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

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Speaker 1: from News.

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Speaker 2: Talks at be How good is the news about Liam Lawson?

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Speaker 2: Regardless of whether you're a Sergio Perez fan, whether you

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Speaker 2: think max Is Stuppan as a teammate, as a what

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Speaker 2: you think of him as a teammate, or of Liam

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Speaker 2: Lawson as a driver, he has achieved something extraordinary, something

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Speaker 2: is select few accomplish, and secured himselves a coveted F

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Speaker 2: one seat for twenty twenty five. This is truly something

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Speaker 2: to be celebrated. We've always struggled as New Zealanders to

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Speaker 2: know how to deal with kiwi's who have great success.

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Speaker 2: We love our poppies to a point and then we

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Speaker 2: tend to tear them down, or at least knock them

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Speaker 2: a little bit, just ask them. So. While I don't

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Speaker 2: propose a seismic cultural shift and lose our generally humble

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Speaker 2: and down to earth attitude, I do think a shift

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Speaker 2: in how we acknowledge success would be a good thing.

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Speaker 2: If we are to become the best little country in

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Speaker 2: the world, we need people in whatever field they'rein to

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Speaker 2: aspire to be the best, and yes, that sometimes requires

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Speaker 2: talking yourself up. To be a winner. Liam Lawson knows

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Speaker 2: better than anyone the environment he's heading into, the money,

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Speaker 2: the politics, publicity, and the egos involved. No team is

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Speaker 2: going to pick the guy that says, oh yeah, if

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Speaker 2: there's a space available, I'd love it. They want someone

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Speaker 2: who says I can do this. I want to be

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Speaker 2: the best and I will do what it takes on

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Speaker 2: and off the track. To be a successful if one driver,

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Speaker 2: you need an extraordinary amount of confidence in yourself and

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Speaker 2: your ability. It's a mental game as much as a

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Speaker 2: physical and technical one. In response to the announcement, Liam

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Speaker 2: Lawson said, to be announced as an Oracle Red Bull

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Speaker 2: Racing driver is a lifelong dream for me. This is

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Speaker 2: something I've wanted and worked towards since i was eight

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Speaker 2: years old. And it reminded me of a conversation that

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Speaker 2: I had with Kiwi IndyCar driver Marcus Armstrong, another great

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Speaker 2: young man. I asked him why New Zealand drivers were

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Speaker 2: doing so well around the world when they often don't

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Speaker 2: have the money or connections to help them, and he

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Speaker 2: said to me that it's because we sacrifice so much

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Speaker 2: to do it. We must succeed. It makes us want

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Speaker 2: to be the best Lim has wanted this since he

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Speaker 2: was eight. Marcus left New Zealand at twelve to follow

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Speaker 2: his dream. Their success is in a fluke. A lot

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Speaker 2: of people have helped them get to where they are,

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Speaker 2: but ultimately them behind the wheel making things happen. Their

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Speaker 2: role models for other young kiwis encouraging them to be audacious,

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Speaker 2: to dream big and just go for it. So to

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Speaker 2: all the haters who came out online and had to

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Speaker 2: go at Liam Lawson after Red Bull's decision to hire him,

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Speaker 2: I say, Merry Christmas, No one cares. I for one

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Speaker 2: can't wait for the twenty twenty five season to kick

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Speaker 2: off and how much more fun is it going to

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Speaker 2: be to have a young Kiwi to support.

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