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"aston martin" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"But it's not how you you aren't going to beat the Mercedes Works team with exactly the same components. Well, of course, I'll draw that parallel. McLaren had winning success with Mercedes, the engines that Aston Martin are using right now, although, of course, in an era when they were up against Honda as a team, not after the acquisition and a Works Mercedes, as that kind of became. So is there a risk here that Aston Martin, with Mercedes power, doing very well as a customer, beating the manufacturer? Let's not forget that for anyone in the audience right now. They're doing just fine. This seems to me like it's a big risk to take. Did they talk about the fact that, well, they're doing very well? Thank you very much at the minute. They did. And it's quite interesting. Martin Whitmarsh said, was asked about this. What is the attraction? I mean, it's fairly obvious what attractions for a Works manufacturer deal as opposed to a customer relationship. There's a there's a financial aspect there, but there's also there's an effort aspect as well that Honda will be throwing everything they can to make this relationship work, improve the engines, push on forward. Whereas the Mercedes is more a customer relationship and you give them the money and they get what they've promised. But Martin was quite clear. He said that Mercedes -Benz, as a company, as a racing team, has ambitions to win. Aston Martin, as a racing team, has ambitions to win. And there's an incompatibility with those two ambitions, which is basically that if Aston Martin wants to win in Formula One, it's got to go and do its own thing. It can't be a customer team. It has to have manufacturer support. And this, I think, is primarily what's driven that deal with Honda. Well, Aston Martin has close ties to Mercedes, which is a shareholder in the road car company. More recently, there was a big investment by the Chinese company Geely, the owners of Volvo and Polestar, the London black cabs that we might see flying around the capital. And so with Honda moving towards an electric future, with Mercedes doing the same, Aston Martin are a smaller name in automotive, but presumably, just like all the other companies that have said, we'll never electrify, the likes of Ferrari and Lamborghini. Well, they all are. Is this not a little bit strange, almost a conflict of interests in the road car world? I'll go back to Martin Whitmarsh, he was in quite good form today, actually. He sounds like he has a lot to say for himself. Well, he always has a lot to say for himself. He's one of the one of the better people to speak to in the palette. But we've not. He's been very low profile ever since his returns. This is kind of his first first time he's spoken to us. But he was asked, how does this fit in with the Aston Martin brand? You've Mercedes shareholders, Mercedes engines are in Aston Martin road cars. There's the Geely link. So how does Honda being a works partner in Formula One fit into the brand? And he said, it doesn't fit. Basically, it is a complication. And it's not the sort of thing you would do as a grand plan to have Honda as part of a luxury sports car brand like Aston Martin. But the Aston Martin Formula One team exists to win. That's the priority. That's all that matters above all else. The ambitions of that team is to win. That's why it's gone down the Honda route. The rest can all be kind of put aside to details and can get sorted out later on. Well, I've saved the best till last. Now, Aston Martin do want to win and we've yet to see Fernando Alon. Or, of course, Lance Stroll win in 2023 in that car. There's some races coming up where perhaps they've got an outside chance if everything falls their way. Fernando Alonso with a Honda engine. He won't still be around in Formula One, will he? I mean, GP2 engine, GP2 engine. There was a question thrown today to Watanabe -san, who's the CEO of HRC, just said, I think someone didn't want to ask the obvious question, which was about Fernando. He said, will you have any say on drivers? And there was a wry smile from him and a wry smile from Martin Whitmarsh as well. So it was fairly obvious what they were saying. Watanabe said, it's not our place to choose drivers. So we then followed up with, you know, is Fernando a possibility? Honda were clear, no objections at all. What's done is done in the past. I think Fernando himself is a different character nowadays. He regrets what he said that day in Japan. You know, I think it was just a sign of intense frustration. Very important race at a time when, you know, what had been promised by Honda was far below what was actually delivered. I think Fernando himself generally is a more mature driver now, still performing as brilliantly as ever. Whether he is still around in 2026, it'll be 45 that year. So it'll be fairly astonishing if he's well, he could be competing in Formula One. If he's competing at the level he's competing now, I think it would be, well, it'd be great for Formula One. But let's see if it gets that far. But I think for now, don't believe any people who say that, you know, Honda do not want anything to do with Fernando Alonso, because if he's driving as quick as he's driving now, they'll take him in an instant. All right. Well, I'm calling it now. If Fernando Alonso is still at the top of his game, not just this year or next year or the year after, but in 2026 and fighting at the front, that's it. I'm calling it. The man's a robot. He is the bionic man. Well, that's really interesting stuff. Thank you, John. Thank you for getting us the scoop on that news and telling us what it means as well for both Formula One, for Aston Martin, for Honda as a supplier as well and how it all fits together. Of course, we're heading towards a weekend of racing and around the Principality in Monaco. Look out for our weekend preview podcast coming out later today. Tomorrow, we'll be talking more Le Mans stuff. And then before
The Autosport Podcast
"aston martin" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"Honda did continue to provide power units to Red Bull and still does as part of a supply deal that now runs until the end of the 2025 season. But of course, if you cast your mind back to Honda leaving and Braun GP taking over and, of course, the success that Honda have had over the years in Formula One, it's been a case of in outs, in outs. And I kind of want to say shake it all about now. I'm joined today on the podcast by our man, Jonathan Noble, who was on those press calls to talk directly to the senior management about this big deal as Aston Martin wave goodbye to Mercedes power. But, John, Honda have been here before they've been out. They've been into Formula One just less than three years after leaving. They say they're now coming back full time. Is that not a little bit confusing? Well, I think there's two two parallel reasons really here. I think first to win championships, I think when they quit Formula One off the back of the McLaren years hadn't been very good. It looks better with Red Bull, but I don't quite think they're anticipating turning into a world championship winner quite quickly. They've now won back to back tasks with Red Bull. They're likely to get a third this season and who knows how long that goes on for. And they are quite clear today when we spoke to Honda and Aston Martin that this is a partnership based on winning a championship. It's not based on moving forward over five years. It's not based on potentially winning over a set period. This is for world titles. So you've got that. But alongside that, you've got Honda's kind of ambitions in road cars and sustainability in the environment. When they quit Formula One, it was because they wanted a carbon neutral future. They didn't feel the direction F1 was going in could suit that. But F1 shifted a lot. It's got more aggressive with this net zero 2030 ambitions, the move to fully sustainable fuel. The 26 regs have been sorted out. The MGUH that Honda didn't especially like at the beginning has gone. More electric power. So I think the engines kind of the F1 engines move towards what they need for road cars. And Honda are saying that direct technology now in Formula One can go straight into road cars. It's perfect for them. It all fits. Now, you have spoken to the both organizations and I mentioned in the intro, I kind of half joked about in out, in out and shake it all about. But Honda have had very successful periods in Formula One. They even had a connection with Team Silverstone through Mugen, Honda and actually Aston Martin and Honda have both been on the side of the Red Bull as sponsors and logos in recent years. But you've spoken to the teams. Honda will need to once again spool up and re equip that Formula One outfit, which has more recently been wound down again. Did they talk about that and the investment and time required? Yeah, I think there is an element of catching up when they quit Formula One. I mean, it's primarily to walk away completely. There was no ambition to stay in Formula One. It was only because Red Bull came to the table said, look, we need a supply of engines. Can you at least just help us produce the power units? We'll take the power units. You can manufacture them in Sakura in Japan. And that process began. And I think it kind of when the success came, Honda obviously got a bit more interested in helping out, which then transferred into a wider HRC, Honda Racing Corporation relationship, extended to 25. We've seen the Honda name come back on. But over that period with the engine freeze, a lot of the engineers who were working on the project have been dispatched to road car projects and electric projects. So it's been has been wound down a lot. But we asked them today, you know, how far behind are you coming from? And they actually think they haven't lost that much ground because with the engine freeze, you can't develop the current engines. So no one's aggressively developing these power units as of now. So they think it won't be too bad to get things wound up. And I think that's why the announcements come now. It seems very, very early for 26 to be committing like this. But I think if Honda waited six more months, 12 more months, they'd been very, very much on the back foot. So I think this timetable is kind of perfect for them. And what did Aston Martin have to say for themselves? Big investment happening there. I was only at Silverstone a week or two ago when there was some GB3 and some GT stuff on track that I was having a look at. And as you leave the circuit, you can't help but notice Aston are spending some serious money on their campus there. So they clearly have ambitions to be a world championship winning squad. We've seen McLaren try it, and it didn't work with the perhaps clash of cultures, if you want to put it down to that reason. But for whatever reason, a British organisation, a Japanese company, they didn't work well together. We've seen it work more successfully with Red Bull more recently. They didn't have those differences and they had more success together. What did Aston Martin say about their ability to work with a company that has different cultures, is physically based a long way away from where they're building this fabulous new headquarters? I think what's quite significant today was that the first press conference we had was with Martin Whitmarsh, ex -Mclaren F1 team boss, who did that Honda deal in for McLaren in 2015, had gone by the time it actually started. But he was around the previous Honda era, well understands how the Japanese corporate culture works, well understands how to get the best out of Honda. So he sees and understands what Honda needs, knows how the relationship between the kind of English operations and Japanese operations can work. So there feels is the right opportunity, feels that McLaren, after he left, didn't do the right things. Well, obviously, we know how difficult it got at times there, especially with Fernando Alonso. There weren't some easy times during that period. But I think Martin Whitmarsh is very much on the front foot with these negotiations. He's been there in the past. He knows what it needs. And I think it says everything about Aston Martin's ambition that they're going down this route. They felt that Mercedes, you know, would have been a safe option, continue the custom relationship, keep using the gearboxes, keep using the suspension. But it's not how you you aren't going to beat the Mercedes Works team with exactly the same components. Well, of course, I'll draw that parallel. McLaren
The Autosport Podcast
"aston martin" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
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"aston martin" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"Get the experienced Nico hulkenberg that will keep it out of the wall rather than risk, you know, Mick Schumacher having another couple of 7 figure crashes because he doesn't have the experience and he then loses that practice session and then if the experiment turns out to be a hit and we go from 6 sprint races to ten to 12 whatever, then there is zero chance that the little rule that says you have to run rookies three times a season stays in a regulations and then you go to Vegas, which is a massive commercial driver and it is just Formula One. There's no support races or whatever. But when there are support races, they have to run to Abu Dhabi, which means by the time the F two champions crowned the F one silly seasons long over. So I know it's a slight tangential point, but it does sort of serve to undermine perhaps younger drivers less experienced ones when you can look at an older person in their advancing years and if they're still doing handy job at minimize the risk, then the shoe them in and never mind you, F two runner up, getting an epi one driving, doing a Nick devries and winning in or getting 7th place in monzo. I don't know. It's interesting you should mention Nico hulkenberg because the very first Grand Prix in Azerbaijan, if you recall, was anything but it's a thrashing crash fest. Everyone was very conservative. And that is because the drivers at the F one drivers were watching the carnage that ensued in what was then GP two, which had a number of safety car periods followed by ridiculous restarts followed immediately by safety car periods. And I was actually talking trying to speak to Nico hulkenberg in one of the many badly scheduled driver press conferences of the weekend that took place while there was a race on with a monitor in their eye line. So instead of talking to you, they were drifting off and watching what was on the screen and he watched one of those shunts on the restarts and I can't repeat what he said. Because it would cause us probably be blacklisted by Apple, but the word rhymed with duck's wake. And you can see why the F one drivers decided they were going to be conservative that weekend. So, you know, there might be an outbreak of conservatism for the sprint race. Or they might just have what the Italians would call. To the head. Well, I think so long as your good land stroll trying to keep pace with the Fernando Alonso. There's likely to be a massive shunt. Right. To be fair to mark's comment. I think. There's three there are three practice sessions qualified. But anyway, in qualifying last year, I think he was in two sessions and he crashed three times. That's quite a good, quite a good return rate for Azerbaijan. So ya boo and sucks says the Lance stroll. Do we have any members of the land stroll fan club in our listenership? If you would like to make yourself known, then please email Matt dot Q out from to support dot com. I think I met both of them at the Montreal Grand Prix. Stuck in the elevator momentarily. Do you have an Aston Martin cap behind you? Is that Vettel? Was that Alonso? Is that Lance stroll? Oh, yeah, you're looking at what Christian Horner during a Zoom interview rather snotty described as my partisan bookshelf. I'm sure he's really concerned about your support for Valtteri Bottas. So it's actually both. So Sebastian Vettel and Lance stroll have, I'm not sure who's actually what. I should probably keep this out of the sunlight because the sharpie mark is fading, but it won't perform as well on eBay then. As is well known, I'm banned from eBay. I tried to sell some of my own books. I canceled the sale and threw me off and told me I was a security risk. Did you have to poke them inside? Well, the local arcs fan is now saying, well, another one of these. What? I'll be keeping the Aston Martin baseball cap because it actually covers up a rather annoying blue stain on that shelf caused by a expired ink cartridge that I'd put in one of those macmillan charity envelopes. The residue leaking through the bottom. So there's a cyan splodge on that shelf. So your summary is that the benefit of having a signed acid Martin cap is that it comes up the stains on you. That's terrible. That's terrible. Oh, dear. I think it's as we come up to the hour mark in this podcast. It's time for us to leave it there with our listeners, visualizing peculiarly colored stains on market share. You really need to wrap this one up colors. Yeah. Well, thank you everyone for listening
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"aston martin" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"And that's Saturday spritz will stand alone, which is which is good, but it's sort of that it's that more is more thing, isn't it, where we've got the Netflix bubble, the drive to survive wave of popularity. Everyone's trying to double down on that and Red Bull got a perfect record. So we need somewhere else to go to the spec schools, but it's now like if you have 23 races a year and there's talk that domenica and quite happy to blow the Concorde agreement away and go to 24, 25. Then you need all those extra competitive elements inside an F one weekend. Yes, it is good for the spectacle and all of that. But it is a lot, is it like drivers and you shouldn't feel sorry for drivers, particularly Dutch double world champions on $30 million a year when they're complaining they have to work to do. But it is sort of that so almost over consumption, isn't it? Too much of a good thing. But to tight up to the original question, I don't think anyone stopped precious about practice are they? Maybe a couple of engineers who want to particularly in bakula want to validate their new front wing in an uncompetitive session before someone smears it into the barrier through the castle or something like that. Otherwise, otherwise I suppose is of limited value. And we can look at auto sport dot com when we're running our live blog or practice reports and sky will tell you the same. The interest in terms of viewers, people tuning in libraries or even on YouTube, the clipped highlights that F one put out on their YouTube channel. The interest just is there, but it's just it's minuscule compared to an extra competitive session. So commercial partners and sponsors, they want more and they write the big checks. So while F one's doubling down on its absolute booming audience, that's the way to go. You're dictated by the market. So when we're having a debate like this, this is when I definitely start to feel my age because I come from a generation which believed that one of the purposes of practice was to give drivers the opportunity to drive the cars more to learn to learn more about the cars and the track. And that became even more of the focus when testing got stopped. We don't have any in season testing effectively anymore, whereas drivers, including Lewis Hamilton, were able to do thousands of thousands of kilometers to testing. It's something that make a hack and then just talk to me about a few times on different podcasts we have done together that he says when people compare eras, people say compare it today with when he was at the forefront of Formula One with Michael Schumacher back in the late 90s, early 2000s. He said, you know, we had unlimited tests and we were out testing cheesy emergency Thursday between Grand Prix and developing things and he said, by the way, also as a driver and driving the car a lot, but Miko is also drawn a line. Between that and safety because he said, you know, when young drivers come into Formula One, they need mileage. Don't need more time behind the wheel. And while Lewis Hamilton or a Fernando Alonso might be slightly jaded by yet another boring practice session, you know, for a driver like Logan's origin, for example, nearly into Formula One, every lap, every session is an opportunity to improve and there is a safety element to that because it means that they don't go in completely raw to a sprint race on the Saturday or a Grand Prix in the Sunday. And so I did kind of and I say this as someone who's got my entire professional career in formula working on the commercial side of the sport. I understand what the staff and the team at F one are trying to do. They're trying to create an all round entertainment. Spectacle for the weekend and draw audiences on Friday's Saturdays, Saturdays would be an obvious opportunity to increase interest even more beyond just what qualifying was so that the Saturday Sunday audiences, you know, if they could bring the Saturday up to be closer to the Sunday, I mean, what a fantastic opportunity that is. But I do fear that there are problems that come with moving towards not eliminating practice because Stefan has, he hasn't corrected himself, Stefano has said that he has never said he doesn't want any practice. What he has said is that he wants to. You know, reduce practice, he doesn't think there should be as much practice and your point about some of the pointless practice sessions is very well made. So I think that's absolutely the case. I think also, of course, there's an eye on the long term as we go to 24 Grand Prix, 25 Grand Prix, Stefano talking about the fact that there could be 30 Grand Prix. The shift away from a four to three day to a potentially focused on two day weekend, you can just see the direction of travel that's happening on that. Final thing I'll say is I've clearly gotten way ahead of myself because we're talking about the sprint race in Baku. The column that I've written for the next edition is actually all about. The fact that our sport continues to change formats and to look at new changes and when you think about new sporting rules, new technical rules, new financial rules, new formats, new changes, new ideas being bandied around all the time. I mean, my goodness, you know, the sport seems to be constantly in change. And is it changed because we need to have change? Or is it changed for a change sake? And are we going to reach a point in the relatively near future where we have stability for someone says, this is a way it's going to be because actually it becomes increasingly difficult, particularly for a new fans and for media who are picked up on Formula One to follow a sport that's constantly changing. And I think there is a reason why Bernie decided to have all Formula One races on a Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. It was to make it easy for everyone to lock in to that moment in time. I'm still incredulous about the fact that the Las Vegas Grand Prix started to 10 p.m.. And runs to midnight. And in Melbourne, I, again, for a forthcoming feature, I was talking to the House team manager Peter crowler. And I was talking to him about how long it takes a team to break down a garage after a race and he said, well, you know, it's a 7 hour job. And he said, obviously, in Vegas, you know, we're going to be finishing the race at midnight, and he said there's a whole bunch of complexity around that. Now, obviously, the fact is that is Saturday night, so they have, I think, potentially some of the Sunday as well. But Las Vegas starts a triple header. It's a start of a triple header. They're going to get to Mexico. They've got to get this out of. So he's a huge amount of time pressure already on the team. So I think going back to the key point about what's happening in Baku. Again, when I heard about it, I thought actually very similar to what Christian Horner came out with, which was that you just asking for asking for trouble because it's a race strike, which can we have seen in the past can lead to inordinate levels of damage. It's extremely unforgiving. When you have a max and it tends to be quite a big one. And it's all very well. The driver is so wild, you know, the sprint race and his previous format was a bit boring. If they all start absolutely going for it on Saturday afternoon, there's going to be potential for carnage. That gives a team a lot more work to do. And it does rather fly in the face of the budget cap. And while there is an allowance for the sprint race financially within the budget cap, it's not enough for a really sizable accident. You have a big one. It's going to be it's going to be painful. So that will be interesting because I'm quite sure that the teams will be saying to the driver's look, yes, this is an opportunity. And go out there and give the best of yourself. But just bear in mind, the Grand Prix is on Sunday. Outbreaking maneuver that you decide to go for that round the outside opportunity you go for, you know, you really got to think about whether that's going to be on and off because the potential penalty for you and for us on Sunday could be sizable. I don't want to give too much away to listeners about the next issue of GP racing magazine. But it does, you know, to be the voice of doing, take it to inevitable conclusion, whereas as Mark says, you want the safe pair of hands. So you get the experienced Nico hulkenberg that will keep it out of the wall rather than risk, you know, Mick Schumacher having another couple of 7 figure
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"aston martin" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"We were assured, was just awful. It was like a second and a half, two seconds off the pace. And, you know, you're on a truly said, well, you know, it's absolutely fantastic in a straight line, but the moment you turn it into your corner, there's just no down force. It's just falls away. And as useless as a result. And when I read pat article, I thought back to that, you know, people, as you say, they get fixated. This is the direction we're going, and this is absolutely it. And it almost becomes there's almost a little bit of cognitive dissonance starts to creep in that irrespective of everything that's telling you that it's not working. They say, no, no, we got to keep on going. And I don't think that that was the case with, well, it wasn't the case with the W 13. I'm quite sure that Mike Elliott and the whole team at Mercedes really genuinely believed that they had a cracking innovative concept for the 2022 regulators, but again, the problem that pat alludes to in the feature is, you never quite know where the competition are at and what they're doing. And that's the nature of our sport. So no matter how clarity you might think you are, the reality is there are 9 other very clever groups of people all trying desperately to beat you. And when you've got people of the caliber of Adrian newey and as we can now see, Dan fellows and Eric Landon as we're going to go on and talk about with Manchu. You've got very smart people who are open minded to create new concepts. You can then just suddenly find that your benchmarking was all wrong. What you thought was going to be great. Turns out to be actually not so great. And just to go back to your point called the reality is that only last week somebody was describing to me and I want to disastrous season receive these were having. And I said, have you actually seen him any points that have gotten? We've seen how, I mean, realistically, Ferrari managed to continue to be generally a bit unreliable and generally not particularly great at strategy in generally a bit emotional and Mercedes shoot overtake Aston Martin. You would have thought, oh, there's a possibility for them to overtake Aston Martin, which means if any P two and the constructor's world championship will, if that is a disastrous season, I mean, most teams in the grid would love a disaster like that. But I think again, it illustrates the total wolf mindset. He is only interested in winning. To an extraordinary degree. And I think perhaps because they had 8 years of domination. It becomes even harder to accept the fact that that's now in the past, and he doesn't want that to become in the distant past. He wants to return to those willing ways, if not total domination, at least wants to see his team winning Grand Prix and challenging for both world championships. Do we have now a three tier F one rather than a two tier F one in which your top tier is Red Bull. There's then a second tier which exists between the front and the midfield and that second tier is very much Mercedes and Ferrari and now Aston Martin. I think so like I did I wrote a piece for old sport dot com with a bit of a convoluted metaphor to try and visualize Red Bull's dominance. And if you take away the final safety car red flag fast in Australia, when Verstappen was not pushing particularly hard in the name of preserving as tyres and car reliability, he was 8 and a half seconds ahead of the best non RB 19, which is Hamilton. And if you add that to their winning margin from Saudi Arabia and Bahrain over Fernando Alonso, the best non RB 19, then their total gap was a minute and 7 seconds, which is more than an entire lap of their home race at the Austrian Grand Prix. So that's sort of after three races. They are lapped the entire field, which I know you can have that sort of freak result in certain rain hit races or whatever or iconic drives from Senna and whoever, but it's so dominant. And I would say that, you know, a certain point, we have seen they backed off. They have preserved it or their safety car for Lance stroll rolling back into the field or whatever has disrupted things or if you go very route one and assume that Max Verstappen in every scenario is a better driver and Sergio Pérez if you're of that way inclined that him being eliminated in early in Saudi Arabian qualifying by a gearbox. Or Perez hasn't fluffed his launch inside it all of those. Then they might be a lap of Monza a lap of Monaco ahead. But it is so dominant. I do think in that three tier thing, though, that maybe another interesting way to look at it is the bottom tip because Williams had done so much better than expected. It's all coming from us. So again, to start on Nico hulkenberg, but they're saying, you know, you don't really have a midfield and back marker now. It is the good teams and then just everyone else. Light and agile out from there will be good at Monaco, but then low drag Williams will be good at spa, Monza and there's no set order. Obviously, it's easy to say that pre development war coming in for Baku when all the new parts and the more definitive all it might settle in. But yeah, it's Uber competitive. It's almost super impressive the RB 19 in Red Bull, but it's almost a shame because the spectacle behind when you are looking at tents of a race paced lap separating Aston, Mercedes and Ferrari. What a mega season would be having without that but I suppose if button hypotheticals, isn't it? Yeah, in MotoGP 2025 years ago, you had Mick doohan winning absolutely everything by a mile and making it look very tedious, while this fantastic battle was going on behind him. And it was only when Mick had a massive injury that caused him to be away from the feel for a while. That you actually got to see the likes of Alex cuvier and people like that actually really duking it out because the unimaginative TV directors and MotoGP at the time would just be following Mick doing around while this marvelous battle was going on behind, fortunately, things are rather better these days. Shall we move on to Aston Martin because we alluded to that earlier and you would expect to see people coalescing or there'd be designs coalescing around the most successful package. Mercedes being the outlier where they've obviously come up with their own concept, which doesn't appear to be working. Red Bull obviously has found something that works, so naturally people would be inclined to follow those solutions. And everyone's favorite read to quote Helmut marker at the beginning of this season was suggesting that the Aston was an out and out copy of last year's Red Bull, which a certain chap called Matt Q has disabused our readers of this notion in this month's issue because Matt, you've actually spoken to people. You've looked at the cars and exhibit a, the Aston doesn't actually look like last year's Red Bulls. To the extent that even Helmut Marko has quietly withdrawn back to talk about something else. Yes, so I suppose I should start with an apology or admitting rather than pretending now to be holier than now knowing everything. Obviously keen readers will know that I did a flat chat column a couple of issues ago saying after Alonso's result in Bahrain that if anyone who doesn't basically coalesce around one design, there are full because it's clearly the winning formula. However, digging into the minutiae has been really interesting and there's a website called F one tempo that drags all the data from every lap of every race and it lays it out and basically it will draw you a circuit of or draw your lap of the circuit and the green bits will be where Aston Martin is good to blue bits where Red Bulls get the red bits where fry is good and you can compare it and the Aston it's performance is coming from a vastly different set of traits than the Red Bull so it's all about how late Alonso in particular at this stage where I struggle recovers from injury at least how late he is on the brakes how quick he can pick up the throttle on the other side of the apex. But he's out of puff and north of a 180 miles an hour, whereas that's where the Red Bull is really come on song in Saudi Arabian. The point of raising that is that they have different characteristics and the ratio that we've been told have been going off is 60 40
The Autosport Podcast
"aston martin" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"Think you're a clock watching. Yeah, no, no, no. You got a couple minutes in, go for it. I'll go one more question. One more question. As a driver, you've mentioned already. It's important to make a name for yourself and be noticed and social media websites, all of that, telling your story, if you want to say that. How much of time and investment do you have to put into team browning in terms of getting your presence and telling your story in all of those kind of places? How much activity is done for you and how much of that do you do yourself? I probably don't do as much as I should. It's amazing what the guys do sat next to me being able to pick up on stories that are happening and ultimately you'll always be a lot better at telling a story than I will, so often I just keep on social media. So if anyone's interested in following my progress, please check in on there. And on a website, but other than that, I mean, I try and answer as many questions that you guys put across to me and answer them well enough so that I don't come across like in moron. Which I think sometimes racing drive is a very good at. I think you're okay on that one. I would just say that also this is something that we say to the winners and find this in the board. You use the people you know. In that judging panel, there is a lot of experience and quite a lot of clout as well, especially when you're talking like someone like Derek Warwick, you know, even if it's just a quiet phone call, will everyone will be your advocate behind the scenes one way or another and sometimes it's quite useful to tap into that as you've got a particular thing in your chasing. So I think that that's true for all young drives is like, you know, don't leave anything on the table, not just in terms of when you're sat in the car, but all the rest of it as well. Well, there we go. Listen, as you can it's an easy Twitter name look browning and on Instagram Luke browning racing. So go and follow those, look forward to the insta shots of the paddock when you get to Australia. Thank you so much for joining us on the podcast today and good luck. Thank you for having me. Brilliant. All right, thank you very much for listening. So you can follow Luke and his progress through the world of motor sport. Make sure you subscribe and follow his journey. Thank you for listening and we'll see you on the next one. Sports social podcast network.
The Autosport Podcast
"aston martin" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"Sometimes you've got to end only got to look at the standard of the formula Ford festival and even these lower categories that are so close and the talent in there is absolutely immense. But just never quite got the opportunity because of the budget. And I guess I'm sort of the rare the rare profit of it that I get I can't quite believe that it's happening. An opportunity to go and do this and I'm looking to hopefully do it justice for everyone that might have been in the same position as me. I'm a fair played some of the driver academies though as well, I would say. Red Bull, for example, how many people's careers have they made, even the ones that didn't get to F one, because Red Bulls get a reputation for being a bit harsh, but a lot of those drivers that they've helped over the years are still professional racing drivers, even if they're not an F one. So I think credit to those sorts of those sorts of programs to lift the talent through. But obviously it's still very tough, but I've got a bit of an unfair unfair question for Luke. So of the because the F three grid this year is full of champions and runner ups and race winners from all different categories. Are there any drivers that have stood out so you already and you thought, oh, that's quite proper or they're going to be in the chat for anyone, or if you've just been so focused on your own job. That's the sitting on the fence answer. Hit you off on that. I'm not blowing anyone's ego. Coming out of it. Yeah, no. I like to think in the same car that I give everyone a good run for the money. So yeah, I think there's definitely the standard has made me go right, how much do I want this? And I'm really sticking my nails into this now to make sure that I make the most out of the opportunity in the car that I've got. And trust me, I'm not going to be taken away from that. That's a brilliant non answer. It's good. It's good. Tell us about the cars in F three that you're driving and in terms of the level of similarity moving up to F two and Formula One. How much gets continued through and then how much is a big jump as you go from one to the other? Because we saw, for instance, in Saudi Arabia, the Formula One drivers have a huge amount of communication with the pit wall constant communication with so and so is 5 seconds behind closing speed is this constant radio call. They're two seconds behind. We saw in F two, particularly in a high-speed circuit, like Saudi, some of those blocks that were happening. It was evident actually that that's one thing that gets missing as you move just down a rung. What's it like in F three in terms of, you know, you're looking up at I could do with that technology or I'd like to get to that and how are the cars comparable? Ultimately, F one teams nowadays are incredible. Generally, the amount of data that they can gather and they've got GPS data of every car on track and they can give live gaps. And we can as well to a certain point, but what point does it make sense for me to have that information? So Formula One drive has been on different strategies, maybe being on a prime compared to an option, et cetera. They want to know the closing speed or the speed that they're getting caught because it can make quite a big difference in their strategy calls. Whereas in formula three, I think it obviously in formula two with the feature is having a pit stop, but formula three having no, it's down to the driver, right? It's how well you can manage your tires, it's not about undercutting your overcutting. It's about how well you've qualified how we racing and then how much do you not shred your marshmallow tires. They are very, very soft, but give a lot of grip. It has to be said. So it's quite enjoyable around a track like Bahrain to really get the maximum potential out of them. And how do you compare for the next event? Because we're the point of we're recording this. Obviously you've got to get on a plane at some point soon. What's your preparation like for Australia? So, well, straight after this meeting, I'm off to high-tech. Got some simulator to do. A lot of prep so we're doing VSC prep. We'll be doing qualifying prep. Decimate with absolutely outstanding there. So it's difficult to make it feel like real life, but as much as they can do, they've done. And yeah, we'll be well prepped going into it, I think. Obviously, up to this point, you've predominantly been competing in a few events in Europe as well. What's it like now to be traveling to Australia, we've had Bahrain as the season opener? The difference does that make in terms of your preparation? I felt like a little bit of a deer in headlights initially. Ever since, I mean, since November December really, it's been a bit crazy for me. Just because it's almost the realization of what's happening. As I'm sure many people are listening can understand that it's a complete dream to do this full stop. And it's almost, it was a difficult realization for me and something that I feel like I'm still not getting over is what I'm doing is such a dream that trying to understand it is difficult. So making the most out of the opportunity and just grabbing it is what I'm trying to focus on. But ultimately, rocking up to these events and trying to perform the complete best of the ability, but also understanding sort of looking out the windowing scene big F one banners and teams that you've looked at since you were since you're a little kid sat down cross legged watching the TV. To sort of walk past the pit lane in the garages and understand what's going on. It's really surreal. It really is. I got one. I've got time for one more. All right. How much charge of time? I'm not a time lord. I think you're a clock watching. Yeah, no, no, no. You got a couple minutes in, go for it. I'll go one more question. One more question. As a driver, you've mentioned already. It's important to make a name for yourself and be noticed and social media websites, all of that, telling your story, if you want to say that. How much
Bloomberg Radio New York
"aston martin" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Explains that Ferrari has pretty much everything so that order books and records sales last year, margins that key rivals such as Porsche and Mercedes Benz can't touch and even a line of what she calls quote riotous hybrid supercars. The one thing the Italian automaker never had. An SUV that is, until now. Ferrari's preparing to release a $400,000 model that it previously swore it would never never make. Let's bring in Hannah and Bloomberg pursuits editor Chris rouser to tell us about it. Chris Ferrari and an SUV, they said it would never happen, never, never, never, and yet we have it. Yes, I mean, Hannah and I have been doing this a long time and they have told Bloomberg that they're not going to make an SUV. And then Aston Martin made one, Lamborghini, most importantly, made one, Rolls Royce, Bentley, and the pressure was just on in the margins were just the profits were just possibly too high, so that they finally caved. And of course, when it came time to test drive it, we wanted to send Hannah All right, so Hannah tell us about it. Were you crazy about it? I really liked it. I have to say, I didn't really know what to expect. This is the first not only is this the first SUV Ferraris ever made. It's the first four door vehicle period I've ever made. So I wasn't quite sure what to expect, but I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. Ferrari has done a couple other four feet vehicles before. The GTC for luso and the FF and this kind of looks like those may be blown up a bit. I think I was happy with the looks and of course it really did drive like a Ferrari. It has this signature V12 engine. It sounds like a Ferrari. It's certainly remained true to the brand. We should note Ferrari does not like to use the word SUV to describe this vehicle. They want to say it's like a sporty agile car with larger volume. It sounds like an SUV to me. Yeah, and let's not forget it does have multiple driving mode. It's got all wheel drive. It's got a clearance that lifts to allow for uneven terrain. And they were very proud to have me drive it across snow and ice and off road terrain. So it is an SUV, even if we don't use that word for it. And I have to say, you're right, it's smaller than some of the SUVs you might see moms driving to the soccer game. It does have a lower roof line, certainly, but yeah, it's an SUV. So, okay, take us through some of the dynamics of it and the different modes of driving. You got wet mode, slip control, ice mode, you've got comfort mode. I'm all in. We love comfort mode. Who does it? So tell us about this trip you took. Exactly. So once the prize of the trip that we didn't actually anticipate because of weather conditions, we weren't sure if we'd be able to do it. But we did take this. We wrote a ski lift through this high Alpine snow track that Ferrari had cut into the mountains in the Italian Alps. And we drove it on snow. And it was fantastic. I started out in what's called wet mode, which is sort of a softer mode that makes this suspension softer and the steric softer to try to smooth out everything when you're driving, which was great. That's something that you might use like if you're driving to your ski chalet, for instance, or the hotel where you're going to stay where you're skiing. Oh yeah, Chris and I were doing that last week. Yeah, totally. Wet mode for this. Exactly. This is what we all really need. And then you can switch for instance I switched into ice mode, which sort of tightens everything up. It's a lot stiffer, you're going to feel the bumps and the jolts in the road more, but it's also quicker or it can be potentially quicker if you're really on it. And Ferrari was a great. They had actually a professional rally driver with me in the passenger seat who was really coaching me through the drive modes and how to get the most out of the car. And it's pretty incredible. It was really surreal to hear this roaring Ferrari engine that you're used to hearing, you know, on a track or on the freeway in California to hear that in these Alps, it was very cool. I mean, this was one of the ones where I was very jealous of you. I gotta say. Well, can I ask you, can I just ask you though? It sounds like it was incredible. But tell us about the door handle. So yeah, you know, there are a few things that we should say about the person with a little picky. Yeah, the rear doors open and reverse. It's considered a carriage style. So they opened in reverse and to open them, you pull a little lever thing. It's a little smaller than a credit card. And it's positioned on the pillar of the door on the door, but it's sort of hidden with the door pillars. It's really hard to explain. You don't even really see it. The intent is that when you look at the car the size, you can't see any door handles. They're totally hidden. When you get close to the door, then you see this little handle that you pull and it opens and closes the door. Now the thing about those is they are sort of partially automated, which is meant to be more convenient because then it makes the door lighter to open. It'll slowly close itself. But the thing is, we're so used to just opening and closing and slamming doors really quickly. It takes a little bit of time to get used to this sort of partially automated door. And you can, of course, override it and just push the door closed. But which is what you did, right? Yes. Yes, because I'm so impatient, you know, you just get out and you just want to slip
WTOP
"aston martin" Discussed on WTOP
"52 fairfax city 53 national mall 52 and some parts of our area are headed down to the 40s late tonight. It's 7 40 on WTO. We bring you money news at ten and 40 passion is brought to you by pen fed credit union, great rate for everyone. Let's go to Jeff playbook. Gave there's bird based COVID-19 vaccine maker novavax lost a quarter of its value after warning about its ability to stay in business. Kohl's says holiday sales were 7% lower than 2021 and it lost money last quarter. Aston Martin sold more exotic cars last year 6400 of them, its new SUV starts at around $200,000. The Dow gained 5 points Wednesday, but the NASDAQ lost 76. Jeff Klebold, WTO news. 7 41 now on WTO. The annual cpac or conservative political action conference has opened at national harbor, but it's getting less attention than in years past. Many of the Republican Party's best known figures are skipping out this year. The conservative movement remains deeply split over former president Trump and the chair of the conference organizer, the American conservative union is being sued by a Republican campaign staffer. And intelligence community investigation finds there's no evidence of foreign adversary is behind the mysterious illnesses reported by U.S. government employees all over the world, known as Havana syndrome. Investigators reviewed roughly 1500 reports of symptoms, ultimately determining there's no single explanation for what's become known as Havana syndrome. In particular, officials say there's no credible evidence a directed energy weapon was used by a foreign country. Still, White House press secretary karine Jean Pierre says the administration accepts the symptoms were real. We understand that people are truly went through, went through an ordeal. A lawyer for dozens who've reported injuries said the intelligence assessment has damaged victims morale. Stephen portnoy CBS News The White House. We know Washington is where most major protests happen. This week marks the 110th anniversary of a key one. March 3rd, 1913 was the date of the woman suffrage procession on the day before Woodrow Wilson's presidential inauguration. U.S. park service ranger Susan felt pop. This was the first as far as we know large scale protest down Pennsylvania avenue. A quarter million people lined the route hundreds of jeering men blocked Pennsylvania avenue. So the cavalry arrived from over in Arlington to clear the route. The march did continue. 9 years later, the Nineteenth Amendment guaranteed women the right to vote. Neil law can stain double you TLP news. The Belmont Paul women's equality national monument on Capitol Hill is being renovated and will reopen by June. Still I had here on WTO, there's so much serious going on in the world. We thought we would take a short break from that to look at a recent outing by president and misses Biden. They went to a well-known and terrific restaurant in northwest D.C., but here's the thing they both ordered the very same entree. Is that the way to roll shouldn't you get a couple of different things to explore? Well, the Internet is having fun with this and we'll try to do the same coming up here on WTO
WTOP
"aston martin" Discussed on WTOP
"Local stock is tumbled this morning, Gaithersburg based novavax, has lost 24% of its value after the COVID vaccine maker warned of substantial doubt about our ability to stay in business. Protein based COVID vaccine is approved worldwide, but it warned about uncertain sales this year. Holiday shopping is coming into focus with fourth quarter earnings reports not all good. Coals says its holiday sales were 7% lower than they were a year ago, that lost colds also said it lost money last quarter. Aston Martin doesn't sell that very many cars, but it did sell more of them last year about 6400 vehicles half of which were DBX models Aston Martin also launched in SUV less February, which it says is selling well. It starts at around $208,000. The Dow is up 35 points. The S&P 500 is down, but just three, the NASDAQ's down 14 points. Jeff claypool, double TLP news. Thank you, Jeff. Ten 42. More Republicans want former president Trump to be the next. U.S. president. The Emerson college survey finding 55% of Republican voters favor him above potential Republican rivals. He gives the former president a 30 point lead against Florida governor Ron DeSantis up from 26 points in January. It also shows him beating President Biden. The survey of around a thousand adults has a margin of error of plus or -2.9%. Axios reporting that three other recent polls also show the former president leading the Republican field. It is money that was supposed to help the people who stayed in her home. Instead, a D.C. woman has been sentenced to prison now for helping herself to those funds. She had a rooming home in D.C., and according to prosecutors 46 year old rosemary aug bena used her home to get her hands on both social security and VA benefits that were meant for others who lived in her house. And the scheme that was committed between 2009 and 2020 federal prosecutors say she became a representative payee for some of those who lived with her to take more than $400,000 in benefits. She pleaded guilty to mail fraud and false statements, in addition to spending just over two and a half years in prison, she'll also be forced to pay more than $500,000 in restitution. Just ahead on WTO. The mystery of why women are more likely to refuse statins for heart disease prevention. I'm Nick I Nelly, ten 43. Hi, I'm Patrick finger's owner, a new look home design. Another winter is behind us, and you know this is the year to replace your roof. The poor thing's been out there for over a decade. It's easy to know your roof is ready. The hard part is convincing your wallet to make it easier, some companies will let you pay for half now and the other half later. Well, at new look, we do way better. Forget half now half later at new look, you pay half later and the other half never. It's back. Our famous half later half
The Autosport Podcast
"aston martin" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"We're not expecting to win titles, but I just want to be happier in the car. I want to know that on one lap turn to it will behave on this way, and then the next step on turn to behave to similar way instead of the massive inconsistency they've had. I would say that inconsistency is still there. So that's a worry if not dialing up the most fundamental floor and keeping drivers happy. And yes, the sort of argument is we need to wait for our wind tunnel to come online, but how long until we start pointing fingers at the technical team or is that enough of an excuse that they need any better infrastructure for now? Because again, at the launch, they were talking about the wind cut tunnel always being the cherry on the top of the cake rather than the flower I don't know another fundamental ingredient. So I think it is a bit more disconcerting and then you have unreliability can happen to every team, but it was sort of like a perfect storm of things coming together. So with the 2022 and beyond Formula One cars, they have the flaps running over the front wheels. These were fouling in the early days, so the mechanics were whittling away at them and sort of making them all snug and not make contact with a rubber, which other teams have struggled with that before. But then come the final day, they had to bench Norris after I think it was just a 44 laps, I believe, is all he managed because then they were too weak and they needed strengthening. It's just little things like that, so last year, you know, you think back to they had two smaller brake ducts and the fires. And yes, that didn't fundamentally ruin their season. They were in that good contest without being for fourth, but it put them on the back foot and the McLaren insiders are saying the chatter amongst the mechanics and the engineers is sort of here we go again and what we saw on track and arguably what the driver is saying just underline that. So yeah, McLaren fans, I think, will be disappointed with the first few races. Yeah, and what struck me is when you and I did a show over the weekend and you mentioned that even Zach brown's body language, you try to sense something from that now. I've met him a few times. And like many people in Formula One, he is charismatic force of nature, like many team bosses as well. You have to be. When he walks in the room, he kind of you notice he's there. So for him to not be bounding around, even if you're not showing all your cards at testing, that little red flags I just want McLaren to do well this year to see what they can do. But let's talk about a team who did have a good test. Maybe a dark horse with some people. Alex Aston Martin, they got themselves a new technical director, former head of aero from Red Bull. His feet are well under the table. Now, certainly this car will have been his design. We didn't see any stroll because of a mountain bike injury, which they were being very cagey about naturally, but we saw drugovich in the car. Alonso in the car. He looked like 20 years junior to him. He was bouncing around and trying to he's a good poker player, but I'm not sure he was disguising how happy he was. But are we overblowing it? Are we overblowing Alex? How good Aston Martin's test was? Oh, that's an excellent question. Are we overblowing it? Well, fine. Not from the test. The test was excellent. Absolutely excellent. Whether that translates into them being able to take on Mercedes, come the race weekend as some people are suggesting that they are actually better than Mercedes. I personally think that's a bit of a stretch and what my mind goes back to when I say that is that Matt talks about when the two of us went tracks are. We went trackside on. I think it was the second morning. We're down at the double apex left. It turns 9 and ten where Sergio Pérez is coming through every single time failing to hit an apex locking up most of the time as well. But Fernando Alonso was the complete opposite. It was perfect every single time. He was so early on the throttle and talking to insiders at Aston Martin. They're saying, actually, in a weird way, this car is actually quite easy to drive. And obviously it's all relative to the Formula One car. So very difficult to drive. But there's a little bit of the drivers are really keen to have the Aston has it. What I would say is based on that track side observation is based on how early Alonso was getting on the power. And it was way earlier than everybody else, so good stable package, but perhaps essentially, maybe not as much fuel in it. I don't know, of course, you know, never going to know the exact numbers. But yeah, in terms of the test, not overblowing. It Aston Martin Luke brilliant. You talk about Dan fellows, the team asked in there. It is still very, very like the Red Bull, but it's got some other different ideas on it as well. You know, they've gone the sort of Alpine route of channeling the air down the inside of the side plots. And it looks like a glorious package. The key thing, though, the reason why people are getting excited about Aston's potential come race day and the rest of the season is Alonso produced an extremely competitive long run at the very end of the final day. In fact, astin totally sort of didn't engage in that. It wasn't quite like a Q three shootout, but that under the lights and the cooler, best conditions, several teams going for finally doing a bit of performance running. Aston didn't do that. So what does that tell me? To be there very, very confident about the package. They've got one is to do their own thing. And as you say, Fernando Alonso, very happy, enjoying what I'm told is a sort of a honeymoon period with
Bloomberg Radio New York
"aston martin" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Two of London's home builders and it's a really interesting deal. Countryside partnerships launched a sale process in June after they were after they received some indication from a hedge fund that they may be interested in a deal. That sell process has now led to mystery group buying the company as a cash and it's a stock deal as well. Now, home builder shares have taken a bit of a dive so far this year. They've been on a downward slope and as I was looking at both history and countryside partnership share price, they have been going downhill a little bit, but that deal values countryside partnerships at 1.25 billion pounds and it comes amid this calling housing market as interest rates are going up as the cost of living crisis by perhaps people will be able to save less and perhaps they will not necessarily be able to trade up or buy their new home, but it is a deal that has been recommended by both boards and is particularly interesting for this UK housing market. Okay, so that's an interesting deal there to talk about. What about Aston Martin assaulting her right sea shoe? We've seen a lot of capital markets activity put on hold as a result of sell off in stocks of late Charles. What's the latest master Martin? Well, Aston Martin launched this equity raising a couple of months ago, they were going to raise 653.8 million pounds. Now that's with some other of their investors that included Saudis PIF also you treat consortium and Mercedes Benz. What they're launching today is a rights issue of 575.8 million pounds and it's fully committed underwritten that allows their shareholders to take part in this equity raising and it gives them the opportunity to perhaps buy some more shares of Aston Martin if they want to. Now this capital raising is all about putting Aston Martin on track to be the ultra luxury brand that it wants to do. It's all about a clear pathway for significant shareholder value creation the company's head in the statement today. But Aston Martin itself has been struggling a little bit with supply chains and then also a bit of logistic disruption and of course in China, there have been lockdowns which is also impacted the company a little bit in the last few days or the last few months, but their shares are down about 6.5% on that equity race. A clear pathway for significant shareholder value creation. You bring us news of a rare London IPO. Exactly. Let me say in capital markets activity put on hold and you come with the opposite. I know, I know. Well, it gifts for everyone today. Absolutely. It does appear like the freeze of the London market has started to thaw a little bit as people are getting used to the new macroeconomic reality. And wilkin China private equity is a company that invests in China, equities, it's mainly based in China and it's run by a financier called Johnny Kong. Now they're going to list on the premium segment of the London stock exchange that they said they intend to do that. They plan to raise up to $300 million and as you said yes, it is a bit of a rare London IPO. We haven't seen many of them this year. So it's exciting to see that. Spotted on back to school day. Thank you very much, Charles capable joining us there with the London rush. Coming up next on the program, we will be joined by way Lee global chief investment strategy at BlackRock international as we look at European markets continuing to push south its ox 600 is now down by 1.5%
Strong Opinion Sports
"aston martin" Discussed on Strong Opinion Sports
"Third is Mercedes behind them with 237 points in fourth as McLaren tied without being who both have 81 points in 6th as Alfa Romeo with 51 points and the next race is July 24th in France. We get a few weeks off between now and then, but the final 11 races of this F one season are going to be really fun, really interesting and I'm curious, who do you think is gonna win? The world title this year. Ferrari, Red Bull, max, Charles Leclerc, and then really the battle I'm very fascinated on a couple of things. First of all, can Mercedes catch up to Ferrari. Ferrari keeps screwing up Mercedes is in a position where they could eventually catch up to Ferrari and then I think galpin is a better team right now than Claire and I'm very fascinated on this battle for fourth. I think Alpine is probably going to finish ahead of McLaren and I didn't see that at the beginning of the year. So they've gained pace. They've gotten better. McLaren is really fallen off. Janet Ricardo is a huge disappointment. And let me know what you think of the final 11 races this year in Formula One. What are you excited for? What do you think is going to happen? And who do you believe is going to win the world title? All right, let's acknowledge it. We are at the halfway point of the Formula One season where 11 races in, there are 11 more races to go, and I want to share the current standings and check in on my thoughts on how every team is doing so far in form of the ones. So here are the constructors standings 11 races in. In first, you get Red Bull with 359 points in second is Ferrari with 303 points and third Mercedes with 237 points, then tied for fourth is with 81 points McLaren and Alpine. In 6, you've got Alfa Romeo with 51 points. 7th is Hass with 34 points 8 this alpha towery with 27 points, 9th is Aston Martin with 18 points and dead last intent is Williams with hey they got a whopping three points in Formula One, which I'm not gonna lie is actually pretty good for them. Also technically McLaren is fourth and Alpine is 5th because they were ahead going into the weekend. So if the year ended today, McLaren would be fourth and Alpine would be 5th, but we'll see his year goes on. I think Alpine's got a great shot to beat McLaren for fourth and Formula One. I want to start off by we'll check in with every team, but I want to start off by talking about Ferrari Ferraris and second place right now. 56 points behind Red Bull. And it's very, very disappointing because Ferrari should probably be leading Formula One right now. They've had engine failure four times this year, it's usually happened, by the way, when they have cars at the front,
Bloomberg Radio New York
"aston martin" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"From Bloomberg to European headquarters here in London I'm Caroline heckler with this Bloomberg radio business flash So we're looking to the U.S. jobs report expecting 447,000 jobs to have been created in December the whisper number on the brink terminal It's for something more half a million Sorry 500,000 jobs So we're focusing on that but also the fallout from essentially rising U.S. yields on the ten year we trade now flat but we're at one spot 7 two 5% So that would essentially mean the fastest run up in U.S. yields since 2020 80 basis points of rate rises now priced into markets for this year Also the fed's James bullet say that the fed could start raising interest rates as soon as march and then shrink the balance sheet as the next step effectively European stocks have had a bit of a bumpy week yes record highs earlier in the week but a pullback yesterday and this morning we can't do down a quarter of 1% travel and leisure and property stocks are the sectors that are down the most The UK members relax in testing rules for travelers just as Germany is poised to tighten restrictions on access to restaurants and cafes In terms of the bond markets in Europe Italian bond sliding ten year yields Italian BTP's up two and a half basis points the government there mulling additional deficit spending all of this ahead of Eurozone inflation data that we get out today oil this morning slightly higher up 1% $80 30 for WTI food futures the dollar is softer two tenths of 1% Bitcoin continues to slide down one and a half percent and I'll leave you with this story which I really like Aston Martin shares currently up 2.8% even though they only managed to deliver ten of their multi-million dollar hypercar the Aston Martin.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"aston martin" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"The semiconductor shortage has a surprising upside for UK used car salesman who saw average prices jump 30% in September versus a year ago At the top of the heap and Aston Martin vanquish which jumped 37% in value to a price of a $114,500 Other top used cars included the Ford focus and Tesla's Model S which rose 14% in value over the past year In related news Elon Musk reduced the offer price on the California mansion he's selling As he cuts ties with the state must drop the price of his mansion about 5 and a half $1 million according to a Zillow posting The now $32 million mansion has 7 bedrooms and ten bathrooms on a 47 acre lot Also making a change Kanye West who is selling his sprawling ranch in northwestern Wyoming listing it for $11 million after buying it just two years ago Visit Bloomberg pursuits dot com for more I'm Andrew ro day Bloomberg radio What is dedication The thing that drives me every day is a dad is very honor We call him day to day for short Every day he's hungry for something whether it's attention affection knowledge and there's this huge responsibility in making sure that when he's no longer under my wing that he's a good person I think the advice I would give is you don't need to know all the answers The craziest thing was believing that your dad knew everything So as a dad you felt like you had to know everything You had to get everything right It's okay to make mistakes As long as it's coming from love then you know it kind of starts to work itself out I want him to be able to sit.
The Cinematography Podcast
"aston martin" Discussed on The Cinematography Podcast
"I know they had opening weekend of a chinese film. That was twice that. So but yeah it's It's a big deal. And there's a lot of revenue caught up in that and if you just type in You know no time to die. You'll see headlines all across like you know publications like forbes forbes covered no time to die making money this weekend and overseas. It's a big business. And i keep noticing that like even on youtube and stuff like i keep being served videos about. How this is daniel. Craig's last outing. James bond and famously after he made specter daniel craig said he'd rather slashes risks than play james bond again later he kind of backpedaled and said that he was joking when he said that i'll take him at his word because he went and played james bond again that's true arguably one of the more influential people in that role which is interesting because he wasn't really a star before he did it like he was known but he he this made him a star or as like previous to him was pierce. Brosnan who was already a star who took the role because apparently pierce brosnan was conceived in raised in a test tube designed to one day play james bond like he was just destined one day. Pierce brosnan was going to be james bond that was destiny and nothing was going to stop it. But but daniel craig was kind of an out of the box choice for the role but i will say as a kind of a fan of james bond movies. I'd say daniel. Craig is my favorite. I think i. I like him. Better than all the other ones I think he's great. The movies have been Hit or miss like always but anyway it's been interesting to see the growing need from on behalf of the beast on behalf of the show business beast to be fed by yet another james bond movie. It's it's like you know we. They want their billion dollars that they're gonna make from this thing and they will get it. It's just delayed. Unfortunately for pacific slash arc light. It comes a little too late. Then they're not going to be around to get the benefits of of james bond one more time but all the surviving chains are going to probably do really really well because it's I think it's october eighth here. I think it's you know it's really it's really As you're listening to the sound of my voice it'll be like two days later. It's just it's very interesting looking at like For instance as we're talking now. The sequel to venom carnage. That made ninety million dollars at the box office. And that was the most money made in a single weekend at the box office since the pandemic started. I can only imagine that that no time to die is going to lap that pretty easily. Yeah i think. I think that's. That's that's pretty likely and rummy. Malik is an as well so mouth. These things always have the best cast. I think the only James bond dp that. I'm aware of who spoke to was roberto schaefer..
The Autosport Podcast
459: Spanish GP Qualifying Report
"Qualifying day in spain. And it's an absolutely incredible one hundred pole position for lewis hamilton. An amazing achievement finance another pole position for mercedes. You have grabbed po at this track. Every essence twenty thirteen newest will be joined on the front row by max stopped with three hundred between them whilst battery blocked us and charlotte lock will be lining up behind on the second bar. We didn't see top three improving on their final runs with how much actually don't want at the exit with an ultimate corn by didn't matter as neither the stop an off as managed to improve that times either charlotte did manage to set personal bests in his final lap with alpine of estevan splitting ferraris. M p five and call signs behind impe six daniel. Ricardo bounced back from last weekend's qualifying finishing seven fastest beating saggio perez. Who spun at tom fatty on his last. Run and ricardo also out qualified teammate. Landau norris who came in p. nine. The top ten was rounded out with finanza alonzo and notable absence from keith rate was gasoline who despite looking quick in key. One was eliminated in q two for the first time in twenty twenty one and he will line up p twelve tamara in-between the aston martins launch. Tro and sebastian vessel antonio g. of nazi came. Mp fourteen ahead of mr saturday. George russell mp fifteen who again managed to make out key one and in doing so we saw. The elimination of yuki sonoda was quite the surprise about quite straighted team radio. Finally we had kimmy ryan. Mp seventeen ahead of schumacher nicholas fiamme nikita miles
Bloomberg Daybreak: Europe
Aston Martin's struggles worsen
"On the words virus impact as key keep the coming in not least in the results from Aston Martin they've confirmed that the virus will impact their supply chain and demand a couple other lines from Aston Martin the CFO mark Wilson will step down by April the thirtieth and they have given their results full year adjusted EBITDA is one hundred and thirty four point two million pounds the estimate just a fraction high was a hundred and thirty four point eight million and they see that twenty twenty sports car wholesales materially lower yet look awesome awesome was in trouble before coronavirus as struggling intensive IT sales side yeah those lines what's the
BrainStuff
Could Electric Motors Save Classic Cars?
"Crate. Motors and conversion kits are becoming popular options for breathing new life into classic classic cars and the latest options are a little different as in there now available in electric. That means that if you have a classic car you'd like to convert to an electric vehicle. You know have choices in the United States. Such an idea might be a novelty only for the most serious car collectors. But in Europe several cities are discussing or implementing lamenting plans to reduce or prevent gas and diesel powered cars from entering their city centers so converting a classic visa to electric power could be justified as a practical move. ooh rather than than indulgence but before we get to that first. Let's back up and take a look at exactly what a crate motor is a crate motor or crate. Engine gets its name because it's complete brand new engine delivered in a crate. It's designed to make swapping out or upgrading. An old engine relatively easy. You still need. The mechanical skills is to perform the work or the money to pay someone. But you don't need to worry about salvaging the engine from another car and you won't discover broken or missing parts while you're in the middle of the installation job. Bob Crate. Motors are especially popular for race cars and hot rods. If you have a classic or vintage car that you'd like to actually get running so you can drive it and you have some cash despair. An electric vehicle. Conversion might be the way to go electric motors and power. Trains have simpler designs than gas diesel powered engines which means installation and maintenance. This is easier to as long as you or shop in. Your area is familiar with the work. Electric drive trains can also offer advantages in Torque and power and in the end and the car will run much cleaner. Some auto manufacturers are so enthusiastic about the possibility of converting their classic cars to electric. They're offering ways to upgrade great them in fall of two thousand nineteen for instance. Volkswagen unveiled its factory conversion program and showed off its own project converted nineteen seventy-three Super Beetle to generate interest. The Superbowl was displayed at the twenty. Nine thousand nine Frankfurt Motor show and sported some exterior modifications as well including a tail. Light design from older Beatles specially fitted to conceal the cars electric charging port the standard cooling vents were also removed as. They're no longer needed. The conversion used an electric drive one speed gearbox and battery system based on the new VW Yup Electric car and was completed by the Germans specialist company e classics Thomas Small Member of the board management of Volkswagen group components said in a press release the electrified beetle combines. The charm of our classic car with the mobility of the future innovative e components from Volkswagen Group components are under the Bonnet we work with them to electrify stoically. Important vehicles in. What is an emotional process? We are also providing beetle owners with the professional conversion solution using production parts of the highest quality for now though that's only available in Germany as the conversion is completed by e classics sneer stood guard. Aston Martin and Jaguar both announced similar programs in two thousand eighteen and the Porsche. Three fifty six is also a possibility but VW's as program probably has the most mainstream appeal simply because so many Beatles were built over the car's lifetime. Volkswagen also says that electric microbus conversions are in the works. EXC prices vary widely and few suppliers of electric vehicle. Conversions are openly willing to disclose those prices. Because it will often vary by vehicle and complexity of the project as reported by the verge. California based companies can charge as much as one hundred thousand dollars for conversion in people who joined the waiting lists now may wait at least a couple of years before their cars completed as with anything that affects automotive culture. There are always dissenters the International Federation of historic vehicles or fever. We're in on the trend and said that any gas or diesel powered vehicle refitted with electric is no longer considered historic. Because it's been significantly altered. Fever prefers hers vehicles as original as possible though this stance makes sense on the surface. There are some well reasoned counter points for example if a classic beetle is reworked as the EV using a kit designed supplied by. Volkswagen shouldn't the fact that the original automaker had a hand in the project count for something. What about cases in which an easy conversion is the only possible or practical way to get a car back on the road? Isn't that better for car culture than letting it rotten a field. We spoke by email with Eric. Hutchinson the founding partner of electric. Gt a California based provider of E v Crate Motors. He said certainly there are collectibles. That should remain preserved collectible oh end untouched but of all vehicles produced from the nineteen twenty s to nineteen eighties. There's ample opportunity to honor the heritage and keep more on the road well into the future with modern driveability Hutchinson says many of electric. Gt's customers own modern vs alongside their classic projects and aren't typically worried about the effect on their cars collector value. He explained they're investing more into the actual restoration and upgrades to complement the investment of the conversion. There's a big value you on usability and driveability.
The Moth Radio Hour
Revamped International Spy Museum pulls back veil on lives of spies
"The new international spy museum opens today in Washington, DC NPR's. Greg Mireille reports the museum is much larger and more comprehensive than the old one and tackles many sensitive issues like torture. The lobby of the sleek. New international spy museum features the silver Aston Martin that JAMES BOND. Drove in the nineteen sixty four movie goldfinger, but deeper inside the museum confronts, many of the most serious insensitive intelligence issues in recent years, like how did the US miss the warning signs prior to the two thousand one Al Qaeda tax and one exhibit room is devoted to the question. What is torture? Chris Costa's, the executive director, we wanna be provocative, but we don't want to tell people what to think the private museum is just a couple blocks off the National Mall. And replaces the old spy museum that opened back in two thousand and
Dana Loesch
James Bond may ditch his V12 Aston Martin for electric power, report says
"Yeah. James bond. Apparently now drives an electric car so not high. I mean, please do not being a Prius saving anything. It's going to be an electric version of his Aston Martin. But this is such a this is just like epic douchebag ary. Why we've got to make sure that agent seven is in an electric car when he's out the saving the world out. Please stop by stop doing this stopping badgen an epic car scene. And then it dies because he didn't have a charging station nearby. Guess you can't take that out AA seven. It's cloudy out today.
WBZ Morning News
Cardinal O'Malley, Bloomberg and Governor Baker discussed on WBZ Morning News
"News. With Bloomberg's Andrew o.'day on this Wednesday morning. The futures in the green relatively flat. Except for the NASDAQ Little bit higher we're going, to say right now SAP futures are up about half. Points Dow, futures up seven NASDAQ futures looking a little more alive is he say Josh up about fifteen the government
24 Hour News
Bloomberg, Aston Martin and JAMES BOND discussed on 24 Hour News
"Car driven by JAMES BOND is going into stocks Aston Martin has unveiled. Plans for a listing on the London stock exchange. Later this year it could value the. Maker of the fame sports car at around six billion dollars the. IPO, plans come after three years of restructuring that
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show
Kenny Chesney at MetLife Stadium: Severe weather postpones show
"Kenny Chesney tour that show any smothered was postponed at five, forty five because of severe weather the it was so crazy that they were asking fans to leave their seats to take shelter. And if you were still tailgating, they asked you to take shelter inside your car's. Thankfully, it all was setting done before the show got way. I think an hour and a half late show started. But once the show started, everyone had a great time. Boys, one got cancelled. I know there was a people got injured at talking about that, why? No. But the problem with that is when you have an emergency at backstreet boys concert, all the people in walkers. Trying to get to the exit.
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