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 eight of Drive to Survive. I am joined, as always, by Spanors, and we are going to dive into episode seven of season eight, titled What Happens in Vegas? Yeah, and it's not normally competitive between us, but I am here to win. We've got to focus on ourselves. I know you're relentless. You're going to come and get me.

The chips will land where the show flashes. There was some word salad from the team principal

quote. You know, it was like manatees were selecting balls like in South Park. Let's just pick

like these key corporate phrases. What is the most cliche thing I can say on this introduction?

But it was, obviously, it was worse than it, it would have appeared because the people were just getting quotes.

Sorry, edit team, but they put that together.

They've picked the most corporate headline thing of each drive of each team principle.

But yeah, very team principle heavy in this one.

Very much so.

This was the Vegas-centric episode. So all about the race itself, the lead-up. I thought it was interesting that they were trying to pitch that going into this race. People thought it was some sort of four-way fight between McLaren, Red Bull, Mercedes, and Ferrari. Yeah. As to like who was going to win that race to me. What's your award for changing the past?

Yeah, most like rewritten history.

I thought it was interesting too in this episode that they didn't really talk about Max's role in this title fight

until the very end of it when they were talking about the McLaren disqualification.

And the reason the McLaren disqualification was as big of a deal as it was, was because of how close Max had gotten in the championship.

And I thought their decision to leave that until the very, very end was interesting.

Now, I'm not saying that they were disqualified just to make the title race more interesting.

But if you wanted to make the title race more interesting, that's exactly what you would do.

So I've given my M-night

Shamalan award for plot twists. It goes to the FIA for giving the McLaren's the exact

DQ that it would need to take the title fight on. But that aside, I think McClaran knew they

were in trouble. I do think it was genuine.

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