The Late Braking F1 Podcast - Will Christian Horner return to F1?

Episode Date: August 20, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:00 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. Welcome to the late breaking F1 podcast presented by Harry Ead, Sam Sage. And me, Ben Hocking. We're back for a midweek Wednesday episode, Sam. We're wangling around straws. It's a great Tuesday evening.
Starting point is 00:00:41 Wednesday evening as it will be. Yeah, that is producer Kirstie doing that. You can see it because she's got to record. So that is going to go right over literally everyone's heads. But all three of us are here. Harry has come across the globe to make sure that he's on this show. Harry, you are feeling full of pep and zip, I believe. Yeah, Vim and Vigga, I believe.
Starting point is 00:01:00 That's what they say. Hello, everyone. Yeah, I got back from those United States of America today and had a unintentional five-hour nap. So I'm ready to go. I hate when that happens. I really didn't mean for it to be five hours. It was meant to be one.
Starting point is 00:01:17 Maximum, this is a very in reference. When I woke up, it was very similar to when you turned up on my house. You always said this earlier, man. Folks, when we were teenagers and we turned up outside Harry's house because we were meant to have a day together. He opened his window and looked at us like, he was like, who are these freaks outside of my house? Why?
Starting point is 00:01:40 He finished us walking out of it. Yeah, that was me about a half hour ago. That was Warwick compared to California, mate. They're very similar, to be honest. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They do call it the California. Such as. Such as.
Starting point is 00:01:55 It's hilly. It's quite hilly, I guess, in Warwickshire, as it is in California. And that's where the similarities end. I'll be real. Welcome to this F1 podcast, folks, where we are not going to talk about Formula One today. None at all. Thanks to new listeners for joining. Well, you have to have.
Starting point is 00:02:14 half right, Sam, because we are having a Q&A episode today. So we've asked our good friends over on Discord and on Instagram on X as well to send us some questions. We have a good mix of some some F1 questions and some very much non-F1 questions about us. We like to do these episodes from time to time and we appreciate that some of the questions that we might answer to today, we would have covered at some point in our late breaking journey in the past. But we're getting new listeners all the time, new viewers all the time as well. So we want to make sure that you're to know us because then that will probably put you off and you won't listen again. Right. Let's start with an F1 question, seeing as we are an F1 podcast.
Starting point is 00:02:54 And this one comes from Aidan. If Charles LeCleur was at Red Bull instead of Max Verstappen, would he have the same, less, or more world driver's championships? Oh. Open the bidding, Sam. I'm going to say less. I'm going to go with two world championships. Harry?
Starting point is 00:03:17 Yeah, I think I would go the sore. I'd say two or three. He'd have less. 21, I don't know how that would have played out if it was Charlotte. That for me is ruled out. I think Hamilton beats LeCler at that point in their careers right there. And I think he maybe would have just falling off in comparison to Norris last year. 24, yeah.
Starting point is 00:03:41 Yeah. I've got it at three. I think he'd have won last year. I agree 21. I think that was slightly too early for Charles Leclair. It would have been year four of his career, year three at Ferrari. And he was getting along quite well at that point. So it had been a,
Starting point is 00:03:58 it had been a match for Hamilton for much of that season. But I agree it might have been a year or two too, too early. I think it has swept 22 to 24. I definitely think 22, 23, easy, peasy. 24 is definitely, it could go either way. I just don't know if he had the When the Red Bull got bad And for staffing, I had to do
Starting point is 00:04:18 ungodly things in that car To stay in front of cars that he shouldn't have done I don't know if LeClaire would have been able to do that Harry, it's a bit of a painful question, isn't it? For Charles LeClaire and Shol LaClair fans When we're debating, would it be two Or would it be three When he is very much on zero?
Starting point is 00:04:34 Yeah, that just shows The turmoil he's had to endure whilst being at Ferrari. Yeah, I think we're fairly confident that give him a consistently competitive car and Charlotte Clair will deliver. Well, I mean, we say championships,
Starting point is 00:04:52 just some more race wins to start with. It would be good. Just like a one to two relation to his polls. You know, that would be great for a start. It's got more pole positions, like all the Formula One history combined, but he has less race wings than me. So it's pretty tough on that, on that combination.
Starting point is 00:05:10 Bless you, Charles. Sorry, mate. But yes, I think our answer varies a little bit in terms of how many fewer, but our collective answer is fewer than the four that Max Verstappen as one at this stage. An important question here that came from Yocken Rind's ghost. Oh, God. Wow. Thank you back.
Starting point is 00:05:30 Thank you, Yon. I'll say on record it's a bit too soon. It's, you know, come on. Like Franz Ferdinand, yeah. Bit too soon. Way too soon. And, you know, that was like, 50 years before york and rinse so there's no way if we ever have enough time on the spot
Starting point is 00:05:47 cutoff when is that yeah it's a great question unfortunately it's not on the Q&A list so we can't answer it's fine next time yonk and rinse ghost he's asked a really important question here that i think maybe people don't know that the full extent as to why why does harry hate jac villner so much settling folks um that's a good question it stems it obviously stems is a Schumacher fanboy from his 97 championship win
Starting point is 00:06:16 of which he you know Schumacher was fairly and cleanly robbed of but the main part is
Starting point is 00:06:26 and he does it less I gotta say no he chips in a couple of times when they get one Sky F1 but he used to just keep coming out
Starting point is 00:06:32 with absolute nonsense about anyone and everything and it's just he's just annoying that's basically it it's now
Starting point is 00:06:40 snowboard into this uh uh to this now hatred of the man. I'm sure he's actually lovely. If you're listening, Jack, which I know he probably is. But yeah, that's where it's come from.
Starting point is 00:06:52 It's just he, I feel like in the, maybe like five years ago, after his peak, he would just, there would be a headline about Jacques Veil as saying something ridiculous like, I don't know, Lance Trull should get a haircut, and that would make him faster.
Starting point is 00:07:06 It's all stupid things like that. And it's very annoying. And that's about it. Yeah. I mean, this isn't to do with your hatred of him. But did he win a race, like one race after his championship winning year? I don't know if he did. Did he think he beat Damon Hill in Hungary?
Starting point is 00:07:24 But that was his championship winning. Oh, it was that. I thought it was 98. Okay. He wins 96 and 97, doesn't he, in terms of races. And then he has a day off after that. It doesn't do much. It's just a bit of a strange career, Jacques Villeneuve.
Starting point is 00:07:38 Because, like, it's very rare that someone comes in, like, first and second year of, I know he was somewhat experienced in racing anyway in North America, but he comes into F1, performs like straight away largely due to how dominant that Williams was. But then he has all of his success within like two years of his career and then struggles to repeat that anywhere else. She's an odd one. It's an odd one as well because he, he is a world champion, whether I like it or not. And the end of his career, he gets let go by BAR at end of 03.
Starting point is 00:08:10 and then towards the end of O'4 he does like a random few races for Renault because Flavio falls out of Yana Trulli then goes to Salba but then a year or two later like is fired midseason or at least midseason again because then they get Kibitsa in
Starting point is 00:08:24 it's a very odd way to end a championship winning driver's career he doesn't even get a second place he's already got third places or lower yeah well there you go that hopefully answers
Starting point is 00:08:40 your question York and Rins ghost that is why Harry hates Jack Villeneuve so much next question is from St. Donk excellent name sent don't
Starting point is 00:08:51 on it oh I hate that sounds so much what year is this the question is about Christian Horner over or under three years
Starting point is 00:09:04 for Horner to be involved in an F1 team as a principal director or owner Sam what do you reckon under I think he's got that bug. I don't think he can let it go just yet. I think he's one of those guys that's like,
Starting point is 00:09:17 he will come back into the sport and sit down with a Netflix camera. He'll be like, I'm back. He calls himself. Hey, Christian. It's like Christian. Welcome back. You're hired.
Starting point is 00:09:28 Welcome back. Roo, roo, roo. Because he's a... Got the dog. He's got a dog. He could have a bit less dog in him. Maybe. Maybe too.
Starting point is 00:09:38 A dog. He will come back and he'll be like, I'm here for vengeance. He's that kind of guy, you know, and he will make it all about the fact that he's there to outdo Red Bull in whatever team he's in. And I do think it might not be overly public, but that's the mentality. That's the game.
Starting point is 00:09:55 So yeah, I reckon by 2028, he's back in the sport. Within three years, Harry? I think so. Man's petty. And I think he wants to come back and prove a point. And to be honest, I'll be obviously joking. or being unsirious of this. But I think there was obviously a couple of rumours flying about,
Starting point is 00:10:15 very unreliable than I think. But somewhere like Cadillac where he could come in and basically redo what he did at Red Bull, I think would, I could see him doing that to really prove a point to say, look, I'm actually really good at this. And you let me go for no reason. Not no reason, but you let me go for unjustified reasons.
Starting point is 00:10:35 Do you think if you leave the personal stuff aside, just sporting stuff. If he were to join Kaganag, and then win them a constructor's title, does he go down as the best team principle of all time? He's got a fair shout out for it.
Starting point is 00:10:55 He's already got a fair shout for it. He's up there. He's up there in the top four or five, I think, probably, but would he go down and take two new teams to the sport and take them both to world title success? Maybe. It might be tough.
Starting point is 00:11:13 to argue against it at that point. Obviously, the likes of Jean-Tot might have something to say about that. Toto Wolf certainly up there as well. Colin Chapman, if you go further back, but he's already up there. If he could do that with another, even with like as bigger name as Cadillac,
Starting point is 00:11:33 it'll be hard to argue against him, even though he'd probably really want you to, so he could argue back. It's getting on a debate show. love it, wouldn't it? You just debate anything for fun. No, because it'd come out with more lines like, well, I'd rather be a terrier than a wolf. And I just don't want ever hear that again in my life.
Starting point is 00:11:56 I'm also going under three years, by the way. I think, if it's not Cadillac, I think he will, as you rightly say, Sam, get the bug to come back somewhere else. Some of us suggested, like maybe he goes off to do something else. Like, does that Brown say football? or just like a different sport, different arena. I think he wants to come back to. On the touchlines of a football match,
Starting point is 00:12:20 a rainy night in Stoke. I just can't say, can't see it happening. Surely not. Sheffield Wingsday's Christian Horger comes up against Blackburn Rovers for a season. I'm not sure about that. Arms cross chewing gum.
Starting point is 00:12:33 It's not happening, is it? All right, we've got Vestappan on the left this evening. No, he's an F1 driver, Christian. Still having him on the left, that's fine. next question is from Alec Nichols what unlikely pairing a driver's do you actually think could work
Starting point is 00:12:53 oh I'm talking current drivers I'm saying is that current let's go current can I just say what the answer isn't but it would have been a few years ago go for it Magnuson and Holcomberg
Starting point is 00:13:05 huh yeah but yeah just too old you to getting the job done I think it's just based on their history. You might not have thought that when they teamed up that they were going to work and they did
Starting point is 00:13:20 and I think they seem pretty close friends now even. Yeah. Yeah, I guess the word there is unlikely. I don't know, there's a part of me that think that Hamilton of the Staffing would actually make genuinely good teammates. Yeah. Yeah, I think they would. I mean, it would be chaos.
Starting point is 00:13:38 But would it? Or would they just gang up on the team and be like, still get out, please. I actually think off track there wouldn't be that much. I don't think they care. There'd be less than people think. Yeah, I don't think they care
Starting point is 00:13:48 about each other's opinions at all, biggest one of win races. Yeah. Unlike. Alonzo and Lawson? Huge. The pairing we'll want. I mean, it will never happen,
Starting point is 00:14:06 but Alonzo if this happened, lineup would be. It's unlikely to. That's how the world ends. Yeah. I really want that. I also would like to see Alonzo Russell in a theme together. Because I weirdly think they'd be like best friends ever.
Starting point is 00:14:22 For some strange reason, they get along really well. The Alonzo Russell relationship reminds me of the Alonzo Mark Webber relationship, but you're like, you shouldn't get along, but you really do. And I don't understand why. They just do. Yeah. I think it would go like one extreme or the other. Like, it would really work or it really wouldn't.
Starting point is 00:14:38 That shot of Alonzo Russell and that nightclub thing of a season where and also it's got that fat cigar on its mouth and Russell's looking suave as anything in that shirt so I'm like, yep, there you go, that's why we love F1. Next question comes from quackers and cheese, and there were a few that asked this question, to be fair, so we're covering off a few of this one. Where did that banger of a theme song come from?
Starting point is 00:15:01 Oh, our main theme. Yeah. Oh, I don't know if we can spoil that law. You mean spoil the law? We can celebrate the law. We can. there's a certain band that you may have heard of Australian band called Jet
Starting point is 00:15:16 who famously sing the song Are you going to be my girl Which is a BATATATATAM That's a banger But it turns out One of their illustrious members It's actually been a fan of the show
Starting point is 00:15:31 And whilst he was writing a new song In his new band He went, oh we've got some of that extra tunes That we fancy you kind of throwing your way If you want to ever use it So we did. And that's where the theme's okay from. Got an email.
Starting point is 00:15:42 I was like, I was like, Instagram DM one day. It's a random way to get a theme tune, isn't it? Because in the most late breaking way ever,
Starting point is 00:15:50 we have no work for it. It just got delivered. Really lovely guy, really talented group. And they went, we like your stuff, weirdly. Have this bit of music
Starting point is 00:16:01 and do with it what you want. I mean, our previous song that we had before that, we got that in a very similar way, right? Well, who wrote that one? I found it on YouTube
Starting point is 00:16:11 It's not me, that Oh, God Very similar, actually Yeah Hang away, so Big shout out to I can ever pronounce this
Starting point is 00:16:21 Sergo properly Whether it's Chris He responds to Chris I think We love you Chris So thank you Thank you for sending that You're a legend
Starting point is 00:16:28 Let me go one day If it's Cester or Chester Because I don't know But you let me know Thanks, thanks to you guys There's an idea for a game there Cester or Chester I think we've hit random, awfully named games a bit too hard recently,
Starting point is 00:16:45 so we probably need to scale it. But what's the confused face for? WDC, WD, No. Hishchalachan F1 was a hit, mate. Look at the comments. Hishgiller 1. The streets have stopped talking about Patreon bonus 2 from July because they're now talking about Hishina 1.
Starting point is 00:17:03 How old did you play along? Sure. Okay, good. Avila Bat, so it's a right tree. Oh, God. Can't wait. Sticking with the rather musical theme of questions from Bristol Liam, favourite band artist, music-related human.
Starting point is 00:17:23 Oh, favourite music-related human? She related humans are a great way to phrase that. Yeah. We all have quite differing music tests, actually, as a trio. Yeah, a little bit. me and Harry have been to one gig together in our lives and the three of us have never been to a music event together oh you guys went to boardmasters together but that was more for them
Starting point is 00:17:46 we've seen lots of gigs that co-to now okay I'm talking about actually going to a gig here I mean yes we saw Brian May hang on a minute solo time that man played a lot of guitar solos um thank you kick us off who's your favorite music thing
Starting point is 00:18:05 my favorite music thing I might have mentioned him on the show before and you can't quite see it on the camera maybe you can you say it on the camera I can't see it on the camera but not your camera but that man right there Charles Bradley he's my favorite musician of all time I would say
Starting point is 00:18:23 I'd go through his entire story because it's very interesting he faced a lot of adversity and didn't find success until it's 50s but yeah he's got an incredible story if no one's as far as I'm aware made a film out of his life but they absolutely should because it's pretty crazy.
Starting point is 00:18:38 But his soul funk singer, just completely unique voice, absolutely lower. I think if we look at you, Ben, I think of soul funk all the time. Yeah. That was my nickname at school. It wasn't because I knew you at school. That's what they call me, yeah. Sam's lying. That was definitely my name.
Starting point is 00:18:56 SFA. Yeah, wasn't a soul folk brother from Fat Boy Slim? It was soul funk. No, no. That was my brother. Yeah, yeah. Oh, good. Mr. Reed?
Starting point is 00:19:07 Do we give us some music update? I don't know. I don't know. But I always find this tricky. I don't think I ever have like a one band or person. I'm like, yeah, they're my favorite. Mine changes quite a lot. Like the seasons of a year, they vary.
Starting point is 00:19:27 Poetic. Thank you. So I don't, I don't, this is a bit of a classic me answer. I don't think I can actually answer that. I don't know. I'll be like, yeah, they're the first one. You're a single artist that. comes to mind.
Starting point is 00:19:36 What are you're listening to now? These are great right now. But like, for example, we obviously mentioned Cota there. Like the killers, they've always been up there. But then there'll be a time where they probably wouldn't be up there. Someone else will replace them. So that's why I don't think I could ever answer. Like, I have one favorite band or artist or was it musical-related person.
Starting point is 00:19:55 Yeah. Sorry, that's a boring answer for me. But no, it's my answer. Are you sure? I feel like your answer is actually moonlight. Yeah. Oh, well, apart from Moonlight, because that's always my favourite. Sam, is yours, Mr Bellamy?
Starting point is 00:20:12 Yeah, Mews is my favourite band, Lifetime band. But like Harry, I suppose, it changes constantly. I listen to a lot of indie, a lot of rock. I'm really into like Ray at the moment. A lot of kind of British soul, I think is really good. There's a guy called Reng, actually, who does a lot of kind of, almost like musical stories, which I have a lot of enjoyment for.
Starting point is 00:20:36 I actually love like a story being told through songs. So if you've ever listened to, you know, War of the Worlds, the story, the novel War of the Worlds. There is a musical version of that by a man called Jeff Wang. Go to listen to War of the World's musical version. It's really cool.
Starting point is 00:20:51 That I used to go to sleep to that. It's like a 10-part orchestral bit of music. And I went to sort of live a couple years ago. It was amazing. So that's like my weird little thing, but like I love. It's a bank of Hard Life that is from the UK and if you're maybe organists
Starting point is 00:21:06 to some more UK music, go and check them out as well. Absolutely love them. Poor Rosie. Poor Rosie. Sam's turn the light off and then suddenly wore the world sound and try and blast it out.
Starting point is 00:21:17 Oh God, here we go. It is loud. I can't actually think of a better way to go into a break than that. So that's what we're going to do. We've got some more questions and surprisingly, more answers. Oh, really?
Starting point is 00:21:36 Yeah, boy. Can't wait for the segment of just questions and the segment of just answers. Man's read the schedule. Welcome back, everyone. Our next question, we'll go back to F1. Hayden dot sling 67. Which team treats their drivers the best?
Starting point is 00:22:11 I think Mercedes-you're a pretty good job at that. I must admit, I've always thought they played kind of very fair by what was going on. They didn't do the pandering. thing I think that McLaren are doing right now to their drivers. I do think that, you know, when they had Bossass and Hamilton going together, they were like, you're out of this, Valtry. The moment he was out of it, it was like, right, come on, second driving treatment,
Starting point is 00:22:30 get out of the way. But they'll never ruled about it. It was just getting on with it. And to get a very nice treatment for being a rookie and Russell. Maybe not now, I suppose, with his contract and those things, but previously has been always treated really well. Harry, any of the come to mind? Yeah, Mercedes will be the one I probably go for.
Starting point is 00:22:47 I think McLaren do a pretty good job. they're just a bit stupid about it sometimes. Like they're almost too much that they, they've set themselves traps like hungry 2024, for example, trying to be too nice. But I think they do genuinely, they genuinely are quite nice with their drivers. You know, even when Ricardo was,
Starting point is 00:23:08 you know, they were trying to negotiate a cup Ricardo out of his contract. I think they, Zach Brown was pretty conscious about that was quite a brutal move. And I think he tried to offer him IndyCar and other, other ventures, which Ricardo obviously didn't take. But I think there's a genuine, there's a genuine care for the drivers of the driving McLaren.
Starting point is 00:23:26 So I'll probably go for that one as well. Yeah. I think those are fair shouts. I think with Williams, like, I know they ended up getting rid of Latifie and getting rid of sergeant, but they gave them both about as much time as you could possibly have, I think, given the situation they were in. Hass. They gave Mazepin a lot of time to, you know, really... Really gave them a lot of money.
Starting point is 00:23:51 Yeah, that, you know, they really treated him well. Yeah, I think Williams is my instinct. I will say not necessarily a team, but a particular individual, a team boss. Fred for Sir, do not go up against him when it comes to his two drivers because he will go at you. Like, he is very protective, I think, of both of them. but that's, I think, individually maybe rather than the team culture. If Toto is a wolf,
Starting point is 00:24:19 Anghorler is a terrier, then what's Fred for Sur? A jungle. It's just the whole jungle. Yeah, jungle is massive. Don't get lost in Fred. He's a pit bull. A bit of War II.
Starting point is 00:24:34 Someone please photoshop Fred Fassar's head onto pit bull. It's his Fred Fassar with Fireball. right. Next question is from Kimmy's Shican cutting service. If you could cut a chican, which would it be and why?
Starting point is 00:24:51 I have got an answer to this. I want to see if you've got the same answer as me. Because as soon as I read this question, I was like, that's the one. Is it because you did it in the F1 game a lot? I've probably done it in the F1 game before, yeah. A bit of a long time as well. It's more difficult to do now and just.
Starting point is 00:25:10 The new Vail chican at Monaco. That's a fair shout, actually. I was going to go turn one at Monza, just straight over. I was going to go technically turn two of Russia. Carlos Seidtide that once. Well, actually. It didn't work. It went really well.
Starting point is 00:25:27 Yeah, it really well. There's lots of chicanes that I have. Oh, the old chicanne, which is no longer existing in Albert Park, which is now just the flat, long right hand, which is a DRS straight technically because straight over that onto the back straight. I know we're not going there anymore, but in Willa, I can't remember the actual corner name,
Starting point is 00:25:48 but the chicane sort of at the top of the track before you drop down before the last two corners, I'd get rid of that one because actually that might make it more easy to overtake or give some more overtaking opportunities, potentially. Been it off. Speaking of chicanes at circuits, this reminds me of something we did a number of years ago on the F1 game. Do you remember trying to.
Starting point is 00:26:09 to do the Mexican Grand Prix lap in under a minute by basically cutting through the entire middle sector of that track. That was actually much harder than I expect to get. Do we end up doing that? I think we only managed to do it on the like 2015 game or something like that. It was only possible on that game. You couldn't do it now. Because the traction was different on the grass or something.
Starting point is 00:26:31 It was the same game was good for. We also tried to drive racetracks blindfolded and direct to each other. And then guess the track that we were driving. We were really drunk to be there. And what was the one where you had to use all the tires? That was quite good fun. That was a good challenge. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:49 They call it the Rainbow Challenge. Oh, that's lovely. There you go. Yeah. Inclusive. All tyres are allowed in this game. Raff's got a question. Top three crash helmet designs.
Starting point is 00:27:05 Oh. That's a great shout. Shumacher's red helmet is iconic. It will always be iconic and obviously, personally, I love it. It's an obvious one, but Senna's helmet is up there. It's going to be all older ones, isn't it? I hate modern helmets. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:26 Yeah. Although I think Sebastian Vetta was very good with helmets. I mean, his Ferrari one, yes. Absolutely. Daniel Ricardo's one from 29. I like that one. Through the basketball helmet. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:46 But all my favourists go back to like the 80s and 70s. My all-time favorite is Jody Schechter's one, because it's just so simple. It's just got like Jody on the side. And it's beautiful design. There's another one as well. Gunner Nielsen, who raced again in the 1970s. But he had,
Starting point is 00:28:09 He's a Swedish driver. The Swedish colours sort of on the front of the helmet. And then just his name sort of in a signature sort of font, his surname on the side of the helmet, I really like that whole, just like really simple branding. Hunt did it really, really well. Yes, that's a lot of the three lines.
Starting point is 00:28:29 Just James hung up on the side. I really liked. I also really liked Damon Hills helmet, just that all black helmet with the white points around the corner. I guess that was really distinctive in the cars that he drove. which was so regularly quite bright coloured. So it stood out, I thought, was really cool. Schumacher's is another for me.
Starting point is 00:28:44 I love the red with the stars on the top. I think that's very iconic. And I do love Hamilton's yellow, original yellow. It's just saying I'm inspired, of course. Another one is Nicky Lauda, which is behind you, Ben. Very much so is. I mean, we'll reference everything in your room today. I think we can do that.
Starting point is 00:29:02 I know, yeah, we're working our way around, don't we? Right. I'm not sure that was a top three, but that is a lot of the stuff that we like. Yeah. Beef's got a really important question. If you were a jelly, would you be more wibbly or wobbly?
Starting point is 00:29:21 What are the characteristics of wibbley and characteristics of wobbly? Surprisingly, I haven't got an answer to that. I'd argue they're fairly similar if you're wibbley or wobbly. Do you think there's a show we're more wibbly or more wobbly? Do we have to show? if we're more wibbly or wobbly, is that what you're saying? No, you think as a show. This is a paradox question, surely.
Starting point is 00:29:44 Can you wobble without wibbling before? What came first, the wobble or the wibble? Exactly. We shall answer your question with a question and move on. We're moving on. This is actually a serious question, but which we can actually provide a serious answer for because I'm not sure we've ever actually properly covered this off.
Starting point is 00:30:03 A few people ask this, but muffins on acid is the best name. So you get the glory here. Why do you choose to listen to Sky Commentary? Now, obviously, we reference Sky Commentary a lot in our race reviews. And I think people maybe don't know that we don't have a choice. We've got no choice. F1 TV is not available here in the UK. So you would have to use other means in order to get non-sky commentary here in the UK.
Starting point is 00:30:28 The only exception is the British GP when we have the choice between that and Channel 4, where they use the Sky, the F1 TV. commentary team, so you'd get the same thing there. But other than that, we are, yeah, we don't have a choice. We're confined to it. It's forced in front of our very faces. If someone would say, why use a VPN?
Starting point is 00:30:49 Do you have a VPN advert once? Then we would be behind the live streaming of it, which would not be great, bringing upstate comms that we might need to do. Sam's still got the VPN because he's actually renting his bank account. I forgot to counsel that a long time ago. we wrote for free as part of the ad deal that we did with them and I was like yeah cool I'm gonna use that
Starting point is 00:31:11 rang out half a year didn't get been charged ever since may come in Andy Sammy 11 though right next question what made you all decide on a Pacific North West excursion during the US trip and not coming to Tennessee with better scenery, better football and better food
Starting point is 00:31:29 Ben does it have better seagery better football and better food Scenery, I think, is up for debate at best. I won't argue the other two parts of that, though. Well, firstly, Ben, I think you've been quite vocal in this over the times that we've been to America. You want to see a football match. You wanted to see one when we were there.
Starting point is 00:31:50 And it was increasingly difficult to actually find a hometown, especially Austin, while we were there, that was having a match whilst we were present, whilst we were going there, because we only basically had a weekend. And the other one was for Formula One. So it clashed. It just so happened that the weekend before the race, Seattle Hanger Football
Starting point is 00:32:08 Macs. So you were like, I'm going and you're like, you can come with me if you want. And I was like, well, I've always wanted to go to Seattle, so I'll come with you. Kirstie was like, I'll take me a camera. We'll have a little cruise around, look at some great views. And Harry being Harry, just like, yeah, I'll come. Yeah. Although I've got to change my flight.
Starting point is 00:32:23 Have you remembered that, Harry? Yeah. Got to change my flight because they move the game and I land now currently in the middle of the game. So that's not going to work out. but basically in the middle of the game. It's a half-time show. Yeah, I'm being chopping in. How is that waving at the crowd?
Starting point is 00:32:45 Yeah, but I, when I was looking, I wanted to go somewhere and Seattle made the most sense from a scenic point of view, from a football point of view, from a direct flight from London point of view. They just, all the stars aligned, which is why I picked there. but Tennessee, Neeland Stadium is definitely on my bucket list of college at all stadiums, so I will get out there at some point.
Starting point is 00:33:08 Is it true that we basically time travel when we fly to Seattle? Oh yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah? It takes us two hours to get Seattle. Really weird that you fly for that long and you land basically the same time as when you took off. Yeah, good stuff. This is an interesting one.
Starting point is 00:33:26 Aston Martin Whitmarsh. I always said Whitmash. Going back to a previous outro we did once upon a time. In their prime, who would win the World Drivers' Championship in Equalspec F1 cars? Alonzo, Senna, Vestappen or Reichenen? Sena. Easy. Oh. I can probably give you an order, actually.
Starting point is 00:33:53 Sena for Stappen-A-Lonzo Rikin. They were the four drivers, right? Yes. That order. I look the the comparisons to sanna are often overused I think um but I do feel that Senna and Vestappen have the very similar qualities in terms of their just natural ability natural feel and ability in an F1 car that no one else can really do or explain Hamilton is up there too um so I find it tough to choose between Vestappen and Sennar I'm also like
Starting point is 00:34:24 have we seen for Stappan's Peak? And maybe we never saw Senna's full peak. I don't know. I might go... No, I'll go Sennar. Just. I thought we might to get that click-bate title, I think. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:34:36 I think it's close. I don't want to be killed. So I'm going to go, set up. We might be killed for even saying it's close, to be honest, but I really think it is. I know people don't want to hear it from those that maybe were around in that era, but it's difficult to compare a 1980s, 90s F1 driver and a modern F1 driver, really difficult.
Starting point is 00:34:58 But I think just happens right there. I also think, it's between those two for me. Of the other two, Alonzo and Reichenen, I think that's really close as well. I think Prime Reikinen and Prime Alonzo, not much in it. Disagory. I think Alonso tranks his Reikin. For a career, Alonzo, for sure. But Prime Reikinen, I think he is there with Prime.
Starting point is 00:35:24 Alonso. I think, because I think Prime Rykenen is like 05. And yeah, 05 to 07, right? Yeah. And maybe Alonzo
Starting point is 00:35:32 wasn't quite, I know he's won his first challenge that year, but maybe Alonzo wasn't quite prime to that year, right,
Starting point is 00:35:37 I think that's a tricky one to. I think Alonso was weirdly in his prime at Ferrari. He's going to have the cut. Yeah, that's probably, that probably saddens him
Starting point is 00:35:45 every day. Every time he wakes up, he's like, I was in my prime. Unluckiest driver in the world. Next question comes from Amanda Sue 3,
Starting point is 00:35:56 and I had to read this one out because this is maybe the one question where like it would make zero. It barely makes sense on the late breaking podcast. It would make zero sense to anyone who's not a fan. Okay. If you were to have a spaghetti dinner late, sorry, a spaghetti, spaghetti dinner with a lady, where would you go? And if it could be any spaghetti dinner lady, who would you choose? producers Kirstie's raised eyebrows
Starting point is 00:36:27 and phrasing that question really really was good gosh can you I don't actually understand the question what break it down for this is like baby pole
Starting point is 00:36:39 this is like the sprint race issue so we need to choose where to go for dinner basically yeah with spaghetti dinner and then who we're having no with you're going on a spaghetti dinner with a lady Where are you going?
Starting point is 00:36:53 Right. For the spaghetti dinner. Right. For the spaghetti dinner. Good Lord. Does it have to, and it has to be spaghetti. It's a spaghetti dinner, mate, yeah.
Starting point is 00:37:05 I'm actually proper light spaghetti. Nothing wrong with it. I just clarify and what the rules of this game is. This is a new game. Prezo. Yeah. Oh, come on.
Starting point is 00:37:18 No, I'm going straight to Italy, mate. Like, yeah. Why would you not? Why would you not go to Italy for this? There's no budget here. We're going straight to Italy. Yeah, I think Sicily. I've always thought it's a go-to.
Starting point is 00:37:29 Palermo would be lovely. I'll take Rosie, obviously. Well, good answer. Thanks, mate. If you're having spaghetti, I'm assuming it's spaghetti bolognese, right? Or is that up for debate as well? I wasn't specified. It's no sauce.
Starting point is 00:37:44 It's just raw spaghetti. Raw, crunchy spaghetti. You're not cooking that bad boy. Alente, way. Pure. Dry spag. If it is Bolognaz, I'd go to Bologna, because it's the best place of Bolognais.
Starting point is 00:38:03 So I think you do pretty well there. Who you're taking? Spaghetti dinner lady, no? It's not the idea. The original cartoon. Yeah. Good. So you're taking spaghetti dinner lady on the spaghetti dinner.
Starting point is 00:38:17 That's a great show. You know what? She's earned it. She's making it, isn't it? That's what I'm banking on here. She's not telling you. She works in the school cancer. Yeah, but she can make it, you know, save a bit of cash.
Starting point is 00:38:28 Get her in the kitchen for your dinner. Step aside. I'm going to make some spaghetti. Why don't she sound like that from the Bronx? Oh, no. Hey, I'm walking here. You're making spaghetti here. Can you see I'm a lady?
Starting point is 00:38:56 I think I'm going to Trigger lady I get no respect He can no respect What about Your choice of thing I'm lady I'm really hot
Starting point is 00:39:13 I'm going to jump up It is really warm I'll go to Italy I don't care where in Italy I'll take anybody who wants to go Just Just so the question can end
Starting point is 00:39:25 Take your mummer out for an ice meal There you go my mum. Right. Right. Next question. No,
Starting point is 00:39:34 that's too silly for the next one. Oddbind sack the board. Great name. What's your view on IndyCar and could Alex Polo take a seat in F1? I'm probably the least
Starting point is 00:39:47 invested in IndyCar but every time I've watched it, I really enjoy it. I do think Alex Palo could do well in Formula One. I don't know if he'd be good enough to win races or be a champ, but I think he's,
Starting point is 00:39:59 he'd bring a great audience. I think he'd be quite enjoyable to watch. And I think there's a good chance that he'd be solid enough, definitely to be a successful Formula One driver. All right. I love IndyCar. I don't watch it enough, to be honest. And yeah, I always enjoy it.
Starting point is 00:40:17 Always enjoy it to win it on. Half the time is just funny, quite frankly. But, yeah, Alex Pillow is, yeah, he's done a nice superb job this year. It's always a tough one. And they are two very different formulas, you know, as we've proven, the F1 drivers have gone off, Roman Grosjeon, didn't have a great deal of his success. Marcus Erison has had some success there, any 500 winner.
Starting point is 00:40:42 To Kumisato, another one. He will just, he'll just, like Ruben's Barakado, Sato. He's just never going to stop driving. He'll always keep trying to try to drive something. Correct. Yeah. He'll drive himself to the grave. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:40:53 Wow. In like a thousand years, I worry he's going to be fine. Wow. He's almost eternal, Takuuu Sato. a thousand years. A year's a turner, actually. Yeah, I think Alex Pello, I think there are a few drivers that,
Starting point is 00:41:08 not many, but a few drivers that could be an F1 that are currently in DECA. Alex Pallows probably top of the list. Followed closely by Colton Herta, maybe Pallor. He'll just crash on a lap one every time. That's the problem.
Starting point is 00:41:20 It wouldn't do Beds blood pressure any good to watch Colton Hurtier in F1. It never ends well for that, for that boy. I would also like, Stingray Rob to come over just for the game.
Starting point is 00:41:34 Stingray Rob. Yeah. You do not know Americans, how great it is that someone is actually called Stingray in that country. It's great.
Starting point is 00:41:44 Yeah. Love Indy car as well. Hello and F1. Absolutely would love to see it. Plow's like, his junior career was always a little bit underwhelming. I appreciate it was a while ago now
Starting point is 00:41:57 and it never seemed like he was going to be an F1 prospect. I think that's partly why he sort of went off to Indycar. But he's been sensational there. Last few years. Oval's, road courses, street tracks. It doesn't matter. He has just been head and shoulders above everyone else.
Starting point is 00:42:14 So yeah, I'm happy to see it happen. Can we do the silly question now? Yeah. What's y'all favourite colours and favourite shapes? That's from random photos. Favorite shapes is a great question. A favourite colour is yellow. Snap, yeah. Flung a little bit of yellow, me.
Starting point is 00:42:36 Harry? A favourite colour is red. Always love red. She a back fan boy. Exactly. Exactly. Favorite shape? Very tricky one.
Starting point is 00:42:47 I don't think I've ever looked at a shape and gone. By God. I love you. You're such a rhomboid. I love that shape. Roamboid. Game's gone. Like, Romboyd.
Starting point is 00:42:58 Ben, you're a trapeze. No, back in my day, we had squares, circles, triangles and rectangles. And even rectangles was new for new technology. Like, come on. Fake square, isn't it? Yeah. Ben, you're a dodecahedron. Nah.
Starting point is 00:43:16 Nah. Just like a square. Because I am one. Yeah, because that checks out. Yeah. Big up a triangle. Big up the triangle. What kind of? Equalachron.
Starting point is 00:43:27 Assosceles. I'm going to a break at this point. I'm completely lost track of time on this episode. We're going to a second break. We've got some more questions on the other side, but you'll have to see when we come back whether we've got answers or not. Based on that, probably they're hoping not.
Starting point is 00:43:51 All angles had up to 180. Welcome back, everyone. Pietro de la Rosberg has got the next question, and the question is, what was your race weekend like before and after starting the podcast? I don't get sure hour after the race finish. Yeah, I've one time actually. It's about it.
Starting point is 00:44:29 Everything else the same. Watched every race, every bit of qualifying. Just didn't talk to you three recorded afterwards. We said about this before. What we do now on a review podcast is what we just used to do as a three when we'd get into into school, into sixth form the Monday morning and just debrief the race when we should have been doing our coursework.
Starting point is 00:44:56 Sorry, John. Sorry, John. So instead of absolutely cocking up our A levels, we now do this, we now do this for you lovely people instead. So, you know, swings around the lives. It's still weird that you listen because it's the same conversation we had when we were 18 years old, we're in a classroom. Just sat around some computers, wiggling the mouse,
Starting point is 00:45:14 so the thing didn't go. off. The old classic, yeah. Yeah, it didn't look much different. I mean, the only thing that I kind of do now is take a few notes as I go through the race, which I didn't used to do. But outside of that, everything looks pretty much the same. We like to be invested in the race. So we're able to talk about it as in depth as we can afterwards,
Starting point is 00:45:41 as much as our little brains allow us to. We're a very sad trio of men, all right? We don't really have lives anyway, so not much has changed. I don't think we need to confirm that, but yes, you are right. Next question. I do need to say, I have this question on here because I think we're asked this pretty much every single time we do one of these, but this is actually the first time ever I can give a different answer.
Starting point is 00:46:05 Hazers has asked, what do you guys drive? Oh, yeah. I've never been able to answer with a different answer. The biggest question change ever on this show. It's been the same answer for seven, seven years. Seven years at least. So, yeah. I grab a golf.
Starting point is 00:46:23 It's really boring. Now, I wish I could call a car, but I don't. I'm a big car fan. I love a new car. If I want to sponsor me, give me a car, please too. But I just drive a golf. Harry? I drive a Mercedes GLA, which is just as dull.
Starting point is 00:46:41 So. Is that one of the big ones? Is that one the big ones again? No, it's not like the big, big ones is in between the big and a small. Medium. I think it's really the word. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:46:55 How is it, by the way? I think, guys. It's all right. It's just like a bigger A class. Yeah. It's not. Sorry, I'm really stalling, so Ben can't answer. Yeah, because he's just going to out there's all here.
Starting point is 00:47:08 Well, Ben, cheer up, mate, because you famously drove the same car for seven years. And then more than that. More than seven years. Oh, yeah. It must be more, yeah. 10 years. Yeah. You know that story we were talking about earlier when we went to Harry's house and he was
Starting point is 00:47:28 that was in the car I was driving like a month ago, two months ago. It's the old black polo. But the polo died in rather spectacular fashion. Apparently you need four working wheels in all of a train car. Overrated, mate. overrated. I came back to Hamilton finish a race on three
Starting point is 00:47:48 so you can drive to Cornwall on three. It's more of me really, isn't it? Yeah. What'd you replace it with? I replaced it with a Fiat 124 spider, which I've wanted for a number of years. How are you finding it?
Starting point is 00:48:01 Whipping it around Cornwall? It's so much better. It's so much more fun. So... Is you put the roof down? Yeah, when the conditions warrant... Everything.
Starting point is 00:48:14 Is it rear-wheel drive? It is a rear-wheel drive. Sweet, baby, Lord. Drifting around those roundabouts, son. Yeah, yeah. And Corball loves a roundabout as well, so there's plenty to go around. Circle is their favourite shape.
Starting point is 00:48:30 Yeah, I'm surprised I didn't answer to a circle. So, yeah, I just wanted to say that because I can actually answer with something different this time. Question from Mr. Sandman. Who is your favorite driver of all time that was not a world champion. Montoya's up there, really?
Starting point is 00:48:49 Not called that. I've got to be actual serious answers here. Yeah, Montoya was up there. Always loved Daniel Ricardo, just because of a person. It was great. Valtry Bossas is right up there as well. I do love Valtry. More his latter career, but he was always a pretty sensational racing driver.
Starting point is 00:49:09 Have you got any fun ones? Any silly ones? Yes. endlessly. I think a bit of a soft spot for the Aussies because Ricardo and Weber both up there, always liked them.
Starting point is 00:49:21 I always found myself rooting for them, but obviously never happened. Weber got close. But yeah, never happened for them. But I was like them. Ricardo especially is big character, as we know.
Starting point is 00:49:34 Yeah. Anyone else? Barichello. Yeah, I was going to mention it. Yeah. Big character. Yeah, my two would be Montoya and Barakello, I think.
Starting point is 00:49:46 But yeah, I think the Aussies are a good shout as well. And, of course, David Coulthard, who, shocky, didn't win a championship. He held something much better. What about you? Go on. Me. Oh, did he? I haven't heard that story.
Starting point is 00:50:03 Didn't go up as a question, weirdly. Oh, damn. Next question is from Do Dreyn Bowl. What do you think C&C Machinist is counting down to? when we become millionaires. Oh, right. Oh, okay, very good. Those are two very different answers.
Starting point is 00:50:19 I hope I am right. Might be the same thing, actually. You have to go. If it's Sam's answer, can he get a move on? Yeah, he can't that faster. Yeah, yeah, but if it's mine, please stop. Big prank, it's going to reach zero, and he won't say anything.
Starting point is 00:50:32 It'll just not posted. It actually won't put zero. We'll just put one, and then it will never get to zero. And that'll be that. Absolutely. I think he's like the Zodiac killer. You think it's just a weird riddle. us to solve and it's got some far deeper meaning maybe um i yeah this probably needs a bit of context
Starting point is 00:50:49 because um not everyone knows who this person is weirdly uh he's a bit of an lb celebrity um cnc back in this has been how long has he been posting on our instagram channel for like it feels probably longer than it's been but a year a while now um 18 months to a year or so surely about that right he he he he's posts on our Instagram, pretty much any different posts that we do. But he's performing some sort of countdown. I think he started at around 4,000, maybe. We're down to like 1,600 or so now. So we are getting there. But he counts down in increments that don't make a lot of sense to the naked eye. Like sometimes it's 10 fewer than the last time. Sometimes it's 50. I've tried to spot a pattern and
Starting point is 00:51:40 never found one. But we think he's counting down to either something brilliant for leg breaking or something horrible. I am quite scared by it. Yeah, a little bit. Good. Moving on. Rosie asked earlier, Rosie being Sam's Rosie.
Starting point is 00:51:59 If you licked your favourite livery, what would it taste like? And bang, because you decided to forget the point of the show. What did you respond on Instagram? Tubby custard, which I think might be my answer. What's your favourite livery? I didn't have a livery of mine of four
Starting point is 00:52:15 that tubby custard. That's what you're meant to do. You're meant to look at the list. It's a very generic response. It's a looking at it and go, it tastes like that. I didn't actually think this one through seriously. Like, it was okay. Jordan's one guy, I would taste like toxic waste, the sweets.
Starting point is 00:52:30 That's special. Like this, was it chili, pickle, lime, ball, thing we had in Boston last year. No, no, no. but you're the only one who did because you chucked the whole thing in, son. Really did, yeah, I went full in for that. That was one of the biggest regrets in my life. That was a beer-we-breaking episode last October
Starting point is 00:52:51 when we were in Austin trying different delicacies. No, but if you like this kind of episode, you obviously do weird stuff. We actually do a lot of QA answering on our beer-we-breaking episodes, which is once a month on Patreon. So, you know, the link is in the description. Check it out. It costs a lot.
Starting point is 00:53:06 And you can hear and get to go more about us, which will be delightful. Right, next question. If you were all given, this is from Alex, if you were all given three hours of practice in Formula 4 cars around Cota, what would be the finishing order? Three hours of practice.
Starting point is 00:53:22 To assume we're all finished. Yeah, we're in the wall. All of us are in the wall. No one's making that. No one's making it across the line there. Are you breaking for turn 12? No, I'm just using you guys. In fact.
Starting point is 00:53:36 Now that back straight, I didn't stop him. The S's. It's just not being done. You should see the three of us on a go-kart track. It is, you just hear us laughing at each other through our helmets. Yeah, so is our answer. I actually think the answer might be Sam, because I'd be too scared to go 100%.
Starting point is 00:53:57 I have no fear when it comes to doing that stuff. So yeah, sure, that works. Who's next. Voodhoo has asked. F1 is currently at its most commercial. popular, but what was the best era of racing, personalities and drum? Oh, blind, that's a big question. You got a lot of wrongness from the drivers in the 80s and the 90s,
Starting point is 00:54:24 but we're also, were way more televised that you can actually see it and experience it. You had punch-ups, you had helmets being thrown. If you like your proper argy-bargy, wheel-to-wheel-wheel-elbos out racing, that was a pretty good time for it. But also teams came and went and there was no security and drivers think finish half the season because the cars just blew up half the time. So it depends what you're looking for, really. Also, look, the 80s and 90s are mega cool, but a lot of those races are absolute crap.
Starting point is 00:54:56 Absolute snort fest. I would maintain, I think the best era of F-1 we had is when we made those 2009 rule changes maybe not 2000 as a per se but when the car starts would look like that. 2010, 11, 12, chucking 13. I think that
Starting point is 00:55:17 for me was a real golden era. Obviously, 2012 was the highlight of that, but even 2011 and 2013, there are some banging races in that little section of F1, a little pocket. Obviously, then we got to the hybrid area
Starting point is 00:55:30 in 2014 where the cars looked the same, but obviously got different engines. And it went slightly downhill, not downhill, because I think there was still some good races, but yeah, 10, 11, 12, 13, I'd say for me, is a real, real banger era of F1.
Starting point is 00:55:46 This will be maybe a bit of an unpopular opinion amongst some. And I'm not saying this year specifically, but I think F1 generally now is better than it's ever been. Yeah. Like, I think once we've got through the early issues with the hybrid era, certainly 14 to 16, 17, 18, maybe, 2019, 2020, 2020, 2021, 22, I think is pretty good. 23 was more difficult because Red Bull was so dominant,
Starting point is 00:56:17 but last year was great as well. I do think this current era is the best we've ever had it. Any great era is going to have like a, well, I say a dad year, a non-competitive year. So I think you're right. I think the last five years or so have been pretty fantastic for competitiveness across the board. next question is from
Starting point is 00:56:37 it's from Seb what game show do you think you could win Ben for sure is saying pointless he's wrong because Ben you might be on a different game show or have already been on a different game show don't give it away yeah it's oh historic
Starting point is 00:56:55 it's Wednesday then yeah yeah if you're in the UK you can watch you can watch today Wednesday's episode of countdown and you might see me. Um, so the answer when you say might, you will see Ben. You will. Yeah, you
Starting point is 00:57:10 will. There's like six people on the whole show. Bang is one of them. Yeah. Unless this the episode has been pulled for whatever reason between being recorded now and this episode going live you could watch today's episode and you'll see me on it. I told Seb this earlier today, uh, or he responded to a comment of mine about it. And he's like, yeah, I guess, my question's actually been answered already.
Starting point is 00:57:35 So, what game show are you going on? I don't think I could do one of any game show. I'm mad for that. I'm Sabra. You fit right in on tipping point. Oh, no, I wouldn't because me and Ben Sheppard. I forgot you hate Ben Shepard. No, I would suck at all games shows.
Starting point is 00:57:57 What about catchphrase, name? Cheshys Castle. No, I wouldn't do cackphrase. Stephen my home presents it. Yeah, I can't do that. Yeah, it's a Kishy's Castle. You're not a game show, but I do that. Harry is going to go on Golden Bulls.
Starting point is 00:58:13 Oh, yeah. Not for a big Jasper Carrot fan. I really want to go on the, well, it's family feud over there, isn't it? But family feud with Steve Harvey. We do it. Yes. We're a bit short, like, who's joining us?
Starting point is 00:58:31 Kirstie can come as well Yeah, we need five though Just forget a ding a lady Yeah, yeah And they got Mark and bring his kicks That's too many now I really hope that answers your question, Seb And intentionally, this is the last question
Starting point is 00:58:48 And it's either from Sipes or Pipes And I'm not sure what the... Oh, here we are with a Cessor or Chester again Yeah, we're back there again But there's a reason this is the last question I'm new to Formula One this year actually religiously watching it now, what is the most important thing to know
Starting point is 00:59:05 for the 2026 season? Oh my goodness, Ben. What a fantastic question to end on because it happens to say that on Sunday's episodes, we will be running through all of the major tech changes and regulations that are coming in for 2020.
Starting point is 00:59:22 So if you're going to learn the late breaking way, make sure you stick around for the weekend show and you might learn anything or two. Yeah, self-include it. Full episode. Yeah. I mean, Harry, there's a good chance that we are going to go from
Starting point is 00:59:34 the most ridiculous episode here midweek to maybe the most serious episode we've ever done on Sunday. Like, the contrast could be ridiculous. I'm going to be smart for once. I'm learning. I guarantee nothing. But yeah, I've,
Starting point is 00:59:52 hopefully, we've had this request from a few people outside of this Q&A over the last few months. could we do a bit of a wrap-up episode for the next year? We know a lot's changing, the power unit, the aerodynamics. So we're going to do our best, a full episode dedicated to the 2026 regulations, try and explain some things that are going on, still give our opinions on some changes,
Starting point is 01:00:15 whether we think they're going to work, whether we don't, they're going to work, plenty of discussion to get into, but a full episode dedicated to that on Sunday. We're going to take one final break on this episode. On the other side, we're playing to show me the options. Welcome back to the final part of today's episode. It's time to play.
Starting point is 01:00:49 Show me the options. Shut, shut, shut, shut, shut, shut, shut, shut, shut, shut. Shut, shut, shut, shut. Shut, shut me my option. We didn't hear that. We only heard us, not the beat behind it. That was very strange. We just heard way and me saying shut, shut, shut, shut, shut.
Starting point is 01:01:18 That was interesting. That's very odd. I enjoyed it. It was great. Well, five, you're having, mate. You're having a great time. You're all fiving. Well, I promise it is show me the options. There are six questions in front of me. Harry and Sam will take it in terms to pick a number. The question in front of them, they can either try and answer it without any help and get two points if they get the question right. Or they can say those magic words, show me the options, at which point I will give them three possible answers. If they then get it right, they get one point. Harry, what number would you like to start us off? Number one, please. Solid.
Starting point is 01:01:56 Thank you. Number one. Yeah. Who is the only driver so far this season to retire at three consecutive races? And those three consecutive races span Spain through to Austria, just to help you out there. Show me my options, Ben. Your three options are Alex Albon. Liam Lawson and Pierre Gasley.
Starting point is 01:02:31 Pierre Gasly? Not Pierre Gasly. It is Alex Albon, who retired from all three of those races. The only driver. Yeah. Which means it's a crack and start. No, nil. Sam, over to you.
Starting point is 01:02:46 I'll add number five, please. Number five. In which 21st century season were there six champions on the grid? and they were champions at the time that that happened as well. Not like they've won one afterwards. Okay, six champs. As many as six. Yes.
Starting point is 01:03:16 I kind of want to go for it, but I'm going to go show me my options. Okay, your options are. 2011, 2012 and 2015. Okay, I was in the right ballpark. that's promising. I'm going to go with 11. 2012 is the correct answer. Because the return of one,
Starting point is 01:03:45 Kimmy Reichen and added an extra one to the grid to go with Jensen Button, Sebastian Vettel, Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonzo, and Michael Schumacher. I think gives you six. I've given Kimi Rikin a real battering this episode. I'm sorry, Kimmy. And that's the title of the episode. Perfect.
Starting point is 01:04:03 I've already forgotten what Sam said. Number six. Sonic. Number six. Which current F1 circuit has the fewest corners? Austria. You're absolutely right. It is Austria.
Starting point is 01:04:22 That's two points to you. Ten corners around the Red Bull ring. If we're going officially, it's probably about four when you consider it's an F1 car, but ten officially. Sam, back to you. I'll have number four, please. Number four.
Starting point is 01:04:40 Who is the only driver to win the most races in two different decades? Ooh. That is a ponderous question you pose there, Benjamin. It's an interesting one. Is it Michael Schumacher? It is Michael Schumacher. You're absolutely right. He had the most wins.
Starting point is 01:05:05 in the 1990s and the most wins in the 2000s. Pretty good. It wasn't bad overall. Harry, what number would you like? You've got this, man. I don't remember either one you said. There's a big one I haven't said. Okay.
Starting point is 01:05:23 I'll have number three, please. Three. Pick number three, me lord. Who is the only driver to have competed in every race so far this season and has not made a Q3 appearance. Competed in every race and not made a Q3 appearance. Oh, is it? I don't know. Show me my options.
Starting point is 01:05:58 Your options are Ocon, Sines and Holkenberg. Color signs. It's not Carlos Sines. Nico Hulkenberg has not made a Q3 appearance so far this year. shaking my head so comfortably going, it's like, Ockon. You're so wrong, Mary. Before you said, show me my options.
Starting point is 01:06:26 I went, it's Ockong. It came up. I went, come on, here we go. I've got this one. Still wrong. Well, Sammy, it gives you the opportunity to win the game here at Two All. What number would you like? I don't like that pressure. I love number two, please.
Starting point is 01:06:42 Okay. Now, given this is Two All, and there are no questions to come after this, I don't think there's any way you shouldn't see your options it, but it's up to you. Just take the win. You don't want to dominate.
Starting point is 01:06:54 Just take the win, son. This is a bit of an evil question. I'm not going to get right anyway. What country is closest to the UK, using London, that has never had an F1 driver? Fine.
Starting point is 01:07:14 Show me my options. Your options are Luxembourg, Switzerland, and Slovenia. Oh, it's such a red herring in there. Geographically, I know which one is a close... I know the order of the closeness.
Starting point is 01:07:30 It's just as Luxembourg got a cheeky bugger in there because obviously they... That's my one issue. And I've been a cheeky Luxembourg bugger. There's so many options from this episode. I've got no idea what I'm going out with here, but anyway. I'll let you have a minute to ponder. I'll take it, Luxembourg.
Starting point is 01:07:55 You're absolutely right, it is Luxembourg. There were no cheeky puggers from Luxembourg. I love you, Luxembourg. Okay, three to two end for Sam to close off this very normal and sane episode. As mentioned though, Sam, the next episode is going to be much more serious if you wouldn't mind getting us out of it. Yeah, you are going to see both sides of this show in dramatic fashion across this week. so if you do want to hear everything about the 2026 season regulations and how they differ from what we're currently going through
Starting point is 01:08:27 in a, I'd like to think easy to digest format with a bit of shit chat around them, then tuning. Wow, close. Thanks for listening. Thanks for asking some questions. It's odd that so many of you are actually interested in both the silly and the serious around us, so we appreciate it.
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