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"I nearly blinded Yuki 2 hours before a race" Yuki Tsunoda's coach Michael Italiano on Pitstop!

Pitstop

Jake and Fab

Sports

2.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Michael NEARLY blinded Yuki 2 hours before their FIRST EVER race together🤯 Welcome back to Pitstop! Today we're joined by our good friend Michael Italiano once again. Last year Michael came on Pitstop and we chatted all about what it was like to work with Daniel Ricciardo in Formula 1, this year he's working with Alpha Tauri's Yuki Tsunoda. Some hilarious F1 stories in this episode and we also hit the go kart track for the REAL LIFE pitstop fastest lap! One of our favourite episodes we have ever done with Michael & Yuki being such great personalities, hearing how they work together in the Formula 1 world is amazing. We hope you enjoy this episode and don't forget to RATE the Podcast 5 Stars! It really helps us to bring in more guests for you guys to enjoy. Michael, thank you so much for joining us again. Hope you have a great summer break and best of luck for the rest of the season to yourself, Yuki & the whole of Alpha Tauri. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Everything was looking really, really good.

0:01.4

Yuki was super fit.

0:02.5

Friday came around, Friday practice.

0:04.3

Friday practice, right?

0:05.8

Yeah, so this is on the Friday for the race.

0:07.7

For the race, yes, this is first practice together.

0:09.9

First weekend together, he's grabbed the golf ball

0:12.0

and he just lobbed it onto my shin.

0:13.6

Obviously, it hurt, Ryan is giggling.

0:15.2

And I was like, okay, cool, you think that's funny?

0:16.8

Okay, cool noise.

0:17.7

He took the foam roller, he had a rolling his back.

0:19.6

I just like threw golf ball over much.

0:21.5

Like, oh, it wasn't even looking.

0:22.8

And he hit him straight in the eye.

0:26.1

Like, right, like, and I even had the pop.

0:29.8

Like, he hit a coin by this point

0:31.5

we're leading for the track in about two hours.

0:33.5

And he just looked at me and he's like,

0:35.3

I'm going to stop my cast.

0:37.8

Ladies and gents, welcome back to pit stop.

0:49.2

I know the intro is better now.

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