Moves at Mercedes and Alpine bouncing back? – Azerbaijan GP Preview

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🗓️ 24 April 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Finally it’s race week again! After four weeks without Formula 1, Tom Clarkson and Natalie Pinkham look ahead to Sunday’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix. They discuss proposed changes to the sprint race format, which features for the first time this season in Baku. There’s also big change at Mercedes. James Allison joins the pod to explain why he’s gone back to his previous role as technical director and how that could impact the Silver Arrows going forward this season. Ferrari are fourth in the Constructors’ Standings after a frustrating start to 2023. Can they recover from a point-less weekend in Melbourne to get their championship back on track? And after Pierre Gasly and Esteban Ocon’s dramatic crash cost Alpine valuable points at the Australian Grand Prix, team principal Otmar Szafnauer tells us why they’re confident of bouncing back. Plus an update on our F1 Fantasy League, the F1 Nation World Championship.

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0:04.0	Braun, the impossible Formula 1 story, is streaming exclusively on Disney Plus from the 15th of November.
0:11.0	The series stars Keanu Reeves as host and executive producer in addition to Formula 1 legends,
0:17.0	Ross Braun, Jensen Button, Nick Fry, Rubens Barrakello and Christian Horner.
0:22.0	It's an unscripted documentary series telling the remarkable story of how Ross Braun made the impossible happen.
0:30.0	His understaffed, underfinanced and independent team, Braun Grompry, won the Formula 1 World Championship,
0:37.0	taking on the biggest titans of the industry, all after purchasing the team for just £1.
0:43.0	The series goes behind the scenes of this Formula 1 fairytale with the people who were there on the track,
0:49.0	in the garage and in the boardroom giving their own accounts of this miraculous year.
0:54.0	With access to the Formula 1 archives much of it previously unseen,
0:58.0	this series brings you along for the ride to victory, led by British Formula 1 driver Jensen Button and Ross Braun.
1:05.0	I remember that season so well, how the team turned up at pre-season testing and set a stunning lap time.
1:12.0	Their incredible start to the year and the tense race in Brazil where Jensen won the title.
1:17.0	This documentary tells the story so brilliantly, it's definitely worth a watch, especially if you're a newer Formula 1 fan.
1:25.0	Braun, the impossible Formula 1 story, an original series streaming November the 15th exclusively on Disney+.
1:33.0	Pink's how lovely to see you again, it's been a while since we've had you on the show.
1:38.0	I know, I've missed you, I've missed you.
1:41.0	I've missed Formula 1, I mean what's happened, this is ridiculous, four weeks off.
1:45.0	Four weeks, it's been crazy isn't it?
1:47.0	And I'm still feeling, I have to say pinks, a little bit full after the fry up I had yesterday, Sunday morning.
1:56.0	It's a bit of a tradition in our household to have a massive fry up and watch the start of the London marathon.
2:03.0	Wasn't it brilliant? There is actually a Formula 1 link to yesterday's London marathon because Marcel Hook dominated the men's wheelchair race.
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