2 Soft Compounds
2 Soft Compounds is a weekly podcast focusing on Formula 1, hosted by radio broadcaster Rick Houghton and motorsport journalist and GrandPrix247 founder, Paul Velasco.
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Baku or Bust: Red Bull’s Rookie Gamble, McLaren on the Brink & F1’s Wild 2026 Reboot
This week on 2 Soft Compounds, Rick is joined by Jad Malek, Editor of GrandPrix247.com to unpack the latest paddock bombshells as Formula One races toward Baku.
Red Bull looks set to pair Max Verstappen with rising star Isack Hadjar in 2026, a bold move that could either ignite the rookie's career or crush it under the weight of expectation. But with a full regulatory reset looming, Rick argues it might be the perfect time to roll the dice!
And about those 2026 rules... the guys dive into what’s shaping up to be one of the most controversial technical shakeups in decades. Ground effect? Gone. DRS? Axed. In their place: active wings, narrower tyres, and a 50/50 electric-combustion split!
Meanwhile, Rick grits his teeth as Lewis Hamilton’s Ferrari saga continues. Monza offered a flicker of optimism, but beneath the Tifosi’s cheers are real concerns. Fred Vasseur says they underestimated the challenge but Rick’s not buying the spin.
And finally, all eyes are on Baku as McLaren edges toward clinching the Constructors' title in record time. But with team orders stirring tension between Norris and Piastri, Jad breaks down whether this polite rivalry is headed for a spectacular collision.
We've got it all, right here on 2 Soft Compounds.
Production Credits:
Presented by: Rick Houghton & Paul Velasco
Studio Engineer & Editor: Roy D'Monte
Executive Producer: Ian Carless
Produced by: W4 Podcast Studio & GrandPrix247
I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies that immediately turn out to be wrong. Anything can happen in Formula One, and it usually does. Hey, welcome again to another Two Soft Compounds podcast all about Formula One with me, rick, and Jad Malik, the editor of GP247.com. Jad, great to have you back on the podcast. Thank you, rick, it's good to be back. Of course, it's race weekend coming up. We'll talk about Azerbaijan in just a moment. There are some stories that I know, jad, you've unearthed for the website over the last few hours and days. Do you want to talk about Isaac Hadjar first, because we were talking last time out about the possibility of him being promoted. But you think it's a done job, don't you?
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, I've got some info related to Hadjar. We were talking discussing his future and the fact that I would hate it for him to be promoted to Red Bull right now, in the current situation, because he seems to be a promising talent. We don't want him to get burnt, but it seems Red Bull have taken the decision I think that was a couple of months ago and most probably he will be Max Verstappen's teammate next year. Pending stuff is at racing booths regarding Yuki Tsunoda and Liam Lawson who will stay, who will go with the talks, that probably Lindblad will be brought into F1. So this is what I've got to know and, yes, it's just like a follow-up on the previous podcast when you and Paul discussed Hajar and what he did.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm reading really similar things. The rumor's been around, like you say, you don't want him to drive alongside Max Verstappen in the current regulation cars because you know, like you say, that could be a total disaster, especially for his confidence. But you know, promoting him next year when everyone's starting afresh with the new regulations um, I did read somewhere it was a, it was a clickbait headline on some really naff Formula One website, uh, which said that, uh, the Red Bull car will underperform the worst on the grid next year. And when you open the article and read it, they said that it might be two tenths slower than other cars around. I'm thinking in the hands of Max Verstappen it makes no difference at all if you say two tenths slower.
Speaker 1:But there are there are rumours that the rules next year are going to be more challenging. I saw Alex Albon come out this week and said that he thought the new regulations, and I quote, will require a lot of mental capacity from the drivers due to the greater demands to exploit the electrical systems. We've talked about this on the podcast before. They're not going to. Drs is going as we know it, they're going to have a Y mode and an X mode and they'll do different things, including electronically moving the wings.
Speaker 2:Yeah, look, the 2026 regulations. It's like a big black box. For now. We know the main headlines what's going to happen, but the details, how they're going to implement it, all these things, okay, we've got the movable aero, we've got the narrower tires, we've got no more DRS, no more MGU-H, 50-50, ice to electric power, all these things, driver management and everything. And honestly, recently Nicolas Tombazes, the single-seater head in the FIA and a former Ferrari engineer, has been talking quite a lot about it. But he said he's saying that, yeah, we're dealing with lots of stuff as they come through. We're getting so much feedback from the teams based on simulations, and whenever they get some feedback from a team on a certain simulation that shows a huge issue, then they sit down and talk to them. So they're expecting to be difference in the cars. They're expecting some power unit manufacturers to be off the pace when they start to struggle with performance. They're hoping that with the regulations they can allow them to have a bit more development on the dyno so they could catch up. Look, it's a major mess as we see it right now. It's a major mess as we see it right now and as I've said before I wrote an article before on the site.
Speaker 2:It's an editor's desk, and I said that always. Basically, what I meant is that every time Formula One they enter into a tunnel, they manage somehow to find their way out of it. I'm not sure about this one. It's too complicated, so many unknowns, so many changes at the same time. I hope that they sort it out, but ending up with cars that are maybe four seconds off the pace this is not what we want, after we just recorded the fastest race in the history of F1 just last week. You move forward, not backwards, so I'm a huge skeptic regarding them and regarding how much the drivers need to use their mental capacity, how much they will be doing some actual driving. I'm a real skeptic on this. But yeah, well, let's wait and see. We don't have a choice. Basically, we're stuck with these regulations for the coming five years at least.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my big surprise was when I first read about the new regulations. My big surprise was that they've dropped the ground effect. And they spent so many years talking about reintroducing the ground effect cars and how it was going to be amazing and how it was going to allow for closer following and faster racing. They did that, it was a success, and then, literally what is it? Three years, four years, since they introduced it, they're dropping the concept.
Speaker 2:Yeah, mate, because basically f1 engineers found a way around these regulations. Okay, look, it has always been like this in the history of formula one. It's a game of cat and mouse between the fia and the f1 engineers, between the regulations and the engineers. Remember when they dropped the v10s because they were too fast and too heavy and they needed to slow down the cars a bit. So they they came up with the V8s, which are lighter, but then engineers managed to get more power out of them, so we ended up with faster cars. Every time they try to outsmart the engineers, they come around it. They just find a way to. So now the cars they're having outwash, which they didn't have when they started, because the engineers within the regulations, they found the loopholes and they just want to go for performance. They don't care about the regulations, they want performance for their own car. They don't care about the car behind them, they just look ahead. And this is the situation, and that's why we're changing again.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's very complicated things on the build-up to recording this podcast about the possibility of shortened races in Formula One, because the kids today don't have the attention span to sit there for the full race duration. I mean that to me would be an absolute crime. Or maybe I'm just too old.
Speaker 2:I didn't read it yet. Thank God I didn't because I would have broken my screen. So, honestly, look, mate, we're in these funny times in F1, as you said. You guys said last week, paul was talking about the amount of talent we're having in f1 these days. It's unprecedented, the caliber of the drivers we have.
Speaker 2:And yet we have to deal with these silly topics like reverse grids, like movable aero. They only came up with the movable aero when they found out that the cars won't reach the end on the same boost, so they needed to reduce drag. They went on and reduced drag on the back. That made the cars too unstable. They would spin on a straight and then they had to do it on the front, so the load is equal. It's like knee jerk reactions up to now with the current, with the upcoming regulations, and we're seeing these things too much these days in f1, which is sad, because when you have these drivers, when you have this level of technology, these engineers, you know we have sustainable fuel. Get sustainable fuel, get us a naturally aspirated v10 or a v8 or whatever and get going. Okay, why? Why complicate your life with all these things? So this is my answer to the story Short span. Don't watch it. Honestly, I don't care.
Speaker 1:If you want to read about the regulation changes for next year. By the way, there's an excellent article on GrandPrix247.com that you can read about. The thing for me about the movable wings, the movable aero they're introducing, is these are going to be electronically controlled systems. So that is something else to go wrong. So you know retirement because your internal combustion engine has blown, a retirement because the hydraulics have failed, and now a retirement because your wings won't move electronically and you're unable to keep the car on the track. It's too much to put in the mix. That complicates things and, as alex albin says, you know I'm going to now have to relearn how to work my formula one steering wheel all over again. I'm going to have to relearn how to implement these electronic gadgets and gizmos that are now going to be on the car. You know I'm going to have to unlearn everything. I learn about drs and and learn the new system that's going to be electronically.
Speaker 2:It's all very, very complicated yeah, exactly, we're over complicating things once again when we can just simply make them so simple. I just said it. Let's try, let's see what's going to happen, let's give them a chance, the first few races, and then we judge it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean the big fear. The big fear, I suppose, is rocking up in Australia and finding out that a car that was sort of a front runner this year is six seconds off the pace, and that is a possibility with these new regulation changes. Listen also on GrandPrix247.com alongside the article about the regs changing for next year, you've got an article up there at the moment about Cadillac and apparently they've um, they've built the first two chassis and they say things are going very well indeed.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they seem to be on schedule. They've got the drivers. They're still to decide on their reserve driver. They have the test driver who's called on her tub. But yeah, they've built the, the prototype chassis and they started using that for some fia related tests. But now they're building the two race chassis and they're hoping to be on time in january when they're going to roll up the car, I think in silverstone, for a shakedown and then by late january they're going to go with a um with the closed test. You know when this is because next year we're going to have three tests. We're going to have an initial test which is not going to be covered. It's going to be a closed test behind closed doors. No one knows what's going on in there. The teams go in and try their new toys, so I think it's just to avoid embarrassment.
Speaker 1:And then when they fix those niggling issues.
Speaker 2:They go to Bahrain for the first and the second proper preseason test, so Graham Lawton is saying that they're on schedule for that, and let's hope so, because we've seen it before when we got new teams, they came with no car, so let's hope that doesn't happen this time. It shouldn't. These are cadillac, these are gm and, yeah, I think they should be knowing what they're doing by now gonna touch on ferrari for a moment.
Speaker 1:I know you wrote an article on august the 12th which they've kind of just repeated on the official Formula One website, about comments from Fred Vasseur. So this is old news because you broke the story and now it's being regurgitated by other places. But this was Fred Vasseur and he was talking about Lewis Hamilton coming into the Ferrari team. It's not as they expected.
Speaker 2:Yeah, look, it came after. Basically, lewis said that he's useless, they should get another one. And when he was struggling and he was down and everything, look, basically, the deal between Lewis and Ferrari. I think it is the biggest in the past decade, if not more, in F1. That's the biggest story F1 was waiting for. You know, lewis in red and there was so much hype surrounding it that I think the expectations were set too high. And then Lewis struggled. Okay, so Lewis, by the way and I think Toto Wolff said it before that he didn't really enjoy this generation of ground effect cars. He said it after his struggles with Mercedes and I don't think that changed with Ferrari and Ferrari now they had their own issues with their car, with the ride height and everything. So he was struggling with Mercedes, with its issues, and then he came to struggle with Ferrari and to be honest look, I wrote it in one of my race takeaways there's a lot of talk about Lewis getting integrated within the team.
Speaker 2:You know Lewis's mentality, the way he acts. I don't know if he's able if people at Ferrari are accepting him, and I said it at that time if Lewis Hamilton comes to your team and you're losing now and he tells you that this is how things should be done, this is how the work culture should be. You listen, because his work culture won him six championships with Mercedes. You give that guy a chance. He knows what he's talking about.
Speaker 2:So I think, among the technical part of driving the car, the technical aspect, getting used to the Ferrari power unit, how it? You know, because he said Ferrari use engine braking, mercedes don't. So there's a lot of differences. So those things, along with the cultural shock, maybe let's say that Lewis got that Ferrari. Yeah, they underestimated the move, you know. But yeah, I'm surprised that I saw the story again one more time, because underestimated the move, you know. But yeah, I'm surprised that I saw the story again one more time because, um, but then these are the hot topics these days in f1 max struggles with the car, and then his brilliance and monza mclaren's team orders and how they're just walking away with everything, and then lewis struggling at ferrari. So these are the stories and I think, yeah, they need to just to keep talking about them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's been revealed recently. Toto Wolff made a comment to Lewis Hamilton after he came out with the whole useless outburst and he apparently said to Lewis he said do you ever hear Michael Jordan say that about himself I'm useless and you need to change the player. He said no. He said so. Why are you behaving like that? And you know this has generated so much talking points over the last few weeks. As we head to Baku, it'll be interesting to see how Lewis approaches the weekend. I thought in Monza it looked as though he turned the corner somewhat. Excuse the pun. You know he seems to have got the attitude sorted out. He was much more confident in practice and in qualifying and you know the first part of the race was very decent for Lewis. So maybe he has now mentally turned that corner. He can focus on the rest of the season.
Speaker 2:Look, I'll go as far as saying that he turned the corner even in Zandvoort and not at Monza. Look in Zandvoort. He was on the pace, he was decent, he was close to Leclerc and he was doing a decent job until he got that bloody mistake made and in the race where he just the tire hit that slightly wet patch on the white line and he spun okay and that made it just everything go away.
Speaker 2:All the good that he'd done, he had done that weekend, was gone. But yeah, in monza I think he showed it clearly, the fans, the Tifosi, showed him some love and I think he was boosted by that. And yeah, he was, I think, a tenth or less of Leclerc's pace and he did a decent race. Now, yeah, he did some advancement at the start of the race, but then he stopped and I don't think that was more down to him as much. I don't know Something was wrong with that car. It more down to him as much. I don't know something. Something was wrong with that car. It was so fast but then it just stalled or something. I don't know what happened with them. The same happened with leclerc and they couldn't challenge ahead. He had some, you know some fire in him at the start, but then he just faded away. So, yeah, I I think it started at zandvoort, but I think lewis finished the job at monza and I hope that he carries this on into Baku, because also Baku should be a decent track for them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean Paul hates me talking on the podcast about the plank under the Ferrari. Every Formula One car as you know, jet has a wooden plank underneath it and the FIA measure the thickness of that plank at the end of each race and if it's worn down too thin the car can be disqualified. Ferrari have had this problem all season with their ride height, so the car is fast when it's closest to the ground, but that wears the plank down too much. So again, I'm sure I heard I might be wrong, but I'm sure I heard in Monza that Leclerc at one point was being asked to lift and coast. So I think Ferrari panic halfway through a race and go, oh. So I think Ferrari panic halfway through a race and go, oh, my God, have you seen the sparks? We might be wearing a plank down too much. We're going to have to tell the drivers to back off and that's not how anyone wants to go racing, but that's the fundamental issue they've had with that car all year.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and they brought a rear suspension to sort it out and I don't think it did it did the full job. That's why they're still asking their drivers at some point that they need to lift and coast. Yeah, yeah, this is, uh, this is. This is basically their main problem. It's like how mercedes doesn't function when it's hot. They have this issue, yeah, and I think, uh, yeah, ferrari have that problem with the right height.
Speaker 2:And, by the way, mercedes's issue, I think it's in the dna of brackley, the t the factory. Because if you remember when michael schumacher came back in the old generation cars and he also used to say that we burn our rear tires, we burn them through immediately. I don't Mercedes. They have an issue. They always overheat their rear axle. I don't know how they do that problem. In the turbo hybrid era, when they started, they had such a big advantage. It masked that, but I think it came back to bite them with this car, you know, with the way they use the rear tires. So it's in their DNA and I think that's the thing with the current Ferrari DNA.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I think they're going to struggle in Baku for exactly the same reason. You know massively long straights where they're going to be asked to lift and coast again for the ride height issues. It's going to be asked to lift and coast again for the ride height issues, gonna, uh, spoil it for us viewers. Uh, we have to mention max verstappen. He's been at the nurburgring getting his license, uh, this week, and it wasn't the massive success, was it? He had a few issues, but he finally got his permit, so that's done. Um, he's also been sim racing this week as well. There's nothing this man can't do when it comes to motorsports. It seems and obviously off the back of Monza, I think, everyone's expecting him to have a really competitive weekend in Baku aside from the F1 stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, this is Max mate. He eats sleep races, whether it's on the sim and the GT car and an F1 car. This is what this guy does all the time and we love him for that yeah.
Speaker 2:I watched a recent video for him with Chris Harris. They were trying the new Ford Mustang GTD and I think from the first or second lap he was just thrashing that car on the track. Chris Harris was like he told him how much time does it take you to find the limit? He told him a lap or a lap and a half. And this is Max, in a nutshell, Going to Baku. Yeah, he should do well as well, Because Baku, you know, you have the straights that Red Bull has so much grunt in the back from the Honda power unit and it seemed that it worked nicely at Monza, which also was a surprise a bit, because if you look at his pole lap, he was hitting those curbs a bit hard and we know that historically, that's an issue with Red Bull.
Speaker 2:I don't know. They said that they had a different approach to how they set up the car over a weekend and they found a breakthrough in that. Let's see if that applies to Baku. They had a new floor as well. Some people are saying, no, it was track specific. But even if it's track specific, Baku has some similar characteristics in terms of high speed. So, yeah, expect him to be in the mix if he even doesn't, you know, spring another surprise.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we've been so used this season to seeing Red Bull arrive on a Friday and having a fairly dismal practice session. Then they fix something overnight, they come back, they're qualifying slightly better, and then something else happens on Sunday, even though I don't know how it happens, because they're in Parc Fermé, the race pace is pretty decent and I think, uh, if they can replicate what they did in terms of setup for monza um into a baku setup, even though there are some slower corners of baku, I think that might bode well. And of course, we can't, uh we can't leave the podcast today without talking about the mclaren boys. Uh, we've got nicky, our statistician, who's going to give us some facts soon, so I'm not going to spoil it by telling you of some of the facts.
Speaker 1:Heading into Baku, both drivers have been sort of skirting around the subject of the team orders. Oscar Piastri basically said listen, I'm going to need the team one day myself. So that's why I'm obeying the team order. And, to be fair, lando had trap position on me. It wasn't his fault. He had a slow pit stop in Monza. So they're playing the political game at the moment, but this one could be this weekend, when the gloves come off yeah, look, it's bound to happen.
Speaker 2:Honestly, if they are both the racers the fierce racers they say they are it's bound to happen at some point. At some point, the team's going to ask Lando to do something. He's going to tell them I'm not going to do it. Or they're going to ask Oscar and he's going to say, in a calmer way, I'm not going to do it, because that guy never gets upset.
Speaker 1:No he's so cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for me. I heard. I listened to your discussion you and Paul last time on the podcast and Paul was trying to find some explanations for McLaren's orders. He has to. He's a McLaren fan, but I'm not and I can say it. It was bullshit what happened. They shouldn't have done it. It's not Oscar's fault that the team botched up Norris. Look, imagine if Norris lost that position to red bull, to max. Imagine, like andrea stella texting uh, mckee's, please give the place back, because it's not his fault. We messed up the pit stop what the hell was that.
Speaker 2:Come on, guys, okay. And yeah, I think they're orchestrating things too much. Look, the fact that they tell you that we discuss so many scenarios before the race, that's overcomplicating things. Okay, you've got the constructors championship in the bag. Let them race, for God's sake. Let them go do whatever they want. Okay, yeah, let's have some fun. And yeah, like you said, I'm not sure how McLaren is going to be performing this week. But as we edge towards the end of the season, as things really get serious and as the stakes are higher for both of them don't forget, they're fighting for their maiden F1 championship, these two guys, and they're entering next season with a whole sweep of new regulations. Nothing's guaranteed If they don't make it this season, there's no guarantee they're going to win it next year. So both of them are going to kill to get that done. So, as we edge towards the end of the season, I think, yeah, things are going to get a bit tasty between these two guys.
Speaker 1:Okay, let's get some stats then. On the Baku Formula One Grand Prix, niki Haldenby is going to join us on our previews and review podcasts. He runs a website and social media pages called Lights Out. His fascinating statistics are really interesting. He posts during practice, qualifying and the race itself with up-to-date stats. But here's his preview for Baku.
Speaker 3:The championship is on the table for McLaren. Leclerc could take a fifth consecutive Baku poll and Verstappen is looking to lead the grid in Azerbaijan for the first time. Here are the statistics to look out for at the 2025 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, and we start with McLaren, who could win the Constructors Championship this weekend. If they do so, it would be the tenth time that they have been crowned Constructors' Champions, which would see them overtake Williams for second place on the list of most titles won by a team. It would be McLaren's second title win in a row, which would be the first time they have won the championship in consecutive seasons since winning all four crowns between 1988 and 1991. Furthermore, if they do seal the title in Baku, with seven rounds remaining, they'd set a new record for the most races left, having already wrapped up the championship. Red Bull are the current record holders, having won the 2023 title with six races left to run.
Speaker 3:Charles Leclerc has taken pole position for all of the last four races in azerbaijan. A pole this weekend would make it only the sixth time that a driver has secured as many as five successive poles at a single circuit, and he'd become only the seventh driver in f1 history to record as many as five pole positions at one track. The other drivers to have done so are all previous world champions and while Leclerc searches for a fifth pole here, bacu City Circuit is one of three tracks on the current calendar at which Max Verstappen has never previously taken pole position. If he does so this weekend, he'll move ahead of Alain Prost and equal Sebastian Vettel for second on the list of most circuits at which a driver has taken pole. It would also be his 46th pole with Red Bull, which would put him level with Ayrton Senna for third on the list of most poles with a single team. Senna took 46 poles with McLaren during his career.
Speaker 3:Lewis Hamilton is the only driver to complete all 408 Grand Prix laps today in Baku, a record that he'll be hoping to continue this weekend. Incidentally, the 2025 Azerbaijan Grand Prix will be the first race at the circuit in which Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Perez, the two drivers immediately behind Hamilton on the list, will not compete. And finally, qualifying has been close so far in 2025. Pole position has been decided by under a tenth of a second at all of the last four races. Should it happen again in Azerbaijan, it will be the first time pole has been decided by under a tenth at as many as five races in a row, since six poles were taken by such a small margin between the 1997 Italian Grand Prix and the 1998 Australian Grand Prix over 27 years ago.
Speaker 1:Wow, thank you, nicky. Some great facts and stats there for you. And you can follow him Just search for Lights Out on Facebook, on Twitter and on Instagram and, like I say, he posts during the practice sessions, during qualifying and during the race Some really interesting stats, especially during the race, because he actually posts things about the team's individual strategies as it plays out.
Speaker 2:So it's really interesting to follow him. So, jad, great facts, facts from nikki there, some stuff that I just didn't have a clue about. Yeah, yeah, very interesting numbers. You know the fact that I think the the thing that matters the most now, maybe, probably, is the fact that mclaren might be constructors champions at the end of this weekend. So, if they do it, good on them, they've done a fantastic job with this car, you know, and getting it I mean, coming all this way from where they've been a few years ago, it's good to have a team like McLaren fighting for the trophies. You know, after all this absence and, yeah, looking forward to this weekend, basically.
Speaker 1:And just before we wrap up, baku City Circuit is one of my favorite venues for a Formula One race. You know we've had some spectacular races in the past. I mentioned it on the podcast last week. We had the Kimi Räikkönen retiring and then rejoining the race and asking for his steering wheel. We had Max Verstappen putting it into the wall. We had Lewis Hamilton with the magic button, we had Roman Grosjean putting it into the wall under the safety car. We had the brake test from Vettel and Hamilton. It was just. You know, it's been a fascinating. Occasionally, you get a year when absolutely nothing happens and it can be followed by a year when absolutely everything happens. So that's why I'm excited for this weekend. Is there anything you're particularly looking forward to, jad?
Speaker 2:I'm really looking forward to see if Red Bull's improvement in Monza was genuine or it was a one-off. I think we all know that McLaren have the best car and they're going to continue to dominate, and it's going to take a miracle for Max to fight for his fifth championship, but I'm really interested to see how Red Bull develop. They've been lost since Adrian Yu left, since Rob Marshall left and, yeah, their technical team is all over the place. I want to know if they've actually found this breakthrough with this car, although it doesn't matter much, but it's interesting to know this, looking forward to what the guys at McLaren do Lando and Oscar, if they're going to kill each other or what. So, yeah, basically, yeah, the classic stuff to look out for.
Speaker 1:Yeah, definitely, and there's always a bit of peril going into Turn 1 and Turn 2 at the start of the race, so that's something to be excited by. Thanks, jad, so much for joining us on the podcast. It's great when you're here, you know so much more than I do about lots of aspects of Formula 1. And your articles on the website GrandPrix247.com are brilliantly written and fascinating, and that's where you should head if you want the latest Formula One news, grandprix247.com. We'll be back to review the Baku Grand Prix on our next podcast. For now, though, from me and Jad, have a great time and enjoy the race. We'll see you next time.
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