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Speaker 1: Formula One hits Japan this weekend. Liam Lawson to race

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Speaker 1: for the first time since dropping to the Racing Bulls.

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Speaker 1: Lawson's replacement, who we've already heard from this our, Yuki Sonoda,

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Speaker 1: will be racing for the main team on Sunday. Eric

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Speaker 1: Thompson is a motoring journalist and has got up early

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Speaker 1: for us. Good morning to you, Eric, Good morning Andrew.

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Speaker 2: How are you.

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Speaker 1: I am good. Do we expect any bitterness or awkwardness

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Speaker 1: or maybe some elbow out racing between Liam and Yuki?

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Speaker 2: Maybe some elbow out racing. Lawson has already shown that

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Speaker 2: he's not scared of anybody on the track. You know,

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Speaker 2: he's upset Fernando Alonso and a few other people. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think I don't think elbows out will be an issue.

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Speaker 2: Is certainly not going to hopefully he's not going to

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Speaker 2: try and change his driving style. But those two have

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Speaker 2: been friends since junior junior days, so I think there

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Speaker 2: will be a little bit of a strain on there.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's like your best you know, you get

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Speaker 2: the big gig and then all of a sudden, you

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Speaker 2: know you're still mate because you've got the big gig,

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Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden you'll sort of move

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Speaker 2: sideways for your your best mate to get the big gig.

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Speaker 2: So and you know, egos are a play in that

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Speaker 2: sport supports, and.

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Speaker 1: This is what makes it so watchable. So look, this

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Speaker 1: is a test for Liam, but it's also a test

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Speaker 1: for the rebel car. Lawson claimed it was a dog,

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Speaker 1: Yuki said this week it's okay Liam. Fans will want

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Speaker 1: to see Yuki at the back of the track to

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Speaker 1: prove that Liam wasn't as bad a driver as some maccount.

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Speaker 2: What a great soumation Andrew, yes, exactly. But the thing

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Speaker 2: is Liam Lawson, after his days on the simulator, said

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Speaker 2: a very similar similar thing to Sonoda before the start

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Speaker 2: of the sea. He said, Oh, the car's not that bad.

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Speaker 2: I quite enjoy drying it. But although simulators are close,

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Speaker 2: they're not the real thing. It's like having virtuality goggles

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Speaker 2: on and you're playing your immerse inside a game. You know,

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Speaker 2: you think it's real, but it's not real. And I

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Speaker 2: think in about fifteen minutes pre practice starts, so in

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Speaker 2: about half an hour we'll see how good a Sonoda

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Speaker 2: Isn't that.

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Speaker 1: I have one last question for you. I have one

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Speaker 1: last question for you, because this has been worrying me.

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Speaker 1: Do you think UB's RB twenty one, the Red Bull

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Speaker 1: car has been fixed in the fortnight since the last race,

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Speaker 1: changing conditions.

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Speaker 2: No, because that car's fundamental problem is in the chassis.

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Speaker 2: It's very nervy at the rear and very pointy at

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Speaker 2: the front, which means everything's on the front. And there's

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Speaker 2: very few drivers in the world that can drive a

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Speaker 2: car like that makes the step and just happens to

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Speaker 2: be one of them, So there's no way they can

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Speaker 2: completely change the geometry of their car in a couple

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Speaker 2: of weeks. They can't try the air over and other things.

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