Imola Race Preview - Ferrari Bolsters Their Roster, Max Wants Superlicense Scrapped

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🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Formula 1 is back on European soil this weekend as the travelling circus heads to Italy, and a return to Imola for the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, Round 7 of the World Championship, and a welcome comeback after the horrible flooding of 2023 that led to the race’s cancellation. Joining Bryn Lucas on the Podcast is Alex Kalinauckas, and together they discuss the big speculation around Williams and the future of American driver Logan Saregant. Miami had rumblings that Williams were pursuing an exemption from the FIA to potentially have Mercedes junior Andrea Kimi Antonelli in the car despite jot turning 18 until August, against the factory team's wishes. Is the writing on the wall for Saregant? And with Max Verstappen disagreeing with the superlicense system entirely, saying it was brought in because of him, has it outlived its usefulness? The pair also discuss the changes made at Ferrari, with Loic Serra and Jerome D'Ambrosio confirmed to be joining the Maranello factory in October, with the latter taking up a new role as deputy team principal. What sort of role will they play in red, and should there be concern for Charles given his well documented frosty relationship with previous engineer Xavi Marcos? There's also a full preview of Imola this weekend, including the upgrade packages due for McLaren and Ferrari this weekend, whether Pirelli bringing softer rubber will make for more strategic options, and pondering if they'll be any chance of more passing given the complaints about the lack of it in Miami from McLaren's Andrea Stella and Aston Martin's Mike Krack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.2	From autosport.com and Autosport magazine, I'm Bryn Lucas and you're listening to the Autosport
0:35.8	F1 podcast.
0:46.3	Formula One is back on European soil this weekend as the travelling circus heads to Italy and a return to Imola for the Amelia Romana Grand Prix as round seven of the World Championship
0:52.3	and a welcome comeback after the horrible flooding last year
0:55.0	that led to the race's cancellation. Well, joining me to preview this race, I'm delighted to have
1:00.0	Alex Kalanakis. First of all, Alex, how are you doing? Yes, very well, thanks, Bryn. I'm a little
1:06.1	bit disappointed actually not to be going to him. I'm always disappointed not to be going to a Formula One race,
1:09.9	but no, more just went all the way there last year, got off a plane, got, didn't even make
1:17.4	it to the car park where I would be collecting my higher car when the WhatsApp message landed
1:21.9	from F1's head of comm saying, we're about to announce the cancellation of the race.
1:25.4	And obviously, you know, that's, that, that pales in significance when you consider what the awful things happened to that region, to that country last year.
1:33.3	So, so, so, so not a big deal at all, but just, you know, yeah, just have a lot of, have a lot of respect and
1:44.7	love for the people around it, basically, because, you know, they've, they've built this tremendous
1:48.8	racetrack. It's, it's sort of hallowed ground in many ways. Controversial ground in others,
1:53.5	because obviously the terrible things that happened there 30 years ago. But yeah, so yeah,
1:57.8	you know, we would always love to, to be visiting Imala, not this time,
2:01.4	but still very happy to talk about it. Do you think there's going to be any particular tribute
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