Le Mans Commentary and Closing

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Well we will cover it 'cause we're an independent podcast produced in the podcasting shed with the kind support of our patrons and partners. We aim to bring you a race review before your Monday morning commute. We might be wrong, but we're first. Someone who everyone wants to bump wheels with is commentator Chris Stevens. How's it going, Chris? Oh, that's my favorite intro. Yeah. Yeah, Spanners. I'm on the the deck of my yacht and sipping some champagne as some cars go by, but I don't give a damn about that. There's there's money. There's money floating around Monaco. We're n we're never gonna get rid of it. It's gonna stay forever. The the two pit stop rule is a tacit admission that something needed to be done, which is good, which is a nice step. And I think to be honest, the fact that now you've got like George Russell openly going, hey, the Sunday's rubbish, we shouldn't accept it. Um you know, we we need two pit stops. Um now that it's much more of a common opinion that yes, of course, no real race racing can occur in most circumstances on a Sunday, I'm actually a little bit less upset about the race. It's the it was the gaslighting about it that was was hurting me. I'm happy to just review the competitive weekend ahead and not just go, Oh, I'm a lone voice. Like is no one else seeing this? Is no one else why why do we love this? I mean I d personally love watching cars going around particularly in qualifying. Um and I'm curious to see how these new cars actually get on because I think with the e extreme abilities of the boost and overtake mod es. If we are gonna see any racing around Monaco, this is the year for it. So if can you create enough delta i i i with slower cars, say form formula E round here, what what are the overtaking spots? You've got turn one before you go up here. Really? Is it in Formula E, yeah. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. There was a time I think Bohem ie went around the outside of three cars around the hairpin one time. Um because they were just bottlenecked up. So like it's literally every corner. Right. Okay. But so what I'm saying is, you know, the shape of the track there there used to be places where, you know, you'd get overtakes into turn one sometimes. That you know, in the olden days, you'd get some and you'd get occasionally th when the cars were smaller, someone diving down into their hairpin. What what's that hairpin called? The Maribot? No, uh the it's called the Fairmont now. Oh okay. Because it's it's the Fairmont Hotel. It used to be called the Lowest Hairpin. That's kind of what I default to calling it anyway. Um People used to chuck it down there though, didn't they? But that used to happen way more often. You can do, but then you're more than likely to end up in the barrier on the the outside there than anything else. And that used to happen more often as well . Yes. That was very funny. I'd say it's Sandavot, the first corner, um, into the Nouvelle Chicane, which really needs to be renamed because it's not the new Chicane. It should be the established chicken. It's probably been there longer than the chicane has not been there, I would say. Um and then you can surprise people into Rascass into the anultimate corner, and you can surprise people into Portier. But again, that's very risky. Uh you remember Pascal Verline on his side against the barrier there, thanks to thanks to JB. We can call it the e te bl ai chicane. There we go. I think that's the French word for I'm just Googling. For established the word established on France. Yeah. All French words are made up anyway. Wait, how do you think? When will they just admit they need to be part of the United Kingdom and speak English. Wow, okay. Uh right. So uh yeah. So if there is a significant gap between say a car that ha has run out of deployment and a car that's been saving it. Is that is that a feasible situation? Here's the thing. It's very unlikely that the to be energy starved this weekend is going to be a problem for anyone. Um so when we actually want there to be a lack of energy, an energy problem, now there isn't one. But the the reason for that is because there's so many breaking zones, so many slow speed corners, you're going to be regen any acceleration zone. The amount they're able to regen, this is going to be the most normal these cars look throughout the entire year. So should be very little lifting coast and very little battery management. So they're not going to struggle to keep those batteries topped up. On top of that, we have for this weekend, well, two unique things. One is the the fact that w there's no straight mode because it's Pride Month. And so therefore we're not allowed to have good. I'm glad you went there. Good. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Um no, this is because uh the nowhere is deemed safe for the straight mode. Even the old DRS zone on the the pit quote unquote straight. Um so that in itself really only exists because because the cars run out of power halfway down the strait anyway, but that's not a problem here and it's there for safety reasons. So actually this is probably the first race weekend without any movable aerodynamics since two thousand and eight, I think. And uh and I've seen already some of the teams have turned up and taken advantage of that. So if your flappy flaps are not flapping anymore, then you can you can do more. So some teams have turned up with a monaco specific rear wing. Yes, so because you don't need the actuators on the rear wing to move the wing, uh they're just putting more down force on it. There's Mercedes have got one that looks like a dog with like its leg up in the air having uh up against a fire hydrant, which is funny. So it's more like an old fashioned uh winglet war race now. Yes, yeah, very much so. Or dirty downforce they call it, because they don't care about top end speed here. Um but the other thing that's quite crucial is this new rev one mode. Right. And this really is the final nail in the coffin of the argument of we're just making it up as we go along. Because what this does no seriously, every race we've got a different rule. But you could you could call that adaptability. You could call that common sense. You could call that flexibility and dynamic sport management. I call it we've messed up these regulations so damn much we need to come up with a sticking plaster for every single race. Monaco always needs a sticking plaster. That is true. one is and I will say is this a sticking plaster or common sense? Okay. So Rev1 mode is basically limiting the amount of power that the battery is going to deploy at different speeds, even more so than normal. So normally the battery power starts to ramp down , not stop , it ramps down. So you have uh oh what's the limit we have three fifty kilowatts? Did we no did they reduce it? 250. I think they might have reduced it to two fifty. Whatever it is. Let's say it's two fifty, right? If two fifty is your maximum, then it drops down to two twenty, then two hundred, then two hours, based on the speed you are going. Now that normally starts at 290 kilometers per hour. In Monaco, it's going to start at 200 kilometers an hour, and then it's going to shut down completely. So no electrical deployment past 300 kilometers per hour. Now it's pretty rare actually to reach 300 kilometers per hour around Monaco, to be honest, because you're the speed trap is in the tunnel or just coming out of the tunnel into the new Bell Chicane. You're generally hitting around one eighty miles an hour, so just under three hundred kilometers an hour, maybe with a target. I've been getting lost with you mixing between miles per hour and kilometers an hour. Okay, let me just stick to KP. Just under three hundred kilometers per hour, I think, is roughly where you'd normally have your top speed. But because these cars are quicker well, uh they they can be quicker in a straight line than previously. They've decided that this is too dangerous. They've decided that Formula One cars are officially too fast for Monaco and need reigning in in a straight l ine at least. Well that feels like a safety measure. That feels like an out and out safety measure then. It feels like on the surface, the the initial kind of guttural reaction is you're afraid of cars going fast now. But it's not an example of messing up the regs, is it? We're going, well, actually the regs were so good that they're going to be going too fast at the end of the straight and we don't want them to be going that fast. No, this is this is uh well, it is a result of the specific regulations because these cars are capable of doing that speed now. I'm not sure the best drivers in the world need this kind of input really. Like they know that they can break, you know, a bit earlier for the chicane if they're won't. They won't, because th they're they're drive bots. They will drive to the the absolute fastest lap time and that that is what they'll do. And some of them are kids. If they're arriving at three twenty then they previously they were arriving at two eighty. No, but it's it's not about that. It's about what happens when things So what this comes down to then is and this is just me thinking off the top of my head now is that there's not enough runoff area. Yeah of course. Basically that that runoff area down the Chicane and down at s Sand ovot is not big enough to handle a car going more than a little bit . Yeah, that could be a thing as well. So the runoff area at Sand of Ot turn one is actually fairly limited. So you know, hey, they're they're looking at all these aspects. I I'm not particularly upset about this. If they hadn't have told us , I wouldn't have noticed. No, you absolutely would not have noticed. So again, there's a few things with the the overreaction to these regulations and I am in a lose lose situation here, right? Because Okay, so the these cars should look more normal. We're not gonna have uh lift and coast, so much less energy harvesting, certainly no super clipping. So they're not gonna be going deliberately slowly through a corner to charge the battery, probably. If the race is awful, that means the people get to go, ah, these regulations, they've made it worse. They've even made Monaco worse. If it's a good race, then the regulation haters get a bit of a you know a wet fish. But then I have to deal with the monaco apologists going, see, the track's really good. And then I'll be like, well, I'll be happy that there was a good entertaining race. I'll be annoyed that they will take that as proof that they were right all along when they weren't. We've been flattered for a couple of years, I think, because there were some wet races. Even then, even the wet even the wet, dry races didn't really make a difference because they didn't go out in the fall wet because of the visibility. It was sort of wet for a bit on inters and then it dried up and then it was fine. That's the most entertaining race we've had in at Monaco in the last in the last decade. But here's two here's two a an an entertaining race that means I can't complain about Monaco this year. Absolutely. It's at the very least, gonna be the most normal looking race of the season. Yes. If if it's like a standard Monaco race where it's difficult to overtake so no one's really having to push . No one is trying to stretch out their lead, really. So no one's following too fast, but close behind. No one's wearing their tires out. Nobody's going at uh near the top speed. That's the normal for Monaco. That's probab that's the most likely scenario. Yes, and it is still the softest softest tires that they have for this weekend, but they're not soft enough. Um there's been some resurfacing, it's probably not gonna make too much difference because it's actually mainly on straights rather than in corners. It's still a really smooth surface. So yeah. I d the the thing we're probably going to be talking about the most is compression ratio because this is the first race since the closed loophole of compression ratio. So Mercedes clearly is suddenly gonna be three quarters of a second a lapse slower than they were in Montreal. What I lost track. I I'm actually surprised that it's been brought up again 'cause my suspicion at the time was they all went into that meeting room and then they all came out looking fairly grumpy ish but fine. And they came out, you know, reported going, Who who won? you know, they went in there with pitchforks and they all came out going, t fine, whatever. And y what happened in there? So my suspicion is that it was going to be quietly shelved. Like maybe the Mercedes um uh engine thing was n't as much of an advantage, or or maybe they were quietly told that the optics on this are bad because of what we said to the other engine manufacturers. So, you know, I I it feels like there was a quiet, dirty compromise that isn't gonna make any difference. So I your first point there I think is where it's actually ended. Which one's that then? So uh the the fact that it's not ri it's not it's not the silver bullet no you know that's made Mercedes the best at at the start of this new regulation set. Fred Vasseur reckons that the the additional updates, um what's it called? Additional development and upgrade opportunities at the ad duo , that's gonna have more of an impact across the season than the the closing of this competition. He would say that because it looks like they are gonna get the full two allocated upgrade opportunities because their engine will be deemed to be four percent down on power, which is a lot. Yes. Compared to the the top teams. So they will qualify for two upgrades. And that's the second best engine. Is it? Which says something. Well, who's got a but what are you get you telling me that Red Bull Ford have got a better engine than Ferrari? Yes. So I mean, listening to Hajar's comments, he said the engine 's spot on. We've got all the power, it's the chassis, and uh it's that's where the problem is. So that's what Haji says. Like that all they've ever complained about is how down on power they are. I mean, yeah, Red Bull are probably like the undisputed Aero kings of Formula One. Certainly, like historically, like they're the best Aero team probably ever in Formula One. Amazing. Okay. What do you think? That would be my assessment. Who's been the best Formula One team ever at doing aerodynamics and creating downloads? There we go. That would be a less hyperbolic way of putting it. There you go. Yes. So actually, yeah, I think maybe the Red Bull Ford power unit is is fine, is good, is up there. Uh who else we got? Aston Martin. We don't we don't doesn't need to enter the conversation . Audi. And then Audi. Audi's a really interesting one because they've gone in such a different a different direction. Uh it doesn't seem to be like a lack of power is the problem for for Audi either. So I don't know if someone wants to say what they've what they've heard about the Audi engine. But I I I think that the Ferrari the Ferrari is a uh significantly down specifically in the internal combustion unit part of it. And I think that's mainly that was my understanding was that the a duo is mainly about the combus tion engine side. Yes. Yeah, there you go. Yeah. My understanding of it too. Um it's kind of why d everyone's touting Ferrari to Yes. Everyone's basically given the trophy to Ferrari already. Bruce we 've Bruce in the chat has gone, like, can we not just get on the Ferrari bandwagon? Yeah, I'm I'm with you. Give me a reason to get on board. I'll happily do it. Let me tell you. Let me tell you why this is dream soil for Ferrari. All right. Dream soil. With Charles Leclerc coming into his home race, having just signed with a new contract. And uh did you hear him ask going, Did you have other options? And he said yes. Uh and he said, I'm not going to tell you who they are. They can tell you. Which is an interesting start. And he's like, Well I don't mind if the other teams I was talking to talk about it, but I'm not going to tell you. Isn't isn't it every team? Who wouldn't want Charles Leclerc in their team. I think, yeah, if you're management and there's somebody in the last year of their contract or even with just over a year left, you're gonna have a chat with them. Because it's such a small pool, isn't it? You may as well keep all your options open. Unless it's someone who's a complete disaster, you're gonna chat to them. And someone who look like Leclerc is a definitely a top tier get . If you are if which team wouldn't take Leclerc? That's actually a good question. Which team I wouldn't take Leclerc. If I'm Merced es, I think I would have I would have Leclerc. If I was Mercedes, Red Bull. I would say Red Bull is the le ast likely though to sign the Cler. And and Ferrari. Because of you know Max and Yeah, yeah, sure. Sure. So th that's why I said if you were replacing uh Verstappen . If you're Ferrari as well now, your choice is Behrman, and you go, do we bring in uh is Bearman cooked? Do we does he need a do we need to shake him in the air fryer a little bit longer? Like he's gonna come out crispy and golden. No, no, no. But right now . Get rid of Ocon. Yeah, you get rid of Ocon. I mean if you wanted to promote Bahrman to Ferrari instead of re signing Leclerc. That's what I'm saying. So Ferrari would want to retain Leclerc's services as uh I'd imagine. Imagine a world where they swap Verman and Leclerc, right? I think that would be premature. For sure that would be a premature call. Oh, my my uh my concern for Leclerc is whether he thought the team was moving in a Hamilton direction. And there's been some really interesting comments like uh Hamilton were saying, My the my engineering team is where I want them, I'm really happy. Uh I'm in a good place. Leclerc made a comment going, I have never seen this team uh as motivated and doing as much as uh as they're doing at the moment. And I wouldn't be surprised if that's a Hamilton effect, because you know, he's a he's a faffosaurus, is Hamilton, isn't he? He's a he's a tinker, he's a tinker tink,er que uh tinker bell. He's a tinker. Tinker tailor soldier spy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He loves a t hous he loves a tinker, doesn't he? How many times have we seen him with a pretty good setup one day and then the next day, a completely dire setup. Oh, this setup's pretty good. But what if we just push for one percent more oh it's gone. Oh, it's it collapsed. It completely collapsed. Um so I I get the feeling that yeah. I get the feeling that Hamilton is very demanding. And and I think oh, Fred Vassou actually made a direct quote and said Hamilton was very demanding. I'll try and dig it out. He said that last season and he was like laughing. He was going, Yeah, Hamilton's very demanding. And then so it comes down to well, what kind of power does he have and status within Ferrari? Those John Elkin comments last year, mate you know, the the shut up and dribble, made it seem like, oh, maybe he's r seen as kind of like a freelancer or something in the in that world. That's from the wider company though rather than the team. Yeah. That's so someone that is someone who did not he he was not the the senior person at Ferrari when they were nurturing baby Charles through the junior ranks and his first year of Formula One and then him joining, you know, he wasn't there for the whole story. There were lots of people very attached. But it's not it's not necessarily good to you know get behind someone charismatic and get all this excitement and do a billion things. Uh there's that classic Homer Simpsons episode where his strange brother lets him design his perfect road car, and they it's buzzing, he's being innovative, he's talking about drinks holders, and then when it finally gets revealed, it's five times the price of a standard car and it's a big bubble thing, and it's you know, it's atrocious and the company goes bust. But at least there's kind of a change because I think a lot of people felt that with Ferrari there was this stagnant reputation of uh like Ferrari had become a verve to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. And so something did need to be changed. It looks like a lot of things are changing. Well look though, I'm I'm not saying that after the announcement of the closed contract extension that I saw several memes about his therapist uh making lots more money, um, five more years of of doom, that kind of thing, you know, struggle of being a Ferrari fan, we all know it. Um but but but but this weekend that that will all change according to the internet. It's a lock and lock in. Yeah. And this is why the internet says it's guaranteed that Ferrari will win the Monaco Grand Prix. Who said that? And it's the everyone. Oh, um I got shouted at in the street. I the first time it's happened to me, just like out walking around. Someone in a truck slowed down and was shouting at me. I didn't catch the first bit, but it was basically Ant and Ellie ain't getting a win this week, mate. And I was like, oh, okay. I was like, Yeah, yeah, go Lewis, go Lewis. But he was like, Yeah, he was really looking forward to it and hot and pot and and uh hyped up because of this Ferrari uh sort of hype train for Monaco thing that's going on. Um yeah, so that was that was weird. If if that was you, like can you just message me, what was the first bit you said? 'Cause I'm not sure wha how whether it was super hostile or super friendly. Sounded friendly. Uh the the the the whole basis seems to just be is like, oh they're good in corners but slow. In a straight line. Ah no? Not just good in not just good in corners, Spanners. Good out of cor ners. Good in slow speed corners and good out of them. Yes. So their engine and aero deficit for you know, in general, is gonna be minimized for this week end, particularly to Mercedes . But the the the sh the chassis, everyone say the chassis is really good, it can ride the curbs very well, that's important in Monaco, and of course, we know that you know it's got that small turbo, so it's punchy out of corners, particularly good for the start as well, because if they lock out the front row and they need to protect that position, and then that's ninety-five percent of the job done to win at Monaco straight away. The fact that this is such a uh an energy-rich circuit and weekend now because of these supplementary regulations, it does take that edge away ever so slightly and then we have to start looking at McLaren who have also been very good in low speed corners so far this season and their car is bet is is is set up better for acceleration. W which because they have which team? Ferrari. McLaren. Oh no, McLaren. Well I thought it Oh okay. Why are they better for I don't get it? Why are they so they have shorter they have shorter gear ratios than the Mercedes . So they design their own gearbox. So they may they take the power unit from Mercedes but they build their own gearbox. And they have shorter ratios, which it kind of goes against the grain of what most people do, but it sets them up really great for acceleration. Oh, right. Which is very important around Monaco. And that's not something that other teams can just change. No, because you're locked in for the season. Wow. So if there is a weekend where Mercedes is going to eventually tumble, this might be it. Everyone looks at Ferrari right now. I think people need to keep an eye on McLaren. And also I j I don't I just refuse to believe that suddenly Mercedes is gonna become the third best team overnight. So aren't Mercedes also quite quick out the corners because they're quick everything. Exactly. They've been quick through slow speed corners, quick through high speed corners. Um yeah, it's looked like a really good car. And and uh Antonelli's been fairly flawless and good at stuff, so why wouldn't he be good here? And let's also let's just uh say Monaco is not exclusively made up of low speed corners. The run into Matine is pretty dang erous. Hang on, hang on, let's not assume that Spanners knows which corner is Matinee.. Up the hill Okay, so Sandoval, turn one. Sandovart, up the hill. Up the hill. But up the hill, is that not flat anyway? It is. No, no, I'm talking about the corner at the top of the hill. Oh, the right hander. No, the left hander. The kink before the right hander. That's not a kink. That's like a It's not. Oh they is every F1 car is flat through that left hander. No, they are not. They're down like two, three gears fanners. Is it? Oh, that's how little attention I pay to Monaco. Into Casino Square. Yeah. I think it is, I would know that if I ever had run it on the Formula One game, but any time I've played a Formula One game and it's got to the Monaco, I've just uh uh quit out of every session and like fast forward skip skip skip. You you you straight line your way through the various little kinks as they go up the hill. That's fine. The the uh the Holkenberg Perez kinks. Yeah. Yes. And then you got a sort of medium to high speed left hander that you then go into the right of casino square, over the bump. Yeah. And then into the prepare pin. I'm pretty sure that's called Massine anyway. I could be remembered. Okay. So okay, but that's okay, that's to back fairly short corner. It's not to back it's it's not a long corner, to back is fairly quick as well. The that matinee corner then, it's not a long lingering left hander where if you don't have your down force right it's gonna start ripping up your tir also I wouldn't describe uh Sandavot as a particularly slow corner either. You know, it's not they're not crawling around the lap doing eighty kilometres an hour. No, turn one is like an early apex get on the power early kind of thing but it is oh I would still treat that as a slow speed corner. I call it a medium speed corner. Fine. Minimum. Okay, but again but it's like 'cause it's a street track, it's not like turn three at Barcel ona where it's going on forever and it's it's it's done. It's done really quickly. I d I just think any advantage for being good really good at that specific type of corner is fleeting. And we have to think about the track evolution as well because it is a street circuit um and because you know it gets champagne poured on it when it's when the when the day is over right the so the track evolution and the the setup, is it gonna be in the right window? Teams have been guilty of chasing setups in the past and then hitting the mark wrong when it actually comes to the important bit of qualifying and/or the race. So there's there's no guarantees , uh is is my opinion anyway. Okay, put it this way, it's more up in the air, for sure. So you would you you it'd be a lock to go, well, for pole Russell or Antonelli has been pretty much a lock. Yeah. With the only non Mercedes poll wasn't Miami Sprint. Was there any others? Uh the only non Mercedes win was Miami Sprint. I'm not sure about top of power. Yeah, because Antonelli has lost quite a few poles, hasn't he? He's he's dropped back uh on a few, so it makes you forget that he was on pole. Oh, you mean from the start? Yeah, yeah, because he's losing you losing places, you forget that he was on pole initially. But this is the that gearbox we were talking about. That's why the McLaren's went better off the air against it's geared up for acceleration. And then we can work the turbo a bit better. So what we're really talking about is qualifying and that will more or less determine the race winner unless you have a Daniel Ricardo pit stop situation. Uh well, I mean the the the the pit sequence is really important , but you're talking about minor changes in the order rather than you know Well, okay, let's bet on let's let's but bet um until the fun stops. But I I I'm gonna look up the odds and I'm gonna say I'm gonna say that Hamilton does feel like a reasonable bet, just on vibes and momentum . He looks like the driver who's got the bit between his teeth. He's on it. He looks he looks like he's gone, right . By the way, do you know who I am? Start doing this. And then they've started doing stuff and he's happy and uh yeah, and now that they've got a a track where the floors will be ta I don't know, it feels like a reasonable bet. I'm g I'm going for it. I'm gonna look it up. It's Chucky's birthright to be on pole at Monaco when he has a competitive car. Surely. It's um it would ruin the party, wouldn't it? The the better story is new contract with Ferrari wins his home race. Yeah, of course. Yeah. I but I will say this is genuinely the most afraid I've been that I'm gonna miss Lewis Hamilton's first Grand Prix win in red because I'm working this weekend. Oh, so you're not gonna get to watch it. No, I'm gonna be in Misano. Uh commentator. Okay. So look, I will be in Italy as well. Ah ast recommends . Hello, this is staying relevant, a podcast hosted by two best est of best pals, me, Sam Thompson, and Peter James Wicks. We are going to be bringing you a brand new episode every month exclusive to Amazon Music. We're doing snog marry a void. 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Which which more often than not, you know, they know what they're doing. Lewis Hamilton is a is four to one. That's actually pretty long for the Ferrari hype train and how Ferrari have already been crowned kings of Monaco. He's down at at uh four to one. I can see some offering ten to three. Well that that's the shortest. So there's nothing as as short as three to one. Sorry, I don't know the Americans don't know this system, so they they use ratios or something. Uh but um so if you bet a pound and he gets poll, you get the four pounds if it's four to one plus your bet back. So your one pound gives you five pounds. Charles Leclerc is is more like two to one. So much shorter odds. So the favourite that I'm seeing from what I'm looking up is Charles Le clerc. Uh and Hamilton's not getting doesn't seem to be getting a sniff across the bookies. Not sure why. Didn't he? Yeah, qualified Charles in Montreal, didn't he? Yeah, yeah, he's looking all right. He's done it before, he's won a few races. He's won Monaco before. And then after that, it is the Mercedes drivers that seem to be on sort of equal pegging. And then, like you said, the McLaren . And then the Red Bulls after that. But but actually Verstappen is at ten to one. Again, I don't want to encourage anyone. Like only gamble if you're gonna anyway. Uh Verstappen I do take this seriously by the way, you know, my neighbour does a lot of uh gamble aware kind of stuff. Uh but but yeah, but I I I I can do it safely. Uh the snap in ten to one's not bad. Hajar a hundred and twenty five to one. Uh is this for the win? I think this might be for the win. Who's a hundred and twenty-five? Huhh? U uh Hajar, one hundred and twenty-five to one on that just makes sense. Yeah. I don't know. That's no, that's the one. That's the one going for. I th I think you're you're better off putting your money on a Gasly. A Gasly's seven hundred and fifty to one. Right, exactly. Because what happens when there's a massive pile up into the first corner and then Pierre Gasly gets put on pole position for the restart and then and then just walks away with it. Bruce has gone, right, I'm heading to the bank to withdraw my life savings. No, please don't. Right. I'm gonna put a link to like uh gambling charities and and if you think you have a problem go and click on that and get help. Um and give money to the the the charity, not the gambler . Uh okay, I tell you who I want to talk about is Ovid Limblad at a thousand to one. I can see well the shortest I can see uh Arvid from a big site. The shortest I can see him is five hundred to one. Uh now there's an interesting quote from Arvid Limblad this week. Let me let me find it. Let me find it in these beautifully put together notes that Christopher did. Thank you, Christopher. Where are they? They've gone. Oh here we go. Uh Ma Limblad has no interest in the Monaco lifestyle. Okay? No interest in the Monaco lifestyle. He says I come from a family that had to work for everything they had. It's given me awareness about the world. And because of that, I don't have any interest in I could do it in this voice 'cause Limblad to me, he doesn't have a threatening voice, but he is so direct. He just says stuff in a way that uh that English people don't and I have this problem as well. I don't have the English kind of oh I don't know. I don't know what I think. Let's just see how it all works out and hope everyone has fun. You're describing the uh as explained by Eddie Izzard, you know, in British movies, when somebody walks into a room, oh I oh , tell me What is it, Sebastian? No, Limblad just he's immune to that. He doesn't have that. It's given me awareness of the world and because of that I don't have any interest in the lavish monoco stereotype with your hoiti to ity cigarette holders. No, he didn't say that. Um his father worked in finance. Oh come on. If your dad worked in finance, you No, okay. So here's the thing. Oh come on. His father, from what I can tell, is like something of a self-made man. Oh, okay, okay, okay. So is it's not like Arvid's not been born into the third most wealthy family in the country. Yeah. Unlike Lando Norris, Lance Stroll, a lot of other people in Formula One. Yeah. Right? So his his dad's, you know, worked quite hard. Apparently, he picked up his first job at eleven years old. In the hills mining gold in the hills. He looked up I don't know what it there's gold in them there, hills, and then he went and and then and then he set up a he didn't look for the gold, he set up a business selling the picks to the gold prospectors. That's what he did. Genius. Old Papa Lindblad. God clever lad. But okay, fine. The thing is I don't know enough about Sweden to know if there's that if there's any gold out there. So dad's Swedish. His dad is Swedish. Father worked in finance. Uh uh Swedish. Mother had to force Mother had to force his grandmother to stop working. Yeah. So So Arvid's grandmother um and this is th so I I will recommend check out the the original article. It's from D staysdigital.com. Yes. Uh by Isabel Van Dyke. Oh it's a really good article and it goes into a the the kind of work ethic of his family, which is what he's alluding to in this quote as well. So the fact that his father worked so hard to put them into the position that they are now, I guess. Which is, you know, you would say well off. He's a Formula One driver. No poor person ever made it into Formula One, right? So they're a well off family, but they're not, you know, billionaires or anything like that. And his his his grandmother apparently just wanted to keep working until you know his mother said, No, stop, retire, look after yourself. Jeez. Um it's yeah, it's a really good article. I'd I highly recommend it. I like a good work ethic. We have a really strong work ethic in our in our family, mostly because both me and my wife didn't have a strong work ethic growing up and and then had to kind of find our way and then together we kind of forced and bullied each other into advancing that work ethic. But the kids now, oh my god, I can't they the way they work at school is crazy. Like I can't imagine it. I would invite my son to do something funny. He'll go, I am actually studying, Dad. If you could just Yeah, but Mario Kart, come on, real quick, real quick Mario Kart then back. No, I need to get the thing. I'm like, who are you? Who raised you? This is awful. So yeah, he comes from that kind of hardworking family, and it's obvious that there's kind of maybe then a generational chip on the shoulder. And I don't mean that in too bad a way. I certainly have a a chip on my shoulder, you know, eat the rich as far as I'm concerned. I'm I'm with you, Ovid. Let's eat Monaco, spread it on our toast and devour it with our elevensies. Friction at home and avocado toast. Friction at home's part Indian mother stressed the importance of education and Arvid was missing races for carting. So it does sound like he's made a real kind of bullish stand against he could go, it's not for me. He's but it's like the it's quite attacking to people who then do do the the lavish monoco stereotype. I d I don't know if if that's why Lando Norris made uh uh some kind of comment I don't know if it was with this in mind, and Norris said, Oh, Monaco's just where I have my bed. Well, my home is Silverstone. Is that to say I too am not part of the Monaco lavish elite. Uh no, he's part of the lavish Monaco elite. Uh he can try and hide that uh as much as he wants, but uh it's i i but it's funny because Alex Albon sort of came from equally um unlav ish background when he started in in Formula One and I think it was within his first season he bought an apartment in Monaco Yeah. Maybe his second season, I don't know. Yeah, and you do have uh you know George Russell going George Russell doesn't like shy away from it either. He's like, by the way, have you seen the size of this big ass boat? That's my boat . I bought this big boat with money. Look at it. And I have my shirt off. I have shirts on the boat. I'm not wearing them. So yeah, I mean, yeah, notoriously F1 drivers are rich to live in Monaco and and they're lavish. I I have to say, I do I do like the kid. I like Arvid Limblad. I I'm not yet a fan of him. Because I don't know, that some nothing racy has happened yet in races or whatever I've gone, oh I'm a real fan of him. I like the way. But in interviews, I like him. When he's talking, he's just very kind of he's just very blunt. What what's the aim today? He'd be like, Well, I'm really good at driving race cars. So I'm gonna drive my race car super well and overtake some of the people uh who are poorer uh driving race cars. It just seems very, very forward and honest. So yeah, I I've got time. I've got time. I'm gonna take a look at Over Limblad and decide whether I'm to become a fan. I think you should watch some of the Racing Balls TikToks. Uh yes I do. No, so yeah. They they soften it up to him. They are very good, the V Carb. Racing bulls? Isn't that what they're called? What language is this? No. We got told softly through the PR that we have to call them V Carb. And I'm uh No, no, no. Wasn't that was that be what timeline am I on ? So it was it was Toro Rosso early on, and they had the very dull kind of purple thing. That that's where Sebastian Vettels died. Toro Rosso. Toro Rosso became the when did they change it? They changed it to Alpha Towery. Alpha Towery. To be because that was their fashion brand that they were launching. So they started advertising that to Alpha Towery. Then they became Racing Bulls with the title sponsor Visa Cash App. So it was Visa Cash App racing bulls. But just like with Gucci Alpine, my fear for the sponsor is the Gucci's gonna get pretty lost. Like we're not saying, hey, do you think the the p AMG Patronus Mercedes is gonna struggle this week at Mc Monaco. You just say Mercedes. Yeah. But you know in America that that's exactly anyone who's watched IndyCar knows that, you know, oh, this is the Dex imaging Honda. Yeah, but the thing is that's quite an American thing, isn't it? Where they where they add the brand seamlessly into the thing, where they go, ah the the the Aramco lollipop safety cars out and you go, what? The what? I don't I I'm not gonna lie to you, Gucci Alpine, it does it doesn't roll off the tongue very well. Gucci Alpin. And neither did BWT Alpine. But no no one was saying oh hope B BWT have a strong weekend. Hope BWT filter out any bad performances coming out? No. So if the original name is still there, it's gonna it's hard to get people to go, oh, this is the Gucci team. No, I d uh fully agree. So hang on. So are we where are we with with with the the with the Red Bull Jr. Yeah, yeah, right, right, right. So th then what happened was I don't think they liked people calling it Visa Cash App because actually that started to happen, which is quite rare. And so I think they started briefing the media. Oh, so I I got a little bit of inside information that uh it was something that they were struggling with, the fact that it was Visa Cash up racing balls. And it was much harder because racing balls sounds way too much like Red Bulls. And so they all settled on V Carb , but then I don't think that went down well with certain sponsors who didn't. So certain sponsors are we not supposed to call it RB now? No, we're supposed to call it V Carb. That's what that is what they are briefing press and whatever to call them. V CAP. That was a very that wasn't organic name that just sprung up. No. No. Yeah, so I'm just I'm I'm I'm realising now for the first time that I I haven't heard anyone say the name. Like I've watched every race this year. No one's talked about them. About yeah, yeah. Yeah. Well, they've been largely un anonymous, haven't they, so far? No, but I think we we hear so little about the the midfield um this season because it's difficult to know when we can the broadcast isn't showing anything aside from the top few cars. Yeah, but the thing is when the leaders are constantly, you know, two tenths of a second apart. And swapping and swapping around like that. And if we if we then missed what happened with the leaders because we were looking at fifteen We'd complain again, wouldn't we? We would absolutely murder them for it. So I totally get why we're not seeing the points for the lower uh the battles for the lower points positioned and why the only time a house is on screen now is if it's clattering into the side of someone else. Can't sponsors must start to complain when they're not getting the you know the screen time. You can do. When they see the numbers you know from last year compared to this year, but then at the same time what, are you gonna do about that? Right? This is where suddenly it's not just good enough to be in Formula One, you have to be successful. But this is actually this is a fairly new problem. You know, it's it's so rare that the the action up at front has been this good that we fully, fully miss out on what's the worst top five. We are the worst fan base on the planet, aren't we? Hundred God, there's so much action at the front. I can't watch no action at the back. Yeah, with a yeah. Oh, you gotta complain about stuff. So the V Carb, but yeah, the V Carb social media, that they are the ones that are really kind of nailing it and inventive. So whoever the brainchild is behind that seems to find new ways to torture Liam Lawson and and Arvid Limblad as well. Uh the my only issue with that is that there's no mystery to these guys because I can see them acting in a bad and fun way. So it's not exactly it's not exactly uh James Hunt, is it? It's not exactly the mystique behind the cigarette smoke. This is the th so there's someone I remember complained about Leclerc because Are you clicking a pen? No, I is the there is a pen in my hand and it didn't make a noise just then. Sorry. Um but so some someone complained about Leclerc during the COVID times or something because he put that banana costume on. Oh and people say, this is not what a Formula One driver should be looking like. I I no I don't agree. I don't agree with that. Well I see where it's coming from when you've 'cause I'm a little older than you, young man, and and back in the nineteen hundreds. Back in the nineteen hundreds, uh F1 drivers did have a very different reputation. You know, they were fearless, gladiat ors. Death Death's a friend that hovers on my shoulder and I I welcome it when it comes, kind of thing. Um whereas now it is it's different. They're you know, modern s athletes and sports and brands uh and and they're younger as well. You know, they these they're ki they're kids. So during COVID there were a bunch of kids doing online gaming in a banana costume. It was fine. This is the thing, it uh and now it's even worse because it's Gen Z Formula One drivers. Bestie's gonna go for Zoom ies. Yeah, that I hate them all being friends. I like them all being friends because that's a very healthy thing and that's non-toxic and that's great. But I grew up in an era of toxic masculinity and I would just like it to stay that way, ' acause change is never good. I did the really good one from Racing Bulls though, I like really top notch to this one. It was the is some of the rage baiting stuff they've been doing, which is like they don't know what IDK stands for. So they say to me like I was supposed to do this thing, it says in the notes and it's like what does IDK mean? And they go, I don't know. I was like, Well well if you don't know then you know really good I like I like all that kind of thing. A lot of a lot of them are like just dad jokes and pranks that they're playing on the drivers and so innocent as well. It's just fun. That's what's converted me to liking Liam Lawson. I think we're just being tricked by the admins and they're both awful. That's the that's the most likely. As soon as the m admin 's camera goes down, that's it. They're back on they're back to torturing baby dwarf goats. I think we're now at a point where we have to declare it's like, no I',m a fan of this person off the track. Yeah, or I like them but I'm not a sporting fan of them. Yeah. Yes. All right. That's a good way of putting it. Yeah, I'm not cheering on Linblad or Lawson at the moment. Not actively. I could do that. I' chemering on Linblad. I'm getting it. Well if you're cheering on Linblad, you you could influence me into doing the same. I'm not an influencer stimulus. I'm in no way qualified. Well all the things are in line. Right. Uh speaking of not botas, botas. I think this is the last story, because we have Waffled on, but it's only a qualified it's only a Monaco preview. We only we take the show relatively seriously from a content planning point of view for the first 30 minut es. Because I don't think any podcast should be over 30 minutes. If your podcast is more than 30 minutes, like what are you doing? Like get over yourself. But seeing as we go to 59 minutes every time, uh the last twenty nine minutes, it's your fault. If you're listening, it's this is all your fault if we make it this far in a show. So uh botas bull, he says the exit rumours are BS a week after Graham Loudoun called them completely fabricated , and this was all around his mid season departure, and they're saying it's utter nonsense. No way could this happen. And um I think Loudoun even cited, well, how would we get Colton Hurter in? Yeah. Because he doesn't have a super license, so this is rubbish. It may well be rubbish. The journalist who did it may well have been just m completely making up a story. That could be true. Journalist in inverted how is this story being spread then if it wasn't a journalist doing it? Um no no well no. I mean the you I'm saying in my opinion. Oh right, okay journalist inverted. Is that beef? Is that Mr. Pex beef? How powerful is this person we're beefing with? Well it depends which sources we we take seriously. So obviously if Chris Medlin reports something, Chris Medland doesn't mess around.. No And he'll say he'll say, oh, if this is a rumour, he'll say it's a rumour. If he says it's if Chris Medlin says it's happened, it's it's definitely happened. Yes. And I'll put Nate Saunders in that category as well. Ninety percent of people on X don't have a mental catalogue of who's trustworthy and who's not. So they see they see a thing in sporting news dot D G right slash slash F one or boxing , right? And because it's the same person who does both. And then they say, oh well, someone someone on Twitter said that they might get rid of botas, and now I'm gonna write a 3,000-word article on it. And then that just gets shared around all about and suddenly Bottas is leaving Cadillac and it's not even true. That noise never used to permeate to the drivers themselves. You know, we've known personally people who just fully make up stories. Or or the old trick would have been if you just want your website to get some Google ads and clicks, is you used to search around Italian media for the just the most outrageous rumours, translate it to English and then kind of write a little bit of a copy of it and then claim an inside source or whisper and then if it didn't come true, no one would remember, but you could keep showing, hey, look, remember when we called that last one? That one was true, so maybe this one is as well. So there are there are peddlers of our Like I know a fairly nice guy, but because he needs money, he just does it and you go, Oh, come on, mate. My my favourite one was was the pundit who predicted Hamilton to Mercedes predicts that Sebastian Vettel will have eggs for breakfast. Like that was a short-lived era that I am very glad we're on the other side of. But so the thing right a mid season departure for Battery Battery Bolt has utter nonsense. Why would a team in its first season that all it needs to do is learn how to be in Formula One. Why would you change the the most vital components of your team Well the gap has been fairly stark between Perez and Bottas, which kind of gives you license to go well, maybe we do look elsewhere for the that's the team knows exactly why there is a deficit and it's because of uh probably at parts control, parts supply. It'ss the the isue is in car and in the team, not in the drivers, and they know that. And that's part of what Graham said as well when he came to the defense of Botas saying that the reason these rumors are utter nonsense is because we know why there is a de ficit. They need to cut the the buttock area of botass's racing suit out so that he can feel with his buttock his his so often naked buttocks, the feeling going through that seat, and I think that will that will close the gap. Yeah. Yeah. But twenty twenty seven Yeah. Well this is a different story. Because we all know Colton Herter is in Formula Two for one reason and for one reason only, and that is to become a Cadillac Formula One driver. And if you're gonna get rid of Botas or Perez, you're not gonna get rid of the one who comes with the fatter check. No, that's true. And if I was wanted to get my American in, he's American, right? Colton Hutter? Yes. Well, okay. Just want to check. Because there was one with a really Irish name that turned out to be Mexican and that confused me for ages. No, no, he is he is American. That's why that's it's partly why they have picked up Americans. E email me or get in contact. I'm Spanners Ready everywhere. Chris is Chris on Racing Everywhere or Spanners at Mist Apex.net. And oh I didn't join our iRacing Formula Four Championship. Email me, spanners at mystapex.net. Just email me and I'll give you all the details you need. It's starting soon. The 18th is our warm-up round where we can just meet up on Discord and do some iRacing. The guy saw it out. F4 on British tracks. Oh, curses. I didn't say that at the top of the show. If email me, if if Hertha comes in, are you gonna be really excited as an American and be like a default Herter fan? Right? 'Cause if that comes with significant commercial uh properties and uh and benefits . I it might it might hel help your case to start sabotaging Botas towards the end of the season just to make sure that your decision to replace him looks alright. No no no an evil person would do that. They don't need an excuse to do it. They can just do it. We'll we'll know. It's not a secret, right? The likelihood of Colton ending up in that seat next year is extremely high. Yeah. What's the benefit of another year in Formula Two going to give him? And they'll say, Oh well he doesn't have the super license points and guess what? The way his F two season is going at the moment now, he's not going to get the super license points either. If only there were a million ways to get around the super license system by giving him a Okay, let's let's assume they're evil Cadillac, right? Because you know always assign to malice what you can because it's easier. Because the villains in the movie they're always driving a a black Cadillac. No, but they always come across nice. And then they get revealed as evil. So let does Graham Loudoun seem nice to you? Doesn't it northern? So yeah. Northern China's very friendly. Sneaky northerners. Those sneaky northerners. They're always pretending to be nice. But if you were like you didn't want the backlash of dropping bottas, teams teams have definitely sabotaged drivers before. That's all I'm saying is it's an option. If you're a team owner, it is an option to sabotage one driver to make them look slow and justify your decision to get rid of them. I would say that has probably happened easily fifty separate times in F one history. For sure. Of course it's happened. Right? I'm not s it has definitely happened, hasn't it? Come on. Probably. Sure it has. So uh so uh if yeah yeah. That that that was my justification for it. But I wanna kind of defend the rumour, if that's all right. Because No. How many times have we had it where there's been an outrageous rumor and then everyone is like absolutely incandescent like how how dare you how dare you suggest that a business sport thing could happen in the sport business sport that we're in, and then it turns out to be true later on. Like that happens over and over and over again. So th there was this rumour, there was another team that came out to deny some internet rumour. Oh Haas. Oh was it Haas? Yeah, oh yeah, with Ocon. It was with Okon, wasn't it? Yeah. Okay, so unless people are like with reasonable access to internet, clout and journalism are just wholesale making it up, are you saying there was nothing? There was no hint of it, no hint of that story was correct. There was no minor falling out somewhere between those. I just I think the the pearl clutching of coming out and going, You people who have been talking about this rumour are are worse than people who don't indicate off of a roundabout. And you know, they're just like it's a bit much because a lot of these rumors do turn out to be true. So yeah, we're gonna talk about it. If it's a news story going around, we'll talk about it. Talk about how likely it could be. Because sometimes these ones they do turn out to be real. Not in this case, I think. I think it's real. I think I think he's I look, he I he's not he's the driver under threat. You just said it yourself. So if he's under threat. Yeah, so in the press conference did they go this this is rubbish. He's absolutely gonna be not replaced mid season. And oh and you can confirm that for twenty twenty seven as well. That this season he's not getting replaced. So that's what that reminds me. There was a Ron Dennis did an interview with Skye um in his second McLaren era, it was the Button Alonso era. Right. And they kept they kept getting him, is Fernando Alonso going to be driving for McLaren next year? And he all he would say is Fernando Alonso has a contract to race for McLaren next year. Like that's not answering the question, Ron. We all know what that means. And also, if there was a secret plan to get rid of bottas, they probably wouldn't have told botas. So the drivers are not the one they're not always in the loop about when they're gonna get replaced. You know d I'll s I'll tell the story again. The reason I no longer post any kind of scoops or rumors or or things that I've heard is because we got uh we got word that the Ast didn't know hang on, Alpha Romeo dealerships in China had started putting up j uh Granu Joe Joe Granu posters because he had signed for Saurba Alfa Romeo and my tweet is apparently how Giovannazzi found out that he would not have a drive the following year. And I was like, A, that's an illustration that the drivers aren't as clued in as the business partners. And B, it made me sad 'cause no one should hear about their career uh from me. Well you know, it worked out for Joe Venatti, you know, he's one Lamon now and Gwenny Joe just hangs out the back of the garage sh giving tours to Fair enough. And apologies for forgetting which was the correct order of his given name and surname. I think I've I confuse myself and I get it wrong. I apologize. I'm not I mean no disrespect. Alright, I mean it changed between F two and F one. Oh did it? Oh okay. So that's um there yeah. All right. It's like the pronunciation of of certain drivers' names as well. You know, uh like it is Isaac, Isaac. I'm trying to say Isaac. Isaac is the way it's meant to be said. I Not Isaac. saac. Isaac. Isaac. There we go. Isaac. Yeah. Like like electronic Zach. Yeah. But I refuse to go le cl air. I'm just not doing it. It's not happening. Yeah, that's that's excessive. Right, that's the end of the preview, Chris. That was fun. Right. Do you want to know? That was good. Yeah. Plug anything. Anything else to talk about? Well, it's fairly relaxed, isn't it? Fairly relaxed show. I'm gonna do a Saturday solo show after qualifying. Because I suppose that'll be like the most exciting bit. And then who's on me, Christian and Matt are gonna fill fifty nine minutes on the race review on Sunday with something. They yep, they did something. They did circulate. That did they sir they did. They did circulate, yeah. Did they overtake? Yes, there was four thousand overtakes. The most exciting Monaco Grand Prix ever. Uh follow Chris. I can't wait. I can't wait, Spanners, for this to turn out to be the best Monaco Grand Prix ever. I mean, I I don't I don't need to be correct about this in the future. No, no, no. I I only need to be correct about what's already happened. So all I'm I'm not I'm not like counting, I'm not uh guessing, I'm not betting. I am just counting what has happened before. I'm one Mississippi boring race, two Mississippi boring race, three yeah. That's all I'm doing. I'm Yeah, yeah. And and then extrapolating from that, my expectation levels are relatively low for future Monaco uh Grand Prix races, and that feels like a different starting point. If we do have one good race, that does not make me wrong about all the other. I will say the camera works way better. Way better. Since F1 themselves took over the broadcast, my word. Yeah, watching them go up the hill from the sea view inland, watching them go left to right up the hill . Up to what was that left hander we were talking about? Massine. Miniscus Matine, right? It's not an afternoon performance of a musical spectrum. It it''ss n it's not a cheap child ticket on a Saturday morning. It's uh a massine. All right, Massaneet. All right, we're here to see the Massane of Wicked. Let's end this then by me guessing the names of the corners, seeing how I can remember if the the corner sections, and then you correct Wait, I can't remember what they are. Let me look up the map real quick. Hang on, aren't you a commentator? Okay, right, okay. So I'm gonna go for Okay, so I always get really confused between Spa turn one and Monaco turn one because they're both very similar French sounding uh names, but I am gonna go for Saint Devot turn one. Yeah, it's the church. Yeah, so it's like Saint Devot, I guess. There was someone who called was called Devot and did great . Devo, yeah. Devo Oh yeah. The the French with the T's. Don't pronounce you don't pronounce any of the letters in French. Just being difficult. They are just so difficult. Why did they do that? Okay, so we then go uh up the hill to cas ino square, but that's not the name of a corner. Yeah. Oh okay, so then we have Matine and then Casino Square. Massine. Matine, the left hander, and then Casino Square is the right hander. Yes. There we go. And then the hairpin is You missed out a corner. How have I missed out a corner? Is there two -hander before the hairpin? Is there two right handers? Yeah. No the the yeah, there's a right hand you go over the bump, and then there's a down the Rosburgh corner space. Oh yeah. Yeah, no, I thought the Rosberg corner was casino square. There you go, that's why I thought. No, there's another so there's two right hands as there leading up to the hairpin. Okay . Well then the hairpin, which is called the hairpin. Yeah, that's called the hairpin, right? No, forgotten. You tell me what the hairpin's called. Right, okay. You come out of casino, you go over the bump. Yeah. You go into Mirabeau. Yeah. And then you have the hairpin. Yeah. The Fairmont hairpin. Fairmont Herpin. And then you go down, there's a a kink, but then you go down to Portier. Yes. Right, and does that kink have a name? Technically it's called Mirabeau That's where I was thinking about Mirabeau. That's where I was that's where I was thinking about. No one ever calls it that. Okay, so you've got Portier that then goes down into the tunnel. Also Portier is not very porti anymore since they built all that new land behind it. Oh, okay. But it's still called that. So that's fine. That's the uh that's the Jensen button up on the side corner. It should be called just land corner now. Land corner. That's uh that's Perez allegedly spinning on purpose to keep Verstappen behind him in qualifying corner. Through the tunnel and then into the Nouveau Chicane. Nouvelle. Nouvelle Shicane, fine. That's an I hate I hate that quote. It's so annoying because you get side by side and if they ever get side by side, one just goes off and then it's all decided. I hate that kind of chicane. Can't stand it. For racing, those kind of chicanes are just horrible. Then we go, is it tobacque? Yeah. The left hander, because presumably there was a tobacco shop there at some point. And then we're going to a little left right. Is that the swimming pool section? But is that corner called swimming pool? What? Well La Piscine . Yeah, pool. I mean the there's maybe a sort of official, unofficial debate about this, but everyone just calls it the swimming pool section. Oh okay. So they don't it's like uh maggotts beckets. You don't just necessarily maggots beckets. So yeah, yeah, no, yeah, yeah, definitely is. So all of that is the swimming pool section then, which is basically four corners. So the last of which is the Leclerc. Oh, I'm sure my gearbox will be fine for the start of the race tomorrow corner. So it's that one. And then uh and then there's a it sweeps around to the left a little bit. That's not corner. That right hander, which to me is the um named after the bar. It is rascass. There you go. Both corners, Raskas . Nope. Nope. Last Corner. Last Corner is named after the founder, creator, designer of the Monaco Grand Prix. What's and that is? Anthony Noges. Oh, so Noges is the final there we go. So yeah, the corners Anthony Noges. Rascast to me, it will always be the uh Jules Bianchi up the inside of Kobayashi corner. Yes. Double bang, wheel to wheel, on the way to getting Maroucha's one and only point . Four and only point. Four and only point in that. Yeah. That's a great drive. Yeah, that was a great drive. Yeah. Yeah, it was. But at Le Piscine as well, they in the swimming pool section, you must wear swimming trunks, you can't wear boxer shorts or boxer trunks. Absolutely. France needs to drop that policy for private for public pools. You can't wear just normal swimming trunks, you have to wear like the budgie smuggler ones. What it ? Yeah, no, though they have a rule. They consider like boxer short type swimming trunks as unhygienic. So you have to wear only the, you know, the ones that look like little pants that you wear when you were Well thankfully uh when I go to France next week um there will be no swimming pool in sight. But just so you know France, that's why we drive as quickly as we can through you to get to Spain, which is normal and and pe full of people that you know talk to you with some decency and let you swim however you want. Yeah. Anyway, that's the end. Monaco preview. Go on. Now go on. Get in. Just get Can I talk about Lamon real quick? Oh, go on then. Oh, do you want I want to hear about it? Yeah, go on, yeah. Lamont. So if you've made it this far. God, why? Why? What are you doing? You got enough it's uh you know, God has provided this beautiful Thursday and this is how you're spending it. But but next weekend is the ninety-fourth running of the Le Mont 24 hours, and I will be commentating on it for TNT Sports, which you can watch on TNT sports on your television or via HBO Max, the streaming service as well. That is going to be available in other territories. So please double check. I don't have a full list of territories. I'm sorry. Check where it's at um because we're gonna be on other services as well. And the coverage starts from uh Wednesday afternoon with free practice. We've got loads of guests coming in to come and chat too as well. And you're on for all of free practice. You're on for