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Speaker 1: Got anything good. Hey, this is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.

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Speaker 1: Big big weekend for Melbourne all over the world. Actually,

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Speaker 1: obviously there were Footy was back, a proper back where

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Speaker 1: we all understand it being back, even though some teams

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Speaker 1: had played in the mysterious round which will forever be

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Speaker 1: forgotten about but moaned about for the rest of the season.

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Speaker 1: Now it's good into folklore, this almost mythical. Now round

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Speaker 1: zero Haporne had already won two games before most teams.

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Speaker 1: Now the Giants too, They go, no, that Giants, of

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Speaker 1: course played last weekend. Oh yeah. And then obviously around

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Speaker 1: the world there would have been formerly one fans tuned

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Speaker 1: in to watch the Melbourne Grand Prix. Now I don't

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Speaker 1: know a lot about the Grand Prix and F one,

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Speaker 1: but I have friends of mine who were there yesterday

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Speaker 1: and it's like the highlight of the day year that's

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Speaker 1: right here in Melbourne and Sunday morning. I was texting

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Speaker 1: them and saying, now, what a nightmare about the rain

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Speaker 1: and they were going, no, it's even better, and I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I don't understand your sport. Now Lockee works on the show,

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Speaker 1: is really into this. So was yesterday a great race?

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Speaker 1: On why yesterday was a great.

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Speaker 2: Race because we started back in Melbourn, which we haven't

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Speaker 2: done for a few years. So it's opened up the

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Speaker 2: whole season.

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Speaker 1: Wait, I thought it was in Melbourne.

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Speaker 2: Every year.

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Speaker 1: You're starting the kind of what Grand Slam? What have

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Speaker 1: they have?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it started, we don't usually, well it's always started

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Speaker 2: in Melbourne, and then for the last couple of years

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Speaker 2: it hasn't just because they do all the testing over

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Speaker 2: in Bahrain and that's where they start.

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Speaker 1: They've had their own version of Round zero.

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Speaker 2: Yes, they were back in Melbourne, and so we've had

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Speaker 2: a lot of rookies and then we've had three days

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Speaker 2: of thirty degree sunny and all of a sudden the

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Speaker 2: race starts and it's rain. So everything goes out the window.

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Speaker 2: All the tires strategies go out the window and it's

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Speaker 2: just chaos.

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Speaker 1: Do they have then all come back in to have

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Speaker 1: the tires changed to the slicks or whatever they're called.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's therein lies the question, Christian, when do you

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Speaker 2: come in for slicks and do you stay out? And

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Speaker 2: so you can lose the store as.

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Speaker 1: Long as he is. My wife has always seems to

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Speaker 1: me come home now for slicks, I'm like, I'm staying out.

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Speaker 2: No, Well, you can lose. You can honestly lose fifteen

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Speaker 2: seconds per lap. And so if her pit stops takes

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Speaker 2: you thirty seconds and you stay up for two laps,

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Speaker 2: so you shouldn't you should have come in. So you're like,

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Speaker 2: well that I shouldn't come in because it's gonna takes

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Speaker 2: so long. And so the teams, it honestly becomes like ice.

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Speaker 2: If they're on the wrong tire at the wrong time,

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Speaker 2: you're just sliding off the truck.

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Speaker 1: There's so much signs to it.

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Speaker 2: Isn't there, and so you can have the fastest car,

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Speaker 2: but if you're on the wrong tire, so being on

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Speaker 2: the right tire at the right time is critical. So

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Speaker 2: when Ferrari stayed out with Lewis, yeah, it wasn't the

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Speaker 2: right call. And it's always twenty twenty hind sight, So

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Speaker 2: whose call is it? I imagine in the movie version,

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Speaker 2: the team's like, come in, we need you come in

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Speaker 2: change those tires.

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Speaker 1: He's like, I'm not coming in one more lamp and

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Speaker 1: then the pit boss site throws those headphones out there

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Speaker 1: go he's out of control and we should have fired

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Speaker 1: him that season, and then he wins it though.

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Speaker 2: They have strategists and they also have huge teams back

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Speaker 2: over in the UK, so they've got you know, for

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Speaker 2: every one person there.

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Speaker 1: What do you mean with the time difference on blurry

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Speaker 1: eye is Sunday morning? There some hungover pol Milton Keynes

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Speaker 1: in some factory tell the millionaire to come in.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that happens, but they're iconically Ferrari for the fast

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Speaker 2: past couple of years have been atrocious with their strategy

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Speaker 2: calls and Lewis with his first year with Ferrari this year,

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Speaker 2: he found out pretty quickly what that's like.

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Speaker 1: So what happened to the Australian kid? Did he have

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Speaker 1: a good chance of winning?

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Speaker 2: So we had two Australian kids. Jack dilm was also racing,

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Speaker 2: but he on the first few corners, well he just

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Speaker 2: hit a bit of line and bit of marker that

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Speaker 2: was on the road and binder.

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Speaker 1: Do you think a local lad would know albit part

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Speaker 1: pretty well?

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Speaker 2: Well, I know it's local is as Oscar, but yeah,

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Speaker 2: Oscar unfortunately was on the wrong typet the right time,

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Speaker 2: wrong time as well. Lando kept it on the road,

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Speaker 2: Oscar backed it into the grass. He did keep it

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Speaker 2: going though, which were phenomenal, So the roar of the

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Speaker 2: crowd when he actually just got it back on and

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Speaker 2: for him to salvage two points, there is a move on.

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Speaker 2: I think it's turned nine and ten. If you want

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Speaker 2: to go back and watch it overtaking Lewis Hamilton, I.

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Speaker 1: Won't actually any sport. I've got to go and worry

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Speaker 1: about turn nine fast for three hours an hour? What

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Speaker 1: is that little progress bar even during a footie game

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Speaker 1: is two hours though, eighteen hours of racing to get

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Speaker 1: through to find what turn nine No.

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Speaker 2: They're doing one hundred and sixty k is now a

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Speaker 2: very small corner around Lewis Hamilton, world champion on the

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Speaker 2: last lap to get two points is phenomenal, but he'll

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Speaker 2: be very disappointed that he didn't.

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Speaker 1: So for race fans, this was an epic opening for

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Speaker 1: a season.

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Speaker 2: Chaos and we love it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then tell me this. I saw this really

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Speaker 1: beautiful clip of Lewis Hamilton's dad, who's been by Lewis's

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Speaker 1: side since he was like five years old, hugging some

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Speaker 1: young rookie. What had happened? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Nine again, No, this is before the race, it even

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Speaker 2: well started. So they're doing the formation lap and Isaac,

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Speaker 2: what's the formation lap?

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Speaker 1: Is that whether all cars are stacked up in like

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Speaker 1: a pyramid, No.

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Speaker 2: You're all, we're all grid. Well, everyone's up on the

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Speaker 2: grid and they go around just to get the tires warm.

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Speaker 2: So there's not absolutely chaos.

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Speaker 1: In the first sport is sport.

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Speaker 2: On the first lap they had to come in and

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Speaker 2: change their tires, so they have to formate again.

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Speaker 1: They've got warm the tires.

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Speaker 2: Now that happens sometimes, Yeah, you have to come in

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Speaker 2: and do it, just change tires and start again, or it's.

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Speaker 1: All this is why the's lost. You then just change

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Speaker 1: your boots.

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Speaker 2: The way is changed how they have a tire warmer

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Speaker 2: in the pits warmers. But yeah, Isaac hadger lost it

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Speaker 2: before the race and even started. And as it takes

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Speaker 2: so much money and luck and skills just to get

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Speaker 2: into the race, into Formula one. So from Formula three

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Speaker 2: to two to one first race didn't even get to start,

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Speaker 2: oh no, and.

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Speaker 1: So he was That's why Lewis Hamilton's stands just giving him.

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Speaker 1: I'm still none the wise about the sport or don't

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