Is Piastri now the 2025 title favourite?

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🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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The LB trio question whether Piastri is now the front-runner for the Drivers' Championship over Norris and Verstappen. They also break down Verstappen’s comments on his silence around his Jeddah penalty, react to Toto Wolff calling the 2026 engine proposals a “joke,” and unpack the latest resignation at the FIA. To wrap things up, it's time for another round of Back and Forth... FOLLOW us on socials! You can find us on YouTube, Instagram, X (Twitter) and TikTok SUPPORT our Patreon for bonus episodes JOIN our Discord community JOIN our F1 Fantasy League EMAIL us at podcast@latebraking.co.uk & SUBSCRIBE to our podcast! TIDE: Save more, earn more—up to 4.48% AER (variable). Interest rates are tiered, with the top rate for balances over £1M. Each tiered rate applies to the portion within that range. New Tide members get these rates free for 6 months; after that, your Tide plan’s rates apply. For full offer T&Cs visit tide.co/savings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to the Late Breaking F1 podcast.
0:03.5	Make sure to check out new episodes every Wednesday and every Sunday.
0:24.8	Hello and a very warm welcome to the late-breaking F-1 podcast presented by Harry Eid, Sam Sage, and me, Ben Hawking.
0:29.3	We're here on a Wednesday and we're not previewing a race.
0:32.5	What's going on?
0:33.5	This doesn't feel right.
0:35.0	I'll just best mates to talk about F-1. It always feels right. Always feels good to be it. Harry, he's back from Gayle-Pourri. What'd you call me again? Oh, it's a bad joke. That joke has already happened. Off air. You don't even get the best retelling of me. No. Hello, folks. Hello, yes, I'm back. It's good to be back. Do you see the Eiffel Tower? I did see the Eiffel Tower. I saw it from multiple angles, actually. Wow. Did you eat a baguette? I didn't eat a baguette, actually. Do you eat a hot cross bun?
1:11.4	Yeah.
1:12.0	I had a French hot cross bun.
1:14.4	What's that?
1:15.0	A croissant?
1:16.2	No, it's just French hot sauce bun.
1:18.8	Is that more insulting to the hot cross bun or the quosum?
1:21.9	Did you have a odd crust bun?
1:29.5	This doesn't buy well, does it?
1:30.4	No.
1:31.7	No, not cool.
1:38.1	Harry, I'll be honest, I'm surprised you're back based on the F1 fantasy update that we'll be giving a little bit later on.
1:40.1	But I'm very glad to have you here.
1:40.6	Sacra blur.
1:46.3	Coming up on today's episode, back and forth a little bit later on, a few comments from Toto Wolf on the 2026 engine regulations.
1:50.3	Max Verstappen and the way that he conducted himself after Saudi Arabia, we'll be talking
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