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The boys talk all things Monaco for this weekends upcoming race
Honda Aston Martin Red Bull Family Tree is a circle
George Michael makes an appearance
Anti Anti-Dive
Are those some motherfukin Sidepods?!
Dan gets lost on a Yacht
Also, Dan is currently fundraising for Samaritans, a UK Based Suicide Prevention Hotline, you can support him here: https://donate.tiltify.com/@enginemode11/enginemode11s-stream-week
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The podcast opens with a humorous introduction, introducing the two hosts, Dan, also known as Engine Mode 11, and Blake, also known as Break. They establish their fraudulent nature and their intention to provide a mixture of technical knowledge, fraudulence, and a sprinkle of anti-dive discussion.
* **News and Updates:**
- The Imola Grand Prix was canceled due to heavy rain and flooding, resulting in displacement of people and eight fatalities. Formula One and Ferrari made significant financial contributions to support the local population affected by the disaster.
- Aston Martin announced a partnership with Honda for their power units starting in 2026. This move surprised many, as Honda had previously withdrawn from Formula One in 2021. Honda and Red Bull will continue their technical collaboration until the end of 2025.
- Mercedes brought a significant upgrade package to the Monaco Grand Prix, including redesigned side pods and a revised front suspension. However, there were concerns about the risk of implementing such major changes on an untested track and the quality of data that could be obtained from the upgrades in Monaco's unique conditions.
- The TV coverage for the Monaco Grand Prix will be produced in-house by Formula One for the first time, replacing the previous local broadcaster, Tele Montecarlo. This change is seen as a result of contract negotiations and the desire for consistency in the broadcast quality across all circuits.
* **Monaco Grand Prix Preview:**
- Monaco is a unique circuit that requires specific car setup and aerodynamic considerations. Teams typically run high ride heights and soft suspension to navigate the bumpy track surface.
- The high downforce rear wing is usually used at Monaco, Hungary, and Singapore to ensure stability and prevent detachment issues.
- Overtaking is notoriously difficult in Monaco due to the narrow and twisty nature of the track. The new TV coverage format may impact the viewing experience, with some concerns about the quality of the broadcast.
* **Engine Breaking News:**
- The hosts announce their participation in the virtual 24 Hours of Le Mans, raising funds for Samaritans, a UK-based suicide prevention hotline. They aim to raise £1,000 through their streaming efforts.
* **Conclusion:**
The podcast wraps up with a reminder of the upcoming virtual 24 Hours of Le Mans and an invitation for listeners to support the Samaritans charity through donations or social media engagement. **Overview:**
* The podcast discusses the upcoming Monaco Grand Prix, a Formula One race known for its unique challenges and glamorous atmosphere. * The hosts highlight the history and characteristics of the Monaco circuit, emphasizing its tight and narrow streets, low-efficiency layout, and the absence of modern safety features. * They discuss the unique strategies and considerations for teams and drivers in Monaco, including the importance of qualifying, the limited opportunities for overtaking, and the potential impact of weather conditions. * The hosts also delve into the history of the race, sharing anecdotes and stories about past controversies, incidents, and memorable moments.
**Key Insights:**
* Monaco is a unique and challenging circuit that requires a different approach from other races on the Formula One calendar. * Qualifying is crucial in Monaco due to the difficulty of overtaking, making it essential for drivers to secure a good grid position. * The race is often unpredictable due to the tight and narrow nature of the circuit, which can lead to incidents and safety concerns. * The glamour and exclusivity associated with Monaco make it a popular destination for celebrities and high-profile individuals, adding to the race's allure.
**Important Quotes:**
* "Monaco is the definition of a low-efficiency circuit. You're going to put the biggest, nastiest, dirtiest son of a bitch on your car as long as it makes downforce. It's going on." * "Monaco is all about qualifying and it's a shit race because it's boring. But last year was good. We had people running the inters super long trying to hang it out." * "Qualifying is king and qualifying is probably the most excitement we'll get unless it's a wet weather race."
**Analysis:**
The podcast provides an informative and entertaining preview of the Monaco Grand Prix, capturing the unique characteristics and challenges of the race. The hosts' insights into the strategies, history, and controversies surrounding Monaco offer a deeper understanding of the event and its significance in the Formula One calendar. The anecdotes and stories shared by the hosts add a personal touch and make the discussion more engaging.
The podcast also highlights the importance of qualifying in Monaco and the limited opportunities for overtaking, emphasizing the need for drivers to be strategic and aggressive in their approach. The discussion of the potential impact of weather conditions adds an element of uncertainty and unpredictability to the race.
Overall, the podcast serves as a comprehensive and engaging preview of the Monaco Grand Prix, providing listeners with valuable insights and historical context to enhance their understanding and enjoyment of the race. ## Episode Summary: Monaco Grand Prix Preview
**Intro:** - Hosts Blake and Dan chat about their experiences in Monaco. - Dan shares a story about sneaking onto a yacht during the Monaco Grand Prix weekend.
**Predictions:** - Blake and Dan make predictions for the upcoming Monaco Grand Prix weekend. - Blake predicts Max Verstappen will win the race, followed by Charles Leclerc and Sergio Perez. - Dan predicts Verstappen will also win, with Carlos Sainz Jr. in second and Fernando Alonso in third.
**Mercedes' Performance:** - The hosts discuss Mercedes' recent struggles and whether they will be able to improve their performance in Monaco. - Blake believes Mercedes will show some improvement, but it will take time for them to fully understand the new upgrades they have brought to the car. - Dan agrees that Mercedes will likely be faster than they were in Baku and Miami, but he still has them as the fourth fastest team this weekend.
**Random Fandom Teams:** - Blake chooses Aston Martin as his random fandom team for the Monaco Grand Prix. - Dan chooses Ferrari as his random fandom team.
**Charity Stream:** - Dan announces that he will be doing a 24-hour stream during the Monaco Grand Prix weekend to raise money for the Samaritans charity.
**Outro:** - The hosts wrap up the episode and encourage listeners to check out Dan's stream and donate to the Samaritans charity.
Raw Transcript with Timestamps
[00:00.000 -> 00:07.000] You're listening to the most fraudulent F1 podcast with Dan, a.k.a. EngineNord11. [00:07.000 -> 00:11.680] I secretly moonlight and tell what Marco at race weekends. [00:11.680 -> 00:13.720] And Blake, a.k.a. Brake. [00:13.720 -> 00:16.880] Echo chambers of farts and idiots on Twitter after races. [00:16.880 -> 00:27.960] It's the Engine Breaking F1 podcast. What a banger of an introduction. [00:27.960 -> 00:30.520] Welcome to the Engine Breaking Podcast. [00:30.520 -> 00:33.640] I am one of two of your terrible fraudulent hosts. [00:33.640 -> 00:40.280] My name is Blake, aka Break, and I present to you Dan, aka Engine Mode 11, the super [00:40.280 -> 00:41.800] Twitter fraud lord. [00:41.800 -> 00:45.400] We are two former Formula One engineers now making a podcast fueled by vibes. [00:45.720 -> 00:49.840] And then every now and then we sprinkle in a little bit of a tin foil hat [00:49.840 -> 00:53.000] shattering fraudulence in their butt. [00:53.040 -> 00:59.600] Love and wrapped around in a wrapper of some semblance of technical knowledge. [01:00.160 -> 01:00.640] Hmm. [01:01.280 -> 01:06.260] And if anybody asks about anti-dive today, [01:06.260 -> 01:09.080] I'm literally gonna lose my stuff. [01:09.080 -> 01:10.440] I'm gonna freak out. [01:11.480 -> 01:13.720] Anti-dive is one of the most insane innovations [01:13.720 -> 01:15.560] that we've ever seen in a race car. [01:16.880 -> 01:17.720] It is. [01:17.720 -> 01:18.540] I'm just kidding. [01:18.540 -> 01:19.380] I'm losing my mind. [01:19.380 -> 01:20.200] People freaking out about that. [01:20.200 -> 01:22.760] I've got a video that is going out in two weeks about that. [01:22.760 -> 01:23.600] I'm working on it. [01:23.600 -> 01:24.420] I'm slow. [01:24.420 -> 01:28.960] I'm slow, don't sue me. But welcome to the engine breaking podcast. Last week we had the Imola preview [01:28.960 -> 01:33.860] and the no Imola review because there was no Imola Grand Prix. And this week we're going [01:33.860 -> 01:40.340] to give you guys a little bit of a preview of the Monaco Grand Prix. So I've got quite [01:40.340 -> 01:45.120] a few stories from being at the track and we'll share those in with a little bit [01:45.120 -> 01:49.660] of the news what's going on in Formula One right now. We've got a lot of changes happening. [01:49.660 -> 01:52.880] We definitely have people talking about anti dive in the Twitch stream already. You're [01:52.880 -> 01:59.880] getting banned. I'm just kidding. And yeah, we got a got a little preview for the Monaco [01:59.880 -> 02:06.760] Grand Prix. Dan, what's what's new in the news in the Formula One world today? We had Imola cancelled due to rain. [02:07.960 -> 02:12.720] That was a definitely rare Formula One W question. [02:13.600 -> 02:21.040] Yeah, they were quite quick about it for F1 standard, considering in what? [02:21.040 -> 02:22.160] When was it? Australia? [02:22.160 -> 02:23.800] When was COVID? I can't even remember now. [02:23.800 -> 02:25.960] Was that 2020, wasn't it? [02:25.960 -> 02:27.840] Yeah, and that kicked off, they banned it. [02:27.840 -> 02:28.720] What? [02:28.720 -> 02:29.840] They didn't ban it. [02:29.840 -> 02:32.200] They canceled the weekend, [02:32.200 -> 02:34.080] I think it was an hour before FP1. [02:34.080 -> 02:36.680] They even had like the support cars out on track [02:36.680 -> 02:39.480] and they were like, actually guys, can it. [02:39.480 -> 02:41.720] We've got a global pandemic coming in [02:41.720 -> 02:43.760] and it's gonna change the way that you live, [02:43.760 -> 02:47.180] breathe, eat for the next three years. [02:47.180 -> 02:48.180] That was wild. [02:48.180 -> 02:52.120] I remember my better half was out there for work and it's like, you know, they're out. [02:52.120 -> 02:53.600] How's it going off Thursday night? [02:53.600 -> 02:54.600] Had some beers with everybody. [02:54.600 -> 02:56.940] It's like, yeah, there's this weird thing that's like happened in China. [02:56.940 -> 02:58.480] We keep talking about it on the television. [02:58.480 -> 03:04.200] But anyway, then all of a sudden, like I think somebody from McLaren caught it. [03:04.200 -> 03:05.000] And everybody was like, [03:05.000 -> 03:06.000] right, that's it. [03:06.000 -> 03:08.640] Everybody hop on flights and go home. [03:08.640 -> 03:12.600] It was actually wild and it changed everything. [03:12.600 -> 03:13.600] It did. [03:13.600 -> 03:14.600] There you go. [03:14.600 -> 03:17.800] But Imola, we said, now we go back and listen to it. [03:17.800 -> 03:21.760] I said there was a 50, 50% chance of rain. [03:21.760 -> 03:26.800] Well, jinx that, didn't we? So Imola, you know, they had some pretty, [03:26.800 -> 03:34.560] uh, major flooding in the area. Um, and I think he got to the stage on Wednesday where basically [03:34.560 -> 03:39.840] F1 turned around and said, Hey, none of you lot can come in to the track because it's, it's, you [03:39.840 -> 03:44.080] know, the, the, the river that runs next to the track was like right at his limit and ready to go. [03:43.640 -> 03:44.640] know, the, the, the river that runs next to the track was like right at his limit and ready to go. [03:44.640 -> 03:50.160] Um, and then I think it was like the deputy prime minister for Italy turned around and [03:50.160 -> 03:52.920] said, nah, guys, come on, be sensible. [03:52.920 -> 03:59.400] Let's just can this and redirect all the resources and effort to the local population and that. [03:59.400 -> 04:01.720] So, uh, yeah, sad, sad story. [04:01.720 -> 04:06.280] Cause I think five, I think it was 5,000 people, probably more than that now were [04:06.280 -> 04:06.880] displaced. [04:06.880 -> 04:09.120] And I think we had eight deaths, I think. [04:09.740 -> 04:10.680] So that's terrible. [04:11.120 -> 04:15.440] That's horrible, but it does, it sounds like a formula one themselves and some of [04:15.440 -> 04:20.160] the teams also, you know, did what they could also to help despite probably losing [04:20.160 -> 04:21.920] shit loads of money on, on the event. [04:21.920 -> 04:31.020] So, um, we had, uh, Ferrari came out and did a million euros, uh, F1 match that and did a million [04:31.020 -> 04:35.120] euros. And then we've seen like some of the drivers do charity streams and things like [04:35.120 -> 04:36.120] that. [04:36.120 -> 04:40.320] Did Mercedes send some cash as well? I think there were quite a few teams sending a fair. [04:40.320 -> 04:44.040] I may, I may have probably missed it to be honest, but yeah. Yeah. I think Mercedes did [04:44.040 -> 04:45.160] as well, but, uh, um, yeah. Yeah. I think Mercedes did as well, but yeah. [04:45.160 -> 04:49.560] Yeah. And then all the, this is the one I thought was quite, quite good. There's all [04:49.560 -> 04:53.360] the food and drinks and all that. They're obviously hospitality. Cause there's like [04:53.360 -> 04:58.720] mountains of food and drink. Like if you saw it, it's insane. [04:58.720 -> 05:02.960] Well, it's not just like the team's food. It's all the catering bills for all the teams. [05:02.960 -> 05:08.520] So you've all that food that they bought earlier in the week. You've got all the hospitality for all the VIPs and [05:08.520 -> 05:12.200] you've got everything else. I'm not sure concessions fall into that because those are usually [05:12.200 -> 05:16.680] independent operators, but like all that stuff that was FOM or subsidiaries, they're like, [05:16.680 -> 05:19.480] right, we'll just fucking buy it off you and we'll send it to the locals that have been [05:19.480 -> 05:24.560] displaced and support. So that was super cool. That was a really nice gesture, despite a [05:24.560 -> 05:26.320] very miserable [05:26.320 -> 05:27.320] situation. [05:27.320 -> 05:33.000] Yeah. And then like I think we saw maybe on the Wednesday or the Thursday, like pictures [05:33.000 -> 05:39.400] coming out of the support paddock. A lot of them were underwater. The TV compound, I don't [05:39.400 -> 05:43.120] know if you saw that. That was underwater. So I was a little bit like... [05:43.120 -> 05:44.920] Didn't they lose some gear there? [05:44.920 -> 05:45.720] They must have. [05:46.120 -> 05:47.860] Yeah, but like, but you know, you know what? [05:47.860 -> 05:50.880] It's like losing some gear in a rainstorm in Malaysia or Singapore. [05:50.880 -> 05:51.400] I don't. [05:51.420 -> 05:54.720] You can just throw the whole server in a bag of rice and you'll be all right. [05:54.720 -> 05:55.160] About it. [05:55.180 -> 05:55.560] Yeah. [05:57.440 -> 06:02.200] Oh, we had some, we had some huge news today and I feel like I feel like we saw [06:02.200 -> 06:07.980] this one coming and it I'm, I'm excited about it, [06:07.980 -> 06:08.980] but I don't know. [06:08.980 -> 06:12.240] What's, what's the, what's the big, the big news today? [06:12.240 -> 06:15.240] The big hot juicy news, ladies and gentlemen. [06:15.240 -> 06:19.240] I was about to call in George Michael then. [06:19.240 -> 06:21.240] Sorry, George Russell, George Russell. [06:21.240 -> 06:24.240] Oh, the dogs are on the radio. [06:24.240 -> 06:26.040] Everyone's kicking off. Uh, yeah. Um, George Michael was, I the dogs are on the radio. Everyone's kicking off. [06:26.040 -> 06:29.800] Yeah, George Michael, as I'm now going to call him. [06:29.800 -> 06:31.480] No, no, while we're talking about George Michael, sorry, [06:31.480 -> 06:34.840] this is no, Aston Martin have got Honda engines for 2026. [06:34.840 -> 06:36.040] What the fuck happened now? [06:36.040 -> 06:36.880] I completely lost my mind. [06:36.880 -> 06:39.840] George Michael, yeah, get in there. [06:39.840 -> 06:44.080] Aston Martin, Honda, 2026 onwards. [06:44.080 -> 06:45.480] So Honda can continue their technical deal with Red Bull. Aston Martin Honda 2026 onwards. So. [06:49.040 -> 06:50.680] Honda can continue their technical deal with Red Bull. [06:54.120 -> 06:54.780] Through the end of 2025, and that includes Alpha Tauri. [06:55.480 -> 06:56.680] But. [06:59.120 -> 07:02.360] Is this an exclusive deal from 2026? It's Honda and Aston Martin all over. [07:02.420 -> 07:07.640] It seems to me so that from what I've read, Honda said they got no plans to supply anyone [07:07.640 -> 07:08.640] else, right? [07:08.640 -> 07:13.880] So it's an Aston Martin, Honda works team. [07:13.880 -> 07:15.800] And you say that like we saw this coming. [07:15.800 -> 07:17.240] I didn't see this coming, man. [07:17.240 -> 07:19.840] Honda and Aston completely took me by surprise. [07:19.840 -> 07:21.200] I heard rumors but I never thought it was going to happen. [07:21.200 -> 07:23.160] I might have heard something that was more than a rumor. [07:23.160 -> 07:24.160] I don't know. [07:24.160 -> 07:27.600] I don't know. You're leaning on your insider knowledge. [07:28.160 -> 07:28.640] I don't know. [07:30.880 -> 07:34.080] So yeah, we got Honda and Aston Martin linking up. [07:34.720 -> 07:38.320] Apparently Honda held talks with McLaren and Williams. [07:38.320 -> 07:41.440] I think we knew or heard of the McLaren talks happening. [07:42.320 -> 07:43.520] Yes, yeah, that was that. [07:43.520 -> 07:45.800] I wasn't sure if we knew about Williams. [07:47.600 -> 07:48.400] I didn't know about that. [07:48.400 -> 07:53.680] No, no, but they're, I think Aston had said a lot about a year ago or whatever. [07:53.680 -> 07:56.680] They were looking to potentially build their own engine. [07:56.880 -> 07:59.000] Um, but ultimately it's not viable. [07:59.440 -> 08:01.360] Um, so yeah, it makes sense. [08:01.360 -> 08:01.680] Right. [08:02.140 -> 08:02.520] Yeah. [08:03.000 -> 08:06.480] Well, that's, that's one of the things like. [08:11.040 -> 08:15.600] Red Bull powertrains, you know, that they're effectively using licensed Honda stuff right now and they're operating it with some staff and renting resources and everything else. [08:16.480 -> 08:18.160] Building a new power unit from the ground up. [08:20.400 -> 08:28.420] Man, imagine, imagine that upsets the order and you have, you know, Red Bull dominate these three, four years. [08:28.420 -> 08:33.200] And then what if you had a Honda Aston Martin dominance in 26? [08:33.200 -> 08:39.980] There's going to be a huge emphasis on battery on the electric side of that. [08:39.980 -> 08:43.540] And then a lot of it will be people adapting to strategy, which won't take too long with [08:43.540 -> 08:47.920] dealing with the new, the smaller engine, the bigger electrical motor and all that. [08:47.920 -> 08:55.340] But yeah, well, it was the increased focus on hybrid technology that apparently lured [08:55.340 -> 08:56.340] Honda back in. [08:56.340 -> 09:03.320] They had a CEO change and I think the new CEO understood perhaps maybe the value of [09:03.320 -> 09:05.840] F1 a bit more than the outgoing one and was [09:05.840 -> 09:06.840] looking to come back. [09:06.840 -> 09:12.360] Was it a little bit of the change of guard from the old school to the new school? [09:12.360 -> 09:13.360] Possibly. Yeah. [09:13.360 -> 09:17.960] Yeah. That seems like classic Honda, like things are going okay and they dip out. You [09:17.960 -> 09:23.680] had, you had the Bron car, which was a world destroyer as it started. And then they didn't [09:23.680 -> 09:27.960] develop the car at all. And then Merc bought it for a bit. [09:27.960 -> 09:29.960] I think it was literally like a pound, wasn't it? [09:29.960 -> 09:36.120] I think Braun bought it from Honda for a pound and then I think they sold to Merc after that. [09:36.120 -> 09:37.120] Oh, sorry. [09:37.120 -> 09:40.240] I could be completely wrong on that, but I think it's one of those two scenarios. [09:40.240 -> 09:43.920] One of us is, we're both collectively 200% correct. [09:43.920 -> 09:48.960] So if you mash both of our opinions or whatever together, you'll get the truth. [09:49.760 -> 09:52.360] Maybe imagine that guarantees. [09:53.080 -> 09:53.580] But. [09:54.960 -> 09:59.880] Yeah, that's wild, like as soon as as soon as they're getting good, they dip out and then you have this Red Bull Honda thing. [09:59.880 -> 10:01.080] It's like, this is amazing. [10:01.160 -> 10:02.840] And they're like, yeah, you know what? [10:03.280 -> 10:04.800] We're just not interested anymore. [10:04.800 -> 10:07.040] It's like you guys is amazing. And they're like, yeah, you know what? Uh, we're just not interested anymore. It's like, you guys just want a championship. [10:07.960 -> 10:09.640] Well, apparently I was reading about this. [10:09.640 -> 10:13.000] Apparently they made decision internally to pull out before they won the [10:13.000 -> 10:17.120] championship and then they were like, ah, fuck, like we've messed this up a bit. [10:17.120 -> 10:17.360] Yeah. [10:17.360 -> 10:20.880] But, uh, unfortunately the wheels are already in motion. [10:20.880 -> 10:25.160] They already basically told all their staff in the UK side of it [10:25.160 -> 10:30.520] that unlucky you're out of a job. They pulled out of F1 they closed their [10:30.520 -> 10:34.880] Milton Keynes facility and they had one somewhere else where they built the cars [10:34.880 -> 10:42.160] I've forgotten the name of it now. It'll come back to me I'm sure. But now they've [10:42.160 -> 10:48.520] got to go through the rigmarole of basically going around and saying, ah, we need another UK base of operations now. [10:48.520 -> 10:50.680] And we need to get all the staff back. [10:50.680 -> 10:54.800] So we're either going to lure people back that we lost to Red Bull, or we have to go [10:54.800 -> 10:56.680] through the hiring process all over again. [10:56.680 -> 11:00.920] So basically, like monetary wise, it probably would have saved money if they just fucking [11:00.920 -> 11:01.920] stayed in. [11:01.920 -> 11:02.920] Yeah. [11:02.920 -> 11:06.040] And then Red Bull, but at the same time, then Red Bull wouldn't be expanding their [11:06.040 -> 11:10.040] canvas and developing a power unit development facility and everything else. [11:10.040 -> 11:11.320] So this is interesting. [11:11.320 -> 11:14.800] So Aston are becoming a fairly independent. [11:14.800 -> 11:16.760] They'll have a works deal effectively with Honda. [11:17.200 -> 11:20.200] Red Bull will be making their own power units, supplying [11:20.200 -> 11:22.800] those to Alpha Tauri. [11:23.720 -> 11:25.080] And that's it. [11:25.160 -> 11:30.400] It just seems wild to me that in 2026, we're going to have two PUs on the grid. [11:30.920 -> 11:34.720] The potentially basically the family tree is a circle. [11:38.280 -> 11:41.800] Are we talking about some like game of Thrones, like super incest [11:41.800 -> 11:43.080] cycle of engine development? [11:43.520 -> 11:44.440] Yeah, pretty much. [11:44.920 -> 11:46.320] Wow. Yeah. Game of pretty much. Wow. Yeah. [11:46.320 -> 11:54.740] Game of pistons. Wow. Wow. It's like when we had, uh, when was it? 2012 or whatever, [11:54.740 -> 11:59.480] maybe even more recent than that. When we had Lotus and team Lotus in F1, it's going [11:59.480 -> 12:07.940] to be like that again. That was weird. It's like, no, no, you know, you who's, who's the real Red Bull power trains. Who's the real Honda power trains. [12:07.940 -> 12:11.940] It's the fun and games. Um, but you said, [12:12.140 -> 12:16.260] picking up on your point you mentioned earlier about possibly coming in in 2026 [12:16.700 -> 12:20.860] and dominating, uh, not outside the realms of possibility, [12:20.860 -> 12:23.660] because as part of this announcement, [12:23.660 -> 12:27.320] Honda quietly dropped in that actually the entire time they've [12:27.320 -> 12:30.920] been working on the 2026 power unit in the background, albeit [12:30.920 -> 12:34.680] with a small team. But they even you know, before they even [12:34.680 -> 12:38.080] decided and had the deal signed to come back in, they were [12:38.280 -> 12:40.600] working on it in the event that they did. So [12:41.320 -> 12:44.860] that's not surprising to me at all. Like, are you going to, you [12:44.860 -> 12:47.080] know, you have this whole everything [12:47.440 -> 12:50.920] revolving around building and dyno testing and signing off [12:50.920 -> 12:53.920] and commissioning, you know, production formula on engines [12:53.920 -> 12:56.200] and then operations based in the UK. [12:56.880 -> 12:59.800] And then you have Japanese staff that are cycling in and out of the UK [12:59.800 -> 13:02.760] back and forth between Japan, the UK on a rotation basis. [13:03.560 -> 13:09.840] And then they're like, yeah, why don't we just keep like five people working on a single cylinder for 26? Then we'll have a people doing [13:09.840 -> 13:14.400] some, cause they're not just going to lay off all those people. I mean, they might've laid off a lot [13:14.400 -> 13:18.240] of people, but you know, they want to keep, they don't want to have a super, super brain drain. [13:18.960 -> 13:25.480] No, I'm thinking, I think some people transferred back to Sakura, the Honda facility out there. [13:25.480 -> 13:29.160] I think they encouraged most of them to go back and they weren't particularly pleased [13:29.160 -> 13:31.320] that some of the people stayed at Red Bull. [13:31.320 -> 13:36.640] I'm reckoning because that's also from what I understand, and if anybody understands the [13:36.640 -> 13:41.320] Japanese automotive culture, but I think the understanding I have is that like, if you're [13:41.320 -> 13:45.840] a Toyota or Honda or whatever person, that's a job for life if you're good. [13:45.840 -> 13:49.520] Let's say that you're literally sorted, nothing else. [13:49.520 -> 13:51.280] And then, yeah, now that it's like, [13:51.280 -> 13:53.560] oh, well, you've pulled out of this [13:53.560 -> 13:56.120] and it's like Red Bull powertrains could go under [13:56.120 -> 13:58.460] and then you won't have that Honda pension [13:58.460 -> 14:00.160] and all the other benefits that come with that. [14:00.160 -> 14:02.640] So it's a big risk for the people, [14:02.640 -> 14:04.920] but hopefully the people that did stay over, [14:05.120 -> 14:08.560] they got that fucking bag, You know what I'm saying? [14:09.360 -> 14:13.280] Yeah. Props to, you know what I'm going to give, I'll give my props to Lawrence Stroll. [14:14.080 -> 14:21.760] He hasn't come in and just sort of been a crap rich person running a team. He [14:21.760 -> 14:25.280] genuinely seems to be building a good solid base here. [14:25.920 -> 14:29.920] It's wild. It's wild. We didn't expect this. Honestly, like we're like, oh, he's got a, [14:30.720 -> 14:35.600] you know, you, the first impression is him building a team. So to his son has a drive [14:35.600 -> 14:40.160] and you're thinking, oh, come on, Lance is not great. He's become pretty freaking reasonable. [14:40.160 -> 14:46.320] In my opinion, he's decent. He's decent. [14:46.320 -> 14:49.720] Someone says in the chat, Lawrence put his money where his mouth is. And yeah, I agree [14:49.720 -> 14:52.760] with that. That's a good statement. Yeah, he has. [14:52.760 -> 14:53.760] Absolutely. Absolutely. [14:53.760 -> 14:58.120] Got this massive new campus that I think is opening soon. They got the wind tunnel. They're [14:58.120 -> 15:03.320] going to obviously now have this works deal with Honda. They are on the up. [15:03.320 -> 15:07.040] Yeah. And I think, I think the relationship with Honda will be a very [15:07.920 -> 15:13.440] professional one, like the one they have with Mercedes. That's a slick operation. [15:15.200 -> 15:20.080] No Renault slander here directly, obviously. We would never do such a thing on this podcast. [15:20.080 -> 15:26.240] We remain professional at all times. Speaking of then, other engine manufacturers, and let's not, [15:26.240 -> 15:29.280] we're not, we're going to, we're going to rewind. We're in 2026 right now, ladies and gentlemen, [15:29.280 -> 15:35.440] we're going to hop in our time machine and come back to the 2023 Monaco Grand Prix buildup. [15:35.440 -> 15:41.280] Mercedes have brought something which is going to revolutionize Formula 1. [15:42.720 -> 15:52.680] They brought side pods, baby. Yes. Yeah.. Yes. Yeah. The advantage of no side pods was officially locked in for 18 months. I'm calling [15:52.680 -> 16:01.840] it now. It's done. Yeah. Done. So literally like an hour before we've gone live, we had [16:01.840 -> 16:10.100] some pictures drop, uh, showing like a redesigned side inlet and a revised front suspension [16:10.100 -> 16:13.040] with some anti-dive properties. [16:13.040 -> 16:14.040] See that chat? [16:14.040 -> 16:15.720] Guys, did you see what you did? [16:15.720 -> 16:16.720] God! [16:16.720 -> 16:18.520] Managed to sneak that one in there chat. [16:18.520 -> 16:20.520] Am I going to have to go off on a tangent? [16:20.520 -> 16:21.520] No, no, no. [16:21.520 -> 16:22.520] Get back in your box. [16:22.520 -> 16:23.520] Get back in your box. [16:23.520 -> 16:24.520] Alright, fine. [16:24.520 -> 16:33.080] I'm about to fucking lose it And then half hour later we had another photo emerge of the clamshell which basically does look like a side pod. So [16:33.880 -> 16:35.600] Yeah, there we go [16:35.600 -> 16:41.920] Not very developed though. It looks like a very very basic side pod. It's like a hybrid between sort of like the [16:42.880 -> 16:44.880] 2020 and 2021 Ferrari [16:45.000 -> 16:46.240] a hybrid between sort of like the 2020 and 2021 Ferrari. [16:47.080 -> 16:50.100] Okay. It just looks a bit bland and that's not slander, you know. [16:51.360 -> 16:53.880] You're so fucking biased, it's unbelievable. [16:53.880 -> 16:55.520] Say something nice about them for something. [16:55.520 -> 16:56.620] Fuck Mercedes, no. [16:58.360 -> 17:01.520] Yeah, so all the drama that kicked off, [17:01.520 -> 17:02.360] like, oh, they are, [17:02.360 -> 17:04.480] and they like all this upgrades and whatnot. [17:04.480 -> 17:06.480] I got um I still [17:06.480 -> 17:12.000] know people that are in F1 believe it or not you know not everyone's blocked and deleted me yet [17:12.880 -> 17:19.760] yet um and I had some guy from quite high up in Mercedes message me saying like how amused they [17:19.760 -> 17:24.560] all were in the office watching everyone lose their minds um over this potential upgrade and [17:24.560 -> 17:25.840] people need to sort of taper [17:25.840 -> 17:27.160] their expectations a little bit. [17:27.160 -> 17:29.560] And I was like, yeah, well, that's just the internet, isn't it? [17:30.120 -> 17:30.280] Yeah. [17:30.280 -> 17:32.640] But that's also form of the one, like what was it? [17:32.640 -> 17:36.320] The last time we saw, I forgot who it was, was it Sabu or Yeppa that said, [17:36.520 -> 17:39.920] and if I didn't get this right, they said the last time we had a, or it was [17:39.920 -> 17:45.520] even Rory, maybe the last time we had a huge. Change. [17:48.040 -> 17:50.640] In terms of somebody bringing an upgrade, that was a huge upgrade. It was force India's B spec back in the day. [17:51.440 -> 17:52.360] Yeah, you remember that? [17:52.360 -> 17:53.680] Yeah, that plucky little team. [17:54.200 -> 17:56.480] Yeah, which is now Aston Martin. [17:56.600 -> 17:58.280] So that's, that's pretty wild. [17:58.680 -> 18:02.760] So yeah, I think people should definitely be careful with their [18:02.760 -> 18:05.040] expectations and not get too wrapped up. But [18:05.040 -> 18:13.200] let's please hope that Mercedes have found a substantial upgrade and they're going to be [18:13.200 -> 18:18.160] finding some performance that they can compete. So, I mean, we'll come back to this point later, [18:18.160 -> 18:22.560] but so far at any event this year, the closest they were to pole when everybody was struggling [18:22.560 -> 18:26.000] with warmup, they were 0.35% off of pole. [18:26.000 -> 18:30.520] Everywhere else, they're 0.6% off or even 1% off of pole, [18:30.520 -> 18:33.720] which is a huge performance gap, and they're just kind of in the no man's land. [18:33.720 -> 18:36.320] So, yeah, let's hope. [18:36.320 -> 18:40.520] The other thing as well is obviously these upgrades were planned for Imola. [18:41.520 -> 18:43.120] Didn't happen, obviously. [18:43.120 -> 18:48.800] So bringing a massive upgrade package to Monaco that you've not tested on track [18:48.800 -> 18:52.280] yet, sounds like an incredible risk. [18:52.700 -> 18:54.080] And it is, let's be fair. [18:54.120 -> 18:54.620] It is. [18:55.200 -> 18:59.560] Uh, but they don't have much choice because, uh, they've modified the chassis [18:59.600 -> 19:02.040] to accommodate new suspension pickup points. [19:02.720 -> 19:05.520] Um, so it's kind of all in basically. [19:05.520 -> 19:10.160] Yeah, you can't, it's not like there's a control Z on that one. No, it's like, can we put, [19:10.160 -> 19:16.480] so basically if they've, it looks like they've changed side pods. So the way the formula [19:16.480 -> 19:21.800] one cars works is you can change hard points in the front of the chassis to some extent, [19:21.800 -> 19:25.040] but often it might be changing inserts or removing stuff. [19:27.080 -> 19:29.760] And I haven't seen that done too many times. I know that people do it and I just never paid too much attention to it. [19:30.040 -> 19:32.240] The other thing is with like a bodywork change, like with the [19:32.240 -> 19:33.840] side pods and everything else you have. [19:34.240 -> 19:38.080] You have these fairings, which are bonded onto the survival cell or the monocoque [19:38.120 -> 19:42.120] and those accommodate, you know, all the fasteners for all the bodywork panels. [19:42.280 -> 19:43.600] I mean, you have a big change like that. [19:43.600 -> 19:47.920] You have to basically cut all those flanges off [19:47.920 -> 19:50.040] and then re-bond them on to accommodate the new bodywork. [19:50.040 -> 19:53.300] So this is not a, let's just delay this upgrade. [19:53.300 -> 19:55.440] And I know I saw you and a couple of other people [19:55.440 -> 19:57.660] being quite cautious, [19:57.660 -> 20:00.440] like bringing a huge package update to Monaco [20:00.440 -> 20:02.760] is a huge risk, and I think it definitely is, [20:02.760 -> 20:04.640] but they've committed to this [20:04.640 -> 20:06.320] and they were gonna commit to it anyway. [20:06.320 -> 20:09.460] And at the same time, Monaco's not about, [20:10.680 -> 20:14.880] Monaco's about avoiding yellow or red flags, [20:14.880 -> 20:17.160] keeping it out of the fucking barriers [20:17.160 -> 20:19.040] and being on track at the right time. [20:19.040 -> 20:19.880] That's what it is. [20:19.880 -> 20:21.640] And you could have, [20:21.640 -> 20:25.160] the driver can make a huge difference around Monaco. [20:25.160 -> 20:29.920] Yes, we're still going to see a performance gap from top to bottom of the field, but, [20:29.920 -> 20:34.880] um, yeah, we'll, we'll talk more about what, what makes a car quick around Monaco in a [20:34.880 -> 20:35.880] little bit. [20:35.880 -> 20:40.480] But yeah, my, my concern with the risk around it is obviously, like you mentioned a keeping [20:40.480 -> 20:41.480] out the wall. [20:41.480 -> 20:48.920] Um, but it's been, you know, obviously we didn't go to him, Imola, so I'd imagine they've probably got some spares knocked up now. So perhaps maybe that's not [20:48.920 -> 20:52.720] quite such a risk. But my other question, and this is one that you might be able to [20:52.720 -> 21:00.880] answer is what, what quality of, what's the quality of data going to be from these upgrades [21:00.880 -> 21:03.840] in a track like Monaco? It's such a unique circuit. [21:03.840 -> 21:07.660] Yeah, it's, you know, there's two things, right? [21:07.660 -> 21:09.960] The car, around Monaco, you end up setting up the car [21:09.960 -> 21:12.480] quite high and quite soft because it's bumpy as fuck. [21:12.480 -> 21:14.440] I mean, you look at the bump at turn five, [21:14.440 -> 21:16.240] they have to drive around this bump. [21:16.240 -> 21:19.180] They don't drive straight into the braking zone at turn five. [21:19.180 -> 21:21.060] You have very high front ride height. [21:21.060 -> 21:23.320] You've got pretty soft front suspension. [21:23.320 -> 21:25.800] You've got relatively high rear ride height, depending, got pretty soft front suspension, you've got relatively high rear ride height, [21:25.800 -> 21:27.640] depending, that's not necessarily true, [21:27.640 -> 21:30.120] but in terms of aerodynamics data, [21:30.120 -> 21:31.520] you know, it's not like you have a, [21:31.520 -> 21:33.720] it's not like you've got a 200 kilometer an hour [21:33.720 -> 21:35.680] straight line aero pass that you can do anywhere, [21:35.680 -> 21:37.160] like maybe through the tunnel, [21:37.160 -> 21:41.120] but yeah, it's difficult making quality assessments. [21:41.120 -> 21:44.620] All you can say is working, not working, [21:44.620 -> 21:46.560] but comparatively to say, you define details, it's relatively lower quality assessments, all you can say is working, not working. But comparatively to say, in [21:46.560 -> 21:51.560] fine details, it's relatively lower quality data. But at the same time, I think they'll [21:51.560 -> 21:55.600] know if it's going to be a shitter or not. But maybe it just doesn't go well, and we're [21:55.600 -> 22:00.600] have to wait until Barcelona, which is a very classic, which is typically the winter testing [22:00.600 -> 22:11.060] circuit. So people know what to expect and how to set up a car for Barcelona. So I agree with you, Barcelona will be a much truer test for them internally to understand [22:11.060 -> 22:17.540] and probably be to see if the performance is there because I wouldn't be surprised if [22:17.540 -> 22:19.180] they go well around Monaco. [22:19.180 -> 22:25.120] Yeah, well I'm just sending my thoughts and prayers to the poor engineers that have to [22:25.120 -> 22:27.520] get an aero map of that car in Monaco. [22:27.520 -> 22:30.160] That'd be fun. [22:30.160 -> 22:33.320] I feel like we've done that at some point before, like introduced a new component and [22:33.320 -> 22:34.320] we had to do some scans. [22:34.320 -> 22:35.840] I don't think that's the case. [22:35.840 -> 22:36.840] You don't do that there. [22:36.840 -> 22:41.360] Like, to be fair, earlier in the season, people probably have been putting their biggest, [22:41.360 -> 22:51.760] nastiest mother trucker of a rear wing on the car just to check that it was stable prior to going to Monaco. You usually don't build, they might now, but back [22:51.760 -> 22:55.600] in the day, you usually never, ever brought that nasty, huge rear wing. You'd run that rear wing [22:55.600 -> 23:02.480] at maybe Hungary, maybe Monaco and Singapore. That's it. And you test it quite early to make [23:02.480 -> 23:09.580] sure it was stable because it's very highly loaded and higher probability that it would have some detachment issues. [23:09.580 -> 23:12.880] Could you use that high downforce wing at Mexico as well? [23:12.880 -> 23:13.880] You would. [23:13.880 -> 23:14.880] You would. [23:14.880 -> 23:15.880] Definitely would. [23:15.880 -> 23:16.880] Because of the low atmospheric pressure. [23:16.880 -> 23:17.880] Mmm. [23:17.880 -> 23:18.880] Mmm. [23:18.880 -> 23:19.880] Atmosphere. [23:19.880 -> 23:20.880] Science, technical. [23:20.880 -> 23:21.880] Fuck this. [23:21.880 -> 23:22.880] Where's the fraudulence? [23:22.880 -> 23:23.880] Bring it back. [23:23.880 -> 23:25.000] We're getting too technical? Bring it back to begin to technical. [23:25.000 -> 23:26.000] Bring us back out. [23:26.200 -> 23:27.800] If anybody talks about anti dive, [23:27.800 -> 23:28.900] I will go down a rabbit hole, [23:28.900 -> 23:29.800] so please don't. [23:30.500 -> 23:31.300] I'll do it later. [23:31.500 -> 23:32.300] I'll do it later for you guys, [23:32.300 -> 23:33.400] but something else is changing [23:33.400 -> 23:34.600] in Monaco this weekend, [23:34.900 -> 23:36.100] and it's something that's going to [23:36.100 -> 23:38.400] directly impact our viewing [23:38.400 -> 23:39.900] and performance pleasure [23:39.900 -> 23:41.200] of the Monaco Grand Prix. [23:41.200 -> 23:43.400] No, it's not going to make overtaking easy, [23:43.400 -> 23:45.720] but we might not miss the overtakes [23:45.720 -> 23:47.760] to a picture of Lance Stroll just driving his car [23:47.760 -> 23:49.720] and then back to not an overtake. [23:49.720 -> 23:51.320] Why would that be? [23:51.320 -> 23:52.160] Wow. [23:53.040 -> 23:56.040] The TV coverage for the Monaco Grand Prix this year [23:56.040 -> 23:57.680] and for the next three years [23:57.680 -> 24:00.160] is going to be produced in-house by F1 [24:00.160 -> 24:07.360] like they do at every other circuit in the past, apart from they have done at Monaco, [24:07.360 -> 24:10.000] which has been done by Tele Montecarlo. [24:11.760 -> 24:14.240] It sounds like some European bullshit. [24:14.240 -> 24:18.640] This basically just screams to me that basically for them to get their contract renewed, [24:18.640 -> 24:23.920] they had to relinquish their rights for local TV broadcasting or production. [24:24.560 -> 24:28.080] To put that in context, it sounded like they were like, do we, or don't we [24:28.080 -> 24:29.400] renew the Monaco Grand Prix? [24:29.400 -> 24:34.280] Because, uh, a lot of circuits have to pay for it, like to have the race there. [24:34.280 -> 24:36.440] And I think Monaco has a little bit of a special deal. [24:37.080 -> 24:38.240] I don't believe they pay a lot. [24:38.280 -> 24:40.840] Well, this is the thing now the contracts renewed. [24:41.520 -> 24:46.740] I think a lot of those special terms have been whipped away. [24:46.740 -> 24:50.580] And one of the most obvious one to us that we know about is going to be obviously this [24:50.580 -> 24:56.660] one, the TV coverage, but in the background, they, uh, what I believed is they had their [24:56.660 -> 24:58.000] own sponsorship. [24:58.000 -> 25:04.520] So we used to see, what was it like tag Hoyer, um, banner next to a Rolex banner in, which [25:04.520 -> 25:05.240] was a bit weird. [25:05.760 -> 25:06.040] Yeah. [25:06.040 -> 25:09.960] Uh, and they also paid the least amount of fee to host the race. [25:10.440 -> 25:15.880] Um, but I think Miami came along last year and I, you know, I think Stefano [25:15.880 -> 25:19.280] basically waved that under them saying, listen, Monaco, you can be replaced. [25:20.220 -> 25:23.280] In Miami, baby. [25:24.040 -> 25:24.540] Hola. [25:23.440 -> 25:24.440] In we got me, I mean, baby. Hola. [25:24.440 -> 25:32.800] So, so something something happened and now we get instead of exactly what cars go for [25:32.800 -> 25:38.280] him said instead of shit coverage will get the same. [25:38.280 -> 25:41.040] Disappointingly average world feed that we usually get. [25:41.040 -> 25:46.440] Yeah, Miami was Miami didn't do it particularly good justice, but we've gone through that [25:46.440 -> 25:47.440] at length. [25:47.440 -> 25:50.960] But I mean, I don't care because I only watched the fucking highlights at Monaco and to be [25:50.960 -> 25:53.880] honest, I'd fall asleep for the rest of it. [25:53.880 -> 25:54.880] Yeah, I'm looking forward. [25:54.880 -> 25:58.520] I'm going to I'm going to stay a little bit sober so I can watch the IndyCar 500 though. [25:58.520 -> 26:00.560] Hell yeah, brother. [26:00.560 -> 26:04.680] Go fast, turn left, go fast, turn left. [26:04.680 -> 26:08.920] Not seriously, that's that's going to be fucking wild. [26:08.920 -> 26:11.800] Engine breaking news, the podcast. [26:11.800 -> 26:16.280] This weekend we've got engine breaking and breaking engine and just the other for the [26:16.280 -> 26:17.280] main race. [26:17.280 -> 26:18.280] Oh, there's only two. [26:18.280 -> 26:23.680] OK, you got engine breaking and breaking engine entering the virtual 24 hours of Le Mans. [26:23.680 -> 26:25.600] And you are you've been streaming this week, [26:25.600 -> 26:29.120] you've been swearing at the MX5 Cup cars on iRacing. [26:29.120 -> 26:31.000] Engine mode 11 on Twitch, by the way. [26:31.000 -> 26:32.320] Yeah, yeah. [26:32.320 -> 26:35.160] We started with MX5 Cup cars. [26:35.160 -> 26:38.920] We went a bit mental yesterday and we did ovals. [26:38.920 -> 26:39.760] I heard about that. [26:39.760 -> 26:41.400] It was a lot of fun, I liked that. [26:41.400 -> 26:43.000] Turning left to go right. [26:44.760 -> 26:47.500] Then we had, I did NASCAR cup truck or whatever [26:47.500 -> 26:56.140] it is, NASCAR trucks. Started 19th, somehow finished third just by keeping it out the [26:56.140 -> 27:06.880] wall. Yeah. So we've been, we've been exploring other motorsports in iRacing this week and we'll continue to do that this week [27:06.880 -> 27:16.400] and then the grand race occurs lunchtime on Saturday, racing 24 hours until Sunday, [27:17.520 -> 27:22.720] doing it obviously for Samaritans, I think we spoke about it last time but it's all for charity [27:22.720 -> 27:25.680] and we've already raised 410 pounds. [27:26.320 -> 27:27.680] What's your goal? Are we going to smash it? [27:27.680 -> 27:30.960] We set to a thousand. I thought thousands was achievable. [27:31.680 -> 27:31.920] Yep. [27:32.560 -> 27:36.080] And we're already 40% of the way there. So I'm pleased with that so far. [27:37.200 -> 27:40.480] If you want to support, I'll stick the link in the show notes. [27:41.120 -> 27:41.360] Yep. [27:42.080 -> 27:47.160] Much love to everyone that has, even if it's just a like or a weed, a [27:47.160 -> 27:54.080] like or a wee retweet. God, blimey. Listen to me today. I'm all over the place. Much [27:54.080 -> 28:01.400] appreciated. Much love. Yeah. So Samaritans is a, is a charity that supports mental health [28:01.400 -> 28:09.720] and suicide awareness as well. Isn't it? So it is a good cause and you did huge stonks for them last year and [28:09.720 -> 28:12.640] hopefully we're gonna hit that marker again this year. [28:12.640 -> 28:16.960] It's a service I've used myself in the past, you know, listen I think everyone [28:16.960 -> 28:21.800] should be more open about mental health, get rid of that stigma and you know, [28:21.800 -> 28:24.640] yep, we're all here for one another. [28:24.640 -> 28:25.160] Talk to your mates, check on them and like you said the other day, if I, we're all here for one another. [28:25.760 -> 28:25.920] Check on them. [28:28.240 -> 28:29.520] And like you said the other day, I say they're all right. [28:30.040 -> 28:30.800] Check again. [28:31.300 -> 28:32.720] Yeah. [28:33.680 -> 28:33.760] Life is short, man. [28:37.400 -> 28:37.500] Life is fucking short and it's beautiful, but it's not always fun. [28:39.040 -> 28:39.160] And every now and then you need a little bit of help. [28:39.660 -> 28:39.720] Yeah. [28:43.280 -> 28:44.600] And listen, every now and again, need a fraudulent podcast. [28:45.680 -> 28:47.640] And we're here for you for that. [28:50.920 -> 28:52.840] If you drive into work, when you listen to this, give us a little toot toot. [28:53.600 -> 28:55.840] We got you, bro. [28:56.560 -> 29:00.920] Let's get into. So, so you're going to be doing some, uh, dude, I'm really tempted to do, um, a [29:00.920 -> 29:06.720] Watkins Glen three hour, but it starts Saturday morning at 10 a.m. or 9 a.m., I'm not sure. [29:06.720 -> 29:09.320] I did one last weekend with my buddy Cookie, [29:09.320 -> 29:10.880] one of my old colleagues, [29:10.880 -> 29:14.560] and we had a disaster, we had a disaster, [29:14.560 -> 29:16.200] but it was fucking, man, I've got the bug. [29:16.200 -> 29:18.480] It's so good, it's so good. [29:18.480 -> 29:21.720] That iRacing is fucking insanely fun. [29:21.720 -> 29:23.480] How much money have you spent on iRacing yet? [29:23.480 -> 29:25.280] Not a lot, I'm a tight ass, right? [29:25.280 -> 29:28.080] So that's the reason why I'm doing the MX5 cups this week [29:28.080 -> 29:30.640] is because I'm not forking out the $15 [29:30.640 -> 29:32.760] for this week's Ferrari GT3 track. [29:32.760 -> 29:34.920] I was like, nah, you can wait until I get paid. [29:34.920 -> 29:36.400] I'm not doing it. [29:36.400 -> 29:37.960] Yeah, I said this the other day, [29:37.960 -> 29:39.520] so it's like what, if you buy a year, [29:39.520 -> 29:41.540] it's like $100 for a year, [29:41.540 -> 29:43.640] or something like that, or $60 for a year. [29:45.160 -> 29:47.400] So you get a handful of cars and tracks [29:47.400 -> 29:50.000] and every circuit or car that's not included [29:50.000 -> 29:53.400] in that initial batch is 15 bucks. [29:53.400 -> 29:57.200] I think I'm probably $200 in right now, but. [29:57.200 -> 30:02.200] But a set of tires for a club MX5 race. [30:06.120 -> 30:10.160] Here we go, Chad. He's gone down the MX5 history memory lane. [30:10.160 -> 30:12.840] It's about $700 for a set of tires on a weekend. [30:12.840 -> 30:15.000] And if you want to go fast, you're going to do a set of tires on a weekend. [30:15.000 -> 30:18.420] You'll get a set of like really nice low shaved tires. [30:18.420 -> 30:20.680] So that's fine. [30:20.680 -> 30:21.680] That's fine. [30:21.680 -> 30:22.680] Let's get it. [30:22.680 -> 30:23.680] Let's. [30:23.680 -> 30:24.680] But I'm loving it, man. [30:24.680 -> 30:27.520] I'm hooked. So let's get into the Monaco preview. [30:27.520 -> 30:30.360] We got a little bit of trivia, a little some fun stuff about this. [30:30.360 -> 30:33.680] Because Monaco, like we said, Monaco has got some concessions. [30:33.880 -> 30:38.080] It's had some weird exceptions in the past about how they operate the weekend. [30:38.080 -> 30:38.360] So. [30:39.280 -> 30:44.080] Traditionally, Monaco free practice one and two were held on a Thursday. [30:50.720 -> 30:52.280] Friday, Friday was typically support series, but since 2022, they went back to a Friday, Saturday, Sunday format. [30:52.280 -> 30:56.440] And apparently I would try to look for this and I did find it. [30:56.440 -> 31:00.320] It goes back to the origin of the first Monaco Grand Prix, where basically there was a bank [31:00.320 -> 31:02.560] holiday on that Friday. [31:02.560 -> 31:05.360] So they're like, Oh shit, guys, we do it Thursday, Saturday, [31:05.360 -> 31:10.160] Sunday. And like, yeah, okay, cool. And then as that went on, that wasn't falling on a bank holiday, [31:10.160 -> 31:14.320] they just kind of kept that. But you wouldn't have Formula One run on Friday, but you'd still have [31:15.280 -> 31:19.600] the Formula Renault 3.5s or GP2 or F2 or whatever else they were at the time. [31:19.600 -> 31:24.560] And the Porsche Super Cup is always there. You'd have those guys running on a Friday. So you're [31:21.200 -> 31:24.280] Porsche Super Cup is always there. You'd have those guys running on a, on a Friday. [31:24.280 -> 31:29.920] So you're hung over stinking of booze on a Friday in the office, working [31:29.920 -> 31:32.040] on setups for qualifying the next day. [31:32.300 -> 31:35.560] And all you hear are these Porsche Super Cups going around all day. [31:36.000 -> 31:38.160] It's fucking terrible. [31:40.080 -> 31:40.440] Yeah. [31:41.520 -> 31:42.360] Well, there you go. [31:43.240 -> 31:45.320] But, uh, yeah, I've got some stories about that. [31:45.320 -> 31:48.200] We'll get back to some stories later on about Monaco Fridays. [31:48.280 -> 31:50.800] But generic info about the track. [31:50.800 -> 31:52.120] It's a proper street circuit. [31:52.280 -> 31:53.960] All the track is on public roads. [31:53.960 -> 31:54.960] It's not a parking lot. [31:55.360 -> 31:59.040] And it's the shortest track on the calendar at three point three, three, seven kilometers. [31:59.400 -> 32:03.120] And it's also the shortest race on the calendar. [32:03.200 -> 32:04.200] Normal Formula One race. [32:04.200 -> 32:04.960] How many kilometers? [32:07.880 -> 32:09.600] Normal race, how many kilometers? Normal race, how many kilometers? [32:09.600 -> 32:10.600] 300k? [32:10.600 -> 32:11.600] Yeah, 300k. [32:11.600 -> 32:20.360] Monaco, Monaco is only 260 kilometers. [32:20.360 -> 32:23.320] But yeah, this is the like we talked about before with the downforce. [32:23.320 -> 32:25.440] This is the definition of a low efficiency circuit. [32:25.440 -> 32:27.680] You're going to put the biggest, nastiest, dirtiest, [32:27.680 -> 32:30.640] draggiest son of a bitch on your car as long as it makes downforce. [32:30.640 -> 32:31.280] It's going on. [32:31.280 -> 32:33.680] So the wind tunnel said, oh, that's that one's not good. [32:33.680 -> 32:35.280] And they're like, yep, that's going to the Monaco pile. [32:35.280 -> 32:36.240] We'll bolt that thing on. [32:37.280 -> 32:42.400] Top speeds are not very important to lap time, but it will be interesting to see. [32:44.080 -> 32:47.200] How much lap time Red Bull gain in the straight line compared [32:47.200 -> 32:48.200] to the others. [32:48.200 -> 32:49.200] Because there still are straights. [32:49.200 -> 32:50.200] There still are straights. [32:50.200 -> 32:52.560] So we don't know. [32:52.560 -> 32:57.360] Or do they have some like super son of a gun barn door that they can bolt the nastiest [32:57.360 -> 33:01.640] down force on their car and still be quick because all they need to do baby, you need [33:01.640 -> 33:02.640] to qualify. [33:02.640 -> 33:03.640] Pole positione. [33:03.640 -> 33:07.120] They still put the special Monaco only steering rack in. [33:07.980 -> 33:09.160] I think they do in the past. [33:09.160 -> 33:13.840] They either change the steering rack or they change the steering brackets because [33:13.840 -> 33:17.560] in order to get around the hairpin, um, yeah, you gotta, you gotta put some [33:17.560 -> 33:19.080] lock in that some bitch, you know what I'm saying? [33:19.240 -> 33:19.680] Yeah. [33:19.800 -> 33:21.720] You go, go slow turn left, baby. [33:22.000 -> 33:25.280] I believe I'm right in saying they also don't get into seventh gear. [33:26.800 -> 33:27.800] Eighth. [33:27.800 -> 33:29.400] Sorry, eighth. They don't use eighth gear. [33:29.400 -> 33:31.840] Maybe, maybe back in the day when it was seven gears, [33:31.840 -> 33:34.480] they would, they would run a really short final drive so they could use everything. [33:34.800 -> 33:38.160] I think they may not use eighth nominally because you do have to, [33:38.400 -> 33:40.720] Formula One cars, you pick one set of ratios, [33:41.080 -> 33:43.480] reverse all the way through eighth gear at the start of the season [33:43.480 -> 33:44.720] and you don't get a joker anymore. [33:44.720 -> 33:49.080] So whether you're running Monza or Monaco baby, it's the same gear ratios [33:49.080 -> 33:51.800] that are in your gearbox the entire season. [33:51.800 -> 33:58.680] Um, but yeah, it's wild. Monaco is wild, so it's it's really different to a lot of the [33:58.680 -> 34:04.140] other tracks and it's a super punishing street circuit like it. It is a street circuit. There's [34:04.140 -> 34:05.720] very few places to bail out. [34:05.720 -> 34:09.240] There's a couple of escape roads that if you have a little shenaniganry, [34:09.240 -> 34:10.360] we can talk about those later. [34:10.360 -> 34:11.520] There's a couple of very. [34:12.720 -> 34:13.760] Michael Schumacher. [34:15.520 -> 34:19.600] Yeah, we'll get back to those, but yeah, but similar to Miami, [34:19.600 -> 34:21.920] it's like the build up to this is about being on the track [34:21.920 -> 34:23.440] and getting in laps, getting in laps. [34:24.640 -> 34:27.720] You need to, like we said before, you need to run quite high and quite soft in order [34:27.720 -> 34:31.720] to deal with all the compliances, the bumps and lumps around the track. [34:31.720 -> 34:36.360] But tires are bringing the softest range of our Pirellis, which means the softs can do [34:36.360 -> 34:37.360] an entire race. [34:37.360 -> 34:38.360] Correct. [34:38.360 -> 34:39.360] Not really. [34:39.360 -> 34:40.360] I don't expect that. [34:40.360 -> 34:42.560] I don't expect that. [34:42.560 -> 34:43.560] I do. [34:43.560 -> 34:46.480] I do expect a one stop and we'll come back to that. [34:46.880 -> 34:51.480] Um, would you like me to throw a couple little hand grenades into [34:51.480 -> 34:52.880] all that lovely speech you just gave me? [34:54.160 -> 34:54.800] Yeah, go for it. [34:55.000 -> 34:55.160] Yeah. [34:55.160 -> 34:57.040] I don't believe it's going to be a one stop at all. [34:57.920 -> 35:01.120] Uh, because the weather again looks questionable for this weekend. [35:03.680 -> 35:06.920] And, uh, they've also resurfaced some parts of it. [35:06.920 -> 35:12.400] Ooh, I think, I think a little bit of resurfacing isn't uncommon for Monaco. [35:12.400 -> 35:14.680] A little couple of patches here and there that don't make the notes. [35:14.680 -> 35:17.960] I don't know if they resurfaced it for F1 or just in general, because it is literally [35:17.960 -> 35:19.360] like you say, a fucking street. [35:19.360 -> 35:20.360] Yeah. [35:20.360 -> 35:25.360] Ooh, but so, so, I mean, if if I could to be honest though, rain, [35:25.360 -> 35:26.800] but we thought we have even [35:26.800 -> 35:28.080] we haven't even laid into Monaco. [35:28.080 -> 35:30.920] Monaco is usually all about qualifying [35:30.920 -> 35:33.240] and it's a shit race because it's boring. [35:33.240 -> 35:34.760] But last year was good. [35:34.760 -> 35:36.080] We had people running the inters [35:36.080 -> 35:38.240] super long trying to hang it out. [35:39.520 -> 35:40.840] I think we have a wet weekend [35:40.840 -> 35:41.960] or a mixed weather weekend. [35:41.960 -> 35:43.280] We're going to have some fucking fun [35:43.320 -> 35:44.280] that it's going to be aggro [35:44.280 -> 35:46.700] for the teams and the drivers, but we're going to have a blast on [35:46.700 -> 35:50.760] our sofas with our Aperol spritz in our backyard watching this race. [35:50.760 -> 36:00.440] I tell you what, listen, I'm going to give you a live Monaco Grand Prix weather forecast. [36:00.440 -> 36:01.440] I'll check it out. [36:01.440 -> 36:02.440] Send it, bro. [36:02.440 -> 36:09.000] Where are we? Saturday, uncertainty over whether the track will remain dry. [36:09.000 -> 36:16.000] Sunday, chances of rain are up to as high as 76%. [36:16.000 -> 36:19.880] Monaco is one of those wacky ones where like we were literally watching the radar and you [36:19.880 -> 36:25.800] could have a bunch of clouds roll over the hills on the west and it it's like, right, we're getting rain or not rain. [36:25.800 -> 36:26.200] It's like. [36:27.120 -> 36:29.440] It's it's it's fucking awesome. [36:29.720 -> 36:30.080] I love it. [36:30.080 -> 36:31.120] I'm excited, but. [36:32.480 -> 36:35.360] And in terms of the track, things that are fun to look out for, and maybe [36:35.360 -> 36:37.440] you've probably if you if you've been watching for a couple of years, you [36:37.440 -> 36:39.440] probably will have seen this on the television, but maybe not. [36:40.680 -> 36:44.560] But the track turned three for the left hander at the top of the hill [36:44.560 -> 36:45.800] going into the casino section, [36:45.800 -> 36:47.080] that's all about commitment. [36:47.080 -> 36:51.000] Getting offline there can often result in a loss of grip. [36:51.000 -> 36:53.560] I remember a couple of drivers have been there, [36:53.560 -> 36:54.440] even in the dry. [36:55.440 -> 36:57.280] You see down into turn five, [36:57.280 -> 37:00.040] Miraboe, they go around the bump on the back straight. [37:00.040 -> 37:01.120] It's like, why don't they just drive straight? [37:01.120 -> 37:03.600] It's like, cause there's a big drop off there. [37:03.600 -> 37:05.920] The drivers we need, like as Dan mentioned, [37:05.920 -> 37:08.440] we often have new steering rack or different steering arms [37:08.440 -> 37:11.200] so that they can go full lock to get around the hairpin. [37:13.280 -> 37:15.500] Coming out of the tunnel, not too dramatic, [37:15.500 -> 37:17.760] but it goes, you know, you've seen the TV shots [37:17.760 -> 37:19.080] where it goes from dark to bright [37:19.080 -> 37:21.120] and you get blinded leaving the tunnel [37:21.120 -> 37:23.480] and then breaking down into the chicane there [37:23.480 -> 37:25.240] at the exit of the tunnel is pretty bumpy. [37:25.240 -> 37:29.960] And then, oh man, the final chicane at the swimming pool, those barriers. [37:29.960 -> 37:34.240] I love the video of the tires just barely grazing the Armco. [37:34.240 -> 37:36.160] God, that's exciting. [37:36.160 -> 37:41.000] But be careful when you're looking at free practice lap times because it's really common [37:41.000 -> 37:44.480] to never get a clean lap in until maybe qualifying, maybe not. [37:44.480 -> 37:46.640] So it's just one of those things. [37:47.200 -> 37:47.360] Yeah. [37:47.400 -> 37:49.200] So you mentioned strategy. [37:50.080 -> 37:52.560] It's likely to be a one stop, I think. [37:53.360 -> 37:57.680] Um, and then what will tends to happen is the front runners will tend to stay out [37:57.760 -> 38:00.960] because they usually have a pace advantage over the cars behind them and they'll stay [38:00.960 -> 38:07.000] out until they have a pit stop gap over the midfield, and then they'll stop and then continue on. [38:07.000 -> 38:08.480] So hopefully everybody has good pit stops. [38:08.480 -> 38:10.400] That's never lost anybody a race ever. [38:10.400 -> 38:15.120] And if it's wet, you could actually win out or lose depending on what's happening. [38:15.120 -> 38:17.200] And yeah, the rules. [38:18.280 -> 38:20.320] The rules of driving in the wet, racing in the wet. [38:20.320 -> 38:21.320] Don't crash. [38:21.320 -> 38:24.040] Be on the right tires at the right time. [38:24.480 -> 38:26.100] Oh, wow. Okay, there is that. That't crash. Be on the right tires at the right time. Oh, well, OK, there is that. [38:27.100 -> 38:27.600] That's it. [38:28.700 -> 38:33.100] But don't do an alpha towering and put wet tires on in the dry. [38:34.100 -> 38:36.900] Oh, ouch, ouch. [38:38.100 -> 38:40.900] Do you think we'll see them if it's let's say it's proper [38:41.100 -> 38:42.100] stonking wet? [38:42.300 -> 38:44.800] Do you think we'll see them run the new wet tire spec this [38:44.800 -> 38:45.120] weekend? [38:45.120 -> 38:53.700] I've got no faith in, I've got plenty of faith in the drivers and the cars. I just don't [38:53.700 -> 39:00.320] have faith in the people who make the decision whether to start a race on wet tires or run [39:00.320 -> 39:06.280] wet tires. I just, the aversion this sport has got to running in wet weather at the minute [39:06.280 -> 39:07.680] is baffling to me. [39:07.680 -> 39:11.160] Well, it's not baffling because we've, I think we've gone through it multiple times on the [39:11.160 -> 39:12.160] show. [39:12.160 -> 39:15.320] We know why the tires, wet tires suck ass. [39:15.320 -> 39:19.280] Yeah, the tires suck and they can't see shit, but it's like when's the last time you could [39:19.280 -> 39:20.880] see shit in the full wet? [39:20.880 -> 39:21.880] Like that's normal. [39:21.880 -> 39:23.360] I don't know why they've gone away from that. [39:23.360 -> 39:25.260] Maybe it's gotten worse, but I'm not a driver. [39:25.260 -> 39:26.560] You have a driver's drinks bottle. [39:26.560 -> 39:28.880] If you're watching this on video, so maybe you would know driver. [39:28.880 -> 39:29.880] Yeah, sure. [39:29.880 -> 39:31.920] What asked me a question for sure. [39:31.920 -> 39:37.120] Have you ever pissed in the seat while driving? [39:37.120 -> 39:42.800] Yeah and shit myself, yeah. [39:42.800 -> 39:46.720] Let's before we before we get to a little message from our friends, Monaco, the rules [39:46.720 -> 39:50.940] of Monaco track position, right tires, right time. [39:50.940 -> 39:54.360] Qualifying is king and qualifying is probably the most excitement we'll get unless it's [39:54.360 -> 39:55.880] a wet weather race. [39:55.880 -> 40:01.160] It's insanely difficult to overtake and realistically, it requires a huge mistake in the right place [40:01.160 -> 40:04.440] from the car that you're chasing, even if you have a pace advantage. [40:04.440 -> 40:06.200] Anything else? Anything else? [40:06.200 -> 40:12.600] Be careful of the clubs you go into. Make sure your boss doesn't see you into which ones you're [40:12.600 -> 40:19.520] going into. If you're walking around in the yacht area, you need basically, if you want to get, [40:19.520 -> 40:23.760] should I say this? Yeah, I'm going to say this. I'm going to say this. I'm sure there'll be no [40:23.760 -> 40:28.000] repercussions to this. Right. If you're in Monaco and you want to get into the yacht [40:28.000 -> 40:34.640] parties, but you need to get past the Marina security, right? Just carry a box of beer [40:34.640 -> 40:37.280] and walk like you belong there and no one will question it. [40:37.840 -> 40:42.400] This is, this is like, that's really, that was really tame. I was expecting something else. [40:42.400 -> 40:45.200] I mean, right. Steve, here's his phone number. [40:45.200 -> 40:45.760] Call him. [40:45.760 -> 40:49.380] They'll give you a wristband and you go around to the back and they'll drop you [40:49.380 -> 40:51.720] off in a van, but you have to be blindfolded in there. [40:52.080 -> 40:52.400] Yeah. [40:52.520 -> 40:53.160] Oh my God. [40:53.200 -> 40:54.960] Multiple times that has worked right. [40:54.960 -> 40:58.880] Cause everyone thinks, oh, you know, F1 staff must be on all these your pies. [40:58.920 -> 41:00.480] No, no. [41:01.320 -> 41:05.400] F1 staff and people to work in F1, unless you're a driver or a manager, [41:05.760 -> 41:06.560] you're a parasite. [41:06.560 -> 41:10.960] Very rarely are you allowed to go to the cool parties and things like that. [41:10.960 -> 41:12.000] You don't get an invite. [41:12.000 -> 41:15.560] Your job is to basically stand around and build things and make cars go quick, [41:15.560 -> 41:16.400] not to party. [41:17.400 -> 41:20.200] But but I've got a couple of pretty cool stories, [41:20.200 -> 41:22.360] and we might have a couple more as well. [41:22.480 -> 41:27.680] But first, why don't we have a little word from our sponsors this week for this week's episode? [41:27.680 -> 41:31.840] Sure, why not? And if they have a yacht, we would love to come and hang out on it. [41:31.840 -> 41:32.960] Call us. [41:32.960 -> 41:35.760] Oh shit, no, that's not the ad. [41:35.760 -> 41:41.680] I just, I literally spent five minutes before the goddamn fucking show started, [41:41.680 -> 41:44.880] lining this ad up, ready to go, and it didn't work. [41:44.880 -> 41:45.120] Why didn't it work? 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[42:23.260 -> 42:26.360] And it's just in time to get around [42:26.360 -> 42:31.360] that potential geographical restrictions for F1 TV. [42:32.000 -> 42:33.800] Obviously I can't say you should do that [42:33.800 -> 42:37.220] because that's probably illegal, but you know. [42:37.220 -> 42:42.040] So yeah, go to nordvpn.com slash engine [42:42.040 -> 42:44.200] so me and Blake can feed our families. [42:44.200 -> 42:47.100] Thank you. [42:50.200 -> 42:51.300] Fucking 27 episodes in and I still can't fucking press the right button at the right time. [42:52.800 -> 42:54.000] Oh my God. [42:54.000 -> 42:55.200] Honestly, I spent six years. [42:55.200 -> 42:56.000] I spent in F1. [42:56.000 -> 42:58.900] I'm not making it up people that are listening honestly and [42:58.900 -> 43:01.700] my quality of work was the same there as it is here. [43:04.500 -> 43:08.040] Well, let's go to some of these Monaco stories and these aren't my stories. [43:08.040 -> 43:10.040] These go back before I was even in the sport. [43:10.400 -> 43:16.620] And, uh, so track position is King in Monaco and it's all about qualifying baby. [43:16.640 -> 43:20.680] And a lot of drivers have tried to cheese this pretty hard in our first one. [43:21.200 -> 43:21.640] Who is it? [43:21.640 -> 43:26.680] Who's our first one that we, that I've noticed has to be, is it? Who's our first one? Uh, we, that I've noticed. Has to be, is it the legendary Schumacher? [43:27.200 -> 43:31.720] 2006 is Lord Michael Schumacher. [43:31.960 -> 43:33.920] So let's, let's, let's frame this right. [43:34.680 -> 43:40.360] Alonzo in the Renault, he finished first or second in the first four races, right? [43:40.840 -> 43:44.320] He was likely to take pole position and apparently, allegedly, [43:44.360 -> 43:45.760] allegedly Michael knew this. [43:46.640 -> 43:50.440] Schumacher was on provisional poll and he decided to have a little mistake [43:50.440 -> 43:51.320] in the Rascasse. [43:53.160 -> 43:54.080] And then he stole the car. [43:54.080 -> 43:56.560] And then back then, the cars did not have starters on them. [43:56.560 -> 43:58.680] So if you stole your car, you're kind of fucked. [44:00.320 -> 44:04.400] So they got wind of this and the investigation found him guilty [44:04.400 -> 44:06.560] and he had to start the race from the pit lane and there [44:06.560 -> 44:10.380] was a story I read he walked, you know, he's walking through the motorhome area and the [44:11.640 -> 44:15.320] The the Renault everybody from Renault just looked out the window and gave him a thumbs down [44:16.000 -> 44:21.320] But he starts from the pit lane and he drives on to finish this. I mean [44:21.840 -> 44:24.120] It's pretty dodgy and fucking that these days [44:24.720 -> 44:28.960] Yeah, no fifth. I mean, it's pretty dope. Imagine fucking that these days. Nah, nah, nah. But uh, we've had another- [44:28.960 -> 44:31.040] Back when their cars were small and you could overtake. [44:31.040 -> 44:35.680] Yeah, I was watching some of that and it's like, oof. Yeah, the Fry was still pretty quick then as [44:35.680 -> 44:41.760] well. But um, what's our next one? Our next notable one, at least. We don't know about all of them. [44:41.760 -> 44:42.000] No. [44:42.000 -> 44:42.800] We can never be for sure. [44:42.800 -> 44:49.360] On a similar vein, we had the Nik Nico Rosberg incident, which kind of similar, but I don't [44:49.360 -> 44:51.360] believe it was ever proven. [44:51.360 -> 44:59.160] But it looked very suspect in 2014, I think it was in qualifying. [44:59.160 -> 45:06.960] He took a very different line in qualifying when he was on pole. Um, it was, you know, pretty, [45:08.000 -> 45:16.000] pretty tasty between him and Lewis and, you know, Lewis was probably going to be on pole. Um, but [45:16.000 -> 45:22.480] no, Rosberg decides to have a similar little cheeky lockup. Um, and then, uh, did he try and [45:22.480 -> 45:27.420] spin the car and mess it up or something as he's in in the road and it was like, Oh, yellow flag. [45:27.420 -> 45:28.340] Sorry, everyone. [45:28.740 -> 45:29.900] Oh, my bad. [45:29.900 -> 45:30.860] Sorry, Lewis. [45:31.220 -> 45:31.500] Yeah. [45:31.500 -> 45:35.540] But I think the stewards investigated it and they found nothing wrong with it. [45:35.740 -> 45:38.020] But I reckon Toto was like, don't do it. [45:38.780 -> 45:39.340] Don't do it. [45:39.500 -> 45:43.500] Cause because otherwise they wouldn't have a front row lockout, which they had, [45:43.860 -> 45:49.320] you know, is an even, I think it was even Brundle called it a very hollow pole position. [45:50.600 -> 45:50.920] Yeah. [45:51.320 -> 45:54.320] But that, that, that maneuver though, it was so cheesed. [45:54.320 -> 45:56.120] Like the Michael one was cheesy. [45:56.160 -> 45:58.880] The Rosberg was like, mate, come on. [45:59.240 -> 46:00.400] You're not even trying. [46:00.720 -> 46:03.840] It's just like doing all sorts of wacky stuff and smashing on the brakes. [46:03.840 -> 46:06.440] He's like, Oh, I went straight on at turn five. [46:06.600 -> 46:07.240] Bummer. [46:07.280 -> 46:07.800] Yeah. [46:08.000 -> 46:08.320] Yeah. [46:08.360 -> 46:13.040] It was, it was questionable, but, um, it's not what you know, it's what you can prove. [46:13.080 -> 46:15.160] And there wasn't enough to prove anything. [46:15.160 -> 46:16.640] So there you go. [46:18.320 -> 46:22.360] Ah, speaking of speaking of fucking up qualifying, we've had one much more recent. [46:23.000 -> 46:23.720] Oh yeah. [46:23.720 -> 46:30.200] This was last year. And this is weird because we didn't really hear about this until [46:30.200 -> 46:34.320] the end of the season in Brazil. Does anybody, anybody know? [46:34.320 -> 46:38.320] Was it not after the fallout and they were like, Oh, why are they, why is Max and Checo [46:38.320 -> 46:42.960] so on edge of each other? And then someone was like, Oh yeah, it's because Checo allegedly [46:42.960 -> 46:45.880] deliberately spun the card to cause a red flag in Monaco. [46:45.880 -> 46:46.880] Yeah. [46:46.880 -> 46:50.460] And we, you know, we went and looked at the data and it's like, it did look kind of weird. [46:50.460 -> 46:51.980] It's like, you're already spinning. [46:51.980 -> 46:53.760] Why would you go full throttle there? [46:53.760 -> 46:56.800] But the thing is, it wasn't a yellow flag. [46:56.800 -> 46:59.760] He backed the car into the barriers at the exit of turn eight. [46:59.760 -> 47:01.960] I mean, he fully, he, he was committed. [47:01.960 -> 47:05.100] If this was, if this was sabotage, it was fully committed. [47:05.400 -> 47:05.840] Yeah. [47:07.680 -> 47:08.620] Michael and Rosberg. [47:09.720 -> 47:10.400] You guys aren't even trying. [47:10.600 -> 47:10.800] Yeah. [47:16.840 -> 47:20.520] Checo fucking allegedly backed it into the wall, smashed his car up, smashed in signs. His car, I think it was as he was kind of around the corner and then collected him. [47:20.680 -> 47:21.000] Yeah. [47:21.000 -> 47:23.200] And then Max was nearly right into the back of them as well. [47:23.200 -> 47:27.280] So Checo wins the most sort of points in that regard. [47:27.280 -> 47:33.840] Um, but I did, I believe, didn't you not look into some of the telemetry we get from multiviewer [47:33.840 -> 47:34.840] or whatever? [47:34.840 -> 47:37.640] Uh, I've gone past F1. [47:37.640 -> 47:38.640] That's the one. [47:38.640 -> 47:39.640] Thank you. [47:39.640 -> 47:40.640] Yeah. [47:40.640 -> 47:41.640] Shout out to multiviewer anyway. [47:41.640 -> 47:42.640] Fuck it. [47:42.640 -> 47:43.640] Have some free advertising. [47:43.640 -> 47:44.840] If you're watching on YouTube, this is not a Max Verstappen hat. [47:44.840 -> 47:47.040] This is a multiv viewer for F1 hat. [47:47.040 -> 47:48.240] And if you don't use multi viewer [47:48.240 -> 47:49.240] to watch Formula One, [47:49.880 -> 47:50.440] you're missing out. [47:50.440 -> 47:51.080] Just Google it. [47:51.400 -> 47:52.680] If you're listening to the podcast [47:52.680 -> 47:54.120] and you haven't heard of multi viewer [47:54.120 -> 47:55.320] for F1, go do it now. [47:55.320 -> 47:56.240] This is not an ad. [47:56.280 -> 47:57.240] I'm not getting paid. [47:57.440 -> 47:58.280] I just use it. [47:58.320 -> 47:59.320] He did send me a free hat. [47:59.360 -> 48:00.120] I did declare that [48:00.320 -> 48:01.080] he sent me this hat. [48:01.080 -> 48:01.680] And I love this hat. [48:01.680 -> 48:04.320] Oh, frauds, fraudulent. [48:04.600 -> 48:05.000] Where's my fucking free hat? I haven't got a fucking this hat. Did you? Aww, frauds. Fraudulent. [48:05.000 -> 48:06.000] Where's my fucking free hat? [48:06.000 -> 48:07.480] I haven't got a fucking free hat. [48:07.480 -> 48:08.680] Do you use multiviewer? [48:08.680 -> 48:09.680] Yeah, I use multiviewer. [48:09.680 -> 48:10.680] Oh, fine. [48:10.680 -> 48:11.680] Where's my fucking free hat? [48:11.680 -> 48:12.680] Send me a fucking free hat. [48:12.680 -> 48:13.680] I'm not getting paid, I'm getting threatened, exactly. [48:13.680 -> 48:14.680] Yeah. [48:14.680 -> 48:15.680] What was our trainer for? [48:15.680 -> 48:16.680] Oh, yeah. [48:16.680 -> 48:17.680] Did you not look into the telemetry and sort of try and give your opinion on it? [48:17.680 -> 48:18.680] Yeah, I did. [48:18.680 -> 48:19.680] I did. [48:19.680 -> 48:20.680] I did. [48:20.680 -> 48:21.680] I did. [48:21.680 -> 48:22.680] I did. [48:22.680 -> 48:23.680] I did. [48:23.680 -> 48:24.680] I did. [48:24.680 -> 48:30.160] I did. I did. I did. I did. I did. What was our trainer for? Oh yeah, did you not look into the telemetry and sort of try and give your opinion on it? [48:30.160 -> 48:33.160] Yeah, it looked weird. [48:33.160 -> 48:37.200] It looked weirder than a weird thing, but at the end of the day, it's really fucking [48:37.200 -> 48:41.280] easy to armchair it and I will give you... [48:41.280 -> 48:46.700] It looked suspicious, but at the same time, you don't, it's so circumstantial. [48:46.700 -> 48:50.360] And like, even with all the data, you can convince yourself one way or another on [48:50.360 -> 48:50.940] certain things. [48:50.940 -> 48:52.140] So it's not even more. [48:52.200 -> 48:54.860] And the data we get from fast F1 is not. [48:55.820 -> 48:57.400] You don't have steering or anything. [48:57.400 -> 48:59.420] You have good brake pressure, nothing. [48:59.520 -> 49:01.040] The frequency of it as well. [49:01.040 -> 49:02.640] And refresh rate isn't great. [49:02.640 -> 49:04.120] So it's L do do. [49:04.640 -> 49:05.800] But man, so. [49:06.440 -> 49:09.360] So this is my first the first time I went to Monaco. [49:09.440 -> 49:11.280] Imagine it's I'd only been. [49:11.920 -> 49:15.040] Monaco is my second Grand Prix that I ever went to as a trackside [49:15.040 -> 49:16.320] engineer at Force India, right? [49:16.880 -> 49:18.400] And it was fucking wild. [49:18.400 -> 49:21.560] And at this point I'm early on in my career in Monaco, but he goes out [49:21.560 -> 49:24.760] and has a couple beers on Thursday night, maybe Friday night. [49:24.760 -> 49:28.320] I didn't realize until probably halfway through my first year that it's, you're [49:28.320 -> 49:34.240] not supposed to be hung over every Friday. Correct. I didn't realize that, but anyway, [49:34.240 -> 49:41.240] um, but this was back when free practice was on Thursday and then who owned force India, [49:41.240 -> 49:46.960] his Highness, Sir Vijay Mallya. And he had a fancy little boat out there, a little [49:46.960 -> 49:50.920] number called the Indian Princess. And it was big enough that he could have a couple [49:50.920 -> 49:54.920] hundred of his mates and a couple hundred scumbags that were mechanics or engineers [49:54.920 -> 49:59.800] from the Formula One team come out to his boat. And that was freaking wild, man, like [49:59.800 -> 50:08.000] going on Vijay's boat, checking in. Nobody, nobody got too, too wild, but it was, it was, it was [50:08.000 -> 50:12.880] fucking nuts, man. So that Friday there was no running at the track and yeah, I felt a [50:12.880 -> 50:16.480] little bit sorry for myself that next morning, but I did make sure to keep it under control. [50:18.080 -> 50:22.640] I did make sure to keep it under control, but that was wild. Another thing is you see the [50:22.640 -> 50:26.400] drivers and engineers go for track walks on, you know, Friday or [50:26.400 -> 50:27.400] Thursday. [50:27.400 -> 50:29.880] Well, this was Wednesday and you're going around the track. [50:29.880 -> 50:30.880] The thing is when the track. [50:30.880 -> 50:35.360] Yeah, well, the thing is when Monaco track isn't live. [50:35.360 -> 50:38.840] Them's fucking streets and there's cars on them and it's just like you're walking around [50:38.840 -> 50:39.840] the track. [50:39.840 -> 50:43.760] The only thing that's blocked off is the swimming pool section, but even then, cars are going [50:43.760 -> 50:44.760] through there. [50:44.760 -> 50:48.400] We're getting down to the boats and stuff, but it's just not as people trying to avoid it [50:48.400 -> 50:53.280] deliberately. Yeah, it's we're going to do a track walk, but we have to walk on the pavement because [50:53.280 -> 50:59.200] the track is a fucking road. And you're like walking on pavement. I've got some pretty I used [50:59.200 -> 51:04.240] to take my cameras to the races. I didn't do it my first year, but I had a couple. I've got a [51:04.240 -> 51:05.200] Mamiya RB67 like a medium format [51:05.200 -> 51:06.920] camera that takes fucking huge ass [51:06.920 -> 51:08.360] negatives and my Leica M6. [51:08.360 -> 51:10.320] I've got a couple of really cool [51:10.320 -> 51:12.320] photos from those races that I took. [51:12.320 -> 51:14.520] I put one of them on my Instagram. [51:14.520 -> 51:15.160] Of course, [51:15.160 -> 51:17.880] of course this hipster is here rocking the Leica. [51:17.880 -> 51:19.040] Of course it is. [51:19.040 -> 51:19.960] I love it. [51:19.960 -> 51:20.880] I love it. [51:20.880 -> 51:22.360] Except forget developing film, [51:22.360 -> 51:24.520] but so another thing is since those [51:24.520 -> 51:27.280] are live streets in the evening, the final bit of the track is I love it. I love it. Except forget developing film. But, uh, so another thing is, since [51:27.280 -> 51:31.520] those are live streets in the evening, the final bit of the track past the swimming pool [51:31.520 -> 51:37.820] chicane down to the penultimate corner is, is Rascass, a famous bar. And there's like, [51:37.820 -> 51:44.000] was it stars and bars, whatever, all sorts of, it's an absolute fucking chaos there at [51:44.000 -> 51:48.960] night. You can't hear anything because the music's and there's beer and there's confetti and [51:48.960 -> 51:51.000] there's people dancing on tables. [51:51.000 -> 51:52.000] It's insane. [51:52.000 -> 51:55.220] And it's always funny because like in the morning, the track is probably pretty low [51:55.220 -> 51:59.280] grip for those Porsche supercubs because they're burning up all the vomit, piss and beer and [51:59.280 -> 52:01.640] champagne that's been spilled all over the track. [52:01.640 -> 52:03.820] It's fucking wild, man. [52:03.820 -> 52:06.820] But if you do get a chance to go to a race, [52:06.820 -> 52:09.140] Monaco is a pretty cool event. [52:09.140 -> 52:11.860] If you can get out there and even if not to get [52:11.860 -> 52:14.060] to the Grand Prix, just go there in the evening [52:14.060 -> 52:15.700] and get pissed up and go watch it on television [52:15.700 -> 52:16.540] in your hotel. [52:16.540 -> 52:19.260] Yeah, good luck trying to stay in Monaco. [52:19.260 -> 52:20.100] Yeah, just do it. [52:20.100 -> 52:24.740] Stay in Nice and then just bus in, train, whatever. [52:24.740 -> 52:27.920] East of Monaco is Menton where a lot of the journalists and photographers [52:27.920 -> 52:28.920] will stay out there. [52:28.920 -> 52:30.280] And it's still nice. [52:30.280 -> 52:33.240] So it's probably a 10 minute 15 minute drive in. [52:33.240 -> 52:34.240] We used to cycle. [52:34.240 -> 52:36.480] I used to cycle from Menton into the track. [52:36.480 -> 52:40.280] And like I'm just like in one of the port-a-potties with a wet towel, just like wiping down, sweating [52:40.280 -> 52:41.280] my ass off. [52:41.280 -> 52:42.280] It was great. [52:42.280 -> 52:43.280] I loved it. [52:43.280 -> 52:48.920] But realistically, I looked back through my trackside experiences in recent years [52:48.960 -> 52:49.600] at Monaco. [52:49.600 -> 52:51.960] I don't really have any good experiences from Monaco personally. [52:52.000 -> 52:52.760] Would you ever allowed? [52:52.760 -> 52:54.960] Did you ever manage to get into any of the Heineken parties? [52:55.360 -> 52:56.800] No, not allowed. [52:56.920 -> 52:58.320] Exactly right. [52:59.520 -> 53:00.240] You well. [53:01.400 -> 53:02.840] Some people are allowed in. [53:03.800 -> 53:04.920] No, let's not go there. [53:07.960 -> 53:10.120] I know exactly where you're going with that one. I'm not going to, I wouldn't touch that with yours, mate. [53:10.120 -> 53:11.120] No, no. [53:11.120 -> 53:13.800] So let's do a quick rewind and we'll talk about some of the parties. [53:13.800 -> 53:17.120] So 2012, Paul DiResta, performance engineer action. [53:17.120 -> 53:22.760] He finished seventh, some 41 seconds off of Weber, but like Paul was the front of the [53:22.760 -> 53:23.760] midfield shed. [53:23.760 -> 53:24.760] So that was pretty cool. [53:24.760 -> 53:27.560] I don't remember a single thing about that race. [53:27.560 -> 53:31.480] 2013 Paul did alright. [53:31.480 -> 53:32.800] Nothing nothing crazy. [53:32.800 -> 53:36.320] 2014 Perez was performance engineer DNF. [53:36.320 -> 53:39.900] 2015 Daniel Kiviat P4. [53:39.900 -> 53:40.900] No chance of the podium though. [53:40.900 -> 53:42.600] The other guys are way ahead. [53:42.600 -> 53:47.600] 2016 Max Verstappen is just won the Spanish Grand Prix, his first race with [53:47.600 -> 53:52.720] Red Bull racing, and then does the track rod in like what free practice three [53:52.720 -> 53:55.000] or qualifying that was his dad. [53:55.400 -> 53:55.640] Yeah. [53:55.640 -> 54:00.600] And then, uh, was it a wet to dry race and, uh, Ricardo could have put on any [54:00.640 -> 54:06.240] tires, but they decided to change from mediums to softs at the last minute, except [54:06.240 -> 54:11.360] there were no softs available. So he had a nice, what, 30, 40 second pit stop and lost [54:11.360 -> 54:20.240] the race. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Uh, 2017. I literally don't remember at all. I don't remember a [54:20.240 -> 54:31.680] single thing from 2017. Uh, 2018 Daniel Ricardo's MG UK failure and he still wins the race and he's missing 120. [54:31.680 -> 54:32.680] Excuse me kilowatts. [54:32.680 -> 54:35.280] He's missing like, you know, 20% of his engine power. [54:35.280 -> 54:36.600] He still fucking wins that race. [54:36.600 -> 54:40.000] I remember the call from Daniel to Simon is racing. [54:40.000 -> 54:42.080] He's like, he's like, yeah, just manage it. [54:42.080 -> 54:44.120] You have to do huge change to the brake balance. [54:44.120 -> 54:45.160] You don't burn the rear of the car. [54:45.160 -> 54:48.920] Like without the MGK working, the rear brakes will catch on fire. [54:48.920 -> 54:52.280] So they had to do huge changes, big props to Matt for managing that. [54:52.760 -> 54:58.720] And then, uh, Daniel was like, like kind of like sheepishly, like, um, [54:58.840 -> 55:00.340] Simon, is it going to come back? [55:00.340 -> 55:03.280] And he's like, all Simon just says is no mate, get on with it. [55:04.160 -> 55:05.040] This is fucking wild [55:05.040 -> 55:13.040] that he wins that man what a fucking drive insane. Well it is and very well done to Daniel [55:13.040 -> 55:17.600] and I don't want to this isn't taking away anything from him but this this is just part [55:17.600 -> 55:22.560] of the testament of how much the cars have outgrown Monaco in the fact that no one can [55:22.560 -> 55:25.320] overtake him when he's got like a hundred less horsepower. [55:25.320 -> 55:27.000] Yeah, it's wild. [55:27.000 -> 55:28.000] It's wild. [55:28.000 -> 55:29.000] Yeah. [55:29.000 -> 55:31.840] Like watching Michael, I watched some clips from that 2006 race. [55:31.840 -> 55:35.640] Schumacher just fucking driving through him, right up to P5. [55:35.640 -> 55:41.600] This was FEDL following him and the Ferrari had, or Raikkonen maybe had no chance to overtake [55:41.600 -> 55:43.400] him and he's missing so much power. [55:43.400 -> 55:45.640] It's just like, all you have to do is kind of put your car in the middle of the road [55:45.640 -> 55:46.720] and they're like, yeah, you're fucked. [55:46.720 -> 55:47.400] Yeah, sorry, mate. [55:48.680 -> 55:50.680] And then 2019 to present. [55:50.680 -> 55:51.760] No fucking clue. [55:51.760 -> 55:53.400] Like Max has got one. [55:53.400 -> 55:55.840] I've actually got Monaco 21 Max one. [55:55.840 -> 55:58.680] I've got a poster of Max on my wall on top of the car. [55:58.680 -> 56:00.360] It looks he's taking a shit into the. [56:00.360 -> 56:02.320] Yeah, yeah, the. [56:02.680 -> 56:03.480] Yeah, this one. [56:03.480 -> 56:05.400] Yeah, it's a great photo that. [56:07.000 -> 56:08.500] I signed by him as well. [56:09.200 -> 56:09.800] All right. [56:12.000 -> 56:12.800] Yes, that was it. [56:12.800 -> 56:15.800] That wasn't too difficult, but have you got this though? [56:16.800 -> 56:18.000] I got this frame to the other day. [56:18.000 -> 56:18.400] Sorry. [56:18.400 -> 56:19.000] I know that's it. [56:19.000 -> 56:21.300] That's a good audio people listening won't know but I've got [56:21.300 -> 56:26.320] a I got my special 2019 Austrian GP poster framed. [56:26.880 -> 56:27.120] Yeah. [56:27.120 -> 56:31.680] The Japanese style with the Japanese characters, victory in Austria, a gift from Honda, [56:32.400 -> 56:33.760] to all the staff at Red Bull. [56:33.760 -> 56:34.480] It was really cool. [56:35.120 -> 56:35.760] Super dope. [56:35.760 -> 56:37.600] That, that is, that is really cool. [56:38.320 -> 56:38.480] Yeah. [56:38.480 -> 56:40.880] But those like, yeah, yeah. [56:40.880 -> 56:41.120] Sorry. [56:41.840 -> 56:42.960] No, it's super awesome. [56:42.960 -> 56:46.120] And then last year, Checo got that dub and got fucking wasted. [56:46.120 -> 56:50.680] Yeah, and there's the him getting off the fucking love that video of him trying to get [56:50.680 -> 56:53.080] off the fucking boat the next morning. [56:53.080 -> 56:55.720] Shoe trying to walk down some stairs. [56:55.720 -> 56:56.720] Fucking legend. [56:56.720 -> 56:59.840] Oh, what a fucking dude, man. [56:59.840 -> 57:01.920] But I'm sure there's all sorts of other stuff. [57:01.920 -> 57:03.480] There's the whole thing we've talked about before. [57:03.480 -> 57:04.480] Where was it? [57:04.480 -> 57:08.520] Jaguar had that diamond or that never, never been found. [57:08.560 -> 57:13.200] Apparently it was bonded to the nose box of the car and they had a little shunt and as [57:13.200 -> 57:16.240] somebody snuck off with 300 grand bling bling. [57:17.080 -> 57:21.440] Yeah, so for those that don't know, this was to, uh, I believe it was the first [57:21.480 -> 57:24.080] oceans 11 film promotion. [57:24.160 -> 57:25.960] And then for some reason, That's the 11th one. [57:28.080 -> 57:29.180] Well, I said Ocean's 11. [57:29.180 -> 57:30.200] Yeah, that was a fuck off. [57:30.200 -> 57:31.520] So, dickhead. [57:31.760 -> 57:32.040] Right. [57:33.720 -> 57:34.160] Sorry. [57:34.160 -> 57:35.040] Fuck this idiot. [57:35.480 -> 57:36.680] You know, I'm struggling today. [57:36.680 -> 57:38.120] All I can smell is burnt toast. [57:38.120 -> 57:38.520] All right. [57:39.520 -> 57:40.280] I'm struggling. [57:40.280 -> 57:41.880] I'm talking about Jordan Michael. [57:41.880 -> 57:43.200] I'm all over the place. [57:43.760 -> 57:44.280] All right, go. [57:44.680 -> 57:45.160] Um, yeah. [57:45.160 -> 57:49.000] So for the oceans 11 film, and this is how long ago it was now, Jesus Christ. [57:49.000 -> 57:50.960] It was back in fucking Jaguar days. [57:50.960 -> 57:56.040] They bolted like these, I think there were diamonds, two diamonds, one to each nose cone [57:56.040 -> 57:57.840] of the car. [57:57.840 -> 58:00.240] And then someone successfully managed to crash. [58:00.240 -> 58:05.040] I think I like pretty much on fucking lap one, uh, smashed the front up and we, [58:05.040 -> 58:07.680] then the diamond was never there and they couldn't find it. [58:09.600 -> 58:13.520] Interestingly though, that team, that team became Red Bull. [58:13.520 -> 58:14.080] Did yeah. [58:15.840 -> 58:19.840] And then it stole fucking years of our life instead of diamonds. [58:19.840 -> 58:24.720] That is pretty good. But, uh, I don't have any too wild Monaco stories. I'm, I'm, there's a [58:24.720 -> 58:27.720] place called Michelangelo's in the harbor, just west of Monaco. [58:28.080 -> 58:28.800] And I used to go there. [58:28.800 -> 58:30.560] I took my, my parents there when I was there. [58:30.880 -> 58:34.800] And, um, we said I was, I was working on Max's car, but we sat down for dinner and [58:34.800 -> 58:38.000] then Yoss and Max and Raymond go in and they have dinner there as well. [58:38.360 -> 58:42.880] And we ordered this basket of these beautiful, beautiful heirloom tomatoes. [58:43.320 -> 58:46.620] And then order of, uh, the really nice mozzarella burrata. [58:46.620 -> 58:48.100] And just like, that was our starter. [58:48.100 -> 58:50.500] And like, we're killing these tomatoes. [58:50.500 -> 58:51.400] They're fucking stunning. [58:51.400 -> 58:53.660] A little bit of rock salt sprinkled on them. [58:53.660 -> 58:54.900] But apparently I talked to somebody [58:54.900 -> 58:55.760] and that restaurant's gone. [58:55.760 -> 58:56.780] So I'm fucking depressed [58:56.780 -> 58:59.560] and never want to go to that shithole ever again. [58:59.560 -> 59:04.560] Oh, so I only went to Monaco once in my entire time there. [59:04.560 -> 59:06.480] I managed to avoid it entire time. [59:08.320 -> 59:14.880] And I did a baggage run. So hell yeah. So basically I went baggage run is basically [59:14.880 -> 59:20.720] where you take a last minute part out as hand luggage on a plane, get to the race. And then [59:21.840 -> 59:25.760] if you're lucky, maybe as a thank you, you'll get a ticket for the race or something. [59:25.760 -> 59:27.720] Anyway, in this case, it's Monaco. [59:27.720 -> 59:28.480] I didn't get a ticket. [59:28.640 -> 59:29.000] Fine. [59:29.000 -> 59:29.360] Whatever. [59:29.360 -> 59:30.840] Not told you to fuck off. [59:30.880 -> 59:31.120] Yeah. [59:31.160 -> 59:35.120] So, but the thing is the energy station, you don't need a ticket for the energy station, [59:35.120 -> 59:35.320] do you? [59:35.320 -> 59:35.800] Correct. [59:36.000 -> 59:38.000] So, because it's not inside the paddock. [59:38.000 -> 59:42.320] The energy station is a huge fucking barge that they float in from Italy. [59:42.800 -> 59:47.000] And, uh, it's gotta be better up there than being in the, in the fucking [59:47.000 -> 59:47.560] grandstands. [59:47.560 -> 59:47.840] No. [59:48.320 -> 59:49.840] Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, it was mint. [59:49.960 -> 59:55.480] And I will, for the sake of not getting anyone else in trouble, say I was joined [59:55.480 -> 59:59.240] by one other person from the team who will remain nameless, right. [59:59.240 -> 59:59.880] Anonymous. [01:00:00.360 -> 01:00:03.400] It was also on a baggage run and we were due to fly back the next day. [01:00:03.920 -> 01:00:06.360] So we were like, fuck it. Why don't we just not go to sleep? [01:00:06.440 -> 01:00:12.040] Why don't we just fucking why don't we just see how many parties we can get to and then just go to the airport straight [01:00:12.040 -> 01:00:15.720] In the morning and not worry. You didn't make it to the airport. Did you we did right? [01:00:16.280 -> 01:00:18.280] fuck [01:00:18.760 -> 01:00:23.840] We're on the energy station everything's going well, we're partying cool great. Yeah, it's the stage we think why don't we just go [01:00:23.840 -> 01:00:26.400] You know, why don't we have a look around, see what we can, what else we can do. [01:00:26.400 -> 01:00:28.320] See if you can sneak onto a yacht or something. [01:00:28.320 -> 01:00:28.800] Yes. [01:00:28.800 -> 01:00:34.240] So this is where the walk around looking like you belong somewhere [01:00:34.240 -> 01:00:37.040] with a box of beer and you're fucking getting anywhere, right? [01:00:37.680 -> 01:00:40.480] We ended up on this massive yacht that belonged to, [01:00:40.480 -> 01:00:43.360] I think it turned out to be some like Middle Eastern oil shake or something. [01:00:43.360 -> 01:00:44.160] I don't know. [01:00:44.160 -> 01:00:48.760] I don't even remember the name of the damn thing, but we got on there and uh, obviously [01:00:48.760 -> 01:00:53.440] we don't know anyone there. We get to like this bounces just to get onto the fucking [01:00:53.440 -> 01:00:58.120] yacht. He's all sees us with a beer and he just sort of waves us in like, doesn't really [01:00:58.120 -> 01:01:02.000] pay much attention. We get in there and we're like, shit, now we're in here. We can't really [01:01:02.000 -> 01:01:08.080] let on that we're not meant to be in here. So we got to look like we know people and we belong. Long story short, a member of staff [01:01:08.080 -> 01:01:13.120] comes up to us and goes, Oh, you know, you guys meant to be here? And I was like, Oh, fuck, I [01:01:13.120 -> 01:01:17.200] fuck, fuck, we've been rumbled. And we're like, Yeah, no, yeah, no, we're just here for the party. [01:01:17.200 -> 01:01:21.280] Okay, cool. Do you know Leona? And we're like, Oh, yeah, no, we get we go back a little bit, [01:01:21.280 -> 01:01:24.560] you know, and he's like, Oh, okay, cool. We'd like a tour of the boat. And I was like, [01:01:23.560 -> 01:01:28.680] know, we go back a little bit, you know, and he's like, Oh, okay, cool. We'd like a tour of the boat. And I was like, yeah, yeah, no, I would really love a tour of this boat. And [01:01:28.680 -> 01:01:33.440] by this I'm like a few fucking beers in at this point. So a little bit wavy. And I'm [01:01:33.440 -> 01:01:35.000] like, okay, yeah, cool, sweet. [01:01:35.000 -> 01:01:39.360] The swagger and the confidence is through the roof, ladies and gentlemen. [01:01:39.360 -> 01:01:45.400] So we get this tour of this boat and we're just like, Oh, it's, it's incredible. Like opulence [01:01:45.400 -> 01:01:49.240] and like one of these mega super yachts is, is incredible. He's got, he's probably got [01:01:49.240 -> 01:01:54.680] a kitchen. He's got a kitchen. He's got full staff probably, uh, possibly a barber on board. [01:01:54.680 -> 01:01:59.440] Wouldn't be surprised. I didn't see the barber. Um, I shouldn't tell cause I've, you know, [01:01:59.440 -> 01:02:06.500] I've never seen the barber in my life. Um, but yeah. And then we get to, I think, I think it was like his like [01:02:06.500 -> 01:02:10.720] bedroom or living area he shows us. And it was like this, I noticed it's like this weird [01:02:10.720 -> 01:02:15.680] fucking cage in the corner of the room. And I was like, Oh man, saying to myself, like, [01:02:15.680 -> 01:02:20.080] I've had a few beers. I'm not sure if I'm just making this up in my head, but I can [01:02:20.080 -> 01:02:24.160] definitely see a cage over there. And I said to the guy, he was like showing us around [01:02:24.160 -> 01:02:27.320] like, what's, what's the cage all about? [01:02:27.320 -> 01:02:29.720] And he's like, oh, that's for when he has his tigers on board. [01:02:29.780 -> 01:02:31.000] And I'm just like, what? [01:02:35.520 -> 01:02:35.840] Anyway. [01:02:35.840 -> 01:02:37.160] Yeah, no, we had a really good time. [01:02:37.200 -> 01:02:39.680] Um, we made it back to the airport. [01:02:39.740 -> 01:02:45.640] Um, didn't sleep, uh, stunk of beer and, beer and yeah, no good times. [01:02:45.640 -> 01:02:46.640] So yeah, go on. [01:02:46.640 -> 01:02:48.920] Dude, that's that's a fucking. [01:02:48.920 -> 01:02:49.920] That's a hero story. [01:02:49.920 -> 01:02:51.480] That one right there. [01:02:51.480 -> 01:02:54.960] Like that's like the super bad of Monaco stories. [01:02:54.960 -> 01:02:56.600] Yeah, it kind of was. [01:02:56.600 -> 01:02:58.280] It's not hangover because nobody died. [01:02:58.280 -> 01:03:03.760] I got kidnapped and lost any teeth and that's scary as fuck, but super bad. [01:03:03.760 -> 01:03:04.760] Let's go man. [01:03:04.760 -> 01:03:05.760] Dude, that's so fucking good. [01:03:05.760 -> 01:03:07.360] So goals, ladies and gentlemen, [01:03:07.360 -> 01:03:08.360] if you're ever in Monaco, [01:03:08.360 -> 01:03:09.920] there's some tips from an absolute [01:03:09.920 -> 01:03:11.920] walking legend him fucking self. [01:03:11.960 -> 01:03:13.320] Yeah, look like you belong. [01:03:13.320 -> 01:03:15.320] Carry a box of beer, you'll get anywhere. [01:03:16.720 -> 01:03:18.320] Let's go dude, love that. [01:03:18.920 -> 01:03:19.760] I got a little quiz, [01:03:19.760 -> 01:03:21.440] a little Monaco quiz for you, Dan, [01:03:21.440 -> 01:03:22.840] because I'm really shit at these things [01:03:22.840 -> 01:03:24.320] and I think you're probably better at them. [01:03:24.360 -> 01:03:29.300] Last time I was on the Reddit talks with Yepa and him and Anil gave me [01:03:29.300 -> 01:03:30.160] like a bunch of questions. [01:03:30.160 -> 01:03:30.940] I didn't answer any of them. [01:03:30.940 -> 01:03:32.600] I was so bad, right? [01:03:32.760 -> 01:03:37.080] Monaco trivia driver with the most wins around Monaco. [01:03:38.360 -> 01:03:40.240] Uh, I'm going to guess and say [01:03:43.600 -> 01:03:44.640] is Michael Schumacher. [01:03:44.680 -> 01:03:45.680] I don't actually know this. Is it Michael Schumacher? I don't actually know this. [01:03:45.680 -> 01:03:46.680] Is it Michael Schumacher? [01:03:46.680 -> 01:03:47.680] No, it's Ayrton Senna. [01:03:47.680 -> 01:03:48.680] Is it Ayrton Senna? [01:03:48.680 -> 01:03:49.680] Yeah, he's got six. [01:03:49.680 -> 01:03:50.680] Yeah, Freedom of Editing. [01:03:50.680 -> 01:03:51.680] It's not Jeff Gordon. [01:03:51.680 -> 01:03:59.200] Now, there's two drivers who are tied with the second most wins with five. [01:03:59.200 -> 01:04:00.880] One of them is Michael Schumacher. [01:04:00.880 -> 01:04:01.880] The other one? [01:04:01.880 -> 01:04:06.120] I'm going to left field this and say Sebastian Vettel. [01:04:06.120 -> 01:04:13.840] No, he'll. That's what I said. Yeah. Yeah. So I said, yeah. Team with the most wins around [01:04:13.840 -> 01:04:19.440] Monaco. It's not Kyle Bush. Come on, man. Well, if he was most, if Ayrton Senna's got [01:04:19.440 -> 01:04:25.320] like however many he's got to be McLaren then, right? It is indeed. Yes. Bravo. [01:04:25.320 -> 01:04:26.320] Get to it, man. [01:04:26.320 -> 01:04:27.320] Lewis. [01:04:27.320 -> 01:04:28.320] One out of three, not bad. [01:04:28.320 -> 01:04:30.240] All right, man. [01:04:30.240 -> 01:04:31.240] Give me your qualifying. [01:04:31.240 -> 01:04:32.240] All right, let's go. [01:04:32.240 -> 01:04:34.160] We move on to predictions now. [01:04:34.160 -> 01:04:35.240] That's a little trivia. [01:04:35.240 -> 01:04:36.240] Do it for Dale, baby. [01:04:36.240 -> 01:04:37.240] Do it for Dale, baby. [01:04:37.240 -> 01:04:38.240] Hell yeah, brother. [01:04:38.240 -> 01:04:39.240] Hell yeah. [01:04:39.240 -> 01:04:49.720] What's your top five prediction for this weekend? So I have faith in Max Verstappen to get the job done in qualifying. [01:04:51.000 -> 01:04:55.040] Uh, I think Ferrari and Charles could do another little cheeky, [01:04:55.040 -> 01:04:57.000] strong qualifying performance. [01:04:58.840 -> 01:05:06.780] I reckon Charles P2, uh, Perez P3, because he does quite well in streets, in the streets. [01:05:07.080 -> 01:05:12.720] And Alonzo I reckon might shit house a P4. [01:05:12.720 -> 01:05:14.880] I don't have much faith in the Aston at this track. [01:05:14.960 -> 01:05:15.480] I don't know. [01:05:16.160 -> 01:05:16.520] Really? [01:05:16.980 -> 01:05:19.200] I don't know what to expect, honestly. [01:05:19.200 -> 01:05:22.400] To finish it off, I'll put Charles in P5. [01:05:23.280 -> 01:05:23.600] Okay. [01:05:24.200 -> 01:05:24.800] No, Carlos. [01:05:24.840 -> 01:05:25.200] Sorry, Carlos. Other Charles. Yeah, the put Charles in P5. Okay. No, Carlos. Sorry, Carlos. [01:05:25.200 -> 01:05:25.700] Carlos. [01:05:25.700 -> 01:05:26.200] Other Charles. [01:05:26.200 -> 01:05:26.700] Yeah, the other Charles. [01:05:26.700 -> 01:05:27.200] Charles too. [01:05:27.200 -> 01:05:27.700] George Michael. [01:05:27.700 -> 01:05:28.200] I put George Michael in P5. [01:05:28.200 -> 01:05:42.700] So, Thomas in the chat says, Dinny Hamlin, Ross Chastain, Kyle Larson, Bubba Wallace, and Kevin Harvick for his qualifying top five round moniker. [01:05:42.700 -> 01:05:45.040] That'd be one incredible qualifying session. [01:05:45.040 -> 01:05:45.960] Made watch. [01:05:46.440 -> 01:05:47.680] Yeah, I'd watch that. [01:05:47.680 -> 01:05:50.320] Um, I'm going for Verstappen, Perez front row, [01:05:50.800 -> 01:05:52.200] Red Bull bias here. [01:05:53.240 -> 01:05:55.520] I'm I'm thinking Alonzo is going to shit house it. [01:05:55.520 -> 01:05:57.600] I'm I'm saying for are going to crap the bed. [01:05:57.600 -> 01:06:00.320] We got Hamilton, Russell, George Michael, sorry, [01:06:00.320 -> 01:06:01.320] in four and five. [01:06:01.920 -> 01:06:05.040] Oh, you reckon the Merc side pods upgrade [01:06:05.040 -> 01:06:06.040] is gonna come good? [01:06:07.720 -> 01:06:09.480] I think they might go all right. [01:06:09.480 -> 01:06:10.320] I don't really know. [01:06:10.320 -> 01:06:11.140] This is vibes. [01:06:11.140 -> 01:06:12.720] This is not even, there's nothing factual. [01:06:12.720 -> 01:06:14.280] Don't put any money on this and be like, [01:06:14.280 -> 01:06:15.540] Blake, you got it wrong. [01:06:16.520 -> 01:06:19.200] Remember, Chad, if he gets it wrong, drag him. [01:06:19.200 -> 01:06:20.800] I think yours looks pretty good, honestly. [01:06:20.800 -> 01:06:22.200] You know what I'm saying? [01:06:22.200 -> 01:06:24.040] Yeah, what about that? [01:06:24.040 -> 01:06:24.880] Yeah, I'm about that. [01:06:24.880 -> 01:06:25.760] What's your podium looking like? [01:06:25.800 -> 01:06:26.240] It's not three. [01:06:26.640 -> 01:06:30.520] Uh, I reckon there's going to be an incident at some point during a race [01:06:30.520 -> 01:06:32.680] that allows Charles to finish P1. [01:06:35.240 -> 01:06:38.800] Um, and that's got nothing to do with the fact that I'm going to carry on and use [01:06:38.800 -> 01:06:45.460] Ferrari this year, uh, this event in my random fandom, Alonzo, uh, sorry, Chuck. [01:06:46.300 -> 01:06:48.900] Fucking again, smelling burnt toast again. [01:06:50.020 -> 01:06:53.060] Um, a staff and MP to Alonzo MP3. [01:06:53.640 -> 01:06:55.620] Are you sure it's not a little bit of oceans for 20? [01:06:55.900 -> 01:06:56.620] You know what I'm saying? [01:06:57.040 -> 01:06:59.580] No, listen, I wish it was my Jesus Christ. [01:06:59.580 -> 01:06:59.820] Yeah. [01:07:01.960 -> 01:07:03.500] I'm fucking, I'm so straight edge. [01:07:03.500 -> 01:07:04.780] I'm not even on the energy drink, mate. [01:07:04.780 -> 01:07:06.320] I'm drinking juice out of a bottle. I'm not even on energy drink mate. I'm drinking juice out of a bottle. [01:07:07.200 -> 01:07:08.480] I'm going to have a beer after this. [01:07:08.480 -> 01:07:10.680] Honestly, I reckon my podiums for [01:07:10.680 -> 01:07:13.960] Stappen Perez Alonso, so we both have [01:07:14.000 -> 01:07:15.640] for Stappen and Alonso on the top [01:07:15.680 -> 01:07:16.880] on those three steps. [01:07:16.920 -> 01:07:19.000] Yeah, so here's a little thing [01:07:19.000 -> 01:07:19.560] that we talked about. [01:07:19.560 -> 01:07:21.200] We foreshadowed this earlier in the episode. [01:07:21.200 -> 01:07:23.160] Mercedes gap to pole prediction [01:07:23.360 -> 01:07:24.920] at the first two races. [01:07:26.240 -> 01:07:30.360] This season Mercedes was about 0.7 0.6% off of pole. [01:07:30.360 -> 01:07:31.900] In Australia, they were really close [01:07:31.900 -> 01:07:33.040] because everybody had warmup issues. [01:07:33.040 -> 01:07:34.720] And for some reason, [01:07:34.720 -> 01:07:36.560] Mercedes magically didn't have warmup issues [01:07:36.560 -> 01:07:38.960] for the first time, fucking ever. [01:07:38.960 -> 01:07:41.120] They were about 0.35% from pole. [01:07:41.120 -> 01:07:43.280] And then Baku and Miami, [01:07:43.280 -> 01:07:45.280] they were about a percent off of pole. [01:07:45.280 -> 01:07:50.280] How close to pole position do you reckon they will be? [01:07:50.320 -> 01:07:53.160] You've not put them in your top five. [01:07:53.160 -> 01:07:54.800] Mercedes, no. [01:07:54.800 -> 01:07:56.880] Okay, what do you reckon? [01:07:56.880 -> 01:07:59.040] I reckon they will be like, [01:07:59.040 -> 01:08:00.960] I've been in the top 10 for qualifying. [01:08:00.960 -> 01:08:02.480] But in terms of their gap, [01:08:02.480 -> 01:08:04.520] do you think it'll be better than Miami and Baku? [01:08:04.520 -> 01:08:08.880] Oh. Or do you think they're be better than Miami and Baku? Oh, um, or do you think, do you think they're going to find improvement or not? Basically? [01:08:10.880 -> 01:08:18.080] Yes. Yeah. Okay. I think there'll be an improvement, but it's, you got to like, [01:08:18.080 -> 01:08:22.720] taper people's expectations here. You're bringing a massive upgrade package to a street circuit. [01:08:23.440 -> 01:08:26.560] They're not going to bowl it on and magically find a second in pace. [01:08:26.560 -> 01:08:28.600] It's gonna take them a couple of races [01:08:28.600 -> 01:08:32.080] to understand what the hell they've bolted on. [01:08:32.080 -> 01:08:32.980] And that'd be any team, [01:08:32.980 -> 01:08:35.280] that's not the disservice to Mercedes. [01:08:35.280 -> 01:08:37.920] And then they're gonna have to fine tune parts of it [01:08:37.920 -> 01:08:38.760] and things like that. [01:08:38.760 -> 01:08:40.400] Because Monaco, like we said, [01:08:40.400 -> 01:08:42.860] it's such a fucked up circuit for setup. [01:08:42.860 -> 01:08:46.000] Like you're lifting the car into like a 4x4 spec [01:08:46.000 -> 01:08:47.000] Yeah, exactly. [01:08:47.000 -> 01:08:53.000] You know, so yeah, I mean it will be an improvement and you know, perhaps maybe the anti-dive [01:08:53.000 -> 01:08:54.000] will help them. [01:08:54.000 -> 01:08:55.000] God damn it. [01:08:55.000 -> 01:08:56.000] Again, two for two. [01:08:56.000 -> 01:08:57.000] Stop. [01:08:57.000 -> 01:08:58.000] Stop. [01:08:58.000 -> 01:08:59.000] I'm just kidding. [01:08:59.000 -> 01:09:00.000] Okay, fair enough. [01:09:00.000 -> 01:09:06.000] I mean, I reckon, and here's my take on this. [01:09:06.000 -> 01:09:09.840] I think Monaco is a very low efficiency, [01:09:09.840 -> 01:09:12.160] high drag, high downforce favoring circuit, right? [01:09:12.960 -> 01:09:16.960] We haven't seen a super nasty downforce draggy son of a gun yet. [01:09:16.960 -> 01:09:19.120] Last year, they tended to go quite well there [01:09:19.920 -> 01:09:21.840] because they don't have the straight line oomph, [01:09:21.840 -> 01:09:23.360] but it didn't matter because you don't really need it [01:09:23.360 -> 01:09:26.640] because it's not worth that much lap time around here. [01:09:26.640 -> 01:09:28.180] I think it would be very difficult, A, [01:09:28.180 -> 01:09:30.040] to tell if this package is an improvement or not [01:09:30.040 -> 01:09:31.780] for us and for them. [01:09:31.780 -> 01:09:33.480] And I think they'll probably go better [01:09:33.480 -> 01:09:35.380] than they did at Baku or Miami. [01:09:37.120 -> 01:09:39.480] So probably around, [01:09:40.800 -> 01:09:44.220] I still have them at fourth fastest team this weekend. [01:09:44.220 -> 01:09:45.760] Yeah, that's fair. [01:09:45.760 -> 01:09:50.560] I would also, I would imagine and like to see [01:09:50.560 -> 01:09:53.240] Mercedes running some flow viz around Monaco [01:09:53.240 -> 01:09:55.720] because I cannot think of the last time I ever saw [01:09:55.720 -> 01:09:58.280] a car with flow viz running around Monaco. [01:09:58.280 -> 01:10:00.760] I think we've, it's been a while. [01:10:00.760 -> 01:10:03.580] Often they'll check the rear wing, pre-practice one. [01:10:03.580 -> 01:10:09.520] I remember, I remember fucking Pedro with the, with the FlowViz squirt cannon, just [01:10:09.520 -> 01:10:13.520] getting a full face of, cause you know, you start the engine and there's the tailpipe [01:10:13.520 -> 01:10:14.520] right there. [01:10:14.520 -> 01:10:20.280] And he, it was wind blowing and he's spraying the rear wing and it's all over the garage [01:10:20.280 -> 01:10:21.280] floor. [01:10:21.280 -> 01:10:22.480] The mechanics are like, God damn it. [01:10:22.480 -> 01:10:24.040] And he's covered in FlowViz. [01:10:24.040 -> 01:10:25.880] I was like, God damn it. And he's covered in Flovis. I was like, God damn it. [01:10:25.880 -> 01:10:29.760] There is nobody more hated in the garage than the composites guy. [01:10:29.760 -> 01:10:33.720] And the error guy that's got the fucking bottle of Flovis because they have to clean it all [01:10:33.720 -> 01:10:36.160] up off the fucking garage floor after. [01:10:36.160 -> 01:10:37.160] Every time, man. [01:10:37.160 -> 01:10:40.720] But yeah, so last week we did a random fandom draw for MLM. [01:10:40.720 -> 01:10:42.120] We're going to keep them. [01:10:42.120 -> 01:10:43.440] My random fandom team. [01:10:43.440 -> 01:10:47.460] I'm going to be looking out for Aston Martin this weekend and I'll give [01:10:47.460 -> 01:10:50.580] you guys a report on our debrief episode next week. [01:10:50.580 -> 01:10:53.220] Dan is going to be looking out for Ferrari baby this weekend. [01:10:53.220 -> 01:10:54.220] Hell yeah. [01:10:54.220 -> 01:10:55.220] Bradley. [01:10:55.220 -> 01:10:57.940] In my neck or see. [01:10:57.940 -> 01:11:00.340] So come on Charlie boy. [01:11:00.340 -> 01:11:03.700] Go on like stop fucking playing your piano and get some race wins. [01:11:03.700 -> 01:11:04.700] Is he gonna get a W? [01:11:04.700 -> 01:11:05.000] I don't know. Like Claire. Greg. Is he going to get a W? [01:11:05.000 -> 01:11:06.000] Dunno. [01:11:06.000 -> 01:11:07.000] Leclerc? [01:11:07.000 -> 01:11:08.000] LeGreg? [01:11:08.000 -> 01:11:09.000] Dunno, why not? [01:11:09.000 -> 01:11:10.000] Hope so. [01:11:10.000 -> 01:11:19.000] But um, so, if you haven't yet, do be sure to follow EngineMode11 on Twitch. [01:11:19.000 -> 01:11:22.000] He will be streaming, are you going to be streaming the whole time? [01:11:22.000 -> 01:11:24.000] I intend to, yeah. [01:11:24.000 -> 01:11:28.360] I'll have a live feed of even even obviously me driving, the boys driving, [01:11:28.360 -> 01:11:31.800] timing tables, whatnot, you know, basically we'll do a 24 hour stream. [01:11:32.320 -> 01:11:32.520] Yeah. [01:11:32.520 -> 01:11:36.720] So Dan's doing a 24 hour stream and at the same time he is raising [01:11:36.720 -> 01:11:38.280] money for Samaritan's charity. [01:11:38.560 -> 01:11:42.360] Um, if you've got some spare pennies, do be sure to check out the stream. [01:11:42.520 -> 01:11:45.120] I will leave a link in the show notes on YouTube [01:11:45.120 -> 01:11:48.720] and on Spotify and everything else so that you can, if you'd like to make a contribution, [01:11:49.840 -> 01:11:52.560] it'll make, it can make a huge difference for a lot of people. These guys, [01:11:54.480 -> 01:11:59.280] yeah, they're doing God's work here. So I hope you guys enjoyed this episode. We will be back [01:11:59.280 -> 01:12:05.000] with a Monaco debrief episode, probably Monday night back to our usual time slot. I reckon yeah, [01:12:05.040 -> 01:12:06.680] and I see if I've recovered by then, [01:12:06.680 -> 01:12:08.080] but yeah, fair enough. [01:12:08.120 -> 01:12:10.080] And then I'm going to go. [01:12:10.200 -> 01:12:11.480] I need you to do as I do. [01:12:11.520 -> 01:12:12.880] I need you to pick up your local butcher. [01:12:12.880 -> 01:12:15.400] I'm going to go buy a brisket tomorrow. [01:12:15.520 -> 01:12:17.080] Got one of my buddies coming around. [01:12:17.080 -> 01:12:17.880] We're going to have a little brisket [01:12:17.880 -> 01:12:18.720] after qualifying. [01:12:18.760 -> 01:12:19.920] I'll send you guys some pictures [01:12:19.920 -> 01:12:21.840] in the discord and yeah, [01:12:21.840 -> 01:12:23.360] you can out on your Traeger grill. [01:12:23.640 -> 01:12:24.400] I'm trying to get my [01:12:24.440 -> 01:12:25.760] I mentioned Traeger every week. [01:12:25.760 -> 01:12:28.760] Yeah, we're going to, we're going to do, I think I'm gonna do a brisket, um, [01:12:29.800 -> 01:12:34.680] I mean, from me whinging about not having a multi-viewer hat in this episode, [01:12:34.680 -> 01:12:37.600] already I've been messaged asking to send my address. [01:12:37.600 -> 01:12:39.360] So I've managed to black a multi-viewer hat. [01:12:40.120 -> 01:12:43.560] Now we need to, you know, follow up and finesse that Traeger grill. [01:12:44.400 -> 01:12:46.080] Uh, I need a you know follow up and finesse that Traeger grill. I need a sim racing setup [01:12:46.800 -> 01:12:52.560] because the office chair gaming is not doing my old man back any favours. [01:12:53.120 -> 01:12:59.680] Nah, nah it won't do. So yeah, big up your local butcher, be excellent to each other, [01:13:01.200 -> 01:13:07.440] check in on your mates, pick up your nan, tell your mum you love her and er... [01:13:07.440 -> 01:13:09.440] Fuck off.