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It to the fans, thank you for contining to remind me who I am Even one of the greatest ever can fail, can doubt, and can go back stronger. I think that today he was fighting against his fears. I feel Lewis has really pushed them to not be afraid. He smells blut and if the blute is there, he will go for it. I see Fred as an enabable of what the can achieve here. I think it's changing a little bit the history and the mentality of Ferrari. Although George has closed the gap Do you think he's actually left Barcelona slightly worried Yes Ver much. I'm sure that he's not heavywight Louis Hamilton is back Welcome everyone to Spain for F one Nations review of the Barcelona Catalunia Grand Prix. I'm Tom Clarkson and joining me in the Paddock, or perhaps I should say in the Ferrari motor homeome is ESPN's Albert Fabriga and Brazilian journalist Julian Serasoli. What an extraordinary day guys. for Hamilton, for Ferrari, I think we can say for Formula one as well. Can we start by getting your reactions to what happenens. What can I say about this? I wouldn't say it was unexpected because this This wind has been coming closer and closer and closer. It's not coming out of the blue Lewis is second in the championship But I didn't expect it to be today. I thought today was going to be all about tire degradation and Mercedes was going to walk with it. And then since the beginning since the first hint It wasn't And then it was becoming clearer and clearer that Lewis was doing exactly what he needed to do to win. I don't think he needed the VSC to win And it's just a remarkable moment and his emotions just goes on to show that even one of the greatest ever in all sports can fail, can doubt and can go back stronger. Yeah, one hundred percent agree. It's not only the race. I think the whole weekend has been fantastic for the sport, for Louis. I admire Louis as I admire the twenty two drivers. But you know, especially when he was a year ago in a very difficult moment to see how that he has recovered that moment and he's winning for his own merits, not because thir factors becausecause I'm agree with Julianne what you said about the Bilo safety car. He was deserving this. And the thing that I appreciate very much is that he was going for it since the start with soft tires is a statement of what I want to do in this race. It's not just to take the podium. I want to win this race and he achieve it. So it's very good for the sport, I would say, for the former of one as a fan It's good for everyone. It was a very emotional win. Let's hear from the man himself How do you find the right words to express An emotion that's beyond your wildest dreams, you know, I truly believed in my decision and joining Ferrari. I truly believed what this team could achieve, what we could achieve together. I know it started out lots of excitement and then lots of doubt and lots of negativity that followed through a whole year. You know, I really feel like my fans really rescued me last year My family also and friends that stuck with me through it all and started into a new season, a new year where lots and lots of changes in the background enabled me to get to this position I'm in today. And I just feel a lot of gratitude, a lot of pride, and very, very proud of the people that I work with after a year like last year. It was definitely moments that I was likeesish Maybe it is true that, you know, when you get to a certain point, you lose it, but I've proven that you don't I wouldn't be in this team without Fred It is the one that made it happen I think last year was Re really, really tough to him to deal with me coming was a big shock to the system because I am very, very vocal. If I see something that I don't think is right, I push, but he continued to believe, continue to be a good friend and really supportive, and you know ultimately really listened at the end I had to really ask really, really really ask for some of the changes and he enabled them to happen whichich I'm forever grateful for because this wouldn't have happened without those changes. So big big thank you to him There was a lot of relief in his voice listening to him then after everything he's been through over the last eighteen months. And not only from him I got to hear the Tal wolf say I feel relieved for him to come back winning for him and for Fred as well instead of Fred annoys me sometimes, but he is my friend and I'm I'm glad that they got through a lot of really bad stuff. it it's What Lewis has done by going to Ferrari is just He didn't need to do this. He didn't need to take this step and he wanted to As you said about the race, he went for it, he went for it with this decision as well. And it was not an easy one And it's just amazing and that's why it was a very long press conference. He deserved it. But Albert, there's a lovely symmetery because it was thirty years ago here at the Circuit de Catalonia, as it was calledool then that Michael Schumacher won his first race fororever. a heavy rain Today was a heavy sun, I would say. Luckily we are in a ferri motor homeome with a nice iricon now But yeah, there is a lot of lot of similar points on that. maybe be different, but it was a challenge as she said It was a challenge to come to Ferrari We know that Serrari has not been capable to win with champions like Sebastia Metel like Fernando Lonso So 's not easy. It is a completely different team than the others obbviously been used to work with a British embiroyman and going to an Italian, a proper Italian concept like Ferrari is built from It was a massive challenge for him. and I think The last year He showed to us that he is so emotional in everything he does And he was capable to reccoord it himself. It's not a matter only that he is now connected with the car, that he feels better with the generation of cars. It's not only that. I think he was capable to rebuild himself again from zero and is year to be to smile and to compete that is the thing as a driver you want. He only had one complaint when he made a comparison with Michael The Michael's cockpit was red and his is white And in his dreams he would be driving and seeing red all over him and he sees white from where he stands. That's the only complaint. You mentioned you know that he started on the soft tyre and that he was aggressive and wanted to win this race from the start. I feel there is a significance behind him starting on the soft tyre because I think There's been a period here at Ferrari where they might have been a bit afraid to do something different like that at the start. All the carsars around him Exactly. all the cars around him We're on the medium tyre But I feel Lewis is really push them to not be afraid to go for the Macareinna wing, to change the brakes, to Be adventurous with a design. Go be aggressive with the soft tide. Do you guys agree that that's significant. It is, it is. I think that farry still have this this difference between them and the other teams were the consequences of having a mistake like this affect the whole the wholeest Ceria, you know, the I think that in this sense, Fred has done a taking weight of the things that are not relevant for the team and whatever is said outside, I think that he's trying to introduce you to the team that they have to they have to be a little bit away of what is going on away of the team or outside the team and what the people said about it and be confident with their work. And I think that having the A man like Louis Hamilton that has been one of the the greatest of the sport You within the team It gives that confidence to them to do this kind of of strategies saying, okay, well, let's go for it. And if it doesn't work Nothing happened. We will be fighting for the podium anyway. but Giving them the opportunity to win, I think is enough to take the risks and they' doing it. I see Fred as an enabler a neighbor of what Lewis can achieve here In his first day at Ferrari, he went to his office and there was all the newspapers from the day before, from the morning probably. And he said, from tomorrow onwards, I don't want this. I don't want to know what others are talking about this thing. What matters is what inside this thing And I think this it leads to decisions like this. it leads to Let's just do our best here and not be afraid of what the papers will say or what we are going to say the podcast or something like that It all comes together and having Louis a guy who has won so much telling the guys just go for it and having a boss saying, okay, let's go for it. If we fail, we fail, try And of course, they are in the also a much better position than Mercedes to try something like that because they are far from the championship they don't have power And that is still a problem in Nothing that has happened today. has made them have more power in their engine, right? It doesn't solve their problem. At least they won. they got this first step. They are on a different kind of path than Mercedes. I think that Fred Baser has been the first team member of Ferrari who has said that the engine is not powerful enough. I don't know That would never have come out B on Ferrari. Y did not l. He's been bra since the first race of this season. say our engine, our oppent unit is not powerful enough. So I think that never happened that before in Ferrari. Well look Why don't we listen to the boss now? This is Fred Vasser. You know that we are the ' been on the last eighteen months and sometimes it's wor tough, but it's I think a good reward for everybody. When I say everybody, the first one is Louis and the team in Manelo and the team on track that eighteen months to be able to win and to have this kind of fries today. It's not the target. I want to win more but it's a good milestone and a good reward for everybody. He praised you. He thanked you after the race for believing in him and sticking by him during the difficult times last year Yeah, but we are working as a team including Char, including Louise, the guys in the factory, the guys on track that we have to react in the positive and negative moment as a group, not as individuals They say you want to win more. You had the fastest racing car today on a track that is a real car test. How much confidence does that give you? So it's a good one, but honestly I think this season is a bit different. It will be all based on the capacity to develop and to bring up grades. it means that we will do a full resis soon when others and us we will bring a new package on track and it will be a Paps today we had an advantage, but perhaps in one week it will be different Let talk about what a facilitator, Fred is. I thought it was interesting in that short interview How even in what is probably the highlight of his Ferrari career so far, seeing Lewis Hamilton win in red He still very measuures You know, he's always said, I don't want to get too excited when we win. I don't want to get too low when we lose. He has just proven that Yeah, and he's a racer because he's a man who's All his career has been related to motorsport in the GP two and Formula three, then in Formula one, but he's a proper racer. He's a man of the motorsport, a man of the motorsport and he knows that these up and downs happen And the emotions that are very high and day like today, it can be very low in the next day after Oh there is after So balancing all these points and low points, I think it gives you the moment to it gives you energy and it give you the calm and the quiet situation in order to make the teamwork on the right on the right way and And yeah, I think he's doing well, he's doing well. and And I think it's changing a little bit the history and the mentality of Ferrari is this is important because there are some drivers that are changing the sport or changing the mentality of a team principal like him He's coming alone is different than Jentot that arrived there with a lot of engineers with with relevant people and change the whole and the whole board of the company Fred Baser arrived there alone. I said I'm coming and When he said the Lois was going to come to the team. And he is changing us slowly, but in the right way, the way that that Ferrari is working as a team and he's achieving very good things. This was win number one hundred six for Lewis. What does a win in red Mean for Lewis Hamilton's legacy in this sport Well, it means winning in three different teams is not easy. I don't know if there is many drivers who kind who has achieved And mainly when no one was saying that he could achieve it with Sidera. no one was thinking, okay, this is this year is going to be Louis Hamilton year. he's going to recover themsel himself. He was more comfortable with the car, but from that point to win races and to beat bothoth Mercedes. I think it was there was a long distance, but then after the two of thir first races We saw that he has the capability to, you know, to achieve the pays inough He was happy with the car, he was connected. everything was in place with even a the Be unit But I think that it reaches here in Barcelon, a very very emotional emotional moment when you see that him aving achieving the result, mainly with a car that shouldn't perform that well here, for example. So thing has double double value The thing with Lis is that I can only imagine that maybe tonight he's going to be thinking, oh, this is great. I finally won with Ferrari and tomorrow he's going to be thinking, okay, what else can I do? How far can I go? can I Fight for this championship, Can I become Champion without?' already thinking that Well even tomorrow. You know, with Kimmy Antonelli not finishing this race, the gap is down to forty one points now between Lewis and Kimy He was asked in the press conference, Is it game on? and he he was batting it away, not wanting to put pressure on him or the team saying it's one race at a time But when you look at the performance of the car and how many races we have left, I feel it's game on. Do we going to Silwesteron soon? That was always. A place where he's performing very well on twoents Well, Toto was saying, I really don't want him to be fighting for the championship because know I know him. I know if he can smell blood, he's going to go for it and I really don't want to have him in this fight because I know what he's capable of. He's relentless, isn't he Yes, yes. And the good thing is that these situations it make us remember that it is not an easy job what the drivers are doing. It means that you have to have everything on your side So it gives a special value for him winning this first race. but I think that more are to come And when you see how his teammate is, that Charles is not performing well and I'm pretty much sure that he's very disappointed with the result is we can you you think that that, uh Leo is now is in another status and that he smells blute and the blute is there and's red of course, like the Ferrari. he will go for it. and I have no doubt of that. 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For the ones who get it done juxtaposition of Lewis celebrating on a Sunday and Charlle leclc saying how ashamed he was, his word not mine, of his crashing qualifying It's a really difficult moment, I feel this for Charlotte. I think he's generous enough to be pleased for Lewis and for the team that they're winning again for the first time in a couple of years. How does he drag himself back into the conversation? Funnily enough, going back to Fred, Fred was saying that I'm Less worried about Child now than I was two weeks ago That's why he said in the press conference after the race. Actually Char drove a good race. Everything went downwards yesterday But at least what the team is feeling is that this weekend was better for him. Let's remember that he was actually doing better than Lewis until the qualifying and Lewis throughroughout this weekend, I'm I saw him after FP three leaving the track And I thought what's wrong? Why is he leaving the track? And I thought about saying out, Lewis, what are you doing here? just to make a joke but he looked tense And then he said afterwards, I went to my motor home because I wanted to put my act together. It was not as if he destroyed Cho for the whole weekend and then it was only it was Saturday qualifying and everything went on for Ch and then His race was actually a good race. So I think there's more to come from Sao. He just made an important change with the brakes this weekend I think the same process that Lewis needed to get to this point here, I think that's the process that Chaos is going through right now. How much has Chaul learnnt technically this weekend about the brakes? Be there aren't any really big stops here in Barcelona? No no definitely not. Not sure if he already tested in the precision. I'm not sure about that. but anyway He needed mentally, I think. more that technical thing, I think he needed mentally Just to be sure that he have the same colour as his teammate I think, you know, the talent is there. He hasn't forgot to drive the car. So I think it's more a mental job what Charles have to do to recover the confidence in himself to see what he's doing wrong because there's obviously something doing wrong and recover the speed that we have seen in past years. Maybe the thing that from Charles I wouldn't say I don't like, but I see that is penalizing him is that the low points when he doesn't start while the Fridays, he's not capable to be on the pace and he's not confident with him and the car' connected with the car It's like it's difficult for him to recover that point where he sees he sees that his teammate is quicker than him. I think he's entering in a moment that is It's difficult for him to release all this pressure. and let all this be o through. Alber interestingly, isn't that what we saw from Lewis last year And therefore Lewis sometimes yes. then them to make loads of changes changes the race. engineer changes bits on the car and it came back. I just wonder Because you don't have answers to your questions. When you start asking questions, why I amm not that quick why I'm not capable to be connected with the car and showing my speed. and you don't have the answers, your answers yourself. you have to Start looking around yourself say, maybe the problem is this or maybe the problem is that and you're starting to change Whatever you think is not right for you too see if that gives you the confidence to exploit to exploit or your resed, but it's difficult, it's difficult. deffinitely to recover that confidence Let's talk about Mercedes now onene and three on the grid. When George Russell got away from the line in the lead, I think there were a lot of people Myself included who thought well George Russell's got this in the bag. twentyenty five of the thirty five races here in Barcelona have been oneon from pole position. he's done the difficult bit How surprised were you guys by the relative pace of Mercedes versus Ferrari? Yeah, I thought after a few laps with clean air he was going to disappear What seems to have happened if we listen to George's radio was that he was managing the tyres and he was surprised and he was called with Lewis for the first stop like, oh, I had more tyres here Should have told me What I think is that Mercedes, they just reacted to what Ferrari was doing instead of doing your own race. That's what happened in the first part of the race. and then in the second part of the race, they changed that they realizeed, okay, Lewis is on the t stopper. We are not And then they seem to not be very decisive with the strategy. Are we covering him him or are we not covering him And I think that was bad for George Sace first time in a while that Ferrari of out strrategized Mercedes right? I'm actually that's another reaction. I'm agree. for me there was another reaction from them And it was clear from the beginning before the race, who starting in softs, it was going to three stops. And the others could go to a two stops, following the simulator. You know the simulator normally more or less are on the right way and matching what happen later. But yeah, for me, it was an overaction moment because You know, they say, okay, let's cover Louis and that's it And but I was hoping them to split the strategy a little bit more Maybe they could have Aonally out for longer. I don't know, but then them do that if you do that you create tension within the team and this is not good. So not easy, but for me it was it was an overaction. the The I was behaving good. That's what we understand fromr his comments, I think it was in an overreaction moment, yes I did wonder whether them battling, Kimmy and Gege batling in that middle stint would have cost them time in their battle with Lewis, but actually George batted that away. How significant was it that Antonlli overtook Russell Okay, he then retired less than a lap later or whatever. but to have that extra pace over George, do you think although George has closed the gap to his teammate by eighteen points, Do you think he's actually left Barcelona slightly worried Yes Very much because I'm pretty much sure that yesterday he was happy He was okay, I'm back. I didn't forget to drive a Formula onene I have the speed again here and this is going to change from now onwards. And today, even him cutting points to his teammate I think that that moment has an impact to his confonfidence for sure for sure because he was quicker and he overtooken a Not aggressive but the intense situation where the even they toouch But yeah, I'm sure that he's not happy right now Yeah Toto is not happy as well He said there are a few things we have to review. Imagine Ttal Nocel ten years. Oh go goingo on turn free side by side. Maybe another table just suffered another heat or something like that. But yeah and Kimy did really well today, really aggressively, but what caught my attention was how Bono was trying to stop him, wasn't he Bonner was trying to know to the track limits, right? Yeah, track limits, you know, just stay there, think about Lewis. you know, all the messages that the engineer says to trying to calm not calm him downward is to stop him F fighting and he went there and did it. Nothing can stop Kimmy, I think. L love Isn't that what we love about Kimmy. I was surprised about his radio message yesterday on free practice three, I think When they send him in traffic and he had not a shun, but a moment with Lan' thrl at the was it? It Was it quali? or was we practice three? mayaybe if you practice three And he went a little bit over a land stroke And his message on the radio was strong. was strong And I said, Wh, that's not the nice kimi that we know. and he was gettinget upset with with with the wall And then when I was a little bit Cal down mate, you know But but that's a really interesting point. the change in mindset after five consecutive wins from Kimmy Antonelli You know, we talk about Lewis Hamilton's smelling blood, but I wonder whether the nineteen year old can see it can see the championship you remember there's a change in mentality. You remember that that moment where Toto came to went to him when he did a mistake. I don't know, it was in Australia or said, Ke the copy. I feel so confident. And Toto said to him, Yes The confidence, keep the confidence. lookook at the data, the mistake, but keep the confidence and the confidence is still there and it's bigger and iss growing with more confidence And I think he's realizing that he has a big opportunity for him So yeah, I've seen a different K me this weekend It was a very different circuit as well. so I think O George's perspective, he had everything on his side to prove that What happened in the last two to three races is not going to happen again because we have the track temperature being a lot higher We have more energy on the tyre, we have everything maybe we'll help a driver who is not as aggressive as Antonlli in the car and this is it. I just found something. That was him yesterday. And today, Kimi, remember yesterday, he said, I think of being over aggressive over one lap and everything This guy, nineteen year old in one day he finds solutions and then when he could completely destroy the tyres in a race like this, fifty one degrees of track temperature, he does it and I think George would be very we're talking about Lewis being relieved Georgeia would be very relieved that he didn't lose out points this weekend. Antonelli was pretty ill this weekend too much Too much jumping in the harbour after the win in Monaco, too much partying with the prince at the palace on Sunday night. I don't know what the reason, but he was actually really ill. I don't know whether you heard him speak, but you know, proper coolds going on and didn't affect him at all in the cper and he didn't do the free practice O One You know, is it factor they know, you know, they know the car, the simulator is better and better. I don't know if Luis did simulator before this race. I didn't ask No no, no, no. No simulator at all.. He didn't have time? No no no no. But yeah, yeah. still surprising me Kim Antoni. I was very, very happy with his result in in because what he did in Monaco was exceptional, I would say I said that this kind of winds gives you cocoa drile skin you know, a very hard skin. and I think that today he showed that again. So the car is not perfect for me. The situation, the qualifying was not fantastic. I'm not one hundred percent happy with the car. I don't start from pull. There is a lots of t degradation and whatever and so on and so on and so on. then during the race, I am capable to perform well and to overtake my teammate in a difficult situation where Another fglimic situation gives you five seconds penalty and listening to engineer because saying as Julian said, he was in a very polite way saying Maybe be careful donon't take any risk. I don't know if it was a team order and I don't think it was a team order I don't think so, but if it was not, it was Poplely close to it. I think they're just being careful because they didn't want them to crash and they didn't want a penalty as well. Lando was closed as well. So it makes sense I'm not saying that all. They are trying to stop Kimmy and they want George to win. It made sense for the team But it did sound to me that he was just trying to him that but last time they met in a race, he was in Canada. It was alreadyense situation, huh? Yeah. One cloud above Mercedes after this race is yet another PU failure. still there It's still there, isn't it? Exactly that Do we know the cause of the problem, Albert? I'm not sure, but it was shut down as it was for George in Canada and probably coming from The battery of the electronic that is the weakest point of the power unit that has been affecting not only them also. customers. So yeah it's one of the weakest point and I thing it will not surprise me if they have penalties before the end of the year in this sense. So something that Also I'm pretty much sure that Fera is looking at. Let's talk about one of the customers now. McLaren, Lando Noris benefits from Antonlli's retirement I think Llando was pretty upbeat after the race. He was happy with that race pace. It shouldn't be. He was very very close to them. I didn't see that at all in free practice or anything that McLarean could be that close of course They were leading the sheets but it f one lap pace and they knew that the others were going to cumber They did really well in the race And let's remember it's been a couple of weeks being really tough for McLaren, maybe even a month has been really tough with reliability problems. are not connected and they are not sure if it's because of the way they run the PU or if they are doing something wrong. so They stripped down his car on Friday, the whole thing and put it all together that's why uh, they They had the cofee. broke the cofee. and because they're trying to find answers that they don't have with a car. Even with all this extra work trying to find these solutions, they can still be with this kind of pace And let's remember the Ferrari upgraded a car and they didn't bring a lot of things for this race. so They have reasons to be upbeat. They run This front wing tos Yeah finally tell us about the fr wing That's been, you know, on off, on and off for the last couple of races they ran it here. Why here? Why Why did they suddenly see the light? I think because you have three free practice here, you can do a good scan of different setups and different and different configurations of the car and then you have data to support. They had to try it in a free practice one before spring weekend in Miami, same thing in Canada and then to Monaco. Both races, if the drivers are one hundred percent confident with the car, you are lost. You lost the whole weekend. You lose the whole weekend. So I think they were in a conservative mode saying, okay, we are not one hundred percent that is giving more performance and it iss not giving more confidence to the drivers So this is not the race to use it. I think it was a conservatative approach, but it's a good approach to do And for sure that here they have more opportunities of scanning different right heights, different setups, different IO configurations to put the car on the optimum the optimum performance for these nodose and they are happier with it. So And the results are there and mainly on Noric side and PST that I think is suffering more lack of confidence with. The interesting thing about this front wing is that what Andrea has been saying, it's only the beginning That front wing, that's why it took them so long to put in in the car is going to show a different path for them to develop a car And I heard some very people saying that there's something really interesting in that front wing. I still don't know what that is But what my client says is that it's not that wing that will change everything But it will be the start of a change. they're really confident in Championship wise still believe in McLaren or do you think they've just had too much unreliability? Think of the you know, neither car starting in China and then all the problems Landos had at the last couple of races Do you think the gap is too big? I It's not It's not too big In terms of time maybe But probably the time they lost with the reability problems with this front wing that are not accomplishing what they were expecting at the beginning I'm not sure if there is this affects the correlation on the future designs I'm not sure, I'm not sure Obviously they are a step a step behind. and I'm really worried about maybe not for Noris because he's recovering the speed, but I see But maybe his teammate is not in a good in a good shape right now. He's not he's not feeling good with the car, he's not feeling Cfee then and Yeah, I see him a little bit farw away. Well mean Oscar was on pole at this this race last year wasn't? the gap between him and Lando is it feels like it's as you say, has been growing As the season's gone on. actually Yes. and I don't see a point where saying, okay I'm pretty much sure that Oscar is not performing better than than Lando on circuits where there there's low grip as Miami, Canada, Monaco. It happened last year. You remember the up and downs of the season between him and Lando. But here was a truck but I was expecting a bit more, so it means that He's not confident with the guy, he's not happy, he doesn't feel connected to it. Trying to be logical about it if Mercedes find solutions for the PU And then McLan we will find solutions as well. Of course it's not always like that because it's different cars But if they don't have reliability problems, Mercedes and then McLiren are not going to have as well, and the gap is going to stay the same.ue Makes sense Yeah, about PS three It's really really strange, isn't it? But on the other hand, I think Lando has been driving really well When you see the onboard, he looks so confident. I think the fact that he's now a world champion and He's not driving with a lot of pressure this year. Whatever he does is fine because the car is a bit behind And I think That has given him a few tents It's been hard for Oscar to catch up. I think there's looseness about Lando both in the car and out of the car. You remember there were points last year where he was so tense and nervous in and out of the car. I feel like it's a completely different man this year. He's achieved his lifetime ambition and the team is seeing the benefits in the car. It's just sad for him that the car is not as quick relative to the opposition as last Another car that's not as quick relative to the opposition as it was last year is the Red Bull. Max Verstappen takes P four. Where do you guys feel he's at Is he on top of that car now? or is he you know, he was complaining about the ride in Monaco and the curbs? Do you feel they're making progress nor as that the point that he needs to and he wants to. and I think everyone in Red Pull is not happy with with the car. I think they were doing some There have been three already big upgrades since we start the season in Bahrain or the precision in Bahrain. And I think that they are not having yet that point where they can reach a weekend saying, okay, we go for it and we know that we can we can reach and O weekends last year, he was taking, you know, the rabbit from the from the hat as a machician on Friday night or just before the qualifying and he was setting up the car in a magic way that where the car was confident and the car was competitive there And you know, this year, these situations looks that are not happening. So I think Monaco was one off. because max Obviously because of the cara because of the team, of course But yeah we haven't seen here or on the following tracks the speed that we are expecting from there. And another poor start Okay, that was for Iseak Hajal, but still they're having problems getting away from the line, aren't they? Yeah, this track, the fact that the are is too heavy counts a lot, isn't it We're going to have a better idea when the new package the new weight loss package comes in Austria and how How well they will do there? But they still have a lot of problems with the software. If they don't get on top of the software and of the weight, we're going to see these ups and downs when sometimes Max is more comfortable and then We know that he can take ninety nine percent of the car Why have we asked our contractor we found on Angie d. com to be our kids legal guardian? Because he took such good care when redoing our basement that we knew we could trust him to care for our kids, B eightate of them. Should something happen to us Are you my dad now Uh no, sorry. I do basement. Connecting homeowners with skilled pros for over thirty years. Angie, the one you trust to find the ones you trust. 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I found out this weekend for the first time that Danny Kivat is now The Sim driver at Endstone. I wonder I wonder how much of an impact he's able to make on the performance Obviously, if you have an experienced driver on the simulator it gives you good feedback to the engineers, but not sure if this is only because of the work on the simulator On Friday, we saw already that Alpina has a good Race space. They didn't have the speed for one lap for the qualifying, but in terms of Race space was not that bad. They were complaining because everyone was complaining But then the numbers, if you look into the numbers, the race space was not that bad So we werere expecting them to fight for the points, but it's been a very, very strong race, even with some strategic decisions They were not happy or making happy both drivers. because Frankco was was complaining, but it's been it's been a strong weekend for them again And a weekend where they have given back the podium from Monaco. Yeah, they finished third. Y, seventh and three good results this weekend. a lot of points is weend. And they're starting really well as well. and that gives a lot of confidence to the drivers. And once again they did the two of them they did a very good start.