The Verstappen-Russell Crash, Safety Car Restart, and More Spanish GP Reactions

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4 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Meg and Spanners are back to cover the Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona and jump straight into the drama that followed a last minute safety car with a crash between Max Verstappen and George Russell (1:28). Then, they further discuss Red Bull’s race day strategy with an emphasis on their third pit stop tire decision (24:32), and McLaren’s huge win and newfound pace (29:15). Later, they talk through Liam Lawson’s chaotic performance (39:38), Mercedes' ongoing power unit issues (48:18), and Lewis Hamilton’s trend of performance (50:28). Plus, we give Kick Sauber their flowers with Nico Hulkenberg coming in fifth! Hosts: Megan Schuster and Spanners Ready Producer: Erika Cervantes Additional Production Support: Troy Farkas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello there, friends of the program.
0:02.8	It's Tate Frazier, and it's officially that special time of the year where we go on a March through Madness together for the 85th edition of the NCAA tournament.
0:12.6	What makes March so special, you ask?
0:14.8	Well, it's the unknown.
0:15.9	It's the fact that this is basically Survivor on a basketball court on CBS without Jeff Probes.
0:21.6	And no matter how much you prepare, you can not predict this kind of chaos.
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0:29.8	All the madness, all the David versus Goliath personified.
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0:34.7	The ball is tipped.
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0:52.6	Hello. Welcome to the Ringer F1 show, part of the Ringer podcast network.
0:56.2	I am your host, Megan Schuster, and we are here to talk about the 2025 Spanish Grand Prix.
1:01.1	Oscar Piastri wins a wild one, earning his fifth victory of the season.
1:05.1	Landon Norris finishes second and Charles Leclair comes in third.
1:08.2	Grounding out the rest of the top ten are George Russell, Nico Halkenberg, Lewis Hamilton,
1:13.1	Isaac Cajar, Pierre Gasly, Fernando Alonzo, and Max Verstappen.
1:17.4	At least for the time being.
1:19.3	We have a lot to talk about today, probably most of which is related to the last six
1:23.5	laps of the race.
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