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Advantage Max in Mexico? Mexico GP Preview with Rob Smedley

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Formula 1

Sports, Leisure, News, Automotive, Sports News

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Max Verstappen heads for Mexico’s cauldron of noise leading the championship. Will he extend his points lead, or can Mercedes and Lewis Hamilton hit back? Joining TC and Natalie to debate that and much more is former Jordan, Ferrari and Williams engineer, Rob Smedley. Rob’s an F1 data expert and can tell us whether Red Bull or Mercedes will be quicker at the high-altitude Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez. As a championship battle veteran and former race engineer, which title contender’s pitwall would Rob rather be sitting on in the final races of the season? Plus, might Red Bull ask Sergio Perez to play the team game, and give up a chance of victory at his home race?


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0:00.0

It's one of the most incredible chapters in our sport's history.

0:04.0

Braun, the impossible Formula 1 story, is streaming exclusively on Disney Plus from the 15th of November.

0:11.0

The series stars Keanu Reeves as host and executive producer in addition to Formula 1 legends,

0:17.0

Ross Braun, Jensen Button, Nick Fry, Rubens Barrakello and Christian Horner.

0:22.0

It's an unscripted documentary series telling the remarkable story of how Ross Braun made the impossible happen.

0:30.0

His understaffed, underfinanced and independent team, Braun Grompry, won the Formula 1 World Championship,

0:37.0

taking on the biggest titans of the industry, all after purchasing the team for just £1.

0:43.0

The series goes behind the scenes of this Formula 1 fairytale with the people who were there on the track,

0:49.0

in the garage and in the boardroom giving their own accounts of this miraculous year.

0:54.0

With access to the Formula 1 archives much of it previously unseen,

0:58.0

this series brings you along for the ride to victory, led by British Formula 1 driver Jensen Button and Ross Braun.

1:05.0

I remember that season so well, how the team turned up at pre-season testing and set a stunning lap time.

1:12.0

Their incredible start to the year and the tense race in Brazil where Jensen won the title.

1:17.0

This documentary tells the story so brilliantly, it's definitely worth a watch, especially if you're a newer Formula 1 fan.

1:25.0

Braun, the impossible Formula 1 story, an original series streaming November the 15th exclusively on Disney+.

1:33.0

I'm fascinated to see what all the drivers have been doing in this two week break.

1:38.0

Well, it's kind of a ten day break, isn't it?

1:40.0

I've just seen that Lewis Hamilton has been surfing since the US Grompry and I really want to go surfing.

1:47.0

Yeah, were you sure? It invigorates the soul.

1:50.0

If you're surfing down on Bantham Beach, it probably wasn't quite as glamorous as Lewis' location in the States.

1:56.0

Oh, it was cold, very cold indeed, but brilliant.

2:00.0

Bracing.

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