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Speaker 1: Problem with this Red Bull Liam Lawson thing is several fold.

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Speaker 1: One the most egregious part, obviously, as I mentioned a

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Speaker 1: moment ago, is these reports that hond is offering another

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Speaker 1: ten million to get their Mansonoda in the seat. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate what Chris says. It isn't new though they've offered

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Speaker 1: the ten million previously, and we know that to be true.

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Speaker 1: Two next weekend would be the first track Liam's actually

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Speaker 1: driven on previously. Red Bull would have known that when

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Speaker 1: they hired him to have two races on unknown tracks.

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Speaker 1: That's tough. Three they hang in with other drivers who

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Speaker 1: struggled a lot longer than two races. So suddenly the

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Speaker 1: harshness has reached a new level and probably reflects an

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Speaker 1: internal level of panic given the performance of the other teams.

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Speaker 1: And four, they know Liam can actually drive the car.

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Speaker 1: They saw it, they tested them, he can do it,

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Speaker 1: so they're not guessing. They took a punt on him,

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Speaker 1: but not a blind punt. So you then have to

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Speaker 1: look at the damage you're do into a young driver,

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Speaker 1: and it's confidence. I mean, yes, he's still an F one. Yes,

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Speaker 1: the Racing Bulls are improving on what they did last year.

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Speaker 1: But he will think about it this way, he will

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Speaker 1: never win, mainly because Racing Bulls is a feeder team

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Speaker 1: to Red Bull, all out to win. Red Bull also

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Speaker 1: carry responsibility for building a cart that doesn't work. I mean,

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Speaker 1: even as was mentioned a moment ago, even Maxvstappan, who

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Speaker 1: is the driver of his generation, is having trouble. So

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Speaker 1: Liam goes to a midfield team to do what hopefully

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Speaker 1: perform well, to then be lured away. I would hope

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Speaker 1: to somebody who can offer the prospect of better returns

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Speaker 1: as exciting as living an F one Dreamers turning up

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Speaker 1: every weekend to come thirteenth can't be that much fun

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Speaker 1: after a while. The cutthroat part, though, I mean, I

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Speaker 1: suppose you can argue that's life. The good thing about

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Speaker 1: motor racing is they've been in it since they were kids.

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Speaker 1: They've been schooled in winning and losing, in victory and failure.

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Speaker 1: Liam's had helmet Marco and his ear forever. It's a tough,

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Speaker 1: unforgiving business, but that's the keyword business. They aren't in

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Speaker 1: it because they like you. They are in it to

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Speaker 1: use your talent for as long as you are useful.

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Speaker 1: The reward is if you're good, you get rich and

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Speaker 1: famous and collect trophies and buy a place in Monaco

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Speaker 1: and live your dream. If you're okay, you drive an

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Speaker 1: LP or sober, travel the world, get moderately wealthy over

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Speaker 1: of course, but your heart goes out, doesn't it? To

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Speaker 1: a bloke who was that close and seems sadly to

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Speaker 1: be on the end of some very poor management, some

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