Eddie Irvine

sometimes is you get against a driver that is just that little bit better than you, right? And after a while, you kind of give up and accept that status quo.

You saw it a lot with Michael Schumacher's teammates, you know? Like Eddie famously, Eddie Irvine famously just used to say, at the end, I'm just not that good.

He's better than me, right? But, and he just knew that there was a small gap between them.

Whereas to Felipe's credit, he never allowed that to happen.

Point to Jaguar 2002,

bitch! Eddie Irvine in fucking Italy, bitch! Put some respect on Gunter's name!

It's also undignified of Christian.

Like, punching down like that?

Did he get a pole while at Haas? Yes.

But while he was at Jaguar, now he wasn't the team principal of Jaguar, but while he was at Jaguar, he did get a podium.

Eddie Irvine got a podium in 2002 at the Italian Grand Prix.

And Gunter Steiner...

So the rest, as they say, is history.

They had some great drivers, Eddie Irvine, Rubens, Martin Brundle in the late 90s before Fisichella and Ralph Schumacher.

Team seemed to be on the rise.

They got Damon Hill in 98 after he left Williams a year after that and paired him with Heinz-Harold Frenzen.

I kinda choose my life, but it's-

I think Eddie Irvine was asked once, "So, so what is it like, uh, to be a second driver in, uh, at the team of Ferrari, uh, next to Michael?" He said, "Well, I would like to thank Ferrari for, uh, my houses and my private jets and my life and my dates and my six girlfriends." And, hey, I mean, he had a fantastic life, but he knew he would not become a world champion.

Which for some is totally fine.

I was like-

Oh, beautiful.

Eddie Irvine, of course.

Which team did Eddie Irvine complete the most races for?

Ferrari? Ferrari?

Congratulations.

So the two of them just spent the middle of the race looking like the comparison I made was an early noughties F1 race with team orders.

where Eddie Irvine was being told to pull aside and let Michael Schumacher win the race, it just looked awful.

It was the worst look for the sport in an era where we are supposedly, you know, trying to sell the sport to new audiences.

How long does it take in me to explain what just happened to hardcore MotoGP fans? let alone trying to explain to someone new why they're giving away the race win or the race result to each other.

So actually, when he jumped in the car and he did all right at Interlagos, he was taken out in a crash that wasn't of his making.

It was caused by, uh, Eddie Irvine, who got a one-race ban, later upgraded to a three-race ban for it.

But that ended up with Jos being launched-

Mm

You've, you've, you've got a strong affinity.

You're gonna be having an Eddie Irvine poster up soon, surely.

Great.

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