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Bloomberg Radio New York
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"That rocky rollout this past week for his candidacy. In the newsroom, Denise Pellegrini, this is Bloomberg. All right, let's get you sports and Dan schwarzman Dan, we've got that big, upset as the French Open begins. Yeah, absolutely, Denise, he got into a Roland Garros in Paris, one top ten seat already eliminated, 8 seat of Maria sakari knocked down tree sets by Kelly and machova, notables that do advance around two second seat arena sava lenka, 30 Jessica bagua 90 to Daria 'cause that's kinda. Taking a look at the men draw 11 seated Karen katana of needed 5 sets he slips past constant lest yen 50 stephanos to pass and 7 seat Andre Rublev, needing four sets to move on to round two. Red Bull's Max Verstappen winning a rain soaked Monaco Grand Prix for the second time in his career, Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso finishing second with Esteban ocon of Alpine racing round the at the top three. American Josef Newgarden winning his first Indy 500, the edges out defending champion Marcus Eriksen by the fourth closest margin in 104 years, Santino Ferrucci finishing third in the Premier League gets official and in the final day of the regular season Leicester City and leads united both relegated Lester won the league just 7 years ago. Baseball scoreboard some local teams in action Yankees knocking off the Padres earlier today ten to 7 Baltimore three to two in a Texas and the Red Sox get doubled up by Arizona four to two medicine, 11 and ten loss of Colorado. I'm Dan schwarzman that your Bloomberg world sports update, Brian. Daniel, thanks very much. Well, the time here is coming up on 15 minutes before the top of the hour. We've been squawking about the markets this morning, so let's get a little bit of the pithy comment here from Sofia orteca Bloomberg chief China markets correspondent. So Sophia, when we look at these Hong Kong and China markets, we see a number of issues that seem to be impacting the recovery and the Chinese economy seems to be losing steam a little bit. You've got this ongoing regulatory overhang, somewhat lackluster stimulus coming from policymakers, geopolitics, and maybe last you don't really have any AI champions like you do in the U.S. market. Maybe none of these reasons in itself is all that big of a deal, but it's like the cumulative weight of it is just it's just dragging these markets. How do you see it? Yeah, exactly. The rationale for owning China for owning Hong Kong has really been taking a hit lately. And the key thing right now is the reopening trade. I mean, that was the more straightforward, unemotional, if you will, way to play these markets. And investors are really pegging back their expectations for growth. You know, it wasn't just stocks here, but also European luxury stocks were really rallying on this. It was kind of tight tourism. So the fact that the Chinese consumption recovery is not as good as strong as sustainable as expected, but you also, as you said, rain don't have the PBOC kind of deploying the large scale stimulus that everyone kind of expects when the economy weakens means you don't really have a strong way to play this market either way. And what's interesting is we do have on Wednesday. We'll see the PMIs. We'll see whether the recovery is really not as sustainable as people had hoped. But you're also now starting to hear conversations about credit risks and that's when the market starts panicking. The LG FE that LGE local government financing built vehicle that paid at a very, very last minute. That really spooked markets as well. And you just don't seem to have any champions now. I mentioned AI, but I mean, even if you set that aside and look at ecommerce, the emphasis seems to be on maybe paving the way for some smaller and medium sized companies to join in the spoils and maybe it doesn't look as good for some of the mega caps that we've seen in the past, but do you need champions to kind of drive some enthusiasm? You do need champions. I mean, right now, I'm just looking at my screen now, net eases up 8.5%. So you do have some mega caps that are doing well that are generating that kind of growth that expectations around that have been really, really reduced as well. And China is trying to channel investment into these champions, as you say. AI is a big, big focus. AI especially when it comes to deploying that kind of technology for the military. And also for anything that has to do with competing with the U.S. on chip production and really shielding China's economy economy and innovation from increasingly difficult geopolitical attention it's not just the U.S. but the U.S. is also rallying its allies ASML in the Netherlands to kind of follow suit. But that takes time and channeling investment when the private sector is has lost confidence over the past three years. I was just in Shanghai over the weekend and you still really feel that the impact of COVID is very much still there. Not just COVID, but the regulatory, the punishing regulatory cycle that these companies just went through. So how do you, how do you really channel innovation? It's not just about it's not just about money and funneling funds, but it's also about confidence and that's a lot harder. Is China risking losing confidence of foreign investors? I mean, the confidence trap. It's not just investors. It's also corporates. It's also CEOs. It's also the investors. Very much on the ground. So if you're earnings calls and management's really upbeat, we're starting to get a little bit of that. But it's kind of put your money where your mouth is start investing. There isn't really a strong CAPEX cycle right now. It's very much a let's kind of hold on it and survive. And wait and see. And the wait and see approach from not just a few VOC, obviously. But also corporates and CEOs and the private sector, that doesn't inspire confidence. And to be fair, we didn't really talk about external demand, which may be slowing the global economy. May not be firing in all cylinders. Sophia, thanks, thanks so much for
Bloomberg Radio New York
"ocon" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Dan Schwartzman and Dan. We've got one upset going down. Stay one of the French Open. Yeah, Denise, what are opening round it was Roland Garros and Paris, one top set, ten seat eliminated the 8th seat of Maria sakari knocked down trade sets by Carolina muchova. Notables moving on to the second round, include two seat arena sabalenka, and third sea Jessica pegula in 9th seated Daria kasatkina. In the main draw 11 seed karanka chanoff needed 5 sets to advance past constant west yen while this seat stephanos sits past and 70 Andre Rublev both needed four sets to move on to the second round. Final day the Premier League season both Leicester City and Leeds United relegated lest of being sent down just 7 years after having won the league. Elsewhere league winners Manchester City lose to Brentford one nil arsenal dominates Wolverhampton 5 to one Chelsea Newcastle and in a one all draw Manchester United slipping past full of two to one Liverpool and Southampton ended a four old draw while Tottenham beats up on leads four to one Harry Kane scoring a brace. Red Bull's Max Verstappen winning a rain soaked Monaco Grand Prix for the second time in his career, Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso finishes second with Esteban ocon of Alpine racing rounding out the top three. Meanwhile American Josef Newgarden wins his first Indy 500, the edges out defending champion Marcus Eriksen on the fourth closest margin in a 104 years. Baseball scoreboard games currently ongoing local teams bottom 9 Houston ten Oakland one, bottom of the 8th Boston getting doubled up in Arizona, four to two earlier Yankees, they win at home over San Diego ten to 7. I'm Dan schwarzman that your Bloomberg world sports update, Brian. All right, thanks very much Dan, the time 16 minutes here before the top of the hour. Let's say good morning to Barbara Ann Bernard, chief investment officer at wind crust, capital. I say good morning because we're here in Asia looking at futures moving higher this morning, Barbara. And so trying to get a reading here on the sentiment in the session in the marketplace as we get going today. It seems like we'll have a little better than sentiment better than average sentiment given the debt ceiling deal tentatively achieved. But then it looks like the odds of a fed rate hike are moving up. So net net, where do we go from here? Well, thanks for having me, Brian. It's always a pleasure. Your guess is as good as mine. It's an incredibly tricky time right now. The market that I find most perplexing is Hong Kong. I notice your futures are flat. And I wish they were up. We've got a lot of exposure to those markets. But as you say, the NASDAQ indicating a 0.5% and the S&P is also cheering this debt ceiling, but the idea that we'll have some great sustained rally because of it is sort of laughable to me because markets haven't sold off going into it. So you can actually make the argument that you want to buy the rumor and sell the news here. How much of the moment Barbara is the market being dictated to not so much by fundamentals and indeed news you just mentioning, but about structure in many ways and how that structure at the moment is involved with let's say liquidity perhaps being very much a part of it. Thank you, Rashad. That's a wonderful question. I was reflecting that I think my generation might be the last two invested in fundamentals because the last 15 years has really been driven by liquidity and narratives. So you look at the race and the AI and that just seems like the next bubble. And if you get in early enough, you can make a lot of money, but then get out. So I don't know how to play the narrative games. I mean, I'm a value investor, Sir John templeton trained at heart. So if everyone's going left, I tend to look right and that's what Sam zell bless his whole always did. And so the things that when I sit back, what's more attractive than cash right now, which you're earning 5% risk free, it has to be what starved for capital. And when I really step back this weekend and thought about it, you know, I had raised 25% cash in my funds and one of my funds I can do private investments. And all three pre IPL opportunities that all filed their S ones. They all thought they were going public in Q four of last year. All three of them didn't. Because the market sold off, all three of them thought they would in Q one Q two. And then when the banking crisis arose, they were advised by their bankers to hold off. These are wonderful companies that we know really well. And what they need now because they're going to market potentially a year. 15, 18 months later, is capital. And of course that's the one thing that's not available. So I suddenly thought about, well, what's the highest and best use for my cash right now? It's probably backing those companies. It's the one place where I can handle my heart, say, this is going to yield a better return than cash or the equity market in the next 12 months. Very good on paper, but you know, there isn't as much transparency in private markets. And I wonder whether or not it's almost a riskier bet, you know, going into a period where we don't know whether or not we might tumble into recession or whether we skate through. I'm sure you've considered that and you like the probabilities, but you have to admit that the transparency is not so much there in private equity. Agreed, Brian, unless you've done an enormous amount of work on these companies, right? I know them very, very, very well. This is a timing problem. The company hasn't done anything wrong. The only reason they're not going to market is the IPO markets are shut and that's beyond their control. So is that sort of something you can take advantage of if you have a longer term horizon. And what I'm saying is it's harder and harder to make money on if you have a month to month view on what's the fed going to do. Are we raising rates? Is the debt ceiling? None of that really matters if you have an 18 month view and can look back on what the opportunity was at that moment. And what I'm saying is the opportunity is always what people are afraid to do. So I appreciate that you might not have the transparency you might not have a liquidity, but if I look at the markets this year
The Autosport Podcast
"ocon" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"There's that greater stability. It's still at a very early stage. And Hamilton Lewis and George Russell as well, to an extent. But Hamilton was probably more vocal of the two about it. Probably didn't find it the easiest car to drive around Monaco. And part of that, I think, is just having all of these new components and you're not really able to tune them in properly. You kind of have to run what you brung, really. And when we get to Barcelona, particularly next weekend, because it's such a it's a circuit that everybody knows well. It is somewhere that is a much more traditional Formula One circuit. There's going to be lots of opportunities in practice and things like that to actually try things out. In practice in Monaco, it's all about trying not to put it in the wall and find confidence for a qualifying lap. And race runs are pretty secondary to that. So I think it's an encouraging start, for sure, with all of these updates. As you say, the side pods are the big ticket item there. But there are changes elsewhere down the car. As I say, with suspension, a little bit of floor and that sort of thing, just because these new parts need to complement each other and sticking new side pods onto a car on its own isn't necessarily going to do a whole lot. It might hinder you more than anything else. Well, let's have a look at who else was a hero today and who was more of a zero. Well, look, I mean, I want to say amazing Fernando Alonso, obviously third, second place on the group. Say amazing for Esteban Ocon in that Alpine and Gastly as well. You know, Alpine senior management there have been very unhappy with how the season's gone so far, piling pressure on the team. But that's a that's a brilliant, brilliant result today. Not great for Lance Stroll in the second, Aston Martin down in 14th. Pretty bad for Haas in their 150th race, wasn't it? Yes, this weekend in 17th and 18th for Magnussen and Hulkenberg. That's pretty forgettable. Bottas doing all right in 15th and Joe down in 19th. Of course, Perez, like I say, in last place with a lot of work to do. I mean, plenty of so I've not looked at the kind of results, the news of that. And if you've heard anything, but that's, you know, two two sides of the car to rebuild or two corners to rebuild and maybe a gearbox and floor even look like it took a whack as well. So that's a big old job tonight and tomorrow for the engineers. Yeah, I think that's pretty much pretty much sums up where we are. Who haven't we mentioned? De Vries in the second AlphaTauri, great for Sonoda, Nick De Vries down in 12th. I think you should be pretty happy with that. What they can do on Sunday afternoon, though. Well, it's Monaco, so it's going to be a bit of a procession. But we know there's going to be safety cars, virtual safety cars, maybe a red flag. How's the weather? I've not looked at that. What's it look pretty nice today on the tele coverage? Is it going to be the same again? Or could that throw a curve ball? And have you looked at the forecast in where we are at the moment? It reckons around race time of about three o 'clock. Eighty percent chance of rain, whether that's reliable or not. That is what we'll find out tomorrow. For sure, we're going to have to look out the window and see. But even if it's wet or dry, we've got a lot of cars kind of. Maybe you'd consider them out of position. A lot of different cars in different places. Keep your fingers crossed. Keep your toes crossed and hopefully we'll have a classic. Yeah, I think that's probably going to be Fernando Alonso's strategy tomorrow. That if he is clearly a second going into the first corner, just to follow Max Verstappen and look after the car, look after the tyres and then wait and see. Maybe Max will pit first and Alonso can put in a few stunning laps. I don't think that's going to happen. I think Max is going to try and have it all covered off. But, you know, people can pit at a certain time and then somebody just hits randomly the wall and it throws it all up in the air. I can't wait to see. Thank you so much for joining us on the podcast today. Of course, tune in on Sunday for our big old Monaco review sometime on Sunday night, Monday. Look out for our Indy 500 review with our man Charles Bradley and Mandy Curry, who are both at the event. I can't wait to talk to them about the Indy 500. If you're watching both events tomorrow, what a treat for motorsport fans tomorrow. Thanks for listening and we'll see you on the next one. Sports social podcast network.
The Autosport Podcast
"ocon" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"Your life. You can find a piece as classic as she is. Right now, get up to 50% off Mother's Day gifts at blue Nile dot com, blue Nile dot com. I welcome back to the podcast. So yeah, the big standout drive JBL for Kevin Magnussen in-house. Great first bank a lot. Did it on used soft, I think, as well. And the hassle be really happy. Let's be let's be honest, the outright pace of that has is not going to keep them in that position. But a starting fourth, look, that is just a brilliant feel good story for them to sleep on overnight on Saturday into Sunday. But what can Hass realistically do? Can they target a top ten? What do you think? I think they're very confident about actually, and they've come into the weekend with a brand new floor. The performance over the practice sessions has been really, really good. There was a point in Q two where both Magnussen and hulkenberg were ready to progress in Q three. Unfortunately, it didn't quite work out like that. Hulkenberg just kind of missed the boats by the end of that session, but Magnussen got himself in. He's looked super impressive all weekend and again as we talk about getting something on the board just in case something bad happens, Magnussen executed that perfectly. And it has sort of shades of Brazil last year of being in the right place at the right time and completely making the most of it. Back to some did admit that maybe he did get a little bit lucky with regards to getting P four and I think most people would probably agree. But yeah, Hass has been really, really strong this weekend. It's home race. And it's great to see. I think that there are definitely a prospect for the top ten because Mercedes looks like it's struggled in qualifying, which I'm sure get into. McLaren, I think we are probably expecting to do better with regards to their new updates, but again, struggles in qualifying and to break out Q one. So you're going to have that sort of lower points battle between maybe the alpines and the houses and maybe a few cars that are a little bit resurgent battery Bottas as well in the Alfa Romeo was impressive. So we've got a good battle, I think, between some of these cars and there could be some big points on offer because there's the propensity to make mistakes. And we've seen that throughout the weekend so far. And so if Magnuson and hulkenberg two very dependable drivers can do their jobs and just keep the car in one piece and do what they need to do, then big rewards could really be on offer. Nico hulkenberg's looked properly quick at times this weekend. As well. So McLaren, you mentioned them, Lando Norris 16th, Oscar piastre, 19th, where are the alpines? Oh look, Pierre gasly in 5th and Esteban ocon in 8th I wonder. I'll scoop your street is feeling. I'm sure fine. It's a long-term project, et cetera, et cetera, all those usual things that we hear from Formula One teams. They have bought back Gilles de Ferrand, the very famous name in racing work with McLaren before, but we get that news coming out of McLaren over this weekend that he will join them for at least one year to support Andreas Stella in the team, but they need, well, McLaren need something to analyze where it's going wrong. So yeah, the alpines did pretty well, as you say, Bottas in tenth also great for Alfa Romeo. So now that he's got that in Q three, that's every team has now appeared in Q three so far. This season, which I think is a nice stacked account of those that say F one 2023 is a little bit boring as the rules converge. AlphaTauri's a quick mention Nick de vries. Again, at times you've been doing all right. He just needs a clean weekend really negative in 15th and Yuki tsunoda in 17th, the two Williams chamber homeboy, Logan sergeant, less than 20 miles away from the track. He's where he was born, so probably fantastic to have friends and family there, but not a great result today, Alex Albon again. It's a great season. And 11th and hopefully can do something and hold his position as well as he can from there. Let's finish off with talking about the Mercedes then that's the I think that's the big story that is more longer term probably. Toto Wolff said this, it is the lack of comprehension of what is wrong that makes this car such a nasty piece of work. The car is not a good car. There are problems everywhere with the base performance of the car and the lack of understanding of the car. It is not acceptable. I mean, he's clearly venting there and in a calmer moment he might be a bit more pragmatic or management speak, but JBL Mercedes, where is it where is it going wrong in terms of is this just a Miami specific thing or are they really struggling to understand this car? Well, according to my colleagues who went to that Mercedes press conference, toto wolf wanted to originally say something a little bit stronger about the car, but he settled on a nasty piece of work. And it's getting to a point now where the team is no longer talking quite so much about, oh, we can make this car a little bit better and we just need to do this. So if we do this and we get this right, there just seems to be this sort of complicit agreement now that it's getting to a point where they're going to just say is irredeemable and there's everything that we throw at it. We just can't seem to get it to work. And when they came into the season, they were like, okay, right, we've managed to sort of sort out the bouncing in the car that was so prevalent last year. George Russell has now come out and said, well, we're having bouncing again this weekend. Balance has been really, really poor. And this comes after Russell and Hamilton were one two in FP one. And it seemed that when there was very limited grip, they seemed to be able to switch it on, but as the grip improved, they were going backwards. And they're not entirely sure why. And we heard Russell's radio over the course of the weekend. I think he mentioned it in FP two, and he mentioned it in FP three as well. When he was coming through turn two, the car was kind of jockeying and he felt like he was almost on three wheels because when you have a fast change of direction from one into two, when the car loads in a different direction, it doesn't seem to quite respond on the other side to the point that they need it to. So they're kind of really, really struggling to work with it. Russell did manage to make it into Q two Q three. And he did quite a decent job there. He was what P 6, which is a good return given the struggles they had, but Lewis Hamilton obviously missing out in Q two. You know, he loves coming to American races. He's the most successful Formula One driver at U.S. based events. And he's just
The Autosport Podcast
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"Should have a fair understanding of the rules as well, which they haven't in this case and I know the FAA will point to what is someone in charge of the gate or whatever has slipped up and allowed to straight, but there should have been clearer instruction. And when you have MBS, it's not the entirety of the FIA, but here's the public facing figure. When you have him, instead going right, well, we need to make sure the thermal underwear and the no studs are in order. And then I get something that could have had dire consequences exist. When they get that so wrong, it's such a bad look. And the FIA don't need any help in making themselves look bad at the moment. You know, you have to feel sorry for the people that are working behind the scenes. It's one case after another of incorrect penalties of Abu Dhabi, whatever of three red flags and how it's handled, but it's just really, really inexcusable. And so again, to conflate other things, but you get the cost cap, right? And the fine is with Red Bull is about so that the FIA can restart and better resource itself and whatever. And so we've had that and we've had the great and this is one of the things that MBS has said is that the FY is underfunded. We need to bring in more so we can improve our governance. And then something as fundamental to the basic is this. So the memo hasn't got through or we're trying to rush protocol. Yeah, it's a big deceleration into the pit zone. But I believe rock on has time to react and even with the pit lane speed a to kilometer slowing down, whatever. But it could have been just really, really gross. So if it had gone through that barrier, it would look like in testing when they carrying around one of those aerodynamic measuring devices sort of hanging off the side of the car. It was just really unpleasant. And when you get a broadcaster coming away, calling it a shambles and which there are absolutely right to. No one comes away from it looking good. But it's all again sort of aimed at the FII. A bit muddled, but it was just so it was so dumb, I think it comes back to the basic understanding of if the broadcasters and us as the audience can see what's coming because of how the rules are interpreted and apply, then the rule maker should have that same understanding of how the rules are interpreted and applied. And you can bet that the person who in charge of the gate has a walkie talkie on them, a mobile phone, or, you know, there's a slew of people hanging around in the blue trousers with the FIA embroidered shirt that people around. It only takes a bit of communication to go, okay, maybe we have been a bit fortunate in other races where we've opened a barriers 90 seconds earlier. It's fine, but it was so easy to see what's coming out of him when they're even not fighting for a point. They're not going to get themselves disqualified. You knew he was going to pit, and they should have been better communication over that. It was really, really shocking. Yeah, I don't know whether it was on Ted's notebook on sky or as part of the coverage or he said at some point that there's two gates that open onto the bit line. One of them was all the photographers and they were allowed on. He was behind the other one, where all the team guests and team VIPs and things that are allowed on to go and you know, you get those shots of everyone cheering at the underneath the podium, and he said that he told that security guard don't open this door. There's more pit stops to happen. So you've got the pit lane reporter for a satellite broadcaster, telling the security guard, no, don't open this gate. That's not the way it should be. A shambolic is the right word for it. There should just be no room for this to happen. And as weird as this is going to sound, I think Esteban ocon needed to make his mandatory pit stop is actually irrelevant in this because if ocon didn't have to make that mandatory stop, that wouldn't have made this acceptable. This was unacceptable. And it's probably something that happens 99% of the time, but of course, like here and Alex Alban in Australia last year, it's highlighted because of that last stop on the last lap. Realistically, I assuming that their logic is as soon as Sergio Pérez starts lap 51 at that point it's go go go in terms of setting things up, but that's completely missing the fact that everyone else is still on lap 50. Let's hypothetically speaking here, we saw Joe guanyu retire not too far from the end. What if that had happened on lap 50? He'd he'd be coming down the pit lane in the same way that Esteban ocon would have been, right? And there's no reason why, you know, in terms of going to retire the car, there's no reason why that wouldn't happen on that last lap or the penultimate lap compared to 20 laps beforehand. It's just as likely to happen. So espanol wasn't even the last car it was P 9 at the time, which means you've still got half the grid behind him that could also go down the pit lane. It just feels to me that as soon as as soon as every single car is onto the last lap of the race, at that point they can be considered not live or not active in terms of the pit lane. But if you've got anyone who is on the penultimate lap of their race, if they're not on the lead lap, they are still an active live car that could go down the pit lane at any moment. It is their prerogative, their decision, and it's ridiculous. I agree with your words matter in terms of the language from the FIA was very direct, which I appreciate it on it. The one thing I did pick up from that statement that I didn't think that kind of raised my eye was how they specifically look at photographers in the fast lane as the reason for this investigation. At least from my perspective and I'm not quite sure exactly what they're defining as fast lane, but if you've got the photographers just to the right hand side, really the Russell line into the pits if we call it. Is that any more acceptable if they're there? I just think for the sake of a couple of minutes of not wasting time, but just a couple minutes in terms
The Autosport Podcast
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"There is an argument that there's not a lot that you always nothing they can do about Aston Martin developing their way into a good position. But yeah, where do you see Alpine and McLaren making that? But having just said that, who could have predicted what Aston were going to do. So it is possible. And I think it's really interesting talking to some of the members of the team, particularly some of you guys down at Williams. They're actually inspired by seeing what Aston have done because it's like right. This is possible. It's a good story for Formula One and it's a good story for a lot of the teams. It's just ultimately, you know, it's the prize money thing, right? They're going to end up not doing as well because they haven't done good enough job. I'm going to get into that. Next, take a quick break and I'm going to dig into that a little bit more about what we should be expecting to see teams doing this year. Stick around back in a second. All right, let's talk about that. At the point, Alex just made teams being inspired by Aston Martin, revealed a car a year ago that was second slowest and by the middle of the season had a new development path and were on their way. And yet multiple times when I've asked people about Mercedes since the beginning of this year, I'm often told how Mercedes is going to dig themselves out of the Maya and people often say, well, in a cost cap era, that's really difficult. So those two things can't be true, Aston Martin did it in a cost cap era and didn't break the cost cap. So Mercedes should be able to do it. They've got a team of people that know how to win. Well, championships am I being a bit too simplistic? Only because astin made its major gain over a winter, like it did make significant gains in 2022, like I said, Phil, we're about to go after Melbourne, and I remember watching FP three with Andrew van leeuwen and Sebastian Vettel which has binned it because there was no down force and it was porpoising horrifically. And the car was just slow. They had made significant gains. They were up there a threat to the podium positions on merit in Austin and things like that. They would as well inconsistent. But then they had the new car coming behind. And that's really where they've made their game. So I take the point, I do take the point, but that is not quite the same comparison. Okay. Okay. So while the teams can do it, they can do an Aston over the next year or 18 months. It just refreshing to see this narrative of the cost cap has baked in this advantage for the big teams and the small teams will never be able to make a big step. I think that's been dispelled and I think that's really encouraging for Formula One. Let's look at I'm not giving a full rundown. Apologies listeners. A terrible podcast host. I should do that at the beginning of the podcast every week. You know Sergio Pérez won from Max Verstappen and Fernando Alonso, who is back on the podium. George Russell Lewis Hamilton, science and leclerc in 6th and 7th, then ocon and gastly all going two by two and Kevin Magnussen in the house. Yuki tsunoda was just outside the point. He was inside the points, but he was 11th Nico hulkenberg 12th. Zhou guang yu in 13th Nick de vries in the AlphaTauri 14th Oscar piastre got past Logan sergeant finish 15th legan sergeant 16th, which I still think a good drive though, by the way, we get into that. And Lando Norris 17th Valtteri Bottas, classified 18th. Let me talk a little bit about McLaren, the Williams and that back end of the grade with AlphaTauri teams that are not where they should be or teams that are probably quite happy with how they're doing. McLaren couldn't pass. Well, okay, so Lando Norris in a McLaren couldn't pass a Williams, even with DRS. That actually panic stations at McLaren. Well, whether it's team orders and piastre got past him, he did get past Logan sergeant. Eventually. But Kev, this is, this is a difficult Monday morning to wake up to at McLaren, isn't it? Yeah, but they were kind of expecting weren't they? We talked about this after Bahrain that they were quite pleased because they thought it was going to be even worse than it was. And they got a load of updates coming. So I think they'll be encouraged by piastres performance in qualifying. I think we now can see that he is for whatever reason to step up from Ricardo in the second car. Obviously Landau had a little mistake in qualifying, which had big consequences, so he was kind of out of it from there. I was not like carrying a problem. Why did they switch the cars around? If Lando's the number one. Can I just jump in very, very quickly? It wasn't a little mistake, Kev. You didn't beat in the car. But it was a poor mistake. It was important. A little fire, a little size mistake, but it was bad from land. I think, and I know he reads my driver ratings. He should be very lucky that he's not being rated on qualifying this season now. Okay, so I think panic stations at McLaren more so than I ever ever have done based on today's you run. I mean, by which I mean the reason why not the 80s. Early 90s. I don't think there was many panic stations during that era. But yeah, I'm still not yet. Let's get to some more normal tracks. I don't think it's going to be quite as terrible as it looks at the moment. Don't forget they both had incidents on the first lap. They weren't down the back on Lando's end yet because you hit the wall and then you had to come in and get his nose changed and pastry was just, was he unlucky? I think it was just one of those unfortunate things that at that corner is possible to get a little bit squeezed and he just did with the Alpine. So yeah, unfortunate more at the start there for McLaren than any sort of shock reason for them being back there.
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"Second round and he's getting penalties already. But they seemed quicker, at least a day, does this track suit the Ferraris more than Bahrain, are they going to be hopeful for Sunday? It should do with regards to tyre wear because this is something that's been a bugbear Ferraris for a little while now and they're not so great at managing the tyres and Bahrain really exacerbates that and it really magnifies that issue, particularly just because the tarmac is so abrasive the tarmac and Jeddah isn't anywhere near like that. So with regards to tyre wear and that kind of thing, it shouldn't affect Ferrari quite so much. But they were honestly a little bit surprised to be second in qualifying. And you know, without Verstappen's issue, yeah, it would have been P three, but that's still a good effort, nonetheless, to be a tenth and a half away from Perez's ultimate time. It does take that penalty, but he thinks that a podium again is very much possible. Leclerc said, you know, it's more possible for Carlos Sainz than it is for him, but it's something that Ferrari feels that it's achievable. And it knows that it's better with regards to race pace over qualifying, which I think is another contributing factor to why they were slightly surprised. But yeah, it's not all doom and gloom at Ferrari. Bahrain was a difficult round for them with regards to reliability and with tire wear. And they've been really behind the 8 ball so far this weekend, you know, the Ferraris haven't been really factoring at the top of the time sheets. There is the suspicion that they were perhaps running their engines quite detuned because they were just losing so much time in the straight lines in practice, but in qualifying, yeah, they seem to be much, much better in much better shape. And yeah, we'll see how they get on tomorrow if they can fight for a podium. If they can find something over Alonso that maybe Alonso had over them in Bahrain, we'll have to wait and see. Yeah, let's hope that Ferrari power unit is robust, they're not de rating it or anything because it was still good. Some decent performances at times for Hass now from over the weekend as well. So we'll wait and see on that in terms of that midfield battle when we thought we were going to be talking about Aston Alpine McLaren. Things are working out a little bit different this year with Aston Martin's progress, Alpine line up with ocon in 6th and gasly in 9th. Bahrain was a weird one because we saw ghastly making progress through the field ocon collecting time penalty. So I feel like we haven't really just had a chance to see them start where they should do and then progress from there. Is that where you expected them to be? This is probably a little bit more in line with what they promised as a team, perhaps over the off season. The car has been really, really strong. And it does seem quite wayward. So I was down one, two, and then it turns 22 and 23 on Friday. You could see the red balls going through the Aston Martins going through really, really, really stable. The Alpine looked a little bit all limbs kind of all a little bit wayward. It just seemed to produce the lap time where it needed to. To see gasly and knock on, up there, it's not it's probably where it should be given the progress that it's made. Ocon did have a little bit of a moment where he very nearly lost the current qualifying. And just about managed to keep it on the road. That was an issue that he had to face and he had to deal with, but it was a very, really strong performance from our pain. They'd looked really strong all weekend. So it's not a surprise given the context of the weekend to see them up there doing quite so well. Well, Oscar piastre and Lando Norris had both a little sniff of the wall this weekend. Oscar piastre getting away with it and in his second qualifying for McLaren, starting 8th on the road. Lando Norris down in 19th I had to retire him. Can you explain what happened to Lando Norris and if we heard from piastre afterwards as well? He must be made up. Let's be honest, it was sonoris fault there. He just got a little bit too overeager with trying to take the apex into the turn 27, which is the final corner. And just clip the wall when you do that, when you clip a concrete wall with your front left tyre, you're going to break something. And you could see that sort of tire wiggle where the suspension was just broken. And there was no chance of getting him back out in time. So that ended Norris session pretty much immediately. He'd managed to get at a lap in and this was his going to be a second lap that was a bit stronger, but unfortunately he wasn't able to clock that. Bias tree was really, really strong. And it was really good to see him in his first race doing such a first season doing such a good job given the difficulties that he endured in Bahrain. He did say that he was very, very careful when it came to Jared because he has raced at the circuit before in formula two. He's won here twice back when formula two was doing three races a weekend for some unknown reason. But he hasn't raced here for over a year. So he was slowly trying to build up for it. Slowly get used to it because it's such a difficult circuit for a rookie to deal with. But he was getting more and more comfortable. The lap time just seemed to come for him. And ultimately, yeah, he did a really, really good job. McLaren still knows that it's behind and it still has a lot of work to do with regards to its concept and development, but that really difficult Bahrain. The picture doesn't seem so bad now. And realistically, Norris probably should have been in Q three as well, given his pace in practice sessions. Maybe you've got a couple of tents on pediatric as well. So you would have to expect both of them to be in on had things been a little bit normal. Norris sort of given maybe a little bit of a quarter there in Q one. Yeah, people were quick to write off McLaren bottom of the constructors after the first round, but we haven't seen them do a full event yet, so a normal weekend. So this could be it. JBL, thank you very much. It's late here, which means it's very late for you. I appreciate you coming on the podcast. Thank you for that. We look forward to. Hearing more from you. This season. That is your podcast for today. I'll finish off Nico hulkenberg in tenth, Zhou guang knew in 11th, Charles Clarke 12th as I mentioned, Kevin Magnussen and his ass in his 13th place Valtteri Bottas is 14th, followed by Max Verstappen 15th, three places behind Charles Leclerc, big action last year. They won't be doing the dance for the DRS activation line because that's been moved till after the apex boo spoiling our fun, but they will be on a similar piece of the track as they both make their way through the field. A UK Samoa 16th Alex Alban in the Williams 17th Nick de vries in the AlphaTauri 18th Lando 19th, as we mentioned in Logan sergeant 20th. That is your lineup for Sunday. Thank you for listening to the podcast. And we'll catch you tomorrow. Podcast network.
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"It's probably a two part thing of the long term situation is probably a brand new car four 2024. And then do what they can with their current concept and they've talked about a new side pod design and a few other things that will be changed for imola, which is in mid May when they're sort of the first big upgrades everyone's expected to live will be coming. So yes, they are where they are. They've been very honest and open about they haven't met expectations within themselves. They thought if they could get on top of the poor person and I'm trying to unlock the performance they believe was there in last year's car and this is car that they could be, yeah, fighting for world championships, but they've got to where they are currently with this W 14 and did just whether it's the data, whether it's correlation, it's just not adding up and it has never added up to what they expected. So yeah, some pretty harsh and brutal on home truths and honesty has come from the team and I think they're preparing for a changing of concepts and changing ways because it's just not worked. Wow. Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised to see a B spec car. Sometime around Silverstone this year as they clearly have said, hey, you know, we tried it. We tried our best. But this is not the way, not the way to go. A team who did, I think, show well. If you look at the actual times, the progress made through the race, ignoring penalties and stuff like that. If you sift through the data, a team who had reason to be happy in Bahrain, you wouldn't think so, is Alpine two cars in the top 6 in free practice today. Any news coming through from them, they're going to bring some upgrades quite regularly. Any news on that, or is this a sign of the inherent place in the car? What do you think? Yeah, so nothing in terms of a significant upgrade for this weekend, which is by and large the case for most of the teams because it's so close to the opening race. There's bits and pieces, but nothing too too drastic. But you're right. I think the real pain maybe is showing up this time around. They had in no one certain times a bit of a shocker in Bahrain. Whereby gasly just didn't get qualifying, hooked up was out in Q one, back road to grid. Whereas ocon qualified well, but he had very much a race to forget picking up penalties like their sweeties. And therefore, he dropped out the points and eventually they retired the car, whereas gasoline fought his way up to the point, but gasly saying that speaking on Thursday, like you said, they had to look at the data, they looked to where the cars and the traces were going. They thought if they had a clean weekend in Bahrain, they could challenge Mercedes or give them give them a headache, which instantly puts them sort of, as we know, 6th, 7th place. Or maybe just behind them, which on reflection of where they are at the moment in Saudi, early days of course, is probably where we'd expect them to be going on going on the practice pace. So yeah, if they can have a clean weekend and extract the full potential of their car, which is pretty much what the team said at the end of the Bahrain Grand Prix of knowing like, right, this isn't really us. Then yeah, they probably will be the fourth or 5th quickest car on the grid. So yeah, let's wait and see, they've still got to get through qualifying in the race, but yeah, if they show their full potential, I think they'll be, they'll be fighting for the point, definitely. And finally, a quick word on Williams actually, I thought I'd pick them out to just talk to talk about rather. Alex Albon finishing just over a second off the pace of Max Verstappen today and Logan Sargent ahead of drivers like Oscar piastre, ahead of Valtteri Bottas. So William's not bringing up the rear today in free practice. Actually, with Saudi, it's a fast flowing track. They said their car could be good on some circuits this year. This should be one of them. Any news coming out of Williams and how this could be a good circuit for them. That's right, yeah. The circuit should suit their car characteristics. Albania was 14th nephew two, but he, his fastest lap was set on the mediums, whereas everyone else managed to get their fast lap down on the softs, which is a bit of an anomaly, so you could definitely give him a few tents in hand to move him up the order and that puts him just on the edge of the point where he was for Bahrain. And yeah, I think you have to think you're right. Again, if they have a clean weekend and qualify well, there's a chance that Alban in particular can be fighting for that sort of just outside and just the top ten is sort of where they would be aiming. It is a definite tough ask for rookie Logan sergeant. He has experienced around this track in F two, but obviously this is a different sort of challenge. He didn't he didn't do too badly. And granted his Bahrain debut in F one was, I think, the most people's expectations. I think he quitted himself very, very well. So yeah, give him a chance to see how he does. I'm always sort of keen to see how he does compared to the other two rookies for this year, which is piastre and de vries. They've all got varying experience, let's say, in terms of their junior careers and such. But given where their teams are, they're all they seem to be fairly well matched in terms of how the seasonal go. So keeping that sort of little battle between those three going. And he's acquitted himself, I think, very well. So yeah, give him a charge. It might be a bit more difficult for say sergeant to fight for the points and match albums performances. Over these first few rounds, but yeah, they've got the package to hopefully do something quite exciting this weekend. Absolutely. All right, well, thank you very much for your rundown of the Friday action once again. The big stories on auto sport dot com, which is where you should be heading to, if you are a subscriber to also support plus a reminder we have all our wonderful long reads and in depth articles on the plus section of the website as well. And it should be your first port of call for the
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"Out and we get to see some of the quicker lap times you can't always get an overall read of who is quickest, but it was a Max Verstappen, clean, sweep. In free practice to on the quick runs Verstappen posting a one 29 6 O three. In second, Alonso, in the Aston Martin, a one 29 8 one one. And the second Red Bull of Sergio Pérez, a one 29 9 O two. Joining us on the podcast today to discuss what's going on today's action and the big stories from auto sport dot com is the editor of our website Hayden Cobb. Welcome back to the podcast. You're doing all right. Hello, thanks for having me back again, yeah. I'm doing well. How are you? Good, yeah, good. No, we love having you on because we can talk about what happened today, but also what our listeners and readers of the website have been clicking on. So, you know, we can put the agenda together, but ultimately, it's our audience that dictate what they find interesting. So it's always good to go through with you the biggest articles on the website. But let's talk a little bit about today's free practice. Are you and the team, of course, have been covering that for our readers. It was Verstappen Alonso Perez, like I mentioned, then ocon in the Alpine. Then Russell and gasoline in the top 6 then stroll in the other Aston Martin, Nico hulkenberg and then leclerc and saints. So let's get into it, but first of all, can you tell us about the story we were running earlier this week about why Max Verstappen arrived to the circuit late? That's right. Yeah, it was a bit of an odd one to see all 19 drivers apart from the reigning world champion in the paddock on Thursday morning, but it turns out just happened to have been suffering with a stomach bug. A tummy bug I think is the exact phrase Red Bull used to describe it, which is quite cute. We can read through the lines. We can yeah, and yeah, I mean, I think we've all probably been there at some stage in our lives and it's never fun and so to get on a long haul flight from his Monaco home to Saudi Arabia, I think the other passengers that may have been sharing that flight with him would actually be thanking him for not getting on that flight if he wasn't feeling so well. So he missed all of his Thursday activities with the media and usually with his team. But it didn't work out to be too much of a problem for him in the end because with the late start in Saudi Arabia due to the night race, he basically could catch up with his team Friday morning when he was feeling much better. And yes, as you said about the Friday practice, he topped both sessions so I don't think he was feeling too unwell given the circumstances. And if people are watching the highlights or our listeners end up watching some of today or over the weekend, they'll pick up on some track changes. No, it changed from 21 to 22. Some people are saying that when we first saw it in 2021, this track was downright dangerous with very little runoff area, driving next to the walls, the highest speed circuit in the world. And because of the fast sweeping curvy nature of it, no sightlines, so you could come around the corner and just come across a car. That changed from year one to year two, what's happened as we go back to Saudi Arabia with the track changes. Yeah, that's right. So it is pretty much more of the same in broad strokes, but predominantly it's moving walls back from certain areas of the track. So turn for, for example, walls be moved back by 7 and a half meters, and it turned 20 5 meters. Just to provide a bit more runoff, obviously, and having the walls less so encompassing. Some of the banking and the kerbs have been changed, partly for either grip levels or sight lines, as you mentioned earlier. All in the name of making the circuit safer, I think it's probably given because of the high speed nature of the track is probably the most dangerous track on the F one calendar currently, we're sort of seeing how Vega shapes up in fairness later this year because no one really knows what that looks like in reality. The combination of that high speed blind corners and what particularly in practice and what we're seeing qualifying tomorrow is, yeah, you have cars going on the slow laps building up their tire temperatures, et cetera and those already on push laps, which is obviously not what you have on during the race situation. So you have cars going slower that will either be on the racing line, which is generally narrow or off it just close to it with cars coming up behind them. And there was as it's been the case for every year since we've been Saudi Arabia, countless incidents of drivers race engineers speakers of saying, well, watch out for another driver behind you approaching fast and sometimes the message doesn't come across quickly enough and you have a lot of near misses. Thankfully, we have, I don't think we've ever really had a proper or any sort of incident. There's been plenty of near misses, but no sort of clashes and certainly there were none today, but you do sort of feel that there's only probably a matter of time before something like that happens. But the other problem is how do you avoid it? How do you solve it? The only real suggestion that that would sort of permanently do it is have a minimum lap time that all drivers must adhere to and keep that high enough where you don't have those great differences in speed between a car on a qualifying lap and a car on a preparation. And I was watching the formula two practice this morning while I was just sort of doing some other jobs. I'm not glued to F two practice week in week out. I love motor sport, but you know I had it on whilst I was also doing some other stuff, but there was a red flag at the end of that. I think from memory, it was called deal. Who spun. Coming out of 13. A sort of a snap oversteer moment. Spun it, ended up sideways on the track, and of course the yellow flags came out, and I think I don't know who was coming up just behind, maybe one of the primers or something. But quick thinking, but on a different day, that could have easily been, he put his hands up, instinctively, to the side of his helmet. That could easily have been a T bone incident. And it wasn't.
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"I think there is going to be a case of on this bit on this basis at least it's going to be tracked by track, I think. And Matt's already mentioned the pace that Aston has got in those very, very low speed corners. You take that to somewhere like Monaco, for example, imagine what we could be in for it. Alonzo can get a good qualifying lap on the go. You know, that could be something. But I think there is a clear advantage that Ferrari's got in a slightly quicker sections of the circuit. And leclerc was very, very quick and qualifying as well. And that's something that Ferrari does kind of take as a good omen. Frederick Vassar was, it wasn't willing to kind of, let's say, get to book down in the negatives, even though it was a very, very difficult day. The fact remains that, you know, look how I was still what three tenths off of the stapling qualifying. And that's something that, you know, race by race, venue by venue that can change and Ferrari can still be in the hunt. I don't think it's going to be the doom and gloom that Russell is predicting where Red Bull would theoretically win all 23 races. I think Ferrari still got something there. And I think they've got something about them and I think it's just a case of getting on top of whatever reliability issues of kind of reared their head. Again, that does kind of skew things a little bit today. I think at the moment Ferrari is probably still on balance the second quickest. But again, as I say, race by race, that can change and there will be days or Aston Martin had just has that edge and particularly Alonso because he's showing absolutely nose, very big cliche, but he's showing no signs of slowing down at his tender age of what 42 now. 42 this year, yeah. If not already. No, you still 41. I know this because it's nice to have someone on the grid who's still just fractionally older than I am. It makes me happy. I mean, while we're on while we're on a positive, it get a positive from JBL there. Also, we're talking about, you know, we've been waiting for someone to join the big three for years. Haven't we? Really. I know we've had the odd win here and there from Ricardo got the win at Monza and ocon got his LP win. But I mean, they were kind of crazy 1970s, 80s star races. In terms of genuine pace, it's been a big three for a long time. And Aston Martin genuinely looks like they're going to be in the mix. With at least two of the big three. And I think that's fantastic. It's great from general F one point of view. And yeah, I'm going to be biased and say, I really want to see a long up there. And if he can win, I don't mind if red will win 22 races if Alonso wins the other one and gets his gets his first win for ten years at the absolutely awesome. So I spent the last probably quarter with Alonso just riding on board, so I'm this year, I'm using multi viewer, which I've seen loads of people on social media talk about. And I thought, right, that's it. I'm going to get into it. Listening to all the radio, watching it from his on board. And so I watched that through him getting Hamilton and then dropping Hamilton at the restart after the virtual safety car. He just timed that I think they had the camera facing backwards at the time and he just absolutely timed it perfectly and dropped him and then when he got a science I'm pretty sure they did make contact. And then he was just off and the engineer said to him after maybe a few more turns be careful he's still not .8 seconds behind and just it's like he was going for a walk in the park Alonso just so calmly said yeah don't worry he's going to kill his tires. That was his response. That was when Norris was staying with the little chasing pack as well. That's when he said this car is lovely to drive. I think that made the world feed. And I agreed Kev, I just want like an Alonzo a happy Alonso provides a lot for Formula One and are also a very unhappy Alonso provides a lot. I was going to say, I think he provides a lot to work on whether he's happy or furious. He's just a great person to have on the grid, but today we really saw the on track thing that he brings. You know, that race would have been if ambien Veronese and Aston Martin would have had two Red Bulls running away from two Ferraris, one of which then broke and then running away from two mercks and it would have been like, oh God. But Alonso basically with his overtakes and he okay, so he's slightly out of position. From where he should have been really. But he just the pass on Lewis was fantastic. Hamilton, I think, was brilliant in the wheels. It was all goodwill tour stuff. There was no idiotic driver today. It was all quality drivers doing proper motor racing. It was good. That was great. Unlike IndyCar today at St. Petersburg, which has been a destruction Derby, there was not too much carbon fiber left on the track today from Formula One. But you know you're right. Absolutely. And it was great because you got that big swapper on and turned four or something, or turned ten, and he caught it, and it was just such a good action.
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"In another hotel on the thief district. So every day basically, I go and collect him and then we both together brave the Bahrain traffic, which there's no getting around it is really quite frightening. It's pretty busy. It's pretty, you've got to be able to keep your wits about you and yeah, just generally all the years I've been coming here. It's never been anywhere particularly pleasant, drive. Obviously, this part of the world, this country, there's plenty else worth getting outraged by in terms of how minorities and dissidents are treated, but given this as a travel diary, I think that there's simply no sugar coating it. I don't want to drive another mile in my ways admittedly, a very nice Toyota high car. I just don't want to. It's pretty dangerous. Last week, during testing, when there was certainly particularly bad traffic, apparently there was a big celebration taken over town, kuwaiti, national celebrating the QAT national day, having a great time, driving across roads, driving across the desert, it seemed at times even near the hotel, the unpaved bits around here, going the wrong way around about all particularly frightening, not very nice. But anyway, as I said, this is a travel diary, hence why I'm giving an update on the even the negative parts of travel. But back to things that did ghost smoothly and that was the Thursday of the Bahrain Grand Prix obviously every Thursday, the pre event media day. And things just ran very, very smoothly, obviously it helped that we had testing here last weekend, so you've gone around spoken to spoken to all of my contacts in the paddock, spoken to team PRs, introduce yourself to new people, obviously got your iron back in your ear in as well as if that makes any sense at all talking to the drivers. They're all in good form and also this paddock actually is very comfortable. They do look after everybody very well here and it's a great facility. So hats off to that here in Bahrain. But yeah, just a very smooth first day and our eyes pleased to get stuck in with asking Fernando Alonso in particular questions in the press conference. He was really interesting chatting to him, obviously, as you'll know, I do hope you've listened to the qualifying update at the start of this podcast, potentially Aston Martin in the mix as I speak right now. We expect them to be or at least based on what all the Red Bull Mercedes and Ferrari drivers were saying they've certainly got a chance of being in the mix this year, although to be fair, always worth remembering that it's even easier to not talk about your own team's potential if you're talking up another team and then obviously if it doesn't come to pot. All the better for all the better for that sort of machiavellian game, the team to the driver's role playing. But anyway, back to Alonso, yeah, it was interesting. They're sort of rumors going around about Alonzo in terms of the injury that he sustained in Melbourne last year if you remember and crashed very heavily in Q three when he was briefly threatening both position. It looked like a sort of weird driver error, but his Alpine team at the time then saying it was down to a hydraulic issue, the sort of pitched him off the track. And basically, the Alonzo is now confirmed, he broke several bones in his hand last year in that incident, and it was interesting. For several races, he was noticeably sporting strapping. I remember speaking to him in the panic in Monaco, our street had another crash in Q three, remember how that crash well adrift on the track behind the saints and Perez in qualifying there in Monaco last year. So basically it said to him, is that strapping something to help with an injury that used the scientists? No, no, no, this was all from Melbourne, and now he says, yeah, driving driving with broken bones in his hands. A Fernando Alonso, I gotta say, you know, I really think Formula One is better having you in it. I know there's a lot of dots of chatter going back a few years about drivers if you've been in the sport a long time for now no one's only now he's 20th season in Formula One. Do they deserve a place when they're young drivers struggling to get in? Well, I have to say in Alonso's case, absolutely Formula One is just much, much, much better having him in it. He's still got it. He's a terrific driver and honestly for a journalist. He's an absolute dream, because he's always he's always giving, even when he's not giving an answer, he's giving something. A little dick at his old team, Alpine and his former team at Esteban ocon when he said that Aston Martin can't possibly be in the mix because there are the class a teams, the front three teams in his words. They lapped everybody last year, even the fourth fastest team out putting they didn't name. Only 7 drivers, those 6 plus himself, of course, finished on the lead lap, so yeah, very funny there from Fernando Alonso. If of course I'm interpreting that subtext correctly. But anyway, getting a bit sidetracked down the Alonso chat, but for either way, if that's the new in the mix or not or even if they're just closer to the top three. Really good to see Alonso apparently thriving so far. Other than that, my only really update from Thursdays I went for a track run following all my work being done in the paddock, please report that I was about 40 seconds faster than I was during the run that I did with Matt and codd is back in testing. So then I don't know what's responsible for that, maybe just the three days of practice on the treadmill during the downtime between the events obviously helped. What was noticeable was there were several people cycling the track. Using the other layouts, obviously the endurance layout that was used for the 2010 Bahrain Grand Prix. And of course, the outer loop layout as well, the secure 2020 loud. So yeah, they're not illuminated by the massive massive pylons and the lights, but nevertheless they're easily accessible. Then I drove back home, losing lots of time in traffic, but I promise I won't go any more on that with Phil. We had a lovely dinner together. But there we go. That's the end of my first part of my travel diary. Here comes another break with a few seconds for you and 24 hours for me. Welcome back to this timeline hopping, travel podcast adventure for me. It's Friday night here in Bahrain after the opening day of practice. Well, today, earlier on, much earlier
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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
The Autosport Podcast
"ocon" Discussed on The Autosport Podcast
"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.
Strong Opinion Sports
"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.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"ocon" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Exchange them to reduce zip code and Putin We must not just stop eating in Ukraine but we must also look to the long term We need to ensure that any future talks don't end off selling Ukraine out or repeating the mistakes of the past Bloomberg daybreak Europe on Bloomberg radio And if I good morning from London I'm Caroline heparin You're listening to Europe at daybreak on London DAB digital radio So a million barrels a day the Biden administration looking at releasing oil reserves You've got Russia Ukraine talks via video conference now set for Friday and really quite remarkable the U.S. and the UK wielding its intelligence gathering resources in this information war with Russia Which they've led on from the start of this by putting out that information and that intelligence about the build up of forces and now saying that Vladimir Putin has essentially been misled at least not given the information that he may need on the conflict and how that is unfolding and the economic damage as well and talking of economic damage because of course there's a spill across the inflation data continues to point to very high prices here in Europe That ties into the oil story of course stateside but a conundrum for the Central Bank of the ECB just becomes that much more acute Yeah a new record high for the French inflation data But I want to point out this story though leading most of the newspapers to de Tom here in Britain it's not the wall and it's not petrol prices It's in fact the devastated tin conclusions of the ocon report into baby deaths This is the biggest maternity scandal in the NHS in years There is a huge shortage of health professionals in Britain I think this has big political ramifications and it's getting a lot of people's attention So I wanted to mention that story Let's go to the markets though on that European stocks then this morning are up by a tenth of 1% Now European stocks are they're expecting to see the first quarterly slump in two years The war after the pandemic three weeks ago you had a quarterly decline in some 17% Now it's just 5.7% there So we've made back some of those losses As for U.S. futures then this morning S&P 500 in many futures are up two tenths of 1% Equities in Hong Kong and China dropped because of the contraction in Chinese manufacturing They're still locking down a lot of cities there for the pandemic Bond yields this morning rallying for bonds The ten year yield in the U.S. at two 32 oil prices slumping 4.3% for WTI crude futures but still Brent and WTI both above a $100 a barrel European natural gas prices though have pulled back a little bit this morning and the Bloomberg dollar spot index is now up by a tenth of 1% gold is fairly flat 1932 That's the market data Okay now it's time for the London rush This is the time of day when we can carve out some time to focus on UK businesses making announcements in London company results trading updates M and a and more One of the big movers in today's session brewing dolphin Charles cable Bloomberg's breaking news editor here to telco about that story and everything else that's happening across the London markets Let's start with brewing and the takeover by RBC wealth management The stock up more than 60% so far in the session today Yeah that's right Well RBC wealth management the Canadian company is going to buy brewin dolphin for about 1.6 billion pounds And that is a premium of 62% to Wednesday's close And as it happens when these offers come through the stock has shot up to just about 61% just below RBC's offer which is at 515 pence per share Brew and dolphins management intend to recommend the offer And RBC believes that this deal will improve their adjusted EPS by about 1% in the first year Now brewing dolphin has about 55 billion pounds of assets under management in the UK So a really significant player and the combination of those two companies will make a big big company in the UK market Yeah there's going to be interesting isn't it To see that top Now I wonder whether this show is more sugar more fiber taking LL are going to buy a Chinese dietary fiber business chance Exactly well it's an interesting acquisition and that will cost them $237 million Now that is a company that's based in China It was previously owned by Ken partner farmer tech And that acquisition will bring some R&D expertise manufacturing process and technologies to take And these dietary fiber businesses these products that they're producing are becoming increasingly important in our food today as an additive making them more nutritious And this significantly expands Tate and Lars presence in China and Asia as well So a bit of geographical diversification there Place in a lot of shares up about 1.9% this morning We had Danny burger speaking to the Ryan air CEO earlier talking about that demand the pent up demand for travel during the summer period You're seeing a similar story from hostile world then their expectations of a recovery in travel Exactly They are expecting things to get better and they said towards the end of last year they were improving at the beginning of last year they were improving There was a slight blip with omicron but it is worth noting that in 2021 there net bookings were still 21% of 2019 volumes Now personally my hostel going days are receding dramatically But you can imagine if you were looking at staying in a hostel coronavirus is one of those things which you would be really conscious of So it is one of those things that could potentially affect the hostile market more so than perhaps a profile I don't believe for a minute that you've ever stayed in a hostel The four season cancers are hostile right There we go Question mark Thanks so much Charles for being with us All right well we're looking forward to getting you back on next week We've got entertain and imperial brands reporting in the coming days Charles cape are there with the London Russia more on those stories read Charles London Bloomberg dot com and of course on the terminal Okay let's get more of today's top stories with Bloomberg's Anna George Hanna Good morning Tom and thank you Let's start with the war in Ukraine which is into its second month U.S. and UK intelligence.
Formula 1 Grid Talk Podcast
"ocon" Discussed on Formula 1 Grid Talk Podcast
"I thought that they were going to be relatively nowhere. But fell their way a bit. They had okay qualifying. But yeah, I mean, to come 8 and ten for our intense. That's a pretty decent result, I would say it's more decent than that. I was expecting it to be definitely. I was not expecting to do well this weekend, but to the credit they have got both the guys into the points despite being in the wars for Esteban ocon. Well, let's talk about Nicolas Cage as well as a standard just missed out on points in 11 farron and like I said, I faded a standout job. He was ahead of George Rus during the sprint. He was ahead of him during the race today. I think he was slightly hurt by the safety car. But, you know, he was looking like a steady pair of hands, just going about his job and hopefully he'll get a point for it. Yeah, I think that would be a really good reward for him. He's quietly impressing everyone, isn't it? He's not. This page driver is keeping Williams afloat anymore. He's showing that now that Williams have obviously got the financial backing of Donaldson capital. And that they've got a car that's pretty drivable. He can deliver some really good performances. And that's only going to take his stock higher. And he impressed in some races in F two, which is kind of why he also got the seat at Williams. So it's clearly there on some merit. And everyone, everyone brings some backing, you know, like Lewis Hamilton brings the big brand Tommy Hilfiger to Mercedes. And that will help them. And the Latifi brand will help Williams maybe in a more impactful way. But what he's also heard from Williams is his performances. He's driving solidly. He finishes races, so you can't ask for much more. If you're not going to finish in the points, you need to finish the race of the team, the data to then improve the car and understand.
Strong Opinion Sports
"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.