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KT. He is out today and tomorrow. He's in New York City. He is uh, I guess you really are devious. Boston and Neil lyall sire, Well, well we don't know what he got if you got into Saturday Night Live or he went to see two Dave shows or guest guest appearances there. But it's kt he's gonna get into some weird stuff and you will get a review of his fun on Wednesday, and then it is a Thanksgiving week, got Cowboys again and just a free days yep, Thursday. Man,
that's brutal, man. Those dudes are hurting doing this. Fruit. God, since I was a little kid, I don't know when this started. Thanksgiving, Yeah, yep, forever fifty years. Then the Lions do it first, and they're as older you are, correct, So it used to be back in the day you'd have the Lions play the early game, Cowboys play the late game, and then at night you had the Longhorns and the Aggies would play check. Yeah, the Turkey Bowl. It was awesome
if you hadn't been over football by then. Yeah, and just so stuffed full of whatever mess you're gonna eat on Thursday. We have a Black Friday Football this year too. It is Dolphins Jets. Really, I think it's the first time they're playing on Friday. Yeah, night, so like when everybody gets home from shopping, they're gonna play a night game. I don't know what time it is probably night. I bet it is, right, Yeah, but I think they're all pubbing it like the first time they're doing
it. I look too, something be in Sarasota, and if that game was in Miami, we would have figured it out. Made three hour drive from Sarasota to hard Rock Stadium. But it's at the Jets. Yeah, load it up, man, It's gonna be fun. Short work week for many and it's just myself and Danny and JJ to day. Same thing tomorrow, well, probably with Steve joining us to party a little bit, and then I'll be gone Wednesday. Whatever. It'll be fun. We're all gonna
have a good time. You get a big night on Saturday, didn't you. I had a big weekend of car Harason And we're gonna get to this incredible audio that you don't want to miss here in a few minutes. But yeah, no, I was, Uh, I mean, how I've been looking forward to this race for years? Honestly, god years? Well how long has it been on the dock? Ay? About years? I mean so now it's probably two years ago. Fight. I guess it's the Las Vegas Grand Prix as f one. You know, we have it in Austin.
We have it in Miami now and a third American race was at it, and this was the first one. But it's a road race, a street race, and not too many street races that actually danced through the cities. I think Ozerbaijean is maybe the only another one on the calendar now.
But yeah, they're gonna do it, and do it big has with everything in America and certainly Vegas, and they're gonna rip this thing right down the strip for over a mile of just all out go and then kind of dance behind the casinos back around where the sphere is now located, and then do it again fifty laps one of the longest tracks on the circuit, so it was just fifty laps the total race. And it all finally came came to Fruition on Saturday night, and I know you watched it, and I am
very curious your thoughts. It's weird because I think a lot of people wanted this thing to fail because international F one purists want this whole America experiment to fail and they think we're dorks for how we do everything with over the top
announcements. And we had Michael Buffer introducing everybody and Circu de Solis was out there on a catapult doing tricks, and we had we had Piff the Magic Dragon, who's funny that is a funny magician because his bit is he's kind of in a failed dinosaur suit and he kind of like intentionally screws up tricks, but it all works out in the end, you know. They had him in the pre show doing tricks with shar Claire and Carlo. Science was very funny. But anyway, Yeah, there was a lot of people wanting
this to be a disaster. It looked like it was gonna be. When nine minutes into the very first practice session last Thursday night, I guess you'd call it, a drained ditch comes up and Carlo Sigins's chassis just gets annihilated, causing two million dollars worth of damage and giving him a penalty, neither of which were his fault. So there was pointing and saying, see, we knew you're gonna screw this up. Vegas was gonna f this up.
And then everyone was getting in front of microphone saying it's not about FP one or Free Practice one, It's about what you think at the end of the whole thing come early Sunday morning, and man, I think the consensus is that was pretty great because that race was exciting as hell. It looked as good as they had hoped. And I think almost even people like Max Verstappan, who won the thing, it was kind of ripping on the whole Vegas
Week and saying it's all ninety nine percent spectacle and one percent sport. Probably still accurate. All of them. I think we're like, well, that was a fun races kind of that was all pretty great, and that kind of what this sport's a lot about. Anyway, It's a big spectacle. Yeah, the modern version is in the pomp and circumstance it surrounds. This thing is pretty off the charts. Yes, you said, I texted you,
I go, how's it going? And you said, hey, man, just you know, maybe at a round ten thirty or eleven, and you were pregaming and watching all the festivities leading up to the race, and You're like, yeah, quite honestly, all the stuff that I'm watching now
is in all likelihood going to be better than the race itself. It wasn't the case on Saturday night, And I did have a couple of questions, Is it because of the length of the straightaway in this particular race that gave other drivers I don't know, a puncher's chance, yes, to be able to actually overtake drivers. Did you do you see DRS? Did you notice what DRS is or anything happening there? So they have a thing they implemented
a few years ago in F one because they couldn't pass anyone. That's the problem with it. It's it's like a refined level ingested racing where nobody really passes each other. So they try to figure out how to get rid of that. They implement a DRS. It's called drag reduction system. It's where the back wing it opens up and air then flows freely through it. So if you're within one second of the guy in front of you, you will enable your DRS, and twice in that race on Saturday, three times.
At some tracks there's long straightaways where you can enable DRS. You can open your back wing up. You essentially gain seventeen miles an hour, give or take of speed that the car in front of you doesn't have. But you can go flying into space at any moment. No cars yet to fly into space. Okay, that I've seen, so I suppose that it is.
But that's why on that main straightaway, anyone who's close had DRS. They open their wing up, they are faster than the guy in front of them, and they can dive into that corner and uh and make a very late
move. So that's essentially why so many passes happened in that long straight away, specifically at the end of it. Don't you have the option of opening it up yourself to thwart off any anybody passing you or you're only it's only allowed if you're within one second of the car in front of you, and they let you know that. I guess, yeah, you have something on your on your crazy million dollars steering wheel. The seventy are on drs's is available, and then you open it and you close it, and you can
only open and close it during these straightaways. Understood twice twice per on the circuit. Real quick. One. One thing that I noticed is for through the majority of this race, and it was a fifty lapper and it's quick. I think the thing from flag to flag was around what ninety minutes meant, I mean they shoot for a ninety minute. Yeah, it's great. Nice. I felt like, Okay, so I think that the majority of this race, your winner, verse stap In, was not in first place.
That was I think that happened to round maybe lap thirty six or thirty seven, okay, and when when he ended up taking the lead and then he just maintained it, and I'm looking at the leader, the leader board, whatever, and it's just it's red bull. Somebody else read it's red bull, ferrari, red bull. It's just red bulls just at the top. Is it because their team's just so good? Is it because their cars are are faster than everybody else? Is? Why do they have an advantage?
Why is for Stappen winning every damn thing? He was like in fourth or fifth place, and then right at the end he ends up taking the lead, and then it's between his teammate is Perez, I guess yeah, and le Clerk or Leclaire as they pronounce it, and those two guys fighting it out. Leclaire ends up taking over on the final lap, I believe, and getting second place. But is for Stapin number one? Is he really that great of a driver? Is he so much better than everybody else
that he has to win every one? Of these damn races. Is it because his cars are better? Is it because Red Bull had all the money and his team is better? Combination of all of those things, Because isn't everybody just sick and tired that it's just fade to complete that this dude is going to win every race, And doesn't it make the sport kind of boring? I would say yes to all six questions you asked. I think he is the best driver. I think he does have the best car. Red
Bull has equal money. I don't know if they have more than Mercedes or Ferrari, but the top teams have more. But there's a spending cap that prevents you from just going nuts like baseball and spending infinite money. But there's ways around that too, and Red Bull actually got in trouble for violating one of those last season. But yes, yes, is the answer to all
those Yes. It gets a little boring when Max vers Happen wins by thirty seconds, but the proof is his teammate Sergio Perez has quote the same car. That's the beauty of the whole thing is you always have somebody else who has the exact same car, as used to who's better. But maxis happened,
iolates Checho Perez every race. It's not even close. Now, if his car is superior or Checko's is inferior, then that would be something that how could we know that because they're supposed to have identical cars, which your first job is to beat your teammate, but your job is also to work together with your teammate and you know, not wreck each other. And sometimes when teammates wreck, you want to see f on Twitter lose their heads. There's a real big brother element to f one. Yes, yeah, yeah,
politics are fun. Anyway, I thought it was an a plus race. We had a turn in the second or third to last corner to steal second place. I thought it was They did well man it and it looked incredible. Yeah, it really did. It felt like they built that thing around the sphere almost it was kind of the centerpiece of the of the whole race. But the track looked great, the scenery was great. It was awesome that it was a nighttime race, deep into the night. But yeah,
Vegas, good job. Well, the strip was very well represented. Yeah on camera for sure. So one thing that every team has is an emergency driver. There's two drivers and if something happens to one of those two drivers, they call in the emergency driver. I didn't even know that a local was an emergency driver for one of the teams. And it was DFW's fastest man, Garland Richardson. Wow, and I, for f one didn't he he's fifty plus, And yeah, I was surprised that he was.
But something happened with one of the teams. I was aware of most of the stuff, as I am. I was kind of unaware of all this. And you find out right before the race that Garland Richardson from our area is going to be in this race. And another thing, you always have good audio communication between your team and your headset, your team principal, or whoever's in charge of talking to you, the driver themselves. They share a lot of information. And you found this I think I did. I was,
you know. I watched it the next day. It was a little past my bedtime when the race initially aired live, and I'd recorded it and watch it with my two and a half year old son the next morning. He fully thoroughly enjoyed it, as did I. But I thought that this is a really odd part of the of the race. I ended up pulling the audio from it, and I think the world will find this incredibly interesting.
Yeah, so a lot of controversy around the race when they put in local DFW racing god Garland Richardson in his first ever F one race, and I feel like his team like didn't even maybe like him. They didn't want him in there because there may have been button heads. I don't know, they didn't have any prior relationship, and I think it's pretty evident when you listen to the audio between his pit and himself. I haven't heard this all right, Well, this is where we start. I guess this is coming
back from break into their coverage. Here we go, JJ, I've got it right here, let's hear it. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to beautiful Las Vegas, Nevada. A race we've been waiting a long long time for and there's no way it disappoints. Hello everyone, Nigel Percy here live from the Vegas Strip for the inallual Las Vegas Grand Prix, brought to you by the brand new brit Box Limited series Megan and Harry. A revolutionary romance.
What shocking news from the Panic as an American driver will be on the grid as an emergency replacement. Daniel Ricardo has had to withdraw due to what his team is claiming flew like symptoms, but we haven't. One good authority from multiple sources that Ricardo was seen in the wee hours of last night playing Mega moolah and double fisting Irish car bombs at the Golden Nugget, So it's no
wonder he's not feeling up to heart today. His surprising last minute replacement will be a fifty one year old Texas rookie driver from the Dallas suburb of Grand Prairie one, Garland Richardson, widely known as DFW's Fastest Mind. This is Goland's first ever F one race. Let's listen in now on the race radio communication with Garland and his Alpha Torri team. All right, boys, here we go. Sit back and watch DFW's fastest man show you how it's done.
Okay, holy this thing is fast, too fast, too fast, Holy shit, stay hocus Garland. All right, fellows, there's about seventy five buttons on this steering wheel. They are all blinking, they are all flashing, and I don't have a damn clue what any of them do. By Garland, you're going to native here. Have y'all seen this sphere? Yet? The thing is fast? What was that, Garland? What was that? An aluminium can? No, Sir Jesus Christ fair Well, the
love of God eyes on the road, Garland fair Caesar's Palace. That's a casino, evil fucking canievl cozy magnet man. Boys, I am packed in here tight, son of a bitch. It is tight. I'm gonna pop this seatmelt off for a few laps. Please do not touch your seatmelt garllic fuck you. I'm freaking out in here, damn it. I just got passed by the little Japanese boy Kama Kazi. Move. My granddaddy would not be happy about this. Gollin, you've slowed down a bit, is everything?
All right? I dropped my goddamn lighter, all right. I'm trying to fish it out with my foot from under the brake pedal. Give me a goddamn minute. American Golin Richardson continues to struggle. He's currently in lost place. All right, boys, what's bottom? I am currently p twenty? How many cars in this race? There are twenty? Bullshit? Watch your oil pressure feed. Stop looking at the bloody sphere. All right, fellas, I'm coming in. How long do these pit stops usually take?
I gotta pop out for a minute or two take a piss hit stops take about three seconds, Garland? Three seconds? Bullshit? Maintain focus, damn it? What the hell was that, Golin? That was max for stopping lopping you again for slam eight. Fellas, you gotta know there's a serious emergency in turn four. What is it? Garland? There's a blonde gal with the biggest pair of teas I've ever seen in my life. She's right
on top of the overpass. Goll it, please focus, all right, all right, I'm gonna slow down just a little bit and get a look at them got bags, Garlin, We keep it hearing what sounds like aluminium cans being opened? What is that? I got two words for you, Pats, blue bit, Jesus Christ. Fear, oh dear. Colin Richardson has seemed to have lost control over his car, launched over the embankment and into the lobby of Harrah's Hotel and Casino. A ghastly event for Team Alfer
Torri. The f one community is just gutted, and the Las Vegas Grand Prix is in total shambles will take a brief pulse in action as we get order restored. But first a message from our sponsor, Bachelor's mushy peas. Now that traditional taste of the law mushy peas from Bachelor's, but creamy smooth. There are ground change from ordinary bene and kids love them new mushy peas from Bachelor's. All right, sorry, I forgot to forgot to edit that spot out of mushy peace. We're geming, My boy? Wow, how
is that not the headline today? There we are the American in there, hung in there pretty good, good, I mean for a while. P. Twenty though, that's the last place he multiple laps by verslappin' stapping. Oh my god, I thought that was excellent, well done. I like the main announcer man found it pretty good. He sounded a lot like John Oliver. Get in Australian a little bit. And then he's British all over the map. There's a little Whales, there's some Northern Ireland in there.
He's a very well traveled euro well. Look even he finished p. Twenty it's a hat tip to Garland Richardson. He represented us, you know on the on the the world stage in Formula One for the first time, and he may have been sipping on a few can beer and screaming spear every time he went past it. All right, well, thank you Garland Richardson, and thank you Formula One for providing a fun, entertaining weekend for all.
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