mini is and sounds right foot is a frightening combination there's some interesting stories about me and these chapsing a car

and maybe we'll get into another time but yeah I like to drive around quite quickly we'll say that and as for my racy car not quite I drive a

Volkswagen polo which is also relatively new. If 2006 counts as new. Is it the same one you had when we were in college? Yes. Yes. That polo is done. Hey, it's a warrior in that polo. Love it. It's a warrior. Yeah. Not memories for us in that polo. Not like that.

Describing places together. Yeah, also like that. Oh, God. Next question comes from James Sturt, which is which driver would you like to see join F1, but not from a formula series, so not from F2, not from F3, so we're thinking maybe IndyCar, FE, Weck,

something along those lines. Harry, which driver are you putting in? I mean, I've got a bit of a soft spot for Scotty D, Scott Dixon. I think he probably should have had a shout at F1 at some point in his career. It's a bit late now, I think, for him. but he's still tearing it up over an indie car. He's now like the very reliable brings him the bacon driver. But I think back in the day,

I think he'd have had a good run at it in Formula One to be honest. I think he had a couple of tests. Yeah, yeah. So, yeah, there are plenty, but that was on that sprung to Mike, because I think he really could have made it, had circumstances been different. Sam, your answer? Another person that's flirted

with Formula One in the past and is never driven in the formulas. There's now recently gone to GT racing is Mr. Valentina Rossi. You know, one of the very famous on two wheels. He's just one of those people that are instinctively quick whatever they do. And I'm sure he

will prove himself worthy in GT. He wouldn't be given a seat for the sake of being giving a seat. You know, the guy can drive quickly, wherever he goes. Obviously, there's some, there's a video that if you ever watch Sky Sports, especially on the English channels, they love playing the Lewis Hamwitt on a motorbike and him in the Mercedes clip repeatedly. So he has driven F1 cars as a bit of fun. I guess he'd be right. He's a great character. He's a really lovely bloke by all accounts. I generally think he would have

been good to have in Formula One. So yeah, Mr Rossi. I mean, you two have both gone for experience here, but both of your guys are around 40 years old. I'm going to go the other way on this. So I'm going to go back to IndyCar like Harry did, but I'm going to go with Colton Hurtr, which it might still happen and was very close to happening a few months ago. His record on road course is very good.

Obviously with IndyCar, you've got the mix of ovals and regular circuits. And Colton Hurtt, I think all of his wins have come at circuits, which bodes well if you're going to do an F1 crossover. If you've got someone who is a very prolific oval, race so that's all well and good and i'll have a good oval race but it's not going to translate as well to f1 whereas you know colton hurt has won at long beach he's won a couple of times at laguna seka a really talented guy and he's only 21 years old so um i'll go with him

hasn't another up-and-comer in indy car i think they call him the phoenix rising from the ashes to be to be honest i thought you were going to say either paul tracy or the mayor of hinttown so The Mayor of Hinchtown is the best nickname. I'm sorry, Phoenix, but Mayor of Hinchtown is the best. I love that every IndyCar driver and member of the team has some ridiculous nickname. If you are an IndyCar watcher, what would our three nicknames be? A question for you, please.

I would like to hear them. Make them incredibly ridiculous. Yeah, yeah. I just think of Captain America, Ryan Hunter Ray. There are some great ones. High Hunter, me. There are some great ones. We'll move on to

We'll move on to Bobo's Nuts Because Bobo's Nuss That's a guy Which of us is most likely to be the following On a road trip So he wants to know Driver Navigator and Backseat Driver

Which How would we divide ourselves I'm interested What's your answer to this, Sam? What are you going to go for? I'm driving, thank you. Oh, I'm not getting that. We're all getting in this cut.

We'll get there first, that's for sure. Harry, I... I wouldn't get you on navigation, but I'd get you a pump out the tunes, and Ben will be pure suggesting and throwing us into directions, you know, I just feel like that works out. It's a good dynamic with Ben in the middle.

It balances our ridiculousness. As does the podcast. I'm backseat... No, you're driving there, the Aux cable. Yeah, yeah, you're on AUX. Yeah. You're the front right. I'm in the front.

Oh, people who don't drive in the same way as us. That's confusing. Anyway, I'm driving. That's all that matters. And I assume the answer is the same for everyone. I would not have you drive. So my way of approaching this is not to look at our strengths, but to avoid our weaknesses here. So my view is I would not trust Harry or Sam to navigate me anywhere.

So I'm going to be in the navigators. That's correct. Which then leaves them to fight over driver and backseat driver And I wouldn't trust Sam to drive either So Harry's going to have to drive In which case Sam you're in the back, sorry People are going to think I'm terrible I'm just too quick

In fairness I say that I'm not sure if I've said this on the podcast before I've given Harry the ability to drive I should let you know the first time I ever went in the car with Harry He went through a red light Where someone was nearly halfway across the road and was very surprised.

It was an elderly lady, wasn't it? She was not best pleased with me. She's fine, folks. Yeah. I, um... I mean, I think I agree with Benzor. I don't agree with Soundthold. I probably go with...

To be honest, I don't really like being a passenger anymore. I think I get a bit a bit car sick, so I might have to drive. I'm the people's driver. And I don't trust them to navigate us anywhere, so... Where am I? Set us wrong! Where is this coming from? No, I think it's more I'd trust Ben more than I would trust you.

I understand. I trust you to put some back in tune. If there was a way to make sure that Sam, you'd control of music over me in that respect, don't worry, I'd make that happen. I'll take that. I'll take that. Backseat DJ. Next one is our first one from Twitter.

Luke Jackson has asked, if you could pick three drivers in history to put in the same car and see who is best who would you pick harry this is a difficult one because i think i'd want to put more than three but i think the one that probably the three that uh sorry that probably caused the most um arguments on twitter it's going to be hamilton it's going to be schumacher it's going to be center isn't it because it's a lot of banter yeah a lot of banter that would just be um i mean all of them in their prime I don't know.

And is the theory that they are racing against each other, or is it like a shootout? Like a hot lap. I don't know. Well, both. Because if it was racing each other, none of them would finish. I don't see any of them making it towards the end of that race.

So maybe it's done on time lapse. Interesting one. Sam, your three? Well, to Mr. Luke, I'm sorry, Miss Jackson. because I had to get a good sing-song in there. Outcast, come on. I would also go for Mr. Hamilton.

I would also go from Michael Schumacher, but I would not put in Ayrton. I would, in fact, ramp LeBanter up to 100 and putting Fernando Alonso into the car. There's a lot of banter in it. Oh, it is. Still no one's making it to end of that race. No one's getting around turn one.

Alonzo versus Senna is a battle I would like to see that'd be ridiculous yeah spicy Benjamin what have you got I'm going to go with Hamilton Schumacher and just to provide a different answer to Harry I'll throw Jim Clark in there as well because I want to see how that stacks up

I thought you might go Fangio but Fair. Yeah, I was thinking even like you're a fan. It's another one. Yeah. Could have easily done as well. But that's a very tough question. A very good one.

It's a good question. What about Tarsot Marquez? Put him in a car with Ricardo Rosset and Michael Schumacher and see who wins. Right. Yes. Good idea. Sorry, Michael. It's a tough draw.

Another one from Twitter coming up, which is from Joe Jessena. If you could each construct your perfect. track by combining the first, second and third sectors from different F1 circuits, what would they be? Don't come to me first, thank you, I've got thought about it. Oh, don't come to me first. Then you do it. I'll go first to this one. It's a really tricky one.

Yeah, it's hard. I'm going to take the first sector from Interlagos, you've got the center S's and then you've got the dash down the straight. I'll take the first sector at Interlagos. I'll take the middle sector Silverstone so we get some maggots and beckets in there and third sector

this one might be the toughest one I'll go with Suzuki's third sector to get 1 30R in there and the Cassio triangle just so I can see Fisichella defend thin air for the rest of my life I'll go with that

interlagos Silverstone and then Suzuki I'll go next Suzuki is my sector one because I love Suzuki's sector one sector two I was going to go for oh god

I've forgotten already well sector three I was going to go for Monza and sector two I was going to go for I was going to go for I'll go for it's Dan Bull because you get turn 8 in there I think

yeah I guess with sector 3 at Monza you just about get Ascari as well don't you because it's just before yeah enters into Ascari You go out of turn 8 Turkey straight into Ascari I love it

And I know that Ascari is your favourite favourite corner on the entire calendar Sam so I don't know if you're going to go that the same direction I think if Ascari was at the end of sector two, it would get more of a shout. But of course, I do really like what was once going as Parabolica,

aka giant satemite dish. Which is... Oh, we don't talk about that enough. No, that is... Unbelievable. A strange translation. Oh, sector one, I'm going to go for spa because I would

like Oroge Magnus. I also like localised weather, please, in each place. that we go to. Sector 2, I am going to also go for Silverstone because I think coming through the camel straight and then straight onto Stowe or whatever it is, or Cops rather, is going to be quite nice.

Or does it start further back actually? It goes, isn't it? It starts before Brooklyn's. Like Brooklyn's, yeah. And it ends with Magnets and Beckett's right at the end of it, isn't it, and whatnot? That's tasty. Like that.

That's a good. Aathe. Yeah. And then, see, I was then going to go final sector Monsa, but then you're doing the Maggats-Bekets-Tunners, turners, Magus-Bekets-Turners, MacGets-Terns straight into a scary, and I feel like, I know it's nonsensical.

You know, that doesn't, maybe we'll just have Baku as the final sector. I will just drag race it all the way down. Why not, eh? Something ridiculous like that. Straight out of Magnet's of Beckett's, onto the stupid start, the final

slow corner to then start the kick off of the run down. Into the, interlassol. Yes. That's how it goes. So there we go. Can't believe Spain sector three didn't get a look in there. It was on the tip of my son. Yeah. Yeah.

The new one, yeah. I'm on the Coase sector too as well. Nothing for Yeong Jam. Disappointing. Oh, gosh. That's a great. I base mine all on current tracks. If we were talking every track in the world,

I'd need to spend one more time on it to start with. But I probably would take something out of Mount Panorama. You know, the old mounting section would definitely come into play. Downhill into Ascari. I'm a big fan of Bathurst, folks, by the way. Big fan of Bathurst. Hopefully those answers were good for you, Joe. We'll move on.

Well, hopefully they were. We'll move on to Plasma E's question, which is, if you can have one person related with F1 in any way on the podcast, who would it be? And in brackets, Big Shack is the obvious one, so it can't be hit. Boo.

Oh, dear. Harry? He's going first. All right, I'll go first. Eddie Jordan. Oh, yeah. Oh, brilliant. E.J.

I don't think it could be topped. He was second. I would like to... I would just shout at him. I would like to interview Eddie Jordan. I'd like to do a one-on-one piece with Eddie Jordan. No, because I don't think that'd be broadcasted. That's my point.

I feel like it would be too ridiculous. So you're going with Eddie Jordan. I will have to go with my Formula One legend and bring back Mr. Murray Walker. I feel like the stories he can tell and just the speaking to, I could speak to him for hours if I ever got the chance to

and also, if we could just have his voice properly on the podcast like, wouldn't that just be amazing to listen to? You'd probably say everything wrong. You'd probably get everything in the wrong order, much like I do, but it would just be great to listen to

unlike what I do. So, yeah, no, I absolutely love to have Muffrey on the podcast. That is a dream, obviously, that can never be fulfilled. Yeah. Those are two very good answers. I think if I was doing like an interview by myself, I would go with Jackie Stewart,

but I don't know if Jackie Stewart would fit the overall vibe of the podcast in the same way. I have to go, I'm going to have to agree with Harry here. Eddie Jordan on this podcast is the most sensational thing in the world. Late Breakers, if you'd like to all tag. What would we ask him? You wouldn't need to ask him anything. That's the best thing. You just be you, E.J.

And let him go. Shall we get him to play? Pump the brakes and just give his biggest F1 opinions? I'm going to ask him, just ask him about when Petronus are going to leave F1 and then set him off and they'll talk for an hour. Because they're going to leave it any day now. Just make it happen. I'm going to ask him. He's not done a big...

Eddie, how did you get back to your hotel before? the Monaco Grand Prix started because I remember seeing you run across the track drunk at the start of broadcasting. That's one, E.J. I love him. Next question. From Instagram comes from Juan Alviani.

Apologies, if that one is horribly pronounced. If you were running your own team for the next five years, what would be your driver lineup for 2022? Sam. Oh, do I have to pick, oh, my own team for 2020. What would be my driver lineup? But you've got these two drivers for the next five years. The next five years.

That's a really good question. There's a really good question. I've got mine. Oh, yeah, you go. No, you go. I'm going to go for Georgie Russ and Charlotte Claire. Moses Leclair. Yeah, to give him his true ties.

You don't want any of Max? I do but I don't I don't I think there's an issue sustainability issue on on who can be Max's teammate and I don't know whether

in the long run over five years it's going to work not not if it was one choose one driver I might go Max obviously as Hamilton as well

but over the next five years as a pairing that'll be a very solid shout sorry Mike all right I am going to

agree with you on the no max front I don't want I don't want any possible drama and I also would not favour a driver over the other. So I actually am going to throw it back

to a couple of years ago, Old McLaren pairing, landing Norris Carlos Sines. And in their current ability, though, from now. I thought you were about to say Jensen, Button and Lewis Hamilton. Yes. Just goes the old McLaren pairing. Jensling out of retirement.

Lewis, you keep going to your 44. Come on. That's good. That's good. All right. So, Sines and Norris for you, Sam. Leclair and Russell for you, Harry. I'm going to give a bit of a controversial opinion here and I'm going to go for...

It's a bit of a controversial one I'm going to go with the guy last season that broke the record for most number of podiums in a year I'm going to go for the guy who won a world championship and I'm going to go for a guy who's generally pretty good at racing I'm going to go with Max Verstappen is that a bit mad? Oh, is that out of there.

Pushed boundaries. And I don't care about unity, harmony. As you know, from this podcast, we thrive on the opposite of that. So, Verstaffin and Leclair, put them in the same car. Oh, my God. Ben just wants to watch the world burn. The star is right. Let the battle commence.

Do you remember that battle they had at like Silverstone a couple years ago, where they were just banging wheels for about three laps? came after Austria, was that? Yeah. It'll just be that for an entire five years. Can you convince me that you don't want to see that? It's a very, very good point. I'm thinking of the fantasy.

Very good point. This one might well be a short answer. This one's from Skyler. Should I trust anything, Sam says? No. Harry's answer is no. What is Sam's answer? No.

I don't trust it. Well, no. 50-50. Well, yeah, it's a 50-50. So, Sam, if you've said no, you've actually, you're actually all right because the answer must be yes. I'm actually going to, I, this is rare. I'm going to pay you a compliment, Sam.

I think the people should trust what Sam says, because, yeah, there are a lot of incredibly daft analogies in there. you never quite know where they're going. But listen along because without fail, they will make sense by the end of it. And I mean that, they will somehow come back around to the original point and you're sat there thinking, yeah.

Actually, you know what? It does make sense. So I don't trust everything Sam says, but I think he's worth listening to. Oh, that is really nice. I mean, it's fair. Before this podcast, Sam was saying that, you know if someone's mumbling,

it's not like talking in HD it's like talking in 480p and that somehow makes sense my point exactly that makes it like when your YouTube video goes all blaring you're like where's my single gun that's like someone talking like this

speak up talk normally open your mouth oh man oh god brilliant so there you go we'll go back to Twitter for the next one which is from Jason and it's actually about the podcast itself which is what made you all once start a podcast

on f1 how did the idea come about between the three of you how long have you got folks how long have you got that could be a book could be a book a audio book do you want to start the book sam um so yeah so okay let's we'll do a bit of a mini wrap-up live story so we all we all knew each other um individually to a degree uh going through secondary school which if you got from the UK, that's age 11 to 16. And then we went to the same college. And I didn't pay attention in my first year of college, just like I don't pay attention on this podcast. And I decided that actually, I didn't do a very good job. So I restarted college essentially, which you could do. So I do an extra year. And in that start of that extra year, I met these two Muppets in history

class, because we all did history together as an A-level. Sam came in with the, yeah, lunchbox. I did. I had a bus flight year lunchbox. I turned to Harry and went, avoid this guy. And I sat next to them. Yeah. And we all came to the realization

that we love Formula One and had done, you know, individually as children growing up. And so Harry lived quite close to the college and on our breaks, on our days off. We would meet up and we all just chill out and have a pasty, which he did in Cornwall,

which is where we all met, it in England. Cornish Praski, look it up, they are a delicacy, and we play Formula One. And eventually, when we're all being silly, I was making an overtake, going into Parabolica, large satellite dish on one of the old Formula One games, and while doing it, I shouted loudly, late breaking, just to be silly. Anyway, kind of stuck, because as we started going to get for university, we were going to start writing about Formula One, the Drive tribe came along. You may have heard of Drive Tribe, run by Jeremy Clarkson and the like, and we thought, let's do it together. We'll just write stuff together.

So we started writing together, individual articles, group stuff. And then we started making silly videos and YouTube. We are on YouTube. Which you'll never see. You'll never see the originals. They are shocking. One point, I threw a kick cat out the window and we followed it with a POV can. There's just a little sprinkle of the tasting.

One point, we asked where Jolian Parma might be using Apple backgrounds to disguise ourselves as a roller. That he asked whether he'd ridden a llama yet. Oh, far wrong alarm, the segment was called. Anyway, eventually, we don't know how much we like YouTube, and that's still the case. If we can be completely transparent, honest with you. YouTube is frustrating, and we much prefer the fact that we can just sit here as a three and have a chat. We thought, let's give a podcast to go.

Let's pick it up and try it. And we never expected any of you to listen. We thought it would just be the three of us talking. And now we only have nearly 250,000 downloads of this podcast in about a year, which is absolutely crazy. So that's kind of how it happened. It was a natural progression from us talking about F1 at college to then playing the game, to them writing articles,

and then making content on it like this. So, yeah, I mean, that kind of sums it up. Is there anything you like to add chaps? That was very well told, actually. Thank you. Yeah, it kind of came back. We had a bit of a false start with this podcast. We did.

Please don't go back and listen to episode one, because it's a long time ago, and we did about six episodes and then and then somehow we didn't have 250,000 downloads after six episodes who were like, nah, don't do that anymore so we stopped from a bit.

Don't go in this. But yeah, we did multiple different types of video, live streams. We had something called the Late Breaking F1 show which is kind of like a precursor for this I would, I guess. So yeah, it kind of just came about organically, I guess you can say.

It was just the next logical step, and it's the one that's done really well. That's the thing we hadn't tried and failed out, essentially. Yeah, exactly. We are a product of trial and error, folks, and that's what our mother's say to us. Yeah. Actually the truth.

Yeah. We'll move on to this one of my favorite names so far, DJ Spin to Win. Great name. Nice. Get him in the back of the car doing the tunes. I'm a big fan of this question as well. It's nice direct to the point.

Gassley in a Red Bull, again. Lando in a Mercedes. Who wins? Harry. I can ask you with Lando. And that seems harsh because we've not really, maybe not seen enough of Lando, but, you know,

Gassley, admittedly, he's probably brought up too early for that chance in Red Bull, but we've seen it before. It didn't work out. And, you know, he was supreme last year I think but I think maybe Lando was just slightly better and I think he his his his ceiling as it were that he can reach I think it's slightly higher than than Gassley's is in terms of what he's you know able to achieve in the future so I you know I

it would be close but I think I'd hand it to Lando on this one and I don't mean I mean that and no offense to to dear Pierre I just think Lando maybe just got a little bit more to offer in the long run. Yeah, I think Gasly having a second shot at that Red Bull, he'd do a much better job than he did the first time around, given he's actually got some time time around. But even so, I'm actually going to agree with you, Harry, on this one, I would go with Lando Norris.

The only reason on this one is I'm massively biased towards British drivers. Oh, no, it. Sorry. That's a different podcast. British Ben, they call you. British Ben, that is my nickname. Brexit, Ben. Around the streets of Coral.

No, I... I think Lando Norris, again, for the same reason you said, Harry. I think both very solid drivers. I think Lando Norris' ceiling is a bit higher, though. Sammy, are you going to defend the honour of Pierre Gassley? No, sorry, Pierre. British pot. I need to see Pierre Gassley in a car that isn't the Alpha Tank

and it isn't failing in that Red Bull, unfortunately. I don't care what car it is. I just need to know that he can drive that well in another team. And he didn't prove that when he went to Red Bull. I do believe it was too early for him. But he's only driven well in the Alpha Tauri, which wasn't towards Toro also. So, no, for me to be able to put him above Lando Norris,

who has been increasingly good year on year on year, I just need to see him do it in another car. He's had the opportunity which he didn't take. So, yeah, I think Lando currently has just got a bit of a higher ceiling. we're going to move another great name actually we're moving on to now we go back to discord for this one this is the bungalorian related to the mandolarian quite possibly not sure this question it might be the most random one we've got so massively appreciate this if you were to rule a small island nation what would the name of it be

Sam go ahead I've got two answers The first one would be a little nation known as, well, a group of nations, I was going to think it's United Kingdom. It's a horrible place, and no one likes being here. So that's good, right? I think that name's already taken. Yeah, I don't think you can use that one. But the leader I've heard is already an idiot, so nothing changes, right?

And then my actual one. Don't ambush him with a birthday cake, folks. topical The other one would actually just be called simply Samstown And I would inquire that the killers Have to play there at least once a week The full album

At the local venue Pretty a two-star establishment But yeah, Samstown would be the name of the island Harry I'm really strong to come up With some pithy, witty name for mine But the whole ethos of my

small island nation is that no one judges you if you're late. Oh, here we go. Islands that never gets anything done. Exactly. It's chilled.

Doesn't matter if you're a bit late. No one cares. No one cares island, is what I'm going to call it. I've never visiting. If we were a little three, a little trio of islands in, I don't know, the Mediterranean.

I don't really go to Benz Island. I'm going. I'm not coming near yours. Just flying over my island and people going, why is nothing happening down there? No one cares. Me and the killers flying over it. My island is wholly centred around F1.

There would be multiple F1 tracks on it. I don't care what else happens. There are multiple F1 tracks on this island. I'll name it after. the late breaking, but because it will be quite an exotic place, it's got an exotic name, Las Breaking. Oh,

can we have a little... So exotic. Over the A, in breaking as well. Oh, yeah. Las Barking. Yeah, let's do that. What, an umlaut. That was it called?

That's a different type of one from Germany, I believe. Ah, sorry, sorry, Germany. You're an umlaut. I did not know, I didn't know what to expect when we started this Q&A episode. I did not think a shout out for an umlout would have made an appearance, but here we are. Shout out to all the umlouts in the world.

Big up the umlouts. It's a lot of football team now. Umlout FD. The mighty umlouts. They play on, uh, they play on last breaking. It's all good. Um, home stadium. I just thought what my football team be. You wouldn't have one.

You could be right. Sportball FC. Oh yeah, I don't really watch football anyway, so it doesn't matter. Yeah. We'll go on to a question from happy dot pans, which is, what's the most tedious part of your podcasting process? I feel like this was for you, Harry. I'm sorry folks

I love doing this podcast but we record this on a Wednesday night and as we record now it's about 20 past 8 we finish half 8 maybe 9 o'clock these two bugger off and do their own thing and then I have to go and edit the thing and I love it and actually often it takes me longer than it should

because I end up listening to ourselves this is the kind of humour we have we end up just laughing at ourselves and I end up laughing of what we literally just said. Well, exactly. I just ended up laughing at what we just said, but the most tedious part is the whole editing process. I've got it down to a fine art, if I say so myself now,

but I still sometimes get it wrong. Sometimes I forget to upload it. That's happened on multiple occasions. Yeah. So it's basically the time from about 9 o'clock to maybe half 10 on a Wednesday evening is the most tedious part. of this process. Progress of Harry.

The rest of it, I love. Just to give people, give people an idea, though, because you're right with all the editing you do, but like, just to give people the right impression here, it's not like we record a two-hour, it's not like we do a two-hour session and then we cut it down to an hour, giving you the best part. Everything is like. Barely anything is ever cut out.

Like, only really offensive things get cut out. Or if we have an internet problem. and someone sounds like an absolute robot. That is pretty much. Oh, yeah. Actually, this is a very good point. It doesn't happen so much now, Touchwood. But when we use a different podcast provider,

if you're internet cut out, it just would ruin the whole thing. And then we'd end up re-recorded. We've re-recorded entire podcast before, and that's... You know how hard it is to be funny when you know the joke is coming, right? You know what you're going to say?

It's not funny anymore. Yeah, that is tedious. My way around that, Sam, it's just don't be funny the first time. I bet I'm an expert at that. Just repeat. That's true. I do laugh at you, not with you.

So basically what we've summarised here is that Harry has a post-record thing that he has to do. I spend a lot of time pre-record getting all the topics together. And it's great to have you along, Sam. Hey, if you go back to YouTube, thanks. Check out every bloody thumbnail. They don't take five minutes to knock out. I have I have

perfectly had terrible terrible internet so I can't really do anything other than be here because how long it takes me to upload anything longer than 30 seconds about four days What did you try and upload

Not that like maybe six months ago 12 months ago And it literally took like a week It wasn't It was when we were using A separate recording software And we had to download our audio separately and something wasn't working.

So we had to upload it to YouTube to download it. This is what goes on behind the scenes. And then Harry, who's got brilliant Wi-Fi, right? They've got fibre. I live in a church, an old converted church, and I have crudy internet. And it said, you know, upload time estimated, some like 47 hours

remaining or something like that. And then when it uploaded, when it finished saying 100%, it went, oh sorry, your connection went down at some point to you in the upload and it failed. So that's why I can't do anything. I used to do all the thumbnails, I lived previously. And I used to edit some of the videos as well.

But I think the most tedious part now is just thinking, honestly, just having to actually think. That's difficult. I'm sorry for making the funniest becomes tedious as well, making you all laugh all the time. That becomes a bit difficult. Sometimes you think, you know, Ben and Harry might pick up the slack, but we never do in that respect. What do you bring to the actual podcast? I don't know. I'm exhausted from energy.

Just add me all the time, you two. Next question comes from Andrew Henderson 29 on Instagram. If you could put... Oh, the 29th. Yeah, exactly, yeah. We don't deal with any 25th versions of Andrew Henderson here. Of the Andrew Henderson dynasty. Exactly.

You could put any driver, alive or dead, back into F1 in their prime form. Who would it be? And why? Harry? um what back into current day f1 i guess oh my good lord that's a really difficult question

uh look obvious answer and a bit because a bit of a fanboy but i i'd put 2004 michael schumacher in in a current f1 car because i think that would be good banter all round but there are lots of choices here some we've already really mentioned but i'll let you guys let you guys have that one.

I'll go with, because my view is that Michael Schumacher is the greatest driver of all time and I would not in any way be against 2004 Michael Schumacher showing up or even a 90s version of Michael Schumacher showing up because he had some belting performances

like 95, 96, 97. But I'm actually going to go slightly before that for selfish reasons just because we did as a trio enjoy some of the of Schumacher's career, if not quite all of it. But because of our ages, Erton Senna, sort of late 80s, early 90s, Erton Senna,

didn't get to witness him live. So, you know, this would be the opportunity to do so. So I'll go with him. Oh dear. I'll have to flip the lid on this one and go for the opposite of what Benjamin's going for and say that I would like to bring back the opposing the villain almost to Erton's

singer and that is Alan Prost. I would love to see the workings and the mind of Alan Prost running a modern Formula one car at the peak of his ability. I probably would have put old Mickey S in the car if Harry Hennel brought it up but I'd like to be a bit of variation.

So I think, yeah, I think Alain. I think the man knows how to create something out of nothing. So Prost himself. We are absolutely spitting on the legacy of 99 Pedro Denez, aren't we? sorry Pedro sorry maybe next time

next one next one is from Craig which is do you have any non F1 or racing games that you enjoy Sam yeah I mean I

I like folks I work in the gaming industry outside of our late breaking context so I'm quite on the pulse when it comes to games I'm a big gamer I thoroughly enjoyed gaming Should I say hello at gaming more in this introduction?

Gaming. Games. I like stuff that allows you to be to customize. I like a really interesting story. Open world stuff. I'm a big fan of the Fallout series. I like the Alien Universe. I'm a big fan of Alien Isolation.

I think it's one of the best games ever made. The original Mafia game is a personal favourite. And I like strategy stuff as well. So civilization, European Universalis. All stuff like that. really sad and early things where I take over the world because I can't do it with this podcast for these two so I have to do it in a separate place. And then other simulators, generally other racing games, of course, anything racing

relating, I'm also a huge fan of, but we ask mainly for not racing there, so keep it separate. So yeah, those kind of games, I'm a big fan of all. Harry? I'm not quite as much as a gamer as Sam has pointed out. So my main gaming is Motorsport racing games I have I've got like

Caller Duty but not very good at that FIFA 09 I do I've still got FIFA 03 somewhere I'm not very good at FIFA either to be honest I like I like

I don't know what I don't know what I like What's that? Sorry I'm I'm last Nothing at... Little Big Planet. That is a great game. We play many games multiplayer folks

when we get together and we always pick a really odd or random team to play as. And the amount of times that Harry has been in possession of the ball press the wrong button on the controller and you just hoofs it off for a throwing every single time he gets the ball.

Look, I'm just playing for the corner. Every time. We've also got a single three-man attack where if a defender, to the ball and the other team. We just run at them. And we crunch them with our three sliding tackles. We don't play it seriously, but it's good for it.

Also, big little playing. Absolute gem of the game. Thank you, Harry, for that one. Yeah. I think one more, and it's not out, but the trailer came out for it the other day, and I don't think I've been this excited for a game in a long time, is the Skywalker saga of Lego Star Wars.

It looks absolutely insane. I'm not ashamed to say. I'm not ashamed to say it. It looks ridiculous. So that's probably going to be the only non-racing game. I'll buy that. An F-1-2020. And that's probably about it.

And then I have to get a PS5 because, well, I wouldn't do that for years. But anyway. Yeah, to be clear. When Harry bought a PS4. Because the transition from PS3 to PS4, Harry essentially bought PS4 finally, pretty much at the time the PS5 was announced. Yeah, he bought it about three months before it was announced.

I'm being being bang and hang on for four years, five years. You might have heard of the phrase early adopter. That is the opposite of Harry. Oh, good. Ben, what about you? What do you get up to? I think I'd probably fall somewhere in the middle of you two, really. And I don't think I'm quite as much of a gamer as you, Sam, generally speaking,

but probably more so than Harry. To be honest, I don't deviate much away from sports generally, although I do sort of go away from racing with a few of the games. so I love the FIFA series. I love NBA 2K. Love those games. Love the NFL games as well, Madam. So, yeah, generally don't do much outside of,

to be honest, those core games plus F1 and anything else there. But nearly all sport. Nice. Sports, sports. Love sports. And we come to our final question, which is from, And this is on Instagram, so there's no spaces here, so I'm not quite sure how this is pronounced.

It's either Annie Heerton, or it's Annie H. Yerton. I'm not too sure. Sorry about this one. If you had to be locked up with any driver for 48 hours, which driver would you choose? Harry. Is it got to be current? Doesn't specify.

All right. I won't go current then. I would go for Mark Weber because I'd reckon we'd have a right old knees up I think we'd have a great time and you'd have a laugh with Mark Weber there are a lot of good choices here

you can stay locked up with like one of the Twitch Quartet and you're like Lando Norris or something just ended up playing games for 48 hours but yeah I'll go for Mark Weber a bit of a life and stuff of the party Sam I think I'll join

you on the Aussie trip but I'll go for current Misgadani Rick I feel like me and him in a room together will really vibe so that's just where I think we'll be out I don't think we'll leave to be long as after the time period's up and have a great time together keep Stam staying here not good

August be the Buffalo bills forever and take silly photos and balance things on our heads and then all the other people by being too loud I imagine I am going to go with Alex Albon I think it'd just be lovely God's sake. I was thinking lovely

because I thought maybe like Seby Vett, he'd probably be quite a lovely 48 hour companion. Yeah. Just be nice, wouldn't they? I'd go on a road trip with Seby Vett. All right. You've nominated yourself for that.

I am, yeah. Sam, if you are listening and Frank in the podcast doesn't know it yet, if you'd like to go on a road trip with me and just me, we'll film it, why not? I feel like we have good chat, have a laugh. I feel like you teach me a thing or two.

Maybe it would have been calm and zen and appropriate. We do need to organise a late breaking call of fame road trip at some point, which is the three of us, Shaquille O'Neal, Yuki Sanoda, Dave Benson-Philips, and your fire alarm, Harry. The dead fire alarm now. Yeah, which is we're resting the pit lane. He's opposite of dead. He's now fully functioning and has all the battery.

Put the old battery back in for the road trip. Yeah. Yuki or hate it. Oh man. I think we'd all hate it. I wasn't sure we were going to get through all of those questions. So, yeah, it's a good thing that we did. So many we didn't answer, though.

Sorry if we didn't actually get to yours. We literally grabbed the ones that came in, and there are plenty that we didn't answer, so we are sorry. Apologies, yeah, we did have to be a little bit selective, but that in itself is a very humbly... thing because we had we had to be selective about questions that came in it's always a bit of a fear when you do something like this that two people will respond so thank you very much to everyone who did send in a question it is greatly appreciated go on I got a tedious thing to get on with

right okay as you already know folks this is now we're now eating into harry's evening because he needs to go away and edit this thing and get it uploaded so we'll let him do that sam if you wouldn't mind getting us out of here Folks, thank you so much for all your questions. They are funny, brilliant, interesting, odd that you want to know about our personal lives and who we are behind this, which is very humbling. My partner did bring up the idea of maybe when we hit a certain milestone,

we should allow you to do a comedy roast of the three of us. I don't know, let us go if you're up for it. Maybe we'll do it in a year or something as like a Christmas special. Who knows? Thank you for tuning in. This is a bit of a one-off. for a if you've stuck all the way through. So yeah, thanks very much to the three of us in the meantime.

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