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"And yeah, they're seemingly quite confident about what position they've got that engine into. So I think it would be important for Ferrari. Yeah, if they can again, just have the car able to run full power, not worry about the size, and there'll be a much better shape. And there's also restrictions on software coming in now as well as engine development, but again, the teams can change it based on reliability. And this is where some of the friction comes up as well, where a team will make an improvement. I go, well, it was because of reliability, but they've also got performance gains through that. But that's a legitimate fix, right? So teams can still work on things. Yeah, they can. Yeah, again, as long as reliability, then that's fine. And ultimately, if by improving the engine reliability, you can run it at full power, that gives you therefore more performance. That's fine. That's not directly impacting the actual performance of a power unit. So yeah, there's little things they can do, basically. But I think for Ferrari there are going to be hopefully in good shape to give a proper hopefully a three team title fight going into the new season. Let's get on to that. Mercedes unveiled their W 14, back in black for various reasons, total wolf said on stage that it was a weight saving and also going back to the heritage of stripping the paint off of the silver arrows, but also there is from Lewis Hamilton's very high profile campaign around inclusivity that aspect of it as well, but total, mainly attributed to weight saving. They haven't thrown away their concept for the old car. In fact, the overhead shots at the launch reminded me how skinny that car is some changes to the floor as well and Mercedes say they've got some side pod revamps coming to Jonathan noble article, which we put out a couple of days ago. That they'll be bringing some upgrades pretty early on in the season. And a lot of talk was about delivery, but what did we see underneath that? What was interesting about that car? Yeah, I think there were some noticeable changes on the car already, particularly around the engine and gully area. I think that was quite interesting that the direction they've gone in. But the big thing was, yeah, that they kept that zero pod sidepod concept we saw last year that I think everyone expected to be changing. And we know that yeah, there may be some tweaks to come, as you said from John's article in the opening few races. But yeah, it was interesting that that kind of core DNA that I think everyone expected to be completely done away with and the suggestions from Mercedes were they were going to go down different direction. Still there. And they explained it saying they wanted to keep the good bits of the W 13, and it wasn't all bad. The car. But Lewis Hamilton, he said that basically yeah, there was a lot that needed to change from the very back to the very front of the car. So it's an interesting situation for Mercedes. I think that they know last year was, I think, very sobering season. It was very tough season for them. And I think this year they really do need to strike back and make a big, big step forward. So they can get back in that title fight. The trajectory they went on towards the back end last year was very encouraging for definite. But over the winter, yeah, Ferrari and Red Bull, they won't have been sleeping, so it's going to definitely be a big challenge for Mercedes to keep up and to be able to bridge that gap, but they know how to do it. They won championships. They're a very slick operation. So I think if anyone is capable of that, it is Mercedes, but yeah, it was very interesting that whereas last year was quite bullish, the sort of move from like Lewis Hamilton, particularly after the Abu Dhabi fiasco saying that I want to come back stronger and they were going all out this year. He said that, yeah, he said we're being cautious, but cautiously optimistic about our chances and it was maybe a little bit more understated than it's been in previous years from Mercedes. Yeah, autosport asked George Russell about you're bringing side pod revisions already early on in the season. Which was spawned initially as a positive piece of news. But if you're doing that already, how confident really are you in your concept and at the wind tunnel numbers coming through. And again, he didn't just brush it away. He said, it was a long season. And we've got time to recover if we don't start strong. So a bit like McLaren, everyone seems to be tempering expectations, but if at this stage, the drivers already saying, well, you know, there's gaps between races, which allow us to bring upgrades. Goodness me for Mercedes fans, that doesn't sound good. Are you, how do you feel about that? It's a tricky one, isn't it? Because you, again, is it smoke and mirrors? Do you want to be sort of like keeping your cars close to your chest? How do you want to play it? It is very, very tricky. But I think that I think for Mercedes, yeah, the mood is, it does feel a little bit different to how it's been in previous years. But again, we've not seen Mercedes in this situation really before. For a very long time, because they've been always the front running team. They've always been one of the two quickest teams. Last year, they were firmly third quickest. And now they're in this position where how do we fight back? How do we actually get back into proper contention? I think that that's why, yeah, there's probably been a bit of caution just about how they're going about things so far over this winter. We're only going to know for sure, obviously, at that opening race. But yeah, even from the shakedown and stuff like that, there's not been sort of like a big statement out of what they're doing. But maybe that's for good reason. Maybe it's because they want to keep everything so close to their chest. So let's see until testing and the opening race, where Mercedes actually is, but it's definitely been a case of managing expectations so far, I think. Last night was Alpine, it's the most recent I saw people probably got that on their mind already. We saw two cars, a pink one, which wasn't the car. And the Alpine blue, which was a last year's car, probably bits of this car, maybe, but again, it was more of a show, kind of, it felt like a corporate commercial thing last night, talking about the race, her program, which is amazing, young women in motor sport and girls in karting, and actually some good stuff on the stage as well with the cars, but I guess we'll find out more when it hits the track. Which they already kind of did do earlier this week. So there's a spice shot. What do you think of Alpine very quickly? Yeah, they said they did a really good shakedown. They missed that last year, Lauren Rossi said in Abu Dhabi. They were a shambles in preseason. And Esteban ocon said last night that they feel so much more race ready this year than they did last year, so the car is so much more developed. It seems so much a step forward. So I think it was a pretty upbeat mood from LP and they've got obviously ocon and Pierre gasly now as their driver lineup. There was the inevitable question about all like you guys eager to get on. And guys, I want to say
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"The best team about development and actually to be fair to being certainly their latter half upgrades in the four onwards. The sets they took forward were a significant. So are they being overly folded on vicious by saying we can not develop Red Bull and Mercedes and the proven quantities? Perhaps. But then again, this isn't like you say to McLaren on Mercedes pointing language from the style. So as long as they're not big or vibrant, we ain't gonna get that figures, but then you're not saying stop. Positive steps. Yeah, it's a good point. I made that on stage as well that not only have you got to close the gap to the top three, but you've got to develop faster to overtake them. Also, I want to talk about how Alpine are rightly proud of their race her program to promote young women in racing. Today though, was about girls in karting and it's really great they go those young racers their own time on stage. What did you see? Absolutely. I think that's critical. Is that their own car? They onstage a three to Esteban ocon. You're saying I've been racing carts since I was four and credit ware craters junior for diverse areas. I would have brilliant stuff in it, but when you're starting the process at 16, 17, it's two roads complete with offset the balance of warriors that have been competing since there are no so young, so it's brilliant to see that initiative and where it's starting up. I think, yeah, it's not a token gesture. The fact that it was half an hour of yearlong presentation was to race her to put some flesh on the phones of the announcement that sister in that last year in his last stage. Closing the gap to the big teams and know with cost caps and aerodynamic testing of friction to skewer areas where you can't worry, take big strides forward, but I'll clean or any F once in that matter if they're. Male or incited and therefore precluding 50% of the population, then you'll fall eliminating 50% of the most talented engineers that 50% of the most talented drivers and is silly but now it makes sense when you put it like that and it's a brilliant initiative and it was great to get so much time until it was such a warm reception from here in the room. The fact of promoted by academy drivers at our opinion Sofia flash from formula three and I'll be filling the observation W series and will now be going into F one academy and it's all sort of being led by an ambassador Nikola Adams who obviously you know Olympic gold balling boxing sporting icon strictly coming dancing Dan sorry I think and just you know she's got great mentality she was talking about how she's got the heart of the lioness and what she can provide as a mentor to those drivers. So yeah, fun, fantastic initiative and seems to be going about things the right way. I think F one with it when it's pushed for female equality can have too many wanting has one program and another team has another program with W series F one academy. They've got the same goal, but none of them are working together, which is a shame and that needs to be addressed, but the team initiative's race has got to be right up there from the get go. Absolutely. Well, look, this was the final car launch of 2023 in terms of spectacle and format we can see behind you. It's just starting to quieten down a little bit more. How did it compare to the others that you've been to? Different venues. So less of the world trimmed hedges that Williams had and now sort of plastic car on and I'll be on the James Bond fans and the fact we're going to be able to have a nice set is very good. Obviously nothing quite like Ferrari that obviously one testing, but industrial setting under the lights being great. It's a really reminded me of one of those late 90s McLaren launches in that sort of the era of F one we're getting back to in terms of star studying that's the fact we had a nickel items. I'm consuming Zidane on stage where he nuts called football fan or not, that's mega. So to have that sort of star studded lineup. So it says about where Formula One is at this point. So it's a less launch star studded even if we lack car and truck, but two was a top end I would say. Especially as they've got three bar. We'll let you go. Hey, have you got your passport ready for Bahrain next week? Absolutely. Everything. They have to let me ensure well there we go. Launch season is over. Next we fly to Bahrain. The auto sport F one team will be on the ground for all three days. Heir to the ground, as always, bringing you the complete analysis online in the magazine. Here on the channel as well. So if you're not subscribed, you know where I'm going with this, click that subscribe button now so you never miss a show. Right, so you've seen all ten cars now. What do you think? Looks good. And maybe who do you think might be hiding their secrets best? We'd love to hear from you in the comments below. Thanks for watching. We'll catch you on the next one. Sports social podcast network.
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"Podcast. We did. Your question will Pierre gasly and Esteban ocon. Be good together for Alpine. What do you think? Well, it's all started off quite nicely, hasn't it? I think it's all fine till you get to the first corner. Well, I was going to say that the first moment where one gets favored on strategy or track position in qualifying or just something like that. And then it starts to get a little bit edgy, I think. Look, the reality is, I think it's a great move for gastly. He needed to get out of the Red Bull system. It's a great move. It's a great career move for him. I hope he rediscovers a motivation because he was starting to struggle at the back end of last year. And he's a good driver. He got destroyed by max, but actually, if you look at everything else he's done in his career, he's a very, very good racing driver. And I'd like to see him do well. He was ultimately the team's third choice. They tried to get Alonso publicly. They said they were in negotiation and Lonzo said number one pick. They didn't get him. Then they announced Oscar, didn't get him. The reality is gasly was their third choice. As much as they might now come out and say they go to much better lineup than they ever dreamed of. The reality is that their own actions contradict that. So by putting aside all the PR debacle of all of that, I think the proof will be when you get that first heated moment on track. I think in performance terms, it's quite a good lineup. I think they should score some good points, but we know that from his Red Bull days, gasly can not always play the team game very well internally. And ocon has it in for whoever's team that is on track. Because he seems to hit his teammate more often than anyone else on the grid. First with Perez, and then with so if they don't crash into each other during a race this season, I will eat some of it on this table at the moment. I'm going to run around naked in a kilt bet. But yeah, that was your problem with that. He's also wearing
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"esteban ocon" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"I certainly can leak hello and hello to the listeners and the sat nav, which is talking to Matthew Otis was F one editor driving the same. He promises to drive very gently and respectfully on the way home, but I've seen no evidence of it so far in the weekend. So let's see what happens. But yes, I really pleasant evening actually here at the aspirin track. Yeah, we've got an email from Aston Martin yesterday whilst Matt and I were out trackside during FP one, staying out of the blazing sun we've managed to get down to the grandstand at the first hairpin at the end of the first sector, enjoying some shade. It's a lovely email drop. And yes, come along, run the track Sebastian vet, that's how he's choosing to say goodbye to the F one paddock specifically, obviously I'm sure I'll have his own message for the fans and everybody watching on with the Grand Prix tomorrow. So yeah, basically everybody headed down to the start finish line. About 9 p.m. local time and everyone was given a T-shirt, which says, thank you to Sebastian and commemorates his championships, the main picture is him next to his Red Bull in 2013 at the Indian Grand Prix where he secured his fourth world title. But yes, and then after that, there was a group photo, Charles Leclerc turned up. I noticed he didn't then take part in the run, but very nice film to come and say goodbye to his former teammate. Mick Schumacher was there. Group photo at the start and then off we went on the run and there was a fair few well basically there was a bit of skullduggery from one of the auto sport team, which was to go against the team order, which was to run with each other all the way around you, isn't it? I was me, yes. I very quickly multi 21, both of you and Matthew, but I think that's that's what vet would have wanted quite frankly. And at one point I did end up overtaking him. And I thought, well, this is good. He's running, having a chat with Mick Schumacher. Maybe I'm having to beat Sebastian vet in a race. That would be a great story, but having held him off for a good two thirds of the lap just before the happy at the end of the second sector he absolutely put the jets on and legged it past everybody. As did Mick. But what was really nice was that when we got to the end, my victory comfortably assured over you and Matt. Vettel was still around. He clapped people in. High 5 people, he posed for selfies, with loads and loads and loads of people. It was really nice. The musical and all the PA systems in all the various stadium sections were blaring out with music coming from his dad's iPod. He was following along with the family on one of those big trucks that they take F one guests around in. So yeah, it's the real feel good evening. Yeah, it's been really amazing. And I think the number of people who turned out, I think we're well into over a hundred I would say Democrats. Maybe close to 200. It's really hard to tell because obviously everybody ended up in the same kit. Loads of mechanics from loads of different teams, yeah, just everybody seems to be out enjoying themselves. The FIA were there FOM officials, yeah, it was really nice. Really, really wonderful. I think very, very fitting way for get everyone together and say goodbye. Said that he loves running tracks, which I didn't actually know, but that's quite a cool thing that he likes to do and yeah, just a really great evening and I think a lovely way to continue to sign off ahead of his final Grand Prix tomorrow. As I said in the intro, he will start from 9th place on the grid. And I think that there were so many like onboards and bits of qualifying on the world food following WhatsApp was doing, probably more than usual. But he got all the way through, made it right the way through his key three, a really impressive display from him today. It was that really the maximum you think he could have got out the Aston Martin getting through to Q three. I think so. I think obviously best of the rest would be 7th place behind the Red Bull Ferrari and Mercedes cars. He was there briefly because the only other one set of soft tyres to use in the last part of qualifying ended up getting shuffled down a couple of spots by Lando Norris and Esteban ocon, but they are in, let's face it much faster cars than the Aston, yes, and he's much improved. Vettel said that you know it's doing what he wants, he's feeling good with it. But also he revealed that just this last race there's a bit of emotion getting into the car for the final time speaking to so it got to a person I know at Aston Martin, who actually saw on the run ahead of me and he was my he was once veteran. He was my target. I thought I'll catch up to my mate Joe. Did you? No, he hadn't done. He's a fellow marathon runner, and it's been 5 years since I did my last marathon, so I had no chance of catching him. But yet, basically, Vettel said, basically, sorry, I've been told there is a bit of emotion going around the team. This weekend, and it's added in an extra dimension. They've got to try and keep a lid on, and Vettel himself apparently been very light note. We must focus, when you've got a job to do, we can still perhaps be alpha in the constructors championship. But yeah, he admitted a bit emotional getting into qualifying for the final time. But he did a fantastic job, revealed afterwards that as it was his final race, he gave him something. He gave me an extra little lift if I'm being very cynical grand Prix at a time. I would say, well, where has he been all seasons, Sebastian, but we're giving that an accident performance and let's see what you can do in the rest of the way. Fernando Alonso actually said that he was sort of looking in his mirrors quite a lot to make sure he wasn't getting insects away. He's starting 11th on the grid. He said, don't worry, I'll take care of Seb as and he's going to look after him and make sure he doesn't get in any funny business off the line or anything like that. So yeah, I think all eyes will be on set to see how he bows out tomorrow. I think guaranteed to be a very emotional day for the whole F one paddock. But emotions aside, there were still people fighting for pole position and it was Max Verstappen who again tops qualifying. Do you think he was out of reach for everybody today? Seemed like it, yeah, I mean, obviously missed FP one, but quicken FP two. That's something we know it's all season, even if he misses a bit of various practice sessions. He's on it right from the start. And yeah, I think Red Bull just really confirms they really did get it wrong on the tyres in that one practice sessions and now the setup in Brazil last weekend, they're right back on form. Also, you say that Alonso was looking in these mirrors to stay out of veterans way. What the Red Bull drivers were. Because in both key one and Q three Vettel kept flying up behind them in the final corner and was getting understandably frustrated to be losing out, leaving that little bit of down force and grip as he flew through that final corner, which is really critical. We saw Max Verstappen in his first run in Q three, coming very, very close to exceeding track limits. And that ultimately could have been very, very costly. He did end up doing two laps that were good enough for
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"Particularly from what Russell and Hamilton said after the sprint race in the press conference, how much does this mean to Mercedes in terms of showing that they're on the right path, they are on the right trajectory. And that after such a long season, they're now able to fight at the very front, be Red Bull and Verstappen in a wheel to will fight over only a third of a race distance, but still that is real, not light at the end of a tunnel. It seems like something far, far bigger than that for everyone working at Mercedes right now. It's a brilliant melting pot, isn't it? They've talked to Russell said about how we expect to go back to brackley and see them more than ever pumping on all cylinders with the phrase he used. But in terms of circumstances, so as you mentioned about upgrade, so okay Verstappen had a slow pit stop in Austin, which sort of threw the waist wide open, but it was at Austin that Mercedes had this new upgrade and since then, they've been threatening for victory in America, threatened for victory in Mexico and obviously have won the sprint race. There's been a step forward taking and I asked Russell about it in a press conference and he referred to it as being since a slimmer car has come forward. So although a few months behind that, maybe they're going down this lightweight package that paid off a Red Bull. Sort of interestingly, because under the aerodynamic testing regulations, that's effectively a free upgrade if you like, you can spend as long as you like as long as you're within the cost cap shaving grams of here and there as opposed to putting the car in a wind tunnel where you're restricted. So to look at the bigger picture and taking a confidence, I think you've now got a point where okay Ferrari said our Mexico was just a blip, but I can throw some more numbers at you and this weekend looks similarly like half a second a lap off the pace bad for Ferrari. So I don't think, you know, I think science is redeemed a lot versus Verstappen in those tyres, but we saw how leclerc, how unhappy leclerc was no matter what he was doing with the car in FP two, probably a bit of a sub frustration hanging over the mess up in qualifying, but if Ferrari have taken that backward step and then you think, well, at some point, Red Bull is going to be 10% down on its aero testing and Mercedes has taken that strike forward, then suddenly what you had in, you know, before it was summer break straight after the summer break where it looked like right, bigger picture here, cam Mercedes challenge in 2024. Suddenly, this is looking not to get ahead of ourselves, but suddenly this is looking like a gap that maybe one winter, that might be enough. Yeah, again, it will be fascinating to see. Yeah, definitely looking like a very close fight coming between the leading teams and F one next year, hopefully. Speaking of close fights, there were a couple of quite spicy instance between teammates soon to be ex teammates through the sprint. We saw Fernando Alonso and Esteban ocon, they had two clashes on the opening lap one at turn four, the stewards looked at it and said, no further investigation. The second one probably more more damaging literally for Alonso's car losing his front wing was on the main straight when his front wing touched the right rear tire on ocon's car. Alonso was pretty salty about it over the radio quite angry, said, lost the front wing thanks to our friend well done after the race. He said, well, there's only one more race to go and then it's all over. So that was seems pretty tense. And then down at Aston Martin we saw Lance stroll forcing Sebastian Vettel onto the grass as they came down towards turn four, trying to stay ahead and Vettel far more diplomatic over the radio, just going, okay? And then got on with it the very next lap, and yeah, stroll seemed a bit more cooperative thereafter. What did you make of those instance matter? I mean, it seems pretty, with the Alpine ones, maybe a little bit more 50 50, but I mean, with stroll, I mean, it's the what second time in three four races we've seen something like that that are looking at the Alonso incident in Austin as well. Yeah, the Aston Martin wants to bank to write on that one. And as you say, where stroll and Alonso not destined to be teammates next season, I think you might have seen a bit more fury from the Spaniard than racing incident for what happened in Austin. Now that was pretty, pretty scary. The fact he kept the car going to the flag is still remarkable. But you know, which stroll, I think he deserves enormous credit that his first laps this season have been mega, you know, in terms of gaining places, I'm being super aggressive, but obviously there's a downside to that, which is now a sort of not on the opening lap. He squeezed Vettel much too far for the sake of what is it, it's internal internal bragging rights at Aston Martin. So I don't think that the sort of the prize or the stakes were high enough to the guys retired. I don't think, I don't think the sort of it was good for either parting and forcing him or putting him in a position where Vettel had to have most of his car over the grass. Yeah, completely needless and deserve a ten second penalty, which actually is penalty points and penalties had been a talking point this weekend because Gaza is right up against the threshold. And as part of our courage to that, I was going through all the penalty incidents for gasly and apart from the obviously the infamous now infamous crane incident in Japan. He's been pinged 5 seconds every
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"The land dot com to use that special slash podcast, find that link in the show description. For great deals on all of your favorite drinks, it is our league in the official F one fantasy competition. It's called formula mcginn they used to be clear if anyone didn't understand why we're saying that we've understand that it's been a while since we've heard he's dulcet tones. I hope he's doing well. He's probably not listening. Let's be honest, but it's all good. The winner of this weekend's Singapore Grand Prix informing the beginning, ah, it's a good one as well. It's a very good one on 311 points. The life of Brian hurt her. Enjoy that. Enjoy that a lot. Very good. That's not bad. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. It'll give you that. A right old massie second? Don't mind that one either. Gunther's dreamboat. I mean, that's just that's just very good. In third X-Men is fourth, I don't know if we've got our copyright to say that, but thank you, Fox films. Have you heard about that lonesome ellipsis? Don't know, but that was a herd of joke as well very well. Social club, not so social these days, 6 legal and Norris equals 6 Michael please. 9th Kevin me softly with his song. Powered by birth of classical I have forgotten about bird have a knife. Good old dirt. Team one is also equal 9th equal 9th eraser for fun, equal 9th, check out yourself before you wreck yourself, yes, well, he did, didn't he? He bloody won it. I've accidentally clicked the name of that. I've got to go back. There we go. It's very slow website. Print Albert park equal 9th go fast boys. That's actually 15 drivers all in the top 9 technically. Figure that maps out for yourself. And where was I this week, despite changing my team? Very close to the bottom, 448 out of 529. Why oh why did I put bot ass in a lot, so in my team, just end it all. And I put our no. I changed my team to help him. What a desire. She listened to my advice. You foolish for him. Anyways. Wait, wait, where did I end up? So I had the name, don't hurt me no more. Not the best. It's all right. But I for the Japanese Grand Prix in for the rest of the season. I will hereby be referred to as dusted mass and Aramco cognizance. Very good. Came with that over the weekend. I was very happy with that. Completely out of the blue as well. Anyway, so my lineup was George Russell, tick. Alex Albon. Wait, no, not your dress. Oh, I'm looking at the driver's standings. No wonder. Oh no. One dot com. Hang on, yes. Yeah, okay, so no good. Alex Albon, no good. Esteban ocon. Science good. Sergio Pereira is good, but Alpine too little too late. Oh no, that is bad. Our teams have got what we made a rare change in our teams have got worse. What a disaster. That's a lesson to all of you never change your teams. Never look back at your teams after picking them in March next year. Took the overall standings though. The leader still, I think, still anyway, is by 11 points. It's rob James 5 minute highlights, very good, ahead of Lando Norris. Oh shit, hang on. Where were you in Singapore? Hang on, let me have a look. I was very like 440. 140. That is brilliant, because with my limp pathetic lineup, I am out of 529. And shirts on 502nd. Oh dear. That is no good. Never change your teams. So leading the overall standing is rob James 5 in the highlights by 11 points ahead of Lando Norris. Third is Yuki cookie all from the United States, by the way, fourth of Australia is a Richie super IT liquor. You should go to liquidity. The alcoholic bit, but all on board for that. For that. No problem pastas, great
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"Certainly has been. This is your second year with auto sport at your first on the F two and F three beats. How's it been? Yeah, it's been absolutely fantastic. You know, moving up from covering F three and W series last year to covering F two and F three this year has been fantastic. It's been great to see some of the really stand out young talent coming through the ranks. Got to a few races, seen some drama as F three always has, but this year has been particularly chaotic, and seen some absolutely incredible racing, you know, there's been some really standout races considering the age of some of these drivers and, you know, the amount that amount of time they've been racing, some of it has been absolutely phenomenal. It's been a pleasure. It's been brilliant. We've had some really good inside. It had some really good racing and had some really good little nuggets of goss from the drivers. So it's been great. Now at the racing is so good. And it is a spec series. And I'm sure lots of our listeners do know, but for anyone who isn't fully up to speed, F two and F three, they are spec series, just remind us about the chassis they use, things like the engine, some of the key technical regulations, because again, if you're not super into it at the moment and you're maybe going to cover maybe a Formula One fan wants to watch a bit more of it next year. They do look like little Formula One cars. What are the similarities? What are the differences? It's quite a busy grid 30 F three cars on the grid, which contributes to some exciting racing. It's a dallara chassis, mecha chrome engine. They do look similar, so they've got the halo. They run Pirelli rubber, but there's only one compound. So they don't have pit stops during either the feature race or the sprint race. They just use the one compound. And they have DRS. They're quite similar in a lot of ways to F one cars. They're just, you know, not as powerful. They have run on 9 F one weekends this year. Alongside F two, which had 14 rounds. And it's the kind of first step on that on that three tier pyramid towards F one. So a lot of the drivers have stepped up from championships like formula regional European or GB three, and they're making that next big step up to F one into the, you know, into the F one world at the F one weekend, different paddock, but next to the F one paddock. So for these drivers coming up, this is their first big shot to impress F one teams and F two teams as well for when they make that next step up, but it is a big deal and it's really a lot of exciting racing that people should get more on board with, I think. Totally, totally. A formula three, if you include predecessors, names like GP three or Euro F three over the years. And of course, these days, FA formula three is fully in support of Formula One. It races at those rounds, but over the years, there's been some really big names. You look at the F one paddock and you look at where they've come from and almost every driver has come from GP €3 F three. What is now FIA F three. So the likes of Charles Leclerc, George Russell, they both won F three in their rookie season. And then moved up to F two and did the same. And then moved up to F one, but you've got the likes of Oscar PRC who also did the same as Leclair and Russell. You've got Bottas. You've got tsunoda, Esteban ocon, Carlos Sainz, all these drivers have started in F three or the equivalent on that journey to the F one paddock. So it's the sort of place where you're going to see the drivers who are in a few years will be F one drivers or will hope to be F one drivers. So Viktor Martin's newly crowned champion. He's now going to be moving up to F two. The champion can't stay in the series. They have to move on. So Viktor Martins will be looking to make his move up to F two and the next step from that if he can get a seat is F one. So F three is the place to look if you want to know who's going to be in F one and a few years. This is where you need to keep an eye on. And just look at the all the news lately around Colton Herta, someone who hasn't done that typical journey that other F one drivers have and a fantastic driver and we start to talk about super licenses and things like that. So just to get really hard for drivers that do have their sites set on F one that want to do it a slightly different way. Not impossible, absolutely not possible. And of course, next week, we will do if you're listening to this thinking, oh, just F three, yes, no Meghan will do an F two show next week for us on the podcast just so you know, and I'm sure we'll get into then about the idea of leaving championships as champion, but what if there is nowhere to go in Formula One next? What do you do and we'll take a look at some of those circumstances. So yeah, you mentioned 9 rounds then in 2022, four minus three is all wrapped up now. Where did we go racing? In formula three this year. So the kit season kicked off in Bahrain at the same time as the F one season. So they started in Bahrain, there are two races every weekend. There's a sprint race on Saturday and feature race on Sunday. Then there was a bit of a gap at three went to imola, and then it was Barcelona.
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"esteban ocon" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"It looked like actually they'd let it slip because they hadn't, they hadn't counted on another team being as bold as Mercedes. So I know it's all if butts and maybes, but I think in terms of an individual performance. Yes, you're totally right in saying that spa is an easier track to overtake it. But it just looked like max was on another level. And Red Bull still provided everything that max needed to do. But as a driving performance, it was still mightily impressive spa. This kind of, I guess, I guess this is why it's so difficult to compare drives because they're always always in F one different variables to consider, but I think in terms of impressiveness, whilst I definitely do see what you are getting at, I think for me, as an individual, if we're talking about Max Verstappen, the racing driver, spa will still be that just that bit more impressive, just because you got to see the magic of max. Because other drivers were still struggling to overtake an AKA you go, well, he's in the fastest car. Blah, blah, blah. But I think that last week spa was similar to Hamilton, Brazil. And I think, whilst I maybe wouldn't say that Brazil was his best Hamilton's best race. I think we're still yet to see Max Verstappen is absolute best, which is probably a terrifying thought, I think he's going to be faced with more challenges where we will see more Hamilton esque. Comebacks. Which I'm really excited for. But yeah, for me, I think spa tips it for me as a driving performance. Yeah, it's terrifying, isn't it? With any like, you know, when it's football manager or whatever strategy you get, you assemble the best components, don't you? And at the minute it's difficult to look past Verstappen as the driver operating at his peak at the minute and the RBA RB 18 being the best car out there and then Red Bull's operations being as slickest of the lot. So you put those and that's quite the sort of three pronged attack. Luke, JBL, what did you rate of Verstappen's performance? And I'm looking at the time now and I need to wind down. I'm starting to feel guilty because we barely touched on any of the midfield, so are there any unsung heroes from the race that we need to shout about because I, as your host, have failed to do so. Honestly, Matt Q how do you sleep at night? In a racing car bed with my wife. Target, it was either that or he's going to be the radio. Is it really a wolf castle? And he's like, oh, top of a big pile of money. Lots of beautiful things. That's it. That's it. Yeah, but quite similar to say wolf in a voice actually, isn't it? Anyway, we've got very sidetracked there. Fernando Alonso, he's a driver who we spoke about the Fernando Alonso tax before and how some of his performances could maybe be over egged a little bit, but no, he was brilliant, I thought we saw in qualifying, it was a difficult day for Alpine and he dropped out in Q two, but he fought his way back up the order well. He was one of the first drivers on the move picking off both the avatars. And then yeah, that's which to the hard tyre, it was a really, really good decision by Alpine and then he bolted on a set of softs later on. There would go for a real sprint to the finish, and then he said when he saw the safety car he was like, oh no, because everyone else was doing the same thing, but I think it's come away with 6th place. I think it's a really good performance for him as a pretty close battle with Norris as well. But no, I thought I did a really good job today. Esteban ocon as well getting up into the points. He regretted that he wasn't his pace in the first he didn't get as much out of it as he would have liked, but he otherwise he reckons he could have been up there with Fernando as well. And I would also like to give a rare but welcome, shout out to Lance stroll as well because to BP ten, I thought was a really good job for him. And he was actually a bit disappointed because he thought that yeah, Aston Martin had more pace this weekend, but things, the late stage car game worked to get some little bit in qualifying. There was an issue in Q three, the men who couldn't get out. So yeah, all three of those drivers get up into the points. I think I've done a really good job today. I guess Luke has left me with shout outs for those who didn't have such a good weekend. Outfits are already out a bit of a miserable weekend and it's night and day over last season, isn't it? The car in 2021 seems so good. Pierre gasly was basically had P 6 on lockdown every qualifying session and now they're struggling to get out of Q one. It's not consistent. No points for the team. They're on, I think, 29 points. And I think Aston Martins on 25, where given their relative positions at the start of the season, that's really not particularly good. As Luke said, Lance stroll did have a very good day. And possibly could have had more, had qualifying gone to plan.
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"So I do get it, but it is very, very rare that we hear any other team go past plan B so it was funny. I'll try and find out I'll try and find out what plan G was. Let's talk about Alpine a bit because on Friday's podcast we also played a game of let's put you in charge. I did that with Hayden. I said, right, you're a CEO of Alpine to someone lose their job over losing it seems not one, but two great drivers over the course of a few days. And also you did. I feel bad for seeing other things. If someone's been fired in the morning. But a great race today for Alpine, a fantastic results and brilliant racing as well. We saw with Fernando Alonso somehow surviving that massive collision with Alonso his front left. And Hamilton sorry, Lonzo's front left Hamilton's very right, but hey, they built them strong as Jess says Alonso coming home 5th because of that 5 second penalty for the club getting promoted a place, which is great for Alpine and also ocon who we saw some not one but two double overtakes and another great race for him coming home. 7th today, who will be driving for them next year? I still don't know where it will shake out. By the way, Jack doohan took his third victory of the season at spa NFT. Alpine were like Oscar who could mean nothing. Oscar hood? It could mean nothing. Anyway, so Luke, what did you make of Alpine today and some great racing by ocon as well? Oh, Esteban ocon, what a man. I literally that overtake on the double overtake on gasly and Vettel. It was like hacking and Schumacher and what 2001 with the Ricardo zonta sat in the middle and literally came over in the media pen and the first thing I said to him was have you been watching any maker hackman videos recently? And in a laughed and he said, I actually spoke to Mika before the race and obviously not about that move or anything. But yeah, he said it was just one of those things where the straight line speeded the Alpine was so good or weekend. And he said he also really, really worked out well how to get all the right detection points and everything like that for DRS. So with that move in particular. Basically he works out the Vettel was going too early and that meant that he wasn't picking up the DRS on gasly. He was going for the overtake too early. So in the end, ocon was like, right, I'm going to sort of ease off a little bit. Give myself a bit more of a slingshot. Lined up that move perfectly and got both of them. And he said that vessel could have maybe squeezed me a bit more. Vettel said that he felt like he had no weapons in that fight because he was without DRS. And yeah, ocon just slung it around both of them. And it was such a great move. And yeah, I really great display by him. He said after the race that he feels, that's the best race he's had with Alpine full stop and dis the man who's won a Grand Prix with Alpine and it was a really, really great performance from them. So yeah, I thought I can't drove absolutely superbly to come through the field as he did, you got to wonder what they could have done had both of them started up at the top end and yeah, for Alonso, again I think given the clash with Hamilton he's come away with a really good hall of points and really I don't think he could have done anything more than 5th had it not been for the clash with them with Hamilton. I think he would have fallen back naturally to that kind of position anyway. So yeah, I think Alpine could be really pleased with this weekend. I think that there were always going to go strongly. But in the context of this fight with McLaren, it's a big step forward they've taken. McLaren have always said we don't really know how we're still in the fight without being because we're sort of struggling to keep up grounds. It's maybe some sort of good weekends of masks and the issues with our car. But I think we're now starting to see just how much stronger Alpine is Dan McLaren this year. And also on the driver front, Alpine have two regular scoring drivers, which in McLaren's case, they don't really with the greatest respect to Daniel Ricciardo. A really difficult day for McLaren as well. They just had no straight line speed whatsoever. So yeah, neither Norris nor Ricardo stood much of a chance. But even for Daniel started 7th, the long way ahead of Lando and then ends up behind him. So not a great day for them. But yeah, for Alpine, I think they've done a really good job this weekend. And yeah, Esteban ocon. I'm not in charge drive ratings, but if I was, I would be giving it a ten out of ten. I hope Matt Q can hear me in the room next door, but yes. Great result for him. Ten out of ten drive Lando Norris, as you mentioned, in 12th for McLaren, Daniel Ricciardo in 15th and in terms of Alpine, Luke, we won't hold you to it, but just for fun, who could be driving alongside icon next year because obviously the contract recognition board meet next week. So as our listeners are tuned, tuning into this. But the thing is, if PS3 is already gone so nuclear on social and I'd be like, I'm not driving for them. You can force a driver, I suppose to have financial compensation. Oh, I don't know. Yeah, that's the thing. That relationship, I think, is dead and buried.
The Autosport Podcast
"esteban ocon" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"In 5th Charles Leclerc 6th coming home a minute behind all of those more than a minute Lando Norris in 7th, the two alpines, Fernando Alonso and Esteban ocon in 9th Sebastian Vettel picking up the last world championship point in tenth ahead of teammate Lance stroll. What does it do to the standings, Max Verstappen goes into the summer break? And also people keep talking about, oh, we're halfway. We are way over halfway by the way. There is much less of the season to go than we've had. Max Verstappen, 258 points Charles Leclerc a 178 point Sergio Pérez 173. George Russell, 158 Carlos Sainz one 5 6 and then Lewis Hamilton on one four 6 and in terms of the constructors championship Red Bull Racing with 431, as I mentioned Ferrari three three four 30 points ahead of Mercedes three O four, then the Alpine McLaren battle. Let's get on to that now at 99 points Alpine place McLaren 95. Let's talk about this a leuko stay with you actually as we work our way down a little bit Lando Norris said this weekend. His job is to beat the alpines. And job done. Unfortunately, it's McLaren's job to beat the alpines, job not done Lando in 7th Fernando and Esteban ocon. In 8th and 9th, you touched on it, but they did suffer those hard tyres and had some intra team battles we saw as well, but still came through to score some points, largely because on Daniel Ricciardo couldn't, again, what are you making of that? Really thrilling battle between McLaren and Alpine Luke. It's really interesting. I'm really enjoying it. I like the fact that they've gone down such different routes in terms of their development. Alpine have kind of gone for the small but regular updates, whereas McLaren are saying right, we're going to do yeah, big package in Spain. They brought a big package to France. And they do it in bigger chunks, basically try and take that step forward. But it does seem swing back and forth between them and yesterday, Norris out qualified them and he said that, yeah, like I feel that us has their base kind of masks, the gap a little bit and Alpine are quick up over the race and we saw the maker a good start. But then there was that very close moment between ocon and Alonso a term one and Alonso was right over the radio saying that I've never seen a guy defend like Esteban. Awesome about it after the race and he said that it was a pretty extreme move. And if you look at the onboards that I think are floating around on Twitter, yeah, it was a real like chop across no, you're not coming past me, which really teammate. It's not really the best approach, but Alonso said he's like, I do that sometimes, and he said, we've never crashed and we never will. Let's see how that age is. But it was a really interesting, yeah, I thought it was interesting that was maybe a little bit of ocon saying when I know this is mine. I'm having this. They were running very close together when Ricardo managed to sweep past both of them in the space of two corners. Fernando was like, ah, well, Ricardo was on a different tyre. So it doesn't really matter and I was like, I'm not really sure about that. But what hurt them was yeah, it was the hards. Like, okay, they made it work on a one stop fair enough. They got some points. But they were miles away from Lando in the end and Vettel reckons had he had another lap or had he had without that virtual safety car at the end. He reckons he'd have got ocon. You shouldn't be beaten by an Aston Martin if you're locking out the third row of the grid. So yeah, I think that it was an interesting one. I think that yeah, they came away with the same amount of points that's kept that battle nice and alive. But I think for McLaren it was a missed opportunity with Ricardo, who I actually thought was driving a pretty good race up until. Yeah, you kind of fade a little bit through the middle. And then they put them on a set of hards, which hurt on Norris, but he was already far enough up the road that he could kind of get to the end. He said that you may as well put on a set of wet, which again is indicative of the thing that Ferrari didn't see. But yeah, Ricardo's in the same boat. He was fighting with Lance stroh, who actually had a pretty good race to give Lance and credit. And yeah, then biffed into the side of him, picked up a 5 second time penalty and that was kind of that. And it was a shame that again, a race that had a lot of potential and it looked like it was going to be a decent score. We saw a bit of him getting excited on the radio when he got both the alpines, ended up with another pretty lowly finished. So I think we talk about sort of soul searching and stuff over the summer break, Ricardo definitely needs some of that because McLaren, if they're fighting against Alpine, they need both cars to be up there and for Ricardo at the moment it's just not quite clicking and working. Jess, you missed you weren't on. You may have heard it. The Friday podcast. We talk about Sebastian vet, we have a Vettel podcast on Friday, and I went into that asking Kev and Alex, who, although the world is their oyster at Aston Martin, they're big enough to get a big driver. They got development going on. They can say they're building for the future, et cetera, et cetera.
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"esteban ocon" Discussed on Box of Neutrals
"Button, you'll get a special ad free, podcast feed for the low low price of four 99, a month, and you'll be directly supporting the podcast. That's all box of neutrals dot com. A couple of stories to wrap up from the French Grand Prix. Before we get into some contract chat, I just want to mention Mercedes 'cause I guess we probably should. They got two cars on the podium. That's their best result are all the year, obviously. But that's the best result since last year's Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. Which is like 13 races ago, I guess. Who'd have thought we'd be waiting this long for Mercedes get two cars on the podium? Yeah. 13 races or four Aramco sponsorships to go. If you want to go by that timeline. But yeah, I guess you could say it's a warning shot to the rest of the championship. You're just going the recovery of Mercedes isn't too far away. This is their long COVID. Moment. Then they regaining their fitness back. They're finally doing 5 minute marathons. At the minute. So that's what they're currently very capable of. Which is obviously the car was fundamentally okay. It's obviously they probably marked up in terms of the philosophy of some elements and they're just playing catch up. So cars fundamentally okay. And the team's good. That's funny. And I wonder if George Russell will actually get that get that rice win this year, because obviously it's a question, isn't it? That's the next one. We're bored with Carlos Santa. He's done it now, so. Most of the other rest of the grid's kind of bloody Esteban ocon and Pierre gasly had rice wins wins. True. That said, God loves Sky Sports if one, but goodness bay they'll be insufferable. They will it will be. North Korea uno play. Saturday morning military ride. It will be, I mean, yeah, you're right actually, just for that reason, I almost hope it doesn't happen. But George is good. I like to it is, I don't know, it's a funny thing with Mercedes. I don't know if you thought similar, but oh wow, well first of all, I enjoyed Lewis Hamilton just lying on the ground in the green room. Absolutely roasted. I thought that was funny. I truly shows his age, I guess. I had to put a tennis ball on you. Yeah, exactly. Got a foam roller down. Oh my God. I thought it was almost unseemly how happy he was to finish second. And finish second ten seconds behind Verstappen, which doesn't sound like that much, but this rice was like Verstappen was just managing his tires to get to him. There was no pace in his race because the last student was so long. I thought it was really weird. And Toto Wolff kind of calmed everyone down a bit. She's like, oh, you know, we still qualified the second off the pace and we were never in contention to win this race. We thought we might have been able to win. I thought it was a bit odd like how happy he was. Especially considering he finished second because leclerc retired science center engine penalty in Perez had a classic pair of rice, not a classic version, say that these races normally pretty good. Got a pretty bad rice. He was just had a crappy hand. I just thought it was a big, you know, it was a bit North Korea uno, like everything's great when it's not true. Oh yeah, like a bit of a false dawn. Maybe they saw something we didn't, but I just didn't buy it. Yeah, it's true. It doesn't want to be canning chickens just yet. It's good though for the table. Obviously, I think that's where they'll be. And it would be more telling if they hold on to that position. That was, but that's a good point about surgery Perry. Is everyone kind of hung shit on him a little bit in terms of being overtaken by his highness, George Russell. But on any other Grand Prix, says your praise is bloody well on it, so you just sometimes lose these battles. But yeah, now you're right about this. I think you're all about besides. I think the car's okay, but yeah, you're right, come to think of it. There is, there were more factors at play that are really affected into this, but at least they were there to capitalize on it. So at least they kind of go, well, this is where we are in the packing order when everyone else falls over. We're not being able to take it by McLaren or Alpine any other day of the week. So I'm kind of running our own race a little bit. Yes, true. And you know what the car is not killing the drivers with back pain, you know? That's a positive. Lewis helmet is not getting out and do it. Well, he was, it did look like he wants to do some stretches, but not the sort of stretches to take off as much art. I think that's what happens when you're over 35. So I think that's just general anything, isn't it? So, you know, that is an improvement, big improvement there. And I want to mention this because then I want to talk about Fernando Alonso, Alpine has taken fourth place in the constructor standings from McLaren, even though McLaren brought a big upgrade and seemed to work like they seem to be quicker this weekend, but this is also a track that was going to suit McLaren anyway. So we've got to wait and see, I think Hungary might be a harder track for them maybe. So this will be more of a bigger test this weekend, but despite having a great qualifying, even though Daniel Ricciardo qualified 11. You saw them hide, so that's good. Both Alonso and ocon got ahead of Norris and Ricciardo when they qualified the other way around. So Alpine still clearly got the pace, and now they've got fourth properly and Fernando Alonso had another best rate at his career, which was good for him. And this is sort of getting a little bit interesting is that he's got a contract offer apparently reportedly from Alpine, which is not that surprising sort of knew that was going to happen. But apparently, reportedly, I think according to the race, it's only one offering him one year and he wants to, as he said publicly, I think in Australia and several other times. Part of his contract, by the way, will be like a wick entry with el pain, they're building their own car for the new regulations there whenever they start next year, the year after. But they want to pump the massage onto special projects after only one year, presumably for old mate piastre, but he wants to and it started getting interesting that little like broadly the driver market I think is going to settle down now that Ricardo especially sort of said I'm not going anyway. Yeah. But this is a little interesting the story happening here in the midfield. Where it's very clever because it's very hard to sort of go oh jeez, we really want PS3, but I don't want to say I don't want to be the person that says no to Fernando Alonso to say our thanks for your services, please leave you swapped out on your desk when you're done. So how do we get it's very clever? How do we get around it? So this is the equivalent of just making his office really hot. Back in the chair uncomfortable. And sort of just going, oh, you know what? You can
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"esteban ocon" Discussed on Strong Opinion Sports
"Now how about Alpine? Alpine is tied with McLaren 31 points and if they can finish fourth ahead of McLaren, that would be a huge victory for them. Also, they're pairing of Fernando Alonso and Esteban ocon. It's going really well. They're both competitive. They're both scoring points. I'm enjoying it. Fernando Alonso is going to be 41 at the end of July. I don't know how much longer he plans to keep racing, but he's not really slowing down. And he is still competitive. And I'm here for it, man. I love love, love watching Fernando Alonso race. And he's a tough old school guy that's hard to pass. He'll yell at you. But again, I think it's fun to watch. And Fernando Alonso asked him about them. They're a great pairing right now. Our French driver driving for a French team with arkon. Fernando Alonso seems to be the driving force. They're kind of like Tom Cruise was with Top Gun: Maverick, like nothing goes on under that his approval. And I love it. Okay, Alfa Romeo, there are 6 right now in Formula One with 51 points. I find out for a male just kind of boring. They're in the middle, they got a rookie Joe grand you who is finding his way in Formula One foundry botos was actually impressed me. He took a big step down going from a Mercedes car to an Alfa Romeo car. And yet he still competitive. He actually had a couple of good finishes, 5th in Italy. 7th in Miami 6th in Spain, Alfa Romeo, they're a bit boring, but they are a decent team. Now Hass is 7th right now in Formula One with 34 points and man Haas has been entertaining to watch. They've been bad for so long and to see them get points and do well is pretty cool. And you know, Kevin Magnussen has been competitive, makes Schumacher. By the way, Kevin Magnussen wasn't even supposed to drive this year, then Russia invades Ukraine and mesa spin to keep a maze that's been mazepin really loses his spot and they bring in at the last minute Kevin Magnussen and he's done way better than mazepin could have done and very surprising.
Box of Neutrals
"esteban ocon" Discussed on Box of Neutrals
"You're right. You know why it is. What Bill? It's really it's dog eat dog world out there. One Australian app for another, especially when Daniel Ricciardo is under contract. That's pretty big. Yes, I would say though. With respect to this rumor, I don't believe it. For a couple of reasons. Yes. One. Well, yes. One is Daniel out of contract. May of course, Jack brown has talked about all McLaren or Daniel kahneman, I break the contract. True, it's possible. But second, Alpine, I can't imagine McLaren taking a loan driver, right? First of all, they can not imagine loan driver going back. McLaren is above that. Well, they would believe so anyway. Two, I would not believe Alpine leading Oscar piastre officers. Moving it off. No way. And then even if any of those things weren't true, why would Alpine give its biggest rival in the constructor standings? He's like the hot shit. Putting him as a reserve driver at McLaren. Exactly, exactly. Which is already weed to begin with. Yes. So I can not imagine this rumor being true. I can't like if it happens. And I know Formula One does often defy all logic, but it would defy all logic. What would be easier, sending Oscar PS3 to your main rival McLaren or farming or breaking your contract with either Fernando Alonso or Esteban ocon. How do you feel about a sense of how? Good things about them. Good things I couldn't start a great card. Perfectly over there. The pine eyes are great. Yeah. Ferrari engine goes well. Better than this piece of shit. Let's be honest. It's pretty far fetched, but I've certainly heard worse, but I wouldn't put it out of the realm of possibility. I could say it happening. Okay, absolutely say that conversation occurring. But. Yeah. Exactly. But you're exactly right. Why would Alpine who let's face it? Don't have much else going for him. Yeah, Fernando is great. It's the band's good. I've had a Grand Prix win. Last year. But Oscar Pietro is your future. So you need to somehow make that work. By happens by chance that Fernando Alonso is probably being selfish. He's not he's having his best ever season. Oh, exactly. He's deprived of 80 points. He needs to race for another ten seasons to make up for that deficit for 40s owed. So it's a tricky spot for Al-Qaeda and it's what I don't envy them in. But I tell you what, in terms of a driver, it drives a stock. Has never been so high for someone who has driven who hasn't raced in anger since last year. Someone who has been rumored to go to McLaren is a reserve driver at one, is not competed in a practice session yet, who the team keeps delaying the practice prize when they have to do it. You could say. He's not racing in anything. It's quite a remarkable, which is a great thing. It goes to show you how hard the Oscars obviously write it and how much anything would be like, you're giving away Oscar pierce you for free, of course. We take it. It somehow would be very on brand real pain to have wasted all this time and money on Oscar pierce. So I wanted to keep track on, but I kind of imagined, regardless of whether you think Daniel Cobb is going to be here or not next year. I just can't imagine Oscar being the one who goes there. But on the other hand, who would go to McLaren, that's the other big question. I know we talked about this a couple of weeks ago, but appear gasly's recommitted to AlphaTauri for next year was already under contract, but he sort of said he will be there. So it's difficult to imagine who would end up there. I've got one for you. Here we go. Here we go. Rob sir drama season. He's raring
The Autosport Podcast
"esteban ocon" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"And that's not what they're here for, because they won't then win races or get them podiums. So yeah, they're obviously going to be pushing other areas where they can get solutions, whether it's to solve their purpose you or rather bring it the level playing field a bit closer through different means. But to come back to the general situation, they're still largely where they were before. It does seem that when they're at smooth attracts or just track by track, it is incredibly variable. Yeah, like for example, that Spanish Grand Prix, it looked almost solved. There were very optimistic in that, and then you get through Monaco and Baku street circuits, different time X different setups and everything. And it suddenly is worse, it's ever been. So yeah, it will swing from race to race until they basically get on top of it. And whether that even comes down to car concept in terms of it has been this talk of do they give up on this concept, it's probably too early to say, but yeah, if they can't solve it, then at some point, they may just have to give up on it, but we're a long way from knowing that answer yet, but we're still in this bit of looking for vicks. They're looking for a fix, but like we mentioned about Ferrari, we've suddenly got 5, 6 races coming up in about 6 or 7 weeks. So if they don't have an answer soon, there's going to be a lot more bouncing around and painful backs. And yet George Russell, he didn't look as affected. A fraction of the amount of Lois and yet taller drivers are meant to suffer more from it. It is an odd subject to fully get your head around. Seems like a good time to run down the driver's standings as we are after the event Max Verstappen on a 150 points with two DNFs this season followed by teammate Sergio Pérez and a 129 the head now, as I mentioned of Charles Leclerc, also onto DNFs, but maybe worth pointing out that Max Verstappen has retired from races that he wasn't due to get such a big points haul if that makes sense. Leclerc has retired from bigger points losing positions. George Russell continuing that amazing run even being called mister consistency on the radio in fourth. Carlos Sainz with 83 points, Lewis Hamilton 62 Lando on 50 in 8th place Valtteri Bottas on 40 points followed by Esteban ocon 31 Pierre gasly 6. Mercedes Mercedes team coming away from an event once again where they're going to be really happy with the result today because of external factors not because they've solved anything. Yeah, it's pretty mad that George Russell is closer to leclerc in points than leclerc is to Verstappen. But I don't think any of us thought that based on the performance of Mercedes, it's pretty crazy, but the fact that Mercedes is closer to Ferrari than Ferrari is to Red Bull is probably not where we thought we would be at this stage in the competition. But as we said, Mercedes has been the most reliable car. It's the only car on the grid that hasn't had a DNF this season. Considering all their problems, George is also the only one who's brought home points every race. So although painful, consistency is key in at least staying in the battle because we could be in a position where we're talking about George Russell actually in the battle, at least mathematically, whether or not it's going to turn out realistically, probably not. I mean, I did joke that imagine if Red Bull and Ferrari implode, this is like the most ultimate what if ever. And George just keeps putting in results and wins on consistency. We have seen world championships one on consistency rather than run away or the most wins. So it's an interesting one. It's kind of a bit of a strange narrative that we're going to have throughout the season, but they just seem to be dogged with too many issues in terms of their outright performance that and for me, just not to dwell too much on the bouncing issues and the safety concerns. But I know it is massive, massive, massive talking point on Twitter. It's quite dark, isn't it? To use your drivers as a pawn to get what you want, performance wise, it's quite dark. How far do you go? How far do you push that as an advantage? But we did hear that after the, all the drivers came together to discuss, was there an issue with bouncing and all of them said, yes, apart from one. Any guesses who that driver was? Go on. Is Fernando Alonso? The only driver. Who said that there wasn't an issue. All the other drivers agreed that there is something going on here. It is uncomfortable, even if they're all suffering from varying degrees of it. And I do agree with both Hayden and Alex in terms of those that are on top of it, shouldn't really be penalized by the FIA coming in and mandating things or allowing people to change it. As they said, if you've got it wrong, it's kind of on you and you can't cry wolf to say that it's a safety issue if it can be fixed. But yes, it's quite interesting that Alonso was the one driver to say. As nothing wrong here. And this would be totally speculating and perfect thing to ask him for Canada. But given he is the driver with the most experience in other categories in another cars, we've been in wax, been an IndyCar, isn't it the only 500 dacre, he's been in a rally car..
The Autosport Podcast
"esteban ocon" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"To lead the pack away, for a Formula One Grand Prix, Red Bull's Sergio Pérez said it was an unbelievable lap that put him top of the time sheets and to be pole position. The Saudi Arabian Grand Prix at one point it could have been the Ferrari taking poll, but the way that it shook out with Sergio Pérez will start first alongside Charles Leclerc and on the second row, Carlos Sainz Jr. and Max Verstappen. Behind them, Esteban ocon and George Russell in the loan. Mercedes in the top ten. Followed by Alonso and Bottas also having a great start to the year. Gasly in 9th and Kevin Magnussen took about another great start to 2022. He had a pretty torrid Friday, but recovering on Saturday to round out the top ten Matt Q and Jonathan noble are our eyes and ears in the paddock this weekend in Saudi Arabia, and I'm joined today by Jonathan noble to talk about not only qualifying, which was an amazing qualifying session. A real must watch if you haven't caught it yet and you're listening to the podcast first for a bit of analysis. There was a massive shunt the whole Formula One paddock massive relief that Mick Schumacher is okay we'll get on to that. But let's rewind when we left you last night on the podcast. We thought it was the driver's briefing, which turned into a GPD a meeting. The drivers eventually getting the reassurances they needed from the organizers from security, officials talking to team managers, team principals, and those from Formula One and FIA as well. Formula One at some points yesterday. Well, you know what, social media is like rumors were swirling that the drivers were erring on the side of not racing for safety and security reasons what with that oil facility being attacked that missile attack just a few short miles away from where the circuit is. But the driver's deciding to go ahead and race this weekend, but that went on late UK time, but plus three hours. Very light. Saudi Arabian time. Jonathan noble, it was a strange end to a Friday, but a very, very late one. Yeah, I think the thing on a lot of tired people in the paddock this morning, I think most people got to bed at three 30, 4 o'clock in the morning normally do that safe that on a Grand Prix weekend and it's normally been a pretty good party, but everyone was working here very, very late obviously the drivers made the decision to race on. It was formal communication this morning from F one and FIA that that was happening. And the GPA put a statement out as well about the human emotions they felt from the explosion of the missile and worrying about the teams, families,.
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"esteban ocon" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"The steward said that's neither significant nor relevant at all. And Mercedes came out and I said we hope this puts an end to the targeted work by Red Bull senior management to dishonor the good name of Lewis Hamilton and I think that's not quite in those words, but to that effect. And yeah, I think it was, I think that there are two very separate issues in terms of the comments Red Bull was making and the races to beast that was coming out of the social media either. But yeah, we're just really a time of the season where you're just looking at you going my God. What is wrong with people? Why are people making these comments why people getting so upset and we know we're passionate with fans. We want to support our drivers. We want to see the best in the world going head to head. And we don't want to see accents like that, but they do happen. And ultimately, you do have to look at things with perspective and take a bit of a step back and yeah, it was disappointing the season where you went, we need to call off. We need to just take 5 and thankfully we were so close to the summer break that it was one more race and we could take a month just to chill out, but it was a real like you just looked at it and it was a taste of things to follow. 'cause I was listening to another podcast about American football that I listened to and the guy the host on that. He runs it. He runs website as well. And he's like, sometimes when people kick off and get angry, I love it because they care. It shows that they care and it means that it's helpful for our businesses and we wouldn't be in this situation if it wasn't for people not caring. It's when it crosses that line. And you've got people. I mean, the thing that makes me so mad about social media is the anonymous cowardice. We've had an autosport people creating accounts to deliberately to troll us. And I did leave really upset us. That's what's awful. And then when you add in the racist abuse and everything else and all of that, it's just like, come on, just like it makes me weep for the way humanity has gone. But equally, when people, I like the fact that people are interested. That's what's key as well. So just because I know I'm always out on a downer about social media, it's because I don't like that anonymous cowardice element of it, but I just wanted to make that point anyway. Sorry, go ahead. All right, okay, so one more race before the summer break a chaotic start, Bottas makes a mistake, breaks too late sends Norris into Verstappen. Esteban ocon avoids the turn one chaos and picks up his first win in terms of the title battle here. It was a net second because Vettel was disqualified. It was aachen Vettel Hamilton, but Lewis and net second on that. So look, as we head into the summer break with Hungary again with Louis picking up big points, a turning point again for kind of Lewis's comeback. It was, yeah, and again, it was another missed opportunity, but out of Verstappen's control, he lost the lead of the championship who's trailing by 8 points going to the summer break, which given he'd been what 32 in front just two races before was a pretty crazy turnaround. But it was again one of those races that it was it was out of Verstappen's control that he just got caught up in. That term on instant got left with damage and that meant that he couldn't do any better than 9th monster the race restarted. Just one of those crazy races that we're going to look back on for years to come. We're going to remember, everyone diving in for the restart to make the switch to select some Mercedes keeping Hamilton out so he was the only person on the grid as the 5 red lights went out. Someone put that on Twitter the other day and was like, this happened this year and it's crazy to remember and think about. There wasn't even more. And then we had George Russell, then, like, look like he's going to lead the race for Williams, but then had to give the places back. Then he had off on vessel and that race along fight. You had Hamilton fighting through the field, Fernando Alonso, then getting his elbows out and making it so, so hard from Hamilton to get ahead winning Esteban oak on the race regularly. Yeah, and it was just a really one of those weekends where it was F one on just F one times ten. It was just crazy how much madness had happened. And I think similar to how Baku was, I feel good podium. I think that after all of the toxicity there have been an F one in the couple of weeks leading to Hungary. I think it's going to the summer break with a new race winner. The scenes of our concelebrating obviously parking his car up at the side of the track run down the pit lane, a huge hug with his press officer and everything. It was just really heartening scenes. I think that was a really cool way for everyone to enter at summer break, but the title battle with it completely flipped the picture from a couple of weeks before. Yeah, a max of staff and should have come away from Silverstone Hungary with a lot more than 5 points to show. It's crazy just how things turned around. But it set things up. Again, just so finally for that second half of the season. Can I add in a couple of quick things quick things and hungry? One, I think mistake is generous for Bottas at one there. I think gaff, probably a better word, but actually having because of, as I said in my having some high sports F one, I'm in the background as I was doing my season reviews. Actually, the far greater error was Lance strolls. Bottas is actually a bit unlucky because of the way Norris and Perez come around him. He's got a backs out and you can see things unsettled things and you can kind of understand why a moment or two later. He makes that massive massive gaffe, but stroll's got no excuse. He just absolutely messed. And they've just wipes out these guys, well, I've got to go inside or outside. And if you guys outside he takes out ocon and changes the course of history, but he doesn't go to the inside. He's at such poor driving style there. Anyway, obviously tricky circumstances, but whatever. The other thing there is actually with the benefit of hindsight, we can now look back on this race as a key moment in why Lewis Hamilton lost his championship because yes Fernando Lonzo held him up magnificently in brilliantly and thrillingly to help esman occam win the race because of the speed at which Hamilton was coming back. But also, if Mercedes had got the tire cool right and they weren't the only ones do this all the team sent the cars back out after the red flag on the intermediates, they enjoyed so much because it is extremely hot at that time of year in Hungary when it's not raining. If they'd sent him out and select he wins that race comfortably and they acknowledged afterwards, that was the biggest mistake was not putting the right tyres on there at the start, which meant he wouldn't have maybe he still would have taken the start side over he at least he would have been on the right tires. Okay, and the first part of our 2021, Formula One review on the auto sports podcast, make sure you tune in again.
Strong Opinion Sports
"esteban ocon" Discussed on Strong Opinion Sports
"End up letting botas and Lando through just to you know, he's got to finish the race and didn't want to hold up. A voucher e, Sergio Pettis was back in 64, Red Bull member. Sergio Perez ran wide into the gravel early on the race, trying to pass land in North anyone's lap four or five because there was that restart after the fashion and so later than not only Sergio Perez wipe out and have to kind of lose a lot of ground in the in the field. He also got to 5 Second penalty. So, 10 seconds total of time penalties. Well, defending against Charles LeClaire. Also forcing Charles, LeClaire off wide of the track. So I'm Sergio, Perez, kind of recovered made it to 6. I think should have got V, but had to time, penalties. Lando Norris also got a Time penalty 5 Seconds that happen when Sergio Perez ran wide trying to pass them early on in the race. I did not think I was deserving. I did not believe Lando deserved a penalty there. I thought he should have been more patient. I mean, Sergio Perez. So I guess let me say this if anybody should have been at fault there it was Sergio Perez who I think made a dumb move. You know, not being patient trying to make a move to a quickly and you know should have waited for better opportunity to pass land. Oh, I'm like early in the race. You're like Sergio, why are you making this move right now? Are you trying to catch Max? Like, this is weird and it felt like the wrong time for Sergio to make a move. Try to go around the outside. He ran wide into the gravel. I don't blame landle 4 that I believe in surgery or being impatient. So it was ridiculous. Atlanta got blamed if you ask me, but I still go to say the super cool to see Lando get a Podium. I thought he could have got second if it weren't for that time penalty and whatever else. Who knows? I mean it just interesting right? Like what would have happened if we hadn't had that nonsense to deal with. Now, the battle between McLaren and Ferrari continues. McLaren got 21 points. His language got 15 points and third. Daniel ricciardo got six points in seventh and then Ferrari got seven points on the day. So McLaren got twenty one, seven points behind them, was Ferrari on Sunday, Sans got 5th, place for ten points and Charles LeClaire got four points for eight place. So, fourteen points of the day for a Ferrari 21 points on the day for McLaren. Now, Alpena had a really rough weekend. The French team. Esteban ocon was the only driver on Sunday to retire early, and did not finish the race. Meanwhile, the other Alpine driver Fernando, Alonso time to get screwed over in Q2 of qualifying, he was almost qualified into the top. Ten was going to go to Q3 off. And then at the end of his lap, he ran into a bunch of traffic and Esteban sorry, Sebastian Vettel, Sebastian Vettel in particular gotten his way. So Sebastian Vettel got a bulb.