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from England from the Late Breaking F one podcast. We would like to welcome our friends Sam Sage, Ben Hawking and we're going three for three. We're going three wives. We've got Harry Ead as well today all three members of Late Breaking. What's up? Boys? How are we doing? You got us? Oh? I mean I felt immediately welcomed with the mushy Peas sponsor. I can't believe you call it leftovers. Here is a delicacy and we love it every day. It really is the food of royalty over here.
And we got the top brand to King Chucky. King Chucky's must pe only the best King Chunkie rule. All right, Well, this will be the third time we've had Sam on, a second time for Ben, first time for Harry. Appreciate you guys jumping on. I guess you know. The overarching thing is the madness of the Las Vegas Grand Prix, and we will get to that in a few hot minutes, But I think our audience might be more interested in the adventure you guys took. I guess just about a
month ago we had you out live from Austin. You were down there for the Coda Race, and it was fun to hear your reactions to our uh, our lovely state of Texas. So let's start there, and let's start with Harry, who hasn't been on with us yet. I guess, Harry, how was how was your trip to the lone Star state and what kind of trouble you boys get into. No trouble that we can speak of on there, I don't think. But it was the well, the other two
pretty agreed, probably the best week of our lives. It was absolutely, Yes, we had a great time. It was so good to well, so good for me and Ben to be in America for the first time, but to visit Texas was insane and we yeah, had a great time of the race, had a great time our live show. It was great to meet some listeners, and yeah, we love Austin now we just want to
go and live there. So it's good. I think that when we had Sam and Ben on about a month ago, like Mikey just said, you guys have only been in town, I think for about a day, so you were around for about seven to ten days. I guess following that, you actually kind of got to hang out in Austin for a bit. Where did you have to go? Right? Yeah, yeah, we to be fair, we only really had like one day in Austin and that was the
Monday after the race. The rest of the time was filled with F one and Live show goodness, So yeah, we'd come back and probably see Austin properly. But yeah, it was it was a busy It's a busy week. But we yeah, we loved it. Hang on, Yeah, Mike's best stuff. Okay, I do have a follow up. So one of one of my favorite things to do is, and I think I think we talked to Sam and Ben about this, is the reaction videos of Brits when they try American food for the first time. They're all over Facebook, you
know, recommended videos. You watch one that's all you're gonna see for like a month, and typically the first thing that they notice is the amount of food that they're served, the portions. Did do you guys get to experience a lot of different kinds of Texas cuisine and were you kind of like, oh my god, who's eating this much damn food? It was unreal. I mean I speak for the voice because they got there before me. But
there was a pizza. On their first night, they ordered pizzas and the pizza left of it just sat in the fridge and our airbb for the remainder of the week. There was so much pizza it was unreal. Anyone else we we went out for a lovely barbecue brisket. A listener very kindly took us out. He's a bit of a barbecue expert. It comes from tech. Chris's name is an absolutely lovely guy, and he took us out for barbecue brisket. We all of us are wanting to try howein Fort you think
would be there. We always want to try it because the difference in quality between like a British barbecue and like a rainy summer in your back garden when you've got slightly burnt sausages, and what barbecue brisket is in Texas was sensational. The food was absolutely amazing, but good lord, it could have fed maybe an entire street in the UK. In Texas, it was one portion for one person. It was obscene but delicious, and I would definitely try
all again. It was so good. So I, as I've told you all before, I a couple of nights a week go to bed listening to the Late Breaking podcast. You can get it wherever. If you like f one even a little bit, or you just want to hear some funny stuff from from three pretty friendly fellows, you should listen to it or download it ardo download whatever. But I was listening to the one you just had a couple of days ago, and these these three idiots are laughing talking about how
much how much fun they had at HEB. We love heavy and they're calling it heavy all right, so go ahead just tell me about HEAB. But we had a good time at the Texas Classic Grocery Store AGB. Hey, it was Howard Eats butts. It was a great experience for us. That that is what it stands for, right, absolutely, yes, yeah, good, unbelievable experience. It puts all of our supermarkets to shame. I honestly, the aisles kept running, the food kept going. Anything you're wanting
it was available. I would I would live there. It's that big. We probably could live there, and I've really noticed that we've actually managed to get into the store. But yeah, heavy is unreal. Bring Heavy to the UK, We'd love it heavy. They're just conversationally calling it heb. I miss HEB And I don't even know how many people like worldwide who listen to your podcast would even begin to get that joke. But I'm like, heb. We just started getting hebbs and dow is what like maybe a year
or two ago. Yeah, well from Austin. It's primarily in Austin. Yeah, yeah, all right, So after the I guess, I mean real quick at the Austin race, anything that stood out, I mean, you had a great time, and I love hearing that. I didn't know it was two of y'all's first trip to the States, and I know Sam, I think has done Vegas before, and again we will get to the craziness of a Vegas that's already kicked off. But what you got to get
into after the race? Did we did anyone finally see the gun that we were trying to trying to look for? Ah, come on, no cuse we I mean the coachers event was amazing. We went and saw Queen, went and saw the Killers. Then I think a personal highlight was Tiesto on Sunday night after the race. It was it was a it was a wild event. Yeah, they loaded up right. We saw Queen here in town just a couple of weeks ago as well with Adam Lambert dressed as a giant
robot. But well, yeah, here's some costume changes involved, right. I was quite I quite disappointed, and no one placed a rifle in my hand. Actually, I feel like, out of the three of us, I am very much the right person to handle lay a firearm, and I feel like we should have done that. When we're in Texas, there would not be three of us on this cool if that was the case, it
would be one one at the most. For some reason, I do picture Sam is wanting to find some excursion where you go shooting bottles off of a fence somewhere in an Austin outpost. Yes, please, did anyone buy anything really stupid? Did Sam get the giant cowboy hat? Or who got boots? Oh well, Harry, you bought boots for your lovely partner. Right, you're a pair sitting in your lounge right now, And we did go
to Yeah, that's the waste of a few dollars. I got a cowboy hat, which is again I'm never gonna wear over in the UK because it looks ridiculous, but it got swept up in the whole Texas fever. Then we obviously went to a university and you you got to see yourself in your first American Union. You got yourself a loading you jumper. Yeah, money to manage to get to Memorial Stadium. Got a Longhorn's sweatshirt. So that was a pretty cool experience. That's cool to see the stadium. It's funny.
I love that the dumb purchase that you know is dumb when you're making this. I went to they had WrestleMania at at and T Stadium here and I'm like, cool man, I'm gonna go check the spectacle out. And I bought a like a stone Cold shirt. It's at Dallas three sixteen, and I'm like, screw it, I'll do it. It sat with the tag on in my closet until I donated it to Salvation Army like a year
ago. It you know, it reminds me of the time when I was in I think early high school or late middle school when def Leppard burst on the scene back in the eighties, and I thought it would be a great idea to buy some Union Jack shorts. Really yeah, yeah, that was all the time, I know, I know, but they don't go over well in rural West Texas, AH. So if you wear them here in Parliament you immediately get fifty to so public approval, which fantastic. You can
get the lord over here. They make you a lord. They just hand you a castle immediately. Here's a plusive land, it's yours. I've met more people wear the Union Jack in the United States than wear it. We're big in a wearing flag stuff here apparently mostly uh, you barely see a flag here in the UK. You already see them on embassy, so that's the only time you have to seep of flags anyway, pretty much in the
UK. Right, all right, So I hope it's not the case, but likely this will be the last time we have you guys on for a few months at least until either there's massive f F one news that we need to talk about or something happens to King Chuck or something like that. Because you guys are accidentally becoming our ambassadors to the United Kingdom. So if we have any dumb but always here for you. You want to swear thank you.
But I guess the main reason is because the F one is in the United States again third time this year, which is just kind of odd. I saw some stat when I was trying to watch practice yesterday. I don't know how many different tracks most of any other nation F one is raced in the United States on different at different venues, whatever. So it's not a new thing that F one is trying to invade the United States of America,
but it's certainly a good time for it. Popularity is pretty high and Las Vegas, right, So that's the weekend I want to start with before we get into some of the chaos that's already happened, because there's plenty of breaking news that we could hit. I want to talk about kind of the vibe of this thing, because I get this weird sense listen to your podcast and
F one media. So the sports evolved a lot, especially over the last five years, and there's purists who kind of hate this evolution or advancement into America. Progressive fans I think sort of like it. Where do you guys fall on the part of this that's like festivities versus disaster versus you know, making this more of a celebrity thing than it was like And do you want
the Las Vegas Grand Prix to succeed or not? I mean to answer the last question first, Yes, absolute utely I want this event to succeed because I think it's kind of the the end result of everything we've seen over the last few years with the US as such an emerging market, and it's not over. Yeah, there's still so much more that can be done in the States in terms of interest. So I absolutely want this to succeed. It's fundamentally because I love this sport. I think this sport is great. The
more that people can see it, the better. It's as simple as that. And as ultimately, if you like the fanfare around it, great, enjoy it. If you don't, what does it matter. Just watch the racing. The racing is unaffected for the most part, and we'll get into some of that today, but at least in theory, the racing is still the racing, so you know, you can pick and choose what elements you're interested in, and ultimately, if this helps this helps grow the sport even
more. I can't see that as a bad thing. Yeah, thanks, exactly right. Some people will absolutely hate the chaos, some people will absolutely love it. You've got to think of the local people who are going through
it. I think that's a big a problem. You know, we've we've heard of all the controversy around the culture of Vegas itself with the trees where the trees gone, and the fact that the rivers around the casinos and the hotels, the Blajia fountains are dry, you know, and of course there's a bit homeless population in Vegas as well that have had to be shifted, which is sad. That is sad. But in terms of the event itself, I think you'd be a fool to think that this shouldn't succeed and it
shouldn't be fun. Vegas has one of boat it's one of those cities. It's a landmark city across the globe. So if this sport wants to be a landmarks sport across the globe, it has to be hitting these locations. And you mentioned in your intro to the segment, you know that we've come to more races in America as one country than anywhere else in the world. We've got to remember that the States is at the side of the continent in itself if you compare it to Europe. So it makes total sense that we
have this many races in the States. And I think three a season. I have no issue with that. Three of a season, one in Canada, one in Mexico. I think that's a great number. Vegas seems like a great location to have it. You're just going to make sure you're working with the people that actually live and work. Okay, it's a happy environment that exists, but overall we are very excited for the event. It's a lot for us, little quiet Brits over here, but hey, we're embracing
it. Harry, what do you think? And I think if I recall one of you, and I think it was Harry, there was a little more anti all the opening ceremonies, all the over the top driver intros. Maybe a little more traditional than the other two. Is that right? I think I'd still class myself as progressive. I don't care if we have as much fanfare as possible because, as Ben said, for the for the most
part, again we'll get onto that. For the most part, the racing Formula One as a sport still says stays the same, and if you really don't care that much about all the celebrity intros and driver intros whatever, you can just turn your TV off until the race starts. Like that, that is an option. So having said that, I'm just exhausted, and maybe it is not our tiny little UK brains. I can't cope with it anymore.
But the hype and the fan fa in the lead up to this week, and obviously we live and breathe F one, it's just been everywhere. I mean, we pointed this out in our review of the Brazilian GP. Max Fustafin hadn't even taken the top step on the podium and they were already advertising Las Vegas like this has been. It's been two weeks in the making and I'm just a tied man basically. Other than that, I want this
to succeed as the other boys do. It almost sounds like the maybe the less progressive F One old Guard, if you will, you can almost like compare them to the fans of a band that, for example, like the guy that says, you know, only like the first U two albums, you know, they got too commercial and blew up. But in there, in reality, don't you want your favorite band or your favorite sport to become as global and big as possible and reach as many people as it possibly can.
And but but the question is, does it get to a point of diminishing returns to where the essence of the sport is overshadowed so much by the pomp and circumstance that what drew people to the nuts and bolts, the meat and potatoes of the sport ends up becoming lost. I think it's a fair point, but I make a point a few episodes ago on the show that I think America. Forgive me if I do offend an your listeners, but America as a place is is loud, It's proud, and you know,
I respect that about America. It knows its place, it knows its reputation, and it lives up to that. And I do think that like every location, they should embrace that culture and what they're known for. And regardless of what city or country we're going to, I would love to see opening ceremonies that all embrace historic moments and things they're famous for and famous people and
cultural brilliance. America, especially Vegas is Elvison personators and gambling and you know sing city and you know going wild and that's okay, that's Las Vegas, baby, And I would love to see other cities and countries embrace, you know, their history and their culture and show that off to the world. You get one chance a year, shove it off and have fun, all right. This is our buddies, Sam and Ben and Harry from the Late Breaking F one podcast. I am a subscriber and supporter of I equated this
earlier, and I'm getting to what happened in FP one. But as like school kids, this is a class of school kids F one, and you find out you have this new kid coming to town, and he's really rich and he's really good looking, and you guys all hate him before he even arrives. And the kid finally shows up on his first day. He walks into the classroom and he peas a little bit right in the front of his pants, and everyone sees it. Because I think that's what happened in FP
one. I stayed up late. I mean our show starts early here, we go to bed pretty early. I was up pretty late for me. I was excited, and nine minutes into this thing, Carlos signs runs over and e f and drain ditch and just terrorizes the bottom of his car. He wasn't the only car taking damage. I guess how rare is it that an FP one gets shut down nine minutes in because of a track malfunction? I mean, is this exactly what the F one people who want this thing
to look stupid wanted? And I guess where do they go from here? So it's not necessarily a first. We have had this on occasion. It's also not a regular occurrence either. I think the last time this happened was in twenty nineteen at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, where essentially exactly the same thing happened and FP one was canceled. But I think a lot of what has caused the trouble today. Firstly, obviously the added attention on this Grand Prix
versus the standard race in any other season. But also it's a case of that the starts at the local time. Start at local time is so late in the day that when that happened at Baku in Azerbaijan, and that was in the middle of the day, you've got a lot more room to maneuver in terms of other sessions and public roads becoming available again. Here in Las
Vegas. That hasn't been the case. Everything has been so tightly organized because of how late we're starting in the day, to the point where this sort of thing couldn't be afforded. And ultimately ten minutes, in, no more than ten minutes in, we hit the first first bump quite literally. Nice one. I agree, Harry, What do you think is this? I mean, I mean they can overcome this and if the rest of the weekend goes off without a hitch, but I feel like, which I feel like
is very unlikely. I don't know if everyone will remember the f P one nine minute thing, but there has to be their worst nightmare right out the gates, right, Yeah. I mean obviously FP one over in the UK was early doors in the morning, so none of us got up and watched it. But I woke up and saw the news and I was like, of course, of course it's happened form on one race perhaps in history. Yeah, if there is you know, tomorrow and sudden bit on Saturday,
I guess go off without a hitch that no one's going to remember. I guess the people that will remember are the ones that were all escorted out of the grandstands of twenty minutes before the actual practice session for the day took place. I think there's some fairly annoyed, fairly aannoid punters that didn't get to see in it. Well, they saw three laps of F one today,
so that's better. I mean you'd have to agree that. Look, these practice rounds are kind of for working out kinks as well, So better to have you know, the undercarriage of Carlos's car shredded by a manhole cover this morning than it would be tip for that to happen on Saturday. Yeah, exactly right. You want this to happen in the practice. That's why it's called practice because we're practicing. Obviously, we won't go into the decisions that
came from the FIA after that on penalties and punishments for certain things. You can find that out on our podcast over the weekend, folks, But that is a controversial decision. So you know, someone's been practiced by a track malfunction and they've had to pay the price, But this is practice. It happens with a brand new location the stakes, and it happened, and you know what it all has to the talking point all as to the drama.
But you are right, Harry brought it up. When you spend I think something like twelve thousand dollars to get yourself a ticket into the Paddock Pass and look at these cars and you see less than four minutes of driving that payment to time ratio. Yeah, pretty, that's a lot of money for very little. So they need to make sure they nit that in the bud as soon as possible. All right, we got like ninety seconds left. We always run out of time so quick. With you guys, we didn't get
too much actual racing. Each of you give me a shocker name that's not Max for Stappan that actually has a chance to pull off something in this race. I know the three of you collectively are very poor at your ball predictions, but so bad, so so bad, But I'll put you on the spot. Let's go Ben first. Give me somebody that could pull something off. It's be a whole lot of fun this weekend. I said it in the podcast Midweek. I'm standing by Alex Alban for Williams. That car is
very quick in a straight line. What does this Vegas track have? Straight lines look pretty good out there in the one and only proc de session. I still think Alex album might be a shot contender for let's say top five, but maybe even better. Harry. I'm gonna also stick with my ridiculous one from from the show and go Kevin Magison because similar the has doesn't really like corners or tie aware of which there may not be many of those,
So Kevin Magison is gonna be a shot result. Sam Yuki SnO is the y and only boy. You know. He's gonna absolutely tear it up. He's a little menace and I love that about him, so expect pure carnage. I heard you pull a Yuki podium, which I was impressed by. All Right, boys, He's coming. Yuki is always coming. Thanks so much, man. I love talking to you boys. I can always do it for hours on end, but we run out of time. Once again. That is Sam and Ben and Harry from the late Breaking F one podcast.
Give them a listen if you like F one even a little bit. Thanks for joining us again, boys, Thanks for having us here. I'll like to speak against so it's right there there. Go go get to mushy peas. You've earned them. It just don't need a pound of them like we do in Texas. All right, thank you boys, I would have got Oh my brother Cash is showing up. He's in a party with us for a little bit. We have these scuttle butt coming up, and I
got a kind of an interesting topic. I think we should just kick around. Let's do it next on ninety seven on the Free