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00:00:08 Hannah 

Hi, I'm Hannah. 

00:00:09 Rachelle 

Hi, I'm Rachelle. And welcome to Monaco. 

00:00:13 Hannah 

So, before we get into today's Grand Prix, I do want to go over a few personal things that happened to me this weekend because it's car related. So, on Friday night I went on a date with a guy who works at Bridgestone Tires, like as a sales account manager. 

00:00:37 Rachelle 

So, he probably knows a lot about tires. 

00:00:39 Hannah 

Yes, exactly, and I know we've been wanting to do a tire strategy episode, so I was going to ask him a bunch of questions about tires. 

00:00:48 Hannah 

There's, but then literally I get there and one minute in, he's like it's kind of ironic I work for a tire company because I don't know anything about tires. 

00:00:59 Rachelle 

Why would you ever admit that? 

00:01:00 Hannah 

Yeah, so he said he doesn't know anything about tires and I'm just thinking to myself how do I leave this date immediately even though it's only bad it’s only been 5 minutes, but he's not gonna be of use in any way whatsoever. But then he proceeds to tell me that he just bought a Maserati. So, then I think I should stay and then we chat and he tells me that I can drive his Maserati on our next date. 

00:01:35 Rachelle 

That's like a really good testing sesh. 

00:01:36 Hannah 

And I was pretty excited about it. Like that's really cool, like when else am I going to test drive a Maserati? I should definitely go on this next date and so we set a plan and then I was like really happy about it, and I called our friend Jessica in Salt Lake and she laughed. And she was like you could literally go to a Maserati dealership if you want to test drive a Maserati. And I was like OK, whatever, like you don't understand me. but I think. 

00:02:12 Rachelle 

Wait, wait, I have a question. Does he have any personality traits other than the Maserati?

00:02:16 Hannah 

No. No, not really. He just he just, we talked about how he drives his Maserati to Whole Foods and people look at him and then he also. 

00:02:31 Rachelle 

What color, what color is his Maserati? 

00:02:33 Hannah 

So the Maserati is black and it has a red interior. 

00:02:37 Rachelle 

Interesting. And a little douche-y.

00:02:40 Hannah 

And he was like bragging about how he went to the Maserati dealership and they were like, oh like, did your dad send you here? Like where's your dad? He claimed he bought a backpack full of cash and dumped it on the dealer desk. Like, that's a joke, right? 

00:03:00 Speaker 4 

I mean, do tire salesmen make their commission exclusively in cash? 

00:03:07 Hannah 

I I don't know. So I was like sure, whatever. I didn't question it, I was just like, I don't care. I wanna drive a Maserati. Cause I was like, also, we went to a German beer garden and I got a giant stein of beer, so I was drunk. 

00:03:26 Rachelle 

You got an stein, like a draft. Yeah, you got it on draft.

00:03:28 Hannah 

Yeah yeah on draft cause he wanted to order a bottle of beer and I was like you have to get a stein on draft, idiot so. 

00:03:29 Rachelle 

So then, really the Maserati is the only thing going for him.

00:03:44 Hannah 

That's what I'm trying to tell you. Like you have no taste, culture or humour or anything else going for him other than me being able to drive this Maserati. which I was excited.

00:03:55 Rachelle 

Well, he’s Mater. He’s Mater who's picked up a Maserati. 

00:04:00 Hannah 

Exactly. So then, so I was like pretty excited about it though cause I'm like wow how unique. And then I woke up the next morning. The alcohol had worn off. It suddenly hit me what the reality of this situation is because I was just thinking like when I woke up like, when were we just talking about Maseratis? Like, Maserati, Maserati. Something about Maseratis. had happened last week. And then it hit me like a brick. 

00:04:33 Rachelle 

I’m glad we got here. Thank God. 

00:04:35 Hannah 

Yeah, it was a self-realization moment. And I realized a Maserati is a poor man’s Ferrari. And I was like, oh, God. And the other terms, that it was described in by our friends in Salt Lake.

00:04:59 Rachelle 

I’m sorry, I’m sorry. Our car experts who live Utah.

00:04:35 Hannah 

 Right. Our car expert friends in Salt Lake City described Maserati as the Kia of the luxury… The Kia of luxury sports cars. As well as the Michael Kors of high fashion. And I was like, why do I even wanna test drive a Maserati? I’d just rather not. 

00:05:27 Rachelle 

No. So instead… What’d you do?

00:05:31 Hannah 

Nothing. 

00:05:31 Rachelle 

No... You bought a Mercedes.

00:05:38 Hannah 

Oh yes. This whole thing just inspired me to buy a Mercedes the next day. So, I was like, cause you know, I've been thinking about buying a Mercedes because I'm so inspired by Toto and Lewis. But after meeting this man who drives a knockoff Ferrari, I was like. 

00:05:57 Hannah 

Also, I looked at the prices of Maseratis so they retail for $80,000 and he bought it used which you could get like a nice used Maserati for $50,000. 

00:06:11 Rachelle 

Well, so if Maserati is a poor man’s Ferrari, what's a used Maserati? 

00:06:14 Hannah 

Literally anyone can buy a Maserati. It's not exclusive. Any average Joe can buy a Maserati, so I'm just like that's really lame and I realize, you know, if I can buy a Maserati, I can certainly go buy a Mercedes today. So, then I went to go buy a Mercedes. But one useful thing that came out of my conversation with the guy cause I was talking about how I want to buy a Mercedes SUV, because I need the height and suspension of an SUV to clear the Philly potholes that are like pretty deep. And I was saying though, Mercedes, as well as like pretty much every other car, like luxury car brand. They're making their SUVs curved like eggs. And I do not like that look, but we were talking about it and he said it's actually because it's more aerodynamic, which improves fuel efficiency. 

00:07:14 Rachelle 

Woah so he does know something. Thank God. 

00:07:17 Hannah 

That’s the only thing I learned. 

00:07:19 Rachelle 

Well, that’s useful. Now you know why they’re eggs.

00:07:21 Hannah 

Yeah, and so that makes sense because obviously fuel efficiency is like way more of like a modern concern, but I still can't really align with that in terms of like my personality. I can't drive an egg around. It’s just not me. So, I compromised.  

00:07:41 Rachelle 

Got it. Yeah, you got the boxy egg? 

00:07:44 Hannah 

Yeah, like it's not a G Wagon. It's not a straight up box, but it's not an egg, it's a boxy egg. That was my weekend. 

00:07:53 Rachelle 

I'm glad you remember the Maserati thing, cause I was a little concerned. If he had a Ferrari that would be a different situation. 

00:07:59 Hannah 

Oh my gosh, well this is the thing because he did text me like that night like after our date and was like had a great time blah blah blah and you know I also responded with generics, but I think he is going to follow up with me like in the next week about, we made pretty extensive plans for like next Saturday. 

And so I assume he's going to want to like confirm and I'll just have to say cause I don't believe in ghosting. I'm not sure how much I can say because what I really want to say is I think you're a great person, cause really he is like I think he is going to make some girl happy someday. But it's not going to be me. It's because my standards. It's really it really is me, yeah. 

00:08:42 Rachelle 

It's not you, it’s me. Got it. 

00:08:43 Hannah 

I need a Ferrari. You're a fucking Maserati. 

00:08:51 Rachelle 

Can I make a suggestion? I think a two birds with one stone sort of thing. Instead of texting this to him, I think you should just send them the link to this podcast and then, oh man. This is 11 minutes in, which is when it counts as a statistic, so he will hear it and we get the metrics so it will, double whammy. Yeah, totally. 

00:09:07 Hannah 

Agreed. Alrighty will do. Thank you. 

00:09:17 Rachelle 

By the way, if anyone out there needs to break up with someone or end the friendship or anything, we are happy to do it for you. We'll put it around in the middle of our episode so that we can get the stat and you can get it over with without having to do it yourself. 

00:09:30 Hannah 

The best win win you could ask for. 

00:09:33 Rachelle 

Win win with Box Box. 

00:09:35 Hannah 

Yes, I will like that. All righty, well that was my weekend. 

00:09:43 Rachelle 

Yay, onto the weekend we're all talking about, other than Hannah’s, which we now will be. Monaco. Woo hoo! And like all of our grands prix weekends, we're going to start with the digital roundup. Too doo doo. So, there wasn't much in the digital space, but since I watched it online, I'm counting this as digital content. 

00:10:07 Hannah 

Yes. 

00:10:08 Rachelle 

I watched the press conferences and I wanted to talk about a couple of moments that really stood out to me or that were just funny. So, Max and Vettel were paired up together. He was asked what advice you'd give to Max to beat Lewis and he said none. I never succeeded, so why would he take advice for me? Follow up was, what do you make of their battle so far? And he said, I have no idea. I was way too far back to see any of it. 

00:10:36 Hannah 

I mean, that's the truth. 

00:10:38 Rachelle 

It is, but that was all gonna change, he manifested it, I think. Negative manifestation is a thing, right? Yeah so. 

00:10:45 Hannah 

Yeah, yeah. 

00:10:47 Rachelle 

So that changed for Seb, but that's a cliff-hanger. You're gonna have to wait and hear the end of. The other funny press conference that I enjoyed was between Kimi and Lando. Lando was asked what the biggest difference between Carlos and Daniel was as teammates. Lando literally laughs like full lol and goes, this is a tricky question, but actually not really. As a person or as a driver? And then he decides to say their age cause Daniel is quite old. Whilst he's sitting next to a 41-year-old driver. 

00:11:26 Hannah 

Cause Daniel is like in his early 30s, right? 

00:11:29 Rachelle 

Daniel is exactly a decade younger than Kimi, he's 31. Yeah, and. 

00:11:31 Hannah 

Yeah, 31. Daniel is quite old, so Kimi’s ancient. 

00:11:38 Rachelle 

Ancient, if Kimi was hurt by this comment, he reacted in the same way as he would if he wasn't hurt, which is blinking.

00:11:44 Hannah 

Stoically.

00:11:49 Rachelle 

But then Lando decides to elaborate, or actually the moderator interrupts and says, could we just focus on their driving, and he's like cool, cool. So, Carlos is much better at driving a car that's not very nice to drive. He's really good at adapting and like Daniel’s fast, but he needs to have a car that suits him and then he was like I think that's just something some drivers have more than others. It's a confidence thing. And then goes. But wait, don't want to say too much. And it's like a little too late. 

00:12:20 Hannah 

Yes, that was a lot to say. That's gotta hurt. 

00:12:26 Rachelle 

Gotta hurt. Because then in Daniel's press conference, he was very diplomatic. But like I do, kind of like to see this like confidence building up in Lando. Like he's doing well, he knows he's doing well. He's performing consistently. And now he's growing a pair. 

00:12:42 Hannah 

Sounds like a great press conference. 

00:12:44 Rachelle 

Yeah, and also, he also manifested it because this like translated. 

00:12:50 Hannah 

Yeah, Daniel sucked. So, to give some context for this Grand Prix in Monaco. We're in the fourth race of the season. Before Monaco started, Mercedes and Hamilton were leading in the team and individual Constructor’s standings. Not by that much though. Red Bull and Max Verstappen have been vying with Mercedes and Hamilton for the first spot, and they've been like pretty close, but Mercedes and Hamilton have pretty much been in the lead this whole, for the last three races. And then there's also been a pretty close battle for 3rd and 4th between Ferrari and McLaren. 

00:13:46 Rachelle 

OK, so this track is interesting aesthetically. It's a city track, so you go through the streets of Monaco and it's very, very narrow. It has a lot of very famous turns, so like Casino Square and the Hotel de Paris, which is just pretty. There's like a lot of fun pictures on Instagram of cars zooming by like this famous hotel. Then there's a tunnel which is, which is just like a cool addition that I don't think any other track has. No one has a tunnel. And then there's the chicane which I think exists on other tracks. But this one in particular is like a serpentine type of sequence of corners, which is very complicated. The best place overtake. But it's also a difficult thing to navigate. And then there's the pool which everyone kept mentioning. I never physically saw this pool, but supposedly around one of the turns, I think 13 or 14, there is a pool, but they mentioned the pool lot. It's a 78 track because it's I think it's only two miles. So, it's 78 laps. And so a lot of drivers don't like it. I think Lewis at one point said that this is not a racing track necessarily. Really, which maybe if he would have had a different attitude, he would have done a little better, but you know. But yes, it definitely tests like other skills and abilities that drivers have, like precision and car control and turns and tire strategy. Like all of that stuff and staying within track limits. Track limits is a huge thing here, but that's because unlike other places where there's like this ambiguity about whether you're outside or inside track limits, this is a very narrow track, so it's very easy to get off track limits. So, like it's not like they're confused as to where the track limits are, it's more like controlling the car enough to not sway off. 

00:15:24 Hannah 

Also, as we've talked about previously, Monaco is known for its glory, glamour, prestige. And usually there's a ton of A-list celebrities. Like in the past, at least athletes-wise, they got Tom Brady and also his wife Gisele. And then like Kris Jenner, Hugh Grant, Gigi. So, a lot of great people. This year we only saw two celebs and it was Serena Williams and Tom Holland. Which I assume everyone knows Serena Williams is like the tennis star of the world. But if you don't know who Tom Holland is, he's Spiderman. 

00:16:11 Rachelle 

The new one.

00:16:12 Hannah 

Yeah, so those were our celeb sightings. Which was pretty disappointing. And also, we will get into Serena later because she was given the duty to wave the chequered flag at the end and had an impromptu interview which we will cover. So, to give a summary of the Grand Prix today, Rachelle will do her race recap, but we are switching up the format mainly to make it under two minutes. So, I'm going to time it and Rachelle is going to do her best to give a quick summary. Alrighty. Ready? Go. 

00:16:54 Rachelle 

OK, so basically in free practice it was kind of boring. The only thing that happened was that Schumacher couldn't compete because his chassis broke and so he couldn't compete in qualifying. So, it was just Mazepin representing Haas which woosh. But anyway, no one cares about him and so then Charles was second fastest in Q1, cause he's so amped up to be home. But everyone was struggling with their tires. They couldn't get grip with them, but it was a little confusing cause the weather is good and the track is like a road so I don't understand why people are struggling, but people are struggling. And the only people that seem to be doing well is a Ferrari. Anyway, so Vettel makes it into Q2 by tenths of a second. So, this is where we see him improving. Hamilton finishes in 7th, which is weird because he lives here and he should probably know these streets. Charles is doing super well. He's in pole position. And in the last 18 seconds he crashes his car. He hits the wall a little. Then he swerves over some bumps, and then he rams into the side of the road and like, disaster. Everyone is pissed off because there's only 18 seconds left, so there's no time to finish the lap. So, everyone’s times get cancelled and so Charles automatically makes pole position, which is like a drama cause there were people in the past, Schumacher, who did this on purpose. But the issue is that there's a lot of damage with Charles’ car, so there could be damage to the gearbox. But Ferrari tells us that there is no damage of the gearbox and everything is fine. And so anyway, the Quali results are Charles, Max, Valterri, Carlos, Lando, Gasly, and Lewis. The next day we continue the saga and Ferrari announces yet again that the gearbox is fine. And then right before the start of the race they were like, JK the car is undrivable. And so poor, poor, poor Charles can't even compete in his own hometown race. He has to stand there for the national anthem, sit in the garage the entire time and anyway poor Charles. We were very mad. We were livid. We were fuming. We were beside ourselves. Fuck Ferrari and fuck Mattia. We love Charles. Except we don't love that the guy, the announcer, kept saying despair for Leclerc because that's just a terrible rhyme. He said it like 15 times. He could have come up with better rhymes. Anyway, positions don't shift, everyone’s on softs. DRS is not useful here. No one can really overtake. There's like one overtake. So, Hamilton pits first and he has like a 2.6 second pit, because Mercedes loves Hamilton and then Bottas pits and he gets the D-squad because no one likes Bottas at Mercedes apparently. And they can't get one of his wheels off and so he's out because they couldn't remove a wheel and he was in second at this point. So this is Charles and Bottas out for no like fault of their own. Anyway, so Lando laps, Daniel Ricciardo in lap 53, which is a big deal because who wants to be lapped by their teammate? And he waves at him, but is it nice or is it just like mean? We don't know. Hamilton's in position seven, and he's trying to get past Gasly. Thing is really pissed that he's behind Gasly and then at some point he just gives up and he's like, why am I in this race? Max Verstappen wins and Carlos gets second and Lando gets third. Cause they're amazing and it's a beautiful podium. And there was a Dutch party for Max. And they fist bumped the Prince and now they're going to dinner with him. 

00:20:06 Hannah 

The end. That was pretty good. Onto analysis. I just want to make it clear. So, people, because Michael Schumacher in 2006 was driving a Ferrari and allegedly deliberately crashed to stop quali to secure his pole position. And so, it is kind of a coincidence that essentially the same situation happened with Leclerc except I really don't think he did that on purpose. Leclerc, like legit crashed into the wall, damaged like the right side of his car and it was like a red flag. Really bad situation. When the race was like about 30 minutes to start, I guess Leclerc had to do a, I don't know what it's called, I don't think it's the formation lap, but some sort of test lap where he drove the car and he thought it was the gearbox that was the problem. We still don't know at this time, like Sunday night, like exactly what the issue is but we do know there was definitely an issue with the left drive shaft. Charles, his car actually crashed on the right side, but people are guessing that even though the left side wasn't hit, the crash was so bad on the right side there must have been like a shock transfer or something cause the car’s like really intricate and like actually pretty like fragile in terms of like its mechanics and it's such like a small vehicle that it's not unrealistic that the left side would be affected in some way. But then Mattia comes out and he's like no, it's on the left side. It has nothing to do with the crash from yesterday. 

00:21:48 Rachelle 

Like OK, Mattia. 

00:21:50 Hannah 

Charles had pole position, but if he had to change his gearbox due to damage then he would have started at like P5 or 6. They didn't want to lose pole position, so they decided to go with the gearbox because they said they checked it and it seemed fine. 

00:22:08 Rachelle 

This is like, I feel like what they did is they found someone like me and they're like hey, can you check the gearbox? and I'm like Yup.

00:22:15 Hannah 

Yeah, that's good. 

00:22:16 Rachelle 

Looks good. And then they're like cool, let's make the press release. And in reality, I understand what they were doing. Like I've heard, some people say that it was a good thing, like what else would you do? Why would you agree to start 6th in Monaco? But why would you agree to the possibility of not starting at all?

00:22:31 Hannah 

Oh yeah, like I think, to their credit, they didn't have that much time actually to check everything that they would have wanted to. Like they only had a like a limited amount of time and like ability, so on that front like that was a little out of their control, but then also it was just like a high reward high risk situation. Where it's like, OK, well given that Monaco barely has any overtakes, I think that exacerbated the situation that really made them go towards keeping pole position. 

00:23:04 Rachelle 

Not starting at all is like the worst possible thing. None of them would ever choose not to start at home. 

00:23:11 Hannah 

Yeah, so basically the whole world weeped for Charles.

00:23:15 Rachelle 

Literally. It was the most… And they kept zooming to him and no one wanted to see his face! Like it was, just all you could see he was wearing the mask and all he could see his eyes and he has the most heart-breaking eyes I think I've ever seen in my life. I teared, I legit teared up. 

00:23:30 Hannah 

Yeah. 

00:23:33 Rachelle 

Cause he’s home. I would just like to say that the Ferrari team has like a reputation for being God awful. Like all of their radio communication. There's like one where Vettel and they’re giving him some advice and he's like that is incorrect strategy. This is what I actually I'm supposed to do. 

00:23:47 Hannah 

Good for Vettel. Because, they, Ferrari is infuriating. 

00:23:54 Rachelle 

Yes, like everything they respond on the radio is like checking, checking even when there's nothing to check. Like the gearbox, a gearbox would be great to check. but they did not. 

00:23:59 Hannah 

But they didn’t check it.

00:24:02 Rachelle 

Idiots

00:24:05 Hannah 

They’re idiots. OK, I think we should move off from Ferrari because, OK. So the other tragedy in Monaco was so Bottas actually was super impressive this weekend. Like in Quali and then in the race he was in P2 and went in for a pit stop. Nothing crazy, just changing tires. And the pit crew could not get one of his tires off. I shit you not.  

00:24:37 Rachelle 

Nothing crazy, just a tire change!

00:24:41 Hannah 

How do you not remove a tire?  

00:24:44 Rachelle 

They said something about the axle, like it was stuck on the axle. Then I was talking about this with my dad and we’re like why didn’t they just saw it off and put a new one on? If it wasn’t coming off.

00:24:57 Hannah 

Well, they did probably do that, but they, that wasn't a pit stop. 

00:25:02 Rachelle 

Yeah, at that point he’s like P19. 

00:25:03 Hannah 

So, he just, it took so long for them to like try to take the tire off that his car just retired. Like that's pathetic, that's pathetic. 

00:25:12 Rachelle 

On its own, I guess. It's like, everyone who listens knows that Bottas is not our number one choice for anything. But I would personally love to see him fail on his own accord rather than being dragged down by like incompetence of other people. 

00:25:29 Hannah 

Yeah. 

00:25:34 Hannah 

And it just is like, this pit crew shouldn't be bad because they literally just did Hamilton's pit stop minutes before in like 2.6 seconds. And then Bottas rolls through and they suddenly forget how to take off a tire. It's unbelievable. Like this is a top notch, like Mercedes as a whole, is a top notch team. It's not excusable to have a pit crew that sucks. 

00:26:01 Rachelle 

No, and by the way they must have like a like we said, a D-list like crew that comes in and does Bottas’ pit stops because Hamilton somehow always comes out without a hitch. He's like 2.2 seconds in and out. Bottas never has like a smooth pit stop. 

00:26:21 Hannah 

Yeah. He always gets screwed over by the Mercedes pit crew and it's getting really old because I agree like you never want any driver to lose on these kinds of tiny technicalities. That's just lame. 

00:26:36 Rachelle 

It could be a car issue. We're just like, maybe this is like a common, no one sounded like they'd ever heard of this before and Bottas was like I’ve never...

00:26:41 Hannah 

No, this doesn't make any sense. 

00:26:45 Rachelle 

No, people rarely retire on a pit stop. Right?

00:26:49 Hannah 

Right. 

00:26:50 Rachelle 

So that's just depressing for poor Bottas. Like we want justice for Bottas. 

00:26:56 Hannah 

The other Mercedes driver, if you recall, is Lewis Hamilton, but he was MIA this entire weekend in P7. He just did not care. He completely lost interest in the whole race. He even wanted to check in on what Bottas was up to. They were like, he's done.

00:27:17 Rachelle 

Hey guys, what's the gossip? What's going on? I can't see anything from back here so. 

00:27:22 Hannah 

No, Lewis was completely gone. He was not in the conversation. He was just frustrated in the race. I mean, I guess his point of contention was that his radio engineer people told him to pit earlier than he wanted to, because I guess he had like a more long-term strategy and they wanted him to pit and he was just like, after that, he was just like you guys don't know what you're doing. He had really bad attitude. 

00:27:51 Rachelle 

Right, yeah so. He did in his post-race interview. They asked him if he took any lessons away from today and he was like for me personally, no. And then he's like, and then they're like well, what about the team and he's like, oh, for the team, absolutely. And it's like. 

00:28:08 Hannah 

Who says that? 

00:28:11 Rachelle 

Look at Charles Charles! Charles’ issue was clearly because of the team. Did he ever say that? 

No. He was like this is on me. I crashed the car. We don't know what the issue is. Like, as a team, we're going to have to like recuperate and see what's up. Like he was so diplomatic. Lewis is only diplomatic when he's winning, clearly. 

00:28:29 Hannah 

Like, imagine being interviewed in any context, being like, did you learn anything? No. How pompous.

00:28:35 Rachelle 

No, I'm perfect without me… I know it's ridiculous and he really ended with like an, mhm! And walked away.

00:28:45 Hannah 

Like walked away. 

00:28:49 Rachelle 

I know it really frustrated me. It really showed me a new side to him where he has like this gentle soul like behind his eyes and he's always so sweet and kind and builds people up, until he's losing. Like you have you have to do well in defeat as well, i.e. Charles who is currently my model for anything and everything on this planet. 

00:29:00 Hannah 

Vettel very impressively finished in P5 and won Driver of The Day. 

00:29:15 Rachelle 

Yes, well deserved. 

00:29:17 Hannah 

I love to see a good news story for Aston Martin as well. 

00:29:22 Rachelle 

Yeah, maybe it was a Serena like winning. 

00:29:27 Hannah 

Right, Serena was the guest of Aston Martin. I don't know why. 

00:29:33 Rachelle 

No one knows why. I guess she hangs out with Lawrence on her off days, yeah. I don't think she hangs out with Lawrence ever. 

00:29:41 Hannah 

No, I don't think they have anything in common. Cause Lawrence certainly doesn't play tennis. 

00:29:50 Rachelle 

And I don't think Serena wears Michael Kors. 

00:29:53 Hannah 

No well, actually she wore an awful plaid skirt. 

00:29:57 Rachelle 

It was, it was even bad, for, even if I don't think Michael Kors would make that skirt. I don't know what she was wearing. She could have done way better. 

00:30:02 Hannah 

It was brown. It was brown plaid, you guys. Brown plaid.

00:30:07 Rachelle 

Also, she looked like she was about to freeze her balls off like that was incorrect in every way. And I usually I think Serena usually dresses quite well so I don't know what she was thinking.

Maybe she didn't know she was going to fly the chequered flag and thought she'd be like hiding in the box. And then all of a sudden, she was dragged into the spotlight. 

00:30:28 Hannah 

Like we were saying, though, like how Monaco is supposed to be the most glam Grand Prix of them all. How do you show up to Monaco in brown plaid? 

00:30:37 Rachelle 

Not even like fancy brown plaid. It was like wool.

00:30:41 Hannah 

It was like, uhm, Talbots. 

00:30:44 Rachelle 

Yes, that's what it was. Yes, it looked like Talbots. That's good.

00:30:45 Hannah 

You cannot even. How did they let her leave the Monaco airport? You know? 

00:30:52 Rachelle 

How did they let her in? Should have just turned her around.

00:30:55 Hannah 

OK so Max won the Monaco Grand Prix. And like we said Lewis finished 7th. And so for the World Constructor’s standings, it makes it extremely close. Max is now leading with 105 points. Lewis has 101. And then Lando has 56 and Bottas has 47. And then team-wise, Red Bull has 149 and Mercedes has 148. 

00:31:32 Rachelle 

And it's also the first time Red Bull is leading the Constructor’s in years. Since Vettel, I think. Since Vettel left them. So, there's a photo of Christian hugging Max and the look on his face. Like we were discussing who loves who more. Does Zak love Lando more or does Christian love Max more? And I think they are very different kinds of love. I think Zach loves Lando in a very unconditional way. Winning or losing, I love you as like a son. I think Christian loves Max for what he can do for Christian. 

00:32:06 Hannah 

Yeah. 

00:32:10 Rachelle 

Yes, cause there was a lot like, the look in his eyes was not an unconditional kind of thing. 

00:32:16 Hannah 

It was like money signs in his eyes. 

00:32:19 Rachelle 

Yes, if there was a cartoon, they'd be popping out. 

00:32:22 Hannah 

Exactly. But during the race, cause Max had like a pretty commanding lead, and so the commentators were saying is Christian gonna jump naked but a cape into the swimming pool again? So, of course I had to Google what they were talking about. And in 2006 for the Monaco Grand Prix. Christian made a bet with one of those commentators that if they podium, he would jump into a pool naked. And Red Bull did make podium. So Christian was about to jump into a pool naked. But fortunately, at that time, Red Bull was promoting Superman Returns. Isn't it like not OK, to just jump into a pool naked in public?

00:33:15 Rachelle 

I mean, I think also one of the issues was that I don't think he was ever planning on following through, but the commentator announced it on like global radio that this was going to happen.

00:33:24 Hannah 

So because of the Superman promo, he was allowed to wear a red cape. And so, if you just Google Christian Horner red cape naked. You will see him wrapped in a cape, jumping into a pool. 

00:33:43 Rachelle 

I think there are two very important things to note here. One, why the hell is he wearing it like a reverse halter neck dress? Like I don’t understand why he’s putting it on like that. And second is that facial hair is vital for Christian Horner as a human being. 

00:34:02 Hannah 

He looks like a, oh I don't know. He looks like a giant baby. 

00:34:11 Rachelle 

Peter Pettigrew. Yes, he does look like a giant baby. Not a good look. Thank God he's not naked though. 

00:34:13 Hannah 

Yes, thank God. So OK. The race ended and Serena Williams was given the task to wave the chequered flag for the winners. Or just everyone who finished the race, and she held the flag like a tennis racket and with a super stiff grip and she was waving it around like she, she was like trying to, I don't even know the analogy. Like she was trying to swat a fly. 

00:34:48 Rachelle 

But also, I don't think she registered that she had to do it for all 20 drivers or 18 I guess. She kept stopping and the guy behind her kept poking her like there's another one, lady, we’re not done. 

00:35:02 Hannah 

She didn’t look interested in that job at all. But anyway, so that was awkward. And then after the race you know they were interviewing all the podium and like top race finishers. And they were interviewing Max, the winner of the Grand Prix and the interviewer just cuts his interview and pans to Serena. Cause she's just on the side talking to someone else entirely, like just having a normal conversation. And he goes, hey, Serena would love to bring you into this interview. And she goes oh, OK. And he's like, what do you think of today's race? And she goes. It was such an amazing Grand Prix. 

00:35:44 Rachelle 

I really think she just misspoke. 

00:35:47 Hannah 

Yeah, I mean to her credit, like she was totally taken off guard, but I was just like it's a Grand Prix. That you're at. And waving the chequered flag for. The interviewer goes, do you have any advice to Max on how we could improve on his performance? 

00:36:05 Rachelle 

Both of their faces were like, what? 

00:36:08 Hannah 

Like sir, he just won the Monaco Grand Prix. 

00:36:12 Rachelle 

Yes, like Serena was like uhm no. 

00:36:17 Hannah 

I don't have any advice to give to Max, so this interviewer made for a very cringe-worthy situation. Which every great Grand Prix has a cringe-worthy interview. 

00:36:30 Rachelle 

And I would just like to say that we think Serena Williams is an incredible athlete and an amazing person and normally dresses very well. I just don't think that her advice to Max Verstappen is completely necessary. 

00:36:41 Hannah 

No, yeah, well she said it herself, she said yeah, I don't have any advice because this isn't my arena. 

00:36:47 Rachelle 

Yes, and also, he just won. So clearly, he doesn't need my advice. 

00:36:51 Hannah 

Right so also another post-race interview was Lando talking about his experience. And then in the middle of his interview, Carlos walked over and was kind of just like joking around like cutting into his interview. And Lando is like, oh man, this guy is stealing my glory again. But it was very like brotherly and adorable. 

00:37:19 Rachelle 

Yes, it was very sweet to watch. We love Carlos and Lando. We're so happy they got to podium together. 

00:37:23 Hannah 

Yes, I was really happy with the like, even though it was a complete shitshow. I was glad that Max was able to take the lead in the Constructor’s standings, so it's like very, you know, competitive for Lewis cause until now he was just leading. And then I was happy to see Carlos on behalf of Ferrari get some redemption for the whole Charles debacle. And then Lando fully deserved to podium cause he was in amazing Gulf livery today.

00:37:58 Rachelle 

Yes, that was great.  It was really fun to see three different teams, three different colours up there. We don’t see that a lot. I also would like to say that Charles, stuck around the entire race, and then went out with the entire team to like where, you know where the driver jumps on their teams. he came out with them. And they hugged, him and Carlos hugged. And I wanted to cry.

00:38:15 Hannah 

Yeah. I mean he’s such a great team player.

00:38:18 Rachelle 

And there was a lot of cute little clips of all the drivers coming up to him to like hug him at the beginning of the race and like be like, it's OK man. Yeah, he's just such a sweet little guy. 

00:38:30 Hannah 

Everyone felt bad for him cause it truly wasn't his fault. It was Mattia’s.

00:38:36 Rachelle 

He looked so sad! His eyes are truly just like the worst thing I've ever seen. 

00:38:40 Hannah 

Yeah, he has puppy dog eyes. They’re just so sweet and innocent. Fuck Mattia. Ugh.

00:38:46 Hannah 

Yes, he's an idiot. 

00:38:48 Rachelle 

I don't know where he went to engineering school. But I'm going to be writing them a strongly worded. 

00:38:53 Hannah 

The Ronald McDonald Institute of Engineering. 

00:38:57 Rachelle 

They look like clowns and they act like clowns. 

00:39:01 Hannah 

It's just like why is he even trying to say anything right now? 

00:39:05 Rachelle 

No, just shut up. It has nothing to do with this giant ass crash that happened yesterday. 

00:39:11 Hannah 

So, like OK Sir, you don't know shit about shit. 

00:39:15 Rachelle 

No, but we do, Ferrari. We would have caught that gearbox issue. 

00:39:22 Hannah 

We know everything. We really would have. OK, so in two weeks we're going to Baku in Azerbaijan.

00:39:24 Rachelle 

Another city track where Lewis says Red Bull will obviously dominate, but we all know that trick by now. So, whatever. I hope Red Bull does dominate. 

00:39:40 Hannah 

Me too. I want Max to win again. 

00:39:44 Rachelle 

Me too. I want Charles to win. 

00:39:45 Hannah 

Oh yeah. 

00:39:46 Rachelle 

Not win, but at least podium because he deserves it after this. 

00:39:49 Hannah 

Yeah, Charles needs some sort of redemption arc this season. 

00:39:53 Rachelle 

Yes, we love Charles. 

00:39:55 Hannah 

We do. 

00:39:57 Rachelle 

Not a big fan of Lewis right now. 

00:39:58 Hannah 

No, he's just annoying me with his attitude this weekend as well as his refrigerator advertisement on Instagram. 

00:40:08 Rachelle 

He literally went, do you know how easy it is to be vegan when you have this refrigerator?

00:40:14 Hannah 

He's like, it helps the planet when you look inside your refrigerator. 

00:40:22 Rachelle 

I just think maybe if he ate some cheese, he would have had a better attitude today.  

00:40:30 Hannah 

Oh yes, yeah. He desperately needs animal products,

00:40:38 Rachelle 

yes, or a spicy tuna roll. That always gets me going. We have a list of things for your attitude, Lewis. And for your fridge. I'd much rather look in and see a spicy tuna roll than like a broccoli. 

00:40:44 Hannah 

Just imagine looking instead at your fridge and it's just legumes and vegetables. I would be depressed as well. 

00:41:02 Rachelle 

Sad, sad. Well, hopefully you eat something other than legumes by Baku. I don't know why I've started Baku.

00:41:05 Hannah 

Baku. Box box!

00:41:10 Rachelle 

Box box.