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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at B.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for your text, Hi, FRANCISCA, huge congrads to

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Speaker 2: Liam Lawson and his family. No one can understand the

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Speaker 2: pressure the knock can understand the pressure the knockers not

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Speaker 2: to mention the financial commitment while you're trying to make

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Speaker 2: the great and motor racing. As a parent or as

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Speaker 2: a competitor, trust me, we fully relate to this. So huge,

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Speaker 2: huge congratulations to the Lawson family and the McLoughlin's and

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Speaker 2: Scott's parents and everybody involved. Thank you very much for

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Speaker 2: your text and joining us now to talk sport is

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Speaker 2: Andrew Saville.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, Francesca. Merry Christmas to you and to you too.

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Speaker 2: I was just saying, you know, it's amazing. It takes

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Speaker 2: quick announcements made about Liam Lawson and all, and the

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Speaker 2: haters come out, and the knock has come out and

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Speaker 2: all the kind of things. I'm just going to stop

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Speaker 2: for a minute, regardless of what you think of him

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Speaker 2: as a driver, regardless of what you think of the team. Actually,

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Speaker 2: this is huge.

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Speaker 3: It is it is. I think I've got to imagine

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Speaker 3: I'd imagine that a very very high percentage of those

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Speaker 3: knockers or haters, if they can use that term, would

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Speaker 3: be from overseas, it would be Sergio Perez fans, maybe

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Speaker 3: Red Bull fans. There's no doubt about it though, that

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Speaker 3: Liam Lawson has got to where he's got because he's talented,

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Speaker 3: he's hard working, and red Ball for a long time,

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Speaker 3: five or six years, have clearly seen something in him

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Speaker 3: that they love, not necessarily driving, only driving on the track,

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Speaker 3: but the feedback, the engineering feedback he gives to teams.

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Speaker 3: He was their test driver, he's been the assimulating driver

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Speaker 3: for a number of years as well, and that all

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Speaker 3: adds in to the fact that he's now elevated to

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Speaker 3: the best team, even though they didn't win the constructors

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Speaker 3: title this year because of a staffan as the world champion,

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Speaker 3: I think it's what one of the best teams, if

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Speaker 3: not the best team they have been for several years.

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Speaker 3: So it's quite amazing, really quite remarkable for New Zealand

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Speaker 3: Sport and New Zealand to have a young kiw in

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Speaker 3: a position like that for the first time since Denny

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Speaker 3: Hulm and Bruce McLaren in the sixties, A long, long,

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Speaker 3: long time ago, Chris Aymon in the seventies. It's a

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Speaker 3: remarkable achievement and I don't think you can You can

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Speaker 3: try and put it into context around other sport, but

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Speaker 3: it's an infinitesimal percentage amount that a young New Zealand

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Speaker 3: kid gets to drive an F one let alone one

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Speaker 3: of the greatest teams in the history of Formula One.

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Speaker 3: So I think Liam and his family, his family has

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Speaker 3: worked bloody hard over the years, and his private backers

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Speaker 3: in New Zealand that have backed them all the way

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Speaker 3: from when he was a young kid. Because he has

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Speaker 3: been getting basically no money to drive. He's had to

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Speaker 3: have private sponsors look after from the last several years

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Speaker 3: to survive in Europe and his living and what have you.

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Speaker 3: That will now change when whether he's on the massive

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Speaker 3: millions that the staff and the Hamilton mat make, I

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Speaker 3: don't think at this point is or will be.

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Speaker 2: He's got time, Andrew, He's got time.

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Speaker 3: That's right. I mean, he's only twenty two and if

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Speaker 3: he performs next year and year after the year, that

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Speaker 3: that's when the big, big, big money will come for

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Speaker 3: Liam Lawson.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if you heard me earlier, I

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Speaker 2: was saying that. I had the pleasure of talking to

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Speaker 2: Marcus Armstrong this year and I said to him, why

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Speaker 2: do you why do we have so many keywis at

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Speaker 2: the top of sort of Indy car or you know,

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Speaker 2: and now in Formula one and things. And he just

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Speaker 2: said to me, he said, it's because we make such

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Speaker 2: a huge sacrifice to follow our dream. You know, our

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Speaker 2: families make a sur price. We make that price. You can't.

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Speaker 2: You've just got to be in it. You have to succeed.

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Speaker 2: I thought that was a really interesting comment to make

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Speaker 2: you know that nothing's been handed to these guys. They have,

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Speaker 2: as you say, everything over the years.

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Speaker 3: Liam's family has put everything on the line and now

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Speaker 3: the rewards will come. Carting in New Zealand is strong,

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Speaker 3: and then the kids that perform and that go through

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Speaker 3: you know, but again there's been hundreds of kids that

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Speaker 3: go through carding and then to Europe and never and

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Speaker 3: never reached that that top goal of Formula one. It

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Speaker 3: is extremely hard to get a seat like Liam Lawson

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Speaker 3: has got Red Bulls, not doing it out of charity

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Speaker 3: or the goodness of their heart. Is very very cutthroat.

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Speaker 3: You have to be skilled, you have to be hard

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Speaker 3: working and you have to have a lot of support

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Speaker 3: around you and that's what Liam Lawson's had for many,

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Speaker 3: many years.

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Speaker 2: What are some of your other sporting highlights of the Andrew,

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Speaker 2: what have you enjoyed?

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Speaker 3: Gee whiz, there's been so many and looking through the

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Speaker 3: Hallberg finalists that came out the other day, it's been

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Speaker 3: it's been a fantastic year. And the Zealand sport. You

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Speaker 3: had the Olympics of course, best ever Metal Hall, Lisa Carrington,

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Speaker 3: Elise Andrews, Lydia Colem, a Twig and a Grimaldi in

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Speaker 3: the Power Games, Finn Butcher, Hamish Kerr, Hayden, Wild Blackfood

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Speaker 3: and seven a rowing team as well. Outside of that,

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Speaker 3: Emma Ratler, who's the world number one doubles player, Chris

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Speaker 3: Wood starring in the Premier League a little like Liam Lawson,

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Speaker 3: you know, it's a very very small percentage of footballers

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Speaker 3: from around the world to get to play in the APL,

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Speaker 3: let alone be a star in the Premier League in England,

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Speaker 3: and Chris Wood's one of those. Team New Zealand winning

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Speaker 3: the America's Cup again. White Ferns, don't forget the White

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Speaker 3: World Cup champs completely out of the blue that was

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Speaker 3: one of the other major sporting highlights. So all round,

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Speaker 3: I think it's been it's been a fantastic year. And

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Speaker 3: then if we look to twenty twenty five, starting with

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Speaker 3: the first Grand Prix March, all eyes are going to

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Speaker 3: be on Liam Lawson. Then there's a lot of other

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Speaker 3: sport during the year which we will focus our attention.

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Speaker 2: And it's been great to see Auckland FC take off

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Speaker 2: as strong.

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Speaker 3: Today in Auckland Western United, which is a team from

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Speaker 3: just out of Melbourne. Mate, I think they tick off

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Speaker 3: about five o'clock and yeah, they've They've done some fantastic

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Speaker 3: things will we So looking forward to the summer ahead,

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Speaker 3: You've got the tennis willing to Phoenix aalk, the f

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Speaker 3: C sale GP in Auckland and mid jan a lot

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Speaker 3: of a lot of things to look forward to other

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Speaker 3: summer the next year. But I think a lot of

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Speaker 3: New Zealanders will now become instant if one fans they

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Speaker 3: haven't already.

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Speaker 2: Francesca absolutely absolutely, yeah, why not when you've got you know,

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Speaker 2: you've got you know, you've got a key to survive.

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Speaker 3: Yes, But Netflix crew were following Leam Lawson around last

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Speaker 3: summer back in New Zealand, so I think that might

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Speaker 3: have been a little indication that big things were ahead

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, and that it is a brilliant way to

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Speaker 2: introduce people to the sport. I've got a daughter who's

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Speaker 2: pretty obsessed with F one, but you know, we don't.

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Speaker 2: We don't do Drive to Survive anymore because it doesn't

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Speaker 2: give you the real story. She'll tell you the people

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Speaker 2: you need to go to to follow Andrew in order

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Speaker 2: to get the story.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, I'm very much put in my place.

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Speaker 2: Every time I mentioned how much I enjoyed Drive to Slash.

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Speaker 3: Just sort of oh, really, that's fantastic.

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Speaker 2: Andrew, have a really great break with the family. Thanks

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Speaker 2: for the contribution to the year. Always wonderful to hear

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Speaker 2: your thoughts on sport. Will you be participating in any

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Speaker 3: It's competitive eating, you take it, you take it. I'd

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Speaker 3: probably go for gold on that the next couple of weeks,

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Speaker 3: and then apart from that it'll be in the sun

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Speaker 3: in christ Church or the far North and then back

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Speaker 3: into the sporting year. Looking forward to it.

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Speaker 2: It sounds divine. Thanks so much, Andrew.

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