Hello, welcome to the Ringer F1 show, part of the Ringer Podcast Network. I am your host, Megan Schuster, and we are here to talk about season 8 of Drive to Survive.

I'm joined by Spanters in studio.

Yeah, I've just come in on my boat because I have one, and I need you to know that I have a boat.

You sure do.

This episode specifically is about episode six of season eight titled The Dual, and this is the Mercedes versus Ferrari episode, better known as the fight for the number two

spot in the Constructors Championship.

Whether you buy that conceit or not being a real thing, we can debate further on, but that

is the premise of this episode.

For those of you who are regulars to the ringer F1, I want you to remember how hard Meg shipped the battle for P5 last year.

Oh, who's going to get P5 in the constructors?

Okay, I maintain that for an outfit like Williams, a few million dollars extra is a big difference.

When you are selling me on Mercedes and Ferrari needing a few extra million dollars, that's where you lose me a little bit. Those two have enough money to go around. I can't wait till this season. The battle for P7. Who's going to be top of the bottom third? We start this episode once again, as we often do with a shirtless George Russell on his 60 foot boat in Monaco. It's become a staple now.

Yeah. If I don't see a shirtless George Russell for a while, I start getting a bit like,

yeah, where am I? Is he still got a six pack? Like, it's almost grounding at this point. Like,

okay, I'm, I'm here. We're safe. We get the idea from him that he is carrying the team a little bit at the moment.

And Total Wolf solidifies that too.

Kimmy Antonelli is struggling.

His good start to the season has fallen off a bit.

And George is the primary point score for Mercedes.

We get Kimmy at a marketing event in Milan expressing that he's a bit overwhelmed by the F1 rise of it all,

even to the point that he's having trouble sleeping because the F1 rise of it all, even to the point

that he's having trouble sleeping because his life is so go, go, go, which was hard.

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