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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine

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Speaker 1: from Newstalk zed B.

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Speaker 2: What Red Ball have done to Liam Lawson for me

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Speaker 2: is an absolute disgrace. He's been given an opportunity to

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Speaker 2: be the second driver in their team and has been

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Speaker 2: given almost zero support whatsoever and now demoted with Yuki

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Speaker 2: Sonoda given that seat. Now, you will not convince me,

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Speaker 2: and of course I stand to be corrected, but you

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Speaker 2: will not convince me Yuki Sonoda is a better driver

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Speaker 2: than Liam Lawson. Lawson was put in that seat for

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Speaker 2: a number of reasons, one of which is his mental resilience,

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Speaker 2: and he is going to need all of that hours.

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Speaker 2: He tries to bounce back from this in many ways.

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Speaker 2: As I said to Barry, the pressure comes off now

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Speaker 2: he goes into the Racing Balls team. Yuki Sonoda, though,

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Speaker 2: isn't going to be able to drive a car that's

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Speaker 2: set up for Maxvstappen any better than Liam Lawson can.

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Speaker 2: Interesting to hear Bowry say, then red Ball are now

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Speaker 2: looking to set that car up differently. Well, that would

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Speaker 2: have been helpful for Liam, wouldn't it. Two races on

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Speaker 2: unfamiliar tracks, one of which was in the pouring rain

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Speaker 2: in Melbourne. It's far too small a sample size for

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Speaker 2: his driving to be accurately assessed. And we're about to

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Speaker 2: get to Japan, a track he actually knows, and I've

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Speaker 2: taken the keys off him. Look, he'll recuperate, he'll bounce back.

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Speaker 2: He is resilient and no doubt he'll drive well for

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Speaker 2: racing balls. But it paints red Ball in an absolutely

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Speaker 2: appalling light. Yes, I know they are massive results drive

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Speaker 2: an organization, but they have been utterly negligent in their

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Speaker 2: duty of care to Liam Lawson. And this is where

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Speaker 2: we now are. In an elite sporting landscape of instant gratification.

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Speaker 2: We have lost any ability, any ability at all to

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Speaker 2: be patient. Imagine if you opened a restaurant and after

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Speaker 2: a couple of nights you didn't get the tables as

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Speaker 2: full as you wanted, so you sacked the chef. Things

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Speaker 2: take time. You cannot simply say, Okay, well he's had

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Speaker 2: a couple of races, hasn't done the job. We're dropping it. Well,

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Speaker 2: they have done that, but it's not the right thing

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Speaker 2: to do. You might have listened to Mark Webber on

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Speaker 2: the radio with me last week. In the first seven

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Speaker 2: years of Mark Weber's Grand Prix career, he made the

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Speaker 2: podium twice. In the next five years, he made the

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Speaker 2: podium forty times, forty four to zero. It takes time.

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Speaker 2: Red Ball have been shown here to have absolutely no

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Speaker 2: patience at all. And I know they're under pressure, but

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Speaker 2: we've lost the ability across a lot of elite sport

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Speaker 2: to just hover above things, take a breath and say, actually,

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Speaker 2: this is going to take a bit of time. Imagine

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Speaker 2: if we've got rid of Sir Graham Henry after the

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Speaker 2: two thousand and seven Rugby World Cup, we never would

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Speaker 2: have had twenty eleven. He never would have been Sir

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Speaker 2: Graham Henry. Same goes for Phoenix coach John Kloertaliana. Right

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Speaker 2: now they're calling for his head. A year ago he

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Speaker 2: was top of the pops, guiding the Knicks to their

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Speaker 2: best ever finish. It's endemic cross elite sport, this drive

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Speaker 2: for instant results, and it's not helping anybody. In fact,

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Speaker 2: it's hurting players, drivers, coaches, everybody associated with elite sport

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Speaker 2: because those in charge simply cannot see pass the end

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Speaker 2: of next week.

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