1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,120 Speaker 1: This is the moment then, that we've all been waiting 2 00:00:02,160 --> 00:00:04,800 Speaker 1: for for in a romax. 3 00:00:04,760 --> 00:00:06,880 Speaker 2: Here comes Oscar Piastree, Lando Norrith. 4 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:10,640 Speaker 1: I aren't playing hardball out there at the moment, Steve 5 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:13,280 Speaker 1: Peverchel Moment of twenty twenty four. 6 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:20,440 Speaker 3: Hello, and welcome to Pit Talk, brought to you by Shannon's. 7 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:24,840 Speaker 3: On this week's episode, Oscar Piastri claims a comprehensive victory 8 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:26,759 Speaker 3: at the bar rain In Grand Prix to get three 9 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:30,120 Speaker 3: points within the championship lead. And on let's be honest, 10 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:32,159 Speaker 3: pretty hectic week of motorsport, we're gonna be checking in 11 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:35,199 Speaker 3: with the Kata Motorcycle Grand Prix and over in Topaur 12 00:00:35,320 --> 00:00:36,440 Speaker 3: the Supercars Round. 13 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:37,959 Speaker 2: My name is Michael Lomonado. 14 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:40,519 Speaker 3: It's great to have your company and the company of 15 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:42,240 Speaker 3: my co host. I know we missed out on hearing 16 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:43,919 Speaker 3: this over the course of the weekend, so I'll do it. 17 00:00:44,159 --> 00:00:46,280 Speaker 3: Thank you ever so much for getting up for this podcast. 18 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 3: Matt Clayton, I'm not sure it be to bed together. 19 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:52,360 Speaker 1: It's definitely been one of those weekends where everywhere you 20 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:54,480 Speaker 1: look this something going around a track somewhere. 21 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:57,200 Speaker 4: But I kin't have too much of that, can you. 22 00:00:57,280 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, this weekend might have found. 23 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 3: You can probably get any close to having too much 24 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:03,120 Speaker 3: of that because we were operating in virtually every time 25 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:05,880 Speaker 3: zone around the clock. Matt, Yeah, have been to bed yet, 26 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:08,959 Speaker 3: but we're we're going a soldier on. Well, thanks not 27 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:11,560 Speaker 3: only for getting up but staying up. I suppose let's start, 28 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:15,520 Speaker 3: yes with the bar Rain Grand Prix, Round four of 29 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:18,200 Speaker 3: the championship Oscar Piastre one. That's his second Grand Prix 30 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:21,280 Speaker 3: victory of this season, now just three points off the 31 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:24,120 Speaker 3: championship lead. The leader continues to be Lando Norris. Had 32 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:25,959 Speaker 3: Norris not finished on the podium, we'll talk about this 33 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:27,880 Speaker 3: as we go through this, he would have taken the 34 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:30,959 Speaker 3: championship lead first Australian driver. Preempting this a little bit, 35 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:33,680 Speaker 3: he would have been the best Australian drivers in s 36 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:36,720 Speaker 3: markwere but in twenty ten to lead the championship. This 37 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:38,760 Speaker 3: felt like, I mean, it felt very similar to his 38 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:41,600 Speaker 3: Chinese Grand Prix winning many respects. Led from pole, no 39 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:43,720 Speaker 3: one seemed to bother him very much throughout the race. 40 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:46,759 Speaker 3: Very straightforward victory, very Oscar Piastre victory. But this one 41 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:49,280 Speaker 3: in the context of how Lando Norris performed on the 42 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 3: same weekend seemed to carry a little bit more meaning, 43 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 3: certainly if you read into Norris's response. 44 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought it was actually more emphatic than China, 45 00:01:57,840 --> 00:02:00,600 Speaker 1: simply because China there was that specter of or Islando 46 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:02,400 Speaker 1: going to catch up in the final stint? What's going 47 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 1: on with his breaks? Is there a possibility of a 48 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 1: late race charge here? This was never in doubt, and 49 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:11,000 Speaker 1: it was never in doubt twice because we had the 50 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:13,720 Speaker 1: inverted Commas Hollywood safety car towards the end of the 51 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:15,840 Speaker 1: race to make things interesting when there was some Debrison 52 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:19,000 Speaker 1: track and that brought the field back into contention after 53 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:21,440 Speaker 1: Oscar pretty much left everybody for dead in that first 54 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:23,799 Speaker 1: couple of stints, and he thought, well, you know, perhaps 55 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 1: there's some jeopardy here for him, and then very calmly 56 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:29,600 Speaker 1: just drove away and continued on his merry way and 57 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:32,799 Speaker 1: the whole weekend from qualifying and how unflustered he was, 58 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 1: and right the way through the race, just outstanding from 59 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:38,760 Speaker 1: start to finish. He's not had a race win like this, 60 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 1: and I don't think that's going to be the last 61 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:42,960 Speaker 1: time we see this, because you can just see the 62 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 1: confidence and I think the calmness with Pastre at the moment, 63 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 1: he knows he can do this, he knows he's got 64 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 1: the machinery, he knows he belongs and now it's just 65 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:52,320 Speaker 1: a matter of methodically executing that. 66 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:54,960 Speaker 4: And I just thought it was a completely flaw this weekend. 67 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:57,880 Speaker 2: There's been this interesting element as well with Oscar this season. 68 00:02:57,919 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 3: I know, were only four rounds in and this is 69 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:02,560 Speaker 3: what his ass I've emphasized for Grand Prix and enough 70 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:04,960 Speaker 3: in the twenty four Grand Prix season make any conclusions, 71 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:07,280 Speaker 3: but it's interesting that in this sumple size we had. 72 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 3: I know we're going back a bit here, but Australia 73 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 3: and China in particular Bahrain's a bit of an outline 74 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 3: because McLaren's always been quite bad here. It hasn't been 75 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:16,680 Speaker 3: an Oscar Piastre thing. But nonetheless, we've seen a lot 76 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 3: of races where Oscar hasn't had great results in the 77 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 3: last couple of years of his career, and he's turned 78 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaker 3: up this season. He's been really quite good at all, well, 79 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 3: he's been quite good at all Grand Prix. I think 80 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:26,640 Speaker 3: you can even mount an argument that he's been the 81 00:03:26,639 --> 00:03:28,800 Speaker 3: fastest race driver so far this season. 82 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:30,720 Speaker 2: If he hasn't won all of the races. 83 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:33,880 Speaker 3: That step seemed that step we talked about during the 84 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:36,400 Speaker 3: off season about what he needed to become potentially a 85 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:38,960 Speaker 3: world championship contender. It feels a lot like at this 86 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:40,640 Speaker 3: stage it's been made. 87 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 4: It feels like it's happened very quickly. 88 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:42,880 Speaker 2: Too. 89 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:45,440 Speaker 1: You look at some of the rough edges that he's 90 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 1: earned out over the past couple of years. He had 91 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 1: the big qualifying deficit last year and Norris was twenty 92 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 1: to four, and that's emphatic in Norris's favor. But he 93 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:55,560 Speaker 1: seems to have addressed that very very quickly and is 94 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 1: less of those little mistakes in qualifying. And we know 95 00:03:58,040 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 1: that he cleaned up a lot of his time management 96 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:02,360 Speaker 1: linelast year, so he's much more proficient at that. He 97 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:05,920 Speaker 1: is the very different definition of a fast learner, and 98 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:07,880 Speaker 1: you can see the change in him just in four 99 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 1: Grand Prix weekends this year. I think the most surprising 100 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 1: thing to me is it looks totally unsurprising that he's 101 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:16,440 Speaker 1: a front run and he looks so assured it's happened 102 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:18,839 Speaker 1: super fast, and you know, we're four rounds into a 103 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:21,839 Speaker 1: twenty four round season. This looks a legitimate and be 104 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:24,560 Speaker 1: like it has staying power, and you know you don't 105 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:26,440 Speaker 1: want to get too far ahead of yourselves here because 106 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 1: he's still off the championship lead. But this looks like 107 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:32,119 Speaker 1: a championship push that can sustain the whole way through. 108 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 1: Now if McLaren continues with this car advantage they've got 109 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:36,880 Speaker 1: at the moment, and you would expect in the final 110 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 1: year of a rule set, you quite often see these 111 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:42,440 Speaker 1: baked in advantages carry on for longer in a season 112 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:44,560 Speaker 1: because the other teams turn the development tap off and 113 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 1: they look towards twenty twenty six. So if we have 114 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:49,280 Speaker 1: a fairly standard season like we've had when we've had 115 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 1: these really big rule changes in the past, I think 116 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:54,679 Speaker 1: twenty thirteen is the one for me. When red bullwarp dominant, 117 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:57,160 Speaker 1: everyone else looked at twenty fourteen, sob actually INVERTI wiped 118 00:04:57,160 --> 00:04:58,920 Speaker 1: the floor with everybody at the end of twenty thirteen. 119 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 1: This has got that claren feel about it. Other than 120 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:06,000 Speaker 1: extenuating circumstances like a bit of rain or Maximstaff and Suzuka, 121 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:08,400 Speaker 1: so you know you're looking at the possibility of two 122 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 1: guys fighting for the world title. I'm not sure I 123 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:12,920 Speaker 1: was ready to say Piastre was ready to win that 124 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:14,200 Speaker 1: this time last year. 125 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:15,800 Speaker 4: He looks completely legit to me. 126 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:19,719 Speaker 3: Yeah, he's really interesting that step change, because we talked 127 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:21,880 Speaker 3: about at the beginning of last year and it was 128 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 3: a little bit easier to say because it was his 129 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:25,760 Speaker 3: rookie season, and of course he's going to make progress. 130 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:28,640 Speaker 3: But that trajectory that McLaren talks a lot about just 131 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 3: feels completely uninterrupted at this point. I think it's going 132 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,720 Speaker 3: to be really interesting to see how that develops over 133 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:35,640 Speaker 3: the course of the season because he continues to get better. 134 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:39,039 Speaker 3: That's the sort of interesting element of this. We talked 135 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:40,720 Speaker 3: about this, and we joked about this on the podcast 136 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:42,120 Speaker 3: during the week, which you can go and find at 137 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:44,000 Speaker 3: the Fox Sports website or wherever you get your favorite 138 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:48,039 Speaker 3: podcasts that you know. Christian Horner said after the Japanese Grandfer, 139 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:50,480 Speaker 3: which Maxwis staffin one, that McLaren's problem was having well, 140 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 3: two competitive drivers and it's made its bead and must. 141 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:53,520 Speaker 2: Lay in it. 142 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:53,680 Speaker 4: Now. 143 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:58,360 Speaker 2: I think it's his phrase in a weird way. 144 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:00,720 Speaker 3: There's this tiny little shred of life that you can 145 00:06:00,839 --> 00:06:03,919 Speaker 3: kind of take out of that, which is that for 146 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:06,720 Speaker 3: the driver's championship perspective, Well, Lando and Oscar both can 147 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:08,600 Speaker 3: be taking points of each other, but Max is just 148 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:10,760 Speaker 3: going to be the only driver on his behalf when 149 00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:11,520 Speaker 3: Red Bull Racing. 150 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:14,160 Speaker 2: Is competitive winning those points. I kind of get that element. 151 00:06:14,200 --> 00:06:16,480 Speaker 3: But the other part of this is that McLaren's always 152 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:18,599 Speaker 3: there and for example, Red Bull Racing wasn't this weekend, 153 00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:21,520 Speaker 3: and Mercedes always the second fastest, but I haven't got 154 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:23,560 Speaker 3: the senset that they're a car that could win a race. 155 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:25,720 Speaker 3: They con finished second a lot, but not there and 156 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 3: Ferrari's Ferrari maybe later on in the year. But so 157 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 3: it does feel like regardless of whether land Or and 158 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 3: Oscar competing with one another, they've got enough clear air 159 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:37,040 Speaker 3: to score points on themselves and be okay. So I 160 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:38,880 Speaker 3: want to talk about Lando Norris here because he was 161 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 3: the missing element in this. In China, as you said earlier, 162 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:44,799 Speaker 3: there were these circumstances that men Aka was never comfortable 163 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:46,680 Speaker 3: with that track, but he was kind of competitive enough 164 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:48,360 Speaker 3: and at the end of the race maybe he was 165 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:51,359 Speaker 3: there about to those break problems. There was no sense 166 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:53,880 Speaker 3: this weekend that Lando was on Oscar's pace. This was 167 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 3: Oscar's weekend, not just McLaren's weekend. Let's say it like 168 00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:01,920 Speaker 3: that and really quite despondent, significant amount of despondency, I 169 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 3: think zerry word I can think of that really sums 170 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:06,839 Speaker 3: it up so clearly for Lando, especially after qualifying. I 171 00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:09,480 Speaker 3: mean we see he's fond of a bit of self flatullation. 172 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:11,480 Speaker 3: I think when he does not danger well, we've got 173 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:13,880 Speaker 3: a lot of that after qualifying and even after the race, 174 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 3: recovering with the podium, saying well I should have finished 175 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:18,760 Speaker 3: at least second and I finished third and that's disappointing. 176 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:21,640 Speaker 3: That's part of his game, isn't it this sort of 177 00:07:21,760 --> 00:07:24,920 Speaker 3: intense self criticism. But does it revealed do you think 178 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 3: a little bit about where the dynamic in this potential 179 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 3: potential championship battle is going to play out? 180 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:29,520 Speaker 2: Well? 181 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:31,960 Speaker 1: I think, particularly if you contrast the way that Oscar 182 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:35,160 Speaker 1: goes about his racing, where there's minimal radio chatter and 183 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:38,360 Speaker 1: it's very flat line. It's not super peaky good or bad. 184 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:41,560 Speaker 1: He just wants information, doesn't say a whole lot very reserve. 185 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:44,640 Speaker 1: This is a man that's in control and he has 186 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 1: complete belief in what he's doing, and he if he 187 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 1: has some vulnerabilities, he's not willing to share them, and 188 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:53,320 Speaker 1: I think that's something that he can seize upon. Now, 189 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:55,400 Speaker 1: there could be a cultural thing here or personalities, but 190 00:07:56,400 --> 00:07:59,600 Speaker 1: the way Norris reacts to adversity, to me, I think 191 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:02,080 Speaker 1: you can perhaps Look. I appreciate the honesty, and I 192 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:04,480 Speaker 1: think every Formula One driver goes through these periods of 193 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:06,760 Speaker 1: doubt like this. But you can get away with this 194 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 1: in a championship where the other protagonists in the championship 195 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:11,360 Speaker 1: and not just within your own team. If you've got 196 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:14,520 Speaker 1: a deeper championship field and you're spreading this around, there's 197 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:16,880 Speaker 1: different guys that are winning races and they're not you, 198 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:19,160 Speaker 1: then perhaps you can get away with this. But when 199 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:22,040 Speaker 1: the person that is most likely to capitalize on your 200 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:25,240 Speaker 1: worst days is your teammate in the same car, in 201 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:28,040 Speaker 1: the same team, I don't know whether you should be 202 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:30,880 Speaker 1: showing all of your cards here because I think it's 203 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 1: an area that Piastre can really chip away at, because 204 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:37,680 Speaker 1: you know that psychologically Orlando can get very, very. 205 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:38,240 Speaker 4: Down on himself. 206 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:40,600 Speaker 1: And I just think the dynamic of this is going 207 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:43,640 Speaker 1: to be super interesting because Piastre is managed by Mark Webber, 208 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:45,880 Speaker 1: and one of Mark Weber's sayings was you know, I 209 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:49,600 Speaker 1: am giving nothing. He would give you absolutely nothing except 210 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:52,240 Speaker 1: for the odd f moment and radio message, which Piastre 211 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:54,480 Speaker 1: is not going to do. Piastre is going to show 212 00:08:54,559 --> 00:08:59,200 Speaker 1: Norris absolutely no vulnerability psychologically. And this strikes me as 213 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:01,800 Speaker 1: a championship be one as much between the years as 214 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:03,800 Speaker 1: between the white lines. I think there's a lot going 215 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:06,600 Speaker 1: on with these two different personalities here and the way 216 00:09:06,679 --> 00:09:08,960 Speaker 1: Pastre's working it. I think he sees that he's got 217 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 1: something here that he can use it to his advantage. 218 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 2: I think it's really interesting. 219 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 3: In the post race press conference, obviously both drivers are asked, well, 220 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:18,120 Speaker 3: why is the car working for you, Oscar and not Lando? 221 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:19,840 Speaker 3: And Lando doesn't have any answers at this moment. I'm 222 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 3: sure he's got some ideas and he's not going to 223 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:23,560 Speaker 3: give them all away, but he did say he was 224 00:09:23,559 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 3: really just confounded by the fact he can't take this 225 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:28,000 Speaker 3: car to the limit like he could last year's car. 226 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:30,200 Speaker 3: McLaren has talked about the fact that it's made some 227 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:32,760 Speaker 3: compromises on driveability to try and take a step forward, 228 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:35,520 Speaker 3: and then Oscar has asked the question, well, what's going 229 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:37,800 Speaker 3: on with you? You're finding these struggles with the car 230 00:09:37,920 --> 00:09:40,520 Speaker 3: and he said, no, Cark was great. I'm getting a 231 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:41,800 Speaker 3: lot of pace out of it. Seems like it's working 232 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:43,480 Speaker 3: fine for me. And I don't think he was stirring 233 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:46,080 Speaker 3: the pot in any deliberate way because it's not really 234 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:49,080 Speaker 3: Oscar style. But the contrast there was stark and if 235 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:51,439 Speaker 3: you Orlando, they're sitting and you're obviously hearing him the 236 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:53,800 Speaker 3: debrief as well in the team. Because Oscar's not giving 237 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:56,200 Speaker 3: any negative feedback about the car presumably or nothing as 238 00:09:56,320 --> 00:10:00,000 Speaker 3: dire as Lando's would be, You're starting to think, well, 239 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:02,040 Speaker 3: why can't I get that out of the car. And 240 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:05,800 Speaker 3: it's certainly nowhere near as significant as, for example, Lewis 241 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:08,960 Speaker 3: Hamilton's current grappling with the Ferrari in this transitional if 242 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:10,920 Speaker 3: you want to go back to even Daniel Ricardo McLaren 243 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:13,600 Speaker 3: against land know Norris, because Norris is still finishing on 244 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:15,560 Speaker 3: the podium and still polkand and and all that kind 245 00:10:15,559 --> 00:10:18,080 Speaker 3: of thing, but there's just that little element of well, 246 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:19,079 Speaker 3: why can't I do that? 247 00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:21,319 Speaker 1: And I think the interesting part for me is if 248 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:23,520 Speaker 1: you roll reverse and this will happen with this car 249 00:10:23,559 --> 00:10:25,600 Speaker 1: this year because it clearly is the class of the field. 250 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:28,319 Speaker 1: There will be a weekend where Norris does to Piastre 251 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:32,520 Speaker 1: what Piastre did to Norris this weekend in Bahrain. How 252 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:36,120 Speaker 1: Oscar responds to that, I don't think he's going to 253 00:10:36,160 --> 00:10:38,160 Speaker 1: give as much away. He's not going to be as 254 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:41,520 Speaker 1: raw and exposed, and that he'll take his medicine and 255 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:43,480 Speaker 1: he'll say, look, there's plenty of learnings to come and 256 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:45,080 Speaker 1: so on, but there'll be a lot more measured, a 257 00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:46,959 Speaker 1: lot more reserved. He's not going to leave any low 258 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,680 Speaker 1: hanging fruit out there that could be seized upon. Because 259 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:51,320 Speaker 1: if this shakes out the way we think it's going 260 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:54,520 Speaker 1: to shake out psychologically, this championship takes a different term, 261 00:10:54,559 --> 00:10:57,400 Speaker 1: perhaps after mid season, if everyone else is buttoned off 262 00:10:57,400 --> 00:10:59,720 Speaker 1: and they're looking at twenty twenty six. If this is 263 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:02,000 Speaker 1: ahead to head battle and you look at Norris as 264 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:05,920 Speaker 1: the homegrown protege within McLaren and Pastre's coming in after 265 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:08,439 Speaker 1: he swirmed his way out of the Alpine deal. If 266 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:10,120 Speaker 1: he comes in and sort of beats the guy that 267 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:12,199 Speaker 1: they've raised since he was seventeen years old, you know, 268 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:14,280 Speaker 1: head to a world championship fight. Now they have a 269 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:17,040 Speaker 1: car to do it. It'll be so interesting from a 270 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:18,960 Speaker 1: mental perspective as this season goes on. 271 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:21,200 Speaker 3: Something that we'll be watching before we move on for 272 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:22,760 Speaker 3: the next couple of races. As well as that, I 273 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:24,199 Speaker 3: felt like there was a little bit of a dynamic 274 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:27,360 Speaker 3: shift this weekend, not the internal power of McLaren because 275 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 3: I don't really believe there's any big changes in the 276 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:31,800 Speaker 3: way they're approaching things. They're going to be even handed. 277 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:34,000 Speaker 3: Lando Norris, as we've said, still an extremely quick driver. 278 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:36,160 Speaker 3: This is one race we're talking about as well. They 279 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:38,480 Speaker 3: could win the next four races. We're having completely different discussion. 280 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:41,560 Speaker 3: But so much of this season was about, well, how's 281 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:43,640 Speaker 3: Lando going to beat Max with staff into the championship. 282 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:45,560 Speaker 3: That was the rivalry that we saw at the end 283 00:11:45,559 --> 00:11:46,320 Speaker 3: of last season. 284 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:48,959 Speaker 2: We've got a little bit of glimpse of that this year. 285 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:51,000 Speaker 3: I mean in Japan, obviously Max was on form, and 286 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,000 Speaker 3: in Australia as well it was challenging for victory. But 287 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:55,280 Speaker 3: I think this weekend emphasized that Red Bull Racing has 288 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:59,280 Speaker 3: some pre significant problems to overcome, and suddenly I wonder 289 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:02,080 Speaker 3: how much land those thinking Oscar is not just going 290 00:12:02,120 --> 00:12:03,040 Speaker 3: to be here a winning like. 291 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:04,959 Speaker 2: Every three or four races like last year. 292 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:07,920 Speaker 3: It was often in contention but maybe not absolutely sething 293 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:10,640 Speaker 3: the deal, and it's Max is the guy who's going 294 00:12:10,679 --> 00:12:13,160 Speaker 3: to be winning the races now. I wonder how much 295 00:12:13,280 --> 00:12:14,959 Speaker 3: is an adjustment to think, well, actually it's the guy 296 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:16,679 Speaker 3: in the other garage now that I really need to 297 00:12:16,679 --> 00:12:19,480 Speaker 3: be thinking about, because Max may not come good, Red 298 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:20,559 Speaker 3: Bull racing may not come good. 299 00:12:20,559 --> 00:12:21,079 Speaker 2: They're hinging. 300 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:23,880 Speaker 3: It feels like they're hanging a lot on this rule 301 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:27,680 Speaker 3: reinterpretation the Spanish Grand Prix out front wings. McLaren's adamant 302 00:12:27,720 --> 00:12:29,280 Speaker 3: nothing's going to change, just like it didn't with the 303 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 3: rear wings a couple of rounds ago. It really could 304 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:34,000 Speaker 3: just be between the two of them, and that is 305 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:34,880 Speaker 3: an approach shift. 306 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:38,120 Speaker 1: It's almost easier to focus on your main opponent if 307 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:40,719 Speaker 1: they're not wearing the same Overall, it's very much an 308 00:12:40,800 --> 00:12:44,439 Speaker 1: US versus them. When it's us versus us, that's a 309 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:47,080 Speaker 1: really different dynamic because then there's a degree of paranoia 310 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:49,520 Speaker 1: that starts to creep in too. Is he getting the 311 00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:51,680 Speaker 1: new parts before me? Is he getting a better strategy 312 00:12:51,679 --> 00:12:53,199 Speaker 1: than me? Why is he getting the undercut? 313 00:12:53,200 --> 00:12:53,760 Speaker 4: Why am I not? 314 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:56,959 Speaker 1: What's happening in engineering briefings? Are they keeping stuff back, 315 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:59,800 Speaker 1: there's all that level of paranoia because you know how 316 00:12:59,840 --> 00:13:03,280 Speaker 1: the team operates internally, whereas if it's Norris versus Verstappen, 317 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:05,880 Speaker 1: Atlanta has no idea what goes on within the walls 318 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:08,480 Speaker 1: of Red Bull and how to operate. Sometimes it's easier 319 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:11,640 Speaker 1: to fight someone when you don't know necessarily what they're doing, 320 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:14,160 Speaker 1: because there's that degree of a lack of knowledge. They're 321 00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:16,080 Speaker 1: just the guy in the other team I need to be. 322 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:18,680 Speaker 1: When it's within your own team, it's a very different dynamic. 323 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:20,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, when you don't know what they're doing, and when 324 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:22,880 Speaker 3: more importantly you know they don't know what you're doing. 325 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:24,640 Speaker 2: So that's part of the reason as well. 326 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:25,560 Speaker 4: I wouldn't have said that better. 327 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:28,040 Speaker 3: I'm sure you could bout a way. Let's move on 328 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:32,080 Speaker 3: now to move of the week by Shannon's. 329 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:34,800 Speaker 2: Now. 330 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:37,360 Speaker 3: Unlike last week or the week before, and it was 331 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:39,400 Speaker 3: a lot going on of course motorsport. We had no 332 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:43,680 Speaker 3: shortage of options, plenty of racing action over three different 333 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:47,680 Speaker 3: disciplines this weekend. What caught your eye over the NonStop 334 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 3: twenty four hours, seven days a week. 335 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:51,400 Speaker 1: Of racing, Yes, a coupmember, a time where there was 336 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:54,000 Speaker 1: no racing I'm going to go two wheels here. 337 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:54,560 Speaker 4: Motor GP. 338 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:55,080 Speaker 2: YEP. 339 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:58,400 Speaker 1: We had a situation that was so shocking that even 340 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:00,760 Speaker 1: Mark Marquez didn't know what was going on because he 341 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:03,480 Speaker 1: was passed for second place by a KTM on Lap 342 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:06,640 Speaker 1: ten of the Catar Grand Prix on Sunday, and quite rightly, 343 00:14:06,679 --> 00:14:10,000 Speaker 1: he thought that KTM is probably Pedro Acosta, given that 344 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:11,640 Speaker 1: a cost as usually the guy getting most out of 345 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:14,400 Speaker 1: the KTM. To his great surprise, he realized it was 346 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:17,400 Speaker 1: Maverick Vignalees, who we have not seen or heard from 347 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:20,440 Speaker 1: the entire season, and Vignales was just on one of 348 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:23,240 Speaker 1: his I'm going to be you know, Maverick and Mercurial 349 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:25,760 Speaker 1: at the same time put an incredible move on Mark 350 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:27,480 Speaker 1: to get to second place and then took the lead 351 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:30,560 Speaker 1: of the Catar Grand Prix. And afterwards Marquez is like, well, 352 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:32,560 Speaker 1: I got passed by KTM. That was interesting, and then 353 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:34,960 Speaker 1: I was shocked that it was him. And this is 354 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,120 Speaker 1: what happens with Maverick Vinales. Once or twice a year, 355 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:38,920 Speaker 1: he looks like the best rider in Motor GP, and 356 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:41,000 Speaker 1: then you'll look at the classification and realize that he 357 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:44,440 Speaker 1: is eighteenth. Yeah, it's always the good and the bad 358 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:46,320 Speaker 1: and nothing in between. But that was my move of 359 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 1: the week A because it was very audacious and B 360 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:49,360 Speaker 1: it was very surprising. 361 00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:51,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, and we will get back to Maverick Vinalas a 362 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:53,680 Speaker 3: little bit later on as well. I'm going with Formula 363 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:55,880 Speaker 3: one very early on in the bar Aim Grand Prix 364 00:14:56,280 --> 00:14:58,400 Speaker 3: wasn't a battle for the lead in factors, battle for 365 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:00,520 Speaker 3: drivers and finished way off the podium. It was between 366 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:03,800 Speaker 3: Lewis Hamilton and Carlos since a nice long running battle 367 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:05,960 Speaker 3: from the start all the way through to the middle 368 00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:08,640 Speaker 3: sector didn't all rely on DRS, which, as much as 369 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:10,800 Speaker 3: we enjoyed the action bar Raim, let's be honest, a 370 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:13,560 Speaker 3: lot of it was just DRS initiated. And of course 371 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:16,080 Speaker 3: there's the poignancy of this isn't it is a significance. 372 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:19,080 Speaker 3: Carlos Science is driving a car that he's struggling with 373 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:20,280 Speaker 3: at the moment. Is sort of a little bit of 374 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:22,440 Speaker 3: an untold story so far this season, and maybe we'll 375 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 3: get you once we get to Europe. But not having 376 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:26,320 Speaker 3: a great time in the Williams this weekend looked a 377 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:28,480 Speaker 3: little bit better, and likewise, Louis Hamilon not having the 378 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:30,520 Speaker 3: best of times at Ferrari. In fact, I feel like 379 00:15:30,520 --> 00:15:33,360 Speaker 3: it's in the last week that realities hit him a 380 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:35,440 Speaker 3: little bit. You can see in his body language, and 381 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:37,880 Speaker 3: there they were scrapping for sort of middling points would 382 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:40,200 Speaker 3: have been significant for Carlos obviously, but for Lewis Hamilon 383 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:42,840 Speaker 3: it's still like, well what am I doing here? And 384 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:45,960 Speaker 3: Carlos put up a fight, like he argued the position 385 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:47,600 Speaker 3: here knowing that his car wasn't gonna be able to 386 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:49,960 Speaker 3: do it, And in the end Carlos eventually retired from 387 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:52,160 Speaker 3: this race and Lewis Hamilton kind of finished middling in 388 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 3: the middle of the points. But I know, I love 389 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:57,240 Speaker 3: it when drivers who find themselves in these kinds of 390 00:15:57,240 --> 00:16:00,240 Speaker 3: situations find themselves on track because inevitably there's that little 391 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:01,680 Speaker 3: bit of extra significant. 392 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:03,200 Speaker 1: And isn't it funny when you can see the body 393 00:16:03,280 --> 00:16:05,080 Speaker 1: language of a car in a fight as well, which 394 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:06,760 Speaker 1: is like a ridiculous thing to say about a car, 395 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:09,960 Speaker 1: but you could see that if Science's car had elbows, 396 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:13,040 Speaker 1: they were I love the fact that he just fought 397 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:16,280 Speaker 1: his corner in an inferior machine so strongly because it's like, 398 00:16:16,320 --> 00:16:18,160 Speaker 1: hang on, you're driving the car I used to drive. 399 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:20,360 Speaker 1: You can have some ideas for the time. It was 400 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:21,640 Speaker 1: very good fun nostulus. 401 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:24,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, it was one of the many great passages of 402 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:27,280 Speaker 3: racing from the vah Rain Grand Prix that was moving 403 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:30,800 Speaker 3: the week thanks to Shannon's Matt. Let's move on to 404 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:34,160 Speaker 3: one of my favorite segments of this video podcast, Interested 405 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:38,120 Speaker 3: versus Experts. Many motorsport disciplines, of course covered on the 406 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:40,880 Speaker 3: Fox Sports website with between them between us cover all 407 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:44,280 Speaker 3: three of them this week, though I'm interested in Moto 408 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:46,720 Speaker 3: GP interesting mostly because of the time zone meant I 409 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:48,920 Speaker 3: was watching it a one replay obviously, I wasn't watching 410 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:52,760 Speaker 3: it live, yes, but a great race in Kata overnight 411 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:54,800 Speaker 3: or depending on when your listeners overnight during the day 412 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:56,920 Speaker 3: if you're in Perth, maybe it's still technically at night. 413 00:16:56,920 --> 00:16:57,880 Speaker 2: I'm not sure exactly how the. 414 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 3: Time zone is converted, but I want to start with 415 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:02,760 Speaker 3: I think the biggest takeaway from this race, which was 416 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:06,280 Speaker 3: Jorge Martin's return and now pretty hasty return to hospital, 417 00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:09,840 Speaker 3: really quite injured in a significant crash, had a reasonable start. 418 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:11,720 Speaker 3: I guess to the weekend that he finished the sprint 419 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:13,679 Speaker 3: but couldn't finish the rates. 420 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:16,800 Speaker 1: He has encountered a black cat and walk beneath the 421 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:19,119 Speaker 1: ladder and done every possible thing you could be to 422 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:21,640 Speaker 1: be unlucky. We know that he had a big crash 423 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:25,160 Speaker 1: in preseason testing in Malaysia. He had the motocross accident 424 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:26,840 Speaker 1: where he broke his left wrist. He was back this 425 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:29,400 Speaker 1: weekend and then had a fall in the Grand Prix 426 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:34,120 Speaker 1: and was hit by Fabio to jan Antonio, and they've 427 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:38,800 Speaker 1: reassessed Monday night, Australian time. The extent to Martine's injury. 428 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:41,359 Speaker 1: It looks like he has eight broken ribs and a 429 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:43,480 Speaker 1: punctured lung. He's not been able to leave Katar, he's 430 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:44,240 Speaker 1: still in the hospital. 431 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:44,639 Speaker 4: There. 432 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:47,600 Speaker 1: One of those accidents that when you see it in 433 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:51,879 Speaker 1: the moment and you know the consequences of bikes hitting 434 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:54,480 Speaker 1: riders prone across the track, you do sit up that 435 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:57,760 Speaker 1: little bit straight. So we're very, very thankful that it's 436 00:17:57,840 --> 00:17:59,840 Speaker 1: no worse than eight broken ribs and a puncture lung. 437 00:17:59,880 --> 00:18:04,240 Speaker 1: As much as that sounds terrible to say, incredibly unlucky, 438 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:07,040 Speaker 1: but incredibly lucky at the same time. And I think 439 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:10,840 Speaker 1: you only had to see Fabio dejan Antonio's face after 440 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:13,280 Speaker 1: the race when he realized what he had done. There 441 00:18:13,359 --> 00:18:15,600 Speaker 1: was still eight or nine laps to go in that race. 442 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 1: He's riding around afterwards saying, I'm looking at the big 443 00:18:18,520 --> 00:18:21,160 Speaker 1: screens to see how he's being treated because I don't 444 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:23,119 Speaker 1: know if he's okay, because I know that I hit 445 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:26,520 Speaker 1: him and the mental toll that takes on a rider. 446 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:29,840 Speaker 1: But for Martine, it's just been an absolute nightmare since 447 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:32,320 Speaker 1: he's come to a Prillier. He's done one Grown Prix weekend, 448 00:18:32,359 --> 00:18:35,040 Speaker 1: he's injured again. This season is a complete right off. 449 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:37,800 Speaker 1: It was probably before he came to Qatar. He's not 450 00:18:37,800 --> 00:18:39,120 Speaker 1: on a to Caddy, so he's not going to win 451 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:41,600 Speaker 1: to Caddy win everything. But at this point I think 452 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:45,040 Speaker 1: his health and safety and the longevity of that contract 453 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:47,119 Speaker 1: with a Prillier is far more important. So we're thankful 454 00:18:47,119 --> 00:18:49,640 Speaker 1: that he's okay, but my goodness, he is just so 455 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:50,640 Speaker 1: so unlucky at the moment. 456 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:51,080 Speaker 2: Yeah. 457 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:53,120 Speaker 3: Bit a blow as well because it felt like he'd 458 00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:56,439 Speaker 3: timed his comeback relatively responsibly in the contact. 459 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:58,919 Speaker 1: Yeah, as far as motor GP goes, I think I 460 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:00,840 Speaker 1: was hoping to get through this. He can unscale the 461 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:02,960 Speaker 1: following races at Hereth in Spain, and there is a 462 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:05,360 Speaker 1: one day test after that race. So he missed basically 463 00:19:05,359 --> 00:19:08,320 Speaker 1: all the preseason testing. He just needs to do laps 464 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:10,480 Speaker 1: on that RGP and get used to it, get used 465 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:12,920 Speaker 1: to the team, speak the common language with them. He's 466 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:16,480 Speaker 1: effectively at base camp of pre season and where four 467 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:18,240 Speaker 1: rounds into the season. So that's why I said, I 468 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:20,800 Speaker 1: think the rest of the season is really longer. Lends 469 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:24,040 Speaker 1: twenty six rule change for twenty seven. What happens after that, 470 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:26,480 Speaker 1: but just shocking luck for him, But we're glad he's okay. 471 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:29,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, let's talk about the winner of this race. 472 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:31,479 Speaker 2: M Marquez? Is that right? 473 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:33,679 Speaker 1: If I read that correctly, I might have heard of him, 474 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:36,800 Speaker 1: might have seen that name before. For those counting at home. 475 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:39,439 Speaker 1: That's seven wins from eight starts this year, and the 476 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:41,240 Speaker 1: one that he didn't win he crashed from at the 477 00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:44,040 Speaker 1: lead in Texas, as he is wont to do. But 478 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:46,240 Speaker 1: the thing I'm loving about what Mark's doing this year 479 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:49,280 Speaker 1: is old Mark would go out there on the best bike, 480 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:51,520 Speaker 1: or not the best bike if he was riding a Honda, 481 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:55,359 Speaker 1: and try and pulverize everybody with pace and risk taking. 482 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:58,400 Speaker 1: It's just maybe a bit of age and the fact 483 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:01,440 Speaker 1: he's come back from so many injuries riding super smart 484 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:04,600 Speaker 1: this year in that there's yes, I'm qualifying on pole, 485 00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:06,840 Speaker 1: I'm not going out there as. 486 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:08,280 Speaker 4: The hair at the start of these races. 487 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:10,679 Speaker 1: Frankeo Morbidelli took the lead at the start of this 488 00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:12,480 Speaker 1: race and lead for probably the first half of it, 489 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:14,040 Speaker 1: and Mark was like, well, you're going to burn your 490 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:16,119 Speaker 1: tires up, so that's fine. I'll just sit here and 491 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:17,960 Speaker 1: wait for you to kill your tires and then I'll 492 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:21,200 Speaker 1: come past. Then we had the afore mentioned Vignalez cameo, 493 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:24,199 Speaker 1: which kind of came from nowhere, but again Mark was like, 494 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:25,160 Speaker 1: I'm saving my tire. 495 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:26,040 Speaker 4: I'm saving my tire. 496 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:28,320 Speaker 1: I'm waiting for my chance, six laps to go, take 497 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:31,160 Speaker 1: the lead, sets the fastest lap, sets another fastest lap. 498 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:34,000 Speaker 1: Vignale has got nothing. Peco Banno has chewed his tires 499 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:35,879 Speaker 1: up because he's come back from the fourth row with 500 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:38,440 Speaker 1: the grie because he crashed in qualifying his charge. Pete 501 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:40,639 Speaker 1: it out and then Mark just canters to another victory. 502 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:43,000 Speaker 1: So he's riding the best bike on the grid, and 503 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:45,440 Speaker 1: he's riding it faster than everybody else. He's also riding 504 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:47,520 Speaker 1: it smarter than everybody else. And I think this is 505 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:50,920 Speaker 1: the evolution of a rider that is now he's got 506 00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:52,880 Speaker 1: the belief back that he lost I think from being 507 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:55,720 Speaker 1: injured for so long. He's managed to work his way 508 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:58,480 Speaker 1: in very Machiavelli of Marquez style and the best team 509 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:01,280 Speaker 1: in the sport, and he's now making up for lost time. 510 00:21:01,359 --> 00:21:03,320 Speaker 1: But he's not the same Mark Marquez that won those 511 00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:05,960 Speaker 1: six titles in seven years between thirteen and nineteen. I 512 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:09,600 Speaker 1: think he's a different, better version because he's got the 513 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:11,600 Speaker 1: wisdom and the racecraft to go with the speed. 514 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:13,840 Speaker 4: Just an absolutely outstanding. 515 00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:15,480 Speaker 2: Performance, alarming that there's a better version of. 516 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:18,520 Speaker 3: It that will concerning and just very briefly we talked 517 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:21,320 Speaker 3: about Maverick Vinales didn't end up winning the race, but 518 00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:24,240 Speaker 3: in fact was penalized after the race for this tire 519 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:27,120 Speaker 3: pressures issue that continues almost after every race. 520 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:30,280 Speaker 2: At this point. I understand why type. 521 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:33,119 Speaker 3: Pressure issues are in Moto GP the aerodynamics of the 522 00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:36,800 Speaker 3: sport at the moment, but it's not a sustainable way 523 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:39,280 Speaker 3: to regulate the sport, is it when we have drivers 524 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:42,480 Speaker 3: that have handed these significant penalties just because they unexpectedly 525 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:43,760 Speaker 3: were quick on race day. 526 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:45,400 Speaker 1: I mean, and look, this is part of the reason 527 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:47,359 Speaker 1: that when these rules change through all the aero package 528 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:49,000 Speaker 1: is coming off these bikes. In a couple of years, 529 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:51,200 Speaker 1: you're not going to have this as a problem anymore. 530 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:54,960 Speaker 1: Sixteen second time penalty which pushed Vinales down from a 531 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:57,800 Speaker 1: very very surprise and very well earned podium in second 532 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:00,840 Speaker 1: place to fourteenth, which is where can be found on 533 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:02,919 Speaker 1: most classifications at the end of most Grand Prix. But 534 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:06,879 Speaker 1: it is a difficult situation because you have got teams 535 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:08,920 Speaker 1: playing with tire pressures based on where they think they're 536 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:11,040 Speaker 1: going to be running during the race. It's not a 537 00:22:11,040 --> 00:22:13,560 Speaker 1: great way to go racing. I understand why the rules 538 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:14,919 Speaker 1: in there, because it needs to be in there so 539 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:18,200 Speaker 1: safety reasons. Teams are running these tires virtually flat because 540 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:20,600 Speaker 1: if you sit behind another rival in dirty air, your 541 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:22,560 Speaker 1: tire pressure spikes, so you want to run them as 542 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:24,760 Speaker 1: low as possible. There is a safety element to this 543 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:28,000 Speaker 1: that I understand. But there's nothing like a post race 544 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:30,600 Speaker 1: investigation and then you get the final ruling and the 545 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:33,040 Speaker 1: complete change of the results and everything else at about 546 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:35,720 Speaker 1: five o'clock Australian time in the morning. So it was 547 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:38,520 Speaker 1: the double wheremy of here's the ninety minute way and 548 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:40,800 Speaker 1: you can have it at five they and so good. 549 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:43,760 Speaker 1: Good times all around. But funnily though, Vinales didn't seem 550 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:46,080 Speaker 1: that disappointed, because well, I had a lot of fun. 551 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:48,880 Speaker 1: I was really fast. It's been really bad for KCM 552 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:50,600 Speaker 1: this year, so all good. And I think he was 553 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:54,359 Speaker 1: going to ask for his podium bonus as long as 554 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:57,560 Speaker 1: Chick's Internet banking in the morning and he might be happy, 555 00:22:57,960 --> 00:22:58,520 Speaker 1: so he should. 556 00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:01,159 Speaker 2: Well, I was very interested. I was very interested. I 557 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:01,639 Speaker 2: enjoyed it. 558 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:04,240 Speaker 1: So if we're going to go with this interested versus 559 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:08,159 Speaker 1: expert theme here, we know you mentioned that supercars are 560 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:09,760 Speaker 1: in New Zealand over the course of the weekend, but 561 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:11,760 Speaker 1: there was something that happened in the lead up to 562 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:14,800 Speaker 1: that that I found particularly interesting. Perhaps you can fill 563 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:17,040 Speaker 1: in the blanks with this Alligations story. 564 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:19,399 Speaker 3: Yeah, one of the great motors words from Alligation I 565 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:23,359 Speaker 3: think you did. It's in my auto spell check in 566 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:26,280 Speaker 3: the computer topically updated. Obviously, just felt it as frequently 567 00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:28,160 Speaker 3: as the need to in supercars is the general motors 568 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:31,120 Speaker 3: from Alligation team. Obviously winding back a little bit earlier 569 00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:33,480 Speaker 3: in the season's Triple eight. Who has filled that role 570 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:35,520 Speaker 3: for many years now, but it's defecting to Ford to 571 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:38,760 Speaker 3: replace dj R as the whole alligation team there and 572 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:40,480 Speaker 3: the search has been on for General. 573 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:41,320 Speaker 2: Motors to replace them. 574 00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:44,560 Speaker 3: But of course, of the GM teams remaining, there aren't 575 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 3: any powerhouses like Triple eight. And this is the problem 576 00:23:47,359 --> 00:23:49,560 Speaker 3: because we found with the advent of Gen three and 577 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:51,720 Speaker 3: while the rules are not changing anytime soon, we do 578 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:53,439 Speaker 3: have two to coming next year. There may be some 579 00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:57,159 Speaker 3: work involved in paratizing the cars. At that point it 580 00:23:57,280 --> 00:23:57,920 Speaker 3: is a lot of work. 581 00:23:57,920 --> 00:23:58,080 Speaker 2: You know. 582 00:23:58,160 --> 00:24:00,240 Speaker 3: DJR has struggled under the weight of being the ford 583 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:02,919 Speaker 3: hamuligation team or a regular powerhouse team that hasn't been 584 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:05,680 Speaker 3: able to convert results. So it's been a really interesting 585 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:07,960 Speaker 3: search in that regard. There was some rooms or maybe 586 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:09,600 Speaker 3: they'll post someone. They ended up doing that, but they've 587 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:13,919 Speaker 3: chosen Team eighteen Charlie Schwerkults team based in Mount Maveley 588 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:16,679 Speaker 3: in Melbourne. Not a massive team, but a team that 589 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:19,800 Speaker 3: has bigger aspirations, a race winning team at least, But 590 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:21,520 Speaker 3: the approach they're taking is a little bit different and 591 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:25,040 Speaker 3: I think this is interesting in the long term of 592 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:27,600 Speaker 3: the sport. I suppose, which is essentially General Motors is 593 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:30,600 Speaker 3: taking it in house. Now there isn't team mateen is 594 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:32,800 Speaker 3: not going to be the traditional homoligation team that does 595 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:34,679 Speaker 3: the work and then kind of gets ticked off by 596 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:37,440 Speaker 3: GM or in association with GM, whatever, however you want 597 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:40,640 Speaker 3: to describe that. It seems like, particularly because General Motors 598 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:42,840 Speaker 3: been able to take the triple A technical to a 599 00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:45,520 Speaker 3: former technical director Jeremy Moore, now in house in an 600 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:47,960 Speaker 3: in house role still to be defined after some gardening leave, 601 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:50,520 Speaker 3: that they're kind of just going to be designing these 602 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:53,840 Speaker 3: race cars themselves in house. Teamteen as the Conduit obviously 603 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:57,199 Speaker 3: is the most responsible team I guess, if you like, 604 00:24:57,240 --> 00:24:59,520 Speaker 3: in the field of the one representing General Motors. It 605 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:02,320 Speaker 3: is still a big honor and responsibility for them, and 606 00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:04,840 Speaker 3: I want to downplay that at all, but it does 607 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:07,480 Speaker 3: seem to be a bit of a shift Whereby and 608 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:09,560 Speaker 3: General Motors acknowledges as well. It's going to be a 609 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:11,720 Speaker 3: collaborative effort, a word they've used quite a bit over 610 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:13,280 Speaker 3: the last couple of weeks in the lead up and 611 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:15,560 Speaker 3: during the announcement between all the GM teams are going 612 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:18,240 Speaker 3: to be clicking a lot of data together and then 613 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:21,000 Speaker 3: into a central data bank, I guess, if you like. 614 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:24,000 Speaker 3: And it is interesting because it is a different approach, 615 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:26,760 Speaker 3: and you wonder, you know, in the last couple of 616 00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:29,720 Speaker 3: years debating about how GM is committed to the sport, 617 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:31,760 Speaker 3: is it different to the way Forwards committed to the sport. 618 00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:34,600 Speaker 2: It is just a different take on it. I mean, 619 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:35,840 Speaker 2: it's maybe the right time. 620 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:38,000 Speaker 3: To do it, because there shouldn't be any significant changes 621 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:41,439 Speaker 3: over the next few years short of General Motors highly 622 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:44,880 Speaker 3: secretive transition to whatever's replacing the Camaro because the commarow 623 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:46,639 Speaker 3: is now essentially extinct. They won't say when that's going 624 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:48,800 Speaker 3: to because at least a couple of years away because. 625 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:50,600 Speaker 2: We go through NASCAR first before it ends up in supercars. 626 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:53,240 Speaker 3: So there is work on the horizon, but for now 627 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:56,239 Speaker 3: keeping cards close to the chest. Essentially it could end 628 00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:58,480 Speaker 3: up paying off, particularly in this era where parody is 629 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:01,280 Speaker 3: so tight and always argument in supercars. 630 00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:03,320 Speaker 2: So an interesting twist there. 631 00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:05,600 Speaker 3: And then the second element here when we're considering the 632 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:09,199 Speaker 3: GM teams is of course this manufacturer shuffle. Now we 633 00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:12,560 Speaker 3: know Toyota's got WAU that is their homoligation team. 634 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:15,040 Speaker 2: Love using the word next again, said it again. They 635 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:16,240 Speaker 2: get a little bit of money every time. 636 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:19,320 Speaker 3: I wish they're looking for their next team. And then 637 00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:21,600 Speaker 3: of course there's a general shuffle going on and the 638 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,600 Speaker 3: talk is Premiere of course wanted to be the GEM 639 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:27,879 Speaker 3: homuligation team, and there's been a rumor going around that 640 00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:29,960 Speaker 3: that might now, having not got that role, maybe they'll 641 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,359 Speaker 3: be considering their options outsewhere. Of course they're really closely 642 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:35,000 Speaker 3: associated with Triple eight. They've been buying the cars directly 643 00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:36,840 Speaker 3: from them. They're based in Queensland to be close to 644 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:40,199 Speaker 3: Triple eight. Will they move to the Ford Camp and 645 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,560 Speaker 3: Brad Jones Racing as well? They're four car entries. That 646 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:44,280 Speaker 3: would be a really big blow to this idea of 647 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:49,880 Speaker 3: General Motors wanting this collaborative everyone involved, all data gathered effort, could. 648 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:51,280 Speaker 2: Defect perhaps to Toyota. 649 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:53,880 Speaker 3: These are all rumors and everyone's sort of keeping them again, 650 00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:56,400 Speaker 3: keeping their cards close to their chest, but that could 651 00:26:56,440 --> 00:27:00,119 Speaker 3: be quite a big blow because it's this whole side go. 652 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:02,480 Speaker 3: As highlighted anything for GM, it's that there was a 653 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,119 Speaker 3: lot of reliance on Triple eight. Yes, there's now a 654 00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:07,679 Speaker 3: real shoring up of the position for them. They've got 655 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:09,479 Speaker 3: a lot of really great independent teams there. I say 656 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:11,560 Speaker 3: there's not to downtalk any of their efforts. We've seen 657 00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:13,520 Speaker 3: them win races again, podiums, all that kind of thing. 658 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:16,760 Speaker 3: But there's an important restructure happening there and it's not 659 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,720 Speaker 3: complete just because the homologation team's been decided. Like I say, 660 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:24,040 Speaker 3: teams could yet be shifting and that's that's still to 661 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:25,520 Speaker 3: be seen. I thought that was a big talking point 662 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:27,359 Speaker 3: in New Zealand. Of course, a big talking point as 663 00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:29,879 Speaker 3: well is that Matt Payne won the Jim Rich Trophy 664 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:31,080 Speaker 3: over there by winning the round. 665 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:31,760 Speaker 2: Two race wins. 666 00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:34,159 Speaker 3: It's rare you get a home win in supercar unless 667 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:35,600 Speaker 3: you're talking about state by state. So I thought that 668 00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:38,400 Speaker 3: was really good. The New Zealand fans are so enthusiastic. 669 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:40,360 Speaker 3: We see that. It's a bit of a New Zealand moment. 670 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:42,280 Speaker 2: I think you're like even an international motors sport. 671 00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:44,440 Speaker 1: Yeah absolutely, I mean, look, there's nothing like a home winner, 672 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:46,280 Speaker 1: right Yeah. And to win it in the style that 673 00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:48,920 Speaker 1: he did, yeah, I think it was h I don't 674 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:50,320 Speaker 1: think too many people left that circuit. 675 00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:53,080 Speaker 2: Unhappened nothing on Sunday, And it's great because obviously in 676 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:54,480 Speaker 2: the post shanevan gizebegan era. 677 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:55,800 Speaker 3: Where you know they go over there and you're like, wow, 678 00:27:56,119 --> 00:27:59,000 Speaker 3: you'll probably winn't yes now. At least it's good to 679 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,520 Speaker 3: see this in such a big and talented generation of 680 00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:04,639 Speaker 3: TV's as well racing in the supercars, and the rumori is, 681 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:06,240 Speaker 3: of course we'll have a second race over there, maybe 682 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:06,760 Speaker 3: as soon as. 683 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:10,320 Speaker 2: Next year, so Nolan will be too disappointed by that, Matt. 684 00:28:10,359 --> 00:28:12,480 Speaker 3: Before we wrap this one up, though, it's time for 685 00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:14,560 Speaker 3: the crystal Ball, one of the great segments, of course, 686 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:20,360 Speaker 3: brought to you by Complete Home Filtration. You can pick 687 00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:24,159 Speaker 3: whatever discipline you like, whatever time frame you like, to 688 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:26,840 Speaker 3: predict what's going to happen before our next episode or 689 00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:27,760 Speaker 3: during the next episode. 690 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:30,320 Speaker 1: If your bowl, my crystal ball is in for a service, 691 00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:33,560 Speaker 1: because it's been absolutely rubbish in the last couple of weeks. 692 00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:35,200 Speaker 1: So for those I'm going to fess up to the 693 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:37,560 Speaker 1: fact that I had Kinne Antonelli on the podium. My 694 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:40,400 Speaker 1: rain didn't score a point, so it's almost like the 695 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:43,720 Speaker 1: kiss of death rather crystal ball. But let's hope that 696 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:45,959 Speaker 1: I actually have my crystal ball, right, I'm saying that. 697 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:46,400 Speaker 4: Well. 698 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:48,960 Speaker 1: Oscar Piastre won two Grand Prix last year, He's won 699 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:50,760 Speaker 1: two Grand Prix this year. I think he's going to 700 00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 1: win in Jeddah, and I think he's going to take 701 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:56,120 Speaker 1: the lead of the World Championship for the first time, 702 00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:57,680 Speaker 1: in the first time for an Australian, as you said, 703 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,400 Speaker 1: in fifteen years. So that's it my crystal for this 704 00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:01,720 Speaker 1: coming week's motorsport. 705 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:03,160 Speaker 4: But what's in yours? 706 00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:05,080 Speaker 2: Where do you get a crystal ball service? 707 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:07,880 Speaker 4: Excellent question. We need a sponsor for. 708 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:11,880 Speaker 3: That Crystal WALLT servicing. I know you're out there, Yes, 709 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:15,760 Speaker 3: please come. We're happy to have supplementary sponsor for this segment. 710 00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:17,719 Speaker 3: I like that because I was thinking of a similar 711 00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:19,880 Speaker 3: line because Oscar does very well in JEDN and that 712 00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:20,680 Speaker 3: as part of my thinking. 713 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:22,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, track is done that even in his debut year, 714 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:23,640 Speaker 2: even Formula. 715 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:27,200 Speaker 3: Two, he's always done very well at this insane circuit. 716 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:29,760 Speaker 2: So I like that one a lot. 717 00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:33,480 Speaker 3: I have been on the Jack do and bandwagon for 718 00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:35,440 Speaker 3: a little while now. I predicted, if we're going back 719 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:36,920 Speaker 3: to visit our prediction that he's going to score his 720 00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:38,160 Speaker 3: first points this weekend. 721 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:38,920 Speaker 4: You were closer than me. 722 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:41,600 Speaker 2: I felt like I was close before the safety card. 723 00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:43,560 Speaker 2: I was. I actually came to my head. I was like, oh, 724 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:44,440 Speaker 2: it's two thirty. 725 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:45,960 Speaker 4: You were ready for your victory lab. 726 00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:47,800 Speaker 3: I was very ready, but I'm going to double down. 727 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:50,080 Speaker 3: I'm going to say these are going to be his points. 728 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:51,880 Speaker 3: He knows this track from Formula two. Of course he's 729 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:55,560 Speaker 3: competed here before if memory serves, but memory may not serve. 730 00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:58,120 Speaker 3: He's may have been his first Formula two race when 731 00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:00,560 Speaker 3: he got that jump up from F three correct. 732 00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:02,600 Speaker 2: And I believe he qualified second. Yeah, he was on 733 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:04,840 Speaker 2: the front row behind Oscopiastri very good. 734 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:05,760 Speaker 4: All Australian front right. 735 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,000 Speaker 2: Great front, one of the great front roads. 736 00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:10,360 Speaker 3: This could be finally his points chance because this is 737 00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:11,920 Speaker 3: a big race for him. This is where the rumor 738 00:30:11,960 --> 00:30:13,160 Speaker 3: was going to be there was gonna be his last trace. 739 00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:15,600 Speaker 3: I don't think it's gonna be his last trace, but 740 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:17,840 Speaker 3: nonetheless will be a great opportunity to just say, well 741 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:20,000 Speaker 3: the doubters can be quiet for a little bit because 742 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:21,760 Speaker 3: he's going to find to get his points. The speed's 743 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:24,240 Speaker 3: been there, the points have just been missing to be 744 00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:25,880 Speaker 3: fair up in and he just scored its first points 745 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:28,680 Speaker 3: this weekend. I think that's what we're going to see. 746 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:31,480 Speaker 3: Very straight seat of Australian predictions. But I'm happy to hear. 747 00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:32,840 Speaker 4: It fly the flag. 748 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:35,280 Speaker 3: Yes, And with that note, that's all the time we 749 00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:37,720 Speaker 3: have for pit Talk this week. You can subscribe to 750 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:40,280 Speaker 3: pit Talk wherever you get your favorite podcasts, and you 751 00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:41,640 Speaker 3: can leave us a rating and review as well, and 752 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:42,960 Speaker 3: of course you can see us on YouTube. If you 753 00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:44,360 Speaker 3: haven't already been listening to this and you want to 754 00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:46,479 Speaker 3: see what it looked like, well you can go and 755 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:46,960 Speaker 3: find out. 756 00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:50,000 Speaker 2: This weekend is the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. It's at 757 00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:51,400 Speaker 2: three a m. Eastern time. 758 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:53,720 Speaker 3: You can you up to date with the Lake step 759 00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:56,400 Speaker 3: on news at Fox sports dot Com, tod AU from 760 00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:58,040 Speaker 3: Matt Clayton and me Michael Lamonado. 761 00:30:58,320 --> 00:30:59,240 Speaker 2: We'll catch you next week.