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Speaker 1: Kristin Horner, the team principal for Red Bull Racing. Christian,

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Speaker 1: wonderful to catch up with you, sir. Going into race

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Speaker 1: weekend in Silverston. Can we start there? As my colleague

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Speaker 1: Tom pointed out, just how special is this race, this

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Speaker 1: circuit for you and the team?

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Speaker 2: Well, look, it's one of the best circuits on the tour.

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Speaker 2: It's fast, it's.

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Speaker 3: Demanding, it's source the men out from the boys, it's

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Speaker 3: a big challenge and it's old school. I mean this

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Speaker 3: track goes back to just after the Second World War,

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Speaker 3: so an old airfield with a brims of road converted

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Speaker 3: into a racing circuit that has developed over the years.

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Speaker 2: But it's one of the big tests for the drivers

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Speaker 2: and the teams.

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Speaker 1: Max was absolutely dominant last weekend. There was this amazing

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Speaker 1: moment at the end of the race, with a couple

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Speaker 1: of laps to go, he came in for a pit

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Speaker 1: stop just to get the quickest lap. Christin, can you

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Speaker 1: describe the guy that you're working with every single day?

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Speaker 1: How special is Max Forstappen?

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Speaker 2: I think what we're witnessing at the moment is a

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Speaker 2: sportsman that's just a really at the top of his game,

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Speaker 2: and you know, he's a joy to work with, and he.

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Speaker 3: Continues to surprise us with this the levels that he's

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Speaker 3: that he's reaching, and you know, the hype that he's hitting.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, as I say, nothing is, nothing is, he

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Speaker 3: To surprise us at the moment. But he's in the

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Speaker 3: form of his life and I think there's more to come.

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Speaker 4: Christian. I think Americans are fascinated by this. I look

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Speaker 4: at the wonderful coverage Sky Sports is doing and basically

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Speaker 4: they forget about verstep and five minutes into the race

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Speaker 4: to look at all the NETFLIXI sub races and all

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Speaker 4: that Boloney. We have an America, a guy for the

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Speaker 4: Los Angeles Angels in baseball named Otani who's once in

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Speaker 4: a generation, is for stapping like that.

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Speaker 3: I think, Look, we're in a healthy period of Formula One.

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Speaker 3: We've got Lewis Hamilton, the most successful driver of all

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Speaker 3: time out there. We've got Fernando Alonzo that's doing it

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Speaker 3: for the old guys.

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Speaker 2: And you know, we've got this emergence of Maxis staff

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Speaker 2: and I think only in time or history judge just

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Speaker 3: But what we're seeing at the moment is certainly something

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Speaker 3: pretty special, particularly with the results that he's ratcheting up.

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Speaker 1: Christian, talk to me about how from a manager's perspective,

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Speaker 1: you maintain harmony within the team. When he took that

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Speaker 1: point for the quickest lap last weekend, that was taken

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Speaker 1: away from from Checko, his teammate within Red Bull. Christian,

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Speaker 1: can you tell me as a manager how you're maintaining

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Speaker 1: the harmony when you have to provide the resources for

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Speaker 1: someone who's dominant Max and maintain the confidence of his teammate.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think he's just dealing with openness and honesty.

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Speaker 3: And I think what Max deserved or earned himself the

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Speaker 3: opportunity to have a go at that fastest lab. He

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Speaker 3: created a pit stop for himself. He was going to

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Speaker 3: have a go at it on the on al tars

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Speaker 3: and for us who's actually less risk. But I'm on

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Speaker 3: to set the newer tars and.

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Speaker 2: Take the pit stop. So yeah, he earns himself that right.

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Speaker 3: And I think the relationship between the two guys is

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Speaker 3: is strong, and the most important thing is that they

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Speaker 3: talk to each other. They communicate. When there's an issue,

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Speaker 3: they talk about it, We get it on the table

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Speaker 1: Can we expect Checkout to be racing for Red Bull

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Speaker 1: next year then, Christian, Yeah, he's got a contract.

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Speaker 3: He's with us till you know, till the end of

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Speaker 3: twenty four so and we're happy out of another contract.

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Speaker 2: We're happy with, you know, the overall performance of him.

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Speaker 3: He's had some difficult Saturdays recently, but his racing has

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Speaker 3: been great and hopefully the confidence from that podium in

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Speaker 3: Austria is going to put him, you know, back on

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Speaker 3: the pace here on Saturday.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about someone else on the grid who's unhappy.

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Speaker 1: Lewis Hamilton unhappy with the dominance of Red Bull. Unsurprisingly Christian,

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Speaker 1: he's had some recommendations on what they can do about that.

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Speaker 1: Maybe we can set a time limit for when we

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Speaker 1: start to plan for next year's race. Car Christian, what's

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Speaker 1: your response to people who were fed up with the

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Speaker 2: Well, look, it's flattering in any respects. The sport goes

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Speaker 3: I mean Mercedes, I mean how many years did they

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Speaker 2: We're we're performing at an incredibly high light. Well, the

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Speaker 3: The others you know will be putting a target on

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Speaker 2: Think with stability of the rules that the field is

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Speaker 2: going to converge. It's only a matter of times.

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Speaker 3: So and so yeah, I think trying to get everybody

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Speaker 3: they would just be impossible to manage and police.

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Speaker 4: Christian, our producer, are the guy that tells us what

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Speaker 4: to do every day. Grew up in Western Australia. So

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Speaker 4: he says, we're not doing the interview if we don't

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Speaker 4: talk about your third driver, Daniel Riccardo. I think the

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Speaker 4: people looking at Daniel Riccardo in America are saying, what

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Speaker 3: Do you want to.

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Speaker 4: Retain a third driver like Daniel Riccardo or is it

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Speaker 4: a good feeling for red Bull if he goes off

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Speaker 4: to someone else's is.

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Speaker 2: Rumored, Well, I gave him that chance because I didn't.

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Speaker 3: I thought formal Ones still needed Daniel and I think

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Speaker 3: how talented he is. He just needs to rediscover his

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Speaker 3: be doing certainly in a virtual world and he's testing

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Speaker 2: So it'd be great to.

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Speaker 3: See Daniel back on the grid next year, even if

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Speaker 3: it's not in a repel car.

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Speaker 4: Christian a sensitive issue which we see in the danger

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Speaker 4: There have been two really difficult deaths in Formula one,

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Speaker 3: Well, I think the FIA do a great job in

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Speaker 2: Is just you know, compared to where they were just

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Speaker 2: That is is beyond belief. But you know, you can always.

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Speaker 2: Cars, but also now the circuits. I think they you know, there's.

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Speaker 3: Circuits that we need to look at because we can

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Speaker 2: On certain circuits there.

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Speaker 4: Seemed to be I mean I was barefooled last week

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Speaker 4: it's called the stewards where the track isn't working out

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Speaker 4: Are we going to see that again at Silverstone where

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Speaker 4: the quality of the driving is so good that the

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Speaker 1: I do want to finish on safety and the track. Christian.

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Speaker 1: There are some worries that maybe we have some protests,

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Speaker 1: the climate change protesters that we've seen protest various sports

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Speaker 1: in the UK over the last few years. You're concerned

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Speaker 1: your own drivers going into the weekends with regards to that, Well, look, it.

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Speaker 3: Is a big concern because you run on a cricket

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Speaker 3: a Formula one track, you know there's twenty cars going around,

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Speaker 3: and from a safety point of view, it is unimaginable

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Speaker 3: nobody does anything stupid this weekend. You know, Formula one

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Speaker 3: is taking sustainability and is pushing that messages and driving

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Speaker 3: with fully sustainable fuels that we have coming from twenty

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Speaker 2: And upset what is going to be probably one of the.

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Speaker 3: Biggest events sporting events on the British calendar this year.

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Speaker 2: Christian.

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Speaker 1: I've loved our conversations. We've loved our conversations. Let's continue them.

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Speaker 1: Good Luck for the race weekend. As a Ferrari fan,

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Speaker 1: you know that I don't quite mean that, but good.

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Speaker 4: Luck, oh good luck, I mean it this weekend.

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Speaker 1: Christian of Red Bull Racing