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Speaker 1: As you've heard this morning, the speculation is finally over

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Speaker 1: and Liam Lawson has been named as Red Bulls next

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Speaker 1: full time IF one driver. He's going to partner with

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Speaker 1: Max Verstappin. His days being on a one hundred thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars salary as a reserve driver are over. He's going

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Speaker 1: to be in the big money now. Motorsport expert and

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Speaker 1: former McLaren race member Bob McMurray is with us right now.

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Speaker 2: Bob, Hello, good morning Heather.

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Speaker 1: Where does he rate? I mean, we have had a

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Speaker 1: lot of very very high profile drivers come out of

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Speaker 1: this country. Where does he rate? Is he the most

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Speaker 1: high profile?

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Speaker 2: No? Well, I don't suppose he's got much of a

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Speaker 2: profile internationally at the moment compared to the likes of

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Speaker 2: Bruce McLaren's any home presume and that sort of thing.

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Speaker 2: But he's certainly joined their ranks, hasn't he. In that

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Speaker 2: he is a Formula one driver, but he's been a

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Speaker 2: Formula one driver for eleven races. Now, of course he's

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Speaker 2: an old hand, isn't he.

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Speaker 1: How do you reckon he's going to go when he's

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Speaker 1: racing with Max ver Steppin, Because the problem is Max

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Speaker 1: has got a really weird style, doesn't.

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Speaker 2: He Yeah, apparently he sets his car up differentely to

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Speaker 2: everybody else. But what Liam is going to have to

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Speaker 2: do is adapt completely. I mean, you know, it is

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Speaker 2: great news. It's a vindication for him, indication for his family,

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Speaker 2: of indication for he's a motorsport in the way that

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Speaker 2: the motorsport ladder has got him from kating all the

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Speaker 2: way through to Formula one. Okay, he's done it himself obviously,

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Speaker 2: but that ladder was there and he is now at

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Speaker 2: base camp on Everest. To put it that way, he

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Speaker 2: has got a huge mountain to climb now. I mean

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Speaker 2: he's got he's going to be expected to match or better,

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Speaker 2: preferably a full time world champion in a team that

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Speaker 2: he has molded around himself. Liam's done eleven races, so

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Speaker 2: that the task in front of him is massive. It's

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Speaker 2: going to get even bigger with all the pressure that

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Speaker 2: goes on, with the continuous interviews and why aren't you

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Speaker 2: doing this right? Why you do? You know there's going

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Speaker 2: to be an awful lot thrown at him, But knowing him,

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Speaker 2: knowing his family, I think he's more than capable of

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Speaker 2: coping with all that.

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Speaker 1: What does his pay go up to Do you have.

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Speaker 2: Any ideo, no idea more than he had. I wouldn't

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Speaker 2: say with an S on the end. No, not millions.

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Speaker 2: I would say his salary for this first year would

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Speaker 2: be it's got to be approaching a million, I would say,

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Speaker 2: but you know that's the US dollars. Yeah, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how they do their contract, but that's

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Speaker 2: not it's not bad. I could handle that. But the

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Speaker 2: one thing he's got to do is make sure he's

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Speaker 2: got the contract all the way through the year and

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Speaker 2: he stays there because Red Bull have an awful habit

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Speaker 2: of getting rid of drivers when they don't like them

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Speaker 2: halfway through a season. So that's his main concern. He's

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Speaker 2: not concerned about the money now, just establishing his feet

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Speaker 2: on the ground in that team.

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Speaker 1: Now the hard work, really says Bob, thank you very

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Speaker 1: much and thanks for getting up so early for us.

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Speaker 1: Bob McMurray speaking to us out of Sydney. We woke

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Speaker 1: him up. Motors board expert obviously former McLaren race driver

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Speaker 1: he Liam is. The other thing Liam needs to brace

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Speaker 1: himself for is that he's going to cop it on

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Speaker 1: social media, probably from media watch. Actually, they're already really

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Speaker 1: angry with him, they're already blaming him for this, and

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Speaker 1: he's the devil incarnate. But this is just the fun

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Speaker 1: of This is the fun of F one. So this

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Speaker 1: just comes with the territory. He's given an interview to

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Speaker 1: the Time, saying, not only did his parents have to

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Speaker 1: sell their house to basically fund his way through, you know,

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Speaker 1: learning how to raise and stuff, but his sisters had

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Speaker 1: to give up Irish dancing so that he could be

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Speaker 1: an F one. But hey, who makes two million bucks

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Speaker 1: out of Irish dancing? Right?

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Speaker 2: So he.

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Speaker 1: Just shot down like that, just shot down like that.

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