Aerodynamic testing and World Cup antics

Hello everybody and welcome to the Fast and the Curious and welcome to Sunny Barcelona where we saw a momentous Formula onene moment, the return of the Gats where Lewis Hamilton got his first Ferrari win. You joined Barcelona basks in Hamilton's glory a couple of days on and as I I'm on holiday, but of course There is always time for the fast and the curious. I was out covering the race for the other podcast I do. Fone explains. I've stayed out here for a couple of days to soak up some sunshine, I mean, why wouldn't I? But we must leave Sunny Barcelona now And we must go to America for a truly international episode of The Fast and the Curious Where we find an intrepid World Cup reporter, Betty Glover, if you missed our last episode, is spending the next few weeks tralling across America in an actual tour bus. I genuinely have forgotten where she is. so we can cross live now across the Atlantic to Betty Glover In America, Betty, where are you We're more worldwide than pitball, aren't we? And that's saying something worldwide Yeah, Fast and Cures worldwide. I'm in LA at the moment and I move I move over to Seattle tomorrow. So it's been quite a wild week for me covering the start of the World Cup. but I mean, it's not been as wild as the weekend that you had in Barcelona with Lewis Hamilton finally fininally getting his Grand Prix win in Ferrari. Oh just I can't believe. I actually can't believe it. I was do you know what, sorry I every time I am supposed to do a grand Prix but then have to pull out for football, Lewis Hamilton wins E H happen in twenty twenty four at Silverston to pull out of Silverston to go and work on the euros, there was Samilton won I was supposed to be at Barcelona to say no because I'm doing the World Cup, Louewis Hamilton won I mean, Lewis Hamilton fans would say Stay away. yeah Betty, just never st with back For the what's your next race? I think your next race is Brazil, isn't it U yeah, I'm doing Mexico and Brazil Hamilton fans Lewis will need the points in the bag before Betty returns, I think. I did want to ask you right. We're going to get into some of Betty's World Cup adventures at the end of the part because boy has she had an adventure, which I'm just absolutely obsessed with, by the way. But before we get into it Hamilton's news reach America. I'm genuinely interested as to what the reaction was. You're covering what's supposed to be the biggest thing going on in sport at the moment over in America. Were people talking to you about it? I'm genuinely interested to see if there was any reaction over there One person spoke to me about it. I basically woke up because I'm obviously eight hours behind the UK and I woke up with the news and I was like, oh my God And straight away at breakfast, one person was just like, Oh my God, can you believe it? Louis Hamilton I sorry it was a really bad accent. Hello America. Hello American listeners. What I think is really funny though, is that obviously it's the first all British podium since nineteen sixty eight. Hold on. let me get this thing up that I saw. Bear with me, bear with me. Oh yeah. A lot of people are sort of clutching at straws here because they're obviously saying it's the first British podium since nineteen sixty eight The race was sixty six laps Okay, you with me? Oh I know where you're going with this. The last time England won the World Cup was nineteen sixty six. So everyone is just like, it's coming home Oh my Lord, could you imagine right? the scenes in the UK If England won World Cup and Louis Hamilton mounted a title charge. Goodness me I canan' you imagine it'd be insane. It is insane. But this is what I want to talk about because I want to talk to you about Is Lewis Hamilton? Really a contender for the world title now. Do you think Ferrari need to prioritize him over Charl lecler And then like where where is George Russell's head at? And what does this mean for Kimmy Antonlli? So we're gonna answer of those questions, aren't we, Christian That's basically what we're going to get into in the next half an hour or so or maybe slightly shorter episode due to the nature of me being on holiday and Betty being needing to go to a tour bus. Let's very briefly run through the top ten of the race, just a joggy memory. Of course, Louewis Hamilton run with George Russell second and Lando Oris thirird, As Betty says, the first British F one podium since back in the sixties Verstappen fourth, Piastri fifth Isac Hagis sixth, Pierre Gazlely seventh. Franco Colopinto eighth, Liam Lawson, ninth and Arvid Limblood tenth. Betty double world champ. Y double alpen again. Talk us through the championship then Betty, because this is what's particularly interesting you, isn't it Okay, so Kimmy Aonlli is still leading the drivers' Championship on one hundred and fifty six points. Lewis Hamilton is forty one points behind him on one hundred fifteen and then fifty points further back George Russell on one hundred and six. So yeah and R also fifty points off the lead, we should say Oh, sorry yeah, George Russell, fifty points of the leadue. So but Lewis Hamilton forty one points off of Kimmy Antonlli That's a lot of points, but I can't help but think I think you do it, you know So in the last episode we spoke about the stats behind it and I pointed to Formula O history and we delved into the stats and I said a gap this size has never been breached before And we were talking about Oscars' lead last year and how Kim me had a bigger lead over George and everybody was talking about George. I mean, since we started this season, it's only been well surely it can't be anything other than a Mercedes title fight Th that mean right, let me make this as clear as possible. If his form continues in this way, which I think it will Lewis Hamilton is in contention for this world Championship, I think I agree. And I'll tell you for why. Totally for why Firstly, this has been coming. He's in championship form Bar a couple of sixth places in Japan and Miami, which weren't great. He's not been outside the top four this year. Fth in Australia, which was a very solid start. a podium in China. his first podium for Ferrari, of course. Yeah. Tw seconds in Canada and Monaco and the win in Barcelona. He's in excellent form. This isn't a fllash in the pan freak show, which let's be honest Silverston twenty twenty four he was massively helped by the weather This has been coming. This is like a full on run that was building to a win. I went on the radio on Friday. and said If anyone's going to stop Mercedes winning, the only person in form is Hamilton. So I think form wise he's into it Betty There's a real crucial point of this Spanish Grand Prix weekend Ferrari bought some upgrades and they seemed to work. Hang on on this podcast for so long. about Ferrari needing to prove to us they can develop throughout the season. Now, there'll be people screaming at their laptops or phones listen to this going it's only one race and you're absolutely right It's very different bringing a set of upgrades to one race as opposed to doing it consistently across a season. Of course it is. So it still comes with a big asterisix next to it Given Lewis' form, Given Ferrari seem to know how to upgrade this car, which is massive, and crucially Given Mercedes lack of reliability, it's on because Betty I don't remember car that was so quick And so obviously ahead of the others on pace but so fragile This is a, you know, Kamy's had his I wouldn't say deserved bad luck. Nobody deserves bad luck, but we said it might shake it out. Kimmy's had his slice of bad luck whereas it had all gone to George? getting reliability issues and ha throughout the season. And for that reason E though it's this historic big gap I think I think it could happen. I genuinely think it could happen On paper, we've basically got a seven times world champion who's forty one years old as everyone likes to keep reminding him. hunting down a talented let's be honest, inexperienced nineteen year old who would expect, you know probably to come out on top. But when you look at it like that, you've got seven time world champion, really experienced elite driver has proven how good he is countless times against an inexperienced nineteen year old But on Tarmac, it's a very different story, isn't it? And also you can't forget like no driver in history has failed to take the title after winning five races in a row And that's what Kimmy Anonelli's done. He's got such a comfortable lead But you just can't rule out Lewis Hamilton at this point and a confident Lewis Hamilton as well.'s confonfident He's on fire. He's clearly enjoying himself. He loves that car now He loves that car now You look so comfortable He does. I'll come back to that, but let me come to your first point about the lead first It's only if this was a bulletproof, reliable Mercedes, I'd be saying it's done. And I was coming into this weekend thinking it was done. I couldn't quite understand why we weren't getting more chat of. Well the title's done, isn't it? And by the way, I'm not one of these people that willll sit and hype for the sake of hyping. If I think the title's done I'll say the title's done But it's that it's so delicate the car because S. Louis wins again. and as I've said, the form's there. The results are there. He could easily win again. Yes, there'll be circuits Where Mercedes might have a bit of an advantage over Ferrari because they'll be longer straights than they were in Barcelona. Fine Ferari winning more races is possible All you need if Ferrari can keep the development is one more retirement and that forty one point gap is reduced by twenty five. And then' the place where All of a sudden, there is enough races for that to be away at like we saw Llando chipping away at Oscar last year. Now Another reliability thing is a big if. Ferrari improving their carmel is a big if. Mercedes will want to bring developments. There are still so many asterixes All I'm saying is you can't rule it out. This weekend has shown that for people like me who thought this was done and dusted I genuinely don't think you can say that anymore impressed you about Lewis Hamilton's driving in Barcelona because obviously you know a lot of his critics will be like, well, he got lucky because of the virtual safety car. but he was lookingooking fast as well, wasn't he? And obviously, like you said, credit to Ferrari for that unbelievable three stop strategy that Mercedes just didn't really know how to react to What impressed me was two things. Number one, I saw him quite a lot this weekend in the paddock body language difference from last year Unbelievable Last year in Abu Dhabi. I even noticed that they were bringing him to and from the pen around the back way of the paddock just to avoid him being out at about He was almost hunched over. his eyes were low. He looked Sat Genuinely the difference in him in this weekend where it was like he was loving a stroll through the paddock. His generic facial expression bright and beaming and smiling Honestly, the difference in body language between that one human being wearing red from Abu Abbey last season when I was looking at him just thinking, oh my Godd, he looks broken. It's so sad to see. to this weekend where the paddock was much quieter this weekend, Betty. there's you know, because it's not in Miami, it's not as full of celebs. It's a much quieter paddock. You actually get to see more of the drivers, they're not in a scrum of people That's my compup of tea last. That's like China. You'd have loveved this weekend. Oh, it was a good Yeah. it was lovely. and That was one thing, but then he's driving what impressed me. I mean, I don't go into his driving impressed me because he was so quick. we know that But it was how in sync he was with the team. The team radio messages that we were being played through. It was he's got so much of a better relationship with this race engineer. Hes slotted into that team. He's more comfortable in that team than it used to be. it's obvious for all the world to see and I just loved the way at the end. that his race engineer knew that they had a Hamilton with the bit between his teeth. He went on and said, Am I in this? And they were like, Yes, you're in this. And Ted Kravz made a brilliant spot on the sky coverage where he said that he'd seen Fred encouraging Lewis as race engineer to sort of egg him on a bit. donon't forget how well Fred Verne knows Lewis Hamilton. They were together during Lewis' junior career. Fred knowing exactly what buttons to press when he's got an inform Lewis Hamilton. The machine was working. It was fantastic to see Bloody hell, when Louis Hamilton is on form and the machine's working and it's firing on all cylinders you wouldn't want to be Kimmy Antonlli, you wouldon't want to be against him because genuinely So many people have ye, of course, look, we know Louis Hamilton got lucky with the timing of the safety car after in a shock turn of events. Fernando Alono's Astter Martin cononked out. Who could have possibly predicted that But I think he'd have won it anyway. I think he had the pace. I think Ferrari and this is another thing, Betty. F got the strategy right. If I could light the fireworks off behind me, I would first twenty laps of the race. I'm sat there watching the race being like I could go. George is going to win this. but that aggressive early stop forcing them into the three stop. I think they were going to do it anyway. and it was brilliant. I wouldn't have thought to go to a three stop. I thought it was going to be two because bloody hell it was hot Three stop They did brilliantly. They did Ferrari were great. Louis was great grades worked What are wekend to be a Ferrari fan? What are wekend to a Lewis Hamilton fan Well, what a weekend to be a Lewis Hamilton fan, notot necessarily what a weekend to be a Ferrari fan because if Charlotte Clire is the man that you're supporting, then commommiserations because I name Yeah or a die weekend for him. Let's talk about him a little bit because His form is horrendous And he just keeps crashing. He also just doesn't happen the pace of Lewis Hamilton. It's just It's not ideal, is it? Charl is a crasher, right Charl has shown himself to be a crusher in his career It looks like classic overdriving to me. Overdriving, if you're new to formula one is the term given when you're almost trying a bit too hard. It's not lovely and in sync and in flow and just instinctive. you start to try too hard. That's when mistakes creep in. That's when you put a wheel wide That's when you Nipp a wall And we saw the qualifying crash because he's not comfortable with the car, he's trying to squeeze too much out of it. This way is what it appears to me, listen, I'm no X racing driver, but I spoke to ourate James Hinchcliff at the weekend Betty and was said, doeses it look like overdriving to you? And Hch said, yeah, it does to me. So it seems To me, a classic case of overdriving, and that's why he's making mistakes. A worry for Ferrari is We've seen all these stories that they change things in the development of the car that it's got Lewis's DNA in it, that there's a different braking system that Lewis prefers one braking system. Charles prefers another S seemems to me that they've got two drivers who may like their car in two different ways And is it a coincidence that this year we're seeing Louis Hamilton, the fm swapped as the cars got more of Lewis' DNA in it They will look They're very clever people in Formula One. They need to find a formula that works for both drivers because at the moment Listen Charlte hasn't become a bad driver into this season, just like Lewis Hamilton didn' last season. but they all have the different driving styles. they all have the the difference Ways of working. And a lot of people said the reason why the Leclerc Signs partartnership worked really well is they gave similar feedback. They liked it in a similar way. So that was that's a very good situation to have for a top team like Ferrari. Have they got that with Hamilton and Leclerc? I don't know. it's too early to write off that relationship completely But that strikes me as a bit of a problem because It was just, you know He didn't blame the car in Monaco we mean we were laughing about it He certainly didn't blame it for his Q three crash. It was just a case of I messed up. and It's horrible to see because he's so down and again, talkks about the body language watching him in the pen justust What Lewis was in Aberdabby last year, he's he's I don't remember seeing him this low in his Ferrari career and let's be honest Louis is doing what he's doing won't be helping that. So it's so hard to see He just needs to reset next time out. He just needs to reset because We'll come to George in a minute and we'll come onto the plus and minuses of his weekend. It looked like he'd done a very solid control out delete reset and that's what Leclerc needs to do here. Charl le Cler is closer to Gazley than he is Lewis Hamilton on points when you look at the driver's championship. He hasn't won since what was it Austin in twenty twenty four, wasn't it? Do think that do you think that Ferrari now have to prioritize Hamilton if it means that he has a chance of possibly chasing Kimmy down I hadn't realized that, Yeahah. that to Aust in twenty twenty four. Wow Wow. I mean, It's crazy, isn't it? It is crazy because you that you think, wow He hasn't He hasn't Be successful The lastari win was signs, wasn't it? So I think it was. I haven't got it in front of me unfortunately I haven't got all my stats available to in hotel room I haven't got my laptop. but yeah, I think it was U Oh yeah, just astonishing. Do they need to prioritize Lewis Hamilton? Yeah. I think they do I really think they do and it seems the reason I say that is it seems strange to say that this early in the season I don't know how long the season's going to be Charl is on seventy five. Hamilton's on one hundred and fifteen. That is a big Big guy. Um, you know, Hamilton with four podiums, Leclaire only two If Ferrari think they've got a chance of going for a championship They've got to because that is a big eighty nes forty point gap, isn't it actly is that ye, forty point gap. Matter isn' my strong point I think they have to. Do you, Betty? Are we being silly here by saying this early doorors after seven races No, I think they absolutely have to. If Ferrari want to capitalize on any opportunity of chasing down Kimy Antonelli and Mercedes, they've got to prioritize Lewis now, surely. I can't see I can't see the logic as to why you wouldn't. At this point Lewis is up there. He's confident. he's he's winning it's harsh and sharl It' hart onhar because look hisis retirement, he would have picked up points this weekend. Yes, he wouldn't beaten Lewis because he put it in the wall in qualying and it ruined his weekend but he had have picked up points He had a power steering failure, I believe, and he went over the gravel and had to retire the car. It wasn't drivable, so very, very unlucky So it's not Charlles's fault, necessarily that it's not as bad as his points tally is showing What I how many times have I said on this podcast, I've lost my faith in them to win We need to see Ferrari now unashamedly going ight we're in it to win it We want to win. Sorry, Charl from Whatever race starts next season, round one next season, it's back to level playing field here, but we're Ferrari. We haven't won since two thousand seven. That's a shocker in itself We need to be a ruthless winning machine here and I'm sorry, mate. It's the way it's worked out. Of course, it's not like we're going to go in deliberately trying to throw And if you qualify on Poland Lewis is third fourth, whatever, different thing I want to see Ferrari go, right? This to me feels like their best chance since twenty twenty two when they started the season so well and fell off that it's got to be because the upgrades work. Now as I say, it might be that in the next two Grand Prix, Mercedes bring upgrades and all of a sudden it was going of God we were talking about our been entitled challenges after Spain and we' getting carried away. that is a possibility. But while the door is ajar, I want to see them walk through it. Yeah Okay, interesting. Well We are going to take a very quick break and when we're back we can talk all about Mercedes. Where's George Russell at and what about King Ty? Hello everybody. Welcome back to the Fast and the Curious. We are going to talk about Mercedes. Do you think George Russell will be happy with his weekend, orr do you think he's going to be a little bit frustrated that he didn't win twenty laps into the Barcelona, Catalonia Grand Prix, not the Spanish Grand Prix. There's a good chance Ive called it the Spanish Grandrix already on this podcast. That has taken a bit of getting used to after Barcelona hosted the Spanish Grand Prix for approximately hundred twenty seven years. so apologies if I have. Up until thatap twenty, I'm thinking what a weekend for George Russell. Kimmy didn't take part in the first practice session. that would testing bits going on, which we'll get to at the end of the pod in the practice session. so he couldn't get a lot from practice, but still George looked quicker than Kimmy with a big asteris next to it, but fine qualifies Kimy And he's looking comfortable And then the end of the race. Kimy retired Kimmy was going to beat him, Kimmy was going to overtake him on track bait him So If you George Russell Three quarters of your weekend and he alluded to this in the post race interview he did um, with Nica Osberg He said it was all good up until the race because three quarters of his weekend it looked like he'd had a proper reset and it was like, right He's reminded us that on his weekend he can be quicker than Kimmy Antonelli But He had his slice of luck because he had have beaten I'm struggl to get away from that in my head I that's really worrying for George Russell I'm All he can do is go into the next Grand Prix and try and have a a reset where he doesn't then lose it towards the end of the race. And we might be able to point to maybe George went too much on his tyres and it wasn't an overall pace thing. I don't know. it's difficult but I I was worried for him at the end of that Grand Prix. I really, really was I think the fact that he's made up eighteen points on Kimy Antonelli He'll be delighted about that fact The fact that it was just luck that Kimmy retired allowed George to be P two It just doesn't bode well for him and I don't really know where he goes from here What Clearly mentally he is you know, having to really like pick himself up. He's had a tough time as George. And I think I do wonder if it has knocked him a little bit this how this season's gone. I don't know if you've seen some of like the reaction to Barcelona, but a lot of people are saying that he didn't look like a driver that was trying to compete for the title this weekend at all I think he did until the race. I think that's harsh until the end of the race. Listen on that fifty three He was given the hurry up over the radio And to those people making that point That's worrying for a title contender on Lap sixty one Past So Villeuve made that point. What did Villeve say? He said something like George Russell doesn't look like a driver that is fighting for the title Yeah doesn't look like Yeah, doesn't look like a driver going for the title Yeah, I just I think Jacques Villeuve for those newer to the sport. that's the ninety ninety seven F one worldld Champion in the Ssports I one Punde I think it's slightly harsh on him until midway through the race because because he had a really good out qualified Kimmy like like Bound stock If I'm George Russell and I'm on the plane home The thing I'm not getting out of my head Okay pass me again passast me again. and that you know, at a point where at one stage, George looks so in control of this race And in fact, I tweeted after the start where he was marching away, he pulled out a right lead. I tweeted something strange is going to have have to happen for Kimmy not to win this race and they realized I tweeted Kimmy and I' I me George. I force of habits which you're subconscious. you're sub saying Christian. No it is going to be Kimmy. That's exactly what I thought. I was like Ohh good no, I'm so used to Kimy marching away. So listen, Kimy didn't have a bad weekend by any stretch of the imagination because he pulled it back and he got his slice of bad luck. My worry for Mercedes is as we said at the start of the pod reliability and Toto Wolf, I can't remember the exact quote, but he was talking on Sky at the end of the Grand Prix and he was sort of saying we can't afford like we know who we're up against with Lewis. Ferrari seems to have taken a step forward. The tone of Toto Wolf's interview, I think summed up why I spent the first half of this podcast saying Ferrari are in it. I think he realized, look, listen, Mercedes haven't won a title since twenty twenty So You know, they after after starting the way they have if they then go on to now not win this title goodness me that're heartbroken. So I think there's some uncomfortabless at Mercedes given the reliability. I think Kimmy's done everything he really can. and I think George is sat there being like, ah, he still seems quicker than me I'm going to be a hypocrite now and just go back on what I said earlier, but like Oh they've got such a lead. Kimmy Antononi does have such a lead forty one points over L. Well it needs reliability. Yeah, it needs something like really bad to happen But the reason I'm saying The reason I'm saying it's possible is we are seeing that reliability repeatedly And we have done all seasons So that's why I'm saying it's on. but yeah, I totally see what it It's whet's just where the Ferrari can hold it together and capitalize on those chances that they get to beat them, really? and Oh, it's exciting. before we wrap it up, Christian, just a word on McLaren because Lando Norris got another podium. Well how'd you rate their weekend? I just think they'd be really disappointed. onlyn very briefly, there was talk in the paddock earer on in the weekend that they would be stronger this weekend There was taught that they could be in the mix for pole position and none of it materialized. So it's sort of the opposite of what we're saying to Ferrari. There was optimism about Ferrari proved to be So McLaren will be disappointed, I think. I think Lando and Norris had a very, very good weekend personally squeezing that car on the podium is the best he could have done. Another disappointing weekend for Oscar who just doesn't seem to be able to match up to Lando's pace at the moment. He'll be questioning that He'll be wondering why that's the case because there was a more obvious gap between Lando and Oscar than there was last season. There's time for Oscar to fix that, of course, but it still seems like more frustration for McLaren. they I think had hoped for more out of that weekend. I've sensed renewed optimism from them, which ultimately didn't prove to be. Just before we go, we always ask you guys to get in touch with your thoughts, feelings, emotions, questions This is from Camilla. She said Hi Bettyting and Christian. I was watching P one earlier and noticed that some of the cars had some sort of small metal grid, almost like scaffolding at the front. Any clue what this is and what it does. Thanks so much for an amazing podcast as a newish female forormula One fan Your pod has been a safe and fun place to learn and follow the sport. Well wishes from a Danish listener What Absolutely, lovely, lovely email that was to get or's not. it's not an email it was an Inagamessage actually don it. But yeah Lvely post. What lovely mail to get through the post. Lve What lovely mail to get from the pigeon So Basically, that is what we sometimes see in pre season testing, they are aerodynamic rakes. They get put onto the front of the car, they do look like scaffolding. They have lots of tiny, tiny little sensors on them and they give loads of aerodynamic data. And why did we see that at this circuit? Because Barcelona is a circuit that has been traditionally used for testing in the past. The teams have loads of data on it, they know loads about it and it's a circuit that has, this is why it was used for testing in the past. It's a circuit that has loads of different types of corners. There's a big long straight, the sweeping term one, which is a sweeping fast corner There's a tight twisty a little bit because of all the different characteristics of corner and the long straight, it is ideal for testing your car and that's why we saw what we usually see some pre season testing, a little bit of extra testing going on with the rakes. Normally you see those and flow Viz paint, which is like a gunie material, like a thicker paint that goes ono the car that again, they can see where the wind flows and see the characteristics of how the paint smudges and basically see lots of aerodynamic information from that. So You sometimes see a little bit of that. Great question. Before we go Betty I want to mention two things. I want to mention under the radar, Nico Holkenberg, excellent weekend unluckiest retirement ever when a piece of gravel up and switched his energy recovery system off the most unlucky retirement. He had a great weekend and would have scored points for Audi. But we mentioned at the start of the episode, Betty is in the World Cup I would like to read the World Cup. She's in the World Cup I would like to read this news article on the podcast for major British newspaper The Daily Mirror BBC presents are forced to interrupt World Cup coverage a spotting background moments BBCat presenter Betty Grver had been attempting a report on the World Cup. When she noticed a couple Ncking it behind her A BBC reporter was forced to interrupt her own coverage. By the way Milla, she's not there for the BBC. she's there for lovely people at men in bllazers. And exactly than you, Christian So we want to plug the lovely Men in Blaze's YouTube and podcast show that she's doing. BBC sport correspondent Bessty Glover had been reporting live on the World Cup from the streets of Los Angeles this weekend. The presenter was due to deliver a report to Camera after Scotland's oneon they win against Haiti, but had to abandon her coverage A realizing a couple were involved in a very close encounter behind her. Broadcaster Betty admitted, She couldn't hold it together after noticing the couple making out behind her. She took to social media to share a clip, showing how stunned she was when she realised what was going on directly behind her U Betty wrote on Instagram. Don't mind me guys. justust tried to do a piece to camera when a couple started necking it on behind me. Um, and then It goes into do lots of quotes for people. And on social media it's a social media reaction to it and it says at the bottom of the artic Journalist Christian Hugill said, This is the greatest thing I've ever seen Another said, Please show this on air while a third wrote, Fair play for trying to keep it going a true pro pro. Betty, your reaction to making Be a major newspaper for your coverage of the World Cup. God, There's so many stories around that they could be writing about, by the way, and they've chosen to write about that. Oh God. Do you know what? It was so funny though, because I was there and I was doing this like I was starting and my cameraman was just like laughing his head off and I was like, what is he laughing at? So I was like turning around. And then I see this couple and the guy had literally dragged his girlfriend into shots. so they were directly behind us. And he was just absolutely like sucking her face off. But I'm stood there and I can basically hear it all happening behind me. And honestly, I just couldn't hold it together. I've never seen PDA like it in my life Okay, sorry, we need to do some analysis here I didn't realize because we' got spoken about this. that he dragged her into shot Yeah, we think he saw what we were trying to do so moved into shot to do that with her. Oh, sorry wead. let's be honest there's a kink going on there, isn't there? That's there's a PDA kink of some description, G that's a F that's all source of o, isn't it Oh ye. What a shame But guys, I don't know is this is this a is this an American thing that I don't know about? Is PDA just just quite quite big in America Well this kiss come that you see? Yeah at the big stadiums, but I think that doesn't that tends to be a nice kiss rather than in your words, Bting they were very accurate ones sucking each other's face off. I just that's taken it too far, isn't it Yeah I think so. I haven't seen passion like that on the streets For years Well, then for good reason, for good reason Anyway, right, it's quartercast eight here in Barcelona. I'm going for a dinner. I'm hungry. I hope that's okay. Oh by the way, after the raid in Barcelona last night, Betty, I met it up with my lovely fiance David where I'm using thisatchu podcast as a catchup with my friends, get over it met up with David in Sit', which is just north of Barcelona, which is where I am now. Little did we realise, Betty and we genuinely didn't know this. It was the last night of Sit's pride Soing ourur quiet dinner turned into dancing at the campus bar neverever been to in your life until the early hours of the morning and today I've had the worst hangover I've had for genuinely years. So If we're going on the Stephen Barlet approach of Wines madeade me podcast worse This has been a terrible podcast for me because I have spent the day Hanging out my proverbial P So had a great time. Great can I Before we actually do go, what were you dancing to? What music did they play? Oh basically already very camp remixes of already very camp songs. like You don't need to remix the YMCA to make it camper, but they found a way my friends. they found a way. We had K we had YMCA, we had spice girls going on. It's very me and David Ced. Oh, we're having a lovely time. So we genuinely thought we had visions of quiet meal after a busy race weekend Oh We having a dance at a bar. Oh, it was great. It was out of a lovely time Just one I've got you. What are the vibes in Spain? Have you heard any people crying because they failed to beat Caate Verde who are making their debut at the World Cup. and the Spanish their favorites to win this Wor Cup. so I wouldn't be surprised. This has happened while we've been talking. The only thing I saw last night genuinely throughout cites I saw more Formula One merch than I did foootball tops. I didn't see a single football top last night when I was out. but I saw Caren. Mercedes, Red Bull and loads of Ferrari hats and there was a guy sat drinking outside a bar we were in at one point in full on Hamilton kit. So he a lovely day and he was sat Yeah I love older guy genuinely must have been a late fifties, early sixties U Hamilton Hamilton topop sat with a beer with all his mates. None of his mates were in None of his makes were in Hamilton attire. So yeah, outside a bar which I believe is called Homo in Cit', which might have got that wrong, but it's something like that. So yeah, which you tell you what s l establishments it was. It was great. It had been a great time. So yeah, saw more F on than I did football, but going out for dinner now they might all be sad he might be. I hope that guy enjoys it. ennjoy it. soak it up. Lewis Hamilton fans, what a time to be alive? What a sporting story. Ch. Thank you so much. Enjoy the rest of your time in Spain and we will be back at some point soon. So subscribe to the podcast so you know when the next episode drops and leave us comments, reactions, questions, and we'll do our best to answer them In the next episode. Back soon, bye guys. Bye