Oh my goodness, good morning, good afternoon, whatever it is for you, I hope you're having a fantastic day.

My name is Zach Schamler.

This is Strong Opinion Sports episode 271.

Hope you're doing well.

This episode will be very short.

I'm going to family dinner tonight.

It's a birthday happening.

And I'm wearing a really fun shirt.

Because I wish it was at the beach, if I'm wearing a really fun shirt because I wish I was at the beach if I'm totally honest.

It's really comfortable and I don't care as much today.

Gonna be very short, we're doing three and a half topics basically.

I want to start with this. Renell protested Racing

Points car, the legality of Racing Points car in Formula One. They were accusing

them of copying Mercedes's car from last year, which Racing Point did admit,

hey, we looked at pictures, we copied the car, but we just didn't have help from Mercedes in theory.

The investigation has been concluded. Honestly, I'll be totally honest.

I'm a little bit uncomfortable talking about this racing point story

because there's so much seemingly meaningless nonsense going on in the story where it's like, and what I mean by that is there's a lot of nerdy technical stuff that I don't think actually matters to the outcome for you and me, the fans of Formula One.

There's a lot of stuff like some team said we don't like the we don't like the result of the protest we're gonna protest the result of the protest.

Everyone's just there's a lot of politics going on but what matters in this story to me most importantly is that racing point has been fined 400,000 I guess it's not dollars. It's euros because I'm in America they're in Europe.

So Raising Point has been fined 400,000 euros.

It's a solid amount. It's a lot. And really I guess if you're designing a car for 250 million, it's not really that much in the scheme of things.

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