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"It's about their time for me and tomorrow I'm going down for the first day of the Adelaide motor sport festival and look forward to having a bit of a chat with Valtteri Bottas on Sunday afternoon. Hopefully clothed. That's both him and me. That's both him and me when we do it, but I'm looking forward very much to that and then heading over to Melbourne for the Grand Prix. And Matt, thank you very much. Are you going to on deck in Australia or have you got this one off? I'm not on deck in Australia, but my immediate plans involve writing a feature for you that's due in about 12 hours from now. Yes, it very much is. So in the grand tradition of great leadership, I mean, they say work harder you mangy dog, can I say God is, I'm heeding your advice. It is, of course, written, but I'm taking some time between writing and filing to fully appreciate when there's any edits I may want to make. This is very good. You have to sort of do the whole that the whole swish thing imagine that you hadn't written it and you're reading it cold and so what I did with the thing I submitted yesterday morning. Before I submitted it to myself anyway, thanks to all our listeners, thanks to the long suffering Martin Lee are producer for more fabulous content as we must call these things nowadays. You can buy our magazine. It comes out every month, go to GP racing dot com to find out a subscriber offers. You can find out your nearest stock is if you live in the UK, by going to Seymour, that's as in the lady who played solitaire in the James Bond films, Seymour dot co dot UK type your and it is actually working because I checked it before I hit record. It's working again the store finder will now accept your postcode and you will find out which shops stock GP racing. Thank you very much. We will speak to you again next month, enjoy the next couple of grand prixs. Bullet social podcast network.
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"Have to say everything's going to be on the cards. I think one of the interesting stories over the course of, again, this year and next is going to be how that whole Red Bull structure evolves. And when I read France's comments, I know Friends tasked from way back when he was managing Ralph Schumacher. It's unusual to get that kind of earnout burst because Franz would know that that's not going to help anybody by being there being publicly critical of your team. I mean, that doesn't make for a happy happy team. So I kind of wonder about the frustrations in there. So that's going to be a story worth keeping an eye on over the next couple of years as we leave the battleships era of Red Bull behind us. So move into this new area of professional leadership who will own the questionably look at everything that they do in sport quite differently, including Formula One. Yeah, people like to carve out roles for themselves when great leaders pass, don't they? So there's always a period of squabbling in the aftermath. Armando in it, she did a very good film about all of that. He did indeed the death of Stalin. Speaking of satire, the sort of entrenched belief that James vowels was going to be some sort of puppet of Toto Wolff and the political front made me think and reasons of a certain age will get this. Listeners even of a certain age will recall this very well. The spitting image, the satirical puppet program, used to portray the two leaders of the Liberal Democrat party, David Owen, as a full sized puppet with his co leader, David Steele, a sort of like a pocket sized puppet that would fit in his top pocket and go, oh, David, yes, I agree with you and I'd get the feeling that various people thought the James vowels toto wolf relationship would work a little bit like that. It's interesting to see maybe that's not how it's going to go and as you say at the end of your feature Mark. I hope I'm not doing any spoilers when I give away the payoff when he says, you know, the other team principles have been quite supportive of me so far. This may not last for long, you know, he's someone who's he has his own plans of how he's going to carve out his regime. The last thing you would want when you come out from your 20 years of broccoli is to effectively have your former balls kind of metaphorically patting you in the head saying, oh, well, yes, he's going to do a fine job there. This is a bitter competition in Formula One. And James vales has not taken on the leadership role of Formula One to be a Patsy to anybody. Yes, of course it goes strong relationship with total wolf. I'm sure that's not going to change. And yes, of course, the relationship between Williams and Mercedes is extremely important because of their powertrain supplies. So that's going to continue. But in the same way, it's essential that Dorothy give James the space and the time to do his job. It's also a really important team makes it his own and stabs his authority on that. And that includes going into head to head competition with his former team, otherwise there's no point in doing it. Speaking of space and time, we've run up against our sort of hour limit, once Martin's deleted all the naughty stuff that is absolutely un broadcastable, so it is time to say thank you very much to my guests. Mark Gallagher probably about bedtime for you really. So yeah,
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"With just three years to go before the advent of the huge regulation change that takes place in 2026. For me, that's where they need to be focused and they need to be saying, what do we need to do in 2023, 2024 and 2045 to put in place the building blocks to ensure that Williams is a competently competitive midfield team in the new era of Formula One in 2026. And those three years are going to fly by. You know, all the novelty of his new role this year will just disappear in the blink of an eye. Before you know it, you'll be into 2020 four and you'll be thinking about the fact that 19 months time they've got to have a 2026 car really on the block. So it's for me, again, once again all about stability, alignment, getting that coherent structure in place and him being given the time by the shareholders to do the job that unquestionably, I think he's capable of. I have to say, Mark, you talking about this year's car. I love that piece in your feature where you just note that capito, just put on LinkedIn after they got points in Australia that he wanted to credit all his team who had been involved in the FW 45. I like that as fast as fascinating insight. And I do wonder if that car's a bit too competitive, but you sort of gives Williams a problem because vows came out early on in search, you know, we probably won't really develop this car, you know, we expect this season to be right of about the greater good long-term plan. And the fact it is so far showing it can be a contender for points every so often. Whether it is worth developing it and therefore scoring more points more prize money, better places in a constructors championship, especially when alpha toria doing so you sort of dismally so dismal at the minute and then you know more sponsors as a result of that. But of course, that's an even more difficult decision to make because they don't have a technical director who can lead that decision or go note we're going to pile everything into next season. But on vows specifically, it's been really interesting to watch how he conducts himself and how considered he is. So what's one example is in Australia he was asked and about how he's finding life at Williams and he said, he was very clear that Mercedes hasn't given me a full picture. It's not sort of stamped out already made tape in principle. I'm having to learn. And as part of an extension of that, when he was given that position, I think we all assumed straight away that he would be a political ally for Toto Wolff come what may, and that may still well be the case with all the commission votes that go on behind closed doors. But just watching how he conducts himself in press conferences or out and about is he's trying to avoid I think quietly that toto will comparison the sense that they were asked a couple of joint questions in Saudi Arabian and Toto Wolff was trying to bring vowels in and engage in sort of have a joke about, oh, I can't believe we let you go. That sort of thing. And that was didn't really entertain. I think trying to establish that I want to be, I want to be held in my own right, thank you very much. Not a slight on toto wolf or not throwing shade at him as the kids would say, but just wanting to be held in his own right. And I thought that was really interesting, and obviously as Mark says, what we're saying now is not valves responsibility, even down to signing of Logan sergeant. He actually said when Mercedes were looking and we thought no thanks and now he's managing him and that was obviously a capito decision to get rid of latifah and higher in sergeant and that's where I want to sort of throw to link some of this podcast together. Throw to the Benedetto venia comparison, which is that Ferrari, the road car company is in great shape at a minute. It's got the two 9 6 of darling of all the automotive journalists. It's just launched a piro Segway SUV, which are all great success stories, but none of them were conceived by him, but he can lap up the credit in the same way that what we're seeing now is not a manifestation of any of those decisions and apart from sort of observing how the race team operates. I bet he would love it to be 2025, 2026, so that all the things his identified in Aaron sort of motion and he can take credit for that. So it has been, it has been good to watch him. He's been, like I say, reserved, but in a good way and considered and just got about things sort of in the right way. And the fact he's saying that everything in a job interview did a line with the Dorothy and capital board suggests that this is a longer term appointment and they are going to be patient. And the other thing that really struck me in terms of tone from Saudi Arabia is that Franz tost through this brilliant grenade and his team saying, I don't trust my engineers anymore. The numbers are doing one thing our cars rubbish. Vowels has gone the opposite of that. He's going, I wasn't here, I'd been at an 8 time constructor's championships. So I don't know what you guys are going through, but I can feel that this team has endured a lot of pain, you know? And I feel for the guys here and just that completely different mentality of toss slamming his team while they're down, Val is just going, you know, I'm here guys. I'm going to bruise, I can sense that, but we're together we can pick ourselves back up and just that difference in approach is just something well worth noting. Yes, was it Tottenham hotspurs manager who's been doing something similar recently? I know nothing about football. But our vice president of editorial mister Dickens is a fan and seems to spend most of his Twitter time tweeting about what an egregious oath, this manager is. It's not really what you want, is it for the manager to wade and say, I'm doing a great job, but you are all idiots. I think the passing of Dietrich motherships owner of Red Bull was always going to be a significant moment. And although Red Bull is an organization, the stable stabilized the ship and they've got a management care management structure in place. I'm talking about the Red Bull energy drinks company and the way in which Formula One and other other sporting activities fit under that.
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"Someone like James vows technically capable, but they're also very capable as leaders because they're leading teams of people down may not be the size of an entire F one team may just be a department or a function within that team, but once you've acquired those soft skills in terms of communicating with people leading people inspiring people, you can scale that and clearly in taking the Williams opportunity he's able to unleash that leadership potential that is there within him to run an entire operation and clearly clearly dorrington, the owners of Williams have met with him, found him to be someone who inspires confidence in it because of his demeanor the way he comes across that vast experience that he brings with him. And therefore, it seems like an extremely good move. It's a fact that he has never run a Formula One team and therefore this is a step, which is huge. Whatever function a role that you have had before, that final step into leadership of an F one team means that you suddenly have new dimensions to your role that you've never had to really worry too much about before obviously a huge amount of media, attention on your team principle you're effectively in a chief executive type role. You are having to deal with the commercial partners of the team there will be demand on your time from them. You go to get and of course the commercial side of Williams has been one of its fundamental weaknesses over the year. There's never been the funding, the third party commercial funding and sponsorship in the team for some years that enabled it to invest the money in its facilities, et cetera. So the commercial side of the team is a weakness and it's one that he will have to have to pay attention to. And
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"He won't want to stay there and there are we'll be talking about Audi. Earlier on, for example, there's not going to be a shortage of teens who'd want to have Charles Leclerc in the near future. And it's going to be it's vital that Ferrari get there, get their act together in terms of that. Alignment that they need amongst all the people in the team and get a sense of get a sense of clear direction and deliver and focus on beating the competition rather than the internal struggles that seem to take up too much of their time. Roberto and Andrew both agree one of the major things that needs to be sorted out this year is tying leclerc in and giving him a reason to stay. Yeah, well, first of all, I remember when he first signed that contract long term thing and now by the end of this year he'll be effectively deciding his future won't it if it expires at the end of 2024 and there's no deny I don't think it's quite like Max Verstappen ignoring Red Bull team orders in Brazil and not getting so much as a slap on the wrist. But leclerc is obviously the talisman up Ferrari to the point where Versailles hired basically to proclaim to leclerc in many ways after his frustration and breakdown of his relationship with bonato. So the fact that they are appealing to the clerk shows how important he is to Ferrari. But I write a column about this for auto sport last year, sort of shot down a bit, but my colleagues, but you do wonder, not necessarily where he will end up, but is he going, is he having a two year version of Lewis Hamilton's 2012 at McLaren where there are these flushes of immense pace, particularly what he had last year, but just the gearbox problems that Hamilton had or to poorly executed very strategy that the fragility and interesting I've had enough. He's done he's done the Ferrari thing now, but you know, he had his rookie season at Alfredo, but he's done the Ferrari thing, so whether his appetite is wetted to look beyond because if he is to like last season, what are the best statistics from last season was that Max Verstappen won more races from Charles Leclerc poles in Charles Leclerc one from Charles Leclerc poles. And that sort of poor conversion rate is enough to make you to make you shop around and whether it is that, you know, Hamilton retires. And Mercedes goes to leclerc, or Mercedes goes to Norris, and so a resurgent McLaren needs a star signing alongside piastre or the Audi program which all, you know, if the cost cap hasn't clamped down on driver salaries and it will be able to effectively write a blank check blank check full of clerk. He doesn't have a shortage of options. I think both parties McLaren and look like we're dearly love it to work out with one another because they would be like could become we're not a cult hero. That makes him sound a bit like John a lacy, but he'd be like almost a deity around that place. But the trajectory it's on at the minute is to just underline everything Marcus said it's not going that way. The a lacy comparison is a good one because he's another person who has seen very much as the heir to Gil Villeneuve as leclerc is, but Matt, have you got Christopher Hilton's John a Lacey book? I do, I do. I'm a terrible fair if my girlfriend's going to, let's say, shot for my birthday present or something like that. I'll nip into oxfam and go through go through every shelf and find out such gems. Christopher Hilton, a lovely and much missed bloke he used to write in his dressing gown for much of the day before having a before having a bath and going out to get the papers and things like that. Very, very eccentric, but very enthusiastic, lovely bike. Thanks for bringing back the memory out. I very had a very great and boozy lunch with Christopher Hilton once and he wanted to stay for more. Chris, I've got to work. You need to go to the archive. I've got to work. Anyhow, magazine deadlines being what they are when Mark was writing his feature about Williams for this issue and the changes and what the new team principal James vowels need to do to turn things around. James had only just started in the job with the benefit of observing for a couple of Grand Prix weekends. I mean, what do we make of him now? I've been quietly impressed by James vowels, and as you saying earlier Mark about people who know what they're doing in motor racing, here's a guy who has had, he may not be an experienced team principal, but he's worked next one, he's worked for one. He's executed strategy he's managed to a process that requires minute attention to detail, multitasking, the calculation of possibilities in real time. So he's clearly got a big brain. And you can see all that going on when he's being interviewed, you know, you know there's an awful lot of wheels turning in that head. And I've been quietly impressed with what I've seen so far. You couldn't wish to have a better university for becoming team principal than what he's been able to enjoy and contribute to, but during his 20 plus years in broccoli. You know, as I mentioned in the feature, that period of time that he's been there, he has seen broccoli evolve from its BAR through its Honda through
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"You ask this because I need to say on the record and I don't know Laura Rossi, but I have obviously written it, I think I wrote a feature for the magazine last year about Alpine. I know a lot more softener, quite well. And one of the things that I think is always a warning sign, is when the chief executive of a car company starts to think that they're running the Formula One team. Because let's be clear, they know nothing about Formula One. And it is a totally totally different business from the business of running a car company. And in ways that no one can even imagine. I always remember Richard and Driscoll, the chief financial officer at Jordan Grand Prix when I worked on the managed support there. I remember Richard saying one day, Formula One is a business like no other. There's no business in the world that prepares you for what you have to do to be successful in Formula One because the rule book gets thrown out the window. If you want to win in Formula One, you have to do things in a completely different manner from most normal companies. Most normal companies work on three to 5 years strategy. Formula One teams have to learn how to react on a lap by lap minute by minute, day by day, week by week month by month by month basis the agility you need to drive successful Formula One is of a totally different magnitude from anything else, including running a car company. So to your point, vinay has been in the role, let me take you joined in June 2021. He's been in the role of chief executive for Ferrari, obviously he's going to be fascinated by the earth one team, who wouldn't be. If you were a chief executive Ferrari you'd want to have the grid passed around your neck and be getting involved in whatever you could. But the reality is he has no experience of Formula One of running a Formula One team. And it is totally a different game from
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"Announcement, James key is someone who I have a huge amount of time for. I was very fortunate enough to work with him way back at children Grand Prix when he was there. He's gone on to achieve a lot in his career, you know, not to put too fine a point on it. The McLaren prayers release very much reads like it's James's fault that we're in the problem that we're in at the moment. And so he's left a team with a media effect. I mean, that's the only thing that you can serve at that. And that's a shame because that means that there's effectively this they're looking for a blame to be apportioned and the blame is not being a portioned across the organization. It's not the failure to failure to succeed is not seen as an organizational failure. It's being sort of firmly planted at one person's door. And when you consider that, you know, McLaren have seen address idol leaves, they've now James key is no gone. So this all looks like a period of instability and instead of having a single technical director announced evidence announced that they're going to have a triumvirate approach with Peter Pedro appointed as technical director at aerodynamics, David Sanchez, as you mentioned, technical director, car concept, and then Neil, who is being promoted to the newly created role they say of technical director, engineering and designers. So you've got three technical directors, all responsible for different areas. That for me always rings in alarm bell because again when you look at successful teen models over the year that once you go down the kind of committee wrote, you kind of wonder where does the bug stop who takes overall responsibility? Who's the person who's really ultimately going to call the shots in terms of the overall direction of the package the car at the design and development, et cetera. So really, the McLaren thing is really, it's interesting to see. And of course, here we are recording this podcast after the second race of the 2023 season and we're seeing a
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"We're going to be right at the front of the pack again. So for them to make this call beforehand is pretty bold, but obviously to focus on Ferrari. There's so many, so many interesting things to pick out. First of all, I want to have texted me out of the way. He looks at praise Roberto because he, I think I want listeners to understand how embedded he is and all the goings on at Ferrari. He is so well connected in that sphere that this side because that's a sport. If he says something about Ferrara, it's probably happening. So the way he switches together the piece that you have headlined to write said Fred. I imagine rubbing your hands together and laughing at your own craftsmanship as you did that. As well worth reading. But I think a couple of key things to pick out is so falling up with top management is really supposedly is really interesting because part of the reason bonato had well was put into a corner where he resigned is because effectively he wasn't the new management's man. He wasn't there chosen what he would come in under marchionne. And so did the management use the decline at the end of 22 as a reason to get rid of someone who they didn't want in the first place to bring in one of their own people or vice versa. You know, was he did he have to go because results were so bad it just so happened that he wasn't there chosen one. But visser is their chosen one before bonato was even left. It was talking about this is who Benedetto and John Elk man wanted in. And now he said, so if he's already falling out with them already and he is their chosen one, that speaks of great instability, quite which way round it is, I don't know, because if that's for sure coming in going, guys, this is a mess. You know, I need this, this and this, give me some autonomy, you know, where I need to sort of stamp my own philosophy on that. I don't know, or if it's coming from the other way around. That would be more troubling. The life expectancy or the tenure of a Ferrari team principal was so short as it is that if the rumors are true, then that is that is so soon the first part. But he's going in there and trying his weight around so you know taking replacing the head of strategy, restricting Laurent mecha's role, which I don't think is quite the headline that's being made out to be. If he's not going anywhere, which okay, I understand Versace, he's not going anywhere. It's like a football manager saying, I'm not going anywhere I need to be flicked 24 hours later. But if it is just a minimizing of his role, where saying, you know, there's no need to do the FIA press conferences or all of that. Then fine, focus on focus on the job you do have is sporting director. There's nothing sort of particularly egregious about that. But here's obviously refining it and I think what Visa is trying to do. Good power with Toto Wolff and from what he did at alpha male and osawa and June academies is I think he'll be better at nailing what the true working practice of a no blame culture is because bonato, I think his understanding with no blame culture is slightly politely lost in translation where no more was at fault for anything Ferrari never made a mistake. You think of how he defended the strategy after Monaco or Silverstone last year, whereas actually a no bam culture is going it's not X person specifically. So as Mark covers in his Williams piece, so you don't have that culture of covering your own tracks rather than focusing on optimizing and moving forward. So if user brings that in that will be a step forward, but losing David Sanchez head of vehicle concept and bonato who obviously had the split role of team principal and technical director, although Sanchez has gone straight to McLaren in a world of Formula One gardening leaves. That is now a very depleted technical side. You know, it's about as poor shape and effect as Williams, where they've got their chief design acting as a interim technical director. And it's so depleted and obviously that gets to a certain point where the upgrades that the SF 23 now needs both driver said have come out and said it's not a case of setup two weeks. It's more fundamental packages. Those and obviously the 2024 car heavily steered by the technical director so they need to appoint someone in that place. ASAP. And so either they've got to promote from within or wait for these gardening periods of gardening leave to be served. So that's where it seems most turbulent at Ferrari, but visser is not raising too many eyebrows by sort of chopping and changing. I think he needs to. If he said, you know, absolute stability and there's more bad strategy, more unreliability has done nothing about it, then he's out the door. Basically, before he's even settled in the job, but I'd say the bigger concern is what way round has he fallen up with the CEO because if that investor was his man, there chosen one and that relationship is already south and that is really interesting. Regime change is always a complicated thing, isn't it mark when you're the appointee of someone who's left and a new top dog comes in, they want to stack the deck with their own people. And we saw that very much the case when Zac Brown came in at McLaren, didn't we? Replace an awful lot of people. Even his head of PR got given the Spanish archer rapidly enough in favor of someone Zack had worked with before. When you take a step back from all of this, the McLaren announcement made today. And then the Ferrari debacle, as it appears to be
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"For when they come into Formula One because quite honestly, they couldn't wish to have a more experienced driver to perhaps guide them when they arrive. Into the sport in 2026. How do you rate the chances of that happening, Matt? Because that's good couple of years away before the real four rings appear on the nose of that car. Valtteri is not getting any younger, but you know the mustache and the mullet show, they still led in the pencil yet, surely. Yes, well, he's 36 now, so precedent says he can he can still do a job and actually when is it a Belgium Grand Prix last year when Audi did to press conference announcing their rival but us certainly showed an interest in it and sticking around and being an F one around that time, which is obviously interesting not to give away every aspect of Oleg's pace, but Bottas talking about seriously walking away from Formula One after the Mercedes Benz. So his stint at Mercedes to say now he's up for the Audi challenger. He'd be brilliant and you have to wonder what Audi's options are, so in an ideal world, don't have a young German. I don't think Mick Schumacher is that guiding light and hulkenberg will probably be down and out of F one for real, absolutely, definitely 100% by then and no more recalls. And then as we record this podcast McLaren have just announced a restructure with James key out David Sanchez in turning the tide of mcclellan. Is that enough to keep Lando Norris to stay? Will Charles Leclerc be so discharged disenfranchised at Ferrari? And then suddenly, you know, you're ticking off your contenders, your realistic runners and riders for that Audi seat and Bottas, you know, with his experience with his, you know, he'll be so deeply embedded in him will by then that he's a great shout to stick around. Can I talk about off track Bottas please? So to finish sting, which always annoys journalists, I think that when you do ask that eloquent question, I think an adequate question then Kimi Räikkönen says, yes or no, after a while that does sort of great when you do want to get a revealing answer to develop the narrative. And Bottas, I think, is selective with its words, but it's actually turned into a fantastic fantastic paddock spokesperson. Particularly I think since leaving some of the corporate bubble of Mercedes behind in having a bit more free reign, I don't just mean skinny dipping in a river and to Duff things with his hair. But he's a great ambassador the way he's talked about the FIA making dangerous decisions by banning tyre blankets and his response to the gagging act by changing the international sporting code. He's actually become a real Paragon like he's not quite there the replacement for Sebastian Vettel just said he's going to appear on British on question time and annihilate the standing attorney general at the time and just embarrass our political elite. But he's just come across so well. It's had a good person. The only slight disappointment is we're recording a straight after the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix when he was a massive outfit of this new sporting code isn't going to change. I'm still going to talk about all the key political issues and then decline to comment at all on Saudi Arabia, but after that going back there a year after the missile strike, but I suppose his silence and sort of smiles and knowing glances said an awful lot without him. Verbally communicating as it were. But I think that's something should be praised that for all his quiet restrained demeanor that he picks his words carefully and they really bite when he does say something of great importance and I think that's perhaps an underappreciated evolution of Bottas four point iOS he would not like to have it turned, judging by this interview. We probably wouldn't want to end up in jail, would he, really, which seems to be the fate of anyone who dares criticize that reishi. Anyway, moving swiftly on from regime's, although Marx column in next month's GP racing does touch on the Aramco situation, but we'll leave that one hanging in the air for our listeners for next month. Elsewhere in this issue, we look at the problems facing Ferrari in a, it's quite an elegant piece of magazine craft if I do say so myself, a two part feature package, Roberto kinko, the Italian journalist and famous Matt all right. It's uncanny. Any listeners, Google is uncanny. He's going to go and chase after people who have badly time actor drive. He does. Every time I meet him, I have known him for years. I still have double take. It's not surely not matter all right. The consumer champion. Is it so expensive to get into this media center? Anyway, Roberto looks at why Mattia bonato got the heave Ho as team principal from Ferrari last year, and what Frederick Vassar has been doing since he slipped his feet under the desk at the end of January. Quite a lot as it seems and Andrew Benson analyzes the prospects for Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz, which we say probably the second best driver lineup in Formula One in terms of where you have to say that probably most people would say Lewis Hamilton and George Russell is the strongest package with Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz second. But driver routine which doesn't want to be second best. And there's been a few movements in the Ferrari story since we closed for press. And I suppose, let's roll in our discussion of the thing that's pinged into our inbox just before recording started of movement saint McLaren. So there's been talk of Laurel meckes wanting to leave potentially for a job with Formula One, but Vasa blocking that mech is has certainly had his job title or remit changed. There's been word of Frederick Vassar and Ferrari C Benedetto vineyard being at loggerheads over various things in terms of who controls what in the team. And last but not least, there is word that David Sanchez had cleared his desk and was beginning gardening leave and lo and behold, over at McLaren, technical director James key is being given the heave Ho, there's a new structure, a new technical director, and a desk marked. David Sanchez. So quite a lot to unpick Matt. Now, you've left Johnny noble to put finger to keyboard and analyze this fur auto sport. What do you make of this latest tranche of movements and also the madness at Ferrari? It's pointed that McLaren have given James key the Heathrow to bring in David Sanchez because their whole thing for ages has been, well, we just need to get the new wind tunnel and simulator online and then we're then we're cooking boys and girls.
The Autosport Podcast
"bottas" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"Behind them. And in signing Valtteri, they got a very competitive driver, but one who was able to sit more easily with Lewis and I mean, he played the team game brilliantly and the team won 5 consecutive world constructors championships with Valtteri there and Valtteri put in those Grand Prix wins when the opportunity arose. And yes, we all know we had some very poor performances, which tended to get a lot of comment around it, but the big picture to it was that in Valtteri and Lewis, total wolf ended up with an incredibly harmonious team, which was able to do everything that Mercedes required of them, really. And I mean, surely from a team point of view, that's what it's all about. So I think his role in that era shouldn't be underplayed because he did what was effectively required of him, and of course he had a good relationship with Lewis and continues to do. So I think when 20 or 30 years time, sport comes to look back on the Hamilton era, you know, I think Valtteri's role in that will be perhaps even better appreciated. And I know that he'll look back on everything he's achieved with great satisfaction and he's got more and he's enjoying life at alpha. He's going the lion's share of the championship points from the team. Last season, it's obviously a much smaller team than we see these bands. And I from one, do hope, Denny hangs around, not just long enough, but effectively enough to capture Audi's attention
The Autosport Podcast
"bottas" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"The headlines and sometimes the stories of the drivers behind the frontrunners all the time and Valtteri, I think Valtteri's open incredibly impressive and capable. Driver, but rather like D.C. found out, you know, you get to sometimes you get to the Pinnacle and find there's one or two other guys around here just have that edge and that's a difficult moment. And I think it's incredibly character building. He also did say in the interview that he used to get quite fed up with the Bottas two things where he'd come back to for a new season. It had a beard or something and people would say this is the new tough Valtteri Bottas. And there were people actually saying to him, do you know, you should be a bit more ruthless. You should be a bit more nasty. And it says in the interview, well, firstly, I don't want to be like that anyway. And secondly, he'd seen how another teammate doing that had played and it ended well. And thirdly, if you're going to be like that, you have to make damn sure that you get the championship over the line. Otherwise, you get fired and you don't get a job anywhere else. So for all those reasons, he just decided to carry on being Valtteri Bottas. And I think that's brilliant. Because we live in a world with so much sort of falsehood and lack of authenticity. And I think with Valtteri, what you see is what you get, he said, damn good racing
The Autosport Podcast
"bottas" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"Patrick Swayze over a few cartons of Tia Maria outside the roadhouse. It's from South Australia, Mark Gallagher. Great to be joining you and I have to just warn the listeners that it is almost midnight at the time of recording and I've been at a very nice and very enjoyable dinner party where there was much Shiraz and Riesling being shared by local winemakers. So I think my contribution to this podcast maybe actually a huge improvement on normal. Well, let's move over and say hello to the only person with enough how to grow a mullet should he desire. But actually, you know, if I put my mind to it, I could, but it would go through a terrible curly stage. Life from the Midlands. It's Matt Q hello. Thank you for having me on the show. So, besides the mustache and the mullet, you'll probably be seeing more of Valtteri Bottas than you ever thought you wanted to in this month's GP racing. There's an interesting and distinctive headline and opening image to a company Oleg karpov's exclusive no holds barred interview. And in the interests of full transparency, I should point out this is all Oleg's idea. Now Matt, you've got a sneak peeve preview in Bahrain just as Oleg was freaking out about over whether he had done the right thing. So you knew what was coming. Mark, what did you see, what did you think when you saw the spread? The spread, so to speak. I have to say it's a very peachy interview. I was delighted because
Box of Neutrals
"bottas" Discussed on Box of Neutrals
"You got another people's actually know that people's participants run tire. 8 points to Lance stroll. So you're telling me that Lance stroll has a better chance at this point to time. In this part of the localised entirely in this Grand Prix, a better chance of winning the world championship than Charles Leclerc, which is remarkable. Another honorable mention, the honorable Australian Valtteri Bottas, the four points for him. He'll be driving a V8 supercar this weekend at the end of the festival. He's full. He is genuinely out of the two Aussies in the championship this season Valtteri Bottas is the highest ranking. Good for him. Good for him. Yeah, what should we give him a nickname? Like the fact that we'll see or something like that. The de facto Aussie. He kind of is. It's almost the correct term. The fact of all work on it, let us know in the Discord channel. What should Valtteri Bottas Australian nickname be? And how can we help him on the immigration test? Yeah, yes. John Bradford. Warney. And Anne said. Let's give I want to give a stocks up to Oscar piastre, who had a good weekend. Except I feel like every good weekend he's going to have, we've got to say underratedly good because McLaren cars so bad. Yeah. Robert, what do you think? They have Oscar piastre. I would go. Really. Okay, really? He qualified very well. Very well. Very well. Very well. Jared, how well did he? Very well. He did so well. To qualify, granted he's got history at this track as well. So it's a good sign so far. In terms of his stocks aren't meteoric. I tell you what he's a solid investment at the moment because he certainly hasn't disgraced himself. And he also has the great caveat that everyone is acknowledging. It is clear as day that the car is shit. It is so bad. It is, I know, I have to run to. I say, just hold your horses with Ferrari. But it is no good. It is no good. McLaren and Ferrari are definitely not Ferrari racing to the bottom. But they're not making life easy for themselves at the moment. So I'd say it's turbulent for them at the moment whereas McLaren is just screwed. It's really bad. It's really bad. That's quite embarrassing. The car this round was probably the slot. It was probably the size. Maybe equal or maybe just a head of Alfa Romeo, which had a weirdly not good weekend. Although I think Joan used to finish it at both of them. Although both were car and drivers had damaged on the first lap, from each other, funnily enough. The thing I don't get, like you can look at the rice style that you can look at the long runs, all that kind of stuff, all the rice pace. Every week what every weekend, for the last two weekends, McLaren's coming out and said, we had points winning pace. Put a score points. There are 5 there are no points to win. There are 5 teams that are clearly better than all the other ones. And McLaren's not one of them. You're not there are no points on offer for they may as well not turn off at this rate. They were hoping that the likes of they just resting their laurels on alpha alpha Romeo will stuff it up and alpha tour is shit and our pain ah, they no good because there are tribal and drivers to survive. Harsh cars will be repossessed. That is what they need. They need all of those cars to not turn up. No. Or crash or retire, whatever. No. There are ten cars now on the basis on the evidence of this weekend, Alpine is a step ahead of everyone else in the midfield. There are ten cars that are normal race will score all the points. The only reason Kevin Magnussen scored a point was because Lance stroll formerly the people's parties event retired. Had he not retired, they would just be no points on offer for anyone else. That is that's the style of it. It was a poor showing for risky stroll for capitalizing on some much needed points because if we talk about the entertained battle though jeez, I think by now, if S bass and haven't thought about putting all their resources behind Fernando, I think this is it for a hundred podiums for eventually. Technically a 101. True today. Oh yeah, true. A 100.5. 100.5. Yeah, let's hundred and a bonus. Let's call it that financing. I wonder what's the status? I want to know how many what is the all time record? Podiums. Podiums for drive a bit like in multiple teams. Oh, that's a good question. He's done them at Renault. McLaren Ferrari Renault. Did he cut our, I believe? Remember that one. Well, there you go. It was a very forgettable ride. Right, so obviously it was the rice before Saudi Arabia when the exciting stuff. Okay. I must have also not watched the film. Okay, so there you go. I would like to know the record because again, I'm very pleased. It is the thing that case we're going into this season. I think the Fernando Alonso effect. I think it's brilliant. I'm absolutely here for it, because if Ferrari can't do it, then philando, it is, like I said, Fernando Alonso, it's trolling the field. These trolling Ferraris trolling McLaren. He's trolling Alpine. And he's in an Aston Martin and he's doing what he's doing and I think it's brilliant and I'm here for it. He's very exciting. He also was so when he was told he lost his podium. I think his words were I don't really care because the car's quick. I had fun. And I got to go on the party. It's what everyone really wants to do. What's the record of the podium? We just want to go on it. Exactly. It's exciting. Get their photos. Okay, all right. Let's eat. Yeah. But it was good for Fernando to get the hundreds out of the way as well, which is a remarkable stat. That we're going to have to because for me, Fernando Alonso winning a Grand Prix is a highly more likely prospect that McLaren possibly scoring points this season. Or Ferrari even winning a race because I think two races in, it's a bit of a hyperbole. I'll acknowledge that. Long way to go, but it's not looking good at this early part of the season. And Mercedes. Fans like me and you tune to three a double U 9 6906 9 three four proves. That is where the day is. Great sweat. Great production by the way. Only made for box of digital. Is that the first song
The Dan Bongino Show
Michael Anton Comments on Dr. Fauci Implying Sen. Paul Is Responsible for Death Threats
"Last question you just saw this phenomenon Rand Paul and I don't know what you saw didn't but Rand Paul and Doctor Fauci up on Capitol Hill where Doctor Fauci who Michael is a public figure paid by you my and everyone else in the audience's tax dollars He's not a private physician Using a government account engaged in some suspicious behavior with Francis Collins about the GBD authors Jay botta char and others So Rand Paul calls him out and Fauci starts implying that Rand Paul's responsible for the death threats he's getting Saying it to a guy Michael with no sense of self awareness at all who was literally attacked by his neighbor Rand Paul and put in the hospital I mean if that isn't a moment like one of the greatest self owns of all time I've never I really don't know what compares I don't know who came up with this line but it's a great line I wish I knew so that I could give him credit whoever it is It goes like this Our speech is violence their violence is speech So when the left takes to the streets in the middle of 2000 and burn cities and smashes and loots and I don't know how many people died but it was something around three dozen That's all called mostly peaceful protests and an expression of free speech When the right says something like hey you know funded gain of function research and lied about it and that gain of function research may have led to the COVID pandemic that's destroyed our economy and led to all of these ridiculous mandates talking about it and that becomes violence It's a complete inversion redefinition It's a way of using words as weapons and confounding people so that they can't see clearly what's going on and what's being taken away
Strong Opinion Sports
"bottas" Discussed on Strong Opinion Sports
"Then what's going to happen is that max will win because he has more race wins, even though they're tied with points. And imagine if someone at the back of the pack, let's say, Antonio giovanna is like, I'm so sick and tired of loose dominating Formula One he just goes on a as soon as I had mission to cause a crash for Lewis Hamilton. Something like that, that would be really interesting and I don't know funny's right word, but it's definitely interesting. I don't know if that'll happen, but Bottas is third right now in Formula One with 218 points. He is actually, I think secured third because in fourth place he got Sergio Pérez with a 190 points, that's 28 points behind. You can't score 28 points in a single race, even if I think it must mean that Sergio Pérez is secured for a race Valtteri Botox is secured in third in Formula One. In the constructor standings you have Mercedes with 587.5 points Red Bull has 559.5 points. The DNF for Sergio Pérez in Saudi Arabia basically handed Mercedes first place, it would take a miracle now for Red Bull to catch up and beat Mercedes. And third place, a similar situation you have Ferrari with 307 points. McLaren, who is battled with them all year is so far behind now they have 269 points. It would be a miracle. It would be like, hey, both McLaren drivers get first and second Ferrari doesn't finish for McLaren to somehow pass Ferrari. And even then, I don't even know, is that mathematically possible? Probably. Yeah, because you have 25 plus. I still don't think I could even happen. So I think Ferrari has secured third Alpine has a 149 points in fourth and 5th place excuse me. Dave pulled away from alpha tower. Remember a couple races ago, alpha tower and Alpine were tied. And with estrogen outcome doing so well recently and Fernando Alonso getting a podium estimate, icon got fourth in Saudi Arabia, and alpha is now 29 points behind Alpine. So good for Alpine. They have secured 5th place in Formula One. I'm really pumped for Abu Dhabi..
Strong Opinion Sports
"bottas" Discussed on Strong Opinion Sports
"Now, here are the standings in Formula One after Sunday. The driver standing look like this. Max Verstappen is in first with 351.5 points. And second, you got Lewis Hamilton with 343.5 points. Vader Botox has 203 points in third and Sergio Pérez, the other Red Bull drivers got a 190 points in fourth place. And the team or constructor standings you have Mercedes, which is narrowly narrowly ahead of Red Bull Mercedes isn't the first place with 546.5 points Red Bull is in second with 541.5 points. There are only 5 points a part of each other. Lewis one, but Valtteri Bottas did not finish. So with max getting second and Sergio Pérez getting fourth in Qatar, Red Bull actually gained a lot of ground on Mercedes, and it's very possible we see a world where Lewis Hamilton could win the individual drivers championship, but Red Bull could still very much win the constructors..
Bloomberg Radio New York
"bottas" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Goalkeepers has accused footballs authorities that have only caring about their pockets and not play a welfare This side suffered a two one defeat to Italy in the nation's league third place playoff yesterday which he described as a money game the former Chelsea keeper tells Sky Sports News they're being asked to play too much Can you hear that now they want to put a European Championship in a World Cup every year When will we get the rest Never So in the end only top player so that injured and injured and injured And then at the end of it you know France lifted the trophy with a two one victory over Spain in last night's final We also wait in Estonia this evening as they look to stay in contention for a World Cup qualifying playoff rob page's side of level on points and second place Czech Republic in Group B after securing a two wheel draw in Prague on Friday night I'll still have a three point lead at the top of the wheel in Super League this morning After maintaining their 100% starts with a three year old victory over Everton champions Chelsea up to second on goal difference thanks for tuning in against Leicester Britain's Tyson Fury says he doesn't know for sure what he'll do next are pertaining his WBC world heavyweight boxing title He knocks out in the 11th round of a fight which will go down as an all time classic in Las Vegas Lewis Hamilton believes the tactical error from his team costume third place in the Turkish F one Grand Prix and dented his world title popes the Mercedes driver finished 5th and now crowds championship leader Max Verstappen by 6 points after the Red Bull racer ended up second in Istanbul Hamilton's teammate Valtteri Bottas won the race And salute still promotions a rugby league Super League last night with a 34 12th win against featherston in the million pound game victory in the championship playoff final It's thought to be worth that much to the team that goes up George.
The Autosport Podcast
Italian Grand Prix: Max Verstappen on Pole After Valtteri Bottas Wins Sprint
"Vouch. we bought one one seconds qualifying at the twenty two nd. Two italian gregory beating max staffan with lewis hamilton fifth after making a poor start from among side us down robotic finished third mclaren ahead of his teammate landowners who kept hamilton at bay for the duration of the race which was disrupted by a fast lap crash for twenty months of winter. Pa ouseley ghazi. Briefy fit the mccaren of down. Your ricardo damaged his front wing as a result which went underneath his front wheels causing him to shoot off into the gravel. The crash about the safety car and ask as these call was recovered a clash between iki snow to number but cubits so usa came about the race restarted on that four of eighteen with batas romping to one point six second lead over verstappen with hamilton chasing. The two mclarens both tie as fast as the mediums of the cheerleaders. On the second mercedes recorded came home fourteen point five seconds behind the winner with norris keeping hamilton behind him who at times was even sliding around dramatically shall lead time. His ferrari teammate call assigned in sixth and seventh the former recovering from feeding on while at the end of f. b. two scientists ferrari had been rebuilt off his heavy f. b. to crash came highway started ahead of antonucci of nazi. The affirmation drive ahead of the charging such a paris to finish with the red bull. Dr having to make a couple of attempts to pause after martin's launch drove for that position.
Strong Opinion Sports
"bottas" Discussed on Strong Opinion Sports
"To make a change to improve and they're also not guaranteed to have Lewis Hamilton for much longer. Who knows how much longer Luke Walton is going to stay in the sport. We don't know. Big retired anytime. So, at some point, Mercedes has got to be prepared for that moment and start grooming the next guy. Valtteri bottas is not the next guy for Mercedes to be their number one driver. If George Hamilton retired, you would want George Russell, ready, waiting waiting in the wings to be kind of groomed and be prepared, but you want to hear of him as the number to First, to get him used to the team and then have a more seamless transition from Lewis Hamilton to George Russell. I don't think Lewis Hamilton's going to retire any time soon. I don't know why you would he might but I don't I don't know why he would that make sense. He's he's got plenty of years left driving, he's been dead forever. But my my point is that the problem with Mercedes right now, Is there a number two driver? It's a big deal. They're going to have to make a move at some point and I think I love how after Botox I like a story is you got divorced and got he's got a new relationship. I like off his Instagram story like I like the person the driver's coming up short and at some point we're saying is going to reach a breaking point. I think they already have where there are thinking. Now, the wheels are turning total was not dumb. It's like, oh, we're going to have to make a move and replace this guy. By the way you kiss, no. 7th, Azerbaijan, good for him, solid points. I was happy for the rookie outfit. Our driver. That's pretty cool off and coming up on Sunday. We have the French Grand Prix. I can't wait. It's going to be fun to watch Formula One man. There's nothing like it. I watched other Motorsports. There's other things off of other motor sports. That do things very well to me. Ferrari is a sorry Ferrari, it's another f word form of the one..
WSJ Tech News Briefing
Shopping apps to help you with tips for deals, perks ...and Bitcoin
"There's another company called Honey that browser extension finds can find coupons you're on gap dot com, and you want to coupon. There are lots of them often on gap dot com. The browser the browser central sort of list of Mel there for you. Honey is also doing things there are cashback offers through Honey in a similar way. And it also tracks prices on the number website. So like Amazon com target dot com. Walmart dot com, so often, you know, you're looking prices move a lot round a lot online, and it can kind of give you some historical perspective on the price of that product. While you're shopping getting perks. From shopping always good one thing that I learned about was dodge. Now, it's a service that links your account too. The retailers for certain deals. How does that work? Yeah. In the difference with Don at but links to your colleagues, you gotta give head of your credit card information wouldn't use that credit card in a in a physical store you go into the store it gives you cashback says not for online shopping yet. So that's a if you if you tend to be more of a store shopper that might be one that you want to check out and getting back to price tracking in particular. I second something I don't do. But I should I it's most people. I mean, why wouldn't you? What's a good option out there? Yeah. There's there's several now one that's Amazon specific and has been around for while skull camel camel, and you can basically just plug a URL of a page in there. It'll show you the productivity sometimes years of pricing history. You can also sort of sign up for alerts when a price drops on a certain product. But again, it's the these services are all tied into this idea that prices move around a lot now online, and if you're looking at a black Friday deal, it can give you some historical perspective. And speaking to that another company you made sure to mention is. I let me know if I'm saying this, right e Botta. I bought it in particular about got it. They'll offer daily deals for the big shopping week. Right. Yeah. And this is a mobile app. So this is again cer- tapping into people beat on their phones when they're shopping or shopping on their phones in the similar system to some of the others. We've mentioned where the retailers and the brands are offering about a commission and the bought is giving back percentage of that to shoppers, and they said that there are offering specific deals on thanksgiving week with higher cashback rates and commissions during that period for certain certain days. So they're trying to tap into heavy shopper period, the last one that we talked about the story is that just really really shows sort of the enthusiasm going on the space right now, it's called lolly and it similar to others. You get something back while you're shopping line. But it's not cashback. It's bitcoin and the the one of the co founders that I talked to said his idea, he's a former Ebay's executive. So he's very familiar with that model and he aims to make bitcoin accessible. To the masses. You know, your fear shopping at Office Depot or Macy's or WalMart dot com. You can earn some bitcoin that way this is good to know if I want to shop while earning bitcoin, I can and I bought I just got it. I be OT egg goodstuff, Sarah. Thank you so much for the time.