22: Have you ever tried to press the throttle?

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Hello everyone, welcome back to another episode of the Grand Prixquel Podcast where we discuss all things
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feeder series. On this episode we're going to be doing a recap of the F2 and F3
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Weekends at Spa, as well as the FREC weekend at Paul Ricard and British
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F4 at Zandvoort last week. Your hosts today are myself, Evan, Alex and Nova.
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So we get right into F2 because I think quite a lot happened there. I mean, for
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Quali, the pole may seem like the usual thing, like as we said we're in Spa and
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Camara put it on Pole again, but I feel like the rest of the top 10 have a few surprises
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there with Inthraphuvasak on P2, Bennett on P5, and Mini having real
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struggles and being quite far away from the point positions. Inthraphuvasak up that
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high in P2 is again reaffirming my idea that ART is just getting a bunch of money
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and that's how they're getting up there, because if you told me like three years ago that
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Inthraphuvasak would be, well two years ago actually, it doesn't really matter how long ago,
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Inthraphuvasak could be P2 in a Quali session –or ART actually in general—was up that high?
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I'd be like ‘absolutely there’s no way.’ I was like, ART is such a weird team because on some
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tracks they're just like completely a**, but especially in F3 this year they've been
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actually pretty solid, and it's such a weird combination because sometimes they can do it,
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sometimes they're just sh** in the back. It's F2, I'm not surprised about anything, but it's so weird.
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Also Double DAMS Appearance in the top 10, which I think they're actually getting a little bit
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better somehow. It's very weird, again if you told me like two years ago that DAMS was doing that
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good I would not believe you, but they're improving a little bit. Also sometimes they're
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pretty solid, like didn't they place with Jak Crawford pretty high last year? But then again,
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what do they actually do? Like they don't do a lot of series, I think it's really only F2 and F3,
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and so it's kind of weird. But we can go for the sprint because it was in my opinion a really
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typical F2 thing, with on the formation lap, Beganovic kind of like halfway overtaking
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I think it was Montoya and…no, it was not Montoya, but it was because Montoya slowed down very,
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very heavily, and Stenshorne almost stopped, and suddenly Beginovitch was in P3. Okay,
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like he did not have a lot of good luck, I feel like this weekend. I think DAMS in general did
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not have amazing luck this weekend. It was great for them in quali, and then after quali everything
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just went down the drain. It's very unfortunate for them, considering where both their cars started.
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DAMS always got a subplot going on. Beganovic still got a podium in sprint at the very least.
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That is fair actually, I was gonna say that. I only just said the DAMS being kind of bad luck
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because Bilinski had a poor start and whatever, and I think Dino also had a poor start in the
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feature race, but, or did he? I can't remember, one of the two. Either way, well on the sprint
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race anyway, so it doesn't really matter. Another team that had once again pretty poor performance
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Was Prema, where I was already surprised that Montoya made it to the top 10 in qualifying,
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starting from reverse pole. You expect to get at least points, but... It was insanely funny at the
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last lap, everyone was just overtaking him. He was just like, one by one, everyone just right
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going ahead of him. I'm like, that's lovely. And that's just like, that is essentially Prema
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In F2 and F3 right now. It's just absolutely hilarious to watch. It's insane. Imagine telling
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someone like in 2023, ‘Yo, you know, both your F3 and F2 team is actively shitting the bed.’
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and we would be like ‘what are you talking about?’ Oh, Prema, how you've fallen so far. But no,
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Montoya's done this with every single sprint start where he doesn't seem to know how to start the
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car the moment the lights are out. And it's like, you're wasting such a good, like, spot there.
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I think we call that a skill issue. It's skill issue for sure. I always wonder how the conversation
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goes like back at home. Like, do you think his father is like giving him tips?
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JPM is so disappointed. Every single time I see JPM on the screen when the F2 on TV direction
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show him, I'm like, that man is probably, like, insanely disappointed right now. And it's just,
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it's hilarious to me. I'm sorry. Yeah. But like, I feel like as a father, you can't just be like,
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oh, you're f***ed. You have to be like, hey, have you ever tried putting your foot down on the gas
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pedal? Have you ever tried that? Like, you have to be a bit educational. Have you ever tried doing
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this thing of like getting into gear first? Have you tried like, you know, going ahead when the
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lights turn green, getting in your car to go? Have you tried driving? Have you tried driving?
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Well, I'll get to him when I talk about FREC, but this is why I keep saying that Salim Hanna
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is JPM's favorite son despite not being related to him at all. At least he's putting his foot down
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on the gas once in a while. But other in other news, it was a typical F2 sprint race. Shields
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caused a safety car. Bennett caused a safety car. You know, just the usual. Some drivers had
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technical issues. I think it was Varrone and Mini. Mini seems to have had problems in both
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qualifying and sprint, which is really bad considering he's pretty much in the title fight.
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And we ended with a win from Joshua Durksen, which is incredibly interesting if you consider
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the fact that -I don't know who else saw the graphic on Twitter, but if we only count feature
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races, he's dead last. I was going to mention that, yeah, the fact that he has nothing.
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This is just showing off the whole Invicta only being good at like, short distances.
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Yeah, that's always what I say. They're the quickest in qualifying because they're super quick
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on the one lap. But when it comes to actually having to race, having to overtake, oh my god,
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don't let these boys overtake. They don't have that in them.
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Camara’s just lucky, okay? We can tell. Actually, Kamara's just lucky half the time.
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I mean, it's easy if you start from pole. Exactly.
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I mean, we saw it in F3 with Camara and we're being so mean today. Oh my god, we're going to
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get cancelled. Anyway, what I wanted to say, what I mostly remember from F3 and Camara’s season,
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and I was like, oh my god, he won so much. He won all of, I'm pretty sure he won like the majority
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of the races he won from pole position. When he didn't have pole position, he just pretty much
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did not overtake most of the races. And if he did, it was like on someone who was really,
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really slower because it was, you know, reverse grid. And some of the people starting in the front
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who would usually only qualify P12 are handed through. It was such a weird statistic to see
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his F3 season. Anyways, if we're going to the feature, it's important to mention
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Beganovic's weird start because from what I saw, it was like he had a jump start, then he,
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I didn't even think it was a jump start because it didn't look like he really started. It just
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looked like. I think he stalled his car. Yeah, but the thing is, he first moved and then he stalled.
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I mean, you can stall your car like that as well. It's like, it's like a learner- a new driver trying to
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Learn manual, jump up a bit, and then you stall the whole car because you don't know when
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to change your gear. Yeah. Because of that, it just looked to me like not do the usual jump start.
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He also got five seconds for it. So they did call it like it did facilitate as a jump start,
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I suppose, but it just didn't look like that. I mean, they're pretty strict with that.
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Like they have all these cameras around. If you jump start, you jump to start and they're going to
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shoot you, whatever. He's not, he did not finish the race, right? Nope. He was one of the first in pits.
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He's getting it as a grid penalty in, Cody, in,
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he's getting it as a grid penalty in Hungary. Wait a second, I need to get Cody.
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Cody is back. I can use that graphic again. Finally. You've had it locked and loaded.
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It's been there since like episode, like nine, the last time I used it and like 20 episodes later,
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I can finally use it again. But we need to, we need to, we need to discuss the first lap because
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there was, I mean, not a lot going on, not in F2, you know, style, but it was still
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some things going on. It was like, like Camara and Tsolov contact, it was like, Inthraphuvasak’s- like in the
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grand scheme, things not weird, but it was, you know, just F2. So, uh, you completely forgot about
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the early crash with Mini and Bilinski where- I didn't, I just realized that as well. Like they
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drive, they crash and it was a bit of a weird situation. Mini got five seconds for causing
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collision. Bilinski had to DNF the race. But other than that, that crash was really irrelevant,
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actually. Like it did not really impact anything except for like Bilinski, you know, DNFing, but
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like it just happened, does sometimes. On the other hand, what you already mentioned with the
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Camara-Tsolov contact, that one did lead to a bit of an outrage on social media. I don't know if
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you guys saw that. I'm not surprised, honestly. I didn't see anything, but I'm not shocked either
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way, but depends which fans it's from though. Like the nation of Bulgaria is currently trying to
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start war with the nation of Brazil. Um, I'm going to be honest, if you saw all the angles of crash,
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it was weird because like Camara, I mean, Tsolov was pretty much in front of him and I get that
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We don't want to be too harsh with penalties and want to shoot anyone that does things like that,
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But considering that Camara is kind of known for having this kind of driving style, it's just
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‘Try to overtake me? Well, good luck trying.’ And I think we still give Dunne a lot of that sh**,
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but I have not seen that from him in quite a few races, but Camara keeps doing these things and he
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keeps having questionable situations on track. Camara is the new Dunne. That's essentially what
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we’re saying here on the Grand Prixquel podcast. No, I think Dunne's problem was rather that he was
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so incredibly fast, like the way that he assumed, you know, incidents to go. It was kind of a bit
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stupid, but he was thinking of slower race situations, but Camara is just hardcore.
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This is my position and you're not getting that. And I think I understand where it's coming from,
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but for me, there's still a bit of difference. Anyways, we still have some other cars that just,
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you know, did not feel like finishing the race. Mini's car was full on burning at some point, but
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no one gives a f**k. Whatever.
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Uh, Goethe out for whatever reason. Do we know why?
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I think he had contact on that first lap. I think that was like a separate incident from the
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Camara-Tsolov, Mini-Bilinski and he just contact and then his car just stopped.
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There was a picture of him that I thought was really sad when he's pushing the car himself.
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Always something going on with Goethe and MP down at that garage.
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I feel like with Goethe, we see him out a lot. I think he's DNF'd so much this season from
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what I remember. And I think part of it is the fact that MP is doing a lot of whatever,
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but also he's constantly like qualifying in the midfield and having to start races in the
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midfield. And if you're not a driver that's like really, um, you know, careful in those areas and
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you're f**ked. Like he's not finished a race six times this season. That's quite a handful.
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Crazy.
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And that does not even include times where he may have had like contact or was involved in
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something which he finished a race, but like his car had some issues, as I'm pretty sure happened.
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If we talk about cars having issues, being destroyed, we should talk about Van Hoepen's crash.
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That was, that was, I think I remember looking, I was looking at my laptop writing notes. I look
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back up, I just see like, fire, oh wow, lovely. Like, sure. That was, that entire car is like done for.
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There is no way that, there's no way it's a new chassis time. Like there's no way that's
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going back together, I feel. If not, the Trident mechanics are working very long overtime hours
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right now to get that car repaired for this weekend. Um, what caused it? Did he just like,
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what caused the crash again? Cause I don't remember.
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Uh, I think the problem was he lost, uh, I don't know if he lost the front or the back, but he lost
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something and like the tires and he just slid over, um, the road, turned, uh, went over the gravel
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like into a barrier and that was about it. But I wanted to add on, it's not even like the mechanics
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really have the time to do it because this week we were in Spa, next week we're going to be in
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Hungary. Like they're on the road now. They don't have the time to spend multiple days like really
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fix that. So I assume it'll just be another chassis, which they have to work with.
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Speaking of tires, I don't know what's up with those Pirelli tires, but they're absolutely
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horrible. And F2 is still bound by them because F1 still uses Pirelli or whatever.
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Those tires were f***ed after a thing was three laps and most they could do. And it was like,
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it pissed me off because this just does not help with promoting strategy because if you know,
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you have tires that are pretty much like qualifying cause you can only do like two to three laps on
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them. It does not help with getting used to. I mean, on one hand side, it's pretty good because
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that means no driver is forced to follow their team for any great strategic ideas. And we see
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usually two different strategies going on. But I feel like maybe it would be better if the tires
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could at least survive so long that you can change them once the pit even opens. Because
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for anyone who's potentially not aware, you have to wait, I think it was like the first six or seven
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laps before you're allowed to do. Six-seven! I heard it and I was like, oh my God, I f***ed myself. Before you're
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even allowed to change or you can change your tires always, but before it counts as a necessary pit
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stop, only that, you know, by the time everyone came in, they were like losing so much time.
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The only guy that, you know, managed it was Noel Leon, who had an absolutely insane weekend.
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Did we mention that? What happened in qualifying with him? I don't think so.
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Anyways, so he caused a red flag, which usually means you're not allowed to be in the session
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anymore. And usually a red flag causing, that means you'd like total your car or something.
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But he just, you know, stalled and he went off again, which means which meant he could start
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qualifying again. And Campos sent him out again, which I thought was like the right decision,
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because you can always discuss later on. But sadly, the discussion didn't work for him. And
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it was decided that all of his laps were disqualified and he would start last.
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Anyways, in the feature race, he actually had great strategy because coming from last, he and
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seemed like decided to pit from super soft to the hard before it was even allowed. So they knew
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he would have to do another pit stop. Only that when he had to do another pit stop,
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we had a safety car and the red flag. So he could switch to tires then and basically had
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all the tires when they were in their perfect window. And because of that,
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at some point he was really, really far ahead. But I don't remember when it was.
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Anyways, if we want to talk more about Noel Leon, we have to talk about the fact that all of his
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great stories and the fact that he would have finished the race in the points, I think it would
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have been like P7. It doesn't matter because he was disqualified. Yeah, that was a whole situation.
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Yeah. So what happened was the FIA, I guess, or one of his guests using a headset,
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not a listening-only headset, which in normal people's terms, that's the headset, that’s the
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Type of the headset with the microphone on it. And so they were saying that there was potential
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that that guy who was classified as non-personnel could be relaying information to the team or
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whatever. And I guess they decided to just DSQ him for that. And they also get 25 points
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from the championship if it happens again. But I think in general, those are really harsh terms.
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DSQing, I know it was Leon's guest from what I can gather from the docs, but it just seems harsh.
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That's a whole Volkswagen Golf right there with a fine. And 25 points if it happens again, which
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how can they even determine any-? I know there's a microphone on the side of the headset,
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what if the microphone wasn't plugged in? But I think it wasn't in the doc that it said that the
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guy or the girl- who knows? who was there was told by someone at the track that they have the wrong
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headphones, but they didn't listen. I swear I understood it like that in the document by the
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FIA. And simultaneously, I understand that we think it's super harsh and I still think it's harsh,
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but also it's based on very specific rules. And I understand that it's a rule and it has to be done,
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or next week you're going to have everyone inviting someone and suddenly the limit of
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people allowed in the pit wall is broken because everyone has another guy there.
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Yeah, that's fair. It's always precedent with these rules and that's just how it is.
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You are right. Apparently, the scrutineer, as the document says, told the personnel or the person
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to or get to put their to get that headset wasn't permitted, I should say. And apparently,
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they were responsible, the microphone folded upwards. And I guess, and then they just kept
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using the headset upwards. A lot of people on X have been saying that for some bizarre reason,
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Tsolov should have also gotten the penalty, but it also doesn't make sense because this was Leon's
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guess, I think, from what I can tell. It was the guess of Leon. I didn't see that. That was probably
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just Camara fans. Like people one TikTok. Yeah, it was only for Leon because Tsolov argued that it wasn't his guest.
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So they were like, OK, if it wasn't your guest, then I suppose we only have to give it to Leon.
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Yeah like, why should he get a penalty because Noel Leon's guest can't behave,
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I think it would have been really unfair. But have we mentioned yet the fact that Noel
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Leon wasn't even on track, like he wasn't even there when that was discussed? Yeah, he had
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already left the track. I honestly think he was probably going back, going just heading back home
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or doing something else because like it was just Tsolov and the team manager there. So Leon wasn't
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there. Tsolov was essentially representing him. So that was fun. Imagine like you're on the plane
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and you get off and you hear from your boss, hey, so you just got disqualified because someone,
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one of your guests was wearing a headset with a microphone on it. Thanks. Bye.
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But also you have to remember the point of, hey, bro, do you have like 20,000 euros on hand?
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We have to pay that in like 48 hours. Maybe call your bank
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because it is in a working condition that it has to be done in the next 48 hours.
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Hey, bro, do you have a whole car’s worth of money to transfer to the FIA right now?
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You've got like two days to do it, but like right now? Wait. We know you're preparing for
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the next weekend. I personally do not have 20,000 euros on hand. And like these are rich people,
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but again, this is F2. Do all F2 drivers have 20,000 euros on hand? Yeah, I was gonna say
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20,000 euros in liquid, like liquid 20,000 euros? Probably not. No, they sell their stocks in Tesla
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now. SpaceX, IPO, sell the stocks in that. They probably got some crypto, sell off NFTs that are
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worth five cents each. They all probably have a crypto portfolio, let's be real. They could
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make money within 48 hours. I think they're doable. Turn the assets into liquid. But
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next thing you see, there's just a driver selling their personal belongings on their story.
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Outside the track, one of the drivers outside the track is going to be selling off, okay,
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Here, uhm, race suit, boot, helmet, everything, absolutely everything at this point.
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One day that's happening. We're gonna do this podcast and one day we're gonna
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hear an absolutely ridiculous story like that. Okay, to the championship standings, we have
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Tsolov still leading by quite a margin on 161 points. Mini was able to
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salvage at least some points. I think he finished like P6 in the feature race or P5.
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He's on 134. Camara with his win is up to 125, but still quite some points down, Tsolov.
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Those three, they are pretty clearly in a title fight and I think we'll see some things there.
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In P4, Dunne on 108 points can still have an impact, but almost 60 points ahead,
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I don't think he's quite able to chase down Tsolov yet. In P5, Noel Leon, after this horrific weekend
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on 69 points, I think it's clear to say the championship will be done between the top four.
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Pun intended. Quite fascinating. I'm really sad that Dunne is like 60 points behind Tsolov,
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because I had him as the title or championship winner, I should say, for this season and I think
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he can still do it, but he's relying a lot on top three to just not do well as well.
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So it's almost over for him at this point. I think his biggest advantage is that he's pretty,
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I think he hasn't won a race yet, but he consistently gets points. When Camara
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DNFs, like he did in Monaco, he gets points and same goes for Tsolov obviously, and
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simultaneously I think one thing that could aid Dunne in the long run is the fact that I have heard
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some slight rumors that Mini could be going to Formula E, and if he doesn't go to Formula E,
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saw it in the last few seasons, that would mean that he would probably not finish the season,
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which means, naturally, Dunne would have at least a chance to get higher up there, but
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that would depend on Mini leaving the championship.
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Yeah, I mean, we've seen that with Pepe Marti most recently, I should say,
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where I think he missed the last three rounds maybe of F2 when he left from
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To Kiro last year or whenever it was, and we've had the same with Taylor Barnard doing the same
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and whatnot, but- Zane Maloney also.
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I think that's a lot to bank on your championship being won by or being in back in the fight probably
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on ‘this driver's going to leave for Formula E, so therefore I now have-’ I think it's a lot,
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it's a bit too optimistic for him, but- It's risky.
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What I would base my expectations on is the fact that we will 100% see
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some changes on the grid after Madring, 100%. We saw it every single time in the last few years
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because F3 ends earlier and F2 seats get more expensive after Madrid, or usually it was after
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Monza, but this year it'll be after Madrid when, you know, F2 only goes to, I think it's some Baku
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where they also, like they're also in Abu Dhabi, but they're also somewhere else
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if that even happens this year, but the thing is those races are usually quite a chaotic grid
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and I think it's a shitty thing to bank your expectations on, but if
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Rodin is still struggling, you have to get a bit desperate with it I fear.
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If we're talking about teams, it's super interesting actually because in the teams
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championship, we have Campos in P1 with 230 points, quite a bit off, Rodin with 166 points in P2
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MP is actually in P3 with 163 points which, you know, is really good and I'm really surprised
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but Invicta is only P4 with 161 points and like majority of those are done by Camara and P2 to P4
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are all in the 160 points range, there's like five points separating them. We will definitely
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see some-. Invicta being that low is, again, I think it's just a display of the fact that they
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only are good in short distances usually or when they start from pole and well that's,
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whatever we've seen obviously Camara winning on the feature race or he just doesn't do well
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in sprint race or well he does sometimes or I guess, I should I'm meaning to say is that both
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is that, I guess Durksen, the only of the other Invicta, not doesn't do well usually and I think
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it's just again indicative of the fact that the car itself is just good enough for like quick bursts
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so a quali lap, a sprint race maybe but they're not that great at feature which is where
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the most of the points are which is why they're pretty low I guess in comparison. We see both
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Invictas regularly in the top 10 for qualifying but usually it's Durksen then who does not do
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the same you know he can gain because he usually is in a lower top 10 and then he can gain in the
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sprint but he can't put that anywhere in the feature race while MP on the other hand has
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Oliver Goethe as the second driver who usually struggles has a lot of retirements but he instead
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of doing qualifying he if he gets points he gains from the fact that others struggle and like crash
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and stuff and then he keeps it on track, and then he gets points. So I think MP and Invicta are pretty
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much very similar in that extent, but we need to get on to F3. F3 qualifying was… was weird
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Quali itself as a whole is just odd. How would we even start with Quali? We can discuss this now
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because do we think qualifying or- maybe we should start with what happened and then discuss it
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The problem in Spa is that the slipstream is and the tow is very efficient and you pretty much
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need it to get a good lap down, which means drivers try not to be the first on track but they try to
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have someone in front of them which means they're idiotic and then you suddenly have a picture of
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every single car going down the Kemmel straight right behind each other right next to each other. There's 30
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cars and some of them are going four wide and that's not going to work, so we had a lot of
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Penalties: um, Theophile Nael got a five place grid penalty for driving slowly in the racing
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Line, that's the explanation that most are giving most are given and he also got two penalty points.
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Ugochukwu, Kato, Sharp, Wharton, Nakamura,Bhirombhakdi and Xie, they all got three places for driving
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slowly on the racing line and the two penalty points, however Ugochukwu and Xie also got three
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places for leaving track without justifiable reasons. Del Pino and Garfias got each three
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places for weaving in places where they weren’t meant to be, and Stromsted got five places for causing
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collision, but wasn't that in the last race or like the first-? I don't know, I just think this was
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necessarily qualifying, the point is as we've heard everyone was on the racing line everyone
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was getting annoying, do we think we should keep F3 qualifying the way it is? Because as an example
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in Monza, I don't know if we're doing it again this year but they did some years ago at least,
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they separate the grid so it's only 15 cars and you avoid having 30 cars
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all going down it's still with 15 cars is still ass, but like it's a bit better I saw some people
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asking for one lap shootout; what do we think about all of these possibilities?
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I am a much firmer believer in group qualifying, having two groups. I hope rather than one lap
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shootout because then at least each group is getting enough time to maybe do two laps
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two-three laps maximum instead of one lap, though you do also at the same time then obviously one
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group will always be disadvantaged because oh, they have this slower like lap time so
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lap time so it's I guess it's a bit hard to just- you can't, because the issue is that when you make
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this qualifying system more complicated, you've got more implications like–for example I'm going
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to put SuperFormula in there because it's the one category I watch, that does this you've got
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Group A and Group B Qualifying One and then Qualifying two is just top six from Group A and
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Group B fighting out for the top 12, but at that point now you're just putting like a lot of time
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into just I guess it's just taking up too much time whereas well the current solution where it's
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just everyone goes on track and whatever you do whatever is more time, it saves more time
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and so I guess you know what I was saying on–okay, I would support a whole Group A-Group B sort of
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thing is that the track I guess the track evolution over those two sessions because again in Super
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Formula when I watch Super Formula, it's the same deal: Group A times are much significantly worse
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usually compared to Group B and so, so would you say it makes more sense to keep it that way and
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you just risk every driver getting sh**ty penalties because to be honest, I don't understand why
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teams would even risk the penalties like I know the tow works but I think we saw it
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last week, um, in Silverstone was it where–I didn't remember who it was–but they
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went out pretty early did a great lap and just stayed in the whole time, it worked like
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at certain tracks that also works like at some point you just gotta tell the teams from
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the from the you know ‘race director, stop being a stupid b**ch and stuff’ oh my god, I'm sorry Evan,
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I don’t want to be cussing the whole time, um ‘stop being dramatic and just do it good or we give you a
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five place grid penalty, instead of maybe only the one or two places you would be behind if you
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didn't get the tow,’ you know?’ yeah I think honestly in this case and scenario group qualifying would
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group qualifying would just work the best I mean we've seen it work it's just yeah the track
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evolution thing but the track evolution thing will always be a problem with group qualifying so
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I didn't even remember it being that bad in both Monza and Monaco but I don't have the exact
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numbers in mind right now. If it is group qualifying, and then just bag it for like a part of time of
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group A then part of time of Group B and so on so forth then like whatever, I guess that is how it
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usually is anyway, so I don't know what I'm talking about but the point is group qualifying I think
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could work um ideally I'd rather have it be like two qualifying sessions but that adds
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the complexity and time and F3 has neither of it and has cannot do complexity and has no time so
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So in Sprint race, we had um Nakamura winning with uh Brando Badoer on second and Pedro Clerot
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I don't know how you pronounce him uh finishing up the podium it was you know another typical
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F3 race, uh Ugo and Freddie both championship leaders crashed on lap one but there was no
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further action; a bit of drama, Nakamura pretty much defended pretty pretty solidly
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I do think there's a lot more that we have to say about this whole thing
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I guess sprint no I guess feature then, um not sprint but feature. Slater had a bad start, great! um
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um I'm- I expected Slater in the Trident to be a lot quicker than what he's shown so far because
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once again, he had a bad start. Um, his only advantage is the fact that I think actually
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this year, Trident is only the second fastest car, the Campos seems just strongest everywhere
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only that the Campos drivers don't seem to think that way because Ugochukwu again, struggled went off
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at the exact same turn as he did the day before with Freddie and uh collided with his teammate
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Theophile Nael and then Theophile Nael, uh had a front wing destroyed, uh then collided with a teammate
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it's not good but you know at least that helped Slater get away from the pointless um
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Sprint race he had we had a safety car because Yevan David stopped and what really was important in the
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race for me was seeing the fact that Tuukka Taponen also struggles a lot more than I would have
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expected him to and we blame MP quite a lot for that because they in my opinion have
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the strongest lineup but always struggle a bit with the car but simultaneously his teammate uh
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Mattia Colnaghi, he finished P4 and it was weird but also the camera is weird because we had both
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Bhirombhakdi, de Palo and Barrichello not finish the race for unmentioned reasons, just you know, maybe they didn’t
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feel like finishing the race, fine, yeah I feel like with F3 with F3 we also just don't get as
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many comments about anyone even DNFing we just kind of watch them fall down the order and then
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in pit, retired, okay, yeah. Yeah I mean, it was the typical thing, I think um if we talk
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about the championship standings it's now Ugochukwu still leading on 104 points but Slater was able to
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get uh really close, he's still P2 but now on 103 points and he was unlucky to be collected into
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sprint race, but simultaneously um I expected him to already be leading by some bit at this point
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of the season but simultaneously the Campos is faster if only the drivers stopped, you know
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colliding and stuff! It's a problem we've both seen with Nael and Ugochukwo and Nael is
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is on P3 with 65 points but that is so far away from the front from Driver who I expected to be
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closer at least to his teammate. In P4 we have Stromsted with 59 points also
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so it's pretty, I feel like pretty crash heavy
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grid and Rivera on 56 points you know at least the teams reflect what I'm talking about Campos on
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P1 with 225, Trident on P2 with 169, uh Van Amersfoort 131, you know there's no big surprises here just
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the fact that Campos and Trident are the clearly leading teams just um both teams get into too
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many incidents. Okay so moving over to FREC at Paul Ricard, honestly Paul Ricard probably
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brought the championship way closer together than any of the other uh, rounds that we had seen
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however when we were doing free practice and quali there was a lot of surprises
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which got me very, very scared. For quali one our top 10 looked pretty um,
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Typical of FREC KNB on pole, Wheldon, Abhkazaa, Al Dhaheri, Olivieri, Gomez
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which I do have to point out the Rodins were quite fast down at Paul Ricard, good for them
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Saeter for G4, which has just been surprising me, that entire team has been surprising me these past
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few weeks, Ninovic, Hanna and Francot actually this quali kind of ties in with what we were saying
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about um group quali for any track really. Uh, this was a very odd moment where for some reason Group
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A had set like not better but they had set faster quali times in terms of fastest in their group.
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KNB went faster than Wheldon did for group which was interesting, considering the fact that
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for Wheldon's last flying lap he was only about
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what, what, what was it like seven thousandths of a second from him, it's just an odd
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quali but very typical for the FREC grid that we have.
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Race one pretty interesting um considering that we had uh, Olivieri and Abhkazava took up most of
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the screen time with their fight for P2 and P3 and honestly pretty impressive with how Olivieri
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managed to overtake, um not just his own teammate of Al Dhaheri, but also um, Abhkazava but the, the start
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I would say was probably the weirdest bit for me where Wheldon was starting in P2
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P2, they get off the line, Wheldon's had a pretty good start then suddenly by like
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I think it was like turn two or something really early on in the lap he falls back to P3, overtaken
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by Abhkazava and then a few like a few minutes later, you look back at the timing screen and
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he's fallen all the way down to P5, which as we should know with Wheldon is not usual. There was
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this like, uncanny loss of pace from him and the MP itself was really strong this whole weekend
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and according to uh commentary and all sorts afterwards, it was, it was a team like it was a
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team order to let Abhkazava through and for Wheldon to like fall back which I thought was just weird
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but also quite interesting.
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at some point Abhkazava also tried pushing Olivier off track which
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was to me, it looked pretty blatant that he did like Olivieri basically was in the like was practically
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like a centimeter away from the wall maybe he was basically touching it but it was just ruled no
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further investigation which was an odd choice. But have you considered that maybe the stewards
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just did not feel like investigating any more of the people? Because there were quite few
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investigations and penalties already. yeah true Abhkazava-Olivieri, everything did happen in the
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second half, everything else was already happening in the first half .Yeah but like they saw ‘we have
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this bunch of stuff already going on how about we just don't do our job anymore?’ Okay, speaking
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of penalties let's um quickly go through them considering that FREC always seems to have the
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most amount of penalties: okay Munoz: five second penalty for moving before lights.
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okay, Ninovic: 10 seconds for contact with Hanna. Something I want to point out about this, we are
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on round six of eight. Ninovic has managed to collect nine points, nine penalty points on his
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record which is so close to a race ban, and I don’t remember I think he's collected most of them from like
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the first like the first two rounds-ish but it's insane how you how somebody manages to rack up
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nine penalty points. I mean we've seen worse. Okay we have seen outright race bans, that is true
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but nine. okay continuing penalties, Stolcermanis: 10 seconds contact with Ninovic that all happened
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in the last corner, I remember watching it and Ninovic into Hanna, Stolcermanis right behind
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Hanna, nearly went into Ninovic. Sano: five seconds, five second penalty, gaining lasting
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advantage off track. Kostic, also five seconds penalty, gaining lasting advantage off track.
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Daryanani: five seconds left track unjustifiably and then Lisle: five seconds race mode infringement
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because he had Race Off prior to the race which is I think out of FREC, it's the silliest like
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race mode penalties that we've seen just from these guys, it's genuinely getting so weird.
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Quali two had a plot twist, okay so in the second group that went off for qualifying
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quite a few of the people that we've seen be faster were in the same group which may be not
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very surprised where in the last seconds or basically as everybody was finishing their flying
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lap everybody basically overtook KNB's overall pole which I wasn't surprised by, but literally
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last one over the line, Emanuele Olivieri just takes outright pole by basically a whole tenth
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in front of Wheldon who had set pole for his group. However I think it's about three hours later-
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Prior to his flying lap, Olivieri comes into pits. Three hours later after he sets his pole lap
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he gets a three grid, a three grid place penalty because his car wasn't exactly at 45,
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at a 45 degree angle in the pits before the team started working on it
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which leads him to losing pole and having to start in P4
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Seb Wheldon inherits pole, and therefore he gets to start on pole and he gets the pole positions
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and I don't think I've ever heard that penalty before like for that specific reason. They hated
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him because he was too quick, but I have to bring but I have to bring Robin's spirit on this whole
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thing championship- um what's, what's the word? uh Going for the championship from Olivieri is on
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again, we will see him go for the championship, he will do it. The fight is back on! For the honor of
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Italy. I think race two really helped with that would keep the championship alive. Ye, definitely
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so Race Two the order changed quite a bit actually from quali now that I'm looking at it
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so top 10 on track is was originally Wheldon, Olivieri, Abhkazava, KNB, Gomez, Al Dhaheri, Chi,
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Ninovic, Przyrowski and Anurag. First of all Przyrowski and Anurag towards the back in a
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like a proper race is at the end of the points anyways is quite interesting to me being in an
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RPM and in an ART, but then we also had the Tridents have just been fighting each other
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I'm not sure why Daryanani and Kostic once again had contact and at some point during the race,
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Abhkazava had been noted for a false start, like moving before the lights had gone. However,
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during the race, it was called that there was no further action.
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So personally as I was watching I just kind of expected nothing was going to go on, and he was
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just going to maintain his podium um but then after the race, suddenly, I guess the stewards
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decide to bring it back up and were like ‘actually no, he did have a false start, he gets five seconds.’
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which would- which makes this the second weekend in a row that Abhkazava’s gotten a five second
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penalty and Kean has benefited from it as a KNB fan, I am very, very happy about that
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and probably was another point in this weekend that helped relaunch the championship title fight,
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um additionally to help the title fight was
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Olivieri Francot and Abhkazava fighting each other for what was basically half the race for the
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P2 P3 like P4 positions basically and this time around Olivieri decides I'm gonna
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oh try and overtake Abhkazava and also kind of get payback for race one
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kind of looks like he pushes off this Abhkazava off the road but then the stewards are like ‘Nope
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actually not’ This was also another problem that I had with FREC where Francot also retired
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halfway through the race and we were told nothing about it. The entire time on the timing screen it
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just says he's in pits and his name isn't like greyed out and it just shows he's like whatever
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number of laps behind but for some reason it was just always one lap so I just assumed he was
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still racing he wasn't, he had retired. And something I do have to compliment Olivieri on
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is that his overtakes this entire weekend were just so clean and so wonderfully executed, it was
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actually such a wonder to watch like coming into one corner just just behind and then he'd take
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one of the lines and just do a sweep around the outside and there was never like a question of
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It, it's just beautiful, I love FREC, crazy thing to say but FREC, beautiful right now. And after
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his horrific, horrific weekend down at Hungaroring, Seb Wheldon manages to take a win, a pole
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position and a fastest lap all in the same race. Penalties not as many this time around:
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Daryanani: 10 seconds collision with Kostic, get these two away from each other, and Macedo:
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five seconds for a practice start. This is the interesting bit and this is where we start
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talking about championship title fight. For our top five drivers in in P1 we have KNB with 172
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points, next two positions P2 and P3 we have Wheldon and Al-Dhaheri tied with 159 points, P4
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Olivieri, only seven points behind 152 points and then p5 is Francot, all the way down with
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with 90 points. I'm so f**king scared for this championship fight. I'm really, I think I really need to go to
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Hockenheim because I'm pretty sure Hockenheim is the finale or it's like really late in the season
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and I could totally do it and I think we need that live experience on here to know who wins the
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Title. Yeah, and I think it'd be good if you went because out of I think all of our hosts here
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you're the only, like proper neutral one. I was for Ninovic but he's been more of a terrorist,
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more collecting terrorism points than collecting race win points, we take it. Ninovic and his nine
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penalty points. Bu, and we're already talking about going to races and I think it's a great point
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to lead over to British F4 and Zandvoort, where I went last week already but you know we have to
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keep it all together ,and I'm trying to you know, because it's already been a week, I don't remember
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anything. I got really sick actually from being there. Um try to go through it pretty quickly
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because a lot of the things that happened were really typical British F4. I mean Dries van Langendonck
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is back on top also in qualifying majority races. You know, it was pretty good rest of the
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qualifying was also typical guys but there was one great great surprise and this weekend it was
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Alba Larsen qualified P9, her best qualifying in British F4 so far. It was kind of helped by the
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fact that during qualifying we had a red flag because I don't remember who it was, ah it was
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Mercier, who crashed and you know Zandvoort had a lot of red flags. We were behind a bunch of time
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anyways all the time because there was so much crashing going on but overall it was a good thing
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I would well it was chaotic but it was still solid I would say. In race one we had what I meant what I
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said it was pretty typical, with Dries van Langen Donk winning the race uh Palmer being on second
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after qualifying third uh fourth and Scott Kin Lindblom in P3 you know it's just the way things are
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supposed to be around here Wherrel had a few problems and did not score any points which helped
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DVL to get back onto- I don't think he got the championship lead in that race but it definitely
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helped with the points he gained where Wherrel didn't gain any points but all races –and this one included–
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were pretty disrupted by safety cars it was very little straight-up racing and Zandvoort is pretty
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big so it's compared to like Donington Park up here and such it's pretty big and
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very technical so there was not as much like overtaking stuff as we would usually see in
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British F4, but I think race two was especially interesting to a lot of people especially for
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the podium which consists of Ethan Lennon, George- it was George Proudford-Nalder right? That's, that's like
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his name because I'm pretty sure that's his name anyways, that is his name: George Proudford-Nalder.
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Great and, but the one everyone was happy for, everyone was very ecstatic for: it was Alba Larsen
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finishing on the podium for the very first time in single-seaters as far as I think. Um I do think
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so because I know she got a podium taken away in F1 Academy but I don't remember if she got a podium
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in whatever small F4 series she’s–anyways it's her first podium this season anyways and her first one
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in British F4 which means a lot it means a lot to me because this is the second time running
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where I'm at Zandvoort to see a female driver take a podium in British F4, we need to make this
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a tradition! I would really like to see a win next year, if someone could you know commit to the whole
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thing. It would be beautiful. You're their lucky charm. I'm the luckiest charm. Every single time
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that I was at an F4 race in the last few years –which is only like three times– I saw a female
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driver on the podium and that's a great statistic if you ask me. We couldn't talk about this early
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in the year, but I was also at Nordic F4 where – I didn't even remember but I think the same weekend
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um, Mille Hoe got a win, even, I think ,but I don't quite remember, it's been a few months, I
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froze my ass off. Alba Larsen benefited a lot from the fact that guys ahead of her were crashing and
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um, also the fact there were a lot of safety cars and she struggled a bit on the restarts
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but in the end, she could hold on to that third place and it was a magnificent podium it was
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also supported by Maya Weug and I wonder if the fact that Maya was around for the whole weekend
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helped her perform better because it was definitely by far her best performance in British F4 so far
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Do you think that having an experienced driver someone that I rated very highly like
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Maya Weug around really helps drivers? I think yeah, because it's somebody who's like not only
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just in your corner but somebody who's been there before, you know? So it's just like mentally, that
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must also just help so much. And I think what helped was Maya's effect. I know that Alba is also
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getting a bit of coaching stuff from Kevin Magnussen, but I think it's a different thing
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if you're a female driver and you're used to, you know, the discrimination, the way people talk about
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you and you have someone in your corner who has gone through the same things, it helps. But either
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ways DVL cannot be kept from the podium, as he was still on the rookie podium for the race and is
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impossible to get off that podium but he was joined by Jungling, which means for the second
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year running, we also see a German guy, at least on the rookie podium, that's great for me again!
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But I'm really sick and I'm still sick from being at Zandvoort. For race three we got back to the usual
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things with Dries van Langendonck winning the race and the podium being filled also with Lindblom
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and Palmer, it was an even more disruptive race because right as we watched around Tarzan or like
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the exit from Tarzan, multiple drivers went off specifically Lindblom I didn't remember who but
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he–maybe he didn't push– but like he was involved with someone else going off the track, someone
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pushed Ella Lloyd off track, it was a lot going on but in the end it was a really good weekend
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considering that Dries van Langendonck is back on the podium, and he's back in the lead of the
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championship and we saw a great weekend, it was beautiful. I love Zandvoort, I love all of British F4,
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it was a lot of fun and we are we're pretty much in the second half of the championship now
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and so far, Dries is leading the championship by 179 points to Lewis Wherrell, who did not score
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any points this weekend with 132 points and Theo Palmer, who had a pretty solid weekend but is also
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only at 125 points and as for the rookie standings they have not been updated, but from what I see
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since Dries van Langendonck keeps winning and keeps being on the rookie podium all the goddamn time
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he's also doing pretty solid there, so it's a good thing. It's, it's, oh it's a nice thing
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Can't keep him down. I'll just say I managed to talk to Dries van Langendonck after his
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first win a short bit and I'm really antisocial but he just seems like such a nice bloke, like
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there, it was really funny because for the third race, there were so many people with like Dries
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van Langendonck t-shirts and like flags and stuff. Um I hope I can ask Evan if he can maybe enter
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like a picture here for at least the Youtube video, and it was so crazy to see how much support he
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gets because we saw a lot of support for Alba Larsen, because I feel like she's also one of those
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drivers everyone knows and I'm like really happy if she does if she does well, if she's on the podium
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it's like a big thing but the way people showed up and the difference in sound for when they
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announced like Palmer on the podium, Lindblom on the podium, like people were like ‘yay’ but like
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all right, but when DVL was announced, they were so ecstatic, and I think it's such a special thing to
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see a driver like him and like recently it was announced that he is now getting also supported
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by, I think,Max Verstappen in some way. Either way the point is he's doing very well, it's great to
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see a young driver like him get so much support and clearly be on the great road, and pretty much
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inevitably on the road to F1 and I'm excited to see what more we can see from him. Is there anything
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else so we need to add to what we've seen this weekend or last weekend? I think that's it then.
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I just remembered, yeah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, um because I wanted to make a reminder and I have
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to think about how I try to voice it then because I was at Zandvoort, British F4 and Alba Larsson
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got her first podium, I personally–not affiliated to the podcast–but I thought that it would probably
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interest a lot of people listening to the podcast–I decided to do a little giveaway
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for a little Danish flag which I got signed by Alba Larsen at British F4, maybe that was also
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very giving luck away and that and an unsigned MP driver card from 2025. I'm giving away both of
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these things in like a little giveaway on Twitter. For that you just have to either go into my account
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or the Grand Prixquel podcast account they also have it reposted, and to participate you just have
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to follow the Grand Prixquel podcast on Twitter and repost my post. Again, this is not related to
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the podcast ,but it's done by me and I assume people who listen to this podcast would probably
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like to hear it and you can still enter into it until the 27th of July 2026, and then on the
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27th I will probably, or the 28th, I will announce who has won it and I'm hopeful that I can make
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someone really happy with this, because I know that especially getting closer to female drivers like
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Alba Larsen who are usually uh, F4 drivers who usually you know someone you can talk to is not
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able for a lot of people, because most of these only drive in F1 weekends but I'm trying to be
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nice here. So I hope someone's interested in that. So I think that's it for this episode, um if you like
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