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Speaker 1: Didn't go so well for Liam yesterday in Mexico DNF.

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Speaker 1: That's five the season word from Red Bulls Helmet marker

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Speaker 1: was they were going to make the call now ish

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Speaker 1: this is Laws and Sonoda and lind Ladd. That's now

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Speaker 1: off for a month until they think guitar. So they're

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Speaker 1: focusing on Max anywayre Bom McMurray former McLaren race members

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Speaker 1: with us, Bob.

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Speaker 2: Morning, Good morning, Mike.

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Speaker 1: What's I mean? I don't know where the hell we're

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Speaker 1: at with us? I mean, is had your Red Bulls answer?

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Speaker 1: I mean, so are they stuck on that and therefore

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Speaker 1: they move him Sonoda's out? Or is it Laws and out?

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Speaker 1: Or why are they promoting lind Ladd?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a black art with the driver and management,

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Speaker 2: isn't it? And Helmet Marco seems to make a black

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Speaker 2: art even blacker. Honestly, we don't know. Nobody knows apart

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Speaker 2: from those in the team. That I make up feel

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Speaker 2: is that they will still keep Liam Sonoda will be

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Speaker 2: out and possibly be a reserve driver from Aston Martin

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Speaker 2: or something, unless Honda come up with a whole bunch

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Speaker 2: of money to keep him in the team, in which

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Speaker 2: case Liam is out. Now. All these things are variables

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Speaker 2: that they play around with. They've delayed that decision now

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Speaker 2: until basically the end of the season, and they say

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Speaker 2: that's to concentrate on Max with Stappen winning the championship.

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Speaker 2: But I would imagine it is more like they haven't

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Speaker 2: got enough information on Arvid Lyndblad, who, after all, was

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Speaker 2: down here in January racing in the Toyota Formula Regional Championship.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's a big old stretch from that to

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Speaker 2: Formula One. But nonetheless they're like that. Two, they don't

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Speaker 2: want to make a lot demoralize their drivers as the

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Speaker 2: season goes on, and I thought, wreck, yeah, yeah, they're

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Speaker 2: doing a good job of that. But three, they might

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Speaker 2: need actually need those three drivers Sunoda, Haja and Lawson

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Speaker 2: to help Max for Stappan in his bid to win

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Speaker 2: the championship by getting in the way or being a

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Speaker 2: chicane or something like that. But it is it's got

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Speaker 2: to be the worst situation for junior drivers, and I

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Speaker 2: still class Liam as a junior driver in that respect.

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Speaker 2: To be in when Red Bull holds all the cards,

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Speaker 2: they have your contract, you can't do anything else.

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Speaker 1: No, what's the fastination with limb Blad. He hasn't done

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Speaker 1: enough to warrant the promotion. He was out in FP

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Speaker 1: one over the weekend and he looked good, and you

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Speaker 1: perform well and all that stuff, but when you got

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Speaker 1: some capable drivers, what is it about lind Bladd that's

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Speaker 1: so magical.

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Speaker 2: Well, they think he's a bit of a star. Now

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Speaker 2: he's seventh in the Formula two Championship at the moment.

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Speaker 2: That ain't star material. So and he does have the

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Speaker 2: super licensed points whereas he's the only one that they've

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Speaker 2: got who is eligible with super license points in their

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Speaker 2: stable of junior drivers. I think Lynd Bladd, I really

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Speaker 2: think Lind Bladd needs another season in Formula two because

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Speaker 2: I think it's all very well appearing for an hour

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Speaker 2: on a Friday morning and amazing everybody, but it's not

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Speaker 2: what you do every weekend, every weekend in a Grand

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Speaker 2: Prix campaign, and I think he needs more, much more

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Speaker 2: than just appearing now and again and saying you're our

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Speaker 2: next coming star.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff. Nice to get your inside as always, Bob McMurray.

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Speaker 1: And my guest from everyone I talk to is that

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Speaker 1: if anyone goes to know to goes with the Honda connection.

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Speaker 1: He's off to Esther Martiners, as Bob alluded to. For

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