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🗓️ 5 May 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Debate over the fairness of calling F1 races boring, the balance between sport and entertainment, a pushover Alonso, lightweight cars maybe not always being the answer (?!), and the best two 1980s cars for a rock star who's not allowed to drive.
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0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the Collecting and its podcast episode number 16. |
0:06.8 | What a journey it's been. |
0:09.2 | First up, this week, Formula One. |
0:11.6 | Now, there's already been some argument on a little group chat about the fact there |
0:14.9 | was nothing to discuss after this week's race, but I think that's completely wrong, |
0:18.2 | because there's lots to discuss, don't you? |
0:19.9 | Because it really was full of incident, but not the kind of incident that we want to |
0:23.8 | be discussing over to you, Manish. |
0:28.2 | I have just read a tweet from Karin Chandok, and Toto Wolf said that the race was boring, |
0:36.9 | and he's apparently, on the FAA, to have a look at boring races, and Karin Chandok pointedly |
0:46.7 | tweeted, didn't he hear you saying very much in 2016, Coma Toto? |
0:53.2 | And I think, yeah, go Karin. |
0:58.6 | I exactly, I mean, I think there's something like a broken record, but there is a little |
1:03.4 | balance that we need to achieve between entertainment and sport, and sport builds. |
1:11.2 | And I think, you know, I was just talking to a couple of people in the offices. |
1:13.9 | Yesterday, they watched Everton versus, I can't remember, it's Southampton, the bottom line |
1:21.0 | is there were two clubs, there are two clubs at the bottom of the Premier League, and |
1:27.2 | they're fighting for survival right now, and that is utterly entertaining, because there's |
1:31.8 | a relegation here, there's something at stake, and it just sort of brought me back to this |
1:38.4 | slightly weird place we're at with the sport of Formula One. |
1:46.4 | Imagine you were sitting in a grand stand, on a straight in Baku. |
1:50.8 | What is the difference between an exciting and a not exciting race? |
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