Speaker 1: Uh, hi, Hello, hey Michael, how's it going?
Speaker 2: No, it's the rear tire.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a flat Michael? You with me?
Speaker 2: What is it? Yeah? Yes?
Speaker 1: YOHI what is now? Is now a good time?
Speaker 2: I'm in the middle of something right now. Actually, it's just.
Speaker 1: It's just really just like a little pop quiz that
Speaker 1: we prepared for you to see what you took in
Speaker 1: from the season. We're going to do it Jeopardy style.
Speaker 2: What does that even? What does that mean?
Speaker 1: Question one?
Speaker 3: Oh my god?
Speaker 1: All right? Who are the owners and the governing bodies
Speaker 1: Formula one?
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, that's two questions.
Speaker 1: Always with the smart alecky comment.
Speaker 2: Uh. The owners are the people that own the teams,
Speaker 2: and the governing body is the is the Formula.
Speaker 3: One Association incomplete?
Speaker 1: Second question, this public personality arrogantly described F one strategy
Speaker 1: as overthinking.
Speaker 2: Christian Horner.
Speaker 1: No, who is Michael Costa? Oh shit? I did say that.
Speaker 1: I really thought you would get this one. Third question.
Speaker 1: This tool used in F one design, car set up
Speaker 1: and race analysis is commonly abbreviated as CFD.
Speaker 2: Oh well, this one's easy. This is a softball. That's
Speaker 2: computational fluid dynamics all right.
Speaker 1: Question four, what are the number of compounds for a
Speaker 1: Pirelli F one tire?
Speaker 2: Well, it's funny you bring up tires because I'm actually
Speaker 2: at the bike shop right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you've mentioned that.
Speaker 2: It's not my tire issue. It's actually the inner two.
Speaker 4: There's soft, hard, medium, rain, and there's another one maybe
Speaker 4: like lightning or maybe altitude five.
Speaker 2: I would say five.
Speaker 1: Question five, what is the amount of trucks used to
Speaker 1: transport all F one teams within a European race?
Speaker 2: I mean, as if anybody knows the actual answer, this
Speaker 2: is so stupid. Hundreds hundreds of trucks.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna need a number, Michael, that's how these things were.
Speaker 1: Four hundreds could be anything from okay, I get it, yo.
Speaker 2: Hi. I'm literally like waiting to get my bike so
Speaker 2: I can go pick up my kid. I would say
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty trucks. All right, So I don't
Speaker 2: find out if I got this right or not or what.
Speaker 1: I mean, I will say you're off by a magnitude
Speaker 1: of around four.
Speaker 2: You know, YOHI. It's nice to see you've kept that
Speaker 2: expert arrogance.
Speaker 1: I'll give you a shot at a bonus point here,
Speaker 1: what is the equivalent weight in elephants of the air
Speaker 1: freight that each team ships per race?
Speaker 2: Well, this is what I remember. It was the elephants, right?
Speaker 2: What is eight elephants?
Speaker 1: I knew he should talk to you in elephants, I
Speaker 1: told Tony. Question six. F one driver Charles Leclair has
Speaker 1: been worrying Lily Harmon frequently by wearing this style of trousers.
Speaker 4: Lily, I mean, how am I supposed to know what
Speaker 4: Lily's doing? What are flight pants?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Fuck?
Speaker 2: Dang it?
Speaker 1: Question seven. At two hundred and thirty four point nine
Speaker 1: miles per hour, this F one driver holds the record
Speaker 1: for the fastest speed ever clocked during a race.
Speaker 2: Who is max firsteven?
Speaker 1: Question eight? What each F one team must design and build.
Speaker 4: Themselves branding strategy, restrooms for their teams, the helmet, the pants,
Speaker 4: the special pants, and then or their logo.
Speaker 2: You know they all have like cool logos or whatever.
Speaker 1: Said, so many things that none of them are right? God?
Speaker 2: How long is this quiz?
Speaker 1: Question nine? What is the kinematic viscosity? The F one
Speaker 1: engine oil must comply with JIM as specified by the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four Formula one Technical Regulations Menu that's tricky.
Speaker 2: Are you using the standard ASTM D four four five measurements?
Speaker 1: That's correct?
Speaker 2: All right, Well, then I'll say what is two point
Speaker 2: eight CENTI strokes? I'm realizing I actually do know the
Speaker 2: decent amount about Formula one?
Speaker 1: Question ten?
Speaker 2: Oh, why are you sure we're only on ten?
Speaker 1: Michael? Michael, please focus? Okay, here we go. Question ten.
Speaker 1: This classic F one car was described by choosing Side's
Speaker 1: co host as a Mama and Papa bear with four
Speaker 1: little cubs.
Speaker 2: Oh shit, this must have been that episode when I
Speaker 2: came in blackout trunk the cars of the early two thousands.
Speaker 3: Wrong.
Speaker 1: Last question, This F one driver won more than half
Speaker 1: the wet races he participated in.
Speaker 2: Oh you know who's good in the rain? Somebody from
Speaker 2: a shitty weather Lance stroll. The Canadian guy.
Speaker 3: Very wrong.
Speaker 2: Hey, I have a question for you two. Who's going
Speaker 2: to be late to pick up his kid at daycare
Speaker 2: now and probably be charged anywhere from thirty to fifty dollars.
Speaker 1: Thank you for your time, Michael, I appreciate it. I
Speaker 1: know you have a busy day, so I'm gonna let
Speaker 1: you get back to that bike.
Speaker 2: Or wait, how did I do him? Did I? Pass.
Speaker 1: Well, well, we don't worry. We'll we'll we'll have to
Speaker 1: crunch the numbers. So yeah, well we'll get back to you.
Speaker 1: We'll call you, don't call us.
Speaker 2: From My Heart Podcast one on one Studios and Sports
Speaker 2: Illustrated Studios.
Speaker 3: This is choosing sides.
Speaker 2: Yes one, Wow? Wow? How many a earlier?
Speaker 5: There's eleven? You've already got yours? No, I don't.
Speaker 2: Here is that on your computer?
Speaker 3: In a nondescript time, After hard day's labor in the
Speaker 3: grueling New York City comedy scene, comedian Michael Costa walks
Speaker 3: into the studio and collapses on the carpet floor. His
Speaker 3: back is killing him.
Speaker 2: Oh geez.
Speaker 3: The weight of a consequential decision he is about to
Speaker 3: make is weighing down on his fragile shoulders. His sympathetic
Speaker 3: co host, his guide, his oracle, is trying to focus
Speaker 3: him on the task at hand.
Speaker 5: A man at his breaking point, ready to give up
Speaker 5: in life itself.
Speaker 3: With her calm and authoritative voice, she reviews the eleven
Speaker 3: distinct categories of F one fans that roam this big
Speaker 3: blue earth.
Speaker 5: So we've got business right, strategy, right, stats and data right.
Speaker 3: Michael now on his hands and knees, arches his back,
Speaker 3: pushing his tailbone towards his feet in what is known
Speaker 3: as a cat cow stretch. Meanwhile, in the recording booth,
Speaker 3: their producer frantically paces back and forth, his eyes on
Speaker 3: the clock, measuring the rapidly evaporating studio time. He coaxes
Speaker 3: the two co hosts into action.
Speaker 6: Michael, Yes, Tony, Yeah, Yo, Hi you guys ready?
Speaker 5: We are? I think we are.
Speaker 6: You had a chance to mold us over.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I actually got a hotel room this weekend. I
Speaker 2: told my family to f off, and I just muled
Speaker 2: this over. I'm very ready.
Speaker 6: You're ready. It's exciting, Okay, I think I think we're
Speaker 6: sounds like we're ready, yep.
Speaker 5: After the races. So, Michael, we started this whole thing off, however,
Speaker 5: many weeks ago, because you contacted us with a complaint.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 5: You were promised to be initiated into the sports, and
Speaker 5: then you found yourself after an entire season of choosing
Speaker 5: sides with even more questions than answers.
Speaker 2: I know just enough now that I know that I
Speaker 2: don't know anything, and I blame you for that. YOHI
Speaker 2: is that everything? Even say your name? Yeah? That's exactly
Speaker 2: what happened. I lived it. You don't have to remind
Speaker 2: me of it. I needed guidance on what type of
Speaker 2: fan I am, and you've really delivered a lot of
Speaker 2: different options to me.
Speaker 5: And the great thing is you are not alone, Michael.
Speaker 5: Many of our Season one listeners were also writing to
Speaker 5: express a similar sentiment.
Speaker 2: I bet, I'm not surprised. That's how I felt.
Speaker 5: It's being quite the journey that we've had together. We
Speaker 5: tried to dive in deeper with you, and of course,
Speaker 5: every one of the single topics that we chose deserves
Speaker 5: a whole, entire podcast series dedicated to it, and there
Speaker 5: are podcasts out there that dedicate a whole podcast to
Speaker 5: the culture and the fashion of F one, the tech
Speaker 5: of F one, the data of F one, you name it.
Speaker 5: But what we were trying to do is to strike
Speaker 5: a balance between enriching you, answering you many many, many
Speaker 5: many questions while also not overloading you.
Speaker 2: Right, how did we do?
Speaker 6: I guess maybe I'll just bring the listeners in here.
Speaker 6: Michael keeps breaking our recordings to do downward Dog and
Speaker 6: different yoga poses, Childs post basically, Yeah, so maybe we
Speaker 6: are overloading.
Speaker 5: You, okay, do you need a recap?
Speaker 2: Maybe as much recap, but I need a recap.
Speaker 5: Let me give you the briefest recap I can think of.
Speaker 5: We started by talking about the business model of Formula one,
Speaker 5: how the money flows through the sport in and out.
Speaker 5: We talk strategy and game theory, explaining why Formula one
Speaker 5: is basically a high speed game of chess. We' then
Speaker 5: dove into the data. We then did the.
Speaker 2: Rubber tire episode, the tire.
Speaker 5: Episode, the one and only with a Y with a
Speaker 5: Y tire.
Speaker 2: With a what e y ri e? It was how
Speaker 2: tony with an I spells it?
Speaker 5: By the way, you're going to start writing tire with
Speaker 5: a Y? Or am I getting my hot? Fantastic? We
Speaker 5: did the insane logistics of the sport. We did the
Speaker 5: glitz and the glamour, and the rumors and the drama.
Speaker 2: It's pretty interesting. It's a pretty good looking sport. Is
Speaker 2: it's a pretty good looking sport that's.
Speaker 5: Actually a great tiger And by the way, Formula one
Speaker 5: the best looking skill.
Speaker 2: I put tennis up there, too, careful, careful.
Speaker 5: We did the skill and the speed. Then we stood
Speaker 5: at the very precipice of technology glimpsing towards the future
Speaker 5: tech that was tech. Yes, then what did we do?
Speaker 5: We traveled back in time to better appreciate.
Speaker 2: The history of the sports, which was history.
Speaker 5: And finally we looked at the heavens and considered how
Speaker 5: the weather is delightfully toying with the sports.
Speaker 6: It was a delightful delivery to thank you.
Speaker 5: And now we're here.
Speaker 3: And now we are here, there's a.
Speaker 2: Lot of good stuff. There's a lot a lot of
Speaker 2: good stuff. And I know more than I did when
Speaker 2: we started this thing.
Speaker 5: I like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was a lot here that I didn't think
Speaker 2: I would care or like about, but I do.
Speaker 5: I do have one question for you today, and it
Speaker 5: might not be the last one. Okay, it's the first
Speaker 5: question I have for you on this monumental occasion, Yes,
Speaker 5: of the finale of choosing sides Formula one? Do you
Speaker 5: have any more questions? Are there are questions I've been
Speaker 5: left unanswered?
Speaker 2: No? All I have now are answers. You, Tony, have
Speaker 2: answered everything, and your TikTok answers everything. And forty seconds
Speaker 2: I get an entire recap on the tire situation.
Speaker 5: Of F one at speed two eggs.
Speaker 2: I'm impressed that I know so much and if we
Speaker 2: only use seven percent of our brain, I feel like
Speaker 2: one percent of my brain is Formula one information. Now,
Speaker 2: once I leave the studio today, will this be of
Speaker 2: any service to me? I'm not sure. There's something so
Speaker 2: brilliant about a podcast where you start with questions and
Speaker 2: you finish with answers.
Speaker 6: You know what else, Listeners love a good ad break.
Speaker 5: Michael, it would feel incomplete and unfair to close out
Speaker 5: this season without talking about some of the biggest updates
Speaker 5: of this this year.
Speaker 2: I no, I agree, and I need to be updated.
Speaker 5: One of the key figures inside a Formula one Sir
Speaker 5: Lewis Hamilton, the man himself, dropped a bombshell on us
Speaker 5: this year.
Speaker 7: Goodness, We've got some huge breaking news from the world
Speaker 7: of Formula one, the world of motorsport is a buzz.
Speaker 5: Ferrari confirming Lewis Hamilton has signed with the team Lewis Hamilton.
Speaker 7: It's going to be leaving Mercedes and joining Ferran Lewis Hamilton.
Speaker 2: You know this even showed up to me, so that
Speaker 2: tells you the crossover of the story. I knew this,
Speaker 2: I knew that.
Speaker 5: I love that you said that because I don't think
Speaker 5: that I have seen as much F one news on
Speaker 5: normal broadcasts TV shows. I was like, oh, this is
Speaker 5: how you know that a driver's mainstream.
Speaker 2: Well, this is such a sexy story, and I mean
Speaker 2: that like news media loves a juicy headline. It's it's delicious.
Speaker 2: You know my Jordan famously went to the Wizards to
Speaker 2: play basketball and never won anything. Is that? Is that?
Speaker 2: What this is is Lewis? You know, I don't remember
Speaker 2: Lewis winning too many races at Mercedes the last two
Speaker 2: years that I've been around.
Speaker 5: I think this is what's on top of everyone's mind.
Speaker 5: Is he clearly still wasn't convinced going into twenty twenty
Speaker 5: four that that car could give him more World championships, right,
Speaker 5: And let's be real, Ferrari hasn't convinced us that that
Speaker 5: car can do any World championships. So it's either that
Speaker 5: I wonder if it's Lewis saw something he really didn't
Speaker 5: like with the Mercedes car, or he saw something he
Speaker 5: really did like at the Ferrari car. But does that
Speaker 5: maybe get you a little bit more excited about Ferrari
Speaker 5: because we know you're a little bit down and we
Speaker 5: started this this season and this.
Speaker 2: Year though, well, Ferrari didn't do a whole lot to
Speaker 2: keep my fandom. I mean, at one point Charles Leclark
Speaker 2: was in first place and then his car just stopped working.
Speaker 5: But look, everyone was surprised, and everyone didn't think that
Speaker 5: it was the right move when he moved from McClaren
Speaker 5: to Mercedes, So that man might prove us wrong. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Again, the reason I chose Ferrari is it connects to
Speaker 2: me viscerally, into the foundation that is my humanity. And
Speaker 2: so when Lewis did the same thing I did, and
Speaker 2: let's be honest, Costa was first here, it vindicates me
Speaker 2: a little bit that Lewis, even a driver who's been
Speaker 2: competing against Ferrari all his years, even he wants to
Speaker 2: be part of the Ferrari team. You know, leaders, champions,
Speaker 2: they forge their own path, and so this will be
Speaker 2: interesting to see. I guess I'm worried that he's just
Speaker 2: his driving abilities aren't, Like, is he going to be
Speaker 2: championship level? Man? If he goes to Ferrari and is
Speaker 2: championship level, that is so fucking exciting. But if he's
Speaker 2: just like middle of the road, then it's like Okay,
Speaker 2: cool Tony, this isn't charity work here, Lewis Hamilton is
Speaker 2: not volunteering to race for Ferrari. Money talks. Tell me
Speaker 2: about the money of this deal.
Speaker 5: One thing worth noting that in contract world, in Formula one,
Speaker 5: everything is hush hush, it's all speculation. It's all drips
Speaker 5: and drabs that we get. So we know it's a
Speaker 5: multi year contract, but we don't know what that means.
Speaker 5: We know hearsay that he was paid one hundred million
Speaker 5: for this and on top of that, and this seems
Speaker 5: to be the thing that differentiated Feri from Mercedes is
Speaker 5: they are offering i think four hundred million to his
Speaker 5: charity and his mission work. Wow, so mission forty four.
Speaker 5: So that's a bit like that's a five hundred million
Speaker 5: dollar package if you look.
Speaker 2: At it, and he's only going to get a wow.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's amazing, but.
Speaker 5: If you think that's a lot of money. The days
Speaker 5: following the announcement that solo Is Hamilton was going to
Speaker 5: Scuderia Ferrari, the share price absolutely skyrocketed to a more
Speaker 5: than ten percent, which in of itself equates to just
Speaker 5: under seven billion US dollars.
Speaker 2: So there we go. They've already made a shitload of
Speaker 2: money just off this nice headline exactly. I mean, if
Speaker 2: Casta moves over to Ferrari, that starcks gonna plumb it.
Speaker 5: Don't say that.
Speaker 2: Have a little bit more faith, Tony. I've been getting
Speaker 2: a lot of Lewis Hamilton, a lot of Ferrari. I
Speaker 2: also saw some whispers of Christian Horner controversy scandal. I
Speaker 2: don't know what that is. Can you fill me in?
Speaker 5: Yes and no. I can fill you in on what
Speaker 5: we know, which, like all things F one is not
Speaker 5: a lot. The reason why I think this is relevant
Speaker 5: is Christian Horner has been the most long standard team
Speaker 5: principle that we have in the paddock actually as of
Speaker 5: this year at Red Bull. The context to this, which
Speaker 5: is important is Dietrich Matischitz, who was in charge of
Speaker 5: Red Bull, not just Red Bull Racing, who is the
Speaker 5: guy who basically bought the drink Red Bull to Europe,
Speaker 5: passed away sadly just a couple of years ago. That
Speaker 5: has started a snowball effect of power play between Red
Speaker 5: Bull in Austria and Red Bull Racing in Milton Keynes.
Speaker 5: And so there's a lot of power plays and a
Speaker 5: lot of dynamics because Ditrich Mattterschitz and Christian Horner got
Speaker 5: long like two pieces in a pot. With him being
Speaker 5: out of there, there's been some movement. Basically allegedly what
Speaker 5: we are hearing is unfavorable behavior from Christian Horner from
Speaker 5: his I believe x assist now ex assistant. But it's
Speaker 5: all his say as of right now.
Speaker 2: This is not sport related.
Speaker 5: This is nothing.
Speaker 2: This is personal. This is in the sexual misconduct realm.
Speaker 5: It is in the misconduct realm.
Speaker 2: Okay, whatever that is, whatever that means, whatever will come
Speaker 2: out of it. But he allegedly has been behaving poorly.
Speaker 5: Exactly and apparently we have proof and we have text
Speaker 5: messages and okay, he's come out and flat flat out
Speaker 5: denied it. But what is tricky or what is interesting,
Speaker 5: is there's been an investigation opened by Red Bulls.
Speaker 2: So this is something to keep our eye on and
Speaker 2: see what facts come out and the investigation. I mean,
Speaker 2: the thing is, it's always like when a company investigates itself,
Speaker 2: I'm always like, oh, really, how hard are you going
Speaker 2: to dig? But I guess if there's ever been a
Speaker 2: time in the history of the world for people to
Speaker 2: actually investigate themselves seriously. It's the best time is now?
Speaker 5: I hope absolutely. And this is the flip side of
Speaker 5: having a big bright light on Formula one. Right now,
Speaker 5: Formula one is the new hot commodity in town, and
Speaker 5: so there's a lot of lights on F one. And
Speaker 5: this is the flip side of it. If you don't
Speaker 5: have your shit in order, it's gonna come out.
Speaker 2: When a spotlight is bright, more stuff shows up.
Speaker 6: I think the saying is sunlight is the best disinfectant,
Speaker 6: just a thought or an observation.
Speaker 2: There it goes.
Speaker 6: There's like this weird, almost mystical connection sometimes I feel
Speaker 6: between people's names and like their destiny, their profession.
Speaker 2: Right are you saying horner because it's like horny?
Speaker 6: I mean, am I the only one?
Speaker 2: I think that's a stupid point, yo, Hi, And I
Speaker 2: don't think should be entertaining it at all. I don't
Speaker 2: know how I'm going to say this in the right way.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 2: He is a massive, powerful person and should be held
Speaker 2: to a very high standard. And in a competitive field,
Speaker 2: there's a lot happening. It's hard to know what isn't
Speaker 2: isn't And I hope, I hope we somehow get to that.
Speaker 5: And I love that you've said that, because F one
Speaker 5: for so many decades has gotten away with so much
Speaker 5: because it wasn't in the spotlight. It wasn't in the limelight.
Speaker 5: The mainstream media weren't picking up on Formula one stories
Speaker 5: the way they are right now. And I'm hoping that this, yeah,
Speaker 5: shines a light on everyone in that product should be
Speaker 5: held to a high standard, right.
Speaker 2: Or, as Johai said, Horner sounds like horny, it's business
Speaker 2: as usual.
Speaker 8: There obviously is a process. Obviously I fully deny what
Speaker 8: you know, any accusations that have been made against me,
Speaker 8: But of course I'll work work with that process, which
Speaker 8: I hope is concluded in the near future.
Speaker 5: On that note, it's time. It's time ocean that moment
Speaker 5: Michael for you. We've you know, did he daddied enough?
Speaker 3: Here?
Speaker 5: It's time for you to make your choice. Have you
Speaker 5: figured out that's a burning question on everyone's mind. Have
Speaker 5: you figured out what kind of fan you are?
Speaker 6: Maybe? Well, Michael's thinking here, yeah, he's taking his time.
Speaker 6: Throw maybe we could throw it over to our trusted
Speaker 6: engineer here is Alton. I can tell you know, he's
Speaker 6: just been listening here in rapture, so curious to hear
Speaker 6: his thoughts.
Speaker 9: All right, how's it going?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 5: Were you an F one fan before this?
Speaker 9: Not necessarily, I would say I was on the Fringes
Speaker 9: of F one culture.
Speaker 5: That's another great name for a podcast, on the Fringes
Speaker 5: of F one Consultan.
Speaker 2: If you take my role in this whole thing, I
Speaker 2: swear to God did.
Speaker 5: I'm actually curious? Do you think that after all of
Speaker 5: this listening exercise that you would want to watch a
Speaker 5: race or start following the sport? Was this put you
Speaker 5: off completely?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 9: I would watch.
Speaker 2: I would watch.
Speaker 9: Yes, I'm pretty interested in a lot of like the
Speaker 9: data and analytics part of it, so I feel like
Speaker 9: that is the most interesting thing for me.
Speaker 5: So out of the different fans that we presented, you
Speaker 5: would be steadfast and saying I am a data analytics
Speaker 5: I would need.
Speaker 9: The Excel spreadsheet guy.
Speaker 5: Yes, I love that. Okay, sometime, thank you, Michael, No
Speaker 5: more wasting our time. What's your answer? My three yr
Speaker 5: tech business and tires. I love the tires, but you
Speaker 5: do get quickly limited. So I think I gravitate towards
Speaker 5: tires and business.
Speaker 2: I have a major and a minor and then a
Speaker 2: minor minor.
Speaker 5: So wait before you tell us what kind of fun
Speaker 5: you were indulge me, what kind of funnel you not?
Speaker 5: For sure?
Speaker 2: Logistics is out now? Yeah, I mean it's cool, but
Speaker 2: it's out. Glitz and Glamour's out. Data is out. It
Speaker 2: doesn't mean I don't respect you, know, you're you're you're
Speaker 2: asking me to pick pick a wife here? And would
Speaker 2: I date glitz and glamor?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I would date glitz and glamour, but I want to
Speaker 2: devote my life to glitz and glamor would I would
Speaker 2: I date history?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I go on a couple of dates with history, but
Speaker 2: I'm not proposing the history.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but you also said that you would want someone
Speaker 5: to help you be logistically perfect, but so you'd use logistics,
Speaker 5: but you wouldn't.
Speaker 2: This is tough. This is you can tell Tony's good,
Speaker 2: you can tell.
Speaker 5: You so no, no to logistics.
Speaker 2: I'm still I'm picking my two favorite right, the ones.
Speaker 2: They are the reasons that I would be a fan
Speaker 2: of this formula one.
Speaker 5: There are consequences to what you say. If we haven't
Speaker 5: told you this, yeh.
Speaker 2: Do my wife take over Tony's body?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: So those three I would I would probably rule out okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: fair yeah, weather on the in the playing field. I'm
Speaker 2: business tech still on the playing fields, Okay, Okay.
Speaker 5: I'm surprised wether still there. I'm not gonna know.
Speaker 2: I do like when it rains in an F one race.
Speaker 2: It's very fun. I hope they never stop that, hope
Speaker 2: they allow.
Speaker 5: That climate sticks with us and we still have rain.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I could see them being so tech driven that
Speaker 2: they could actually just make rain and just say, like
Speaker 2: you know, they'll do it. Yeah, yeah, it's like safe rame.
Speaker 5: Okay, Michael, it's time. I have a feeling our listeners
Speaker 5: are just you know, they're just at the edge of
Speaker 5: their seats right now. Dunk but you but you take
Speaker 5: your time, sip your water, sit your warm tea's. You know,
Speaker 5: no one's in a rush yet.
Speaker 6: Actually, Tony, we have to clear the studio in about
Speaker 6: nine minutes.
Speaker 2: Okay. So I I had a lot of internal struggle
Speaker 2: and this was almost my choice. Okay, business was almost
Speaker 2: my choice because I do think what makes this whole
Speaker 2: thing drive around in circles is the money. And it's
Speaker 2: fascinating to learn about sponsorship and decals and who they're
Speaker 2: willing to take money from because all of this drives
Speaker 2: pun intended on the business side of this, and the
Speaker 2: fact that even the number one team and driver right
Speaker 2: now are a commercial energy drink just even is more
Speaker 2: clear how important business is in the sport. But that's
Speaker 2: not what I picked.
Speaker 6: Okay, okay.
Speaker 2: The game strategy really surprised me, and I would have
Speaker 2: predicted that I did not care that much much about that,
Speaker 2: But that is really cool to me that they have
Speaker 2: so many secret plans and they think so far ahead,
Speaker 2: and they have so much data which helps them determine
Speaker 2: what's going on. And there's two drivers in the same
Speaker 2: team and they kind of compete, but they kind of
Speaker 2: use each other and help each other. I find game
Speaker 2: strategy really interesting, and it got me thinking about other
Speaker 2: sports and how often you spend weeks on strategy all sports,
Speaker 2: I mean literally, and if the football teams meet Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Speaker 2: Thursday on the strategy for that week. So I believe
Speaker 2: I was downplaying strategy a little bit, and then I
Speaker 2: really started thinking about other sports and there's huge emphasis
Speaker 2: on strategy, which to me gave me some credibility, like, oh, yeah, Michael,
Speaker 2: you've spent you spend days preparing for a tennis match
Speaker 2: with the strategy involved. So I like that, but it's
Speaker 2: not what I picked. Okay, what I picked is at
Speaker 2: the foundation of this sport. It's what makes everything go.
Speaker 2: It's the reason that the world wars ended in those
Speaker 2: same people shifted to another activity because they want to
Speaker 2: go fast. People want to go fast, and they want
Speaker 2: to burn gasoline, turn it into a flame, which then
Speaker 2: creates a drive train which shoots a fucking rocket onto
Speaker 2: the ground as fast as it can go. Period speed
Speaker 2: and skill. Good night, Sultan, turn off my Mike.
Speaker 5: That was a very faultful ones.
Speaker 2: I just think you can't. You can't talk about anything
Speaker 2: else in front of speed, the whole reason we're here.
Speaker 5: So I guess next season we're going to do a
Speaker 5: whole season on just speed.
Speaker 2: What is my favorite miles per hour? It's a two
Speaker 2: hundred and eighteen? What's gonna nineteen?
Speaker 5: We are going to have to agree that if we
Speaker 5: do it, it has to be in connomittants.
Speaker 2: Sure that was easy. Yeah, you know, I I learned
Speaker 2: a lot Tony. It's really fun. You have a breadth
Speaker 2: of knowledge. I also really respect that. Sometimes I'll just
Speaker 2: say I don't fully know the answer to that, because
Speaker 2: this is a complicated subject.
Speaker 6: You know, I'm also here.
Speaker 2: I forgot the jas here and YOHI you know a
Speaker 2: lot too. But you're not in the main room. You're
Speaker 2: in the back room with Sultan. Let me tell you
Speaker 2: what I one of the things I really enjoy about
Speaker 2: F one. Tell me I really appreciate how team principles
Speaker 2: and drivers will assume accountability, responsibility for errors.
Speaker 1: Sorry, guys, guys, yeah, sorry, I didn't.
Speaker 2: Have and young people, if you're listening, the reason those
Speaker 2: people are so qualified and such experts and got to
Speaker 2: such a high level of knowledge is because they were
Speaker 2: able to be objective enough and say I got this wrong.
Speaker 2: I made a mistake today, and I'm going to learn
Speaker 2: from it.
Speaker 5: I also think there's no room to hide when you
Speaker 5: fuck up. It gets pretty like the datas.
Speaker 2: That's probably like the more realistic answer, like everything's recorded.
Speaker 5: Wait, you don't think bend us in four K. With
Speaker 5: the one hundred different cameras that were available and all
Speaker 5: the DASA sets that we now have.
Speaker 2: It is hard to say I screwed UPDOS but grown
Speaker 2: ups do that. Yeah, And because of that, I'm still
Speaker 2: a child Friday. It's Saturday, Sunday. What it's Friday. It's
Speaker 2: one of those subjects that the more you know, the
Speaker 2: more questions you have, but also the more interested you are.
Speaker 2: It's not one of those subjects where like I went
Speaker 2: to ballet once and I liked the ballet, and then
Speaker 2: I started to kind of dig into it and I said,
Speaker 2: you know what, I don't like ballet. I don't need
Speaker 2: to know more about ballet. Oh you are a ballerina.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. That was a bad example. It was one
Speaker 2: of those subjects where like, as I got into it,
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm good with my with my knowledge level,
Speaker 2: but formula one you dive in and you go, you
Speaker 2: know what, I want more of this. I want to
Speaker 2: know more of this.
Speaker 6: How do we say goodbye?
Speaker 2: Let's not cry because it's over. Let's smile because it happened.
Speaker 6: I think I think we did that last season.
Speaker 2: Thanks for listening.
Speaker 6: Okay, we're gonna we're gonna cut to a quick ad
Speaker 6: break and then we're gonna come back and call Michael
Speaker 6: at an inconvenient time to discuss his test results.
Speaker 1: Hello, Hey, Michael, how's it going. Oh shit, I've been
Speaker 1: jotting this call, and I'm sorry to hear that you're
Speaker 1: calling to tell me how I did on the test. YEP,
Speaker 1: I did bad, right, Unfortunately, Yeah, it's not it's not great, Michael.
Speaker 1: You got a three out of ten?
Speaker 2: What? Oh, that isn't good considering I hosted a Formula
Speaker 2: one podcast. I should do better than that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we've we've actually heard from management.
Speaker 2: We have management.
Speaker 1: Apparently there's there's some you know, they want you to
Speaker 1: do the season over.
Speaker 2: I wish we had an HR department. I could take
Speaker 2: up some of the some of the stuff.
Speaker 1: With you were contracted to, you know, learn and it
Speaker 1: seems like you're you're going backwards instead of forward and
Speaker 1: you're in your F one knowledge. They don't really understand
Speaker 1: how that could be considering all the experts we've talked
Speaker 1: to and the amount of hours.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I mean explaining this to you, I
Speaker 2: mean a lot of time is past tel management that
Speaker 2: a lot of time has passed. And also a pop
Speaker 2: quiz what am I junior high? If you would have
Speaker 2: told me to get ready?
Speaker 1: We wanted a they wanted a real picture of what
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, and frankly, this this bears badly on me.
Speaker 1: As well, you know, Michael, I mean, I don't bring
Speaker 1: this up, but this isn't a good look for me either.
Speaker 2: It's not a good look for anybody. So what do
Speaker 2: we have to what do we have to do?
Speaker 1: Unfortunately they there, it looks like they're going to ask
Speaker 1: you to to do the season over.
Speaker 2: Oh really? All right, Well I don't know what to say.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sorry if it gives you more work.
Speaker 2: But also I'm at the the bike shop and you
Speaker 2: called me with the pop quiz. This is ridiculous. But okay,
Speaker 2: well thanks, say hi to Tony and Lily and all
Speaker 2: of iHeartMedia podcasts and Sports Illustrated in one on one studios.
Speaker 2: And yeah, sorry if I'm the big letdown. Yeah, well
Speaker 2: it'll be good to see Walter again. Well yeah, I
Speaker 2: can't say he he's too fond of the pod either.
Speaker 2: He sound asleep right now.
Speaker 1: Oh that's cute.
Speaker 2: Okay, So what can I hang up? Now? I got it?
Speaker 2: I got like I do have a life, you.
Speaker 1: Know, all right, go go to your life, Michael.
Speaker 2: All right, bye, bye, bye, Tony, have fun with you.
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