WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.080 --> 00:00:15.439 I'm driving. 2 00:00:19.640 --> 00:00:26.879 Rob anology, I plug it down. I don't you. 3 00:00:32.840 --> 00:00:36.399 Boys and girl go to attention. Please, hello and welcome 4 00:00:36.399 --> 00:00:39.320 back inside the perform Apor podcast for nine hundred and 5 00:00:39.359 --> 00:00:47.240 seventy five. This is the time, not fast, look faster? Yes, yes, 6 00:00:47.439 --> 00:00:49.880 dka negative him. You know why I've asked you here tonight. 7 00:00:49.880 --> 00:00:52.399 I was convinced something to just that. I'm hubs. 8 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:56.600 You only need to do Hey, grab a beer, sit down, 9 00:00:57.119 --> 00:00:59.320 shut up. We're going to go through this week or 10 00:00:59.560 --> 00:01:03.640 last week Grace's case. What do most people who listen 11 00:01:03.719 --> 00:01:07.120 to our podcast? Are you drinking coffee and commute or beer? Need? 12 00:01:07.599 --> 00:01:11.040 I have no idea, But tonight we're gonna cover this 13 00:01:11.079 --> 00:01:14.760 week's news because that's what we do. Before doing that, 14 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:17.719 got to go all the way to the right coast 15 00:01:18.560 --> 00:01:21.040 nestled mirror our nation's gap. Will you know where you 16 00:01:21.079 --> 00:01:23.519 love her? The lovely Redoubtable? 17 00:01:23.959 --> 00:01:28.840 Why, Grace? How you doing well? I would recommend that 18 00:01:28.879 --> 00:01:31.319 you don't drink the beer on your commute frown. 19 00:01:32.519 --> 00:01:34.920 Yeah, open container law and all that. 20 00:01:34.920 --> 00:01:38.319 That's bad idea, don't don't do that. But yeah, otherwise cool. 21 00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:43.680 But here's a picture. See people, people, They accuse me 22 00:01:43.719 --> 00:01:46.719 of not being married. Because I never see Missus Camber. 23 00:01:46.439 --> 00:01:48.120 So there you let her in real life. She's a 24 00:01:48.120 --> 00:01:49.439 person person. 25 00:01:50.680 --> 00:01:53.040 I know people. Thank God, nobody could love that thing. 26 00:01:54.040 --> 00:01:57.799 She didn't know, or at least she does she does. 27 00:01:58.760 --> 00:02:01.760 I mean, you know you made it through raising children. 28 00:02:01.799 --> 00:02:04.319 And when you say five animals, you're good. I mean 29 00:02:04.439 --> 00:02:05.920 one more tests you need. 30 00:02:06.079 --> 00:02:09.080 That's it. That's it, man, that's about all the tests. 31 00:02:09.080 --> 00:02:09.759 I can handle it. 32 00:02:10.159 --> 00:02:13.280 You're good. I'm here for that. No, how am I 33 00:02:13.319 --> 00:02:16.479 doing tonight? Great? Under about like ten inches of ice. 34 00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:18.199 But otherwise you. 35 00:02:18.240 --> 00:02:22.639 Got the ice. Yeah, you got the ice. Normally where 36 00:02:22.680 --> 00:02:25.879 I live in Saint Louis, it comes up from Springfield 37 00:02:25.879 --> 00:02:28.960 to Saint Louis, there's this band and normally it's above 38 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:31.639 it it's snow below it is like freezing ice. Yeah, 39 00:02:31.639 --> 00:02:34.520 and we always get hit with a mix of everything. 40 00:02:35.039 --> 00:02:37.400 This time it was just all snow. We must have 41 00:02:37.479 --> 00:02:40.039 got about where I live. We probably got like eleven 42 00:02:40.039 --> 00:02:43.840 inches of snow. So that was. Yeah, there's a lot 43 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:46.400 of snow. There's a lot of shoveling, I must Yeah. 44 00:02:46.520 --> 00:02:49.240 We got about three inches of snow and then at 45 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:51.879 like eight in the morning it turned to ice and 46 00:02:52.039 --> 00:02:53.919 it was crazy sounding, right, because you can just hear 47 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:58.080 the like ice pellets in the sleep and one hour, yeah, 48 00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:01.199 ten inches of ice. It was great. Shoveling was great. 49 00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:03.000 I could walk on it. It was it was kind 50 00:03:03.039 --> 00:03:05.240 of like walking on a pond, right, like you feel 51 00:03:05.240 --> 00:03:06.680 it kind of crack and you're like, I'm going to 52 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:10.120 fall through. But yeah, not fun. 53 00:03:10.199 --> 00:03:12.599 So that's kind of how it was Memphis from what 54 00:03:12.719 --> 00:03:13.360 I understand. 55 00:03:13.439 --> 00:03:16.080 But yeah, the ice is bad. I don't recommend it. 56 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:20.039 I know I don't either. Not fun. Hey, before we 57 00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:24.639 get started, huge thanks to our Patreon supporters, and a 58 00:03:24.719 --> 00:03:30.080 huge thank you to our dear friend Jake for his support. 59 00:03:30.520 --> 00:03:36.879 Incredibly kind and very very very grateful for support my friend. 60 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:44.319 Um yeah, just awesome, very humbling. Also, we're going to 61 00:03:44.360 --> 00:03:47.639 cover the news. There's news to cover, you know, the 62 00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:51.280 new cycles of January twenty to twenty seventh, twenty twenty six. 63 00:03:51.439 --> 00:03:56.000 So the new era is officially here, twenty twenty six. 64 00:03:56.199 --> 00:04:01.319 Cars are on track grace from shakedown. 65 00:04:01.439 --> 00:04:03.879 Seven weeks after the end of last season. Here we 66 00:04:03.919 --> 00:04:06.080 are ready to I. 67 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:09.879 Know, we're in. Well, you know the rest is yes. 68 00:04:09.879 --> 00:04:11.599 We didn't even get a chance to do that many 69 00:04:11.719 --> 00:04:16.439 like you know, off season random podcasts like there's no 70 00:04:16.519 --> 00:04:18.079 rest for the weary this off season. 71 00:04:18.519 --> 00:04:20.680 I know I, you know, listeners are probably happy. But 72 00:04:20.759 --> 00:04:22.839 you know, for you and I, that off season, you know, 73 00:04:22.879 --> 00:04:25.720 we got settled in. We had time to come up 74 00:04:25.720 --> 00:04:28.319 with some creative podcast ideas. Oh, you know, it would 75 00:04:28.319 --> 00:04:30.959 be fun. It's like the wine and Cheese episode. We 76 00:04:31.079 --> 00:04:34.439 come up with different episodes, the whole get to know 77 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:37.120 you thing that you know, some people couldn't care less. 78 00:04:37.160 --> 00:04:41.199 But we had fun with the off season. And now 79 00:04:41.240 --> 00:04:42.839 all of a sudden, you know, we managed to get 80 00:04:42.839 --> 00:04:47.439 a season review squeezed in and uh and here we are. 81 00:04:47.480 --> 00:04:53.040 We're in Barcelona, yeah, or as you might say, Barcelona, Barcelona. 82 00:04:53.560 --> 00:04:58.800 There you go, Hurrah. Right, it's crazy the new errors here. 83 00:04:58.920 --> 00:05:00.439 You know, the same of the week has to be 84 00:05:00.480 --> 00:05:03.879 reliability and readiness. Who's on schedule, who's already scrambling around? 85 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:07.519 We're going to talk about that. Am I supposed to 86 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:13.000 go apoplectic like other podcasts where it's what's going on 87 00:05:13.240 --> 00:05:14.959 about the private does. 88 00:05:16.360 --> 00:05:18.560 An? I don't know. 89 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:22.240 We're gonna talk about it, you know what. We're just 90 00:05:22.279 --> 00:05:24.800 not gonna rant and raven armwave and make silly faces. 91 00:05:24.839 --> 00:05:28.639 We're going to debate whether the privates are good or not. Okay, 92 00:05:29.800 --> 00:05:31.040 you know that's. 93 00:05:30.879 --> 00:05:32.680 Just are we checking out here? 94 00:05:32.800 --> 00:05:34.600 Todd Well f ones really. 95 00:05:36.399 --> 00:05:37.399 Want to I don't want to know. 96 00:05:38.120 --> 00:05:40.120 This is the below the belt mixed grace. 97 00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:42.759 That's between them and the doctor. 98 00:05:43.680 --> 00:05:48.920 Yeah, you just keep that stuff and no, Yeah, we 99 00:05:48.959 --> 00:05:52.680 had the Barcelona shakedown Day one. Yeah, twenty twenty six 100 00:05:52.959 --> 00:05:59.560 arrow regulations, new engine, canfig can fab, all of that 101 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:04.199 hit the track this Monday, the day we're recording. So 102 00:06:04.319 --> 00:06:09.199 day one, closed door testing, no media access, no official timing, 103 00:06:09.240 --> 00:06:14.680 although there was some timing leaked apparently. Oops, and I 104 00:06:14.720 --> 00:06:18.319 know it's leaked. Did you get that air quotes? It's 105 00:06:18.399 --> 00:06:23.439 leaked and the team's only get three out of five days. 106 00:06:23.600 --> 00:06:27.879 So what does that really translate to? Well, look, it's 107 00:06:27.920 --> 00:06:31.000 the first test. We've covered a bajillion of these already. 108 00:06:31.319 --> 00:06:35.360 This is old news for you veteran TPF listeners. But 109 00:06:36.120 --> 00:06:40.959 as we always say, you're judging the system's mileage, smooth operations, 110 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:45.600 not leaked time sheets. Timesheets at this point only means 111 00:06:45.639 --> 00:06:50.399 something to the teams that's running the car. But so 112 00:06:50.839 --> 00:06:54.439 who all ran today? Grace, Let's talk about that. We 113 00:06:54.560 --> 00:07:00.720 got seven teams on tap at Barcelona and Mercedes, Red 114 00:07:00.839 --> 00:07:10.319 Bull Racing Bowls has Alpine, Audi and Cadillac all running. 115 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:15.560 Who didn't run? Can we read anything into this? McLaren 116 00:07:15.600 --> 00:07:20.480 and Ferrari expected to start no earlier than Tuesday, and 117 00:07:20.680 --> 00:07:23.839 Aston Martin don't want a stake down, saying no, we're 118 00:07:23.839 --> 00:07:29.040 playing on running Thursday and Friday only. How about that? 119 00:07:29.959 --> 00:07:33.079 I bet I sent you a leak from last week's 120 00:07:33.279 --> 00:07:35.480 Was it last week's podcast we talked about the Honda 121 00:07:35.560 --> 00:07:38.319 engine launch and you were laughing about a Honda engine launch, 122 00:07:38.600 --> 00:07:40.319 and I sent you the next day what they do 123 00:07:40.600 --> 00:07:42.279 a Honda engine lunch? Yes? 124 00:07:42.519 --> 00:07:44.040 Who means this? Nobody needs a. 125 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:47.079 Hond Here's our nice Honda engine, isn't it pretty? 126 00:07:47.600 --> 00:07:49.319 Look at this blurry spot? Great? 127 00:07:50.879 --> 00:07:54.120 You see this sort of off aluminum color. That's kind 128 00:07:54.120 --> 00:07:55.639 of this and it's nice. 129 00:07:56.000 --> 00:07:56.879 Why is this the thing? 130 00:07:57.040 --> 00:07:59.519 What cool? It's the thing? Hey? 131 00:07:59.600 --> 00:08:03.439 Look, you know it's I understand maybe why Honda wants 132 00:08:03.439 --> 00:08:04.120 to do it, but. 133 00:08:04.959 --> 00:08:06.839 Yeah, I get why Hanna wants to do it. They 134 00:08:06.839 --> 00:08:08.800 want to pick it up, of course, and you should. 135 00:08:10.079 --> 00:08:13.560 You should the engine, that's what will big it up. 136 00:08:14.040 --> 00:08:16.600 Right, Get them to sit on the you know, the 137 00:08:16.920 --> 00:08:19.360 the transfer case or something I don't right, that's right, 138 00:08:19.879 --> 00:08:22.199 you know, why not? So you had Aston Martin's gonna 139 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:23.560 run Thursday and Friday. 140 00:08:24.079 --> 00:08:32.320 Now, oh boy, Williams not running at all in Barcelona, 141 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:34.799 not going to do it. 142 00:08:35.879 --> 00:08:40.600 You have to wonder is it one of those moments 143 00:08:40.919 --> 00:08:45.799 or we've seen this before for Williams folks. Now admittedly 144 00:08:46.879 --> 00:08:51.440 it was in the lean years and the nays of rebuilding, 145 00:08:52.159 --> 00:08:54.679 but they kind of gave that whole first test, amiss. 146 00:08:54.840 --> 00:08:58.480 And we've seen this from other teams too. But if 147 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:01.679 I'm honest, Grace, I don't know that I was expecting 148 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:03.120 it this year from what. 149 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:05.840 I thought they would be there. I'm I mean, so 150 00:09:05.919 --> 00:09:08.360 I think that's the thing. Is that, right, there's five days, 151 00:09:08.639 --> 00:09:11.159 you only can reach three days. So it makes sense 152 00:09:11.159 --> 00:09:14.200 that Ferrari and McLaren are like, we'd like to let 153 00:09:14.240 --> 00:09:17.159 everybody else go first. We'd like to see what you're 154 00:09:17.200 --> 00:09:19.720 doing before we go out on the track. That makes sense, right, 155 00:09:19.759 --> 00:09:22.600 You can wait until Wednesday and Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, fine, 156 00:09:23.200 --> 00:09:25.840 you know, and you already told us you weren't coming today, 157 00:09:25.879 --> 00:09:29.279 so fine. But I think I think Acid Martin just 158 00:09:29.360 --> 00:09:31.559 running two days is a little cheeky, but William's not 159 00:09:31.559 --> 00:09:33.039 coming on. That worries me. 160 00:09:34.200 --> 00:09:36.440 Yeah, it kind of does me too. They said, yeah, 161 00:09:36.480 --> 00:09:38.080 we're not gonna go to that. We're gonna work on 162 00:09:38.120 --> 00:09:51.159 some stuff. Use these days spreadsheets. Clean the factory room, right, yes, yeah, 163 00:09:51.200 --> 00:09:54.799 you got them out there cleaning up the shop. Oh 164 00:09:54.919 --> 00:09:56.240 you miss them oil over there. 165 00:09:56.480 --> 00:09:59.440 That's right, Like you's run, Dennis, this is not acceptable. 166 00:10:00.120 --> 00:10:04.240 Yeah. Maybe you know, maybe they're busy with S and 167 00:10:04.279 --> 00:10:09.720 OP trying to catalog wings, get QR code stickers on them. 168 00:10:09.799 --> 00:10:13.440 Who knows what they're doing, you know, entering all that 169 00:10:13.600 --> 00:10:18.559 into the computer and doing all that fun stuff. I 170 00:10:18.600 --> 00:10:21.759 don't know exactly, but they're not going to show up. 171 00:10:21.840 --> 00:10:24.879 So take that for what you will, start your own 172 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:27.919 rumors and create your own AI slop about it. 173 00:10:29.600 --> 00:10:31.600 Yeah did they say why? I'm sure they did. I 174 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:34.000 just didn't want Yeah. 175 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:36.960 I think i I it's been a while and I 176 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:39.519 can't remember the exactly. I think they were kind of like, 177 00:10:39.559 --> 00:10:41.720 you know, we're not doing it because we're still working 178 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:44.240 on some development issues and pieces that we're putting together 179 00:10:44.320 --> 00:10:46.240 and that kind of thing. They're still working the care 180 00:10:46.320 --> 00:10:50.159 I guess fair enough, you know, and you wouldn't expect 181 00:10:50.279 --> 00:10:53.200 you know, you wouldn't expect, like in the old days, 182 00:10:53.279 --> 00:10:56.960 you know, like the old days of Ron Dennis as 183 00:10:57.039 --> 00:10:59.799 we like, you know, some sort of flowery language about 184 00:10:59.799 --> 00:11:03.919 how not showing up here is actually a tactical advantage 185 00:11:04.320 --> 00:11:07.559 and real strategy, right, yeah, But you wouldn't get that 186 00:11:07.639 --> 00:11:10.840 kind of fluff, you know, from James. I mean, if 187 00:11:10.879 --> 00:11:12.559 he was behind the eight ball, he would come out 188 00:11:12.600 --> 00:11:15.639 in one of those you know, very hat in hand 189 00:11:15.799 --> 00:11:18.960 videos and just explain, you know, we're really not worry 190 00:11:19.000 --> 00:11:20.399 we'd like to be and that's right, You're going to 191 00:11:20.519 --> 00:11:22.320 use this time to focus on you know, that's kind 192 00:11:22.320 --> 00:11:27.600 of James, you know, James transparency vowels. Yeah, that's good. 193 00:11:27.639 --> 00:11:29.600 I mean, so that's good. I mean I guess I 194 00:11:29.600 --> 00:11:31.559 guess you have one of two options. You need to 195 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:34.840 be Alpine, who basically, like three races into the season 196 00:11:34.879 --> 00:11:37.679 were like we're done and we're focusing on twenty twenty 197 00:11:37.679 --> 00:11:40.559 six and Woms clearly didn't do that. So this is 198 00:11:40.879 --> 00:11:43.519 I mean, that's the ultimate thing, right they know James knows, 199 00:11:43.759 --> 00:11:45.639 even if I don't know that, you know, if their 200 00:11:45.679 --> 00:11:47.639 plan was really they were going to develop the twenty 201 00:11:47.639 --> 00:11:50.120 twenty five car, which they did, and they were successful, 202 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:52.360 which they were. Yeah, they're a little behind on the 203 00:11:52.360 --> 00:11:54.519 twenty twenty six as opposed to Alpine that was just 204 00:11:54.559 --> 00:11:57.279 like this year sucks, twenty twenty five isn't gonna get 205 00:11:57.320 --> 00:11:59.879 us anywhere. Let's not worry about it and just focus 206 00:11:59.919 --> 00:12:02.639 on twenty six. So those are really two options there. 207 00:12:02.840 --> 00:12:05.519 And suffice to say that that, you know, day one 208 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:09.600 absence is I wouldn't overread that. It's you know, it's 209 00:12:10.279 --> 00:12:13.679 it's a limited allocation test anyway. And the real tale 210 00:12:13.759 --> 00:12:16.600 is is how cleanly the teams execute once they choose 211 00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:20.399 to run, and they've already been running the engines, you know, 212 00:12:20.519 --> 00:12:23.919 non stop and and all of those things. It's it's 213 00:12:25.080 --> 00:12:27.080 different when you get on track and actually run it. 214 00:12:27.159 --> 00:12:30.039 But I would say that, you know, a group like 215 00:12:30.120 --> 00:12:34.879 Aston Martin or Ferrari McLaren waiting to maybe run Wednesday, Thursday, 216 00:12:34.879 --> 00:12:37.840 Friday or something like that, if if they choose to 217 00:12:37.879 --> 00:12:39.840 run a day or two or even a Williams Gates 218 00:12:39.840 --> 00:12:43.080 not show up, I think I wouldn't overread that yet. 219 00:12:44.200 --> 00:12:49.039 I guess this is my advice. I know I'm taking 220 00:12:49.080 --> 00:12:51.960 the I'm taking I'm just being practical out of this, 221 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:56.679 you know, everybody's all these news stories and social social 222 00:12:56.720 --> 00:12:59.639 media and videos and everything of apoplectic about it. But 223 00:12:59.799 --> 00:13:02.919 I you know, it makes for great clickbait, but I wouldn't. 224 00:13:03.080 --> 00:13:08.480 I wouldn't overread that yet, would wait until the Williams runs. 225 00:13:09.360 --> 00:13:12.200 Yes, the rights just recounted about how they had to 226 00:13:12.200 --> 00:13:15.759 walk around the track, so like a story time with 227 00:13:15.919 --> 00:13:16.519 Ed as he walked. 228 00:13:17.279 --> 00:13:21.919 Yeah, I saw that poor Ed, you know, sitting and 229 00:13:22.039 --> 00:13:24.039 sitting in the car, in their front seats of their 230 00:13:24.080 --> 00:13:26.279 car with shot at the noble kind of like, hey 231 00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:29.159 here we are. Couldn't get totally close to the track. 232 00:13:29.639 --> 00:13:32.720 We kept getting shooed one mile away, you know, it's 233 00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:35.720 too close, another mile away. You know, feel bad for them, 234 00:13:35.960 --> 00:13:38.080 and it's tough, you know, these guys are you know, 235 00:13:38.159 --> 00:13:40.559 they're they're F one journalists. They want to get up 236 00:13:41.200 --> 00:13:43.840 at least close enough. I think the sounds of the car. 237 00:13:43.960 --> 00:13:46.759 But had to work for these six weeks right where you. 238 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:51.480 Know, yeah, yeah, right right right right. You know there's 239 00:13:51.519 --> 00:13:54.519 no stop in Ed. There is any train in that 240 00:13:54.639 --> 00:13:59.720 career his right. So really, so we talk about testing 241 00:13:59.720 --> 00:14:01.960 every we get into testing with oh my gosh, and 242 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:04.080 this and that and this and that. At the end 243 00:14:04.159 --> 00:14:06.600 of the day. Yes, all of the you know, certain 244 00:14:06.639 --> 00:14:08.480 speeds are on corner and with the wings and the 245 00:14:08.600 --> 00:14:10.679 arrows and all that measurement in the pedo tubes and 246 00:14:11.240 --> 00:14:14.559 you know, the the the fencing they put on to 247 00:14:15.320 --> 00:14:18.360 gauge the aeroflight, all of that is pertinent. It all happens, 248 00:14:18.399 --> 00:14:20.159 It all means a hell of a lot to the teams. 249 00:14:20.200 --> 00:14:23.519 And how fast they were through the middle of this corner, 250 00:14:23.600 --> 00:14:25.440 in the corner entry and the corner exit and when 251 00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:28.320 they could have play throat, all of that is critically 252 00:14:28.399 --> 00:14:31.480 important to the team. Even on this first test they're 253 00:14:31.559 --> 00:14:35.440 measuring all of that, of course, but in reality that's 254 00:14:35.919 --> 00:14:38.639 important to the team regarding contextually its. 255 00:14:38.559 --> 00:14:41.159 Car, right, we have none of the context. 256 00:14:41.720 --> 00:14:44.639 We don't have any of the contexts, right, And so 257 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:48.919 it often begt that sort of phrase that, oh, you 258 00:14:48.960 --> 00:14:52.200 can't tell anything by testing, you know, you can't tell me. Well, 259 00:14:52.240 --> 00:14:55.960 the teams can tell a lot by testing not only 260 00:14:56.000 --> 00:14:58.360 their car but others, all right, It's just that we 261 00:14:58.480 --> 00:15:02.799 don't have that context as fans sitting at home watching that. 262 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:07.240 What we do have and the one real context that 263 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:10.600 we are in possession of, and I would argue at 264 00:15:10.600 --> 00:15:14.200 this first shakedown test is the most one, the most 265 00:15:14.200 --> 00:15:17.600 important one, The one that really matters is total mileage 266 00:15:17.639 --> 00:15:21.240 and in the total amount of lapse that they generate during 267 00:15:21.320 --> 00:15:25.240 their three days of testing this week, because that's critical, 268 00:15:25.919 --> 00:15:29.279 especially for the new engine, the new power unit delivering 269 00:15:29.480 --> 00:15:32.720 fifty percent of its power by electric with the power 270 00:15:32.759 --> 00:15:38.840 boost and all that that electric that's a major major issue. 271 00:15:38.840 --> 00:15:43.200 And how well that car performs and how many miles 272 00:15:43.200 --> 00:15:46.360 they can put on that car in the heat of 273 00:15:47.320 --> 00:15:50.159 driving it around a track and trying to set some 274 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:54.200 pace is critical. So I do have close to If 275 00:15:54.240 --> 00:15:57.639 these aren't exact numbers, I think they're there thereabouts. But 276 00:15:58.320 --> 00:16:04.600 as in past years when we've done preseason reviews or previews, 277 00:16:06.480 --> 00:16:08.840 I always did the testing. I kind of didn't really 278 00:16:08.879 --> 00:16:11.519 focus on timing, but I definitely put all of the 279 00:16:11.559 --> 00:16:14.440 mileage that teams did because this is a critical element. 280 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:20.200 So first day, this boat's really well. Grace has top 281 00:16:20.240 --> 00:16:25.039 of the heap one hundred and fifty four laps. Not 282 00:16:25.120 --> 00:16:28.240 only does that car look terrific with its new livery, 283 00:16:29.120 --> 00:16:32.559 but I got to tell you it's you know same, 284 00:16:32.639 --> 00:16:34.360 it's got the Ferrari in the back of it. One 285 00:16:34.440 --> 00:16:37.519 hundred and fifty four laps. You would one would assume 286 00:16:38.279 --> 00:16:43.200 that Ferrari may have equal good mileage out of their 287 00:16:43.240 --> 00:16:46.159 engine because it is a Ferrari engine. So they hit 288 00:16:46.200 --> 00:16:51.080 the track, new engine, new arrow, new car, didn't run 289 00:16:51.120 --> 00:16:53.679 into a lot of niggles. One hundred and fifty four 290 00:16:53.759 --> 00:16:57.360 laps and that is fantastic for the first day. Very 291 00:16:57.559 --> 00:16:58.240 excited for. 292 00:16:58.240 --> 00:17:01.279 Hash and what I'm talking about. 293 00:17:01.039 --> 00:17:03.480 Too, Yes, what I and the whole team is doing 294 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:09.039 over there, it's fantastic. Next up your friends, Mercedes. Somewhere 295 00:17:09.039 --> 00:17:16.480 in that one ish laps. Yeah, a huge volume in 296 00:17:16.519 --> 00:17:22.400 my age. 297 00:17:19.319 --> 00:17:19.400 I. 298 00:17:20.880 --> 00:17:23.799 Say, because I've seen a couple of different estimates amount 299 00:17:24.160 --> 00:17:26.519 of laps of there. You know, the variants there in labs. 300 00:17:27.000 --> 00:17:31.599 I'm going to be close on that count. So a 301 00:17:31.640 --> 00:17:34.559 lot of folks going into this season felt in the 302 00:17:34.640 --> 00:17:39.119 lead up to today that Mercedes engine could be the 303 00:17:39.160 --> 00:17:41.759 one to beat. That Mercedes had been doing a tremendous 304 00:17:41.759 --> 00:17:45.079 amount of work and this bodes well for that, right. 305 00:17:45.799 --> 00:17:47.759 And Mercedes is just hoping it bodes well for them 306 00:17:47.799 --> 00:17:48.279 this time. 307 00:17:48.960 --> 00:17:53.960 Yes, yeah, as long as they get that Eraro worked out. Yes, 308 00:17:55.039 --> 00:17:59.400 So there's that I would say, is as happy as 309 00:17:59.440 --> 00:18:01.680 I am for and one hundred and fifty four laps. 310 00:18:01.960 --> 00:18:05.799 I am equally as happy for Red Bull. They did 311 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:09.960 over one hundred laps. And why that's important, folks, is 312 00:18:10.039 --> 00:18:13.480 that's the first public outing of their in house forward 313 00:18:13.640 --> 00:18:18.599 back power unit. Lots of question marks around that. They 314 00:18:18.680 --> 00:18:21.640 you know, Red Bulls never built an engine, not like Mercedes, 315 00:18:21.759 --> 00:18:25.200 not like Ferrari, not like Honda. They've never done that, 316 00:18:25.640 --> 00:18:29.799 and so they created their own engine shop. They manufactured 317 00:18:29.839 --> 00:18:35.359 their own engine, working with Ford. Lots of concern and 318 00:18:35.480 --> 00:18:40.079 question marks over the efficacy of that engine, how good 319 00:18:40.119 --> 00:18:42.720 it would be. Is it going to be a strong engine, 320 00:18:42.839 --> 00:18:44.559 Is it going to be a reliable engine. Is it 321 00:18:44.599 --> 00:18:47.240 going to be a fast engine? I would say at 322 00:18:47.279 --> 00:18:49.960 first blush. One hundred plus laps from Red Bull. It's 323 00:18:50.000 --> 00:18:55.200 a very positive thing for them. Yeah, that's my thinking. 324 00:18:55.480 --> 00:18:58.720 It didn't blow up. That's good, We're good. Yeah, laps, 325 00:18:58.759 --> 00:18:59.640 everything was nice. 326 00:19:00.119 --> 00:19:05.720 Yeah, Hunter lapse equally as good is Raising Bulls. They 327 00:19:05.759 --> 00:19:10.279 had eighty eight laps, that's good. It's another eighty eight 328 00:19:10.519 --> 00:19:15.119 on the Red Bull PU, which is good. Right, So 329 00:19:15.240 --> 00:19:19.799 that's good. You had Alpine with sixty laps they had 330 00:19:19.880 --> 00:19:22.839 I think there was maybe one interruption. Red Flag mentioned 331 00:19:22.880 --> 00:19:25.200 somewhere in the press that I saw regarding Alpene, But 332 00:19:25.759 --> 00:19:31.160 they had sixty laps in their pocket, limited running though 333 00:19:31.240 --> 00:19:35.559 early stoppage. Audi had twenty seven twenty eight dish in 334 00:19:35.559 --> 00:19:39.920 that neighborhood. They stopped early after identifying a technical issue. 335 00:19:40.440 --> 00:19:43.680 And Cadillac had forty four laps around thirty three of 336 00:19:43.720 --> 00:19:47.359 them by Valteri Bodas and eleven of them or so 337 00:19:47.480 --> 00:19:53.319 by Sergio Perez explicitly sort of prioritizing debugging over those laps. 338 00:19:53.319 --> 00:19:56.359 So they ran out forty four laps, you know, looked 339 00:19:56.400 --> 00:19:59.440 at the systems, started working on some debugging things, and 340 00:19:59.480 --> 00:20:02.039 then shows to lock it up for the day. So 341 00:20:05.960 --> 00:20:09.880 I would say on Cadillacs part grace that the low 342 00:20:10.000 --> 00:20:14.640 lap count could actually be part of their part of 343 00:20:14.680 --> 00:20:18.359 their strategy for this, this this shakedown. I could see 344 00:20:18.359 --> 00:20:24.160 them saying, Okay, new chassis, got a Ferrari engine power train, 345 00:20:24.920 --> 00:20:28.000 let's go in, let's run a series of laps, less 346 00:20:28.000 --> 00:20:31.720 identify any issues, let's stop, let's fix it. Run a 347 00:20:31.759 --> 00:20:34.640 few more, let's stop, let's fix it. It's part of 348 00:20:34.640 --> 00:20:37.200 that strategy of just sort of breaking it in right now. 349 00:20:37.480 --> 00:20:40.119 That's right, I don't I mean That's the whole point 350 00:20:40.119 --> 00:20:42.559 of a shakedown, right, It's to kind of get like, 351 00:20:42.680 --> 00:20:45.799 where's the like, you know, where the issues where the 352 00:20:45.839 --> 00:20:49.039 little things that yeah that lasts like ten percent or 353 00:20:49.039 --> 00:20:51.079 whatever that you can really only address out on the track. 354 00:20:51.359 --> 00:20:52.799 That's a shakedown. That's the whole point. 355 00:20:53.400 --> 00:20:56.559 Yeah. Yeah, I don't know that it's necessarily a crisis. 356 00:20:57.000 --> 00:21:00.640 I think no context matters more than the totals. But 357 00:21:02.079 --> 00:21:03.960 it depends. You know, if you showed up and the 358 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:06.000 engine blew up, yeah that's a major issue. But if 359 00:21:06.039 --> 00:21:08.759 you show up, you run from laps, you stop, you're 360 00:21:08.799 --> 00:21:11.359 working on it. The reality is you make maybe coming 361 00:21:11.440 --> 00:21:14.319 up with a debugging punch list at this point, and 362 00:21:14.359 --> 00:21:18.200 you're gonna try to methodically step through that program. That 363 00:21:18.319 --> 00:21:24.000 could be I'm guessing it could be. So I think 364 00:21:24.640 --> 00:21:29.000 if I was to talk about Monday, Grace, see how 365 00:21:29.039 --> 00:21:31.599 these If I was to think about the headlines and 366 00:21:31.640 --> 00:21:34.200 the highlights from this Monday, I'm gonna hit you with these. 367 00:21:34.960 --> 00:21:37.720 Tell me if they're compelling enough to eat A click 368 00:21:37.759 --> 00:21:41.839 on the headline. The first one is is Red Bulls 369 00:21:41.880 --> 00:21:45.839 Power Unit debut vibes, so Hajar said they got more 370 00:21:45.920 --> 00:21:49.160 laps and expected and only minor issues, which is a 371 00:21:49.240 --> 00:21:53.880 calm first day tone for a brand new engine program. Right, Okay, 372 00:21:55.000 --> 00:21:58.640 I like that sums up Red Bulls Day. We would 373 00:21:58.680 --> 00:22:03.319 you add where was Max? You know. 374 00:22:06.559 --> 00:22:08.319 Who would exp I think we'd be more shocked if 375 00:22:08.319 --> 00:22:10.599 he was there. I think that would be the headline. 376 00:22:10.759 --> 00:22:13.839 Why is Max here? That's I'd be worried, right Like 377 00:22:14.240 --> 00:22:17.759 Max is here, I'm worried. I'm worried car is going 378 00:22:17.839 --> 00:22:20.440 to be there? Right, Like that's not surprising, right, yeah? 379 00:22:21.440 --> 00:22:23.240 Yeah, he's the test Yeah at. 380 00:22:23.079 --> 00:22:25.160 This point, that's what he's supposed to be doing. 381 00:22:25.440 --> 00:22:28.599 For Mercedes headline, I would say it's all about driver 382 00:22:28.680 --> 00:22:31.799 Field Russell. George Russell described the new power as pretty 383 00:22:31.839 --> 00:22:36.240 impressive and if besides the car feels smaller, lighter while 384 00:22:36.240 --> 00:22:43.160 looking extremely quick through Barcelona, that's a positive thing from Mercedes. 385 00:22:42.480 --> 00:22:44.559 Does Yes, yeah, driver Field? 386 00:22:44.599 --> 00:22:47.319 All right, driver Field. I think I think it's good. 387 00:22:47.200 --> 00:22:48.839 To get Kimmy out there. I mean I think that 388 00:22:48.960 --> 00:22:52.359 he had an as expected twenty twenty five, but you 389 00:22:52.400 --> 00:22:54.400 know you're still like shaking down the driver. You want 390 00:22:54.440 --> 00:22:57.799 him to get more see time, to get more comfortable 391 00:22:57.839 --> 00:22:59.920 in Formula one in that car. It's a new car. 392 00:23:00.200 --> 00:23:01.799 Get ready for twenty twenty six. So I think I 393 00:23:01.839 --> 00:23:04.839 would have been pushing kimnymore than just to kind of 394 00:23:04.880 --> 00:23:06.400 get out there and get confident. 395 00:23:06.799 --> 00:23:12.079 Yeah, yeah, it's good. AUDI short day stopped as a precaution, 396 00:23:12.279 --> 00:23:16.160 says the issue is identified and fixable. Borletto framed it 397 00:23:16.200 --> 00:23:23.279 as normal early shakedown pain, no question us. So to 398 00:23:23.400 --> 00:23:28.480 juxtapose the two, you have Audi showing up taking over sober. 399 00:23:28.839 --> 00:23:31.960 They show up, develop a chassis in a brand new 400 00:23:32.000 --> 00:23:37.759 Formula one engine, had some issues, stopped after a few laps, 401 00:23:39.480 --> 00:23:41.720