Speaker 1: Let's say how to our next guest here on over.
Speaker 2: Our next guest is a former Formula One team boss
Speaker 2: and star of the Netflix show Drive to Survive.
Speaker 3: How do some of your season end this year? It's
Speaker 3: one short world.
Speaker 2: Shit please welcome to the show racing legend Gonta stanay Ry.
Speaker 3: Hello, Hello, hello, hello man? How are you im good?
Speaker 3: Thank you? Are you? We are excellent?
Speaker 4: Are we talking to you from I'm at home in Charlotte,
Speaker 4: North Carolina?
Speaker 5: All right, now, I've heard you saying recently in recent
Speaker 5: weeks that you think Oscar Piastre, our Melbourne boy has
Speaker 5: a very good.
Speaker 6: Chance of taking out the Australian Grand Prix. Is that right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's correct.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I'm not saying it because you're Australian, you know,
Speaker 4: I can say it to all outlets as well, because
Speaker 4: I think he is in a very good position, you know,
Speaker 4: to win quite a bit this year if it all
Speaker 4: goes how I think it will go to the McLaren
Speaker 4: is the best or one of the best cast this year.
Speaker 1: Look, Lawrence, the one actually got me into Formula One.
Speaker 1: You were on a plane one day and she got
Speaker 1: me to watch Drive to Survive.
Speaker 5: Which I think has brought a lot of people into
Speaker 5: the sport that purest F one right.
Speaker 1: Made you're a bloody start.
Speaker 3: I don't know about that.
Speaker 1: The thing I can't get my head around is when
Speaker 1: there's two drivers for the one team and then a
Speaker 1: driver will be told, hey, we need your team, we
Speaker 1: need you to let the other team member go in
Speaker 1: front win the race. Is that a frustrating Like are
Speaker 1: you nervous going into a chat over the two way
Speaker 1: with the drivers when you have to ask them to
Speaker 1: do that?
Speaker 3: Yeah? What what was it this?
Speaker 4: Normally you make an agreement before the race, if things happen,
Speaker 4: what you're going to do. And I think sometimes in
Speaker 4: the season, you know, like what what they predict for
Speaker 4: this year? Did they let the Lando and Tosca start off?
Speaker 3: The battlement wins?
Speaker 4: But after a certain point, and normally that point it's
Speaker 4: around there some when there is a two week break
Speaker 4: for everybody, when they come back and there's a chance
Speaker 4: to win the World championship, you need normally to focus
Speaker 4: on one guy if one of your opponents is close by,
Speaker 4: so that is what you do. But even if you
Speaker 4: agree it before the race, when you have to say
Speaker 4: it in the race, to let somebody buy or do
Speaker 4: not stay in the way.
Speaker 3: It's never an easy call. Good.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know you spoke about Oscar being a
Speaker 2: potential winner of the Australian Grand Pray, the Melbourne Grand Pray.
Speaker 2: Is he a potential world champion?
Speaker 4: Yes, absolutely, and I mean he showed that last year
Speaker 4: because London August is obviously one of the best drivers
Speaker 4: out there in the moment, and he sometimes beats him.
Speaker 3: You know, it's a big competition between them.
Speaker 4: Sometimes one is better than the other one, but it's
Speaker 4: not like that London is dominating Oscar. Oscar sometimes was
Speaker 4: faster than London.
Speaker 5: And we've also got Jack Douan coming in this year's
Speaker 5: son of Mick Dooan. He's making his F one day, Bob,
Speaker 5: how's hey looking as a young upcoming driver.
Speaker 3: I think he did pretty well in F two.
Speaker 4: He never won the championship, but you know, in F two,
Speaker 4: if you're not in the right team at time, like
Speaker 4: also Formula one, you're not gonna win.
Speaker 3: But I think he's done well. He has one have
Speaker 3: two races.
Speaker 4: Obviously when you come into one it's a big step
Speaker 4: up again, you know, so, but he has got a
Speaker 4: big opportunity and teaser a very experienced razor. I think
Speaker 4: he's got a good chance. I think he has got
Speaker 4: enough time to show how good he is and to
Speaker 4: and to earn his his seat and f one.
Speaker 2: What's it like being good to? Jay said before about
Speaker 2: how popular you are, and he's right. We see you
Speaker 2: at Albert Park waving, high fiving, signing autographs.
Speaker 6: You are like a Drive Rocks style I walk around
Speaker 6: like a rock star.
Speaker 2: What's it like? And do you love it? Because you've
Speaker 2: become so popular in the wake of Drive to Survive.
Speaker 4: It's something which came unexpected for me. I didn't work
Speaker 4: for this, you know, but it's good and you can
Speaker 4: give something back to people. I think Motorsport done next
Speaker 4: year is forty years that I work in. Motorsport has
Speaker 4: given a lot of a lot of things to me in
Speaker 4: my life. You know, it just happened.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: It wasn't like when all of us sudden I got
Speaker 4: more known in the world. It was like I achieved something. No,
Speaker 4: it happened. Then now I have to deal with it.
Speaker 4: But you know, there's worse things to deal with it
Speaker 4: than that's more yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, But some of the f one team principles,
Speaker 5: Like you guys admittedly are rock stars when it comes
Speaker 5: to F one now, but there's a few little bit
Speaker 5: that are a bit happier with themselves than others. Would
Speaker 5: you say, like, there's your Christian horn? Is there all
Speaker 5: these big characters? Do any of them take themselves a
Speaker 5: bit too seriously?
Speaker 3: I don't think it's still a sport.
Speaker 4: You know, we're having a good life and we are
Speaker 4: not changing the world. I would say, you know, obvious
Speaker 4: if you give entertainment, and I'm aware of that, it's entertainment.
Speaker 4: It's not changing the world. So you know, I don't
Speaker 4: take myself serious. And some people you're not all the same.
Speaker 3: That is a good thing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, some love the attention more than others.
Speaker 1: Right, GOTU Is there something that would be surprised to
Speaker 1: find out about you? Like you're a bad driver? Do
Speaker 1: you take two hours to change a tire on the track?
Speaker 3: No, there's nothing really be surprising to me.
Speaker 4: Very normal drive. I can drive, but I'm not a
Speaker 4: raised care rival by no means. And i can change
Speaker 4: a die by the way, Oh yeahs than.
Speaker 6: Any of us can.
Speaker 1: And habit if someone's filling up me petro to start
Speaker 1: yelling at him, quicker, quicker, I leave them.
Speaker 5: You know, we're just a few wakes out from the
Speaker 5: Australian Formula one Grand Prex. How does the Australian Grand
Speaker 5: Prex compared to others in the world. I mean, Monco
Speaker 5: looks spectacular, but here in Melbourne we put on a
Speaker 5: pretty good show.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, And it's the first race, which is always nice
Speaker 4: to be because your hopes are up. You know, you've
Speaker 4: got energy, you want to go back racing, so it's
Speaker 4: a natural drive. But also people love to go there
Speaker 4: because the fans. I mean you can see if you
Speaker 4: go to places and there's not I don't think there
Speaker 4: are really any place anymore where the people don't care
Speaker 4: about their phone. But then in Australia, for sure people
Speaker 4: care and theynomic you know, and that makes people happy,
Speaker 4: That makes the rivals happy, makes all the all the
Speaker 4: team members happy, the mechanics because they see that they
Speaker 4: come here and give people what they want, you know.
Speaker 3: So it's always a cool place to be. Normally normally
Speaker 3: is good as well.
Speaker 2: Normally for a long time good to There's been a
Speaker 2: debate here in Melbourne Day Race, Twilight Race, Night race.
Speaker 2: Would you like to see a night race at Albert Park. No.
Speaker 4: I think albert Park how it is, it's very good,
Speaker 4: you know, I think it's it's it's very good. I
Speaker 4: mean you could do it that night, but there's enough
Speaker 4: night races now and Albert Park was always a day race,
Speaker 4: so why change it? I mean, people love it like
Speaker 4: it is, People come along, people watch it on TV.
Speaker 4: So I wouldn't change Albert Bank Albert Pike to night race.
Speaker 5: Okay, you said Oscar Piastre may win. Who else will
Speaker 5: we say? On the podium in Melbourne?
Speaker 6: Do you think? What's your prediction?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 4: For me, the favorites this here are the McLarens and
Speaker 4: the Ferraris, so I think that will be the podium,
Speaker 4: you know, but it will be so close this year,
Speaker 4: that's my prediction, between the big four McLaren Ferrari, Mercedes
Speaker 4: and Red Bull. So not half percent sure, but I
Speaker 4: think it's the d mclargen and Ferrag will be the best.
Speaker 4: So we'll see. I would think to mclargens and one
Speaker 4: Ferrag and they built him.
Speaker 6: And Lewis Hamilton at Ferrari this year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's pretty cool though, I mean everybody
Speaker 4: talks about it, and obviously yes, a lot to the
Speaker 4: level now because there's a big anticipation for him to
Speaker 4: do well and he's a good drival. But you know
Speaker 4: it's I take my hat off to him making that
Speaker 4: change so late in his career to change team.
Speaker 5: It does seem like a dream combo though. I was saying,
Speaker 5: Louis Hamilton Drive for Ferrari will.
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Speaker 1: can't wait to say when you get to Melbourne. And
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Speaker 1: get to Melbourne. We'd love to see in person.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much. I have a try to do it.
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