WEBVTT - The Logistician 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:00.520 Hmm. 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:03.320 Should we do comedy, as we say in the biz, 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:14.360 let's do comedy, all right, ready, Tony Michael. Do you 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:18.159 have any idea what it took just for me to 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:20.440 be here in the studio with you today? 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:22.880 You know I do not. I have a feeling you're 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:23.880 about to tell me. 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:26.280 Well, I'm gonna tell you. Okay, Okay. I got up, 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:28.680 I put on my shoes, I took the sea train, 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:31.000 I stopped at the cafe on the corner here, great 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:33.720 coffee by the way, I took the elevator, and here 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:34.040 I am. 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:35.640 That seems pretty straightforward. 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:37.760 Well that's the thing. It's anything but straightforward. 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:38.080 Okay. 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:42.920 Think about the amount of logistics happening in the background 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:47.040 to get me here today. I'm talking train conductors, policemen, barristas, 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:51.600 coffee farmers, dorman, elevator technicians. When you think about it, 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:54.600 it's a logistical miracle that I'm here with you today. 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:57.959 Well, I surely feel blessed. 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:01.960 For my heart pots one on one studios and Sports 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:03.080 Illustrated studios. 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:17.120 This is choosing sides, yes, one wow wow. Someone once 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:20.360 told me there's no plan B when it comes to logistics. 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:23.080 You know, we joke about Ferrari's plan A, B, C, D, E, 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:24.920 F G, And they'll say, well, what's interesting is in 0:01:24.959 --> 0:01:27.520 logistics there's no plan B. Plan A has to work, 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:31.800 those freights have to make it to the destination on time. 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:32.760 Is that true? 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:34.720 I mean, I think it would be wrong to say 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:38.280 there is no plan B because in a way, there 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:42.880 never is a plan. It's constantly evolving. So we start 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:44.880 with Plan A at the beginning of the season and 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:47.640 we end up with Plan Z in a few months, 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:50.840 because it's just everything happens. I mean, we had COVID, 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:53.440 we had strikes, we have wars, we have weather, we 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:57.200 have pandemics, we had I mean we saw that literally 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:00.480 the moment we said, okay, what next, what else can happen? 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:04.000 Something else was happening, happening, So we thought COVID and 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:07.760 the pandemic was the worst moment of our life. Now 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:11.240 even worse. Yeah, So I think we become expert of 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:15.840 dealing with issues, of finding solution to a problem, and 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:20.360 we always get to a plan in the end and 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:23.079 we make it happen. But to get to that make 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:28.760 it happen, we change multiple times. So I mean I 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:31.720 would say, yes, we always make it happen. But to 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:34.720 get there, there are a lot of plan ABCD. 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:37.919 There's lots of pivots happening. Yeah, this is Georgia Tierra Bassi, 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:40.160 DHL Motorsports track side manager. 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:42.880 If I had to list what I do, I think 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:44.160 we would be here for hours. 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:47.400 She's going to help us understand all of the logistics 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:50.040 that goes into the Formula one race we can. 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:52.520 I know you're expecting me to be skeptical about this 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:55.320 week's topic, but I'm actually I'm all in great. 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:59.200 I admit I didn't peg you as a logistics man. 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:03.440 You know, I think it was US General Omar Bradley 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:10.880 who once said amateurs talk strategy, professionals talk logistics. So yeah, 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:13.840 I hold that to be inherently true. 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:18.320 I absolutely love that there we go. So there's a 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:21.560 lot of focus on Formula one that goes into drivers, 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:23.799 the speed, the money, the glitz, the glamor, and all 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:26.000 of that is true and all good and well. But 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:29.480 to me, truly, one of the things that astounds me 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:32.720 with this sport is the logistical component of it all. 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:34.800 Yeah, I mean, you've described it, but I've also heard 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:37.240 other people describe it as a traveling circus. Help me 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:39.640 understand why that's true. 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:42.120 There's nothing else like it. Really, there is nothing else 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:45.760 like Formula one logistically because of all the different components 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:47.720 that go into it. I mean we're talking about the 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:49.760 car is alone weigh two thousand pounds. 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:51.000 This is Joe Pompiono. 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:51.600 Hi, Joe. 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:55.920 Joe's a banker turns sport expert. He loves everything that 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:58.600 has to do with the underbelly of the sports machine, 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:02.520 so finances the in this model, but also the logistical 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:04.200 efforts underlining it all. 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:06.360 They're racing at top speeds of two hundred miles per hour. 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:09.200 The drivers are like movie stars relative to what's come 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:11.520 out over Netflix over the last few years and their popularity, 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:14.280 and it's just unlike anything else that we have in 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:17.159 sports today. And I think it's really challenging specifically because 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:20.040 it's really one of the only global sports that we have. 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:23.000 There are sports leagues that play in other places. There's 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:25.760 you know, European football teams that play friendlies in the US, 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:28.560 and even the NFL goes international. But Formula one is 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:31.479 global in its blood. It's everywhere. They travel every single 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:33.919 year to the same places all over the world, and 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:36.360 it makes it really challenging because it's not an asset 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:39.000 like business where you can just kind of pick yourself up, 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:41.120 fly over there and then do the event. You need 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:43.839 the cars, you need grand stands put up, you need 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:47.520 premium hospitality. You obviously need to bring hundreds of employees. 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:49.160 You have to have the motor homes set up and 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:52.159 the hospitality areas for the teams themselves, and that's really 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:55.840 challenging logistically because there's so many different moving parts. 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:59.559 So remember when we talked about sponsorship a few episodes back, 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:02.520 and we talked about F one having official sponsors and 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:06.120 teams and drivers have their sponsorships and promoters have their sponsors. Well, 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:09.400 DHL has been one of the longest standing sponsors for 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:12.160 Formula one for over forty years, and DHL is one 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:14.760 of those sponsors that helps F one make sure that 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:16.560 they can put on this traveling circus. 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:20.640 Yeah, DHL are the longest official partner of F one. 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:23.560 I'm not a Formula one fun I mean I like 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:27.479 the logistics behind it, but anything to do with Fromula one, 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:31.279 like drivers, teams and everything else, I kind of know 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:34.320 it because I'm working in it, so I have to 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:40.000 have a basic knowledge. Yeah, but I wouldn't define myself 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:42.840 as a Formula one fun if they ask me who 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:46.200 won after the race nine times after ten, I'm like, 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:49.359 no clue. I need to go on the internet and 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:53.640 check because I don't have the time to actually watch 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:58.000 the outcome. I need to focus on Okay, did they crash? Yes, 0:05:58.080 --> 0:05:59.360 then I have to ship more frame. 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:02.480 You are my dream expert who's just like, yeah, yeah, 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:05.320 Formula one, that's all good. Let's talk logistics. 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:09.159 Yeah. The race is the only time we have where 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:12.400 it's quiet because everyone, of course is busy watching it, 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:14.719 so we don't get customer in the office. It's the 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:18.000 only two hours we have to catch up on emails 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:22.240 to relax a little bit, so we actually we use 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:25.839 that time to relax and catch up on anything we 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:29.040 haven't been able to do. I focus on air freight mainly, 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:33.000 but in our job, there is I mean, there is 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:36.200 nothing really you can focus on because we are track 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:39.719 side and we are the face of the company in 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:42.880 a way, so we need to know a bit of everything. 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:46.599 We have an office at the circuit in every single event, 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:50.240 so if there is an issue with any kind of 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:55.520 shipment air fhrase, see freight customs, anything, we have to 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:56.440 have the answer. 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:58.280 The HL the shipping company, the. 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:00.640 Shipping company, that same company that a lot of people 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:02.640 complain about that loses their package. 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:05.360 Right. I don't even know what DHL stands for, but 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:07.279 thankfully there's internet connection here. 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:09.640 No Google it for us or bring it for us. 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:15.000 I'm going to bring it for you guys. Let's guess 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:21.360 drove it here myself. I like that DHL acronym meaning. 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:23.760 Gilblm put up a portion of his student loans to 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:27.320 start the company, bringing in his two friends, Adrian Dalcy 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:30.960 and Robert Lynn as partners. They shared a Plymouth duster 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:33.320 that they drove around San Francisco to pick up the 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:36.400 documents and suitcases. Then they would rush to the airport 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:39.640 where they booked flights using a relatively new invention, the 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:40.800 corporate credit card. 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:51.040 Dalzy, Hillblom and Lynn as expected, an American founded German 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:54.920 logistic company providing courier, package delivery and express mail service, 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:58.240 delivering over one point eight billion parcels per year. That's 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:01.800 what American founded German logistics. I'll tell you what when 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:05.720 it comes to logistics, the Germans, I'm I'm pro German. 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:12.960 There you go, when you say DHL sponsors. What does 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:14.680 that mean, like who's paying who here? 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:18.040 So it's a bit of a mixture. And again the 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:22.200 numbers and the finances in F one always a bit opaque, 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:25.520 but I think on this one they probably look some 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:28.240 sponsors paying kind and what I mean by d is 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:31.800 they pay with the technology we mentioned Oracle, Aws, et cetera. Google, 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:34.080 they offer the tablets and all of that. I think 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:36.800 with this one there's a fair amount that DHL puts 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:39.840 up front. But also it's not because we're flying DHL 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:42.720 planes that Formula one doesn't actually pay for this, so 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:44.760 they're chartered planes and we'll get we'll get into the 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:46.559 n antiquity of that because the teams then have to 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:48.920 pay Formula one for spaces on that plane as well. 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:49.440 I see. 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:51.280 So there's a couple of layers to this. 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:51.880 Jeez. 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:54.520 They've been working with DHL, their their logistics and chipping 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:58.079 partner for forty years now, and DHL actually sends thirty 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:01.280 five dedicated specialist Formula one to every single race to 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:01.880 oversee it. 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:05.880 So yeah, in total, we always have up to fifty 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:08.280 people on site at teach events. 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:10.480 It's one of those things where they're obviously presenting sponsor 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:12.040 of the series. They get paid a lot of money 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:14.360 and they get a lot of value out of the 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:17.040 partnership that they have with Formula One. And this is 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:18.840 their gig right, this is their job, this is what 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:20.720 the company does, so they've obviously put a lot of 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:23.400 resources towards it to make sure that everything runs smoothly. 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.160 We have got our air freight team, We've got C Freight, 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:29.760 We've got PADO Club, we have got our TV guys 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:34.640 who focus on the TV broadcasters. So everyone is a 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:38.920 specialist in something, but as well as they know how 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:41.679 to do everything, So we tend to have one team 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:47.880 that has got one specialist on each side, but overall 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:50.880 they can all cover each other's job. We all know 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:53.760 each other. We're all like a little village dealing with 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:56.640 the same people. You're just in a different country. So 0:09:56.760 --> 0:10:00.720 it's like we were all a big team. Just move 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:03.720 in from A to B and BB to C. So 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:05.720 it does feel like a big family. 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:08.760 So we used to have a much lighter calendar. And 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:10.840 actually that's another hot topic in this sport of people 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:12.800 saying we don't need I'm a big believer in that 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:15.960 that we don't actually need more races It used to 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:19.360 be that we had maybe twelve, sixteen, eighteen races in 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:21.959 the season, which meant that more or less between each 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:24.199 race weekend there was a week or two or three. 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:27.760 Now we're adding more and more races, the calendars getting 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:29.760 bigger and bigger, which means that we now have to 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:31.800 squish a lot of these races together, which means we 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:34.079 end up with double headers and sometimes triple headers. 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:36.960 It's the nature of the business model, which is race 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:40.319 promoters paying extravagant fees for the traveling circus to come 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:42.719 to town, and they're really giving a lot of the 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:45.880 annual revenue to Formula One. It's the basis of their business. 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:48.000 And in other sports, if we want to talk about 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:50.600 American specifically, if you think about the NFL or the NBA, 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:52.600 or any of the major sports leagues here in the US, 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:55.920 that position of power is really with the media companies, 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:59.320 right It's with the ESPNS, the Fox, the CBS, those companies, 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:01.840 because they're the ones that are providing the most revenue 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:03.640 to the sports leagues. It's no secret if you look 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:05.800 at the NFL, they make about twenty billion dollars a 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:08.319 year in annual revenue, but about ten or eleven billion 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.760 of that is coming specifically from their media partners. So 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:13.400 there's this constant tug of war going on of like, 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:15.640 we're going to give you better games if you do this, 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:18.440 and vice versa. And I think that's the relationship in 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:21.120 Formula one that belongs with the race promoters because they're 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:23.040 the ones that are essentially I mean, if you look 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:25.000 at some of these races, they're paying upwards of fifty 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:27.520 million dollars every year for Formula one to come to 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:30.000 town for like three days, right, And that's obviously a 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:32.000 lot of money, especially when you break it down on 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:34.360 an annual basis per event. And I think that's the 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:36.760 reason why these race promoters have so much power. And 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:38.600 that's not to say that Liberty Media and Formula One 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:40.880 don't have power. I think that they just have to 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.600 kind of work together to figure out the best schedule, 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:45.440 and it's not always easy when you're moving twenty to 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:47.520 twenty five different partners around. 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:50.720 In Unison, I think we are hitting the limit because 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:54.080 we keep adding and adding and adding, and you don't 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:57.400 realize that we have got one team of people that 0:11:57.480 --> 0:11:59.480 are doing this race. So at the end of the day, 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:02.880 to ask a person that has got a life, that 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:06.680 wants to have a life to do even more races. 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:09.400 I mean it means a lot of days away from home. 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:13.240 From what I have seen, people are starting to complaining 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:15.920 now because it's I mean, you don't get any work 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:19.920 life balance. It's just work. It just never stops. I 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:24.400 mean sometimes it feels like we're shipping organs or I 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:27.960 mean we are saving lives, like your doctors saving lives. 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:32.040 The stress that you feel is enormous. 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:34.640 This year, we're going to do Vegas and then we're 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:36.440 gonna go and fly in Abu Dhabi, which is insane 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:38.520 by the way, because it's a twenty five hour trip 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:40.959 from Vegas to Abu Dhabi and then there's eleven hour 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:43.640 time difference between the two, and then we're expecting these 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:44.320 drivers to drive. 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:45.600 It's not safe. 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:48.280 I actually tweeted something out last year when the NFL 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:50.600 traveled to Germany for their game, and there was a 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:52.560 huge debate about when the team should get there. I 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:54.320 forget who was. It was either the Dolphins or the 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:56.920 Chiefs that got there like three to four days before 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:59.559 the other team, And the argument was that if you're 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:01.920 not going to go a week early, you're better off 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:05.200 just going like two days early, because then your internal 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:06.640 clock is not going to be as messed up, and 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:09.320 by the time it reverts to that, you're moving back. 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:11.880 And I made a comment just kind of like a 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:13.920 throw away comment, essentially saying that it's really hard on 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:16.240 the body, and Formula one drivers have to do with this, 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:18.960 but the fact that you're getting hit, you know, makes 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:21.800 it that much harder. And I did that, and obviously 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:23.440 people got upset form of the one fan saying this 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:25.520 is a really physical sport. And I went back and 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:27.080 I hated that I did that because I'm not one 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:29.040 of those people that say Formula one isn't physical. It's 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:31.360 extremely physical, right. The g forces that you have in 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:33.240 certain corners and the toll that it takes on your body, 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:36.040 not only physically but mentally is really challenging. And I 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:38.360 think that's where jet lag comes in is I read 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:40.040 this quote. It was in the New York Times a 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:41.560 few years ago, and as a physio for one of 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:43.439 the teams, and they were essentially saying that what they 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:45.480 want to do is they want to get to a 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:47.800 location that they're going to race. If it's one hour 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:49.640 time difference, they want to get their one day ahead. 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:51.480 If it's three, they want to get their three days ahead. 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:53.800 And when you're racing in a time zone like Las 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:55.560 Vegas to Abu Dhabi, that's I don't know how long 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:57.360 ahead that is. It's probably like eight to ten hours 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:00.720 or something like that. That is extremely challenging, and it's impossible 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:03.160 because the race is actually only seven days beforehand. They 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:04.920 have families, they want to hang out at home, they 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:07.800 want these other things, so to do that. You've seen this. 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:09.760 I mean in Singapore, a lot of the drivers they're 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:12.559 completely inverting their schedule. Las Vegas was the same thing. 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:15.160 They're staying up until the early morning hours because quality 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:17.520 isn't taking place in some instances, or practiced till one 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:18.319 or two in the morning. 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:23.119 We were having breakfast at four pm, lunch at midnight, 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:25.720 and dinner at like two am when we would get 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:28.120 back into the Hope. And you think, and I don't 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:30.440 need to get in a car and race and experience 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:32.320 the g forces and I'm already messed up. 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:34.800 Yeah. I mean, the half of the drivers and the 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:36.360 team members probably don't even know what time it is 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:38.320 when they go to certain places, right, because it's just 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:40.120 it's like a blur and you're doing it for several 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:43.200 months at a time, and that's obviously difficult on the drivers. 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:45.480 They're the athletes that are performing, but I think one 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:47.360 of the most underrated parts is really how hard it 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:48.560 is on the team members too. 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:51.480 In Las Vegas, we were starting at a three pm 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:54.000 and finishing at six am in the morning, so you 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:58.320 adapt to the actual schedule of the race. That is 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:01.320 another interesting part of the job. You just have to 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:03.920 work when you have to work, and it's like your 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:05.440 body adapts to it. 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:08.160 Also, these little boys can raise their little cars around 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:10.960 the track yep, yep today, heart's content. 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:13.560 You get used to sleep when you can sleep, so 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:16.560 like like you have eight hours off, okay sleep, that's 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:20.640 I mean, it's just something that your body understand when 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:23.240 you have time to sleep, sleep, because any other time 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:25.760 you just have to do something, so you just you 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:28.600 learn to use the time you're given. 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:31.280 In some instances, they're also away from their family for 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:33.720 months at a time. Right when the European schedule comes out, 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:35.080 it could be two months at in a row that 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:37.640 you're away from your family most of the week. So 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:40.160 that's really difficult. Not only them, but their families too, 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:41.840 if you have kids and other things like that. So 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:43.800 I think part of it's the driver's, part of it's 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:46.360 the teams, and it adds up to this just extremely 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:50.280 complicated scenario logistically that's almost impossible to solve. But they're 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:51.480 getting better at it each year. 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:56.080 Look, we all want to grow whatever sport we're talking about, yeah, 0:15:56.080 --> 0:16:01.720 but they all get sucked into this idea football, baseball 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:04.240 of more and more and more, and it dilutes the 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:07.400 quality of the sport and it puts the athletes at risk. 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:09.440 Don't do it, and it's interesting. That's not what this 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:10.360 episode's about. 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:12.040 No, but it's a fair point because one of the 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:14.360 arguments that I make all the time is not we're 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:17.600 diluting the championship. The less races there are, the more 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:21.080 important each race is towards the championship and the championship points. 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:22.920 The more races you add. The fact that we have 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:25.480 this year Maxwistappan who's won the championship and there was 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:27.840 what four or five races still to go, is an 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:30.000 interesting problem that we are in now. 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:32.920 So it's a long flight to Abu Dhabi. 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:34.720 It's a long flight, and. 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:38.520 Think about those special gloves with the monitors on them 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:40.560 at heart rate? What if that gets lost in the flight. 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:42.520 What if you just get a left glove. 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:44.920 And that is part of the. 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:48.040 Then you'll only know what the athletes left hand heart rate. 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:52.640 Is the left. Yes, we're digressing. 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:54.840 Let's take a short logistical break here so we can 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:59.880 listen to some ads. So back from the ads. So 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.440 let me ask maybe a silly question, maybe a brilliant question. 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:04.760 Sure it's a brilliant question. 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:08.200 It wouldn't be so sure, honest alpine races they come in, 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:12.600 what are they usually coming? Fifteen sixteen? It depends. Okay, 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:15.840 it doesn't matter what midfield. Okay, midfield for the sake 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:18.920 of this question has no bearing on the question. Okay, 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:23.360 they pull into the paddock at the end. Where does 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:25.879 the actual physical car go? 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:31.159 You will never see a full car. It's always in pieces. 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:34.600 The only time you see a car, it means it's 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:37.600 a show car. So it's not an actual car. It's 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:41.600 too sensitive to send it completely built, so it is 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:46.160 completely put in parts and sent as each individual item. 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:48.440 You will never see a car. You will only see 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:50.960 a box containing parts of the car. 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:53.159 How much equipment are we talking here? 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:53.600 You know. 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:57.919 A couple of trucks, four or five trucks, Is it 0:17:58.000 --> 0:17:59.639 just like the Formula one cars and they put a 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:00.920 little good track on top. 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:01.760 I love that. 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:03.359 And they can get there faster because they can go 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:03.959 so fast. 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:07.360 The visual to that is pretty spectacular. 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:09.280 Would effect win track? 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:16.959 Yes, yes, yes, Okay, if you want numbers, I have numbers. 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:18.080 Yes, they want numbers, okay. 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:20.399 Fifteen hundred tons of equipment throughout the entire year and 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:22.119 they're traveling seventy five thousand miles. 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:26.320 The DHL cargo travels in six or seven Boeing seven 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:27.800 four seven cargo planes. 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:31.520 In Europe it is up to nearly four hundred trucks 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:32.440 for every race. 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:34.240 If you had too much time on your hands and 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:36.639 you wanted to put each of these trucks one in 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:39.600 front of the other, they would make a convoy longer 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:40.639 than five kilometers. 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:43.640 They're not all the HL trucks. The teams have got 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:47.920 their own hospitality trucks and garages which are all rended. 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:52.640 Each team ships the equivalent weight of eight elephants per race. 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:54.200 How many kangaroos is that? 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:57.720