Inside The Piranha Club - A Formula 1 Podcast
Jul 20, 2026 · 22 min · 10 segments
Is Kimi Antonelli winning all the time getting boring? The team discuss the fallout from the Belgian GP, where Antonelli recorded another victory. A fine performance from the young Italian, but it is…
Rebecca ClancyHost
Right, shall we crack on and talk about the Belgian Grand Prix? Because it was a pretty good weekend, wasn't it? Everyone made it through fairly safely.
Who else? Who now leads the drivers' standings by 45 points over Lewis Hamilton, who is currently sitting second.
And George Russell has been bumped down to third, 50 points behind his teammate after he failed to score any points this weekend.
Well, it's funny you said about a positive because in my mind, I'm like, is it getting boring that he's winning so much? And I know he's not boring and I know it's not a boring story.
But there is like an inevitability, isn't there? When he gets in a car and has a good couple of practices, you always think he's going to win.
And like, how much can we take of this? Because, yes, it would be great if he was to win the World Championship, but we all want it to be a bit closer than...
Oh, but it's not straightforward when you watch him, though, is it? And absolutely nothing to do with his talent.
It's those closing laps where you think, is the car going to make it? What's that Mercedes going to do? Is it going to fall apart? Is the engine going to fail? There's still that reliability issue with them.
Toto Wolff said after the race that they think they've found out what the Gremlin is.
And they also think they found out why George Russell, who said he was 30 to 40 percent down on battery off the start line, which was pretty obvious if you watched it.
But Mark, it's still that slight niggle, isn't there, when you're watching it, just thinking, is he actually going to finish this race?
Right, shall we crack on and talk about the Belgian Grand Prix? Because it was a pretty good weekend, wasn't it? Everyone made it through fairly safely.
Who else? Who now leads the drivers' standings by 45 points over Lewis Hamilton, who is currently sitting second.
And George Russell has been bumped down to third, 50 points behind his teammate after he failed to score any points this weekend.
Well, it's funny you said about a positive because in my mind, I'm like, is it getting boring that he's winning so much? And I know he's not boring and I know it's not a boring story.
But there is like an inevitability, isn't there? When he gets in a car and has a good couple of practices, you always think he's going to win.
And like, how much can we take of this? Because, yes, it would be great if he was to win the World Championship, but we all want it to be a bit closer than...
Oh, but it's not straightforward when you watch him, though, is it? And absolutely nothing to do with his talent.
It's those closing laps where you think, is the car going to make it? What's that Mercedes going to do? Is it going to fall apart? Is the engine going to fail? There's still that reliability issue with them.
Toto Wolff said after the race that they think they've found out what the Gremlin is.
And they also think they found out why George Russell, who said he was 30 to 40 percent down on battery off the start line, which was pretty obvious if you watched it.
But Mark, it's still that slight niggle, isn't there, when you're watching it, just thinking, is he actually going to finish this race?
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