How Max Verstappen has evolved in 2022 + Pierre Gasly's new deal
The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Media Ltd
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Nine races into the 2022 F1 season and reigning champion Max Verstappen has built a commanding world championship lead. Scott Mitchell and Claire Cottingham join Edd Straw to delve into his performances and look at how he's evolved as a driver this season. They also discuss Pierre Gasly’s 2023 AlphaTauri deal and what that means for his future, as well as giving their thoughts on the situation surrounding Red Bull junior driver Juri Vips after his suspension. And finally the team look ahead to the upcoming British Grand Prix, and in particular Mercedes' prospects.
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| 0:00.0 | On race weekend, all eyes are on the driver, but behind every podium place, there's a team of off-track heroes working hard to power on-track success. |
| 0:09.0 | As an official partner of the McLaren Formula One team, SmartSheet is showcasing how McLaren's off-track heroes drive success for their team. |
| 0:18.0 | But SmartSheet's commitment to supporting off-trackack Heroes doesn't end when the race season does. |
| 0:24.0 | As champions and facilitators of powerful processes, the SmartSheet platform helps off-track heroes across the world |
| 0:30.9 | put their teams in full position every day of the year. Want to join the celebration and start |
| 0:36.9 | powering your process, |
| 0:38.6 | visit smartsheet.com today to get involved. |
| 0:44.7 | The Athletic. |
| 0:53.6 | The race is on, and with Formula One heading to Silverstone, |
| 0:56.6 | the sight of a key swing against him in last year's title fight, |
| 0:59.5 | Max Verstappen is starting to run away with the World Championship. |
| 1:02.4 | But how well is he driving? |
| 1:03.8 | And what are the chances of Ferrari and Charlerclair finding a weakness to exploit? |
| 1:07.8 | I'm Ed Sturor and joining me to answer those questions, |
| 1:09.9 | and many more are Scott Mitchell and Claire Cottingham. Scott, hello, how are you? Brand new office you're joining us from, which is obviously a great thing to communicate on the podcast. Yeah, absolutely. As everybody listened to this can see, it's a very, very, very nice background, nice new background. I've got a nice soft, light blue on the wall. I've gone for a very, very faint pastel colour. I didn't want to have it completely white, but obviously everyone can see that. They don't need me to explain the colours, the colours to them. But yeah, I'm all good. How are you? I'm absolutely fine. I'm now officially non-COVIDed, which is, which is good, so I can't complain, and that means I'm all set for Silverstone. And also joining us special guest, Claire Cottingham from racefans.net. How are you doing? I'm fine, thank you. I haven't redone any of my room, which you wouldn't have known anyway, because I've only been on this podcast once. Scott, can't really see much different in yours, to be fair. |
| 2:02.3 | Still looks pretty much the same, if I'm really honest. |
| 2:05.9 | It's completely, it's literally, first of all, in a completely different room. |
| 2:10.8 | I've taken the opportunity to rent a little studio apartment in the same building as the flat that I live in. |
| 2:21.9 | And I basically turn this into an office. |
| 2:23.7 | So there's, |
| 2:24.0 | and I've basically spent an entire week building flatpack furniture. |
| 2:27.4 | There's a new cabinet behind me for goodness sake. |
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