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Spanish GP review: Verstappen wins the start, Hamilton wins the race

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4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s show Damon returns to look back on an intense Spanish Grand Prix with Tom and Natalie. They discuss Hamilton’s 100th pole - and his response to Damon’s hyperbolic tweet about him! - plus the Briton’s strategic victory over Verstappen in the race. They also discuss that spicy start, Mercedes team orders, and TC shares some interesting behind-the-scenes observations on the title protagonists.

Then there’s chat on Leclerc, Ricciardo and Gasly, plus reaction to the surprising thing that Tsunoda says is best about being an F1 driver. 

And finally, Damon answers YOUR questions in the latest edition of Ask Damon.

To ask the Champ a question, however silly, send a voice note to AskDamonHill@gmail.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the post-Spanish Grand Prix F1 Nation podcast and I am Damon Hill

0:13.8

and I'm joined by the beautiful Natalie Pinkham and also the beautiful Tom Clarkson.

0:18.7

A good morning, Damon. Good morning T.C. How are you?

0:22.1

I'm very well. Great to see you guys. Is that it?

0:25.9

That's it. That's it. He's got nothing left, does he, Damon? He's exhausted from the weekend.

0:31.0

He works very hard and he's away and he's missing his wedding anniversary so he's feeling bad

0:36.5

and he's a bad father, he's a bad, you know, husband and he's he's locked in the hotel room.

0:41.8

He's so bad. Ah, such a positive way to start the podcast. Yeah, thanks. You're making me feel

0:47.9

really good. Yes, I am still in Barcelona. I've got a nice view. I'm looking out at my hotel window

0:54.3

at the Mediterranean but it's very cloudy. I'm assuming it's cold. I don't know, I haven't been outside

1:00.4

yet. And neither are you going to because you're stuck, you're quarantined and I think that's just

1:04.8

teasing having a view like that. Look, but you can't touch. Oh, pinks, the last two weeks.

1:10.4

I've been in fantastic places. I've been in the Algarve. I've been on the Mediterranean

1:15.7

and I haven't left my hotel in either place. What are you guys being up to?

1:21.8

Well, I've been down in Dartmouth, which is very nice. Family weekend away. Waking some golf balls

1:27.7

into a valley as well, badly. Damon, I wanted to know actually how many golf balls

1:34.5

is it acceptable to lose in a round? One. What? Yeah, I would say, mostly professional golfers

1:43.5

try not to lose any golf balls and the rest of us, if we lose one or two, that's not too good.

1:50.0

I did three off first tea. Yeah, okay. Well, that's okay. That's not bad. Well, three off

1:54.3

the first tea. Yeah. Oh, right. That is, that's quite serious. Yeah. Most important thing, Natalie,

2:00.4

is not to hurt anybody. But that's true. That's true. I'm going to shoehorn a Segway back into F1

2:06.4

because we're talking about golf and we should be, you did ask what we were up to. And you said,

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