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Speaker 1: Formula He season wraps up this week in London, or

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Speaker 1: weekend at least in London like Indy, as we've been

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Speaker 1: enjoying the last couple of days. Dixon, McLaughlin, Armstrong, New

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Speaker 1: Zealand magnificently represented in the Formula in. Nick Cassidy and

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Speaker 1: Mitch Evans are currently one and two, So a good

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Speaker 1: weekend in the title is ours basically anyway. Nick Cassidy

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Speaker 1: is with us from his home in Monica.

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Speaker 2: Morning to you, Good morning to you.

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Speaker 1: How you feel me not at all? Great pleasure. How

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Speaker 1: are you feeling heading into this weekend?

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Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to it. It's the second year for

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Speaker 2: me going into the final weekend with a chance and

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Speaker 2: really a motorsport that's what you can ask for. So

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Speaker 2: I'm pretty pretty pumped.

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Speaker 1: And Portland take us through it because you could have

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Speaker 1: done it. It didn't happen. Does that sit heavily on

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Speaker 1: your shoulders or not?

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Speaker 2: Oh look, it's never never nice, you know. It's one

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Speaker 2: of those weekends walk away and go fire out. Did

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Speaker 2: that really happen? But sometimes that's part of the game,

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Speaker 2: and it's made my life probably a bit more difficult

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Speaker 2: than it needs to be going into London, but the

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Speaker 2: job aheads still still the same job, and I think

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Speaker 2: we can still get it done.

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Speaker 1: Take us through the season for those who don't follow formularee.

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Speaker 1: You've got your partner, your team and all that sort

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Speaker 1: of stuff. How's the season gone for you? Obviously? Well,

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Speaker 1: but take us to it in a bit more detail.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's my first year joining j U TCS Racing

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Speaker 2: major manufacturer with inform Marie, so it's been a pretty

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Speaker 2: big deal for me. And the season has been been

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Speaker 2: really really good. You know, we've had a fair bit

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Speaker 2: of success where we're leaving the championship now until last

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Speaker 2: race and you know, it's it's nice until this point,

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Speaker 2: but obviously i'd like to be seeing the same thing

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Speaker 2: in a week's time.

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Speaker 1: What's the title mean to you?

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Speaker 2: Uh, well a lot as well. We all what we

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Speaker 2: all dream for and naim for, but look what happens

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Speaker 2: is whatever happens happens, right, So that's motor sport and

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Speaker 2: we'll give it up best shot, but there's there's there's

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Speaker 2: more things in life as well if it doesn't.

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Speaker 1: And of course your your your teammate is sort of

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Speaker 1: up the top there with you. What what are the

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Speaker 1: riding instructions going into the final weekend. When it comes

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Speaker 1: to you know, getting tough on the corners and racing

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Speaker 1: and all of that, I guess.

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Speaker 2: Just just fair hard racing man, to be honest, It's

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Speaker 2: it's been that way certainly the last couple of races

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Speaker 2: and probably gonna got to continue. But but that's part

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Speaker 2: of the game.

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Speaker 1: Do we we get excited here obviously excuse me about

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Speaker 1: New Zealand success, but but does the rest of the world.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the fact that we've got two kiwi's right

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Speaker 1: up there in formula, you've got Scottie mac and Dixon

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Speaker 1: and Armstrong, and the Indies and the States, you've got

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Speaker 1: Liam testing in F one and RB twenty of gods,

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Speaker 1: I mean, what what a great story for a tiny

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Speaker 1: country is Is the world cognizant of that?

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Speaker 2: To be honest, To be honest, it's unbelievable, right, I

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Speaker 2: mean in the and where we're aware of it. A

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Speaker 2: lot of interviews that mentioned myself do infill Marie and

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Speaker 2: in the media talking about that, So everyone's aware and

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Speaker 2: it's it's super damn cool for a small country like

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Speaker 2: house exactly.

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Speaker 1: You following Scotty mack over the weekend.

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Speaker 2: I'm watching the watching the IndyCar race right now and

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Speaker 2: they're both they're both at the front, which is mega

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Speaker 1: Listen, before I forget Nick, you're associated, we should explain

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Speaker 1: this with red Bull and red Bull have got Liam

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Speaker 1: of course, And I mean, so when you're looking at Lean,

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Speaker 1: what's it like waiting, you know, for a drive or

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Speaker 1: maybe not having a drive, or maybe there's politics, maybe

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Speaker 1: there's an agenda. What's it like being in that situation?

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Speaker 2: I've never reready been in that situation myself, I must say,

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Speaker 2: But yeah, watching, watching with interest for him, I guess

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Speaker 2: when when that happens, and hopefully that happens, I'm sure

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Speaker 2: you're to a mega job. So looking forward to them

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Speaker 2: on a more permanent basis.

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Speaker 1: A red bill of good operation as far as you're concerned, you.

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Speaker 2: Can't doubt them, right with all the success that they've

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Speaker 1: As far as Formula Ease concerned. Nick talk me through

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Speaker 1: the evolution of it, because I mean, when you think

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Speaker 1: about I would have said it was six or seven

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Speaker 1: How have the cars evolved, the technology, the driver ability

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Speaker 2: To be honest, Mike, I'm still quite new. I mean

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Speaker 2: I'm four years and now up coming into my four season. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's crazy to think that it is ten years old

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Speaker 2: have changed massively across that time. You know, the powers

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Speaker 2: much better from a viewing perspective a racing format. But

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Speaker 2: the future, to be honest, the next couple of years

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Speaker 2: is going to be going to be quite exciting. Next

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Speaker 2: Three years time, you've got better tires, better aerodynamics, and

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Speaker 2: like over a thousand horspar basically coming. So I think, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I hope that that translates to being able to be

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Speaker 1: So you're still arguing that the curve in terms of

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Speaker 1: technology is exponential. In other words, each year brings something

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'm still I'm still a full on

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Speaker 2: motorsport lover, you know, like I watch full Line, I

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Speaker 1: Hey, did you get Auto Sport named you the eighth

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Speaker 1: best driver of twenty twenty three year?

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Speaker 2: Up with that was that was pretty cool. Obviously you

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Speaker 2: want the you want the World Championship next to your name, right,

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Speaker 2: and we'll close last year. So let's see, let's see

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Speaker 1: And what about the weather in London. I'm told there's

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Speaker 1: a heat wave coming and obviously you're having a very

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Speaker 1: the moment. Does any of that make any difference at

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Speaker 2: That's the first I must say, that's the first bit

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Speaker 2: of weather information I've had. I've just assumed UK London

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Speaker 2: we're going to have everything. So let's see passes.

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Speaker 1: Apparently it's apparently it's going to be high twenties. So listen.

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Speaker 1: All we can do is wish you all the very

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Speaker 1: best for the weekend. Hope it goes well. It's obviously

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Speaker 1: been a wonderful season, and we continue to follow you

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Speaker 1: with a great deal of interest on this side of

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Speaker 1: the world. But the very very best to block.

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Speaker 2: Thanks very much, so much appreciated.

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Speaker 1: All right, we'll talk to Nick Cassidy out of Monaca

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Speaker 1: for us this morning. By the way, the text has

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Speaker 1: just said, Mike, there are four keys in the top twenty.

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Speaker 1: There are two different rankings. I'll run you through the

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Speaker 1: rankings in just a couple of moments, because we're featured

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Speaker 1: extremely highly as regards the points I promised. So Nick's

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Speaker 1: currently sitting first one hundred and sixty seven. Mitch Evans

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Speaker 1: is one hundred and fifty five, so one and two

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Speaker 1: Wordline or Verlin is one hundred and fifty five as well.

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Speaker 1: Along with Mitch, and then you go back to DaCosta,

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Speaker 1: who's one hundred and thirty four. The significance of that

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Speaker 1: is that you get twenty five for a win, top

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Speaker 1: ten places all score points twenty five, eighteen, fifteen, twelve

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Speaker 1: So in theory, there are six, maybe seven the top

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Speaker 1: six maybe seven have a chance of winning it all

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Speaker 1: this weekend, so it's all to play for. But Nick Cassidy,

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Speaker 1: for obvious reasons, goes in as favorite, and we wish

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