Racing Bulls

Because the other thing was Lewis Hamilton, after it happened, I don't blame him for being annoyed.

But if you're one of those 2,000 people at Maranello and you've got one of your drivers in third demanding that the one who's leading drops behind you and gives the race win to racing bulls, that would be an odd thing, to Red Bull, then you're thinking, oh, hang on a bit.

This eternal tension between the individuals and the team, it'll never be resolved, will it, while you have teammates.

But that's the heart of it.

I mean, like I said, I've not actually looked at it on board to check it, but yeah, usually...

Usually those penalties, unless there's some clear mitigation or you tick the boxes you need to, you will get that penalty.

39 points now, the gap between Alpine and Racing Bulls.

So Alpine basically are hoping for a, brazilian grand prix 24 aren't they so

Red Bull is third with 382.

McLaren, fourth with 365, and Racing Bulls fifth with 108.

And if you go all the way down to the bottom, not a great season for Cadillac.

They have not scored a single world championship point this year, and this was a race.

Um, I'm going to talk more about Liam Lawson next week.

Um, because I wanted to do a bit on why hasn't he been given that seat yet let's pick that up next week um In a word, I'm surprised he hasn't been and I think he should be because it's not like Racing Bulls have not, you know, they've had Tsunoda and Ricciardo in there for a long time recently.

It's not like it's been constantly a desire to bring in new kids.

So something seems to be going on there and I think it's weird.

So it's mathematical really, isn't it? It's realistic it's going to be Mercedes as we thought.

Red Bull now looking a bit more secure in third from McLaren and Racing Bulls pretty secure in fifth.

So before we have a chat here, let's hear from Stuart Codling who was out in Mexico City.

Well hello chaps that was quite a remarkable race wasn't it and as our viewer on YouTube can see and the listeners on the podcast will have to imagine I am in the Forosol Stadium with ticker tape all around my feet the scene of Kimi Antonelli's championship crowning and a remarkable race win for Max Verstappen which no doubt you will be deliberating, cogitating and digesting and Quite an interesting race weekend.

What did you make of Liam Lawson's drive from the back of the pack to finish ninth?

was fantastic again and like that has kind of been the story with liam lawson right the way through this season he has continually maximized what he can do with that racing bulls car and he qualified very well on saturday got thrown out of qualifying due to a engine mode um technical issue that happened after the session went from the pit lane and he just rolled with it like it was a chaotic race and very easy for other drivers to slip up or get caught up in incidents like his teammate harvard limblad did And Lawson did none of that.

He kept it clean and a really, really good haul of points.

And it's kind of crazy that we've got all these questions about his future because he's just doing everything he can and he's continually performing at such a high level.

He's currently in ninth position, could go further with a couple of races left.

But he stated himself, he admits no assurance for a seat next year in Formula One.

Why is his question? seat being questioned when he's considerably performing at a high level for a team racing bulls

i think it's down to what they see as being the future of the team i think that's the only logical explanation i've got in my head because as you say he's doing everything and even without the new zealand bias like he is performing so well like he's been their team leader this year And that's kind of all you want really in your racing drivers.

It seems like the stewards are really cracking down on interpersonal nonsense during practices that we might see reflected throughout the rest of the season.

And one of the Max Verstappen-esque comments about the situation was something along the lines of it was a bold move for a driver that doesn't actually have a seat next year because neither Racing Bulls driver, as we know, has been confirmed for next season.

And to add another layer of questions for this, and as I said last episode, in the not-too-distant past, The likelihood of Racing Bulls moving away from the partnership of Liam Lawson and Arvid Lindblad does seem slim.

But Nikola Solov was only a tenth behind Arvid Lindblad during FP1 here in Mexico.

And no, we don't know what the run plan.

And then he lost even more places thanks to a technical breach in Q2.

Not his fault per se, but it did give Racing Bulls the excuse to enact further changes to his power unit, which helped Liam out a lot, maybe, to cross the line 9th, but then reach 7th due to post-race penalties.

So, yeah.

Very tasty points for V-Carve in that context, because Alpine had gotten both cars home in the points, but left with absolutely nothing.

First, Franco received a 10-second slap on the wrist for a single yellow flag infringement, while Pierre got a colopinto and go penalty for a double yellow infringement.

It could have been worse for Franco because earlier he got noted for another double yellow himself, but the stewards then showed him mercy, doubting with their own foam that he'd had enough warning, but whatever.

Both lost their points and Racing Bulls now leaves Alpine by 39 with four rounds to go.

But one beneficiary was Audi's Gabriel Bortoletto.

He's in eighth place at 107 points.

Uh, Liam Lawson squeaking through to another decent points finish for Racing Bulls.

He's in ninth place at 83 points.

and still wrapping up the top 10, despite was going to get points, then didn't get points.

P3 is Red Bull racing up to 382.

Now a bit well clear of McLaren who check in with 365.

P5 is racing bulls up to 108.

P6 is Alpine racing.

Now go on and enjoy it.

So with all of that talk about Antonelli, we have to quickly get to Liam Lawson with Racing Bulls as well.

He started from pit and got to seventh in a great drive in Mexico.

That benefited from some of the crashes and post-race penalties that were handed out to three drivers.