Hello everybody and welcome back to the double tea F1 podcast.

For another Alonzo to Aston Martin edition. What? What?

Alonzo with the bombshell on Monday morning. I mean does Fernando have any respect

to drop such early news on the Monday morning that he is going to Aston Martin?

What on earth? Another Alonzo master plan.

How I mean surely, surely there's got to be cash involved.

A lot of jobs have opened the briefcase. You know what I mean?

Oh 100%. He wanted a top-tier driver.

Dare I say that it's almost like for like replacement with Sebastian Vell that you've got

you know like a really established world championship name that with the greatest of respect

getting on about an hour. Alonzo is a lot older than Vettel but

in terms of like the driver expected that fits the Vettel mold that he was there to do.

Alonzo is kind of like just dropped straight in there. It's pretty wild. I mean it's just...

That was like now I've had enough. Six days it took him.

And Lawrence was like Fernando I'm going to give you 50 billion.

What did you know? It's been enormous. Why...

Right. Should we just sort the elephant in the room at now and say that Aston Martin are

terrible at that? I never really looked like improving. And now maybe maybe some by some miracle

I thought Fernando wanted to come back and win.

Win? Yeah. Not just race and Aston Martin really

it seems an old one. Do you want to multi year as well? Multi year contract.

So Fernando will be going until he's 50. That's confirmed. He will be cashing in until he hits

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