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Speaker 1: Together do for Sea Ellen. What about Liam Lawson, a

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Speaker 1: kid from Pookacoe, Potato Country, has just been given a

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Speaker 1: Formula One seat for the rest of the season. What

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Speaker 1: an absolutely amazing achievement that is. There are I get this,

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Speaker 1: only twenty seats available each season in F one, twenty seats,

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Speaker 1: and drivers from around the world, the absolute best drivers

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Speaker 1: in the whole world, compete for those twenty seats. And

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Speaker 1: a twenty two year old kid from New Zealand population

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Speaker 1: just slightly over five million, that's just a big city somewhere,

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Speaker 1: just took one of those twenty seats. I mean, talk

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Speaker 1: about overachieving. Well done him. How proud do you think

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Speaker 1: his parents are right now? How much are they not

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Speaker 1: regretting that move to Pokakoe so he could be near

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Speaker 1: the race track. It's paid off, isn't it. I was

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Speaker 1: listening to Liam, talked to Mike this morning, and the

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Speaker 1: thing that struck me about him, this is about Liam, obviously,

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Speaker 1: is how mature he is. I mean, for a kid

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Speaker 1: of twenty two years old, he's unbelievably cool and calm

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Speaker 1: and collected, and I reckon even more so than people

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Speaker 1: sometimes twice his age. I mean this kid knows what's

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Speaker 1: on the line, he knows this is his one shot.

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Speaker 1: He understands he's got about six races to prove himself

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Speaker 1: if he wants to keep the seat next year, and

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Speaker 1: he just sounds like he's taking this whole thing in

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Speaker 1: his stride is completely unflappable. I think even if he

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Speaker 1: wasn't the impression that I got from him this morning is,

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Speaker 1: even if he wasn't one of the best F one

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Speaker 1: drivers in the world right now, and you just met

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Speaker 1: him somewhere in New Zealand on some random occasion, it

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Speaker 1: would be hard not to be impressed with his composure.

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Speaker 1: For his age, he's going to need that composure because

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you've seen it, since the announcement

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Speaker 1: that Daniel Riccardo's been Rolldin and Liam Lawson's taking over,

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Speaker 1: he is copying it something terrible online from fans who

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Speaker 1: are upset about the way that Riccardo's been treated and

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Speaker 1: who are blaming wrongly obviously Liam Lawson from that. And

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Speaker 1: you know how social media is nowadays. It's not something

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Speaker 1: out there that's just in the nether nether. It's in

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Speaker 1: your phone, in your pocket. You can read it if

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Speaker 1: you want to, so I imagine he's going to have

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Speaker 1: to draw on that mental fortitude to be able to

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Speaker 1: cope with the pressure that he will now be under

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Speaker 1: from people out there who've got opinions. But somehow, having

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Speaker 1: listened to him talk this morning, I think he's going

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Speaker 1: to be absolutely fine, don't you. For more from Heather

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