Welcome to DNF. This is a podcast about formula one racing, which to this point in 2023,

Jessica Smetana, had been an uninterrupted streak of Red Bull dominance of Max Verstappen

Hegemony, until Singapore.

Are we celebrating? Can we celebrate? Celebrate. We can go. We were like, the sport is in crisis

mode. People want to be entertained. They don't want to watch the same guy win every week. And

now I feel like we spoke it into existence. We knew what was going to happen eventually.

And it finally happened. This is this is my favorite thing. As a fan of any sport,

you can say this. You should be like, Hey, it's happening. Next week, next week, it's happening.

All we had to do was 10 times in a row say that. And eventually, and it came true. It came true.

Did I think it would happen like six weeks ago? Yeah. Kind of. This is, see, manifesting is real.

All you have to do is be wrong enough times and eventually you will be right. And can I just,

let's unpack how improbable the Ferrari victory at Singapore was given everything that's happened.

Okay. Coming into this race. Okay. We had, I think, is this a three-month streak like when you

include the breaks and everything? Do we have three months of nothing but Max Verstappen at

Paul and, or I'm sorry, at the finish? I think it goes, well, Sergio Perez won a couple,

but I think it goes back to even Brazil 2022 that one of the two of them has finished in

first place, which is a long time, like a year. So yeah, that's a long time to see the thing.

And of all the teams you thought would break the stranglehold on the one spot. All right.

Ferrari, I'm just going to say not my first pick. That ones that I thought would be the ones

that you go, hey, we're going to end up with a great display of competence. We're going to end up

with some real skill, both at the driver level and at the management level. Remember, the driver

level's not been the issue for Ferrari. We've had a lot of good performances by the drivers.

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